Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 9, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 November 1917 — Page 6

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BEN D. DOANE, Publisher JASPEft - - INDIANA A. peculiar faculty of the anarchist Ih ability to be where trouble l.s Tho price of wheat affects the cost of broad going UP. not coming down. Giving liquor to a soldier may be a costly gift for both giver and recipient. Undo Sam lias Hat feet; too, when it comes to putting them down on the dodgers. ini.t.w. .......11 ...u... ... mugs wuuiti go neuer touay ic we could, get Inspiration from yesterday's mistakes. Klgn is now free, says the kaiser. And Riga may look at freed Belgium und shiver. It's a dull day when one of the 'world's greatest battles' isn't reported from Europe. Jt is becoming increasingly evident Mint Russia is no piace fu which to spend a quiet vacation. "Some of the new gowns for women are to have but one sleeve." 'Fashion left that to laugh in. A New York bishop says that worry kills more people than rum. Yes, and rum drives people to worry. (' - War may prove a blessing in dlsguise IPthe authorities manage to pull all the bones in the country. "Pacifist" is a word whose significance often depends largely on demonstrations with the Hnal syllable. We suppose that it will be loiig until man will doff his hat whenever he meets a sow and a Utter of pigs. The war gardeners have done some good, but they are only camp followers compared with the real farmers. Another disagreeable characteristic of plantllce is that they like the things that are most popular with the war gardener. Things are never as bad as they might be. For instance, the hard kicking army mule is not proving so very fatal. As the Romanoffs read the news from their old home town they must be glad they are in that second-story flat back In Siberia. Don't waste l is the federal slogan emblazoned in electric signs. But how much waste of coal and current is there In the warning? War lias now formally been declared upon food pirates and speculators, and In this war the ranks of the public will furnish no pacifists. War would not be so hard if only wise men could be heard, but then IC wise men were running things the world wouldn't bo at war. Somewhere in France may answer Hie purposes of censorship, but Over There is coming to have a more definite meaning in America. The people of the United States spend $17,000.000 a year on soft drinks. And now dint: hard drinks are harder to get, we shall probably go after that record. ; Enough platinum may be found in Alaska gold fields to cover war needs. Every time Alaska is heard from it is to put emphasis on it as a gcd paying investment. The price of furs is dying higher. And it will b" quite impossible, of course, to wear our summer furs in tho winter. French scientist stained his mulberry leaves with nonpolsonous dyes and fed them to silk worms. The result was red and blue raw silk. Very ra w ! The man who beats the limited to tin railroad crossing probably doesn't . Ih' wafts until ho gets smashed to pieces and then complains what au uulurky fool he is. Now that opium has been banished from China, h Is reported, that country Is importing an enormously increased quantity of morphine. The circumstance is of ominous nißcance. sigThere is a new lens which throws tin- gleam of the automobile headlight GOO feet abend of tho car. This limy be tho best yet, but there are hemlHghts now whiHi can blind tho pedestrian a quarter of a mi It away. Once upon a lime tho 'V and the y were seldom disturbed by the typewriter artists, but that was before Russin came into the war. From all over the country the news ctimes at the close of the bearing season that the war gardens, great and small, have nobly done their bit. Some of the profiteers In this country might note to their advantage that a man in England has been fined $72,000 for selling potatoes above the fixed price.

allies ATTACK

ON ALL FRONTS Activity, on Lines In Europe, Asia and Africa. London, Oct. 22. Allied forces are roportod on tho offensive on three continents, Europe, Africa and Asia In Europe Dritluh pianos dropped bombs on the Engel airdrome and docks at Bruges, sotting uro to Gor man establishments, while the Fronch started a terrific artillery bombardment on a nine-mile front between "Q" Vauxaillon and Brayo in tho Aisne region. Tho British Flanders also opened their big guns along tho raain battle front. The Italians engaged the Austro-Hun-garians In sharp action on the Trentino battle front, driving the foe back at several points. In Mesopotamia British troops be gan an enveloping movement near tho Persian frontier, northwest of Bagdad, and drove the Turkish forces in the vicinity of Kizil-Robat across the Diala river. The Turks destroyed the bridge at Kizil Robat and retreat ed in the southern hills of the JabelHamlin ridge. War experts believe the British, who captured Bagdad last spring, will be able to carry the as sault to a finish. From Berlin comes tho statement that strong French forces attacked the Germans, Austro-Hungarians and Bulgarian forces near Lake Ochrida on tho Macedonian front. Tho Ger man official statement says that the assault broke down under tho fire of counter thrusts of the Teutons and thoir allies. Paris reports that the Germans have attacked positions west of Mont Cornillet in the Rhiems area on both banks of the Rivor Meuse, in the Ver dun region and in the sector of LaCnaplette. Tho war office statement announces that all tho assaults were repulsed, tho French capturing a number of Germans. Tho Belgian port of Ostond, which is a submarine base of the Germans on the North Sea, nas been bombard ed from the sea, as was announced by the German war office, houses in the town being damaged. ZEPPELINS LOST IN RAID Dirigibles Meet Disaster In France on Return From England. Paris, Oct. 22. While the opinion prevailed that the visit of tho Zep pelin fleet to France was an independ ent raid and the first step toward carrying out the threat made in a German wireless message which said it had been decided to destroy Paris in reprisal for French air raids on German towns, it now is generally believed that these eight Zeppelins, four of which were destroyed or cap tured, wore returning from England and had lost their bearings owing to fog and probably had lost touch with their wireless communications. The logbook of the Zeppelin which landed intact shows that she had been to England, and prisoners from threo other airships confirmed this. One of the men captured said it was the lack of gasolino that forced his Zeppelin to descend. The raid is widely proclaimed by French observ ers as being definito proof of the superiority of the airplane over the Zeppelin. The day of the Zeppelin for bombardment, one expert says, is over. Red Cross Aids Western Asia. Washington. Oct. 22. For the pur chase of winter food supplies for war sufferers in western Asia, the Red Cross war council has appropriated $900,000, bringing to a total of $1,S00,000 the fund entrusted to the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief. First From Home Town. Ruthland, Mais., Oct. 22. Herbert F. Watson, age twenty-three, who was lost on the transport Antilles, was the first Ruthland boy' to enlist after war was declared on Germany, having joined the navy April S. His mother, Mrs. Wallaco L. Segar, was prostrated by tho news. Young Watson was born in Norwich, Conn., and educated in the public schools of Worcester. LIBERTY LOAN POINTS. In four months the first Liberty Bonds sold above par! Buying a Government Bond is banking your money at interest with the U. S. Treasury. Our country wants a loan sure pay and $1 a year interest on every $25. Senator Husting Killed. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 22. United States Senator Paul O. Husting of Wisconsin died at a farm house near Rush Lake, Wis., of wounds accidentally inflicted by his brother Gustave, while hunting ducks. Pistol at Cashier's Head. Springfield. O., Oct. 22. Placing a revolver against the head' of K. Lynn Arthur, accountant of the American Seeding Machine company, a robber took the pay roll of the company amounting to $10,5S2 and escaped.

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"Fingy" Conners May Be Madea General V v William J. Conners of Buffalo, popularly known as "Fingy" Conners, probably will be put in charge of the unloading of American transports and supply ships in Franco, supervising the work of three regiments of steve dores and longshoremen now being organized. He has offered his serv ices and is likely to be appointed a brigadier general. Mr. Conners has long been prominent in Great Lakes shipping circles. BOND SALES SPEEDING UP Workers Not Over Optimistic, Says Treasury Statement. Washington, Oct. 22. The Liberty Loan campaign Is progressing to tho threshold of official expectation and paused. Treasury heads had hoped the $2,000,000,000 line would be crossed by now in the campaign. Ap. parently the big total stopped just short of tho mark, with an estimated total of $1,973,000,000. The result means that the huge sum of $500,000,000 a day will have to be sub scribed every day of the remaining week of the campaign, with a handful of millions to spare, if the $5,000,000,000 goal is reached when subscription books close next Saturday night. Official returns from the twelve re serve banks representing subscriptions upon which the 2 per cent of tho sum applied for actually has been paid into the reserve banks increased during the day to within less than $1,000,000 of $1,200,000,000. "The week has been much more successful than were the first two of the campaign, but none of the work ers is over-optimistic," said a state ment of the treasury department. ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER German Submarine Commander Breaks Parole With Spain. Madrid, Oct. 22. Emphatic denial is made by the minister of marine of a statement in the uermanopime newspaper ABC that the captain of the German submarine, which recent ly escaped from Cadiz, did not give his word of honor that he would not attempt to leave. The minister declares that the Ger man commander formally gave parole as is shown by the official report drawn up at the time in the office of the admiral of the port, in the pres ence of that officer, his chief of staff and two other officers, with the Ger man consul acting as interpreter. The commander sealed the engagement by shaking hands with all the officers present. TRANSFER NEGRO RIOTERS Troopers Taken to San Antonio to Await Court Martial. Fort Bliss, Tex., Oct. 22. Under heavy guard, sixty-three negroes of tho Twenty-fourth infantry have been taken to San Antonio, Tex., to answer charges of having participated in the Houston rioting of Aug. 23. Their trials by court-martial will be held there early in November. There remain here in the prison stockade 100 negro prisoners and twenty-two witnesses who are being held in connection with the riot. One Killed, Four Hurt. Linton, Ind., Oct. 22. Mrs. Anna Suthard, 45 years old, was killed, her son Clayton, 20 years old, suffered a broken hip. and two other children. Robert, 12, aud Hazel Suthard, 14, were seriously injured when a Vandalia freight train backed into an automobile at the Main street cross.ing, south of the city. Ohio Rail Rate Increase. Columbus, O., Oct. 22. An increase of 1 per cent in ail freight rates, ex cept on coal, coke and iron, was grantö i to Ohio railroads for one year, e? Hive Nov. 20, by the Ohio public utuJtiQs commission. New Picket Arrests. Washington. Oct. 22. Silent sentinels of the Woman's party resumed picketing at the White House gates, and four of them, including Alice Paui, were arrested. They later were released on bond for trial.

RUSS PLAN EACE PROGRAM

Propose to Neutralize Panama Canal to All Nations. Petrograd, Oct. 22. Twelvo articles, covering tho whole ground from Panama to Porsia is included in tho Russian peace program, as drawn up by tho contral oxocutive committee of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' delegates in tho form of instruction to M. Skoheleff, ox-minister of labor, its dolegate to tho Paris conferenco. Article XI demands the "neutralization of the Panama canal and Article IX calls for the resltutlon of all colonies to Germany. The program of tho central executive commlttoo among other things providos: Evacuation by the Germans of Russia and autonomy of Poland, Lithuania and the Lottish provinces. Autonomy of Turkish Armenia. Solution of the Alsace-Lorraine question by a plebiscite, tho voting being arranged by local civil authorities after tho removal of all tho troops cf both belligerents. Restoration to Belgium of her ancient frontiers and compensation for her losses from an international fund. All belligerents to renounce war contributions or indemnities in any form, but the money spent on the maintenance of prisoners and all contributions levied during the war to be returned. VICTIMS OF U-BOAT LAND Survivors of Antilles Taken to France by Auxiliary Vessels. A French Port, Oct. 22. Survivors of the United States transport Antilles, which was sunk by a German submarine last week while being convoyed on her homeward trip by American warships, have been landed here by auxiliary vessels and are being cared for by the American consulate. Some of the men have been lodged in local hospitals and a few have left for Pris. Tho torpedoed steamer was struck at a quarter to seven in the morning. Many of those on board were killec in their berths and others while dressing. The explosion killed the engineers, oilers and mechanics and those of the crew who were in the bunks below. All of the survivors praise the captain of the Antilles and the members of the gun crew, who took to their posts while the officers searched with field glasses for tho submarine until the waves closed over tho ship. BOMBARD GERMAN TRENCHES U. S. Airmen Drop Liberty Loan Posters Over Teuton Lines. Washington, Oct. 22. American aviators in France, the treasury department has announced, flew over the German lines, dropping tens of thousand of Liberty Loan posters. Large supplies of the posters were sent some time ago to Gen. Pershing and arrangements were made to hav American aviators on the western front shower the German lines with them, simultaneously with the aerial campaign of dropping paper bombs from. coast to coast in this country. The posters selected for use on' the front depict Uncle Sam with an army of millions and an air fleet of tremendous proportions. Another poster selected for this work was the one depicting the Statue of Liberty. WARNING ON PROFITEERING Maine Governor Says High Prices Are Not to Be Tolerated. Augusta, Me., Oct. 22. Exhorbitant profits and unwarranted higher prices for food in this state will not be tolerated, Governor Milliken has announced after conference with Dr. Leon S. Merrill, food administrator for Maine, and Attorney General Guy Sturgia. "Dr. Merrill will keep a careful watch on prices," said Govern'or Milliken. "He will also investigate the difference between prices charged by the wholesalers and the retailers and the prices charged by the retailers to the public. In every instance where excessive prices afe being charged by a retailer, a report will be made to me and I shall at once place the case in the hands of the attorney general.' SHORTAGE PUBLIC'S FAULT Blame of Sugar Scarcity Due to Consumers, Says Hoover. Washington, Oct. 22. Blame for tho present sugar shortage north of Savannah and east of Pittsburg is placed squarely on consumers and on manufacturers of candies and other sweets by the food administration. In a statement the food administration said that had its recent request for tho curtailment of the use of sugar been heeded, present conditions would not exist and it again warned the people to economize until new supplies are available. Jap Money Envoy For U. S. Tokio, Oct. 22. The Japanese government has decided to station a permanent financial commissioner at New York city, ahd has appointed Sho Den to the position. Similar posts will be created in other leading world centers. Russians Killed by Train Robbers. London, Oct. 22. A dispatch to tho Times from Odessa says 100 passengers were killed or wounded on a train held up by 200 armed brigandi near Vladikavkaz, in the Caucasus.

ENROLLMENT IS

Big Falling Off In Students at Purdua University Sunday School Hold Convention In Wabash County. Purdue enrollment Is 1,00-1 against 2.00S last year. The Wabash County Sunday School association adopted resolutions condemning tho sending of tobacco to tho soldiers abroad. Tho French class of tho Indiana State Normal school at Terro Haute presented Madame Sarah Bernhardt with a silk American flag and many boxes of roses in the reception she tendered following her appearance hero in "Camllle" and "Portia." After voting to return to work at a mass meeting, miners employed In the Clinton field, Glendale and other local mines, changed their minds and tho local situation is regarded graver than ever. It was officially announced at Washington that Doctor Garfield has appointed Evans Woolen as state fuel director of Indiana. Mr. Woolen has accepted the post August Dubois, eighty-six, wellknown pioneer of northern Indiana, died at his home at Crown Point. He was born in Alsace-Lorraine. With the $5,000,000 mark passed in Liberty bond sales at Indianapolis, the bankers and woman workers redoubled efforts to reach the quota of $15,000,000. Because statistics show a slight falling off in the membership of the Friends' church of America, the financial committee of tho five years' meeting at Richmond urged well-to-do Quakers to give to a great fund to be used in church extension work. Apprehended as they were about to leave for Detroit, Mich., Miro Mltiovich and Eliso Paretichovich were arrested at Gary, charged with having engineered propaganda and attacks ngainst the Montenegrin mission to the United States. Two thousand buyers stormed the Woman's Food exchange at Indianapolis to get fish caught in streams under the direction of the state fish commissioner, for five cents a pound. La Grande county passed its minimum quota in the Liberty bond campaign, reporting a total sale of $3-10,-000 with a quota of $315,000. One case of infantile paralysis has appeared at Fort Wayne. The National Evangelistic society of the Christian church will hold its 191S convention at Columbus In August. Basement of Jeffersonville high school building flooded to extinguish fire in 200 tons of coal stored there. Mr. and Mrs. M. II. Bobbins celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at Hartford City. Drastic action has been taken to check the smallpox In Bicknell. At New Albany. Louis Soercrol due v ' J a turnip in his garden which was enCircled by a gold ring. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander S. Sayers of Covington celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in the house where they were married. At South Bend, Mrs. Anthony Mir ocha robbed of $145 by thieves w1k forced her to reveal Its hiding place in the mattress. Merchants of Bloomington are donating their space in the newspapers to advertise the Liberty bond sale. Northern Indiana Superintendents' club held Its meeting at South Bend. The Monon road has named the pay ear of the road "Bloomington." William C. White has accepted $170 in settlement for a horse and a mule killed by a traction line at Shelbyville. The Monroe County Bar association has subscribed $2,000 for the second issue of Liberty bonds. Liberty loan campaign is on in earnest fit Elwood, having already subscribed $125,000 of its quota of $375,000. Membership campaign of the Greensburg Y. M. C. A. netted 00 new members, making total membership 553. Knights of Columbus of Elwood will erect u two-story lodge home next year. Claude Sanders, nine, killed at Woodville by train while driving a cow across the track. Steve Fox of Bicknell fell from an apple tree and broke his leg and was not found until evening. John W. Siersdorfer, forty-four, was seriously hurt when a team of mules ran away with him at Aurora. At Evansville, William Watkins, thirty, instantly killed when the t'axi ün which he was riding overturned. The 1 driver, who was not injured, was arrested. Dr. Peter B. Dick, seventy-nine, was married at Mudcie for the fifth time when he took as wife Frances E. Clark, sixty-six, a three-times widow. John W. Shields, for seventy years j member of the First Presbyterian church at Peru and for sixty years 1 choir leader, was elected an elder even ' though he is now an inmate of the Odd Fellows' home at Greensburg. Rev. W. T. Pearcy of Ontario lias been installed as pastor of the First j Presbyterian church at New Albany. The funeral of Frederick D. Boehm, young Muncie business man, who was shot dead in the police court room at Hammond by Oscar Landmesser, an evangelist, who was crazed by jev.lousy, was held Thursday at the ho e of Boehm's uncle, J. KhfneLeart Hiiinmel, with whom Boehm was associated in the tobacco business at Muncie. Pooling of coal for public utilities of Indiana is forecast by the organization at Indianapolis of a coal committee of the Indiana Electric association, embracing many public utilities. The bureau will co-operate with state and federal governmental agencies.

IMPROVEMENTS

ARE NOT TAXED Western Canada Does Not Tax Stock or Improvements but Collects an Additional Tax From Land Speculators. Owners of uncultivated lands in Western Cannda are loud in their protests against an extra tux on their lands because they are not under cultivation. Western Canada, through its provincial governments, is endeavor ing to force the speculative land owner to cither sell hi land to a settler or to cultivate it himself. At present a surtax of a few cents an aero Is lovled against all wild land, so that tho owner of land held In Its natural state, without Improvements, Is contributing more taxes to the government than the owner of a farm that Is cultivated and even improved with buildings and stock to the value of thousands of dollars. In order to encourage the farmer to improve and to go Into stock raising, he Is not charged one cent of taxes on any of his improvements, implements or stock of any kind. As a result of this surtax on uncultivated or speculatively held lands, the owners are now trying to sell them to actual settlers, and, in nearly every instance, have been offering on very easy terms of payment, usually a quarter down, and the balance extending over a term of years at prices much lower than their productive value would warrant. A world-wide shortage in farm stuffs' has given a new value to all agricultural products and the margin of profit today is greater than ever In the pnst It is true labor and Implements have increased in price, but It Is now possible to secure 50 profit In farming, and higher. Possibly not on the $100 to $200 an acre farm lands but on land that can now, under existing conditions, be purchased at from $15 to $30 per acre. Western Canadian farm lands are as productive as any In tho world and can be as economically farmed. Wheat yields of from 30 to 50 bushels per acre have been common in Western Canada during the past few years, and the farmers have been too busy farming all they can so as to sell as much wheat as possible at $2.00 a bushel, that they have not had time to do any talking or writing. It is doubtful if there ever was such an opportunity to make big profits in farming. The value of each year's crop has been In hundreds of cases more than the market value of the land It was grown on. It is unreasonable to suppose such a condition will last long, as the land now being forced onto the market by surtax on speculative owners will soon become absorbed by those who have learned of these highly profitable wheat lands. The news Is spreading gradually throughout the high priced land districts in the United States, where there is a renewed awakening to the realization that the maximum profit In farming Is not being obtained when It is possible to secure from forty to seventy per cent return on the Investment in Western Canada. Many who have been planning to visit Western Canada for the purpose of personally Investigating conditions are leaving this month, when the good weather can be enjoyed. As threshing operations and marketing of grain is under way, no better time could be selected to secure first hand and reliable information from the farmers themselves. The winter months afford ample time for completing moving arrangements, to allow the settler to take up residence in early spring, so as to get something done next year and to make a start on the big and profitable farming operations in Western Canada. Advertisement. Very Poor Speller. Miss Bizness was a very capable girl in the office, but she couldn't spell. Her employer found her so useful In every other way that he bought her a dictionary and advised her to use it regularly. The next morning when he came down to his office he noticed that to protect the new book from the constant wear she was expected to give It she had carefully covered the back with cloth, and across the cover she had written : "Dictionery." ' FOR SKIN TROUBLES That Itch, Burn, Torture and" Disflf. ure Use Cuticura Trial Free. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. They usually afford Immediate relief in Itching, burning eczemas, pimples, dandruff and most baby skin troubles. They also tend to prevent little skin troubles becommg great if used dally. Free sample each by mall with Book. Address postcard, Cnticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.- Adr. It Surely is. "He was rejected by the army doctor for physical reasons' "Well, that's better than being thrown out for not being able to pass the mental tests." Lots of people imagine there is something wrong with them if they haven't got a cold. Iteduce cost of Ihlng by using Alice Pork and Beans. Adv. Milwaukee merchants will cut (Iowa free deliveries of merchandise. 't