Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1917 — Page 2

DAI L Y DEMOCRAT' Published Every Evening Except Sunday by . . I The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER Pre«ldent 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 Single Copies 2 cents 1 T" ■ | Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postotllce in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. If you will read carefully the Information for the men registered for conscription in today's paper, it will bcu> you to thoroughly understand each de tail. Save the paper. You will want to refer to it. The weather the last few days has made thousands of dollars for the , farmers of Adams county. The oats and wheat and hay are coming tine and while the corn is not as good a-s ; we would like it. the indications :>-e ! that the crops will be very satisfac- ! tory. A week or two of good weather now will mean much.to our community. • - ■ The death of Uncle George H. Ma-tz > • removes another of the men w.io helped to make this county. His nearly four score of years in this county were busy and useful and nis thoughts were never so much for himself as for his community. He was a splendid citizen of the old school and we loved him for what he was, an honest, upright, conscientous, industrious and broad thinking man. When you are enjoying a picnic at Waterworks park do you remember this beautiful spot is due to the Ladies Civic Improvement society. Its worth remembering for next month they expect to start the work of securing controll of the old fair grounds south of town which they hope to convert into a real park, for the benefit of this community. Nothing lieltmt city more, no place is more thoroughly enjoyed by every' one and in these movements every loyaf citizen should aid. Volunteer now to assist in this important civic campaign. These are strenous days and they will perhaps not improve during the next few weeks. And yet they are great days. When our company A starts to the front and when our 100 or more conscripted men leave forth south, it will take brave hearts to cheer them on their way. but we w’ll nevertheless feel mighty proud of our boys and we will strive our very best to help them in every way possible. They will take a part, a real pari, in the making of history, and we wdl watch their work with prayerful and hopeful hearts. In the serious work of the next few weeks, when the conscription board will have important sessions, when the military companies will be in training, when many problems will be be up. every citizen will best do his part, by remaining calm and carefully thinking before expressing his thoughts. Yes these are strenous, serious days. Senator Watson declares that the “War for democracy” is unpopular, it

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is reported, and indicates that the political campaign In Indiana next year will be made with that as an Issue. In other words whether or not the war is a right one or a war for principles, the republican organization proposes Io urge it as a political issue. So be it. They will find our people a patriotic, red blooded race, who will oppo »' any such issue, no difference what their polities. latst year the puny 'out of power attempted to make vol'-s by calling the administration spinei less and now evidently they will try to prove an abnormal spine. Th-' senator and those who support his opinion may be wise politicians but we doubt it. It the war is over by next year as is hoped then this nation will be credited with having taken her part in the world -:1c, if the war is still on it will be bard to interest the people in any effort discredit the administration. It the senator decides to join the La Follette-Stone aggregation, many of his friends will >e disappointed and will not hesitate to tell him so. u y.s::n:n::::L,u .w4Cuami3r.3r.3E | DOINGS IN SOCIETY « u * ;tr. m:3t:m: ::r.:::: ur.ur. ur or.: it'-• WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR.

Tuesday Ruth Circle— Florence Lichteasteiger. Delta Theta Tau—Vera Hower. Three Link dub —I. O. O. F. Hail. Wednesday Sunday school class—Mrs. HarryCloud. Tri Kappas—Ruth Patterson. Thursday Birthday Club—Mrs. C. R. Weaver. Helping Hand—Reformed church. St. Vincent de Paul —At K. of C. hall. Ever Ready Class —Mrs. Frank Aurand. Baptist Aid and Missionary—Mrs. Ilarve Shroll. Ben Hur Children’s Party. Mt. Pleasant Mite Society —Mis. Ben Butler. Friday. Mite Society—Mrs. Dave Hunsicker. Ben Hurs Initiatory. Pastoral Helpers—Mrs. Will Engle.' If half the willing workers among the women of the United States could now be mobilized and marshaled and apportioned to their own specific job. and stay right on that job for the rest of the duration of the war, there need not be a naked or a hungry child in this war-swept world. There need not perish one invalid, one cripple, one aged man or woman, from lack of food and clothing and roof. Burn that fact into your soul for the rest of the war! Let that fact consume in pure flame * all the petty jealousies, all the bickering for place and favor, all the angling for prestige, all the petty petticoatisms that are all too widespread among American women just now! We women are going to be judged in this great war test, not by the rights we claim, but by the sum total of what we actually do. Don’t forget that! I am a suffragist to my finger tips. Yet when a famous suffragist recently rose before a very important audience and said: “If the men want our help in this war let them hand us the vote." I wanted to shout out a paraphrase of our demand: “If you expect the vote universal —not a state vote, not a federal vote, but a world vote for women —for the sake o£ Humanity. deliver the goods in this war!" France has done it. England has done it. Canada is doing it. And the vote for women is coming automatically. The way to

npike yourself down as a political necessity to all humanity Is to do your job so well the world can’t do without you. Don’t howl ami vociferate for rights like a noisy fishwife! Do your ‘‘bit’ so well the world will have to come and offer rights to you - Agnes (’. Lunt, in "Petty I’etticoatism," it! Ladies’ Home Journal. A delicious dinner was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Springer at Bobo, it being Mr. Springer's mother’s eighty-sixth birthday. Those present were Mrs. Pernetta Springer, Mr. and Mrs Curtis Miller and son, Billy; Mr. and Mrs. Vai Schnepp. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Miller and children, Paul and Agnes, and niece, from Fort Wayne; Mrs. Ida Brown ami children. Edna and Elmer; Walter Springer. Rachel Springer, Mabel Springer. Victoria and Maude Springer. Those who, could not be present were Mr ami Mrs. Charles Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cottrell. Mr. ami Mrs. Clarence Miller and children. Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Drake and children of Hernback. Mich., and one son. John Springer of Fort Wayne. All departed. wishing grandma many more happy birthdays.—Contributed. The Tri Kappas will meet Wednesday evening, instead of this evening, with Miss Ruth Patterson. _______ • The members of the Ruth Circle, of the Christian church, will meet this evening with Miss Florence Lichtensteiger on High street, the meeting having been postponed from Monday evening an account of several members being in the First Aid class of that night. The annual children’s party of the Ben Hurs will be held Thursday evening instead of Friday evening as stated through error. The party will open with a picnic supper at the hall. Mrs. Fred Heuer will lie hostess to the Helping Hand -ociety Thursday afternoon in the Sunday school room of the Reformed church. Every member of the church, as well as others who desire should attend. The ladies will sew for Red Cross at this time and Mrs. Emma Daniel will also be there in behalf of the "socks for soldiers’” knitting club.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Acker and daughters, Vivian and Alice, were Sunday evening dinner guests of th< ir parents. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Acker of North Second street. The Mite society will meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. Dave Hunsick.-r where they will sew again for the Red Cross. Thirty of her little friends are making merry this afternoon with Miss Josephine Archbold, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Roy Archbold on her sixth birthday anniversary. The Archbold lawn, where cool breezes stray, is 'he scene of the party, and Miss Ruth Patterson has charge of the kindergarten games for the children. lan er they will be invited to the dining room where cooling refreshments will ’e dispensed, consisting of ice cream, to be eaten with the pretty birthday cake with its tapers, that will be cut. Miss Leia Hill has as her house guests, Misses Mary Bracy and Edith Roethlisberger, Bluffton O. Miss Hill gave a dinner today in their honor, Miss Marie Hays also being a guest. The ladies of the Birthday club will be entertained Thursday afternoon by Mrs. C. R. Weaver.

All members of Mrs. Henry Moyer s Sunday school class should attend he meeting at the home of Mrs. Harry Cloud on West Monroe street Wednesday afternoon. The meeting of the St. Vincent de society has been postponed until Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Clem Voglewede and Mrs. Mat Harris will entertain at the K. of C. hall. COME, EVERYBODY! To the ice cream social and parcel . post sale to be given by the Epworth 1 League oi Boho on the church lawn . next. Saturday evening. July 28. 1 Bring your friends, also your pocket- j book. A welcome to all. Remember the date. Saturday evening. July 28. 170t5 COMMITTEE. — o BOYS HAVE MADE GOOD. Mr. George Flanders received a] message this afternoon from his son,' Carlisle, dated at Fort Harrison and reading. "Have made good, home' Wednesday. Tell Porters.” from which ft is taken that both boys. ■ members of Company' A. have been admitted as members of the Fourth regiment band. o COURT HOUSE NEWS. Joseph B. Drum and C. H. Drum have tiled a petition in circuit court, as surviving partners of the Drum Brothers partnership. Frank W. Gordon represents the plaintiffs — Bluffton News. ' o-. ■ — — ' Democrat Want Ads Pay

BOTH MEN QUIT BOARD (Continued from Page Ono) ($150) and many carried several thousands. New York, N. Y„ July 24 (Special to Dally Democrat) "The allied countries and especially the United States —fighting with Russia for a common cause, must help Russia, and help immediately. A movement now lost cannot perhaps be made up in years." A. J. Sack, director of the official Russian information bureau, thoroughly aware of Russia's present situation. voiced this appeal to the world democracies today in a special statement written for the United Press,

STORAGE ROOM IN BASEMENT. Many houses are heated by a furnace in the cellar The pipes are as a rule carried under the joist, thus warming the cellar to some extent. For this reason it is best to partition off a small room in one corner of the cellar to serve as a storage room for potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips. salsify, and turnips. If possible. this room should have at least one window for the purpose of regulating the temperature. The floor should not be concreted, as the natural earth makes better conditions for the keeping of vegetables. Bins maybe constructed for the various products. or they may be stored in boxes, baskets or barrels. This room will also serve as a storage place for fresh fruits and canned goods. The vegetables to be stored should be harvested when the ground is dry, allowed to lie on the surface long enough for the moisture to dry off before placing them in storage. The tops should be removed from beets, turnips, carrots, and salsify before placing them in storage.

MONROE RED CROSS Auxiliary There Now Has 327 Members. The Monroe of the Fort Wayne chapter of Red Cross of which Dr. C. C. Rayl is director, now has 327 members, which is a banner record. WILL MEET TONIGHT The Merchants’ Association will meet tonight at the library at 7:30 o’clock. A good attendance is desired, so every merchant is urged to I* present. ~ SWEET CHERRIES. The bulletin today from the National Emergency Food Garden commission. which is co-operating with the Daily Democrat in its campaign for the prevention of waste of the surplus food products of the country, says that it is a matter of personal choice whether or not the pits be removed from c herries before canning. If cherries are pitted care should be taken to save all the juice to be poured into the jars after the cherries pre packed. A lady’s glove buttoner is very useful in taking the pits out of cherries. Can cherries directly after washing—or after pitting, if the pits are removed —packing the fruit into hot jars as tightly as possible without crushing. Then fill the jars with hot cherry juice or syrup made of one cup of sugar to three cups cherry juice or water as desired. If cherry (juice is available, it should be used. Adjust tops and partially tighten them, sterilize for sixteen minutes, complete sealing and invert out of draught to cool. Wrap jars in paper to prevent loss of color in storage.

Sweet cherries are not generally pitted, and a little lighter syrup is used than in the case of the sour fruit. Otherwise the process is the same. Big department stores and motion picture houses have been enlisted in the commission’s nation-wide move to conserve food and Charles Lathrop Pack, the president of the eommis- | sion sent out a plea to exhibitors to I run a slide telling the women of the [country they can have the commis- , sion’s canning and drying manuals 1 for a two cent stamp to pay postage. The manuals are in great demand by the stores for their canning exhibits. “It develops that the government is unable to meet the demand for data of this kind.” said Secretary P. S. | Ridsdale. “I have had a dozen calls from congressmen asking for help. I (me congressman wanted SO,OOO of our manuals because he was swamped with requests and the government printing office, he •said, could not print this kind of data because of the call upon it for printing from other departments than the department of agriculture.” Shucks Schumaker returned this morning from Fort Wayne, where he passed the examination and was admitted as a member of Company E I He was with the company at the border and was released because of a claim for dependency of his mother, which he waived at this time.

INFORMATION FOR REGISTERED MEN-SAVE THIS (Continued from Bags One) board. 1. That you are a county or municipal officer. 2. Thai you are a customhouse offleer. 3. That you are employed by the United States in the transmission of mails. 4. That you are an artificer or work man employed in an armory, arsenal, or navy yard of the United States. 5. That you are employed In toe service of the United States (under certain conditions.) See paragraph (e) of section 20. Regulations. fi. That you are a license j pilot reg ularly employed in the pursuit of your vocation. 7. That you are a mariner actuallyemployed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States. 8. That you’are a married man with a wife or child dependent on you -or support. 9. That you have a widowed mother dependent on your labor for support. 10. That you have aged or infirm parents dependent upon your labor for support.

11. That you are the father of a motherless child under 16 dependent upon your labor for suport. 12. That you are a brother of an orphan child or children under 16 dependent on your laltor for support. 13. That you are a member of any well-recognixed religious sect or organization organized and existent May 18, 1917, and whose then existing creed or principles forbade its members to participate in war in any form and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or principles or saiil religious organization. These are the only grounds for exemption or discharge by a local board. Another person can file a claim in your behalf, but must use different forms in filing the claim. VIII. TEN DAYS AFTER FILING CLAIM TO FILE PROOF.

Your claim of exemption or discharge must be filed within seven days of the day on which notice to you that you are called was posted and mailed. But after you have filed your claim for exemption or discharge you have ten days within which to fie proof. The method of proving claims is very simple but it is rather exact, ’f vou follow the rules given below you will have done what is required of you First. Go to the local board and consult the regulations to find out the form number of the affidavits that you must submit for your particular claim. Second. Ask the board for the blank affidavits that are necessary In presenting your proofs; if the board has not the forms, ask to consult the pamphlet of forms. Third. Have the affida v its properly accomplished and return them to the board within the time limit assigned you—lo days from the filing of your claim. Remember: (a) You must submit your proof in the prescribed form and the board has no authority to exempt or discharge you unless you submit all the affidavits required by regulations. (b) There will be no argument before the board and no proof other than the prescribed affidavits unless the board calls for other proof which it will do in only a limited number . f cases.

8 WHEN CLAIMS ARE DECIDED r Every claim for discharge or exe emption will be decided by the local hoard within three days after your as11 fldavits have been filed. 1 X. a CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION OR DISCHARGE. If vour claim is allowed a certificate B e of exemption or discharge will be issued to you. s Remember: , (a) This certificate may be recalled v at any time. i (I ) If it is temporary or conditions al. it becomes of no effect when the a time or the condition named are fulI. filled. s (c) You haVe been drawn for mill- >. tary service and when the condition f that has postponed your posting to the •-'colors ceases you may oe recalled at t any time. (d) Remember that your case may 8 still he appealed io the district hoc rd r by the Government and on this appeal f your certificate may he withdrawn at once. When so withdrawn you stand j precisely as though you had been ses lected for military service by the 10. . cal board. f XI. ADVERSE DECISIONS ON CLAIM If your claim is disallowed by the , local board your name will be certified and sent by the local board to the dis-

.. '7" r ' to, ~rvM .»■! ”»< , Ht-trged. Within two days thereat If practicable, a Hhl of those so cettittJ to th.’ district board will be » the press with a request for pub.l---t on wll , be posted In the offices of h local hoard accessible to the!mb--11(. V i..w. and notice wil Ibe mulled to Hddress on your registration card. Therefore, if you h.v. fi>- a da m for exemption and proof " thereof, watch the notice In the ofhe 10f the local board beg.nning about five day. after you have filed your proo to see what dl.po.itmn wa« made your ca.e and make arrangement, the prompt receipt of mail. XII. HOW TO CLAIM APPEALS TO DISTRICT BOARDS. Claims of appeal may be made bv a person within 10 days after the day when notice has been posted and mailed that such person’s name has been certified to the district board «” o n *' ( who has been called for service and not exempted or discharged. Therefore if you desire to appeal , Go to the local board and get or copy Form 153 or 154 for filing your claim of appeal. 2. Get or copy also Form 151 or for notifying the district board of appeal. 3. File your claim of appeal (153 or 154) with the local board.

4. Send your notice of appeal (Form 151 or 152) to the district board. ( 5. Do this within 10 day. from the day when notice that your name was. certified to the district board was posted and mailed. Remember: 1. You can only appeal the final ord er of the board exempting or discharging or refusing to exempt or discharge you. You can not appeal other orders or action of the local board. XIII. PROVING YOUR APPEAL You have five days after the district board receives your notice that you have filed a claim of ap|>eal in whi- h to file evidence additional to that filed by you in the local board, but all such evidence must consist of affidavits. XIV. DECISIONS ON APPEAL. The decision on your appeal nrn.-t be made within five days of the closing of proof, and you will be notified by mail of the action of the board on your appeal. XV. CLAIMS FOR DISCHARGE ON INDUSTRIAL GROUNDS Only the district board can receive claims for discharge on the ground that you are engaged in industry, including agriculture found to be necessary to the maintenance of the military establishment, the effective operation of the military forces, or the maintenance of national interest firing the emergency. Such claims must be filed with the district board on or before the fifth day after the mailing and posting of notice that you ha v e been certified by the local board as one who has been called for service and not exempted or discharged. If you desire to file such a claim: 1. Get or copy at the local or district board Form 161 or 161a. 2 Fill the form out properly. 3. File it with the district board within five days after the mailing and posting of notice that your name has been certified from the local board to the district board. See section 44. Regulations. XVI. PROOF IN SUPPORT OF INDUSTRIAL CLAIM. Only affidavits can he used in filing proof before the district board of a claim for exemption on industrial

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grounds. All such affidavits must h„ tiled within five days after the nil’Z of the claim. XVII. DECISIONS 0 FDISTRICT BOARD ON INDUSTRIAL claim Within five days after the eiosinit nt proof in any industrial claim the di«trict board must decide the claim If the decision of the district b<> arr | Is in favor of the claim the board «fl| issue a certificate of discharge. 1( the decision la against the claim the district boards will so notify y ou Remember that you have been c»fl. ed for military service and that t|„. certificate of the district board is n |y conditional on your remaining j n the kind of industrial service on count of which you were discharged No such exemption shall continue when a cause thereof no longer exists and your certificate of discharge ntty be withdrawn or modified by the di». trict board at any time that the dis ■ tricl board shall determine that the | 1 circumstances require it. XVIII. APPEALS OF INDUSTRIAL CLAIM TO THE PRESIDENT. ■ Only decisions of district boards on industrial claims for dlcharge can be

appealed. If you desire to appeal the decking of the district boards to the president, you may do so within seven days of ' the date of mailing to you of the .fc. vision of the district Itoard. To pwfeet your appeal — I 1. Get or copy from the district or | local hoard Form 163. | 2. Fill out tiic form and file it with the district board. 3. Do this within seven days after the mailing of notice to you of the decision of the district board in your case. XIX. HOW YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR MILITARY SERVICE As soon as your case is finally di;ixrsed of, the adjutant general of yoor state will notify you by mail that m have been selected for military service. Your local boards will post a list of all persons selected for military s»r vice in a place at the office of the local boards accessible to public view Thlocal board will also give lists of persons selected for military service t» the press with requests for publl* tion. XX Notice that you have been selected for military service will not necessarily order you into service.

The notice to report for military -- vice* will come when the Goverr is ready to receive you. E. H. CROWDER, Provost Marshal General. HOME STORAGE OF VEGETABLES To those person? fortunate enourh to possess land for the growing n > vegetables, storage is an economic necessity. Likewise it is an economic necessity to grow vegetables to store. A half-acre garden should produce far more vegetables than the average family can consume durinc the maturing period of the crops. Only a small portion of the garden should be planted to those vegetables which must be used as soon as the! reach maturity. The remainder should be devoted to crops that are to be canned, dried, or stored. It is comparatively easy to keep by storing such vegetables as potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, salsify, turnips. cabbage, celery, onions, sweet potatoes, dry beans, and dry litna beans. Some of the crops may be stored in the cellar under the dwelling. in pits or banks, or in caves or outdoor cellars. Others can be kept in atty dry place such as the pantry or attic.