Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 13 January 1915 — Page 4

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Entered at the poetofflee In Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. It is a sign of the times that the democratic party is on the offensive and not the defensive. There was such a long period that It was on the defensive beforp the public and always pressed by the opposition.—Pittsburg Sun. Congressmen Adair and Cline and several of the others of Oie Indiana delegation yesterday voted in favor ol woman’s suffrage. The resolution lost for want of a constitutional majority, two-thirds being required. The vote was 204 in favor of the resolution to 174 against it. Encouraged by the showing the leaders of the fight say they will keep it up. It is now the democrats that have done everything, and the republicans that have had no better function thai; that of clogging the wheels. Apart from all this, however, the president had some very vigorous things to say about specific questions, both of party discipline and of public policy. Upon most of these we shall not comment at this moment. —New York Post. president Wilson's visit to Indiana seems to have from some cause or an other produced a large number of gu bernatorial candidates, if the various dispatches now' appearing can be re lied upon, which we happen to know can’t be done. However, it all goer to show that the democrats are up cu their toes and ready to get out an 1 sweep the platter again at the nest

election. —■ J \ The presence of paragraph (h) in the new law, together with the president's construction of its purpose and scope, would appear to offer republi can advocates of a "scientific” tarift substantial food for thought. They have endorsed a democratic version of their own principle, and had to wait three months to find it out. They might even now be blissfully unaware of what they had done if the president had not told them. Their great ness has been forced upon them. — Newark Times. President Wilson made a notable speech at Indianapolis. His speeches, indeed, have a habit of being notable; he,never talks unless he has something to say, and he says it with a clearness, force and grace all too rare in the utterances of most public men. The unusual thing about the Indianapolis address, however, is that it was frankly a party speech, the rallying call of the “captain of the democratic team.” President Wilson holds that the democratic party is the only organization through which political and social progress can be made at this time. —Chicago Journal. MONEY TO LOAN On farms, 5 or 10 year time. Partial payments any time, m-w-s-ts ERWINS’ OFFICE. o NOTICE TO FARMERS. 1 want to buy your cattle, hogs and sheep. Will always pay lull market price. I also have for sale fresh cows and brood sows. 5t6 JOHN SCHEIMAN, ’Phone 4J3

HAVE MOVED OFFICE. The Decatur Underwriters’ company lias removed its offices and now occupies rooms 1, 2 and 3 in the People's Loan & Trust Co. block. We are ready to transact all kinds of insurance business. J. S. PETERSON, H. M. GILLIG, Secretary. President. 2t7 o FOR RENT — Unfurnished rooms. — Mrs. E. A. Phillips. 217 Nortli Ist street. 307tti|

TELEPATHY IS WIDESPREAD Instance* Frequently Indicate a Tran* mission of Thought, Bay* One Who 3hould Know. Are we all mind readers? Can any business or professional man, with propi ■■ development, become an ac coinplished psychic, receiving and transmitting ideas without the use of a medium so gross as tho spoken word? Recent experiments in the Charcot institute in France, and in the psychiatric clinic of tho Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore would seem to lead to this belief, and Norman R. FYescott states his belief that this is true. “There is not a man or woman alive today,” said Prescott recently, “who has not been at some time or another the ’receiver’ or ‘transmitter’ in a telepathic experiment. At times, it may have been wholly unconscious; at oth-

> ers it may have been dimly guessed; then again, it may have been thoroughly appreciated, but attributed to that very convenient old invention, the law of coincidence. One is talking to a friend, perhaps. He stops and when his friend replies, he realizes that he knew before just what his friend was going to say, and the exact language In which he would clothe his ideas. All of us have felt that, day after daymany. many times. "That is telepathy; the transmission of thought through ether without phys ical aid. The more you study this wonderful science, the more you will be impressed with the fact that, for its success, it depends largely on twe minds being closely attuned; there must be absolute harmony if there Is to be success. Such instances as 1 have mentioned a little before are found in their greatest frequency, be tween husband and wife. And this is natural because of all persons in the world husbands and wives are mos! closely associated and bound by the closest, dearest, most binding ties Two minds with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one,' really ex presses the idea perfectly. It is, ! might say, the philosophy of telepathy crystallized in an epigram.” HARD MATTER TO ARRANGE Question of Disarmament, Following War, Will Test the Mettle of Diplomats. Whenever talk of the re-establish ment of peace after the present wa conies up. disarmament or the reduc tion of armaments is sure to be an im portant issue. Just how the nations shall effect a program of disarms ment is a vexed question. The En cyclopedia Britannica cites as “th< • only existing case of contractural re duction of armaments,” the disarma mer.t agreement of the 28th of May 1902, between Chilean and Argentine.'

republics. By this agreement the twe governments arranged to reduce theii fleets ‘‘according to an arrangement establishing a reasonable proportior between the two fleets, and respective ly promised not to increase their marl time armaments during five years, un less the one w*ho shall wish to increase them shall give the other IS months’ notice in advance.” The Britannica authority points out that an agreement of this kind is more feasible among states whose r.avies are small, because in the case of large navies It would be difficult to agree on a principle for assessment of the proportionate fighting value of the respective fleets. Even comparatively slight differences in the ages of ships may make great difference in theii fighting value. Battle of Alma. Sixty years ago soldiers of Britain and France, fighting side by side, achieved one of the most brilliant victories in the annals of war. Never has the valiant fighting spirit of the British troops been better shown than when, on September 20, 1804, they waded through the River Alma, amidst, a shower of bullets, fought tlieir way up the precipitous banks on the o*her side of the river and, having burst through the dense undergrowth of vineyards, drove back the Russians, who were led by Prince Menschikoff. The British troops were led by Lord Raglan and the French by Marshal St, Arnaud. Three thousand three hundred of the allies were killed and wounded, a heavy loss when one considers that the British forces numbered only about twenty-seven thousand and the French thirty thousand. Remembered Toast. In the ’sos I was in Washington at a dinner given by Senator Dawson of Georgia, writes a correspondent of the New York Sun. A number of guests were present, among them being the noted actor, James A. Mur--1 docli. Tftasts were given, and the 1 jiost requested that Murdocn recite s Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s toast, vlz'jC * 3 The World: We came into it, naked and bate; We go through it with sorrow and care;

When we” die, we go, God knows where; If we are thoroughbreds here. We’ll be thoroughbreds there; If we are scoundrels here, ,We'U be scoundrels there. This toast was recited with his unsurpassed elocutionary power and graceful manner, and left a memory that has been with me for years. His Business Was Looking Up. “Billings, the financing expert, was in Paris when the Zeppelins made their raid." “What was he doing there?” “Noting the overhead charges. | , Watching the bombs.” _

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