Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT PuMlahrt Ev»ry Evanlng Except Bunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rate* ti x s Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier... 15.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall * 2 -50 Single Coplea 2 centß Advertising rates made known on application. __________ £nteretf at the poatofflce In Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter.

THE INCOME TAX Preliminary estimates indicate that the individual and corporation income tax will this year yield more than SBO.01'0.000. With this very welcome reinforcement. it is not probable that there will in the- near future be any resort to bond issues. Up to yesterday the government’s income was $100,000,000 short of its expenditures. Os course the receipts from the fncome tax are a credit against this, this revenue being in no sense extraordinary. The actual deficit today is, therefore, not in reality $100,000,000, s'ree a large part of the revenue has not been received as yet, and will not b< due till the end of June. There will of course be a shortage, but it will be smaller than It was supposed it would be. The great increase in the revenue from the income tax indicates that the government has been much mere successful in enforcing collections, which, of course, was to have been expected. As business improves

there will be a further increase in receipts of this source. But for the present the condition of the treasury ia not satisfactory, though It is in no sense alarming. Depressed business and the war have cut heavily into customs duties. Whether the new tariff law, supplemented by the income tax, will in normal times yield a sufficiency of revenue Is yet to be proved. It certainly has not as yet had a fair trial. The showing for the fiscal year endtag with June will be looked forward to v ith great Interest. It will not be all that we should like to have it, but it will be less bad than was feared. If the war ends in the fall—and there are many who think that the nations v.cvld not continue it through another winter —there ought to be a prompt revival of foreign commerve and a general improvement in business, with a resulting stimulus to the income of the government. One thing is most gratifying, and that is the industry and commerce of the country and the finances of the government have endured the shock of a world war so well. That fact proves the inherent strength of the nation.—lndianapolis News. The Port Wayne & Springfield traction line will be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the court bouse in this city next Tuesday. Vpon the result of that sale much depends that will affect Decatur and Adams county. The line now extends from Fort Wayne to this city and it is to be hoped that the company or individual who becomes the owner will decide to immediately ex-

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tend tlie line south, and to retain the main odices ano power plant in this city. Several difterent companies of financiers are planning to tdd and it is the sincere hope of every one here that the road will go to the men who will make it the best line in the country, extend it to Richmond and make this city the central station of the system. If this happens it will mean much to this community. Lot's hope it thus transpires. Mr. Redfield gave “this person Watson" a good “skinning” in his speech at Indianuitolis Wednesday night and he made the former “whip” look like he had been considerably overused. The recent speeches of Jim Watson have been sowewhat of the old-fashioned political tommy rot stuff that have but little effect

on the voter and thinker in this day and age. It pays to tell the truth fcr the people know when they are being fooled. The republican party needs new whips if they expect to get very far with the people and though they are whistling loud these days, they will wake up after the election to find that the voters really know what they are doing. The present administration is an honest one and will stand the assaults of a good many Jim Watsons. The Clover Leaf proposition will be decided in the federal court on the 22nd of May. If the petition is granted and the division comes to this city it will mean an increase in population of from 500 to 1,000 people. Have you thought about the fact that we will have to take care of these people with houses and boarding places’ It’s important.

i: DOINGS IN SOCIETY : WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday Christian Ladies’ Aid—Mrs. Frank Kern. Second Sect. Christian Aid—Mrs. George Steele. Saturday Christian Ladies' Bake Sale-«-Gas office. The Leaders’ Class pastry sale — Bowers Millinery store. Example is more forcible than precept; people look at me six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. —Cecil. The Antioch Sunday school class of young people will meet at the church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock to organize. A special invitation has been given to Mr. Elmer Abbott and Miss Cassie Jackson, teachers, and their organized classes of young men and women of the U. B. church of Craigville to attend and lend their assistance. A good time beneficially and socially is expected. A special invitation is extended to young people who do not attend Sunday school.—Contributed.

Miss Lucile Vail of South Webster street left yesterday for visits in Indianapolis and Richmond. In the latter place she will sing at the wedding of a friend. —Fort Wayne News. In spite of the measles and busy housecleaning time there were fortytwo present yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Ed Whitright entertained. This is the last meeting of the April section of which Mrs. Ed Whitright is chairman, her assistants being Mrs. Mat Breiner, Mrs. Quincy Winans, Mrs. James Neiswitz, Mrs. M. E. Johnson, Mrs. AJva Buffeiibarger, Mrs. Elgin King and Mrs. Charles A. Johnson. The section turned into the treasury at this time $31.95, making a total of $42.70 for the month. Refreshments were served during the afternoon. The society will meet next with Mrs. Leonard Merryman. Miss Emma Gillig was a guest besides the Wednesday Afternoon Five Hundred club members yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Harmon Gillig entertained. After cards, the hostess was assisted by Miss Mayme Hartings in serving a two-course luncheon. Club prizes were won by Mrs. Frank Barthol, Mrs. John Weber and Mrs. Fred Fullenkamp, and the guest's prize by Miss Emma Gillig. Mrs. Lawrence Kleinhenz will entertain next. Miss Bess Schrock entertained the Euterpean club last evening at the home of Mrs. E. B. Adams. Mrs. F. V. Mills, had a splendid review of the book, "The Light ■of the World.”

Mrs. turnery Wilson or Cleveland, 0., was a guest of the club. There will be one more meeting when the Misses Grace and Ruby Miller will be hostesses. The Progressive Sunday school class of the Presbyterian church will meet Monday evening witn Mrs. (’. A. Battenberg. The party given last evening by Miss Irene Gerard was in compliment to Miss Pio Sellers before she left today for her home in Chicago. The affair was a hayrack party and the destination was the lovely country home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Omlor south of the city. On arrival there, there was music, both instrumental and vocal, and then out-of-door games were played. Later .on refreshments in two courses, consisting of ham sandwiches, pickles, cottage cheese, lemonade, ice cream and three varieties of delicious cake. Miss Sellers was presented with a souvenir spoon of Decatur by the company. There is much regret that she is leaving. She has been here six months caring for her father, Erank Sellers, who lias been a patient of the Drs. Clark. His son. Clifford, arrived from Chicago to accompany the father and sister home. During her stay here she has made many friends. The party included the following: Misses Myers, Agnes Costello, Edith Miller, Marie Gluting. Marie Gass, Agnes Meibers, Germaine Coffee. Lorene Keller, Marguerite Gerard, Stella Howard of Ft. Wayne, Flo Sellers of Chicago; Messrs. Bill O’Brien, Joe Kortenbrer, Veigh Chronister, Bill Gause. Dale Enyart of Fort Wayne, Leon Crawford,- Francis Schmitt, George Baker, Bob Meibers. Raymond Hartings, Fred Weber, Charley Borton.

Mrs. M. Hensley, Mrs. C. A. Dugan. Mrs. R. D. Myers, Mrs. O. L. Vance. Mrs. T. M. Reid, Miss Leah Hensley left on the 11:30 interurban car for Fort Wayne to be guests of the Shriners at a social affiair and to attend the New Palace theater this evening. A number of others went by automobile. 0 PROFITS PREVENT PEACE The Hague, April 30, —(Special to Daily Democrat I—Enormous1 —Enormous profits through the manufacture and sale of was munition are the greatest obstacles in the way of peace, the delegates to the Womans peace conference agreed today. Miss Glendower Evans of Boston after declaring that the profit made by the American munition manufactures was prolonging the war, introduced a drastic resolution demanding that- all neutral countries imediately place an embargo on the exportation of such supplies Chairman Addams ruled the resolution out of order but a substitute was finally adopted. o TO BE MOTHER’S DAY. Sunday, May 9, will be "Mothers' Day.” This is generally celebrated over the country and Decatur churches and people in general here will make the occasion memorable. A white flower is worn for the mother who has passed away: a colored flower for the one who is living. A little couplet sets fortli the flower idea in away that is especially pretty: “For mother’s memory a flower white. For mother living, a flower bright.”

RUNS AGAINST OBSTACLES Syracuse, N. Y., April 30,- -(Specia to Daily Democrat) —Colonel Roosevelt’s defence in the libel suit tday ran into a brisk wall of legal oil stacles. Rebuff for the colonel in three important rulings excluding testimony offered by the defense. Sev eral witnesses wore presented by the defense to support Roosevelt’s charges. - —o KITCHEN CABINET SALE The housewife who needs a kitchen cabinet will do well to take advantage of the splendid offer now being made by Yager Bros. & Reinking, this well known pioneer furniture house offer ing a $28.00 cabinet for $20.00 even money. The display in the window is attracting considerable attention and already a number of orders liavc been taken. Better get in at once. o COAL MAN BUYS FORD. The Kalver & Sikes agency yesterday delivered a five passenger Ford to Emerson Bennett, the coal man. of this city. _o FOR SALE. Rose Comber Rhode Island Red eggs for hatching, 3c and 5c a piece. J. P. SMITH, 85-t-t-s-2wks Preble, Ind. (FOR RENT—Furnished rooms.—Mrh j Lase Ellis. ’Phone 410. 7Stf

Boom of Big Guns, Early in April. 1912, a man living nt Mambiedon, near Ge-dalmlng, wrote to the Spectator, saying: “As 1 sat reading the other afternoon I heard, or, rather felt, a long vibrating boom several times repeated. I thought at first It was a motor van maneuvering behind the bouse, but found nothing there. Then I guessed what it might be and forthwith wrote to the chief gunnery officer of his majesty’s ship Orion to mnke sure. I am therefore able to state that the discharge of the Orion’s guus was distinctly audible ninety-seven statute miles from the ship, the sound taking somewhere about eleven minutes to travel the distance.” An even more remarkable instance of the immense distance at which gun lire can be heard was afforded at the time of the French victory at Steinbach. The booming of the guns was distinctly heard on the northern slopes of the Bernese Alps far down in Switzerland. The distance is just eighty miles as the crow flies, and in tills case it must be remembered that the guns were not the 13.5 naval giants, but merely field artillery.—Lon don Opluion. Ravenous Eaters. Gibbon tells of Soilman. a caliph in the eighth century, who died of acute Indigestion in his camp near Chah-is, In Syria, just as he was about to lead an army of Arabs against Constantinople. He had emptied two baskets of eggs and figs, which he swallowed al ternately, and the repast was finished with marrow and sugar. In a pilgrimage to Mecca the same caliph had eaten with impunity at a single meal seventy pomegranates, a kid. six fowls and a huge quantity of the grapes of Taycf. Such a statement would defy belief were not others of a similar character well avouched. Louis XVI. could hardly boast of an appetite as ravenous as Sollman's, but he would eat at a sitting four platefuls of different soups, a whole pheasant, a partridge, a plateful of salad, mutton hashed with garlic. two good sized slices of ham, a dish of pastry and finish this ample repast with fruit and sweetmeats.— London Saturday Review.

Fighting a Forest Fire. The combat with fire in the woods Is usually as tense and as exciting as a conflagration In a city. From the instant smoke is discerned ascending into the blue above there is action Upon reaching the scene the racing squads of fighters begin work by un dertaklng the tasks as outlined by the system. First one group starts with the cutting tools and rakes, clearing up a streak of ground several feet wide in the pathway of the fire. The men with water bags follow, wetting down this strip. Then come the back tirers, who start fires from this point back into the main conflagration. When the tires meet they extinguish for want of material to burn. When the atmospheric conditions materially assist the flames the work of back firing is best done at night or when the air is still est—L. IL Terry In Countryside Maga zine. Proved His Case. A teacher was holding an oral examination in an Intermediate geography class one day and asked, “What Is the difference between the people of a state and those of a territory?” Only one hand was raised. But a radiant smile illuminated the face of little Donald ns he rose and said, “The people of a territory cannot sing.” This answer was puzzling to all, so the teacher asked him to explain. Whereupon he said: “The geography says that the people of a territory have no voice, so bow could they sing?”—Cleveland Leader.

Making It Clear to Him. He (bitterly)—Before we were mar rled you never found my social defi clencles so annoying. She (swietly)Perhaps not, but you must allow some thing for the broadening influence of time. The very fact that I married you revealed my own callow inexperi ence.—Richmond Tiines-Dispatch. To Help Him Meet the Cost. “So you are contemplating marriage?'' "That’s what!” “Have you paused to consider the high cost of living?” “Nary pause. I considered it on the way to propose and then I put on more speed. Iler father has money.”— Houston Post Its Complaint. One day small Sadie was watching the lid of the teakettle rise and fall, emitting at the same time tiny puffs of steam. Finally she said: “Mamma, you'd better call in the doctor. The teakettle's get the asthma.”—Chicago News. ——, — Retiring Before the Enemy. Owens—My tailor will be here in half an hour. Elevator Boy—Yes, sir; shall I ask him to wait? Owens—Certainly not, you idiot! What do you suppose I’m going cut for?—Boston Trancript Domestic Bliss. “Does your husband ever speak harshly to you?” “No. Thank heaven, my husband and I are not on speaking terms!”— Chicago Herald. Reversible. If the hat is becoming the girl is pretty, and if the girl is pretty the hat is becoming. It’s easy. — Galveston News. Love, that seldom gives us happiness. at least makes us dream of it.— Senancourt.

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AGENTS WANTED--One for each township in Adams county, to sell the “New Era Rope Machine.” Every farmer needs one. A proposition that will make you big money. Address F. J. McWhinney, Geneva, Indiana. 103t3 WANTED—GirI for general house work. Two in family. .'Phone 339. 85tf Shoddy paint, like Shoddy cloth, soon shows the wear; it looks nice to start with. Maybe tnat’s the kind of paint you used on your house a year or so ago. You’ll not make the same mistake again, if you can help it; and you needn’t if next time you use Devoe Lrad-and-Zinc Paint. It's an “all wool” paint made to stay on a long time and look well while it's on; it’s paint protection to property and pocket look. JOHN BROCK, Agency.

iHHSW II Weihave about 40 pieces new jj = ’ ll! and Greys. | p^S. sell 1 I FAST GOOD I j™S_jAjTERNS | THE BOSTON STORE J

LAWN MOWERS The INDIANA BALL BEARING, a first class, high wheel, ball bearing mower, the easiest pushing mower on the market. This mower for $6.00 is equal to any SB.OO mower. Other mowers at prices ranging from $3, up. Are you prepared to take care of your little chicks? When driving along the road you will see our Sanitary Brood coop in almost every chicken park. Let us explain the merits of this coop. If it is anything in the harness line you need, WE HAVE IT. CHAS. F. STEELE 4 COMPANY NORTH SECOND STREET

LOK TRADE —Good five passenger automobile for a vacant lot. Inquire of Erwin & Michaud. 101t6

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