Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 August 1921 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER EN ED. DO A NE, Publisher JASPER - - - INDIANA

Nobody is fighting for a place In the K(in th summer. Mahc we'vf gon" so fur In gvttlng bark to normalcy we've passcM It. A hot day makes a Ihto of many .1 man who consents to get Into a b.i thing suit. As between now nnil old potatoes, If behooves tlio purchaser to keep his own eyes open. The difference between a fanner and an agriculturist Is that a farmer make expenses. Poland's hopes that I'aderewskl would get a haircut when h retired !me been blasted. Consider the marvelous law of com-pcns-atlon. When It Is too hot to work it i too hot to play. When prices come down the public buys, proving that the public has both money and pood sense. Lemon are soaring In price. Up Jo i he hour of going to press nobody has ms yet blamed the war. While it Is cool enough six ndles up In the air. aviators discover that the Janitor service there Is poor. Turkish tobacco and Arabian dates nre now grown in California. So Is oriental sccnerv for the movies. If airplanes had been as deadly In the war as they are In peace, the strife would have eijded much sooner. Player-pianos are being sold in Africa, which makes it hard for missionaries to convince the natives that we love jcaee. The only thing we can think of that's as worthless as a Russian railroad right of way Is nn American corkscrew. Japan is coming Into the honorable disarmament conference without crossed fingers and perhaps without nervations. Another dangerous summer craft is ttie hammock. Nearly as many young people become engaged in hammock hs in canoes. Inductions in the cost of food are conspicuous excepting In the meat market. The vegetarians have rather the best of the situation. Violinist Kubelik said in court that he believes he has two souls, one for mush und one small one for business Senilis has been noted for the obli gaio. The automobile driver who encounters a train at a grade crossing obeys the injunction to stop, but he's past the state when1 he can look and JNtci. The -110,000 IMbles in the hotels of the United States nnd Canada furnish the only quotations you enn pet in a hotel without feeling like calling the e. An American dancer is said to be making a hit In Paris. Paris does not permit momentary disapprovals of our politics to interfere with appreciation of oi:r art. Women now demanding the right to serve on juries give no assurance that In the course of time they will not be us earnest as the men In their requests to tie excused. "Zyxt" is the last word in the Knglish language in the new Oxford dictionary. Imt it Is not the Intest, being fourteenth century Kentish dialed for "seest." Information about styles in fall overcoats arouses about as much interest at this season as an announcement of a coal dealer that fuel should be purchased early. A lecturer on prison reform has been found guilty of breaking and entering a store. This ought to give his future efforts toward reform plenty of ntmospliere. It has just been brought out that the alleged cause of the estrangement between Diekens und Thackeray was borrowed money. (Ireat minds and common ones sometimes run In tin same levels. The Prussian parliament proposes to ghe the former kaiser about $2T0.ofKiooo. This is one of the necessary expenses that makes it absolutely impossible to pny the indemnity demanded bv the allies-. Uncle Sum is making the silver dollar again. There was no use co'nln It. of course, during the season when es. wouldn't go around. No amount of legislation and scientific advice has ever doiu awry with the fact that most of what the farmer gets is what he works for. trie trouble with re-financing the vjtr o that ttic next cer.eratlon will have to b.-ar part r.f the burden If that the next gen ration nay have n v r of N o.vn to pv.

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j INDIANA I I State News I Hartford City. Work began on the erection of the SÖ.OtJ) memorial statue In honor of ex-service men of I.lack-. ford county, in the Courthouse square here. Petersburg. The Pike County Coal company, operating the Atlas mines at Petersburg, added 375 men to their pay roll, starting their mines on a 100 per cent basis. The mine has been shut down 12 weeks. The pay roll averages $40.000. Lafayette. The agricultural extension department of Purdue university will send 25 of its most able workers and a carload of exhibit material to the Indiana state fair. What amounts to a short course in agriculture may he obtained by visiting the Purdue and Oliver buildings, which will house the exhibits and the lecturers. Practical information will be given on many farm topics. Indianapolis. The total valuation f property in the city of Indianapolis, taxable in 1922, is .W.V. x tl ,2." ). or SJl!.-!2r.2JO less than this year. This Information was supplied in a certificate of the valuation which the city oentrollor received from the county auditor. The decrease, in part, it was said, was due to reductions in the valuation of corporations made by the state board of tax commissioners South Pond. Survivors of the Sev-enty-third Indiana Volunteer regiment, which served in the Civil war, closed their thirty-sixth annual nvnion here with the election of officers. Only ;il of the 141 members believed to be living throughout the United States were present. Thirty-live members of the regiment died last year. South I .end Was again chosen for next year's meeting, which will he held August 15 and 10. Indianapolis. Distribution by the state board of election commissioners of the l,oH.0)0 ballots to be used In the special election September C on the proposed amendments to the state constitution, begun a few days ago in the statehouse. K. P. Donnell, superintendent of the distribution of ballots for the board and assistants are doing the work. County clerks are calling for the ballots, in accordance with a prearranged plan. Hammond. The tide of industrial depression in the Calumet region was stayed somewhat with the announcement that .'MO men started to work in the recently closed repair shops of the Indiana Harbor Pelt railway. The shops have heen leased to the United Poller and Foundry company of Hammond. A week ago they were shut down, throwing 100 men out of employment, when the belt line found tbat under present conditions it could have Its work done more cheaply In other shops. Petersburg. Old oru is selling et Vi cents a bushel, and many feeders are buying all the corn available in Pike county for feeding purposes, and none Is being shipped. Most of the corn growers are trying to sell their old corn before they harvest their new crop. Many feeders are being shipped into Pike county, and Pike county is again engaging in raising cattle and hogs on a big scale, and this city Is still holding its reputation as the greatest live-stock shippiug point in the state of Indiana. Lafayette. Farmers.' whose crops have suffered the last summer from chinch bugs, are urged to wait until winter to burn over fence rows, II teli banks and similar places, where the bugs are accustomed to spend the cold weather, instead of burning them this summer as many have started to do. Prof. J. J. Davis, head of the entomology department of Purdue university, points out that burning this summer Is titleless In controlling this pest, as most of the bugs will not seek these places until in the fall. Purning of the fence rows now will destroy the hibernating places and cause the bugs to seek new places next winter, consequently causing more work in destroying them. Indianapolis. In order that approximately five miles of Improved highway on the National road west of Torre Haute to the state line and seven miles on the Hange Line road south of Kokomo shall be completed before November 1. the state highway coinmission Instructed contractors buildi Ing the roads to employ more men and j to utilize- additional concrete mixers. ' Lawrence Lyons, director of the state i nigh way department, said that the or der is in accordance with the plan of the commission to complete all sections of the state highway system now under contract this fall. In event contractors fail to co-operate with the program, Mr. Lyons said, the commission may let new contracts for such work It appears will not be completed according to schedule. Kokomo. Omar P.rown won the Hopublican nomination for mayor in the special primary horl He had a plurality of o2l votes over John Shrock. Mayor Isaac Wright was third. The total of votes casf was l.."U. The rvnioerats nominated It. C. Moon for mayor. Cnslicn. All Mrvet-ear tracks fn tioshon. excepting the line used by the Chicago, S.vitli Pend & Northen Indiana and Winona Interurban coin-panic-, are be!ng removed as the reMilt of dv service having been ahan-ied.

Prazil. Samuel M. McGregor, age seventy-one, former Judge of the Clay ami Putnam circuit court and a wealthy land owner, is dead nt his home in Prazil, after a long Illness. IndinnaiwlK The bonded Indebted-

! ness of Marion county ha passed the Sl.om.M) mark ami by the end of the cunent year will be approximately 12Ti.fJt.Ki as compared with $:i,7oS.0(X at the end of 1020. the county auditor said. Richmond. The city tax rate for next year will be 02 cents, according to estimates now in the hands of City Controller Pescher, who believes, however, that certain economies will make the final rate 90 cents. The only Increases allowed this year by the city council were three cents in firemen's and police pension funds. Lebanon. A crowd estimated at 10,000. attended the annual summer field meeting of the Indiana State Dairy association, which was held here. It was the biggest- agricultural event ever held in IJoone county and attracted I.undreds from all parts of the state, every county near sending delegations of from lo; to ACH). Seymour. The canning factories In Jackson county are in readiness for the season's run on tomatoes. The commercial crop of tomatoes has bei gun to ripen. Recent rains have bene fited the vines and the crop is expected to be large. Hundreds of acres of tomatoes are grown in this county under contract with packing companies. Columbus. -Petween 200 and HOO pupils will be added to the usual attendance, of Columbus high school, if the new school attendance law Is enforced. At a recent meeting of teachers in North Vernon, L. N. I lines, state superintendent of public instruction, said the new law, in his opinion, meant that all children must continue in school until they are sixteen years old. Sout Ii Pend. As a result of a war between bakery concerns, bread recently sold in South Pend at the cheapest price it has ever been offered, falling from 1T cents to and 2 cents per loaf, according to size. The war Is supposed to have been started when one of the baking concerns out the price to S and 1 cerits pel' loaf against the protest of a competing linn. The latter then forced the price down to the low level as above stated. Pethany Park. The young peoples camp and conference, which was held at Ilctfymy Park recently as one of the final events of the 1021 Pethany assembly resulted in 41 young men ami young women publicly announcing their intention of doing whole or part time service in religious work. Seven of these are going into the missionary field, two Into medicine, one into nursing, four into social service, six into teaching, four Into business and li arc undecided. Indianapolis. U. S. Lesii. attorney general of Inui;i:,a, submitted tin opinion to (Joverno. McCray in the Pay Seely ruse in which he ruled tli.it "it would not be competent for one to hold the office of county surveyor and that of a member of said board of registration at one and "the same time." It i understood that, as a result of this information, Seeiy's place on the newly created stale board for the registration of professional engineers will be vacated soon and another man will be appointed. Indianapolis. Mark Cunningham, Washington, I). C, advance agent for the ''cleanup squad" which, operating by force of the new Sweet law will undertake a speedy adjustment of all claims of former service men, began work in Indianapolis a few days ago. The counties will be taken as units of operation. Marion county leading. What length of time the task will require, and what the sum of the Indiana claims is, Mr. Cunningham would not venture to guess. The personnol .f tlio Indiana squad is not fully revealed. Sbelbyville. The total net valuation of Sheinv county property, for the purpose of taxation, for 1021. is $00. 147,170. it is announced by the county auditor. This includes the IV) per cent additional on household goods and farming implements, which, was recently ordered by the state board of tax commissioners, after the county board of review had refused to make the increase. The total amount added to the tax duplicates, as a result of this order, was $r.O -1.010. The total net valuation of property for the city of Shelbyville is .SPt.Dl. 1710. Ter re Haute. Mine officials of District No. 11. United Mine Workers of America, am interested in a new federal industrial rehabilitation act. roi cently accepted by Indiana, which will I enable injured minors to get Industrial I training. The acceptance of this act ' ill reduce the number of Injured coal miners dependent on charitable organizations and Individuals for their living, after being permanently Injured. The training is to be given nt a state school, to educate the miner In the line of occupation which he Is best suited for. considering Ms injuries Twenty-one states have adopted the terms of the act. Indianapolis. The state highway department turned down for a second time all hid for resurfacing of five roads, aggregating 20 miles. In Laporte county, and one road 2.7T miles loner. In Plkhart county. The commission -et a contract for resurfacing four roads. 3.10 miles long. In Wayne county, and one road, eight-tenths of a mile, in IVlaware county. Winchester. A new farm organization, which will be known as the Pan-d.-lph County Live Stock Preedens association, has been formed In this

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WASHINGTON STAR LUCKY BOY SCOUTS Two Win Trip to South Pole With Shackleton. Selected From Among Ten Competitors to Be Cabin Boys on His Ship on Antarctic Expedition. London, Aug. 10. Two Scotch boy scouts will shortly embark on a cruise of adventure such as their comrades throughout the world daily dream about, for Sir Ernest II. Shackleton, the antarctic explorer, has selected them from among ten competitors to accompany him In his coming antarctic expedition as cabin boys aboard his ship, the Quest. The youths are Patrol Leaders J. W. S. Marr of Aberdeen, aged sixteen, and V. K. Mooney of Kirkwall, in the Orkney islands, aged seventeen. The ten picket! applicants came -to Loudon from all parts of the United Kingdom. Sir Ernest interviewed them to ascertain their qualifications and found so much talent that he could not make a decision until today. Young Mooney came all the way from the stormy Orkneys, a journey of (XX) miles. He had never seen passenger trains before and was so confused by the big city and Its strangers that Sir Ernest could not get him to talk. However, Mooney has a winning personality and knows all about boats and the sea, as does Marr. The Quest will sail at the end of this month, to ho pone two or more years. HITS ARMY-NAVY REDUCTION Senator Lodge Says: "It Is Indefensi. ble to Take All We Have Saved and Spend It on Roads." Washington, Aug. ll. Reductions of army and navy appropriations were severely criticized in the senate on Wednesday by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who has been appointed by President Harding a representative of the United States at the coming conference on disarmament. , Lodge's attack upon the "economy program' for the army and navy urged by Senator Porah occurred in the course of strong opposition expressed by him to the pending $100.000.000 good roads hill. He said that when reductions in army and navy expenditures are made by congress, it seemed to him that It "Is wholly Indefensible to take all we have saved' and spend It on good roads which are instruments of prosperity and convenience, but which is not an insurance of our safety or a security of our peace. 13,416 VESSELS USE CANAL Authorities Say 51,600,000 Tons of Cargo Have Passed Through Canal Since It Was Opened. Palboa, Panama Canal Zone, Aug. 19. In the seven years that the Panama canal has been In u?e 13,410 vessels carrying 11.600,000 tons of cargo have passed through the waterway, it was announced by the Canal Zone authorities. During the last year 2,843 ships with 11.000.000 tons of cargo passed through the canal. The seventh birthday of the canal fell upon Monday. Serbian Prince Is III. Paris, Aug. P.). Prince Kögen t Alexander of Jugo-Slavia, son of King Peter of Serbia, is dangerously 111 of appendicitis and is incognito in Paris instead of being about to enter Pelgrade, as dispatches from that city have reported. New He2d for Micdlebury College. Middlebury, Vt., Aug. 22. Kev. Paul Dwight Moody, youngest son of the late Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, was elected president of Middlebury college. II succeeds President .lohn M. Thomas, who resigned. Swiss Unible to Lccate Bergdoll. Herne. Asig. 22. Agents of the American legation here and the Swiss police have been unable to locate Grover Cleveland llergdoll, the American draft evader, who was reported to have ftil to Switzerland fro:u Germany.

GOOD NEWS

TAX BILL MAKES CUT Drop of $384,000,000 in Levies Promised This Year. Reduction of $790,300,000 in Tax Bill Will Result From Changes Made in Revenue Act. Washington, Aug. IS. A reduction of $71X),:;.0.H0 in the annual tax bill of the nation will result from the changes in the 191S revenue act erabodied in the new administration tar hill. Chairman Fordney of the ways ami means committee declared In a majority report tiled on Tuesday with the house. "Inasmuch as the repeal of the excess profits tax and reduction of surtax rates on individual Incomes do not become effective until the calendar year 1022," the report said. '$40G,200,000 of the oontempJated loss of revenue will not be reflected in revenue collections prior to 1023." Actual reductions in taxes for this fiscal year, the report continued, are estimated at approximately $200.000,000 tctal collections under the new bill, being figured at $3,37C.000,000 as against estimated collections of $3,oTO.OOO.OOO under the present law. The revised bill was approved formally by the , ways and means committee, with the Democratic members voting solidly against it. The Democrats plan to file a minority report in which they say they will present figures to show that with a few exceptions the effect of the proposed tax revisions will be to lower the sums paid by those best able to pay. It will bo framofl at a caxicus of house Democrats. ' STEEL WAGES CUT AGAIN United States Steel Corporation An. nounces Reduction of 20 Per Cent Effective August 29. New York, Aug. 20. The United States Steel corporation announces another wage reduction of approximately 20 per cent, effective August 20. This brings the day labor rate down to 30 cents an hour, which means $21 for seven days' work. If a man works ten hours a day. This makes a total decline in wages during the last four months of well over 43 per cent. "In view of the prevailing low selling prices of steel It is necessary to cut wages," Chairman Gary said. The company's recent wage reductions are the most drastic slashing of pay in its history. NO HITCH IN PEACE-TREATY No Obstacles In Way of Negotiations Between United States and Ger. many, Says Washington. Washington, Aug. 10. There are no serious obstacles in the way of the informal negotiations for a peace treaty with (lermany, which are now being carried on in Herlin by American Commissioner Dresel, the State department announced. Othcials refused to confirm or deny Perlin reports that Germany Is refusing to accept responsibility for the war, but expressed confidence that the negotiations would proceed satisfactorily. EXPECT TROUBLE IN MEXICO i United States Agents Along the Border Are Looking for Another Revolutionary Movement San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 22. The revolutionary pot In Mexico Is brewing again, according to United States Department of Justice agents along the border. Shotgun Kills Man in Bed. Hardstown, Ky., Aug. 22. While asleep In his home, Charles A. Vance, forty-three, a wealthy farraer, was shot nnd killed. The murderer, pointing a shotgun through a window, owr the bod. shot Vance In the heart. 3urns to Death Under Wagon. Minneapolis. Minn., Aug. 22. An overturned popcorn wagon Imprisoned Mike Dinos and caused him to burn to death Then gasoline from a tank sprayed over him and caught fire as h attempted to oseape.

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HIGHWAY BILL

Measure Carries S75,C00,000 for Federal Aid in Making Roads. Ü0W GOES TO CONFERENCE Original Appropriation of $100,000,000 in Gill Was Reduced by Amend, ment by Senator New Who Asked $50,000,000 Cut Washington, Aug. 22. The Townsend bill, appropriating $75,U00.OOO for federal aid in construction and development of good roads, was passed by the senate on Friday by a viva voce vote, 28 to 22. It now goes to conference, where au agreement with the house is expected before congress recesses. The original appropriation of $100,000,000 In the bill was reduced on amendment by Senator New of Indiana, who sought to cut It to $TÄ000,000. A committee amendment for a federal highway commission to administer the bill was stricken out and the secretary of agriculture left to earry out its provisions. A provision for $15,000,000 for construction and Improvement of national forest roads and trails was allowed to stand. IS FINAL OFFER TO ERIN Premier Lloyd George Says Peace Terms Are Best Britain Has to Offer Rejection Means War. London, Aug. 22. The Uritlsh government, declared Premier Lloyd George on Friday, in making Its settlement proposals to Ireland, had decided on putting the whole of Its terms into 0he letter to I-amonn dc Valera without keeping anything back, and the sequel had proved, he said, that It was right In adopting that course. . T want to make It clear," continued the prime minister, "that the government did not put forth haggling terms, but put forward everything they could possibly concede - to purchase peace and the good will of the Irish ieopIe. In Ireland, itself, so far as I can see, the doubt is not so much as to the terms, but as to whether the government really means them. "That is a question of working out the terms of elucidation and elaboration, and not a changing of the terms. The outline cannot he altered nor the basis changed. "If there Is rejection, and final rejection beyond hope of negotiation, steps will undoubtedly have to be taken which the executive ought not and won't wish to take without first conSuiting parliament and giving It full opportunity of expressing approval or disapproval of any stops we might propose to It. U. S. TO SHIP FOOD TO RUSS Washington Officials Arrange to Charter Several Steamers to Carry Goods. Washington, Aug. 22. Large sums will be spent immediately In the United States for cereals and other foods, soon to be shipped to soviet Itussla by the American relief administration, under plans announced on Friday by Secretary Hoover. Agreement between the relief society and the soviet authorities Is near completion and the relief work will go on at once, the secretary said. Itelief work in Ilussitr may entail expenditures of $10,000,000 tefore many weeks have elapsed. Including the financial outlays necessary abroad as well as In America. Ofliclals are arranging to charter several steamers at New York to carry the food cargoes across without delay. Every .dollar spent for Itu.sKiau relief supplies will be spent In the United States. CLOUDBURST" HITS CHICAGO Thousands of Persons Marooned in Autos and on Street Cars by Deluge Property Loss Heavy. Chicago, Aug. 22. Chicago experienced one of the heaiest rains In years Friday night. The downpour, which lasted three hours, inundated the streets to the depth of tlret. feet In some places. Thousands of automobiles were stalled and the occupants forced to wad through three feet of water. 'Thousands of dollars' worth of property was damaged when basements were flooded to the depth of several feet. Street car traffic was halted on several lines when the water reached the floor level. Several buildings were struck by lightning. Manila Is Ur.tfer Water. Manila. P. I.. Aug. 2). Following rains for the past nine days, Manila is in the grip of a serious flood. The business district Is tlod up by high waters and KrtIons of the residential district are tinder water. Flyer Killed in Air Drop. Kockford. HL. Aug. 20. "Hud" I!rldgens of Chicago wa.v instantly killed when his parachute failed to ojKn after he leaped from an airplane here. Itridgens was pra-t icing for an aerial circus.