Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 48, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 August 1918 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher JASPER - INDIANA

A little garden work a day also keeps the doctor away. Give according to. means and not 1 according to meanness. Xou can't gfve idlers work1 you've got to throw it at them. What kind of a conscience has 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 tight?" 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 going 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 yeo man" is no worse than the Swiss ad vertisement of "cow-warm goat's milk." Once- again it is time for the an nual 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 prepared ness 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 be 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 wisdonu as a regular farmer. Director General McAdoo's plan to grant half fare to farm workers is ex cellent. Pay their way to the farms and make 'em walk back if they won't work. The German llyor who continued to light while falling in his machint to certain death was a worthy foeman who deserved to perish in a hotter cause. One of the sorrows of life in the army and navy is .that the -hoys are missing the homo strawberries. But thoy should cheer up. There are lots of strawberries in France. After you think Over what you in tend to give, just stop to consider if you would consider it enough iC you were in a trench over in France. 'When the history of the war is dis passionately written it will be set dmvn tliftt the kaiser listened to very bad advice on the spirit of America. Almost any man could mention the .nablest living example of citizen, pa triot and manhood, if h0 were n Mi-Jingled, gagged and choked into silence by iib 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 born in 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 chauffeurettes make 14 trips a day between the quartermaster's office, Seventeenth and IT 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 "trafHckest" 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 Jime. 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

une or tne its inmates or tne home, most of them over fifty years old, are a m oi one accord. won at any sacrifice and they are doing ana 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 six 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. Rubie Nowlin, also of Washington, has completed ten sweaters, three scarfs and eleven pairs of wristiets. While the women sit in their .work room, knitting, making baskets and do.ng plain sewing, the men industriouslv

work at caning, chairs. All talk aboiu

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 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. Association for the Blind of the District made a visit and discovered, to her in the house was "slow." Some of the see any sense in the fool law." Mrs. speech about saving daylight and how

will every timepiece was turned forward but one. The old fellow with his

waten uiün t oeneve in "getting mixed

The Hoover program of food conservation is closelv followed. Nothing

is wasted. Victory bread and sugar favor with these bllEd patriots as with Conductor Felt He Must

WASHINGTON street car conductors, being human, and suffering from the jamminsr of the cars filontr with thn nnsspnppr nffon nro nnifa trtmhT

You can't blame them. It isn't a bit front, please" for some mysterious

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up m front but he does keep 'em smiling, and that is something.

iroin his place of rest at the crank forth good cheer both fore and aft. A man got on the car the other

mind was occupied with the big problems of the day, of this age filled with

some or tne biggest problems the world

"Tickets, please," said the jovial conductor. The man reached down into his pocket, felt for a ticket, and renrhed it

forth to the conductor.

"I can't take that," said the conductor. "I just had a man nrespnr me

with an ice cream soda check. I .might rain check to the baseball game, but I

Millionaire Peeling Potatoes in Camp Kitchen

IT WAS Nelson Morris, multimillionaire packer in Chicago, but it's Private Nelson Morris. K. P. Hdtrhrm rnlipirmn ni Pnmn "MViirrc? i.

, i' ty-eight-y ear-old head of the great Nelson the khaki and hardening his muscles preparatory to doing his bit along with other young Americans. About the time Morris was direct ed to come to Washington as a refrig eration expert in the quartermaster department where he had volunteered for service at one dollar a year, his number was reached in the draft and he was seut to Camp Grant, Kockford, Illinois. At'ter a brief stay at Camp Grant, however, Morris was ordered to report to Washington. He was assigned to for duty at (5 a. m. to peel potatoes or the soldiers. During off hours, Moms useful work about the camp. A period of guard duty followed for gone at his duties with a vim that has that "lie Is just like the rest of us and millionaire." Private Morris' wealth has not proved

lifo. He has fallen into the routine of the camp In good spirits and his superior oiltcors have made no exceptions nor concessions when retailing the day's duties for Uie various privates In camp.

girls, to receive appointments to the women's motQr corps of the government are Miss Esther Treger, 44 Dean avenue, 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." rc qvE WtH KAISER HAsrrr a FRIEND IH TH' WORLD thing to k ABLF TO Mlti T" AW WuÄ the war. The dinner bell there ransr at exaerlv Josephine Jacobs, president of the Aid of Columbia and head of the liome. amazement, that everv clock and watch inmates explained that "they didn't Jacobs then made a patriotic little it was helnihcr win the war. With a up." allowances have come into as much everyone else helping to win the war. Draw the Line Somewhere of fun to be crowded into a street car so tight you can't move, and when you have got to fight your- way to and fro to collect fares it makes a pretty tough job. Of course it's" 3Tour 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 evi dently, 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 time. He can't make 'em "move un reason Washingtonians will not move of the door-opening device he sends morning. He was in a hurrv. nnd hitf has ever known. have used that, and I will rnke a won't take a Chinese laundrv ticket." , Iii. iiivij,, (HICIC LllC L CU" Morris & Co., packers, is wearing (SEE ! AM' HE HAS MORE D0UR5 M A 00C HAS HAIR, duty as kitchen policeman, reporting prepare other food for the meals of cut firewood and encased in nther the young soldier-nncker. nnri i, ims made his comrades in arms remark one would never believe he n a burden siuco his ontrv Inf ft n tiii v

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NO PEAGE UNTIL HUN IS CRUSHED, SAYS 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, Va.. July 4. Pfesi dent Wilson in Iiis Independence day address at George Washington's tomb here said that the father of his country and his associates spoke and act ed, 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 free and America a place to which men out 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 p'owers 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 deciskm is conceivable. The president urged the establishing of an organization of peace which will make it certain that the combined powerof 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. 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 stufi? of triumph." Text of Address. The text of the president's speech follows : "Gentlemen of tlie Diplomatic Corpsand 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 and remote. It Is as serene and untouched by the hurry of tne 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. Prom 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 hiljside we also ought to be able to see with comprehending eyes the ivorld that lies about us and should conceive anew tlie 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 IUinnymede, 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 tvere 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-thera. They entertajned 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 with them the rights and privileges of free men. And we take our cue from them do we not? We intend what they intended, We hero 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 they liberties of America secure but the liberties of every other people as Well. " We 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 all 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 tlie 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 tlie 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 speaii 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 tlie free acceptance of that settlement by the people imme3iately concerned, and not upon 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 ex terior 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 establishedupon 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 be 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 tlie 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 against 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 peo ple as well as of the people of the L niton btates ana I 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 rul ers of Prussia have aroused forces they knew little of forces which, once arousedrcan 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 tri umph." Rush Work on Locomotlvei. Washington, July a. Tho first i k tho 1,415 locomotives ordered by tho

railroad administration In My ha.i been completed, s

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