Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 48, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 April 1921 — Page 6

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Fashion is returning to tin lig-leaf period. Another pn-tty good adding machine U the ail. Yap seems to have a gigantic export trade. Kich old men write stronger love letters than will. The f Jerman plan of exchange is to make the allies the easy mark. A woman's scream continues to be about the best burglar prevention. Sovletism is so successful that 130, 000,000 Russians are now starving. Paying for a dead horse, was never ho irksome as paying for a lost war. Maybe that French embargo on American coal will help the supply at home. Ih-ing 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 worn unkind. The twelve-year-old boy who reads twelve hooks daily is a new species of book worm. War and reparations strikingly suggest that you cannot eat your cake and have it. Tlu Bolshevikl also are relieving the Near Kast of almost everything it possesses. Prices have come down just enough to reach the bottom of public's pocket. low the Anyone might know it was a who started talking and could stop for six days. girl not Chinese eggs have brough down the egg prices fn the United States. Has China a milch cow? Another reason for the passing of the silk shirt Is that so many people liave 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 old-fashioned mortgage burning. A-cnr.lin; to 11,0 1'CO ctusu. tl.ore.l r only .-m.ooo cooks in this country. not counting cooks by marriage. How can the United States assist Murope to stand on Its feet while it insists upon standing on its head? Mexico has taken up davlight savg. One assumes that the daylight , ved will le taken out of "manana." ! j Qulte ften you fiml a fresh voung I i stenographer who thinks she's running the business. And quite often she is. "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 Europe, Is now demanding that the giaours be driven out of Asia Minor. The male population, no doubt, is all agog over the report that the new style will reveal a bit of the feminine ea r. From the way rent profiteers continue to demand indemnities jne would think that the consumers had lost the war. Uaw sugar at four cents the pound is giving rafnbowists 'visions of a time when something can be bought for a nickel. Chicago fashion experts announce that a woman's up-to-date clothing outtit costs S.!2.Tr. The 70 cent is for comfort. They intimate that Uncle Sam will be asked to pay back more than $r00,iioo.CMk) tr'.xcs Improperly collected, but the old man will tind a way to hang en to tl e coin. l'irto Klcans seem to be radically different from other people. For Instante, they say that they have been going through a financial crisis as a result of the low prict of sugar. Austria is starting suit against its x-F.mpeior for the return of the crown jewels, while lVrlin Is shipping money to Doom. Before the jingoes plunge the UnlteQ States into another war they might extricate the country from the ditll initios of the last one. That savant who says that no worn ;:n cn:i pick out a necktie pleasing to a man doesn't get the idea at all. Woqien do not select the ties to please inen.

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lit State News ! j Indianapolis. Governor McCray, acting uiid.r provisions of legislation of the recent general assembly, reorganized the board of trustees of the state Soldiers' home at Lafayette by appointing five 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. Lyons of It rook. Civil war veterans; ex-fiov. WinlieM T. Durbln of Anderson. Spanish war veteran; Dr. Carlton M. McCulloeh of Indianapolis. World war veteran, and Mrs. Caroline i;iackstok of Lafayette, wife of a Spanish war veteran. Valparaiso. Two stills rivaling in i size thov used in Kentucky mountains' found in a desolate spot amid the sand j dunes on the shores of Lake Michi gan, are in possession of Sheriff Pennington of Porter county. More than Goo gallons of whisky was confiscated and John and Charles Woonsinan were captured in the sheriff's raid. I.ooze running" automobiles had been used to transport the outnut of the stills to Chicago, the sheriff learned. The conliseated 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. Eva Henley, who found Mrs. Fletcher's hody, swallowed some of the same poison Mrs. Fletcher ha7 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. Barnard of Newcastle and Maurice Douglas of Flat Iiock members of the public service commission, and has reappointed John W. M (Cardie a member of the commission. The governor also announced the appointment of Fred C. Klein of South I lend 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 seenteen of the state institutions operate farms owned or leased by the state and embracing nearly Z TJ? 'I' V ' ' ' l" -"rls of 1 ur,Iuc i-iu a wh uie goi"ino mien the conference was arranged. The conference may be made an annual affair. ! Shelby vi lie. Charity work in Shel- ! byville, which has been carried on durIn- th( w,l,ter tliroush the ollice of the ,naor "im1 thi '"'y 'Sth nnrs0' ,!:,s hvvu hscontinuel. Lee 15. Hoop, mayor, announced that the arrival ol wanner weainer. ami a net . ..a f.. 1.. . t . terment in industrial conditions bad caused the decision to discontinue the distribution of food, clothing and fuel. During the winter approximately .J.öoo was siient for charity, it was said. Greensborg. The American Legion membership campaign opened in the Fourth district will continue for tlvo weeks. Twenty-three posts situated at Creenwood. Whitclnnd. Franklin, IMinburg, Columbus, Hope, Elizabethtown. Seymour, Brownstown. Mount Vernon. Madison. Vevay. Patriot, Hid ing Sun. Aurora. Lawrenceburg. Dillshero. Friendship, xersailies. Osgood. Batesville. Milan and GreeiSsburg, art' faking 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 agriculture agents places Cass and Miami counties in the 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 oc curred in February than during the same month at any time during the !;-st six years, according to II. M. Wright, superintendent of the division of vital statistics of the state board of health. Indianapolis. Governor McCray will plant a maple tree on the statehouse grounds on Arbor day, April 10. A speciaJ tree has been ordered for the occasion. The governor issued the annual Arbor day proclamation. Indianapolis. The annual spring meeting of the history section of the Indiana State Teachers" association will be held April S and 0. Gary. Thomas E. Knotts. first settbr. first postmaster and tirst mayor of Gary Is dead at Mayo Brothers bospi al at Hi bester. Minn., follow ing an operation. During his term. I'.xk to 101.'. be was a stat" figure because of the political turmoIJ In the Stoe' city. Practically all of the municipal tretlte.rb.ns are the products of ?;N ..i. lnit'.P. tirr a- -own pr.-?. lft md then mayor.

Indianapolis. "Con! Inn- to rare f.r your trees, -o abend with your work as if nothing had happened, and the fruit crop of Indiana will he saed." is the advice that Frank X Wallace, state entomologist, is giving to the fruit growers of Indiana, who may think that all chance for a good crop 1$ gone this year as a result of the cold weather, which has been felt throughout Indiana. "It is time enough to say that the fruit crop is killed after it actually has been killed," Mr. Wallace continued, "and if tlx cold weather could freeze out the. alleged fruit crop clairvoyants that come forth about this time each year with wild tales of calamities it would be a blessing without any disguise and save Indiana about $2.000. 000 each year. There Is nothing unusual about the present cold weather and the effect it will have on the crops." Wabash. Fanners of Indiana do not plan 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 recentJy. The answers received were practically all alike. Fach farmer contended that with low prices he cr.uld not afford to let an acre of ground remain idle, and that Instead of "striking" he would be forced to

. t put in "overtime" and produce more in ever before in order to make any profit from his farm. Indianapolis. Governor McCray has appointed two women as members of boards of trustees of important institutions. Mrs. Samuel Italston of Indianapolis, wife of ex-Governor lial- , j ston, was appointe.! a member, of the board of trustees of the Indiana Girls' school, succeeding Mrs. Winfiehl Scott Johnson of IJIoomington. Mrs. Carina C Warrington of Fort Wayne was appointed en the board of trustees of the Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youths at Fort Wavnc. succeeding Mrs. Mary Ii. Harper of Fort Wayne. Hammond. What was believed at first to have been a mild earthquake in northern Indiana was traced to a fire in Hammond in which live oil-storage tanks exploded, rocking the city ami spreading panic through the surrounding districts. The new pjant of the Moorhead Oil company was destroyed with a loss approximating .$-(K,00o. Two cottages were demolished. Three firemen and a number of spectators were severely burned in a shower of burning oi! that followed one of the blasts. Indianapolis. Mon than $50.000 .n improvements, reconstruction of buildings and the construction of a driveway connecting the outside of the grounds with the intiehl of the race track, will be spent at the state fair ground by the state board of igriculture, 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. Nine out of every ten schoolhouses in Indiana would be con demned 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. llurty, secrelary of the board. More than fifty school houses have been condemned bv the board and orders have been issued against the use of these buildings fur school purposes after the current school year. Indianapolis. Extension of Y. M. ( A. work among boys in cities of fi.000 to lo.OOO inhabitants where it has been impossible to erect buildings and instalJ expensive equipment is planned 1... IT II f M,.l..t.l ...,.. 1. i ii. li. iti iiiiuiMiii, Mint ihij :tv secretary oi ine association. nie .. . . 1 ! - . n,.. community boys' work plan lias been tested in other states with satisfac tory results, Mr. IiichanDon savs. and he believes it will be successful in Indiana. Columnus. Approximately jo per cent of the taxpayers of Bartholomew county are tax dodgers, according to an estimate made bv Newell I Komine. county assessor, who says that many persons widely known in the county, and who have excellent repu tations for .honesty and integrity, w ill swear to an untruth when giving a vaJuo on their property lor assess ment. Indianapolis. L. N. Hiivs, Mate su perintendent f public Instruction, dedined to grant the request of a dele gation of members from the Amisli and Mcnnonite churches of Miami ami Howard counties to teach religion in the German language ur U;e private schools attended by children of the Amish and Mcnnonite faith. Hartford City. Committees have been appointed bv the local Chamber ! of Commerce, the Kotary club, the ' Kiwnnis club and the Blackford farm bureau to co-operate In a movement to obtain an auditorium and stork pa vilion in this city. I'vansvilb1. ranners In Vanderburg countv are offering laborers $1 a day with I'oard an 1.2: without board. Joseph Ste'nmet,,:. in clmrce of the government free employment bureau here, has received few application. P.oonville. Fire of uiidctermmo'l origin destroyed the mine tipple here of the lla k Diamond Coal company, causing a los of SUM partly cohered by insurance. Delphi. The business mvn of th! city and members of the farm bureau in Carroll county are arranging fr a stock show to be held io :t the tiret week in October. The city council has appropriated of the ?4.0H) nood ed for premium's and the erection of j the equipment. The business men ! have ple-luod S'J.oüO -:rd the farm-n will rai-e :!ie remaining

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Uncle Sam's Navy ASIIIXGTOX. Apparently Undo Sam is to have quite u substantial navv. At a recent .Navy league ii:nner Secretary of the .Navy Denby pronounced himself iu 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 conceivably might go to war with it. Incidentally, it transpires that the tirst official act of Secretary Denby was to lift the ban placed on the Navy league by former Secretary Daniels when he fell out with it. 'I would belie every instinct of my lcing," said Secretary Denby, "if I did not believe in making a lighting Smoot'H Git Ye, If D UIIING the debates in congress over the appropriation Dills for the departments then 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 attackd an agricultural dejmrtment item. He said there were now 57,(rOO employees in Washington, as against 40,000 to -l.'J.OOO before the Senator ronna 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 iart: Mr. Smoot I am going down to that division of the department, for I should like to see it. I should like to see one department of our povernmpiit 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 immedi ately telephoned to every division there, "Get to work, and be at your typewriters. Senator Smoot Is coming. Mr. President, I know one division Wanted: National I. TJU, closing hours oi me iasi session Representative Kayburn of Texas got all wnk-d up over the idea of the United States accepting gifts. especially in connection with legations abroad, arguing that it was beneath the dignity of a great nation. Beiresentative Hogers of Massachusetts replied to him and said In part : "It has been habitual on the part .of the United State congress ti authorize the acceptance of gifts. We occupy a legation at Bangkok that was presented to us by the emperor of Siam. We occupy a building in Morocco that was presented to us by the emperor of Morocco. We occupy a consulate in Tahiti that was pre sented to us by the reigning queen of Not Every Farmer CnN.SIl'LTlAPLi: light is thrown on the question of farm profits in a bulletin just issued by the United States Iep-artment of Agriculture, giving tiie 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 25 farmers in Palmer town-ship. ,Vashington county, Ohio." the bulletin says, "for the seven years 1U12 t VMS was I So" 10, the labor Income $270. and the re tun on the capital 4.0 TKr cent. "Die average fnnn income of 00 farmers In lorst and Johnson townships, Clinton county, Indiana, for the Fcven JKtrs 1010 and 1013 to 191S was $1,STC. the labor income $5.8, and the return on capital 5.7 per cent. "The average farm income of GO farmers In Verona and adjacent townships, Dane county, Wisconsin, for the five years 1013 to 1917 was $1.293. t.ie labor Income S40S, and the return on the capital 4.7 per cent. This gives an average of 5 per cent. 'A considerable part of the farmers' living came directlv from the farm. In

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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 iire through to see an American navy as big as any other. I know and you know that this means huihhng 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 coastllue and far-Hung insular possessions that absolutely requuire a groat navy to protect them. Some foolish persons seem to imagine that building a navy the equal of Great Britain's means we will go to war with Great Britain eventually. Such a war would be umhinkahly horrible and 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 Itoosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, warned against the unpreparedness propaganda being spread by the pacifists, who lie said are still formidable. Ye Don't Watch Out of our government where It Is abso lutely true that the ladies of the do partment made their trousseaus in the ollice 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 numlKr of employees. Washing ton is a delightful place to live in. Zirls receiving salaries of $1.000 and S1,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? I am glad, however, to hear the senator from North Dakota say that in this division it is different. think if they are we ought to make special provision for them and give even one oj them a chroiuo.

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the islands. If it is true that in th 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 tiu oninion of the President of the United States, seek to present to its objects which it is desirable for the United States to iMssess? Time and time again we have authorized the acceptance of gifts of various kinds and of great value." Cluilford (Vnirt House, the Lincoln birthplace, and Lafayette National park, are gifts. Muir Woods National monument in California was presented to the nation by William Kent. Grandfather mountain, in North Carolina, lias been offered to the government for a national park. The will of Jose ih lint tell of Middlebury, Vt.. devises 4,000 acres of Jren mountains forest for the same purpose. Stephen T. Mather, director of the national park service, has made gifts largely In excess of ?10O,U(i0 in value. Some multimillionaire could make his name immortal and deserve well of his country by establishing a big fund for the development of the na tional park system and the national park-to-park high way. Owns a Gold Mine the Ohio area the value of the items food, fuel and house rent furnished by the farm was estimated at $359 Ier farm for the average; in the In diana area at $425; in the Wisconsin area at $391. "None of the 1S5 farmers In these three areas made as much as $1,000 labor Income every year. Four (2 per cent) made over $50O labor in come ever? year, one each in the Ohio and Indiana areas, and two In th Wisconsin area. Thirty-three farmers (IS per cent) failed to make a $500 labor income in any one year of the period ten each In the Ohio and In diana areas and 13 in the WUcohaIt n roa .

r. J r 3 n mwm American Military Fcüce Sent to Montabaur to Restore Order. FEDERAL TROOPS SHELL REDS Communists Grouped in Hills Near Eislcbcn Bombarded by Artillery Dig Dridc cn Derlir.-Leipsic Railroad Blown Up. Cohlenz, March 'M. A communist uprising occurred in the Ame:ii;m bridgehead area at Montabaur, six miles northeast of Ilbrenbreitstein. A riot call was answered by the proost marslml and American military pol.ee were dispatched to Montabaur to re store order. Tlie JO Yanks put down the urismg in a few minutes. 1 hey :irrested the leader and conliseated communist literature. Halle, (i'ermany. March .",0. Federal artillery was taking a prominent part in dealing with the insurgent com munists in this disturbed vtin of Prussian Saxony. The artillery shelled the commu nists, who were crounod on the hill to the west of FisleUn. dispersing them. After a brief engagement the town of Sangerhausen, southwest of Kileben. was occupied by federal forces, which now control that place. Iicrlin,' March "o. The main railroad bridge on the Herlin-Lelpslc line was blown up by the communists. Reds ar reported shooting up I.eipslc and fighting the police at a number of points. A battle is reported near Leuna. IJerlin has taken on a warlike appearance. Companies of rckhswehr are quartered in the Wilhelmstrasse and in parks. Soldiers are stringing field telephones along the main streets and placing guns in the courtyards in Wilhelmstrasse palace and in public buildings. The situation in central (lermany recalls the days of the thirty years' war. Itoving bands calling themselves communists are plundering farms, villages and small towns. They are especially keen after automobiles, horses, arms, munitions and money. 8 DEAD IN CHICAGO BLAST Big Warehouse on Halsted Street Destroyed When Fireworks Blow Up $2,000,000 Property LossChicago, March 31. Three hundred pounds of black gunpowder and saltpeter being mixed in an unlicensed fireworks factory by four men In a one-story warehouse in the rear of ibe 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 tenement district. The blast v.ns 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 around were shaken as by an earth quake tnd windows were smashed over a wider area. All of the inju'red, 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 fragments and bits of brick and wr.od. CAR SURPLUS SETS RECORD Figures for March 23 Show 453.411 Idle 7,672 Above Previous Mark. Washington. April 2. The greatest number of surplus freight cars in the history of American railroads was recorded on March 2.'!, the car ervicc division of the American Imilwav as sociation reported. The number at that time was 4.7.).411. an increase of ."..".IHW) over March lo and 7.072 m ue than the former high record of March 1, 11)11. BOND VALUE GAIN TAXABLE United States Supreme Court Also Rules on Increase in Capital Investment. Washington. March 30. Increase In value of a capital investment is taxable as income under the revenue act of 1910, the Supreme court held. Increase in the value of corporate bonds, originaily acquired and held for Investment, Is taxable under the revenue act of lOlf the Supreme court also held. Red Leader Shot Down. r,erlin. April 2. Wilhelm Sylt, communist leader, was shot down in police headquarters here after attacking the warders in an attempt to escape. His Injuries are serious, but not mortal. Assembly Bart Lobbyist. Madison, Wis.. April 2. The sembly barred Clenn P. Turner, ns-lo!-byist for the La Toilette Progressive association, from the floor of the lower house for the remainder of th FesIon.

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