Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1914 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by TSE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail 12.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. WHERE WILL PROGRESSIVES GO: — The Chicago Record-Herald says: “Everybody is discussing the possible return of the progressives to the republican party. Nearly everybody seems to think this would be the logical place for the progressives to go. Even some of the progressives themselves have discussed only a possible return to the republican party. “That is not unnaturally the first thought, since the progressive party, if it did not actually originate, certainly gained national dimensions, as a protest against the methods and leadership which dominated the republican national convention of 1912. The methods have been changed, at least in form. The offensive leaderships have been to some extent eliminated. Hence the thought of going on, presents itself. “BUT , is it not posible that some of the progressives will go somewhere else? What is the matter with the democratic party, or rather with the brand of democracy of which President Wilson is the exponent? “Might not that be more to the liking of the progressives than the brand of statesmanship for which Penrose, Barnes, Cannon et al. stand in the progressive and the public mind, Surely the atmosphere would De mor? congenial in the Wilson environment than the atmosphere in which the oil standpat crowd lives, moves and has its being. “In view of these sufficiently selfevident facts is not a very considerable flocking of progressives to President Wilson among the political possibilities of the next two years? In connection with this possibility, another thought suggests itself: “Has not President Wilson a great opportunity in this situation to gain useful, and not unneeded, recruits by somewhat broadening his position and attitude —by becoming somewhat less the leader of a partisan organization and somewhat more the representative of all voters who cherrish the wider and newer thought of governmental activities, duties and responsibilities? Mr. Wilson stands for that thought in the democracy. Could he not, and should he not, welcome the progressives as a great body of voters available to support policies on which he and they are so largely in agreement? It is evident on the face of the record that there is more common ground between Mr. Wilson and the progressives than between the progressives and such republican leaders as Cannon, Barnes and Penrose. Much evidently depends upon the at-

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titude of President Wilson. He may well reflect, and quite possibly is reflecting, that there are several million progressive voters in the country, and that where the majority of them jo there the banner of victory may rest tor a considerable period of time. “This is a progressive nation. Its people are in no sense reactionary In their tendencies and never have been. Their willingness to take up new ideas and to try new ways is proverbial. They still retain the selfconfldence of the pioneer. Respectful of precedent in matters of individual right, they are impatient of it in matters of collective political action. They cherish the most idealistic beliefs about the possibilities of human development onward and upward. Every sympathetic foreign observer notes their at tachment to what he, if of a somewhat pessimistic temper, terms counsels of perfection. t “President Wilson embodies the nation’s advanced thought about what should be the functions and activities of government . The progressive party stands for the same ways of thinking—for the same outlooks upon the present and into the future. Had Woodrow Wilson been known to the nation in 1912 as he is known now and had his party possessed a better record of efficiency in the business of government. The progressive minority president. The progressive protest would have found a positive and direct instead of an indirect and somewhat negative line of action and would have made him a majority president. “There are the facts and there is the situation which at least suggests a possibility of a getting together of real progressives all over the country. Consideration of these facts and f this situation shows why it is at least possible that many progressive voters instead of just drifting back into the republican party, will go on with Woodrow Wilson.” . SC **'*’“* ** ** ?*.** I DOINGS IN SOCIETY I w u wuwwCwuu »* 7* •* w **** ** WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday. Loyal Men’s Class—G. T. Burk. U. B. C. U. —John Kiracofe. Historical —Mrs. Charles Downs. Wednesday. Shakespeare—Mrs. Emma Daniel. Poinsettias—Georgia Meibers. Afternoon Club —Mrs. James P. Haefling. Thursday. Relay Neighbors’ Aid —Mrs. PeUr Amspaugh. Dixie Embroidery. Baptist Aid —Mrs. Myrtle Brown. C. W. B. M. —Mrs. Andrew Artmaa. St. Vincent de Paul Card Party— K. of C. Hall. Evangelical Aid—Mrs. Fred Linn. Euterpean—Mrs. Jesse Dailey. As we grow older I think we become more charitable —that is. if we have the right stuff in us. We become more charitable in the sense that we make allowances for the shortcomings of others, for we find that we must, if the wheels of life are to turn smoothly. We discover that, after all. our own conduct toward our neighbors is a series of disastrous blunders; then it follows that we are misunderstanding some one else; and some one else is being misunderstood by some one else; and so on forever. We do not mean to wound anyone; but we do. constantly. Few of us inten-

tionally hurt a friend’s feelings. Yet, alas! how often that hurting is a result of some trivial act of ours—an act that may have been done in absolute l/ndness. Days afterward we hear that some slight remark of ours was interpreted as a slur on a dear acquaintance. We can scarcely believe that whut we so innocently said could be thus misconstrued. We are all eagerness to atone for the unconscious wrong, and we hasten to make an explanation. We are greeted at first with misgivings, then with tears, and often with,"Oh, do not try toexplain! You have hurt ine cruelly, and I can never forget!” We are amazed. In how terrible away the language of friendship has been twisted to mean something different! We are almost frightened at the possibitlitles thus opened up. We recall the old game Gossip, where each player repeated a little story as it was hastily recounted to him, and finally came out a distorted mess. We used to smile then; but now! —this is no laughing matter. An suddenly we realize that even that foolish old game of childhood was founded on one of life’s experiences, and that it was not so silly, after all. Others before us must have had just such an adventure with friends, and the game was the attempt of a wise man to magnify by ridicule a human situation until he could bring home sharply its big fundamental truth. We must learn to get the other person’s point of view’. She is entitled to hers, just as we are entitled to ours; and the sooner we achieve a large comprehension, the sooner we shall be happy. Our individual vision may be wrong; and if we have any sight at all. we should see that first. And if we wish others* to understand us. we must, of course, understand them. Comprehension is the chief factor in friendship. How many of us have it? Or, having it. how many of us prove its worth by following all its precepts?—The Designer. With the presence of nearly all members, and the subject of study •Edison,” the Research club had a splendid meeting with Mrs. Eugene Runyon yesterday afternoon. Mrs James Fristoe was leader and had thr paper, which treated of Edison as ar inventor, and also how electricity shortens the road to efficiency. Suh topics exemplified this further. Nex‘ Monday’ afternoon will be “guest day,' purely social, and Mrs. C. D. Lewton will entertain. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Miller and fam ily entertained at dinner Sunday for Mrs. Lena Fostner and Miss Kate Volbrecht of New Orleans. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Otto Reppert, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Worthman and children of this city; and Walter Deitsch of Celina. Ohio The regular November meeting of the Loyal Men’s class of the Christian church will be held this evening. G. T. Burk will entertain. The ladies of the Helping Hand society will entertain their husbands on Thursday evening at the home of Martin Worthman on Sixth street Mrs. Arthur Mangold will have the Five Hundred club Wednesday afternoon of next week instead of this. The Mangolds are moving into the Ehinger property on Nuttman avenue and hence the postponement of the social. The Christian Woman's Board of Missions will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. A. D. Artman. The Ruth Circle and the young men’s class of the Christian church,

arranged a surprise for the pastor and wife, the Rev. and Mrs. Benjamin Borton, last evening, but the surprise “kicked back.” About twenty of the young people met at the home of Miss Esther Enos and then went to the Borton home. The door was unlocked and after receiving no response to knocks, they went in apd took possession of the house. They stayed for a while, but as no one appeared they decided that the family had gone out for the evening, and might lengthen their stay. They left a box of handkerchiefs on the Bible on the stand, as their gift for the minister and his wife, and then went, to the home of Mrs. Minnie Daniels, nearby, where they spent the evening and had a delicious picnic supper which they took with them. Their was much merriment over the “surprise.” Miss Josephine Lang will entertain the Dixie Embroidery club Thursday evening. The Baptist Ladies’ Aid society will meet with Mrs. Myrtle Brown on North Second street Thursday afternoon. The Shakespeare club will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Emma Daniel. The Bachelor Maids had ap interesting series of “five hundred" last evening when Miss Bertha Voglewede pleasantly entertained them. Prizes were taken by the Misses Georgia Meibers and Mae Berling. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse will entertain next Tuesday. ( . Mr. and Mrs. John Myers and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parent and babe have •eturned from St. Henry. Ohio, where they visited with Mrs. John Herman. A jolly crowd from this place motored to Fort Wayne Monday evening for a visit with Miss Bess Jeffrey, at the Lutheran hospital, who w.ill be out of training on Thanksgiving day. In the crowd were Misses Dora and Flossie Manley of Wren, who spent Sunday with their cousin, Mrs. John Jeffrey, of North Sixth street. They returned to their home on the noon train. A jolly “all around” party was that of Sunday afternoon and evening in compliment to Mr. Honeywell of Wisconsin, who is the guest of Miss Lulu Atz. Miss Ireta Erwin entertained in the afternoon. The company then went to Christian Endeavor and reurned to the Atz home for a picnic •upper. The supper was spread ’•afeteria style in the dining room, where all helped themselves. Taking ‘heir plates they sat around the fireplace on the floor a,nd ate their suppers and told stories. The party included besides' Mr. Honeywell. Messrs. George Powers, Dick Comp, Harold Markley of Bluffton; John Ervin, Monroeville; Fred Smith of this ity, and the Misses Lulu Atz, Irene Smith, Florence Cowan, Mary Erwin, reta Erwin, Jean Lutz and Florence Myers. Miss Lola Wood of Portland stopped ff here last evening for a short visit with the Misses Irene and Marguerite Gerard. She was enroute to Willshire, Ohio. The Royal Neighbors’ Aid society will be entertained Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Amspaugh. o GROSSJRUELTY (CONTINUE® FROM PAGE ONE) She recites that he persuaded her to go to Monroe to visit several days with her grandmother and that she returned home sooner than was expected and found her husband at his home in the company of the aforenamed Esther and Emma Straub, whom she charges with being persons of vile character. When she spoke to her husband about the matter, she says he knocked her down and struck her with his fist, and threw a bottle of liquor at her, striking her in the breast. Furthermore, she says he forced her to give him money, which he used to take the aforenamed women to Fort Wayne. COURT HOUSE NEWS. (CONTINUE* FROM PAGE ONE) three paragraphs. Rule to reply to the second and third. Demurrer to the third paragraph of the answer filed and sustained. Reply of plaintiff to second paragraph of defendant’s answer. America Fink et al. vs. T. C. Buckmaster et al. Appearance by Merryman for Della and George Hiller. Rule to answer. In the Koos-Dirkson case, appearance for Edith Dlrkson was entered by Peterson & Moran. The grand jury is still in session and will probably not finish its business before Friday.

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