Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1917 — Page 2

I) AI L Y DEMO CR A T ~ -■ — » — ■ —JUfc.nil ii IS—— < Publlebad Fvury Evsnlng Except Bunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President I ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates. Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 | Per Month, by mail 25 cents, Per Year, by mail . |3.00' Bing'e Copies . 2 cents' Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Eostcffice in Decatur.' Indiana, as second-class matter. Plant a pig anil a few chickens I along with your efforts at gardening. I If you are located so you can without H causing your neighbor inconvenience i It will bring you great financial returns. Whether you need potatoes, eggs, pork, cabbage, corn or tomatoes to assure you against the pangs of hunger next winter, it looks like a mighty good financial investment for you to raise all you can. Indications are that the prices will be ' higher than ever known and if you don't need the goods you will have no trouble in disposing of qjl you raise at a profit. The organization of the first military company in this county for til? present war, seems to be nearing completion, the membership having passed the ninety mark Saturday evening. The) wjll join the Indiana national guard, if permitted, and will he the first et!Het: by flic r.atlor.. This cou.. ■ will prove her loyalty and if an army of a million or two is used, we will furnish man for man, our quoto. The suf scription of fifty dollars bj the Holhmd-St. Louis Sugar Co.. ior those who suffered in th. recent cyclone in this county show- that even big corporations have a heart, though much to th. contrary has Inen sad. The men back of this institution are as tine gentlemen as ever staked th- 'r tnonJy and ability on any busims- :i terprise and they are entitled to the support of the people of this community for whom they have already i.< ?e much and for whom this little a, t again signifies, they have a real interest. ■ . * Plant potatoes, onions, cabbage, beans, tomatoes, anything that wll produce food for next winter —anything that you can store as food. The ( demand is great ami unless the supply is increased, there will be a scarcity of food products that will amount to a famine. And while you are,at it, raise a few chickens or better still if you can. raise a 1 w pigs. That's the way to beat the game. If you have your cellar filled with necessities and canned goods, you can laugh the kytig of eggs or potatoes, no difference what he fixes his pricfe at. Those peanut politicians who are afraid to boost PresMdent Wilson for fear of some imaginary advantage or partisan reason would do well to read carefully the remarks by Judge Charles E. Hughes at a recent New York dinner. He advised that all IF you havent been in our store to select your spring stock ot clothing and furnishings why havent you? We I are waiting for you' with a stock brim full i tl of good things at popu-" 1 • 111 lar prices. th \ ..... - THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY ;.

I arlisaliship be laid aside and that v.* all stand unqualified!} behind uj ! "leadership most nobly declared." I am proud, r than I have ever been Hutt 11 am an Vim ricau Wllzen." asserted I Mr. Hughes. -li, cause at this time if tell Un tmerieun people have responded with the true instinct of democracy and are prepared to do tin r .part to the end that we shall be gov* Lrned by law. by agreement, by conL ept toll of right, and not by brute force. There has been no finer state- | menl of our principles, of our ideals. , — - ” the days of Lincoln than that stated in the matchless state paper of President Wilson in his recent message " — o.iatxxxiec'.: s UNGS IN SOCIETY I fficaasis-.jsr.a'jffit: sctuxsaag WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR Monday. Delta Theta Tati {Jlennys Mang ,14. T uesday Sewing Club -Mrs Carrie Haul. >id. Pythian Needle Club At K ot 1 . Home. V. I. S Class Vida Chronister. Afternoon Club Mrs C V. C ,'iinell. Tdi Kappas Mrs. Dan Tyndall Wednesday. Historical Mrs. K S. Christen. Walther League—Miss Clara Weiland Thursday. Presbyterian Aid Mrs.F. E. Prance Baptist Aid— Mrs. John Everett. Do Your Best Class—Mrs. Hero Steele. Friday Philathea Mrs. S E Hite. The gods are well-pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. Seneca. There will be a free health lecture at the K. of P. home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock for ladies, by Martha A Baughman. The V. 1. S. class will be entertained tomorrow evening by Miss Vida Chronister. Mr and Mrs Inland Prank, Mr and Mrs Tom Vail motored to Ft Wayne for the afternoon yesterday and returning here had supper at the Veil home. « Mr. and Mrs. John Russell entertained at dinner yesterday at twelve o'clock for their sister. Mrs. Louis Harbaur. of Toledo. ().. and O. N. Snellon. of this city The names of the guests who wi-te at the home of Mr and Mrs. John Hunt for Easter Sunday and which were over looked in a former item were: Miss Altha Rash. Mr. Eular Hill, Mr. Ira Baker. Mr. ami Mrs. Oliver Everett. j I One hundred twenty-five patrons attended the big dinner and the program that marked Hie closing of the Dent school Friday. of which M-S Clara Boknecht has been the very successful teacher The Walther League will be entertained Wednerday evening by Miss Clara Weiland. Mrs. John Everett will be hostess to the Baptist Ladies’ Aid society Thursday afternoon. The Philathea Class will meet w.th Mrs. S. E. Hite Friday evening. The wedding of Miss Amelia Weber ami Mr Anthony Holthouse will lake place Wednesday morning. April Is, at the St. Marys Catholic church Misses Agnes Costello, Marie and Naomi Gass and Frances Jloug-y, will go to Fort Wayne this evening t i see the show. "A World of Pleasure." Tile Historical club will have a splendid day Wednesday when they go out to the home of Mrs. E. S. Christen for a chicken dinner at noon. In the afternoon they will have their closing literary study. The Pythian Sisters' Needle club will be entertained Tuesday afternoon at the K. of P Home by Mrs. O. L. Vance. Mrs. Fred Sollenieyer. Mrs. <). LMtuygener and Mrs. J. A. Smith. The- ladies of the Presbyterian Aid u-e asked to make a special effort for' he meeting Thursday afternoon ot he home of Mrs. F. E France as this will be the only meeting for the non th. Mrs. Carrie Hauhoid will entertain he Sewing Club Tuesday afternoon. ' Miss Glennys Mangold will Ire hoses.s to the Delta Theta Tall s worry his evening at “.'ls. Misses Ruth Patterson. Marie Rapp,' Ailu Atz and Messrs. Joe Rapp. Harry i tepew motived from Syracuse

1 day to spend the day with Mr. and I Mrs. George Patterson They were lac companied to Fort Wayne Sunday evening by Donald Patterson, return tng to Syracuse after the theatre. Miss Merle Poling, teacher Ut the Peterson school, closed the term Friday with a program and Imsket dinner festival The attendance was nine y seven foY the term and twenty rolls ot honor were distributed. The puptH did fine. CALLISGIVEN For All Patriotic Citizens to Come to Court House This Evening. THE HEI) CROSS WORK Will be Outlined and Organization Effected — At Eight ’clock. A call is given for every patriotic citizen, whether man. woman or child, to come to the court house this evening at eight o'clock At this time the Red Cross wora will be outlined and plans taken to organize the work in this city and county. This is an important part of national defense work in which everyone can participate right at home and it is one in whic h everybody should take interest. Be sure to come. COURT HOUSE NEWS. A jury and special Judge R. H. Hartford. of Portland, are hearing an Alien county quiet title case which was sent here on change of venue. Josephine Hoover is plaintiff and Stella May DeLagrange, et al defendants. At 2:30 this afternoon the Judy returned a verdict quieting the title in the real estate in controversy, in the plaintiff, as against all claims of the defendants in the Gross Laker partition case, the final report of the commisioner was approved and the commission! r discharged. Gh Netienschwander. W IBam Breiner, Harve Smith and Thomas Reid were selected by the court as members of the regular panel of jurors. Inez McVeigh vs. Leah McVeiga. damages for alienation of husband’s affections Application is made by the plaintiff for leave to prosecute this case as a poor person Further issues were made in tie Ritter-Steele partition case. Attorney F. M. Gottrell for Dan-el A Stauffer filed a new suit against James H Difgtie. on note, demand $260. i — —— In the estate of John Pontius, report of sale of real estate was approved and the administrator dis : ■ charged — Final report of Katherine Conrad, administratrix of the Frederick Conrad c-state was approved and the administratrix discharged No inheritancel tax was found due. In the estate of Daniel Moser, taxes herein were ordered taxed to the estate and ordered left oft the docket. In the estate of Barbara Reisen. I . tition by the administratrix tor order to pay the money to the clerk for distribution was sustained and other made* accordingly. ii John Baker, administrator of the ■ John P. Baker estpte was discharged 'on approval of his final report. i' '| Tlie guardianship of Vineent Smith I was ordered left off t-he docket and in 1 coats taxed. Roscoe I). Wheat filed a suit for The Portland Equity Company against ' | Hubert French, on account, demand 1 SIOO.OO. A marriage license was issued to Harve Ellcmberger. automobile mechanic. of Berne, born December 27. 1X92. son of William Ellcmberger, to i wed Florence Bierle. milliner, of Berne, born February 9. 1593. daughter ot Eli Bierie. Real estate tranaffrs: Izewis . J Graham to Leona Graham, lot 120 Decatur, J.I.mW: Frank P. Halberstadt Ito Cassius M. Andrews, real es’Ate i:i ' St. Marys township, $17,565; L. A.' Graham, et a! to Clement L. Walters. 1 pari of lot 50, lots 123-769. quit claim' deed; John Scheumann to Charles L ( Steele part of lot Lssks. Decatur. #l.00O; C. E. Bollinger et al to Charles W Myers, lot 5 Monroe. M,OOO. j

A CONSTITUTION; - u What it Means to Our Feo- t pie is Discussed by One ( v of Our Able Men. I IDEAS OF HIS OWN i r [Together With a Brief His- r tory of Present Constitu- t tion and Its Makers. t • ' 11 (Communicated) The present constitution of Indiana was finished and ratified by the peo- t pie of the state in IXSI. Many new 1 conditions have arisen since that time* ’ and many of the laws passed by ths ’ 36th General Assembly of 1552, have J out lived Hie purpose for which they ( ’ were enacted. If some of the best statutory laws,' that are now in force were incorpor- J ated in the present constitution, or in J a new one. there would be much more permanence in the decisions of the' courts, and tiie people* thrtnselves would be relieved of much annual expenditure of money derived from taxation, —to try-out and test a new <et of laws, at the close of each succeeding legislature. For instance, the ro.id and ditch laws never escape legisla-' tive doctoring. * One legislature wRI enact a series of laws, and before th *y are fully tried, they are subject io ' changes, and substituted by othe.s.l that* are possibly of leas value and harder ttf enforce. However, legisI latures are not supposed to be perfect in information and experience.) ■ that might indicate the results of c'l i the laws they make. But if mon* ti tie was taken for investigation, and :n---quiry for facts and conditions, fr mi those who are supposed to be able *o to give a useful and intelligent exploitation of them, then fewer Inferior laws would find their way to the st.it [ i ute books of the state The time ;<1 ( ' lotted in some instances, is entirely ' too short for a committee, to whom the bill is referred, to make the inv< Migations necessary for an fmmpartml and just conclusion. The session of the legislature should not be limit'd r to sixty days, nor to ninety days, but the legislature should be required ti • remain in session as long as the "i---1 terests of the state demand its < *r--1 vices. Legislatures should receive 1 their pay as Congressmen do. at certain stated periods whether they an ■ in session or not. They should le, paid a stipulated sum or amount for ( 1 thelir services for the entire term of. office for which they art* elected ’ The precedent of changing state and national constitutions is not al- » ways an evidence of progress, or cfj advancement, of the people who ire, governed by such constitutions: white 1 the present state constitution of In It ' ana. may have its deficiencies. n • some respects, it has its bulwarks defense of the rights and liberties of this great commonwealth. Possibly, it might be better “to endure the ills! we have than to fly to those we know not of." Another constitution might • ibly be like the road and ditch - herein above referred to. be far worse - in its provisions than the present - constitution. Some acts of the General Assembly do not confirm to the requirements of the state constitution. When su- h acts are. in a legal way. brought the attention of the supreme court of ■ the state, it investigates the act. th. t r is offered as a law. and if its provis- - ions exceed the powers granted by the ■ constitution, to the legislature, the court declares the act to be a void law. and that it is un-eonstitutionil. Such an act is thereafter considered 1 as a nullity and can not be enforced. | There a,e two very important. , questions that every legal voter in Hie* , state of Indiana, should ask himself| or herself before lie or she. goes to J the poles to vote on the subject of changing or revising the present eonstflution. I First; What changes if nny, should, be made, that the great<*st good shall ! accrue- to the largest number of p-’ce pie. within the state of Indiana? Second; What class of men as rielei gate s, arc* most fit by experience, vo-j ’ cation, or profession, to best repre-, i sent, in the most efficient manner, a j majority of all the interests, profecsI ions and industries, within the great state of Indiana? ■I in your reply tn the final qitcsfi.ni, ' iwssitdy the answer would not near ‘comprise all of the eicanees SHggecr--led by some of the most ardent advo'cates of the change in the state con‘stitutlon. Then, whnt are some 1 of tin- ■ l suggested changes? Possibly tlv-.’e ; is more talk at presemt of the 1 woman - 'suffrage aide of the proposed cluing', . I than any others of equal or

importance The constitution It* 'L precedas statutory law mi any rtll> | )ect upon which the legislature tuU >' undertake to emut a ht« The visions of the const Hutton must first be considered before any emictmtnt will stand, ns valid, lienee the cons:itution Is in reality the ' Supreme Law ot the Stale" Do a majority of the 1 people- of tie state want state wide prohibition? !>o they want women to be glv-’ii c-qual rights in suffrage and also eqmil raquireim'lits as eitixens such us 1 required of men? Do they want suffrage granted to foreigners, who know nothing of on language and less of our laws, before they have shown themselves as capable of obeying American customs and usages? Will there be ample provisions in the next constitution for labor commissions to settle differences between employers and their workmen’ Will there be such provisions made tint lawful corporations, such as railroads, telegraph companies, banks and oth-r such organizations, shall be gi'en their just merits, and the legal support they de serve, and the law-break-ing and irresponsible ones be requ.r‘ed to quit business? 1 Will be there be a requirement in the next constitution making it '.impossible for owners of bonds, no >s and mortgages to enforce the coll -c---tion by law. of the same, unless t'ie proper assessor, has listed them r, >r taxation’ I Will those whd desire 1 to become lawyers, be required to know the Itw before admitted to the bar. as attorneys at law? I Will there be a provision for the whipping twist punishment, for deg aerate “renegades” of either sex. and especially for wife* beaters? | Will there be a provision in the next constitutional convention to prevent the manufacture and sate of intoxieit ing liquors in Indiana? These and many other subjects doubtless will, and should receive consideration in tlie* next constitutional convention of Indiana In answer to the second question, who should be chosen as delegates, to tlie constitutional convention, we shall say that the* next constitution will depend wholly upon the class of delegates selected to make it. No individual is so well educated, or a« well versed in the ways of the bu-i ness world, as to be capable of seeing every phrase of a subject And es pe< ially in the lines of industry tlr.it are of themselves filled with specialities nearly equalling the learned professions. Considering all lines of capacity, and opportunity to acquire a geneial idea of the operations of the business I w orld, it would seem that those best I versed in the laws of the state, would .be most efficient. To know the law, . is to know what is qjquired by statute ! of the merchant, the banker, the stock breeder, and the importer of stock, the manufacturer, and all Others in .the state to successfully conduct Fie various industries. To be sure, there are many m*n who operate snccessfuly several lines 'of business, but who are not specialist lin either of thetn; tlie matter of fa t is that they are men of good eomm n [ sense, neither too fast nor’too slow in J their decisions, but who are. and hav I been, willing to learn from the exper ience, as shown by others, and by their own close observations of pa s ing events. That convention shoitlj have its ample share of this class of men. if the best results from its work can be expected. The delegates tc , this convention should not only l>e able- to explain and defend the- needs of the spec ial business in which *ie delegate may be interested. Int should be well Informed in a genera! way. as to what his constituents demand in the way of change, if any. and stand firmly ftjr what his constituency want. Wnat cxmld ice expected from a , narrow contracted specimen of bit- , manitv who has done little in his ca- ] rer-r other than to toe ate all the faults , and short comings of thtwe who ndeht not agree with him. possibly cm finance. temperance and religion? A reasonable constituency rather than ( a help in making a fair, just and equitable constitution The delegates to th' 1 next eemstitutlonnl convention should lie men of sound intellect, and ftiiiy vonversa'it j with the affairs of busWrtSs; such men ( as arc willing tn give tn carb individual industry or profession, its He share cf consideration. Tice present eonstitlitfwn of Indiana was begun in IXSO. add ratified th-e next rear. Adams My -grid Binr-kford comities vombrtsett nne delegate dietriet. unci was VejJrcst-nted. by Nathaniel B. Hawkins, ?r. as its delegate. Among liis colleagues, in that convention, were such representative jurists and statesmen As Schuyler .'olfax, William H. English and Thomas A. H>-ndiicks. | The next conrtittitional convention I

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of Indiana, will convene on the Sth I day of January 191 S. in Indianapolis The selection' ot delegates will be made by an election, held in all ot the voting precincts within the state, ii September 1917. or next September The act of the General Assembly, ■ provides for the election of delegates. , also specifies that there shall be o'ie , hundred delegates selected from the , one hundred legislative representa tive districts within the state, one delegate from each congressional district, and two delegates at large, making in all the- number of one hundr -d and fifteen delegates In the selection of these delegate < all voters male and female, have a i right to vote for any one. who is a • candidate, in that particular delegte I district, in which the citizen desires to vote. To be a legal voter, one must bi -t ■ natural born citizen, or a naturalized cltieen of the- Tnited States He or ! I she must be twenty-one or more years < ( of age on election day, and have re- ( sided in the state of Indiana, for the six months next proceeding the el*c-| r tion, sixty days in the township or' corporation, and thirty days in the, 1 precinct, in which he or she desires to vote, i Male foreigners must have resided in the Tnited States for t'ie' year preceeding the election ) The time will soon he here that a ' choice of delegates must be made.! ' Every man and woman is interested! ' in this making of a new constitution. < 1 and should avail himself and hers- If? ’ of the privilege of the imHot. If this is not done those who do not vote should “forever hold their tongues,", and utter no condemnation of >ie ’ delegates that are selected, should thej ? results not be to their liking. When you do vote, choose men >t the greatest ability and most capacity to explain ami defend your rights citizens of this great commonwealth of Indiana. MURRAY TO PENAL FARM. According to a Warsaw dispatch to' r the Fort Wpyne Journal-Gazette. Charles Murray was arrested at Fort) Wayne and taken to the state penalf farm today by Sheriff Buffer. Mur I ray. a former proprietor of the Ditton ! hotel at Lake Wawasee. was sentenc - -’ ed to the penal farm when found ? guilty of conducting a blind tiger s The sentence was suspended and la ’ ier ho was charged with violating i t nis parole. He left Wawasee before I he eould he arrested. It is said he ! . went from there to his former horn.-1 hero and later to Fort Wayne, where l . he conducted a rooming house. He was arrested by Sheriff Jacob Buffer , He has several wee kH . MRS. LUTZ IS ILITgaIN 'PH tri (J l nU ’ Wl '° ’’ an ' C frow I Honda a few days ag., is aßnln ( - seriously ill. her condition not bth,, 1 « «ks hoped. She suffered 1 considerably over Sunday and was - reported stHl q„t te Bick t( , (lay . Looking for Virtue* t Whpn h“'e a mind to divert t jour fancy, consider the good unties of your neqtrtlntnnces; as th- enter prising vigor of this num. th.- mmiesty ’ of another, the liberality of n third ■ and so c. n . For there is nothing so co tertaim,>g Hs ~ liv „ iv iln . lgp of )bp , Dies exhibited in th.- character of , those we converse with, occurring as nmnereusly ns Lf . { ,j_ ( fore, be nlwnys nt hnml.-Man us An relius Antoninus. CUS Au ‘ . •jHoyment nml th „ anned Sw aflll ™ • t A hitc Stag e ig, lr <•„ I WANTS WORK -Gir, W - Hnls to I Inquire at this offl,. P i 99-3 ts

FIRST CONFERENCE NEXT WEDNESDAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONBI The capital today received with satisfaction the long expected stannie.it by President-elect Carranza on the nation's attitude toward the worH war since the United States is in The sitnation hnd grown tense body knew what stand Carranza would take until he start-d to rea-l th first presidential message to the first c onstitutional congress Mex-. o hi., had in three yeara. By Arthur E. Mann, United Pr *s staff correspondent ( openhagen, April 16- (Spe-cial o Daily ISeiiHM rat) Germany ly seeking to revive peace talk in Ii belligerent countries. She asks peace—still on her own terms —though doubtless somewhat 'amended in December Gern -vt * ( ed peace and was refused N- - - is planning to maneuver the alites iito asking her for peace. I Washington. April 16 —(Special ic 'Daily DemocraO- Her. are hgh lights in President Wilson's apr-su to the country for each man and woniai to do his bit | “We must supply abundant f■■<! for ourselves and for a large part o* i JtlW nations with whom we have now made common cause. ■j “We must supply ships by ' ■ hidreds. I “The industrial forces of th- .-o-in-try—men and women alike, will l>- - ' great service army engaged in tl: str'vice of the nation and world, tin ell[.dent friends and saviors of free i.'.-n 'everywhere. I ' The importance of nn adequate food supply especially for the pres-nt year, is superlative. "Upon the farmers of this ■ untiy in large measure testa the fate of t e .war and the fate of the nations j “I call upon young men and "M alike to turn in hosts to the fan- < “1 appeal to farmers of Go south 1 'plant abundant foodstuffs as well -s j cotton. To the middlemen of every sott: The eyes Os the country will be pecially upon you The country 'xpecta you as well as all others to forego unusual profits. I “This is the time for America to correct her unpardonable fault wastcfnltH-ss and extravagance "These things We must do and well, leesides fighting—the thing 1 ’ without which mere fighting would i fruitless.” DEMOC RAT VVAN I’ ADS PAY BIG. . * FARM LOANS * * $100,000.00 of 5 per cons * MONEY TO LOAN * at * * Schtinter & Parrish * Abstract & Atty. Office * * red tane needed) Book Your PUBLIC SALE NOW and let me get the High for your live stock and fifrliiinil implements. See me for ahd prices. R. N. RUNYON. AUCTIONEER. ’PHONE F:L