Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 July 1921 — Page 2

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WEEKLY COURIER QEN ED. DOANE, Publisher JASPER .... INDIANA

Thr thermometer equals a pretty woimui in fickleness. College men may hecome great, hut Seldom by decrees. What do they mean these days when they call any hotly a czar? One cood thins n!out a nickel cigar I that It's usually 11 reproof. Von can suppress H divorce suit, but you can't suppress the suppression. Pcrhcps It's the "chow" In Sehtmtsohow that the Poles and Germans are Her. A finally corrected that slacker list M.ould he the "Who's Not Who" In America. The world owes you a living nut It exK'cts you to develop some skill as a cot lector. The idea that two can live as cheaply as one was probably started by a tapeworm. The mosquito that was found with a Mil .two Inches Ions probably was the landlord. What has become of the old-fashioned glance In which the dancers moved (heir feet? "Kelter tusiness ahead, says bankVt" headline. The only trouble la catch ins up with It. A scientist says the earth Is 00,000,OOO.OIK) miles away from the center of the universe. MIall I" A man should not build his house on sand, but bulldins one these days requires a lot of It. flying is said to be as safe as canoeing. That is one of the worst knocks fly ins has yet received. A New York surety company sa3s husbands are more honest than bachelors.. They have to be. Why deny Kurope the credit for winning the war? We've given her credit for everythins else. An Austrian crown is worth about a quarter of a cent, and Kins Carl's is worth even less than that. IIi' i not in. He has gone to play golf," renders "Will you take a chair and wait?" quite superfluous. His as the 5tocfc of gasoline Is, there are those that feel that it is not so bis as the price asked for It. Some of these days Poland may wake up to the sorry fact that the lightweight who tackles a henvyweisht Is : foolish tishter. Publication of those stupendous figures about the value of the peanut crop may tend to disuify a certain woU-lnown brand of politics. I'renth and IlritMi relation are said to be strained, but, as recent .'ears have shown, the sweater the strain, the stronger the tie that binds. Physical training must be recognised as an Important part of the proper education of a boy, says an educator. Physical pain always was. .Music may be used at Harvard to drive awav fear at examination time hut u few fisures on the cuff still will accomplish that purpose much more effectively. Perhaps in time to come people will lake once more to bulldins houses. Tin re is no harm In talkius about disarmament so Ions as we do not do It tirvt. President Obreson describes the American note to Mexico as "not serious." but he does not take it as a okr. it liesins to look as If about the oni safe, place a man can keen his prhatcly distilled corn whisky is on (be rob. Many of the old geographers failed to pay any attention to Islands that hne proed to be of the highest imporiame. If the bathing suit styles have kept pace with the street fashions, this Is going to bo a great summer for sunburn cures. Purdue experts figure It costs 'J4.1 cee.ts fo produce a gallon of milk, and most city folks had supposed that the cows gie It. KvKmpornr Charles chef is in the United States looking for a Job. This K the c.ok whose king left. Petent court cases prove that the jrlrl u left behind. Isn't as dangerous as Use letters you left behind. Maybe some have found their names en The shirker list because somebody got a close-up of their war ganhn. Inventors are still endeavoring to make the movies vocal. Why. do they scKet do p.'op'e go to the moic7

1 INDIANA STATE 'HEWS Indianapolis, Indiana State Normal's "School on Wheels" Is headed

east on its annual summer tour? This year a ViO-mile trip through Kastern states Is scheduled. About orty scholars from the normal school will accompany Professor Rreesc, head of the geological department, the pur pose being to study geological condl- i tlons In the eastern mountains and along the Atlantic coast. The entire trip will 1e made by automobile. Two speed wagons fitted with bus bodies will, with a touring car, serve to carry the entire party. The baggage allowed has been limited to pounds per person, but two dresses being allowed to each girl and no more than two suits for each man. In each case there will be on outing costume and one costume for use while stopping In the larger cities. For the most part the scholars will sleep in the open, hammocks heing carried which will be pitched between trees at the evening camping spots. The entire trip Is scheduled to take X days, an average of a hundred miles a day being covered by the $qeed wagons. Jeffersonvllle. The thrashing of the wheat crop In Clark county, which It was believed was better "ban the average, has brought oui the fact that the crop is practically a failure, due to rust, resulting from rains that were heavy just beTore the harvest. The crop developed with heavy straw, hut the heads are poorly filled. It is estimated there will not be more than a third of the normal crop of 'JO bushels an acre. The hot rainy weather has been favorable for corn, and It Is coming on well with a mull stand on nearly normal acreage. Discouraged by the low price of the product, tobacco farmers, whose Industry has become an Important one In Clark county, have set out only about a third of the crop they raised last season. Indianapolis. Organization of a sec ond regiment of Infantry for the Indiana National Guard was authorized in a letter from the War department to Adjt. (Jen. Harry P.. Smith. The regiment will bo known as the One Hundred and Fifty-second infantry and the work of organization will start soon. General Smith said it was impossible to tell the number of men enrolled in the new regiment, but he said that organization of the unit would require two or three months. The Indiana National Guard now Includes one regiment of infantry known as the One Hundred and Fiftyfirst. Indianapolis. Formal ' approval of the action of the state live stock sanitary board in electing Dr. It. C. Julien of Delphi secretary of the board and state veterinarian was given by Governor McCray at the meeting of the board. Doctor Julien will succeed Doctor Northrup in office probably as soon as the state board of accounts can make the proper audit of the books of the department such as always is dorn in case of a change of administration. Lafayette. Personal property tax valuation in Tippecanoe county have been reduced nearly $4,(HMI,0(H) by the present township assessors and the board of review, it was revealed in the report of the board. The falling off in valuations' Is due to the reduction in the price of commodities generally, including farm crops and merchandise stocks. Lafayette. A total of 1,1 1!) men in sixty-two counties of the state have enrolled in the live-acre corngrowing contest for 1021, according to the soils and crops staff at Purdue university, in charge of this work. This is a larger enrollment and Includes more cc unties than at any time since the contest was started in IHM. Columbus. A decision, made by .lohn W. Donaker, Judge of the Bartholomew circuit court, in the case of the city of Columbus against I I'artfcolomew county, if it stands, will require counties in the state to pay for repairs on roads in municipal corporations built under the three-mile road law. Kokomo. The total assessed valuation of taxable property in Howard county this year will be $G.000.0)0 less than that for 10-0, according to figures made pnblic by the county assessor, after the board of review had completed Its work. The slump is principally in the valuation of farm products and live stock. Petersburgh. A two-weeks' strike ended at the Gladstone coal mine in Petersburgh when the mine resumed operation with a full force of miners. About sixty men are employed. Columbus. The Indiana State Grange has accepted an invitation from the Columbus Crange to nold the next state meeting in Columbus next October. Seymour. The First Church of the Xaizarene here was destroyed by fire. The loss Is estimated at $12,000 to $l.".O0O. with $3.100 insurance. Indianapolis. The Indianapolis cjty directory for 1021, published by It. L. Polk & Co., has been completed, and distribution begun. The numler of nsincs In the 10-1 volume Indicates. !v the customary method of compilation, that the population of Indianapolis is :rj.",Sl0. The 1020 census gave the city a population of 31-1.104. Columbia City. Miss Mary IZ. Hellt veil, principal of Columbia City high Fchool, was ejected superintendent of tie c'ty schools, succeeding C. K. Spaublinc. Miss Hollow ell Is a irradui Farlham college.

Indianapolis. Protest -against the proposed abandonment of the Chicago and Indiana division of the Chicago & Lastern Illinois railroad has been filed with the interstate commerce commission by the public servjee commission. The road, which is a coal line, operates In ten counties of northwestern Indiana. The protest filed with the federal commission was prepared by A. 15. Cronk, chief of the tratfic division of the Indiana commission. The protest declares there Is sufficient traffic available to make the operation of the road profitable to the controlling company. Petition for authority to discontinue the operation of the road was filed with the federal commission several days ago. The company Is seeking to abandon the line on the ground that its operation Is not

profitah!e. Indianapolis. A grade of 100 per cent on an examination for positions as truant officers throughout the state, conducted recently, was attained by eight persons, L. N. Hlnes, superintendent of public instruction, announced. On the same examination one man received a grade of zero, due, according to Mr. Hlnes, to the unintelligibllity of his manuscript. Those receiving the high grades were IL L. Kegerrels. Illackford county; Mrs. Charles L Whlttington and Ella Warner, Montgomery county; Delia R. McDonald, Dekalb .county; Mrs. Kva Green, Noble county; Alyse Willow Wansborough, Porter county; Luther Land, St. Joseph county, and Eugene C. Spltlor, Wayne county. Indianapolis. James E. Jones of Torre Haut was elected president of the Indiana branch of the United National Association of Post OtI'ee ClerksJ at the twentieth annual convention held recently in Indianapolis, lie succeeds II. A. Plackman of Marlon. Other officers elected were: John L. Lott of Richmond, first vice president; Charles M. Harlan. Kokomo. second vice president ; Miss Marion Lantz, Indianapolis, secretary, ami A. P.. Snyder, Crawfordsville, treasurer. Minot Cleveland of Anderson was again seJected as chairman of the organization committee. Torre Haute was chosen as the convention city for next year. Anderson. Tin- Indiana Federation of Postal Employees, whoso fourth annual convention was held here, decided to hange the date of its 'conventions, alternating with Labor day and Independence day. Fort Wayne was chosen Vor the fifth annual meeting in ltiirj on Labor day. The Labor day meeting will be a compliment to organized labor, the Federation of Postal Employees being aliiliated with the American Federation of Labor. George W. Worthington of iAmsviJIe was re-elected president. ! I Kokomo. A delegation XI merchants, farmers, motorists a mV others met with the county comlssioners in an effort to ascertain why Howard county does not have better roids.". Ae eot'din" to tlin holrrm of flu "nail roads committee of the Chamber of I Commerce, $(4,(NHi is paid annually by taxpayers of the county for road repair .work and yet the complaint is general that the county has the 'poorest roads in this part of the state. It is said $10,000 is needed for road building 'equipment. Richmond. While losses to Wayne county farmers from chinch bugs may reach $100,000, it is estimated that several times that sum has been saved to fanners as a result of the vigorous war waged on the crop pests, according t the Wayne county agricultural agent, and his assistants. Since .Inno 2-, whin the insects appearance was first noted in Wayne county, crops on approximately 100 farms have been damaged. Indianapolis. Ollicials of the slate department of piddle instruction will go to the First. Second, Third and Fourth congressional districts in the next two weeks to give the county superintendents and township trustees information concerning state financial aitl for poor schools, the new state attendance law and the new classification of grade and high schools. Indianapolis. On the teachers' pension fund board the governor has aipnlntcd Thomas C. Howe of Indianapolis, to serve for one year; James. M. Lorimer, Anderson, two years; Donaid Dushane, Columbus, three years; Florence Case, Marion, and Eher. H. Wolcott. Indianapolis, four years. Washington. I. C. A drop of 40 per cent, for the year ending June 13 in the cost of food in Indianapolis, and of 1 per rent, for the month ending June IT, is shown in reports compiled by the department of labor. For the year Indianapolis led the field, Kansas City being next, with "S per cent. Indianapolis. Whether the state board of tax commissioners shall order horizontal tax appraisement increases or decreases In Indiana counties is to come up for determination at sir hearings the board announced It will hold In the Statehouse beginning July 20. Shelbyvllle. The board of commissioners of Shelby county awarded contracts for the construction of three tone roads and two gravel roads. Hartford City. The Blackford County Brotherhood of Trashennen has adopted the following scale of prices for the season: Oats. 3V cents a hush 1 ; barley. f cents; wheat. 7 cents; -ye, 10 cents. This Is a reduction of 4" per cent. Wheat and oats thrashing started In the county a few days ago. Indianapolis. Appointment of .six additional members of the state auto polic force was ynnounced by the chief of the Indiana motor vehicle police. The tirst six members wf th for e w r appointed recently.

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Harding Annuls Army Harness Contract

PACT TO (SELL AW WASHINGTON. Contracts for the disposal of surplus army harness, valued at $23,000,000, were obtained by a conspiracy among temporary officers of the army, according to Attorney (leneral Daugherty. Acting on the advice of the attorney general, President Harding has ordered the War department to declare the coiltracts null and void. The following statement was Issued: These contracts were entered into by the former director of sales, with the approval of Secretary Baker and provided that the arge accumulation of stock of surplus military harness and accessories were to be turned over to the United States Harness company, to be reconditioned and sold or sold In its original condition upon a profitsharing basis. "The grounds for the recommendation of the attorney general upon which the President acted were that these contracts had been entered Into In violation of sections of the crimln1 Denby: No More NO CKXSOUSIIIP, but Secretary of the Navy Denby issued a general order relating to public utterances nnd writings of navy employees. Then' will 1k limitations concerning utterances on questions such as foreign relations, war plans and confidential matters. After setting forth the exception the ! enby order says: "Nevertheless, unrestricted utterance or publication of fact and opinion may divulge information which it is not advisable to make public, and may constitute an offense against military 'discipline -as 'conduct prejudicial o good order and discipline.' "For informal ion and guidance ot lie naval service tins order enumerates some of the limitations which come under the naval Regulations. "(a) Articles bearing on the foreign policy of the government, (b) Articles offensive to foreign governments, (c) Open discussion of war plans, promised or approved strategic and tactical plans, or of new developments in naval material not yet made public. , - 'Navy regulations of 1920 prescribe the method of carn for secret and Washington Club of Till? Woman's National foundation, recently organized here as a means to focus the Interest of the women of the country In co-operation with women's organizations has bought a $l,0O,00i tract of land in the heart of the Connecticut avenue residential district and plans to erect buildings costing about .'1,000,000. Mrs. 0. C. Calhoun, president of the foundation, has described Its objects in an address to its J0 founders, and says, ninong other things: "One of the objects of the foundation is simply to invite clubs and club members who desire to feel that they have a club of their own at the nation's capital. We are not going to attempt to subordinate any club, hut

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Ousting of the Inefficient Army Officers

SKCItETAUY WKKKS has ordered the heads of all branches of the army to eliminate officers who do not measure up to standards of military efficiency. Olficers w ho cannot give satisfaction In one branch will be tried out In some other, and those who fall to measure up In any of the positions will be subject to retirement on small pay or discharged under the provisions of a recent law. In an explanatory statement the War department says: 'The basic principle In making assignments Is to have the right officer in the right place. The best Interests of the service should always be paramount In deciding this question, and j It usually requires a study of the offlI cer's whole record to determine it ! An officer receives his base training in the branch In which he Is commissioned, and must be fit for duty In his branch In peace and war. Should he not show fitness for any branch, then his case will be brought to the attention of the annual classification board. "There Is now a law- providing for the elimination of Inefficient officers, Rt-i thp Mnie must rest entirely upon

code prohibiting officers and employees of the government from' having any interest in government property or contracts. "The facts developed by the attorney general led to the conclusion that these contracts had been entered Into as a result of a conspiracy on the part of certain former temporary" afllcers of the army to obtain possession of these military supplies." The Individuals Involved in the action of the President, Secretary of War Weeks and Attorney General Daugherty, are former Col. George B. Cjoetz of Hanson, W. Va.; former MaJ. Joseph C. Byron of Hagerstown, Md.; former Capt. Azel F. Cochrane, and former Capt. Henry C. Benke, all of whom held emergency commissions during the war. In July, 1020, the four men In question, it is charged, prevented the sales to the public. In September, 19120, the United States Harness company was formed, and on September 24 the contract between the company and the War department, which turned over all the surplus harness nnd saddles to the company, was signed. t Prior to this an option upon this surplus hadv been given to the company, and following its execution Goetz resigned his commission and signed the contract with the War department as president of the United States Harness company. Ills associates wwre otlicers of the company.

Navy Bean Spilling confidential' material. They forbid praise or censure of other person? in the naval service; state that the motives of others must not be impugned ; prescribe the methods of redress for wrongs, and covers appeals. Regulations also exisi for guidance In correspondence. "Any communication Intended for the public should be composed only after mature reflection. In a sphit of jrood taste and good temper, ami In a seemly and proper manner. "A signed copy of any article by any person in the navy on professional subjects must be In the hands' of the Navy department at the time of publication of communication. The author will be responsible for any statements made." Clubs for Women the foundation will supplement their work and add to it. In this central club we shall have everything that will be a convenience, including a swimming pool and gymnasium, rest rooms and a good restaurant; In fact, a club that will provide the greatest comforts at the most reasonable prices to memlers. "Then we plan a theater or open house. Our auditorium will not In any way interfere with the plans for the Ceorge Washington memorial, which Is to be the much-needed convention hall with space for patriotic societies' headquarters. We shall have, also, an open-air auditorium or sylvan theater." It Is the purpose to establish centers or branches of the foundation in every part of the country, so the most remote village or farmhouse may have a proprietary interest in the club or clubs in Washington. There will be a board of 40 governors with the president, six. vice presidents ami an executive committee to direct the work of the organization. The vice presidents Include Mrs Stephen 15. Klkins. Mrs. James Carroll Frazer and Mrs. John Hays Hammond. the army If we retain this class of officers on active duty.' The new orders issued by Secretary Weeks may serve to bring to a head a situation that has existed ever since the War department began to carry out the provisions of the recent lawhaving for its object this elimination cf "unfit" officers. Under the new army law many officers have been placed on the retired l!st or dropped. Cases of some are pending In the civil courts and others have appealed to the President to examine the evidence upon which they have been eliminated. There 1 llttl likelihood that any of the officers who have appealed will obtain reinstat1 luent

BARE, BRITISH NOTE ON DEBT Lloyd George Wrote to Wilson on Cancellation Last August.

KILL DEBTS, BRITISH PLEA British Premier Proposed to Aid an All-Around Plan Cancellation Favored as Removing a Potentially Disturbing Factor, Washington, July 10. A letter from Premier Lloyd Ceorge to President Wilson, dated August S, 11TJI. and dealing with a proposal for cancellation of inter-allied war debts was placed in the record of the senate finance committee by treasury oflidal ; during hearings on the administration's allied loan-refunding bill. A cablegram on the same subject from the Uritish chancellor of the exchequer to K. ('. Llnsay, reprtsentlng the Hritih treasury In this country, which was transmitted to then Assistant Secretary Lefliugwell of the Treasury department, also was presented. Uoth communications were read to the committee by Assistant Secretary Wadsworth j on request of Senator Ii Follette (Hep.) of Wisconsin. Premier Lloyd Ceorge, in his letter to President Wilson, called attention to the insistence of France on strict exaction from Germany of the fullest amount of reparation the German people could pay, and added : "You will remember that Great Uritaln borrowed from the United States about half as much as Its total loans to the allies, and after America's entry into the war It lent the allies almost exactly the same amount as it borrowed from the United States of America. "Accordingly, the Prltlsh government has informed the Trench government that It will agree to any equitable arrangement for the reduction or cancellation of the inter-allied indebtedness, but that such arrangement must be one that applies all an und." Mr. Lloyd George added that he "should like- to make It plain" that then was no reluctance on the part of Great Britain to agree to the funding of the debt to the United States, but that Great Britain "cannot bind Itself to any arrangement which would prejudice the working of any interallied arrangements which may be reached In the fulure." The British chancellor of the exchequer. In his cablegram, said "we should welcome a general cancellation of the Inter-govemincnt war debts" as "the existence of these international debts deters neutrals from giving assistance, checks private credits, and will, I fear, prove a disturbing factor In future International relations." Whether any response was made either by President Wilson or the treasury to these proposals was not disclosed. Senator Heed (Dem.) Missouri, asked Secretary Mellon, who was before the committee, as to the attitude of the treasury toward cancellation. Mr. Mellon said no such suggestion had been made to him since he assumed office and that It would not be considered If made in the future. The finance committee voted to ask the judiciary committee for voluminous Treasury 'department records sent the latter during its inquiry into the foreign loans. The first public expression of dissatisfaction among Republican members with the proposed tariff on oil came from Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, a member of the ways and means committee, who told the house that the duty would aid only the "monopoly which markets the product." He estimated that the rates of ,T cents a barrel on crude oil and 2. cents a harrel on. fuel oil would mean at least 1 cent a gallon extra In the cost of oil to New Kngland. No tariff could relieve conditions in the Oklahoma oil Industry, due to "inordinate speculation and general business depression," the speaker said. AVIATOR HAWKER IS KILLED His Airplane Bursts Into Flames Over Hcndon Field Was Decorated by King George. London. July 14. Harry O. Hawker, the famous aviator, was killed on the Ilendon, flying tield. His machine burst Into flames as It alighted. Hawker achieved fame in My. I!10, when he attempted a transatlantic flight from the Canadian coast to Iieland, but failed, his machine railing in mldocean. He was rested hy the Danish steamer Mary. On his reiuru to Kngland he was decorated by King George. Vote Urges Class Var. London. July 10. Resolutions declaring It a necessity that Haw war be Intensified In all countries were adopted by the congress of communist trade unions at Moscow, says a dlpatch from that city. Can't Market Onions. Stockton. CaU July 1C. Thirty thousand sacks of onions stored by local commission merchant In a Ava rehouse here have been dmnfet during the lat week on account of there being no market. '