Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1917 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN .H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Mouth, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail 53.00 * Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Have you given your bit for the company A fund. It don’t have to h? big to show your spirit but it ought to be something. "Taint givin’ mu-h —jist money” anyway. The recent rains have caused a good many smiles over this section for t lies' mean a good many dollars to those who have hoped for a decent crop of potatoes, sugar beets and other late. crops. • There may be things that don't seem just right to you but have you stopped to think that those who make no mistakes are those who do nothing. Be a booster and you will feel better and be tetter and so will every one else. The men at Preble are patriotic, loyal and liberal as was shown by the j subscription sent in to day for com-j pany A. Twenty-five dollars from the, town of Preble is a dandy contribu-, tion and is appreciated by the boys and their boosters. Mr. James woo i did the hustling is deserving of due , praise and will receive it. Help make the celebration tomorrow evening, observing the departure of company A, the success it ought to be. If every one gets into the spirit of this event, if you realize the importance of the occasion, it will be as it deserves to be the greatest demon-’ st ration ever known in this county. Help do it. Decorate, turn on the lights, join the parade. Every church, school and lodge is invited and that certainly includes you some wjaere down the line. Did you miss the soldier lads last evening? We have an idea you did if you have been used to walking down about Court street. Well one of these days before long, they are going away for a longer stay and you will miss them more if you havn’t contributed something to the company fund. If you do you will have the pleasant remembrance of having helped them have a little easier time while in the camps or in the trenches. Let’s finish it up this week. Company A will probably report at Fort Harrison Friday, according to the News from Indianapolis. In the meantime remember that the fund for their use is still short several hundred dollars. Also the boys are planning for their tobacco while in camp. While a number will object to giving any money to be used for this purpose we feel that it is worthy. Tobacco is a great comfort and the boys will enjoy many a delightful smoke if the peo-

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’ pie continue to respond with pipes and ’ tobacco as they started today. t ,■— At last the claim is being made and 7 with some signs of the rumor being t eventually confirmed that an instrument has been invented which will disclose when a submarine is within a radius of several miles. This means the removal of the only real stinger 8 the Germans have depended on for a 3 s year or two past. The new machine o'or instrument has never been explains ed nor has there been any official a statement of the existence of such an ‘animal'' but nevertheless the news is ’. coming straight enough to allay the fears that the undersea craft will be able to clear the ocean and determine the'result of the war. ' i The firm of Fa. her, Mother & Co., 1 • 'has been going on now fir me time. In fact, it is the oldest firm in existI ence. It is still doing business and bids fair to outlast all other firms. Without it there would be no government, no peoples of countries, no trade 'of any sort. It is the basis of all industry. This firm is duly incorporated under the laws of Providence, and gets its charter direct from God. Os late years it has had troubles of its own because it has become dependent 1 for too much of its happiness upon outside things. Instead of pulling to- , ' gether and being satisfied with those ’products which it can make itself, it has been tempted away from its own ' vine and fig tree. The advice to do its 'own canning is therefore good aud 'might still be amplified. The firm of ' Father. Mother & Co. should not only ' do its own canning, but its own planting, its own building, its own charact- ' er making and its own thinking.—Ag- ' ricultural Bulletin? a '.tsi:::'. sr. 1 DOINGS IN SOCIETY | uix: tn: xiar.ar. tn: WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Thursday Ever Ready Class —Mrs. Alph Gentis. St. Vincent de Paul —Mrs. Joe Tonnelier. . Baptist Aid and Missionary—Mrs. t S. E. Shamp. , I Friday f' Tirzah Aid —Ben Hur Hall. Queen Esthers’ Stand —Court House Square. t' Christian Pastoral Helpers— Mrs. f Joe Cloud. Saturday. 1 W. R. C. Stand —Court House ! Square. Never fear to bring the sub- ! limest motive to the smallest I duty, and the most infinite comf fort to the smallest trouble. — Phillips Brooks. ! The Tirzah Aid society will meet , after the Ben Hur lodge Friday ev- ( ening. There will be a good program and refreshments. The president. Mrs. Ehrman. and the vice president. Mrs. Ray, will be hostj tesses. ’ The Queen Estehr Circle announces that it will conduct another r stand auto day, Saturday. September 3, on the court house square. r Rev. and Mrs. B. B. Uhl and chila dren. of Toledo, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. y- John Christen and two sons were e guests of the J. J. Magley family at dinner last evening. a y Miss Rosa Schwartz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Schwartz, residing northeast of Vera Cruz, and Eli 5 Reinlck, son of Joseph Reinick, of Pauldiyg county, Ohio, will unite in marriage next Sunday. The couple will then make their home on the Joel Reinhard farm. Mr. Reineck is a brother of Mrs. Henry Dotterer and was employed at the Hartman & Dotterer feed barn a few years ago.— ■ Bluffton News. Fl Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, who -'visited with their brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Laban Fogle, at Berne and also attended the BeelerGibson reunion near Portland, pass ■<! through this city today enroute to | their home at Logansport. i The Crescent Girls, a class taught I by Mrs. O. H. Odell who were to I have a picnic at Monmouth last night, I changed the picric scene to the home jof the Misses Florence aud Hazel .Haney on South Fifth street instead. IA fine lunch was provided and a good ’ program given. * Mrs. C. V. Connell gave a one o'clock j luncheon yesterday afternoon celebrating the birlh anniversary of her I daughter. Lois. Rovers were laid for, twenty guests at the five little tables

■ 1 - ■ J ' which wore unusually pretty with I their floral centerpieces of pungent I uaaturiions. The rooms were other-, wise tastefully adorned with bitter ( sweet and naslurtions. The guests, . lingered after luncheon for the mush and other amusements provided. In a guessing contest, Miss Katherine Cotton was awarded the prire. Besides Miss Cotton, of Shelbyville. Miss Marion Balch, of Terre Haute was an out of town guest. ? Miss Jlrene Gregory gave a slumuet party last evening for Miss Katherine , j Cotton, of Shelbyville; Misses Lois Connell, Fanny Heller. Leon Baker, son of Mrs. Joe Baker, of Fort Wayne, will be a guest of his cousins, the Dr. C. V. Connell family tomorrow. Mr. Baker is a midshipman at the Annapolis Naval Academy, j There was a called meeting of 1 the C. U. B. I. girls at the home of Vir s gine Smith last evening. Plans were c made for a birthday party tomorrow f evening for Lois Connell and Florence r Holthouse whose anniversaries come v so near together. The party will be at the Holthouse home. Miss Dreda q Parent will entertain the club Friday of next week. Misses Adelaide R. Burdg. Iva M. ] Burdg and Hazel Burdg. of Columbus. 0.. motored here in their Jeffrey car and are guests of the Dr. \\. E. Smi’h family until tomorrow. Miss Adelaide went to Fort Wayne this afternoon tc t visit. t Miss Helen Niblick with her niece 1 and nephew, Mary. Josephine and Ar- • thur Daniel Suttles have gone to Lein- < sic. 0.. to keep house for Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Edwards and the Edwards baby while Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are at 1 Grand Rapids. Mich., consulting Mr. j Edwards’ specialist; he being under ( the care of a doctor. They will be gone until the first of the week. Julius Gotsch, of Sturgis, Mich., formerly of this city, is here visiting with the Ferdinand Bleeke family. He will go to Fort Wayne soon to resume his duties at Concordia College. The Ever Ready class, taught by Mrs. Wash Gilpin, will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Alph Gentis to make comfort kits for the soldiers. LORD GRAY DEAD (Untied Press Service) London. August 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Lord Grey, form'r- ; ly governor general of Canada, died here today. He had been ill for months. Lord Grey was bom Nov. 28, 1851. and is of no relation to Grey, : former secretary of state for foreign affairs. He was administrator of Rhod- ■ esia and director of the British South Africa company prior to becoming governor general of Canada in 1904. . o Militarism Is Crumbling (Continued from Page One) preparing for a stand there, with heavy reinforcements at hand to repel further advance of Cadorna’s troops. ■ In this contingency the Italian war • command must move up it’s artillery ■ over the rocky heights of the Monte . Santo chain to prepare for further > blasting out of the enemy. Fighting is still continuing on a heavy scale south of Bainsizza. as the Italian troops drive on toward Trieste. On the British front there was fighting at half a dozen spots but apparent- ' ly no concerted resumption of Haig’s offensive. Paris dispatches indicated the same was true on the French front, an artillery duel being the main , fighting activity reported. Os the German drive on Riga no fresh word has been received. [ Petrograd, Aug., 29 —(Special to - Daily Democrat)—Russian troops coni tinue to desert the firing line in great f bodies. 1 The war office declared today that ? one whole division in the region of 5 Muntcheleu had thus fled in disorder, s p rmitting an enemy advance. 1 This retreat permitted the teuton • to advance throughout the day and at ” night to penetrate positions in the region of Varnitza. o o TWO NEW RECRUITS. d t Two new recruits were added to I-. Company A’s roster today. They d are Charley Komen, who is a native ° of Austria, and who took out his first naturalization papers today, and t Tony ('her. who is also a native of , Austria, and did the same as Komen. This makes a total of 101 enlisted ’ men in the company. 1 FUNERAL YESTERDAY I Funeral services for Clara were held yesterday afternoon from the Methodist church, the Rev. Thornburg conducting the service. The body was laid to rest in the Reynolds cemetery. ' , o ! Democrat Want Ads Pay ’

REPLIES TO POPE I —* ( President Wilson Again , States Position of United ’ States in the War. I • " I MESSAGE CLEAN CUT I __ J Hopes That the People of < Germany Will Soon t - Claim Rights. i Washington. D. C., Aug. 29 —Presl- t dent Wilson's mesage. replying to Pope Benedict's peace appeal and ’ stating why the United States must i continue the war until the world is', freed of Prussianism. signed by Sec- , retary Lansing, and delivered at the , Vatican today, follows: , Washington. D. C., Aug. 27, 1917. To His Holiness. Benedictus NV. Pope: In acknowledgment of the communication of your Holiness to the belligerent people, dated August 1, 1917, the president of the United States requests me to transmit the following reply: "Every heart that has not been blinded and hardened by this terrible war must be touched by this moving appeal of his holiness, the pope; must feel the dignity and force pf the humane and generous motives which prompted it, and must fervently wish that we might take the path of peace he so persuasively points out. But it would be folly to take it if it does not in fact lead to the goal he proposes. ’ “Our response must be based upon the stern facts and upon nothing else. It is not a mere cessation of arms he desires; it is a stable and enduring peace. This agony must not be gone through with again, and it must be a matter of very sober judgment what will insure us against it. “His holiness, in substance, proposes that we return to the status quo ante bellum. and that then there be a general condonation, disarmament, and a concert of nations based upon an acceptance of the principle of arbitration: that by a similar concert freedom of the seas be established. and that the territorial claims of France and Italy, the perplexing problems of the Balkan states, and the restitution of Poland be left to such conciliatory adjustments as may be possible in the new temper of snch a peace, due regard being paid to the aspirations of the people whose political fortunes and affiliations will be involved. "It is manifest that no part of this program can be successfully carried out unless the restitution of the status quo ante furnishes a firm and satisfactory basis for it. "The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceded to carry the plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long established practices and long cherished principles of international action and honor, which chose its own time for the war; delivered its blow fiercely and suddenly; stopped at no barrier either of law or mercy; swept a whole continent within the tide of blood —not the blood of soldiers only, but the blood of innocent women and children also, and of the helpless of the poor—and now stands balked but not defeated, the enemy qX four•fifths of the world. "This power is not the German people. It is the ruthless master of the German people. It is no business of ours how that great people came under its control or submitted with temporary zest to the domination of its purpose, but it is our business to see to it that the history of the rest of the world is no longer left to its handling. "To deal with such a power byway of peace upon the plan proposed by his holiness, the pope, would, so far as we can see, involve a recuperation of its strength and a renewal of its policy; would make it necessary to create a permanent hostile combination of nations against the German people, who are its instruments. and would result in abandoning the new born Rusia to the intrigue. the manifold subtle interference, and the certain counter revolution wan n woufi'f ‘fie attempted by all the malign influences to which the German government has of late acustomed the world. “Can peace be based upon a restitution of its power or upon any word of honor it could pledge in a treaty of settlement and accommodation? "Responsible statesmen must now everywhere see, if they never saw before. that no peace can rest securely] upon political or economic restriction

meant to benefit some nations and cripple or embarrass others, upon vindictive action of any sort, or any kind of revenge or deliberate injury. "The American people pave suffered intolerable wrongs at the hands <>i the imperial German government, but they desire no reprisal upon the German people, who have themselves suffered all things in this war. which they did not chttose. They believe that peace |l should rest upon the rights of peoples, not the rights of governments the ' rights of peoples, great or small, weak ( or powerful their equal right to freedom and security and self-government and to a participation upon fair terms * in the economic opportunities or the I world the German people of course included, if they will accept equally and not seek domination. < "The test, therefore, of every plan * okpeace is this: Is it based upon the I faith of all the peoples involved, or I merely upon the word of an ambitions I and intriguing government, on the one < hand, and of a group of free peoples. on the other? This is a test which ( goes to the root of the matter; and it * is the test which must be applied. ‘The purposes of the United States in this war are known to the whole world—to every people to whom the truth has been permitted to come. ( They do not need to be slated again. We seek no material advantage of any kind. We believe that the intoler- 1 able wrongs done in this war by the furious aud brutal power of the imp“rial German government ought to be repaired, but not at the expense of the sovereignty of any people—rather a vindication of the sovereignty, both of those that are weak and of those that are strong. "Punitive damages, the dismemberment of the empires, the establishment of selfish and exclusive •econo- ' mic leagues, we deem inexpedient and in the end worse than futile, no proper basis for a peace of any kind, least of all for an enduring peace. That must be based upon justice and fairness and the common rights of mankind. “We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure, unless explicitly supported by such con- . elusive evidence of the will and pur- . pose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world . would be justified in accepting. "Without such guarantees, treaties ' of settlement, agreements for disarm- ■ ament, covenants to set up arbitra- > tion in the place of force, territorial 1 adjustments, reconstitutions of small 1 nations, if made with the German gov- ’ ernment, no man. no nation could now depend on. ' “We must await some new evidence of the purposes of the great peoples of the central poyers. “God grant it may be given soon and ( in away to restore the confidence of I all peoples everywhere in the faith . of nations and the possibility of a I covenanted peace.” ROBERT LANSING. Secretary of State of the United I States of America. o COURT HOUSE NEWS. Another case from the Allen superior court is entitled Ernest ('. Fry vs. Charles D. Mooney, to foreclose chattel mortgage. A Fort Wayne divorce case will be aired in the Adams circuit court, having been sent here on change of venue from the Allen superior court. The case is entitled Robert I. Donahae vs. Mary Donahoe. He charges that from the time of their marriage Sentember 15, 1909. until March 20, 1911. when she left him, she was guilty of > cruel and inhuman treatment in that she cominually nagged and scolded him. In Mrs. Donahue's cross complaint filed, in which she asks for the divorce. SSOO alimony, the custody of . their minor child, Robert, aged 7, and ten dollars a month for his support, she says Donahoe refused to allow her to attend church, remained awey some- . times whole nights at a time and ’ failed to account for his whereabouts 1 and wat at all times sarcastic. ' A marriage license was issued yesterday afternoon to Alva K. Burger, farmer, born August 21, 1878, son of Frank Burger, to wed Bertha A. Welty born September 11. 1890. daughter ■ f W. Welty. This is the groom's second marriage, the first having been dissolved by death October, 1914. A , marriage license was also issued to Elias Reineck. born May 26. 1891, son of Joseph Reineck, to wed Rosa E. Schwartz, born May 5, 1898, daughter of Joel Schwartz. FUND IS STILL GROWING The company A fund is still growlnIf you havn't sent yours in yet do it st once as the boys will leave some time this week. The list: As announced $549.50 . ■ Sam Franks 2.00 I Town of Preble 25.00 Mrs. Philip Obenauer 50 o 0 Dr. Burt Mangold 5.00 ' i : Total $631.b0

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