Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 15, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 December 1916 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher JASPER - INDIANA

Learning to play the ukulele is a lot easier than 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 gasoline. 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. w 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 wheu The weather goes hard on the man who thought he would Invest his election winnings In an overcoat. The merchant submarine, despite the success of the pioneer iu that Hue, is not yet an established fact. Night flying 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 government fine is imposed upon anyone who eats an egg for breakfast in Germany. Here the fine Is assessed by the man who sells it. The Austro-Hungariau tobacco monopoly allows only one cigar daily to the same customer, which is pretty rough on the old-time politician. An ad heading rends "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 $2.9S. A man can live to be 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 n 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 a low price. Let overcoats go up .$0 and a man will ?ook sorrowful. Put eggs up three cents a dozen and he becomes a nearanarchist. Moral : Man is willing to wear a 1915 overcoat, but he can't eat 1915 eggs. People who ride bicycles and 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 the day, and who after listening to a dozen requested to be excused for the reason that he 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 seasou. The supply of gold in the United States has doubled since 1904, but that other precious mineral, coal, is harder and harder to obtain. Employers in this country have many diiliculties on their hands at present. But among them is not that of inducing their employees to accept more pay. ivcry 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 pacifist who quotes the casualty lists of the oppos ing powers as evidences that no one is left for the United States to fight.

JOHN D. ARCHBOLD

John D. Archbold, president of the Standard Oil company, is critically ill at his home in Tarrylown, 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 Illumination Battleships Fire Salute. New York, 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 Redfield of the department of commerce and many other prominent men attended the ceremony. The illumination, which will be 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. Cary T Grayson, was met by Mayor MItcLel and a committee of 200 citizens and escorted to a landing stage on the North river, where the president boarded the presidential yacht Mayflower. The French ambassador, Mme. Jusserand and James W. Gerard, ambassador to Germany, were guests on the Mayflower. Secretary Daniels, Secretary Itedfield and the members of the mayor's committee were aboard the warships San Francisco and Yankton. Headed by the Mayflower, the official craft steamed downstream and anchored off Bedloe's island at 5:45, surrounded by several battleships of the Atlantic fleet. Then President Wilson touched a wireless key and began a message ordering the statue illuminated. A rocket was fired from the Mayflower at the eame time. The current was released from the new lighting plant and the statue blazed forth while the battleships fired a salute of 21 guns. OLD-TIME BLUE-GRASS DUEL Kentuckians on Horseback Fight With Revolvers One Is Killed, Other Dangerously Wounded. Lexington, Ky Dec. 4. One of the 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 Blevins and Steven llubblestone cantered with their seconds over the dewy grass to a secluded spot selected for their diiliculties. The men shook hands and then galloped on their horses 25 feet in opposite directions, with revolvers drawn. Wheeling at a given signal, they opened fire. Hubblestonc 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 lunatic who shot and killed Sheriff Morton C. Jones of Vermilion county, was captured in a dense woods four miles northwest of Cayuga, within 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 insanity was returning, she notified 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. Springfield, 111., Dec. 4. Dr. O. E. Dyson, state veterinarian, has lifted the quarantine of cattle In the stockyards of Chicago, East St. Louis and Peoria. Investigators reported that the 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 eattlp held for the past few days.

CONGRESS 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 information of the state of the Union and recommending to your consideration such legislative measures as may be 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 public policy with which it seems necessary and feasible to deal at the present session of the congress. I realize the limitations of time under 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 imperatively necessary that the earliest possible consideration and action should be accorded the remaining measures of the program of settlement and regulation which I had occasion to recommend to you at the close of your last session in view of the public dangers disclosed by the unaccommodated difficulties 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 the interstate commerce commission along the lines embodied In the bill recently passed by the 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 employment of all railway employees who are actually engaged in the work of operating trains in interstate transportation. Third, the authorization of the appointment 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 the congress of the consideration by the interstate commerce commission of an increase of freight rates to meet such additional expenditures by the railroads as may have been rendered necessary by the adoption of the eighthour 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 the mediation, conciliation, and arbitration of such controversies as the present by adding to it a provision that, in case the methods of accommodation now provided for should fail, a full public investigation of the merits of every such dispute shall be instituted and completed before a strike or lockout may lawfully be attempted. And, sixth, the lodgment In the 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 the military service of the United States such train crews and administrative officials as the circumstances require for their safe and efficient use. Renews His Recommendations. The second and third of these recommendations the congress immediately acted on: it established the eighthour day as the legal basis of work and wages in train service and it authorized the appointment of a commission to observe and report upon the practical results, deeming these 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 power 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 commission's 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 com merce commission now find it practi cally impossible, with its present mem bership and organization, to perform 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 administrativ instru ment. The country cannot and should not consent to remain any longer exposed to profound industrial disturbances for lack of additional means of arbitra tion 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 receiving the approval of society in doing so would be to adopt a new principle into our jurisprudence which I take it for granted we are not prepared to introduce. But the proposal that the operation of the railways of the country shall not be stopped or interrupted by the concerted action of organized bodies of men until a public investigation shall have been instituted which shall make the whole question at issue plain for the judgment of the opinion 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 permitted to stop the industrial processes of the nation, at any 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 by society of the necessary processes of 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 pernurhent interests of society itself. Other Legislation Urged. Three matters of capital importance await the action of the senate which have already been acted upon by the house of representatives: the bill which seeks to extend greater freedom of combination to those engaged in promoting the foreign commerce of the country than is now thought by some to be legal under the terms of the laws against monopoly; the bill amending the present organic law of Porto Rico ; 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 labor my advice that these measures be enacted into law. Their urgency lies in the manifest circumstances which render their adoption at this time. not only opportune but neces sary. Even delnv would sArimKiv jeopard the interests of the country and of the government. Immediate passage of the bill to regulate the expenditure of money in elections may seem to be less necessary than the immediate enactment of the other measures to which I refer; because at least two years will elapse before another election in which fed eral 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 dan gers to the public morals of the present method of obtaining and spending campaign funds stand clear under re cent observation and the methods of expenditure can be frankly studied in the light of present experience; and a delay would have the further very se rious disadvantage of postponing action until 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 enteroHs nf hnflrif nr nn mir export trad. That enterprise rill

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 be 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, The argument for the proposed amendments of the organic law of Porto Rico is brief and conclusive. The present laws governing the island and 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. gentlemen, 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 serviceableness 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?" he remarked, pleasantly, and the druggist turned and bowed gravely. "I have heard my friend, Mr. Quorn, speak of you often," said the brisk man. "He told me If ever I needed anything in this line to come to you. He spoke of you as a man on whom one could rely with perfect confidence, who had only the best of evrything and with whom It was always a pleasure to deal." "Mr. Quorn is very kind;" answered the other, beaming with gratification. "He is one of by best customers. What can I do for you this morning?" "Well er this morning, as it happens," said the stranger, with just a little briskness, "this morning I should like, if you will allow me, to consult your directory." "Certainly," was the calm reply. "We 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, flour mills, railways, interurhans and her lately acquired Masonic home, Franklin feels that she is not a town to be passed 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. During the big conference of the Methodist churches held 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 the train joined in the throng headed for the Methodist church. When it came to registering, some of his inquiries caused someone to suggest that probably he was in the wrong place, and he asked innocently: "Isn't this Hopewell?" "No, this is Franklin," was the proud reply. Indianapolis News. Rather Embarrassing. Irvin Cobb, the war correspondent, home from Europe long enough recently to get his breath and look over the proof sheets of a new book, attended an authors' banquet in New York. A deaf man sat next to Cobb. Farther down the table another man told a funny story, and when he finished, the deaf man laughed and applauded louder and longer than any of the rest. "Good old boy!" shouted the deaf man. "That 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 the mourners assembled: "If anyone present wishes to say a 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 understand 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 ita woadexful climate?"

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Indiana les Bicknell. John E. Jones, 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 councllman-at-large In Peru to succeed Harvey A. Sausaman, who has resigned and gone to Richmond. Fort Wayne.- Louis Wntterson, 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. Wlllard Wright, rural mail carrier, was caught under his overturned automobile after a collision with a car owned by A. Van Den lDnder. but escaped without a scratch. Evansville. The body of the man found at Wadesville, Posey county, has been identified as that of E. II. Belknapp, fifty-five. It is believed Belknapp lived somewhere in western Kentucky. Shelbyville. Dr. Bayard G. Keeney, 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 died here of the disease. Gibson. Roy Johnson, George Anconio 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 of Indianapolis was injured when an automobile in which she and her husband were riding plunged off an embankment south of this city. She was taken to Edinburg and later to her home. Princeton. With a goose under one 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 Elston, and Miss Anna Snyder, his daughter, a nurse here, were injured when their buggy was struck by a Monon train. Miss Snyder's Injuries are serious, and her father suffered severely from shock. Richmond. Through efficiency methods in good farming, the maintenance cost of the Wayne county infirmary this year was reduced to $139.49 per capita, which is said to be lower than in most institutions of the kind in Indiana and the middle West Berne. Paul Rhorer, nineteen, Is dead, a victim of his first aerial flight. He spent more than a year building n machine. After attaining a height of 100 feet he lost control of his plane and It fell, crushing him beneath it. He was a son of Fred Rhorer, editor of the Berne Witness. Evansville. Mayor Bosse's activities already have reduced the high cost of living in some lines in Evansville. Large shipments of rabbits reached the city, to be sold for 17 cents each, as a substitute for more expensive meats. City Sealer Wallenmoyer has found Kentucky farmers who will ship eggs here for 30 cents a dozen. Forty thousand bushels of coal have been ordered from the 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 the problem to which Judge Mahlon E. Bash announced the 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, 1914. She was one of a family of 15 children. Her father, David Stoops, was married twice and had seven children by 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 $1SS.63 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, whose ninth child, a son, died before the death of Mrs. Eskew, leaving as his heirs three grandchildren. Each grandchild will receive l-315th of his great grandfather's share, or l-4410th of the amount of distribution. These shares amount to four cents each. The eight pages of the family tree were incorporated in the court's order of distribution. North Vernon. When trying to surprise a thief he thought was robbing his chicken roost, Bert Crist, a farmer, accidentally discharged his shotgun, the load striking his right foot and making necessary the amputation of two toes. Indianapolis. The calling "home" of coal cars by big railroads has left the Evansville & Indianapolis railroad, operating through the coal fidlds, without coal cars. William Kappes, receiver, asked Judge Anderson of the .federal court to authorize the lease of coal cars. The Evansville & Indianapolis owns no coal cars.