Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 25, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 January 1933 — Page 2

News Review of Current Events the World Over

Nation Mourns Death of Former President Coolidge— Japan Again Attacks China —Democrats Push Domestic Allotment Bill Through House.

CALVIN COOLIDGE, former President of the United States, has passed away, and the whole country mourns his going. Thursday noon he

w’as found dead by Mrs. Coolidge at their home in Northampton. Mass. He had not been seriously ill. and his demise was a terrible shock to his family and friends. Swiftly as the wires could carry them, messages of condolence came from President Hoover, Presi-dent-Elect Roosevelt, countless other men and women of prom-

Calvin Coolidge

inence, and the governments of many foreign nations. Funeral services, Simple and unostentatious. were held Saturday in Northampton, President Hoover and many other dignitaries attending, and the body was then taken by automobile to Plymouth, Vt., and laid in the Coolidge plot in the old cemetery. The grief of the nation was expressed by the President in a proclamation ordering 30 days of public mourning. Mr. Coolidge, who was sixty years old last July, had been in the public service nearly all of his adult life, advancing from councilman of Northampton in 1899 to the highest position in the nation in 1923. when he succeeded to the Presidency after the death of President Harding. He was elected President the following-year, and declined to be a candidate fori a second elective term. He first became nationally prominent while serving as governor of Massachusetts, which place he held for two terms; he was then chosen Vice President on the Harding ticket. Though never con sidered '‘brilliant,” Mr. Coolidge was oh^ of the ablest and wisest of our Presidents and was unflagging in his devotion to his high duties. Since leaving the White House he had engaged in the insurance business but also had found time to act as head of the commission named to study the problems of transportation, especially the railroads. \

JAPAN has resumed its ruthless course against China, and the rest of the world thinks it can do nothing about it except to express regrets. . As

a matter of fact there is little or nothing that can be done. Mill tary intervention is out of the question and financiers, mer chants and munition makers would make loud and probably es fective wails if an economic boycott of Japan were proposed. The League of Nations has already demonstrated its comparative helplessness in

such international emergencies; Resumption of hostilities between the two Oriental nations began at Shanhaikwan. the gateway city between China and Manchuria at the end of the Great Wall. Marshal Chang Hsueh-Hang. former war lord of Manchuria. according to the Japanese, was gathering there troops, arms, and munitions and transporting them 'thence into Jehol province, which Japan intends to . add to Manchukuo. Furthermore the Japanese conveniently found two bombs in their gendarmerie station in Shanhaikwan. This was enough excuse for them. So they first bombed the city from airplanes and then occupied it after making three assaults by sea and land. Chang’s troops resisted bravely but were forced to retreat after ldsing from 500 to 1.000 men. Large numbers of civilians also were killed orlwounded and the city was badly battered. The Japanese losses were officially reported as eight dead and 13 seriously wounded. Marshal Chang reformed his soldiers at Changli under protection of three armored trains and defied the Japanese. He advised their commander at Tientsin. General Nakamura^ to address all communications to Nanking, not to him. rejecting the Japanese contention that the Shankaikwan fighting was a local incident that could be settled by local negotiation. Quo Tai-chi. Chinese minister to Great Britain, announced in London that the Chinese delegates to the League of Nations would deliver an ultimatum demanding a league verdict on Japan’s action. If this is Insisted upon Japan may carry out its threat to withdraw from the league.

IN ILLINOIS, too, warfare long smoldering was resumed, this conflict being between the United Mine Workers and the rebel union known as the Progressive Miners of America. The scene of the encounter was a coal mine at Kincaid, a small town near Taylorville. A body of Progressive miners met an equal number of United Mine Workers coming from the shaft and in the resulting clash a machine

By EDWARD W. PICKARD

gun, rifles and revolvers were used freely. Two persons were killed, one a United miner and the other a woman. The wounded were numerous. The superintendent of the mine insisted that operations would not be suspended, and the authorities were expecting further trouble there and at other points in the coal belt The new union is strong in that particular locality, though It has not made much headway in the southern Illinois coal fields. The fighting broke out again the second day, two men being wounded. The sheriff of the county ordered picketing stopped and forbade public meetings of the Progressive union. Five companies of state troops were sent to the scene.

FARM relief as conceived by the Democratic majority of the house was being hurried to a vote in the house. It was in* the form of the do-

mestic allotment bill introduced by? Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the committee* on agriculture, and in plain language it calls for a sales tax on necessities for the benefit of the farmer and, according to its sponsors, of the na tion at large. Its foui main provisions aret 1. To levy on the four basic farm com-

modifies of wheat, hogs, cotton, and tobacco, and on silk and rayon a manufacturers’ sales tax which, in the case of wheat, will amount to 290 per cent of the present farm price and which, in the case of hogs, wHEapiount to nearly 50 per cent of the current price of pork. 2. To give power to the secretary of agriculture to fix the prices of the four commodities by determining their "fair exchange value” and to determine the “fair exchange allowance” necessary to restore the purchasing power of the commodities to their 1909’14 level, 3. To bring about inflation by handing to the farmer in the shape of “adjustment certificates” a negotiable cer tificate of government indebtedness secured by the tax revenues and redeemable by the government. 4. To g’ve to the secretary of agriculture power to control the production of wheat, hogs, cotton, and tobacco by granting him authority to determine the percentage of production required for domestic consumption; to disburse adjustment certificates only to those farmers who cut production 20 per cent; to decide how this curtailment of production, shall be determined. and to decide what use the farmer shall make of lands so taken out of production.

Dairy products were not included in the measure, though a hard fight for this was made in committee. It is provided that the measure be in effect for one year, with the President given authority to continue it for an additional year. President Elect-Roosevelt, as is well known now, is opposed to a general sales tax, but the domestic allotment bill suits him. The manufacturers affected have insisted that their industries cannot absorb the tax called for and that It must be passed on to the consumer and the farmer.

Chang Hsuehliang

MR. ROOSEVELT, having turned the state of New York over to ^Governor Lehman, Is devoting most of his time to preparations for assuming the office of President. Thursday evening he conferred in New York with the Democratic leaders in congress and a program for balancing the budget was decided upon. The Treasury department figures fixing the 1933 deficit at 492 millions were accepted and it was agreed to effect an additional saving in the budget estimate of 100 millions, to enact a beer hill estimated to produce 125 millions, to continue the gasoline tax 1 cent per gallon to produce 137 millions, and to increase the income tax rates to produce 150 millions.

PRESIDENT HOOVER’S program for rebrganization of the federal government is being absolutely blocked by the house Democrats, who intend that Mr. Roosevelt shall be empowered to make such changes as he thinks fit after his inauguration. This development angered the President and on his return from Florida he told the correspondents that all recent reorganization moves on the part of congress were merely make-believe and the proposals of the Democratic leaders a backward step. He asserted that any real reorganization “sensibly carried out” will sooner or later embrace the very executive orders which he Issued lately and which the Democrats in the house planned to veto. These would regroup 58 separate agencies into nine divisions. Chairman Cochran of the house expenditures committee ^was unmoved by Mr. Hoover’s protest. He said It would be “unjust and most unfair" to Mr. Roosevelt to make so many changes only a few weeks before he takes office.

SIMPLE RITES AT COOLIDGE'S BIER

Marvin Jones

Remains Laid to Rest in the Family Plot as Nation Mourns Ex-President. Plymouth, Vt. —Without a display! of pomp or ostentatious ceremony, but with simple dignity such as characterized his life former President (Mlvin Coolidge was on Saturday. Jan uary 7, laid to rest in the little ceinbtery in this Vermont village bestyle the grates of his parents, his son a^d his ancestors of several generations. The body of the former President was brought from his home at Nortjh ampton, Mass., following funeral services that were marked by the same simplicity that attended his buriaT In keeping with the unpretentiousness of Mr. Coolidge’s nature and hlk life, Mts. Coolidge decided that be| would have preferred, if he had been-! able to express his opinion, funeral services of the utmost simplicity, arid such was their nature. Instead of having the body taken to Washington or to Boston, to lie in state in the places where he ex] ercised the power of government a^ President of the United States and previously a^ governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Mrs. Cool! idge ordered that her husband’s body! remain in his home in this city, where he lived before arid after his presiidential career. Funeral services were held at 10:3vj o’clock on Saturday morning in the Edwards Congregational church on I Main street in this city, a historic] edifice named after Jonathan EcN wards, the great divine, who lived here. This is the church which the Coolidge family attends and where the former President worshiped only the previous Sunday. The services were attended by Pres Ident and Mrs.-Hoover, representatives of the senate and house, and a very large number of distinguished people from many sections of the’ United States.

The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Albert .1. Penner, pastor of the church, and there was an organist and a choir. Died oh Thursday, January 5. The death of Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth President of the United States, occurred about noon on January 5, of a sudden heart attack in his dressing room in his modest estate, The Beeches. He was sixty years old. His wife, Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, who had just returned from shopping, found the body when she went upstairs to call Mr. Coolidge for luncheon. He was lying on his back with a calm expression on his face as If he had died without pain or suffering. His coat and vest were off. Mr. Coolidge had been complaining for several days of what he regarded as slight attacks of indigestion, but it was not known that he was suffering from heart disease. He underwent a periodic physical examination recently and no organic trouble was found at that time. Circumstances of Death. The circumstances of Mr. Coolidge’s death were related by his secretary, Mr. Ross, who was the last person to see the former President alive. “Mr. Coolidge got up about the usual time, 7 o’clock,” said Mr. Ross. “After he had breakfast his chauffeur, Joseph Bukosky, drove him down here to the office. He arrived as usual about 8:30 o’clock, and I met him here. f “He seemed to be all right during the morning and did not complain of anything at all today, although for some days past he had been complain

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EVENTS IN CAREER OF COOLIDGE

Born July 4,1872. at Plymouth, Vt. Received preliminary education in ungraded school at Plymouth and at Black River academy at Ludlow and St. Johnsburg academy. Was graduated at Amherst col lege in 1895. In senior year won gold medal in Rational competition for best essay on causes of the Revolutionary war. Studied law at Northampton. Mass., and began practice there. Entered polities as member of Northampton common council, 1900 1991. City clerk of Northampton, 1904 Married Graft! A. Goodhue of Burlington, Vt., October 4. 1905. Member Massachusetts house of representatives, 1907-’OB. Mayor of Northampton. 1910-Tl. Member of Massachusetts’ state senate, 1912-T5; president of the senate In 1914 and 1915. Lieutenant governor of Massa ch u set ts. 191G-’l7-’lB. Elected governor of Massachu setts, two terms, 1919 and 1920. Elected Vice President of the United States in November. 1920. Became President of the United States- August 3. 1923. upon the death of Warren G. Harding. Son Calvin, Jr.] died July 7. 1924. Elected President of the UnirVd States in November, 1924. While on vacation August 2. 1927 Issued famous statement “I do noi choose to run for President in 192%” Retired from Presidency March 4, 1929, and resumed residence at Northampton. Mass. Died January 5, 1933, at North ampton.

ing of slight attacks of indigestion. “About 10 o’clock he said to me: ‘Well. I guess we’ll go up to the house.’ “We drove out to The Beeches and went into his study on ’the ground floor. Mrs. Coolidge was getting ready to go downtown for her regular morning shopping. She came into the study and chatted with us a while. As she got up to go out the door with out calling the car, Mr. Coolidge said: ‘Don’t you want to take the car?’ “ ‘No,’ she replied, ‘it’s such a nice day, Td rather walk than ride.’ “These were their last words together. “After Mrs. Coolidge left, Mr. j Coolidge and I continued to chat. We ! did not talk about anything in particu lar, nothing at all about public questions. Left for Upstairs. “About 11:30 o’clock he got up and went upstairs. I did not see or hear him again. Between 11:30 and 12 o’clock, however, he went down into the cellar, and the chauffeur and the gardener, Robert S. Smith, saw him there. “He stopped and talked for a mo ment with Smith, who was stoking the furnace, and Smith fixes the time at 10 minutes to 12. “Mrs. Coolidge returned home from her shopping at about 12:25 o’clock She went right upstairs without tak ing off her hat or coat. She was- ' going to call Mr. Coolidge for lunch eon. First, she looked in his bed room and then across a little corri dor, in his combination dressing roon and bathroom. There she saw him lying on the floor. She immediately ran downstairs and called me from the study and I ran upstairs with her “Mr. Coolidge was lying on his back on the floor, with his arms out stretched, and with a calm look upon his face. “I sensed at once that he was dead; there was no sign that he had suf sered any pain. His death must have come immediately and painlessly, judg ing by his appearance.”

IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY School Lesson

By REV. P. B. FITZWATER. D. D.

' ber of Faculty, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) ©, 1933, Western Newspaper Union.

Lesson for January 15 JESUS AT WORK Mark 1:21-45. GOLDEN TEXT—But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. John 5:17. PRIMARY TOPIC —Jesus Making a Sick Mother Well. JUNIOR TOPIC—How Jesus Spent His Time. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—BuSy at Great Tasks. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPlC—Jesus Meeting Human Needs. Mark’s purpose in .writing his treatise should steadily be borne in mind; namely: the presentation of Jesus Christ as the divine Servant energetically performing the will of God. The purpose in this section is to show the divine Servant bearing God's message to, and clothed with power to save, lost souls. Coupled with his superhuman strength is the unwearied sympathy, giving itself out in helpful and saving service. I. Jesus Teaching With Authority (vv. 21, 22). 1. The place (v. 21). It was in the synagogue in Capernaum to which he with four disciples repaired “straightway” \upon his entrance into the village. He 1 availed himself of the regular channel of instruction. Though many abuses had crept into the synagogue service, he chose to associate the new with the old order. 2. The time (v. 21). It was on the Sabbath day. His faithfulness in ob serving the Sabbath brought him to the place where the people assembled to worship and to hear the Scriptures expounded. He came not to destroy but to fulfill the law, even the law of the Sabbath day.

3. The impression made (v. 22). The people were astonished. Two things about his teaching impressed his hearers. a. The substance of his message. b. The authority of its deliverance. The scribes, the professional teachers of the law, merely quoted the author ities. but Jesus with first hand know) edge set forth the truth with the en thusiasm of freshness and persona) conviction. 11. Jesus Conquering Demons (vv. 23-28). 1. The outcry of the demon-pos sessed man (v. 23). When the power of God is manifested in the presence of evil spirits, there is bound to be an outcry from them. . 2. The demon’s confession (v. 24) “Thou art the Holy One of God.” The one whose chief business it was to waste and destroy human life was in such miserable state as to desire to have nothing to do with Christ, and yet was forced to confess him as the Holy One. ‘ 3. Christ’s attitude toward, the demon (v. 25). Christ neither asked for nor accepted testimony from the demon, but sternly rebuked and cast out the foul spirit. Christ is not only himself pure, but is also able to deliver others from impurity. ‘-i 4. The obedience of the demon (v. 2G). The evil spirit was reluctant to leave the man and displayed his maliciousness to the very end, for he tore the man whom he was forced to leave. 5. The impression made upon the people (vv. 27, 28). The news of Christ’s power spread rapidly over Galilee. The people were startled by two things: a. The new doctrine which he brought. b. The authority over demons. HL Jesus Heals Peter's Mother-in-Law of Fever (vv. 29-31). Jesus went home with Simon and Andrew. While in that home he learned of the condition of Peter's mother-in-law. , He came at once and lifted her up and the fever departed. Divine healing is characterized by completeness and immediacy. Divine healing is, in this respect, to be contrasted with so-called faith healing, which is merely the exercise of the power of mind over the body. IV. Jesus Ministering to Many (vv. 32-34). Though the day was strenuous in its labors, he came unwearied even when the sun had set, to meet the needs of the multitudes who had gathered from all parts of the city. He healed many of diseases, and cast out many demons. The demons knew him, but the poor blind people knew him not. V. Jesus Cleansing a Leper (vv. 35-45). As Jesus preached in the synagogues of Galilee and cast out demons, his power became widely known. A leper therefore came to him saying, “If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." Jesus put forth his hand and touched him saying, “I will, be thou clean,” and immediately the leprosy departed and he was cleansed.

Look for His Leading

As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow

without hesitation. —

Thy Kingdom Come

/ If you do not wish his kingdom, don’t pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you

must work for it.—,

John Ruskin.

Mem-

Mrs. Kern Scott, East Carmel, gave birth to her sixth child in her second Caesarean operation. Robert Elson, twenty-one, of Terra Haute, received ten years in state reformatory after he admitted a $lO holdup. William A. Kittinger, eighty-four, formerly judge of the Madison Circuit court and twice state senator, died in Anderson. Thomas Butcher, thirty, Loogootee laborer, was killed while crossing the street when struck by an auto driven by Dale Wildman. John Franklin Dormire, age fiftynine, was found dead in bed at his home northeast of Huntington, by Earl Jennings, a son-in-law. Tom Kester, age thirty, Mt. Summit, died of injuries suffered when his automobile crashed into a coal truck, alleged to have been parked on a highway. Miss Elizabeth Behring, age fiftynine, suffered fatal injuries when she fell down the stairs of her home in Richmond. She had been ill for some time. Cranford Dean, age thirty-five, of Seymour, was fatally hurt when an automatic shotgun with which he was celebrating the passing of the old year discharged and blew off the top of his head. July 1G to August 27 has been designated for the next annual camp meeting of the Indiana Association of Spiritualists at Chesterfield, it was announced by Mrs.' Mabel Riffle, Anderson. secretary.

Carl Romoser, seventeen, was sentenced in Terre ijlaute to life in state prison for murdering his brother,. Louis, twenty-one, when quarrelingover supporting their mother. Robert Gossett, forty-two, was sentenced in Logansport to serve tert years in prison on a charge of robbery in connection with the holdup of Wilbur Hopkins, business man. who grap—pled with* Gossett and held him until police arrived. A new financial institution, theFarmers and Merchants’ bank of Bluffton, a state bank, opened in the building formerly occupied by the Wells County bank. The new bank starts with capital of $25,000 and surplus of $7,000. 4 —. Devotees of the American national pastime are mourning the death of one of baseball’s most enthusiastic followers, Erail Fertig, retired business man, whose enthusiasm at Ipdianapolis games had won for him the anonicker. King of the Rooters. Automobile license plates of 1932 will be good only until February 1, James Carpenter, head of the state automobile license division of the secretary of state's office, ■warned. It will be necessary for all motorists to have 1933 plates by that time. Visiting evangelists of the Interdenominational Evangelistic association meeting in Indianapolis for an eightday session, were greeted by Dr. Elmer C. Miller, South Bend, executive secretary of the organization, who presided over the devotional and business meeting at the First Baptist church. Fred A. Stalnaker,* retiring clerk of the Vigo County Circuit court, is under arrest in Terre Haute on<a warrant charging embezzlement of $16,3G3.G8 in county funds. Stalnaker, who was Republican candidate for sheriff at the last election, was taken to jail by his successful opponent, William Baker, as the latter’s first official act. The Western State bank of South Bend was held up by three men arid robbed of between $12,000 and $15,000, Henry Niemic, cashier, said two men entered the bank with drawn guns and forced him and Miss Irene Schlebowski, teller, to lie on the floor while they scooped up the money in the tills. A young man .who entered the building during the holdup was slugged in the face with the butt of a gun. i A total net property value of nearly $300,000 and a combined net property value of affiliated county units of more than $1,000,000 for the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-operative association at the end of the calendar year was announced by I. H. Hull, general man* ager of the organization, which is farmer-owned and farmer-controlled to distribute various farm supplies cooperatively. ’ Death has closed the colorful career of James M. (Col. Jimmy) Lang, sev-enty-six, of Sullivan, who rose from the slums to a bank presidency and then saw his success topple through charges of embezzlement and forgery. Lang was head of the now defunct Citizens’ Trust company of Sullivan ■and a leading citizen of the town for half a century. In 1928 the aged banker suddenly disappeared? His bank was closed. He returned a year later and faced two trials. Both juries failed to agree and the prosecution was dropped. ' A. R. Mosier, age ninety-three, died In Greenwood at the home of John Loveless where he and his daughter had been visiting for several months. Death resulted from pneumonia. Mr. Mosier was born and reared near Morgantown, and had spent most of his life in Indiana. He is survived by two daughters and two sons. Mrs. Elvira Hall of Muncie, age eighty-two, wife of William J. Hall, is dead. She was the mother of Rev. Dr. Freeland A. Hall, superintendent of the Richmond district. North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference, and of Raymond Hall, Muncie.

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