Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 46, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 July 1917 — Page 2

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WEEKLY COURIER v BEN CD. DOANE, Publisher JAPE - - INDIANA Billions for defense, but not a cent for graft Not frightfulnesa but efficiency counts in war.

Rule of health: Do not monkey I with the conscription law. One way to economize on food these days Is to stop feeding tramps. Some of these conscientious objectors need a little more conscience. When the cruel war Is over the calories will be taken out of the food. What bliss to munch an onion that you have grown yourself in the back yard I Again the submarine menace has been lessened, but is there danger of a relapse? Have you noticed that the costume scheme of every college play Includes powdered wigs? Slackers and extortioners may live a long time In America, but they are not' likely to enjoy it. While there Is worse eating than carp, one would hate to be compelled to consume artichokes. Your thrift is not going to amount to very much unless there is plenty of Industry mixed with it. There is a weevil which attacks navy beans. Here is another problem for our naval inventors ! Many of the back-yard tomato plants act like conscientious objectors. They will neither die nor grow. Idle hands would not be so bad if it were not for the fact that a highly active stomach usually goes with them. The first by-law of a pig club should make it an offense to sell a pig for slaughter before it weighs 200 pounds. Abstinence from work and waste of money is not culture. Even a hobo refrains from toil and squanders what he panhandles. The exemption of cheap cigars and low-priced motion picture shows proves that these are now ranked among the necessaries of life. The fact that cabbage is not heavily freighted with nutritive elements encourages us to hope that the government will not interfere with the making of 5-cent cigars. Great Britain has pronounced as undesirable and pests the American gray squirrels imported recently. Well, If John Bull will take his sparrows home we will be glad to have our squirrels back. Paris tea rooms have substituted coffee, and those who have tasted both beverages say that If the London coffee rooms would now only substitute tea, the war would not have been fought in vain. Professor Lupin snys that American Inventive genius will knock the submarine weapon out of Germany's hands. The professor, being a distinguished Inventor, may be the man to turn the trick. Some people seem to have an idea that war Is a good thing if It can be successfully fought without men or money. And we really believe if gab could crush enemies we could have the kaiser going in no time. A Californlan has invented a machine gun that runs by electricity and !flres 3,000 projectiles a minute. Why 'doesn't the government buy one of 'them and end the war? Just remember this, old hoss. Every time you eat a laying hen or a young pullet, you are showing just about as Anuch sense as a farmer who had his seed potatoes boiled for dinner. Ton may depend upon it that few propositions are ever so self-evident that when two or three are gathered together to discuss them that a fierce 'difference of opinion will not arise. The woman who has more heart than head will work her fingernails off for her husband, and the -woman -who has more head than heart will make her husband work his head oft: for her. The new theory that a war can be fought without sacrifice Is not going to get the country much further than the other notion that an invincible army is composed of all officers and no enlisted men. The government has placed contracts for $17,000,000 worth of shoes '"for the army. You have to look after the feet to keep off defeat. Still, the plot to start a money panic In Wail street by means of a bomb Is no more absurd than the plan to start m world panic by submarine piracy. Of course, if we are to have shoes made of sharks' skins it will be important for people to know whether the hides of the land sharks are to bt tanned, also.

ET WIN THE IB President Wilson Appeals to Business Interests of Country. JUST PRICES IS HIS DEMAND Business Should Not Take Toll Off Men in Trenches, Says the Chief Executive Ship Owners Are Condemned. Washington. President Wilson appealed to the country's business interests Wednesday to put aside every selfish consideration and to give their aid to the nation as freely as those who go to offer their lives on the battlefield. In a statement addressed to the coal operators and manufacturers he gave assurance that just prices will be paid by the government and the public during thewar, but warned that no attempt to extort unusual profits will be tolerated. Tour patriotism," said the president's appeal, "is of the same selfdenying stuff as the patriotism of the men dead and maimed on the fields of France, or it is no patriotism at all. Let us never speak, then, of profits and patriotism in the same sentence. "I shall expect every man who Is not a slacker to be at my side throughout this great enterprise. In it no man can win honor who thinks of himself." Condemns Ship Owners. The president declared there must be but one price for the government and for the public. He expressed confidence that business generally would be found loyal to the last degree, and that the problem of wartime prices, which he declared will "mean victory or defeat," will be solved rightly through patriotic co-operation. In unmeasured terms, however, Mr. Wilson condemned the ship owners of the country for maintaining a schedule of ocean freight rates which has placed "almost insuperable obstacles In the path of the government. President's Call. The president's statement follows: "The government is about to attempt to determine the prices at which It will ask you henceforth to furnish various supplies which are necessary for the prosecution of the war, and various materials which will be needed In the industries by which the war must be sustained. We shall, of course, try to determine them justly and to the best advantage of the nation as a whole; but justice is easier to speak of than to arrive at, and there are some considerations which I hope we shall keep steadily in mind while this particular problem of justice is being .worked out. Promises Just Price. "Therefore I take the liberty of stating very candidly my own view of the situation and of the principles which should guide both the government and the mine owners and manufacturers of the country in this difficult matter. "A just price must, of course, be paid for everything the government buys. By a just price I mean a price which will sustain the industries concerned in a high state of efficiency, provide a living for those who conduct them, enable them to pay good wages, and make possible the expansions of their enterprises which will from time to time become necessary as the stupendous undertakings of this great war develop. Must Face the Facts. "We could not wisely or reasonably do less than pay such prices. They are necessary for the maintenance and development of industry, and the maintenance and development of industry are necessary for the great task we have in hand. "But I trust that we shall not surround the matter with a mist of sentiment. Facts are our masters now. We ought not to put the acceptance of such prices on tbe ground of patriotism." "Patriotism has nothing to do with profits in a case like this. Patriotism and profits ought never in the present circumstances be mentioned together. "It is perfectly proper to discuss profits as a matter of business, with a view to maintaining the integrity of capital and the efficiency of labor in these tragical months, when the liberty of free men everywhere and of industry itself trembles in the balance; but it would be absurd to discuss them as a motive for helping to serve and save our country. "Patriotism leaves profits out of the question. In these days of our supreme trial, when we are sending hundreds of thousands of our young men across the seas to serve a great cause, no true man who stays behind to work for them and sustain them by his labor will ask himself what he is personally going to make out of that labor. "No true patriot will permit himself to take toll of their heroism in money or seek to grow rich by the shedding of their blood. He will give as freely and with as unstinted self-sacrifice as they. When they are giving their lives, will he not' at least give his money? Assails "Bribery" "I hear it insisted that more than a just price, more than a price that will sustain our industries, must be paid ; that it Is necessary to pay very liberal and unusual profits in order to 'stimulate' production; that nothing but pecuuiary rewards will do re

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wards pad In money, not in the mere liberation of the world. "I take It for granted that those who argue thus do not stop to think what that means. "Do they mean tjiat you roust, be paid, must be bribed, to make your contribution, a contribution that costs you neither a drop of blood nor a tear, when the whole world Is in travail and men everywhere depend upon and call to you to bring them out of bondage and make the world a fit place to live In again, amidst peace and justice? Appeals to Honor. "Do they mean that you will exact a price, drive a bargain, with the men who are enduring the agony of this war on the battlefields, in the trenches, amidst the lurking dangers of the sea, or with the bereaved women and pitiful children, before yon will come forward to do your duty and give some part of your life, In easy, peaceful fashion, for the things we are fighting for, the things we have pledged our fortunes, our lives, our sacred honor to vindicate and defend liberty and justice and fair dealing and the

j)eaee of nations? "Of course you will not. It Is inconceivable. Your patriotism is of the same self-denying stuff as the patriotism of the men dead or maimed on the fields of France, or else It Is not patriotism at all. Full Dollar's Worth. "Let us never speak, then, of profits and of patriotism In the same sentence, but face facts and meet them. Let us do sound business, but not in the midst of a mist. "Many a grievous burden of taxation will be laid on this nation, in this generation and in the next, to pay for this war; let us see to It that for every dollar that Is taken from tho people's pockets it shall be possible to obtain a dollar's worth of the sound stufC they need. "r it me turn for a moment to the ship owners of the United States and the other ocean carriers whose example they have followed, and ask them if they realize what obstacles, what almost Insuperable obstacles, they have been putting In the way of the successful prosecution of this war by the ocean freight rates they have been exacting. Making War a Failure. "They are doing everything that high freight charges can do to make the war a failure, to make It Impossible. "I do not say that they realize this or Intend it. The thing has happened naturally enough because the commercial processes which we are content to see operate In ordinary times have without sufficient thought been continued into a period where they have no proper place. "I am not questioning motives. I am merely stating a fact, and stating It in order that attention may be fixed upon it. "The fact. Is that those who have fixed war freight rates have taken the most effective means in their power to defeat the armies engaged against Germany. When they realize this we may, I take it for granted, count upon them to reconsider the whole matter. Jt is high time. Their extra hazards are covered by war risk insurance. Warning Is Sounded. "I know, and you know, what response to this great challenge of duty and of opportunity the nation will expect of you; and I know what response you will make. "Those who do not respond, who do not respond in the spirit of those who have gone to give their lives for us on bloody fields far away, may safely be left to be dealt with by opinion and the law for the law must, of course, command those things. "I am dealing with the matter thus publicly and frankly, not because I have any doubt or fear as to the result but only in order that in all our thinking and in all our dealings with one another we may move in a perfectly clear air of mutual' understanding. Must Have Same Prices. "And there is something more that we must add to our thinking. The public is now as much a part of the government as are the army and navy themselves; the whole people in all their activities are now mobilized and in service for the accomplishment, of the nation's task in this war; it is in such circumstances impossible justly to distinguish between industrial purchases made by the government and industrial purchases made by the managers of industries, and it is just as much our duty to sustain the industrials of the country with all the industries that contribute to its life as it is to sustain our forces in the field and on the sea. Think Not of Self. "We must make prices to the public the same as the prices to the government. Prices mean the same thing everywhere now. They mean the efficiency or the inefficiency of the nation, whether it is the government that pays them or not. They mean victory or defeat. They mean that America will win her place once for all among the foremost free nations of the world or that she will sink to defeat and become, a second-rate power alike in thought and in action. This is a day of her reckoning and every man among us must personally face that reckoning along with her. "The case needs no arguing. I assume that I am only expressing your own thoughts what must be in the mind of every true man when he faces the tragedy and tthe solemn glory of the present war, for the emancipation of mankind. "I summon you to a great duty, a great privilege, a shining dignity and distinction. I shall expect every man who is not a slacker to be at my side throughout this great enterprise. In it no man can win honor who thinks ot himself'

QUOTA EACH STATE MUST RAISE BY DRAFT FOR NATIONAL ARMY Allotment by states of quotas to bo raised by selective draft for Uncle Sam's national army was announced by the war department. The quotas assigned are on a basis of proportionate population of each state to the population of the nation as recently fixed by the census bureau. In the allotment each state Is given credit for its total enlisted National Guard strength, plus the men enlisted in the regular army between April 2 and June 30, 11)17. The following table gives the war department allotment, gross quotas, net quotas and National Guard and regular army credits the total of the latter two appearing in the final column of the table:

Gross Quota United States .... .1,152,985 Alabama 21,300 Arizona 4,478 Arkansas K 17,452 California 34,907 Colorado 9,797 Connecticut . 18.817 Delaware 2,569 District of Columbia..... 3,790 Florida 10,129 Georgia 27,209 Idaho 4,833 Illinois 79,094 Indiana . . 29,971 Iowa 25,465 Kansas 17,795 Kentucky 22,152 Louisiana 18,481 Maine 7,076 Maryland 14,139 Massachusetts 43,109 Michigan 43,936 Minnesota 26,021 Mississippi 16,429 Missouri 35,461 Montana 10,423 Nebraska 18,900 Nevada -1,435 New Hampshire 4,419 New Jersey 35,623 New Mexico 8,856 New York 122,424 North Carolina 28,486 North Dakota 7,737 Ohio 66,474 Oklahoma 19,943 Oregon 7,387 Pennsylvania 93,277 Rhode Island 6,277 South Carolina 15,147 South Dakota 6,854 Tennessee 22,158 Texas 48,116 Utah 4,945 Vermont 3,243 Virginia 21,354 Washington 12,768 West Virginia 14,848 Wisconsin 28,199 Wyoming 2,683 Alaska 710 Hawaii 2,403 Porto Rico 13,480 Wilsen Railies 1,262,985 Men Around the Flag. 687,000 ON THE FIRST CALL Official Allotment Shows What Part of Total Must Be Furnished by Each State and Territory In the Union. Washington. A formal order by President Wilson, drafting 687,000 into the military service under the selective conscription law, was promulf gated by the war department, together with an ofllcial allotment showing what part of the total must be furnished by each state and territory. The only steps now remaining are distribution by the governors of state quotas among the local exemption districts cfcid the great lottery, which probably will be held next week and which will establish the order in which registrants are to present themselves for service or exemption. The men summoned for service will be used to fill the regular army and National Guard to war strength and to organize the first 500,000 of the new national array. Total to Be 1,262,985. The total of these three forces will be 1,262,9S5 men. Later another 500,000 will be called oJt, supplemented by sufficient men to make up losses and maintain reaervo battalions. Following is Secretary of War Baker's announcement of the order: "By virtue of the authority vested in him by an act of congress, entitled An Act to Authorize the President to Increase Temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,' approved May 13, 1917, the president of the United States has ordered the aggregate number of GS7,000 men to be raised by draft for the military service of the United States In order to bring to full strength the organizations of the regular army and the organizations embodying the members of the National Guard drafted Into the military service of the United States and to create the national army, and has caused said aggregate number to be apportioned to the several states and territories and the District of Columbia as set forth In the schedule hereto appended. "The governor of each state and territory and the commissioners of the

FORMAL DRAFT ORDER ISSUED BY PRESIDENT

National Regular Aggregate 4et Quota Guard En- Army National by Draft listed April April 2- Guard and 2-June30 June 30 Reg. Army 687,000 183,719 117,974 465.985 13,612 2,238 1,232 7.651 3,472 371 171 998 10,267 5,1 23 840 7,155 23,060 3,162 4,158 11,786 4,758 2,722 1,015 5,027 10,977 2,776 1,138 7,807 1,202 639 180 1,363 929 704 223 260 6,325 1,659 954 3,786 18,337 2,100 2,840 8,825 2,287 865 711 2,533 51,653 9,635 10,997 27,304 17,510 2,494 5,940 12,409 12,749 6,808 3,633 12,672 6,439 6,898 2,588 11,325 14,236 3,622 2,276 "7,878 13,582 1,979 1,198 4,867 1,821 2,722 553 5,243 7,096 3,151 537 7,018 20,536 7,511 4,965 32,448 30,291 3,943 5,906 13,569 17,854 3f752 1,951 8,122 10,201 3,457 581 5,600' 18,660 7,738 3,984 16,740 7,872 592 . 982 2,533 8,185 2,538 1,853 5,691 1,051 382 382 1,204 1,272 346 3,207 20,665 4,584 4,202 14,896 2,292 1,239 227 1,557 69,241 16,883 12,588 52,971 15,974 3,345 1,003 7,471 5,606 1,486 353 2,118 38,773 14,129 5,020 27,586 15,564 2,004 1,907 4,344 717 2,259 1,974 6,657 60,859 9,732 13,388 37,248 1,801 1,916 371 4,465 10,081 1,796 782 5,040 2,717 2,647 579 4,125 14,528 3,917 1,414 7,592 30,545 8,794 4,347 17,488 2,370 812 1,091 2,566 1,049 1,111 205 2,188 13,795 2,992 838 7,522 7,296 1,764 1,446 5,450 9,101 1,482 1,240 5,721 12,876 9,029 1,586 15,274 810 1,130 304 1,868 696 13 13 142 18 4,397 12,833 624 624

District of Columbia, acting for and by the direction of the president and in accordance with said act of congress and rules and regulations prescribed pursuant thereto, shall apxiortlon the quota so apportioned to such state, territory or district and shall communicate to each local board established in such state, territory or district notice of the net quota to be furnished by such board, and such net quotas shall thereupon be furnished by the respective local boards as required by said act of congress and rules and regulations prescribed, pursuant thereto." In computing the number of men to be required from the various states the government put to the credit of each state every man It now has fn the National Guard and every man it has contributed since April 1 ns a war volunteer to the regular army. Computation Method. Placing on the debit side of the ledger the national army of 500,000, the entire National Guard at war strength and the number of war volunteers needed on April 1 last, to bring the regulars tip to the war strength, the grand total was apportioned according to population. This gave a gross quota for each state, from which a net quota was computed by checking off the number of National Guardsmen available for federal service and the number of men given by the state to the regular army since April 1. The apportionment was made on the basis of an estimated grand total for the United States and its possessions of 105,36G,05G inhabitants. This is a paper estimate, computed from registration returns, which comes within the law requiring distribution of quotas by population, but which equalizes in a great measure the burden that is .to fall upon the 4,559 exemption districts. Total of 1,152,985. Each will furnish under this apportionment the men its total registration would Indicate as a fair proportion, rather than the number the actual population of the district would indicate. The total of these gross quotas Is 1,152,985 men. Credit Is given to the various states for a total of 405.9S5 voluntary enlistments In the National Guard and regulars, making the total net quota for all states GS7,000 men. Illinois, which was the first big state to fill its quota for the regular army, reduced its gross quota of 79,09-1 to 51,053. Never Satisfied. "That dog of yours bit a piece right out of my leg." "Well, you're never satisfied. You were only telling me the other day that you wished you could lose some flesh." Too Small For Some Purposes. "Nearly all the newspapers are being reduced in size, I notice." "Yes; It seems to be a lucky thlnf that bustles are no longer fashloo able."

STATE NEWS

Vocational department of Anderson .high school Is giving a six-weeks fr course In canning and drying. Rev. W. I. Waggener has resigned as pastor of the Bluff Creek Christian church. Miss Annie Wright, twenty-two, bfl( been employed as watchwoman at on of the Important grado crossings of the Nickel plate road at Hammond. At Franklin William Carter, fourteen, exploded a giant firecracker in; a bottle on the Fourth and will prob-; nbly lose the sight of his eye as a result. ( County commissioners at Noble-, ville have appointed J. S. Shannon as! county surveyor to succeed B. G. Baker. .Tohn Wilson, thirty-three, of Jack-, sonvllle, was suffocated while firing; shots at the West Clinton mine. At Greensburg Dale Tumulty, nine,: fastened a chain with which he was; leading a cow about his waist, the, cow ran nway and he was dragged and trampled probably fatally. Dr. J. M. Morris of Fulton, his wife,; son and daughter were killed when their auto turned turtle near Peru. Muncie dogs are suffering from a; disease strongly resembling rabies. A revival service has been conclude ed at Twelve Mile with 100 convex slons. ' Rev. J. C. Todd, head of the Bible; chair in the Christian church In the, Indiana university at Bloomington, has been asked to take the head of the school of religion at the university. Rev. Thomas L. Gray, pastor of the Marlon Temple Congregational church lias resigned. At Shelbyville Mary Farley, four-, teen, Is suffering from wounds caused by dynamite cap which she struck with a hammer. Henry Humphrey walked into 20 feet of water at Indianapolis, claiming he. could walk on the water ns Christ did He was drowned. Sixty farmers living near Stockport demand that Vernon Wood, twelve, be prosecuted for killing Gilmer, six, declaring that he did not shoot him by. accident as he claims. W. J. Waterhouse, thirty-one, of Laporte, has been . called to Dayton, O., by the government to direct the work of building 4,000 airplanes. Capt. Basil Mlddleton of the First Indiana Infantry has resigned owing to ill-health. Cedar Lake resorts were "pulled" because women were kept there. Annual retreat of the priests of theOrder of the Holy Cross, attended by 500 priests, has ended at Notre Dame university at South Bend. " D. B. Rurnsey of Richmond has been, elected principal of the grade schools at Columbia City. Omea Lentz of JefTersonvllle has been named township trustee for ütlca township to succeed Frank W. Johnson who dropped dead. He will pay half of the salary of $500 to the widow. Study of German in the Churubusco high school has been stopped. Annual meeting of the Indiana Letter Carriers' association held at Terre Haute with 150 delegates present, who elected C. O. Methorn of Connersville, president. E. A. Bowman of Indianapolis elected president of the Indiana stato branch of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks. Indiana has 107.1S1 automobiles worth $S5,000,000. Frank Dawson of Angola was killed in auto accident at Lake James. At Newcastle Arthur Dawson fined $35 and 30 days in jail for carrying dice in his pocket. Mrs. Blanche Lundy of Muncie drank iodine solution after quarrel with her husband. At Huntington Nathan L. edbetter lost his $15,000 damage suit for per sonal injuries against A. C. Beeson whose auto frightened the former's horse. A. F. Moore, farmer, Anderson, has hiccoughed for twelve days and may not recover. City playground opened in the city park at Shelbyville. Rev. S. A. Massey of the Laporto Disciples church has resigned to resume his trade as painter. Princeton Central Labor union has elected F. J. Schmitt, a machinist, president. County Agent Loew is holding meeting to induce farmers of Huntington county to build more silos. George G. G. Hall of Louisville has been made general manager of the Southern Telephone company of Indiana, with headquarters In Evansville. Henry P. Shields, grocer, has assigned for the benefit of his creditors at Boonville. ' Mrs. Berne Welch has been appointed member of Peru board of healthIncrease of 1,140 In population of Fort Wayne shown by the new city directory. Tippecanoe county has exceeded its Red Cross quota by $5.000. County Assessor Legg will appeal the state board valuation of $100,000 on the property of the American Steel and Wire company, believing it should be $200,000. Decatur county schools will open the first Monday in September. Four small boys of Anderson arrested for looting a store of firearms with, which they were going to Invade Mexico. At Brookville, Harold Cooksey, six-, teen, Is dead from lockjaw caused br stepping on a rusty all.

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