Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 33, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 April 1918 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN CD, DOANE, Publisher JASPER .... INDIANA

To overeat is likely to mean unpopularity as well as ill health. Some send their sons; others pay the taxes and still others do both. Talk is cheap, except the unpatriotic kind which can be pretty expensive. The good die young, and so, with a few exceptions, do the good prize fighters. The U-boat depredations are still almost as destructive as our incendiary fires. The bleacherite will look like 30 cents to the baseball magnate this season. We may not have unsinkable troopships, but we seem to have undownable troops. No more freaks are coming into this country, says a circus man. If we could only slip a few out ! The meatless days have been such a success that there will be less "less" days until the next order. In circles where that tired feeling prevails, shiftless days are observed with accustomed regularity. Fashion is a thing easy or difficult to understand according to the figger of the girl you see it exhibited on. Again wo are told that the submarine menace is tied up. But its hitching strap seems to be much too long. About the lime they begin to urge the necessity of the back yard garden, a seed famine will probably develop. Not to disturb the general ease of the country, but, say fellers, there's a kaiser to lick ; let's get busy with the job. Somebody predicts that the war will make beards fashionable again and the barber Is doing what he can to abet thG war. Speaking of the best way to make chickens pay, the ultimate consumer Is of the opinion that selling 'em Isn't the worst. Any war gardener who likes to be carefully manicured will agree that the "back to the soil" movement is properly so called. "Eat bananns; win the "war," is a new slogan. Someone may yet start this for a slogan: "Use common sense and win the war." There are vpiite a number of people who need to have It thundered Into their ears every hour of the day: "This nation Is at war!" If a man really wants popularity and nothing elso, he must keep out of any public job that has to do with the speeding of the war preparations. One of the great truths this war has burned into the tablet of human consciousness Is, rabbit is no lasting or satisfactory substitute for pork chops. No good American objects to short rations for the benefit of our allies, but what makes one weep Is giving sugar and Hour to insatiable Davy Jones. Really there is nothing remarkable about economics. It is merely he science of applying every day, common, horse sense to the necessary activities of the folks. The farmers will have another grievance when they learn that one more society of university professors has organized to instruct the farmers what to do next summer, and how. The gloomy side of our war news Is going to be turned toward us, for some time. We'll be told how many of our boys were lost but not what they did to the enemy before they went under. A deserter from Camp Dix has been sentenced to fifteen years at hard labor. It's a pointer for deserters from camp. But the death penalty for desertion from the fighting ranks stands. " Even a man who is regarded by his fellows to be absolutely truthful will praise a hat his wife has retrimmed, whe-i it is a fright, knowing that if he doesn't she will get a $40 dream from the millinery shop. When you begin to keep books on your war garden and figure that the vegetables you raise will cost more than the market charges, don't forget to give the garden credit for $100 benefit the exercise has given you. Nov. they're telling us there's to be a snuff famine. A snuff famine-must bo almost as serious as a parsnip famine. A great many people still say: "Business before the war." What does It take to; awaken patriotism In some people? Some men are quite patriotic until they discover their darling little dollar in peril, and then they begin to imw the air as if the world was not "Uifilng fair with them.

OeCE TO UTMOST.

WILSON'S II CHIEF EXECUTIVE STATES AMERICA'S POSITION IN OPENING BALTIMORE'S LOAN DRIVE. WAR FACTS ARE MADE CLEAR Causes Leading to World Conflict Reiterated by the President and Fairneß Guaranteed in Considering Terms of Peace. Baltimore. Before a patriotic audience of 7,000 people here, President Woodrow Wilson in a stirring speech opened the Liberty Loan drive. The event also was in celebration of America's anniversary of entrance into war. He said: "Fellow Citizens: This is the anniversary of our acceptance of Germany's challenge to fight for our right to live and be free and for the sacred rights of free men everywhere. "The nation Is awake. There is no need to call to it. We know what the war must cost our utmost sacrifice, the lives of our fittest men, and, if need be, all that we possess. "The loan we are met to discuss Is one of the least parts of what we are called upon to give and to do, though In itself imperative. "The people of the whole country are alive to the necessity of it and are ready to lend to the utmost, even where it involves a sharp skimping and daily sacrifice to lend out of meager earnings. "They will look with reprobation and contempt upon iiose who can and will not, upon those who demand a higher rate of interest, upon those who think of it as a mere commercial transaction. "I have not come, therefore, to urge the loan. I have come only to give you, if I can, a more vivid conception of what it is for. "The reasons for this great war, the reason why it had to come, and the need to fight it through and the issues that hang upon Its outcome, are more clearly disclosed now than ever before. "It is easy to see just what this particular loan means because the cause we are fighting for stands more sharply revealed than at any previous crisis of the momentous struggle. "The .man who knows least can now see plainly how the cause of justice stands and what the Imperishable thing Is he is asked to Invest In. The Cost of Defeat. "Men In America may be more sure than they ever were before that the cause Is their own, and that, If it should be lost, their own great nation's place and mission in the world would be lost with It. "I call you to witness, my fellow countrymen, that at no stage of this terrible business have I judged the purposes of Germany intemperately. "I should be ashamed in the presence of affairs so grave, so fraught with the destinies of mankind throughout all the world, to speak with truculencc, to use the weak language of hatred or vindictive purpose. We must judge as we would be judged. "I have sought to learn the objects Germany has in this war from the mouths of her own spokesmen and to deal as frankly witli them as I wished them to deal with me. "I have laid bare our own ideals, our own purposes without reserve or doubtful phrase and have asked them to say as plainly what it Is they seek. Being Just to Germany. "We have ourselves proposed no injustice, no aggression. We are ready, whenever the final reckoning is made, to be just to the German people, deal fairly with the German power, as with all others. "There can be no differences in peoples in the final judgment if it is indeed to be a righteous judgment. To propose anything but justice, evenhanded and dispassionate justice, to Germany at any time, whatever the outcome of the war, would be to renounce and dishonor our own cause. For we ask nothing that we are not willing to accord. "It has been with this thought that I have sought to learn from those who spoke for Germany whether it was justice or dominion or the execution of their own will upon the other nations of the world that the German leaders were seeking. "They have answered, answered in unmistakable terms. They have avowed that it was not justice but dominion and the unhindered execution of their own will. What Peace Should Be Based On. "Her present chancellor has said in indefinite and uncertain terms, indeed, and in phrases that often seem to deny their own meaning, but with such plainness as he thought prudent that Women to Fill Places. BaconI see by the paper that America has the distinction of having the first woman dentist at work in the war zones. Egbert Another evidence that women are to fill the places once filled by men. No Honor. Bacon You know a prophet is said to have little honor In his own country. Egbert Yes, but how about the profiteers?

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he believed that peace should be based upon the principles which we had declared would be our own in the final settlement. "At Brest-Li tovsk her civilian delegates spoke in similar terms; professed their desire to conclude a fair peace and accord to the peoples with whose fortunes they were dealing the right to choose their own allegiances. "They are enjoying in Russia a cheap triumph in which no brave or gallant nation can take a pride. A great people, helpless by their own act, lies for the time at their mercy. "Their fair professions are forgotten. They nowhere set up justice, but everywhere impose their power and exploit everything for their own use and aggrandizement; and the peoples of conquered provinces are invited to be free under their dominion. "Are we not justified in believing that they would do the same thing at their western front if they were not there face t3 face with armies whom even their countless divisions cannot overcome. "If, when they have felt their check to be final, they should propose favorable and equitable terms with regard to Belgium and France and Italy, could Qiey blame us if we concluded that they did so only to assure themselves of a free hand in Russia and the east? World Dominion Built in East. "Their purpose is undoubtedly to make all the Slavic peoples, all the free and ambitious peoples of the Baltic peninsula, all the lands that Turkey has dominated and misruled, subject to their will and ambition, and build upon that dommion an empire of force upon which they fancy that they can then erect an empire of gain and commercial supremacy an empire as hostile to the Americas as to the Europe which it will overawe an empire which will ultimately master Persia, India, and the peoples of the far East. "In such a program our ideals, the ideals of justice and humanity and liberty, the principle of the free selfdetermination of nations upon which all the modern world insists, can play no part. "They are rejected for the ideals of power, for the principle that the strong must rule the weak, that trade li.ust follow the flag, whether those to whom it is taken welcome it or not, that the peoples of the world are to be made subject to the patronage and ou'r-lordshlp of those who have the power to enforce it. Would Mean World Conflict. "This program once carried out, America and all who care or dare to stand with her must arm and prepare themselves to contest the mastery of the world, a mastery in which the tights of common men, tlie rights of women and of all who are weak, must for the time being be trodden under foot, and disregarded, and the old, agelong struggle for freedom and right begin again at its beginning. "Everything America has lived for and grown great to vindicate and bring to a glorious realization will have füllen in utter ruin and the gates of mercy once more pitilessly shut upon mankind. "The thing is preposterous and impossible; and yet, is not that what the whole course and action of the German armies have meant wherever they have moved? I do not wish, even in this movement of utter disillusionment, to judge harshly or unrighteously. I judge only by what the German arms luvc accomplished with unpitying thoroughness throughout every fair region they have touched. "What, then, are we to do? For myself, I am ready, ready still, ready even now, to discuss a fair, just and honest peace at any time that it is sincerely proposed a peace in which the strong and the weak shall fare alike. But the answer, when I proposed such a peace, came from the German commanders in Russia and I cannot mistake the meaning of the answer. "Force to Utmost" Only Answer. "I accept the challenge. "I know that you accept it. All the world shall know that you accept It. It shall appear in the utter sacrifice and self-forgetfulness with which we shall give all that we love and all that we have to redeem the world and make it fit for free men like ourselves to 'live in. "This now is the meaning of all that we do. Let everything that we say, my fellow countrymen, everything that we henceforth plan and accomplish, ring true to this response till the majesty and might of our concerted power shall fill the thought and utterly defeat the force of those who flout and misprize what we honor and hold dear. "Germany has once more said that force alone, shall decide whether justice and peace shall reign in the affairs of men, whether right as America conceives it or dominion as she conceives ,it shair determine the destinies of mankind. "There is, therefore, but one response possible from us : Force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall make right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust."

The New Vocabulary. uiic- cuuuiu ust: wurus lie QOCS not precisely understand." , "But," objected Miss Cayenne, "if I kept running to the dictionary and the gazetteer, I'd never get a chance to talk about the war." Earned a Sweater. "Well, Tom mi e, were you a good boy at school today?" asked mother. "Yes, I was, mamma. I licked the stuffln' out of a German boy. Now, mamma, will you knit me a sweater?"

mSlWOTON CITY

BS Chicken Thief Had

Consideration

WASHINGTON. Cliff Lanham, chairman of local exemption board No. 5, had an exciting experience the other night, and the thoughts of the participants therein are herewith presented for future examination by psychoanalysts. Lanham was slumbering

peacefully that morning. Awakened he 1tr,-t-.,l J i.V. J.1 1. J 1 iioieiiuu wxLu uiul mieutness one usually manifests on such occasions. His keen ear detected sounds out in the shed in his back yard. Jumping out of bed, Clifi! grabbed his trusty 32 howitzer and made downstairs for the kitchen door. It was one of the cold nights, but Cliff plunged forth, regardless, Pajamas and bare feet make for speed. He was into the shed before the thief was

aware. "Hands up !" cried Lanham, addressing his remarks to the dusky figure seen in the dusky shed. But the dusky figure started to flee instead. So Lanham let go his revolver and grappled with the intruder. Lanham soon had the fellow at his mercy and haled him out into the light of the moon. "Now you come along with me," said Lanham. And he marched the chicken thief out ofjhe back yard and down the alley to the corner of Thirteenth and G streets southeast, where he put in a call for a patrol wagon. While standing there on the corner, Lanham says, he kept thinking all the time just one big thought. Finally he gave that thought voice. "Are you registered in the draft?" he asked the negro. The captive shifted nervously. "No, boss, I is too young," he replied. There was another long silence. Now we investigate the train of thought of the colored man. "Say, boss," that individual said, turning to Lanham. "Well?" answered Lanham. "What do you want?" The colored man looked down at the pavement. And then: "Boss, ain't yo feet cold?"

After All, What Was There for the "Jedge" to Do? A BIG real estate man "big" stands for business called oh an old tenant who was behind in her rent. He -was welcomed with affable apologies and given an exceedingly rich promise of payment. "I has the rent, jedge, all but the las' dollah, an as soon as I

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"jedge" gave her the money Lord love and went his way. The next morning the old lady failed to show up. She was among those absent the day after. And the day after that. And on the morning after that a righteously wrathful "jedge" repeated his visit. "Thought you were coming to pay that rent?" "Why, good mawnin', jedge I It cert'n'y is curus for you to come heah jes' as I was a steddyin' ti comer roun' t' yoh office wif my rent money I got it all t'guther cepn' the las' dollah " "Didn't I give you that dollar?" "Deed you did, jedgt?, honey. You cert'n'y did gimme that dollah an' it come in mouty handy, too iffin I hadn't had it when that ooman comer stawmpin' in on me to pay her the las' dollah I owed her for my ree-gale-yer I could'n't a-turned ant yesty with the Sisters of the Gallilean FIshmen an' rid in a hack. You c'n go to pahlor socials, any way you wants to, but when you rides to buryin's you got to weah a pupple silk ap'n boun' 'roun' wif white an' a collah to match. The s'iety I b'longs to pays sick bene-fits an' 'sesses you eve'y time you dies, so you c'n have a chu'eh suvvice wif fo' hacks free an' a wreaf of any kinder flowers yo' mo'ners calls for. But I got mail wash money comin' toMne t'night, an' iffin the madam pays me I cert'n'y am gwine take that dollah an' pay man rent " It isn't in the story what the "jedge" did, but as the old tenant kept her chip of a house up in Blank alley one might guess. Peculiar Thrill Went With Shopping Expedition A WOMAN in a raincoat was buying gloves. The customer next wore finery which implied a chauffeur at the curb. Both had umbrellas that fraternized, side by side, regardless of the abysmal canyon that divides mercerized rubber from seal and both were buy

ing gloves. When her package was tucked under from the wreather, Raincoat went outside, raised her gloria, and Down showered gloves, silk stockings, a nifty neckpiece and a silvermeshed bag. You might suppose a showdown like that would have raised a mob, but there wasn't an Argus-eye in sight thanks to the storm and to the fact

that tliis is a true happening instead of dramatic fiction. So Raincoat fished up her sloppy loot, waded back to the store with the stuff held at arm-length to avoid the circumstantial-evidence appearance of what a soulless law calls being caught in the act, and went into executive session with a floor walker. But the loot-lady who had planted her swag in the wrong cache had gone into the unknown and carried her freedom along. And that "was all there was to it, except that Raincoat went home excitedly elated because for the first time in all her decades she had come in touch with crime.

Remarkable Appetite Is That of Washington Rabbit

ANEW use for coal has been discovered by the janitor of a Washington apartment house. Whether notice of the discovery should be sent to Secretary McAdoo or to Herbert Hoover I leave to the reader to decide. This colored man feeds soft coal to his rab

mit, but I saw that rabbit, and it sure did look as if it were eating the coal, and enjoying it. It is the dirtiest rabbit in the world, too. But, Irrespective of the coal in its little inside, it is literally plajng with fire, and is liable to meet its fate any day. You see, the furnace is warm, and the rabbit wanders in through th draft door, every now anoT then, to investigate things. Little does it know that any moment a cruel coal may drop upon its back. I told the janitor about it; but he said:

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s s wmt AlKT YO COLD? c'n riz it I'm a-comin' rlghter 'roun 1 cert'n'y is." "Look here, aunty. I don't want to see you turned out in weather like this. I know how good you used to be to that old man of yours after he cot criPPled up and what a lot of honest liard work: yu have done in your time l wish x nau as ciean a rucoru. suppose I give you that dollar. Will you come to the office and pay up?" Aunty was beamingly sure. So the bit. He became the possessor of a fat rabbit, and, having no other place to keep the little cousin to the kangaroo, decided to house the animal in the furnace room. Of course he gave it plenty to eat, and a tin cup of water to drink, but that rabbit developed a taste for coal that woe amazing, the janitor tells me. Sounds like a nature fake, I'll adhe do.'

WOMEN 1ST HELP

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Lovers of Home and Country Called to the Colors. ALL CAN BUY LIBERTY BONDS Wives, Sisters, Mothers, Sweethearts Never Before Called Upon to Play Such a Vastly Important Part Lend Your Money. (By DOROTHY DIX.) Buy a Liberty bond, ladles. No matter how many you have bought before, streich a point and buy another. You can't shoulder a sun and go on! and fight for your country, as the men are doing. You can't put on a nurse's uniform and go and nurse wounded soldiers or drive an ambulance or work in a munition factory, as many other women are doing, but you can do your bit by backing up these other men and women, who are risking their lives to defend you -with your money. Without guns and munitions, without food and clothes, without hospital supplies, the army in France is just so many sheep led to the slaughter; if we let them die for the lack of the things that money buys, their blood is on our heads, and our crime against them will be blacker than the Boches, because they trusted us. It takes money, money, money and yet more money to carry on war, and this war Is to be the war of the longest pocketbook. It is the last ton of bombs, the last load of shrapnel, and the last big gun that will thunder out victory. Therefore, if we want to win this war, we must find more money, and it is particularly up to us women, who can fight with our hands, to fight with our dollars, and pour -them like water at Uncle Sam's feet. Women's Greatest Sacrifices. In no war in all history have women been called upon to play such a tremendous part as in this war. Never before have women had to give so many of their husbands and sons and brothers to be cannon fodder. Never have women before gone into the trenches and fought side by side with men. Never have they gone into factories to make munitions of war with their own hands. Never have they had to take lipon their shoulders the heavy burdens of hard physical labor that men laid down when they went forth to battle. And never before did their country call on women to make such sacrifices as they are called on to make now. It is because this war touches women more nearly in every way than any other war has ever done, because more women's hearts hae been broken by it, more women impoverished and made homeless, more mothers have seen their babes slain before their eyes, more mothers have beheld their young daughters ravished, that women must use their utmost effort to put an end to war. Women must see to it that there is never another Avar to lay waste to the world and drench it with women's tears, and this can only be accomplished by our winning this war. And to do that we must have money. So, let every woman who has some loved one at the front buy a Liberty bond. Let every woman who has a hearthstone that she would keep safe buy a Liberty bond. Let every woman who has a babe 'that she loves, or a young daughter whose purity she would guard, buy a Liberty bond. Reasons Are Numerous. Let every woman who has a particle of sympathy in her soul for the forlorn women and children of Belgium and France buy a Liberty bond. Let every woman who believes in justice, and freedom, and right buy a Liberty bond. Let every woman who hates war and craves for peace buy a Liberty bond. The trip that you had planned, the new frock you were going to get, how pitifully small is the sacrifice of these for the sake of those who are sacrificing their lives to protect you and yours. Buy all the Liberty bonds you can, and then go in debt for some more, so shall you prove yourself a worthy daughter of Uncle Sam. This is a time when money talks and tells the kind of a patriot you are. The woman who hasn't a bunch of Liberty bonds if she's rich, or who isn't paying on a Liberty bond if she's poor, is a traitor to her country and should hang her head in shame every time she passes a man In khaki or feels the fold of the red, white, and blue floating over her unworthy head. The Badge of Citizenship. The Liberty Bond button is no longer a mark of liberality or even of patriotism; it is the badge of citizenship. Are you wearing one? War and the Weather. The Almighty makes the weather not man, and if the weather doesn't suit us, we have to wait. The farmer knows what a day's rain will do in the way of upsetting plans. One can't plow in the mud and a cutting of hay or wheat may be damaged or ruined by one night's downpour. The war department, too, is up against the weather In France. Thre inches rainfall may make the country Impassable for half a million men and horses and motortrucks and ruin tht chances of victory or brln, defeat.