Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 December 1916 — Page 6

WEEKLYCOUMER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher

JASPER - - - INDIANA Learning to piny the ukulele Is a lot easier Ihnn spelling the thing. Sometimes the quietest wedding eventuates in the noisiest blow-up. Anyhow, the poor man doesn't have to worry about the fluctuations In gas oline. Swiss cheese has doubled In price, but limburger remains In a class by itself. Wooden shoes might help for a while. but ultimately they would send up the price of wood. The meanest man has been found in Oakland, Cal. He took his baby's doll to pawn for drink. One shrewdly suspects that It is not the farmer who is going to receive $2 a bushel for wheat The weather goes hard on the man who thought he would invest his elec tion winnings In an overcoat. The merchant submarine, despite the success of the pioneer In that line, Is not yet an established fact Night Hying tires the nerves of the stoutest airmen, but their chief concern Is finding a safe place to land. We believe If anybody were to be found eating tan bark, It would go up 40 cents a pound in less than two days. A govprnment fine Is imposed upon anyone who eats an egg for breakfast in Germany. Here the lino Is assessed by the man who sells It. The Austro-Hungarian tobacco monopoly allows only one cigar dally to the same customer, which is pretty rough on the old-time politician. An ad heading reads "Any Woman Can Save $5 an Hour." In less time than that if you will let her Into a bargain sale where things are reduced from $3 to $2.08. A man can live to bo two hundred and fifty years old If he will eat only bananas, says a scientist. A diet of that sort would drive a man to suicide In six weeks, Is our opinion. At a recent congress of surgeons It was declared that cancer resulted largely from high living. In that case a cure has been found at last The high cost of living will furnish it Farmers probably would raise more cattle and other foodstuffs if the food speculators did not make more money handling a small quantity at a high price than a large quantity at n low price. Let overcoats go ip $0 and a man will look sorrowful. Put eggs up three cents a dozen and he becomes a nearauarchlst. Moral : Man is willing to wear a 3015 overcoat, but he can't eat 3015 eggs. People who ride bicyclesand some persons of good judgment are doing so now report that the increased cost of gasoline is negligible and that the country as seen from the saddle has remarkable beauties. Pity the editor of a western paper who was asked to pronounce Judgment upon popular songs of tho day, and who after listening to a dozen requested to be excused for tho reason that lie found himself unable to distinguish whether they were melodies or maladies. The man who said he was only experimenting when caught starting a stranger's automobile, was probably performing a popular experiment on the police. "It might be worse," the automobile drivers of this country can exclaim. In Japan motorists are paying 45 cents a gallon for gasoline. Millions of cigarettes are consumed in the trenches, says an exchange. Almost that many are consumed in our telephone booths, it seems. A whale lately sunk a ship off the Mexican coast. The exploits of the submarines must have excited the other monsters of the briny deep to emulation. Nature's only error consisted In not having the buckwheat crop and the maple sirup yield come in the same season. The supply of gold in the United States has doubled since 1004, but that other precious mineral, coal, is harder and harder to obtain. Employers in this country have many difllculties on their hands at present But among thorn is not that of inducing their employees to accept more pay. Every example of. male badness seems to develop its corresponding example of woman's fidelity. "Bandit's wife stands by him after arrest." The prize optimist is a pacilist who quotes tho casualty lists of tho oppos ing powers as evidences that no one is left for the United States to tight

JOHN D. ARCHBOLD

John D. Archbold, president of the Standard Oil company, is critically ill at his home in Tarrytown, N. Y., fol lowing an operation for appendicitis. LIBERTY'S NEW LIGHT Famous Statue in New York Harbor Shines Anew. President Wilson Touches Wireless Key for the Big IlluminationBattleships Fire Salute. .New lork, Dec. 4. The statue of liberty was illuminated from torch to base at the dedication of a permanent lighting system. President Wilson gave the signal for turning on the lights. Jules Jusserand, the French ambassador; Secretary Daniels of the navy, Secretary Kedileld of the depart ment of commerce and many other prominent men attended the ceremony. The illumination, which will he a nightly feature of the historic goddess of welcome, was paid for by popular subscription. President Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, secretary Tumulty and Dr. Gary T. Grayson, was met by Mayor Mitcbel and a committee of 200 citizens and escorted to a landing stage on the North river, where the presi dent boarded the presidential yacht Mayflower. The French ambassador, Mine. Jusserand and James W. Gerard, ambassador to Germany, were guests on the Mayflower. Secretary Daniels, Secretary lied Held and the members of the mayor's committee were aboard tbo warships San Francisco and Yank ton. Headed by the Mayflower, the ofllclal craft steamed downstream and anchored off Bedloe's Island at fi :-15. surrounded by several battleships of the Atlantic fleet. m t . T" t.t I iitti i men iTosuient wnson touched a wireless key and began n message or dering tbe statue Illuminated. A rocket was fired from tho Mayflower at the came time. Tbo current was released from the new lighting plant and the statue blazed forth while the battle ships fired a salute of 21 guns. OLD-TIME BLUE-GRASS DUEL Kentucklans on Horseback Fight With Revolvers One Is Killed, Other Dangerously Wounded. Lexington, Ivy., Dec. . One of tho old-time duels which made the bluegrass country the chosen setting of so many novelists was staged in Clinton county. Mounted on blooded horses, Jeff lilevins and Steven llubblestone can tered with their seconds over the dewy grass to a secluded spot selected for their dithciildes. Tho men shook hands and then gal loped on their horses 25 feet in oppo site directions, with revolvers drawn. Wheeling at; a given signal, thev opened fire. llubblestone was killed and his horse shot from under him. Blevins was dangerously wounded. INSANE MAN KILLS SHERIFF Slayer of Vermilion County Officer Captured in Dense Woods Near Scene of Shooting. Cayuga, Ind., Dec. 4. Martin Wright, a liimUic who shot and killed Sheriff Morton O. Jones of Vermilion county, was captured in a dense woods four miles northwest of Cayuga, with in a few hundred yards of the scene of the shooting. Jones was unarmed. Wright had served two terms In the state asylum for the insane. He had threatened to kill his wife, and believing insanitv was returning, she not! tied the sheriff. When Jones went to arrest him, Jones shot the sheriff down. CATTLE EMBARGO IS LIFTED Illinois State Veterinarian Removes Quarantine at Chicago, East St. Louis and Peoria. SpringOeid, 111., Dec. 4. Dr. O. E. Dyson, state veterinarian, lias lifted the quarantine of cattle in the stockyards of Chicago, .East St. Louis and Peoria. Investigators reported that Uie diagnosis of the disease which had attacked cattle at the Kansas City stockyards as foot-and-mouth disease, had not been correct, and immediately the yards throughout the state were notified that they might release cattle held for the pafc few day..

GOKGRESS HEARS WILSON'S MESSAGE

President's Address to Both Houses is Quite Short. RAIL TROUBLES COME FIRST Further Legislation on That Line Is Strongly Recommended Bill Giving Foreign Commerce Promoters Free Hand Necessary. Washington, Dec. 5. President Wilson today delivered his message to both houses of congress in joint session. The address was as follows: Gentlemen of the Congress: In fulfilling at this time the duty laid upon me by the Constitution of communicating to you from time to time Informal ion of the state of the Union and recommending to your considera tion such legislative measures as may !)e judged necessary and expedient I shall continue the practice, which I hope has been acceptable to you, of leaving to the reports of the several heads of the executive departments the elaboration of the detailed needs of the public service and confine myself to those matters of more general pub lic policy with which it seems neces sary and feasible to deal at the present session of the congress. I realize tho limitations of time un der which you will necessarily act at this session and shall make my suggestions as few as possible; but there were some things left undone at the last session which there will now be time to complete and which it seems necessary in the interest of the public to do at once. In the first place, It seems to me im peratively necessary that the earliest possible consideration and action should be accorded the remaining measures of the program of settlement and regulation which I had occa sion to recommend to you at the close of your last session In view of the pub lic dangers disclosed by the unaccom modated difllculties which then existed, and which still unhappily continue to exist, between the railroads of the country and their locomotive engineers, conductors, and trainmen. Railway Troubles First. I then recommended: First, Immediate provision for the enlargement and administrative reorganization of tho Interstate commerce commission along the lines embodied In the bill recently passed by tho house of representatives and now awaiting action by the senate; In order that the commission may be enabled to deal with the many great and various duties now devolving upon it with a promptness and thoroughness which are. with its present constitution and means of action, practically Impossible. Second, the establishment of an eight-hour day as the legal basis alike of work and of wages in the employ ment of all railway employees who are actually engaged In the work of oper ating trains in interstate transportation. Third, the authorization of the anpointment by the president of a small body of men to observe the actual results In experience of the adoption of the eight-hour day in railway transportation alike for the men and for the railroads. Fourth, explicit approval by tho con gress of the consideration by the In terstate commerce commission of an increase of freight rates to meet such additional expenditures by the rail roads as may have been rendered necessary by the adoption of the oiirhthour day and which have not been offset by administrative readjustments and economies, should the facts disclosed justify the increase. Fifth, an amendment of the existing federal statute which provides for tho mediation, conciliation, and arbitration of such controversies as the present by adding to it a provision that, in case tho methods of accommodation now provided for should fail, a full public Investigation of the merits of everv such dispute shall be instituted and completed before a strike or lockout may lawfully he attempted. And, sixth, the lodjrment in tho hands of the executive of the power, in case of military necessity, to take control of such portions and such rolling stock of the railroads of the country as may be required for military use and to operate them for military purposes, with authority to draft into tho military service of thA T-n?wi States such train crews and adminis trative officials as the circumstances require for their safe and elficient use. Renews His Recommendations. The second and third of these rec ommendations the congress immediate ly actec" on: it established the eighthour day as the legal basis of work and wages In train service and it authorized the appointment of a com mission to observe and report upon the practical results, deeming those the measures most immediately needed; but it postponed action upon the other suggestions until an opportunity should be offered for a more deliberate consideration of them. The fourth recommendation I do not deem it necessary to renew. The powjr of the Interstate commerce commission to grant an increase of rates on the ground referred to is indisputably clear and a recommendation by the congress with regard to such a matter might seem to draw in question, the scope of the comaolsslon'n authority or Its Inclination to

do justice when there is no reason to doubt either. The other suggestions the increase in the interstate commerce commission's membership and in its facilities for performing its manifold duties, the provision for full public investigation and assessment of industrial disputes, and the grant to the executive of the power to control and operate the railways when necessary in time of war or other like public necessity I now very earnestly renew. The necessity for such legislation is manifest and, pressing. Those who have intrusted us with the responsibility and duty of serving and safeguarding them in such matters would find it hard, I believe, to excuse a failure to act upon these grave matters or any unnecessary postponement of action upon them. Not only does the Interstate commerce commission now find It. practically impossible, with its present mem

bership and organization, to perforin Its great functions promptly and thor-, oughly, but it is not unlikely that it may presently be found advisable to add to its duties still others equally heavy and exacting. It must first be perfected as an administrative instrument. The country cannot and should not consent to remain any longer exposed to profound industrial disturbances for lack of additional means of arbitration and conciliation which the congress can easily and promptly supply. And all will agree that there must be no doubt as to the power of the executive to make immediate and uninterrupted use of the railroads for the concentration of the military forces of the nation wherever they are needed and whenever they are needed. This is a program of regulation, prevention and administrative efficiency which argues its own case In the mere statement of it. With regard to one of its items, the increase in the efficiency of the interstate commerce commission, the house of representatives has already acted; its action needs only the concurrence of the senate. For Control and Operation. I would hesitate to recommend, and I dare say the congress would hesitate to act upon the suggestion should I make it, that any man in any occupation should be obliged by law to continue in an employment which he desired to leave. To pass a law which forbade or prevented the individual workman to leave his work before re ceiving the approval of society in doIng so would be to adopt a new prineiple into our jurisprudence which 1 take it for granted we are not prepared to introduce. But the proposal that the operation of the railways of tho country shall not be stopped or interrupted by the concerted action of organtaed bodies of men until a public investigation shall have been instituted which shnll make tho whole question at issue plain for the judgment of the oplnion of the nation is not to propose any such principle. It is based upon the very different principle that the concerted action of powerful bodies of men shall not be nermitted to tnn n,n in. dust rial processes of the nation, at any - w - w j- i 44 rate before the nation shall have had an opportunity to acquaint itself with the merits of the case as between employee and employer, time to form its opinion upon an impartial statement of the merits, and opportunity to consider all practicable means of conciliation or arbitration. I can see nothing in that proposition but the Justifiable safeguarding bv society of the necessary nroeoscod nf its very life. There Is nothing arbitrary or unjust in It unless it be arbitrarily and unjustly done. It can and should be done with a full and scrupulous regard for the interests and liberties of all concerned as well as for the permanent Interests of society itself. Other Legislation Urged. Three matters of capital importance await the action of the somite which have already been acted upon by tho house of representatives: the bill which seeks to extend greater freedom of combination to those engaged in pro moting the foreign commerce of the country than is now thought by some to he legal under the terms of the laws against monopoly; the bill amending the present organic law of Porto Itico; and the bill proposing a more thorough and systematic regulation of the expenditure of money in elections, commonly called the Corrupt Practices Act. I need not lahor my advice that these measures, be enacted into law. Their urgency lies in the manifest circurnStatices which render their adoption at this time not only opportune hut necessary. Even delay would seriously jeopard the interests of the country and of the government. Immediate passage of the hill to reculate the expenditure of money in oloetions may seem to he less necessary than the immediate enactment of the other measures to which I refer- hecause at least two years will elapse before another election in which federal offices are to be filled ; but it would greatly relieve the public mind if this Important matter were dealt with while the circumstances and the dangers to the public morals of the pres ent method of obtaining and spending campaign funds stand clear under recent observation and the methods of expenditure can be frankly studied In the light of present experience ; and a delay would have the further very serlous disadvantage of postponing action untU another election was at hand and some special object connected with it might be thought to be in the mind of those who urged it Action can be taken now with facts for guidance and without suspicion of partisan purpose. I shall not argue at length the desirability of giving a freer hand In the matter of combined and concerted effort to those who shall undertake the essential enterprise of building up our export trade. That enterprise will

presently, will immediately assume, has Indeed already assumed, a magnitude unprecedented in our experience. We have not the necessary instrumentalities for Its prosecution; it is deemed to bo doubtful whether they could be created upon an adequate scale under our present laws. We should clear away all legal obstacles and create a basis of undoubted law for it which will give freedom without permitting unregulated license. The thing must be done now, because the opportunity is here and may escape us if we hesitate or delay. Porto Rico's Needs. x The argument for the proposed amendments of the organic law of Porto Itico is brief and conclusive. The present laws governing the island ami regulating the rights and privileges of its people are not just. We have created expectations of extended privilege which we have not satisfied. There is uneasiness among the people

of the island and even a suspicious doubt with regard to our intentions concerning them which the adoption of the pending measure would happily remove. We do not doubt what we wish to do in any essential particular. We ought to do it at once. There are other matters already advanced to the stage of conference between the two houses of which it is not necessary that I should speak. Some practicable basis of agreement concerning them will no doubt be found and action taken upon them. Inasmuch as this is, genclemen, probably the last occasion I shall have to address the Sixty-fourth congress, I hope that you will permit me to say with what genuine pleasure and satisfaction I have co-operated with you in the many measures of constructive policy with which you have enriched the legislative annals of the country. It has been a privilege to labor in such company. I take the liberty of congratulating you upon the completion of a record of rare servicenbleness and distinction. Bound to Make Good. The well-dressed stranger stepped into the drug store and, passing by the boy who usually attended to casual customers, approached the proprietor, who was arranging some goods in the show case. "Mr. C , I presume 7" ho re marked, pleasantly, and the druggist turned and bowed gravely. "I have heard my friend, Mr. Quorn, speak of vou often " Sftl(1 the brIsk I,lttn' "Uc tom me 11 ever 1 nceuca "nytmng tnIs line to conlG to i'011' Ke snoke of you ns a mnn on whom one could rcly wItn VQVct confidence, who had only the l)CSt of ÜVrything and with whom lt was fthv?s a pleasure to deal." "Mr- Quorn is very kind" nsweretl the oUler bcttmInß wilh gratification, "Ho is 0110 of by best customers. What can 1 do for you thIs morning?" "Well er this morning, as it hapI,ens " said thc strnnSer wiUl J"st a liUle briskness, "this morning I should IiUe' !f you wlH allow ,no t0 consult your directory." "Certainly," was the calm reply. "vvo also have a good selection of one and two-cent stamps as well as railway time tables, if you need anything of that kind." Franklin Objects Seriously. She isn't very large, that's true, but being a county seat, and boasting of a college, several factories, Hour mills, railways, interurbans and her lately cqnired Masonic home, Franklin feels tnac S11G ls not a town e passeu lightly by, in fact, she knows her importance, and thought that everyone in the state realized it until she was taken down a bit lately. Pur.ing the big conference of the Methodist j churches hold recently in the town a meeting of the Indianapolis presbytery was in session at the same time at Hopewell, a country church in a prosperous farming community a few miles out. One of the Presbyterian delegates, on leaving thc train joined in the throng headed for the Methodist church. When it came to registering, some of his inquiries caused somoono to s"S-st that probably he was in the wrong place, and he asked innocently: "Isn't this Ilopewell?" "No, this is Franklin," was the proud reply. Indianapolis News. Rather Embarrassing. Trvin Cobb, the war correspondent, home from Europe long enough recently to get his breatli and look over the proof sheets of 11 new book, attended an authors' banquet In New York. A deaf man sat next to Cobb. Farther downthe table another man told xi funny story, and when he finished, the deaf man laughed aud applauded louder and longer than any of the res"Good old boy!" shouted the deaf man- "Tnat reminds me of a story," he added to those near by. "Get up and tell it, Charlie," cried several. The toastmaster sanctioned the suggestion. Then the deaf man got up and told the same story the other man had told. He Was on the Job. The undertaker arose and said to tne mourners assembled : anyone present wishes to say ft few words of tribute to the deceased, now is the time, when the family will be glad to hear such." A stillness prevailed, and after a few moments of silence it was broken by a young man, who arose and asked : "Do I undei-stand that no one wishes to make any remarks?" "It would appear so," replied the undertaker. "Then," asked the young man, as a light came into his eyes, "may I be permitted to make a few remarks about southern California and iti wo drful climate?" i

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Indiana Brevities Bicknell. John E. .Tones, twentyseven, a miner at the American mine, was crushed to death by falling slate. His widow and a child survive. Peru. Lorenz Hoffman has been chosen councilman-at-large In Peru to succeed Harvey A. Sausaman, who has resigned and gone to Richmond. Fort Wayne.- Louis Watterson, forty-two, a farmer of Whitley county, died in a hospital here of injuries suffered at his home when a lighting plant exploded. Huntington. When returning from a trip to Wabash, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mitten were injured when their light car struck fresh gravel and, skidding Into a ditch, upset Columbus. Willard Wright, rural mail carrier, was caught under his overturned automobile after a collision with a car owned by A Van Den Endel-, but escaped without a scratch. " Evansviile. The body of the man found at Wadesville, Posey county, has been identified as that of 12. H. Beiknapp, iifty-Üve. It is believed Belknapp lived somewhere in western Kentucky. Shelbyvllle. Dr. Bayard G. Keency, secretary of the city board of health, said no new cases of infantile paralysis are likely to appear here because of the sickness of Paul Morgan, who üled here of the disease. Gibson. Roy Johnson, George Antonio and Frank Bucha, track inspectors for the Michigan Central railroad, were killed near here when the electric speeder in which they were riding ivas struck by a passenger train. Franklin. Mrs. William Collins oi Indianapolis was injured when an automobile in which she and her husband were riding plunged off au embankment south of this city. She was taken to Edlnburg and later to her home. Princeton. With a goose under ono arm and a jug under the other Ival Loveless started home from Haubstadt on a traction car. He fell off the rear platform and was seriously hurt. The goose escaped and the Jug was smashed. Lafayette. Henry Snyder, seventytwo of Elsten, and Miss Anna Snyder, his daughter, a nurse here, were in-; jured when their buggy was struck byj a Monon train. Miss Snyder's in-j juries are serious, and her father suf-J fered severely from shock. 5 Richmond. Through etHclency! methods in good farming, the main tenance cost of the Wayne county j infirmary this year was reduced totf $130.40 per capita, which is said to bf2 lower than In most Institutions of thr; kind in Indiana and the middle West Rorno. Pnnl Rhnrnr nlnntnon l dead, a victim of his first aerial night He spent more than a year building machine. After attaining a height oj 100 feet he lost control of his plan and It fell, crushing him beneath ! He was a son of Fred Rhorer, editor of the Berne Witness. lüvansville. Mayor Bosse's activJ tics already have reduced the high cost of living in some lines in Evamville. Large shipments of rabbltii reached the city, to be sold for 17 cents each, as a substitute for more expensive meats. City Sealer Wallenmeyer has found Kentucky farmers who will ship eggs here for 30 cenls a dozen. Forty thousand bushels of coal have been ordered from thc coal mines along Green river. Indianapolis. Distributing an estate of S1SS.G3 among the branches of a family tree, which occupied eight typewritten pages and included 117 persons, was thc problem to which Judge Mahlon 13. Bash announced thc answer in Probate court. The distribution included awards ranging from four cents to $13.47. The estate was that of Mrs. Elizabeth Eskew, who died February 9, 1014. She was one of a family of lo children. Her father, David Stoops, was married twice and had seven children hy his first wife and eight by his second. Mrs. Eskew died with no children or parents living, and Judge Bash ruled that her next of kin entitled to inherit were two brothers and the descendants of 12 brothers and sisters, who are dead. In passing on the evidence In support of the proof of heirship, the court found 117 persons were entitled to participate in the distribution, of the estate, which amounted to $1S8.03 after all debts and costs of administration were paid. The surviving brothers are entitled to 13.47, each and the remaining 12 shares are divided among the descendants, or next kin, of each brother and sister, who are dead. One brother, who is dead, was the father of ten children, whos. ninth child, a son, died before thq death of Mrs. Eskew, leaving as his heirs three grandchildren. Each grandchild will receive 1-3 15th of his greatgrandfather's share, or 1-J410th of th amount of distribution. These sharef amount to four cents each. The elgh pages of the family tree were incouporated In the court's order of dlstrtjj uution. North Vernon. When trying to sm prise a thief he thought was robbinl his chicken roost, Bert Crist, a farmel accidentally discharged his shotgul the load striking his right foot ftt making necessary the amputation i

two toes. ' Indianapolis. The calling "homJ of coal cars by big railroads has left the Kvansville & Indianapolis rallroa ' operating through the coal fields, without coal cars. Wlilhun Kappes, receiver, asked Judge Anderson of the federal court to authorize the lease of coal cars. The Kvnnsvillo' Imilinapils owns no col cmxa. ,

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