Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 April 1921 — Page 1
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FAIR, AND FREE, PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR V.Ol. 63. Jasper, Indiana, Friday, APRIL 29, 1921. No. 49.
ARMY FLAWS RESCUE WE FOR INDIANA
SALVATIONISTS, IN THEIR COMING DRIVE, SET ISO.GCO FOR MATERNITY WORK. Indianapolis, Ind. Records, on file at the Salvation Army's rescue hornet and maternity hospitals In Louisville. Cincinnati, Detroit and Chicago show a strikiagly large number of unfortunate girls from Indiana are cared (or every year. Lieut. -Col Mary Stillwell, known as the "mother of Saltation Army rescue horns work," because she started the first maternity hospital twenty-eight years ago. and Is now at the head of all this work in twenty-three states. Is authority for the statement that, contrary ; to popular belief, tht majority of these cases start in the small town or rural community. Tht treat ' majority of these girls have found these Salvation Army havens of refuge, where they are given the very best medical attention aid a beautiful environment, only by accident. In many cases they have left home to avoid possible notoriety and gossip, have drifted into the city and' far too often have been the "victim! of privation and disease when they arrived at the Salvation Army heme. Tht Amy In Indiana hopes, this year, through the establishment of county advisory boards In every sec lion of the state thit there will be a direct channel of communication for these and all other cases of human suffering and misery. With someone interested in them and knowing where to direct them many can be spared much" of the. suffering they now endure. Because it feels that Indiana girls should be cared for In Indiana and not .jltz !. .twuii' torrouf'ßf Wdtlj er states, the Salvation Army, in Its fiaaaci&l appeal. May 9 to 17, In which It asks tht pople of Indiana for $259,- . &D0, has set aside tht sura of $50,030 to -provide a sinking fund as an laltlal installment for tht purchase or erection and equipment of a rescue home and maternity hospital where Indiana girls may be cared for within tht eenfines of their own state. County advisory boards, which arc no more or less thaa co-operative auxiliaries of the Salvation Army in their owm communities, have Just completed a confidential survey of the social con dltleae in their districts. These were ceo tiled and presented to tht statt cnvttIfT ef advisory members held la ladkanaaolls. March 31. These keea-niaded business and profession al nu aad women of the statt to the limW of about 200. who attended the coayeatien. were quick to see tht vtetV'fer some practical, constructive ' atxiai week." Tn-ey felt there was no .'"better center for their attention thaa ' ä etsea spltal. So they quickly apprere4 the budget the Salvation Art7 had made up to kelp it carry oa its 1521 extension program in Indiana, Sixty-five counties reported 615 ills gltlmato births la this state last year The records ef seventeen counties dis ' loted the fact that there were fifty alae prospective girl mothers needing keopUal cart aad 3.40$ Juvenile delta qutats were shown to have been sum saoaed before .tht courts In sixty-five counties. Another large Item on the Salvation Army's 1921 program for Indiana is the erection ef a young women's boarding heme. These homes, and the Army has a number scattered through the larger eitle of the United Stat as. are stlf-sustalalag. onct established. They are mere tham mere hotels; tkey are homes in the real lease ef the word fer young women wlo are oaaployod away from home. The rooms are easily furnished, have hot aad cold running wattr, baths, large parlors, library, reading rooms, laig rooms: la faet, everything to surround the girls with good, wholesome home privileges and tht ad via tages of home life. The residents pay a nominal weekly sum which puts the home on a self sustalalag basis. It is the tentative plan now to locate this boarding home in Indianapolis. Its rooms will be available to every girl of Indiana who comes to the city to -werk. In the Iadiana Industrial Home at ladlanapolis. 2C.1D beds were pro ' vlded, last year, for men without home t friends. The Workin.rmen'8 Hotel, maintained by the Salvation Army at Indianapolis, served 23,840 meals last
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A Permanent House Fireproofed With Reinforced Concrete. MAhar says friend wife, what we've been looking for. 'here's It ccrtalnly Is attractive." "Isn't It a 'corker" says Pa. Across the front Is a 30-foot porch all glazed in with square windows over which are arched transoms. The whole thing can be opened up for air or be used as an extra room the year round. Inside the vestibule Is a coat closet and lavatory. The living room, 14 by 20, Is large and commodious, and there Is a little library or den which can be used as an overflow bedroom, and while the door shown la of single width, a double french door could well be Installed and a similar french door In the archway between the living room and dining room. This would give a very spacious effect. In the dining room Is a conservatory window which every flower lover will much appreciate. si sup W( Mjr lew ri, Cat "Adopted Rat. A lady author. Miss Frances Pitt, tells a Canadian newspaper that the once gave a baby rat to a cat whese kittens had gone out by the waterway. She nursed the little thing, washed It, and treated It In every way as a lit ten. The rat learned to know Miss Pitt as a friend, and became, she say, -one of the tamst creature I hare ever known." It pruved a most amusing family pet for nearly two years.
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age closet for trunks and extras of of proceeds to manufacturers and midall kinds. Thre is a large linen closet dlemen, and the discovery that the In the hall upstairs which every house. .ultimate consumer has spent all his
wife will appreciate. The house is plastered within and without on metal lath, outside being triangular mesh galvanized reinforcement which when properly applied, will make a wall like the Bock of Gibraltar. This story that women smokers are talking about discarding the cigarette for the pipe sounds a good deal like a dream. The newspapers say that America's most perfect girl hus just been married. That girl Is always getting married. A fool and his gun are coon parted, but usually not until he has perforated somebody.
DO IT NOW. IX you have hard work to do, k Do It now. Today the skies are clear and blue. Tomorrow clouds may come In view.
J Yesterday Is not for you; . Do It now. It you have a song to stcg. Sing It now. Let the notes of gladness ring Clear as song of bird In spring, Let every day some music bring; , Sing it now. It you have kind words to say. Say them now. Tomorrow may not come your way; Do a kindness while you may; Loved ones will not always stay; Day them now. If you hare a smile to show. Show It now. Make hearts happy, rosea grow. Let the friends around you know The love you hava before they go; Show It now. TRIBE CLOSE TO EXTINCTION Only Pitiful Remnant Remains of Sem- , inoles Who Once Defied the United States Government The Seminole Indians are to be moved io a reservation on the west coast of Florida an area of 21,000 acres. Though partly under water, the tract Is deemed of adequate extent. Inasmuch as there are only about 225 Semlnoles left. This is the melancholy remnant of what was once a powerful tribe, which owred the whole of Florida and fought with the United States government on of the most vigorously contested wars lq our history. Tfca Semlnoles are notably handsome people and their young women are the Typical Semtaoje House. prettiest of all Indian girls. There are no white half-breeds among them. So strong la the tribe Is hatred of our race that. If a Seminole woman were to have a child by- white man, she would be likely to be put to death. Around their necks the women wear many strings of beads of cut-glass, which they buy frcm traders. Sometimes a squaw is adorned with as much as six quarts of these beads, and even tire girl babies are loaded down with them. The women pierce as many as ten holes In the upper rim of each ear to hold pga of wood. The Seminole house Is of peculiar construction, having a roof and floor, but no sides. Its framework Is of palmetto poles, which support a platform three feet from the ground and a roof of palmetto leaves. It Is all on room, open to view from without, and one might Imagine that here was the limit of nonprivacy were It not that the Seminole dwelling Is customarily hidden In the Jungle. Philadelphia Ledger. The comet that is going to visit us next June will snuggle up closer to the earth than has any of Its prede cessors. But we should not object to a celestial visitor bearinr auch an rtat0CTmtle anrt hvTlhM1,te4f nem . r " Pons.wlimecke. 11 18 Äald If the word MPlese" wre let out a11 the telegrams sent In the United States In a year 13,000. 000 would be saved. Are the tele graph companies willing to lose that three million, and are we willing to MV lt at the expense of politeness? Two Influences are possible In the reduction of high prices: A lessening available money. Russian dancing girls are held by the Immigration authorities in San Francisco. Before Itussian dancing girls can enter the United States there are certain other steps that have to be taken. -Why America Must Aid China," runs a headline. Just the same It is I:ar4 for the consumer of the morning meiet to forget the way we have been disappointed by the nest egg. Something goes up for everything that comes down. In this Instance, it Is hope that rises as building material drops.
HOW DO YOU SAY IT? By C N. LURIE Common Errors in English and How to Avoid Them 'AGGRAVATED' AND 'PROVOKED'. 44T WAS so aggravated that I almost X became 111." said n woman fo whom something vexatious had happened. She was guilty of an error of speech which is quite common, and which Is condemned by all authorities on English. The word "aggravate Is derived from a Latin word meaning "to Increase In weight," and In English usage should be employed only to mean "to Increase In gravity or severity, to become worse." Therefore, It Is correct to say that a disease or a misfortune may be aggravated, but not the person v. ho has the disease or Is sub ject to the misfortune. . But this is drifting somewhat from
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our subject. It Is to be borne In mind j with bits of cotton. Below In the lioor that "aggravated" does not mean and j of the cage was a feeding box und In should never be used in the sense of 'front of that a flat tin disk, some six "angry," "vexed," "exasperated," "irri- inches In diameter, so tilted upon a tated," etc. In the sentence with which ' pivot axle that If you placed any this article began any of these four, weight upon any part of it that rart words, or a word of similar meaning., which bore the weight would immedi-
should be substituted for "aggravated.' (Copyright.) Hdw ItiStidEd IJLS .TOUCHING GLASSES.
IN THE days of the "code or honor, i . - . . .... , . . . , . 'I cage to the food box. nibble for n mlnwhen duelling was as formal; as . . , . v , nte ana then running around to the the opening of a peace conference, lt, n0 A. -a j i , i . front of the floor of the cage he would
WH u. cuaioui ... unuK u wine before fighting. To make sure the wine was not poisoned (Those were the good old days !) each contestant poured a little of his wine Into the glass of the other. The custom survives In the form of touching glasses before drinking. (Copyright.) O A LINE 0' CHEER By John Kendrick Banks. MOTHERHOOD. - IP ALL. the world were void of good I'd etlll be full of gratitude for Motherhood The loving eye. the smiling lipa, The touch of tender finger-tips, The sacrifice of elf that we The Bons of Earth may stronger be. The constant care, the constant thought For helpleisnes In trial caught While Motherhood remains the ring Of Joy shall thrill the songs I elr.g. (Copyright) - Chinese City Up to Date. Trucks of the Shanghai (China) fire department are eoon to be equipped with wireless telephones. The improvement Is expected to enable the department at all times to keep In touch with Its men while fighting Area. Object Leuon Too Realistic A demonstration of hell fire was giv en a woman by her husband In their home in Chicago. The couple had been arguing about the future life, and the man had stoutly maintained the
theory ef eternal damnatlen and of him If they thought at all about the actual burning. When they went to thing they were looking at that every bed the husband poured gasoline over man and woman ought every little his wife and applied a match. Neigh- J while take a look around and see If bors broke Into the house Just In time they are going ahead. If they are adto save the woman from being burned vanclng, If they are adding something, to death. Thu man Is being examined however little, to what life and Its efby alienists. forts should accumulate In wealth, ex- ' perlence and wisdom. Filthy Lucre I J The merchant who never takes a A beggar woman eighty years old. count of stock, who keeps no books, at Lyons, France, has amassed a bank 1 who has no way of checking his busJaccount of several thousand pounds, ness. Is pretty much at sea as to which, along with railway shares, whether be Is a success or a failure, treasury bonds, and a 6tock of ready whether he Is making money or losing, money, was discovered In her lodg- J The man who goes through life lngs. The hoard was unearthed from ' without checking up his efficiency, a mass of rags and moldy food by taking account of his accomplishments sanitary officials, called In by the or balancing his efforts against his acnelghbors In the interests of public ' cumulation cannot have any very dehealth, j indable Idea of what his efforts aro 1 amounting to.
Youngster Carries Weight The Fat Boy of Peckham has a rlval in New York. Gustave Blazer Is
only eight years old and 4 feet a , knowing definitely what we are ncInches tall, yet he weighs between 175 compllshlng. and ISO pounds. The boy eats very if the mouse had the intelligence to little and often goes without his J know that his great effort in running breakfast, but his mother says he Is of on the tin disk really amounted to a contented frame of mind, and per- i nothing In results he would devote haps that accounts for his girth. ! himself to something more worthwhile.
Vicar Had Sense of Disaster. St. John's church. West Ealing. Eng - land, was gutted by fire on a recent Monday night The subject or the last sermon In the building was "Purified by Fire," and the vicar. said afterward that all that Sunday he had been oppressed with a sense of Impending disaster.
Something to Think About By F. A. WALKER
HARD-WORKING MOUSE I K A SOMEWHAT aimless after-dinner walk the other evening I was attracted to a crowd which had gathered in front of the window of a dealer in house pets. As the crowd next to the window satisfied its curiosity and moved on I gradually came to see that fifteen or twenty human beings df which I was about to become one, had been wutchIng the activities of a small white mouse which was the temporary resident of a new and shiny cage. At the top of the cage was a sort of nest attached to the wires and filled ately turn so that It would be the low est part of the disk. In other words. If a living object attempted to climb up the disk lt would turn as fast as the object ascended and the object Itself would always be traveling uphill and getting nowhere. The white mouse pursued a program about after this plan: He would rest for a few minutes In his nest. Then h A trnnl ( rltmh dnti-n tri ilila rrf , jump down upon the disk and as he did so the disk would begin to revolve. The faster he ran. In his attempt to climb, the faster the disk would revolve, with the mouse nlways at the bottom. For three or four minutes at a tlmo the mtiuse would run as fast as h could. A human being running as fast as that mouse, In proportion to hls.-slze and -weight, would have-gone ten or twelve miles at a marvelous rate of speed. After his period of running the mouse would suddenly stop, the disk would cease to revolve, he would go to the feed box, nibble for a minute and then climb to his nest for n short rest, only to repeat the whole performance over agnln. The mouse during the time that he was running appeared to be putting forth every physical effort of which he was possessed. He was doing everything that he could so far as running was concerned. BUT nE WAS GETTINO NOWHERE. He landed right where he began at the bottom of the disk. He had burned out Ms mouse energy, exhausted his mouse condition and the result was NOTHING. I wondered as I stood there how ninny of the men and women who had stopped to watch him had learned any lesson from that caged mouse and hi fruitless endeavors.' I wondered how many of them were running around on a disk, striving, struggling, exhausting themselves with efforts which would end by leaving them right where they started. The mouse demonstrated n good lesson, ne taught those who watched There are too many of us who, like the mouse, let our lives consist of j working, eating and sleeping, without Perhaps If we made an honest estlmate of what we are doing and what ( lne results are we would stop being foolish and turn to aomethlng mow ; productive and more to our credit. The thing for csto do Is to make an honest estimate of what we are doing and what It truly amounts to rtnd guide our future endeavors o rd-Ingly.