Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 17, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 September 1921 — Page 3

msniNOTON 'SIDELIGHTS

Parcel Post Rates TY7ASIIIN(1T0N. rarct-I post rates y must I' Increased, If an investigation .shows that tills service is responsible, for an xpeeted deficit of SWW.UW in the postal revenue this year. Postmaster General Hays says. Accountants and post oilier engineers are now cheeking through the entire country to learn If the parcel Ijst is, as suspected, one of the two big losing ventures of the department. Until HO) postal revenues exceeded expenditures for several years, hut now deficits are showing, duo to business depression, increased wages and increased compensation to railroads for carrying mall. Oil Shale When Our OIL-REARING shale in the United States is capable of supplying .ill of the country's demands for petroleum when the supply of crude oil is exhausted. This announcement Is contained in a report of the bureau of mines. Oil shale up to tin present time has not bet'ii mined on a'commercial scale in this country. Since the middle of the last century oil shale mining has been an important origin of oil in Scotland and France. Hielt and easily accessible deposits of the oil-bearing shale are said to exist in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada and California, where some shale oil already has been produced and used successfully. Several small reducing plants have been In operation for some time, and others are under construction near Pebeque, Colo.; Watson, Utah; Elko, Nov., and Dillon, Mont. Tests indicate that the yield of, oil shale is all the way from practically nothing up to ninety gallons or more n ton. Much shale is too thin to be mined commercially, but there are extensive deposits running from several feet to .'" feet In thickness. "It is estimated by the geological survey," says the report, "that the curve of crude- oil production will reach its peak within a few years, and then the country will have to look more and more to other sources for Flood Prevention " " E Nt! INKERS of the federal reclamation service have competed a preliminary report, based on a hasty, tentative survey, on Hood prevention for the city of Pueblo and the Arkansas river valley. A copy of the report has been received by Secretary of the Interior Fall, and a second copy has been sent to the mayor of Pueblo. The engineers. James Munn and J. I.. Savage of the Denver reclamation oMice. have suggested several different plans and combinations of plans for Hood prevention which would entail estimated costs ranging from St000,O00 to $17,."i0O.n00. One plan for the Arkansas river calls for Hood detention storage of 1110.000 acre feet with such repairs' to present levees and channel as are required to provide a safe capacity of üTi.UOO second feet through Pueblo. Another plan provides for the en Nonintoxicating A MOVEMENT asking congress to shift "burdensome taxes from the people to nonalcoholic beer has been started throughout the country. Congress is urged to have the revenue bill provide for the manufacture and sale of beer containing 2.7Ö per cent alcohol, and in that way raise from S1.(VUXmk to $1,2.VUH000 In taxes, and the proposition is being seriously considered. A serious effort has been made to get Prohibitionists to agree to a tax of 10 per barrel on "nonintoxicating cereal beverages containing not more than -si per cent of alcohol by weight." The suggested legislation, it is argued, would not violate the spirit of the eighteenth amendment, but in effect amend the Volstead act by killing the provision prohibiting the manufacture of beer with an alcoholic eontetit in excess of one-half of one per cent. A bill, or an amendment to that effect, will be introduced in the house to be considered when the regular revenue bill is taken up. Prof. Edwin R, Seligman, professor 4.r political economy at Columbia unl-

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"Tlie parcel it system Is a commercial venture pure aud simple," Mr. Hays said. "There is every reason, therefore, why it should be made at least self-supporting. This dues not hold true of some other services of the post office, which necessarily must be accomplished at a loss." Mr. Hays explained why a deiicit is expected this year and gave an itemized statement showing where and how the department plans to reduce operating costs by nearly $13,)00uua "For the fiscal year ending June 3U, li)'JO." he said. "the deficit was $17,UW.tJUO. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 10111, the deficit will be found to he approximately $S4,000,(XK) when the reports are nil available. "Of this, about $75,0UU,(H0 was due to increase in compensation ordered by congress to employees and $11,000,000 was additional pay to railroads under interstate commerce decisions. "Since April 1 there has been a serious falling off of post office business and in consequence receipts, but economies have been instituted which prevent any deficit other than that for increased wages and railroad rates." Crude Oil Is Gone its various grades of hydrocarbon oils. "It is entirely possible that foreign oil fields, not extensively exploited as yet, will supply the deiicit' caused by declining production and increasing consumption in the United States for a time. "When foreign oils cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities and at reasonable prices we can turn to our oil shales for our supply." "More than 150 companies have been organized for tha purpose of developing or selling stock in shale oil enterprises. Some apparently are essentially stock-selling organizations. Others have been organizing on a firm basis. "Large amounts will have to be invested before the oil shale industry becomes of commercial importance. "Estimates by engineers of the cost of a complete retorting plant, handling 1,000 tons of shale a day, are between $1,000,000 and $.",000,000. in Arkansas Valley largement of the channel through Pueblo and for a concrete channel. Hank protection is one of four plans suggested for Fountain creek: The engineers make it plain that their present recommendations are based on fragmentary data available at this time and that complete study of the problems Involved will require much more time and more accurate hydrographic and topographic data than is now at hand and also much detailed engineering work. They found a dearth of accurate topographic and other essential lata on which to base even a preliminary study. All the alternative plans which include Hood detention storage with possible use of the Steel Hollow reservoir site, would benefit property interests In the Arkansas valley below Pueblo, while the alternative plan embracing only channel enlargement or bank protection through Pueblo would not protect property interests in the valley below Pueblo. "Due to the limited storage possibilities and as a very little, if any, water is available for storage in the Arkansas river above Pueblo, there does not appear to be any project of developing irrigation storage with economy In conjunction with Hood detention storage," reads the report. Cereal Beverages 99 versity. testifying before the finance committee of the senate, made an impression when he said: "We must remember that had we not adopted prohibition we should be getting at least $1,04X1,000,000 we will not get under the existing law." Asked if he favored the repeal of the prohibition law, Professor Seligman replied: "No, sir; although I should be glad to see it so interpreted as to permit the sale and the heavy taxation of beer and light wines. That would help us out immensely." Practical experts have estimated that between 90,000.000 and 120,000.000 barrels of beer would J)e consumed If It contained' per cent of alcohol.

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INDIANA BREVITIES Washington, I). C. Three Indiana postmasters have been reappointed as followST Edward It. Spohr. Jamestown; Charles II. Oldenburg. The nomination of Lyman It. Rainforth to be postmaster at Leavenworth, has been continued by the senate. The Post Office department has asked the civil service commission to hold examinations for the selection of post-' masters at Rrynnt and St. Mary of the Woods. Representative Dunbar of the Third Indiana district recommended the npiointment of Mrs. Mollie P. Askten to be postmaster at French Lick. As the only woman among the eight candidates. Mrs. Askten. who Is assistant postmaster, obtained the highest grade at examination. The office pays ?2.S00 a year. Indianapolis. Governor McCray is considering the advisability of extending the activities of the state purchasing committee, of which Fred It. RobInson, formerly one of the governor's campaign managers, is secretary. If the committee agrees, the plan will be tried out in connection with the new board of trustees which the governor recently appointed for the Indiana State Soldiers' home at Lafayette, and which has a building project in hand at the home. The committee is to meet soon sind the governor and Mr. Robinson will discuss the proposal with it. Thus far the committee has limited Its work to the purchase of groceries and common Institution supplies. Lafayette. A yield of 20 tons or more an acre from a-tract of one and one-half acres of tomatoes, is Indicated by pickings up to the present. This Is the remarkable yield obtained on n plot being grown by the agricultural experiment station of Purdue university here. It is more than four times the average yield obtained by thousands of Indiana tomato growers. A tomato-breeding experiment has been In progress several years at the experiment station, in order to improve the tomato canning crop of this state, not only In quality, but also quantity. Noblesville. (iood prices are being paid for products which are being sold at the many farm sales being held In central Indiana at present. Prices for good cows range from $90 to .$125. Corn in the field is bringing $17 to $20 an acre, and good feeding shouts are selling as high as 20 cents a pound. An average price for timothy hay is $12 a ton. The sales are being attended by large crowds, and at times the bidding is spirited. Knox. W. J. Reed, attorney for Cecil Rurkett, age eleven, charged ..with the murder of Bennie Slavin, age seven, of Ora. announced that the state Would try the boy for the second time in Circuit court here In October. The Rurkett boy was tried several months ago on a charge of first degree murder, but the jury failed to reach an agreement. Many letters have been received by the state's attorney protesting against a second trial. Indianapolis. Additional county chairmen and organizations aiding the Indiana Educators' Amendment association in its campaign for ratification of the ninth amendment, which proposes to take politics from the state's common school system by making the ollice of state superintendent of public instruction appointive instead of elective, have been announced by the director of the association's campaign. Jefferson vi He. Persons from this city who lunv made motor trips report that fine watermelons in the vicinity of Seymour are being sold for S cents each and choice cantaloupes at the rate of seven for 25 cents. Thousands of melons are in the lields going to waste because freight rates are too high to ship them. Every farmhouse has a wayside market where watermelons and cantaloupes are piled high. Danville. Richard Sommerville, age seventy-two, was shot and probably fatally wounded by Andrew Rales, age seventy, at North Salem. Rales is being held in the Hendricks county jail here and Is belleMed to be mentally Irresponsible. Jealousy is given as the cause of the tragedy. Rales is said to have imagined Sommerville had supplanted him in the affections of Rales wife. Anderson. Rond issues for road improvement in Madison county thus far this year approximate an expenditure of $1. (0,800. a summary at the office of the county auditor showed. Data wa sought by persons who said they believed It was time for the county council and the county commissioners to put a check on road construction for this year. Culver. American Legion state headquarters added $1,200 to its funds for pushing the campaign in behalf of disabled veterans by the exhibition given in Culver by the cadets of the Culver Summer schools who repeated the program which they presented at the Pageant of Progress In Chicago. Muncie. Joseph D. O'Neill, commander of Delaware post No. 19, American Legion. In this city, has announced his candidacy fork state commander In the election to be held soon at the state meeting at Wabash. He received the unanimous Indorsement of Muncie por. Laporte. Weakeued by nearly 25 days of sleeplessr.es:, s. V. Hoover of I-aporte finally fell asleep In death. For three weeks he was unable to get a moment's sleep and was taken to a hospital in Fort Wayne. He ap-l-?avd in normal health otherwise.

Valparaiso. Statistics Just compiled for the counties of the Northwest Indiana district, which Includes Fulton. Lake, Laporte, Marshall, Porter, I'ulaski, Starke and St. Joseph, give the number of beef and duiry cattle and results of the tuberculin tests by state and federal ollicials. Dairy Cattle Lake, 17. ICO; Laporte, 17..TI1 ; Porter, 17.0S5; Marshall, l.U7 5; St. Joseph. 13.101; Fulton, ll.OS; Pulaski, l.22i; Starke, 7,210. Reef Cattle Marshall, 11.554; Pulaski. lL'W; Fulton, 11,112; Lake, 7,5Jd; St. Joseph, 4.70d; Porter, 4.510; Starke, 2.010. Number Cattle Tuberculin Tested in Last Two Years Laporte, 1J50; Lake, 1.125; Porter, 017; St. Joseph. 050; Starke, 150; Marshall. 150; Pulaski, ,.S; Fulton. 37. Number Cattle Reacting Lake. 100; Rorter, OS; Laporte. 03; St. Joseph, 5T; Starke, 0; Marshall, 8; Pulaski. 8; Culton, 11. Number Accredited Herds St. Joseph, G; Porter, 5; Starke. 5; Marshall, 3; Laporte. 1; Lake. 1; Fulton, O; Pulaski, 0. Number in Process of Accreditation Lnke. 75; St. Joseph. 70; Porter, 41; Marshall. 2Ti ; Laporte, 22; Starke, 15; Fulton. 2; Pulaski, 1. North Vernon. Under auspices of Purdue university, 1,000 farmers and their families of southern Indiana attended a picnic In the Klein woods and visited the Jennings county experiment farm, near this city. The land comprising the experimental plot was acquired by the county two years ago and under instructions from Purdue In conjunction with the county agricultural agent experiments have been carried out in lime materials, fertility, rotation, clover and drainage; corn variety tests have also leen conducted. The average yield of wheat in Jennings county was eight bushels to the acre. The average yield on treated land on experimental plot was 17.2 bushels. Evnnsville. Vanderburg county has virtually no tomato crop this year, according to the county marketing agent for the farmers' bureau. He says that fewer tomatoes were planted this year than for several years. i'.Iany of the plants set out were killed by blight just as they started to bloom. The melon season In Posey and (Jibson counties will bring about $150,000 and $175,000, according to the president of the Poseyviile National bank at Poseyviile. The season is now drawing to a close and because of the lack of demand, melon shipments, both watermelons and cantaloupes, have not been up to the average of former years. Indianapolis. Regular army olficers give the new Indiana National CJuard a high rating after their inspection of the Hoosler units at their ejjenmpment at Camp Knox, Ky. Maj. Albeit Rich, In his report to the War department, says the Indiana companies made "remarkable showings in tiring practice,' and a report by the militia bureau at Washington shows that Indiana Is anions: the leading states of the country in organization. Indiana has met all requirements on unit organization, the milita .bureau records, adding that the personnel requirements are S4 per cent complete. Indianapolis. Scale of pay on all state road construction has been reduced for teams and laborers, it is announced by Lawrence Lyons, director of the state highway commission. Teamsters with teams have been reduced from 50 cents to 45 cents an hour. The wage reduction for laborers will vary. Where the' work is believed to be up to the standard set by the commission he is given 25 cents an hour; otherwise 20 cents. Mr. Lyons said the new scale will make it possible for a man with a team to earn about S4.50 a day. or s27 a week. Washington. I. C. For the week ended August 0. the bituminous operators of Indiana produced .5.S per cent of full time output, which. was a slight gain over the preceding week when the percentage was 34.1. Of the total loss of 04.2 per cent, 5,.4 per cent was on account of "no market" and CO per cent was due to mine disability. Labor shortage and strikes were responsible for a loss of 3.5 per eent. Indianapolis Governor McCray has issued a statement disclaiming responsibility for the issuance of a certificate by Secretary of State Ed Jackson, authorizing the Ku Klux Klan to operate in Indiana. A letter made public in Kokomo protesting against the action of Mr. Jackson in granting the Klan a certificate caused the governor to make the statement. South Rend. John Wozner, age eighty-seven, died of heart disease while robbers who had bound and gagged him were searching his home, a mile northeast of Notre Dame university. Wozner had lived alone for more than a score of years. When found he was fully dressed, with the pockets of his clothing turned Inside out. (loshen. Dr. B. L. Donaldson, age fifty-five, formerly of Hartford, Mich., and of Elkhart, who severaf months ago began practice here, committed suicide in his apartment by shooting himself through the mouth with a revolver. Hi-? widow found his body on a cot in an adjoining room with the weapon on the floor. Rloomington. With the preachers of Rloomlngton and members of the Women's Christian Temierance Union as invited guests, $1,500 worth of liquor was poured into a sewer at the city hall by Walter Peterson, sheriff, and Superintendent of Police Brownin?. The liquor had been seized In various raids In the last few weeks. Goshen. Peppermint and spearmint crops, covering 400 acres of land east of Goshen, are estimated to be worth SS0.000. The harvest Is In progress. Peppermint oil Is now being sold at $1.50 a pound.

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A Flower, a Spanking CHICAGO. An attempt to protect her five-3ear-old granddaughter from a spanking cost the life of Mrs. Anna Taugner, fifty-three years old, of 1GLH3 North Leavitt street, according to Information obtained by Shakespeare avenue police. Mrs. Taugner died of injuries said to have been incurred In a battle with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Margaret Taugner of 1021 North Leavitt street. The latter is recovering from wounds in a North side hospital. The two women, according to the police, rolled down a flight of steps during the struggle, which was precipitated when the latter's daughter, Elizabeth Taugner, picked some flowers from a neighbor's yard. Mrs. Margaret Taugner, 23, is the wife of Herman Taugner, son of tlie dead woman. Iler daughter, Elizabeth, strayed Into a yard at 1020 Politics as She Is PlKEVILLE, KY. A remarkable advertisement, in the form of a statement, appears in the Pike County News, signed by James Martin Thornbury, a boy of twelve years. He says, among other things: "I am Dr. L. Q. Thornbury's boy, an orphan boy not yet twelve years old. And when I was five this man (naming the candidate) shot and killed daddy and left me an orphan. Up at Card, where my daddy was killed, I would ride behind on the horse and would see (the candidate) carrying a gun. I did not think then about him killing my daddy. I have learned since then that this was what he was carrying the gun for. I was left without a home, no one to look to but kind friends to open the door and let me In. They have been kind to mo, but not like father. "I have been told that (the candidate) says that kiJling daddy didn't bother him at all. Now, what do you think about a man to be county judge that has no conscience? God says thou shalt not kill. It is in the Rible, for I have read it. It can be found In the twentieth chapter of Exodus. T want to beg the fathers , and

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Who Says Woman Lacks Sense of Humor?

DENVER. An overdeveloped sense of humor, which could be satisfied only by the crest-fallen countenance of a disappointed taxicab driver making an earnest search for an elusive "fare,", led two pretty Denver girls into trouble. The girls, Ruth Rillings, 417 Lincoln street, and Norma McCormack, 8 South Grant street, spent a listless morning at the Rillings residence. The monotony resulted in an inspiration to turn In a "fake" cab order. So an excited voice requested the

Like the Cave Dwellers of the Past

NEWARK, N. J. Two prosecuting v officers of New Jersey, those of Somerset and Union counties, are wondering whether they have any cause to interfere with the mode of life adopted by members of the "Naturlst Colony." There are about 00 in the colony, men women and children, hailing from New York and Newark. They live as the primitive ancestors of the human race did and have chosen for their "back to nature" scene the rock-encrusted summit of "Freedom Hill." in a remote section of the Orange mountains. The aversion to the dictated attire of civilization is the aggravation of the county prosecutors and pleasure drhers through the mountain roads. It is charged the colonists walk to the swimming pool and to" the fishing grounds in total disregard of the conventions free like the cave dwellers of the past. In everyday life the "Master" of th colony i Moses I. Llttauer." A man of medium build, slender, blue-eyed and erect, he has flowing blond hair which falls in graceful ringlets about his shoulders, and a luxuriant beard that apparently i5 untouched by scisnr or

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North I.eavitt Mrect and began picking posies from a little flower bed. Lillian Janicki, eight, of R!0 North Lcavitt street, rushed to tell the child's mother. Elizabeth's mother whisked her Into the hallway and administered a sound spanking. The little girl's cries fdled the narrow stnet for a moment or two; then Elizabeth went out to play again. Twenty minutes later the grandmother picked up Elizabeth in her arms and carried her into her home. Two hours later the child's mother went to the elder woman's flat to cet her daughter. From there on the police tale becomes somewhat vague. They found the grandmother on the floor of the hallway mortally injured, screaming" for asslstaneo. Aceording to Mrs. Anna RJidel, WIS North Leavitt street, the young wife was still seuftllng with her mother-in-law. "We believe the two started to fight at the top jof tlie stairs and fell all the way down in the struggle," the police say. "Wo believe the grandmother was trying to protect little Elizabeth from her mot her spankings. We shall hold Mrs. Margaret Taugner until a coroner's inquest has settled the cause of death.' Played in Kentucky mothers not to vote for this man; vote for some good man and do not vote for (the candidate), a murderer, an orphan-maker and a life-taker, who has blood-stained hands and has taken the life of a fellow man. Fathers and mothers, when you leave your homes to go to the polls to cast your vote, please look at your boy and think .of me. v "If you do, I am sure you will not vote for a murderer. Girls and boys. I want to ask you to beg your fathers and mothers to vote for some good man, not to vote for (the candidate). "I do not think that I am asking too much of you not to vote for a murderer. RJace yourselves in my footing and what would you do?" Tab company that a taxi be sent to 41" Lincoln street, the house nest to the Rillings residence. Fifteen minutes later a cab drew tip to the house. A search for the persons making the call proved unavailing. The girJs were seated on the Rillings front porch hidden behind a newspaper, in which they were deeply engrossed. On the return of the taxi to the company's stand, the fact that two girls had seemingly enjoyed the driver's mystification led to an investigation. Tlie telephone was traced bark to the Rillings residence. Sergeant Sullivan was sent to th scene, and exacted a confession from the agitated girls. A promise that the act would not be repeated was enthusiastically forthcoming. k Ofliclals of the taxicab companies assert they are so frequently "fooled' ' that hereafter offenders will bt? charged with malicious mischief. comb. His garb is" a sort of 'combination suit of cotton with buttons down the front, though their utility is Ignored. He is tan-coated from head to foot, and is proud of it. saying: "In nota coat of tan more beautiful than any tailor-made suit which oeietj tules require?" He went on: "It is not true that any of my people travel the roads naked, as if is charged. We keep to our own acres when we go about as nature intended. Clothing is l ud for the health. A healthy skin .innot live all bound up. "ThoM jK'.ipU- in the tenements, the skyscrapers and tb- mansions live among the d-ad things. We abs. rb the vitality, tlie electricity fl vnr of nalnro."

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