Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 July 1918 — Page 2

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WEEKLY COURIER

BEN CD. DOANE, Publisher JASPER INDIANA A little garden work a day also keeps the doctor away. Give according to means and not according to meanness. You cant give Idlers work you've got to throw it at them. What kind of a conscience lias a "conscientious objector?" If you have not given until it hurts, you have not given enough. In the small boy's calendar summer comes with the first swim. The girl who expects to manage a husband should first learn how to feed the brute. Russia's redemption will come when she adopts the American slogan "work or fight?" About the most dangerous occupation in the world seems to be that of being an "ace." New potatoes, it seems, are now defined as potatoes that have never been used before. Russia has simplified its alphabet. That ought to encourage students to tackle the language. There is none so blind as the congenital optimist who always sees things coming his way. There are 400,000 feeble-minded persons in the United States, not counting the professional pacifists. It would astonish some of us If we knew how many of us behave ourselves because we have to. Idlers of draft age are merely nonessentials as ornaments, not as regular workers at useful occupations. The thing will be golnv, about right when the champion riveters are as well known as the champion batters. Perhaps someone has told the dear and obliging girls it is patriotic to swelter under their summer furs. This so called human race will be a lot happier as soon as it learns to wear things that will not spoil in a little rain. When an idea gets firm lodgment in the brains and hearts of 100,000,000 people something is bound to come of it. The designation of "woman yeoman" Is no worse than the Swiss ad vertisement milk." of "cow-warm goat's Once again it Is time for the annual jest about father's going to the circus for the boy's sake, but we shall refrain. When the Pullman porters become government officials they should by all the rules of propriety be too proud to accept tips. Buying winter coal now Is preparedness and the world ought to know by this time how great Is the value of preparedness. The boys In France miss at least two things: The pies like mother used to bake and the cigars like father used to smoke. When the elevators are manned by girls they are certain to be congested with useless old men who can't make their eyes behave! Even if nobody had ever learned to write foolish love letters there would bo plenty of ways to get in wrong. Suggestions that whale meat would be excellent food were received with interest, but the whale abattoir has not materialized. Amateur gardeners have become so numerous that the city resident is assuming as many airs of weather wisdom as a reirular farmer. Director Genoral McAdoo's plan to grant half fare to farm workers Is excellent. Pay their way to the farms and make 'em walk back If they won't work. The Gorman tlyer who continued to fight while falling In his machine to certain death was a worthy foeman who deserved to perish in a better cause. One of the sorrow's of life in the army and navy Is that the boys are missing the home strawberries. But they should cheer up. There are lots of strawberries in Prance. After you think over what you intend to glvQ, justr stop to consider If you would consider it enough if you were in a trend over in Franco. When the history of the war is dlspasslonAtely written It will be set down that the kaiser listened to very bad advice on the spirit of America. Almost any man could mention the TiQblest living example of citizen, patriot and manhood, If he were not strangled, gagged and choked Into silence by his unmanageable modesty.

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Women Chauffeurs Operate the Big Army Busses WASHINGTON. Running short of men, the civil service commission, under war necessity, appointed women chauffeurs" to operate the big army busses that carry passengers having business with the government to the various departments. Two Washington

This Is the explanation from Mrs. Torbert of why she decided to "turn the wheel" for Uncle Sam Instead of taking up clerical, work or Red Cross work. "It was just bornin me," said her sister chauffeurette. "I have driven the machine for my mother and father ever since we have had a machine. In fact, my father can't run it. He left It all to me," said Miss Treger, who is eighteen, the youngest member of the women's motor corps. Both chauff curettes make 14 trips a day between the quartermaster's office, Seventeenth and F streets, to the war department annex, Sixth and B streets. They cover about 30 miles a day, guiding their busses right through the heart of the business section or what they call the "traffickest" section. Mrs. Torbert, who gives $15 out of her monthly earnings as chauffeurette to the Red Cross, said: "Oh, I love my work. I shoot on the gas, throw in the clutch and just spin through the city. It would be Paradise if the people just wouldn't walk in front of the bus." "The hardest part of the work is the stopping every 20 minutes at the end of the routes," said Miss Treger, "and no lunch time. Like fish, we .take a bite whenever we can get. it."

Blind People Eager to Aid in Winning the War OF COURSE the old fellow at the Home for the Blind, 3050 R street northwest, who would not turn his watch forward when the daylight-savings law went into effect, had scruples against "changing God's time," but every

one of the IS inmates of the home, most of them over fifty years old, are of one accord. And that is that the war must be won at any sacrifice and they are doing and will continue to do what they can to help bring the kaiser to his knees. Mrs. Louise Wickert, a Washington woman who has been totally blind for the last 20 years and who has been at the home for the last sis years,

is the premier war worker of the blind family. To date Mrs. Wickert has knitted thirteen sweaters, seventeen scarfs and three pair of wristlets. Mrs. Ruble Nowlin, also of Washington, has completed ten sweaters, three scarfs and eleven pairs of wristlets. While the women sit in their work room, knitting, making baskets and doing plain sewing, the men industriously work at caning chairs. All talk about the war. One of the treasures of a blind man is his watch. Then came the daylightsavings law and every clock in the nation was set forward an hour. Every clock but Those at the Home for the Blind. The dinner bell there rang at exactly the same time. Six o'clock was six o'clock. To please them the matron did not change the big clock on the wall. Then one day not long ago Mrs. Josephine Jacobs, president of the Aid Association for the Blind of the District of Columbia and head of the liome, made a visit and discovered, to her amazement, that every clock and watch in the house was "slow." Some of the inmates explained that "they didn't see any sense In the fool law." Mrs. Jacobs then made a patriotic little epeech about saving daylight and how It was helping win the war. With a will every timepiece was turned forward but one. The old fellow with his watch didn't believe in "getting mixed up." The Hoover program of food conservation, is closely followed. Nothing is wasted. Victory bread and sugar allowauces have come into as much favor with these blind patriots as with everyone else helping to win the war.

Conductor Feit He Must

WASHINGTON street car conductors, being human, and suffering from the jamming of the cars along with the passengers, often are quite grouchy. You can't blame them. It isn't a bit of fun to be crowded into a street car so tight you can't move, and when you

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time. He can't make 'em "move up front, please" for some mysterious reason Washingtonians will not move' up in front but he does keep 'em smiling, and that is something. From his place of rest at the crank of the door-opening device he sends forth good cheer both fore and aft. A man got on the car the other morning. He was in a hurry, and his" mind was occupied with the big problems of the day, of this age filled with some of the biggest problems the world has ever known. ''Tickets, please," said the jovial conductor. The man reached down into his pocket, felt for a ticket, and reached It forth to the conductor. "I can't take that," said the conductor. "I just had a man present me with an ice cream soda check. I might have used that, and I will take a rain check to the baseball game, but I won't take a Chinese laundry ticket."

Millionaire Peeling Potatoes in Camp Kitchen IT WAS Nelson Morris, multimillionaire packer in Chicago, but it's Trivate Nelson Morris, K. P. (kitchen policeman) at Camp Meigs, where the twenty-eight-year-old head of the great Nelson Morris & Co., packers, is wearing the khaki and hardening his muscles

preparatory to doing his bit along with other young Americans. About the time Morris was directed to come to Washington as a refrigeration expert in the quarter master department where he had volunteered for service at one dollar a year, his number was reached In the draft and he was sent to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. After a brief stay at Camp Grant,

however, Morris was qrdered to report to Washington. He was assigned to duty as kitchen policeman, reporting for duty at G a. m. to peel potatoes or prepare other food for the meals of the soldiers. During off hours, Morris cut firewood and engaged In other useful work about the camp. A period of guard duty followed for the young soldier-packer, and he has gone at his duties with a vim that has made his comrades in arms remark that "he is just like the rest of us and one woilld never believe he was a millionaire." Private Morris wealth has not proved a burden since his entry into army life. He has fallen into the routine of the camp in good spirits and his superior oilieers have made no exceptions nor concessions when retailing the day's duties for the various privates In camp.

girls to receive appointments to the women's motor corps of the government are MissEsther Treger, 44 Dean avenuev and Mrs. Louise Torbert 2114 H street northwest. "I simply couldn't stand those knitting-knocking clubs. You know what I mean ; those women who go to the theater all dolled up with their knitting. All they do Is to 'knock' their friends." fp GIVE W?C Ttt' KAISER THING TO os ViM liM COlCNn IN -ru WORLD Draw the Line Somewhere have got to fight your way to and fro to collect fares it makes a pretty tough job. Of course, it's your job, so you have to make the best of it. There is one conductor in town who has determined to make the best of it evidently, for he is about as good humored a man as you can find any place, in any job. He usually has all the people on the car laughing all the GEE ! W HE HAS MORE DOLLARS THAH A D0J HAS HAIR,

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PEACE UNTIL HUN IS CRUSHED, -AYS PRESIDENT Speaks at Washington's Tomb on Independence Day. SETTLEMENT MUST BE FINAL Says "Blinded Rulers of Prussia Have Roused Forces They Knew Little Of Forces Which Once Roused Can Never Be Crushed to Earth." Mount Vernon, Ya., July 4. President Wilson In his Independence day address at George Washington's tomb here said that the father of his country and his associates spoke and acted, not for a class, but for a people and that it has been left for us to see to It that it shall be understood that they spoke and acted, not for a single -people only but for all mankind and were planning that men of every class should be freß. and America a place to which inenout of every nation might resort who wished 'to share with them the rights and privileges of free men. The president then referred to the present world struggle and said that the peoples of the world find themselves confronted by a selfish group of nations who speak no common purpose but only selfish ambitions of their own and by which none can profit but themselves and whose people are fuel in their hands. He declared that these governments are clothed with strange trappings and the primitive authority of an age that is altogether alien and hostile to our own. He said the past and the present are in deadly grapple and the peoples of the world are being done to death between them. The rulers of the central powers even fear their own people, said the president. He declared that there can be but one issue in this war and the settlement must be final ; that there- can be no compromise and no halfway decision is conceivable. The president urged the establishing of an organization of peace which will make it certain that the combined power of free nations will check every invasion xf right and servje to make peace and justice the more secure by affording a definite tribunal of opinion to which all must submit. The president in closing his address said: "The blinded rulers of Prussia have roused forces which aroused can never be crushed to earth again for they have at their heart an inspiration and a purpose which are deathless -and of the very stuff of triumph." " Text of Address. The text of the president's speech follows : "Gentlemen of the Diplomatic Corps and My Fellow Citizens : I am happy to draw apart with you to this quiet place of old counsel in order to speak a little of the meaning of this day of our nation's independence. The place seems very still jind remote.. It is as serene and untouched by the hurry of the world as it was in those great days long ago when General Washington was here and held leisurely conference with the men who were to be associated with him In the creation of a nation. From the gentle slopes they looked out upon ,the world and saw it whole, saw it with the light of the future upon it, saw It with modern eyes that turned away from a past which men of liberated spirits could no longer endure, it is for' that reason that we cannot feel, even here, in the immediate presence of this sacred tomb, that this is a place of death. It was a place of achievement. A great promise that was meant for all mankind was here given plan and reality. The associations by which we are here surrounded are the inspiring associations of that noble death which is only a glorious consummation. From this green hillside we also ought to be able to see with comprehending eyes the ivorld that lies about us and should conceive anew the purposes that must set men free. Planned Universal Freedom. "It is significant significant of their own character and purpose and of the influences they were setting afoot that Washington and his associates, like the barons at Itunnymede, spoke and acted, not for a class, but for a people. It has been left for us to see to it that It shall be understood that they spoke and acted, not for a single people only, but for all mankind. They ivere thinking, not of themselves and of the material interests which centered in the little groups of landholders and merchants and men of affairs with whom they were accustomed to act, in Virginia and the colonies to the north and south of her, but of a people which wished to be done with classes and special interests and the authority of men whom they had not themselves chosen to rule over them. They entertained no private purpose, desired no peculiar privilege. . "They were consciously planning that men of every class should be free and America a place to which men out of every nation might resort-who wished to share wlththem the rights and privileges of free men. And we take our cue from them do we not? We intend what they intended. We here In America believe our participation in this present war to be only the fruitage of what they planted. Our case differs from theirs only in this,

that it is our Inestimable privilege To concert with men out of every nation what shall make not only, the liberties of America secure but the Uberties of every other people as well. Wo are happy in the thought that we are permitted to do what they would have done had they been in our place.

There must now be settled once for alT what was settled for America in the great age upon whose inspiration we draw today. This is surely a fitting place from which calmly to look" out upon our task, that we may fortify our spirits for its accomplishment And this is the appropriate place from which to avow, alike to the friends who look on and to the friends with whom .we have the happiness to be associated in action, the faith and purpose with which we act. Hun Rulers Fear Own People. "This, then, is our conception of the great struggle in which we are engaged. The plot is written plain upon every scene and every act of the supreme tragedy. On the one hand stand the peoples of the world not only the peoples actually engaged, but many others also who suffer under mastery but cannot act ; peoples of many races and In every part of the world the people of stricken Russia still, among the rest, though they are for the moment unorganized and helpless. Opposed to them, masters of many armies, stand an isolated, friendless group of governments who speak no common purpose but- only selfish ambitions of their own by which none can profit but themselves, and whose peoples are fuel in their hands; governments which fear their people and yet are for the time their sovereign lords, making every choice for them and disposing of their lives and fortunes as they will, as well as of the lives and fortunes of every people who fall under their power governments clothed with the strange trappings and the primitive authority of an age that Is altogether alien and hostile to our own. The past and the present are In deadly grapple and the peoples of the world are being done to death between them. Settlement Must Be Final. "There can be but one issue. The settlement must be final. There can be" no compromise. No halfway decision would be tolerable. No halfway decision is conceivable. These are the ends for which the associated peoples of the world are fighting and which must be conceded them before there can be peace : 1. The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly and of Its single choice disturb the peace of the world ; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at the least its reduction to virtual impotence. "2. The settlement of every question, whether of territory, of sovereignty, of economic arrangement, or of political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not upo the basis of the material interest or advantage of any other nation or people which may desire a different settlement for the sake of Its own exterior influence or mastery. "3. The consent of all nations to be governed in their conduct towards each other by the same principles of honor and of respect for the common law of civilized society that govern the individual citizens of all modern states in their relations with one another ; to the end that all promises and covenants may be sacredly observed, no private plots or conspiracies hatched, no selfish injuries wrought with impunity, and a mutual trust established upon the handsome foundation of a mutual respect for right. "4. The establishment of an organization of peace which shall make it certain that the combined power of free nations will check every invasion of right and serve to make peace and justice the more secure by affording a definite tribunal of opinion to which all must submit and by which every international readjustment that cannot be amicably agreed upon by the peoples directly concerned shall be sanctioned. U. S. Can Never Be Crushed. "These great objects can be put into a single sentence. What we seek Is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. "These great ends cannot he achieved by debating and seeking to reconcile and accommodate what statesmen may wish, with their projects for balances of power and of national opportunity. They can. be reached only by the determination of what the thinking people of the world desire with their longing hope for justice and for social freedom and opportunity. "1 can fancy that the air of this place carries the accents of such principles with a prouder kindness. Here where started forces which the great nation agninst which they were primarily directed at first regarded as a revolt against Its authority but which has long since seen to have been a step In the liberation of its own people as well as of the people of the United States and stand here now to speak, speak proudly and with confident hope of the spread of this revolt, this liberation to the great state of the world itself. The blinded rulers of Prussia have aroused forces they knew little of forces which, once aroused, can never be crushed to earth agn Infor they have at their heart an inspiration and a purpose which are deathless and of the very stuff of triumph.' Rush Work on Locomotive!. Washington, Uuly 3. The first i the 1,415 locomotives ordered by the railroad administration In May h&A been completed.

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