Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 September 1920 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER DEN CD. DOANE, Publlnhor JAOPZR .... INDIANA

Th profilier grows more and moro darin-'. Vegetarians arc neu who unoke tho cigars of today. .Some set rich quick, more get rich Hlowly, most stny poor. If Russia really has no leisure class It miitft be In terrible straits for olllce boys. Will the full coal hod replace tho full linner pall as the emblem of prosperity? "Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today." It may cost you about JI more. . One thins about th jcypsy fortune tellers: they know as much about the future as anybody. Too many American working-men ore drifting Into the lazy way of less work for more pay. Those all-metal airplanes arc noncombustible, hut what Is more needed Is a nonfallable kind. Vacation Is a providential Institution to emphasize upon mankind how contemptible Is money. Kecent showers have been mighty hard on the white-shoe crop, but of great benefit to the corn. i Those predictions of lower living costs listen tulgiity well even If they don't amount to anything. Those residents 01' Danzig who are having tax riots evidently are acting as many In this country feel. Except for a couple of popular magazines there Is very little that a nickel will buy these prosperous days. The breajc In wheat is going to drive frantic those whose? business It is to explain the high cost of bread. However the reason for the Increase in the price of a pint of milk Is of no Interest to a hungry baby. " I test nu rant Holdup Falls" according to a headline. Customer must have changed his mind and walked out. They may he nhle to keep the campaign of the editors free from mudthrowing because the paste will he handler. Have you noticed that no one Is warning the public as In other years against eating too much meat in hot weather? Mankind will never -nvent an automatic, self-enforcing, free government that can be started and then be left to run Itself. Armenia is now invaded by the holshevlkl. Coupled with attacks by tht Turks, two such forces ought to neutralise each other. It doesn't make the soldiers feel any better to rellect that the unpaid Interest on foreign loans would have given them their bonus. If the people who insist on talking at the movies would say something worth hearing the audience would not miss the music so much. The way prices on almost everything eatable are dropping without changing costs to consumers is one of the line points of the "Inside game." It's funny how a fellow can play IS holes of golf, in the hot sun, who would be overcome by heat If he tried to de the same amount of work In the harvest Held. Americans won the marksman contest at Antwerp, which reminds that history does not explain who were the champion clay pigeon shooters In the original Olympic games. There are some who are mean enough to say that anyone plutocratic enough to own an extra tire with which to obscure his license plate deserves to be summoned to city court. Those enthusiasts who are organizing a barefoot children movement In order to bring down the price of shoes might prudently Inquire into the cot of tuitl-tetanus serum before they go too far. Although it Is conceded that the allies have made a muddle of their dealings with the Russian problem. It must be conceded that the Russians have made even a gnwter muddle of the management of their own affairs. With sugar down to 15 cents, the people who stocked p heavily at .0 cents will see further evidence of the Injustice of things In general. With Kurope seething as It Is, the tourist of the day must be something ot a hero as well. At least, he will he honked for a lively thne.

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South IJend. The survey of the peipermlnt growing area of Indiana and Michigan hy a special committee appointed at a conference of members of the Peppermint Growers' association, shows a pet Increase In peppermint for 1920 over VJVJ of 2fVX acres, with a probable reduction In total yield from 35,000 to 45.000 pounds. The acreage harvested In 191 was reduced U,J5 acres by winterkilling, and other destructive causes. New mint planted for 1010 has increased the total acreage, however. Since the survey began in July, weather conditions have somewhat Improved the crop prospects, but the reports received from all districts of the mint area Indicate a reduction In total yield. The nummary of the situation Is as follows: Harvested in 1919. 13.405 acres; old mint to be harvested In 1920, 10,775 acres; new mint harvested In 1920, 5,202 acres; net Increase in 1920 over 1919. 2.195 acres. South IJend. Onion pulling In St. Joseph county is under way, and with a line thus obtained on the size of the crop, growers ar already saying that the wholesale price, which hovers around 1 cent a pound, Is due for a marked Increase. This assumption Is based partly on the shortage of the crop of Hermuda onions, the chief center of which Is Laredo, Tex. According to the growers, the shortage Is so marked that liermuda seed has jumped from $2.50 a pound to $S a pound. This, it is stated, will counterbalance the effect of n record crop of the ordinary onion, so extensively raised In tills part of the state, and of which, this year, there are 44.000 acres in the Unit et) States. South Iiend. Three murder eases are on the calendar for the term of the St. Joseph circuit court. August Schultz is to he tried for the murder of Henry Mucsscl and Frank Chrobot In connection with the robbery of the of lice of the Mucsscl Hrewing company here in December, 1915, and Steven Iartek and Kniest . (Jarjepy will be tried for the murder of Carl Cook in Laporte on Christmas eve, 191S, for which crime Walter I5aker also has been sentenced to die by electricity in the state prison at Michigan City. The trials of the three men accused of the Cook murder were transferred here by change of venue from Laporte county. Anderson. Women of Anderson will have to pay poll tax under the provisions of an ordinance passed by the city council in. making appropriations and fixing the tax rate for next year. The ordinance proposes that "each Inhabitant of Anderson between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years" must pay n poll tax. The ordinance as originally drafted specified that each "male Inhabitant" between certain ages should pay poll tax. but before the ordinance was passed the word "male" was stricken from the ordinance. Indianapolis. Corn cutting, seeding of winter rye and wheat and fall plowing are engaging or are about to engage the principal attention of Hoosier farmers, says (leorge C. IJryant, agricultural statistics for the co-operative crop reporting service, in his summary of Indiana farm crop and live-stock conditions. Kokomo. Several hundred voters In Howard county, who registered September 4, will be forced to register again October 4 If they wish to keep their right to the ballot, according to C. T. Brown, Democratic county chairman, who took exception to the man ner in which applications for registrations were filled out. Indianapolis-. College students throughout flu state are confronted with the diilicuity of finding suitable living quarters as a result of the shortage of houses. The shortage of rooms apparently is as acute in the smaller college towns as In the cities. Various steps have been taken to meet It. Richmond. Tin? Wayne county council accepted the offer of "reliable persons," whose identity is not yet made known, to giv? to the county .?Ö0.000 in Liberty bonds as the purchase price of 50,(0 in county bonds, to be issued for making Improvements at the county tuberculosis hospital. Columbus. The Union Township Fanners' association has received one of two ears of lime recently ordered by the association from the State renal farm, near ( Jreeiicasth at 1.1. a ton. This Is the lirst attempt of Bartholomew eounty farmers at collective buying of lime for fertiliser. Lebanon. The sixty-ninth annual session of the Northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held In this city beginning Tiu-sday. September 2s. and continuing until the following Monday. Bishop Frederick P. Leete will preside. Ter re Haute. The Vigo County Live Stock Breeders' association U arranging for a stock show to be held here yclobor 2S and 29. Valparaiso. William St. Clair, .near this ei;y, report- a yield of 49 Vj hu-h-els of seed from Hiiht and a half acres of clover. The yield Is the largest ever recorded In the county. Ue attributes th remarkable yield to the large number of honeybees that Infected hi- field. The hmm! used for planting purples co-it M,1 a hohcl. Indianapolis. Attendance for the w !. at the state fair went well over the 1mV(hhi mark. "Bis Thursday" llvetl up to lt.. old reputation of bein the chief day at the Hooker exposition.

Indianapolis. Indiana voters ho registered September 4 as being "twenty-one years old. plus," instead of giving their specific ages, must either register again or lose their vote In the November elections. This ruling was made by the Indiana board of election commissioners. The meeting was called to make a ruling following reports from Johnson county that Republican and Democratic county chairmen there agreed not to raise the age question and to permit women. If they chose, to conceal their true age. The opinion Is given by W. YV. Spencer. Democrat, and William II. Thompson, Rejmblican, who, with the governor as the ex-Oilldo member, comprise the state board of election commissioners. Maurice K. Tennant, as a member of the state board's legal committee, also concurs in the opinion. Indianapolis. The Blackford county team, which won first honors in the boys live stock Judging contest at the state fair was composed of Mark V. Langdon, Charles Clamme, Jr., and Vaughn Johnson. The Blackford county boys won a $200 trophy and trips to the International Live Stock exposition at Chicago In November. The Decatur and Tipton county team9 tied for second place, while fourth place we.it to the Madison county team and fifth to the three hoys from Clay county. The Dearborn county team won first honors In judging dairy cattle, and will represent Indiana In the junior judging contest at the national dairy .show In Chicago In October. The next four teams In this event In the order in which they finished follow: Madison, Weils, White and Tippecanoe counties. South Rend. Heavy rains have eliminated any fear for the potato crop of northern lndlrna and southern Michigan. According to growers, tho yield will now be above normal and of sufficient diggers can be obtained the price should drop. Fruit is so plentiful throughout tho district that only the choicest specimens are being harvested. The yield Is so large that the growers fear to put any but the best on the market, realizing that

a Hooded market will reduce the prlcej to f point to make the raising of fruit unprofitable. Plums, peacnes, apples and grapes were never more plentiful and along the highways of southern Michigan displays made up of boxed and unboxed fruit are attracting the attention of autoists. English. Calvin Mitchell, age thir-ty-two, and Len Mitchell, his brother, were arrested while plowing on their farm hy S. M. Cunnlngliani, sheriff of Crawford county, and his deputy, and taken to this city, where they were placed in the, Crawford, jail, charged with the murder of John Lawrence, age thirty-li who was hilled by a shot fired from ainhush at the home of John McFarland, his brother-ln-law. Valparaiso. The state withdrew a motion for remanding of the case of the alleged Tolleston bank bandits back to Lake eount, and the case will be heard here in the superior court of Porter county, Tuesday, September 21. The state lias abandoned its intention to include burglary charges in the present indictment for murder. The case of Thomas Hatchelor will lie heard first, to be followed by three others. Indianapolis. The. monthly report of the co-operative crop reporting service for Indiana shows an Improvement In nearly all crops over a month ago. the most notable of which are the corn ami oats crops. The former shows an Increase of GVJOfJ.OOO bushels and the latter an increase of r,ror.00() bushefs. Clover seed shows an especially large increase over last year, being 100,000 bushels larger. Sullivan. A deed for $1.0:VJ.77C. requiring revenue stamps for SI.O.'l, one of the largest deeds ever recorded in Sullivan county, was filed with the county recorder and auditor. The deed transfers all the coal property of the Consolidated Indiana Coal company in Sullivan county to the Templeton Coal company. (h)shen. John YV. Miller, fortyeight, of Waterford Mills, is dead of smallpox after an illness of two weeks. The smalbmx situation In (Joshen is very seiious. Five caes were recently placed under quarantine. All school children In the city will be required to undergo vaccination. Valparaiso. The recent rains have softened up the farm lands, so that plowing can be done, preparatory to sowing winter wheat. The fruit crop in the county will be a bumper one this year. Peaches, plums, grapes, pear. and apples are abundant and all are of a high-grade quality. Indianapolis. Fake experts and "blue-sky" merchants are ihe pests of the oil industry and should be eliminated by corrective legislation, ac cording to J; . . Logan, state geologist, In a hook, that has just hsen Issued' by the state department of conservation. South Iend. Inability to ilo.it a $."MM00 issue of (i per cent bonds, maturing In five years, has made It necessary for South Bend to abandon its building program which had been planned to relieve the congested conditions In many of the school districts. Kvansville. Many of the farmers fr. the pocket counties are plowing ground for their wheat. It Is said that the acreage in this region this fall will be under that of hist year, owing to the high price of fertilize., coupled with tho present rprlco of wheat, which Is not satisfactory to the farmers. Hammond. Te Hallway Motor Car company of Hammond has sold a tract of land of CO acres In the city limit to It. B. Harter of Chicago for ?ir.V lYM). Mr. Harter I head of a icanufecluring coneern and expect to of en n plant.

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Large National Reading Class of 13,000

WASHINGTON. The home educational division of the department of the Interior has, undertaken the task of supplying Uncle Sam's scattered family circle with proper reading courses. This work was started about six years ago under the direction of the bureau of education, and today the big national reading class numbers 1 ,'1.000. Not only Is this circulating library information distributed in United States territory, but readers arc studying one or more of the twenty-two courses in far away India. China. Philippine Islands, Porto Illeo, France and Canada. Particularly is the reading course for hoys of great value, for any hoy may before he is twenty years old. even without the advantage of schools, be "Times Change; We CHAMP CLARK, when a small boy. worked for a fanner down In Kentucky who had a disposition like a rattlesnake. The man used to beat Champ on slight provocation, and as the latter did not stand six-feet-two nor weigh 1M0 pounds there was nothing for him to do but take the beatingsand bide his time. As he saw himself developing Into sturdy young manhood, Champ watched his muscles waxing strong with much gleeful satisfaction. He purposed to hunt up that farmer who had abused him and deal him out a little retributive justice. His idea was to give him a thrashing that would jiot only even up all scores to date, but that would linger long in the man's memory as one of the noteworthy events of his life. It w;is ten years before Champ Clark determined that conditions we're right for going back to that farm and creating a rod-letter day for his former employer. And these ten years hadn't softened his feelings toward the man who had trounced him when he was a small youngster. Champ had a good memory. Well, anyway. Champ knocked olT from his schooltcaching job one evening and set out on a day's journey to find the man he had been waiting

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WIIKN Ueproenatlve Albert Johnson of Washington entered congress he brought with him a dress suit all his own. What of it? Well, Mop, look listen ! Years ago Ueprescntntivc Johnson was a police reporter on a Washingtun (I). C.) morning newspaper. He decided to buy a claw-hammer suit. Johnson had a room-mate, Smith, who also had spike-tail ambitions. He forthwith had an Inspiration. He proposed that they go fifty-fifty on cost and wear. Johnson agreed. Johnson had made the acquaintance of Mrs. Stewart, wife of the senator from Nevada. She had a big. formal reception and asked Johnson's city editor to send him to write it up. Thus it befell that Johnson got a chance to try out the co-operative

"Legal Right to Remain in Ignorance"

npIIE legal right to remain In IgÄ norance is annually granted to thousands of children in states where child labor und education laws are backward. Is the information furnished by the children's bureau of tiie department of labor. According to an account of the administration of the federal child labor law soon to be published by the bureau, only 7S. children out of 10.01M) to whom working certificates were issued, or less than 4 per cent, had attended or completed the eighth grade, though completion of the eighth grade Is generally regarded as necessary to seuro even the rudiments of an education, the bulletin says. Only one of these five states has n compulsory law for children up to sixteen, even when unemployed, and that law permits many exemptions. In a recent study of school attendanee In Cleveland It was found that 'J..V.0 children were so Irregular In th.Mr attendance at school as to interfere with their studies, and that the reasons for staying out of school ivere In many cases trivial In addition to lax school attendance laws, three of the five states permit children six tees years old and younger to go to work even If ilif, cannot read or write or never have been to

come familiar with a large part of the best literature of the world. The course usually requires three years. Kach member must notify the Washington bureau when the book Is begun and when It Is finished, .Including a summary of episodes and chats acters and the reader's impressions. It must not be understood that' the bureau of education furnishes the books to be rend ; It simply furnishes courses of reading-and encourages the co-operation of the state superintendent of public Instruction as well as the directors of the extension division of state universities. Nine states are already actively co-operating In this work and include Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky. North Carolina, Arizona. Wisconsin and North and South Dakota. This reading circle embodies literature, history, biography, fiction, homemaking, vocational subjects such as shipbuilding, Iron and steel, merchant marine and machine shop work. It is only necessary to send name and address, age and a brief state?ei)f o ' f te '' ivi'ü'i'i ' i 4 the home education division of the department of education in order to be enrolled without pay on the National Heading Circle Register. Change With Them" those ten years to meet again. As lie neared the old farmhouse the recol lections 1 of the heatings he had en dured there came hack as if they had occurred within a week Instead of a decade. It had been a long wait, but,' at last, his time had come. He knocked at the door, and even then clenched his lists, ready to begin the exercises. Hut there was a hitch in the program. Ten years had dealt harshly with Champ Clark's former employer. His wife and children had died, and he lay ill. He was all alone when Chain) entered the house, and there were signs of poverty and distress about the place. "I came here to beat you up," remarked the future speaker of the house; "been waiting to do that for ten years, but I guess I won't." dress suit, besides the evening suit, Johnson also wore a now and costly pair of patent leather shoes. He was in an optimistic mood when he bought them and believed that he could be comfortable in a slightly smaller sized shoe than nature had in mind for him when his feet were designed. A sad-eyed butler let him into the Stewart mansion. Mrs. Stewart came forward with much cordiality to greet him. He stepped toward her, hut his shoes were not the antiskid kind and they did not assimilate with the lloor. The finer started to rear up ami strike the defenseless Johnson and he clutched at a support which chanced to be a massive and high-priced vase pronounced vawze containing a huge palm. This was surrounded hy smaller palms and ferns and ilowers. All went down with Johnson. Everything was a total loss, including his dress suit, which spilt with a sort of low wail. All was a blank to Johnson after that until he found himself In the street. That was -0 years ago, but to this day Johnson grows pale and nervous when he thinks of it. Anyway. "Own your own half-after-six clothes" Is his motto nowadays. i have a LEGAL RIGHT TO REMAIN iurr k UT school. ' Two require 011I3- that the child applying for work shall have gone to school for a brief period during the preceding year. Among the other states In the United States 23 require he completion of a specified grade. And 11! more and the District of Columbia require the ability to, read and write. None of the five states where children were granted certificates makes any provision for continuation schools In order to make up for defective education In childhood. Only IS states In the United States have laws which make su h a provision. England, under the Fisher education act. which went Into effect April 1, Is rapidly establishing continuation schools throughout the country, and will shortly compel attendance up to the age of Igntecu.

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'5 HARVEST Threshing Shows Increase Over Expected Yields. The Winnipeg Free Press of a few days ago contained a cartoon of which the following Is a copy: A This probably as much as anything else will give some Idea of the state of mind of the Western Canada farmer, as he watches the tally from the thrashing machine while his wheat Is being carried to the elevator. From all sections of the country, the most optimistic reports are received, the local and city papers are filled with reports from twenty to thirty bushels of wheat to the acre, while In some places oats a:e showing a record of as high as 120 bushels to the acre. Referring to Saskatchewan. It Is confidently expected that the wheat yield will be nearly 12T million bushels Heavy rains which fell In districts that did not promise so well In July, had greatly Improved the prospects there, and there Is no question that paying yields will be produced. The yields in the eastern part of the province may not show to the advantage that will those of the western part, but too much cannot be said of this, for It Is the results as they come from the machine, and often these prove happily deceptive. There Is now every reason to believe that the wheat crop of the three prairie province's will approach 1150 million bushels. Alberta will exceed the 70 million bushels that had been looked for. The average yield will be considerably higher than It has been In the province In any of the last four years. The Department of Agriculture In a recent report gave the opinion that It cannot fall below twenty-two bushel to the acre, and that It might easily pass the twenty-five bushel mark. Most of the wheat In the province when the report was written, stood well up to three feet high, and on some fields was still higher. The report goes on that In parts of Southern Alberta forty and fifty bushels to the acre yields will not be uncommon, while there will be a, good many yields of from thirty to thirty-five bushels to the acre. In the northwest part of the province. In the country surrounding I.attleford and adjacent to the Canadian National Hallway line to IJoydminstor, and south the crops are excellent and the yield will be heavy. A larger than average wheat crop Is being thrashed In Manitoba. It has been estimated that the total yield of the three provinces will 110 be less than S'J.'.OOO.OOO bushels, and It may be that somewhere between J.'iO.OOO,000 and IIOO.OOO.OOO bushels will be the final figure. Oats Is a good crop In all three provinces. This crop has also grown rapidly during the last two or three weeks. Excepting from those fields which were sown late for green feed, the yield will be heavy and the grain excellent. Harley and rye are above the average. There was sufficient help to harvest the crop. Advertisement. In the Country. "So this is the country?" "Yes." MI haven't seen a stile. Ko; they're out of style. Watch Your Kidneys! That "bad back" is probably due to weak kidneys. It shows in a dull, throbbing backache, or sharp twinse when stooping. You have headaches, too. dizzy Fpells, a tired nervous feeling and irrejrular kidney action. Don't neglect itthere is danger of dropsy, gravel or BrizhtV difie! Um Doan't Kidncy Pills, Thousands hare saved themselves more serious ailments by the timely ue of Doan't. Ask your neighbor! An Indiana Coro Mrs. Wm. Seller. Bremen, Ind., says: "My back pained me so I could hardly stoop. I couldn't k e 0 p on my feet for any length of time and would have to sit down. I had pains In the top and back of my head and my kidneys didn't act regularly. I heard ot Doan's Kidney Pills and they soon brought relief' j r 1; j 1 Get Don At Any Stör, CCe m Cox DOAN'S "rJifo FOSTER MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. II V. 1 VV. N. U., Indianapolis, No. ?S-192Q.

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