Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 38, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 February 1921 — Page 4

JASPER WEEKLY COURIER Oy DEN ED DOAKE.

AMPER. DÜIMIH COUNTY, INDIAN Eatered anecond-clLi.' matter at th onatoflice t Jasper Inn. under the ace of March 3,1897 inr no ion 2 0 Ter Year. This papei a rr.jiled regularly tda aiorcriben until a lpßn;te order to liecintinaeie receive! r 1 rre:?paid n fall; oo less in tin aVinetion cl th publishers different cccrte should be deeracdadyieable. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11. 192J FEED FROM WASTE SEED. Because milk is not chewed, people are too likely to think of it only as a beverage to satisfy thirst and not as a food. There are a great many prejudices and whims connected with the human diet that must be considered by those who have food products for Kale. The tomato was considered an ornamental plant by our great-grand-patents. People somehow got the idea they wore not good to eat and thus missed the opportunity of enjoying this most popular vegetable. Now there are so many tomatoes used for food that a plan is being worked out to make edible oil and meal for stock feeding from waste tomato seeds, which amount to 1,000 to 2,000 tons yearly In the big pulping plants east of the Mississippi river. In Missouri there are now 223 tomato canning factories. Fifty-seven of these report they are fanning under contract 6,409 acre. On the fingers of one hand the years could be counted since the millionaire was regarded as a man of wealth and power. In gome countries he is still at the helm, but not in all, says Christian Science Monitor. Of this one Is forcibly reminded by a story just chronicled of a Kussian millionaire, on his way to Palestine, who had to beg In the streets of Constantinople because he had not enough money, when his rubles were converted into Turkish pounds to pay his fare to Jaffa! The irony of circumstances! A millionaire converted into a beggar! It sounds like a fairy tale, until the ruthless statistics of the exchange are scanned. One of the most Interesting experiments of recent times from a human Interest standpoint was that in which Madame Tetrazzini, standing in her apartment in a New York hotel, sang to all ships In port and 800 miles out at sea that had a radio telephone on board, and was heard as distinctly as though she were singing to her hearers assembled In a hall. Also the cheers and demands for an enfrom ships so far away and so i..apart were heard as distinctly. We are so accustomed to the marvels of science that we forget to stop a moment to remember what a wonderful age we are living in. Man has never been able to domesticate any animal that does not naturally run In herds or packs. liven the e-ocla! instinct in the animal's makeup, and man can take the place of the group leader. This Is most notably true of the log, but It hold good, in less remarkable degree, with all other creatures that man has brought under hi yoke, from the reindeer of the arctie to the water buffalo of the tropic. Charges His Wife Used Dog Chain to Whip Him London "Do you mean to say you could not get into your own homer said Mr. Ebblewhite, the Highgate magistrate, to a man with a in urn bruised face, who said hi wife had kept him out. "Well. I tried on Saturday," replied the man. "and this (pointing to his fare) is what I got. And thi- (holding up a dog chain) is what she did it with." Mr. Fbbleuhite Give your wife my compliments and tell her to roine and see me on Friday. WIFE SHOOTS -OTHER WOMAN' "Here's Where You Die" Sh Crie ind Plugs Victim Four Times. Springfield. O. A strange woman visited Miss Thelma Keller, twenty years old, at her home here. 'Do you know Frank Snowden?" the woman asked. "Why yes." Miss Keller answered, irnrprlsed. "Well, he is my husband. Here Is where you die." She hot Miss Keller four times. The police arrested Mrs. Snowden. She confessed, asserting Miss Keller had traveled with Snowden to Columbus and elsewhere. Mrs. Snowden will be charged with first-degree murder if Miss Keller dies. Snowden was a captain In the signal corps during the war. .Miss Inez Mitchell, a friend of Miss Keller, taya JSnowden posed as a single mart.

OLD LOVE TOKENS Years Ago All Valentines Had a Personal Touch.

Much of the Romance of the Day Hai Passed, Though Sentiment Is the Same as Ever. Three, hundred years ago young men and women wrote their own valentines, which consisted then only of love mottoes, or declarations of affection, written in verse from a very full heart and on plain pair. Many of our great-grandmothers saved these 'old missives. Perhaps our parents came across such valentines, old and yellow and decaying, packed away In lavender in the bottom of a dusty trunk up in the attic. Vet when these valentines were first penned and put in her hand how grandma's heart did palpitate and the blushes rise to her cheeks I No matter how halting the sonnet, or anagram or triolet. It was the music of love to her. "Heart," "dart" and "art" did rhyme sweetly! The machine-made valentines that we buy nowadays have lost this personal touch, though perhaps some of them have gained from an artistic point of view. Today It Is only the school children and a few open-hearted Interested grown-ups who lind the custom of valentine making and valentine giving the fascination that It used to b?. Why, even Charles Lamb wrote valentines, and loved to. Now the modern young man drops In a confectioner's or florist's shop and orders candy or flowers sent to Her. He scorns the valentine sonnet whereby the girls of today are missing a heap of romance. This was the day when a young man might accuse some young woman he admired of being a coquette without Insulting her. In those days Yo quette" had just such a naughi meaning ns "vamp" has today, it meant a heartless trifler. If she thereupon sent him a handmade valentine on which wore two bleeding hearts made as one, it was her answer to his accusation. It meant that conquering the hearts of other men than lie. meant nothing to her; that only his heart and hers in all the world counted, that her heart was bleeding for. him just as much as his was suffering for her. The comic valentine is an outgrowth or burlesque of the super-sentimental valentine and has almost died out. Instead of pointing out the recipient's perfections and charms it dwells vividly and uncomplimentarily on his mannerisms, clothes and appearance, in colored caricature. Iled hair, large noses, blotched complexions, remarkable skinniness or avoirdupois are usually the jocular themes, because alentlnes are sent anonymously, it is possible with impunity to remark scathingly on the physical characteristics or disposition of one's friends or oes. NOT AS IN DAYSc OF OLD Valentine Day Missives Somehow Differ From Those of One's Gay and Festive Youth. When we wert yet a youngster small. And sweethearts true swapped valentines, What Joy was ours! How we recall Their mushy lines! Then when to man's Imp o r ta nco grown. Those dreadful comics were our bane: Their hits at faults we though t unknown Gave us a pain. But February 14 moves us no more Although the day brings missives still; We get a dunning letter, or. Perchance bUL No old time token greets our eye, To make us either gay or mad; Both love and malice pass us by It's very sad. Make Sure of Valentine Kiss. If you have no sweetheart to come to kiss you early on St. Valentines morning, go out and sweep the nearest well with a broom. Once the cobwebs are gone he will come flying.

LINCOLN THE MAN

ff' t:ßf lpljlp

'Leimt Aim. who tameless pull doimifa house of ajwiher.kit kt J him labor dilfyenilyj JJ io puna one ror himself. M A recent writer on Lincoln as a "lover of mankind" has likened him to two other great men who have become a common possession of our Anglo-Saxon race. Although they seem almost as far separated from each other as frohi Lincoln himself, both Chaucer and Sir Walter Scott reveal to the careful observer the qualities that provoked a comparison apparently so remote. These are the qualities of a lover of mankind. Chaucer displayed them in depicting, with sympathy for all, the group of widely various characters who made their Immortal Canterbury Pilgrimage together. Scott displayed them not only through the creatures of his imagination, but also in his recorded relations with all his fellow beings. In that resp-.-ct Chaucer Is at a disadvantage, because he lived long before biography had attained anything like its modern abundance. Lincoln, later thai: Scott, and more tempting to bi Why Lincoln Helped a Bug. President Lincoln was walking with ' a friend about Washington and turned back for some distance to ass'ist a beetle that had got on its back nnd lay on the walk, legs sprawling in air, vainly trying to turn itscif over. The friend expressed surprise that the President, burdened with the cares of a warring nation, should find time to spare in assisting a bug. "Well," said Lincoln, with that homely sincerity that touched the hearts of millions of his countrymen, "do you know that if I had left that bug struggling there on Iiis back I wouldn't have felt just right? I wanted to put him on his feet and give him an equal chance with all the other bugs of his class." Cut Lincoln Off His List. General Huidekoper in 1SG2 detailed two companies of his regiment to guard President Lincoln's summer residence. He saw the President constantly and they became real friends. The first time the general met the President. Lincoln, who had heard that the Huidekopors came from Holland, inquired : "What is the difference between an Amsterdam Dutchman and any other damn Dutchman?" And the general, who admired Lincoln above all other Americans, adds: "If I had hail any awe of the President it was then and there forever gone." Girard. in Philadelphia Ledger.

I

With a Nation's Tribute

- -4

Funeral Train of the Martyred President Leaving Washington Under Escort. From an Old Print. J

The splendor of the ceremonials which aggrandize living royalty as much as they glorify dead heroism was wholly wanting in the obsequies of Mr. Lincoln. No part was taken by the government except the provision of a suitable military escort. All beyond was the spontaneous movement of the people. For seventeen hundred miles, through eight great states cf the Union whose population was not less than 15 million, an al

KIWI I

ographers because of his high place, is the most fully recorded of them all although there is no single book about him that seems so sure to persist as the "Life of Scott," by Scott's son-in-law, Lockhart. ' It is in the very variety and extent of the studies of Lincoln's character that the strength of his hold on the imagination of the world is shown. Fifty- ix years have passed since he met his tragic death. Through all that period the interpretations of his character historical, analytical, poeticalhave steadily Increased in number. The bare facts of his unique, yet strangely typical and signiticant career, arrange themselves in perspective like the acts of a great uplifting tragedy. It he had lived in the days when myths were made, it is easy to imagine that In the process of time he would have grown into a great mythical figure, a King Arthur of the New World, a half-divine hero like those that we associate with the most distant antiquity. But he belonged to no such period. His age is one of the most amply recorded In all history, and the records of his life are so intertwined with those of men and events quite without poetic or heroic suggestion, that his feet can never be wholly removed from the earth. Indeed, it is much better that no such possibility exists. We need to know that out of our common life can spring so extraordinary an example of the development of which our human nature is capable. .When all is said and done, when his wisdom, his patience, his sacrifice are fully remembered, we shall delight pre-eminently to recall him as the friendty, humorous, accessible lover of mankind. Youth's Companion. Lincoln and Sumner. Lincoln was modestly proud of his stature and of the effect of the physical man, especially when actuated by noble sentiments. He used to speak of his height to every tall man he met, and to propose measuring another guileless habit of self-gratifica tion. The only refusal he Is known to have received was from Charles Sumner, who was also tall and proud of his height. Sumner was worrying the President, as he often did, about some perplexing matter, when Lincoln abruptly challenged him to measure. "Sumner declined," said Lincoln, "making a tine speech about this being the time for uniting our fronts against the enemy, and not our backs. But I guess lie was afraid, though he is a good piece of a man. I have never had much to do with bishops where I live, but, do you know, Sumner is my idea of a bishop." Harper's Weekly. As Lincoln Is Remembered. The work he did, the sum of his deeds and their great fruitage, may inspire the chronicler of our national life and the recorder of God's handwriting In the annals of His world; but to the rank and file, who know but vaguely the details of his heroic achievements, the memory of Lincoln takes the form of a warming, loving, saddening personal presence, a latterday reflection of the everlasting Man of Sorrows. most continuous procession of mourners attended the remains of the beloved President. There was no pageantry save their presence. There was no tribute but their tears. They bowed before the bier of him who had been prophet, priest and king to his people, who had struck the shackles from the slave, who had taught a higher sense of duty to the free man, who had raised the nation to a loftier conception, of faith and hope and charity.

CUPID'S Oil DAYjabor RULES COST

Fourteenth of February Belongs to Him Alone. Anniversary Brightens the Drab Month With Memories of the Past and Joy of the Present lightening the dull, drab month of February and doing their very best to cheer up and bring love Into our hearts, the valentines the valentines smile at us with their lace-and-forget-me-not daintiness from the shop windows. There are elaborate "millionaire" valentines of celluloid and blue ribbons that come in big lace boxes, like French dolls; there are valentines that when pulled out like an accordion be1come Cinderella coaches of cardboard, laden with Iives and Venules and Cupids. . Others resolve themselves into airy pink-and-blue palate yon never know peopled with delightful goddesses and doves. But the best and most sincere, perhaps, are the old-fashioned valentine vistxs of foamy paper hue. through which you look upon hearts redder than lovers lips, in a prosper! of vilets and forget-me-nots. And hidden nway, like a billet doux tn a bouquet, a little verse: TMs heart, sweet love, I ."end to you. Together with these violets blue; And if you like this heart of mine. I pray you be my vajentlne. Could anything,. moreImple or direct to the poInJ$ As unerringly as Cupid's darts or ft beau's rapier, the verse carries It'inesage home. It may be that the Elizabethan lyrics, the love songs of Herrick and Lovelace and Suckling, survive today only in the valentine. And, ah, what memories these harbingers of love bring with them I They lead us back along the columbinebordered road to yesterday, over the asphodel meadows of Youth and First Love and Childhood Fancies, and we meet and kiss our first sweethearts again alas, they have gone out of our lives these many years. And so, dear little Valentine, accept these violets and forget-me-nots, and hug this message close to j'our heart for surely a sweetheart te the sweeter for a valentine, and. as all wise men know, 'tis love that makes the world go round. GOOD OLD SAINT IN TROUBLE Embarrassed by Shower of Hearts, Though It Would Seem He Should Be Used to It. St. Valentine slyly Put up his umbrella. "This shower of hearts Would embarrass a fellow. 'I'm glad that I manage it Once In a year. Exercise Is the thin? Hearts are needing, I fear. While many are beating, They're all out of tune. And cold as December Instead of warm June. 'So I'll mix 'em and change 'em And warm 'em up, too." I wonder If he'll fix Your heart up for youT Valentine Challenge. One form which the observance of Valentine's day took In England was that of a person's valentine being the first young man or woman that person saw xn Valentine's day. This developed into the custom of challenging one's valentine by saying, "Good morrow, 'tis St. Valentine's day.w The one who said it first upon meeting a person of the opposite sex received a gift Interesting Valentine Reading. Interesting reading for Valentine's day is Dickens' account of Samivel Weller's laborious writing of a valentine to his housemaid love, signed Tour lovesick Pickwick." TEDDY'S VALENTINE W f -I VCD' Ji ,Y - - ;- Vr-rr :t:, r I . . i I a . -r -r V J MoSrtYuly will Xry A I Jr.. r n i rn 3 he vuhol CT O

Mir up

ROADSJILLIONS Public Directly Interested in' Effort to Stop Drain on Carriers' Income.

BIG SUMS FOR WORK NOT DONE Railways Asking Labor Board to Abrogate Wasteful Agreements Made Under Federal Control. "The entire country, Its consumers. Its fanners, its workmen, and even the railway employees themselves, are directly interested with the railroads In cutting down railway operating expenses." ! This Is the keynote of the case presented by the railroads to the 1'nited States Kallroad Labor Hoard, now in session in Chicago. The railroads have submitted evidence to the board to show win the National Agreements affect Ins railway shop labor should be abrogated, believing that this is a vitally important step in the process of reducing operating expenses. j This step Is not only necessary to i insure adequate earning power to the railroads, but will make possible an ultimate reduction in rates. The agreements were made by the j Railroad Administration just before the end of Federal control. The sum total of the rules and working conditions provided by the National Agreements have Increased the operating expenses of the railroads by hundreds of millions, and have decreased the efilcieney and output of the employees In other ways resulting In losses which cannot be calculated in dollars and cents. For several weeks the railroads have been multiplying instances of the absurd and extravagant results of the labor rules fastened upon them by the National Agreements. In one case cited before the board a machinist was paid IGV2 hours' wages for work all performed . within eight hours. This case Illustrated the effect of the rule that for each ''call" the worker is to be paid five hours' wages even if he works only ten minutes. The case of a car repairer on the Virginian Railway, who was recently paid over $1.CXXJ for services which were never rendered, and In addition the same amount of overtime as was made by his gang, was another example. In connection with the rule that none but mechanics or apprentices shall do mechanics work, the following was cited to Indicate its unfairness: Five Hours' Pay for 30 Minutes' Work "The Kl Paso & Southwestern Railroad recently had an engine set out at Douglas, and 'about the time It was ready to go to Its train It developed that a' window light was broken In the cab. It was necessary for the foreman to call a carpenter to do the work that he could have performed himself In a few minutes. The train was delayed one hour and T.O minutes, and the employee called to do the work was paid five hours for work requiring 30 minutes." The Inefficiency created In inflexible application of the rules contained in the agreements In question was illustrated in the following actual case which recently occurred on the Raltlmore & Ohio Railroad: "An engine was placed in the Fhops for certain repairs. Recause of the provisions of the National Agreement, it was necessary that members of five crafts perform parts of this work; formerly, the entire operation was performed by the members of but two crafts." $6,500,000 for Work Not Performed How the railroads of the country were compelled to pay almost IOJiOo,X0 in the first six months of 1020 for service not rendered because of the effects of but one of the 1S2 rules Included In the Shop Crafts National Agreement was shown in the testimony. This punitive payment for work never ierformed was required by a clause in the National Agreement, which provides that when employees are required to check In and out on their own time they will be paid one hour extra at the close of each week. The rigid classifications of labor, when taken In corrtiectin with the rule that requires that a man must jliave four years' experience before be ing employed to perform any of the work listed In them, result In paying rates applicable to men who are supposed to be fully qualified for work I which does Rot require men of four years experience. To illustrate how the inflexibilities of many of the rules now enforced operate to mulct the railroads of large Isums for services which In the abFence of these rules could be obtained for relabel moderate sums, evidence was laid before. the Labor Roard showing tliafthree men who were e:nployejfJi small pumping station In Michfgaitf5r,,rm'n? unskilled work, would, wlien classified under the rul, receive up excess of pay amounting to morqHtJjan, "alue t a,l lhe water punitXl aftd current generated at this station. The Chicago testimony contains lltlerally hundreds of Instances such as these, all supporting the contention of the railroads that the labor rules under which they have been forced to work are such as to prevent the "honest, efficient end economical management -demanded by the Transporta-

tltn Act.