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Income Tax Payers. At the Jasper Post Oilicc for the year VJIO Huchlci John Bohnert k. M. Bleemll John liomalaski m. K. Bohnert L. G. Burger Jac J r Chambers R. M. Claycomh V. E. Grameispachr C. S Casper Jos P. Caspar John Dike Wm M. Dillon John F. Eckestein Tlierna Louis J Clem E. Eckert And W. 1 rick Jacob Jr Fuhrman llei ry tramelspacher Tohn George " Gu3tave Huebner Seb. Hunter V. S. 0 Mrs W. S Hoffman Otto

4 Ph V, Christian Harry L. Hopkins Fr? k Haller Oicar L. kckle Conrad Jr. Keusch Frank Kueblcr Edvv J, M Frank Krempp Geo ll Kean (I. M . Lamptrt Fel'x Lorcy Jacob CLineinbach John Mohno Connid Robert H " Chris Opel John G. Pfau Henry -RamspergerE. ARudolph Henry H. Sermersheim Martin John' A. Schmidt Jos Sr. Sonderman Alberts Seitz Leonard J Sendelwick John H. Schneider Jos W. Felix L. Sturn Louis H1 Eußena A. Victor F. Jos m. Salb John P. Schaaf Alois J. Tray lor Br. mar Taichert Nathan Teder John H. Weisheit John F. Weigel John P. Wilson Geo R. 0 W. A. Wagnei Geo P. A supplement list will be r b lished later. Think Right And You'll Act Right LUC CiiaS !i Dlinr nt I linn PMfnn I nAn I O 1 II

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w ,3Dfc,,c'u m "T LÜUin coal mines containing much fire cl 41he Misleading Udg. r damp Tho glapg makor8 of BaccaJ Lucy Cotton, the radiant south rat have also succeeded in ineroasern beauty who p'ay opposivj ing the elasticity of the glass. Thia iert Lyte'l in his forthcoming! they accomplish by adding magneMetro starri i.' vhie! ""Th j siaand oxide to 'h nnlinary cn Misifadirm IidyM is a firm b- Ma. Sucres Magrzine. litivor in tinM'ovvcr tint lior c.v ! , . thoughts havti ov!rh(r impor-on : ations for tlio silent drama M:s 11 ,s " strange mntradu-tion in col-; Ootton declares it to n-nc. co. hhu.r t,u, unr, ,. Otlonk stant endeavor to thuiK on y

rights thoughts that is ennobling t ' urhts because she real

izes tl t,even (he most remote traces o evil in the human consciousness as detected by the camera, This may appear to be quite metaphysical, but Miss Cotton illustrates it as follows: "Just prior to my engagement by Metro to support Mr. Lytell in Charles Goddard'j and Paul Dickey's stag-i success, 'The Misleading Ladj ' I played in an Emile Chautard allstar p:oduetion, which is yet to be released. For the par which required ot me the utmost suiritual exaltation I perserved throughout my sludio work a state of mind bes" calculated to brig about that tfltejt. After the picture had oeen completed, Mr Chautard caiie to me and said: 'MissCotton in this picture we have photographed your soul ' "And I believe it is quite possible No actress can delineate nih spiritual qualities for ti e cieen, before the merciless eye if the camera in the close ups, at less her mind te free from :ross thoughts. FINDS MEAL IN JAIL CELL Meandering Willie Is Surprised at Sheriff's Generosity, but He Cleans Up. Jackson, Mich If you wore a Vnnlorinpr Willi," hmv -would you like to he arrested nnd locked up in tlio county jail, and avIuu you ontcrod your coll Und a nice linked v.!ekon, oysters, cranberries ami .ot lie:- i!fliftieios awaiting you? That is the feast that f?reetol a woary hobo In tho Jackson county jail, nnd, surprised at the generosity of the Jackson county sheriff but hungry he turned to and cleaned up ,rn tho bones ere the rightful occupant of the cell returned and thereby hangs the Trfc mrnof of tlie f ced, Kari fCeith, colored, Is In durance vile on the charge of holding up tho cashier of the MiciiIgun Iron & Metal company l:i !road daylight nnd getting away with $10,". Just as he was taken from his coll to stand investigation his faithful wife ! nppeared with the feast above enumer-! atod. and, not knowing how long he ' would bo absent, she left the basket j In the empty cell and went away. Apprised of the bounteous repast j awaiting him, the negro sped back to his eell and found the "vag" calmly . 'rolling an after-dinner cigaret. Worst j of all, complains Keith, the fellow took ' him for a waiter and ordered bim to re- ! move the dishes and bring him a toothpick. i 600 BULLETS PER MINUTE. The recently invented Benet-Mer-der gun combines tho rapidity ol Are, range nnd effectiveness of a machine gun with the lightness and action of a magazine rifle. The gun is fired from a rest and held against tho ßhouTdcr of iti operator, who can either fire from n sitting poei-l tion or lying prono. Tho regulation cartridge is used in clips that hold 60. A good rifleman can discharge from 300 to 600 shots per minute, if assisted in feeding by a man to fdl the clips. The gun i3 at present undergoing a series of tests by arm officers, with a view to its adoption by tho government Popular Ufchanic. Kvery city fondly hopes that Its own contingent of heroes won the wnr. Hut no eontimrent was laekiiur In heroism and courage, and no plae In the country has entire to be ashamed of the boys sent from there orersens. Nor can the cities claim any superiority hi those qualities over tho country boys who left the plows sticking In the furrows to fight like seasoned warriors In the trenches the professional and trained troops of (Germany to a bloody but victorious finish. Baccarat, France, has the honor of producing tho first glass thpt ii unbreakable. The new process ha been successfully applied to the man-

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K b C r. v J P 9 xj a n r ft si ÄCCEPTÄNGE Democratic Candidate Would Enter League, Immediately Ratify Treaty and State Interpretation of Covenant. SAYS "BACK TO THE NORMAL" MEANS REACTION Failure-to Enforce Prohibition lz Worse Than Law's Violation Declares Present Congress Haa Not Passed a Single Constructive Law, but Has Spint Time and Millions Inj Seeking to Make America's Military Triumph an Odious Chapter In Hl3tory Favors Repeal of War Taxes, Criminal Prosecution cf Profiteerc More Adequate Supervision of Rai). roads, a National Gucket Systerr, and Wcmar Cufimge. lUre is a summary of the speechnf ;vorn r .Ijiiiics M. Cox, Domo-, crallc a!nii(i:ite for piesident, at tl.. iutil . i'uilon -Mfiiiuiiles at Dayion: Lt:i?:tio of Nation. Would enter lie league, immediately ratify the maty and state our iutorprctutlon of the covenant in reservations as a matter of Kd faith mid as A matter of precaution against any . misunderstanding In the future." The interpretation to clearly show that the league Is not an alliance and that Its basic purpose Is peace and not controversy. . ' Domastlc ." Problems. Would re-'-jceal .T7artart3tV;;i -cluccietircX taxation ; suggests, in place ö'f excess profits tax, substitution of volume of business tax. Profiteering. Promises penalization under the criminal law. Labor. Stimulate Americanization. Writ of Injunction should not be abused. No necessity now for tho drastic laws of war days; guarantee of free speech ; recognition of the lights of the principle of collective bargaining. Child life of the nation should be conserved. Agriculture. Federal government should sponsor agriculture and food production. Farmer should be amply compensated for his work. Favors municipal markets. Regulation of cold storage. Would Increase area of tillable land. National Prosperity. Objective should be decreased tenantry and stimulation of home ownership. Food -Supply. More adequate supervision cf railrimds; utilization of waterways. Financial and Commercial. Fxtols federal reserve act and merchant marine. Would extend faeilities for exchange and credit and stimulate foreign trade. National Pudgtt. Favors a national budget syslom. Would reduce armament expenditures on entering league of u:tti ;i. Republican Ungenerosity. Repub licans failed to recognize that i America had saved the world or to appreciate the struggles and sacrifices of those who. In arms or Industry, helped win the war. Present Congress has not passed a single coustructivo law, but spent time and millions in seeking to make military triumph an odious chapter In history. Mexican 'Situation. We have neither lust for their domain nor disposition to disturb their rights. Disabled Soldiers. Fledges Immediate efforts to provide vocational training and favors employment of disabled soldiers of World War by Federal P.oard to supervise the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers. Prohibition. -"Any candidate for the presidency who says he does not Intend to enforce the law Is more unworthy than the luw violator." Woman Suff-cge. Strongly favored. Oilkial Responsibility. Opposed to "government by party';" pledges service to the people as a whole. ' IMucation. Federal government should not encroach on local control. lu:t rather should create an enlarged public Interest. Campaign Contributions. No narrow dlvldirg line between the legitimate and the Illegitimate, underlying purpose only determining. Industrial Peace. We want n 'hange from the world of yesterday, from the old Industrial world. We are at the "forks of the road." So-etlled "return to the normal' means 'reactlohl.sm."

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Dayton, 0., Aujt. 7.In his speech of acceptance today Governor James M. Cox, addressing a great, crowd, said In part: "V are In a time which calls for straight thinking straight talking nnd straight acting. This is no time tor wobbling. Never In all our history has norejeen done for government. Nevr was sacrifice more sublime. The irost precious things of heart and home vore given up In a spirit which guarantees the perpetuity of our Institutinns if the fnlth Is kept with those h served and suffered. lu The country received with interest, to say tho least, the announcement from Chicago, where the Itepubllcan national convention was assembled, that a platform plank, dealing with the subject of world peace, had been drawn, leaving out the Lodge reservations, ünd yet remaining agreeable to all Interests, meaning thereby the Lodge reservatlonists, the mild reservationlsts and the group of Republican senators that openly opposed the League of Nations In any form. "-."As tho platform made no definite committal of policy ojid waa, In fact, so artfully phrased as to mako almost any deduction possible, it passed

through the convention with practical , T unanlmltv. Senator Johnson, however. whosf nnsltlon has boon consistent and whose opposition to the league In any I shape is well known,, withheld his sup port, of. the convention's choice until the. candidate had stated tho meaning of the platform, end announced definitely the policy that would be his, If -elcctod. "Senator Harding makes this new pledge of policy Jn behalf of his party: '? - 4I promise you formal and cltectlve pace.so quickly ns a Itepubllcan congress can pass Its declaration for a Republican executive to sign.' This means 'but one 4hlng n separate peace with Germany I yo less an authority than Senator Lodge said, before the heat of recent controversy, that to make peace ex'cept In company with the Allies would 'brand us 'everlastingly with dishonor ind bring ruin to us.' lAnd then after peace Is made with Germany, Senator Harding would, ho "r?f'. Jhop6fully approach the nations of Europe and of the earth, proposing that understanding which makes us a willing participant in the consecration of nations to a new relationship.' "In short, America, refusing to enter the League of Nations (now already establlshed by twenty-nine nations) anW bearing nnd deserving the contempt of the wcrld, would submit an entirely new project. This act would either be regarded as arrant madness or attempted International bosslsm. "These are fateful times. Organized government has a definite duty all oxer the world. The house of civilization Is to be put In order. The supremo issue of the century is before us and the nation that halts and delays is playing with fire. Tho finest Impulses of humanity, rising above national lines, merely secU'to make another horrible war Impossible. Under the old order of International anarchy war came overnight, and the world was on fire before wo knew it. It sickens our senses to think of another. Ratification First Duty. "The first duty of the new administration clearly will the ratification of the treaty. The matter should be approached without thought of the bltI terness of the past. The public ver dict will have been rend red, and I am confident that the friends of world peace as It will be promoted by the league will have in numbers the constitutional requisite to favorable senatorial action. The captious may say that our platform reference to reservations Is vague and Indefinite. Its meanj li.g, in brief, is that we shall state j r Interpretation of the covenant as ' a matter of good fnlth to our associates and as a precaution against

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any misunderstanding In the future. The point Is that after the people shall have spoken the league will be In the hand? of Its friends in the senate, nnd n safe Index ns to wnat they will do Is supplied by what reservations they have proposed in the past. Some months ago, in a contributed article to the New York Times, I expressed my own opinion of the situation as It then wj.s. I reproduce It here:

There' can be no doubt but that coma senators have been conscientious tn their deslreto clarify the provisions of the treaty. Two things apparently have disturbed them r First, they wanted to make, sure that the league was not to be an alliance, nnd that Its basic purpose was peace and not controversy. Second, they wanted the other powers signing the Instrument to understand our constitutional limitations beyond which the treaty-making power cannot go. Dealing with these two questions lu order, it has always seemed to me that the interpretation of the function of the league might have been stated in these words: " 'In giving its assent to this treaty, the senate has In mind the fact that the League of Nations which it embodies was devised for the sole purpose of maintaining peace and comity among the nations of tha earth and preventing the recurrence of such destructive conflicts as that through which the world has Just passed. The co-opcratlon of' the Uiilted States with the. League' and its continuance as a member thereof, will naturally depend upon the adherence of the League to that fundamental purpose.' "Such a declaration would at least express the view of the United States aud Justify, the courso which our nation would unquestionably follow if tho basic purpose of the League were at any time distorted. It would also appear to be a simpler matter to provide against any misunderstanding in the future and at the same time to meet the objections of those who believe that we might be inviting a controversy over oar constitutional rights, by making a senatorial addition in word somothlng like those: 'It will of course be understood that In carrying out tho purpose o.f the League, the government of the United States must at all time act' In strict harmony with the terms and intent of the United States Constitution which cannot in any way be altered by the treaty-making power.1 . Helpful Additions Not Barred. "Unquestioned friends; of v the League have made other proposals." Our platform clearly ' lays no bar against any additions that "will oe "helpful, but it speaks in a firm resolution to stand against anything that disturbs the vital principle. We hear it said that interpretations are unnnecessary. That may be true, but they will at least bo reassuring to many of our citizens, who feel that in signing tho treaty, there should be no mental reservations that are not expressed in plain words, as a matter of good faith to our associates. Such interpretations possess the further virtue of supplying a base upon which agreement can be reached, and agreement, without injury to the convenant, is now of pressing importance. It was the desire to get things started, that prompted some members of the senate to vote for the Lodge reservations. Those who conscientiously voted for them In the final roll calls realized, however, that they a:ted under duress, in that a politically bigoted minority was exercising the arbitrary power of Its position to enforce drastic conditions. Happily tho voters of the republic, under our system of government, can remedy that situation, and I have the faith that they will, at the election this fall. Then organized government will be enabled to combine Impulse aud facility In the making of better world conditions. The agencies of exchange will automatically adjust themselves to the opportunities of commercial freedom. New life and renewed hope will take hold of evtry nation. Mankind will press a resolute shoulder to the task of readjustment, and a new era will have dawned upon the earth. Federal Taxation. "Federal taxation must be heavily reduced, and It will be done at once, If a Democratic administration Is chosen in November." Without hampering essential national administrative departments, by the elimination of all others and strict economy everywhere, national taxes can be reduced In excess of two billion dollars yearly. Annoying consumption tuxe, once willingly borne, now unjustified, should be re peal The Incomes from war-made fortunes, thos of non-producers and those derived from Industries that exist by unfair privilege may be able to carry their present load, but taxes. on the earnings of tin wage-earner, of the salaried and professional man, of the agricultural producer and of the mall tradesman should be shurply modified. I believe that a better form of taxation than the so-called excess profits tax may be found und I suggest a small tax, probably one to one and one-half pr cent on the total business of every going concern. It is to be understood that the term 4bu!nflss as used does not includet Income received by wageearners, salaried men, agriculturists and th small business man who ahould bf exempt from this tax. The profiteer and some of the highly capitalized units have used the excess profits tax ns n favorite excuse for loading on the consumer by means of highly Inflated selling" prices many times. the amount actually paid the government. "A necessary condition to the national contentment and sound business Is a just proportion between fair profit! to

business and fair prices to IL consumer. Would Halt Profiteering. "The tribe of profltoors has slmplj multiplied under tho favoring circumstances of war. For years, larra con tributions have been made to the Re publican campaign fund for no purpose except to buy a governmental undorhold and to make illegal profit as the result of preference. Such largesses are today a groater menace to our contentment and our Institutions than tho countless temporary profiteers who are making a mockery cf honest' business, but who can live and fatten only In tima of disturbed prices. If I am called to service as president means will be found, if they do not already exist, for compelling these exceptions to the great mas of square dealing American business men, to use the same yardstick of honesty that governs most of ui In our dealings with our fellowmen, or In languago that they may understand, to suffer the penalty of criminal-law. "It has beoi my observation that tho man who learns our language, yields to a controlling public opinion and respects our laws; besides, in proportion as his devotion to American life develops his interest in the impulslye processes of revolution diminishes. We must be patient In the work of assimilation' and studiously avoid oppressive measures In the face of mere evidence of misunderstanding. The necessity for the drastic lawi of war days is not present now, and we should return at the earliest opportunity, to the statutory provisions passed in time of peace for the general welfare. There Is no condltlon now that warrants any infringement on the right of free speech and assembly nor on the liberty of the press. The greatest measure of Individual freedom consistent with the safety of our Institutions should le given. Cxcesslve regulation causes manifestations that compel restraint Law Enforcement. "The I.'sislatlvQ branch of government Is subjected to the rule of the majority. The public official who falls to enforce the law,-Is an enemy both to the Constitution and to tho American principle of majority rule. It would seem quite unnecessary for any candidate for the Presidency to say that he does not Intend to violate his oath of office. Anyone who Is false to that oath Is more unworthy than the law violator himself. "Morals cannot easily be produced by statute. The writ of Injunction should not be abused. Intended as a safeguard to person and property, it could easily by abuse cease to be the

.protective device it wag Intended to be. "We should not, by law, abridge a man's right either to labor or to quit his employment. However, neither labor nor capital should at any time or in any circumstances, take action that would put In Jeopardy the public welfare. "We need a definite and precise statement of policy as to what business men and workingmen may do and may not do by way of combination and collective action. The law is now so nebulous that it almost turns upon the economic predilections of the Judge or Jury. This does not make for confidence in the courts nor respect for the laws,- nor for a liealthy activity in production and distribution. There surely will be found ways by which co-operation may be encouraged without the destruction of enterprise. The rules of business should be made more certain bo that on a stable basis men may move with confidence. "(fuvernment, however, should provide the means in the treatment of Its employees, to "keep In touch with conditions and to rectify wrong. It is needless to say that in order to be consistent, facts should at all times Jqj tlfy the pre-supposltlon that the government employees are properly compel;. :ited. "The ehPd life of the nation should be conserved; If labor In Immature years Is permitted by one generation. It is practicing unfairness to the next. Adequate Farm Profits. "Farming will not Inspire Individual effort unless profits, all tilings considered, are equal to those in other activities. An additional check to depleted ranks in the fields would be the establishment of modem state rural school codes. The federal government should maintain active sponsorship of this. Rural " parents would be lacking In the element which makes civilization enduring if they did not deslr for their children educational opportunities comparable to those In. tho cities. The price the consumer raj for foodstuffs Is no indication of what the producer receives. There are too many turnovers between the two. Trie fanner raises his crop and the price which he receives Is determine by supply and demand.' Ills products In beef and pork nnd produce, pas

! Into cold storuge and ordinarily when they reach the consumer th law of Supply and demand does not obtain. .The preservation, of foodstuff by cold storage li a boon to humanity, and It i .ghottld b encouraged. Ilowever, thm continued on last psge - r. .