Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 August 1920 — Page 6

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If campaign money talks. It Is caroful not to tell where It came from. The fuel supply threatens to assert Itself literally as a burning Issue. Conversation was n lost art over, before flu automobile came along and ran over It. The army worm, unfortunately, Is no! soldiering on the Job, crop exports tell u. If they continue to rise In price potatoes soon may appear In tissue pnjer Kimonos. And then, along came the price of pointoos to add to the consumer's peck of trouble. Overalls huvo Just reached Paris. Vet that's supposed to be the town that sets the fashions. It is remarkable how "prominent" n person has been the moment he or .vhe gets Into trouble. It costs a lot to live In America, but not so much as merely to exist In le.s favored regions. Tu attempting to lift the cop this Huns Mr. Upton will notice that It Is a spoonful or two lichter. It should be possible to make taxes Just, but It Is not likely that they win ever be made popular. One ttiln which appears clearly In (he r'.ispatches from Kussla Is that .somebody is an awful liar. This is good weather In which to cultivate mental coolness and keep down the bodi.'y temperature. Sir Thomas Upton must have written the original of "If at first, you don't succeed, try, try again." In these days of high wages the warning .ignlust accepting suspicious $JO notes nearly affects the workingtnmi. Vassnr conferred degrees on 2oß 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 be going after his record. ttolshevism 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 pre dieting "squalls," probably as a result of too much reading of the polltlcm I news. Oon't let the price lead you to believe that the motor-car and dog in the clothing advertisement go with the suit. As n substitute for an ablebodled back to the farm movement the window box garden leaves much to be desired. runners' wealth is computed like that of the dentists. The money they make depends on the number of achers thev work on. Whenever the servant problem strikes a household the daughters thereof might to stand up and say, "Mother, we are here." Ami If they don't lo It well, we never favored spanking the girls. Agitation is rife In the West for a six-hour day which would hardly give sutluient leisure to denounce resulting advance in prices. The lord knew what he was doing when he fashioned woman's elbows so they couldn't be seen by the men she walked with or met. What's become of the good old word 'earns"? Men are "getting" or "making" so much a day. but no one speaks of "earning" anything. Married men who art kicking on what is required to run a house ought to take the contract and see if they could reduce the expense. The sugar board's statistician figures that war control saved the American people $l.rM.00,000. They have since been handing It back. In saying that our present civilization N all wrong and not worth preserving the communists who seek to destroy the rest of It forget that they are a part of It. Some ph),(mmi parcel post packager from America are lying around Trance iifdcllvcrcd. One of the things they don't do inv better It. France? Tor an example of the true spirit of Auuricnti Independence, our choice Is the sehoolboy who mees his teacher on the street during vacation. We read that "the lettuce should not be eaten when served with salad, as It 1. intcndi-d only as a garnish." What'? ti e matter? I loo tbe nlnd poison th I ttu'-o?

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miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiin Indianapolis. Machinery of. state departments was put In operation to carry out the provisions of tlio more Important measures passed by the second special session of the general assembly. Post assembly developments In the statehouse Included the following: 1. The reappointment of Jesse K. nschbanch as state examiner of the board of accounts, from which he resigned July V2 to resume the speakership of the house of representatives. 2. Governor Goodrich signed three of the major acts passed by the assembly the Johnson home rule tax act, the Tuthlll-KIper curative tax act anil the coal and food commission act. The governor also signed the state war memorial measure. o The coal and food commission Was formally organized. The? commission Is composed of Mr. Kschbach. Governor Goodrich and Otto L. Klaus, auditor of state. Under the terms of the act the accounts board serve as tbe coal commission. I. It became known that Charles Fox. president of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, would be appointed by Governor Goodrich as the fifth member of the state Industrial board. The place has not been filled because of a lack of funds, but the legislature provided more funds for the hoard. f. The state board of tax commissioners began the preparation of 1010 assessment data to be certified to local taxing ofliclals In accordance with the Tuthlll-KIper bill. 0. After careful study of the curative tax bill the governor and the members of tbe tax board and other state ofliclals were of the opinion that the measure will relieve the tax mess effectually and that 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. Kschbach was given full authority to administer the act .and to employ a fuel director, counsel to the commission and other employees. Another meeting 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. Every dealer in coal will be required to obtain a license. The license fees are: Dealers, $."; wholesalers, $10 and operators, $2.". There Is also provided a tax of 1 cent a ton on all coal mined. Connersvllle. Clarence Kdwards, 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 he 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 s'v 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 120.000 acres. Indianaindls. 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 C0 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 the fair ground. The visit of Mrs. Harding, It Is said, will bo a nonpartisan affair, as the committee of 00 women will be made up without regard to political faith. Indianapolis. The emergency appro print Ions 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.lfiS.lM.ftV of which $S70.00r.G0 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 $201.1 1S.0.1. which was advanced t)y Otto Klnuss, auditor of state, out of the general fund, to keep the Institutions going. Is appropriated to reimburse the general fund. Hartford City. Fanners In lilack,Ynl 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 To to SO bushels an acre. The average yield In the county Is about T0 bushels. Indianapolis. Ills whereabouts unknown to the members of his family for Jo years. John Pugh, a cousin of Marshall Pugh. wealthy Indianapolis Irani owner, who tiled last year, has appeared as n claimant foT a share of the estate of Marshall Fugh. Tbe appearance of John rush, believed by relatives to have been dead for many year, made necessary the chanclnr of a decree made by .lud ire Louis R. Kwhnnk In circuit court last week naming the 21 first cousins of Marshal! huh who should share In the estate 11 III.

Indianapolis. The special session of the Indiana general assembly called by Gov. James F. Goodrich to consider emergency tax legislation and appropriation measures adjourned sine die. A total of So bills were acted upon favorably during th special session. The legislature has been In session since July 12. Final action was taken by both houses np: proving' remedial legislation designed to meet the situation created by horizontal Increases made In 1010 assessments by the state tax board and later declared valid by the state superior 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 tbe state tax board. The emergency appropriation measure passed during the second yeek of the session provided approximately $1,200,000 for the use of state institutions until .September 30, the close of the present fiscal year. Another important measure passed provides for the construction by the state of a war memorial building to cost $2.000.000 on ground donated by the Mtate on the North side In Indianapolis. The building will provide national headquarters for the American Legion. Jasper. The approximate ncreagw 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 Do per cent of last year's crop and condition at present Is good. The acreage of oats Is about US per cent of last year's crop and condition is about normal. The rye crop l somewhat above normal, perhaps 107 per cent as compared with the crop of 1010. The normal acreage of tomatoes Is out. The crop Is a little lato and yield cannot be estimated now. Kntire crop contracted to canning companies. There Is a good crop of fruit of nearly all kinds. Apples are selling for $I.fi0 a bushel. Prospects for peaches are excellent, with none yet on market. The number of farm laborers Is under normal. Wages average about $."0 a month. There Is no demand for boys without farm experience, and many farmers are dragging their work along with only sutliclent 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 figures. A crop of 47o,000 bushels was produced on 39,500 acres last year and It Is not believed that the yield this year will exceed 210,000 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 freeze and were sown to oats and other crops this spring. The wheat. crop Is valued at about $oSS,000. Greonsburg. 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 have become full 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 linns say, ami the situation has become serious. Indianapolis. Indiana high schools, both rural and city, now have vacancies for 1.0711 teachers, and onty enough teacher In prospect to IUI 310 of these vacancies, according to a report submitted to L. X. Nines, state superintendent of public Instruction, by F. R. Wetherow. state high school Inspector. The shortage of high school teachers. Mr. Wetherow said. Is considerably greater than at this time last year, ami the? available supply of unemployed teachers much less. Hammond. The report of II. J. White. White county coroner, following an impiest In the death of Arthur Heck or, a Chicago chemist, contains the charge that Rocker's death resulted from the criminal negligence of Alvln Schreiber of Hammond. Rocker

was killed while riding in Schreibor car when It lilt 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 crapple from the Riverside state hatchery in the two weeks ending July 23. totaled 13,070. Of this number 11.000 were bass and ,075 were crapple. according to announcement of the superintendent of the division of fish and ga.no under the state conservation department. The fingerlings were distributed in streams and ponds on applications filed with the department. Lebanon. Tin Davis Construction company of Arcadia has appealed its case against Kagle township. Boone county, for release from a road contract, to the Indiana state supreme court. This action was taken as the result of Judge K. M. Chloe of the Hamilton circuit court overruling a motion for a new trial at that court. Indianapolis. More than half of the niral high schools of the United States, which offer four-year courses, and whose term ran only 140 days a year or es, are in Indiana, according to a report received by F. T. Wetherow. state high school Inspector, from the statistical division of the federal bureau of education. A report on the shollnc offered In the rural high schools of the country, containing the. figures, bs been worked out by A. O. Neal of the statistical division, and formerly state high school Inspector for Indiana.

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"Who's Who' on Congresoional "Junket?"

I DECIDED nor TogoBur WASHINGTON. "Who's Who" on the excursion promoted by the Pan-Pacific union' to enable members of congress and government ofliclals to study trade conditions in the transpacific countries that sailed on the army transport (Ircat Northern July 5 from San Francisco? Nobody seems to know. Originally more than 200 were listed when the Invitation wns 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 olT by the cry of Junket," others were plainly told In letters and resolutions from their constituent that they had better slay at home. Originally the cost was lixed about 1.7o a day. Then It was given out that all must pay their own expenses

Soldiers' Bonus Legislation in Congress

ALL chance of the passage of soldiers' bonus legislation next winter seems to have gone glimmering. Failure of the party platforms to dedare for the proposition seems to have destroyed all hopes of favorable nctlon by congress. Supporters of the bonus bill had relied Impllclty on the political conventions taking a stand on the subject. They had gone on the theory that political pressure from the oxseniee inen would be so strong that both parties would be sure to declare for some form of adjusted compensation. Tin soldlers' 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 the bill to the floor of the senate. Kven In case the bill In some miraculous manner should get 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 bv Secretary' of the

You May Now Do Business With Russians

UXCLi; 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 either 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 he employed In war, they may not be exported. The post ollice 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 bolshevik!. Your Uncle Sam's Big HOW Uncle Sam has developed one of the biggest insurance companies in the world is shown in a statement Issued by the bureau of war risk insurance summarizing the progress which lias 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 nnd seamen, has done a total business of $'J,4S7,913,3ol ; collected premiums amounting to $47,rSo,3S0 ; paid claims of 5r.UlSf357, and has a surplus over expenses and refunds of $17.rWtS21. The 'allotment and allowance dlvlslon, which developed into a hanking business run for the benefit of foldlcrs, sailors and marines and their families and deiendent relatives, has glnce the beginning of the war approved 2.000,s.0a claims for allotment nnd allowance, Involving payments for ollotments amounting to $ns.:ggj.jofl, for allowances amounting to SiiOO.iSl,OOo, a total expenditure of S.Vi.'.Slo.511. The Insurance division has written ift31.fliVl Dollries covering insurance to

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othr?r 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 13G members." Special trains were to bo 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 J Japan. Kverywherc banquets, receptions, excursions of various kinds, presentations and other affairs were leln? 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. Hut later orders bnnvd the newspaper men from the trip and restricted It to congressmen and members of their Immediate families. Who the congressmen are was to have been made public when the Great Northern sailed. Hut the transport sailed with the state secret undlvulged 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. Hot h 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 a vindication for the minority among house members of both parties. If trade is actually . resumed with Russia, It apparently will have to be conducted 'through the co-operative societies In the soviet nation. These societies, which have a membership of UO.tKHMKM). furnish the only known medium for the resumption of trade between the United 'States and 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 oilier 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 usv 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 disorganization nnd chaos. Insurance Company POLICIES 3,r?3 the amount of $40,284.892.500. . collected gross premium remittances from all sources approximating $338.012,000, handled 128..100 claims for Insurance on account of death represented by Insum nee to the amount of $1,141,318.133, while 3,2,7) claims for Insurance on account of permanent and total disability involve insurance to the amount of $28..WO. The medical division has developed a medical practice of the following proportions: Patients given treatment and examination. 4.V2.CHO; patients admitted to hospitals under government supervision. VI.709; patients at present receiving hospital treatment, 17,500; potential ttleuU. .l.ftK).

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Military Experts in Warsaw Say City Must Be Evacuated Within Three Days. RETREAT IS DECKS A ROUT Polish Army Along the Dug Failed to Destroy Bridges Behind Them Failure of Parley With .Reds Stuns People. Paris, Aug. 0. Warsaw will have to be evacuated within a few days. In the opinion of the French and HrltIsh military experts there, ami the government Is expected to be moved within that perhnl. probably to Cracow. The report of th members of the military mission, telegraphed here, declared that the PnlNh army nlons the HIver Hug, had retreated so precipitately that It did not oven destroy the bridges behind It. This river was Warsaw's line of defense. Cracow, Poland, Aug. 0. Thousands of wounded soldiers- are taxing hospital facilities here, and doctors and nnrses, exhausted by long vigil, are often dropping beside tbe operating tables. The American Ited Cross has opened an Improvised school for nurses and iJOO 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 Harnnovitchl between the Polish nnd soviet Husslan armistice commissions hail been without result. The report that the Husslan soviet government Insisted that peace conversations begin at once caused a sensation In political circles. Announcement was made that (Jen. Homer's party was authorized only to confer with the bolshevik! on the question of an armistice. This was In lino with the understanding that prevailed when the Polish emissaries left this city for the front. The breaking off of the negotiations' was 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 and 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 Poles contend that It will be physically impossible for them to comply with this proposal. Ofliclals of the American consulate have packed up their most Important records for prompt shipment from this city In case the Russian bolshevik! 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. Tosen nnd Danzig are crowded, and seat reservations an selling at a large premium. People are lighting 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 soldiers depart until they bear proper cretlentlals. While the Polish delegates are retracing their steps homeward from Haranovitchi, when the conferencewith the bolshevlkl ended so abruptly, the bolshevlkl troops are reported everywhere to be pressing their attacks on the entire, battle front from the East Prussian line on the north to the region adjacent to Lemberg in (I.v licla on the south. Insldo the great battle are the Poles are hurriedly preparing defenses, particularly trenches and barbed-wire entanglements In front of Warsaw. Many Americans and Hritish subjects, including a number of former officers, are reported by the recruiting officers to be enlisting in the Polish volunteers. London, Aug. C. The Hritish government Is Irritated over what It helieves Is soviet Russia's equivocation over the Hritish suggestion that the' Russians halt at the armistice line of demarcation in Polund 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. The note. It Is reported, contains no threats and Is not In the nature of an ultimatum, simply requesting a quick answer as to what soviet Russia Intends to do. Chicago'i Personal Tax Bifl. Chicago. Aug. C. All the personal property of Chicago and Cook county listed by the tKMird of nssosors for taxing purposes this year Is worth $M4,CkVJ,30$, accohding to figures completed by the assessors. Turks Attack Greeks. Constantinople, Aug. (I. Turkish nationalist forces opened a bitter often, slve against the Greeks along a sdxtymile front In Asia Minor. The battle lines extend along the Ragdad ralN road westward to Slmav.