Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 2 December 1921 — Page 2
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1921.
THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
‘ I of rushing- ai*oimd and buyingdast-minute presents is eliminated
£ Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Remocrjej of' ^ W bert of the Christmas offerings are secured -M- • _ t» i " i. ^ i -r-i- i x ^ ^ . . t^. . A. i m earl y purchasing. Christmas cards and greetings are already Muncie, Delaware county and the Eight Congressional Distrct. j being sold for many wise buyers have these little missives of
The only Democratic newspaper in Delaware County.
Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3,1879.
HEALTH FIRST
EDUCATION
By VERNON M. RIEGEL, State Director of Education.
Subscription Price, $2.00 a year in Advance Office 315 North Mulberry Street, i
Telephone 2540
good will already to send out weeks in advance of Santa Claus’ j arrival. Christmas shopping is one of the joys of the Yule Idde if it is conducted in the proper manner. It can be made a bugbear if delayed too long. Christmas seals are on sale and every pack-,
age no matter how small should bear one of these little stamps, /^hriistmas seaIjS will emphasize The money from their sale goes to fight the spread of tuberculo- i C education in health during “Edsis. The cost is small, but every little helps. It is only a few j ucation Week” in Ohio, Dec. 4 to 10.
weeks until Christmas, the time passes quickly, so shop now.
Origin and Purpose of Christmas Seals
By A. E. M’KEE, Chairman Ohio Christmas Seal Educational Committee.
j U. S. Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates.
Every teacher and almost every pupil
Grain
Wheat prices trended upward during\#the week, influenced by drouth and crop deterioration reports both domestic and foreign. The only de~
GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.
FRIDAY, BECEMBER 2, 1921. SUCKERS GET IT AGAIN
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TVAk'rlro'- ‘AbVyn in the Delaware hotel building, whVh has ■ hereJfcr the past two years, went bump ■ '.Isv sv.i.; * v. - " er has been added to the story of the
shorn lamb -in 'b.nwue. »,
This bucket shop, like all others, was out to get the dough. They generally last so long and then quietly quit brn ; ne°s owing about al| of the feeble minded dubs who are simple enough to believe that they are doing business with a reputable concern.
ELEVEN SENATORS ESPOUSE CAUSE OF WESTERN SUPPERS
are also familiar i in a general way f with the purpose of these seals. They know that they furnish the sinews of war in t h e campaign , against Tubercu-
losis.
They will be inhe res ted .in know-
^ wai/ii a cvixccm. signed by 11 United States senators j basis of Tatl'enuaTization^ apDHed bv ’ TO Pll Ip X^o’f'the . A This one, like all the rest, bore an imnosmg name, was prom- from the middle'west, against the re- the railroad adffi^SSnXlfe: I ^ P Cherculosls inently Situated, and had beautiful gilt letters on the doors and fusal of the eastern and western rail- ! pers, it is pointed out, were free to I Vernon
A RRANGBMElNTS have been comi'a pleted for the fourteenth annual
distribution of Christmas Seals, j cline was on the 28th under liquidation
in the schools of Ohio is familiar with from the sale of which funds are ! induced by rains in drouth area. Cash the cheery little Christmas Seals sold provided for the nation-wide fight j market firm with active domestic and each year. They j against tuberculosis. Every one has | ex P ort Remand, closing prices at Chi-
become
of Eastern rS'aW forced^it I - . EiUcS to Cut otex. X rxight j i s said.-^o export their commodities Kates I hy way of North Atantic ports and
_ T Y ‘ j Rre denied the benefits of “a diversity i Washington—A vigorous protest,! of outlets to the sea.” Under the old 1
e equalization applied by administration, the ship-
wixldows.
M. Riegei. forces in the state
if. , , ... .. „ _ , ' SioTrf m ?ateV f onYt-of a t ^ ir S t2i'?oo4 n coHd 1 ¥j m ^ t V ny ' P0 ?g i ' e f ! for the tuture, the swee" of whici Tfie dupes who played the game called it trading . Supposed- w / ol ‘ ,d be mo, ‘ expe&tiously dar ,e„ds largely upon
the sale of
Christmas Seals.
For a number of years the Ohio
A. E. McKee.
ly they were buying and selling stocks. Instead they were mere- Scaring" in^simibr^educS ^' handled ^ agt Refrion Affected . beUng With the bucket shop gamblers that stocks would either so .them noHs has been filed With! The region affected embraces the.
gb Up or down. t.lie Interstate Commerce commission, j greater part of what is known as ! Society for the Prevention of Tuber- ; in' use in Sweden and Norway TT Alike ordinary betting, however, one of the parties to the was U. a ^ e hshali of Central Freight association territory, culosis conducted a persistent cam- Red Cross was quick to see its adthe bucket shop proprietor/held stakes. In this case, -Sned by McIfSe/and Me S ! tbof two™ 7 eS >’ rn ' raihva J s paign of education and legislation,; vantages. Penny seals were within
oi™ i that . ^averse^ this territory fecently teaching tout tuberculosis is prevent-
Cross worker in Delaware, suggested this country adopt the Red Cross seal from the Health seals that were
The
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it the p^ofo|icakmoment W caMy1nfOTme 0 d PS t>ie me^h^had bet Spacer'and r»2 ofTiiY-l k<£ I al, lf. »" a raraWe “« ‘TSZ't .mi'rbnsm. wniaieip. ctrriiric<+- that all bets WP”e declared off oud V t the mnnev yon of I°wn. Townsend of Michigan, | this region to the North Atlantic s ® tLing laws provullug for i ihe fo!ks would be interested, ; Hobday has soaked’em, the Drake estat has ^d^blue ' ^ ^ ! I fe!L ”“1 “!
sky salesmen have trimmed ’em, the bucket shop went bump, but . In addition to protesting against existed to the North Atlantic Gulf still they are being born one a minute. the action of the roads in Refusing and South Atlantic, ports. Muncie seems to be a fertile field for the gbt-rich-quick guy. to grant the same reduction to gulf The northern and southern lines,
,r ™f’ *«"•« !a "«'" kfain? in Muncie. Quite' “n ^ - -ommission to the reported plan of “'reduetion' tT'
prevent- the purchasing power of everyone
lifrph/ fV
familiar i < -' a g° : No. 2 red winter wheat $.1.26; with "These ‘little | No - 2 , hard ^ int « r w 0 hea , t ] ^- 16 > N T 2 . , f mixeu corn 49c: No. 2 yellow corn 50c; f’cminders of the | No 3 white oa ’ ts 33c. Average price bauile to relieve ; f 0 f armyrs j n central Iowa for No/ 2 humanity f rom / mixed corn 33 1 /2c; to farmers in centhe ravages of tral North Dakota for No. 1 dark the white plagurf, \ northern wheat $1,10Li; to farmers in yet few know the central Kansas for No. 2 hard winter the story of their j v.hcat 98c. For the week Chicago Beor ;*j., . ril( ] i.j, e t comber wheat up "Me at $1.13%; em.rmous resulls I Kwo"*®' <»™ do ' p '" * »<■ that have follow- j wheat up
Hay
Market generally stronger. Prices advanced $2 in New York. Other markets unchanged but light receipts and a good local and shipping demand in central western markets caused more activity. Clover higher than timothy at Cincinnati. Quoted November 3— No. 1 timothy, New York $3; Philadelphia $22; Pittsburv $21.50; Cincinnati $20.50; Chicago $23.50.
Feed
Wheat feed offerings for December and January shipment offered at 50-$l discount. Prompt shipment offerings light. Most markets inactive. Country demand light. Prices steady to higher though in a few markets large-
ed the happy suggortion of a good
woman.
In 1907 Emily B i s s e 1 1, a Red
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d mig
113 F! S. Y y qV
-.o ■rvc-t p d in a vU which covered the Rif be cveiTocked by
a s ox them
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ties m the preferentiaJ rbripcH-ns. ec-udiz'-iion i"-u- -hpretoforp
thereby further injunnp; the shippers ,. x istod 'between' the North"Atlantic ing of resistance to disease in youth, in $3,650,000.. Over $16,000,000 has been
lie health nurses for the care of the j better part of t/ieir nature, bring
infected. i them under the instructions for , . . _ ( Leaders in this campaign reepg- I healtn, ultimately would develop a S ^ nominal. Cottonseed and Imseef nized the broader field of public nation of individuals interested in the ‘ T '' r ‘ n ’ e A " nv W1 " 1 P R< ’ a orP 11V ”
health work and the Ohio Public great battle for health and against Health Association was formed for a disease. In 1908, in the first sale of united drive with emphasis on pre- seals, only $100,000 was realized. Last vention rather than cure—the build- year the Christmas seal sale brought
There are juries, and juries. The twelve men who tried the
in the territory referred to. Grave Menace To Trade
and ' southern ports. Necessary au- ! thorite was granted by the Interstate : Commence commission, but the east
naticipate in any reduction to South Atlantic and Gulf ports, thereby reverting to pre-war conditions insofar as steel and steel products are con-
Clifford Young case deserve all the honor that can be bestowed ^
upon them for promptly convicting the brute who ravished a menace to the commercial interests thirteen year old child. Any father or mother who heard the of the entire middle west “that can evidence will say amen to the verdict of the -jury in this case. °l ll3 L se * V9 - to c T 1 P ple the expansion The jury in the Gene Williams case, however, is being freely states '^Th?commission disked ^to censured on all sjdes. It is in the range of possibility that Gene lend the full mSe of ito protecWilliams robbed the Gaston hardware store, but if he did no tion” to prevent the roads from carryproof was introduced that would tend to show that he committed ing ' th ?j r program into effect, the crime. It is possible that the prosecutor himself, was as b r ?he iSrio^’&stro^lheYuTlka" greatly surprised as anybody else over the astounding verdict tion of freight rates on exports movof guilty. | ing from middle western territory to
* southern ports, which become prac-
! tically closed to shippers in Ohio, the
meal steady with little scattered buying. Corn feeds in ample supply. Stocks and movement generally good. Alfalfa meal and beet pulp dull. Quoted November 30, bran $18, middlings $18.50, flour middlings $21.50.
Fruits and Vegetables
Potato markets slow, dull and weaker. Demand and movement generally slow during the week. Northern sacked round whites declined 15c in the Chicago earlot market, closing at
When will the people of Muncie get 5yi se an( l quit betting on greater part of Indiana, and all south- < foreign markets the other man’s game? You simply can’t get something for ^ — :, ./,——
nothing. You’ve got to work for it.
The introduction into the schools f received from sales since the work of a practical system of teaching * was started. It has been invested in hygiene was one of the first objec- .» community organization and health fives under the new program and ; education. It has been a great spur
this purpose is about to be accom- ; to community effort and more than » ^ j r j| is plrshed. This system, based upon j $150,000,000 public funds have been Ne'w* York" apple market dull, with the “chores” of the Modern Health | invested in sanatoria, fresh air c ~ ‘ , . . -. . - i Crusade, a national movement estab- [ camps, dispensaries and' other helpSrfof th.it te?ritOTy' :, to I sfijd all thdi j ' is > ed bT “• Na “ onal Tuberculosis j Eul agencies for health in this conn-
1 Association, has been demonstrated try.
and has the approval of the National j No other work in this country Educational Association and health j shows more plainly the enormous
authorities and educators generally. | possibilities of small agencies that .. „ - , , ‘The State Department of Educa- are active, the great things that chnes from a week ago where-as hogs, tion of Ohio is publishing a course of j come from the useful little penny ] £ ee £ g^eers an( j butcher heifers were study prepared in co-operation with j seal. Many people help and the pen- I generally 25c lower. Cows firm to 25c
uild and educate and continue higher; feeder steers unchanged. Hogs
ranged from 5-20c net higher with most gjrades of sheep and lambs 25c-
products of this clasd to the North
Atlantic ports.
Manufacturers and shippers of the territory affected have protested bitte'rly avainst this policy of the carriers. They take the stand that instead of being' hindered they should be afforded every reasonable facility tot getting their products into the
The Pest-Democrat assumes that Dr. Quick, Mayor-elect, * will have the good sense to run the mayor’s office himself. A!- | ready stories are flying through the air that this, or that, person j is directing the policies and appointment of the new mayor. We! trust that these stories are not true. We also have confidence that j if the wrong happens to receive an appointment, and his unfit-1 ness for,thq pl^ee demopstirated, that, the doctor will not hestitate j to change “bosses,” even if it happens to be in the middle of the
CONGRESS FACES HEAVY • CALENDER IN NEXT SESSION
limited demand. Other markets nearly steady for barreled stock. New York baldwins A2^4. down 25c ill New York City at $6-6.50 per barrel for
stock of fair color. Livestock and Meats
Chicago cattle prices show net de-
the public health association which i nies build and educate and continue
should be ready by the first of the
new year.
Other supplies necessary to the course will be furnished through the public health association. In Ohio, health has been placed as the first obje'etive in the schools. A
to supply a stream of funds for further building and help. Two years ago the Red Cross withdrew from the seal sale and the work is now directed by the National Tuberculosis Association and allied organizations. In this state the work is handled by the
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rail.a ‘/
Washington, D. C.,—The special ses- general conviction here that the Amer11 „ J 7 mi- . • 21 J TT i 1 " I* ’ I • • 1 i* -1 ■« -1 . 1 I .
stream. Men of known integrity and loyalty only should be placed sion called by President Hal-ding for ican plan for a naval holiday is prac1 the primary purpose of revising] tariff 1 J *
on guard.
IGNORANCE OF FACTS
-and tax legislation has ended. The much rewritten tax bill was the last piece of legislation to # flash under,the wire as the session closes. The Fordney Tariff bill is stalled in
The story is being told of seven Boston ministers of the
gospel who recently worked for one day as common laborers and the Sf T a , te Finance Committee, and of one Sunday spent by a large number of labor leaders in the not become a law untl1 R e x -sumpulpits of Boston. Certainly these men secured a new viewpoint The Newberry case, which Repubof life as there is a vast difference in the work of a common labor- L'can leaders attempted to jam through er, a labor leader and the ministry of the gospel. Whether or the Senate at the eleventh hour, is not any good is derived from such an experience is a question ILt CfflAwai? C^^-wEfthS and it would be interesting to waten results. To get the other regular session begins on Decembers, fellows viety it is necessary to tr* and put one’s self in their Soldier Bonus place. A Miami county girl of refinement and education made a ^ ^
-actical effort to do this a few years ago Hearing much dis-
Y' ; Y ;r;1 0i ine Vy servant IS treated she thought she would tention of Congress after its holiday. !
1 secured a place as maid in an Ohio city, ily, drd her work as required, but her manattention of the housewife and the “maid” nstead. This case was an exception, how-
tically agreed upon and that minor modifications only remain to be ad*
justed. * * *
New Zealand, like Australia, sees no justification for scrapping thJ Anglo-Japanese alliance until a larger understanding, which wouldj include the United States, is substituted therefor.
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Other Washington News The extra session of the Republican Congress called by President Harding adjourned sine die after a record of legislative accomplishment satisfactory to the main to the new administration.
healthy start in life is certainly the ! Ohio Public Health Association. Each very best thing that the children can | penny will help protect public health have and it is recognized as the very j by an educational bulwark against best means of preventing tubercu- disease. The great results frpm the losis. y i penny seals indicate what greater Since education is an integral part J results may be secured if more seals 'df w th’6 ChrMmas Seal sale, Ohio ? are sole!. Irrfporthht as" are the' reschools may very properly take part f suits achieved, they are but a promin this fourteenth annual seal sale to | ise of the more important work the fight tuberculosis, and may justly | future holds if the work is carried take pride in the part they have s on. If you buy you are helping. The played in the Christmas Seal sales Tuberculosis Christmas Seal makes
of former years.
it^ own appeal.
Christinas Seals and the Health Program
By H. H. SNIVELY, M. D., State Director of Health.
Rotary Health Week to Boast Sea! Sale
By JAfVIES.A. MADDOX, Chairman Ohio Christmas Seal Committee.
50c higher. November 30 Chicago prices: hogs, top $7.10; bulk of sales $6.80-6.95; medium and good beef steers $5 85-10; butcher cows and heifers $3.50-8.72; feeder steer's $4.606.60; light and medium weight veal calves $6.50-9-.50; fat lambs $9-10.50; feeding lambs $7.75-9; yearlings $6-
8.75; fat ewes $3-5.15.
Stocker and feeder shipments from 12 important markets during the week ending November 25 were: cattle and .calves 68,26AphogjrfrJkrS';Mteep
Dairy Products
Butter markets gaining firmness following the slump which occurred during middle of November. Storage butter moving better as fresh prices
advance.
I
AM very much interested in the p NTERNATTONAL ROTARY has
held th
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ever, and did not pan out as the young woman expected. Ignor-
ance of life as the other fel!ow*experiences it is common and is 1 ear J 5? ‘Action on the Co-operative one of the causes of a large amount of the sorrow and injustice ^ r s ,f ting ' vVOiC!1 bas P assed the of the world. There is always a class struggle or fight, and a ‘ on'the House program remain the certain antagonism arising from ignorance or perhaps prejudice. Congressional Reapportionment bill, This is not only true in the social world, but in the religous and w hicb was recommitted; the reclassiindustrial side of life and can only be overcome by a broader Y^ atia ? of Federal employes, the Antivision and first hand knowledge. Surely the worl dwould grow, T Mls bm n-iVinS”American ^JastW better it each one would do their part to get the viewpoint of his ships free access to the Panama Canal, employer, or his employee, make a more determined effor tto learn j Harding’s Pet Projects motives for certain actions on the part of others and a more Among the measures which have thorough knowledge of ambitions of those with whom we come been completely lost in the shuffle in contact. Many criticisms and harsh words would be left un- are .two of President Hardincfs pet said, there would be a greater tendency to help others and every- P ro ie c ts--to e creation of a Departday life would move more smoothly and pleasantly as well. Those aifsocifl fn/edu^tional’agenciS'of Boston ministers can go into their pulpits with a clearer under- the Government, and the reorganizastanding of life from only their one day’s experience and had they tion of the executive departments, extended their observations over several days the difference made - Man y important
in their viewpoint of life would undoubtedly be much greater.
As its first” job next moath“&' [ ! Chrismaf SbiH^sate, tor tbe follow. | in rtat^eriod^aM §«$*? „ ex !: 8cts , * th ,? ^ tag reasons.: , * ' Rotarians everywhere will ho every
First—Funds raised from the sale thing they can to promote the cause
of these neals are used most effect- j q£ good health.
This js the week set aside for the intensive campaign for the sale of
000,v)00 Railroad Debt Refunding VTL ■' st before the extraordinary session ard then the $11,000,000,000 Foreign M Congress adjourned.
The Interstate Commission has ordered a general investigation into the advisability of freight rate reduc-
tions.
Debt Jt funding bill. A demand will be made by the agricultural “bloc”
UNEMPLOYMENT DECREASING
That unemployment is on tlto ^eerease is shown by a survey recently completed. The survey covered every state and shows
the decreased ranged from IV2 to 7 per cent. It is also shown 1 l,r< T P a .^ ed are the P eace resolution
measures were
driven through Congress by the powerful farm “blocs” in both houses. These include Emergency Tariff Act, Packer Control Act, Anti-Grain Gambling Act, Foreigjn Export of Farm Products Financing Act. and the $25,-
000.000 Farm Loan Act.
Outstanding Administration meas-
Music Hall Charms. j
Fatigue and tired nerves often account for restlessness; in such conditions there is nothing better than soft music to quiet the nerves and put oru* in harmony again. It Is more than g.
in manv Dlaces DlTbhc Tmnrovprnpnfs wpVp roTipf" and ratification of the peace treaties. 1 saying that “Music hath charms to + l ino riwvT.w Twr.-i-y.Jv, 11 v- er „ J? j Vetetans’ Bureau Act, Immigration; soothe the savage breast.” It is true
af that small primitive being, your child, who needs all that you can giv<? him.-—New York Evening Post.
The conference Report on the tax bill was approved by the House by a vote of 232 to 109. Eleven Republicans voted with the Democrats against the bill, while four Democrats supported it. * * * * Charges by Senator Watson of Georgia that Henry Ford “robbed the Government'’ during the war precipitated a red hot debate in the Senate, Senator Williams of Mississippi in turn changing Senator Watson with having in his newspaper urged the people of Georgia to resist the draft law and other activities during the war.
t:ius cutting down mutcriully ttiG number of unemployed. The j ^Restriction Act, the Federal Highway survey also brought out other facts. Among them were that Act and the $48,500,000 appropriation many out of employment will bot work at anything outside their i Shipping Board.
de e man d d The ny sam h e 0 wagea^sTey Su^eTat ‘thdr trade" j
The latter is discouraging to say the least and this class will have forced through the maternity and in*
work only on conditions named by themselves, and others who f anc y bil1 .
show a willingness to take whatever comes their way. It is very probable that thejiumber of unemployed is even less than shown
by the survey.
Agreement on a Chinese policy
There are people” out of employment who will was authoritatively declared to be
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ively to bring home to all of our people a realization of the fact that tuberculosis can he conquered and a knowledge of how to con-
quer it.
Second — The!
Christmas Seal ! helps to make it ! possible to SUign ; the public back j
of the state’s health program.
Dr. H, h. Sniveiy. and in every health movement it is necessary that the public and the state work along
the same lines.
Third—The Christmas Seal is intimately associated with the care ol the health of the youth of our state and will help to make it possible for every school boy and school girl to acquire health-giving habits and build
resistance to disease.
The Ohio^Public Health Association, which represents the various volunteer health agencies of
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Christmas Seals to fight tuberculosis, and Rotarians, as they have in the past, will join hands with the anti-tubercu-losis forces in bringing to this combined educational -and financial effort the success which it de-
serves.
The sale of Christmas Seals James A. Maddox. h a g been growing stronger each year, and the results accomplished demonstrate that the investment in seals is well worth while. The death rate from tuberculosis in Ohio .has been reduced more than 30 per cent since the organized ^effort against this disease was started. The seal sale is not a money drive.
Nine Points of the Law. It has been said that success !n litigation requires a good deal of patience, a good deal of money, a good cause, a good lawyer, a good counsel, good witnesses, a good jury, a good judge, and, last hut not least, good luck. But the saying is really a part of the proverb which says that “possession is nine points of the law,” and that anybody is welcome to the tenth if they, can get anything out of it.
Significant Borders. On certain fete days In some parta of Brittany the marriageable girls appear in red petticoats with white or yellow borders around tnem. The
U the ' ns f'ff'otheir Who ^Elpl^Zdl^tand^'ihfch j
really should not be considered m the grand total to make it fair i s designed to supplant the Anglo- A 1<v *
to those who are badly in need of work. And it is to the latter Japanese alliance, favor is shown and for whose relief agencies are working. It 1 * * *
would seem a man needing work badly would be glad to get em-
ployment regardless of its nature.
It is not only the boy and girl who are counting the days until Christmas. The time is growing shorter and already the plea of “shop early” is being heard on all sides. The Christmas shopper who has gifts already, tagged and labelled long before the day of days is the happiest on Christmas day. The worry
Spokesmen for the Italian delegation declared that the Italian Government and people did not fear their enemies in the late war. Italy is inclined not only toward peace but the
brotherhood of nations.
Departure for home of Lord Beatty, First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty, and Britain’s adviser in the naval limitation negotiations, intensified the
ter. Each white band denotes 100 francs per annum : each yellow band
represents 1,000 francs a year.
Old Theory Exploded.
I have known vast quantities aonsense talked about bad men ?ki| looking you in the face. Don’t trnarl that conventional idea. Dishonest people will stare you out of eountenranee any day in the week if there 'V -joythln” to be got hy It—Plrkesw
It is a campaign of education, the! Through the sale and use of the seals
state, co-operates with the State De-1 on Christmas letters and packages, partment of Health, and this same co-■ there is spread the gospel of ^ight operation should, if it does not al-j living, and this in itself constitutes ready, exist between the private j an important part of the anti-tubercu-health agencies and the local health j losis endeavor. The seal not only commissioners of every community, has back of it the force, of Christmas There never has been a time when sentiment, but it stands for practical united effort in the health field was endeavor. more needed than now. The tubercu-! Let us enter upon this service with losis clinics being conducted through ’ the true Christmas spirit, with the out the state by the State Depart-j thought that our work will bring xnent of Health is expected, to bring; more happiness into many homes, to light thousands of new cases oi . that lives will be prolonged and misthe disease, reminding us that there j ery, unhappiness and sickness prestill remains much to be done before j, vented. This is a public service that
concerns everyone of us, for tuberculosis', if unchecked, is a menacu
to «U.
we reach “peace with victory” in the
warfare against the white plague. Tea Blended to Suit Water. Whenever a large town in the Brit-
ish Isles changes its source of water
The Best Cheer.
supply, a sample is taken by the tea-1 “There Is no cheer better than th* blenders, In order that the right blend . ciieer that comes from giving good of tea may be made to suit that par*' cheer to others.”—Henry F. Cope,
ticular water.
Musk Like Radium. Musk has certain radioactive properties that cause the odor of the perfume to be carried through the air in a very extraordinary way. The radioactive property of musk affects ycry strangely the natives who carry it to market. If a package of musk is held close to the body for any length of time it produces sores that are described as being similar in character to those caused by pure radium. Great Man's Queer Fancy. Daniel Webster had a curious fancy for painting the faces of his cattle. One week the poor beasts would walk around with blue faces, and the next would appear with red ones. The effect was so novel that it pleased him, and from that time forth he changed the color whenever he had a tow minutes to fepare, and would laugh heartily at the^ astonishment of his friends "hen they saw the queer-looking beasts.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS Department of Public Works Office of the Board 212 Wysor Block Muncie, Ind. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND TO THE PUBLIC:— Notice is hereby given, to the public and to all contractors, that the Board of Public "Works of the City of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the construction, in said Olty, according to the respective improvement resolutions below mentioned, and according to the plans, profiles, drawings and specifications therefor on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described to-wit: I R. No. 769—1921, for local sewer in alley between Main and Jackson Streets from Celia Avenue to Manning Avenue. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 96, of the Act of March 6th, 1005. (Acts 1905, p 219). All such proposals should be sealed, and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of 9:00 o’clock in the ferenoon of the 12th day of December, 1921, and each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to said City, for the sum of $100, which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying proposal. Said Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By Order of the Board of Public Works Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Dec. 2—9