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FAIR, FSANK, AND FREE- PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR Vol.64. Jaspek, Indiana, Feiday, JULY 22, 1921. No. II. FEARLESS TOURISTS ARE ANGRY Extortion Practiced in Paris Arouses Americans. French Authorities Tell Them the Remedy Is in Their Own Hands. Paris. The effect of the high cost f living in Purls upon tourist trade, a indicated by the growing frequency of complaints of extortion by Ameri Cafis visiting Franc', Is ccupylng the attention of tin government. The authorities hoM that the tour 1st have the cur largely In tlieir own hands, exaggerated prices being due In large part to Indiscriminate spending by visitors, aided by the spendthrift tendency of Trench prof iteers. It Is admitted that abuses prac ticed In amusement resorts, where meals, wine and darning are provided, have their effect upon prices in gen eral, but how to correct that evil without discouraging the most profit able trade Is a question. Undersecretary of State Palsant. discussing the question with Ameri cans, proposes publicity as a remedy. He has Incited American visitors to Join In a protest which will be pub lished In the Purls press, and lie also will take up personally Individual cases of extortion brought to his at tention. The most frequent causes of corn plaint are charges for lodgings In ho tels and apartments. Mr. Palsant told the Americans he hnd decided to ask hotels to publish their rates In the prpers. This remedy would not, how ever, affect apartments, which ure the subject of profiteering on a scale hitherto unknown. There are very few unfurnished apartments to let, according to the real estate agencies; as fast as vacated by tenants, they aro trans formed Into furnished apartments and either Jet at rentals of from 300 to 1,000 per cent higher than the average before the war for furnished apart ments of the same class, or rented nt an Increase of 200 to 300 per cent above the average for unfurnished apartments, with the proviso that the tenant buy the furniture at excessive figures. THIS MAKES MR. HAYS HAPPY His Policy of Humanizing the Post office Department Results in Sav ing a Woman's Life. Washington. Postmaster Will II. Hays probably Is the happiest man in Washington today. His slogan "Humanize the Postotiiee Department" has been carried out to what appears to be the limit. Here Is the story In a little Nebraska farmhouse a woman lay dying for lack of medical attention. The nearest physician was Ir. Selby at North Platte. True, North Platte was only two miles away, but between the dying woman and the physician was the South Platte river, flooded to a raging torrent that bad swept away every bridge near and far. Dr. Selby had telephoned to every town within a radius of twenty miles. At each turn It was the same dis heartening story bridges gone, and no way of fording the turbulent waters. Just when all hope seemed gone, Dr. Selby remembered something. Somewhere he had read that the post master general was "humanizing" the postotUce department. He rushed to the telephone and asked C A. Sluder, manager of the air mall field at North Platte, to take him across the river In an airplane. "Sorry," said Sluder, "but I couldn't without getting authority from Wash ington first "Put the woman 1 dying." the phy sician urged. "In that case." replied Sluder. "we will take you first and get the author ity afterward." So It was that the life of a woman In an humble NVraka farmhouse was saved Just because the potollicc department has been humanized. And so It Is that Postmaster Cetierul lla Is probably the happiest man in Wash ington. Plants Beans 900 Years Old. Salina. Kan. Kov. M. M. Stoltz. li brarian at the Kansas Vltyan unl rrslty, has nnvlvni from Frederick Hnrson. a railuat of tlte sclul, joine ri'llrs from the ruins of Mea Vt-ri!'. in the national park, which will W i-lac'il In the university iuu souin. Anion;: them are some corn, corn co ami heans that were taken from between r where scientist say thy liave been for years. T!u cobs look a If they hail been picked this year and the corn and beans are in a perfect state of prej' nation. Doctor fcloltz lias plwitetl s3xRe of the corn and beans ami he declares that he Iclleves they will sprout and grow. SPEC A ELECTION TUESDAY SEPT. 6. The last republican legislature proposed several amendments to the State Constitution for the vo ters to pass on at a special elec tion Sept. 6. The Constitution of the state is like a finely adjusted watch and is running" very nicly, but if you go to tinkering witn it. it soon wont run at all. People tinkered with the TJ. S. Constitu tion during the war an d got Pro hibition among other evils. If they go to tinkering with the state constitution they will have more evils. Each and every one of the proposed amendments should be defeated. So be sure and vote N 0 to aU of them. Proposed Amendments. The Dubois county voter will be called upon to ;ote on Septem ber G at a special election to bi neld throughout the state to pass upon the merits of thirteen pro oosed amendments to the state constitution. Tha. state board of election com missioners has assigned numbers to each of the proposed amend ments, which is believed wi 1 ba a amvitnce to the voters in scidy the proposals. In order that Courier readers familarize themselves w th the amendments and gi e them the thought necessary to render in telligent verdict at the polls, the purpose of each is herewith set forth. It is suggested that the reader clip the list and perservo it for refrance purpose AMENDMENT NO 1 Art, II. Sec 2 The amend ment proposing to fix the time of residence required before an elec tor may vote at a certain place. AMENDMENT N0.2 Art II Sec. 14. Providing for d voter registration system. AMENDMENT NO. 3 Art. V, Sec 4, Providing for enumeration of voters. Shirley Mason July 2-i is the date announced jby William Fox iur placing before the public Shirley M son's latest jpicture "Lovetime." This is a romance as dainting and appeal iTrt tiv"- V:' t , - ' y ih ,Vry .A 1 i-n PC UL AMENDMENT NO, 4 Art. V Sec 5 Providing for apprortionment of legislative re presentation based on enumera tion system. AMENDMENT N0.6 Art. VI. Sec. 2 Making four year instead of wo-year terms for coanty auditors, clerk?, re corders, treasurer, sheriffs, 2nd coroners AMENDMENT NO. 7 Art. VIII. Sec 21 Making ofTice prosecuting attorney four years inslead of two. AMENDMENT NO 10 Art. X Sec. 1. Authorizing the general assembly to provide by la iv for a system of taxation. AMENDMENTNO. 11 Art X Sec 8, Authorizing the legislature to lew incoma tax. AMENDMENTNO. 12 Art. XU Sec.l Making negros eligible to serve in ihe militia. &MENTMENT NO 13 Art XV Sec. 2 Prohibiting the increasing of officeholders' salar ies during the terms for which such oflicers were elected. It will be necessary for the vo'ors to pass on each amendment separately by voting "yes" or"no on the proposal It will not be possible to vote a straight ticket for all the amendments. in Her Latest. i. t, . , money, but whar yo bin?" ling as the popu.ar star. -TheRepre3cntative King (R) III. story was written by Hue La Due . v he -nothing bat skirts cn the ces3e3, street) Helps Him Keep in Condition. GS? (SS -. Wm :rt: " C::::::mrwr mw" - m& &l - $ f ' ; 7 ? , . 3 ' ' S 'JS.V.' X, J TOM MIX. F0 JTAR BOXINCj WITH JACk DEMPSEY The above picture does not signify that Tom Mix, the noted Fox star, contemplate adoDtinir duct 'necessary to keep in perfect phvscial condition in order to do the strenous work and perform the hazardous stunts called for by his ; Fox pictures, Boxing regulahrly is one of his exenrse?, and he fre quently put on the gloves with Dempsey while the latter was in amornia prior 10 nis journey iasc to train lor tne rr eeting w:tn Carpentier. Taxes Due. July 31 is the last day forfilling returns of the capital stock tax To a oid penalty, the return must be in bands of the collectors of internal revenue on or before midnight of that dater Blanks forms are available at the office' 6f Collectoi of Internal Revenue M. Thurman, Federal Building, Indianapolis. Form 707 i3 required fur domestic, and 70S for foreign corporations. The capital stock tax is a spe cial excise tax imposed on corpor ations with respect to "carrying on or doing business." The tax on domestic corporations is $1 for each $1,000 tax is payable in ad vance, returns filed in July of this year covering the taxable year beginning Julv 1, 121 and ending June 30 1922. The Bureau cf Internal Revenue estimates that apprexmately 325, 000 such returns will befind, and that amount of revenue collected from this source will be approxi mately $90.000,000. The penalty for failure to a file a return within the time pre scribed is an added assessment of 25 percent of the amount due, unless it is shown that the failure was due to reasonable cause and not to neglect. Canleloupes ilielT Good "Thecanteloupe crop for South em Indiana this year will be much bigger than last year," said Sam uel D. McLeish, general freight agent for the Big Four, Monday. "The crop is a little late this year but the shipment be at its peak in about week." Last year the first carload was shipped July 1. This year the first ship ment was made on July 12. "There has baen a slight de crease in the acreage this season but the weather has been unusal ly favorable to the crop. my Is Valned at 175,000 Mrs. Benjamin Roberts values her divorced husband at $75,000. She has brought suit for that amount against Vida Moore, alleg ing among other things Roberts took the deferdant riding in the plaintiffs auto. "No sah, ah doan't eber ride on dem things.' said an old colored lady looking in on a merry go around. Why, de other day I seen Rastus Johnson get on an' lide as much as a dollah's wuth an' get off at tue very same place he got on at, an' I sez to him; :Rastus, I sez, 'yo apent yo X & "iQEJUnBjMBaspsi i ' A ism as a callincr. M:x finds it DO IT NOW. If you have hard work to do. Do It now. Today the skies are rlear and blue. Tomorrow clouds may come lr. view, Yesterday Is not tor you; Do it now. If you have a sorvg to sins. Sing It now, Let the notes of gladness rlner Clear as song of bird m spring, Lt every day some music Drtr.2; Singr tt now. If you have kind words to say. Say them now. Tomorrow may not come your way; Do a kindness while you may; Loved ones will not always stay; Say them now. If you have a smile to show. Show it now. Make hearts happy, roses grow, Lt the friends aronnd you know The love you have before they go; Show it now. TRIBE CLOSE TO EXTINCTION Only Pitiful Remnant Remains of Sem. inoles Who Once Defied the United States Government. The Seminole Indians are to be moved to n reservation on the west coast of Florida an area of 21,000 acres. Though partly under water, the tract is deemed of adequate ex tent. Inasmuch as there are only about 225 Seminoles left. This is the melancholy remnant of what was once a powerful tribe, which owned the whole of Florida and fought with the United States government one of the most vigorously contested wars in our history. The Seminoles ore notably handsome people and their young women are the 1 yrT Typical Seminole House. DroÄiest of all Indian girl?. There are no white half-breeds among them. So strong in the tribe Is hatred of our race that, if a Seminole woman were to have a child by a white man. she would be likely to be put to death. Around their necks the women wear many strings of beads of cut-glass, which they buy from traders. Some times a squaw is adoryed with as much as six quart? of thse heads, and even the girl habic are loaded down with them. The women pierce as many as ten holes in the upper rim of each ear to hold pegs of wood. The Seminole house Is of peculiar construction, having a roof and floor, but no sides. Its framework N of pal metto poles, which support a platform three feet from the ground and a roof of palmetto leaves. It is ail one room, open to view from without, and one might imagine that here was the limit of nonprivacy were It not that the Seminole dwelling Is customarily hid den In the jungle. Philadelphia Ledger. ELIXIR OF. YOUTH FOUND IN CHICAGO Decrepit Old John Shebec Took But OnejDose and Did Somo Great Stunts. i GLIMPSE OF "DICK'S" STAR Senile Cripple Overtook Trolley Car and Would Have Defeated Polic Flivver If the Street Crowds Had Net Hampered Him. Chicago. John Shehec, who is 07 years old, discovered the elixir of youth the other day. Before taking he was stooped, lame, decrepit, hope lessly senile. After one dose he wus able to hop a speeding street car, outrace a flivver, and stand on his ear. Mr. Shebec was first observed by Detective Sergeants Iiierndt and Janaczak at Western avenue and Madi son street. He was limping. "(jive me a quarter for carfare, please," he asked them. Ilierndt started to explain that transportation in this City of the Horn may be pur chased, theoretically, at a nickel a rlde and, If one Is traveling in the sub urbs outside the precincts of the city hall, at S cents. He meant to follow- up this Information with a remark that the old man's two-bit demand was a bit exorbitant. He was Interrupted, however, by a citizen who burst from the corner saloon. He Sees a Star. "You old rascal, I just gave you , carfare," shouted the man. "Aha," quoth IJIerndt, "come with rue-. He exhibited his star. One casual glance at the glittering elixir worked a marvelous transformation. It pene trated the ancient's system instanter and invested his feet with a zest for voyage.1 The next instant Shebec was ten yards away. The instant after that he was scarcely discernible for dust. "Holy haste!" exclaimed lilerndt. "That guy's exceeding the speed limit. What he needs is a pair of brakes." The detectives jumped Into their flivver and tore after the vanishing Shebec. About a block ahead was a street car, traveling nt the rate of numerous miles per hour. It saw the ancient chasing it and tried to get away. 'Too Durned Slow." No use! With an easy leap Shebec had achieved the step. Then In looked behind him and saw that the police flivver was making better timo than the street car. "You're too durned slow," said he to the conductor and oft he jumped. Tin? particular section of the metropolis into which the ancient leaped was a bit populated. The abundant citizenry Impeded his "progress and made straight running impossible. In the zlgzagginz which ensued the flivver had tme to catch up and Shebec was apprehended. In his pockets were found twenty $1 bills and about $5 in coins. "I think I'll enter that bird in the Indianapolis sweepstakes next year," said Blerndt at the station. "He run without gas and never has tire trouble. He's the fastest thing I ever ( saw In pants." DEAD" MAN RETURNS HOME Supposed Victim of Railway Accident Gives His Relatives a Very Happy Surprise. ! Youngstown, O. Sadnes wn turned into rejoicing when W. J. Mills, who was identified as having been 1 killed bv a train near Williamson, W Ya., last April, walked into the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ida Malone Parkersburg, V. Va., and gave her and his two sons a surprise that they will long remember. Instead of grieving over the passing of their father, whom they believed was killed, they are happily explaining how they were mistaken when they Identified another for him in a morgue In Williamson. Mills explained that he had been visiting friends in Youngstown. and that he was so deeply impressed with the steel city, its nvironrnent and suburbs that he for .'fit to write. The family is trying to decide what disTHrdtion to make 01 -he body of the man who was buried In the family plot near Parkersburg. Vicar Had Seme of Disaster. St. John's church, West Haling, Eng land, was gutted by fire on a recent Monday night. The subject rf th last sermon In the building v. as "I'-irified by Fire," and the vicar s .1 "d .1 ward that all that Sunday he had . ;i op pressed with a sense of i:;.pei. : nj- 'disaster.