Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 June 1921 — Page 4

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J.I8PEH, UÜttoM COUNIT, INDIAN Entered a second-clrnaitch ta poatoßice at Jaiper, Ind. ander the ace of March 3, 1897 Hnbicrionon J2 0o Per Year. This papei la mailed regularly tela abecriben until a JefinUe order to lisontinaeis received ar- nil arream paid nfall; an less in the discretion of the publisher a different ecarte ehonld be deemed advisable. i i , i - j '.. , - FRIDAY JUNE 10, 1921. LIGGETT OF THE ARGONNE. Secretary of War Weeks is right in urging that MaJ. Gen. Liggett, Just retired from the army, should have the ranlc of lieutenant generali. He should have been given that permanent rank as a nation's tribute to the man who commanded the more than 1,000,000 Americans In the Argonne. We have had us many as 80 major generals at one time, hut we had only one First army. We heard little of the individual leaders In the wur, hut whenever anyone speaks of the part plnyed by American soldiers, he names Chateau-Thierry and the Argonne wood. 11 the Argonne, the First army undertook the greatest military enterprise ever carried on by Americans, und pushed It through to triumph, says Milwaukee Journal. And there cluster more thickly than anywhere else the white crosses that mark the resting places of our dead. The man for whom Secretary Weeks asks the little recognition that he be named lieutenant general Is he whom future generations are to know as Hunter Liggett of the Argonne. , Huslness Is the oldest of professions, and If it had a code of ethics It would be the most useful profession practiced by man. It serves humanity at more points and is more vitally connected with all human Interests than any other. If a man is honest elsewhere, but In business, what does his honesty count for? If a man Is capable elsewhere, but a dunce In business, how incapable he really Is! Buslness Is queen of the sciences, employing and encouraging them all; a field for the employment of all virtues that man can exhibit; the one profession capable of a dignified and expansive oversight and patronage of all the others. Where lt falls beneath this estimate, the lack Is In ethical pride, says Dearborn Independent. Business can best be controlled from the motive within. In the report of his Interview with an operatic star the reporter re'ated that she "curled her dainty shod ..i. kles about her on a settee," and we read almost the whole story before we could get over the notion that she was a contortionist instead of a musician. If a girl wants to marry money, she would be wise to marry the Intelligent and industrious young man who can make lt and save lt, says Houston Post. Then she knows she's got It' Marrying the no Vount boy with a rich daddy Is a ticket for the washtub In middle life. There Is fishing and fishing. Consider the happily floundering souls of those dreaming men who pause in front of the sporting goods' windows and nibble tentatively at the displays of new fishing tackle. The only woman who ever went over Niagara falls and lived is now in a poorhouse at the age of seventy-five. Another sad instance of how an unfeeling country rewards its public benefactors. If Doctor Einstein succeeds in explaining what lies beyond the end of Infinity, he can then take up the work of finding out what lt is that exists beyond that If the worst comes to the worst, the British ought to be able to scare up a

war somewhere that would enable tbuslastlcally huyUig foreign titles by them to get together on something 'marriage. Issibly the nineteenth more Important than a labor dispute. 'amendment has Kiven them more conjfidence in themselves. "Butter writes a syndicate author,'

"was known 4,000 years ago." lt was

known and recognlred thousands of chloride tablets as confectionery conyean ago, all rbjht. It Is often a to- tinues we suppose the candy stores tal straager row. will lay in a supply of them.

The only thing we know of that will Cause a woman to be on time Is the train that she is going on, and for that ßhe will be at the station three hours ahead of time. - To revive an ancient joke, Daniels, as secretary of the navy, abolished 'starboard and larboard and, sideboard." Denbyvcan restore only the first two. That strawberry wine, which will be made with government periuUiloa for nonbeveraxe purposes, will presuznably be used to grease automo -

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THE INVENTOR'S REWARD. The history of Invention Is a record.

with only a few exceptions, of teni-; hie toll and of genius cheated and starved. Few of the world's greatest mechanicians have ever perfected their contrivances. Sometimes by mere accident, but, as a rule, through lone experimentation, thev have hit upon an Idea which others quickly selzIng, have made the basis of fame and j fortune. Professor Langley's airship Is a new case In point, says New York World. The patent office at Washing ton used to be a pathetic storehouse j for the work of such men. In that grotesque array of toyllke machines might be found the theory that later was worth millions; the Idea that revolutionized an Industry; the principle that, with the aid of steam and steel, made one man's labor equal to that of thousands, in workshops and laboratories, In hospitals and camps, In remote villages, where the patient student is too often regarded as a crank, men of this kind are still devoting their energies to studies that may be vain, but now and then are certain to be vital. These are the weary processes by which human knowledge and power have been advanced. A true Inventor, like a true poet, Is one who dream. A trnly Interesting International situation Is precipitated by the Inquiry recently addressed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York, by the Italian government, as to where the museum procured certain famous frescoes which, the Italian government claims, were 'stolen from the Palazzo Magnlflco In Siena, years ago, says Christian Science Monitor. The museum authorities, while Insisting that It Is not their practice to supply such Information as they desired, have submitted the matter to the trustees. An Interesting point Is: If the frescoes are as famous as the Italian government maintains they are, how could art socialists have failed to detect them? But then, it appears that they were brought from France In 1014, nud In 1914, and for several years afterward, vigilance in auch matters was, no doubt, considerably relaxed. Prominent Spaniards are forming plans to purchase tha pleasure vessel t the ex-Empress of Germany to present lt to King Alfonso. He Is unusually lucky. While his fellcrtrmonarchs are losing thrones, he is getting yachts. With a good supply of appeals, stays of execution, petitions, reprieves, pardons and other paraphernalia of Justice in the tool box, thenß ccems to be no limit to tire time a convicted motorist can continue to enjoy the freedom of the traffic. With labor turning its back on communism and refusing to be set free from the capitalistic yoke, Lenin and Trotzky may decide that the world Is not worth saving and leave it to perish of high living. There are 10,000,000 automobiles in the United States, but as not half of them are seven-passenger cars, even, laws to protect the pedestrian are still needed by about sixty million people. It Is enough penalty to have to pay two bits for a shave without the barber stalling on the job In the effort to convince us that we are getting a quarter's worth of his vuluable time. Another reason why it might not be best to fight Japan about one Yap In the Pacific Is the circumstance Oat we have about as many here at home as we know what to do with. A good many of us who were willing to sacrifice our lives when the country was at war shriek in anjwiish when we have to sacrifice some money to pay taxes in time of peace. It would be very encouraging to the forces of law and order if the revenue officers would seize that particular brand of booze that Inspires to the murderous forms of banditry. Vmericnn girls are no longer enIf the present fashion of using bl- " It is a thine hlirhlv significant of,

habitual conditions that nobody everS1"1115" cities with success- St. Louis

hears of ,au epidemic being carried from America to Europe, ' An economist says that nnhrwlv noDOdy makes a living by being a consumer, At the same Urne a person must be a consumer In order to live. Hides and hogs are said to be down. Somebody ought to tell the shoes and the pork chops, 1 It U a time when many dealers who 'want to raise money have to lower

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LOOK TO FUTURE EXPANSION Civlc Bodies of Karvsas City Are Showing a Spirit Well Worthy of Emulation. Just how Taluable lt may t0 rrepare for the orderly development of a city industrially is indicated in a piece of work which is now being undertaken by the clty-plannlng commission and the chamber of commerce of Kansas City. The industrial department of the chamber alms to make a survey of Industrial conditions in Kansas City which It may use In its own work, and the planning commission will seek much additional data through the surrey which may be used to excellent purpose by various committees of the commission, by the industries themselves and by other agencies concerned with the most businesslike and Systematic expansion of the entire city. What the planning commission desires to ascertain in this respect Is Must what the most progressive and far-seeing business man would have In order to make possible the best development of his Interests. The commission already has committees at work obtaining fact? about Kapsas City's present status and probable future expansion in respect to commercial, residential and Industrial districts;' recreation facilities, highways and transportation conditions; and lt has prepared a basic map which makes zoning of the city possible. But the necessity of obtaining such facts as there about the city's industries, as well as the value of the facts, Is at once evident: What Industries has the city? What Is likely to be the expansion of these periods of ten, twenty or thirty years? Where will the expansion be? What additional industries Is Kansa City likely to have? Where will they be placed? Whore will the additional employees Irre? ' HOW CITY CONSERVED TREES Loa Angeles Built "Island" Around Unusually Fine Cluster In Path of Grading. When the city of Los Angeles recently cut North Broadway through Holgate square there was a clump of fine old pepper trees directly In the path of the grading. So the city, rather than cut the trees down, built an "island" around them. An unusual feature of the Island Is nn ornamental drinking fountain which This Fountain dt a By-Product of Saving the Trees From Destruction by Building an "Island" Around Them. was built for the purpose of supplying thirsty motorists and pedestrians with a refreshing draught of Adam's ale. The water Is piped to the fountain from a street main. Popular Science Monthly. School Gardens. Is there ground available for school gardens? Some schools have rented vacant lots and fields near the school house for their gardens and have succeeded in earning money on them, which has been used for other school projects or equipment. A certain school has an orchard of 100 trees in which the children are given practical Instruction on the care of fruit trees; the profit from the .sale of the fruit goes to the school; and the orchard serves as a model for the community. Is it possible or advisable In your school to have gardens and orchards so managed that they will make substantial contributions to the upkeep of various school activities, and at the same time provide valuable practical laboratory training for the pupils? Thl. Is a community problem, which may be solved best, perhaps, by general discussion. "City Plan" Works Well. he city plan has been tried In anu niwauKee are examples unj der such a plan the city does not re peat obvious mistakes. At present j !the man who builds a home has no ,lf , ... assurance that a fllllnir station will not be his next-door neighbor tomorrow. He may move Into another dls- , trlct and later see a factory shut off ; Ids light and air. The city plan idea. auimuiu is umi mere is n f?r cver5tblng and that everything should be In its place. The only way that Idea can be made-effective Is through laws giving the planners the e&al right t0 act. Exchange,

THE DEPARTED CAVE MAN. A cave man of yore grabbed a girl by the hair And dragged her away to bis lone rocky lair. While her friends and relations would rave. Now the girl makes & jpeech moat audaciously Queer. The mart elta and listens and says, "Yes. - my dear." The cave man's gone tack In bis cave. A cave man of yore with authority bold Made her wear enough clothes so she wouldn't take cold. And he told her just how to behave. But now when a girl jazzes by In the street The man gives one look and then beats a retreat. Tha cave man's gone back to his cave.

DID AWAY WITH LONG CLIMB Ingenious Entrance Made Through Hill Into the Southwest Museum at Los Angeles, Calif. m Something unique has been accomplished In the completion of the entrance to the Southwest museum in Los Angeles. The building is situated upon a high hill and up to the present year lt has been necessary for pedesEntrance Maae Easy. trlans-'to make a long and laborious climb up the hill to reach the main entrance. Now, however, the climb has been obviated by an artistic as well as practical Improvement. A tunnel, two hundred and twenty-four feet long was bored Into the hill and ended In a large octagonal waiting room, on one side of which Is a twelve-passenger electric elevator of the automatic type. The elevator makes a climb of 103 feet, delivering the passenger Into the main hall oi the museum. From the Independent. Use for Obsolete Warships. The British admiralty has assigned to the ministry of agriculture obsolete warships to be used as labora tories for the investigation of foot-and-mouth disease. The warships proceed to sea. and the research work Is carried on In the open ocean. Perfect safety against the dissemination of Infection Is thus secured. The virus of the disease is supposed to be ultramlcroscopic; there is also a possibility that the infection Is air-borne. The elucidation of the problem constituted by the cause of foot-and-mouth disease Is comparable with that of cancer elusive, difficult, and affording but little prospect of a definite solution. The Medical Press and Circular. Quail Among the Chickens. QuaM fraternizing with domesticated fowls were recently seen In the hen yard of a citizen, of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, according to an Item In the Carmel Pine Cone. It Is evident that some wild creatures, once they become sure that the guns of the hunters are not to be discharged In their vleinltyjlare Inclined to make friends with man. Motorists In the Yellowstone parkjell laughable stories about the bears who nose among the automobile cushions for sweets directly the occupants leave their cars to gain closer views of scenic wonders. Has Pension Officer Guessing. An Australian pension officer describes the following as the oldest letter which has come his way: "Dere Slrr, I hav been too (2) yeres In this country an am 48 yeres of age. Will 1 be entitled to the olde age penchttn when I am sixty? Will It be wurth my wile gQln on living hear?" He states he is at a loss to know whether the man expects to die 'soon, proposes to commit suicide, or simply thinks about leaving the district. His Prying Days Are Over. "Who Is the melancholy Individual?" "He was a censor during the war.H 'But why should he be so cast down now?" 'He's In the postal service and handles thousands oi letters every day that he Isn't permitted to open." Birmingham Age-Herald. Wakened Him Thoroughly. A novel manner of getting a man out of bed was recounted In a WMcsdon (England) court the other day. At seven a woman told her husband to get up. When he didn't jump promptly out of bed she pulled him out with the shovel and a pair of tongs and hit him on the nose. Got Air Through Gun Barrel. Breathing through the barrel of his m n . t- a . run saveu a mans nie m r ranee. i. . . .. .... ... J? Jie of the heap of eartn por tw0 dars the bur. ,ed oldler tithed through the barr,.i 0f m gun. Money In Artificial Diamonds. A flve-carat artificially made dla j mond costs about $35 to produce and I may sell for Just one hundred tlmea

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-IS NEVER FORGET "HOME TOWN" However Humble, Sentiment Enshrines Spots in the Hearts of Its Sons and Daughters. It Isn't the fine Imildinirs and the broad streets, the gorgeous homes and spacious gardens that count it's the sentiment hovering around the spot that marks the "home town" as the best place on earth, writes Florence Webster Long In the Indianapolis Star. If this were not the case, only the big cities would count in the summing up of the earth's worthwhile places'. And where Is the cross-roads town that hasn't as many boosters as It has residents? Even the secluded homestead way off in a lonely corner of the backwoods looms up largely as the center of the universe. It's a sort of patriotism. It's a brand of native pride, and It's all mixed largely with sentiment without which life wouldn't be worth living anyway. I can remember long ago visiting a school friend whose glowing accounts of her home had'held out the glamor of a glorious prospect. I can see In memory that simple little home circle set amid the humdrum monotony of small village life, and my surprise as I contrasted lt with my friend's tales. But now I know that the girl was simply describing things as they seemed to her, softened by distance, hallowed by sentiment, and tinged by the softening influence of a homesickness for the magic spot "home." LAYING OUT FLOWER GARDEN Even With Small Space, Much Can Be Accomplished la Making Ef. fective Home Surroundings. With a long narrow lot there is not much choice In the arrangement of borders and bods, but the effect will be more pleasing if the center is left In the grass, and have Mower borders along the sides, while at the far end there might be a border of flowering shrubs', the shrubs starting in the corners of the side borders and running across the end of the lot, the shrub border being widest In the middle. By having a nice curve to this border which narrows down very much near the corners an effect will be obtained of recesses or alcoves, which will be more pleasing than if it were a straight line. It is sometime. a good plan if it works in with the back of the house to have a strip of grass close to the house where the ground is raised above the main part ol, the lot, so one can sit there and look down on the garden, but If there Is3 a back veranda it will answer. Instead of breaking the center of the garden up with paths, it would be better to have one leading from the house to each side border, and if a nice curve Is given these will look pleasing. Housewife. Town-Planning Pays. Town planning is the study and analysis of all the different activities which go to make up the complex organism of a city, the analysis of the city's establishment, its growth and Its future demands, with the resultant laying out of plans, laws, regulations, etc., which will insofar as practicable, correct bad conditions, remove obstacles and will allow the future growth of all activities along well thought out and carefully studied lines, In such a way that each will bear proper relation to the other, function properly within Itself aud as a whole. Tersely, city planning is the means of bringing order out of chaos, and safeguarding the future from a reoccurrence of Improper conditions. Health of Tres. Just as with folks, health is of the utmost Importance in shade trees, and no agency is more potent In marring the 'appearance of these trees than insects, says the American Forestry Magazine of Washington. A defoliated or otherwise bedraggled shade tree Is not only worse than none at all, but. as a result of insect injury, it Is a menace, to the health or life of similar trees in the neighborhood. - Ways of controlling most' of the injurious shade-tree Insects' are told in Farmers' Bulletin lltX). Send for it. City Planning in Los Angles. Los Angeles has a city planning commission of 51 members, appointed by the city council, who serve three years each, without compensation, 17 retiring each year. From this membership an executive committee of nine is appointed, one for the head of each of the eight divisions and one who acts as president of the commission and presiding officer of the executive committee. , Good Flowers to Plant The nine best annuals for planting may be listed as the snap-dragon, cosmos, 'calendula, cornflower, mignonette, aster, clarkla and petunia; while for the perennials Japanese iris, phlox, chrysanthemum,, oriental poppies, larkspur, Canterbury bell, hollybocks, peony and columbine are very MLtiactory. - fc

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8 THE INFLUENCE 8 By MOLLIE MATHER. tX Wtrn Nwappr Ufclon.) Alan had never dreamed that a growing daughter could prove such a problem. When Josephine's mother died at her birth. Alan vas relieved in the thought that his chllu's future would be secure in sister's care. Tilda, the elder sister, had raised him In his orphanage and Tilda would be competent to raise his daughter, so thought Alan; but he had not counted upon the difficult temperament of his child Josephine. Josephine's mother had grown up In the vicinity, and when Tilda approved of their comradeship, and aproved also, of the first Josephine's domestic ability and gentle manners, Alan coincided heartily with her views, and Ids early marriage followed. Josephine, the daughter, grown to early young womanhood, possessed neither her mother's domestic tastes nor amenability. Josephine was adventurous, she had views, and she was apt to bo Interrogative. Alan, traveling afar upon business Interests which carried him, grew vaguely troubled. Tilda's complaint, upon hie home coming, v as that of a new friendship In which her charge persisted. "It seems," Tilda told her brother, "that the affair has been going on longer than I suspected. Probably this Intimacy Is responsible for many of Josle's wild views. An Infatuation I call It." "A man?" her brother Impatiently questioned. "My. no!" Tilda replied, WI almost wish It were a man, he would probably knock some of the nonsense out of the girl's head; Josle's divinity Is a woman, a mysterious sort of person who has rented the Well's bungalow for the summer. She looks like a motion picture actress, and spends her time playing the barp, selecting to notice no person In town save Josle. Why Josle, I have been unable to determine. "Disagreeable?" again the father Interrupted with a question. "No." Tilda honestly replied, -on the contrary Josle appears unusually sweet and reasonable. The trouble Is, that one wild notion persists. She will study the harp. Alan, I wish you would see that woman yourself and speak to her concerning her mistaken Influence over Josephine. She would probably listen to a man, but when I called ' "You called," interposed the brother. Tilda nodded. "I thought lt was my duty. Josle positively refused to obey when I ordered her not to go to the wotnan's house again. For let me assure you that the people here think very little of such a stranger. When I called she was making a picture of herself draped before her harp In a greek sort of a robe, and when I reproved her regarding the notion she had put In Josephine's head, she was as sweetly and stubbornly Insistent as the child." "Josephine really should be given her opportunity, she said. So I came away. There Is no use trying to forbid your daughter this companionship Alan, but perhaps the young woman may respect your wishes." Alan hesitated, then decided that lt would be wise to have some knowledge of his daughter's new found friend. Josephine was making one of her dally visits at the bungalow. It would appear quite the natural thing to call to see her home. So Alan went. Josephine greeted him In the garden, she was proud of her handsome father and led him forth Jubilantly. "Janet," she called, "Janet come here." At sight of a white-clad figure In the doorway, Alan's disapproving frown vanished, while Josephine stared In surprise from one to the other. For her father's quick cry had been "Janey, my dear!" while her friend ran In a little rush toward him. "You will not be displeased, will you Alan," she wa saying, "because I stole a march on you and hurried on to meet Josle. I wanted to win your daughter's heart you see, before she should know me under the unfortunate name of stepmother. You were far away Alan, It really seemed the most acceptable way of spending my time. And I have discovered a secret for you, one that will not keep another moment. Your daughter has ' great musical ability. Alan. I am very certain of this, and you must give her an opportun I ty." "But." murmured Josephine, "I do not understand." "Of course you don't," penitently Jnnet's arms enfolded her. "It means dear, that your father and I met some time ago, quite accidentally, when he called concerning a certain suit for damages. My little brother. Laddie, had been almost crippled by a recklessly driven automobile, and the suit was brought In order to enable us to. procure the best possible surgical skill." "And while the suit was pending," Alan , added, "and the little brother lay In the hospital, this girl whom I learned to love, took the harp which had been her pastime and with It, gave recitals here and there, so that Laddie need lack no help or comfort. And she was. becoming such a celebrity in her line, that I thought I had better put my question, before her head should be turned by admiration." "And so," Josephine finished hap pily, "verything has ended In Just a perfectly heavenly way."

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