Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 46, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 April 1921 — Page 6

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Fashion Is returning to the llgdeaf peri d. Another pretty gol adding machine l-i tin.' .id. Yap seems to have a gigantic export trade. Hieb old tuen write stronger love letters than wills. The German plan of exchange Is to make the allies the easy mark. A woman's .scream continues to be about the best burglar prevention. Sovietism is so successful that KM).ouo.ooo Iiussians are now starving. I'ayln for a dead horse was never so irksome as paying for a lost war. Maybe that French embargo on American coal will help the supply at home. I'.oing a cashier in a country bank Is an extra hazardous occupation these days. Most people who want to read the future can't understand what's going on now. Vanity will prevent the cigar from becoming the favorite smoke of womankind. The twelve-year-old boy who reads twelve books daily is n new spdciesof book worm. War and reparations strikingly suggest that you cannot eat your cake and have it. The Itolshevikl also are relieving the Near Knst of almost everything It possesses. Prices have come down just low enough to reach the bottom of the public's pocket. Anyone might know it was a who started talking and could stop for six days. girl not Chinoe eggs have brough down the egg prices in the United States. Has China a milch cow? Another reason for the passing of the silk shirt is that so many people have had to pawn 'em. The financial crisis Is past, according to the experts, but hen's teeth have nothing on money. Forty-two years from now the Germans may celebrate a real ohj-fash-ioned mortgage burning. According to the 1920 census, there are only .'XKS.oijO cooks in this country, not counting cooks by marriage. How can the United States assist Kurope to stand on its feet while it insists upon standing on its head? Mexico has taken up daylight saving. One assumes that the daylight saved will be taken out of "mamma." Quin often you find a fresh voting stenographer who thinks she's running j the husine And quite often she b "Man. not woman, dictates women's fashions." says a society leader. That's why they're so much that way. And the Turk, who was to be driven out of Kurope, is novy demanding that the giaours be driven out of Asia Minor. The male population, no doubt, is all agog over the report that the newstyle will reveal a bit of the feminine ear. From' the way rent profiteers continue to demand indemnities one would think that the consumers had lost the war. Iiaw sugar at four cents the pound is giving minbowists visions of a time when something can be bought for a nickel. Chicago fashion oxperts announce that a woman's up-to-date clothing outfit costs s;rji7.". The 70 cents is for comfort. They intimate that Fncle Sain will be asked to pay back more than $."00,- ). mo tes Improperly collected, but the old man will lind a way to hang en to the coin. Porto Ulcans seem to be dilTcrent from other people radically For in stante, they say that they have been going through a financial crisis as a result of the low price of sugar. Austria is starting suit against its cx-F.mperor fr the return of the crown jewels while IVrlln Is shipping money to l.orn. lief ore the Jingoes plunge the L'niteO Stules into another war they might extricate the country from the dilh cultlcs of the last one. That savant who says that no worn i'ii can piek out a necktie pleasing to a man doesn't get the Idea at all. Women d nut elect the ties to pleuse men.

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J j INDIANA j I State News !;: Indianapolis. Governor McCray, acting undvr provisions of legislation of the recent general assembly, reorganized the board of trustees of the state Soldiers' home at Lafayette by appointing live new members of the board. The governor, as provided by the law, named two Civil war veterans, one Spanish war veteran, one World war veteran and the wife of a veteran. The old board was composed of four members, all Civil war veterans. , The new board members named by the governor are: Col. I. M. Foster of Fort Wayne and John 15. Ljons of Hrook. Civil war veterans; cx-Gov. Winlield T. Durbln of Anderson, Spanish war veteran; Ir. Carlton M. McCulloch of Indianapolis, World war veteran, and Mrs. Caroline IJIackstoek of Lafayette, wife of a Spanish war veteran. Valparaiso. Two stills rivaling in size those used in Kentucky maintains found in a desolate spot amid the sand dunes on the she res of Lake Michigan, are in possession of Sheriff Pennington of Porter county. More than ;00 gallons of whisky was confiscated and .John and Charles Woonsman j were captured in the sheriff's raitf. 'T.oozc running" automobiles had been UM'd to transport the output of the stills to Chicago, the sheriff learned. The coniiscated equipment was appraised at 10,000. Indianapolis. Mrs. Stoughton A'. Fletcher, wife of the president of the Fletcher American National bank, after a long period of ill health, committed suicide at her home. Laurel Hall, near Millersville. Her mother. -Mrs. Kva Henley, who found Mrs. Fletcher's body, swallowed some of the same poison Mrs. Fletcher haT taken and died a few minutes later. Mrs. FJetcher, it was said by her friends and members of the family, had been in ill health for more than a year. Indianapolis. Governor McCray has appointed George M. ISarnard of Newcastle and Maurice Douglas of Flat Iiock members of the public service commission, and has reappointed John W. McCardle a member of the commission. The governor also announced the appointment of Fred C. Klein of South F.end as judge of the new Superior court in St. Joseph county. The court is the second of the kind in the county. It was created by the last legislature. Indianapolis. Governor McCray has arranged for a conference of men who operate' farms In connection with state Institutions at the state fair, April 7. About seventeen of the, state Institutions operate farms owned or leased by the state and embracing nearly 10,000 acres, valued at more than 000,000; (J. I. Christie, of Purdue university was with the governor when the conference was arranged. The conference may be made an annual affair. Shelbyyllle. Charity work in Sholbyville, which has 1koii carried on during the winter through the office of the mayor and the community health nurse, has been discontinued. Lee 1. Hoop, mayor, announced that the arrival of wanner weather, and a bettennent in industrial conditions had caused the decision to discontinue the distribution of food, clothing and fuel. During the winter approximately s'-f."rfM) was spent for charity, -it was said. Greensburg. The American Legion membership campaign opened in the Fourth district will continue for tvo weeks. Twenty-three in.sts situated at Greenwood. Whiteland. Franklin, IMinburg, Columbus, Hope, Flizabethtown. Seymour, IJrownstown. Mount Vernon. Madison. Vevay, Patriot, Ilising Sun. Aurora. Lawrenceburg. Dillshero. Friendship. Versailles. Osgood, r.atesville. Milan nnd Greensburg. are taking part in the drive. Logansport. Abandonment of the Logansport District County Agents association has been decided upon by general agreement of the members. The decision reached by the agricuiture agents places Cass and Miami counties in Mho Lafayette district. Pulaski and Fulton counties, in the Michigan City .district, while Wabash and Huntington counties will become members of the Fort Wayne association. Indianapolis. Fewer deaths ocurred in February than during the same month at any time during the h'st si years, according to H. M. Wright, suporinteni'ont of the division of viral statistics of the state

Indianapolis. Governor McCray will plant a maple tree on the statehouM grounds on Arbor day, April b". A special tree has been ordered fr the occasion. The governor issued the annual Arbor day proclamation. Indianapolis. The annu.11 spring meeting of the history seetiott of the Indiana State Teachers' association will be held April S and I. Gary. Thomas F.. Kindts, f.rst settbr. first postmaster and first mayor of Gary i dead at Mayo F.rothors ho, pi al at Kot hoster. Minn., follow ing aw operation. During bis term, ltxr. to VM'X be was a state figure because of the political turmoil In the Stee rp.y. Frattlcally all of the municipal tie f lt.itie.ns are the products of b!s Md,-d,,,ttn,'f l!rv; as 'own pre;. mi and il en i iay'i.

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I - - " ...i'. l, I I 1 I Iii. fruit crop of Indiana will he sacd." is the advice that Trank .V. Wallace, state entomologist, is giving to the fruit growers of Indiana, who may thitik that all chance for a good crop J o?;e this .cnr as a result of the cold weather, which has been felt throughout Indiana. "It Is time enough to say Hint the fruit crop is killed after it actually lias been killed." .Air. Wallace continued, "and if the col I weather could freeze out the alleged fruit crop clairvoyants that come forth about this time each year with vihl tales of calamities it would be a blessing- without any disguise and save Indiana about $2.000.ixm) each year. N There Is nothing unusual about the present cold weather and the effect It will have on the crops." Wabash. Farmers of Indiana do not pl.-m a general, strike against low prices for their products, according to answers received 'on questionnaires sent those who registered for the farmers' grain dealers' convention held here recently. The answers received were practically all alike. Kach farmer contended that with low prices ho could- not afford to let an acre of. ground remain idle, and that Instead of "striking" he would be forced to put in 'overtime" and produce more than ever before in order to make any proiit from bis farm. ! Indianapolis. Coverno. McCray has .appointed two women as 'members of ! boards of trustees of Important In stitutions. Mrs. Samuel Kalston of Indianapolis, wife of ex-Governor lialston, was appointed a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana Girls' school, succeeding Mrs. Winlield Scott Johnson of IIooiniugto:i. Mrs. Carina C. Warrington of Fort Wayne was uppointed en the board of trustees of the Indiana School for I eehle-Mii.d-ed Youths at Fort Wayne, succeeding Mrs. -Mary IS. Harper of Fort Wayne. Hammond. What was believed at first to havts been a mild earthquake in northern Indiana was traced to a fire in Hammond in which live oil-storage tank.- exploded, rocking the city and spreading panic through the surrounding district. The new plant of the Moorhead OH company w;as de stroyed with a loss approximating $J0O,00). Two cottages were demol ished. Three firemen and a number of spectators were severely burned in a shower of burning oi! that followed one of the blasts. 1 1 m . Indianapolis. .More than s..u.ihh) ,n improvements, reconstruction ofbuildings and the construction of a drive way connect Ins the outside of the grounds with the infield of t le race track, will be spent at the state fair ground by the state board of igricnlture, it was announced by Charles F. Kennedy, secretary of the board. The expenditure was decided on following a visit to the grounds by Gov. Warren T. McCray, Thomas Grant, president of the board, and Secretary Kennedy. Indianapolis. XIne out of every ten schoolhouses In Indiana would be condemned in whole, or part, if the state board of health were to make a statewide investigation of sanitary and health conditions of the buildings, says Dr. John N. Hurty, secretary of the board. More than fifty schoolhouses have been condemned by the board and orders have been issued against the use of these buildings for school purposes after the current school year. Indianapolis. Extension of V. M. C. A. work among boys in cities of r,O00 lo 1.1.000 inhabitants when it has been impossible to erect buildings and in stall expensive equipment is planned by H. II. Itlebardson. state boys' work seerernrv i it to nssnf mi nil. he community boys' work plan has been tested in other "states with satisfac tory results, Mr. Uichardson says, and he believes it will be successful in In diana. Columbus. Approximately JO per cent of the taxpayers of r.nrtholotnew county are tax dodgers, according to an estimate made bv Newell V. Komlne. county assessor, who says that manv persons widely known in the county, and who have excellent repu tat ions for honesty and integrity, will swear to an untruth when giving a value on thir property for assess ment. Indianapolis. L. N. Hines. state su porlntcndcnt of public Instruction, de clined P grant the request of a dele gation of members from the Amlsh and Mcnnonite churches of Miami and Howard eounties to teach religion in the German language In the private schools attended by children of the Amisb and Mennonlto faith. Hartford City. Committees have been appointed by the local Chamber, of Commerce, the Itotary club, tiie Kiwanis club ami the liiackford farm bureau to co-operate in a movement to obtain an auditorium and stock pa vilien in this city. I'vansville. Farmers in Vanderburg county are offering laborers $1 a day with board and ?1.'-M without board. Joseph Steinmetz, in bärge of the government free employment bureau here, has received few applications P.oonville. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed tin mine tipple here of the r.lack Diamond Goal company. causing a los, of Sio.ium, partly covend by insurance. Delphi. The business n.en of thl city and members of the farm bureau in Carroll co;mty are arranging for a stock show to be held iu'.v the first week In October. The city council pas appropriated $.100 of the $1.110 mvd ed for premium ami the erection of the equipment. l.e business men have pV'.ged S'Jixmi :ind the farm-n

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I Uncle Sam's Navy WASH I NGTOX. A ppa rent ly Unci o Sam Is to have quite a substantial navy. At a recent Navy league din ner Secretary of the Navy Denby pronounced himself in favor of a navy the equal of any. Secretary of War Weeks thought the United States should have a navy adequate for defense against any nation which con ceivably might go to war with it. Incidentally, it transpires that the first oliieial act of Secretary Denby was to lift the ban placed on the Navy igue by former Secretary Darnels when he fell out with it. MI would belie every instinct of my leing," said Secretary Denby, "if I did not believe in making a fighting Smoot'll Git Ye, If DLItirsG the debates in congress over the appropriation bills forftie departments there were a thousand and one outbreaks over the "army of employees." Some were "bitter clashes;" others were amusing. Senator Smoot of Utah on one occa sion attacked an agricultural depart ment item. He said there were now S7.000 employees in Washington, as against 40.000 to b'kOOO before the war. Senator Gronna of North Da kota agreed with Senator Smoot in general, but defended the particular bureau, contending that an increase in the force was necessary because it was overworked. Thereupon Senator Smoot said In part : Mr. Smoot I am going down to that division of the apartment, for I should like to see it. I should like to see one department of our government whose clerks are overworked. I do not know but that it would take my breath away to find such a condition. I know that I got a letter the other morning saying that when I entered one of the departments the other day a man who stood at the door immediately telephoned to every division there. "Get to work, and be at your typewriters. Senator Smoot is coming. Mr. President. I know one division

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IN Tili: closing liours or tiie last session Representative Kayhurn of Texas got all worked up over the idea of the United States accepting gifts. especiallv in connection with legations abroad, arguing that it was beneath the dignity of a great nation. Ilei resentative Hogers of Massachusetts replied to him and said in part: "It has been habitual on the pari of the United States congress to authorize the acceptance of gifts. We oc cupy a legation at 15angkok that vas presented to us by the emperor of Siam. We occupy a buildhit: in Morocco that was presented to us by the emperor of Morocco. We oeoupy a consulate In Tahiti that was pre sented to us by the reigning queen of Not Every Farmer CONSIDLKAI'.LL light Is tnronn oo the question of farm profits in a bulletin just issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, giving the results of. a study through a period of five to seven years of the business of 1." farms In three areas. one each In Ohio. Indiana and Wisconsin. "The average farm income of 'JÖ farmers In Palmer township, Washington county, Ohio." the bulletin says, "for the seven years VJV2 to 101S was 010, the labor income $J7d. and the return on the capital 4.0 ier cent. The average farm Income of 00 farmers in For and 4hnson townsldps, Clinton county. Indiana, for the seven venrs 1010 ami 1013 to 191$ was $l,5sV. the labor Income $.VS, and the return on capital .V7 per cent. 'The average farm Income of 00 farmers in Verona and adjacent townships, Dane county, Wisconsin, for the five years 101.1 to 1917 was $i;j9:i, the .labor Income .PH aml the return on the capital 4.7 per cent. This gives an average of per cent. MA considerable part of the fanners Uvlr.s r;ime direct Iv from the fino. Tn

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(i. 4 Likely to Be Large navy. I am for a big navy, and I hope the present building program of the navy will be completed. I hope before we are through to see an American navy as big as any other. I know and you know that this means building a navy, the equal of Great Britain's. If you ask me why we should do that. I reply by asking you why not? Haven't we a coastline and far-flung insular iossosslons that absolutely requuire a great navy to protect tiem. Some foolish persons seem to Imagine that building a navy the equal of Great Hritain's means we will go to war with Great liritain eventually. Such a war would be unthSnkahly horrible ami for that reason. If for no other, it will never happen." Secretary of War Weeks, speaking as a director of the Navy league, said: "I want a navy large enough for any purposes for which it conceivably is to be used. I want it big enough to cope with any nation with which we are likely to be at war." Col. Theodore Uoosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, warned against the unprepnredness propaganda being spread by the pacifists, who he said are still formidable. Ye Don't Watch Out 7o T-T of our government where It Is absolutely true that the ladies of the department made their trousseaus in the office during working hours. If the work is to be done in the same way that it is now- going on, and there is to be no change, we might just as well make up our minds that we can double the numl or of employees. Washington is a delightful place to live in. (Jills receiving salaries of $l.C0O and $1.S00. with a $240 bonus, have plenty of time to go to the theater and do fancy work during working hours. Who would want to give it up? J am glad, however, to hear the senator from North Dakota say that in tins division it is different. I think if they are we ought to make special provision for them and give every one of them a ehromo. the islands. If it is true that in the past we deemed it proper to accept gifts from potentates, why Is it ignominious now for us to accept gifts from American citizens who, in the opinion of the President of the United States, seek to present to us objrrts which it is desirable for the United States to possess? Time and time again we have authorized the accept ance of gifts of various kinds and of great value." Guilford Gourt House, the Lincoln birthplace, and Lafayette National park, are gifts. Muir Woods National monument in California was present ed to the nation by William Kent. Grandfather mountain, in North Carolina, has been offered to the govern ment for a national park. The will of Joseph P.attell of Middlebury, Vt.. de vises 4.000 acres of Green mountains forest for the same purpose. Stephen T. Mather, director of the national park service, has made gifts largely in excess of $100,000 in value. Some multimillionaire could make his nanfe immortal and deserve well ni his ei(iiiii o er-Muiuisiuiip. i im f ............. i... ....... i. i:.-i.:.w n Lt. fund for ibe development of the na tional park system and . the national park-lo-park highway. Owns a Gold Mine the Ohio area the value of the items f ( m mL, fuel and house rent furnished by the J arm was estimated at $3.19 per farm for the average; In the In diana area at $V; in the Wisconsin area at $391. "None of the 1ST farmers In tnese three areas made as much ns.$l,0fX) labor income every year. Four (1! per cent) made over $.VX) labor in come even year, one each In the Ohio nnd Indiana areas, nnd two In the Wisconsin area. Thirty-three farmers (IS per cent) falle! to make a $"i00 labor Income In any ino year of the period ten each In the Ohio and In diana areas and 13 In the WUconait PPO .

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J f f .BJM? 1 w En . u American Military Pclic: Sent to Montabaur to Restore Order. FEDERAL TROOPS SHELL ilEOS Ccmmunicts Grouped in Hills Near Eislefccn Bcnibardcd by Artillery Dig Bridge on Gerlin-Leipsic Railroad Blown Up. Cobleiiz, March 'M. A counaimlst uprising occurred In the American bridgehead atva at Montabaur. miles northeast of Ubrenbi eltMein. A riot call was answered by the provost marshal and American military jmbic were dispatched to Montabaur to restore order. The 'JO Yanks put down the uprising in a few minutes. They arrested the leader and confiscated communist literature. Halle. Cenaany. .March Ö0. Federal artillery was taking a prominent part in dealing with the insurgent communists in this disturbed section uf Prussian Saxony. . The artillery shelled the communists, who .were grouped on the hill to the west of FIsleben. dispersing them. After a brief engagement the town of Sangorhaiison, southwest of FJsleben. was occupied by federal forces, which now control that place. IVrliri, March 30. The main railroad bridge on the I'.erlin-Leipslc line was blown up by the communists. Keds arc reported shooting up Leipslc nnd fighting the police at a number of points. A battle is reported near Leuna. IJerlln has taken on a warlike appearance. Companies of relchswehr are quartered in the Wilhelmstrasse nnd In parks. Soldiers are stringing field telephones along the main streets and placing guns in the courtyard in Wilhelmstrasse palace .and in publie buildings. The situation in central Germany recalls the days of the thirty years' war. lioving bands calling themselves communists are plundering farms, vil lages and small towns. They are espe cially keen after automobiles, horses, arms, munitions and monev. 8 DEAD IN CHICAGO BLAST Big Warehouse on Halsted Street Destroyed When Fireworks Blow Up $2,000,000 Property Loss. Chicago, March 31. Three hundred pounds of black gunpowder and salt peter being mixed in an unlicensed fireworks factory by four men In a one-story warehouse In the rear of the notion store of Singer & Schaefer at 1427 . South Halsted street caused a terrific explosion that killed at least eight persons. Injured scores and spread devastation and terror for blocks through the West side tene ment district. The blast was so terrific it reduced the warehouse to a hopeless mass of bricks and splintered timbers. Several bodies of persons inside the building were hurtled in fragments for yards. Houses and stores for two blocks nrcund were shaken as by nn earth quake and windows were smashed over a wider area. All of the injured, except one man. a teamster, who crawled out, cut and bleeding badly, from the ruins, were shoppers and children In the streets. They were showered with glass frag ments and bits of brick and wood. CAR SURPLUS SETS RECORD Figures for March 23 Show 453.411 Idle 7,672 Above Previous Mark. Washington. April L "flu greatest number of surplus freight oars in the history of American railroads was re corded o:i March 'S), the car ervbe division of the American Hallway as sociation reported. The number at that time -was -l."0.411, an increase of Ii.",'JH"K over March 1." and 7.071 mor than the former high record of Mar.-h l, r.n:. BOND VALUE GAlfi TAXA3LE United' States Supreme Court Atco Rules on Increase in Capital Investment. Washington. March Increase in value of a cripital investment Is taxable as income under the 'revenue act of 1910. the .Supreme court held. Increase in the value of corpora to bonds, originally acquired and h.M for Investment, Is taxable under tin revenue act of 191C, the Supreme court also held. Red Leader Shot Down, nerlin. April 1 Wilhelm Sylt, communist leader, was shot down In police headquarters here after attacking the warders in nn attempt to escnie. Ills Injuries are serious, hut not nwrtal. Assembly Bars Lobbyist Madison, Wis.. April 'J. The n. sernbly barred (Ilenn I. Turner, lobbylst for the La I'oWette Progressive association, from the floor of the lower house for the remainder of th Msh! !

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