Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 November 1921 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER DEN ED. DOAHE, Publisher JASPER .... INDIANA Even brilliant men can't shine la dull company.

When Jazz hits the feet It goes straight to the head. The black sheep of the family la usually made the goat. A cynic Is n man who picks at the mortar between the bricks other men have laid. With a house on every lot the profiteering landlords couldn't make a lot on every house. After all, the best way to keep the weeds off the vacant lots 'Is to build homes on them. It must be pleasant to be n Chinese statesman and have nothing to do but view with alarm. One of the most Important phases to being entertaining is knowing when to reach for your hat. The most puzzling thing about the free verse poets Is that nobody can prove which Is the worst. 4 The reason pome think age brings wisdom Is because when a man grows old ho doesn't talk so much. Can't tho shoe dealers who are prescribing galoshes for this winter's wear decree that they be buttoned? Also when the divorce suit is filed It Is strong circumstantial evidence that, the honeymoon has ended. In this land of the Stars and Stripes there are men who should be made to Bee the stars and feel the stripes. An optimist Is n man who believes that the time will come when liquor won't be first page news material. The shortage of cadavers reported by Toronto university will be one shortage which will attract no rush Of help. Income taxpnylng I" not an ecstatic experience, but we fancy It must bo hilariously Joyful compared with paying alimony. Our position simply Is that as long as there Is a public demand for pnstry, nny smart woman can earn pin money with a rolling pin. If the knlckerbocker girl survives she will settle once and for all the age-long question regarding the proper length for a skirt. If it takes only a million years for n light ray to travel from one end of the universe to the other, where docs it go after that? Incompatibility is given as the cause of half the divorces In Switzerland. Income Inability Is the chief trouble In the United States. Possibly the average home brewer would feel flattered if told that his product contained an Illegal percentage of "kick," but it Is doubtful If he would be convinced. Profiteering has Injured legitimate business and contributed much to the so-called buyers' strike. Legitimate business would help itself by helping the consumer to rout the profiteers. GugMelmo Marconi thinks he has Intercepted radio signals from Mars. It Is to be hoped that Mars will not In sist on a reply until the affairs of this war-torn world are in better order. The latest fad of Parisian women is n handkerchief a yard square. At last, papa can borrow an adequate one when his laundry doesn't come home! Quotations of the value of currency in a few foreign countries indicate very little more than a slight margin of profit on the cost of manufacture. Reality note The same ruby tint that Is artificially pasted on a girl's face can be put there naturally by a little service In the kitchen every day. The frequently reiterated statement that "Prosperity is just ahead" ought to he an Incentive for us to move on. London society women are reported to be doerting the cigarette in favor of the Cuban cigar and the pipe. There still remains the Pittsburgh stogie. Diamonds bought during the period of high wage are fast getting back into the market, but it is Vt so eisy to get rid of silk shirts and silk hosiery. Candy manufacturers want a "clearing house" for their goods. How would a young ladies' seminary do? Now they say that. a single woman can not live on less than $15.00 a week. Well, not If she is to have a fur coat, a limousine and a suite at the best hotel. And now they are quoting St. Taut against bobbetl hair, but the women decided long ugo that so far as the feminist question is concerned he is a back number.

msniNOTON SIDELIGHTS

Now Sherman Says r ASIIINMTON. What's the matter with Alaska? "Inadequate and costly transportation," says A. Sutherland, the Alaska dele Pan gate in congress. "Too much red tape," says the Interior, department, which would take over the administrative functions of all other departments pertaining to Alaska. "Absentee government landlordism, divided departmental control, and hampered restrictions of development of natural resources," snys Representative Curry, chairman of the house committee on territories, who is pressing for legislation to place all Alaska resources at the disposition of n resident development board.

For Federal Control of Coal Mining

COINCIDKNTLY with the failure to reach an 'agreement for a miners' wage scale to supplant the national agreement, which expire next March, two far-reaching bills concerning the coal industry were Introduced In the senate by Senator Kenyon of Iowa, chairman of the committee on education and labor, which has loen investigating conditions in West Virginia. The failure was announced after a four-hour discussion at the White House, at which were present the President, Secretaries Hoover and Davis and President Lewis and other officials of the United Mine Workers of America. One of the Kenyon measures Iraposes heavy penalties for profiteering In coal. The other Is a revision of the original Calder bill, giving broad powers to the President, the federal trade commission, the geological survey and the Interstate commerce commission. The Calder bill, as revised by Mr. Kenyon, provides that whenever the federal trade commission shall determine that an emergency exists "which seems likely to produce a shortage or bring about unusual, unwarranted or unreasonable coal prices and be detrimental to the public health," the President shall be empowered to fix maximum coal prices and dealers' commissions and margins. Plans of National PLANS for organization of the National (Juard as a "thoroughly consolidated and well-developed component" of the United States army have been announced by the War department. The ultimate peace strength in r.-4 of the National (Juard, according to the plan, will be 450,000 men, organized into IS infantry divisions, distributed among the states. The complete designation of the National (Juard infantry divisions will be as follows : Division. State LV Massachusetts. 1:7 New York. Pennsylvania. Jiv Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia. "0 (Jeorgla, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina. "J Michigan. Wisconsin. Daugherty's Prison PUISoN reform that will remold bad ch:u"ncters into good ones today stands out as or.e of the big things the administration must do to improve citir.e;ihi Attorney Ceneral Daugherty doelaros. discussing a new system he has evolved for handling federal prisoners. The plan calls for the establishment of a new vocational training plant, where prisoners can be taught trades and "otherwise rebuilt" so they may become useful citizens after their terms expire. There are about "'CO young tirst-tt rmers In federal prisons who would he eligible for transfer. The attorney general will ask congress 1 4 authorize him to take over cne of the hie cantonments and reconvert it Into an educational institution, with industrial features somewhat ab'ng the lines of existing reform schools. "What many of these prisoners need more than anything else Is a chance to make good, said Mr. Daugherty. "I maintain that citizenship can be made better by some system that will reconstruct these prisoners, restore their self-respect and equip thern to face the world with some earning lower at the end of their terms. I can walk into ouy prison In the

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Alaska's All Right Iresldent Harding and his cabinet have devoted several sessions to discussion of the Alaska problem. The house committee has held extensive hearings on the Curry bill. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace dispatched E. A. Sherman, associate forester, to Alaska, early last summer to investigate the alleged retrogression of tire territory. Mr. Sherman has Just returned and submitted an elaborate report, declaring that Alaska Is suffering from nothing more than Its share of the world-wide hard times. All the Industries of the' territory, he reports, are doing as well as if not better than the same industries elsewhere. "In the face of such a showing." the Sherman report concludes, "one marvels more and more at the origin of this report that Alaska Is on the downward grade. I would like to know the true Inwardness of that Idea. The growth of our nonhland Is now a steady growth, In which the resident Alaskan, and not the promoter or underwriter, Is being the chief beneficiary. That seems to me to be most desirable." The President also Is authorized under such circumstances to deal In coal and to control Its production and distribution. The President may go so far as to take over the operation of coal mines. The companion bill provides a penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $10,000 for the first offense of a coal operator or dealer convicted of violation of the law, and for each succeeding offense a fine of not less than $1,000 and imprisonment for not less titan 00 days nor more than five years. In defining what shall he considered profiteering, the bill specifies margins of profit for coal operators and dealers ranging from 10 to' 40 cents per ton, according to the amount of business done. Margins are provided not only for individual sales, but also In the case of aggregate sales covering a year's period. Guard Organization 33 Illinois. 31 Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. 30 Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas. 30 Texas. 37 Ohio. 3S Indiana, ' West Viglnla. Kentucky. 39 Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana. 40 California, Utah, Nevada. 41 Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington. 43 Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island. 44 New York, New Jersey, Delaware. 40 Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona. The present organization plan provides that the National Guard shall comprise a stated ratio of troops of every branch. Including all calibers of heavy and anti-aircraft artillery, tanks, airplanes, balloons, and motortruck units. Kach has a permanent mission of its own, and is so organized that In war all make take their places In the field without any delay or confusion. To date, a force of 120,000 officers and men is enrolled, out of 215,307 allotted for organization on or about June 30. 1022. Reform Project United States and pick out ten men I would willingly trust. That applies to any prison anywhere. " Put those men on their honor, let them know that there is some one who has an Interest In them and they will make good." Mr. Daugherty's psychology has been tested and found 100 per cent. He cited his experiences with prisonen; In reform institutions In Ohio and elsewhere. He has aided In the establishment and operation of some of these reform schools. He has watched the development of the inmates Into useful citizens. He has found them in later years, law-abiding, honest with their fellow men, and In some Instances tilling conspicuous roles as leadens in civic undertakings for community betterment.

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STATE EJVS Indianapolis The Indiana State Association of Township Trustees closed Its thirty-first 'yearly session at Indianapolis by electing the following officers: A. D. Swope, Hoone county, president; Scott ISraudonburg Hancock county, vice-president, and Joseph M. Hlllman, Marlon county, secretarytreasurer. The resolutions adopted declared the association to be against the proposed county unit In school administration, und In favor of the township unit as at present ; enunciated the association's favor of a minimum school term of eight months; favored the consolidation of schools generally, and favored the general use of the English language In schools, public or private. Indianapolis. It was decided at a meeting of the officers of the Indiana Audubon society, held at Indianapolis, that the bird interests of the state could best be benefited by a course in bird study for the school children. Arrangements have been made to distribute pamphlets to the children. Lantern slides with prepared talks will be placed nt the disposal of the schools, on application to the club secretary. Plans were discussed for placing placards along the highways and farmers will be urged to put up signs forbidding the destruction of birds on their property. Evansville. The new government dam on the Ohio river, 17 miles below here, known as dam No. 4S, has been completed, and will b'e dedicated No vember 15 and turned over to the federal government. Work on the dam was started more than ten years ago, but there were many delays owing to sudden changes in Jhe stages of the river and the inability of the contractors to get materials. The estimated cost of the dam Is $3,000,000. It Is one of the largest In Western waters. Lafayette. The Purdue university agricultural experiment station will conduct an experiment to determine whether moldy corn Is injurious to live stock. Cattle and hogs will be used in the experiment. This announcement was made by G. I. Christie, director of the station, who said that the experiment had been planned because of the large amount of moldy com In Indiana this fall, due to damage by the corn ear worm and weather conditions. Lafayette. Hot school lunches are being served in one or more schools In two-thirds of the Indiana counties, according to an estimate made by Miss Leila Caddis, who has charge of home economics extension work for Purdue university. In counties having home demonstration agents and others with home economics clubs the project of serving hot lunches to boys and girls in the country or city Is being taken up in an organized way. Muncie. Although a force of federal prohibition officers under Bert Morgan, Indiana prohibition director, and Thomas Hiatt, sheriff of Delaware county, visited from twenty-five to thirty places recently where it was suspected liquor was being kept for sale, only eight charges were filed In the Deluware circuit court at Muncie as a result of the joint raid, and only seven of those charge violation of the liquor laws. Indianapolis. With the arrest of Mrs. Amanda Miller on a charge of having been an accessory after the fact, the list of persons under arrest In connection with the $23,000 holdup several weeks ago of the Beech (J rove State bank, in Beech Grove, was increased to seven. A policeman, a former policeman and the wife of one of the accused men were arrested for complicity in the robbery. Peru. A real estate deal involving a consideration close to $50;,(hk) was closed here yesterday when Mugavin and Bowers and their associates in the circus business bought G; acres uf land, the circus winter quarters, and the car shops for the circus, which have been the property of the estate of Benjamin E. Wallace. Terre Haute. Boy Parse, aire sixteen, confessed slayer of Louise Willoughby, his seventeen-year-old swectleart, several weeks ago, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state prison by Judge John P. Jeffries of the Vigo county Criminal court. Washington, D. C. A post office contest of considerable proportions was ended when Ilepre-entati ve Will 11. Wood of the Tenth Indiana district elected Alfred S. Hess to he postmaster at Gary. Twelve men and one woman took the examination. Warsaw. Harry Long, seventeen years old, rui of K!am Long, a farmer near Warsaw, killed his two btvthors, Kenneth, live years old, and Bussell, thitv years old. wit!) an iron pipe. The youth is believed to have become demented. Evansville. Corn husking is now In full swing In many of :he countries in the pocket and farmers report they are getting about all the men they need for gathering. Speed. The village of Speed is on a boom. The Portland cement plant of the Louisville Cement company, employing iro men or more, is running full Uast and production and sales for the year are ahead of 1020 at the same date. In spite of the general building depression over the country. Petersburg. The town board, nt Its October session, decided against the remonstrators who had opposed the building of a $14..lx) sewer system for the city of Petersburg, and bids have been advertised for. The petition carried Gso names.

Petersburg. The Howe l'uttou works, employing o0 men, which has been shut down for the last six months, received orders from their bend offices at Boston, Mass., to start their fires and to re-employ all dd men and take on new men until the capacity of the factory has been reached. The superintendent has notified all employees of the opening of the factory, which will operate full time. The mines around Petersburg are again m operating almost 100 per cent, and with the exception of low prices being paid for farm produce conditions in Petersburg are almost

normal, and few men are Idle. The mines are taking on new men weekly, and there is renewed activity in the oil fields. Indianapolis. Beer and wines for medicinal purpose can not be prescribed by Indiana physicians under new regulations of the federal Treasury department without violating tho state prohibition law, U. S. Lesh, attorney general, 'said. "The new rules will not permit prescriptions and sales." the attorney-general said, explaining that the state law permits only wine for sacramental purposes and hospital use of pure grain alcohol. The only effect in Indiana ol the new federal regulations, Mr. Lesh said, would be that federal enforcement would cease over beer and wine prescriptions for medicinal use. Muncie. South Bend will entertain the 1022 session of the Indiana State Conference of Charities and Correction. This decision was reached by the delegates at the final meeting of the 1021 session here "Tuesday, after hearing the recommendation of tho committee on time and place. Babbl Morris M. Eeuerlicht, of Indianapolis, was elected to succeed Evans Waiien, of Indianapolis, as president of the conference. John A. Brown, secretary, announced that the total registration at the conference was 1,001. yf which 3S0 were persons outside Muncie. Indianapolis. Management of the school city of Lafayette is praised in a report of field examiners of the state board of accounts, filed with the chief examiner of the state board of accounts. "It Is certainly refreshing to lind In these days of high cost and Increasing debt statements of school corporations generally that the city schools of Lafayette have been so well managed there is not. a dollar of Indebtedness." Management of the Indianapolis school city frequently has been criticised by the board of accounts. South Bend. An ordinance, widen has been passed by the South Bend city council, restricts motor bus transportation to streets not occupied . hy Interurban lines entering the city, and alSo phiees an annual license fee of $000 against the firms now running busses between South Bend and surrounding towns. The Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana railway showed that since the busses wero operating in streets, through which their cars ran. a decrease of 30 per cent In fares had resulted. LvnnsvlJle Farmers in Union county, Kentucky, are making plans to ship their live stock- to market on a oo-o;-eratlve plan, following the organization of a county live stock shipping; association at a recent meeting, according to a marketing specialist fiom the Kentucky College of Agriculture. Farmers who attended tho organisation meeting pledged GO hogs for the first carload to be shipped under the new organization. The association will have headquarters In Evansville. . Indianapolis. The city of EI wood has the "most outrageous' tax rate of any city In Indiana but it's to late to remedy the situation. Tho words quoted are those of members of the state tax board, who discovered that the Madison county city's tax rate ?1.1S per $100 of property valuation is the highest in the state. The date of possible appeal to the state board, however, has passed. Indianapolis. Bids were received by the state highway commission for the construction of a grade for a gravel road on the state highway system, near Metropole, Perry county. The estimated total cost or me tk was $30,0 H." .S23.00O for the first section of 3.S miles, and SlO.otx) for the remaining three miles. The bids o:i both Items, it was said, were about $1,- () below the estimate. Indianapolis. W. L. Harding, former governor of Iowa; C. II. Casiafson, president of the United States Crain Crowers, Inc., (lov. Warren T. McCray and John J. Brown.chairman of the state board of tax commissioners, will be the principal speakers be-for-the convention of the Indiana, ! Fed ration of Fa rim rs' associations to I be hehl at Indianapolis. November 1J I ami 10. x Indianapolis. Governor McCray has appointed Mrs. Lucian Harris of Kising Sun a member of bard of truees of tin. Southeastern Hospital for the Insane. She ta!:es the place of E. S. Roberts of Madison, who has been elected a judge. The governor many months ago' announced his intention of appointing one or mor? women on boards of state hospitals for the in-.-ane. Indianapolis. The school levy in Anderson will remain at $1.03 o:i each $100 of taxables, as tixed by local taxing othcials. Commissioner William' A. Hough of the state tax board announced. In Decatur county a reduction from $1.03 to VO cents was ordered by the board. The levy of Washington township, Adams county, was reduced from 30 to 37 cents. Indianapolis. Fred B. Bobinson, secretary of the state purchasing committee, bought IS carloads of Michigan rurul russet potatoes at $1.1S a bushel for the state Institutions.

Watch Your Kidneys! That "bad back" is probably due to weak kidneys. It rhows in a dull, throbbing backache or sharp twinges when ptoopin. You have headache, too, dizzy ppeils, a tired, nervous feeling and irregular kidney action. Don't neglect it there it danper of drcpy, pravel or Bright's disease! Upe Doan't Kidney rilli. Thousands hive navcd themselves more ferious ailments by the timely use of Dean's. Ask your neighlorl An Indiana Case

Charles Balrd. 424 W. Market SL. Wabash. Ind., Fays: "I had kidney complaint and my back ached so I had to . M . vSBiop worn. 1 naa loln3 and kidneys and couldn't stoop over. My kidneys acted Irregularly, too. I used Pnnn's Kidney Pills and they took the soreness and nchinjr from mv Lack. I felt like a different person." Get Doan's at Any Store, 60c a Dos DOAN'S KPX,DJif3T FOSTER MILCL'RN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. Notice this delicious flavor when you smoke Lucky Strike it's sealed in by the toasting process Profits of Production. Two farmers met after church as usual and had this conversation : "Sold your plgV" "Yes." "YYhat'd ye pt?" Thirteen dollars." "What'd it cost ye to raise It?" "Paid if.! for the shunt. for the luinher In theen and ho 11 so and $5 more for the feed." 'Didn't make much, did ye?" "No, hut I had the list? of the r.Is all summer." Honolulu Star-l'ullctln. BOSCHEE'S SYRUP Allays Irritation, Soothes and Heals Throat and Lung Inflammation. The almost constant Irritation of a cough keeps the delicate mucous memhrane of the throat and lunps In a congested condition, which Iloschee's Syrup gently and quickly soothes nd heals. For this reason it has heen a favorite household remedy for colds, coughs, bronchitis and especially for lung trouhles in millions of homes all over the world for the last fifty-five years, enahlinff the patient to obtain a pood night's rest, free from coughing, with easy expectoration in the morning. You can buy Iioschee's Syrup wherever medicines are sold. Advertisement. Up to Dad Nov. "Daughter," said Mr. (Jrahroin, "has the youn man who is calling on yoti at irHuent Intervals any prospects in life?" "Yes, father." nplied tho hcr.utiful jrlrl with a strange new liht in her eyes. "His prospects are just splendid." "How do you make that out?" "I said 'Yes' last niht. Uirmlnham Age-Herald. Inconvenient Husband. Attorney And wasn't it tho fact that you insisted on taking this woman out to dances that caused the trouble? Defendant No. sir. not at all. Attorney Well, what was it. then? Defendant The fact that licr husband ohjected. Michigan Gargoyle. Sore Relief m iHpicEsnaVi 25 v 6 B ELL-AM S j 1 mot waTer FOR INDIGESTION EASY 70 KILL r r . RATS and MICE bjuouow STEARNS ELECTRIC PASTE Rdy for Ue Ettttr Than Trtpt Ilrctioct In 15 UcrcM ln ry Rat. Miw. Co'kroacb. Acu acl Vatrtco dtroy Jo3 and property c3 are earner of 4ita. Stnrra' t'.4ftre PU tuTf th pill to roa from tt ailain tor water a&4 t ra air. JlcandHA -Money back If It fall. V. & OoTtromtnt bja It-

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