Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 August 1920 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER OEN ED. DO A NE, Publisher JA3PCR .... INDIANA

II campaign money tulks. It Is enrefill not to t'M where It came from. The furl supply threatens to assert It sol f literally as a burning Issue. . Conversation was a lost nrt oven before the automobile cam' along anil r.i ri over It. Tin army worin, unfortunately. Is not soldiering on the Job, crop experls tell us. !f they continue to rise In price potatoes soon may appear In tissue paper kimonos. And then, along came the price of (rotators to add to tbe consumer's peek of trouble. Overall: have? just readied Paris. Yet that's supposed to be the town that M'ts I be fashions. It is remarkable bow "prominent n person lias heen the moment ho or she gets Into trouble. It costs a lot to live In America, but not so much as merely to exist In less favored regions. In attempting to lift tbe nip this ti Mr. Upton will notice that It Is a spoonful or two lighter. It should be possible to make taxes JiKt. but It is not likely that they n'lll ever be made popular. (Joe thing which appears clearly In (be dispatches from Russia Is that somehody Is an awful liar. Tills is good weather in which to cultivate mental coolness and keep down the hodlly temperature. Sir Thomas Upton must have written the original of "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." fn those days of high wages the warning .igalnst accepting suspicious $20 notes nearly affects the workingman. Vassal conferred degrees on 250 young women. Many of them, no doubt, will also achieve the degree of MA. A Danish exile kept out of sight In the United States for 47 years, and sugar seems to he going after bis record. Bolshevism has been given a fair trial, but from all accounts It Is not making good even In the house of its friends. The weather bureau persists In predicting "squalls." probably as a result of too much reading of the political news. Oon't let the price lead you to believe that ho motor-car and dog In the lo' advertisement go with the .so' As ; back (low b desire .. Itute for an ablebodled farm movement the wlnnrden leaves much to be 1 runners' wealth Is computed like that of the dentists. The money they make depends on the number of achers tbev work on. Whenever the servant problem strikes a household the daughters thereof ought to stand up and say. "Mother, we are hero." And if they don't do It well, we never favored spanking the girls. Agitation is rife In the West for a six-hour day which would hardly give sutlicient leisure to denounce resulting advance in prices. The lord knew what ho was doing when lie fashioned woman's elbows so they couldn't he seen by the men she walked with or met. What's become of the good old word Varns"? Men are "getting" or "making" so much :i day. but no one speaks of "earning" anything. Married men who are kicking on what Is required to run a house ought to take the contract and see if they could reduce the expense. The sugar hoard's statistician figures that war control saved the American people $l.r00.000.V0. They have since been banding it back. In saying that our vent civilization is all wrong ai: lot worth preserving the communLtS who seek to destroy the rest of It forget that they are a part of It. Soo.e lOO.Ooo parcel post package from America are lying around France undelivered. One of th. things they don't do an belter in France? For an example of the true spirit of American independence, our choice Is the vhoolbny who meets his teacher on 1 1 1 stret during vacation. We rad that "Jtie lettuee should not be t aten when served with salad, as II N iiiteiit'tMl only ns u iraridsh." What? tl.e mailer? Ioe the silnd poison the 1 ttll' eV

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iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin Indianapolis. Machinery of state departments was put In operation to carry out the provisions of the more Important measures passed by the second special session of the general assembly. Post assembly develop, merits In the statehouse Included tlu; following: 1. The" reappointment of Jesse K. Kschbanch as state examiner of the board of accounts, from which he resigned July 12 to resume tbe speakersh!pvof the house of representatives. 2. Governor Goodrich signed three of the major acts passed by the assemblythe Johnson home1 rule tax act. the Tuthill-KIper curative tax act and the coal and food commission act. The governor also signed the state war memorial measure. 3. The coal and food commission was formally organized. The commission Is composed of Mr. Ksohbach, Governor Goodrich and Otto L. Klauss, auditor of state. Under the terms of the act the accounts board servo as the coal commission. 4. It became known that 'Charles Fox, president of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, would be appointed by flovernor (Goodrich as the fifth member of tbe state Industrial board. The place has not been filled because of a lack of funds, but the legislature provided more funds for the board. 5. The state board of tax commissioners began the preparation of 1010 assessment data to bo certified to local taxing officials in accordance with the Tuthill-KIper bill. 0. After careful study of the curative tax bill the governor and the members of tbe tax board and other state officials were of the opinion that the measure will relieve the tax mess effectually and that 4 the net result of the application of the act will be the legalization of the horizontal increases in assessments In virtually every taxing unit In the state. At the meeting of the coal commission Mr. Eschbach was given full authority to administer the act and to employ a fuel director, counsel to the commission and other employees. Another mooting of the commission will be held to consider organization plans further. One of the first acts of this new department will be to compile a directory of all coal dealers, jobbers and operators in the state. Kvory dealer In 'coal will be required to obtain a license. The license fees are: Dealers, $r; wholesalers, $10 and operators, $2.. There Is also provided a tax of 1 cent a ton on all coal mined. Connersville. Clarence Edwards, president of the Fayette county unit of the Farmers federation, will call a meeting of the members within a few days to discuss wheat sowing. He says lie Is informed that many farmers In the county, discouraged by the high price of commercial fertilizers and disturbed by the uncertainty of the wheat market, are planning to sow rye instead of wheat. Rye. he says. 'Is a less favorable crop for clover than wheat, and a poorer crop in food value. He says the federation will do Its utmost to keep the county's wheat acreage up to Its usual total, which Is near 25.'000 acres. Indianapolis. Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of the Republican candidate for president, will be a guest of honor at the Indiana state fair on Wednesday, ' September S. which will be observed as "Indianapolis day." A state committee of 00 women is being organized. Following a visit to the fair, a public reception is being planned for the wife of the Republican presidential nominee. The reception will be held In the women's building at tbe fair grounds. The visit of Mrs. Harding, It Is said, will be a nonpartisan affair, as the committee of 00 women will bo made up without regard to political faith. Indianapolis. The emergency appropriations bill, which was among the first of the measures passed at the special session of Indiana's general assembly to be signed by Governor Goodrich, appropriates a total of $1,10S.114.02, of which $S7G.90:.G9 is to go to state institutions and departments for their future use. and the auditor of state is now making warrants for the various amounts. A total of $201.118.93, which was advanced Dy Otto Klauss. auditor of state, out of the general fund, to keep the institutions going. Is appropriated to reimburse the general fund. Hartford City. Farmers in RlackTord county believe there will be a bumper oats crop threshed. In many parts of the county the yield. It Is estimated, will be as high as 75 to SO bushels an acre. The average yield In the county Is about T0 bushels. Indianapolis. His whereabouts unknown to the members of his famdy for 15 years. John Fugh. a cousin of Marshall Fugh. wealthy Indianapolis lMid owner, who died last year, has appeared as a claimant for a share of ti e estate of Marshall Fugh. The appearance of John Fugh. bfcijeved by relatives to hare been dead for many years, made necessary the chatiülnz of a decree made by Judge Louis H. Kwhank In circuit court lfHt week naming the 21 first cousins of Marshall IV. ;b who should share In the estate n lri'.

Indianapolis. The Fpeclal session of the Indiana general assembly called by Gov. James I. Goodrich to consider emergency tax legislation and appropriation measures adjourned sine die. A total of ,75 bills were acted upon favorably during the special session. Tbe legislature has been In session since July 12. Final action was taken by both houses approving remedial legislation designed to meet the situation created by horizontal incr easox made in 1010 assess ments by the state tax board and later declared valid by the state suiterior court. The assembly also approved a home rule tax bill giving local taxing units authority over bond issues and tax levies, which has been held by the state tax board. The emergency appropriation measure passed during the second week of the session provided approximately $1,200,000 for the ue of stte Institutions until September 30, the close of the present fiscal year. Another important measure passi-d provides for the construction by the state of a war memorial building to cost $2.000.000 on ground donated by the state on the North side In Indianapolis. The building will provide national headquarters for the American Legion. Jasper. The approximate acreage of wheat thrashed and to be thrashed In Dubois county is about OS per cent of last year's crop. The average yield for the county will be about 14 bushels an acre. The best yield yet reported is 2S bushels an acre. One man thrashed only ten bushels from eight acres. The acreage of corn is about 0." per cent of last year's crop and condition at present is good. The acreage of oats Is about OS per cent of last year's crop and condition Is about normal. The rye crop is somewhat above normal, perhaps 107 per cent as compared with the crop of 1010. The normal acreage of tomatoes is out. t!io crop is a little late and yield cannot bo estimated now. Entire crop contracted to canning companies. There Is a good crop of fruit of nearly all kinds. Apples are selling for $1.50 a bushel. Prospects for peaches are excellent, with none yet on market. The number of farm laborers Is under normal. Wages averago about S."0 a month. There Is no demand for boys without farm experience, and many farmers are dragging their work along with only sufficient help to do what really has to be done. Seymour. The wheat crop In Jackson county will be the smallest In ten years, according to millers and grain buyers who base their estimates on threshing iigilres. A crop of 47.",000 bushels was produced on 39.o00 acres last year and it is not believed that the yield this year will exceed 240.000 bushels. The wheat ground will not exceed 20,000 acres, grain men say. An exceptionally large acreage was sown last fall, but many of the fields were damaged by the early freezes and were sown to oats and other crops this spring. The wheat crop Is valued at about $088,000. Greensburg. A loss of many thousands of dollars threatens the farmers of this county who have not threshed and disposed of their wheat. Owing to the car shortage all the elevators and mills of the county Intro become f I'll to their capacity and have issued a notice that they will not be able to handle any more grain until they can get cars for transportation. It Is almost impossible to get cars, local firms say, and the situation has become serious. Indianapolis. Indiana high schools, both rural and city, now have vacancies for 1.070 teachers, and on!y enough teachers in prospect to fill 3 PI of these vacancies, according to a report submitted to L. N. Ilinos state superintendent of public Instruction, by K. P.. Wet h crow, state high school inspector. The shortage of high school teachers. Mr. Wetherow said, is considerably greater than at this time last year, and the available supply of

unemployed teachers much less. Hammond. The report of II. J. White. White county coroner, following an inquest In the death of Arthur F.ecker, a Chicago chemist, contains the charge that Rocker's death resulted from the criminal negligence of Alvin Schreiber of Hammond. F.ecker was killed while riding in Schreiber'.-? car when it bit a heavy truck. Schreiber, the coroner's report says, was driving 3."i miles an hour without lights at midnight, when the accident occurred. Indianapolis. Shipments of black bass and crappie from the Riverside, state hatchery In the two weeks ending July 23. totaled 43,070. Of this number 41.000 were bass and .07." were crappie. according to announcement of the superintendent of the division of fish and game under the state conservation department. The flngerlings were distributed in streams and ponds on applications filed with the department. Lebanon. The Davis Construction company of Arcadia has appealed its case against Eagle township, Roone county, for release from a road contract, to the Indiana state supreme court. This action was taken as the result vof Judge E. M. Chloe of the Hamilton circuit court overruling a motion for v. new trial at that court. Indianapolis. More than half of the rural high schools of the United States, which offer four-year courses, and whose terms ran only 140 days a year or 'ess, are In Indiana, according to a report received by F. R. Wetherow. state h?gh school inspector, from the statistical division of the federal bureau of education. A report on the schooling offered In the rural high ifhools of the country, containing the figures, has been worked out by A. 0. Neal of the statistical division, and formerly state high school Inspector for Indiana.

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"Who's Who" on Congressional "Junket?"

I DECIDED HOT toco - V)Cur WASHINGTON. "Who's Who'' on the excursion promoted by the Pan-Pacific union to enable members of congress and government officials to study trade conditions in the trans' pacific countries that sailed on the army transport (Ireat Northern July from San Francisco? Nobody seems to know. Originally more than 200 were listed when the invitation was first given out by Representative Randall of California. Quite a few members who wanted to make the trip and take along several friends at Uncle Sam's expense were scared off by the cry of "Junket." others were plainlv told In letters and resolutions from their constituents that they had better stay at homo. Originally the cost was fixed about $1.75 a day. Then it was given out that all must pay their own expenses

Soldiers' Bonus Legislation in Congress

ALL chance of tjie passage of soldiers' bonus legislation next winter seems to have gone glimmering. Failure of the party platforms to declare for the proposition seems to have destroyed all hopes f fnvorable action by congress. Supporters of the bonus 1 1 1 T had relied implicit on the political conventions taking a stand on the subject. They had gone on the theory that political pressure from the exservice men would be so strong that both parties would be sure to deelaro for some form of adjust oil compensation. The soldiers' bonus bill as passed by the house a week before the recent adjournment is pending in the senate committee on finance. The committee has given the bill no consideration and may prefer to allow It to slumber without action during the coming session. Officers of the American Legion. however, are certain to agitate and probably will force the committee to report tbe bill to the floor of the senate. Kven In case the bill in some miraculous manner should got through the senate and a conference report is 'approved by both houses its veto by President Wilson is considered certain. The administration's view of the proposal has been made clear through a letter sent by Secretary of the

You May Now Do Business With Russians

UNCLi; Sam has lifted the ban on trade with soviet Russia. If you have any goods you want to sell the Russians, go to it. Rut bear in mind: You do'so on your own risk and your own responsibility. No legal or other protection will be given you. No passports will be issued to your representatives to enable them to go to Russia and drum up business or otherwise look after your interests. If your goods could in any way be employed In war, they may not be exported. The post oUiee will not accept any mail for Russia, so you cannot correspond with your customers or agents. No goods may be sent by parcel post. Otherwise, you are free to engage in commerce with the bolsheviki. Your Uncle Sam's Big HOW Uncle Sam ban developed one of the bissest Insurance companies In the world Is shown in a statement Issued by the bureau of war risk Insurance .summarizing the progress which has been made in bringing the bureau's work to a current basis. The. marine and seamen's Insurance division, which, during the early part of the war, wrote war risk hazards on hulls, cargoes and seamen, has done a total business of $U.4S7,913,351; collected premiums amounting to $47,5S3,3S0; paid claims of $L.11S,&S7. and has a surplus over expenses and refunds of $17.r,C0.S21. The allotment and allowance division, which developed into a banking business run for the benefit of oMIers, sailors and marines and their families and dependent relatives, has tince the besinnins f the war approved L090,S9o claims for allotment and allowance, involving payments for allotments amounting to $.lSO.:&..ona for allowances amounting to s-jojjsi,-W, a total expenditure of SrM.",S15.511. The insurance division has written 1031. policies covering Insurance to

other than transportation. The trip Includes visits to Hawaii, the Philippines, China, Japan and Korea. It's known that the party reached Hawaii July 11 and left two days later. Later advices from Shanghai said China was preparing an elaborate program for the "party of 130 members." Special trains were to be placed at the disposal of the visitors through Nanking, on to Peking and to Mukden, where the members of the party would become guests of the Japanese government, and would be taken on an extended sight-seeing tour through Korea and later through Japan. Everywhere banquets, receptions, excursions of various kinds, presentations and other affairs were being arranged. Newspaper men were invited to make the trip with the congressmen, so that there could be publicity for the trip and articles written to promote better understanding between the countries. Rut biter orders barred the newspaper men from the trip and restricted it to congressmen an( members of their immediate families. Who the congressmen are was to have been made public when the Great Northern sailetl. Rut the transport sailed with the state secret undivulged Treasury Houston to the house ways and means committee flatly opposing any bonus legislation, and also by the attitude of the administration spokesman at San Francisco in the drafting of the platform. Roth the Republican and Democratic platforms declare for proper treatment of the ex-service men, but both carefully avoid any specific mention of either the cash bonus scheme or any forms of adjusted compensation designed to aid those who suffered no wounds. The effect of both the Republican and Democratic platforms is to repudiate the policies of the party leaders in the house. The action of the party conventions, both at Chicago and San Francisco, appears to have been n vindication for the minority among house members of both parties. If trade is actually resumed with Russin, it apparently will have to bo conducted 'through the co-operative societies in the soviet nation. These societies, which have a membership of 20,000.000, furnish the only known medium for the resumption of trade between the United States ami the territory controlled by the Moscow government. Whether the soviet authorities are willing to have the co-operatives carry on trade with the United States and other nations which have not extended any form of political recognition to the Lenin and Trotzky regime remains to be disclosed. So far as the United States is concerned, all restrictions on trade have been lifted except as to articles susceptible of immediate use for war purposes. If Americans have anything they desire to ship to Russia, they are free to do so with this one limitation, while Russians may ship out anything Americans will take. The Russian co-operative societies stand as the only commercial and industrial machinery left intact amid general economic disorgaiuzatlon and chaos. Insurance Company PCUCIES 63T73 the amount of $40,2S4,S92,50O, collected gross premium remittances from all sources approximating $338,612.000. handled 12S.300 claims for Insurance on account of death represented by Insurance to the amount of $1,141,818.133, while 3.2Ö0 claims for Insurance on account of permanent and total disability involve insurance to tbe amount of $2$.ri3G340. The medical division has developed a medical practice of the following proportions : Patients siven treatment and examination, 4."2.tu); patients admitted to hospitals under government supervision, r4.?J0; patients at present receiving hospital treatment. 17,o00; potential je'tienK rui.000.

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UMIST GIVE W THEIR CAPITAL Military Experts In Warsaw Say City Must Be Evacuated Within Three Days. RETREAT IS BECOMING A ROUT Polish Army Along the Bug Failed to Destroy Bridges Behind Them Failure of Parley With Reds Stuns People. Paris. Aug. . -Warsaw will have to be evacuated within a few days. In the opinion of the French ami British military experts there, and th government Is expected t be waved within that period, probably to Tracow. The report of the members of the military mission, telegraphed hero, declared that the Polish army along the Itiver IUlg, had retreat eil st precipitately that It did not even destroy the bridges behind It. This river was Warsaw's line of defense. Cracow. Poland, Aug. t Thousands of wounded soldiers are taxing hospital facilities here, and doctors and nurses, exhausted by long vigils, are often dropping beside the operating tables. The American Ked Cross has opened an improvised school for nurses and 300 women are being given a hasty elementary course. Warsaw, Aug. 0. The suspense under which Warsaw has labored for three days was heightened by the news' that the negotiations at Haranovitchl between the Polish and soviet Russian armistice commissions had been without result. The report that the Russian soviet government Insisted that peace conversations begin at otxe caused a sensation In political circles. Announcement was made that Con. Romer's party was authorized only to confer with the bolsheviki on the question of an armistice. This was In line with the understanding that prevailed when the Polish emissaries left this city for the front. I The breaking off of the negotiationswas due to a misunderstanding, according to the contention of the Russian soviet authorities in a wireless dispatch received here. The latest communication from the soviet suggests the negotiations both for an armistice ami for peace t held In Minsk today. It asks that the Poles send a delegation to Minsk invested with all the necessary credentials to negotiate for peace. The Pedes contend that It will be physically impossible for them to comply with this proposal. Officials of the American consulate have packetl up their most important records for prompt shipment from this city In case the Russian bolsheviki continue to advance. The task of visIng the passports of the hundred who desire to leave Warsaw will continue until the consulate is forced to close. Outgoing trains for Vienna, Posen and Danzig are crowded, hnd seat rservations an1 selling at a largo premium. People are fighting to gain entrance to the station platforms and rush for places' to sit or stand as soon as the trains back In. A close guard is maintained by troops, who inspect all paper to see that no soldier depart until they bear proper credentials. While the Polish delegates are retracing their steps homeward from Raranovitchl, where the conferencewith the bolsheviki ended so abruptly, the bolsheviki troops are reported everywhere to be pressing their attacks on the entire battle front from the East Prussian lino on the north to the region adjacent to Lemberg in Cauda on the south. Inside the groat battle arc th Poles are hurriedly preparing defenses, particularly trenches und barbed-wire entanglements in front of Warsaw. Many Americans and Rritish subjects?, including a number of former officers, are reported by the recruiting officers to be enlisting in the PnlNh volunteers. London, Aug. C. The British government is Irritated over what it believes is soviet Russia's equivocation over the British suggestion that the Russians halt at the armistice line of demarcation In Poland and begin peace negotiations. It has dispatched a sharp note to tLe soviet government demanding a yes or no answer as to whether that government intends to listen to the suggestion. , Tbe note. It Is reported, contains no threats and Is not In the nature of an ultimatum, slrnply requesting a quick answer as to what soviet Russia Intends to do. Chicago's Personal Tax Big. Chicago, Aug. 0. All the personal property of Chicago and Cook county . listed by the board of assesors for taxing purposes this year Is worth $914,frC30$. accohding to figures completed by the assessors. Turks Attack Greeks. Constantinople, Aug. 0. Turk Mi nationalist forces openetl a bitter offensive against the Greeks along a sixty. mile front In Asia Minor. The battle lines extend along the Ragdad railroad westward to SImav.

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