Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 61, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 November 1918 — Page 1

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WEEKLY Vol.61. JasperIndiana, Fkidat, NOVEMBEE 22, 1918, No. 13.

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Will you py his dues C4 W "HAT chance war is over ? ' '

are asking that question. They want to keep up with their studies; they want these warfare years to count For them the war work agencies are conducting the greatest university in the world Every hut in France is a classroom, and the leading college and high school teachers of the country, under the leadership of men like Professor Stokes of Yale and Professor Erskine of Columbia, are keeping your boy in touch. Get behind the campaign that will keep the boys from falling behind.

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NEXT time you hear anyone say that there are too many welfare organizations, ask him what part of Germany he comes from. v We can't do too much for our fighters. I Each organization is doing a part of this . great big job, working together, planning together, pulling together. Give all you can! Now, all together 1

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to his club over there"? They're will ). nave when the Th ou sands of boys

less than 15c. a day A dollar will care for a soldier for a week. How many soldiers will you make happy next year? They are waiting for your answer to the United War Work Campaign. TUT, TU i, TUT. Tut and again tut, Newspaper men; Do not offend us furthtr By referring to them As women bootleggere, Bootlimbers, boys, Bootlimbers. . T. Davis, in Arkansas GazettA Who are 'the boys that will put the pill in Kaiser Bill? You know who they are. Give them more power to their arms;by putting the United War Work Campaign over the top. ' M ma m Eleren pounds of alfalfa ta wort ai much In feeding vain as ten pommda of bran, andtbcpaU fcuiJlfltaa aauca.

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N WAR-TIME SERIE State Council of Defense for New Medium of Transportation. In each of the ninety-two counties of Indiana there has been appointed, I at the request of the Indiana State Council of Defense, a Highways Transport Committee. This committee includes the chairman of the County Council of Defense, the Fed eral Fuel Administrator, the Federall Food Administrator, county agricultural agent and county surveyor. The business of this committee is to encourage the further utilization of the motor truck as a war-time agency for the relief of transportation difficulties. Out of the activity of this committee, it is expected that the railroads will be relieved of a large share of their burden. Through short hauls of food and fuel, including grain, produce, groceries, jcpal and supplies, the motor truck is expected to supply, in a large measure, ;the means whereby a more direct and efficient nationwide transportation situation will be created. In addition to the local service rendered, the Rural Motor Express the official designation of this new service will make possibl'e the through I routing by rail, and efficient transportation of munitions of war, includ'ing food staples and live stock, which j heretofore have suffered delay, due to terminal congestions, thus weakening the nation's power. The passing of the inland waterways, which a few years ago was the source of much lamentation on the part of those who urged the general development of all forms of public transportation service will be overbalanced, it is believed, by the increasing usefulness, economy and con venience of the larger type of gasoline propelled vehicles. F,reer accsötisinarkets is certain to inferest mameff-whoKin Indiana, is already awake to the value and importance of good roads. The more general use of the large motor trucks has been found, in other communities, to serve as a stimulant to road construction of the most economic type the building of permanent, hard-surfaced roads. The action of the Indiana State Council of Defense was inspired by the resolutions of the Council of National Defense, which, after a thor ough investigation, endorsed the plan of the Rural Motor Express. The National Council has issued a bulletin on this subject which says in part: "The transportation burden on the railroads and highways of the country has been tremendously increased by the war. There is a larger load to be carried of manufactured goods, raw materials, and foodstuffs. Not only has production of manufacturers, raw materials and farm products increased, but it is now necessary to transport a much larger proportion of these goods over long distances. "The burden is further increased by the fact that we have removed across the sea, 3,000 miles away, a considerable part of our population, which must be provisioned and maintaine These men wero in our army camps last winter. This year there are other men in these camps, and we must handle goods and food tuffs not only to these thirty new cities, but to a great population 3,000 miles away. "It is absolutely necessary to utilize our facilities to the maximum and to extend the use of the highways by the more efficient use of motor vehicles which can operate independently of fixed lines or terminals where congostion of traffic is liable to occur. The motor truck can help the railroad by reducing the short-haul load and also act as a feeder line in sections far removed from market. "Added to the increased loads of goods to be transported, is the fact that man power must be conserved. Heretofore the farmer has done his own hauling to market, but adoption of the Rural Motor Express will enable him to delegate his hauling, and to devote his own time to farm operations. An enormous waste of time and labor of both men and teams can be prevented by consolidating the small loads from a number-of farms into a single load to be carried by a i motor truck. I "In many localities local food supi plies are in need of development. A I better use must be made of agricultural lands in the immediate vicinity of population centers. It improves the business of the local - community and adds to the total. food supply of the country. The improvement of mar keting facilities through the openin I of regular daily traffic to market centorQ nU Winning points, is a most efjectjve agency in encouraging food

J production. , "We have, therefore three outgtanding facts that t demand especial attention be given ' to the increased use of the highways for rural transportation: " 1. The increased volume of foodstuffs to be hauled. " '2. The need for more labor on farms. j " '3. The need to;' encourage local food production. "The motor truck has demonstrated Its adaptability to the hauling, of farm products. ' It is dependable wherever the roads are capable of carrying its load. The use of the motor truck for farm transport is growing rapidly, and in the vicinity of many cities regular routes are now maintained!4 The purpose of the organization of r,ural express on a national scale, is to bring tc agricultural communities throughout the country an understanding of the great benefits to be derived from regular, daily service over the main highways from farm to city and from city to farm. "By 'Rural Motor Express' Is meant the use of the motor truck in regular daily service, over a fixed route, with a definite schedule of stops and charges, gathering farm produce, milk, live stock, eggs, etc., and delivering them to the city; dealer, and on the return trip carrying merchandise, machinery, supplies, etc., for farmers and others along the route. This service amounts to a collection and delivery that comes to the door of the farmer with the same regularity that the trolley car passes over its tracks."

THE BLUE TRIANGLE AT RUSSIA'S FRONT The Blue Triangle clubrooms in Petrograd were in !half shadow. A few scattered candles flung gleams as persistent and as vague as Russia's hope of liberty. A hundred Russian girls and six young men were guests of the first Youn Women's Christian association in all Russia. i It was a gala afternoon tea but It was dark because the winter days end at three o'clock and there is a restriction on the use of candles and kerosene as well as of electricity. 3?he girls were making merry even In th gloom of winter, the twilight and the tragedy of war. One slender white-faced girl with purple-shadowed eyes was merrier than all tho rest. Her wit and ringing laugh, were contagious. "Sonya is wonderful tonight," one girl whispered to another as she stirred gently Into her tea the one lump of sugar doled out carefully for the party. The X. W. C. A. secretaries had been saving the sugar for monthsputting aside at each meal one of the two lumps; served with the

coffee in the restaurant, that there might be a bit of sweet for this first party. There was no bread. "Soiya Is not drinking her tea," her pale little admirer, went on, ."yet she fainted this morning at the factory and the forewoman said; she was hungry." ! "We're all hungry ,J was the monotonous renJy. "It wasn't that." Something stopped the laughter and talk suddenly but the bush that fell In the dimly lit room was as joyous as the gaiety. One of Russia's greatest singers stood by the piano and lifted up hftr glorious voice filled with the tears and heartbreak that people a! peace call thrills. ?j. They went away ealy when thr music was done these sad-eyed, half starved little guests of the Blue Tri angle for danger lurks' In the darl of Petrograd streets, robberies and murders sharp little by-products oi a nation's chaos and a 'world at war Sonya lingered after the other. uvre gone. She was standing ploso by the secretary-hostess' chair wher sin turned from saying good-night t( tlx last one of the otller girls. The Inwuhter had died out of the girl'? eyt-y and the gaiety JrSm her voice. "wll you give me a note to the fucory superintendent," she asked "toiling him I'm attending classes liM-i' at nisht?" She spoke in Frtncb for she knew no English, and the secretary, no Russian. Yes. if it will help you." The sec-n-rary was glad to give her such a u- re but she was curious. "Tell me u y." If he knows the girls are going to r'lrht classes he won't put us on the niht shift. He will let us work days - we can come. Yesterday I asked for the night shift. Today 1 hav 'hanged my mind." The secretary wondered. Sonya 'ind not been in any of the classes. Had the bright little party given, her :u interest in the work of the assort a 'Ion? Llad the friendliness of the American secretaries reached h?r? Vns It the music that had given her ? it Impetus to study toward something Ley rod a fnctorj? ;.5mi is It that interests you?" the sHVi i:iry asked her. "You are not in any o; ihe classes now, are you? Whrtt is. ii you want to take up?" 'This moniing I looked out the. fat '

tory window," and Sonya's voice reminded the secretary of the call of a night bird before a storm. "Down In the courtyard was a crowd and three men were killed. Killed by the po

nce tue uoisneviK ponce, wane i stood there and watched. They said they were anarchists. One was my brother. Another was my sweetheart. I came here tonight to forget But I cannot forget. Always I will remember. I want nothing now but to car ry on their work, and to do that I must study and learn I must learn English and many other things. I want to go In all the classes. It the foreman at the factory knows I do that, he will help. He will let me work days." In the dark, the hunger, the cold, and the terror of Petrograd, the Blue Triangle is sending out its shining Invitation to the bewildered women and young girls of Russia. It is offering a little oasis in the midst of the chaos where they may come and rest and relax, play games, listen to music, study English, French, stenography, bookkeeping, or music, and as one tired girl expressed it, forget for the moment that they are in Petrograd. Most of the girls who gather at the sign of the Blue Triangle are bookkeepers and stenographers, but scattered among them are factory girls, domestics, and girls who never have worked. "in Petrograd and elsewhere In Russia." says Miss Clarissa Spenetv world secretary of the Y. V. C A. who started the work in Russia, "girls formerly employed in government offices come to ns who have struck against the bolsbcvists. They're out of Jobs. They're hungry. One nirl ptold me she couldn't take gymnasium work. It gave her such an appetite. But they refuse to return to work for the bolshevists." Miss Helen Ogden. one of the Y. W. "C. A. secretaries who was forced to leave Petrograd on account of the Ger"man advance, write- home that: "It's like living on I he screen of a melodrama to be in Russia. Bullets and hooting are almost as familiar street sounds here as the clang of the street 'car and the honk of the automobile at home. Here we learn to live and work under frequent shooting and street 'battles and to fiee only when we are told by the authorities that we must" fr Uncle Sam, here's a hundred and seventy millions. Keep the boys on their toes another year." Thaf s the message you'll be sending to your Uncle Sammy when you put the United War Work Campaign over the top. Diabolicalnesa of Diabolic Diabol. The world, the Oesh and the a -. s

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