Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 51, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 August 1917 — Page 2

WEEKLYCOURIER BEN CD. DOANE, Publisher JASPER .... INDIANA

You can't catch a shark by singing It to sleep. Eat lobster for breakfast and economic on meats ! As usual, the crop of peanut politics Ik to be bountiful. AH men arc alike to the woman who "fcet'j hold of a bad one. If men who know things refu.se to talk, the spies can do little harm. The poor dove of peace certainly twould like to know where she is at About the only thing the Austrlnns toeem able to beat In "a hasty retreat. Ho l a a patriot who makes two all"woo! lambs grow where none grew before. Maybe they call him Imperial chancellor becatiso ho has to take so many chances. War Is a horrible thing which reif uses to Intermit while we settle the 'golf titles. America, according to tho government crop reports, will be the world's fodderland. If there Is anything to be done and there is a fool way to do It, watch the crowd go to It. An open door to get Into a china rablnet Is apt to result In an International smash-up. The world Is getting better. Hardly .anybody uses snuff these days. They ;can sneeze without. Cold feet Is responsible for poor circulation In some newspapers as well as In human beings. Literally interpreted, . our food embargo law means that enough is euough for a neutral. World empire is a pipe dream that the international morals police will "have to put a stop to. Paris discovers that Germany's Uboats are growing in size. Fine! nM.,..!i i t j. n v j u uu un easier largcu. The president says in a nutshell that when a man invests in patriotism the profits must go to the nation. It is Intimated that the nation may seize private shipping, but that will not necessarily include all schooners. Tf we are to have a meatless day and a whcatlcss day each week why not have an eatless week and end It all? When It comes to uniforms honor the coat of tan acquired by honest labor in the garden under a suburban sun. Another advantage of the war is that it takes one's mind off the excrucinting suspense of the bowling championship. The women of America are entering Into the spirit of economy with line zeal. It has even extended to the bathing suits. Berlin bank clerks go barefoot to save leather for their country. Nobody ever Impugned the patriotism of Berlin bank clerks. ; One of our newly made citizens thought that "U. S." stood for "union milt," which is not such a bad sort of a guess after all. Tt is all right to go ahead and feed the peoples of Europe, but let It not De forgotten that necessity, like charity, begins at home. The amateur gardener, between his fights with bugs and storms, may find time to sympathize a bit with the trials of the farmer. Divine right has Indeed come upon parlous times. The ex-autocrat of all the Russlns wants to know who is going to support his family. The country Is badly In need of a system that will take in spies and plotters and promptly execute them. There Is no other way in war. No one among us and our allies Is likely to starve when Uncle Sam Is 'gathering In three and a quarter billions of bushels of corn this your. An odd predicament of the war with ia humorous twist Is the fact that despite the cry on all sides for more jtnnn power. 1.000.000 Italian soldiers lare nil dressed up for fight and have nowhere to go. Anybody can run the government. Tt jis the job of naming the baby that dettimitds the tact, finesse, diplomacy and texegullve ability of the average family. One time It's the Russian army that disappoints the Prussian, the next It's ;thc young emperor of Austria who worries the kaiser with peace programs. Truvel so broadens the mind that It tuny be expected that the man who couldn't turn a note of "The StarSpnngled Banner" at home will lead oft with "The Marsellalso" In France,

38,000 GUARDS . FOR FRANCE Two Army Divisions Instead of One Will Be Sent in First Contingent.

PLAN CHANGED BY THE U.S. Forty-Second Division Will Be Accompanted Abroad by the TwentySixth Will Take Some Time to Get Force Ready. Washington, Aug. 20. Two army divisions instead of one, comprising a total of at least 3S.O0O men. probably will make up the first contingent of the National Guard to go to France. Although no odicial confirmation was obtainable, there were evidences that the composite forty-second division, whose organization recently was announced, will be accompanied abroad by the Twenty-sixth, made up of New England guardsmen. No New England states are among the 20 having representation in the composite division. The commander of the Twentysixth Is Maj. Gen. Clarence Edwards, now acting as commander of the department of the Northeast, and it is presumed he would go to Europe with the division. The Forty-second is commanded by Maj. Gen. W. A. Mann. Transports Available. A report was current that suflicient shipping will be available for forwarding two divisions within the lime fixed for the departure of the Foiiy-second, and that tho Twenty-sixth had been selected to go because It comes from a compact area and is composed for the most part of regiments of high rating and representing states whose troops were left out of the composite division. The forty-second division Is being mobilized at Mincola, L. L, under the new 'European standard, which requires that the strength of the Individual infantry regiments be increased more than 50 per cent. The process necessitates the addition of some units not included in the original order, for where one company of infantry, for instance, was to have come from any slate, two companies have been consolidated to givo the 250 men necessary. Thus hundreds of men have been transferred to fill up the regiments selected to go. All the other National Guard divisions will go through a similar process on their arrival at their divisional camp. Delay in Start. No hint has been given as to the probable time it will require to prepare the Forty-second for embarkation. As It Is a wholly new organization, it Is logical to assume that it will take some time to get into working shape. The question of equipment also enters into the fixing of a sailing date. The same considerations apply also to the Twenty-sixth. The original plan for a composite National Guard expeditionary force is known to have provided for two divisions made up on the composite plan. Approximately 40 states woidd have contributed Guardsmen to form the Forty-second and Twenty-sixth, and supplemental divisional or army corps troops might have made up an expedition that represented every state. SEIZE FOREIGN INVESTMENTS Berlin Official Gazette Publishes Decree of Military Authorities in Roumania. , Berlin, Aug. 20. The Official Gazette for the occupied territory in Roumania publishes, under the date of August 7, a decree of the military authorities which provides for the liquidation of properties, investments and commercial enterprises in the occupied territory In which subjects of England, France and Belgium are directly or indirectly interested. American and Italian holdings are not included, nor are they named in the ollicial bulletin. American capital invested in the Roumanian oil fields in 1911' was estimated at $5,000,000. GAG IS ON STETTIN PEOPLE Socialists Protest to Michaelis Against Similar Repressions All Over Germany. Amsterdam, Aug. 20. The military commander at Stettin. Germany, has forbidden "In the interest of public safety," meetings in Stettin and in the district of Rantzow. The socialist organ, Vorwaerts, says the executive committee of the socialist party sent to Chancellor Michaelis a protest against such prohibitions, which are reported in all parts of Germany, and a request for the abolition thereof. FIRST JACKIE DIES ABROAD Disappearance of Fireman Bush Solved When Body Is Washed Ashore. Base of the American Flotilla in British Waters, Aug. 20. The body of James U. Bush, twenty-eight years old, of Brockton. Mass.. fireman on an American destroyer, has been washed ashore, clearing up the mystery of his disappearance ten days ago while on watch. Accidental drowning was the verdict at an Inquest. It is the first death since the arrival of the flotilla.

Adjutant General Is Swamped With Letters WASHINGTON. Pity the poor adjutant general of the army. Tho war department Is being deluged these days with stream of correspondence, the like of which was never known In the history of America. If there is any lingering doubt of the fact that the

people are at lust awake to the gravity of the war that doubt is dispelled by the flood of letters that is swamping the adjutant general. If it were not Tor the fact that Adjt. Gen. Henry V, McCain Is a mild man and gifted with a world of patience this epistolary onslaught would be calculated to drive him to distraction. Some Idea of the enormity of the war correspondence may be obtained

from the fact that on one Monday recently 44,000 pieces of mall came to the adjutant general's oflloe in the war department and the dally average for some time has been 125,000 pieces of mall a day, or 175,000 pieces a week. In fact, this doe3 not nearly describe the situation, for the figures given do not Include memorandum queries from other departments, telephone calls or personal visits from senators and representatives. The inquiries cover all sorts of conceivable subjects connected with the details of a great war. Some may relate to stoves; some to live stock; some to cantonments. All have to be assorted by the adjutant general's office and referred to the departments that have jurisdiction over them. Nor do the statistics giveu inconceivable as they are cover all the mass of correspondence received at the department, for many letters go directly to the officers for whom they are intended without passing through the adjutant general's hands. The stream of letters constantly being referred to the quartermaster general's office Is enormous. Countless thousands of letters Inquire as to the welfare of individual soldiers, and of course in that branch of the correspondence there will be a constant increase as the army expands and as the units are sent abroad for service on the French battle line.

Rush of War Is Felt at National Capital REALLY, Washington is tiring. It must be the rush of war that has done it, for the national capital used to be such a lovely place for women to visit. Hut now we are packed into elevators with men talking war; we are crowded in hotel dining rooms with

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Mrs. Georg Thacker Guernsey, president of I lie I). A. It., seems to be all tied up with loads and loais of things bearing on this and that of wartime affairs and business. Miss Margaret Wilson, the president's daughter, gets around to all of the war benefits, and Mrs. McAdoo, another daughter of the president, is seen in very public activity. She lias become a beautiful woman, and has a charming grace that has made her a favorite in Washington society. Ida Tarbell, who is perhaps the best-known of American women writers, seems to got down here occasionally. She has done some work for George Creel, the ollicial censor, who some of us know as the husband of Blanche Bates.

Real Indian Goes Shopping in Washington AN" INDIAN, full blooded enough to have stepped out of the Catlin collection, wont shopping the other day which shows what civilization will do. An eagle feather in his sombrero took the cuss off his job-lot suit and another concession to tiibal custom expressed

itself in slippers that tried to look like moccasins and failed. At one store he paused to consider a glass case set out seductively on the bricks. In the case was a wax-faced lady bust, crowned with woman's glory, per puffs of sausagy auburn, and a wooden head with no face at all was competisatingly supplied with a wig of blonde curls. All around were other wigs, with neither heads nor faces; frizzes, fronts, split-locks as natural

as life and twice as reliable, transformations for ladies as nedx 'em, and many long switches of every colored hair adorned the interior of the case. The Indian looked and looked and looked. Then he went inside and bought a switch of long black hair. And while he was about it, two women, who seemingly had nothing better to do than trail the red brother, discussed his state of mind: "I bet that hair makes him think of the time he used to scalp us " "You'd oughter take .a pill for that imagination of yours. Maine. Can't you see he's civilized? Didn't he picker white waist when he mighter boughter red one, and a gold chain insteatler beads? I bet his wife told him not to dast come home without bringin' her that switch and can't you see he's wearin' everyday clothes, the same as other men?" And while they shuttled their opinions between them the Indian crammed the switch in the pocket that didn't hold the waist and shuffled on.

Washington Has its Dwelling Place of "Light" EVERY dry has its "dwelling-plare of light" in the night rime. Such thoroughfares in New York. Paris and London have gained world-wide fame, and become by-words in the average household. Washington has not hitherto possessed such a distinctive area, but

To be sure, many of the features which are so necessarily characteristic of such an area are not present. Yet it is in this that it bids fair to occupy its unique niche in the streets of the world. Soldiers, bronzed of face, which often blends with their khaki, lock arms with middy boys in blue, whispering each others' ears secrets of the sea and land ; laborers, worn from their ditch-digging, straggling with hopeless mien ; Chinamen, gliding their way to their punk-lit shop? ; Salvation Army lassies, tirelessly tendering their chinking tamboreens, and newsboys, colored and white, frisking in play. All these, in one kaleidoscopic picture move under the shadowy statue of Gen. Winfleld Scott Hancock at this busy point. On such sultry nights, seats on the concrete ledge which encircles the grassy sloped park with its excellent view into the amphitheater of life, are at a premium. Friends, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters of these lads who will soon fight side by side with their brother Sammies in France, determined to wring every moment of contact possible out of the short furloughs of their "soldier boys," forced a spirit of frivolity and gayety into those lulls which are so apt to be pregnant with poignant forebodings. The only music which greets the ears of these street worshippers is the vibrant clatter of a street car clashing unharmonlously with a street piano. The only amusement, that which may be gained in return for the "good nature" currency of the nomadic inhabitants of its nooks and crannies, are never billed on lurid posters.

men talking munitions, and even in the ladles' reception halls- at the hotels the men sidle in to continue their war talk. Everyone is here, though, it seems. Of course the men predominate, because they are primarily the war makers. But there are lots and lots of women here who are carrying on some part of the burden of the war, and they are seen everywhere. with the "war-time" booming of the national capital, the unprecedented influx of both citizenry and soldiery into its midst and from prevailing indications gathered there on recent Saturday night visits, that parked district between Seventh and Eighth streets on Pennsylvania avenue will soon bask in such a roseate limelight as has brought renown to Piccadilly. Broadway, anr1 the Champs D' Elysees.

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V V V V V Happenings South Bend. The Seventy-third Indiana infantry held Us thirty-second reunion as guests of the Gary Commercial club. Marlon. The annual reunion of the veterans of all American wars will bo held at the Soldiers' home August 30 under the auspices of the G. A. U. and other soldiers organizations. South Bend. Indiana Heal Estate association will hold Its annual convention here October IS and 19. Brazil. Alger Dierdorff just accepted for army service, stole a pair of shoes, to escape draft, It is thought. Itushvllle. Wayne Ertle, eleven, died from lockjaw caused by running a sliver Into his foot. Anderson. Walter B. Lewis, park superintendent, has resigned to accept a place at the Central Hospital for the Insane. Greensburg. Kev. J. C. Nicholson of Creek Baptist association. Lafayette. Harry B. Overesch, presAleta elected moderator of the Sand ent city engineer, has been appointed highway superintendent by the county commissioners. Orleans. Farmers' school of instruction under the auspices of Purdue university will be held for a week next January. Petersburg. A 60-barrel oil well was struck on the Sutton farm near here. Shelbyvllle. Harry B. Griffey, hardware merchant, has won the prize offered by the chamber of commerce for the best garden. Jeffersonvllle.- ltev. F. E. Lahr has resigned as pastor of the St. Luke's Reformed church to go to New Philadelphia, O. Claypool.John M. Emmons, seveu-ty-one, hanged himself here. Winchester. The Citizens' National bank, with Thomas L. Taylor as president, and A. II. Farquhar as cashier, has opened here with capital of $50,000. Anderson. The third annual Madison county fair has just been held here. Evans ille. M. .1. Huffman Construction company has secured the contract for building the West Side Junior High School building for $150,700. Brazil.- The National Concrete company has been awarded the contract for building a three-span concrete bridge over the Eel river. Kendallville The Farmers' and Merchants' Light and Power company with capital of $500,000 has been organized to utilize water power of rivers in northern Indiana. Noblesville. Against the protest of all the grocers of the city, the city couucil repealed the ordinance fixing fee of $10 per day for peddlers. Clinton. The Wabash Valley Electric company has petitioned the service commission for privilege o advancing rates 30 per cent. Terre Haute. Mrs. Frank Wright, wife of member of the legislature, killed when her horse ran away. North Vernon. Jennings county commissioners have authorized a tax for the establishment of a county library. Fort Wayne. The "Potato Patch Patriots' association was organized here with Robert E. Fuestal as president. Franklin. The school superintendents in all the townships of Johnson county have organized with Prof. Warren Yount, county superintendent, as president. Clinton. William H. Bates, seventyseven, found dead in a rowboat on the Wabash river. Fort Wayne. A new Y. M. C. A. building costing $100,000 will be built here. Kokomo. Mrs. George R. Gerhard, wife of a young farmer, had her husband arrested for threatening her with death if she did not get him exemption from military service. Huntington. Clifford Tribolet, 11, fell from a hay mow, fracturing both his arms. Muncie. Rev. J. O. Ledbetter. pastor of the First Methodist church, has resigned. Greenlield. The county commissioners have not been able to secure a Single bid on this winter's coal for the county.' Ft. Wayne. Ft. Wayne District Short-Horn Breeders' association is planning a big October sale. Huntington. The county board of education has decided to start district school in September. Logansport. Mrs. Matilda M. Lout has been elected president of the school board here, Logansport. County commissioners of Cass and Fulton counties have petitioned for a market road from Rochester to Kokomo. Rockport. James Haines, county treasurer, badly bruised when his auto overturned. Alexandria. Indiana Holiness association held its annual gathering here. Evansville. This city has leased a coal mine and will operate it in the interests of the people. Bloomington. The Monroe county fair will be held October 1 to. 19. Lafayette. The women of this city demand that a curb market be established in addition to the market house just opened and thus cut out the middleman, and the market men on the other hand will refuse to buy the gardener's produce unless he sells all to the retailer. Elkhart. Lake Shore train stopped suddenly near depot to avoid striking an express truck and a negro cook was catapulted out of the dining car window. Warsaw. Mrs. Archie Defrees was knocked unconscious by lightning while drinking from ja tlojllpper.

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OLD TITLE TO BE REVIVED

Use of Word "Dame" in England Expectcd to Bring Ridicule That Awaits All Novelties. The title of "Dame," to be revived In the new order. Is old enough to be new to members of the present generation, and will doubtless undergo the gentle ridicule that awaits all novelties, says the Manchester Guardian. Was It not said of the now almost venerated Victoria Cross GO years ago that If a man were to stand with a tray of crosses at u country fair he would not sell them at four a penny? The Primrose league was probably the last Institution to be associated with the title of "Dame." and Its us of the appellation was not uniformly successful. In one Scottish village a Primrose habitation was created, and titles distributed with a lavish hand. but the Institution did not survive Its first meeting. A titled lady came down specially, and at a preliminary "swaree," in her endeavor to be affabli and properly respectful at one and the same time, addressed one or two of the local ladles by their Primrose title of "Dame." As a phrase on a parchment the term was not amiss, but to be addressed to one's face as "Dame" was another matter. "'Dame,' indeed!" exclaimed one matron, bristling with Indignation ; "did ye ever hear the like? I'm sure I'm nae aul'er than her. I rain as a wee lassie she was a muckle hemple gaun tae the schule," etc. And henceforth "Dame" became a word of reproach on the Hps of wicked (Liberal) children In that village. HE QUIETED BABY'S CRY Stranger, at Station, Took Child and Called Him "Tommy" With Surprising Effect. He sat all humped up on a bench In a waiting room at the Union depot, in Chicago. He was rather shabbily dressed, tired and dejected. Soon there came a couple with an Infant and the baby was hot and cross. Cry after cry rent the air, and people began to frown and make remarks about noisy children, pests and the like. The couple sat near the tired-looking man. Finally he touched the father on the arm. "Let me take him," he said. A smile told the father no harm would come to the offspring and the baby was placed in the stranger's arms. "Now, Tommy," he said, in a gentle tone, "we'ze goln to be a reg'lar feller an 'top our noise, ain't we. Tommy?" He petted the youngster and cooed to It and in five minutes the wail had ceased. The crowd grinned. "Much obliged," said the father, as the stranger returned the child. "But," he added, "his name ain't Tommy." A far-away look came Into the stranger's eyes and mingled with just a touch of that form of moisture known as "suspicious." "Mine's was," he said. And then he settled down again, all humped up. Sartorial Requirements. Posted directions on shipboard, which he who rides may read, instructing the crew exactly what they are to do when the boat takes fire, or srnne other calamity happens to It, make one inspect the life preservers with an interested eye, intent on which one would be the best fit; for we can imagine nothing more mortifying than a misfit in an emergency. One wishes to look his best even in the most trying moments. We always seek to be rigged out as a gentleman should be in company and would not even care to appear in an unbecoming life preserver in a mixed assemblage. Life preservers seem to be made in the flat front style this season with large horizontal pleats. You tie them on, of course, to suit the individual taste. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Communication With Dead. Sir Oliver Lodge, discussing In the Bookman the possibility of communicating with the dead, says: "The right method of attack is to ascertain first, by experiment and observation, whether communication is possible; and then from that fact, If it becomes an established fact, to infer that after all the dead do know i;omething, and that they have a personal existence. . . . Whatever the method, perception of sentiments of survivors Is undoubtedly a fact; and one great merit of the communications received in such cases Is the relief and comfort they have brought to the feelings of those on both sides of the veil. Once those on both sides are made fully aware of undying interest and affection, the few years of separation can be endured; and the main work of life, whether on that side or on this, can be attended to." Would "Gas" Tsetse Fly. A British official named Timmler, stationed in territory that was formerly part of German East Africa, proposes to take a leaf out of the book of European war experience and apply the process of "gassing" to the extermination of the tsetse fly. His plan Is either to use a gas destructive to the flies but harmless to man, or to have the operators use gas masks in case the gas is dangerous to humanity, and he thinks that the monsoon wind of that region would carry the gas across the fly-infested area. Nature, in reporting this proposal, expresses skepticism concerning the resuits, but says that "an experiment would be better than any expression of adverse opinion." Scientific American.