Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 62, Number 46, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 April 1920 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER OEM ED. DOANE, Publlohor JASPER .... INDIANA

Cnivrrsal training In c1 manners, for children from six to soicnty, would nirvt with pnii'Ril npprovnl also. A medical expert nnnounces that the Insane cannot hear Jazz music. They've pot enough to stand alreadv. Anybody can teli you positively who's irohip: to ho the next resident hut everhody tells you different. Wood alcohol has not yet had so m:;ny victims as the real th'ns did. but wood alcohol finishes the Job sooner. The cost of education has risen VI per cent Jn five years. And still It's tfie cheapest thins there Is. The sllk-shlrted man may become ns f-xtravnjwnt as the silk-stockinged woman, but never as attractive. The Freiieh may be the most volatile of people, but the Americans are the most persistently faddish. London reports that the price of raps has dropped. That will help some we need 'em. There may he coal at the South Pole, but how are we coins to set any of It up here? It Is said that there Is only S7 worth of wool in a $75 suit of clothes. Class In arithmetic, bow much wool Is there In a GS suit of clothes? Everybody Is sure that 1020 Is going to be a better year than 1919. Tiie 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 bating and robbing each other. Even England Is getting ready to welcome flio American tourist. That exchange handicap must be overcome somehow. Denmark has Sf head of cattle to every 100 Inhabitants, and yet It Is a safe 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 lias 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 tho consumer goes blind and doesn't care what color it is. What Is 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 n 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 tn rag-tlmo dirge. A half million new 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 S.OW.OOO needy European children may be an "entangling alliance." but who would care to suggest a disentanglement? .ojr.e may regard -it as desecration Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare' M.itive town. Is ;o have a factory. Hut thru the po't himself was very much of a business man. lie must have been, to make poetry pay. Oim good way for the scientists to mottle the argument whether tho signals are from Mars or from Venus would be for them to stop quarreling torn: I'nouuh to translate the signals and ask the sender his name, age and iidires-j. Lord F.everhulme has returned to England converted to prohibition. As soapmakrr for the nation, he believes in i.nh one kind of "suds." Fashion dictators have decreed that ftip mm Kcts lu men's trousers are to be smaller. Mayn't tbU prohibition bgUlntion uoije far enough? A Hu-lan datiring master has rome to this country to ituent a new Atuerbtui d;me .Inst so he doesn't call it son.e kind ..f a turkey Trotky, we'll : .t lor It.

Belgium Sketches

' Glory of the Morning By Katharine Egglwton Roberts (Copyright, 1820, Westtrn Newspaper Union) The world was opaline. From high up In the citadel I looked down Into tho heart of it. The sun, half hidden by a cloud, sent streaks of flame across the penrl-gray sky. Within the shadowy girdle of the hills a rainbow haze en-. meshed the valley. It melted the red and yellow of the peaked roofs that crowded by the streams of tlowlng gold, thinning where the waters met. There In the weird and mystic light 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 leave 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 ft little higher than the rest. You cannot see the canopy before tlTo door I'll tell you why it's there. "Five years ago the troops were ordered out to fight invaders from acrbss the Rhine. 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 fight with gun and sword, but with the cunning of his mind to be a spy. "I looked down at them as they stood 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 just once a long time then he turned "House Down Near the Church." and ran. He dared not look again. The smile died on bor lips. She sank upon the door step and her shoulders shook. "It wasn't long before the German horde came to the hills about the town. They stormed the forts for three days, till nt last they won tlh'lr entrance into old Namur. They occupied the place. They took the best und sohl the leavings to Namur folk at triple price. They occupied my home, -mraded round about my walks. I knew them well, and I wa sorry for the people In the city down below. I saw Jeanne and her mother trying to live on nothing, hut It wasn't only lack of food that made Jeanne's eye m big und dark r.i the pale ivory of her face, fclwuy h'jr qulcL flame searched e;;ch

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one who passed, hoping to find tue features of Marcel. A spy might not bo in Germany; he might be here amidst the army of the conquerors Jr. Belgium, In Namur, and any time. Hut all her hopes were vain and, as tho months dragged "Into years and no news came, she ceased to look nt every passerby, for disappointment ouly 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; I have traveled far today. Once, long ago, they told me if I visited Namur, I'd find safe shelter In yourliome." 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, and since then well, no one had heard from him. The stranger hid there all next day, and then at night departed and was swallowed by the dark. "Five years of hopeful tomorrow turned to dreary yesterdays. To me, who has lived for centuries, five years are like a minute of the day. To Jeanne, each year out of the five was like a century. It was the Imprisoning silence, not the Hoclie, 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, ro stay at home again. And still no one could tell the fate of lost Marcel Duval. And then" The voice broke off, for down below the bells began to ring, The chimes that drove the cloud from off the sun. The opplescent sky turned turquoise blue; the sunlight tore the rainbow haze and sent a golden shower acros.3 the world. And from the church door

came a bridal pair. I heard a whisper of the voice again: "The eyes ot Jeanne are-gray morn lit with dawn." My loneliness was gone. The eartli was 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 onlj occasional naked tree stems, with n few leafless branches. There Is no llv ing tree for miles and miles. Germni gas dhfc It. The old inferno of sound has given 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. From the agricultural point of view the country Is years In the future. Livery square foot must be leveled and restored. The undertaking is infinitely dilticult. 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 the early part of the bombardment, allowing the waste water to spread out ver the fiat countryside and collect in depressions. AS BELGIUM APPEARS TODAY Country's Condition as War-Torn and Dnrren as When the Armistice Was Signed. Although small armies of men, mostly (Jerman prisoners, have been working nearly a year, devastated Helglum looks today Just as barren and wartorn us when the armistice sent the (Jermnn armies hurrying hack into the distance from which they had come. So Immense Is the reclamation task before tlnMii, it is not noticeable that the workers have made any Impression at all. Ypres Itself, a collection of ruins, has hardly been touched. The debris has been swept from the streets anil n b an-to station put up near the" site of the old. A few restaurants have been reopened for tourists and relatives of fallen oldiers visiting the zone. A small gantlet of postal curd sJI er and curio venders forms regular!) outside the .station a few minutes be fore train time. Several liverymen and gara;;e owners do a line bu!nes driving s'xhtscers over the harJetMJt

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e IS STATE NEWS o 0 Indianapolis. The state highway commission is at work formally designating the state highway system In compliance with the 1910 state highway law. Approximately 50 routes are to be Included. In the system. They will embrace approximately 3,200 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 ccntrol 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 90 cents an hour. The new schedme was agreed on by the build Ing trades contractors. There will be no strike in any of the building trades in Lafayette this year, as all the demands have been met. Plumbers, plasterers and bricklayers will get the highest wages under the new agreement. They will receive $1 an hour.' Carpenters will be paid SO cents; electricians, 75 cents; lathers, S7 cents; sheet metal workers, 75 cents; hod carriers. 70 cents, and building trades laborers, 45 cents. Lafayette. I Joys and girls In Indiana are to be encouraged to grow potatoes this season, and this will be accomplished by organizing potato clubs and arranging a state show, where the members of the club may compete with one another for cash prizes aggregating $000. The show will be held In connection with the annual fanners' short course at Purdue university here In January, 1921. Indianapolis. Parents can no longer keep their children out of school on the grounds of employing them, according to an interpretation of the compulso school attendance law Issued by the state board of truancy. In the judgment of the board, employment certificatescannot be issued except to chlldrcn wiio are being employed for hire. The board held that parents cannot employ their children. Lafayette. Sheep raisers in Indiana are not responsible for the high cost of clothing, according to Claude Harpper, Purdue university sheep specialist, and also secretary of the Indiana Sheep Hreeders' and Feeders association, who has Issued a statement to the effect that the farmer receives only $5.S5 for enough wool to make a suit for a man weighing 175 pounds. Richmond.4-Formation of the Indiana-Ohio Baseball league, composed of six teams, was. announced following a meeting of representatives of the clubs at Richmond. The league will open May 11 with the .following cities: Fort Wayne, Richmond, Muncie, and Anderson, In Indiana, and Springfield, and Lima or Middleton, in Ohio, with Dayton a possibility. (Jary. Mrs. Fred Carter, widow of former Sheriff Carter of Lake county, is the first woman in the section to file a declaration as a candidate for a political oiTico. 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 Stiugley and Elizabeth Younke of Hammond last October, by forcing 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 operation 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 Fanners, 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 cr 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. denn Lanier of Chirks Hill, is well-favored with grandparents. Not only" has the child four vIlJ grandparents, hut seven living great-grand-pernt. Bluffton. Food production In the vicinity of BlulYton will be reduced from 20 to 25 per cent by the labor shortage, according to the county agent, who Is surveying conditions In the county. Fort Wayne. More than 00 persons, Injured In the tornado at Fort Wayne, are receiving treatment In vort Wayne hospitals. The dead In Allen county number 12. Rusbville. Rushvllle has a population of 5,-tPS. an Increase of r7:i. or 11.0 per rent. North Manchester, 2.711; Increase 2S:t, or 11.7 per rent. I.aporte. The Laporte county commissioners have created additional voting precincts In Michigan City. The city now his 31 precincts. This action means that h cmt of elections will be Increased $2,000 In Michigan City. La f. Ivette. Purdue university's gala week program provides for t4-e days festivities for students and graduates early In .Tune. The prograu opens Saturday, Juur f. Whiting. Whiting has a population of 10,1-10. -in lact ase of :t,.V,:;, ,T :,:,,) i r rent.

Indianapolis. One hundred and forty-nine school corporations In 20 counties must be aided by the state to keep their schools In operation to the end of the aehoo! year, und J. S. Hubbard, deputy state superintendent of public Instruction, has worked out an apportionment of $2G238.03 from the state school deficiency fund to. help them. A total of $3ri,013.7S was requested, but there was not enough money In the fund for the purpose, and money for 13 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 Gf917.C9 to $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 "bne-thlnl lower for highpriced motorcars. They are lower for new low-priced cars, but higher for such cars after one or more years of use. The three years Insurance now may be written for 24 tlnies the oneyear rate. Lower rates also are nowavailable for "fleet insurance, that Is, where the owner of a number of automobiles or trucks Insures them together. Indianapolis. The total taxes to be paid in Indianapolis this year average 27.S4 per cent higher than last year, according to figures compiled In the ofllce of the state board of tax commissioners. In Marion county the total Is 27.06 per cent higher. The increases include the new levies the legislature fixed for the city board of health, for the city schools and for the state highway commission, none of which entered into last year's calculations. This year the total taxes for Indianapolis are $9,G29,32S.83. Indianapolis. Richard Lieber, 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 under 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 the control of the commission. Connersville. The hesslan fly's work in Fayette county wheat fields last fall Is now seen to be as bad as was feared. It is the belief of conservative wheat growers that .the county crop will be reduced 15 to 20 per cent by the pest. The same farmers predict that unless the seed corn Is tested, the corn crop will be as seriously shortened by bad seed as was the wheat crou hy the fly. Washington, D. C ThaJ 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 but also of reducing the high cost of living is indicated in correspondence which Senator Watson has had with a number of prominentTndiana men. Indianapolis. Women cannot legally become candidates for nomination for state' representatives, according to Ele Stansbury, attorney general. The question was raised when Margaret McClure 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, thirty-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. Hertha Robar, who was riding with them, was se

riously injured. Washington, D. C Population statistics announced by the census bureau Included: .Teffersonville, 10,098, a decrease of 314 or 3.0 per cent, over 1910; Clinton, 10,9G2, increase 4,744, or 7G.0 per cent ; Dest Terre Haute, 4.307. increase 1.221, or 39.7 per cent. Alexandria. Farmers about Alexandriaowning clover seeTl are disposing of it at $100 a sack. A farmer bought one bushel for $37.50. Owners of the clover seed say 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 so uthern Indiana. Indianapolis. The state board of tax commissioners has authorized a referendum vote on the petition of Union township. White county, to construct the "Montlcello road" at a cost of $100,0X. Richmond. One hundred and fortyfour teachers In the puhllc schools of Richmond Joined In a petition to the hchool board asking a fiat Increase of $rK) a year for each teacher. Indianapolis. One hundred and sixty creditors and $210,104.3S In liabilities are listed in n voluntary petition In bankruptcy filed In the federal court by (Irant P.rothcrs company, poultry and egg dealers, who recently announced they had lost heavily by dealing In storage eggs. The petition lists $110..Mt.r7 In assetH. Fast Chlnigo. Contracts have been awarded for the erection of 200 housea In Indiana Harbor. Fach house will contain six rooms and bath and will J o sold to the employees of the Inland i Steel c.nnpany at cost.

HAD TERRIBLE COUGH AND WIGHT SWEATS Couah about gone, eats and sleeps well, and gained 12 pounds.

-In December. 1313. I had a fearful cough, and my physician ordered mo to change climaie Immediately. I went to Can Antonie, Texas, and entered a sanatorium. Left there and came to Oklahoma City in October, 1315. Had no arpetlte, could not sleep, had night sweats and was losing from one to three pounds a week. I also had catarrh of the bowels, which tho doctors had . boon unatlo to relieve. "Relatives urged me to try Milks Emulsion.. I did so and began to Improve, slowly at first, but steadily. My weight has Increased 12 pounds, I have no temperature, and my cough Is about gone. I can cat heartily, sleep well, and am working at my trade again." V. W. Neff. 610 No. Dewey St., Oklahoma City, Okla. Nature does tvondcrs In fighting off disease, if given the chance. Milks Emulsion Is a powerful help In providing strength and flesh. It costs nothing- to try. Milks Emulsion is a pleasant, nutritive food and a corrective medicine. It restores healthy, natural bowel action, doing away with all need of pills and physics. It promotes appetite and quickly puts the digestive organs In shape to assimilate food. Chronic stomach trouble and constipation are promptly relieved usually in one day. This Is the only solid emulsion made, and so palatable that It 13 eaten with a spoon like ico cream. No matter how sevcro your case, you are urged to try Milks Emulsion under this guarantee Take six bottles home with you, use it according to directions, and If not satisfied with the results your money will be promptly refunded. Price 60c and $1.20 per bottle. The Milks Emulsion Co., Terre Ilaute. Ind. Sold by'druffglsts everywhere. Adv. Sew to Speak. Surgeon (threading his needle) Feel much like laughing, Houlihan? Victim (of an accident) Save your funny sthorles, docthor yeMl have rae In stitches soon enough I Buffalo Express. The henpecked husband has raoro than n peck of trouble. (LOP 6 Bell-anc Hot water Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION A Young Girl well groomed is an attractive sight. Red Gross i Baü Blue if used in the laundry will rive that r clean, dainty 1 1 appearance that everyone admires. All good grocers sell it; S cents a package. G IfeMfail k I I'll' Inj H I Monty back without nceitlon If HUNT8 BAI.VK fll In U tiTütmtnt of ITCH, ECZEMA, KIN(iYOttM,TLTTEItorother Itchlnjr kln dl. Price TCc at cruftrlftt, or direct from ll.Tcfcirti rii C2i CMtr?it.TiL Bun GrsuFimns Closo to best markets; good roads; soil; schools; buildings; churches. About $100.00 per acre. Let me know your wants. 20 years selling farms- J. C. Murray. Nilcs, Ohio Harvey A, Willis & Co. ntmLlUb-l 11) Ol Metern Consolidate! block Kxcbing of K. T. Stocks, Bond j and Foreign Exchange I'm WttUy :i itktt Uttrt Strxict on Ktrwil A!c fur "W. V.Vklj" Mi la Office, 32 Zrciiwij, Utt TcrV Newi;k 0ff:c 269 Market Street Uplewa N. Y. Of.lct 471 Fifth ATtsct V. fi. U., Ir.;!;anar.3!i3, No. 1S-10:0.

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