Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 September 1921 — Page 2

WEEKLYCGURIER OEN ED. DOANE, Publisher JASPER .... INDIANA

TIi- -.':iüi:- 1 1 i.i i siu-U a had frllu; at tlms. Thh M.iirity Is getting ak into its dollar sLirt and sanity. VitH I- now lasvili4.fi foy diplomatic Kf'nij !T. as delicate ground. r.y if. way, we see no tendency of mila !'s li''I.s to se'U prewar levels. A trnn.Atlantlc tourist the days can't t -1 1 what company he Is Milling um!-r. Diamonds are coming down, hut that dnt relieve the unemployment pruhh m much. It !"k- ;is if the movement for an eiu!).ir' -ri dyes failed to put over Its color m heme. 'llh' tii-ur who recommends pleasnnt thoughts while eating should edit the I'o.ui prices. .s a rendition, famine is making iluelis und drakes of soviet governnieiit a a theory. The doctors are "silent" on the latest serum cure for blindness. That Is, they 'can't set! it." A lawyer has had his will put on a phonograph record. It would foe easy enoiuh to break that. Old shoes are seldom thrown away any more at weddings. There aren't any old shoes any more. Spain is preparing for a big war In 3Iorocco. And so the peace movement progress rah fashion. The thing the tired business man needs to give 1dm u renewed Interest In life is a little business. It is ehanged now to read "One-half the world doesn't care if the other half doesn't live.' It's more modern. "There are lots of good fish in the mm." Much better, in fact, than after they have Leen in eold storage. According to jewelers wrist watches for men are going out of style. This ought to cheer the pickpockets. A returned vacationist always Impresses one as being regretful that he got hack safe and sound. When the president of the big concern sends out word that he Is too busy to see yon, send werd hack that t Is a matter irtaliilng to golf. It's taxation without representation when dad stays home while the rest of the family goes on a vacation. While awaiting the working of the law of supply and demand, we might do some work on our own account. An early fall Is predicted, but most people will consider the prediction merely the coal dealer's propaganda. The obl-fashloned mai who used to borrow your lead pencil, now carries a fountain pen which never has any ink in it. The Japanese have movie officials to explain the action of the play. Her in America the foonehend sitting behind vou does it. 1 'a ratlin, according to a science note. Is found in the native state in coal. It seems to Ik? a season, in fact, when you can find most anything In coal. When a girl tells a man she likes to see him smoke a pipe he might as well st:rt looking at bouses for rent. (lermany accepted peace in a halfhearted way, but the half-price way she's going after trade Is another story. The successful man who scorns publicity always b:ts a few spare photograph of himself when the reporter calK KdiMn gtts along on four hours' sleep a night: and since he turned loose the phonograph on us nearly cvervbodv else does also. Three-cent postage? Too many letters are mailed, anyway. If half the letters written were torn up immediately afterward this would he a happier world. former Premier Okuma says Japan could -ave 'JoO.uni.OOO yen by reducing armament and spend it more protitahly on duration. That goes for all natlons. There's no disappointment keener than that of the mother of a first baby That refuses to cut its first tooth on til:.-. "What is the chief caue of di-von-eV ak a college professor. Sea';i!!g offhand, we should say, matrimony. returning tourists tell us what they .aw in Kur pe or onlywhat they wish us to believe? llow else account for the tlatly contradictory testimony pre w' Te I ?

j INDIANA j I; State News ! Indianapolis. Complete unollicial return.; on the vote east for und against 1" amendments to the constitution of Indiana in a special state election, as reported and unniVmally labulated, slum X. 1. whieli provides for the full naturalization of foreigners before they ran Vote. ua-J the only one to receive an allirmative majority. The totals for the :s,:;.S4 precincts in the state show the following: Majority for 1, voters. -K.Vil; majority against 2, registration, V.K; appointment, -io.r.sr; i, vote. 17,J;J ; .", siate terms. "7.7V. : enmity terms. :;g, 14." ; 7, prosiM-mors' terms, 12,:U1; S, lawyers, !.." 1 7: !), state superintendent. 101.Tjs; 10, taxation, l.'U.lsi; 11, Income tax. 117.S.-',!; m, negroes in militia. S7,177; Vi, salaries. ;:;,i:;;. Indianapolis. The state board of tax commissioners, in a letter to the Indianapolis hoard of school commissioners in reply to the school hoard's resolution demanding within seven days approval or denial of the school board's bond issue proposal of $817,ooo for four school buildings, sets out that If the school board will reduce the cost of these buildings to $dn,000 it will approve an appropriate bond Issue. TJie total reduction advised by the state board. It was pointed out, would save almost enough money to build another school building as good as the most expensive of the four planned, and better than the other three. Indianapolis. The county tax levy for next year was llxed at -7 cents on each $10O of taxables. and an ordinance fixing the budget at approximately .Sl.lOO.ono was passed by the Marlon county council. The tax levy,providing for a reduction of P,. cents from the county levy in effect this year, will help to offset the Increased levy ordered by the Indianapolis hoard of school commissioners and the expected increase in the state levy. With the reduction in the city levy, the j reduced county levy will result In about the s:lme tax rate in Indianapolis as the rate this year, a total of S2.12 on each S100 of taxables. Illoomington.- The first case ever tried by a woman as judge in .Monroe countv was heard by Mrs. Minnie Wal- ' dron, a member of the bar. The case I was that of Charles IJillmeyer, i proprietor of a restaurant, who was charged with violating the liquor laws. I Mrs." Waldron acted as special judge I In the case after the defense had j taken a change of venue from Mayor i W. W. Weaver. She found the d j ifendant guilty and sentenced him to ! six months at the Indiana state farm 1 and lined him .5"(K). Then she susj pended the line and sentence on j promise of good behavior. I Anderson. The Madison county council restored the ottice of county agricultural agent after striking out an appropriation of $2,."i00 for the agent's I salary, when reviewing the county ! budget. The council approved a $10,000 appropriation for county jail Im- ! provements one day but eliminated it j the next. The tax rate for county purposes was increased from 15 to Hole vy was cents, and the good road ! raised from ) to 12 cents. Indianapolis. This will be the loggest building year Indianapolis lias ever known, records of the city building bureau for the first eight months of 11VJ1 indicate. Figures, including August, show an increase of $1.(5." 4.S0,'! over a corresponding period of IPUO, J the largest previous year. The numj her of permits is also about 0 per ! cent larger. Forty per cent of the year's construction has been of homes, bureau officials said. Indianapolis. Men convicted in the federal court in this s: te and sentepced to prison hereafter will be sent to the federal prison at Leavenworth instead of tin federal prison at Atlanta, under instructions received by Frederick VanNuys. United States district attorney at Indianapolis from the attorney general of the United State. No reason was given for the hange. (Jury. (lary gasoline consumers received short measure of .".Sd7.J0 gallons in the last month, according to the report of the city sealer. The loss in actual cost amounted to more than Sl.lHH It is estimated that -2.".fr gallons of gasoline are sold here each month. Almost all the pumps were giving short measure. They were adjusted. Terre Haute. The damage to the corn crop in the southern part of Vigo county ami parts of, Sullivan county will run high, county agricultural observers assert. Several thousand acres I of corn In the bottom lands of the two counties have been destroyed, either by the intense heat or by the breaking of the Honey cn-ek levee and the waters spreading over the fields. Wafoash. Approximately 400 students have registered at Manchester college at North Manchester, Otho Winger, head of the college, said. At tfie summer school 450 students wert enrolled. Forty teachers are employed this year. Indianapolis. Attorneys representing a number of the defendants in the suit filed by U. S. Lcsli, attorney general, against ;to milk dealers and Ice cream makers in Indiana, charging them with operating u "milk trust," tiled ivleaa In abatement in Superior Dirt, before Judge Solon J. Carter.

Lafayette.- Extension plans for-experimental work in the grow ing of apples, peacles and small fruits have been forme! by Purdue university horticulturists with the recent purchase of 1.0 acres for a fruit experimental farm two and a half miles west of Lafayette. Tiie actual experimental work at the university was limited because only 17 acres were given over to the department of horticulture. More elabon. te experimental work in studying the elTect-of different stock from which trees come will be undertaken, .ilong with pruning experiments, soil management of orchards and other problems. A peach, cherry and plum orchard also will be set out for experimental work with these crops.. A study will I' undertaken also as to th best methods of handling strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries and other small fruits. Truck gardening" also will be undertaken iu .a more extensive way. Indianapolis. Plans of the. War department for increasing the Indiana National Cuard, sent to Harry P. Smith, adjutant general of Indiana, call for 4,714 men In the guard by June .'0, Krj'J. and for the organization of rt number of new .units. The strength of the guard .now is approximately L700 men. Tin expansion will bring the following new units: Headquarters for an infantry brigade, a brigade headquarters company, an infantry regiment, headquarters for held artillery regiment, headquarters for another battery of field artillery, a service battery for the field artillery, headquarters and service company and an engineer battalion. Indianapolis. Highest honors in t lie boys' live' stock.judglng contest at th Indiana state fair went to the team of three boys from Warrick county. This team won the .52(H) trophy and the right to represent Indiana in the national junior judging contest at the international live stock exposition at Chicago in December, with $100 toward expenses. Howard I'ates of Newfoerg, Warrick county, made the highest individual score of the 147 boys in the contest, winning a $100 scholarship at Purdue university. His successful teammates were Paul Ilauth and Uufus Scales, who tied for eleventh in individual scoring. Sullivan. Ilobert Veal of Indianapolis and Ed Thompson of St. Joe, Mich., who attempted to escape fnun the Sullivan county jail, were sentenced by Judge W. ii. Eridwell of the Sullivan court t a term of three years in the Indiana reformatory and fined $100. Andrew Turner of Palestine, 111., arrested on a charge of having passed ten saws through the bars to the prisoners, is in the -ounty jail awaiting a hearing, as is also his brother, Paul Turner, who was arrested on a charge of robbing the Ilarker grocery store in Sulllivan. Indianapolis. Sheriffs and city chiefs of police in many places in. Indiana have not been heeding the 10'Jl law which requires them to report to 4 the auto-theft division of the office of the secretary of state the loss by theft or recovery of a stolen motor vehicle in their territories, said K. T. Humes, chief of the Indiana state motor vehicle police, and he has prepared a letter to send to each of the officials directing their attention to chapter -0-", section 14 of the title registration act. Lebanon. The body of the man killed by Joseph Cain, sheriff of Hoone county, in a light with live liquor runners (n the Noblesville road, eight' miles east of Lebanon, has been identified as that of Paul Joseph Erwin of Chicago. Friends took the foody to Chicago. Erwin was twenty-two years old and a clerk in a cigar store in Chicago. Hez Centry. wounded by Sheriff Cain in the Mime tight, is in the Williams hospital at Lebanon. Indianapolis. The total of state tax levies to be fixed soon for collection next year will be close around J2.4 or 1M.. cents, it seems probable from a study of the state tax situation.' The total will foe from 12.4 to4.:i cents higher than the total this year. The new administration has fixed state tax levies. The levies for this year were hxed by the Coodrich administration. Indianapolis. At a meeting of the state creamery hoard the licenses of three milk and cream testers were revoked. Prof. 11. W. Cregory, chief of the dairy department of Purdue university and chairman of the creamery board, announced that the action of the board was due to reports that the persons involved had hvn incorrectly testing cream and mil!:. P.eech I rove. Three armed foandits held up the P.eech (Jrove State bank, at Keoch drove, forced three employee and a customer of the bank into a back room and escaped in an automobile with approximately .$20,000. A confederate of the bandits remained at the wheel of the automobile in front of the bank while the holdup was being committed. South P.end. With the death of Veronica Tuski. age three, four persons have died as a result of a collision between an automobile and an Interurban car on the Chicago, South IJend & Northern Indiana railway. The other victims of the accident. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Tuski and son. Louis were killed outright. Indianapolis. The public service commission received a protest sent by the Exchange club of Clinton against the valuations proposed for the consolidation of seven Indiana public utilities Into the Indiana Electric corporation. Munde. Eire, which Is thought to have originated in the engine room, destroyed the grain elevator of the Woodbury-Elliott company, in the village of Progress, southeast of here, with all Its contents, causing a loss estimated at $40.000. The elevator waj tilled with wheat and oats.

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Uncle Sam's Sword WASHINGTON. The establishment of a war plans division in the general staff of the army and creation of a war council have been announced by Secretary of War Weeks, through publication of an order by (len. John J. Pershing, the chief of staff, directing reorganization of the general staff. General Pershing's order is the consummation of a plan originated by Secretary Weeks whereby there would he organized within the general staff a special war staff ready for the call to war at a moment's notice, with its organization perfected to the point of functioning as it should in tire of war. "Through the plan worked out by General iershing and General Harhord, the assistant chief of staff," said Secretary "Weeks, "we will have a Views of Sawyer TI1F question of hospitalization of the World war veterans is one embracing many important features which have heretofore been unnecessary in the construction of proper hospitals for the care of civilian sick, according to lirig. (Jen. Charles E. Sawyer, the President's physician and military aid. "There is nothing too good for the World war veteran who is trying to regain his health and re-establish himself In civilian activities," he says. "A vocational training program which is carried out on the basis of entertainment and hospital occupation Is unfair, both to the World war veteran and to those who have the responsibility of operating such an Institution. "Sensible engagement such as will improve both mind and foody should foe the policy of the rehabilitation forces. To make such a plan workable It is quite important that every institution giving hospital care to the ex-soldiers should have a well-equipped and perfectly arranged special apartment in which vocational training can be carried on. With an academic course as the underlying principle, it will then be quite easy to carry out a commercial course which would lead into all . W. W. Poet in Jail TT EARNING for liberty, Charles Ashleigh, poet and a "follower of the road" by inclination, languishes today a prisoner in Leavenworth, buoyed only by the hope of pardon from President Harding. Through the intercession of Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Hudson Maxim, Charles Itann Kennedy, Judge Anderson of Boston, Mary Ileaton Vorse and others who Udieve in his Innocence, Ashleigh hopes that Attorney General Daugherty will recommend his pardon to the President. He went to the federal jenitentiary on April LT, 19'Jl, to serve a sentence of ten years' Imprisonment passed on him

Disarmament Demonstration by Women

TC7TOVEMENT for a , world-wide AVA demonstration for disarmament participated in the women of all nations, to be held on Armistice day when the international conference convenes in Washington, has been Initiated foy organized American working women through the National Women's Trade Union league. Telegrams inviting participation of a score of women's organizations of the United States and the organized women in 4S nations which cnt delegates to the Second International Congress of Working Women in Geneva have been sent out on behalf of the National Women's Trade Union league foy Mrs. Raymond llohins of Chicago, Its uaional president. "To strengthen the governments in their desire to disarm by giving unequivocal expression of the women of the world." is the purpose of the demonstration. The American demonstration will focus In Washington, where it may take the form of a parade, and It will doubtless foe carried out locally all over the country also. Tfoe text of the message of the National Women's Trade Union league to the wc.men of 40 nations, signed foy Mrs. Robins, contains the following: president Harding lias set Arml-

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well organized war staff, which cm function for war at a moment's notice without crippling any branch of th!s general stall at home. "The plan has been worked out by the two generals who were the best fitted to do it. and in their plan they have embodied the best features of war staff organization as developed in the World war." General Pershing, as chief of staff of the armies, is the head of the war plans division created in the general staff, which will counsel from time to time with the war council, consisting of the secretary of war, the assistant secretary of war, and the chief of staff. The order reorganizes the general staff Into the five following divisions, each under Immediate control of an assistant chief of staff. Personnel division (first division). Military intelligence division (second division). Operations and training division (thin! division). Supply division (fourth division). War plans division. The war plans division Is to be so organized as to enable it. In the event of mobilization, to furnish the nucleus of the general staff personnel for each of the general staff divisions required at the general headquarters In the li.-ld." on Rehabilitation tue practical lines of business, such as banking, accounting, etc. There should be an industrial branch of the educational system. There should be an agricultural course. "Out of these four courses could certainly be applied, separately or jointly, information which would without question make every individual participating more capable, more selfreliant, with greater earning power. "Some have in idea that there is such a difference between the various classes of patients that ofTch must have a separate Institution In which to be treated. With that view I am not in accord. I know after a third of a century contact with all classes of patients that it Is perfectly possible for all classes of cases to be treated in the same institution. It Is unjust to stamp any as defectives." Yearns to Be Free in Chicago by Judge Landis for violation of the espionage act, the selective service act, and a number of other statutes, as a member of the I. W. W. He was also lined $10.000. Ashleigh is thirty-three years old. lie was horn in London and has worked in South America on newspapers. His longing for the beauties of nature finds expression in poetry. One of his poem?, entitled "When I Go Out," contains these lines: O be to me tender, leaves that wait outside This sullen wall, and keep inviolate Until I come to you with love-dumb lips From out this dull tenement of hate; Out of the fresh breathing of the earth To draw allayment of my rasping fear. My woundinKs and my fretting?, till my mind 'Is soothed by ' winds that draw like nurses near. When I go out. . . . O roads of all the world! O beauty, fields and cities, do not fail! Wait, strong frienis, my comlng-let my heart Once more drink glory on a careless trail. W WAhT WORLDWIDE hftTtoriS stiee day for the opening of the momentous disarmament conference at Washington. When we remember the joy that went up from the people of all nations in thanksgiving that pence would once more dwell on earth, no other day would lend the same significance throughout the entire world as this anniversary of Novemler 11, 191S. "Since that day the aftermath of the war, with its hunger, suffering and misery, has appalled the conscience and paralyzed the spirit of mankind. This is the great hour for wonen of the world to help lead humanity out ol the darkness that overwhelmed it. "The governments will foe strengthened In their desire to disarm If the women of the nations will give unequivocal expression to their will."

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ERS Assessment Proposition Hardest Hit in Election. CITIZENSHIP ACT WIMS 0. K. Only One Amendment Put Up to People of Indiana Is Given Approval, According to the Complete Unofficial Returns. UNOFFICIAL STATE TOTALS. complete uuollicial returns on the constitutional election from every precinct in Indiana, together with totals for and against each amendment, are listed in the following table: 1 VoU-rs 130. MO J.1.47S ÖS..l 2 Pgtstration l-'.'.'U 110,?Ä tl3.-"S 3 Apportionment ... Is.iX' IIS.sjO t40.2y.l 4 Veto SV.MJ ltf-.r.y tllNi 5 State terms TA'-'o WLM Zt.'S 0 County tcims t'Zl'Ji llO.T.'l tJl.'T 7 Prostcu tors' 77,oJ." ll.rL4 HS.iC'J 6 LavyiTs Tb.vCT llV.rl HMm St State suipt il.ZJJ 14:.4.'l ti02.uT2 1C Taxation 3.1 17 2C7.P0 tlCT..Sl7 11 Income tax S'.-.O l.V...71 1 11.772 12 Militia 54.1ÜI mm IS Salaries fcl.uSG llS.i'TU t37,lM3 For. tAgainst. Indianapolis, Sept. 10. According to the complete hut unotlicial returns from the o,:t precincts in t Iiis Mate, 211,1)17 votes were cast for amendment No. 1, which proved to foe the most popular proposal in the special elec- . tion on constitutional amendments. This numher is slightly less than 17 per cent of the total vote for governor at the election last fall. The uuollicial figures show that the electors ratified the citizenship amendment foy a majority of 58,1X31, and rejected the ther twelve promised changes in the constitution foy majorities ranging from 1U,ÜÖS on the registration proposal to loo,S17 n the general tax amendment. The amendments which were most ofojectionafole to the voters were No. tJ, No. 10, No. 11 and No. PJ. Tfoe first of these, intended to make the ollice of the state superintendent of pufolic Instruction appointive, was, rejected foy a majority of 10L,072; the general tax amendment foy a majority of l.Ti.SIT: the Income tax foy 110,77-, and the militia amendment foy 8JM1S. Legal Opinion to Be Asked. The exact effect of the adoption of amendment No. 'l and the rejection of No. 2, on the registration law, profoafoly will not foe determined until some ollicial legal opinion is demanded on the question. George Ü. Ilutsell, Indianapolis city , clerk, announced that he would call Samuel Aslihy, corporation counsel, for an opinion on the suhject. Mr. Ilutsell said he had consulted several attorneys and their opinions differed, fout most of them foelieved the registration law would not foe invalidated foy the adoption of amendment No. 1. Mr. Ilutsell proceeded with plans for the first- registration day regardless of any possifole effect the adoption ol amendment No. 1 might have ou the registration law. It has been pointed out by U. S. Lesli, attorney general of Indiana, that another section of the constitution gives the general assembly authority to enact registration laws and for that reason the elimination of reference to registration in article 2, section 1 of the constitution, by the adojtion of amendment No. 1, will In no way affect the registration laws. This view, however, is not an official opinion. Section 14, article 2 of the constitution, referring to registration, says: "And shall also provide for the registration of all persons entitled to vote." This section was not altered by the adoption of amendment No. 1. May Weaken Law. Article 2, section 2 of the present constitution,- which was amended by tfoe adoption of amendment No. 1, estahlishcs who shall he permitted to vote and ends with the following words: "If he shall foe duly registered according to law." In the adoption of amendment No. 1, enfranchising women and prohibiting aliens from voting until naturalized, this condition, "If he shall foe duly registered according to law," Is omitted. The question has foeen raised whether the elimination of this clause from the constitution will operate to weaken or Invalidate the registration law, notwithstanding the reference to registration' made In another section, foy making it unlawful to deny a citizen the foallot even though he has not registered, if he has complied with the other qualifications necessary to exercise the riht of franchise. In an address at Kokomo before the Lions ciufo C. C. Shirley, an attorney of that city and known as an authority on the state constitution, said that th election was only a skirmish in the real battle to coim. Personal Element Lacking. "If the election had foeen for the purpose of picking a county sheriff." ho said, "or something of a more personal nature, all the ixple of Indiana would have gone to the polls. As It was, the proposition of making changes to our instrument of government attracted comparatively little attention. The hallots of those who did go to the polls, however, shows that they were keenly aware of the dangerous amendments hidden among the thlrteeu voted on.

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