Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 62, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 September 1919 — Page 1

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Vol. 02.

Jaspeji, Indiana, Friday, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919,

No. 13.

HISSIIIG LINK IS

FOUND IN CONGO?

LEAGUE FULFILS AMERICAN IDEAL

III A - IL . II.

Can Talk in a way io me Wd- . . H - Dem0cra.

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lives, UCviaies riuicui Garner.

cies Replaced Autocracies

at Our Bidding.

LUBES MALE TO DEATH; food administration chief.

profeiwr Imitates Call of Ferna! and , secUret Specimen of Strange AnimalSpends Over Two

Years In Congo.

New York Prof. R. L. (lamer, nat-

urllst und student of monkeys, returned recently with four tons of peclmtu tot the Smithsonian Institution In Wellington and a description of tu animal, a cross between a fortlla nd a chimpanzee, which he avers was of such hljth Intelligence that It ould talk to a limited degree to natu es Id the French Congo. The mturallst said be had spent two j ars md seven months In the French Ougo In the Interests of the Smithtoalan Institution. fttglon Called "Infested." "In ill my travels through the Junges I have never come across such t strsnpe animal as the talking fcorllla." he said. "I first hoard of the bMt from natives In the Congo, who Mid that a certain region wm Infested :th the animals, with which tbey had learned 10 ,8,k after a fashion." Professor (Jarner aald he induced four natives to accompany him to the habitat of the animals. lie said be fnund they hud told the truth and he titaself set about to learn to talk to the Inonkeys. which, In the' dark, could tf taken for uatlve. Lures Mal to Death. One nicht several of the roan apes ipproj'U'd the edge of the village and tttired a Grange call w hich sounded like "Waa-hooa," Professor Uarner t!d. Thit, he declared,-w as the eall of

Urges Ratification on Ground That Peace Treaty Will Collapse Without League of Nations.

Could Talk to Natives. the male for 1t mate. Interpreted. It indent: "Where are you?" The nnerlni? can. given usually by a female, i MAhooahoo,H meaning, as Professor (Janier said. "Her& i am." I'rofrnsor Garner said be spent 'eki perfecting, himself In Imitating b fall of the female. Then one night fce tnutred the call of a male ape, f'd. toUa surprise, the animal bound'rtskly over the ground to whero lt 'wd, with his rifle In band, lie "'d bf lhot Um, Bn,n(u and brought My bnck with him. ' TLo ape, he said, vws more than tall and weighed 20 imds.

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fertilize liberally Says Professor Agee. "I am convinced that the avJrse Individual loses his chance j0' the largest net Income from '"J by failure to fertilise lib. rs.iy. hen one lucks capital u is perhaps a serious mutter ,,, rua P big bill for fertilisers, but when labor and seeds r to be risked It Is poor lujdnwa not to have enough plant Joo to make a good crop. Poor does not get one anywhere l"t In the direction he National Stockman l?4 inner. .

Herbert Hoover 1 so deeply concerned over the opposition to the I-eague of Nations In the United State that lie bus let himself be Interviewed at length on the League nltuatlott. In a talk with the New York Times correspondent In Purls, the Food Administration Chief axxerts that having caused the league Idea to prevail America canuot abandon It. We cannot withdraw, he Nays, and leave Kuroiie to chaon. "To abandon the Lcsgue Covenant now means that the tteaty Itself will collate." Mr. Hoover's wide acquaintance with conditions both here and abroad, his reputation as an administrator, a man of great affairs who deals with facts, not theories, make bis statement one of the most Important contributions to the recent League discussions. "There are one or two points In connection with the present treaty," ald

Mr. Hoover, -that need careful cout.ll

eratlou by the American public. We

need to digest the fact that we have

for a century and a half heeti advo

cating democracy not only as a remedy for the lutenml III of nil so

ciety, bat also as the only real safe

guard against war. We have believed

and proclaimed. In season and out. that a world In whbh there wns a free expression and enforcement of the will of the majority was the real

basis of government, was eentlal for the advancement of civilization, and

that we have proved It enorn.ous hu man benefits la our country. American Ideaa Have Prevailed. "We went Into the war to destroy aatorracy as a menace to our ow u and all other democracies. If we had not" come into the war every inch of Kuro peHn noil today would be under auto cratlc government. We have Imposed our will on the world. Out of thl victory has come the destruction ot the four great autocracies In Ier iminv, llussia, Turkey und Austria tun! the little autocracy In t .recce. New democracies have pnnig Into l.t ln In Poland, Finland, It vln, Lithuania Fsthonla, Chechoslovakia, !reatei' Serbia, Greece, Siberia, and even !er! ninny and Austria have ctuMilm) democratic governments. r.eyonr these a host of small republic, sucl as Armenia, fieorKla, Azerbaijan urn other, have xpruni; up, and uculu a reHult of tbi great world movement the constitutions of Spain, Itmminui and even Kngland. have made a fltu ascent to comolete francbNe and !

j mocracy, nl though they Mill laaintain I a ayuibnl of royalty. . "We have been the living Kprlnp fcr 'this last Cintury and half from whirl, these Ideas have sprung, and we have ' triumphed. The world today, except fir a comparatively few reactionary and communistic autocracies. Is dein ncmtlc, and we did It. "A man who takes a wife an? 1, losses the world with several Infant)" cannot K" away and leave them on the claim that there was no lefal marrluge. "lliese Infant democracies all Lave x.llticjl. nodal ard economic problems Involving their neighbors that are fraught with the mont Intense I friction. There are no natural bound urles In Furope. Uaces are not com

pact ; they blend at every border. Tbey need rallwny communication and sea outlets through their neighbors' territory.

"Many of these states must for the nett few years struggle almost for

bare bones to maintain their very

existence. Fvery one of them la go

ing to do Its best; to protect Its own ! interests, even to the prejuc'lce of lti : neighbors. Governments Lack Experiences.

"W lu.kuieika abuuld realiza tlud . democracy, ns a stable form of govern-

i nient as we know It, Is itnsslhle onl

with highly educated populations and

j" large force of men who are capahli fof government. Few of the men win

comiose these governments have bad any nctual experience at governing snl thclf populations are woefully II literate. 'Tbey will require a generation ol

. ctunl natlonnl life In peace to de velop free education and skill In government.

"Uoless these countries have a guUIng hand and referee In their quarrels,

a court of appeals for their wrongs.

this Furope will go Lack" 1o chaos. If there Is such an Institution, representing the public opinion of tbo world, and able to exert Its authority.

they will ;row Into stability. We cannot turn back now. "There Is unother point which also needs emphasis. World treaties hitherto have always been based on the theory of a balance of power. Stronger races have been set up to dominate the weaker, partly with a view to maintaining stability and to a greater degree with a view to maintaining occupations and positions for the reactionaries of the world. 'The balance of power is Lorn of armies and navies, aristocracies, autocracies, and reactionaries generally, who con find employment and domination In these Institutions, and treaties founded on this busls have established stability after each great war fur a shorter or lofger time, but uever more than a generation. "America came forward with a newIdea, uml we Insisted upon Its Injection Into this peace conference. We claimed that It was possible to fcet up such a piece of machinery with uch authority that the balance of power could be abandoned as a relic of the middle ages. We compelled an entire construction of this treaty and every word and line in it to bend to this Idea. "Outklde of the league of Nations the treaty Itself has many deflcleneles. It represents compromises between many men and between many selfish Interests, and these very compromises and deficiencies are multiplied by the many new nations that have enters! ujon Its Kignature, and the very safety of the treaty Itself lies In a court of appeal for the remedy of wrongs In the treaty. Benefl's of the League. "One thing Is certain. There Is no body of human beings so wise that a trenty could be made that would not develop Injustice and prove to have been nni! in me particulars. As 'he covenant stunde today there Is a place at which redress can be found and through which the good will of the world can be enforced. The very

machinery by which rhe trenty- Is to

be executed, and scores of tolnts yet to be solved, which have been referred to the League of Nations ns a method of nccuriiig more mature Judgment In a less h.-jitcd atmosphere, Justifies the

creation of the league.

"To abandon the covenant now leans that the treaty itself will colli se. "It would take the exMisure of but

a few diK-u:iients at my band to prove

tliiit 1 b:nl been the luot reluctant of AtiH-rUaiis to become involved in this

tltuuiloii In Ki;rpe. Hut having gone

!n with our eyes open and with a de

termination to free ourselves and the rest of the world from the dangers that surrounded us, we cannot now

pull hack from the J.d. It Is no use to bold ;i trrcat revival und then go KH.iv lenving u church for continued services bulf done.

"We hate succeeded In a most e-trnordln.-iry degree in Imposing ujon Furope the complete conviction that ve are absolutely disinterested. The oiiseimence Is that there is scarcely i man. woman or child who can read in Furope that does not look to the I'liited States as the ultimate sounv doia which they mut receive nssur iiioiimd guardianship in the lilerties wh;'l tbe have now secured a Tier ut many general loi.s of stru.-ulc. "Tlds H not a proMo'ti of prolactin:: the big nations, f. r tl.e few tint r. lit 111 can well lool; after 1 1 .!: -! cs U bat we have done is to set i:p a ore of little ib'.oo I ncies at 1 If the toericaii pep!" c,i M visi.il,e tl.c' mimliuork the.- wm.M ins m will t! . same determlmrloii that they did in Mil that OJl ok!fj..t til 1 st- d."

MANIAC WRECKS- A CHURCH

Smashes Stained Windows and Pew. in Pennsylvania Inctitutton Wivh Crowbar. rMl.irlclpWa. Hecoiulng violent!; ns.n, while seated In u hotel In Cj;r 'MUidulf. August I'nren, thlrty-tl re yenr old, standing more than six fct in height and of a nwM powerful pb. simie, run wild through the Ktreet ur Id considerable damage to the ? dice and the I'rcsliyterian ilr.ircli 1. fore he was subdued. Türen first dashed Into the post of flee, where be smashed every window in (lie building. Hushing from the post otllce he picke up nu Iron crowbar cr. the utrect and entered the fashlonahV I'resbyterlnn church. Here he smashed the pulpit, church jewn, stained glass windows, and tore the pulpit Filde and hymn books to hreds until Ave policemen subdued him. He Bald he wns depressed because his sweetheart hud jilted him.

WORLD JEWRY AT GREATEST CRISIS Leaders In America' Striving to Save Race in Europe From . Destruction. !

i i..' tl.ey re not forgc;i!i. that ilii-lr own people ure not the only si.lTer. i- i tbi'M lands. The significance of ,. m w bole undertaking becomes apparent when It Is known that the

relief supplies which have been pur

HE LOVED THE CHAUTAUQUA.

MUST SEND AID QUICKLY.

Children Ars the Most Pitiful Sufferers From the Cataclysm ' That Has Ruined a Once Proeperous People.

The Jews in almost every country, of the world except America are in a Mate more dire and terrible, perhapi, than any In which they have found themselves since the fall of Jerusalem. Briefly, the Jewish race In much of Furope Is on the verge of annihilation. The countries in which the plight of the Jews is the worst are Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Kutnanla, Serbia, Gallcla, Palestine. Turkey, Greece and Siberia. In Vllna. a typical towa of Folund. the Jewish population has Leen cut down by starvation, typhua jid other diseases lu the last five years from 00,000 to L',000. Nearly half of the survivor are dependent upon relief auppllea sent by their co-rellglonlsts la America. Warsaw, Kovno, Constanza, and many other cities throughout Central and Eastern Europe tell the same tale. American Jews, aroused by the reports that first filtered through after the signing of the armistice, Immediately orpnnlzed under the American Jewish Itelief Committee, of 15 East 40th Street, New York City, to save their race abroad. Tbey sent some 20 commissioners to various foreign countries to Investigate the truth of thes reports. Almost all these commissioners have now returned and the firsthand Information that they have brought back Is more alarming than the early unsubstantiated reports. Such men as Nathan Ftraua, Henry Mergenthau, Julius rtosenwald, Jacob II. Schiff, Fell II. Warburg, and many other prominent membera of this committee are now bendlnc every effort to arouse America to the great need abroad and rush the food and supplies across the ocean which. If sent quickly, will save the Jewish race from destruction. Saddest of the victims of all thl woe are the children. Tens of thousands of pitiful youngsters who are seven or eight years old have gone ao long undernourished that they are little further developed than normal Infants of one or two years. In tB Pol I dh. cities orphaned children wander about the streets, homeless and unable to get Into the o.-phanages. These are already overcrowded and depend primarily upon American relief funds to keep them going.

JEWISH RELIEF WORK IS NOW WORLDWIDE

Christian as Well as Jewish Sufferers Are Aided by Organization That Covers Many Countries In Europe and the Orient Quietly, and practically wlthou! pabliclty of any sort, the Jews of Amer lea have built up, through the Am er lean Jewish Belief Committee and other official agencies, a machine for the organization and distribution of relief to war sufferers of their Own and other races that Is now practically worldwide. The headquarters of the Committee are at 15 East 40th Street, New Tork. Expenditures for this work cow aggregate more than $2,000,000 a month, and by meani of state-by-state campaigns to be held this fall a total of $35,000.000 Ii to be sought to finance the work through the coming months. An enumeration of the countries In which relief efforts are being made Is Indicative of the scope of the work. Representatives of these Jewish igen ctes ars to be found in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia. Gallcla, Serbia, Rumania, and other Hal k an states, Greece, Turkey, Palestine and Siberia.

Pmall groups of refugees, cast up by the backwaah of war. are being assisted In Holland, Japan, Chine ant other Isolated parts of the globe. All told, many million Christiana and more than 0,000,01)0 Jews in countilcs other than the United States are being directly aided by American Jewish relief funds. The major portion of thts humanitarian work Is of course carried on In Eastern Europe. It la there that the bulk of the world's Jew Ish population lives. The fact that these same nations have been perhaps hardest hit by the late war, explains why World Jewry Is at the greatest crisis In Its history. Itut though the Jews of America fcav, act out Lu tare Uidx race ua.

, The Late BUhep Mclntyre'e Tribute te I Our Great American Forum. ' In view of the recent death of Robert Mclntyre, bishop of the Methodist

chased and dipped largely with Jew- Church, his estimate of the Lyceum

Ish funds, are distributed without dincrimination to Christians as well us

and Cnaufauqu.i movement is of espe

cial Interest. lie said:

Jews. Harriers of race and creed! 4 BU" ,u w . tn.juj bave been submerged In tl.e flood tide lt umI rjr At crIM Chautiaf Buffering throughout much of the 1ua- " wo" m'rcr u,ore n1 earth, and the efforts of American ' masterful. Some great names are Jewry to aid In tho great crisis of I was at the work when today hafUcoIue as broad 'i human- Cough, Heecher. Colfax. Cook. Swuig. ltselfcr C ' rhllllpa and Jooes were at It, and I know that the general level of work ' lis higher, the moral Impact stronger.

the confidence greater, the field broader and the outlook grander than In the days gone by. This movement Is In Its chubby cheeked youth. It will go up and poesesa the whole land. It Is the child of the church with Its mother's clear

Former fted Cross Commissioner, ""uidropme

STRONG MEN WEEP. SAYS DR. DAVIS

Tells of Recent Trip to

Poland.

capering follies

and stiffen Into one of the most tremendous reform warriors the Lord

over let loose in this world. , -It will bestride the earth, speakSTARVING, tog truth In forty languages, calling

all tribes and clans to do Justice, love American Jews Raising $33,000,000 te mercy and walk humbly with man Save Survivors Plan to Aid Chris- and God." tians as Well s Own People.

FOUND CHILDREN

"The tragedy of the next few months In Eastern Europe bids fair to equal. If j not to surpass, that of the actual war years themselves. Words are utterly i Inadequate? fo describe the suffering from poverty, starvation, dlseabe and . other allied causes that Is met on every ! hand. Literally hundreds of thou-, sands of the unfortunate victims of , circumstances are looking 'to America j as their only. hope, but It Is a question If America has not heard so much of j suffering in recent month that she la numbed and perhaps cannoj fully reallze the terrible crisis that now con- j fronts VBst numbers of people abroad." i The above gives In brief the carefully considered opinion. of, no less an au- I thorlty than Dr. I'.ilni L Iavls,,well known neurologist of Chicago, who re- , turned a tdiort time ago from Poland, ' where be served for win -months' as American Red Vroyp coin mhrsion'r and made en Intensiv. iudy of economic, '

social and political conditions with a I special view to determining America's j present and future responsibilities. At j the'Vqu6 of Louis Marsball, Felix ' ' M. Warburg. Jacob II. Fchlff of New j Tork, Julius Rosenwald of Chlcngo and ; olher prominent members of the Amerlean Jewish Relief Committee, Ir. Pn-

vis submitted a special summary of

conditions In Poland

Mr. ILrpo Oh, Mr. .Menk. I wosdl Jusbl ve to see bos much I weigh.! Mr. Xionk One moment, pie see. t ,wv,t to ae It 1 have the price s? win V aJcv-PbJUdslphla Preas.

Spoke Well of Her. A preacher in the rei'pn of Ch&rleä II. wai to receive 10 if in his fermon at the funeral of Mme. Creswell be paid nothing bat well of her. She was rather a bad character and herself had dictated the

This report, to- I clause in her will. So, after a peo-

gether with additional Information se- ' eral fid Jre? on mortality, he thus cured from other commissioners i concluded 'Hv the will of a de-

ebroad, forms the basis for the appeal ceased lister it is expected that I which the above committee Is making ,vonu mention her and Fa? noth

ing but what was well of her. All ; that I fhali smy of her, therefore, is this: She wa" horn well, she lived . well, and eIm; died well, for she was

porn with ti.e naoie creswell. ene

for f33.0OO.O00 tlds year to save the lives of war's victims In those countries where the situation Is moft dire. The headquarters are at 15 East 40th Street, New York. "If America could be given but a glimpse of the childhood of Toland," says Ir. Ials, "the millions of dollars that are .needed would be forthcoming instantly. The common lot of literally thousands of these youngsters, both Christian and Jewish, mukes strong men weep and has actually been the cause of a number of investigators for various organizations leaving the country before their work was completed. - "Walk down the streets In certain sections of Warsaw, Vllna, Kovno and other dries In Eastern Europe and you .will see mother after mother, themselves emaciated, carrying children who ars apparently Infanta of a few

months, but In reality are five to eight i

years ol9. For years they had do milk, and all the other food procurable bai been sufficient only to keep them alive. Vndernourlahinuiit has been so long continued that the little bodies tire stunted, rickets being a common affliction, and many of them can never be restored to normal health and strength. "The lives of thousands can still be saved, however," tho doctor told the Jewish Committee In his report, "U food is rushed over quickly. ; It Is In the name of the pitiful chll dren of Poland, the babies of Christian as well as Jewish parents, that I urge yon to make your appeal to America ,for the funds that will restore theli birthright to these little ones." .

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njoj certain privilegt. They are batiUod .to frank their letters and o trareXon all the railways in Spain jfrwy! charg. Unlike the French nejrotiea, bowerer, tbey have to paf jfor refreshments" conramod In the tbajnber, the only article supplied 'rratuitoily bein barley rugix. Of tMa thtarB Is an unlimited "trpply, and lady tili ton te the chamber art always presented with a" packet of

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