Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 205, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 205.

LAST SESSION OF INSTITUTE rr~r • « | , —■■■« Teachers Express Deep Regret That Institute Cannot Be extended Over ANOTHER WEEK Instructors Leave This Evening—Mrs. Gibson of Marion Spoke Il is with much regret on the part of the teachers and thos- who have teen visitors at the count* Institute, that today was the 'ast d«, that lhe excellent and instructive lectures would be delivered. It lias been a week filled vlth sre.it o|>pt>r.uniities for the teachers a .-1 from all indications every one has ad vantage of them to the fuller* dcgsec. The Friday morning sess oi. was opened with a song service !•?’. by I'rof Jiohnhaus and was foil .- • <! by devo;ional services by Mrs. G>* • -n »f Marion. Indiana. Mrs. M t-'s had the opening lecture forth: la«« -lay and spoke on the sul ’ect ‘A I ic?-. i t I by chology ” Forming DisTkes. Mrs. Mikels said: The greater part of the physical changes in a childs life contiues in the years of twenty. If a child sees the likes or dislikes of older people it os-1 ually effects him in the way of making ,iim liold or create within him a spirit of embarrassment If some of you teachers have bad mannerism in school it will always effect your pupils. Bad appearance of a teacher in the class room effects the interest of the class. Teachers always be willing to take advice, remove evt rv cause ot oifence. Treat the child which mayhave an immediate taste with respect. Adolescent period should rot be ifcored but watched careL'lly. The un dermining influences upen the boys and girls depends upon the kcality in which they are. Liqnor . moving pictures, postal cars with immoral pictures, theater, dance etc. always efelements or flanger which greatly effect the adolseent period. Father and mother should both .o--k after the child, not the mother a'< ne. Many hoys lack the father's lu’.uen-? In having a perfect home the father nnd mother together form more p-ifect comradeship.

Dr. then gave a talk on “The Green Teacher. ’ A Man Os Le-’”« Greeness means I ife. Life is not enough for the teacher but he eeds vitaliyt. Professional vitality in our American Institution is not very great. In our schools on the average from 20 to 25 i>er cent of ou/' te'.ehers each year are new. It is as dangerous fyr a teacher to teach if he only teaches for the money that he can get out of it. Greeness not only applies to vitality lut also to freshness It is a part of the teachers' individuality. The green tupplies also growth Every teacher slimily grow professionally. The true present growth and development. Every teacher should be capable of learnii.g new information and trv something new. The cause of education have been kept by many teachers ulo a e too conservative. It is'aL right tn be conservative but the pr.»g’ess of ti c world is made monthly h_ men who dared Centralization of schools helps ah.ng the better education. At the close of his period Dr. Gordinier recited the interesting poem "The Cai Path” by Samuel Walter Foss. The sectional period « tn ned over to the following X • primary section, siujeit “Compo.i---lion; Mrs. Gibson who st ke on the “Childhood Betterm?'t Dr td'n ••r, intermediate sectio. euh'ect James R. Lowell. ’ A Man Os Letfart T.owell is one of our greatest men of letters of America. Lowell's father who was a Unitarian preacher, pursuaded his son to becom- a lawyer but this proved to be a *>urt then he lectured, but this also o r o«i o to be • failure He became disco iragcc. and attempted to end his dife with a revolver. Finally he met Mare White and the is the person wno wa given the credit for exercising the wholesome influence. In 1844 he married Miss White, the marriage being postpned Until this date on account of financial difficulties. His Biglow papers prove <o be interesting but they ate not rend today as they ought to b> read. Per-

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haps his Vision of Sir 1-tui.fa! is his most popular poem but bis masterpiece is his Commoration Odes. Present critics say that Ixiwell wrote to much, even Bowel’ himself said so. ‘First Snow Fall’ was written by Lowell in commemoratlor. cfhis oldest daughter. In 1853, Marie, his wife, Nlied and Lowell began t ■ teach. He held the chair for professorship tn Harvard for 16 years He was editor ot the Atlantic Monthly for four years an,i editor of the American Review for ten years, (1865 74 Ho was very successful as a writer. In 1876 he was selected as representative f Massi’sschusettes by the Republican party at the national convention. In 1877 lie was chosen as minister to Spain by Hayes. A few years Litter he was sent to England. During Clevelands administration he resigned I is p< si ’.ion at St. James Pott and re-married in the home where he had wr'tten st; much. In 1891 he pased away. We have a right to call an all around man of letterWonderful Accord ’’a’ • The previous work wa« continued. Language work was d trussed If you are sure anything is not going to work in your schoolroom, don’t try it on a child. If a child wants you to repeat a thing, do it; you have made a wonderful accomplis! ipu! t. There rte certain things tbit just seem to meet the childs requirement. Their work can be socialized, then w het written work is required, the pup'i has the work and can do it admirably. He has secured fluecyn ad he can ar>ange his ideas logical y. A Factor In F’r At ■} Mrs. Gibson filled the p»rt<-4 <f Miss "addis on the «übje t ot cid'.dbond I betterment. She said: The child is ar. importac. fsrict In the world. Many movements h ive teen undertaken to the bc’terment of child-hood. Most of all. ‘1 e eshdds life is molded in the schol. A child must be taught to conserve his physicial hody. This is the wo’-k of ’«• teaching of scientificq temperance. Already the average life- of a perron 1 as been increased, showing that some results have been obtained. Mss Gibson illustrated her lecture by the means of charts which could also I e used to good advantage in teaching this subject In the schocis. All narcotics destroy ceh growth. This statement was well illustrated by relating incidents of arrested developments caused bv the use of opium and tobacco. Noreotics isolate nerve cells of the brain. This is the reason for he befuddled conversat ion of the drunkard. Many of the dwarfed animals of the circusses and shows were brought to this condition by being purposely given narcotics. In every case the highest scholarship is showen by the non-smokers. R< d bl od corpuseles shrivel up through t! < power of narcotics. Since the red blood corpuscles carry the food in the blood, it is evident that through their destructhe body will lack sufficient nurishment Narcotics also destroy the white corpuscles which a r e the disease scavangers of the body. Railloads or corpo'aliens no longer are hiring or giving prefcrenci to any but totali abstainers “He faiels best who travels lig 'test on life’s highway.”

THURSDAY AFTEPNOON The afternoon session "as opened with the old familiar song, “Annie larurie,, following which Dr. Gordinicr gave an appealing lecture on the subject "Ich Dien” (1 serve.) What Are You? One of the questions asked in the old world today is. “Who are you?” In our own country we ask, “What are you and what van you do?” Anything that smacks of royalty is discountenanced in our democracy. While it is all right to boast of our ancertry, yet we should ask oursejvcs “What would our ancestors think of us”? If all our people who are claiming to be able to trace their ancestry back to the people who came over in the Mayflower are correct, the historians of the day were wonderfully mistaken in the size of the ship. The fundamental principle of service is this: “Service is always rendered by a superior to an inferior, and the greater the degree of service rendered the greater the degree of superiority. Every young man- or young woman is able to work his or her way through college today. Therefore I make a plea for a broader training so that they may be a broader degree of service rendered. The greatest service we can render our pupils is to teach them to do things for themf elves. Inspiration is a great force in the world’s work. Inspiration can be gotten from literature. We never know the limit of a service rendered. If you serve the child you serve the ,(-. ont l nueQ on p a ge 3,)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, August 27, 1915.

REPORTON NEWS Clem Steigmeyer Will Join the Reportorial Staff of the Fort Wayne News WILL START SEPT. 6 Was Editor of the Indiana Daily Student—A Graduate of Indiana University Clem Steigmeyer snn of Joseph Steigmeyer of east of the city a graduate of Indiana university and former Editor of the Indiana Daily Student, the college paper published at Bloomington will leave for Foil Wayne on September 6th, where he has been offered and already accepted a position as city reporter on the I’ort Wafne Daily News. Clem does not know exactly what kind of special work lie will be asigned to except that he will be a memberof the city reporterial staff. Mr. Steigmeyer has been taking up newspaper work for the past three years at Bloomington -and during, his senior year he was editor in chief of the college daily. The year before he was doing reporting. Clem is a live one at the game a scholarly, intelligent writer and will no doubt prove to be one of the best men on the Fort Wayne papers. We predict for him success and brightest kind of a future and know that some day we will hear about him in public life. Clem graduated ,ror Indiana university last June. He vas a member of the 1911 graduating class of the Decatur high school. His hundreds of friends in and around Decatur wish him all kinds of success in hfs rapid and steady advancement

SOME JORESTER Attorney J. T. Merryman Discovers Twenty-five Varieties of Trees ON SMALL PLOT Os Ground On Dorwin Farm Near Monmouth --Wants Children to See AB an evidence that Attorney James T. Merryman has at some time or other been a devout Studer t of forestry and that he is well acquainted with various trees in this section of the country as well as their names, aiso rhat it is one of the greatest pleasures of his life to leave the cares and worries of the hustle and bustle of existence behind and g° out and commune witli nature in her own wonderful cathedral and harken back to the days of boyhood, the following article was given us: Ask your wife to fill a basket with fried chicken. Picnic pie. cookies, salad,, fruit hot coffee and numerous other picnic edibles and request your congenial neighbor and his wife to join you and the Kiddies in a mid-day lunch in the woods; and while trying to straighten up and adjust your distended abdominal regions, wander over the little patch of forest and point out and name to the kiddies the different kin ’s of native trees in the Dorwin woods, where we. with our good neighbor Hooper, wife and sister enjoyed a fine picnic lunch on yesterday. We noticed a White Oak. A Burr Oak, a black ash. a white, or water ash. a walnut, an elm. a slippery elm, a red oak. a black hickory, a pignut or white hickory, a linden or bass wood, a cottonwood, a buckeye, a willow, a hackberry an iron-wood, a beech, a water beech, a wild cherry a honey locust, a pawpaw, a soft maple a hard maple or sugar tree, a thorn and a sycamore tree; all on an acre or two of forest; and believe me the kiddies will have learned to appreciate a growing tree as never before and possibly you mav find that Adams county has a greater variety of valuable ‘‘wood/’ than you bad thought. Those named are not all of the different kinds of woods indigious to our native soil but then we were not over all of the little patch of forest where we lunched. Try >t. Yours for more out of doors. JAMES T. MERRYMAN.

BOOSTS FOOT BALL GAME. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 27—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Having completed an organization as efficient and thorough as any political organization, Charles A. Greathouse, who heads the University of Indiana alumni, boosting the Indiana Washington ami Lee foot ball game to be played here October 30, said today that in every county of the state work would be started at once to arouse enthusiasm for the game. Greathouse, himself an alumnus of die university, has appointed a graduate in each county to round up all the alumni and bring them to Indianapolis for the game,, which, because of its intersectional natufe, will be one of the biggest games played in the state this fall.

THIEVES BUSY Three Bicycles Are Reported Stolen From the City Last Evening. TWO WERE TAKEN From Main Streets and the Third Disappeared From Jacob Atz Resident A wholesale robbery of bicycles from the city last evening has kept Marshall Melchi and Sheriff Green ousy this qiorning endeavoring to find some trace of the thieves or the wheels. The first robbery was reportad by James Eady residing in the west part of the city and who stated that about 7 o'clock he rode to the city to attend to some business affai ?s cud had left the wheel standing near the Martin & Joseph restaurant. An hour later he started to get the wheel to ride home and found it had been stolen. The second report came shortly afterward from Fred Gay, son of James L. Gay. Fred had ridden h's wheel to the Gay, Zwick £ Myers furniture store and had left it standing along the curbing while h? went into the store. Upon coming out of the building a vacant spot greeted hi n where but a few moments before he had left his bicycle. The third ronbery was not reported to the officials until this morning, and was that of Robert Atz. son of Mr and Mrs. Jacob Ate and who reported that his bicycle had been stolen from the yard in front of the Atz residence on North Second street some time during the night. The officials have practically no clues to work on with the exception of a description of the wheels and these were telephoned to the surrounding cities this morning. It is thought however that the bicycles were taken by boys residing in this city an,t that they will soon be recovered.

UPON John Spuhler, Auctioneer and Business Man Is at Hospital, Ft. Wayne HOPES FOR RECOVERY Are Expressed By Physicians—Has Been in Declining Health John Spuhler, well known auctioneer and business man of this city, was operated on yesterday morning at the Hope hospital, Fort Wayne, by Drs. Porter and Weaver. He was on the operating table two and a half hours an dthe operation was a very delicate one, to relieve an ailment of the kidney and bladder front which he has suffered for several months. He recovered from the anesthetic last evening and indications were that he would get along nicely though this cf course cannot be determined for several days definitely. He is receiving the very best care possible three physicians and a special nurt-e being in charge. He has been ailing for some time and.underwent a slight operation several months ago which however failed to relieve him. His many good friends here and over the county sincerely hope his recoverv will be a (Continued on Page 4.)

FIRST _BARBECUE Democrats of Eighth DisWill Feast at Elwood, Wednesday, Sept. 29 BIG SPEAKERS THERE Senator Ollie James, J. Ham Lewis,. Kern, Ralston and Others On List H. B. Heller, chairman of. the democratic county committee retu.ned this morning from Elwood, where lie attended a meeting of tlie county chairmen and a number of w>.-kr-r< of the district. It was an emeus'! ttia session held at the city lia-1 an 1 the interest manifested is pen. that the organization for the 19'6 can paign will be the best ever made in the district. State auditor Dale Crittenb'Tge:. Con gressman Adair, Dist-ict c.t.ti' man W. Zs Kunkle, Senator Van Nays prom irently mentioned as a cmididatc L.-r governor and other well known demo crats attended th? meeting. It was decided t t«f a district barbecue be held at ElwocJ < i U'-*.!i'-«day September 29th a <1 v committee on arangements including the county chairman, Mr. Kunkle, Mr. Campbell end several Elwood m»c, was named The speakers for the oc->n it is announced will lie Sena* >r <’•. - e James of Kentucky, Senator J Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Senator Ken. Governor Ralsonfi, the Indiana congressmen, the state officials anj numerous candidates for state office. It wil: l>. c big event with many features and it is expected that an immense crowd will be in attendance. Later county meetings will be held over the dis trict.

OFF FORJUNION L. F. Schroeder and Others Leave For St. Marys, 0., To Attend Big Event WHICH OPENS MONDAY Family Will Gather From Many States---A Special Train From Nebraska L. F. Schroeder of the German Re liable Meflicme company, accompanied by his family left this afternoon in his automobile, with the graophone whistle playing a lively march, headed for St. Marys. Ohio, to attend the big Schroeder reunion which opens there next Monday and continues one week. This is no ordinary event for 288 families will be in attendance, representing every state in the uni./t except’ng Connecticut and Vermont and relafives will meet relatives who they have never seen. The reunion opens Monday, at the acme of Fred Schroeder, five miles southwest of St. Marys, that day b’ing the 103rd birthday of that pioneer, and it is needless t-’ sav the event will be duly celebrated * solid train is coming from Nfbrft'ks City Neb., tarrying relatives and bringing along a big brass band to emivcu the doings Mrs Mary Schulte ut'C Mrs l.mma Uetrecht, of Fort Wayne, daughters of Fred Schroeder came nor: ii. their cars today and with several others joined L. F. and his far Uy and proceeded to Ohio. GOVERNORS TAKE ISSUE Boston, Aug. 27,—(Seecial to Daily Demcorat) —Governor Walsh of Massasschussettes in a spirited address during the close of the governors conferece here today took issue with exgovernor Blease of South Carolina whose speech yesterday defended the spirit of southern lynching mobs. It was said here yesterday that ‘when there are no more mobs, liberty willl be dead.’ I want to object most strenously to that statement. Liberty does 'nt mean that. There ca be no liberty without obedianee to the law, to the courts, and confidence in the courts and juries,” said the Massasschuttes executive.

HOOSIER HISTORY IN TABLOID. i (United Press Service) Despite the anti-slavery provision in the ordinance of 1787. there was a strong sentiment in favor of slavery in Indiana territory. Governor V’. H. Harrison presided at a convention in Vincennes in 1802 when congress was asked to suspend prohibition for ten years as slaves were needed to develop the country. The United States census returns show that there were 190 slaves in the state in 1820. The last negro slave in Indiana is said to have died in 1843. o OPENING OF ZION SCHOOL Zion Lutheran School will commence fall term Sepjt. 6th, when lessons for next day will be assigned to pupils. START JEM OFF With the Beginning of School Is the Instruction of State Superintendent TO SCHOOL PATRONS The Right Start Means to the Children More Than People Imagine. Indianapolis, Aug. 29—Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles A. Greathouse, seeking to improve conditions in the schools of the state. I especially in the curing of truanev ■ end in stimulating incentive to study, has made an appeal to all school pat- i rons proceeding the opening of the 1 fall term.

“At the beginning of the new school year,” says Superintendent Greathouse, "a special effort should be made by parents, teachers and school authorities to see to it that all children of school age are enrolled at the very beginning of the school term and properly provided with books and supdies. Children who are given such in opportunity at the very opening of school will, in the vast majority of cases, become interested and attend school regularly throughout the school year, and do satisfactory work. Children who are not given the opportunity of the right kind of a beginning very soon become discouraged, either because of a late start, the other pupils being ahead, or I ecause nit being provided with the necessary books and supplies, they become embarrassed and discouraged and natur ally fail early in the term “To have all children in school at the opening of the term, provided with books, is not only a very important but a very difficult problem. On this account school authorities should have the hearty co-operation of the teachers and parents. “The members of the heard of truancy wish to urge county and city superintendents at their opening Institutes to give special attention to th° matter of getting all children properly started. Superintendents ana also teachers, of couse, understand that the problem of dealing with truant children is one which needs careful study and very wise and patient treatment.

"It is impossible to deal with this subject in a wholesale manner. Each case is a special one and requires individual study. A too liberal use of force and of the courts will drive from school permanently many children who otherwise could be saved to the sechools and themselves by proper encouragement.” o GREATER RAINS IN 1858. Hiawatha, Kans.. Aug. 26 —The biggest floods northeast of Kansas known until the present summer rain were those of 1858, which caused troubles that so far have not followed in the wake of this year's rains. Following the floods of that year both Brown and Nemaha counties were afflicted with typhoid fever, caused by the overflow and pollution of streams, wells and springs and the decay of vegetable matter caused by the rains. Persons who traveled through northeast Kansas in those days report that sick people were to be found everywhere, and in many cases they had to sleep in rooms occupied by sick men. oSOCIAL AT MAGLEY Another ice cream social will he given Saturday evening at the Kolter Brothers store at Magley. Everybody is invited.

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ARABIC CASE TO BESETTLED Ambassador Bernstorff Says Submarine Commander Disobeyed WILL PAY INDEMNITY If Found Torpedo Sunk Ship-Germans Capture many Cannons (By Charles P. Stewart,) Washigton, Aug. 27.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —German ambasador Berstorff today assured Secretary Lansing that if a German submarine torpedoed the liner Arabic, its commander exceeded his instructions and full satisfaction would be accorded the United States. It was learned today on unofficial but unquestionable authority that the foilowig points wil be made by the Berlin government in its statement to the administration. ‘lt was never Germany’s policy to torpjedo passenger carrying ships without warning. Submarine coinanders were always instructed to let those on board always escape before sinking a merchantman. If any commander did otherwise he did

trary to orders. If this were not true the destruction of uarmed merchant!me would have been greater. This inI formation, in part at least, has already 'reached the state department. Am- , bassador Bernstorff remarked “that the offer of full satisfaction” was conj siderably further than Germany had 'hitherto gone. He plainly considered all danger of German-American friction over. . Washington, Aug 27,—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Considerable “confidential” information from Gerard., Berlin was reaching the state department today. German Ambassador Bernstorff called at the state depa t--1 ment at 10:05 today for a short talk. He would not discuss the nature of iiis business or say whether he had received further instructions from Berlin. What may be regarded as Germany's preliminary explanation of the Arabic’s sinking was in the hands of the state department today. Its tenor may be known before night. Washington, Aug. 27,—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Secretary of war, Garrison today received the following telegram from Major General Leona d Wood at the Plattsburgh, New York, Citizens training military camp. “Your telegram received and the policy laid down will be rigidly adhered to,” When asked if lie had seen Col. Roosevelts comment on the rebuke of Gen. Wood. Secretary Garrison said it was not his duty to save the C< lonel from himself. Berlin, Aug. 27. —(Special to aDily Democrat)—More than 20C 000 prisoners, several thousand cannons and enough rifles to suppy several army divisions have been taken by the Germans since the fall of Warsaw, 'n the past three weeks the Slavs have been driven back 100 miles from their center. All their first line defenses have been captured and the fall of Breast Litovsk leaves only the fo’tless of Grodno of the second line still in tlie hands of the Grand Duke's troops Grodno’s surrender to Von Hindenberg is expected before the end of the week. For the second time the German admiralty today issued a state ment declaring the Russian claims that the cruiser Moltke and other German ships had been destroyed in the Gulf of Riga was a “fake.” “No such battle took place the admiralty state 1. o COURT HOUSE NEWS The transcript of the case of the State of Indiana on relation of Xola Charleston vs. Grover Fetters, tried before Justice of the Peace Joel Lidiiy of Monroe township, June 17th, was filed in circuit court this morning, it is a paternity suit and the defendant was bound over giving bail in the sum of SSOO. Hunting licenses have been issued to J. F. Bodman. C. H. Colter, Milton Hoffman, Gust Yake. J. D. Brown and J. H. Barnett. FOUR BURNED TO DEATH San Francisco, Aug. 27,—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Mrs Pershing, wife of General J. J. Pershing and her three children were burned to death today at their home at the Presidio