Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1916 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates. Bor Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall 13.50 Sinele Copies 2 cents ——a——— ■a s i ii ■' '■ i»w. Advertising rates made known on Snnltratlon. tutored at the Postotilce in Decatur, Indiana, os second-class matter. Adams county corn lias grown a toot or two the past week and the outlook now is for even better than an average crop. The rains have heen just about right and it looks like the farmers of this Eden are being fairly well I taken care of. even though the springy was slow and soggy. Our attention was called to a field just south of, town today, planted the last day of . I June and which now gives every indication of producing a profitable harvest. We havn’t the least doubt but that most of the good things being said about Judge Huglies are true. He has ( held high positions including a -seat * with the judges of the supreme court of the United Slates, and the man who • can do these things has the ability. which brings forth favorable comment, t but just the same if he expects votes | next November he should open his' mouth and tell the people what would do different from what has been * done by the Wilson administration ' The voters will want to know and' they won't take any chances. Cliff Lipkey for eight years a member of the Journal-Gazette staff, and for fours years past, managing editor of that pai>er quits Ills desk today to assume the management of a large farm located near Uniondale and owned by an uncle. Its an unusual jump from the “paste and shears to fields of corn and wheat and fresh eggs and butter, but Cliff has no doubt figured it all out and knows just what he is doing. He lias long been recognized as one of tlie “best ia the biz" as an editor and we have not the least doubt but that he will win out as i a king of the broad acres. Good boy Cliff and good luck. No county in the state of Indiana can boast better roads than Adams and its a pleasure to drive over them. You ought to say so. Credit in good sized chunks is due Jim A. Hendricks, efficient county road superintendent and his assistants. They have done a great work and until the past two weeks did it under adverse

I Exceptional Values In Head Gear z - - Every Soft and Stiff Hat > / —w must be sold. Imperial hats that were $3.00 J ■ $2.35 '' AH soft and stiff hats that were $2.50 . $1.95 ■ I Panama Hats that are genuine ' ' were $6.00, now $4.50 ™‘A ''*’ '' ' All Fancy Dress Straw Hats r* i - 7 x off 9K All Sailors 1 y of f THE MYERS-DAILEY CO. THE STORE THAT DOES THINGS

weather conditions. Like other public officials the men who do this very .important work hear only the knocks und they are deserving of boquets of praise. It Is some job to look after six hundred miles of macadam road but Jim comes about as near doing it perfectly as any superintendent n ,the state and we'll bet on it. Congressman John A M. Adair, tn his campaign as the democratic nominee for governor, com luded a teu days’ speaking tour and lias returned I to Washington. The interesting feature of these meetings, aside from the fact that large crowds were on hand everywhere, was the large number of republicans and progressives who came to meet and hear the democratic nominee. But more Interesting still was the fait that large numbers of both republicans and pr ■-•grosslves pushed their way to the front to say they were making no secret of their I personal support and advocacy of the | election of the democratic national and state tickets. They are coming i to the party that has both the issue:: ! and the candidates that commend . themselves to the voters.—Franklin , Democrat. I The Bluffton Banner has the following to say of the » republican state ticket: I ' "It is difficult for an intelligent per ! 1 son to comprehend how a good faith i * progressive can vote the republican J ! ticket the next election, either state or . 1 national. James E. Watson and HarIry New are the candidates for the i I United States senate on the republican ticket, and James P. Goodrich is | the candidate for governor on the I same ticket. James E. Watson was I the floor manager of the republican I national convention at Chicago in .1912, and was directly responsible for the treatment of progressives in that convention. Harry New was national chairman of the republican party and James P. Goodrich was national committeeman from Indiana. New and Goodrich stood shoulder to shoulder with Watson and aided him in his vicious and unfair treatment of the progressives in that convention. All three were present at the killing, and each wielded his weapon of political death and destruction of the progressives. Thdfb same men are nowasking the votes from the hands of those whose political bodies still bear the mark of their political war club. i How an honest progressive can vote the republican ticket which bears their names, is a question which is difficult to solve. The same political conditions exist in all other states. The standpat republicans in charge of the republican party everywhere. Mr. Hughes as a bluff and a blind has made some former progressive members, of hie advisory committee, but the advice of such members will be no more heeded during this campaign than the advice of the progressives, including Colonel Roose- ’

vclt. was heeded by the republican na [ tiiMHil conventions of 1942 and 1916 It would seem that the .self-respecting progressive cannot vote the republican ticket at the next ejection." j 0OIN(iS IW I WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday. i U B. Ladies' Aid ice cream social — Mrs. John Hoover. Thursday. Loyal Women's Bible Class —Mrs. John Ilex. BEAUTY OF THE SOUL A noble soul spreads ever over a face in' which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace and often even triumphs over the natural disfavor. —Scholar. There were twenty or more at the meeting of the Christian Ladies’ Aid society at the home of Mrs. G. C. * Steele, corner of Marshall and Fifth’ streets yesterday afternoon. The so- ’ ctal side of life w-as chiefly considered ( and refreshments of ice cream and cake were served. Several business plans considered may be ready for an- * nouncement soon. The marriage of Marion Deam son of Mr and Mrs. J C. Deam.'of Ossian and Miss Luella Nigg, of Los Angeles, I will be solemnized at Los Angeles on ; July 2ft. Mr. Deam has been the prin- ’ cipal of the schools at Decatur, Hl., and . Miss Nigg lias been the teacher of German in the high school there. I They will make their home in DecaI tur, 111. during the coming year. Mr Deam is a brother of Mrs. Vane Weaver Boone. Miss Anna Wade left this morning for her home at Howe. She was ac- j companied to Fort Wayne by Mias Fanny Frisinger whose guest she was. | Both young ladies attended the wedding of Miss Luetta Cordier and Orland Thompson at Celina. 0., a week ' ago and Miss Wade accompanied Miss Frisinger here. Miss Cordier has visited here and is known to many here. Mrs. Alphonse Kohne and children, Bertha. Agnes. Raymond and Gerald will leave Sunday morning in their automobiles for a week’s visit at Cincinnati and Hamilton, Ohio. At Hamilton they will be the guests of Mr j and Mrs. Charles Cole. Mrs > Cole was formerly Miss Eetella Kohne Mrs. J C. Chambers, of Fort Wayne was the guest of Mrs. J. C. Patterson, yesterday.' Mrs. Chambers formerly taught music here and has many Decatur friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patterson, Miss) Marie Patterson and Dr and Mrs. | Fred Patterson will motor to Win-' Chester Sunday to spend the day with* the Will Cheney family and Miss ! Dora Irvin. The program for the Philatliea class at the home of Mrs. F. G Rogers last evening was a unique one, thoroughly enjoyed by the fifteen present. As the roll was called, each member responded with a reading, riddles or contest .or some other stunt. Refreshments of apricot ice and wafers were fine. "A

I hot weather program will be the uni-j que entertainment lor the August 'meeting with Mrs. Harve Schrolt. Ev-' ery one whe mentions th* hot weather will be fined. Each one is to bring a potato, paring knife and hat pin What will be done with these remains to be seen. The srfeial committe of the C. E .society of the Zion Reformed church met and decided to give a lawn fete the evening of August 2 at the Waterworks park. Tickets are being printed to sell at ten cents, redeemable for cream and cake, it was decided to run a country store at this social 1 and have a refreshment stand and homemade candies. Don’t forget the date and place. August 2. at Waterworks park. Mrs. C. V. Connell will give a six o'clock luncheon and five hundred informal parly this evening for Mrs. Julius Spies of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Tom Haefling of Indianapolis. | The Sunshine class of the Methodist Sunday school, taught by Bernice Beery went to Monmouth on the 11:30 ] car where they had a picnic dinner 'and spent the afternoon in the grove. Those in the party were Dolores Bai .longer, Bernice Leonard, Lecan Hunsicker, ifiary Macklin, Delight Aery. Esther Archbold Mabel Best. Mildred ’Leonard. Jesse Glendenning I Miss Mabel Springer. Mr. and Mrs Sam Cottrell went to Bobo to attend the ice cream social and parcels post sale to be held this evening. | A SERIOUS DRAIN I In Draining Gasoline Tank George Strickler Swal- ' lows Large Quantity. i BECAME VERY ILL Right. Side Nearly Paralyzed—Will Pull Through" j AH Right. Decatur relatives were called to i the bedside of George Strickler, of, near Celina. Ohio, at two o’clock: this morning, his illness resulting in ' ’a most peculiar way. Last night | i I about ten o’clock he started to drain, his gasoline tank, using a rubber | | tube. It is necessary to start the j draining by suction and Mr. Strickler j to do this, put the tube to his mouth • and drew. The force was greater than he anticipated and the gasoline rushed out. causing him to swallow a quantity. Two physicians : ’ were called who pumped out his [ stomach and worked with him for a ( long time. He became unconscious and numb, his entire right side being 1 I affected, causing a condition similar j Ito paralysis. So low did he become: ’at times, that it was feared he could I not survive. He rallied, however. { and it is thought will get along all' right Those who were called to his I bedside were his mother. Mrs. Jane f Strickler: his sister , Laura; his brothers. Gilbert and Lawrence, and Dennis Lyons. Mr. Strickler, who is twenty-two years old, lived southwest of this city, until moving to the, vicinity of Celina this spring? , OPENEMODAY - (CONTINUED FRQM PAGE ONE) iod costume, Hampton Court Singers 8:39 p. m. —Address. "Our Country,” Captain Richard Pearson Hobson, an American statesman. Admission, 25 and 50 cents. o BOUGHT 70 ACRE FARM. C. F. Steete, for many years inter•ested in the harness and hardware business in thin city, first being a partner with Jacob Atz and then later taking over the entire business, has bought a seventy acre farm from Eu< .gene M. Fitch of Fort Wayne and will move there during the coining winter. Mrs. Jason Archbold and children 'went to Fort Wayne for a visit with relatives. Miss Lydia Kirsch is expected home , ,from Angola Monday where she has the guest of Miss Neva Brundyberry. Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Burk and daughters. Vivian and Mnrv. and Mtw Ruth Hunt of New Richmond, motored to this aftecmon on basmew' i and to call on friends. Several prominen l citizens from' Hartford township were here again today and it was rumored that Mr. Fox .had decide to resign as trustee. However at the last moment he is said!' to have changed his mlad and decided!to arrange for a new bond in case the’ present bendsmen decide to withdraw. At two o’clock no actiou.haa wen tak-' en by either side. | V ■ ■ ■ . ■ - ' '

'HAS RECEIVED HER LEGACY Descendant of Patrick Henry Would Seem Fully Posseeeed of “Most Valued Possession." Patrick Henry wrote in his will, “1 have now disposed of ull my property to my family; there is one thing more 1 wish I could give them, und that is the Christian religion. If they ta»e that, and I hud not given them one shilling, they would be rich; and If they have not this, und 1 hud given them all this world, they would be, poor." I It would seeiu that the only portion of this legacy in which the nearest known lineal descendant of Patrick Henry now living has shared is in the > fulfillment of his wish that Ids family might have the Christian religion. Perhaps the strongest characteristic of Lucy Anne Ileury Peters, who is, so far as can be learned, the only living great-grandchild of Patrick Henry, is her piety and devotion to the ehurch. I Although Mrs. Peters is now in her * seventy-fourth year, she attends Sunlay school as regularly as Sunday rolls around and cannot remember when she missed either, regardless of the weather, atid the only book she Ims read for many years is the Bibie. which she consults every day. • Mrs. Peters, who now lives at Hannibal. Mo., is the only one living of the 12 children of Edmund Henry, who, fffrsording to Kuleigh Truvors Green in i Ids "Historic Families of Virginia ' 1 was the only child of John Henry, the oldest son and the fourth of the live children of Patrick Henry, by las first wife, Sarah Shelton Henry. — ExI change. i CAMERA AID TO PATRIOTISM 1 Australian Troops Get Pictures at I Homes to Urge Them On to Work ’ Asked of Them. ( It was Green, the historian, who said that the cheap photographic portrait did much, very much, to Unk the empire together. The homesteader in Canada works .to make a home for a ; girl of his heart be hopes will follow him and whose portrait he often looks it. The old mother in Englund. Ireand or Scotland gazes on the picture ' »f her boy tn British Columbia —and I ie is not so tar away after ail. Wise people in Meßx.urne. Australia. I enow the power of sentiment, and they I ire letting the photograph aid patriotsm. | Placed conspicuously iu all the post tffices of the commonwealth, posters idvertising the new snapshots from j he Home league explain an enterpris- | ng plan for linking home and treuches. ( Amateur photographers may enroll in the league and take photographs i the relatives and homes of soldiers j >n actual service, with the object of i sending the pictures to the meh iu the Tenches. Here are incentives, if any I ire needed to win out ami get back I tome. I Stepped! n oom atea. Some jaw-twister, eh? Never mine rylng to pronounce the thing, just call t “boo,” or “x,” and save time as well is patience. It relates to a disease ■ecognized by osteopaths and caused >y high street car steps. Awful name i 'or a thing so simple, eh? One ( >e pardoned, in view of such a name | 'or Hie nilinent, in thinking that it | neant the whole diugbusted Works had >een scrambled like so many eggs. Dr. . F. G. Cli»eet of Sioux City. Ta., told ' the state osteopaths about It during ' their convention the other day, ex- ’ plaining that the disease, steppedinuomates, Is a general nervous disorder end is spreading rapidly. Tire jar on alighting from a high step causes a misplacement of the innominate bone, and the trouble begins. Doctor Cluett said lie had treated several patients recently, all living near car lines, and all afflicted iu the same way. A car step should not be more than eight inches high, the height of the average step,” said the doctor. “Anything higher causes a jar that may have serious cousej quences." "Daylight-Saving” Popular. The hands on all clocks on British railroads, post offices, newspaper offices, police stations and other places where business is conducted throughout the night were pushed forward at two o'clock one morning recently to three o'clock, In accordance with the daylight saving act I The new schedule will run until Sep--1 tember 20, when clocks will be stopped I for an hour. Factories, banks, stores, trains, theaters und restaurants will all conform to the new time schedule. The Scandinavian countries. France and Holland also have adopted the scheme of daylight-saving initiated' by Germany, and several Canadian' cities, including Halifax, have fallen into line. Send Drinkers to Front. On account of u tiiminutiou in rhe output of munitions, due to excessive drinking, the French minister of munirions has issued Instructions that 1 any munition workers found tuider the i InMuence of alcohol shall be liumeuiI utely sent to the fighting line. The isxplunutlon is given that the , penalty is not in the nature of a pun- ( ishrneut. but because the man iu ques tron is unlikely to experience the same temptations at the front. !• . Power Lifeboats. ! Several of the larger veaseis bnve IHiwer lifeboats which are equipped I with wireless. These boats can be used either to search for iieip or to I tow oared bouts at sea.

GUNS NOT ALWAYS RELIABLE Here's Proof That • Club Is Sometimes a Far More Serviceable Weapon. Much is being said nowadays about the precision and demlllm’ss of modern weapons of warfare, but n 1 gininn, according to u st«> ~,,t from Moorfleld, shows that such weapons cannot always be < upon. It appears '>» lt “ b **" r bi “ “ ' faißtlag upon choice specimens <> i flock of sheep until their owner, Mr Beujiimin Whetzel. decided to hate out with Br er Bruin. Ho arming himself with a gun, he sallied forth iu quest of the sheep killer. Fortunately Ids search was not la '“in. for he soon came upon the marauder und let go with bis guu. It Is the unexpected thut generally i happens in West Virginia, and it was ! so iu tills case, for instead of being ' scared off by the bullet that had plugged him, the bear got mad und rushed iu to engage the man ut close quartern.. Probably Mr. Whetzel did not have time to reload his gun, us nothing is said about a second siiot, hut he kept cool, und, being averse to damaging ills gun by whacking the benr with IL he picked up W-elub that happened to be in Uie hnuukllute vicinity uiul used ft with such effect thut Br’er Bruin was soon pummeled to death. Nimrod himself could not have , done better.— Pittsburgh ChronicleTelegraph. COSTS MONEY TO FEED MARS European Conflicts Have Been Extraordinarily Costly to the People Who Paid for Them. War cost Europe from the beginning i of the nineteenth century up to August. 1914. about 65,000.000,000 francs, or not half of what the belligerent powers have already expended during [ the present conflict, according to Btutis tics compiled by Edmond Thery. the French economist, and published in an t article written to indicate the progres- , slon of the cost of war. The 15 year? of war waged by Nupo i icon increased the public debt of France by_f>Bß,ooo,ooo francs, while the , Crimean war ulone cost the republic I 1,660.000.000. according to Thery. Great Britain spent 1,550,000.000 in the Crimean, while that wnr cost Austria 34.3.000.1*00. and Turkey and Sardinia together 642.000,000 francs. France spent 650,000,000 francs on the Mexican war, he says, and 853.000.000 iu the coaflict against Austria for the , liberation of Italy. Prussia, in her wars against Denmark and Austria, spent about 2.000,- , <k> i.oOO francs, while the Gennuu states and France together spent about 15,- ; 000.000.000 on the wnr of 1870, Includ- > ing 5.000,000.000 francs indemnity paid , by France to Germany. The war of 1877-78 against Turkey cost Russia about 2.700.000,000 francs, while sho spent 6.300.000,000 iu the war with Japan as against 4.500,000,000 spent by Japan. Rural Typhoid. I Typhoid in rural communities hns . been n death-producing trouble of I greater seriousness than typhoid to . cities, where sources of water are more closely guarded and pollution Ls I prevented by puidlc health officers. In I scattered country communities this has I been difficult. However, the federal , health authorities tackled the big probi tan nnd succeeded in reducing typhoid . deaths by removing the causes of water pollution. In Berkely county. West Virginia, typhoid cases were re- . duced from 249 in 1914 to 40 iu 1915. , In Orange county, North Carolina, , cases were reduced from 50 to 17. It was found that typhoid was caused in most cases by using water I from polluted wells nud that the pollu- , tlon came from sources that were easily stopped. Ignorance of the causes of disease was the great reason for its previous prevalence. The officers found that when the causes of typhoid were pointed out. there was general inclination to remedy them. Whaleskin Auto Tires. Mr. Motorist, here is a chance to get a “whale” of an auto tire and start a new industry iu southern California. All you have to do is to go to Long Beach, borrow a boat, go out and catch ( youisett n whale, skin him and you have material for the tire. Capt. J. L. Loop, snatcher of whales from the briny deep, says so. Also he declares that the skin of the California gray whale is exceedingly tough and has the elasticity of rubber. It is more than half an inch thick on fullgrown whales, he says. Captain Lw>p. who has captured many whales in southern California waters, declares he has been experlmeming with whale! hide and has discovered its adaptability for use in tire making.—Los Angeles Cor. New York American. Aeroplane Flies 125 Mlles an Hour. French newspapers declare that r rance now possesses a wonderful new aeroplane that has beaten the word’s record for speed. The famous German Fokker has been described us a hawk. The newest French machine Is. a swallow u graceful, almost frail looking biplane. It is called a spad. t It climbs rapidly and smoothly and can attain a speed of more than 125 I nil es an hour. The Fokker’s speed Is sw fin h ” Ur - ° n aCCO ” nt of swiftness the spad e an be i ntrasted t 0 ■ only the most expert pilots, because! hough the speed can be reduced al c^ k>, n°K ly thß ~ cst skiUful airmen ; alight without smashing the mu-j

STREETS TO BE PLAYGROUNDS N«w York Authorities Will Cl ose On Hundred to Traffic This Summer. With the Intention of eßtidi|is||| hlt more play streets for children t| £ summer, the police of New York win begin nt once n survey of the con g ,..J. ed districts in the city to detenuin, where these recreation centers arirequired, to decrense the nutuher of accidents. Commissioner Wo IK h Ka |,| that ho was convinced that these streets were absolutely necessary the protection of life in the summer months. Studies already made by the department show that although 15 per cent of the population live south of r OUI .. teenth street, between 19 and 20 M cent of all the persons injured aad killed Inst year lived in that section. “With sufficient funds at hand to hire competent supervisors," y r Woods said, “there does not seem to be any reason why at least one hnndred streets should not be closed tMj summer, stanchions placed to k W p ’traffic ont nnd the supervision of these playgrounds put into the hands of an organization similar to the parks anl plnygrounds. “In this city there are 1.010.520 children between five ami fifteen years old. It ts estimated that of this num. bor 682,941 must play away from home, which Includes 345,069 children who live In Manhattan. It has been found that the park department, the board of education snd private erpmtaattow have facilities for caring for only about two hundred thousand children." SUCCESS IN THEIR OPINIOI Barney Bernard Tall* Good Story of Man Who Had Neal acted an Im. portant Point. In the Lambs’ All-Star Gtiiuliol a musical yurn was told by Barney Bernard, the Shylock of the Shakespearean minstrels. “How Is y«:J daughter Jessica ?’’ asked the Interlocutor. and Bernard’s reply, stripped of its Abe Potash dialect, was: “She’s been studying music In Berlin for three years. Lately sh> wr tethat she was ready to sing In grand opera, and that she was coming home, so I arranged a concert for her at Carnegie hall. I went to several of the mene bers of my lodge ffnd asked them to take tickets for the concert, telling them thllt ts my daughter was a suecess 1 would give a banquet to mv friends ut the Hotel Knickerbocker. When the time of the concert came, of course my daughter was nervous. She broke down uud went off the key —lt was terrible. The people started going out'of the hall. At once I thought of the banquet, atid I rushed down to tho Knickerbocker to eaacd the banquet In the banquet room I found five of my friends eating und drinking champagne. Wait a minute,' I said. ’I told you that if my daughter was a success I would give u banquet —she was not a success, she was a failure.' Then one of my friends stood up and said, 'Well, we liked her.’ ’’ War and the Missionary. I hear that when the missionary societies held their May meetings one of the most encouraging—and surprising —points wus the satisfactory state of the finances. Last year, the first complete year of war, was one of the years the societies have hud. I ain told that some of the most important societies have been able not only W pay their way but to puy off large amounts of deficit. People have certainly not been economizing on their contributions to missionary work as yet, ami the way In which supporters have rallied to Its support in wurtiiM is tin interesting footnote to the bis tory of the time. Experience shows that in the fi rsl yenr of past wirfs the missionary and other funds of the sumo kind have done well —it was so, I believe, in the Frunco-Genuan and the Russian wars —but that in the second year of war they begin to suffer. It is interesting to remember that it wus in the time ot our lust great war, a century ago, that most, of the missionary societies were either founded or greatly developed.Manchester Guardian. x Has Learned Value of Thrift Madame Genee, the worhl-famri bullet dancer, is the latest notoriety to magnify the virtues of thrift. As an example, she determined to adapt her old dresses us long as she could do so with decency during tin war, and in an interview she stated that she had only procured one new dress since its couimenceuient. Bad there been no war she probably would have been richer or poorer, she said, by ai leant ten. “Now I find that instead of being a source of distress to nu the loss of bo many dresses has been a gain, though the money thut I have been in pocket has ull gone, of < oiu' fa '. to the prince of Wales’ uud other funds. I am u fra hl when the war b , over the dressmaker will not “tri ~J' ' waltzing into her boudoir so frequently as I have done." Vaults Visible All Round. The vaults of the new branch of the Corn Exchange bank at Kight) Hixth street and Broadway, New York, are protected by a most elaborate oys tern of electric lights and mirrors. Th’’ •'puce underneath them is brilliant'.' lighted and mirrors at the floor aughN , reflect everything that takes place beiicath. A verycal tulrror reveal* to the night watchman the narrow passafc between the vaults and the wails othe building.