Ligonier Banner., Volume 50, Number 26A, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 September 1916 — Page 2

‘,"' - : - ¢ Ligonier Banner i ESTABLISHED 1866. "~ By W. C. B. HARRISON Published every Tuesday and Friday and entered in the Postoffice at Ligonier, Ind., as second <lass matter,

E;TUESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1916

s O “ /R :* :‘ ‘:r R 1 \ Al Ry ) el A e S / ‘n ;',.g_fi’ / o ”;,- P »4, p £ L ¥ ,u,zf - ;\é‘—égi =,e { . R =N ’ i ¥ o~

DEMOCRATIC TICKET For President : WOODROW WILSON : For Vice-President - THOMAS R. MARSHALL . State Ticket = For United States Senator (long term) & JOHN~W. KERN, Indianapolis For United States Senator (short term) THOMAS, TAGGART, Indianapolis For Governor tJOHN A. M. ADAIR, Portland For Lieutenant Governor MASON J. NIBLACK, Vincennes For Secretary of State HOMER L. COOK, Indianapolis - For Auditor of State : DALE J. CRITTENBERGER, Anderson For Treasurer of State GEORGE A. BITTLER, Fort Wayne "~ » For Attorney General ; LEVAN B. STOTSENBURG W New Albany . . For Reporter Supreme Court %YHILIP ZOERCHER, Tell City b ,' For Statistician % |S. W. KANN, Ligonier . ‘For Superintendent Public Instruction SAMUEL L. SCOTT, Jeffersonville . For Judge Supreme Court B ~ (Second District) PDOUGLAS MORRIS, Rushville - For Judge Supreme Court , (Third District) : CHARLES E. COX, Indianapolis _ For Judge Appellate Court (North Division) JAMBS A. MORAN, Portland ' For Judge Appellate Court (Southern District) JOHN C. McNUTT, Martinsville ' Fresidential Electors ‘ EVANS WOOLLEN, Indianapolis 4 MEREDITH NICHOLSON, & Indianapolis

A Contingent Electors: & L. M. FOSTER, Fort Wayne JLEW M. O’'BANNON, Corydon

: County Ticket ; For. Congress . : - CYRUSCLINE, Angola For Prosecuting Attorney HARRY F. HELWIG, Kendallville For Representative PETER DOLAN, Avilla :i" For Clerk of Circuit Court . % “ VIRGIL NOBLES, Albion ~ For Treasurer JAY STUCKMAN, Noble Township & For Recorder tRILEY E. SMITH, Albion ° ' For Sheriff : - ALBERT D. SAWYER, > " Wayne Township ' For Coroner - LOUIE E. BERHALTER, g Kendallville For Surveyor RALPH DENNY, Sparta Township For Commissioner Middle District JOHN KOONS, Allen Township For Commissioner Northern District HOMER BARKER, Wayne Township

Fortunately, America can play her part in the days to come unselfishly and impartially, becauseshe covets pothing thatother nations have unless it be their skill and knowledge in some of the undertakings of science and industry, and these things she can obtain not by conquest of force, but. by the mere careful use of the ex-

traordinary capacity of her people. She can produce like skill and knowledge for herself. That is one of the things these days of struggle and interrupted trade have taught her. She has nothing that she wishes .to take away from the other nation, and she is better prepared than she ever was before to make rich contribution to the development of- the other

—Woodrow Wilson.

With congress no longer in session a host of spellbinders have been released for the fall campaign and now a wave of oratory will sweep the country. It will do no harm to listen to a discussion of affairs from all angles. It is the way to become informed. A ;

WHY I AM FOR WOODROW WILSON (By Irving Fisher, Professor of Political Economy Yale University, and Member of President Roosevelt’s N National Conservation Commission)

I attended the three coriventions in Chicago and St. Louis, also some meetingsof t}héir platform committees, was present at Mr. Hughes’' ceremony of acceptance and have read carefully the important documentsand speeches of the campaign. After careful consideration, I have joined the Wilson Independent League. 1 thoroughly believe that the best interest of the cquntry requires Mr. Wilson’s re-elec-tion. :

» My chief reasons for voting fog President Wilson follow: 1. The so-called issues of ‘‘Americanism,”’ preparedness, the Lusitania incident, the Mexican situation, and all others that have grown out of foreign affairs, appear to me to be merely ‘‘red herrings across the trail” intended to put the public off the scent. I have little doubt that, by diverting attention from themselves to these trumped up issues; the Republican “‘old guard’’ hope to ‘‘put over’” on the public another ‘‘Payne-Aldrich’ tariff. ‘They expect to work the war and Mexico for all they are worth to both hide and guide their own private interests after the election. :

2. Moreover, quite irrespective of the moral issuein ‘‘protection,’ it seem to me bad national policy to keep the tariff longer in politics. The election of Mr. Hughes would surely do this. That of Mr. Wilson would at least go far toward dropping the tariff out of politics and toward taking politicsout of the tariff. [t is worth noting that if such a result can be accomplished through a tariff commission, it will certainly not be through a tar(ff com‘mission appointed by protectionists. 3. 1 believe, at heart, Mr. Wilson’s Mexican policy-is sounder than that which Mr. Hughes seems to endorse. Few of the Americans people realize, as Mr. Wilson realizes, that here, too is'a case (and a far worse one than American protection) of special interests capturing a government in their own behaif. o ' 4, So far as our relation to European affairs is concerned, I do not think that we shall become more eflicient by swapping horses while we are crossing a stream. A change may plunge us into war and it would certainly, in the four months between election and inauguration, paralyze our foreign policy completely. From November to March may be the most, critical months of the war. If ‘Mr. Hughes is elected neither we nor foreign nations will know, during that interim, exactly where we stand. 5. There isanother great danger to our national efficiency in voting the Republcan ticket. If Mr. Hughes is elected, the Senate will probably remain Democratic. Only a Republican land slide can make the Senate Republican and of such a landslide there seems no prospect. :

. 6. The Democratic platform is more progressive and effective than the Republican. The plank on Woman Suffrage is more progressive than the Republican. Mr. Wilson is more careful t;han Mr. Hughes to avoid giving the impression of making promises beyond his party’s platform, promises which he cannot give any guarantees of keeping. But he is, I have reason to believe, at heart moreof a suffragist than Mr. Hughes, who seems to accept women suffrage as a sort of necessary evil; he would marry the suffragette to get rid of her! A - 7. I think the Democrats have kept faith with the people and deserve re- election on their record. Taken as & whole thie Wilson administration has been more constructive than any previous administration for a generation. The Federal Reserve Act, the Farm Loan Act, the Underwood Act, the Child Labor Actand a half dozen others of importance are a monument, and an imposing one, to Mr. Wilson’s efficiency in proposing, preparing and pushing legislation through Congress. 8. I alsothink that Me. Wilson has withstood, with remarkable firmness, the tremendous pressure office-seek-ers and maintained, as well as any previous president, especially at a change of administration, the principles of civil service reform. The attempt to prove the contrary has failed. :

9. Like many other yoters, I am repelled, rather that attracted, by a campaign of carping criticism in which the speeches of the Republican candidate consist chieflygof fault-find-ing, even where faults are to be found. Ridicule is a cheap political device which ill befits Mr.. Hughes. o

After a continuous session of nine months ‘congress adjourned at ten o’clock FKriday. 1t would require columns to detail the important legislation enacted and the pleasing feature of all is that on most measures the representatives of all political parties joined. President Wilson proved his progressiveness in his legislative program which went into law almost without exception. No president ever bad so near a united support by congress which is the strongest evidence that he has been-right. Of course there is political opposition to him for purely partisan reasons but all men of fairness and sound judgment must agree that the record of the president is a most remarkable one, and one winning universal approval.

Just as Gifford Pinchott, progressive, announced for Hughes Robert W, Babson, able financier and lifelang republican, announcres for Wil son., i !

THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA

MAY CENTRALIZE SCHOGBL

Plan to Have But One Seat of - Learning in Perry Town- - - ship Outside Ligonier

“The district schools are growing smaller in Perry township each year,’”" said Trustee Fillmore Price, and we have come to the conclusion that a central school should be establistred in the interest of economy and efficiency.” ' ' It is the plan of the trustee and advisory board «consisting of George Ecker, Alva Hite and Deskin Ott, to consolidate all the schools of the township . into one , graded school. When asked what school house would be utilized Trustee - Price said he favored the one a mile north of Ligonier. With the centralized plan the pupils are transported to and from school at the expense of the township. Trustee - Price and the advisory board have fixed the Perry township tax levy at 61 cents on the $lOO valuation. Thisis a cent above what it was last year. In the event that the township schools are consolidated the tax levy will be slightly increased,

The notification of Charles W. Fair banks of his nomination, which was proclaimed the opening of the national republican campaign, was a genuine frost. Aecceptingthe excessive estimate of the Indianapolis Star, Fairbanks official organ, ‘‘there were fifteen hundred present’”’. At Tomlinson hall the same evening, with the aid of eighteen or nineteen ~drums corps and brass bands, the ‘“‘organization’” drummed up enough people to fill léss than half the space and when the speaking had hardly started less than half of those remained, many of them being democrats who were there out of curiosity. Jim Watson was one of the first to leave the hall, appearing disgusted with the whole proceding and fearing some one might ask him to speak. Since the day Adair opened his campaign he has been speaking every day and night all over the state and he has been listened to by splendid audiences. Candidate Goodrich, seeking the office of governor on the republican ticket, had his formal campaign opening at Greencastle following the Adair meeting at Fort Wayne. The Indianapolis Star, or no other republican paper in the state, has ever published an estimate of the crowd, which amounted to little more than the passengers on the single trolley car that was filled from the state headquarters and run down from Indianapolis. Since that formal opening Candidate Goodrich has been speaking somewhere every day and the crowds that hear him have been so small that the state headquarters are ‘‘viewing the political situation in Indiana with alarm.” The people who are prosperous to an unprecedented extent, happy, contented and at peace with all the world, are not interested in the cries of unvest and calamity from people who have but one plank in their plat-form-—‘*we want otffices.”’ o

Cyrus Cline reports tha the widow’s pension:bill which has- begn on the legislative program for months, has passed the senate. The bill' provides for an increase of pensions for widows of civil war veterans from $l2 to $2O a month. Representative Cline has been an ardent champion of this measure and in a speech he deliverad in the house of representatives pointed out the need of increase in pensions for the soldiers’ widows.

~ Fifteen thousand soldiers om the ‘Mexican border will be mustered out of service at once. This will bring all the boys from Indiana home in time to vote, a question which has been perplexing to all political parties-

Taggart For Ligonier

Vice Chairman Henoch of the county democratic committee has assurance that Senator Thomas Taggart will appear in Ligonier during the campaign and give a talk. There is much curiosity to see Mr. Taggart on account of the publicity given him and he will draw a big ecrowd. Mayor Herman Krueger, of Michigan City, will probably appear at the same time and deliver a speech. Krueger is a finetalker and_always pleases an audience. @ : :

Notice to Public

On account of the danger of infantile paralysis, the Ligonier public library will be closed to” borrowers and readers from Wednesday September 6th, until Monday September 18th. All bérrowers are requested to return AT ONCE all books which they hold whether due or not. The- librarian will receive books at the library from 4tosp. m. and 7 to 8 p. m. Building and all books are to be thoroughly fumigated and prompt compliance with this request is necessary. e T Public Library Board

The Tax Levies

The tax levies for Ligonier, Ligonier school City, Perry township and Noble county have been made and they are as follows: 0 i Ligoniereiby...c..c.... o 0 .v..:81:40 Ligonier School City............ 1.40 Perry township.o.. .. LBl Noble Coginty .. Y. 0l 0. .09 9 = ddlel S 06 To this must be added the state tax which has not yet been fixed.

Try the Banner office’ for first-elass

Job priuig. 7

THEATRE. “THE HOUSE OF QUALITY" : e ' Feature Mights are Monday—Wednesday—Friday . Tuesday, Sept. 12 '_ - A 5 part World film feature : ‘““Over: Night’’ A dainty comedy drama featuring the charming Vivian Martin. The plot concerns the adventures of two bridal couples, and the scenes are taken on a Hudson river boat. This is one of the best and cleanest high class comedies on the market and one that will be enjoyed by young and old. Don’t miss it. Adm. 10 cents. - Wednesday, Sept. 13 . . Fannie Ward in : - “Tennessee’s Pardner’’ - One of Bret Harte’s great stories. A story of the far west, in the days when-the Forty-niners founded a new empire on the Pacific coast. Tennessee is a waif of the plains, a child of the desert. She is deserted by her mother and is brought up in a mission by her father’s friend, who for many years she believes is her father. Miss Ward was the star in ‘“The Cheat,” a picture that will be remembered by all who saw it, and she is just as goed in “Tennessee,” one of the best offerings on the Paramount program. Special Matinee at 3:00. - Admission 10 cts. : Thursday, Sept. 14 £ “The Stained Pearl’’’

A good 3 part drama of the sea, presenting Henry King. - Also a 2 part comedy drama, : : The Return of John Boston Friday, Sept. 15

' KITTY GORDON The gorgeously gowned star of international fame in ' ¢‘Crucial Test’’

The greatest test to which a woman can be subjected, is that whieh calls upon her to sacrifice what is most precious and priceless to her. When a woman realizes that her husband’s future, his independence, his very existence can be assured by the sacriffcing of herself, to a mueh despised leech of society, she is surely confronted by a most crueial test.

The story is of - Russian life and is elaborately staged. Miss Gordon wears the richest and most gorgeous gowns of any actress on the English or American stage and her gowns in her photo plays are always the very last word in styles. They alone are worth the price of admission. Special Matinee at 3:00. . Adm. 10 and 15 cts.

THREE NEW BRICK ROADS

Petitions Filed For Trio of Improved Highways Out . Of Ligonier in Perry

With all her ups and downs in highway improvement it. now looks as though Perry township would set the pace for Noble county in permanent road improvement projects, the action of 225 fregholders in filing petitions with the county commissioners insuring at least some good roads in the county. : 4 The petitions are printed elsewhere in this ‘issue' of the -Banner. The granting of these petitions and the improvement of the highways will prove theopening wedge for permanent road improvement in Noble county. The highways designated are the west and south branches of the Lincoln Highway and the main road running north out of Ligonier. The brick roadway is to be fourteen feet in width with a concrete curbing. - Ligenier, Perry township and Noble county certainly needs these improvements and they will be followed by the improvement of the highway from Cromwell to the Perry township line. 1t will be noted by the subscribers to the petitions that many prominent farmers are represented in the list. The Banner is gratified by the action -of the petitioners. Ligonier certainly stands in great need of these improved roads. j : :

Another Auto Smashup

As the result of a collision on the brick road out of Goshen about 5 o’clock Sunday evening the Ford automobiles of Oscar Sparrow and Jesse Cosper are in the dry dock consider» ably battered up and a number of persons are suffering from nervous shock. While returning from the ball game Mr. Sparrow attempted to pass autos ahead of him and at the same time Mr. Cosper turned to take the Millersburg road. The Sparrow machine crashed into that of Cosper, crusha rear wheel and doing other damage. The Sparrow " machine fared much worse, having the front stoved in. Both autos were heavily loaded but fortunately no one was injured. Mr. Sparrow says he was to blame and he will pay for a new wheel for the Cosper machine. 1t was Oscar’s birthday anniversary too, and he was on his good behavior. 'Mr. Cosper had his family with him while Mr. S’pa.r'row‘ was carrying Bassengersw ey - jay l

Henry Lane Wilson, former minister to Mexico, who was relieved of his job when President Wilson learned that he was in cahoots with the interests despoiling the benighted republie, is booked for a speech in LaGrange Sept. 23. 1t is safe to say Henry is not sup® porting President Wilson, Neither is his tellow conspirators,

. SEPTEMBER MARKET DAY

Farm Products Display With Premiums for Winners - Part of Program |

Ligonier will hold another of her popular Market Days the last Saturday in the month. Aside from the big bargains offered by merchants on that day there will be a competitive exhibit of farm products. This feature proved of great interest last year and it will be even more successful this year. -

Owirjg to the chautauqua there was no market day in August and the Liberati band concert took its place in July but September will mark an old time revival of activity. . - Every business man should have his advertisement ready within the next four days for the supplement to be issued by the Banner. There will be issued 5,000 copies mailed direct to people residing within fifteen miles of Ligonier. : : ~ September Market day will go down in history as the greatest ever neld in Ligonier for real bargains in merchanadise. | ; |

‘ Absolutely - Dependable. Investments - Fulltlhfowrmation Call or Write 4 The Straus Brothers Company + Ligonier, Indiana

35,000 More a o Hudson Super-Sixes o ‘ | Detroit, "Mich., July 1, 1916 We have today to announce:- g s \ - That more than ten thousand Hudson Super-Sixes have now been delivered to owners. e | ‘ That we have in four months, by tremendous exertion, quadrupled our daily output. i » e : . That we have parts and materials, on hand and in process, for 20,000 more of the present Super-Six. ~Constantly increasing demand has just forced us to place contracts on materials for an additional 15,000. : o Thus it is settled that at least 35,000 more of the-Hudson Super-Six will be built like the present model. Our production is now 3,500 monthly. ‘ e ’

No Change in Sight

*Our opinion is that a like announcement will be made in a year from now. The Super-Six invention in one bound increased motor-efficiency by 80 percent. From a small, light six, which delivered 42 horsepower, it created at 76-horse-power-motor. And simply by ending vibration. _ Stock Super-Sixes, in a hundred tests, have out rivaled all other stock:car performance. In speed, in hill climbing, in quick acceleration and endurance, they have done what was never done before. .No man can doubt that the Super-Six holds the pinnacle place among motors. And there is o higher place in sight. :

. After eight months of experience, with 10,000 cars, not one important improvement in design suggests itself to our engineering corps. So the Super-Six will remain as it is. And, because of our patents, it will maintain its supremacy. ; : L

Watch the 10,000

Watch the 10,000 Super-Sixes now running, and Judge if you want a car like them. : Each owner feels himself master of the road. He

LINCOLN HIGHWAY GARAGE Distributors, LIGCNIER, IND. =

- e o = KN Yt 2 Lengthen the Life \ *G3i¥; £::-N s * T & fi',g! SR : ® “,""fl’ ‘.&,;::: of Your Machinery [gEerg: It has been proven that 75 per cent of the V] ‘ - depreciation of farm machinery is due to "."g /;f S weather exposure—only 25 per cent is due to S wear and tear. : o T This means that rust destroys your machin- ; ery three times faster than use. e You can’t save your machines from wear, but you can dave them from rust. .Build a shed. Keép your § ~N— & machines in it when not in use. S 4i ~A machine shed is very simple to "—“fil(,,';affl![fl_.‘“:;‘“ e Twal e Rle n build. It doesn’t cost much—in fact, =-NS—— - . - % is cheaper than paying for new ma- " :‘f'i!b]f s N A chinery or new parts. _Build it now, /,)-%’—‘ : We have the necessary cement, lum- § ’/Hj‘\.;‘)': "|y !;i ber, shingles, roofing, etc.,, and-will /2%/’}3 =)i 4 o be glad to help you with the plans. g ’///l, = o 2 Let’s talk it over. This puts you _/%m’,’,‘—; ,@l under no obligations, 7(‘"?7:/. ‘M - : LIGONIER, INDIANA

knows that in every sort of performance his car has outmatched all rivals. s He knows that he has the smoothest running motor ever built. The most powerful of its size. He knows that in ordinary driving he never taxes half its capacity. That means long life and economy. He knows that his.motor has shown boundless endurance—such has never been shown. And that he can look forward to many years of. its perfeet present service. e e ;

Watch some of those cars. Talk to the men who own them. Then ask yourself if‘there is any fine car equal to it. B , '

Thousands of men in the past few months have been forced to take second choice. Most of them, we think, now regret it and will always regret that they did not wait. = ; :

Those times are over. We are now sending out 135 Super-Sixes per day. LR LRE . Tt Go ask our local dealer. Hovmsd :

Now 135 per Day

HUDSON MOTOR CAR CO, ‘ , Detroit, Mich,