Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 61, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 December 1918 — Page 2
WEEKLY COURIER IN ED. DO A HI Publish JAtPIft .... INDIANA Also Hollnnd has cooties she would liko to get rid of.
Even the influenza Isn't what tt used to be before the war. Aw, but just wait till the orators get started at celebrating It I A peace-celebrating republic is no place or anybody with nerves. More regular pigs are now needed and fewer of the human variety. Four years of warfare make the business of peacemaking an Intricate matter. The ending of the war Is not at all like what Wilhelm had arranged to have It A new broom sweeps clean. It ought to sweep twice as clean the price- is now $2. Influenza Is on the wane, election's over, and the war has ended It's n dull world. Are you preparing to plan a peace garden next spring? Don't give up a good habit. Davy .Tones must he wondering at the absence of new arrivals In the form of sunken ships. Looking backs It's funny to recall how many schemes were advanced to stop the U-boats. Germany Is now frantically pleading that It bo not done unto her as she did unto others. Continue to save the fruit pits the dominant doctors may decide to make civilians wear gas masks. Where Is the fellow who, a few months ago, was talking about German elllclency and Invincibility? The Charlotte Observer slogansThe Hog to the Front!" But It Is alluding to pork and not to profiteers. There may be nothing In a name, but Atlantic ports are now to get theirs back In news dispatched. One would like to have taken the news of Sedan to ex-Empress Eugenie and watched her old eyes sparkle ! Though the fighting has ceased, the work-or-fight order lias lost none of its force for everybody In this busy world. The kaiser started the war like a raging Hon seeking whom he might devour, and he ended It with running off like a scared rabbit. Europe never saw so much royal junk at one time since the king Industry grew out of the infant stage a long time ago. Having laid down his rifie, Uncle Sam will now engage in feeding a lot of little hungry republics out of his great spoon. The French Academy of Science has elected Foch to membership, which is the proper thing to do. 11 he isn't a scientist, who is? Russia Stops Paying Indemnity to Germany. News dispatch. And there is no sign in the sky that she will ever resume the payments. You can tell by the kind of shoes a girl wears whether she has made up her mind to do a noble part In shaping the future of mankind. The little German children wlh grow up and become parents of other children, and will teach them that war is brutal and dangerous. The boys are to bo brought home as rapidly as possible, which Is all that could be expected, but not soon enough for us folks who are hungry and anxious to so them. "Ah, yes; but before April I shall be in Paris," is a remark generally credited to Field Marshal von JTindenburg about the time Foch spread the tacks along the short road to the French capital. The most severe brutalities and cruelties in Russia, a writer declares, are those directed against newspaper men. Perhaps some Red witi a name containing 15 or 20 scrambled letters saw his name misspelled. "It will be for the good of Germany," "vsiis what Mr. Hohenzollern said when he found himself "up against it," so he couldn't move. But between ourselves that wasn't the reason he pushed himself off. nindenburg, Ludendorff, Mackensen, TIrpltz and a lot more of them are not nearly such great fellows as they thought themselves to be. Use of paper underwear Is suggested to relieve cloth shortage. So? Then newspapers shoiild be printed on cloth to relieve the paper shortage. The Inlluenza germ Is so small that It cannot be seen with a microscope. And yet people have been trying to shut It out by the coarse meshes of a "flu mask."
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On the farm the poultry keeper can greatly reduce the work of caring for the fowls and at the same time give them the opportunity to pick the most of their living by distributing them on the land. In the city back yard the birds could not, under any circumstances, pick any considerable part of the feed they require. Practically everything must be supplied them, hence any negligence on the part of the keeper affects results more unfavorably than when the hens are under farm conditlpus. Yet there Is nothing difficult in the care of a small flock if each of the tilings necessary to do Is done at the right time In the right way, and this system involves nothing too hard lor a child, or beyond the ingenuity of an adult who cannot look after the fowls as closely us the child whose time is divided between home and school. Hens of the medium-sized breeds Plymouth Rocks, Wynndottes, Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons are best suited to back-yard conditions. Large hens kept in close confinement are likely 10 get too fat to lay well. Small,
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HOW TO CLASSIFY - A SOLDIER Hat Cord Designates Branch of Service A military man can immediately tell to what division a soldier belongs by glancing at the cord on his hat, but to the average citizen the color of the hat cord denotes little or nothing. It is an interesting feature to be familiar with, especially now when so many soldiers are seen all over the country, and any one who takes the trouble to learn the following list will be rewarded by being able to satisfy his own curiosity respecting tiny soldier he happens to see without having to ask questions : A cord of light blue signifies that the wearer belongs to the infantry; red denotes artillery; yellow, cavalry; buff, quartermaster's corps; red and white, engineer's corps; orange and white, signal corps; red and black, ordnance ; black and white, field clerk ; maroon and white, medical corps; black and gold, officers; silver and black, adjutant general's clerk ; green, instructor home guards, and green and white, home guards. As the Earth's Human Race Advances It Also Develops Man has been on the earth perlmps some twenty odd thousand years, and It is only the last 3,000 that we are much concerned with. To suppose that a modern Englishman must necessarily be at a higher stage of mental development than an ancient Greek is almost the same mistake as to argue that Browning must be a better poet than Wordsworth because he came later. If the soul, or the brain, of man is developing, it is not developing so fast or so steadily as all that. Organization of the Red Star. An organization to do for animals in the army what the Red Cross does for human beings was organized on the invitation or suggestion of the war department in June, 191G. It is called the Red Star, and its headquarters are at 2S7 StaU itreet, Albany, N. Y.
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nmiiihit - ho konniiuT of liirce and small I iuniuv 1 1- ' J " I it necessary lor tne Keeper to use ffnn,i .mwiifinn nml nrniluetlvp. AVhito cfondnrd wplp-htc ntl.l hnVA RimerAeial - O I Uli..... .....w, MT I thpfr laving ennneitv hut make them breeding purposes. SPPIUfi V PnmilS nnfl HVP.lV and tO Tlie Printing of Fabrics by Peruvians Similar to the Method Still Being Used The ancients of Peru, by a curious coincidence for there could not possi bly have been any intercourse with their contemporaries in India and Egypt- seem to have used much the same kind of processes in printing their designs unon the fabrics they manufactured. Both Herodotus and Pliny, among early historians, accord ing to a United States commerce report, have told us about the cloths of vegetable über made by the an elonts? hut in nil likeHhonrl the fabrinc nf tho Pornvinn xvorn nf oven a mora rnmntP dntrv Tn .snmA resneets the methods of today bear strong resemblance to the older practice. The nhiPf diffrpnep consists in the nat terns now being engraved upon copper rollers and several colors being print - ed at one time. .Tust as today the coloring matter of dves is not affixed by merely printing it on the material, but is secured bv means of a substance known as mordant, so did tbe Peruvians make use of :i uronerty which caused the dye to adhere and to withstand a test of thousands of years' wear and tear. Experts have declared that in Hip direction of technical and artistic value the designs in nnestion have no ennnl. They must undoubtedly have been wholly oricinal. and could have owed their incontion to no outside influences. JdpdllCbe WUIIldN UN? Ul tne breateSt rinanCierS A . Mme. Yone Suzuki, the wealth iest woman in .Tapan made more than $100,000,000 in American money since the war began. Her war brides have been copper, rubber, and sugar ven tures. In a financial operation now known as the Formosan sugar deal, a transaction involving sugar, cam phor, real estate and many other things, she made $50,000,000 in one fell swoop. She is not a shareholder in a corporation. She is the corporatlon. Since her husband's death she has been solely responsible for her business. But she is just a modest little woman, who received in a cultured Japanese household the pre scribed education of the old school she was trainl to arrange flowers, serve tea, rear children and please a husband. World Outlook.
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Whin the hair about the templw atarts to show th signs of gray. And a fellow realizes that he's wandering far away From the pleasures of his boyhood and his youth and never more Will know the Joy o laughter as he did m years of yore, Oh, it's then he starts to thinking of a stubby little lad "With a face as brown as berries and a soul supremely glad. "When a gray-haired dreamer wanders down the lanes of memory And forgets the living present for the time of "used-to-be;" Ho takes off his shoes and stockings, and h throws his coat away, And he's free from all restrictions save the rules oC manly play. Ha may be in tattered garments, but bareheaded in the sun, , He forgets his proud successes and the riches he has wort. Oh, there's not a man that Uveth but would give his all to bo The stubby little fellow that in dreamland ho can see, And the splcndom that surround him and the joys about him spread Only seem to rise to haunt him with the boyhood that a3 fled. When the hnir about the temples starts to show TImo'a silver stain, Then the richest man's that living yeama to be a boy asain. T3d?ar A. Guest in Detroit "Free Press. Thomas Jefferson Rodman Said to Have Been Father of Big Gun Used in Europe Thomas Jefferson Rodman, the American inventor and ordnance expert, who initiated the movement for big guns which culminated in the giant cannon used in Europe, was born 10B years ago in Salem, Ind., and after graduating from West Point, entered the ordnance department of the army. Ho early devoted himself to experiments with guns and gunpowder. Hod man's greatest triumph, notes a writer inu LIS lathe devoted to the properties and manipulation of cast iron, then regarded as the best material for heavy ordnance, by Hodimui and other ollicers, enamcü tue , ,, umteu omiw ü admittedly the best in the world. In 1SG0 a cannon weighing 35 tons, the largest in the world, was cast, but the exigencies of the Civil war required heavier and better artillery. In 1SG3 a 20-inch smooth bore, weighing near ly 5S tons and throwing a solid shot of 1,080 pounds, was cast. This great gun attracted international attention, and many years passed before it was surpassed in size and effectiveness. Rodman also introduced the use of "mammoth" powder for the lo-inch ill - . , . i . -- ,, SIHOOUl-UOre gllUS OL 111b 1UVÜIU1UU. iUl'Ug U1C OlVll var guuö wcic uow . , -, -. UU1 ntlvy UllU Uliiiy, mm uiu vl great assistance in deciding the oulcome or tne struggle, uunug i. l'lluu j.vwiiiix x.v atertuwu uiauia.. THIS AND THAT Now that it is all over we have the added joy of knowing that the right side triumphed. A brunette never can understand what men see in blonde hair to rave about. It makes no difference how rich a man is, he's either a good fellow or he isn't. Prejudice keeps many a man Raising of Rabbits Grows in Popularity as Cost of Beef and Pork Increases Since the price of meat has been soaring, substitutes for beef and pork Ve been in demand. The most popular method of filling menu wiuiout pairumzmg butcher is to raise rabbits, and nun reds of persons are now so engaged Pvltn PlonrIt is the consensus otfopmion among breeders, writes a correspondent, that the Flemish giant rabbit is tne uest, irs meat closely resembling tne taste or chicken. Many persons who have served Flemish rabbit uave oeen com plimented over their "lovely chicken dinner. The Belgian hare, which has many followers, is not so tootnsome oy lai. The Flemish is bred for meat and weight, while the Belgian is favored for color, symmetry ana sman-sizeu bones. The weignt or raDüics vanes greauy. I . . . .. . 1 1 Tne giant iemisn leaus, specimens H,mi, Hip nvorncQ ranges from 15 to I - "O-- " - - 10. Belgian hares, when a year old, weigh about 12 pounds. The other species are somewhat lighter. Rabbit hides bring 35 to 75 cents a pound, although there are instances where the white fur brings much higher prices, according to quality and appearance. Letters on Submarines. The letters used on United States submarines designate their type of construction, and run through the alnhabet. Submarines of the earlier types are designated by the first letters of the alphabet and those of later type by letters further along. Individual submarines are designated by numbers. Thus the desiguation N3 means a certain submarine of the N type.
State Happenings V v Crawfordsville. Residents of Montgomery county feel that they were 300 per cent loyal in war activities that have been conducted In the last two years. Tabulations show that a total of $4,147,200.30 was either loaned or contributed by them for work in the conflict against Germany. In addition, not fewer than 1,500 Montgomery county men entered the service of their country in the war. Of this number 1.050 were inducted into service through the selective draft. In addition more than 500 men from Wabash college here, a large number of whom are credited In other parts of the state and nation, entered military service, about hnlf of them as ollicers. Liberty loan subscriptions in the county totaled $3.505.000. Petersburg. Arrangements are being made for the installation of the big new steel tipple at the Atlas No. 1 mines, north of this city. The structure, which is to replace the big tipple destroyed recently 'by Ore, Is to eosr$lfiG,000, will be 00 feet high and built to handle -1.000 tons of coal a day. Big washeries also will be Installed. Workmen have begun work on n wnshhouse thnt will accommodate '150 miners. One hundred and fifty new cars have been shipped to the Atlas mine and switch room is being made for (0 empty coal cars a day. More than JrÖOÜ.OOO will be spent in Improvements tills winter and next spring. Salem. In order to facilitate the movement of wounded soldiers to the United States army hospital at West Baden by motortrucks, and to provide for a more rapid and convenient method for handling supplies, Lieut. William F. Ronnie of Washington, in charge of the purchasing department in the army quartermaster's detachment, otters to provide specifications for road building and men and trucks for the work if county commissioners along the road between West Baden and New Albany will provide the material. Indianapolis. Further direction or control over the ice industry has been abandoned by the United States food administration, it was announced in an 'official notice received from Washington by Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana. Notice was addressed to the county food administrators of the state, by Mr. Barnard, withdrawing further responsibility in connection, with the business, which in a large number bf cases, has been assumed by the local officials. Indianapolis. Advocating the passage of stringent sanitary laws and a closer relationship for the enforcement of the sanitary laws. H. B. Barnard, Indiana food administrator, addressed the opening session of the Indiana Manufacturers of Dairy Prod ucts assembled in their annual con vention here. Doctor Barnard told the Ice-cream manufacturers he has given much thought to the standardizing of the manufacture of creams and to tha most fair methods of selling the prod uct. Indianapolis. Federal investigators for the department of labor, in a bul letin received here, declare that in visiting nine mine and quarry states they found children less than sixteen years old employed only in Indiana. Tley found G2 in the state. John Ogilvle, acting head of the state mine inspection department, in commentin on the report, said that the Indiana law permits persons as young as four teen years old to work in the mines. Indianapolis. Indiana banks again went "over the top" in subscribing for treasury certificates for the fifth Liberty loan. The state's quota was $0,2G0.000 of the certificates. At close of business of the Seventh District Fed eral Reserve bank GS counties of the state in the district exceeded the allotment by several thousands of dollars. The allotment of the GS counties of the state was about 2 per cent of the banking resources. Terre Haute. Erection of a big car repair plant for the Pennsylvania railroad lines in the east yards of tills city, is now under full headway and Is scheduled to be completed within three months. The new plant, which is to cost $250,000, will cover 25 acres and will consist of 1G separate buildings. Approximately 400 men will be employed when the plant Is completed. Indianapolis. The federal food administration in Indiana has renewed its efforts to have shippers avoid overloading stock cars, particularly hog cars, following a report received by it from the Indianapolis stock yards. The report said 154 hogs had been received dead at the stock yards because of crowded and unfit cars. Fort Wayne. Because of the falling off In the number of cases handled by the attorney for the poor of Allen county since the state went dry, the salary of that official has been reduced from $70 to $50 a inonth. Seymour. Unusually warm weather recently caused maple trees here to bud and in a few places dandelions are In bloom. One year ago the temperature here was 181 degrees below zero and train and traction service was crippled badly because of snowdrifts. West Baden. Thirty soldiers were discharged the past week from the United States army hospital here, the .first to go home since the hospital was established. They were returned to the camps, where they originally were mustered ln, as they are now Physically welL
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Washington, D. C An ordw pcontb; itlng the supplying of nntural gas t consumers othor than those In clae one, two and thre. has been issued by the bureau of natural gas, fuei administration, applicable to all companies supplied by th Logan Natural Gas company, which runs a pipe line from West Virginia, supplying many communities in Tndlana. The order holds until April 15, 1919, unless another order is issued In the meantime. It is the intention of the natural gas bureau to supply service first to the consumers in class one. next to consumers in class two, and so on. If the supply is not sufficient for all three classes, the last class will be cut off. In any event, domestic Consumers will be the first to be served. The order of the fuel administration was sent -to the following Indiana concerns in addition to the Logan Natural Gascompauy:
Hlclunond Light, Ileat ami Power company, Richmond; Lynn Gas company, Lynn; Interstate Public Service company, Newcastle; Central Indiana Gas company, Noblesvllle and TiptDn; MIddletown Gas company, ' Middlctown; Selma Gas company, Selma. Indianapolis. The necessity for a complete overhauling of Indiana's tax system, including the problems of the State, counties and municipalities, Is brought out by figures just compiled by the state board of tax commission ers. These figures show great discrepancies In the cost of government in the different counties, townships, towns and cities. It is pointed out also that the heavier Increases in governmental costs everywhere probably have not yet been reached and It is known that In some of the units In the state tax rate Increases, or similar relief, already has been decided on. For example, the city of Indianapolis Is shown as having the lowest tax rata of any city in the state, yet increase In cost of municipal operation cannot be met during tbe coming year without some very definite relief here, officials have said. The elimination of revenues from saloon licenses also has been another factor in the rapidly mounting municipal tax rates, and unless some sort of solution to the difficulty comes, tax rates will be out of all proportion to interest rates, as they are now in many instances. Hammond. Since Indiana went dry and tlie penalties for Importing liquor from Illinois have been rigidly enforced, officials In this locality are finding that drinkers are manufacturing stupefying concoctions. Some Immigrants are using rice and potato liquor they make themelves. Drug stores are being depleted of Jamaica ginger and hair oil stocks and bitters, while patent medicines are sold in enormous quantities. Police findnnen unconscious from the effects and jails are showing an alarming Increase' in prisoners. ' I ' Monticello. White 4county, trutf to alls of its traditions, has. made a record in tlie world, war. just ended which will be remembered by all of its citizens with pride. In both the Civil war and Spanish war White county raised by far the greater number of its troops by the volunteer system, and such has been the case ln the recent conflict. Wheu tlie first call for drafted men was made ty the war department, White county was the only one in Indiana which had exceeded its quota by voluntary enlistments. Terre Haute. Arrangements are being made by tlie Citizens' Independent Telephone company here for taking over the exchange plant of the Central Union Telephone company, according to H. A. Pritchett of tlie Citizen's company, following action in the Marion county superior court authorizing the receivers of the company to make tlie sale. About six months will be required to make adjustments. The deal will Involve more than a million dollars. The telephone companies, have about 15,000 subscribers. Indianapolis. Four hundred and seventy-three answers to the question., "Will you re-employ the man who left your establishment to enter the government service?" sent to employers some time ago, have been received by the members of the local draft board for division No. 7, and 420 of tlie employers returned affirmative answersMore than SOG forms bearing tills question were sent to Indianapolis employers by the board and more than 50 per cent have been returned. . South Bend.Ele Stnnsbury of Indianapolis, attorney general of Indiana, has filed suit In the St Joseph county circuit court here against fie Standard National Life Insurance con pany of this city, alleging Insolvency and fraudulent conduct of business. The complaint says that on Investigation by the auditor of state it was found that the company was unable to meet Its obligations created by the policies Issued. Indianapolis. The Nappanee Telephone company petitioned the public service commission to increase telephone rates 25 cents a month and to discount this amount for prompt payment of bills. ,jThe Rochester Telaphone companypetltioned for ths es tablishment of vacation rates. A petition was filed to establish miners' train service between Coalmont and Jasonville. Indianapolis. - Influenza-pneumonia during November, the second month of tlie epidemic, caused the deaths of 2,521 Hooslers, according to official reports compiled by the state board of health. During October there were 3,201 victims in Indiana, or 770 more than last month. The total number of deaths caused directly by the disease up to December 1 Is 5.792. The normal influenza-pneumonia death rate for November layabout 230. Indianapolis had 124 fewer deaths from the malady last month than In October, reporting 906 against a total of 430 dnrini the first month of the epljfrMtei
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