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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
SMOOTH Git We, If Ye Don't Watch Out

Turing the debates in congress
- over the appropriation bills for the
departments there were thousand
and one outbreaks over the ''army of
employees Some were bitter
clashes" others were amusing.
Senator Smoot Of Utah on one occa-
sion attacked an agricultural depart
ment item. He said there were now
81 900 employees in Washington, as
against 10000 70 $4,000 before the
war Senator Gronna of North Da-
kota agreed with Senator SmOot in
general, but defended the particular
bureau, cOntending that an increase
in the force was necessary because it
was overworked. ThereupOn Senator
Smoot said in part:
Mr.. SmOOt-l am going down 10 that
division Of the department. for 1
should like to see ii. | should like
to see one department of our govern
ment whose clerks are OverwOrked |
do not know but that il would take my
breath away to find such condition.
| know that l got letter the other
morning saying that when / entered
one of the departments the other day
q man who stood at the door immedi-
ately telephOned to every division
there. Get to work, and be at your
typewriters Senator Smoot is coming
Mr.. President. / know one division
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
8 DEAD IN CHICAGO BLAST
Big Warehouse on HaIsted Street De-
stroyed When Fireworks Blow Up
So, 900, 900 Property Loss

Chicago, March 31.-Three hundred
pounds Of black gunpowder and salt
peter being mixed in an unlicensed
fireworks factory by four men in
one-story warehouse in the rear OF the
notion store of Singer & Schaefer at
1927 South Halsted street caused
terrific explosion that killed at least
eight persons. injured scores and
spread devastation ana terror for
blocks through the West side tene-
ment district.
The blast vas so terrific it reduced
the warehouse TO hopeless mass Of
bricks and splintered timbers.
Several bodies OF persons inside the
building were hurtled i'm fragments
for yards.
Houses and stores for two blocks
around were shaken as by an earth
quake and windows were smashed
over n wider area.
All of the injured. except one man.
n teamster who crawled out. cut and
bleeding badly, from the ruins. were
shoppers and children in the streets.
They were shOwered with glass fraC-
ments and bits OF brick and wood
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
Wanted: National Park Multin1illionaire

the islands. If it is true that in the
past we deemed it proper TO accept
gifts from potentates, why is it igno-
miniOuS now for us TO accept gifts
from American citizens who, in the
opinion of the President of the United
States. seek TO present 10 us objects
which it is desirable for the United
States TO possess? Time and time
again we have authorized the accept
ance Of gifts of various kinds and of
great value"
Guilford Court House, the Lincoln
birthplace, and Lafayette National
park. are gifts. Muir Woods National
monument in California was present
ed to the nation by William Kent.
Grandfather mountain. i'm North Car
DINA. has been offered TO the govern
ment for national park. The will of
Joseph Battell of Middlebury, VT, de-
vises 1000 acres of Green mountains
forest for the same purpose.
Stephen II. Mather. director of the
national park service, has made gifts
largely in excess of 100000 in value
Some multimillionaire could make
his name immortal and deserve well
of his country by establishing a big
fund for the development of the ma
tional park system and the national
park-to-park highway
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

OF our government where II rs abSO-
lutely true that the ladies of the de-
partment made their trOusseaus in the
Office during working hours. If the
work is 10 be done in the same way
that it is now going on, and there is
to be no change we might just as well
make up our minds that we can double
the number Of employees. Washing
ton is delightful place to live in.
Girls receiving salaries Of $1,000 and
S1,S0O with S24O bonus, have plenty
of time to go 10 the theater and do
fancy work during working hours.
Who would want to give il up?
! am glad. however, TO hear the
senator from North Dakota say that
i'm this division ii is different
think if they are we ought to make
special provision for them and give
every one of them a chrome.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
Not Every Farmer Owns a Gold Mine
CONSIDERABLE light is thrown on

CONSIDERABLE light is thrown on
- the question of farm profits in a
bulletin just issued by the United
States Department Of Agriculture, Civ
ing the results OFFS study through a
period of five TO seven years Of the
business OF 49, farms in three areas,
one each in Ohio. Indiana and Wiscon-
sin.
The average farm income OF p
farmers In Palmer township. Washing
ton county, Ohio the bulletin says,
".or the seven years 1912 10 1918 was
500. the labor income $276. and the
return on the capital 4.6 per cent.
THE average farm income Of 60
farmers in Forest and Johnson town
ships, Clinton county. Indiana, for the
seven years 1910 and 1913 to 1913 was
81 $50. the labor income S55S, and the
return on capital 81 per cent.
1.-The average farm income Of 60
farmers in Verona and adjacent town
ships. Dane county. Wisconsin. for the
i've years 1913 TO 1917 was ST. 93. the
labor income Si0s. md the return on
the capital a. per cent. This gives
an average OF per cent.
a considerable part Of the farmers
diving caue directly from the farm. Tn
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

IN THE closing hours of the last SEES
! sion Representative Rayburn of
Texas got all worked up over the idea
Of the United States accepting gifts,
especially in connection with legations
abroad, arguing that it was beneath
the dignity of a great nation. Rep
resentative Rogers Of Massachusetts
replied TO him and said in part:
ut has been habitual on the part of
the United States congress to author
lie the acceptance of gifts. We oc-
cupy legation at Bangkok that was
presented TO Us by the emperor of
Siam. We occupy building in
Morocco that was presented 10 us by
the emperor of Morocco. We occupy
a consulate in Tahiti that was pre-
scented TO us by the reigning queen OF
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

MI MISUNDERSTANDING Uncle
w Sam is TO have quite a substantial
navy. At a recent Navy league din
ner Secretary of the Navy DENLY pro-
nounced himself in favor Of "A navy
the equal Of any. Secretary of War
Weeks thought the United States
should have a navy adequate for de-
Tense against any nation which con-
ceivably might go to war with it.
incidentally, it transpires that the
first official act Of Secretary DENLY
was to lift the ban placed on the Navy
league by former Secretary Daniels
when he fell out with il.
Il would belle every instinct of my
being" said Secretary DENLY. IF |
did not believe in making a fighting
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
20 YANKS QUELL
REDS IN GERMANY
American Military Police Sent to
Montabaur TO Restore
Order.
FEDERAL TROOPS SHELL REDS
Communists Grouped in Hills Near
Eisleben 5ombarded by ARTILLERY
BIG Bridge on 6erlin-Leipsie
Railroad Blown Up.

Coblenz. March 3O.-A communist
uprising occurred in the American
bridgehead area at Montnbaur >lX
miles northeast of Ehrenbreitstein. \
riot call was answered by the provost
marshal and American military police
were dispatched TO Montabaur 10 re-
store order.
The 20 Yanks put down the up
rising i'm a few minutes They ar
rested the leader ana conhscated COM
munist literature.
Halle. Germany. March 30.-Federai
artillery was taking a prominent part
in dealing with the insurgent com
munists in this disturbed section Of
PrusSian Saxony.
The artillery shelled the comnu-
nists, who were grouped on the hills
10 the west of EiSleben. dispensing
them.
After brief engagement the town
of SanSerhausen, southwest of Elsie
ben. was occupied by federal forces,
which now control that place.
Berlin, March 30-The main rail-
road bridge on the Berlin-Leipsic line
was blown up by the communists.
Reds are reported shooting up Leip-
sic and fighting the police at a num-
Der of points. A battle is reported
near Leuna.
Berlin has taken on warlike APP
pearance. Companies of relchswehr
are quartered in the Wilhelmstrasse
and in parks. Soldiers are stringing
field telephones along the main streets
and placing guns i'm the courtyards
in Wilhelmstrasse palace and in pub
lie buildings.
The situation i'm central Germany
! recalls the days of the thirty years
war. Rowing bands calling themselves
communists are plundering farms. VIII
lagos and small towns. They are espe-
cially keen after automobiles. horses.
arms, munitions and money.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

the Ohio area the value of the items
food. fuel and house rent furnished
by the farm was estimated at 1853
per farm for the average; In the In
diana area AT $425; in the Wisconsin
area at 1891.
None of the 1S5 farmers in these
three areas made as much as $1,000
labor income every year. -Four q
per cent? made over $500 labor in
come every year. one each In the Ohio
and Indiana areas. and two in the
Wisconsin area. Thirty-three farmers
us per cent? failed 10 make $500
labor income In any one year Of the
period-ten each In the Ohio and In
diana areas and 13 In the Wisconsin,
! roe I"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
BOND VALUE GAIN TAXABLE
United States Supreme Court Also
Rules on Increase in Capital
Investment

Washington. March 3O.-Increase in
value of capital investment Is tax
able as income under the revenue act
of 1916. the Supreme court held.
Increase in the value Of corporate
bonds. originally acquired and held
for investment, is taxable under the
revenue act of 1916. the Supreme court
also held.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
Uncle Sans Navy Likely to Be Large

navy. am for big navy. and | hope
the present building program of the
navy will be completed. | hope be-
tore we are through TO see an Amer
lean navy as big as any othev I
know and you know that this means
building a navy the equal of Great
Britain's. If you ask me why we
should do that. reply by asking you
why not? Haven't we a c0aStline and
far-flung insular possessions that alb
sOlutely require great navy to pro-
tect them. Some foolish persons seem
10 imagine that building a navy the
equal of Great Britain's means we will
co 10 war with Great Britain event
ually. Such a war would be unthink-
ably horrible and for that reason. IL
for no other il will never happen"
Secretary of War Weeks. speaking
as a director of the Navy league, said
Il want a navy large enough for
any purposes for which il conceivably
is 10 be used. / want il big enough
TO cope with any nation with which
we are likely TO be at war"
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant
secretary Of the navy, warned against
the unpreparedness propaganda being
spread by the pacifists, who he said
are still formidable.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
CAR SURPLUS SETS RECORD
lde-7,672 Above Previous
Mark

Washington. April 2.-fhe greatest
number of surplus freight cars in the
history of American railroads was re-
corded on March %, the car ervice
division Of the American Railway as
ISOLATION reported. The number at
that time was 4J9.411. an increase of
$4,000 over March II and 1872 more
than the former high record of March
l, 1919
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
Red Leader Shot Down.

Berlin. April 2.-WilheIm Sylt. com
munist leader. was shot down I'm po-
lice headquarters here after attack
Ing the warders In an attempt 10 es-
cape. His injuries are serious. bur
not mortal.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Porto Ricans seem 10 be radically
different from other people For in
stance. they say that they have been
going through financial crisis as "A
result OF the low price of sugar
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08
Assembly Bars Lobbyist.

Madison. Wis. April 2.-The as
sembly barred Glenn T.. Turner. lob
byist for the La Toilette Progressive
association. from the floor OF the low
or house for the remainder " The
session
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

They intimate that Uncle Sam will
be asked 10 pay back more than $780,
100000 taxes improperly collected. but
the old man will find way To hang
en- 90 the coin.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Before the jingoes plunge the United
States into another war they might
extricate the country from the diff.
cultics OF the last one.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

That Savant who says that no WON
rn can pick out necktie pleasing TO
man doesn't get the idea AT all.
Women do not select the ties to please
len.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Raw sugar at four cents the pound
is giving rainbowists visions of n time
when something can he bought for a
nickel
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

From the way rent profiteers con-
tinue 20 demand indemnties one would
think that the consumers had lost the
war
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

And the Turk. who was TO be driven
out of Europe, is now demanding that
the giaOurs be driven out of Asia
Minor
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

According TO the 1920 census. there
are only $4,000 cooks in this country,
not counting cooks by marriage.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

The financial crisis is past, accord
ing 10 the experts. but hens teeth
have nothing on money.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Austria is starting suit against It's
cx-Emperor for the return of the crown
jewels, while Berlin is shipping money
"a Doom.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Chicago fashion experts announce
thar Il woman's up-todate clothing out
fit costs S322.75. The a. cents is for
comfort.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Man. not woman, dictates women's
fashions. says society leader.
That's why they're so much that way.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Vanity will prevent the cigar from
becoming the favorite smoke of wom-
8nkind.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

The male population, no doubt. is
all agOg over the report that the new
style will reveal bit of the feminine
ear.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

The German plan Of exchange Is L
make the allies the easy mark.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Fashion is returning to the hg-Ieaf
period.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Anyone might know it was a girl
who started talking and could not
stop for six days.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Chinese eggs have brOugh down the
egg prices in the United States. Has
China a mich COW?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

A woman's scream continues TO bs
about the best burglar prevention.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Another reason for the passing Of
the silk shirt is that so many people
have had to pawn 'em.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Mexico has taken up daylight saw.
ing. One assumes that the daylight
saved will be taken out of "manana."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

How can the United States assist
Europe 10 stand on its feet while 1t
insists upon standing on its head?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

The twelve-year-old boy who reads
twelve books daily is new species Of
book worm.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Prices have come down Just low
enough TO reach the bottom of the
publics pocket
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Being a cashier in n country bank
is an extra hazardous occupation these
days.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

The BOlsheviki also are relieving
the Near East-of almost everything
IL possesses.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Quite often you find fresh young
stenographer who thinks she's running
the business. And quite often she is
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Rich old men write stronger love
letters than Wills.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

future can't understand what's going
on now.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

war and separations strikingly sug-
gest that you cannot eat your cake
and have il.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Paying for dead horse was never
so irksome as paying for a lost war.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Maybe that French embargo on
American coal will help the supply al
home.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Forty-two years from now the Ger
mans may celebrate a real old-fash-
Toned mortgage burning.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Sovietism is So successful that $780,
100000 Russians are now starving.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

zap seems TO have gigantic ex-
port trade.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-08

Another pretty good adding machine
f. the al
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-11-24
Tidings From Far West Friend.


Wenatchee, Wash, Nov. Is. 1921.
Friend Ben Enclosed is z. o. order
to pay for Tribune another year 1t is
a very welcome weekly guest in our
home.
We are still on the job here. a Jump
err crop of apples 600 car loads will
go out of this district this year Bust
ness very good. in fact Wenatcbee is
one of the most prosperous towns in
the west.
Since writing you year ago, | see
that several of our boyhood friends
have passed away. The death of my
brother solomon was singing sorrow
for me- Well, we must all go the road
some day.
We are all well. Kindly remember
us to all friends. Best wishes to you
and yours Yours very truly,
w II OSBORNE.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-11-24

RECEIVED THIS WEEK
A NEW STOCK OF
LADIES SHOES IN TAN
AND BLACK.
GUNDRY 6 GRAY co.
DRY ooops. CLOTHING. SHOES
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-11-24
successor Tc JAMES BREWER co. }

Harry Friden of this city was elect
ed vice-president in Milwaukee Satur-
day of the Alumni at the school of cleo
trical engineering
George Bechtel who has been quite
sick with bronchial trouble the past
week, is recovering.
The photo play, The Inn of the
Blue Moon. " given at ST. Mary's Hall
last week Tuesday afternoon and even
ing to good sized audience was much
enjoyed
Miss Genevieye Prisk, who was
home for two weeks on account of sick,
ness, has resumed her studies at the
Platteville normal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-11-24
A Californian's 1921 Thanksgiving
px,yax
BY VIM. Goldsworthy.

BY VIM. Goldsworthy
This day Dear Lord is set aside to rem
der thanks and gratitude TO Thee,
For all Thy blessings manifold which
earth affords or which has como
from sky or sea.
We thank Thee that our lot is cast in
land where all mankind is free,
Where millions gather on this day to
render thank and gratitude to Thee.
We thank Thee for the bounteous har-
vests from vineyard, orchard, and
the golden grain,
Harvests for the rich and poor alike
which comes from hillside, valley,
and from the fertile plains.
We thank Thee for the cooling, crystal
streams which flow from off the
rugged mountain side
And by the brain and Drawn of man
conveyed to bring forth fruit where
once the arm of man by nature was
defied.
We thank Thee that through life's
long way like stars that sparkle in
the blue
Kind friends have met Us day by day to
make life bright and our heart $
load lighter too,
We thank Thee too that here in our
own loved state the aged and the
sick may find place of rest
And here rich and poor alike may find
reward for wealth or honest labor
they invest.
And now Dear Lord we would most
humbly pray for blessings on our
loved Nations head,
That he be wondrous wisdom given and
by Thy power omnipotent be lead.
We too, would ask blessing on our
boys who have just returned to us
from far across the sea,
Where every task by them was nobly
done and every battle fought
VICTORY.
And Lord, we would remember too our
gray haired noble sires
Who on freedoms alter placed their all
and taught us to only noble deeds
aspire.
Wilt Thou throughout the coming year
Thy blessing give to this fair land
beside the western sea,
And every blessing we receive Dear
Lord with gratitude we will ascribe
to Thee.
Pony, cart, harness. saddle and
bride for sale Inquire Of w. N.
Whitford tt
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-11-24

Pony, cart, harness. saddle and
bride for sale Inquire Of w. N.
Whitford If
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-11-24

'on With the Dance. " The World