Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1911 — Page 2

DA IL Y D EMOCRAT Published Every Evening, Except Sunday By KCATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Tear, by carrier ss.o«i Per Month by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mall $2.5v 1 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as eecond-eiass mall matter. FIGURES IN WOOL AND WOOLENS The New York Times has been doing a little figuring in regard to wool and woolens. In his report, as chairman of the ways and means committee, on the wool bill Mr. Underwood showed just what was the added cost of a suit of clothes as a result of the tariff tax. The wholesale cost of the material in England was 7-7 cents a y ard. The freight charges was 1 cent a yard. The specific or compensatory duty on this imported material is 23 cents, and the ad valorem duty is 50 per cent, or 38 cents a yeard. Herje, then is a total tax of 61 cents, which amounts to 78 per cent of the import price. It takes three and one-half yards to make a suit of clothes, so that the tariff tax amounts to $2.13. The labor cost of this cloth is 25 per cent of the total cost of production, and, therefore, the protective tax of 78 per cent is more than three times the entire labor cost Yet the tariff is supposed to cover only the difference between the cost of production here and the cost abroad. If there w ere no cost of production abroad at all, 25 per cent would be enough to cover the differene in labor cost. So one can easily see how great an outrage this tax of 78 per cent is. Professor Summer long ago proved that the people could afford to pay all the wages in a certain protected industry steel, if we remember rightly—pay 6 per cent interest on the investment, and make millions of dollars each year if the industry would cease to produce, and we were allowed to buy the product in the world’s market at the world’s price. Probably this is true of the woolen industry today. The Times has shown “that >r American newspaper publishers were allowed to buy paper free of duty, they could afford to pay the protected manufacturer of print paper an annual sum sufficient to enable them to close their mills altogether and to live in idleness and luxury Certainly our method of protecting our industries is very wasteful and costly. That has been proved many times, and at last the people are beginning to realize the fact. If protection and revenue are all that are sought the business could be managed on a much more economical, and incidentally, a much more honest basis.— Indianapolis News. The following was taken from an ex-

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change: "W. A. Clark, who was once a $500,000 senator, has had a test made of the $120,000 organ in his $3,500,000 i house. It Is expected that next Sep- j tember he will begin to bathe In his , $25,000 bathtub and to sleep in his $15,000 bed, resting his auburn ringlets on the SI,OOO eiderdown pillows. He will also eat at his SIO,OOO table from his $40,000 Sevres service and walk on the SIOO,OOO carpets. The $250,000 art gallery will be made attractive by the ex-senator’s $25,000 portrait, sometimes known as a cloud-burst in red and green," CONVENTION ENDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE of the work for the home mission cause, and will be well competent when they nave graduated into the ranks of the Woman's Home Missionary society, to take up the work of the older ladies. The chief address of the evening was given by Miss Carrie G. Davis, superintendent of the Oriental home in San Francisco, Cal. This home is under the auspices of the Woman s Home Missionary society and is doing a noble work in rescuing Chinese women from domestic and social slavery and caring for Chinese children and converting them to Christianity as well as giving them the material comforts and care of this life. Miss Davis gave a thrilling tale—all the more thrilling because it was true —of their rescue of a Chinese woman who had been sold into social slavery after a life of domestic slavery, and of how she had been cared for until she was married to a good man. and then helped her and her husband to escape to China again to be free from the life-threats of her former owners who had persisted in hounring her after her escape, threatening her life. She also told of her work among the Chinese children, of their care for them, and of their being converted and trained into noble Christian boys and girls who in turn promise to grow into men and women who carry on the good work to the people in China. Her tales brought to the societies represented here a closer realization of the work in the far west that is being carried on with their help. The Oriental home in San Francisco was destroyed in the earthquake of a few years ago, and forty-eight women and children in the home succeeded in escaping from the burning city. Since then they have been living in crowded rented quarters, but are building a new home for which money is needed. The Fort Wayne district Wednesday evening voted to appropriate one hundred dollars to help in building this home. The convention closed with the benediction by Mrs. J. C. Murray of Yorktown, conference president, and is considered one of the most successful conventions held by the district. ABOUT THE SICK Joe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Burdg, was operated upon Wednesday afternoon by Doctors J. S. and E. G. Coverdale for the removal of adenoids ami his tonsils. The lad ’is recovering nicely. Miss Pearl Purdy was off duty at the telephone exchange today on account of tonsilitis. Mesdames J. C. Patterson and Miles Pillars are among the many sufferers from tonsilitis, which seems to be In epidemic form at present. They are quite sick and are bedfast.

SOCIAL DOING I I Telephone Girls Give Linen Shower For Miss Agnes Murray at I A RADEMAKER HOME German Reformed Aid Plans to Celebrate Silver Jubilee in September. — When you know that the nextdoor yard hasri’t been cleaned for a week, it’s pretty nearly a certainty that the broom will find plenty to do In your attic. —Herbert Kauffman. WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Thursday. ‘ ■ Black Rag—Faye Smith. I Helping Hand—German Reformed Church. Baptist Aid—Harve Shroll. Helping Hand—Mrs. Reuben Lord. Penny Social—U. B. Parsonage. Friday. Presbyterian Aid —Mrs. Wilson Lee. Little Quilters —Martha Heckman. On Tuesday evening one of the most unique parties in the town of Monroe was plannee by Mrs. Phil Heffner and Mrs. John Miller in the way of a kitchen shower in honor of Mrs. Blanche Laisure Shirk, who was married a few days ago. Presents received were beautiful and costly. A two-course luncheon was served by Mrs. Dave Laisure, asisted by Mrs. Rena Longberger and Hattie Laisure. Several beautiful piano solos were rendered by Miss Frances Kessler and Miss Hattie Laisure, which were enjoyed by all. At a very late hour all departed, wishing Mrs. Blanche Shirk a happy voyage through married life. The guests included Mrs. John Miller, Mrs. Rena Osterman, Mrs. John Davies, Mrs. Banner and daughter, Leah: Mr. and Mrs. Roily Longberger, Mrs. Rev. Craft, Mrs. Cecil Badders, Mrs. Maggie Longberger. Mrs. Henry Haggard, Mrs. Etta Heffner and children. Agnes, and Josephine; Mrs. Maggie Dulin and daughter, Naomi; Mrs. Halberstadt and daughter, Fay; Frances Kessler, Mrs. Blanche Shirk, Mrs. William Scherer, Mrs. Dave Laisure. Mrs. Joe Pogue, Mrs. Ernest Busche, Mrs. Robert Shirk, Miss Martha Laisure, Mrs. William Smith, Mrs. Dr. M. F. Parrish, Mrs. William Newlon. Mrs. Freeman Ivans, Mrs. Jim Hendricks, Mrs. William Mitchell, Mrs. Rose Hocker of Fort Wayne. The comfortable country home of Mr. and Mrs. William Breiner, east of the city, was the scene of goo-1 cheer Wednesday afternoon when Mrs. Breiner entertained twenty members of the German Reformed Aid society with a few other guests, the party going out from this city in carriages. The society is planning to celebrate its silver jubilee in September and plans were further made for that. A celebration will take place, in the afternoon at one of the ladies' homes, and in the evening a program will be given in the church. Professor Grosshuesch, PhD., of Sheboygan, Wis., was in attendance Wednesday and gave a talk on the ministers' relief association, that was much appreciated. Refreshments were served during the social period. ' The Misses Burah and Maude Treadway of Terre Haute are guests of Miss Marie Allison. The young ladles were graduated last week from the Terre Haute high school and upon their return will take up special work in music, art and domestic science. The Treadway family formerly lived here. Mr. Treadway being employed as a , railway agent. i Miss Byerly of Fairmount, deputy organizer for the Lady Maccabees, is in , the city and will cover this territory , for the purpose of adding to the memj bership of the local order. 1 William Kable and family, Mrs. Wili Ham Hunsicker and babe, Philip Kable and family and Otto Kable and family of Chattanooga, Ohio, transferred here yesterday afternoon on their i way to Fort Wayne to attend the wed- ' ding of a relative, Miss Anna Kable. to Victor Dempke, which took place this afternoon at the bride’s home. i Mrs. George Shosenberg of Blue ( Creek township is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Nye, !in Root township. Mrs. Shosenberg ; was Miss Goldie Nye before her mari riage. I The Evangelical Ladies' Aid society I spent Wednesday afternoon’s hours at the home of E. B. Macey, busying | themselves with sewing on a quilt for | their sales department. Social chat

was also indulged in while they sewed, and delicious refreshments were served by the hostess. Mrs. Clifford Lee will be hostess two weeks from today. Mrs. Enos T. Taylor and son, Paul, and Miss Dessie Moore of Huntington and Miss Miller of Chicago enjoyed an auto trip from Huntington today and were guests at dinner at the John Niblick home. The wedding bells ring quite as frequently as the telephone bells tor the "hello girls" of Decatur, and the faint tinkle of some of these happy chimes was heard In the distance Wednesday evening, when t/e telephone operators gave a linen shower for one of their former unmber. Miss Agnes Murray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Murray, who recently resigned, her marriage to Mr. Todd Linn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Linn, to take' place in a short while. The shower was given Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Frank Rademaker, and was a delightful event. Pink and white were the colors of the evening, these being carried out in the floral decorations and also in crepe paper. The rosy light from the chandeliers came through the pink crepe paper hoods, and streamers were festooned from walls to chandeliers, and then back again, making a pretty maze. The dining room, where a luncheon was served, was unusually pretty. The pink and white streamers were drawn from the corners of the table to the chandelier over the center, and the centerpiece of the table was a large vase of beautiful white Cata'.pa blossoms. The menu daintily carried out the colors of pink anfl white, in the brick ice cream, cake, kisses, strawberries served with the caps on and rolled in powdered sugar, the luncheon finishing with coffee. The Misses May CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR

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