The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 March 1924 — Page 3

The Tail Wags the Dog r-pHE MOTORIST buys gasoline at frequent | intervals and pays cash for it, because the * unit of purchase is small. For this reason the price of gasoline is everpresent in his mind. But, in fairness, the price of gasoline should be considered in relatipn to other fixed charges incident to the operation of his automobile. Petroleum Age, in its issue of February 1,1924. states that “reliable figures obtained in the study of the operation cost of automobiles in oil field service between July, 1922, and July, 1923, shows that the average cost per mile for cars ranging in price from $400.00 to $1,400.00 each was 10c. During that period approximately 22c per gallon was paid for gasoline. ’ Computing the average mileage at 15 miles per gallon it is shown that out of a mileage cost of 10c gasoline represented less than ly 2 c. In other words the IMc wags the S'lc, and the 1 Recovers the hazard of drilling and bringing the crude oil above ground—its transportation to the refinery—storage—refining—maintenance of the refineries—transporting of gasoline—bulk storage depots—delivery system, including tank wagons and service stations—cost of labor—and a fair and reasonable profit. If the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) and others engaged in the petroleum industry had not expended millions in experiment and research, which has resulted in taking from crude petroleum scores of other products, the present low price of gasoline could not be maintained. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana), because of its advanced work in refining petroleum, has been able to recover these other products without in any way affecting the quality of the gasoline. In this way the operations of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) accrue to the advantage of the consumer in keeping the price of gasoline down to a point where the man of modest means can enjoy the pleasures of motoring without bearing a burdensome charge for fuel to propel his car. Gasoline, in relation to the service it renders, is one of the cheapest commodities yet discovered. Standard Oil Company (Indiana) 910 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago

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THE DAJLY BANNER, GREENCASTLE. INDIANA, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1924.

" IHKMPITI CLOVER SEED BE1TIFI SIT! SH0RTAGE

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NATURE

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America’s 1923 ml clover eed croj)

_ is more than a million bu.-hels >hort AND F r:i ARTS of the 2922 supply ami the 1924 pros-

pects point to a further reduction of

4 r ) per cent, this year.

On top of a singularly had se-i n , last year, with spring urought and cold weather, there was . | for cut-

fur hay in

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By £ 3WARD 3. CLARK

hiii'itnn.—Nature w luautify — ••»n i» a few day ,\ , s^alu-. nv tha tintr the early clover cri i

:| i is n eded here to in • ' • ' in la to March and all ' a?'il dune. The trees on naes largely are flower In m ;;lit lw said that all tret - l"M those in Washington in at f a kind which bear bit

si; and fragrance.

There are tulips, linden-, i., .nolfas. ' horse die tnuts. Japanese i l er i * and °tht r tre-s worthy <>f any pi; re in any 1 < lime. The small parks from now on will he flower beds, witii a constant I siiect -don of changes of coverlids.!

April,

the live- • . g. It , Id 'ssoin.! i he main • "'.as of

many sections, and the second crop was a failure in many districts. The shortage of nati\" seed coincides with a widespread pnaiairanda

has been year, and v farmers f growing in the es-

against foreign seed wl circulated during the l i t there is danger that man have been frightened ou their usual clover acrea • tablished crop rotation.

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PUBLIC SALE

i Being forced to quit farming, on i account of physical condition, will 1 offer for sale at my farm, known as the Gilmore Orchard farm located 4 ‘ miles southwest of Greencastle and I one mile east of Hamrick, on Tuesday, April 1st beginning at 10:00 o’clock sharp the

following:

1 4-year old mule: 1 10-year old mule; 2-horse wagon; 16 in. John | Deere stag riding break plow; Steel | walking break plow, 16 inch disk; • 60 too'.h harrow; riding cultivator; 1 5 hoe grain drill; double shovel; 7 shovel cultivator; 8 foot McCormick ; binder; 200 gallon gasoline power Haidie sprayer; sled corn cutter; road wagon; 2 sets wagon haness; 1 set buggy harness; 1 hand or power cider mill; 1000 face bricks; 20 gallon copper kettle; G. C. kitchen cabinet, wood cook stove; book case; a new 3 burner oil stove; book case, a few bushels of pure bred Yellow Dent seed com gathered early and put in racks; some line old walnut furniture, walnut roll top desk; good tools and furniture of every kind too numerous to list. Come here for your values.

TERMS:

\ credit of six months will ba given on all sums over ten do llars * notes to bear 8 per cent. 2 per cent off for cash on amounts over $10.00.

i Under $10.00 cash.

Laxativa

J. D. T0RR,

DOBBS *_VKSTAL. Aui-tinnocrs__

additional locals

Bronti Quinine*

Die First and Original Cold and Grip Tablet The box bears this signature Price 30c.

RUSSIFIED ads

Russel Hurst was in Fillmore Friday on business. W. R. Hutcheson of this city was in Fillmore Friday night on business. j Mpg g. M. Meloy and two sons of Indianapolis are visiting Meloy’s par- - ents, Mr. and Mrs. John De.tr.ck John Ml.", so" of Mn.nd M". Crawford Sellers- south of the c y, i critically ill of pneumo-

nia.

• Miss Olive Carmichael spent Thursday and Friday in Lafayette wit

| her aunt.

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Experts of the Departn .

The i oeu-'AS, then the hyacinths, then | riculture are now rea ring farm11 |( ' tulips and then the flowers of tuld-1 ers as to the value ol reign red sumi . t*'How in constant change and clover eed with the exception of the

stock.

the United

always in profusion. Plans to make Washing?!

; Italian and south Europea

capital are still being pnshH as'vlgor’I Dr ’ A J ’ Pieters 0! ously as the present financial condl- states Department of Agiiculture told tb-n of the government will admit, members of the Wholesale Gra Seed In letters from Washington from time Dealers’ association in Chicago reto time the story of the gradual demo- ' cently that experiments under the dilltlon of the temporary buildings of : recti(m of the (lepartment has ^ wartime has been told. . , , , f f VM, great hufldlngm were put up ! L hat re, ‘ cloVer 866,1 from northern during the war, one known as the; Luro P e > Fngland and I ranee and Navy building and the other ns the from Chile will give fair crops except Munitions building. These were called in our extreme North,

seml-pernianent structures. From tie '

outside ihey appear stout enough to stand for a century, but the belief Is that In about ten years they will begin to *‘go the way.” They house several thousands of government employees, and when they are tom down or when they fall down or when they are about to fall down, It will be necessary for Uncle 8am to put up permanent struc- i tures elsewhere. Before doing It he must consult the tine arts commission and allow to It* members the plans

for their approval.

Park* and Monument*. Thl* Is spring In Washington. Rock Creek jmrk has started greening. This beautiful place enters Into the comprehensive beautifying scheme for the city. Eventually them wll) be a broad paj'k halt, virtually surrounding the capital of the nation. When It Is underwood that In the city itself there are a score or more of small parks, and that every avenue and nearly every street has its double line of shade trees, some adequate idea can be obtained of the eventual beauty of

this Potomac city.

Every effort will he made to prevent the erection In Washington of any more "monstrosity monuments." Some of the public memories erected here In honor of men dead and gone are neither an honor to the sculptors, to the people, nor to the men whose deeds they are supposed to commemorate. Almost anything In the old days In the way of monument used to pass the censors of art. Today it is virtually Impossible to get anything by the critics except that which Is eminently worthy, for the “board of approval” Is composed of men who know excellence when they meet it. Volumes have been written about the “art” of Statuary hall in the enpltol. It Is probable that all the marble and bronze memorials there are there to stay, for It would be n^jarded perhaps ns an Insult to the legislators of the states which voted them to suggest that they be taken out and replaced

by others.

Statuary Hall Criticized.

No crop is more greatly needed for ■ the welfare of the agricultural communities than the red clover The farmer is assured by government ex- ! perts that it is better to plant imported seeds, excepting Italian, secured | from reliable firms which know the source of their seed, than to plant

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THINK COUNTRY IS TIRED OF OIL INQUIRY THAT CECOMES NOW

TOO PRO.ilSCUOUS, Ey EDWARD B. CLARK

M ashing!.m, .''ein.iur Lenroot, having resigned fri-m the ebairmuusuip of tin* senate oil investigating com mit tee because - f m health, has been succeeded by S- nntor Ladd of North Dakota, Nobody -coms to think that the change u U1 n. ke the slightest difference In the neral conduct of the proceedings, f,.r it In virtually cor tain they will go on as they have been going unless, as is rumored pretty sharply today, there shall be Interference on the part of the political leaders of the two great inirtles. Now there Is full realization that the use of the word Interference may be taken to mean that the leaders may attempt to call a halt In the march tiAvnrd the truth concerning possibly guilty ones, hut really it means nothing of the kind. It Is pretty well un derstood here that some of the Democratic and Republican chieftains have come to the belief that the country Is tired of an Investigation which seemingly Is following lines leading Into the fields of iunioeenee Just as actively us It is following those which may lend Into the field of guilt. Seemingly, therefore, it May be that

suddenly there will come a cessation j

of some of the committee’s labors. An Immense amount of stuff has bean turned over to reveal nothing at all

Lai kin 1. Goodpaster, the youngest child of Janie- Goodpaster and wife was born in Bath county, Kentucky-, July 4, 1838, and departed this life March _’4, 1924. at the ripe old age of 86 years, 8 months and twenty

days.

His early life was spent in Kentucky. He served in the civil war for five ears. After the war was over he was united in marriage to Maty Jane Goodpaster, September 1, 1866. Since their marriage they have lived near this community except three years that they lived in Kentucky, To this union v/ere horn eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of these eight are living, as follows: Nannie. Ella, Anderson, Nora, Sammie, Bertha, Grover and Johnnie. The eight living children, their mother, 23 grandchildren and 19 great grand children constitute the living descendants of Larkin T. and Mary Jane Goodpaster, Forty years ago their oldest son Jimmie passed to the Great Beyond, this made a deep impression on h:s fathers life and the following summer while at his work in the field he received his conversion, talked .about it often, and believed in the true and living God. He never united with any church, but his choice w-as the Old Baptist, whore he wont and worshipped God. He had been in failing health for about throe years and had been making his home wih his children, where

iattUk Chew it ajter even) meal It sSI'-aalate* appetite ant* alas tic.jestloa.It makes year food do you in or* good. Note bow it relieves that stufly lev ling alter hearty eating. ^Whiten* teeth, nvvoetem* breath anA tt'-, the ao«dj> that l-u-a-t-a.

of pertinence to the subject of the In-'* 16 * ia( * *’ f ‘ en cared for. On Fri-

S.S.S. stoji$ Rheumatism And with ii pain and its probability of reaching the heart. "Rheumatism? Me? No. indeed, it’s all gone, every bit of It! It’s sunshine and joy for me now for the first time in years. 1 feel a wonderful glory

quiry It Is said now that some of the Democratic chieftains particularly feur there may be a reaction In the country against the methods which have been employed. To put It an other way, there seems to be a grow Ing feeling that really Important things are being smothered,In a feath er bed of words atxuit entirely tinlm

portnnt things.

Daugherty Making a Fight.

Now the Daugherty Inquiry Is on. The attorney general elected to make a fight for his own, and It Is only the truth to say that he has won personal . admiration for his determination from ; the members of both parties In this • town. The Daugherty Inquiry, of! course, Is not supposed to be a trial,; but In fact It Is a trial with a major | Ity of the Investigators probably more than prejudiced in advance against the defendant In the case. However. 1 if the facts show Innocence, prejudice can do nothing because the public will mefke Itself ftit, and If there is guilt It will be brought out and ev- I erybody will forget that the majority of the investigators possibly had pre-

South America, patticularlv judged the case.

j disastrous situation.

On present indications and until the farming population of the United ! States becomes familiar with the j exact results of government tests, ! farmers are faced with a Portage of ! 700,000 bushels of seed, which would make conditions another year still ! worse and practically drive red clover

1 off many farms.

; The government experts have notified seed associations and I ave issued bulletins that imported seed generally, except that from Italian sources, will give good crops, and not over 8 per cent of all imports arc from Italy. Important Clover Seed \ it.d to I . S. Every tourist returning frnm Eu-

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the west coast of the latter, 'ha- as a traveling accompaniment at 1> . • ten pounds of red clover seed. England, Germany, France, Iluhe mia, Hungary, (’Idle and occa mi ally Buenos Aires all pour a stream of red clover seed into the United State.- to provide our annual hay crop and enable the up-to-date farmer to rotate his crops and keep production up to

the top notch.

The United States can’t grow enough clover seed to supply its own wants. It will eventually, but it will be a slow prqces The United Stateneeds an average annual importation of 10,000,000 pounds to make up the , deficiency in production of red clover

! and alsike.

,...... As seeding requires a . minimum of ten pounds per acre, thi-

Someo.te bus said that It Is a fort.n i m|)ortation cares for about onc mj| .

nate thing that the statues of the great I ..

men which have presented to th e ! ,on i acre « of thf ' vast exte,lt

•'ov<*rmn<»nt by tin* different statew are I a,l< 111 country.

Inclosed within four walls, where all ■ H a ll foreign clover seed wore the people are not to be shocked by | barred, or the propaganda which has a dally sight of them. \ isitors to the been circulated against the use of imcapiled, however, see these things and • 1)orte( , clover seo ,| shou | d ai| go away with a bad impression. Mem-; , ,, ’ h / .1 ■ ti , • there would he more than one mill on hers of congress pass them daily, and i , , minion by this time are used to them. Henry ; acres u* lann land bare of the Cabot Lodge, In a speech'In the sen- j clover necessary lor the proper main-

ate, had something to say not only ] tenance of fertility,

about the lack of merit in the statues , A recent Department of Agriculture ns works of art. but about the choice j bulletin says concerning this situa-

mude by the different states of men i ... ,

V . , « tion: If all foreign seed were ooor whom they thought worthy of menio- ,, , ’ rials in the enpltol. Some of the j the department would not recommend statues are those of men of whom ! importation even in the face of nine-tenths of Amertcnns have never j the great shortage, but tests have heard. shown that certain strains do well

Touching the matter of the poor | here, in certain sections

representative choice made by some

of the sta4.es. Senator Lodge, In speaking of the great John C. Calhoun, whose statue Is now In Metnorinl hall, said that Calhoun would stand there, “elbowed by the temporarily notorious and the illustrious obscure." The phrasing Is considered one of thi* finest congressional expressions of years. Tt certainly sum* up the StHtiiary hull situation. Recently there has been printed in serial form the story of Washington as It appeared- In the days of the early presidents. Then It wits a mud-hole. a nd It took the city a great many years to pull itself out of the mud. It was the most down-at-the-heel place In the country. Today Europeans who ore here say that the capital of the Unit-’d Sta’ s In tunny of its precincts Is as beautiful as any capital in the

world.

Stvcdijh ferriage Law The S h umrrV.gc law, pa-sed three vetu go. is considered to he the most i irresslve marriage law In the world. Under Its provisions husbands and wi\es are placed on exact ly the same looting.

where the

weather is not too severe. Ther is great need to increase the production of clover seed in this country.’’ To incrase clover acreage, some farmers must plant foreign seed, with the exception of the Italian strain, which has been found not to be hardy in the North and susceptible to disease. The Pennsylvania State colIorc, according to the same government bulletin, found the foreign clover, except the Italian, outyielding that grown for from American seed nAverage results, however, have shown that while home grown seed is more satisfactory than foreign seed, the seed crop here is insufficient to meet the demand from farmers over the great stretches of the corn belt, who must hav a corn, oats and clover crop rotation to keep t! e land in

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With the official records to show that much of the foreign seed will give good crops, the shortage need not cause so much alarm as some of the pessimists manifest.

No one knows yet definitely whether President Coolidge would lm\e been better satisfied if the attorney general had followed the example of Secretary of the Navy Denbj and handed In his resignation as a cabinet member. The two eases in a way are somewhat different, for the Intimations In the Denby case were that he might In some way or other be connected directly with the oil lease proceedings In which negligence of duty was manifest. • in the other hand. Attorney General Daugherty’s ease Is in a way only in directly connected with oil leases. He has admitted that he bought oil stocks, hut he has said that he bought for Investment and not for speculative purposes. This brings up the old question as to whether or nof It Is proper for a government official, while he Is a government official, to pur chase or to own stock In any concern which possibly may become involved In government Inquiry proceed-

ings.

Power of the “Progressives.'' So far as these investigations are

concerned. It might be said In the gen (■nil method of their conducting, there i Is proof found that the so-called progressive element In the senate holds In Invest Igni lug matters something much more than that balance of pow er which it holds In the senate proper While a Democrat acts as chief pros editor in the oil Investigation, his j methods, so far as one can Judge, are I entirely approved by the progressive, Republicans who also hold committee

membership.

The old line Republicans who sit In the committee seemingly are content to let things go their way unchecked, but It may be that there is some wls dom In this because, ns has been In ttmated before, the present thought, or perhaps hope, is ffiat the country eventually will object to the outreach Ing committee procedures. Announcement has been made by the two attorneys appointed by President Ooolldge to look into the whole subject of oil that criminal proceed Inga will be brought Immediately after the civil sulua to set aside the oil leases. The sharp question now In Washington is. Against whqpi are Indk-t-ments to be brought? In ensw of alleged bribery there must he two parties to the temptation deal, or perhaps more. There are the bribed and there are the bribers What are their

nutues?

Scouts: the Right Gang In the boy scout organisation the "gang" instinct is crystallized and used for good.

Hay evening, March 21, while visiting with his daughter Ella, he was stricken with pneumonia. Everything was Hone that loving hands could Ho, but to no avail. He bore his suffering patiently and said he was ready to go when the Good I.ord

called for him.

The Death Angel called for him to come home about 10 o'clock Monday morning, March 24 And he has gone to he with his Creator and his loved ones over there. Just beyond the river Jordan, Just across its cTJllinig tide, There’s a land of life eternal. Through its vales sweet waters

gilde.

There the sheaves from earth transplanted, For our coming watch and wait, In that upper garden, growing Just within the garden gate. Though our hearts may break with sorrow By the grief so hard to hear. We >hall meet them some glad morning. In the upper garden there. o

OBIT U \RY

Erastus Girton was born in We t Virginia, April 10, 18"0, came to Indiana with his parents when a child; departed this life at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John H. Christy, March 24, 1924, aged 93 years, 11 months and 8 days. He united with the Methodist church when a young man and through all these many years has trusted his God, has been a kind father and a good neighbor. In the year 1849 he was married to Louise Mills, who passed away February 2, 1907; to this union was born

seven children;

Charley, Crawford, John, Nattie, Mary, Agnes and Elsie. All have preceded him to the Great Beyond hut , two, John of Greencastle, and Agnes, 1 wife of John H. Christy, with whom he has made his home since his wife’s

death.

He had been in failing health for several years. Besides these two children, he leaves 12 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren and many other

relatives and friends.

When the mists have risen above us, j As our Father knows his own, Face to face with those that love us, We shall know as we are known, j Lo, beyond the orient meddows Floats the golden fringe of day. Heart to heart we bide the shadows Till the mists have cleared away.

"My Rheumatism it all e-use.** again in the free motion I used to hav«4 when my days were younger. I look at my hands and think of the twists and swellings they used to have. I bejid way over to the floor. I haven't been able to do that in many years. I can thank S. S. S. for it all! To me it was a rising sun of joy and liberty. Brothers and sisters in misery, do not clone your eyes and think that hi ilth, free motion and strength are gone from you forever! It is not so. It is hev«* and now for all of you. S. S. S. is waiting to help you.” There is a reason why S. S. S. will help you. When you increase the number of your red-blood-cells, the entire system undergoes a tremendous change. Everything depends on blood-strength. Blood which is minus sufficient red-cells leads to a long list of troubles. Rheumatism is one of them. S. S. SL is the great blood-cleanser, bloodbuilder, system strengthener, nerve invigorator. It stops skin eruptions, too, pimples, blackheads, acne, boils, eczema. It builds up run-down, tired men and women, beautifies complexions, makes the flesh firmer. Start S. S. S. today. It is sold at all good drug stores. The larger size la morn economical. makes you fee). 9 like yourself again

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CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks to our kind neighbors and friends who agisted us during the illness and death of our father and

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Lincoln the Scout « youth he hullded well In character and citizenship training even as the scout movement does

grandfather, also the minister, the singers, the undertaker and all others who aided us in every way. John H. Christy and family. ! o A WHOLESOME PHYSIC ‘‘I tried all kinds of constipation pills but never got any kind to keep my bowels open until I took FOLEY CATHARTIC TABLETS.” writes Robert E. Smith, 417 N. Robert St., Ludington. Mich. FOLEY CATHARTIC TABLETS promptly and effectively act upon the bowels. R. P. MULLINS, Druggist. tu.th.s&wk. — -o Timothy Murphy was a business visitor in Indianapolis today. Miss Grace Burdett, who is employed in Indianapolis, is spending the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Burdett of this city.

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