Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 September 1921 — Page 7

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3IDELIG Parcel Post Rates WASHINGTON. Parcel in.st rates must be increased. If an Investigation shows t hat this service is responsible for an exported deficit of ?7MMyx)0 in the postal revenue this year, Postmaster CJeneral Hays says. Accountants an! post office engineers an now checking through the entire country to learn if the parcel Ist Is, as suspected, one of the two big losing ventures of the department. Until postal revenues exceeded expenditures for several years, but now deficits an; showing, due to business depression, increased wages and increased compensation to railroads for carrying mail. Oil Shale When Our OIL-RKARING shale in the United Slates is capable of supplying all 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 the present time has not been 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. KIch and easily accessible deposits of the oll-bearlng -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 redwing plants have been in operation for some time, and others are under construction near Debeque, Colo.; Watson, Utah; Hlko, New. and Dillon, Mont. Tests Indicate that the yield of oil shale is all the way from practically nothing up to ninety gallons or more a 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 " ' irr:. - -r. c w a 7 i.kfr MM TMil-N'KKliS of the federal reclaniation service have completed a preliminary report, based on a hasty, teni:uive survey, on Hood prevention for the city of Pueblo ami the Arkansas river valley. A cony of the report has been refeivul by Secretary of the Interior Fall, and a second copy has been sent to thex mayor of Pueblo. The engineers, James Munn and J. L. Savage of the Denver reclamation oiUce, have suggested several different plans and combinations of plans for Hood prexention which would entail estimated costs ranging from J?t.ooo,t to ?l7,.VHi,mR). One plan for the Arkansas river calls for Hood' detention storage of -10.tH.Hi acre feet with suclr repairs to present levees and channel as are required to provide a safe capacity of jr,(HK second feet through Pueblo. Another plan provides for the en " Nonintoxicating AMOVF.MKNT asking congress to shift burdensome taxes from the people to nonalcoholic beer has been started throughout the country. Congress is urged to have tin reenue bill provide for the manufacture and sale of beer containing -.70 per cent I alcohol, and in that way raise from j $t.(Hio.om.oi)0 to $l,2o0.00 in taxes. I and.-the proposition is being seriously Considered. A serious effort has been made to get Prohibitionists to agree to a tax of $10 p,r barrel on "nonintoxicatlnc, cereal beverages containing not more Than 'J3 per cent of alcohol by weiirht." The suggested legislation. It Is argued, would not violate the spirit of the eighteenth amendment, but In effect amend the VoNu-ad act by killing the provision prohibiting the manufacture of beer with an alcoholic eonterit in excess ot one-half of one p. r cent. A bill, or an amendment to that effect, will 1)0 Introduced in the liotis to be considered when the regular revenue bill is taken up. I'rof. IMwin It. Hfllgman, professor ff political economy nt Columbia uul-

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May Be Increased "The parcel jMst system I a commercial venture pure and simple," Mr. Hays said. "There . Is every reason, therefore, why It should be made at least self-supirtin. Thls'does not hold true of some other services of the post office, which necessarily must be accomplished at a loss." Mr. Hays explained why a deficit Is expected this year and gave an itemized statement showing where and how the department plans to reduce operating costs by nearly .$ir.lKK),UW. "For the liscal year ending June :5U, 1ÜLU" he said, "thu deticlt was $17,OW.UUO. Tor the fiscal year ending June 30, 1P-1, the deficit will be found to be approximately $S4,XXJ,000 when the reports are all available. "Of this, about $75,000,(M.X) was due to increase in compensation ordered by congress to employees and $11,000,(XX) was additional pay to railroads under Interstate commerce decisions. "Since April 1 there has been a serious falling off of post ofllce 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 Heids not extensively exploited as yet, will supply the deficit caused by declining production and increasing consumption in the Unite1 States for a time. "When foreign oils cannot be obtained in suflicfent quantities and at reasonable prices we can turn to our oil shales for our supply." "More than 1Ö0 companies have been organized for the 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. "Lstimates by engineers of the cost of a complete retorting plant, handling 1,01 jo tons of shale a day, are between $1,HK,0h and $.",000,000. in Arkansas Valley largement of the channel through I'ueMo and for a concrete channel. Pank 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 ami also much detailed engineering work. They found a dearth of accurate topographic and other essential data 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 "

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versity. testifying before the finance committee of the senate, made an Impression when he said: "We must remember that had .ve not adopted prohibition we should be getting at least $l.lHH.UMUuO we will not get under the existing law." Asked If he favored the repeal of the prohibition law. Professor Sellgman replied: "No, sir; although I should be glad to see it so interpreted as to permit the sale nnd 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.tM barrels of beer would be consumed If it contained 2i per cent of alcohol.

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unsmngTon. I), c inree inuiana postmasters have been reappointed as follows: Kdward It. Spohr, Jamestown; Charles H. Oldenburg. The nomination of Ljman H. Kainforth to be postmaster at Leavenworth, has been confirmed by the senate. The Post Oflice department has asked the civil service commission to hold examinations for the selection of postmasters at Kryat't and St. Mary OI tne Woods. Representative IHinbar of the Third Indiana district recommended the apiointment of Mrs. Mollle 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.fctX a year. Indianapolis. Governor McCray is considering the advisability of extending the activities of the state purchasing committee, of which Fred K. Hobinson, formerly one of the governor's campaign managers, is secretary. If the committee agrees, the plan will be tried out in connection with the newboard 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 and 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. (Jood 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 $M to .512.". Corn in the field is bringing $17 to $20 an acre, and good feeding shoats are selling as high as 20 cents a pound. An average price for timothy hay Is S12 a ton. The sales are being attended by large crowds, nnd at times the bidding Is spirited. Knox. W. J. Reed, attorney for Cecil Hurkett, age eleven, charged with the murder of Rennie 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 pro testing 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 oflice of state superintendent of public instruction appointive instead of elective, have been announced by the director of the association's cam paign. .JelTer-onville. Persons from this city who hao made motor trips report that fine watermelons in the vicinity of Seymour are Ik ing suhl lor S cents each and choice cantaloupes at the rale of seven for 20 cents. Thousands of melons are. in the fields going to waste because freight rates are too high to ship them. Every farmhouse has a wayside market where water melons and cantaloupes are piled high Danville. Richard Soinmerville, 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 nnd is belieVd to be mentally irresponsible. Jealousy is given as the cause of the tragedy. Rales Is said to have imagined Soinmerville 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 Sl.atO.SOO. a summary at the office of the county auditor showed. Data was 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 I. O'Neill, commander of Delaware post No. 10, American Legion. In this city, has announced his candidacy for state commander in the election to be held soon nt the state meeting nt Wabash, lie received the unanimous indorsement of Muncie poc. I.aporte. Weakened by nearly 25 days of sleeple-?r.", S. V. Hoover of I .a port e finally fell asleep in death. Tor three weeks lie was unable to get a moment's sleep and was taken to a hospital in Fort Wayne. He apffj in normal health otherwise.

Valparalso.-Statlstlcs just compiled for tle counties of the Northwest Indiana district, which Includes Fulton. Lake. Laporte, Marshall, Porter, Pulaski, Starke and St. Joseph, give the number of beef and dairy cattle and results of the tuberculin tests by state nnd federal officials. Dairy Cattle Lake. 17,W; Laporte, 17.311; Porter, 17,0Vi; Marshall, 13.474; St. Joseph, KU01; Fulton. ll.JOS; Pulaski, 0.224; Starke, 7.21b. Reef Cattle Marshall, 1LVV4; Pulaski. 11,380; Fulton, 11,142; Lake, T.fiOO; St. Joseph. 4,70i; Porter, i."1G; Starke. 2.010. Number Cattle Tuberculin Tested iii i.ast Two Years Laporte, l.lTrO; Lake. L12.V, Porter, 017; .St. Joseph. GT0; Starke, l.": Marshall, V); Pulaski. 3S; Fulton, 37. Number Cattle Reacting Lake. 100; Porter, OS; Laporte, 03; St. Joseph,

ST.: Starke, 1); Marshall, 8; Pulaski. S;, Culton, 3. Number Accredited Herds St. Joseph, 0; Porter, 5; Starke, o; Marshall, 3; Laporte. 1; Lake, 1; Fulton, O; Pulaski. 0. Number in Process of Accreditation Lake. 70; St. Jowph. o0; Porter, 41; Marshall, 2T; 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 conduct ed. 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. Kvansville. 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. Many of the plants set out were killed by blight just as they started to bloom. The melon season in Posey and Gibson counties will bring about $150,000 and $175,000. according to the president of the Posey ville National bank at Poseyville. The season is now drawing to a close ami 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 officers give the new Indiana National Guard a high rating 'after their inspection of the Hoosier units at their encampment at Camp Knox, Ky. Maj. Albert Rich, in his report to the War department, says the Indiana companies made, "remarkable showings in firing practice," and a report by the militia bureau at Washington shows that Indiana Is among the lending 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 L'O cents. Mr. Ly.ons said the new scale will make it possible for a man with a team to earn about S4.no a day. or $27 a week. Washington, I. C. For the week ended August 0. the bituminous operators of Indiana produced ,".5.8 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, 73.4 per eent was on account of ."no market" and 0.0 per cent was due to mine disability. Labor shortage and strikes were responsible for a loss of ,'1.5 per cent. Indianapolis. Governor McCray has issued a statement disclaiming responsibility, for the issuance of a certificate by Secretary of State FA Jackson, authorizing the Ku Klux Klan to operate in Indiana. A letter made public in Kokomo protesting against the action of Mr. Jcckson in granting the Klan a certificate caused the governor to make the statement. South Rend. John Wozner, ase 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. (Joshen. Dr. B. L. Donaldsor, age lifty-five, formerly of Hartford, Mich., and of Elkhart, who several months ago began practice here, committed suicide in his apartment by shooting himself through the mouth with a revolver. His widow found his body on a cot in an adjoining room with the weapon on the floor. Rloomington. With the preachers of Rloomlngton nnd members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union as invited guests. $1.50 i worth of liquor was poured into a sewer at the city hall by Walter Peterson, sheriff, ami Superintendent of Police Rrown!np.. The liquor had boon seized In various raids in the last few weeks. Goshen Peppermint and spearmint crops, covering -10O acres f land east of Goshen, are estimated to be worth $K,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-year-old granddaughter from a spanking cost the life of Mrs. Anna Taugner, fifty-three years old, of lGL'G 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 1G24 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 the dead woman. Her daughter, Elizabeth, strayed Into a yard at lG'JO Politics as She Is PIKE VILLE, 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 ohl. 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 lool: to but kind friends to open the door and let me in. They have been kind to me, but. not like father. "I have been told that (the candidate) says that kiJling daddy didn't bother him at all. Now, vyhat do you think about a man to be county judge that has no conscience? God says thou shalt not kill. It is in the Rihle, for I have read it. It can be found in the twentieth chapter of Exodus. "I want to beg the fathers and

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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 Hillings, 417 Lincoln street, and Norma McCormack, Sx South Grant street, spent a listless morning at the Hillings residence. The monotony resulted in an inspiration to tum in a "fake" cab order. So an excited voice requested the

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NEWARK, N. J. Two prosecuting officers of New Jersey, those of Somerset and Union counties, are wonderin? whether they have any cause to Interfere with the mode of life adopted by members of the "Naturist 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 1 1 111." 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 eharged the colonists walk to the swimmin? pools and to the fihln grounds in total disregard of the conventions free1 like the cave dwellers of the past. In everyday Jife the "Master" of tb? colony is Moses I. Littauer. A man of medium build, slender, blue-eyed and erect, he has flowing blend hair which falls In graceful ringlets about his shoulders, and a luxuriant beard that apparently I untouched by srNs,,rs r

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North Loavitt street and began picking posies from a little flower bed. Lillian Janicki, eight, of 1PJ North Leavitt street, rushed to tell the child's mother. Elizabeth's mother whisked her into the haUway and administered a sound spanking. The little girl's cries tilled the narrow street 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 lint to get her daughter. From there on the pol let tale becomes somewhat vague. They found the grandmother on the flintr of the hallway mortally injured, screaming lor assistance. According to Mrs. Anna PJidel, KViS North Leavitt street, the young wife was still scuffling with her mother-in-law. "We believe the two started to fight at the top of the stairs and fell all the way down in the struggle," the police say. "We believe the grandmother was trying to protect little Klizabeth from her mother'! spankings. We shall hold Mrs. Margaret Taugner until a coroner's inquest has settled the cause of death." Played in Kentucky V mothers not to vote for this man; vote for sonic good man and do not vote for (the -candidate), a murderer, an orphan-maker ami 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. "If you do, I am sure you will not vote for a murderer. Girls and boys. I want to ask you to beg your father 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. PJace yourselves in my footing and what would vou do?" ;d eompany that a taxi he sent to 41." Lincoln street, the house next to the Hillings residence1. Fifteen minutes later a cab drew up to the house. A search for the persons making the call proved unavailing. The girJs were seated on the Hillings front porch hidden behind a newspaper. In which they wer 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. The telephone was traeed back to the Hillings residence. Sergeant Sullivan was rent to the scene, and exacted a confession from the agitated girR A promise that the act would not be repeated was enthusiastically forthcoming. Officials of the taxicab companies assert they are o frequently "fooled" that hereafter offenders will In 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, lie Is tan-coated from head to foot, and Is proud of if, saying: "Is not a coat of tan more beautiful than any tailoiMnade suit which soviny lilies require?" He went on: "It is not true that any of my people travel the roads naked, as it is charged. We keep to our own acres when ve go about as nature inteotled. ln thing I. ad for the health. A healthy sj!n cannot live all bound up. "Thoe poopl In the tenements the skyscrapers, and the ma:iM. live among the diol thiiiirs. W :il-srl the vitality, the electricity fie .lgnr of .nature."

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