Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT ' ~ — ll "" Bubllshsd Every Ivwinf Except Bunday by HIF DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LBW G. ELLINOHAM JOHN H. HELLER - Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 canU Per Year, by carrier I 6 00 Per Month, by mail 3t cenU Per Year, by mall * 26U ; Single Coplea •••••* cea L* Advertising rates made known on application. _____ Entered at the poetoffice in Decatur. Indiana, ae second-class matter. The war looks a little closer than at any time in the past but no one seems particularly alarmed. There is a feel ing that with Mr. Wilson as president and Mr. Bryan as secretary, war will be indulged in by this nation only as a last resort, and that’s the way it ought to be.

A partial suffrage bill for the women of Indiana has been favorably reported by the house committee and may receive favorable attention before the session is over. The women are some good fighters all right and they are keeping at this movement with a persistence that will get somewhere some of these days. The primary law in Indiana became a real issue this morning when a message from Senator Kern was read i.i the state senate. The democratic leader insists that the bill ought to be passed but there are those who disagree with him on this point and it is likely the people will yet have the opportunity to decide the question. Thomas Taggart has asked the senate to investigate the charges made by the News that he was dictating legislation and a committee has, been appointed to inquire into the matter They will find that the Indianapolis News, which published the story, is only playing politics and that Mr. Taggart has not even attempted to muddy the waters. A favorable report on the Waltz bill giving the railroads the right .to charge a two and a half cent fare in Indiana, will bring the question to an issue in the bouse. There is much division of opinion though the business men of the state generally favor the increase on the grounds that every concern big or little has the right to an honest profit. President Wilson’s charge that the republicans ‘‘have not had a new idea in thirty years” carries this period if mental inactivity back to 1885. Search the records and it will be found that in that long space of time G. 0. P. statesmanship has mainly consiste/1 in jacking up the tariff in return for liberal campaign contributions from protected beneficiaries. Previous to 18S5 the republicans had carried the civil war to a successful finish and had brought about the resumption of specie payments. Progress had also been made in civil service reform. Since then, however, they have done nothing toward improving the banking laws, which the country had outgrown: toward a fair and equitable re-

The twenty-seventh birth anniver 1 sary of Thomas Fisher and the birthJ day anniversary of his daughter. Mrs. t L. L. Syphers. of Fort Wayne were - celebrated jointly, as usual, with a dinner party at the Fisher home yes terday. Mrs. Clayton Billings of Fort Wayne, daughter of Mrs. Syphers; Mr. ’ and Mrs. Martin Stalter and Mrs. Re- • becca Eady and daughters, were i guests. The affair was very enjoya- : ble. ». . . Judge D. E. Smith has received in- ' vitation to the Sigma Chi banquet of » the Indiana Alumni association, to be given Saturday, February 20, at the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis. He will probably not attend. Mrs. Ross Tyndall opened her new : home on Eleventh street last even’ng ! to her club friends, the members of i the Dixie Embroidery club. The girls took occasion at this time to give a “shower for Mrs. Tyndall, who is one of the season's brides, and presented ’ her with a fine aluminum roaster. Embroidery work apd crocheting passed / the time and the hostess was assisted by her iters, the Misses Ireta and Gladys Butler, in serving a delicious lunch. Mrs. Tyndall was formerly 1 Miss Marie Butler. There will be no I more meetings until after lent. i — i The annual opening of the n ite boxes of the Woman’s Home Missionary society of the Methodist church was held last evening at the home of Mrs. C. C. Schafer and Mrs. Emma Daniel, the delightful social that accompanied ft being enjoyed by the eighty or more guests. Mrs. B. J. Rice, as chairman of the program committee. presided and the program as published, was given. The imite boxes yielded the sum of $60.19 for mission work. Mrs. D. W. Beery, chairman of the refreshment committee. and her corps of assistants, served tempting refreshments. The Baptist Missionary society, recently organized, with Mrs. John Everett, president, will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Tom Druley on North Fifth street. The Christian Endeavor society cf the Presbyterian church was entertained most royally at the regular i business meeting last evening by the Misses Mary and Ireta Erwin. Sev- i eral interesting business matters were | discussed and a good social time fjl- 1 lowed. During the evening a delight- ; ful luncheon wa served. Among the I

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vision of the tariff, and toward solving the trust problem, it was left to the democrats to accomplish these three great feats. For the last few years the G. 0. P. has been drifting along on forged quotations from Lincoln, wlio has now been In his grave nearly half a century.—Philadelphia Record. I MINGS IN SOCIETY t WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesray. German Reformed Aid—Mrs. L. C. Hesse rt. Pythian Needle Club —K. of P. Home. Shakespeare —Mrs. S. D. Beav. rs. Thursday. Euterpean—Mrs. E. D. Engeler. Baptist Missicntr.- —Mrs. Tom Druley. Queen Esthers y ">ry. Helping Hand—Mrs. Fred bullet, ayer. Friday. Mite—Mrs. J. W. Tyndall. Life every man holds dear, but he brave man Holds honor far more precious d ar than Use. —Shakespeare.

; members, several guests were pres- . vut, being the Misses Irene Smith, Florence Cowan and Messrs. Kenyon ' Walters, Charles Borton, Harold Graham. < - The fine program for the Presbyter , ian Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary society was given yesterday ' afternoon at the annual mite box open Ing meeting with Mrs. Will Kremers. | While the society is small, with only I (twenty enrolled, the entire collection 5 was $24, which is considered very good. I A fine time was enjoyed and refreshments served. There will be no more meetings until Aprjl. Mrs. Margaret Meibers was seven- ■ ty-seven years old yesterday and in honor of the anniversary, she enter- • tainod fifty or more relatives and neighbors at a six o’clock dinner and five hundred party last evening. The t centerpiece of the big table was t fine birthday cake with the figures “seventy-seven” outlined with lighted ■ candles. Prizes at cards were won by Mrs. Charles Niblick and Lawrence Voglewede. Mrs. Meibers w’as presented with a fine birdseye maple card table as a gift. Mrs. Mpibers ■ Is one of the fine elderly ladies of the city who have wonderfully preserved ■ their youthful spirits and the party was enjoyed by no one, more than herself. Henry Bleeke of Union township left last night for Fort Wayne, where he will visit his son-in-law and daugh- ■ ter, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Walde. Today Mr. Bleeke's sixtieth birthday anniversary will be celebrated with a big dinner at the Walde home. Guests will be the children and a number of friends including Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kurbach. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Young and babe: Henry Bleeke, Jr., a student, at Concordia college: Miss Lydia Bleeke and Rev. Schmidt 'of Buffalo, former pastor of the Bleeke church. The Euterpean club will meet Jomorrow evening with Mrs. E. D. Bngeler. As fine a paper as was ever read before the Historical club was that of Miss Nellie Blackburn last evening, when the club met with Mrs. W. E. Smith. Her subject was “Picturesque Spots in Indiana.” and the members are unanimous in their expression of its excellence. As much business came up, there was no sub-topic discussion. Much regret was expressed over the resignation of Mrs. Fred Schafer, as a member. There will be no meetings during the tabernacle service. The Tri-Kappas had an interestng study at the home of Mrs. J. J. Helm last evening. Miss Madge Hite having the paper on “The Pan-American Exposition.” There will be no meeting during the tabernacle services except on March 8, preparatory for the convention which some will attend. Miss Edna Hoffman, who was elected president. resigned, and Mrs. Avon Burk was elected to serve in her stead. 0 REV. HANNA ACCEPTS CALL. E. S. Moses received a telegram from Rev. Jay C. Hanna of Chicago, to whom a call to the pastorate of the ] local Presbyterian church had been i extended Monday evening, stating that he would accept. He wifi be here Fri- ; day to arrange to enter upon duty the 1 coming Sunday. o ( MINERS ENTOMBED. < 1 Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb. 17 —(Special t to Daily Democrat)—A gas explosion ’ in the Oakwood shaft, Prospect colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company this afternoon may result in the loss of a score of lives. Fifty men are entombed. Nine injured have been rescued and one dead.

'BRANCH OFFICE Will be Opened in Lincoln Life Building at Fort Wayne This Week. .- - , THE WEMHOFF WORKS Will Establish Branch Plant at Fort Wayne—Busi- , ness Growing. I The Wemhoff Monuweutal Works • is preparing to open a branch office this k week in Fort Wayne and has secured 5 rooms in the Lincoln Life building I Otto Wemhoff. who has been with ■ Green, the jeweler, in Fort W ayne, » will be in charge of the Fort Wayue . office for a while. The office is opened with the view ! of at some time establishing a plant . in Fort Wayne. This will not mean 1 that the works will not be retained , here, but the Fort Wayne plant will i be a branch. The Wemhoff Monumental Works is well known over several states and especially in Allen county and the - northern part of the state, where they ■ have placed many of their fine pieces of art in the monumental line. The . extension of their business demands a branch office and further outgrowth. o THIRD READING (CONTINUE® FROM PAGE ONT) , by the platform of their party.” Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 17 (Special to Daily Democrat)—The house committee today unanimously reported favoring the partial woman’s suffrage measure. A divided report was returned w’ith the majority for the Waltz measure allowing railroad fare of two and one-half cents per mile. Washington, D. C., Feb. 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—President Wilson today wrote Mayor Mitchell of New York that the country would feel less fearful of a food shortage when facts now in possession of the agricultural department are made public in a few days. NOTABLE EVENT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) The vocal numbers by Maggie Lynch and Marie Danner of Kimsey and Mabel Tague of Dellinger school showed much natural talent. The violin music by Frank Meyer and the Dellinger representatives was very much appreciated by all. The piano solo by Miss Hazel Davis and the gymnastic drill by tl ( smaller pupils of Kimsey school were excellent. After this came the debate, "Resolved, That Blue Creek Township Schools Should be Centralized.” Affirmative, Lloyd Campbell. H. M. Cronover; negative, William Miller and Lester Davis. The judges were Trustee Charley Jones, W. P. Merriman and G. C. Lehman. 1 The speakers did excellently well and ! the debate was most interesting and ' entertaining from beginning to end 1 It is said that when Blue Creek attempts something, it is done well. ' This is surely true. —Contributed. ?or Wayne & Springfield Ry. Company. |i TIME TABLE. Northbound. Cara leave Decatur at 6:50, 8:30 11:30, 2:30, 5:45, y. 30; arrive at Fort Wayne at 6:53, 9:40, 12:40, 3:40, 6:55 and 10:40. / 1 Southbound. Leave Ft. Wayne at 7:00,10:00, 1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00; arrived in Decatur at 8:10; 11:10; 2:10; 5.10, 8:40, 12:10. Connections are made at Fort Wayne with the Ft. Wayne ft Northern Indiana Tractton Co., The Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway Company, The Ohio Electric, and Indiana Union Traction Company; also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash Nickle Plate, L. 8. & M. 8., c. H. ft D., and G. R. & I. railroads. Freight Service. Freight service consists of one train each way daily; Leaving Decatur at 8:00 a. m. and returning, leaving Fort Wayne at 12:00 a. m. This enables shippers to telephone orders and receive shipments promptly. W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN, i General Manager, - . Decatur, Ind.

I mb WEMHOFF ASKS ~SOME~QIESTIONS

I Decatur. Ind.. Feb. 16. 1» 15 - The self-appointed committee, composed of grocers, bankers, etc., have made thetr report, and 1 move that the same be spread of record, and the matter of approval be taken up later. The report would be more valuable ' and carry more weight with our citizens. whose interests the committee has so much at heart, if prior to as- ! sumiug the self imposed task they bad qualified •» to their ability u> make an authoritative decision in a case where Mortuary Architecture playa such an important part. However, I will grant for the mo ment that the Honorable Committee does know more about the building ’ of Everlasting bnildlngs than they do about making loans, weighing sugar, candling eggs and such fleeting affairs, 1 and will avail myself of the invitation ’ and ask a few questions. When you say the buildings were better than you expected, do you mean to say they were not as bad as «• ( pected? I In your inspections did you ascerI tain the depths of the foundations? Did you make inquiry whether the > celling In one of the buildings had ever been replaced? Did you find out If part of the roof tile on one of the buildings had been i blown off about a year ago? Did you knock a» the Great Eni trance doors and examine if they were solid bronse or simply skeleton doors, veneered with thin sheet Fopper or bronze? Did you examine the wires imbedded in the concrete crypts and which will be used to fasten the marble? Tel) our citizens if it was common wire and in your opinion, if it was, can you assert it will not rust out in centuries? Can you vouch for ft that the iron pipes will never rust out; the automat-

A GREAT MEETING Was Eleventh Annual Conference of Medical Instructors at dfcago. DR. BOYERS ATTENDS Reports Interesting Session Attended by Delegates from Nearly All States. Dr. J. S. Boyers of this city, one if the Indiana delegates to the eleventh annual conference of the Aniertrfb Association on Medical Legislation and Medical Education, called by the council on health and public instruction, returned home this morning. Dr. Boyers and Dr. Hurty were the only members of the Indiana delegation named by Governor Ralston, who attended the meeting. The session, according to the doctor, was the greatest in history. Fully 250 delegates frmi Maine to California and from MinfMbsota to Texas, representing every state in the union, attended the four complete sessions which were held at the Congress hotel on the 15th and 16th. The very best universities sent delegates and many of these were on the program, including Dr. Victor C. Vaughn. University of Michigan; Dr. .Frank Billings. Rush Medical College; Dr. John G. Clark, Pennsylvania; Dr. Harvey Cushing. Harvard; Dr. George Dock, Washington University; Dr. John M. T. Finney and Dr. William H. Welch, Johns Hopkins; Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, Columbia; President Pritchett, Carnegie Foundation; Dr. George Vincent, University of Minnesota; President Judson, University of Chicago; Dr. McKernon, president of the faculty New York Post Graduate M’edical School, and many other professors and doctors from other institutions as notable as those named. The discussions were of the very best. Great strides have been made in the literary requirements of candidates beginning the study of medicine and the number of medical colleges in the United States has been reduced from 150 to 98. It is believed that within five years this number will be further reduced to from 70 to 75. The purposes of the meeting were well carried out and everybody there felt liiat a long step has been made in advance of the present status of medical education. o NOTICE. Having sacuxed a new patented scissors sharpener, the first on the market, I am now ready to sharpen all kinds of scissors. Work guaranteed and. prices right. Bar'bers shears a 'specialty; also corrugating 24t3 BARNEY WERTZBERGEB.

"i.. valves never dog; that whan Gabriel blows his trumpet everything will be in "Apple Pie" f . . And. when you stood before> thu box-like structure oUCONCRETU ‘ yon then and there decide that concrete wouM last forever.' Standing there in the solitude o the Dead-House did you forget the dismal CONCRETE FAILURES so ai> parent in the outside world, ta bridges, buildings, horse troughs and walks ? And the roof that is to shelter the deceased forever, can you conscientriously say to our citizens that being nude of that mystic material Concrete,” it will withstand the storms of centuries? Did you visit all the structures erected by the firm or did you simply go where directed? I think this enough questions for this time and will reserve a few pointed ones tor later consideration. Now to the people of this community 1 will say that I have a detailed report made by a committee of the Association of Cemetery Superintendents, a thorough report after making personal investigations of Community Mausoleums in various places. This report summarized says that "earth burial is a far more preferable means of disposing of the dead than mausoleum interment." Men that know, men that stand high in the Architectural world, make eports directly opposite to the Decatur Committee's conclusions, and as a sample will give in full an editorial appearing in one of the leading architectural magazines of the country: (Stone, published in New York City, July, 1914. issue) “If it were not that it is dealing with the most sacretb of all human emotions, there would be something inexpressibly ludicrous in the plans and comments called out by the community mausoleum. These structures

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LOST —Gold locket and chain bearing the initials "D. M. F.” -between the South Ward school buolding and Central school building. Finder will please leave it at this office. 38t3

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which scarcely rise above the dignity of storage warehouses for the dead, are compared by the promoters to’ the pyramids or burtal temples ot Egypt, or even to the great Roma® pantheon. By the use of these highsounding comparisons the promoters evidently seek to make the investors forget that these mausoleums are purely commercial ventures, planned tor no other purpose than to return the greatest possible percentage cf interest on the investment. One 4 the far western newspapers gives a glowing account of one of these structures erected in its territory, a leature of this is an inscription in marble on the face of one of the columbarium niches, reading: “To be open, en in 2914.” The newspaper pictures the time 1,000 years hence, when the urn is to be opened by whoever then has the custody of the mausoleum, and win yield up its treasures of papers, documents and relics sealed in it at the time of dedication. The confidence that one of these structures will endure for a thousand years and that it will still be guarded by a vigilant custodian is childlike to say the toast. It ft not a daring prediction to declare that fifty years will sea all of these community structures fallen into ruim and the gathering of the remains they are supjroeed to shelter into a common grave.” Think of it, citizens, but fifty years to see the ix>ae pile in our fair country ! It's coming true in our namesake city of Decatur, Illinois, where bodies are being removed from tbs building, the building being erected fa long ago as six years and constructed of that sama wonderful material CONCRETE. onderfur material, CONCRETE. Concrete and Corpse. How synonymous! GEO. E. WEMHOFF, Pres., N. R. M. D. A. of A.. Inc. (Advertisement)

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