Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by T BE DECATUI DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5 00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mall $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice In Decatur, Indiana, aa second-class matter. Senator Beveridge is home from the war zone, where he acted as a speclil correspondent for Colliers. He refuses to make a prediction as to the duration of the war. That's all right. “Bev," if the prediction wouldn't fool any more people than it did last year or three or four years ago in politics, it wouldn't do much damage. “If there are hard times under the Wilson administration. 1 have failed . to find them,” said Edward D. Easton, , president of the Columbia Grapho- ( phone company of New York, in an interview here today. "I have never found business so good.” I have vot- < er the republican ticket all my life, I but my hat's off to Wilson. He is 1 without doubt the greatest president i we ever had. Business men should < stop howling and get to work. A3 1 far as my own contact with the com- < mercial world is concerned we are t now at the height of prosperity, and i we are going higher. Prospects ev- 1 erywhere are rosier than they have 1 been for years.” All of which sounds < good. 1 friends of Frank C. Dailey, United ( States District Attorney, who is mak- 1 ing a great record in the bribery j cases, have mentioned him as a like- 1 ly candidate for Governor next year, t Whether or not this talk has the S sanction or even the knowledge of t Mr. Dailey, we do not know, but as t he has his hands full right now in the { Federal court, it is not likely that ae <

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1 1 is worrying over future pwlltical hon- ■ ors. Mr. Dailey never held an office 1 until he was appointed District Attorney last year, although for twenty ' years he has been active in politics In a Democratic county and a Democratic district. He is 45 years of age, a graduate of Indiana university, a very fine lawyer and an excellent public speaker.-—New Castle Times. Decatur is to have a gynasium where the boys and girls, the you.ig men and women and even the older ones who wish to, may have the benefit of such clean sports as will tend to build and develop the physical body. Os course the plans just now are crude and it will take weeks and months, perhaps years, to get just what is wanted, but it will come. The people want it and they usually get what they -vant. The trouble has been to get the thing started and to let tha people know that some one is really going to take charge of the work. When that is done and the people have confidence in the movement it will go forward rapidly. A little more boosting will put it over. It’s th® most important thing for this locality that has not been attended to. It’s time to do it. Just now the United States is the only financial tree unshaken by the terrible imbroglio abroad. The American dollar stands alone at par. We are at the moment the creditor, on current account, of almost every civilized nation of the earth and we are daily producing great quantities of foodstuffs, raw materials and manufactured goods, which through sale to foreign nations at unprecedented prices, is stretching still further the distance between our resources and liabilities. When the European war broke out we owed Europe $350,000,000 on current account. That debt has some time since been paid and just now Europe owes us in the neighborhood of $300,000,000. while our 'manufacturers are adding between $150,000,000 and $200,000,000 a month to this balance. In the steel industry alone, which lias always been regarded as a barometer of industrial conditions, production has increased

i- approximately 30 per cent since the b first of the year.—Paul Brown, in In- - dianapolis Star. I DOINGS IN SOCIETY T WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Thursday. Walther League— Schoolhouse. 1 Baptist Aid—Mrs. Howard Sikes. Saturday. ’ Pleasant Mills Baptist Aid Easter ■ Social —Steele’s hall. I There Comes a Time. There come a time to every mortal being, Whate’er his station or his lot in life, When his sad soul years for the final freeing From all this jarring and unceasing strife. There conies a time, when, having lost its savor, The salt of earth is worthless; when the mind Grows wearied with the world's capricious favor, And sighs for something that it can not find. There comes a time, when, though kind friends are thronging About our pathway with sweet acts of grace, We find a vast and overwhelming longing, For something that we cannot name or place. There comes a time, when, with with earth s best love by us, To feed the heart’s great hunger and desire, We find not even this can satisfy us: The soul within us cries for something higher. What greater proof need we that we inherit A life immortal in another spher >? , It is the homesick longing of the spirit , That cannot find its satisfaction here. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. _____ The C. A. Dugan home will be gay for the Easter holiday with a merry house party. Miss Naomi Dugan, a student at Northwestern university, will be at home and four of her college friends will come with her. They are her roommate, Miss Frances Clark, of Des Moines. lowa, daughter of Governor Clark, of Iowa; Miss Mitchell, of Carbondale, 111., and the , Misses May and Irene Allen, Des , Moines. The Decatur young people , will welcome them and a round of , social affairs have been planned for them. Miss Frances Dugan will be at home from Winchester today for the remainder of the week-end. Mrs. Dan Sprang entertained the Shakespeare club yesterday afternoon at their first meeting in several weeks. Mrs. C. A. Dugan had a splen- 1 did paper on “Our National Undeveloped Resources,” and sub-topics car- • ried out the study further. Only two i members did not respond to the roll call. The society has voted to enlist its aid with the Woman’s Civic Im- ' provement society and will work heartily with that body. A business period, relative to the closing of the season's work, was spent. The closing social affair, as usual, will on Shakespeare’s birthday April 23, but plans have not been completed for this. Mrs. A. D. Suttles will entertain next Wednesday and Mrs. Emma Daniel will lead. Miss Dorothy Dugan, a student at Vassar, will not be at home for the Easter holiday, on account of the long journey. She will be the guest of a school friend. Miss Van Wyck, at her home at Brookhurst, N. Y. The Walther League will meet this evening at 7:30 at the Zion’s Lutheran parochial schoolhouse. A large delegation of Rebekahs will go to Geneva a week from next Friday, April 9 to attend the district convention. The Ben Hur Aid Society will meet this evening at the hull. The gentlemen will entertain tiie ladies. There was a good attendance at the meeting of the St Vincent de Paul society with Mrs. L. A. Holthouse yesterday. The ladies brought their sewing and plans for new work will probably be announced at the next meeting. The attention of the public is again called to the Easter social to be given Saturday evening, April 3, at Steele’shall, Pleasant Mills, by the Baptist Ladies’ Aid of that town. Everybody is invited to come. Mrs. Cal Peterson went to Grand Rapids, Mich., for a ten days' visit with Mrs. F. J. Bouse, formerly Miss

Myrtle Watts, of tills city — o COURT HOUSE NEWS. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) is u son of Samuel Heeter. The bride was born April 12, 1881, and is a daughter of Eli D. McCollum. The groom has been married before, having been divorced in October, 1910. Avilla Danner has applied for letters of administration on the estate of her late father. James Ferguson. o HAS ABOLISHED LIQUOR. London. April I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Lord Kitchener announced today that so long as the war lasts no liquor will be served in his household. The British war leader is the first man of prominence to respond to the king's suggestion. His example will be followed by cabinet members and prominent persons all over the country, it is believed. The Glas° )w ship yard workers comprised probably the hardest drinking community in Great Britain. They were today re ported to be shunning the bar room:, in concerted agreement in response to the king’s suggestion. The Glasgow tea room was crowded. 0 MATAMORAS IS QUIET. Brownsville. Tex., April I—(Speciall—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Matamoras was entirely quiet this forenoon, following desultory fighting over night. Cold weather is somewhat hampering operations. though the waiting game appears to be the result of the desire to have artillery forces here. A flying machine of the Villa forces arrived today, crippled by an attempt to alight last night. - — - n. , — ALL EVIDENCE NOW IN. Indianapolis, Ind., April I—(Specie! to Daily Democrat) —All evidence in the T- rre Haute conspiracy trial will be in before court adjourns tonight. Arguments of the government attorneys were expected to begin late this afternoon. District Attorney Dailey announced he would introduce no more rebuttal evidence. Attorney Stanley said he had several surrebuttai. o DEMANDS PAYMENT. Washington, D. C. April I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —America’s de- • inand for payment for the William P Frye, sunk by the German cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, was sent to Ambassador Gerard in Berlin today. The note protests that the incident flagrantly violated international law, tut asks no pay for the Frye's Englishowned wheat cargo. The German foreign office has let it be known that it will not defend the Eitei’s action and prompt payment is expected. o WILL TRY TO GET AWAY. Washington, D. C., April I—(Speciall—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Commenting on news that the German converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friederich was coaling, the kaiser’s embassy here was authority for the statement today that the vessel would undoubtedly attempt to get away to sea if “she got a chance..” <v FRENCH STEAMER TORPEDOED. Dover, April I—(Speciall—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The French steamer Emma was torpedoed in the English channel Wednesday. Two survivor were landed today. Two of the crew are dead and seventeen missing. The ship was torpedoed without a warning. APRIL SNOW. “Just look hew it is snowing!” Many feared to look for fear it was an April fool joke. A surreptitious glance out of the corner of the eye, however, was proof that it was no joke. The soft flakes came down pretty thick about 1:45 o’clock and at times during the morning there was just a suspicion c.f snow now and then. ORDERED TO MEXICO. Washington, D. C. April I—(Speciall—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The navy department today ordered the American cruiser Olympia from Key W/| ( reinforce the squadron on the Mexican east coast. No reason was given. o TAKE MANY PRISONERS. Berlin, April I—(Speciall—(Special to Daily Democrat) —During March the German at my in Poland took 55,00 Russian prisoners, nine cannon and sixty- , one machine guns. o FERTILIZER FOR SALE —Fresh car just in. Farmers can secure it from car on siding near plant tor next two days or at my cement block factory after that time.—Eli Meyer. 6J13 FOR SALE—Duroc Jersey bred gilts. for March and April farrows. Pute bred Loaming seed corn.—C. C. Miller, IL R. N, Decatur, Ind. 43118

COAL WILL 8E SUPERSEDED Little Doubt That Oh’ Is to Be the Future Naval Fuel-—Has Many Advantages. The introduction of the use of oil as fuel upon our battleships is really the most important development in naval engineering since the advent of steam. The naval authorities have been experimenting with oil as fuel for the last fifty years, and its advantages have long been recognized, but its use has been restricted because of doubts as to the existence of a sufficient supply. It is now known, however, that enough oil exists in the public lands of California alone to supply the needs of the United States navy for a century at least. Oil has a higher fuel value in producing steam than coal, giving a greater evaporation of water, both per pound of fuel and per square foot of heating surface. More important, however, is the fact that the fuel can be taken on board a great deal more rapidly without manual labor, and without interruption of the ship’s routine. Coaling has always been a long, laborious and inconvenient process, dreaded by every branch of the service afloat. With oil as fuel, the amount of smoke may be controlled, there are no cinders and no delays or loss of speed due to the necessity of bringing coal from a remote bunker, or to the exhaustion of the stokers. It makes pos- j sible a considerable reduction in the crew, and makes less weight and space necessary for boilers. These savings in weight have made possible the use of heavier armor on the battleships Nevada and Oklahoma. CATCHING UP WITH CHINA Western World Has Adopted System Long Popular In Great Empire of the Orient. Gradually, very gradually, civiliza-' tion is catching up with the Chinese. The University of California has established a new profession—that of keeping people well. Those who adopt this calling will go into the world and earn fat fees by not letting folks fall ill. Sickness will mean starvation to the practitioners: a healthy populace will make them rich. In China the doctors have never looked to the sick for business. Only while their patients were well could ; the physicians charge for services rendered. When a patron fell ill the doctor’s income shrunk; when recovered the convalescent resumed feeing his medical adviser. It Is a good scheme, evidently, or we of the wiser world would not tir.ve taken up with it after having so n.i.uy thousands of years to investigate its workings. In time, perhaps, all tho wisdom of the Celestials will become o s by adoption.—St Joseph Gazette Rubber Armor Plate! If the present war has proved anything it has proved the inadequacy of the protection afforded by armor plate covering the under- vater vital parts of a ship. The armor does not extend sufficiently far below the water line to assure complete protection when the vessel is rolling, and in this respect a suggestion put forward by a writer in Popular Science Sittings might be worth serious consideration. Describing an experiment made in 1800 on tbe recoiling strength of rubber, he says that a piece of rubber two inches thick and a foot square was placed under a steam hammer and a six-inch round shot was placed on it. The hammer fell with tremendous force and broke the shot to pieces, the rubber remaining elastic and unimpaired. Results from great explosive force on rubber flooring and buffers have shown that beyona fusing by heat the rubber remained uninjured, so apparently rubber would make a ship more shot-proof than armor plate. The Mines of Spain. More than one-third of the quicksilver produced in the world last year came from the mines of Spain. Those mines were worked centuries before Christ, and they seem good tor centuries more. Other quicksilver supplies are discovered, exploited for a time, and exhausted, but no bottom has been found to the veins of Spanish cinnabar. Many High authorities hold that other mineral resources of Spain are quite as splendid in proportion as her supremacy in the production of mercury. Spanish iron ore is sometimes shipped to the United States, yet the mines are said to be worked in very clumsy, ineffective fashion. It is even claimed that the coal supplies of the peninsula are superior to those of any other part of the continent, but these, again, are managed in a careless, indolent, unscientific manner. Scotch Eels. When so many British trawlers have been commandeered and so few of the others can venture out, why is there not a more systematic slaughter of freshwater eels and of the conger eels that lurk about the masonry of old piers and other breakwaters? The .rivers of Scotland swarm with eels, which are almost completely neglected as a means of making mcney by the natives, who themselves do not eat eels. Fish from the sea will grow scarcer and scarcer, consequently dearer and dearer, as the war goes on, and we cannot afford to ignore our eels. The board of agriculture and fisheries may presently have something to say on the matter. Meanwhile the opening for individual enterprise is obvious. / 1 . hr 1 ’ ‘ ‘ ,i* ’’ t

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