Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 62, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 April 1920 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher JASPER - INDIANA

t'liiviTMil tniiniim In sood uumners, for cliIMron from six to sinty, would nurt with p-ncrnl approval also. A mwlivjil expert announces that tlio Insnrn cunmt boarjuzz music. They've pot enough to stand already. Anybody can tell you positively who's going to bo the next president hut everhody tells you different. Wood nicohol hns not yet had r.o many victims as the real thine did, but wood nlcohol finishes the Job sooner. The cost of education has risen '1 per cent In five years. And still it's the cheapest thing there Is. The sllk-shlrted mnn may become as extravagant as the silk-stockinged woman, but never as attractive. The French may be the most volatile of people, hiif the Americans are the most persistently faddish. London reports that the price of nig has dropped. That will help some we need Vm. There may be coal at the South Pole, f II t how ate we going to get any of It up here? It Is Faid that there Is only $7 worth of wool In a $7.1 Milt of riot hex. Class In arithmetic, how much wool Is there In a $(M milt of olothos? Everybody Is sure, that lOirO Is going to he a better year than 1010. The conviction Is based on the Idea that It can't be worse. When a man lives to middle age without being married. It Is a sign that there Is no widow In the world who wants him. We are taking our troops from Russia and sending It our reds. That ought to be satisfactory to both countries. Humanity Is Improving, but wo are distant from the millennium. Men arc still putting In considerable time hating and robbing each other. Even England Is getting ready to welcome the American tourist. That exchange handicap must be overcome somehow. Denmark has 8.1 head of cattle to every 1(X) Inhabitants, and yet it Is n pnfo bet that a lot of people are kicking about the price of milk over there. Australia will ship food to America because prices are higher there than In England, to which America is shipping food. It doesn't sound reasonable. According to one report, Austria must choose between hunger and bolshevlsm. Much of Europe has learned that bolshevism does not relieve but merely embitters starvation. As a safety measure It Is urged that wood alcohol be colored blue. But after the first drink the consumer goes blind and doesn't care what color It is. What fs the value, from a national point of view, of a citizen who has taken out his naturalization papers because he was scared by the raids into doing so? Doctors say that at the age of fifty a person usually begins to lose height. This gives bachelors a straight tip as to the age at which one ought to begin to settle down. Along with religious jazz music we presumably get the rag-time dirge. A half million neu- bicycles were sold in the United States last year, and lust that many honest proletarians don't care whether street car fare goes up or down. From the point of view of the little Americans the feeding, by the United States of o.OOO.OOO needy European children may be an "entangling alliance." but who would care to suggest a disentanglement? Some may regard it as desecration that Stratford-on-Avon. Shakespeare's native town, is ;o have a factory. Hut then the poet himself was very much of a business man. lie must have been, to make poetry pay. One good way for the scientists to settle tlie argument whether the signals an from Mars or from Venus would be for them to stop quarreling long enough to translate the signals and ask tbe sender his name, age and address. Lord Leverhulme has returned to England ronverted to prohibition. As soapmaker for the nation, he believes In only one kind of "suds." n dietators have decreed that ; H..Uets in men's trousers are to .. smaller. Hasn't this prohibition legislation gone far enough? A Ittisshtn dancing master has come to this country to invent a new American dance. . so he doesn't call it sou e kind -f turkey Trotsky, we'li hMiid for it.

Belgium Sketches

T I Glory of the .J Morning By Katharine Egglcston RobcrU (Copyright. 1920, Wcittra Newspaper Union) The world was opaline. From high up In the citadel I looked down into the heart of It. The sun. half hidden by a cloud, sent streaks of flame across the pearl-gray sky. Within the shadowy girdle of the hills a rainbow haze enmeshed the valley. It melted the red and yellow of the peaked roofs that crowded by the streams of flowing gold, thinning where the waters met. There In the weird and mystic Iluht lay the unreal earth, and I was far away up there alone In reality. Suddenly I longed for some one else to look with me and feel the eerie beauty of It all. The loneliness pinched at my heart and made It ache. And then a voice within the stones behind me cried: "I built this citadel long centuries ago, and every day I've watched the Journey of the sun from morn till night. I've watched the people living underneath those, peaked roofs. You cannot see them; you have not my eyes. Always I watch the people of Namur." The voice did not seem strange to me. It was an answer to my longing for some one. I feared that It might go might Iimivo me there alone above the wonderland. I begged It: "Tell me what you've seen, what you are seeing now." "Oh, I can't tell you. It takes too long; but something yes. You see that house down near the church, the

"Won Their Entrance Into Old Namur."

white one with green shutters and red roof? It's just a little higher than the rest. You cannot see the canopy before tlTe door. I'll tell you why it's there. "Five years ago the troops were ordered out to fight Invaders from across the Ithine. To that house came Marcel Duval to tell his Jeanne 'Goodby. They were to have been married the next month, and it was very hard for them to part. Marcel had light hair and blue eyes; he could talk German better than the rest, and he was not to tight with gun and sword, but with the cunning of his mind to be a spy. "I looked down at them as they before the house. The evening wrapped them close, but I could see Jeanne's eyes were wet gray, like the twilight woven through the mist. Her dark head pressed against his coat. The circle of her arms gleamed white about his neck. They kissed. She choked her sobs and smiled. He looked j;:. t once a long time then he turned "House Down Near the Church." und ran. He dared not look again. The smile died on her lip. She sank upon the door step and her shoulders shook. Tt wasn't long before the German horde came to the hills about the town. They stormed the forts for three days, till at last they won their entrance- Into old Namur. They occupied the place. They took the best and sold the leavings to Namur folk at triple price. They occupied my home, paraded round about my walks. I knew them well, and I was sojry for the people In the city down below. I saw Jeanne and her mo'licr trying to live on nothing, but It wasn't only lack of food that made Jeanne's eyes so big und dark in the pale ivory f her face, klways h-jr juIci. plante searched each

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one who passed, hoping to find tae fenturcs of Marcel. A spy might not bo In Germany; he might be here amidst the army oZ the conquerors Ir. Uelglurn. In Namur, and any time. Hut all her hopes were vain nnC, as the months dragged into years and no news came, she ceased to look at every passerby, for disappointment only emphasized her fear. "Then one night, when the lights were out and all was still, she heard a gentle tapping at the door. Her mother opened it a little way, and through the space a man's voice whispered : "I'm weary; 1 have traveled far today. Once, long ago, they told me If I visited Namur, I'd find safe shelter In your home." Her heart beat quickly as they let him In. Was It Marcel? At least, perhaps some news. Hut no, the stranger knew only that once two years ago he and Duval had been together on a bit of work In Austria. Duval had said that If he chanced to reach Namur, they'd give him lodging In that house. Duval had sent a message, but that was long ago, ami since then well, no one had heard from him. The stranger hid there all next day. and then at night dvparted and was swallowed by the dark. "Five years of hopeful tomorrows turned to dreary yesterdays. To me, who has lived for centuries, live years are like a minute of the day. To Jet nne, each year out of the the wan like a century. It was the Imprisoning silence, not the 1 loche, that crushed her soul. The Huns were driven back to their own land. Namur was free and, one by one, the soldiers who had lived returned, to stay at home again. And still no one could, tell the fato of lost Marcel Duval. And then" The voice broke off, for down below the hells hegnn to ring, the chimes that drove the cloud from off the sun. The opalescent sky turned turquoise blue; the sunlight tore the rainbow haze and sent a golden shower across the world. And from the church door

came bridal pair. I heard a whisper T of the voice again: "The eyes ot Jeanne are gray morn lit with dawn." My loneliness was gone. The earth w:s real ! And from the citadel above Namur I looked down on the glory of the morning. MANY VILLAGES NOW IN DUST Not Even Walls Remain to Mark Towns That Existed Before Arrival of Spiked Helmet Men. Of many smaller villages not even the ruins remain, the walls having long since been reduced to stone dust. Of old magnificent forests there are onl occasional naked tree stems, with n few leafless branches. There is no living tree for miles and miles. Genua: gas did It. The old inferno of sound has giver place to a more terrible silence a si lence unbroken by living creature. No birds, no moving things in the grass, nothing but the absolute silence of a man-made desert. ' Irom the agricultural point of view the country Is years in the future. ' Kvery square foot must be leveled and restored. The undertaking Is infinitely i uitfieult. Any moment the workman may run into an unexploded shell or a hidden death trap. Kvery farm will have to be equipped with a complete new drainage system. The old pipes were ripped out during i he early part of the bombardment, allowing the waste water to spread out over the fiat countryside and collect in depressions. AS BELGIUM APPEARS TODAY Country's Condition as War-Tom and Barren as When the Armistice Was Signed. Although small armie of men, mostly German prisoners, have been working nearly a year, devastated Belgium looks today just as harren and wartorn as when the armistice sent the German armies hurrying back into the distance from which they had come. So Immense Is the reclamation task before them, it is not noticeable that the workers have made any Impression at all. Vpres itself, a collection of ruins. has hardly been touched. The debris has been swept from the streets and o lean-to station put up near the site of the old. A few restaurants have been reopened for tourists and relatives of fallen soldiers visiting the zone. A small gantlet of postal card sellers and curio venders forms regularlx outside the. station a few minutes before train time. Several liverymen und garage owners do a tine business driving sightseers over the bat'JeÜeMA

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o o o m90 o o e o o o StATE NEWS ootioote9iotoeooi96 Indianapolis. The btate highway commlsilou Is at work formally designating the state highway system lu compliance with the 11)11) state highway law. Approximately r0 routes are to be Included in the system. They will embrace approximately IJ.IXX) miles. Each county seat or town of 5,000 population will be reached by the routes. With the formal designating of the system the state commission will assume control over the roads. They will be under the control of the commission's maintenance division, which Is required to keep up the system. Lafayette. Union painters in Lafayette receive 00 cents an hour. The new schedule was agreed on by the building trades contractors. There will be no strike In any of the building trades in Lafayette this year, as all the demands have been met. IMumhers, plasterers nnd bricklayers will get the highest wages under the new agreement. They will receive $1 an hour. Carpenters will be paid 80 cents; electricians, 7" cents; lathers, 87 cents; sheet metal workers, 7." cents; hod carriers, 70 cents, and building trades laborers, 1." cents. Lafayette. Hoys and girls In Indiana are to be encouraged to grow potatoes this season, and this will be accomplished by organizing potato flubs and arranging a state show, where the members of the club may compete with one another for cash prizes aggregating $00O. The showWill be held In connection with the annual farmers' short course at Purdue university here In January. 1021. Indianapolis. Parents can no longer keep their children out of sjhool on the grounds of employing them, according to an Interpretation of the compulsory school attendance law Issued by the state board of truancy. In the judgment of the board, employment certificates cannot be Issued except to children who are being employed for hire. The board held that parents cannot employ their children. Lnfayette.-rSheep raisers In Indiana are not responsible for the high cost of clothing, according to Claude Harpper. Purdue university sheep specialist, ami also secietary of the Indiana Sheep Brooders' and Feeders' association, who has Issued a statement to the effect that the farmer receives only $o.S." for enough wool to make a suit for a man weighing 17Ö pounds. Richmond. Formation of the Indiana-Ohio Baseball league, composed of six teams, was announced following a meeting of representatives of the clubs at Klehmond. The league will open May 11 with the following cities: Tort Wayne, Richmond, Muncie, and Anderson, !n Indiana, and Springfield, and Lima or Middleton, in Ohio, with Dayton a possibility. Gary. Mrs. Fred Carter, widow of former Sheriff Carter of Lake county, is the first woman in the section to tile a declaration as a candidate? for a political ofliee. She lives in Hammond and will run on the Democratic ticket for county commissioner of the First district. Carter was killed while sheriff in a row at Cedar Lake years ago. Hammond. After deliberating nine hours a jury in the Lake county criminal court at Crown Point acquitted Miss Evelyn Bowman, accused of causing the death of Mrs. Harry Stingley and Elizabeth Younke of Hammond last October, by forcijig them off Calumet boulevard into Lake George, with her racing car. Indianapolis.; The Indiana Food Brokers' association, an organization to bring about closer relationship among food brokers and to encourage exchange of ideas beneficial to the oporation of business, was organized recently at Indianapolis. Columbus. A minimum price of $17 a ton for sweet corn was fixed at a meeting of the Edinburg Community of Farmers, an organization of farmers of Johnson and the northern part of Bartholomew counties. Lafayette. A three-weeks' field course on farm management, open to men holding a bachelor degree or its equivalent, will be offered by the Purdue school of agriculture during the period of June 10-30. Lafayette. A son born to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Lawler of Clarks Hill, is well-favored with grandparents. Not only has the child four living grandparents, but seven living groat-grand-paronts. Pluffton. Food production in the vicinity of BlutTton will bo reduced from L0 to 20 per cent by the labor shortage, according to the county agont, who is surveying conditions in the county. Fort Wayne. More than o0 persons. Injured in the tornado at Fort Wayne, are receiving treatment in Tort Wayne hospitals. The dead In Allen county number 12. - Ilushville. Itushville has a population of r.40S. an increase of ."i7o, or 11.0 per cent. North Manchester, 2.711; increase 2Stt. or 11.7 per cent. Laporte. The La port e county commissioners have created 14 additional voting precincts, In Michigan City. The city now his SI precincts. This action means that ihe cost of elections will be Increased $2.000 in Michigan City. Lafayette. Purdue university's gala week program provides for live days' festivities for students and graduates early In .Tune. The program opens Saturday, June r.. Whiting. Whiting lias a population of 10.1-10. n. r cent. .in Increase of S,.VS. :r "S O

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Indianapolis. One hundred nnd forty-nine school corporations In 2G counties must be aided by the state to keep their schools In operation to the end of the school year, and J. S. Hubbard, deputy state superintendent of rubUc Instruction, has worked out an apportionment of $2C2ASD3 from the state school deficiency fund to help them. A total of $350.013.73 was requested, but there was not enough money In the fund for tbe purpose, and money for IS days', school was cut off each request. Extending aid to "short" school corporations Is an annual occurrence. The sums they are to receive this year range from $0.917.00 to $S.SS each. Indianapolis. New rates for the Insurance of automobiles against loss by fire, theft, tornado, lightning or transportation went into effect in Indiana the past week. The new rates are approximately one-third lower for hlghprlced motorenrs. They nre lower for new low-priced cars, but higher for flieh cars after one or more years of use. The three years' Insurance now may be written for times the oneyear rate. Lower rates also are now available for "licet Insurance, that Is, where the owner of a number of automobiles or trucks Insures ihem together. Indianapolis. The total taxes to be paid In Indianapolis this year average 27.S1 per cent higher than last year, according to figures compiled in the olllce of the state board of tax commissioners. In Marion county the total Is 117.00 per cent higher. Tbe Increases Include the new levies the legislature llxed for tbe city board of health, for the city schools and for the state highway commission, none of which filtered into last year's calculations. Thts year the total taxes for Indianapolis are $9,020,328.83. Indianapolis. Ulcbard IJeber, director of the state conservation department, has Indorsed the plan proposed by citizens of northern Indiana which would place all lakes in the state of ten or more acres in area tinder the supervision of the state conservation commission. It Is expected that the next session of the legislature will be asked to adopt legislation placing the lakes under fho control of the commission. ConnersvIIle. The hessian fly's work In Fayette county wheat Ileitis last fall Is now soon to be as bad as was feared. It is the belief of conservative wheat growers that the county crop will be reduced lo to 20 per cent by the pest. The samt? farmers predict that unless the seed corn Is tested, the corn crop will be as seriously shortened by bad seed as was the wheat crop by the fly. Washington, D. C. That Indiana business men generally are of the opinion that repeal of the excess profits tax and substitution for it of a straightout sales tax would have the effect not only of aiding business .Juit also of reducing the high cost of living is indicated in correspondence which Senator Watson has had with a number of prominent Indiana men. Indianapolis. Women cannot legally become candidates for nomination for state representatives, according to Kle Stanshury, attorney general. The question was raised when Margaret McCIure Turner of Hammond filed a declaration of candidacy for the nomination for state representative from Lake county to be voted on at the primary May 4. Danville, III. Charles II. Hunt, seventy years old, one of the youngest soldiers in the Union army, and a resident of Indianapolis for many years, is dead at the hospital of the National Soldiers' Home at Danville, 111., after a long illness. He was thirteen years old when he enlisted and was fifteen when discharged. Terre Haute. Joseph Wilson, thlr ty-eight years old, and his wife were instantly killed when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad switch engine in West Terre Haute. Mrs. Bertha Kobar, who was riding with them, was seriously injured. Washington, D. C Population statistics announced by the census bureau included: Jeffersonvillo. 10.003, a decrease of SU or 3.0 per cent, over 1010; Clinton. 10,002. increase 4,744. or 70.0 per cent ; Dest Terre Haute, 4,307. increase 1.224, or 30.7 per cent. Alexandria. Farmers about Alexandria owning clover seed are disposing of it at -5100 a sack. A farmer bought one bushel for $37.50. Owners of the clover seed s:$- that the price will advance more in another month. Sullivan. Vincennes capitalists have bought 710 acres of Sullivan county land and are making arrangements for the erection of what will be one of the largest and bet equipped mines in southern Indiana. Indianapolis. The state board of tax: commissioners has authorized a referendum vote on the petition of Union township. White county, to construct the "Monticello road" at a cost of $190.000. Richmond. One hundred and fortyfour teachers in the public schools of Richmond joined in a petition to the school board asking a fiat Increase of $:.00 a year for"each teacher. Indianapolis. One hundred and sixty creditors nnd S210.1G4.3S In liabilities are listed in a voluntary petition In bankruptcy filed In the federal court by Grant Brothers company, poultry and egg dealers, who recently announced they had lost heavily by dealing In storage eggs. The petition lists ?110..n.o7 In assets. Fast Chicago. Contracts have been awarded for the erection of 200 houses in Indiana Harbor. Fach house will contain six rooms and bath and will 1 e sold to the employees of the Inland

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HAD TERRIBLE COUGH MD NIGHT SWEATS Cough about gone, eats and steeps well, and gained 12 pounds. "In December, 1313. I hid a fearful coutjh. and my physician orJercd me to cliange climate Immediately. I wcat to fan Antonio, Texas, and entered a sanatorium. Loft there and cam to Oklahoma City In October, 1315. Had no nrpetlte. could not sleep, had night sweats and was losing from one to three pounds a weel:. I also had catarrh of the bowels, which the doctors had boon unable to relieve. "Relatives ur&cd me to try Milks Emulsion. I did so and besan to Improve, slowly at first, but steadily. My weight has Increased 12 pounds. I have no temperature, and my cough Is about fcon. I can eat heartily, sleep well, and am working at my trade again V. V. Neff, 610 No. Dewey St, Oklahoma Cltr. Okla. Nature does wonders In fighting off disease. If given the chance. Milks Kmulslon Is a powerful help In providing strength and flesh. It costs nothing- to try. Milks Emulsion Is a pleasant, nutritive food and a corrective mediane. It restores healthy, natural bowel action, doingaway with nil ned of pills nnd physics. It promotes nrpetlto and quickly puts tlio dlKostlvo organs In shape to assimilate food. Chronic stomach trouble nnd constipation aro promptly relieved usually In one day. This Is the only solid emulsion made, and no palatable that It Is eaten with a spoon like Ice cream. No matter how Fevcrc your case, you ar ursed to try Milks Emulsion under till.- guarantee Tako six bottles homo with you. use It nccordlns to directions, and If not natlsfted with tho results your money will bo promptly refunded. Prlco C-V and II. CO per bottle. The Milks Emulsion Co., Terro Haute. Ind. Sold by druggists everywhere. Adv.

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