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WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher JASPER .... INDIANA Watching (In inli'ü grow Is n fine outdoor sport thee evenings. TIio army worm seems to be In fa vor of universal military education. "Karly to bed and early to rise" has outlived Its usefulness. Everything is up. If wemen are to wear now straw hat.s men. juTforcc, must wear the old ones ! It's ben n good while since anybody used the expression, "too much sugar for a cent." So many people are writing novels It is almost a mark of distinction to be able to abstain. The man who says the war was wrong casts a slur upon every soldier who fought or died. Armenia hopes that anybody with further designs against her will have to see America first. Turkey should make up Its mind Whether to be bolshevist or British it cannot very well be Turk'sh. American citizenship is too impor tant to be granted to and enjoyed by those who do not appreciate it. Thrift will only help to bring prices down when something has amputated the greed that keeps them up. The government could make the cost Of living lower for profiteers and for the public by jailing a lot of them. Maybe those pocket wireless tele phones we have heard so much about will be perfected In time to help some. This scarcity of doctors that Is spoken of can be counted on, we sup pose, to add to the high cost of living. As in the past, most of the presi dents of the future will be men who had to struggle and conquer as boys. The only thing the average Ameri can has against Georges Carpentier is that extra s on the end of his first name. The resentment toward money In politics Is likely to deprive the tired business man of a favorite form of di version. France is going to follow our ex ample and deport undesirables, it ev ery nation did that, where would the undesirables be dumped? Judicial opinion Is inclined to the theory that it is a landlord's privilege to make himself as unpopular as he chooses. A real American citizen must not gouge the public, s-ays schoolboy's es say on Americanism. There's thought in that. Notwithstanding the .chastening which the war was supposed to bring them, the Turks an.' as unspeakable us ever. A man Is considered a bachelor iu France at thirty years of age and Is taxed. A married man in this coun try Is worse off than that he is over taxed. The next president of Mexico would be wise to take the precaution of mov ing the capital to the south bank of th Kio Grande aud keep an airplane on the premises. After the millennium sets in we shall have a perfect apparatus for choosing presidents, provided presidents1 are still necessary. An eight-year-old chess phenom is named Kzesehewski and his mind prob ably will be in a like jumble before he reaches ten. Albania is now reported to be in the throes of civil war. The freedom of the small nctions seems to have gone to their heads. And now they want a "No Hats for Men" campaign. That saying. 'Mad as a hatter," is going to mean some thing real pretty soon. What a curiously peaceful world this would be if we could pick up the papers and find that no one had "Hayed." "scored," "assailed," or "de fied" anybody else for -4 hours. It isn't the comfort and pleasure that wealth gives that is the trouble, but the unfortunate habit it has of making so many men and young wom en utterly worthless to the world. The American people eat a billion dollars' north of candy a year. No wonder the shortage of sugar Is re gardt'd as a national misfortune. ISolshevIk propagandists In France are now being dealt with severly. France not having forgotten Its expe rience with the commune in 1871. As an example ef the rapid spread of ei Hir.atlon. the Chinese girls who were taught by Americans to wriggle thir toes are now smoking c-Igar- INDIANA 1 State News Hammond. Arthur Becker, twenty three years old, a chemist employed in the Amos Bird laboratories, Chicago, a Purdue man and son of Alderman J. C. Becker of Hammond was killed while riding at high speed In a racing car driven by Alvln Screlber, known as a speed demon. Screlber, without lights, drove Into n heavy laden truck and his car was completely telescoped. Screlber was scarcely hurt, being thrown clear of the wreck. A few .hours preceding Mrs. LUltan Argo, thirty-five years old, while hurrying home from work, attempted to cross In front of a car belonging to Albert Pack of East Chicago, president of the Hubbard Steel Foundries company, and was caught under the car and killed. Indianapolis. Declaring that coal costing less than $2 loaded on cars at the mines Is quoted to the state at $3.2,") to $7.25 a ton. Governor Good rich answered opponents of his state mine proposal who declare that "it Is a step toward state socialism." "I am not dealing with theories, but with a condition the governor says. He points to the wide range of manufac turing In state institutions, the sur plus product of which is sold In .the general market. "I know Just ns well as I know that I live," he says, "that I can take an appropriation sufficient to purchase, operate or lease a mine and that I can mine that coal, place It on the car, operating GO per cent of capacity, for less than $2 a ton. Indianapolis. A bill creating an In diana coal commission of three mem bers, with power to fix coal prices, to take over and operate mines and to de termine priority of shipments was passed by the Indiana house under sus pension of the rules. The vote was G8 to 8. The hill has the hearty sup port of Governor Goodrich. The bill is the most sweeping that has ever been passed by either branch of any legislature In the history of Indiana, It Is believed. It affects all whole salers and retailers1 as well as op erators In the state. Anderson. Elevator operators be lieve that Madison county farmers are thrashing too soon because of a high per centnge of moisture revealed by tests of the wheat. The first of new wheat delivered in Anderson contained 17 per cent moisture, tested rG pounds to the bushel and was graded as No. 3. At Pendleton where 2,500 bushels of new wheat were received, the tests ranged from 51 to CO pounds to the bushel, with a yield of 18 to 28 bush els to the acre. Laporte. The unusual in weddings took place at Valparaiso when a moth er and her twin daughters were prin cipals In three ceremonies, the entire family assuming marital vows. Mrs. Llllle Zane became the wife of John Hlvely, a prominent business man, while the daughters, Cora and Nora, became the brides of William Raker and Harry Erler, respectively. Two clergymen were engaged to tie the three kmts. Indianapolis. In proceedings for contracts for highway 'improvements under the county unit road law, pnv vision can be made for bids on the separate units, instead of on the en tire project, if It Is desired, according to an opinion submitted by Ele Stans bury, attorney general, to H. K. Bish op, chief engineer of the state highway commission. Evansvllle. rPrnctically no new wheat is coming to the Evansville mar ket and farmers seem determined to hold their new crop until the price goes to $3 a bushel or more. Wheat during the last week rose to .52.75 a bushel but went back to $2.G5. Seymour. C. L. Cope, aged twenty five years, a dentist, was electrocuted at Seymour while making an X-ray photograph of a patient's teeth. A spark from the X-ray machine carried 40.000 volts through his body. The pa tient was unharmed. . Valparaiso. Announcement was made that Valparaiso university has been turned over to a board of three trustees, the number later to be aug mented and to include a number of prominent educators and wealthy men of the country. Brazil. Kenneth Williams, twenty four years old. son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Williams of Brazil, an ex soldier of the world war. died of a broken neck lflerel recently when he dived into shallow water. 14 miles south of here. Shelbyville Lauren Hilligoss, age fifty-four, wldley known among coal dealers In Ohio and Indiana, died sud denly of apoplexy at his home In Shel byville. Indianapolis. For a second time the housv of the Indiana general assembly within the last year and a half passed the Symons-Oivan "blue sky" bill. Indianapolis. Governor Goodrich signed house bill No. 537, which appro priated $20.000 for the expense: of the special session of the legislature. This was the first bill submitted to the gov ernor and the first signed by him. Jeffersonville. Although the Indiana State Keformatory here is one of the state institutions which is short of money and must be provided for by mi additional appropriation by the special session of the general assem bly, the Institution now. in fact. N .u-tually paying Its way. probably for the first time in Its history. Vlncennes. Following numerous complaints filed with Mayor James D. McDowell, the city council of Vln cennes, which recently passed an ordinance compelling fanners to pay $25 a dny to sell fruits and vegetables at retail in the city, has repealed the ordinance. The council took action after an attack against the measure, alleging that it was drafted by thre members of the council who own and operate grocery stores. The Farmers' Federation also took action and threat ened to open a public market In one of the downtown buildings and to sell produce to the consumer and refuse to sell to the grocers. It Is understood that another ordinance will be draft ed, with the foodstuffs clause elim inated. South Bend. St. Joseph county wheat will not be grea'Jy damaged by red weevil or wheat midge, according to the county agent. The experience gained last year has taught the farm ers to fight the pest. When the fall plowing took place the furrows were made deep enough to bury the insect In the pupa stage. The practice of rotating the crops is also being fol lowed by the farmers. There is no fear of the Uesslan fly this summer. As a result of co-operative movement among farmers In St. Joseph county, wool growers have pooled their clip, amounting to 10,000 pound to be shipped from North Liberty- to Chica go. Shelbyville. All grain dealers in Shelby county have agreed on the pay ment to farmers of a premium for where which tests No. 1 quality. The premium ranges from 3 to 5 cents a bushel. Inability to obtain cars for the shipment of the grain is expect 1 to result In cautious buying by the dealers for a time. The elevator at Boggstown, Shelby county, has an nounced to the farmers that It will buy only 5,000 bushels, unless able to ship more, and will store grain up to 30,000 bushels for the farmers of the community. Evansville. Co-operative buying and marketing Is planned by the Southern Indiana Leghorn association. The chairman of the association said feed will be bought in carload lots to cut down the prices. The members of the association will ship eggs to Detroit and New York direct instead of selling them through local commission mer chants. "They are paying 55 cents a dozen In Detroit and New York for eggs and ;ve are getting but 30 cents a dozen here," the chairman added. Indianapolis. Indianapolis millers have not been buying any new crop wheat and have not contracted for any. They say the chief reason is at present that the price is too high, that exporters sold considerable wheat for July shipment, that rains have de layed cutting, thrashing and market ing and that these buyers have to make prices high to gather up the scattered supplies ready for market, so they can fill their contracts. Indianapolis. Bills to abolish the public service commission were intro duced In both the senate and the house. The senate hill, introduced by Senator Alfred Ilogston of Marion, provides for the re-establishment of the old rail road commission and the revival of the laws affecting that body, which were in the statutes January 1, 1013. The house bill was Introduced by Bep resentatlve Rowbottom of Evansville. South Bend Dally rains In north ern Indiana during the last few days have made all the farmers in the re gion unusually optimistic over the crops. Following a poor start in the spring because of too much water, the crops are not up to normal and the prediction !s made by St. Joseph coun ty farmers that the yield in corn, po tatoes, alfalfa and liay will be large. Indianapolis. After two amend ments hail been adopted, the house of the Indiana general assembly, sitting as a committee of the whole, approved an emergency appropriation bill pro viding approximately $800.000 for state Institutions, state departments and state expenses. The measure was then passed under suspension of the rules by a vote of S7 to 0. Indianapolis'. The lower house of the legislature passed the adminis tration tax legalizing bill by a vote of 03 to 30 under suspension of the rules. The measure, which was passed with slight amendments, legalizes the ac tion of the state board of tax commission ers in making the state-wide horizon tal increases in tax assessments. Wabash. Wabash county thrashers have increased their prices, according to announcement made by the presi dent o the County Thrashers associa tion. The new prices are: Wheat. 10 cents a bushel; oats. S cents; barley, G cents, and rye, 12 cents. Terre Haute. Several Terre Haute business men have Incorporated the Michigan Dairies company and will op erate a dairy farm in central Michigan. The company is capitalized at $350,000. Its farm covers 300 acres. 2S.4 of which are under cultivation. Ft. Wayne. Four hundred delegates from all pans of the country attencVd the twenty-fifth anniversary conven tion of the Luther league of America at Ft. Wayne. Arthur Davis of Indi anapolis was elected president of the Indiana Luther league. Vlncennes. Despite the fact that Knox county farmers say the present price of wheat Is too low, many are taking the wheat to the mills as fast as it Is being harvested. Vlncennes millers are paying $2.00 a bushel for wheat that tests 00 pounds or heavier. South Bend. Jospeh Theres, thirty four years old. committed suicide by shooting himself through the temple at his liium' at South Bend, after firing three shots at his wife, Mary Oberes, twenty-elirht years old. Two of the shots struck the woman, one In the hip and the other in rhe head. MHfffliGS RECORDED II Ml News Items From All Over Indiana. 0. K. MEMORIAL AMD TAX ACTS Emergency Legislation Disposed of by Lower House and Senate May Complete Labor Late This Week. Indianapolis. July 23. Members of the house of representatives cleared their decks of all emergency legisla tion by passing the Johnson bill re storing tax levy and bond control to localities and the war memorial bill providing an appropriation of $2,000, 000, and concurring in the report of the conference committee on the de ficiency appropriation bill. The vote on the Johnson bill was 74 ayes and l.'i noes. The war memorial measure was passed by a vote of ST to O. The ap propriation bill as was . approved by both the house and senate carries a total of about $SOr.000 to meet de ficiencies in maintenance of the vari ous benevolent and correctional insti tutions. The house now is ready to adjourn sine die. but until the senate completes its labors it will consider minor bills now before it. The me morial bill includes the gift by the state of the grounds of the Indiana School for the Blind and St. Clair park as a site for the memorial build ing. A question was raised as to the power of the state to use St. Clair park for building purposes because of the terms of the original grant of the land. Marion county representatives who have investigated the abstract of the park ground say. however, that so far as they can find there Is no re striction on use in the original grant or any subsequent transfer. With all the major measures out of the way in the house, it appears now that the senate will measure the length of the remainder of the special session. The upper branch has still to consider the curative tax bill, the Johnson tax bill and the memorial measure. Assessment Reductions Allowed. Indianapolis. July 2... Inductions of the assessed value of 21S Indiana corporations, including public utiliites. made by the state board of tax com missioners during its second 10'JO ses sion, were announced by the board. The reductions run Into the millions of dollars, but the exact amount has not been determined. A total of .2.'l corporations filed appeals with the tax board for reductions after their original assessments were announced In May. The board denied the ap peals of 10.". In spite of the reduc tions made at this session, it is be lieved that the total assessed valua tion of Indiana corporations will be several million dollars more than that of 1010. Large reductions were or dered by the board in the case of transportation companies and build ing and loan companies. Money for Indiana Counties. Indianapolis. July 2.. A total . of $lfSS7.:WS.:ir in the common school fund of the state is ready for distribu tion to the counties. The June ap portionment to the counties was an nounced bv J. S. Hubbard, a deputy state superintendent of public Instruc tion. Deductions ranging from $1,000 to S.'WXMl were made in the money to be given to four counties, to make up part of a deficit In their teachers pension funds. The remainder of the deficit, which totals $14.000, will be made up from the December appor tionment. The deductions were made as follows: Knox county. Vlncennes I unit, $3.000: Cark county. Jefferson- WIH Willi, ... ...... , county unit, $1.000, and Bartholomew county, county unit. $1,000. Shortage of Grain Cars. Indianapolis. July 2,'i. The serious- t ii l . . . r.. r ness oi me iaiii ear siiuri.if in In diana has taken precedence over the roal situation, according to state- ' meats made to John W. McCardle, ! vice chairman of the public service commission, by managers of Indiana ! railroads, at a conference. The ruana i L'ers' reports showed that the coal car situation has improved about 20 per cent within the last few weeks. The managers of eight railroads reported that they are moving a total of 1,4S5 empty box cars to western connections which will be used for moving grain. Mr. McCardle telegraphed Clyre B. Altchison, a member of the interstate commerce commission, In an effort to have some of these cars diverted to the Indiana roads. Faces Serious Coal Shortage. Alexandria. July 23. Alexandria is facing a coal shortage that threatens not only to close the manufacturing plants of the city, but also the city waterworks, it Is said. Coal ship ments to Alexandria have been de layed for weeks and factory officials are unable to. obtain relief. Local coal dealers are providing coal to op erate the city waterworks plant. Many Expected at Encampment. Indianapolis. July 23. More than lOO.OOO persons are expected to come to Indianapolis the week of Septem ber 10 to 2.". when the forty-fifth an nual encampment of the Crand Army of the Ib'pnblic and allied organiza tions Is held here, according to the ex tent ive comml'Ve In chaige of gen eral arran;rem nts. ROME HAD THE FIRST "DAILY" To Caesar Must Be Credited the Idea of Giving Citizens Information of Events. How many schoolboys, struggling with the story of the Gallic wars, know that Caesar founded in Uome what presently grew into a daily city paper? It was ui-to-date, too, even in its name. Acta Diurna the Dally Events or Dal ly Doings. At lirst the Daily Events, or Acts, was published merely by setting up in the Forum a white board on which the news was Inscribed. The Bomans stood round on tiptoe craning their necks to see, quite as the crowds stand today In every city in the land to watch the newspaper bulletins, and sometimes a trumpet-voiced citizen, studying what was written on the "album, or "white," would turn and roar out the Information to the gaping listeners. Caesar had a double purpose in this, lie reasoned that, if affairs were -recorded dally and published in a busy place like the Forum, such publicity would let the people know what their ollicers were up to, and would thus check the secret passage of unpopular laws and corrupt measures; and as he was playing the desperate game of Bo man politics, in which banishment or death followed downfall, he had to know what his opponents were doing behind the closed doors of the senate, and the publication of their transac tions daily made it less easy for his en emies to lay dangerous plans without his knowledge. Finally, he understood perfectly the value of such an organ to advertise himself. By stimulating the appetite for news, and by making It easier to collect in formation, the Daily Acts brought about a remarkable growth of Boman journalism. It did more than merely record the proceedings of the senate: it gave a daily list of births and deaths, touched on tinancial news by noting the receipts of the tax depart ment, told the news of both the civil and the criminal courts, and reported elections and other political events. A few years later, when Borne had be come an empire, it regularly gave de tailed news of the imperial family. In deed, the new emperor, Augustus, tak ing Caesar's hint, used the Acts freely to promote his personal views. The natural result of all this was the demand for more accessible news. Soon the number of hand-written news chronicles increased. Thus the Acts began to circulate commonly among the well-to-do. and Boman ladies are men tioned as "reading the morning paper." This "home edition" was an enlarged issue of the Forum edition, and the various "publishers" supplemented the news that they procured from the bul letin board with additional news gath ered from other sources. Dictating to a number of copyists at once, they could "run off an edition of r0 or even 100 copies, though the usual num ber for one publisher was probably not above 12. A still more enlarged edi tion, but apparently not a daily, was written for the "mail," and travelers in the provinces sometimes stayed over to await it when it did not arrive on time. The Daily Acts was published for 300 years or more. Youth's Com panion. Building Houses in China. All lumber for building in China is bought in the log. says II. K. Bichard son, writing in Asia magazine. As soon as the logs begin to arrive the con tractor tackles them with the saw yers. These men are paid piece rates which average about three cash or one-tenth of a cent per square foot of surface sawed. They average a bet ter wage than a carpenter, getting about 10 cents a day, as compared with S cents a day for the carpenter. At this rate they are cheaper than any steam saw mill that cm operate in China. In fact, the only reason a saw mill can operate in China at all is because it can produce quickly and with a more even thickness than the native sawyers. The necessary doors, frames and window sashes are all made by hand. Three Chinese carpen ters at S cents a day with their na tive tools can accomplish about, the same work done by one Canadian car penter with all equipment. The work Is well done if well supervised. In comparison. I should say that about Ave Chinese carpenters at S cents a day each are necessary to do the work of a Canadian carpenter who receives $0 a day and has all his wood pre pared for him. "Bluebeard's" Home Stripped. "What troublous times we are liv ing in! Even one's property Is no longer safe," was the angry comment of Lnndru, under arrest, In Paris for the alleged murder of several of his sweethearts, when Informed that his villa at Cambals. near Paris (where the police say the women disap peared), had been broken into and ran sacked from cellar to attic by souvenir hunters. Since the villa had been closed by the authorities, pending the outcome of Landru's trial, no watchman had been detailed to guard the house. An official who visited the villa a short time ago found the shutters, doors and windows smashed. Everything port able had been taken, from kitchen utensils and etchings to chair legs. Continental Edition of the London Mall. Remembering His Manners. "I understand the convict who es caped was noted for his polite man ners." "He was unusually polite. Even In escaping, he left a note for the warden ylrig: Tbase excuse the liberty I ahi Hiking.' " " PLENTY in DOOR" Record Harvest Predicted for Canada. Affer having made n careful sur vey of the wheat producing area of the I'nited States, experts whose busi ness It is to keer the people Informed on the acreage sown to foodstuffs state that this year there will be a falling off iif the wheat production in the States, due to a considerably les area cultivated. The opinion of these experts is that the decrease will be several hundred million bushels of wheat less than In previous yean, which according to past experience will be scarcely sufficient to meet the requirements of the demands of the people of this country. In Canada, however, the situation Is different. Reliable reports on the crop situation throughout Western Canada are such as to create the most substantial optimism. Never before were the prospects so encouraging for a bumper harvest. It is predicted that the yield this year will be even greater than In 101T. the year of the record harvest In Canada, when the total production was :m.T42.f.OO bushels. Not only Is the wheat looking, excellent, but the same Is true of oats, barley and Ilax, of which a greatly Increased acreage has been sown in the great grain producing provinces of Canada. The rains that have fallen recently have come at the right time to stimu late growth and there is now consider able moisture In the ground. With the world generally facing a shortage of wheat and a continued heavy de mand for It, the price Is likely to be maintained at the present high figure. In many districts corn has been more extensively planted than In previous years and It is looking remarkably well. Many settlers from the United States who came to Western Canada and bought Improved farms In the early spring have every prospect of a crop yield that will give them a re turn sufficiently large, after paying all current expenses, to pay off a large part of their capital Investment. Livestock Is In excellent condition everywhere, the rains having induced a good growth of grass. Advertise ment Perhaps. "I can breathe easier now.' "What's happened?" "The landlord called for his rent today." "Well "And he went away without leaving notice that next month he would charge us 20 a month more. Perhaps he has gotten over his rent-raising fever." ASPIRIN Name "Baver" on Genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" is genu ine Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Accept only an unbroken "Bayer package" which contains proper direction? to relieve Headache, Tooth ache, Earache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Druggists also Bell larger "Bayer packages." Aspirin Is trade mark Bayer Manufacture Mon oacetlcaddester of Sallcylicacid. Adv. Telling Him. "Bobby, your mother tells me you are a very bright boy,, and she ex pects you to be a great man," said Mr. Blossom, as he sat In the parlor waiting for Bobby's sister. "Ma never does 'spect right. She doesn't know what she's talking about. She told dad she 'spect ed you and my sister would be married 'fore spring. and that was more than a year ago. FRECKLES Now Is tho Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots. There's no longer the s!!jrhte?t need of feelln? ashamed of your freckle, as Othln double strength Is guaranteed to remove these homely spots. Simply set an ounce of Othlne double strength from your drugglit. and apply a little of It' night and morning and you should soon pee that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while th lighter ones have vanished entirely. It Is seldom that more than one ounce Is needed to com pletely clef.r the skin and gain a beautiful Clear complexion. Be sure to ask for the double strength Othlne. as this Is sold under guarantee of money back If It falls to remove freckles. Time of Great Danger. When any of tlie four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened which are religion. Justice, council and treasure men need to pray for fair weather. Bacon. Cutlcura Comforts D&by't Skin When red. rough and Itching with hot baths of Cutlcura Soap and touches of Cutlcura Ointment. Also make use now and then of that exquisitely scent ed dusting powder, Cutlcura Talcum, one of the indispensable Cutlcura Toilet Trio. Adv. The Idea. Many of the new theories of bring ing up children hhow that the old was were really pernicious." -Yes, I understand that they are claiming the hand that rocks the era- ' Ue Is the hand that wreck the world.-