Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 May 1921 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER DEN ED. DOANE, Publlahor LlABPER .... INDIANA

uklri of economy, why not econ omy of ieech? This seems to he a bud winter for the weather prophets. rcttlcont are cheaper, but doesn't seem to do any Rood. It One year is Just llku another, after nil, except for what we put Into It. When prices are made ''overhead expense" covers a multitude of sins. I'cgs being down to 0 cents apiece, the r-tent nickel Is beginning to take heart of hope. German seismologists predict great earthquakes. Jurt hound to keep rocking the boat? Clothes are now within the reach of nil, but the consumer wants them handed to him. The next thing for Gabriele to pet off Ids chest will be a large assortment of medals. A modern miracb Is reducing prices 20 per cent In one month without cheapening anything. One of the country's greatest needs for V.Kll Is a few first-class funerals of third-class veggmen. Kvery nation is willing to be polite and let some other nation start the naval disarmament. We bet that If we did pet from .Mars, it would be that is having a crime wave. newj Man The doughboys look with amazement on the "plucked" officers suing to get back Into the army. This year find the famous water wagon emblazoned with the arms ot the United States government. No matter how old a woman may be, it Is difficult to persuade, her that her hair is not prematurely gray. A Spanish bank Is short 1,500,000 pesetas, which must be somewhere near a Chicago janitor's salary. Slowly the distilleries and breweries are being closed, but It will take the dry forces some time i6 get round to the hair oil factories. It Is unlikely, however, that the veterans of the World war would volunteer to make thw world safe for the antlclgarette movement. Lenine declares that he is building a new civilization that will be fully developed within 100 years. Few of us care to wait that long. They tell us that the fire los In this country Is $L000,00 a day. And It could be prevented by about $19S.Gf worth of prudence a day. Statesmen who desire a definite restoration to a peace basis are willing to refer to the "late war," but resent the necessity of describing It as "lingering." Food for cattle is reported to have been developed from sawdust. It sounds as If it is going to be a longer time than ever before the cows come home. Now that. It has has been discovered by astronomers that several remote stars are many times larger than anyone had any idea of, what are we to do about it? Another thing which we suppose would happen If we should have hard times would be that hotel clerks would get polite again. King Alfonso is reported taking dancing lessons. Perhaps he Intends to become a professor if the klug business blows up. It is surprising news to hear that a telegraph messenger boy has been killed. Most people thought that ther were indestructible. The reason why there were few shoplifters thi- year may be that they could find nothing to take without committing grand larceny. Mr. Lenin announces that he want $17.000.000.000. That is modest, compared to the general opinion at the time of what he had started out to get. If New York is Immovable on one point it is that no good citizen shall he allowed to carry or even own a gun for protection. It might endanger the morale of the gunmen's nion. Numerous nations evince an almost morbid curiosity as to what will happen to the first great power that completely disarms itself. Shooting first and straightest is now the policeman's host means of selfdefense. ns well as an adequate means of protecting society from bandits. This year, unless new complications set in. there will be no great difficulty In filling out Income tax blanks. The public is new trained and nccu!omed to then.

EFFORT TO KILL DRY BILL FAILS

Measures to Harmonize State Law With Volstead Act Goes to Engrossment. CHANGE IN INHERITANCE TAX Proposition Favored by Administration Would Amend Present StatutesWould Bar Draft Dodgers From Public Office. Indianapolis. Effort In the senate to slaughter the Dunn bill proved a failure. The measure is Intended to harmonize the state prohibition law with the Volstead act. The bill went to engrossment. Several amendments were adopted. A roll call on the motion of Senator Dunn tu table Senator Nedjl's motion for Indefinite postponement showed -5 senators in favor of the bill and 17 opposed. The following voted yes on the motion to table Senator Nedjl's motion: Alldredge. P.alnum, P.axter, Pcardsley, Uuchanan, Cann, Decker, Douglas, Duncan, Dunn, Furnas, Henley, Hill, Holmes, Humphreys, Kiper, Leonard, Lindlcy, McConaha, Maler, Miller, Moo rhead, Southworth, Steele and Tague. The following voted no: Adams, Arnold, IJowers, Urown, Cleveland, Cravens, English, Hays, Hepler, Hogston, Kline, McCuliough, Meeker, Nedjl, Richards. Swain and Van Orniiin. An amendment offered by Senator Furnas t the penalty provision would make it optional with the judge to add Imprisonment instead of requiring both tine and imprisonment. Senator Dunn offered an amendment, which was adopted, to strike out Section 0 of the bill, which reads ns follows: Within ten days after the date when this act has become op erative, every person except licensed pharmacists, wholesale druggists, or public hospitals, shall remove or cause to be removed all Intoxicating liquors in his possession from this state. And it shall be unlawful for any person to possess Intoxicating liquors except as intliis.nct provided. Provided, however, 71 lint this section shall not apply to intoxicating liquors not exceeding one gallon In quantity, owned and possessed by a person on the date when this act becomes operative and held by him in his own home for domestic use." Members of the house attacked two senate bills and before the house had finished with them they were resting in the pile of bills which have beer, killed by the "strike out the enacting clause" method. One of the bills was Introduced by Senator Reardsley and provided that school boards should have authority to pay from school funds the prer mlums on bonds of school treasurers. Representative Smith opened the attack on this bill witli the assertion that some counties would be damaged by the bill because they are hardly able to raise sullicient money for school purposes, and that the payment of these premiums would further cripple them. The other senate bill killed was introduced by Senator Miller. It provided a closed season on mussels and clams between April 1 and July 1, unless they were gathered for use as bait. Members first sought to amend the bill so as to exclude certain rivers. A bill introduced by Representative Redgood provides for the creation of a hotel division of the state fire marshal's department, and authorizes the issuance of licenses to conduct a hotel or restaurant. The license fees range from to ?2.. The bill was Introduced at the request of the Travelers' Protective association and the United Commercial Travelers. A bill Introduced by Representative Ahlgren, which is an administration measure, would amend the present inheritance tax law in several respects. Under the proposed amendments property left to widows to the extent of $10.1)00 is exempted from taxation. The law now fixes the exemption at $10.HH. Exemption of property left to children under eighteen years old is increased from ?2.00 to $.".000. Rates on the present classifications of property are slightly increased. One classification is eliminated. Judiciary I committee of the house reported for passage the bill introduced by Representative Tucker, which provides that persons who have been convicted of evading the selective service act, of attempting to defraud the government, of seditious utterances, or of any other crime against the United States, for which the sentence imposed exceeded six months, shall not be eligible to hold public otlice. Blue Laws Again Revived. Several Indiana cities are again experiencing intermittent upneavals over enforcement of the state's lr.w against rivaking Sunday "blue laws." The outbreaks are due mostly to agitation fr or against the operation of moving picture theaters on Sunday. A state law. which provides a fine of from SI to .50 fr persons who are over fourteen" years of age found "rioting.-hunting. rNhlrl::. quarreling, at common labor or engaged In their usual avocation." on Sunday has been construed as prohibiting theatricals.

j Do Postal Savings Dusines. I Cary, Hammond, Käst Chicago, Indianapoiis and South I'aid. ranking in ; the order named, are th cities n In-

diana having more than $H),M0 each In postal savings deposits. (Jary ranks thirty-ninth in the United States, with, deposits of $llM,I2i; Hammond has .r-ll.l': Kast Chicago. $U7,1S; Indianapolis, -51S7.S14 ; South Bend. $110,1.7.). The figures are fr February 1, as announced by the Tost Office department. Farmers' Groups to Confer. A x conference of the officers of 12 State Federations of Farmers' associations, comprising the midwest group of the American Farm Rureau federation, will be held In Indianapolis March 29 and .'JO to discuss general farm problems, It lias been announced by J. (J. Rrown, president of the Indiana federation. States represented at the conference will be Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, South and North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. J. R. Howard of Chicago, president of the national federation, and Andrew J. Smith of Indianapolis, secretary of the Indiana Rankers' association, will speak on the subject, "The Relation of Agriculture as Represented by the Farm Rureau to Other Industries." President Rrown also announced that the directors of the state federation will meet In Indianapolis February 22 and 2:1 to formulate a program of activities of the county organizations for the year. Farms Decrease in Indiana. Indiana, according to census bureau figures for 1D20, made public here, has 2(ö,12(i farms. These farms contain 21,0M,o',2 acres, of which 1G.GS0.212 acres are improved land. Since 1010 the number of farms1 has decreased 4.S per cent. The number of white farmers Is 201.0.71, of which lOS.lo are native horn. Of native white farmers, Rll,7.",7 are owners. 2,201 managers and 04, ION tenants. Of foreign-born white farmers, ö,107 are owners, 04 managers and 1,107 tenants. The ."72 colored J fanners comprise "0 owners. The number of woman farmers is G,2."0. The value of all farm property is !V 012,:il 1,217, as com pn red with $1,S00,i:r.2oS in 1010, an Increase of (IS per cent. The value of land and buildings is $2.0.V!.0 4:W)7:i. The value of land and buildings shows an increase of Co per cent; of Implements and machin ery, 210 per cent, and of live stock, 50 per cent. The average value of land and buildings on each farm is 312,037, compared with $7,1100 In 1910, and that of land alone is $104.57 nn acre, as against J?02.:sG In 1010. Engineers to Fix Population Pivot. ' Whitehall is the hub of the United States. For near it, probably on Jimmie Herrin's hilly 120-acre farm, a mile and a half from the village, Is the new center of population of the country as fixed by the national census bureau. In the last decade the center has moved only nine miles and in a westerly direction. The census of 1010 fixed it on the grounds of Showers Rrothers' company, furniture manufacturers, in Rloomington. Now it has moved to Whitehall, one of the oldest settlements in that part of Indiana, which Is composed of two stores and a few houses, and which is situated just across the Monroe-Owen county line in Owen county. The population pivot may be In a hog run or a cornfield. According to the cen sus bureau, which placed it S.', miles' southeast of Spencer, it would probably be on the rear part of the farm where Mr. Herrin keeps his hogs. Engineering experts from Indiana uni versity will go there in a few days to fix the exact spot. McCormick's Creek Canyon", a state park, and a favorite lloosier show place, is five miles away. For the ten years the center remained In Rloomington it was one of the points of Interest of the city. W. F. Showers, now dead, founder of the Showers Rrothers' company. caused a large steel pole to be erected on the spot. On top of this pole an electric light has burned night and day for ten years. In 1010 there was considerable trouble in locating the exact center. It was first fixed to the east of Rloomington, and a stone was engraved ''Center of Population," and placed in position, when the word came from Washington, D. C. that a mistake had been made in figuring. 1.11 . ami 111:11 me reai center was some where inside the city limits of Rloom ington. After definite instructions from Washington, members of the In diana university facultv fixed the cen ter on th? Showers Rrothers' company grounds. Whitehall has a population of approximately .0 persons. In 1010 the census fixed the number of per sons 1'ving there at 4.. Owen county, of which Spencer is the county seat. has a considerable number of villages, but Whitehall Is one of the smallest. and with the honor of being the community nearest the center of the 105,OsUOS persons living in the United States. Increase in Mortgage Exemption. Senators Ilogston and Decker have n bill pending before the senate com mittee on judiciary providing for an increase In the mortgage, exemption on the assessed value of real estate from $1.onn to Z2). The present mortgage exemption has taken $2."i0.0X,00 worth of assessments off of the state duplicate. It is estimated by the state board of tax commissioners that if ti'e Hogston-Pecker bill passes the total exemptions will rach $,"00,(HX).nm. This will result in a total loss of revenue of .Ti.u00.0CQ In taxes.

HI Honors fo? Liggett, WASHINGTON. At the request of the committee on military affairs Senator Wadsworth of New York recently got before the senate Rill .T224, which is in part: "Re it enacted, etc., That In the army of the United States the grade of lieutenant general is hereby revived, and the President Is hereby au thorized, in his discretion and by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint to said grade one general ollicer, who, within tin United States, prior to the close of the recent war, rendered especially distinguished service, and two general officers, who, 'prior to the close of hostilities, espe cially distinguished themselves in com mand of field armies in the American expeditionary forces," etc. Senator Wadsworth said in part: The terms confine the recognition to two generals, General Liggett and GeiiNo Cedar Boxes for EVERY now and then congress considers a very important and seri ous subject like packing boxes. The house was considering the sundry civil bill by Items. Here are parts of the debate on packing boxes: Mr. Mann "I move to strike out ihe last word. The next item in the current law Is a provision for packing boxes. It was left out of this bill. I think there is an item in the bill for packing boxes for senators." Mr. Wood "Nine hundred and sev enty dollars." Mr. Mann "It is not a matter of any very great importance to me personally, but I was wondering what the special reason was for refusing to make provision for peeking boxes, especially for the new members of the next house." Mr. Wood "We appropriated .0,000 for this purpose last year. The clerk, who has the expenditure in charge, as certained that he could not get the boxes without paying three times as much as the appropriation and three times as much as he formerly paid for them. In view of that fact, no boxes were purchased." Mr. Mann. "The purpose of provid ing packing boxes was to furnish box es which could be used in carrying olliclal documents back and forth between Washington and our homes, including Water Power and DERATE in the house over the Roosevelt-Sequoia National park bill brought to the surface the light between the water-power interests and defenders of the national parks. This bill provides for the enlargement of Sequoia and the change of name to Roosevelt. The water-power interests are desirous of getting water-power permits on waters flowing west out of the proposed addition, as the ivcr can be easily delivered to Pacific coast cities. Under the new water-power act the water-power commission may grant permits in all public lands, including national parks. A bill to amend this act by excluding the national parks has been introduced. The Roosevelt-Sequoia bill came up A Federal Library THERE "is a bill pending in congress to provide for a library Information service in the bureau of education. Senator McLean of Connecticut spoke in favor of the bill the other day and -said, among other things : "The bill proposes to make available to the federal government the services of the libraries of the United States as centers for the dissemination of information prepared by the government for the people. The libraries are especially fitted to place government printed matter before the people, because they are supported by the taxes of the people for the benefit of the people, and are nonpartisan, in their attitude. 'if the education of the American people with regard to the functions and actions of their government is an economy measure, this hill Is one of the most economic measures ever reported hy congressional committees. Even if It must be considered purely from a dollars-and-cents point of view, it wid siam! the test. Senator Smoo! recently said: it would b,

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Billiard and March eral Rullard. Oeneral Liggett commanded the First army, and (Jeneral Rullard the Second. Ceneral Liggcti must be retired on account of age on March 21 next. (leueral Rullard has three more years to sere uin th active list before retirement. The committee very sincerely believes that the bill should pass, but Is especially concerned over the status of Ocneral Liggett. If congress docs not take any action with respect to him at this session he will be retired In the grade of major general, which he now occupies. It is accurate to say that Ceneral Liggett is the only general ollicer of the army who, after the war is over, finds himself In the same grade which he occupied before the war started. Ceneral Liggett had under his command approximately a million men. Next to (leneral Pershing himself, he carried the greatest responsibility of any ollicer of the American expeditionary forces in the management of combat troops In the held in the face of tho enemy. During debate It came out that (Senera 1 March was the third general officer intended to be promoted. Senators objected to immediate action, and to an amendment singling out General Liggett. Presently the whole matter of promotions of all grades of olllcers was under discussion. The result was that no action was taken at all. the House This Year run a box for shipment of plants from the Rotanical Gardens. I am frank to say that I have been here long enough to get an accumulation of packing boxes. Mr. Garner. "I should like to as!: why it Is that they put in the appropriation for the senate packing boxes and not for the house?" Mr. Wood. "That was the estimate made in the senate, and the gentleman from Texas understands that It would be lese majesty to attempt any cutting in our neighbor's household. Mr: Smith "Mr. Chairman, I desire to offer an amendment, at the bottomof page IS, to Insert the following: 'For packing boxes, $0,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.' " Mr. Rlanton "Mr. Chairman, I make the point of order against the amendment. It Is unauthorized by law." The Chairman "The Chair sustains the point of order." the National Parks on the unanimous consent calendar and Smith of Idaho, who is championing the bill which grants an irrigation reservoir site in Yellowstone National park, promptly objected to Its consideration. He withheld his objection while Elsten of California set forth various changes that he was ready to make to meet objections and added: "I would further state that, in regard even to the use of the waters in this additional area, that subject Is covered by the water-power act, and all those waters are now available for use under the administration of the water-power commission. I hope that this statement will satisfy the gentleman that all his basic objections to this I i 1 1 have heen met. Unless he is opposed to the general proposition of adding a new wonderland if alpine scenery to an existing park he should peimit this bill to be considered at this time." After some debate Smith of Idaho said: "On general principles I am opposed to tying up in a national park any public lands which might be used for the conservation of water for Irri gation purposes or might be used for the development of water power; and I therefore object." Information Service more accurate to estimate the waste In government publications to be nearly a million dollars a year. If for S1S.70O, the cost of the service, which Is about one fifty-fourth of a million, even one-tenth of the material could be salvaged, the new office would have justified Itself as an economy measure. "The American people support expensive research sections In practically every department of the government. It Is their right to have access to the results of this work which appear in printed form. It is, therefore, not ruthless elimination of valuable publications that U requred, but educatlom.l advertising ami Intelligent placing of this printed matter.'

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