Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evary Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW 0. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Ratea Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 10.00 Per Month, by mail 26 cents Per Year, by mail 12.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postofflee in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. District Chairman W. A. Kunkle has notified the county chairmen to meet at Elwood Thursday evening of this week, when plans for a big district love feast will be discussed and suggestions offered tor the campaign of 1916, which will open soon. Wouldn't it be great if the weather men who seem to have acquired the habit of predicting clouds and showers. should miss it once and that instead we would have a week or two of good weather? It would mean a saving of a larger per cent of the crops than has been predicted and would bring thousands of dollars to the farmers of Adams county and the middle west. Let's hope. Decatur needs a public auditorium, opera house and place for public meetings. There are at present several ideal locations and it is' to be hoped that plans now discussed will mature into the forming of a company which will erect a new block that the city may feel proud of. We believe it would be a paying institution and know it would be one fully appreciated by our citizens. According to the report sent out from the census department at Washington Adams county is the fortythird count}' in Indiana, rated as to valuation, which means that there are forty-nine counties with a smaller valuation. Lake county with the steel mills of Gary, springs into second place, while Vanderburg, formerly | second, falls back to sixth. This ■ county makes a good showing ataopg those counties which have no large cities of immense manufacturing concerns. Thomas A. Edison, the world's greatest inventor, and one of the nation’s most wonderful business men. Sranii CbrtljM % *' u ’ A. i t’B4- 4 1 1 la Ina y* * l M ’ ! Al V* Young Men’s Clothes 1 —— l Most exclusive showing of Young Men’s Society Brand Clothes. $lB to $25 THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

today predicts prosperous business conditions in this country for a period of at least seven years. He says "war orders are lending a flush to conditions that is not real, but underneath them 1 see prosperity *f the most sublime sort. But one thing can overcome it to overdo it. The real prosperity will come at the dose of next year when the armies of Europe will have laid down their weapons and turned to more peaceful pursuits.” We believe he is right and that you can well afford to base your w future plans upon his predictions. The candidacy of Gary's mayor. R. O. Johnson, for the republican nomination for the governorship doca not seem to he taken seriously by either the leaders or th" rank and tile of the republican i-urtv. 'there is nothing in his record thus fir to indicate that he is of gubernatorial size. Besides, his attempt at a specta ular tour of the state makes his rand! lacy a sort of burlesque. Goshen Democrat All of which may be true, but it should be remembered that the record of Jim Goodrich and some of the others in opposition to Johnson are not as clear as crystal, politically, which may make some difference when it comes to getting votes. Those who know M. M. Dunbar, the new superintendent of the Hartford City schools, believe that he will make a good man for the position. While he lacks experience in this particular line of school work in cities of this size, he is possessed of a fine education, and has those personal qualities so necessary in an executive. His recommendations from those where he has been engaged in st hool work are of the highest character. That he will develop into a strong man his friends confidently believe. The school board is to lie commended for its choice, as there were a large number of excellent men who are applicants and it was no easy matter to arrive at a decision. — Hartford City News.

j DOINGS IN SOCIETY J WEEK'B CLUB CALENDAR. Thursday. Helping Hand Society—Sunday School Room. The Ladies Mite Society of Mt. Pleasant church will meet Thursday afternoon of this week with Mrs. Charles Sheets .Every member should be present as business of importance is to be discussed. Please bring your thimble and your carpet needle. Twenty four guests accepted the hospitality of the C. A. Dugan home last evening when they responded to the invitation of the Misses Dorothy and Naomi Dugan to be present at an informal porch party given in honor of the house guests. Miss Helen Schaab of Auburn and Mr. George Nachtrieb ot Goshen. The spacious porch of the residence afforded a most delightful gathering place for the guests, who thoroughly enjoyed the evening in dancing and conversation. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostesses later in the evening. assisted by their sister. Miss Helen. Miss Gladys Flanders is sixteen years old today and in honor of the event she is the hostess at a most delightful party this afternoon, the guests including a large number of her girl friends. The Misses Vera and Mabie Hower assisted by Miss Ruth Parrish will entertain the Queen Esthers of the Methodist church at the Dallas Hower home on Monroe street Thursday evening. Nineteen little friends gathered ut the home of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Haines on Adams street last evening as guests to a farewell party for Mis. Haines sister, Miss Florence Bertel who will return to her home in Norih Dakota next week. The evening was most enjoyablely spent in guessing games and contest the prize being awarded to Miss Ireta Beavers who in turn presented it to the guest of honor. Miss Bertel was also presented with a beautiful silver friendship bracelet by the guests. Those present were Ireta Beavers. Katherine Kooker, Helen Kooker. Margaret Holihouse, Charlotte Niblick, Winifred Clark, Naomi Durkin, Lois Hammond, Margaret Mylott. Helen Gass. Francis Snyder, Velma Snyder, Grace Laughlin, Germaine Christen, Florence Har-

rls, Simon and Joseph Smith, and Leon Guss. Miss Katherine Smith of Fort Wayne was an out-of-town guest. Delightful refreshments were served. The Mite society of the Methodist church will be entertained In the church parlors Friday afternoon ut two thirty o’clock. A fine program will be delivered. All members are requested to be present. • SECOND DAY OF INSTITUTE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) The second period was in charge of Dr. Gordinier. whose talk was also a continuation of the morning subject, "The Teacher's Creed." Dr. Gordinier said: Charity is the third factor of the teacher's creed. If you cannot put yourself into your child’s place you cannot show sympathy. Teachers must show sympathy. In every heart there is a craving for love and fellowfeeling. Do you teachers have the same sympathy for others that you would ask for yourself? We should have human as well as the professional sympathy for the child. Try and reach the given standard. A lack of fellow-feeling is not always found in the primary grades, but very often discovered in the high school, college and university. Lack of sympathy brings a loss of confidence. It is a mistake to ask for sympathy, but give a good deal. The third and last period was devoted to the sectional work. Mrs. Mikels addressing the primary section on “Articulation and Enunciation.” Dr. Gordinier addressing the high school section on “What is Literature?" and Mr. Hutchins talking to the intermediate section on the subject of “soils.” What is Literature? Dr. Gordinier gave a masterful and instructive talk on his subject. "What is Literature?” to the high school section and gave the following points of testing real literature: What is literature? There are a good many definitions found. But they are hard to understand and explain. Literature gives us things in life. Life is made up of thoughts, emotions and actions. Every teacher should be a careful investigator in English. Work out something new. 1 think that literature is art. Before a written production has any right whatever to be called literature it must be tested by the following points: 1. It must contain a worthy theme. 2. It should have a distinctive style. 3. It should lie capable of being interpreted. 4. It must be suggestive and ought to appeal to the mind and imagination. (Poetry’ is a production and that branch of literature which is written only to please). 5. It ought to be universal. 6. It ought to be permanent. Teaching Articulation. The primary department received an equally instructive and pleasing lecture on the subject. "Articulation and Enunciation,” by Mrs. Mikels Mrs. Mikels said it were well if children came to us from homes where parents articulated and enunciated correctly. Slovenly enunciation and articulation are American traits. Clear enunciation and articulation should have a separate part in a school program apart from reading. The teacher makes the school, for the child is an imitator and will read and talk as the instructor. Every word should have its right weight and its correct relation to the subject. 1. The first case of articulation and enunciation is slovenliness. 2. The-child may not speak distinctly because of defective hearing. 3. The foreign element is to be considered. Bad spelling is simply a case of poor articulation. When a child really knows what he says his faulty spelling will vanish. Treatise on Soil \Types. During the very short time tliat Mr. Hutchins has been in the city he has already formed a strong friendship with the teachers and the interest and attention given him assures a hearty co-operation with him in his work as county agent for Adams county. Mr. Hutchins spoke to the intermediate section on "Soil Types.” .renin W.gdcmfw vbgkq cmf cmf gfi 1. Soil types: (a) Clay soil; (b) sandy soil; (c) loamy soil; (d) muck soil. Discussion of sandy soil. First collect specimens of sandy soil. It is made up of gritty particles. A clayey soil is composed of disintegrated sandy soil. Loam soil formed by a composition of the first two. Muck soil formed by the decay of vegetation. Formation of soil caused by disintegration of rock and by organic matter. Heat, wind, bacteria, water, temperature are some of the forces which cause the decay of rocks. Rocks may also be broken apart by plants. An illustration of this was given in which a tree had grown through a rock. A crop must be adapted to the type of soil in order to produce the best results. Burrowing animals have a great physical effect upon the soils. Through these air and water are introduced into the soil. Bacteria through their action manufacture nitrates.

PUTS THE INTELLECT FIRST Educator Assart# That Ita Training la of More Importance Than la That of the Body. ’ Commenting on the theory, now so popular, that educators should concentrate on the training of hands rather than the training of minds. If the young persona of our land are to grow Into useful men and women, Mary Leal Harkness, writing in the Atlantic, gives it as her opinion that "it is a tremendous fallacy that the possessor of only the trained hand can hope with any well-founded confidence to be included in that desirable company which is both interesting and interested. "If you could persuade every woman to sweep a floor properly, I doubt much if she could still be guaranteed an agreeable companion for a rainy Sunday," continues the writer. "If you could teach every ‘white wing* In any city to remove the dirt of the streets In the most dustless and sanitary manner known to science, I still question whether you would wish him to come to your library for an evening of uplifting conversation. And he would be equally lacking in resources for self-entertainment in his unemployed hours. "If there is anything beneath the stars more pitiable than the elderly man or woman with no intellectual resources from which to draw occupation and Interest, I have not yet seen It. On the other hand, there Is nothing which so effectively robs the prospect of old age of Its terrors as the sight of the scholarly wearer of whitened hair which crowns a head still vigorous and young through the happy preservative agency of a trained and much-used intellect. "No mechanical process can guarantee to us an interesting life, or insure us against boredom. But just because it is something more than a mechanical process a college education of the right sort comes nearer doing this than any other agency we know —certainly nearer than any drill in cow-milking or scientific cooking. Its value to us and to the future of our country is beyond estimation. If the time ever comes when ‘vital’ is taken to be synonymous with 'lucrative;' when the life of the mind and the training of the mind are set below those of the body; when intelligence, as a means to a full and satisfying life, is superseded by prophylaxis and hygiene —then we may well wish that we had listened to a wiser teacher." Servant Problem Solved. Just to show how lucky are those parts of France which the Germans have overrun with fire and sword, an ingenious German press agent has invented the following story, the scene of which is laid in what is left of a once smiling village in the north of France. A worthy dame whose house has survived the gunnery practice of the kaiser's artillerymen—possibly because of its remoteness from the quaint old village church, now a heap of ruins—is talking to another of her species, presumably equally fortunate in having a roof over her graying bead. "Y’ou've no notion,” says the first dame, “how clean and in what perfect order everything is in our house. I never in all my born days saw the place so spic and span.” The second dame nods to show z her natural and proper interest In this bit of housewifely gossip. "I’m so glad, my dear’” says she, "that at last you’ve got a really good servant.” "Servant!" exclaims the first dame with Gallic vivacity. "Who said servant? It’s the dear German soldiers that's billeted in the house. They done the cleaning!”—New York Evening Post. Guncotton as Bait. A part of the equipment of some cavalrymen just returned to France from a few days’ furlough In England Is a flshiug-rod and several varieties ofl floats. But there are others who prefer to fish for the pot in more sudden and ruthless manner. Their method is very different They operate in those parts of the canals where roach and dace are thought—not always with reason—to be numerous. The final attack, as in all modern aggressive operations, is opened by the expenditure of explosives. But in this case the expenditure is not great. A small wad of guncotton neatly exploded under water is enough to account for all the fish within a considerable radius; and a few moments after the discharge the undersides of the roach and dace appear on the surface. The Idea was suggested by the accidental havoc wrought among the fish by a certain Jack Johnson. The Lion of St. Mark’s. The famous winged Lion of St. Mark, symbol of the old Venetian republic, which was endangered by the Austrian air attack on the city of the lagoons, is one of the most composite monuments in existence. It is of bronze with eyes of white agates—though Venetians tell you they are diamonds —and it is believed to have ornamented some ancient Assyrian palace before it came to Venice and was raised on the top of a column in the Square of St. Mark. The whole figure, as it now stands, belongs to many epochs, renovated again and again, and the only portion of the original animal remaining is the head —except the crown—and part of the body. When last renovated in 1891 the whole lion was found to be a mass of disconnected fragments bound together with iron bands.

DITCH SESSION

Resumed This Morning in Effort to Fix Assessments on Holthouse Drain. IS A BIG PROBLEM Affects Over Twenty Thousand Acres and Flat Cost Twelve Cents Per Acre. The trustees ot Root, Preble, Kirkland, Washington, French and Lancaster townships met again today to continue their deliberations concerning the proper assessments to be made under the new ditch cleaning law, >n the Holthouse ditch. A written opinion was filled by their attorney, H. B. Heller that only such benefits as are derived can be charged against a property., The attorney for the objecto-’s, D. B. Erwin, filed written objections to fixing a flat rate, it was found that the total number of acres affected by the ditch is 20.544, of which amount 13,800 lies in Kirkland township, it was also found that a flat rate • f twelve cents per acre will cover all the cost. While no opinion was announced and at 2:30 the trustees who will decide matter were still behin 1 closej doors it was believed from expressions made at noon that the assessments will be divided into first and second benefits. While there is much argument going on and what ever the decision is will prove satisfactory to some and just the opposite to the others, there is no question but that the trustees are trying to do their very best,As they would have others do to them, and that is certainly all that can b« asked. They are moving carefully and will likely solve the matter <n the best way they can.

REQUESTED TO DELAY ACTION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) hands of the Germans, thus severing the Petrograd-Poland railway, was made by a high official of the Russian war office today, "Our forces, however, will retain two trunk lines and various branches to withdraw our armies without danger of capture, said this official in an interview approved by the government. “We do not <eiieve that Petrograd is in any danger. Ample forces have been concentrated and necessary measures of protection have been taken.” East prange, N. J., Aug. 24. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Beyond t'te "hectic flush which immence war orders have given business conditions". 1 Thomas A. Edison, the famous inventor sees seven years of untrauameled prosperity ahead for the United States. “These war orders are lending a flush to business conditions that it not real, but underneath them I can see prosperity of the most sublime sort for this nation. But one thing can over come it, overdoing do. People must not lose their heads as has been the case Ix-fore. The real prosperity period will come at the close of the next year when the armies of Europe have laid down weapons and have turned to more peaceful pursuits." BARBER SHOPS CLOSE. The barber shops were closed from 9 to 12 o’clock this morning in order that all the barbers might attend the funeral of Mrs. Benjamin Schrank. The funeral services were held at ten o'clock from the Methodist church.

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THE VAN WERT PAID COUNTY r A. 11\. September 6-7-8-9-10, 'ls The Biggest Event ot the Year A High Spot In Ohio County Fairs Every Year A Little Better. The Premier Draft Horse Show —Noted Herds and Flocks--Superior Displays in All Departments. SPECIAL FEATURES rpHE State Dairy’ aud Food Exhibit. The State -L Nursery and Orchard Exhibit, illustrated with Moving Pictures. 150 Boys in Stock-Judging Contest Wednesday, Sept. B—Prizes amounting to more than $360 New Water System -New Stage at Grand StandFree Grand Stand at Horse-Judging ring Free Attractions and Entertainment

The Woman’s Congress Second Regiment Band Famous Hart’s Boy Band Beifords Troup of Acrobats

GOOD RACE PROGRAM DAILY—-Automobile and .Motorcycle Races on luesday; Harness Races, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday We advertise what we have and have what we advertise. Ask the man who has been here. J- M. DULL, Pres. E. V. WALBORN, Secy.

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Wilts and Wilts Sensational Roller Skaters Rube Wilkins With his Electric L'naphone Charlotte M. Brand Cornet and Vocal Soloist