Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1914 — Page 1

Volume XII. Number 288.

TAKE BUSINESS BY HAND President Wilson Announces That He Has Completed Program-Mould Aid Big Business

Washington, D. C„ Dec. B—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Departing from the prepared text of a carefully arranged address to congress, President Wilson this afternoon delivered a direct message to the business interest of the country. In effect he declared that the administration has completed its business program and that hereafter business is to have a rest from restrictive and corrective legislation. The statement was unexpected. Many of the senators and representatives who had been sitting slumped down In their- chairs, suddenly sat up and showed plainly by their attitude the great importance of the utterances of the president, speaking as leader of his party. It was very plain that congress realized that the president had I ended his so-called regulative pro- | gram. His announcement was takis | to mean that hereafter business can | proceed secure in the knowledge that | if it shaped its affairs with the exist- ( ing laws it will not find itself conI fronted with sudden changes resulting from new laws. Almost at tlie start the president digressed from his address as originally furnished to the I press. He declared that the business program Lad been completed and business now knows where it stands. “The goal at last lies clear and fair before business. It is a road to unclouded success. It is a road that every honest man; every man interested in the welfare of the nation may walk In perfect safety. What we have done in our own land and for our own people we have done for the best.' When tlie president told congress tha “we never have tiad and never wil have a large standing army,” demo crats and republicans joined jn a lon applause. Gentlemen of the Congress: The session upon which you a: now entering will be the closing se sion of the sixty-third congress, a co: gress, I venture to say, which wi leng be remembered for tlie great bod of thoughtful and constructive wor which it has done, in loyal response t ; the thought and needs of tlie count 1 should like in this address to revit the notable record and try to make a equate assessment of it; but no dou we stand too near the work that ht been done and are ourselves too mucl part of it to play the part of histor ians toward it. Moreover, our thoughts are nov more of the future than of the past While we have worked at our task of peace the circumstances of th( whole age have been altered by war W’hat we have done for our own lam and our own people we did with th< best that was in us, whether of char acter or of intelligence, with sober en thusiasm and a confidence in the prin ciples upon which we were acting which sustained us at every step o the difficult undertaking; but it done. It has passed from our hands It is now an established part of tin legislation of the country. Its useful ness, its effects will disclose them selves in experience. What chief..' strikes us now, as we look about u during these closing days of a yea which will be forever memorable the history of the world, is that w. face new tasks, have been facing the these six mouths, must face t lem the months to come,-face them wi out partisan feeling, like men wht have forgotten everything bu a < • resentatives of a great people *hosr thought is not of US but of What Amer ica owes to herself and to all manta in such circumstances as thwhich we look amazed an - War has interrupted the ; ’ trade not only but also t,e p of production. In Europe t s destr ing men and resources wholesale upon a scale unprecedentedla™’ 1 , ng . Th.ro re.-» “ r ; dy time is near, if 11 J* untrieß o hand, when several of the ffl , Europe will find it ditto u t , h „, r P p ..ple .h.[ been always easily abl A essential and fundamental thing- • rate, <h« »“ “« d w our manifold services as th y * never needed them be ore should be ready, more than we have ever been.

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l It is of equal consequence that the 4 nations whom Europe has usually supplied with innumerable articles of mant ufacture and commerce of which they • are in constant needs and without t which their ecoinonic development i halts and stands still can now get only I a small part of what they formerly imported and eagerly look to us to supi ply their all but empty markets. This . is particularly true of our own neight bors, the states, great and small, of s Central and South America. Their i lines of trade have Hitherto run chiefly 1 athwart the seas, not to our ports, but > to the ports of Great Britain and of > the older continent of Europe. I do I not stop to inquire why, or to make - any comment on probable causes. 1 What interests us just now is not the ■ explanation but the fact, and our duty and opportunity in the presence of it. i Here are markets which we must supply, and we must find the means of • action. The United States, this great ■ people for whom we speak and act, • should be ready, as never before, to ■ serve itself and to serme mankind; i ready with its resources, its energies, ‘ its forces of production, and its means t of distribution. It is a very practical matter, a mat- . ter of wa;| and means. We have tlie ■ resources, but arc we fully ready to ■ use them? And, if we can make ready what we have, have we the means at hand to distribute it? We are not fully ready; neither have we the means of distribution. We are willing, >ut we are not fully able. We have he wish to serve and to serve greatly, tenerouslv; but we are not prepared :s we should be. We are not ready »o mobolize our resources at once. We re not prepared to use them inimeditely and at their best, without delay nd without waste. To speak plainly, we have grossly rred in the way in which we have ■tunted and hindered the development if our merchant marine. And now. vhen we need ships, we have not got* hem. We have year after year dehatd. without end or conclusion, the best lolicy to pursue with regard to the >se of the ores and forests and water 'owers of our national domain in th ■lch states of the west, when we hould have acted: and they are st !’ 'ocked up. The key is still turns* ipon them, the door shut fast at which •housands of vigorous men, full of nitiative. knock claraarously for admittance. Tlie water power of our navigable streams outside the nationa' lomain also, even in the eastern states, where we have worked and Manned for generations, is still not ised as it might be, because we will ■nd we won’t; because the laws we have made do not intelligently balance mcouragement against restraint. We vithhold by regulation. I have come to ask you to remedy ■nd correct these mistakes and omis ions, even at this short session of a congress which would certainly seem to have done all the work that could -easonably be expected of it. The time and the circumstances are extraordin- , rv, and so must our efforts be also. Fortunately, two great measures,finey conceived, tlie one to unlock, with , , roppr safeguards, the resources'of , the national domain, the other to en r courage the use of navigable waters , )Utß ide that domain for the generat or , of power, have already passed th' < house of representatives and are read? , for immediate consideration and ac } i on by the senate. With the deepes. earnestness 1 urge their prompt pas , Z >« «■»> ”. T r , backs upon hesitation 1 makeshift and formulate a •i “X ». - „ tion in the best sense of those words >s We owe the one measure not only v the people of that great western coun “ e XuoThas done so little, but also t. o f the nation as a whole S ! w ’as dearly owe the other ir Tiflllment of'our respected promises ° r ? ( h! water power of the country T id in fact as well as in name be 7 J the disposal of great industries At P '' i can make economical and profit nd which righ ts o{ the pubHf ve a X U adequately guarded the while ne being a q the ÜBe prevented. • - .X. ~

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, December 8, 1914

START FOB HOME Mrs. Nicholas Colchin and Son, Otto, Left Dallas Last Night With Body OF OSCAR COLCHIN Will Arrive Here Wednesday—Funeral Will be Thursday Morning. It will indeed be a very sad and heart-rending trip of nearly fifteen hundred miles for Mrs. Nicholas Colchin and son, Otto, who left Dallas, Tex., last night at 9 o’clock with the body of Oscar Colchin, whose deatli took place in tiie city hospital in that city Sunday morning after an illness of several weeks of typhoid fever. Tlie funeral party will not arrive ‘n St. Louis until some time tonight, and from there they will change trains end go direct to Fort Wayne, arriving via the Wabash either at 4 o’clock or at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. The exact time is not known as it depends wholly upon tlie connections that can be made at St. Ixntis. From Fort Wayne the corpse will be shipped to Decatur, arriving here either at 8 o’clock over the Fort Wayne & Springfield, or via the Grand Rapids & Indiana road at 2:11 p. m. Upon arrival in Decatur the body will be taken by the Yager Bros. & Reinking hearse to the Colchin home on Short street, where it can be viewed by the friends. The funeral will lie held Thursday morning from the St. Mary’s Catholic church at 9 o’clock. Interment will be made in the St. Joseph’s Catholic cemetery. The Knights of Columbus, of which the young man was a member, will attend the funeral in a body. D’YEIiKEIuSIC T s You do. Attend the Band Boys’ Benefit Show This Evening. SPECIAL FEATURES Y The More You Help Them, the More and Better Music They Will Give. ■ Do you like music? If you do. help the city band boys. The more you help them, the more and better music they will be able to turn out To help them, you can attend the benefit show they are giving this evening at the Crystal theater, because they get a share of the proceeds. Tickets are selling fcr ten cents. Os course there will be the regular good moving pictures. But more than ■his, will be special features. Tlie LaDelle sisters, who have gained in creased ability, as well as fame, in he- theater in metropolitan cities, will give a special this evening for the band boys’ benefit show. Then, too, the band boys will be there, and will render music. Be sure to go. o — MACCABEE STATE CAMP REVIEW Dr. G. W. Sweigart of Hartford City A ill be a candidate for the office of great commander of the Indiana Maccabees at the great camp review to be held in Fort Wayne some time next February or March, the exact date for which has not yet been set. The office of great commander of the Indiana Maccabees is held at the present time by Milo Meredith of Wabash, who at tlie present time is rounding out his twentieth year in the office. He will be a candidate for re-election. — • BIRTH OF DAUGHTER. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Shepherd. 528 Howe avenue. Fort Wayne .an eight and one-half pound boy. Mrs. Shepherd was Miss Ethel Sutton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. 3. Sutton, of North Thirteenth street, tills city. Mrs. Sutton went to Fort Wayne this morning to be with her! daughter.

• DECEMBER AND MAY ELOPE, 1 Three Indiana CouPlee Married at Hillsdale, Mich. I The Hillsdale Daily says: “John R. Nickel of Waterloo, Ind., and Miss Frances M. Crain of Angola were married Saturday afternoon by Rev. Louis DeLamarter at the Methodist parsonage. The groom is a carpenter, aged . C,4 years, and lie has been married cnee before. The hride is 28. Two other Indiana couples came here at the end of tlie week to have runaway . matches consummated by marriage ceremonies. Clarence W. Simonton of Montpelier, and Miss Bessie Mauser, of Allen county, Indiana, were married by Justice C. M. Weaver at the court house, and Homer E. Hallenbaugh and Miss Ida Omega Mat- ' son, both of Bluffton, Ind., were joined 1 in matrimony by Rev. J. D. Edmondson, at his home.” ■ ■» - k DIED SUDDENLY , 1 J. B. Miller Expired from Heart Trouble at Home at Grand Rapids. ■ CAUSES SORROW Deceased Well Known Here —Funeral Will Probably be Held Here. John B. Miller, born and reared in this city and for many years a resident here, brother of Mrs. Christena Niblick, and of Nick Miller, died very suddenly at his home in Grand Rapid; at 9 o’clock this morning, from heart disease. . The news came in a telegram from from his son, Med Miller, to his uncle, Nick Miller, and was re ceived at noon. The deceased had not been in very good UeaMh. for a yeai past, having suffered *rom rheuma tism, but it was not believed he war seriously ill. Two weeks ago he suf sered an attack of heart trouble, but recovered. The message received to day read as follows: “Father diet very suddenly this morning at nine Notify all.” J. G. Niblick, a nephew will go to Grand Rapids this after noon to .grange for bringing tlie r< mains here. Mr. Miller was liorn in this city sixty years ago and spen’ his life here until about fifteen year ago. Since then he has been locat at Toledo and Fort Wayne until la - ’ July when he moved to Grand Rapid: where his son lived. He conducted t barber shop there which he sold a week ago, expecting to return to For' Wayne soon. He is survived by the widow, one son, Med, two brothers, Nick, of this city, and Peter C., of Adrian; two sis ters, Mrs. Niblick, of this city, and Mrs. Maggie Brink, of Fort Wayne Mr. will send information to morrow morning, as to when the party may be expected to arrive here and the funeral arrangements will then be made. Mr. Miller was well known here and visited here several weeks just before going to Grand Rapids last summer. o— COMMISSIONERS IN SESSION. The board of commissioners are ii session today taking care of the regu lar business. The sum of $22.00 foi extras on tlie Isch road was allowed On the William Anderson drain tli< report of the, commissioners and engl neer were filed and the board flxei Wednesday, January 6, as the date foi the hearing. The superintendent of the count infirmary, Martin Laughlin, filed his quarterly report, allowing the receipt of $604.54 wlfch was approved. Coun ty Treasurer Archbold filed his re ports for the months of September and October, which were approved. o ELECTION OF OFFICERS. * Election of Sunday school officer; will take place Wednesday evenin; at 7:00 o’clock at the Evangelica' church, after which there will b< singing for the Christmas program. J. H. RILLING, Pastor. K. OF C. NOTICE. All members of the Knights of Co lumbus axe requested to be present a the hall at 8 o’clock Thursday morn I ing to attend the funeral of Brothei j Oscar Colchin.

IS KNOWN HERE Mrs. Wilgus Wife of Former Decatur United Brethren Pastor Died AT LIMA, OHIO Brought to Ossian Today And Funeral Will Be Wednesday Mrs. R. W. Wilgus, aged 59, of Lima, Ohio, wife of a former Decatur United Brethren Minister, died Sunday after two weeks’ sickness. She had been operated on for appendicitis a fortnight ago. Mrs. Wilgus was a sister of Irvin Porter, of West Market street, Bluffton, and is also Mrs. Porter’s stepmother. Her husband is a United Brethren minister who had filled charges at Zanesville. Craigville, Ossian, Tocsin, Geneva. Fort Wayne and Decatur, and the family is well known throughout the northern part of Wells %id Adams counties. The body was brought to Ossian today and funeral services and burial will be held at Ossian on Wednesday. The husband survives with the following children: Mrs? Harry Dutridge Toledo; Mrs. Fred Worley, Ossian. Roll Wilgus, Modesto, Cal., and Miss Laura and Dwight Wilgus, of Lima. The step-children include Mrs. Porter. Mrs. J. E. Wooley, of Findlay, Ohio, and E. L. Wilgus, of Toledo. Rev. and Mrs. Wilgus resided in Wells County about twenty years ago making their home at Ossian at that time. Mew Officers Elected by the Yeomen at Meeting Last Evening. A GOOD TIME ollowed the Election—The Officers Serve for the Ensuing Year. The Yeomen homestead ofthis city s another of the organisations that will begin tlie ensuing year with n new official staff. The following olli ;ers were elected last evening: Foreman —S. E. Brown. Master of Ceremonies —Joe Stevens Correspondent —Guy Brown. Chaplain —Mary Cramer. Master o( v Acccunts —Ross Hayes. Following tlie election the members oined in having a jolly good social ime. Refreshments were provided. INSTALLATION TAKES PLACE. The annual installation of officers n the Knights of Columbus took place Monday night in their hall. District Deputy Dr. E. J. McOscar of Fort Wayne was in charge of the ceremolies. After the installation a smoker nd social session was enjoyed. The fllcers installed were: G. K.— M. J. Mylott. D. G. K. —J. B. Holthouse. Chancellor —Julius Heidemann. Recording Secretary—Joe Lose Financial Secretary—Dan Niblick. Treasurer —C. S. Niblick. Warden —Leo Ulman. Advocate —Thomas Malley. Inner Guard —Bernard Smith. Outer Guard —Ed Weisling. Trustees —Ben Eiting, Mike Miller. J. F. McKeryia. Lecturer —Herbert Bremerkamp. They will hold these places of trust and honor for one year. BLEEKE BABE FUNERAL. The funeral services for Marie Aitrusta, tlie seven weeks’ old babe of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bleek of Unon township were held this afternoon at 2 o’clock from tlie Bleeke church. Burial was made in the Emmanuel cemetery. The babe died Monday -norning, having been sick from birth.

MEETS SUDDEN DEATH. ' Dr. John Harrod of Fort Wayne, Brother of Mr». P. G. Hooper. Mrs. P. O. Hooper received word this morning of the sudden death of her brother, Dr. John Harrod, of Ft. Wayne, which occurred twenty minutes before. Dr. Harrod lias been subject to heart trouble. His mother resides with her daughter, Mrs. P. G. Hooper, In tills city. 1 - REJECTS LOAN TO SOUTH. % Washington, D. C,, Dec, B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat I —By a vote or 237 to 90, the house today overwhelmingly rejected the plan of Representative Henry of Texas for a loan of $250,000,000 to southern bankers to aid the south in financing its cotton crop. o THE DAKOTA WAY Western Town Conducts Saloons and Uses Profit to Pay Off Its Debts. MADE BIG RETUNS Report of First Year Showed a Profit of $14,000 at Lemmon, S. D. One of tlie fiercest liquor fights in the entire nation has been that in Soutli Dakota. The following dispatch tells how one town. Lemmon, settled tlie question, financially profitably and originally, at least: Lemmon, S. D., Dec. 7 —Lemmon will realize about $14,000 from the municipal saloon in net profits for the first year's busiriess if the present pace is majntained. Tlie averagt monthly net. earnings thus far aggregate SI,BOO. Every citi::en is in favor of the new plan. There is less drunkenness. The I city is more orderly, the blacklist has ; been increased from about 6 to 25, former habitual drunkards have*been reformed in a great measure through their failure to get liquor, and laboring men who could not afford to spend their money over the bar have been j put on the blacklist. Tills is the result i 4 I of having the saloon run by men wlic nave no financial interest in selling ;. man all the liquor lie will buy. In order to get around the state law which prohibits a municipality from conducting a proposition of this kind, the Lemmon Civic Improvement league was organized, witli 54 elec- j tors of the city as members. The league was incorporated under the 1 laws of South Dakota for the pur ! pose of carrying on a genera) rctai. 1 saloon business. The bylaws provide that the pro- i ceeds from tlie saloon shall be used ~ for the purchase and retirement of bonds and warrants on the city. The directors elected by the league.] are subject to recall at any time by the members of the association, and any action of the board can.be passed , upon by members of the association J, as a whole. : ■ The association took up tlie two i ; cences which a city the size of Lem- ‘ mon is allowed. 11 The saloon is opened at 6:30 o’clock | in the morning and closes at 8:30 every evening. Four bartenders are employed. The association keeps a «qleciial policeman on duty at a!>-, times. i By this method there is no bolster- > ousness, swearing or vulgarity in tlie place, the special officer having fulj 1 police powers and being instructed '; by the league to guard against these evils. This saloon lias practically a monopoly in the liquor business in a section of the state 100 miles east and west of Lemmon, 85 miles to tlie south and to tlie Canadian line on , tlie north. This accounts for tlie large earnings. o The Progressive Sunday school class of the Presbyterian church was entertained Inst evening in a delightful way by Mrs. Murray Scherer. A contest in which words were formed from the letters in “Christmas” was among the amusements. At the January meeting which will bo with Mrs. J. S. Coverdale, the election of off! cers will take place.

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GERMAN ARMY GAIN£FORCE Greater Activity is Poland With Arrival of Reinforcements. FRENCH AIRMEN FLY Over City of Antwerp and Drop Messages of Hope Written on Leaflets. Stockholm, Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to tlie Dally Democrat)—Tlie Swedish steamer Nora Sverige struck a mine and sank off the coast of Finland today. The steamer’s crew of twenty men were drowned. London, Dec. B—(Special to Daily Democrat I —Forty-four members of the crew of tlie oil steamer Vedra enroute from Mexico to Barraw perished today when the vessel took fire and burned. The vessel was sighted ablaze off Walney Island. Two mcnibors were rescued, badly burned, and taken to Barrow. Paris, Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Greater activity on the part of the Germans in the region of Ypres and along the Yser is reported in the official statement today. With this indication of German activity the fighting in Flanders may bo expected again to assume the desperate character which marked tlie early stages of the battle. Petrograd. Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat) —That tlie Germans weie able to make a vigorous attack f>r eight days by the arrival of reinforcements of six army corps, about 240.000 men and five cavalry divisions, is admitted in an official statement today. A part of the new troops came from tlie western battle area and the others I were new formations. Owing to a lack of cohesion the Germans suffered J great loss. Berlin, Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Official reports from Vienna today declares fighting for a decision on the Russian front Continues. ; The Austro-German troops have repulsed attacks on tlie enemy southt .vest of Tietrko'4 it is stated. “Th-i I Russian advance along the - I bon line has been brought to a handstill.’’ El Paso, Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat) Reports unconfirmed ! from other sources were received t - day in Mexico City from Vera Cruz that Carranza has been arrested by his own officers on charges of having ’ looted the national treasury of 6,000,000 pesos. The stories are thrt Carranza was asked to account forth ) money, and failing, he was placed in jail to await trial before a milita»'y court. General Obregon was said to have taken charge of tlie government. The basis for the report was not known here. Genoa. Dec. 8 -(Special to Daily Democrat) —Tlie United States collier Jason. “Christmas ship.” for the chllthe warring nations, arrived today. A special train was furnished by the government to carry tlie presents from Italy to tlie children of Austria and Germany. Berlin. December B—(SpecialB—(Special to DaHy Democrat) “East and south‘east of Lodz we are closely pursuing the enemy,” says the official statement today. "In addition to the largo losses yesterday the Russians are still losing. At the present 1,500 prisoners and 16 cannon have been taken.” Salonica. Dec. B—(Special to Daily Democrat) —All Russians, Servians and Montenegrians in Smyrna have been arrested by tlie Turks and English and FTench citizens still in the city are not permitted to leave. There are 1,200 Englishmen and 2,000 French, and all are threatened witli detention. Amnesty is granted all brigands who will fight with the Turkish troops. Tlie native Christian population has been forced to work on the construction of a road southward from Smyrna for the invasion of Egypt. Rotterdam. Dec. B—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—“Have, courage, we (Conmueu ou Page 4)