Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1917 — Page 4

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 Tear, by carrier $5.00 Per Mouth, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mall $3.00 i Single Copies 2 cents , Advertising rates made known on i application. 1 ] Entered at the postoffice In Decatur. < Indiana, as second-class matter. '| t ’ ' t December starts off as though the month would be as pleasant as has been November and we hope so. The » weather during the past thirty days fc has been about right for the time of £ year and considering the fact that. | coal and fuel is scarce and the prices excessive.

The organization in Ohio which is oposed to the saloon business met a day or two ago and decided that there shall be another “wet and dry" election in that state next year. They seem to have the habit over there and while many new issues will enter the campaign, it is being freely predicted now that the "wets” will have the hardest fight in their history to prevent the banishment of the traffic. There are a lot of big things for this community to do, too many of them for us to devote our space and time to "back biting” and insinuations for the sole purpose of injuring some particular person. We are willing to fight during a campaign for those principles in which we believe but we are not willing to keep up that campaign twelve months a year when there is nothing to be gained therefrom. “I suppose not many fourtunate byproducts can come out of a war, but if the United States can learn something about saving out of this war it will be worth the cost of the war; I mean the literal cost of to. in money IS and resources I suppose we have several times over wasted what we are now about to spend. We have not known that there was any limit to our resources; we are now finding out that there may be if we are not careful" —From President Wilson’s speech to the War-Savings Committee. We are sorry that the plans for the auditorium have not matured. We believe the community should have a place where they could meet, that the school boys and girls should have a room that could be used as a gymnasium, that the guard should have a place to drill, that there should be a place where public meetings could be held without depending on the weather. We are sure that a little effort on the part of a few men and women of the city would get it and right away and we are sorry that these people don’t seem to feel the same way that we do about it. The Herald insists that they have enough ammunition to keep up a long and rugged fight and they seem to he

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’shooting it after the battle ia over. For the life of us we can’t understand why they should bo tearing up the track like mad after a campaign when they refused to do anything but publish silly poetry before election day but it may be all right and if they get any pleasure out of thus venting their I spleen, they are welcomed to keep it up. But what’s the nse? You have certainly convinced yourselves that every one who vot«d the democrat ticket is a fit subject for a jail or asylum and that this community has made such a mistake in not choosing P. L. for mayor when they had the opportunity, that they will never be able to live it down, so why keep up the strenuous effort? It’s just going to wear you out if you’re not careful. H: oc st wxtc acaxzwwNo: ixx:xr.:»• S SOCIETY I h>:u::n:ax:-.n::n:xx:ax:xtr.:xt:nx:x::»H WEEKLY SOCIAL CALENDAR Monday

3 Ruth Circle—Fanchon and Jessie t Magley. Tuesday * Reformed Missionary— Mrs. Otto ’ Kirsch. r Presbyterian Missionary—Mrs. S. D. [ Beavers. ( Pythian Needle Club. . I Cheerfulness is just as natural i to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheeks. — Ruskin. Mr. and Mrs. Will Butler gave a , Thanksgiving day dinner for Mr. and , Mrs. Frank Butler and daughter, and ; Mrs. H. O. Dibble and son, of bansing , Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Gilbert and Wm. Tritch took supper at the home j of Jesse i Gilbert Thanksgiving day. ( E. E. Snow and family, of Bluffton. 1 were Thanksgiving visiters at ,the 1 home o fhis parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Snow, near this city. The little 1 folks, Eleanor and Carolyn, will remain with their grandparents until Sunday. ] The annual Thanksgiving dinner at j the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. John- £ son. two and one half miles west of ] Monroe was inueea a happy one, with < all the children and grand children I at home. Time so swiftly passed in i conversation and music by Miss Rinda Johnson on the piano that the day seemed too short. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Butcher and chil- j dren, Robert, Lewis and Waynord, of £ Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas John- r son, and children, Eva, Paul and Eugene and Lawrence; Mr. and Mrs. s Maynord Johnson, of Decatur; Mr. and E Mrs. Frank Baker and children. OJis, Kenneth and Venran; Misses Evelyn, t Beatrice and Moris Butcher, of De- v catur; Miss Rinda Johnson, Mr. and t Mrs. P. S. Johnson. —Contributed. : Mrs. Leland Frank. Mrs. John Beineke, Mrs. O. L. Burgener. Mrs. Earl Butler will entertain the Pythian Sisters’ Ne< lie club Tuesday afternoon at the home. Mrs. F. W. Dibble of Lansing, Mich, who came Wednesday for a Thanksgiving visit with her sister, Mrs. C. T. Rainier, will remain for two weeks to visit with relatives. Real estate transfers: Thomas J. Smith to Aurin B. Grimm. 106 acres of Root township, $13,800; Andrew Miller, et al to Casper Miller, real estate $1; Ed S. Christen to Dore B. Erwin, 41 acres of Root township, $4,000; Dore B. Erwin, et al to Ed S. 5 Christen, 40 acres of Root township, ? $4,000; Decathr steele et al to William » Arnold, 80 acres of Kirkland township,

quit claim deed, $1; John W. Kessler et al to William Messel, lot 85, Geneva, $75; William Messel et al to Hiram Allison, lot 89 Geneva, $150; N. P. Colt, et al. to Elizabeth Morrison, real estate in Blue Creek township, quit claim deed, sl. Dan Niblick has returned from Vera ■Cruz where he spent Thanksgiving with the Michael Henneford family. Mrs. Niblick and children, Mildred and Harold, remained for a several days’ longer visit. The Ruth Circle of the Christian church will hold their regular meeting Monday evening with the Misses I Eanchon and Jessie Magley. The members of the Zion Luthern Ladies’ Aid society are requested to take notice that the next meeting will be held Friday, December 14th, and not next week, Friday, the 7th. The meeting of the i’resbyterian Woman’s Homo and Foreign Missionary society will be Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. S. D. Beavers instead of with Mrs. D. B. Erwin as listed in the year book. All should attend. The W. M. S. of Zion Reformed

. church will meet with Mrs. Otto j Kirsch Tuesday. 2:30 p. m. The following program will be given: Devotional service. Mrs. M. Worthman; 1 Review on Outlook of Missions, Mrs. ■ C. Brodbeck; Duet. Mrs. O. Reppert ' and Mrs. L. N. Stolte; Leaflet, "Alice Djou," Mrs. B. Elzey; Evangelistic work of Jaixin.” Rev. L. N. Stolte; business. , Mrs. John Lhamon, of Anderson, will return home Monday after a visit over Thanksgiving and the week-end with her sister. Mrs. Hosea Ray. Mrs. Fred Schafer left. Thursday afternoon for Coldwater. Mich., where sho will be the guest of Mrs. A. A. Nichols. -I- o — Tanks ( ailed Into Action (Continued from Page One) - the British. He hopes for some blow which will regain the prestige German arms have lost. It is evident from the attitude of German prisoners that Byng's drive was the hardest blow struck German morale’since the French drove the German crown prince back from Verdun In February 1816, BULLETIN Christiania, Dec. I—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Norway, Sweden and Denmark have entered a new agreement to observe the utmost neutrality. An official statement today announced this result of the conference of the Scandinavian kings and statesmen which has been in progress here. Tho conference, according to announcement, agreed on Scandinavian . harmony and mutual confidence, regardless of the length of the war, each , nation to observe the utmost neutrality, and all to assist each other by exchange of merchandise. BULLETIN London, Dec. I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Austria is prepared to negotiate a general peace, without “ter- ' ritorial or economic violations,” Prem- ' ier Seidler told the Austrian parlia- ' ment, according to a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam today. BULLETIN London, Dec. I—(Special to Daily ’ Democrat) —The Germans have ap- 1 parently given up hope of wrestling back any of General Byng's gains 1 around Cambrai, according to Field Marshal Haig’s official statement to- 1 day. He reported no attempt to re- 1 new- attacks on this front during last night. 1 (By Joseph Shaplen, United Press I Staff Correspondent) ’ Stockholm. Dec. I—(Speciall—(Special to the 1 Daily Democrat) —Rusian province® ( are on the brink of an anti-bolschevki revolt. Bolsheviki commissaries are resigning, apprehensive of their own safety. Trotsky, Lenine and others of the • bolsheviki ring in Petrograd are 1 wildly striving by merciless persecu- ! tion of elements opposed to them, to t

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> reach a separate peace with Ger- . many before the deluge. A separte peace would mean the beginning of a Russia-wide civil war. He told the United Press that the Russian nation is rising to stamp out , the bolsheviki. The bolsheviki commissaries, Nagin, Tarlh, Lunacharsky, Mrs. Kolaxai and others have formally resigned in protest against excesses of the maximalist government. SEINING ST. MARYS RIVER To provide tho public with a lowpriced substitute for meat, the Allen county food relief committee will start seining the St. Marys river Saturday morning. With the use ot a 500-foot net, catfish, carp, red horse, coarse pickerel and pike will be taken from the river and placed on the city market, where they will be sold at the lowest possible prices. The committee hopes to be able to sell the fish at 7 cents a poun 1. Whether or not this will be possible depends on number of fish obtained. “It is possible that we may have to charge 6 or 10 cents a pound for the fish," Frank H. Hilgeman. chairman of the committee, said today. “All depends on the first haul. If a large number of the fish are taken from the river we may be able to sell them at. 7 cents per pound, as they are doing in Indianapolis. We will give the public the advantage of the lowest possible prices, charging only enough to cover the expense of the seining." The seining of the river will be in charge of State peputy Game Warden Fred Madden, through whom the large net which will be used in the work was secured. Boats will be furnished' by the city fire department. The seln-i er will begin work near Clinton street and then proceed westward. The first of the fish taken from the river will appear on the market Tuesday of next week.—Ft. Wayne News. o— RELATIVES NEED EMPLOYMENT. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. I—(Speciall—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Many Indianapolis and Indiana women, largely relatives of soldiers and sailors, have filed applications with the girls’ and women’s division of the United States employment bureau in the federal building, Indianapolis, to which they were directed by the Indiana State Council of Defense. Well educated women are in line for jobs and are offering to do many sorts of work in place of men who have gone to the colors, but there is little response from employers and apparently is little present need for the substitution of the women for men in industry and business. The State Council anticipates this demand will inevitably come later, should the war with Germany continue, as expected. It is found that many of the wives and sisters of men in the military service are badly in need of employnent. Miss Morna Hickam, special igent in charge of the bureau, is urging employers to co-operate in the ( work of placing women relatives of , soldiers and sailors in jobs where they can support themselves.

ROBERT a. BROWN Franklin Grand Keeper of Records and Seals. j|L -WISL ■L W w CHARLES L. PULLIAM Terre Haute Grand Vice Chancellor. * iTU M. ,-

■RED CROSS SEALS ‘ Dr. Barnard and Director Woolen Insist Campaign is Important One BECAUSE OF THE WAR Active Campaign to be Made ' Against War Tuberculosis—Buy Seals. 1 Indianapolis, Dec. I—Dr. H. E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, and Evans Woollen, federal coni administrator of Indiana in let-. 1 ter to the State Society for the Pre- ( vention of Tuberculosis express their appreciation of the fact that, in view of the war increase of tuberculosis, the campaign against that disease must be waged more intensively than ever before. Dr. Barnard says, "Even though, in these war times, the people are asked to consider many things, there is nothing in the world more important that the Red Cross Christmas seal campaign for the prevention of tuberculosis. Germany, after all, is only a temporary enemy. We will always I have more or less of a battle to fight . with tuberculosis. Let us not lose sight of that in the excitement cf fighting the Hun.” | Mr. Woolen endorses the nation , wide sale of Red Cross Christmas ‘ seals and adds, “Inasmuch as it is the | nation and not merely the army that I is at war. everything possible should of course, be done to preserve the na- | tion’s vitality, anl I sincerely trust that the Red Cross Christmas seal campaign will be successful." The active campaign against tuberculosis carried on in England before the war is now to a great extent saving that country and its army and navy from the terrible ravages of that disease in France, Belgium and other warring countries. The opportunity to purchase public health insurance paying the premium in Red Cross sea’s is presented to every citizen of this country. The Indiana Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis appeals to all Hoosiers to get behind this wartime seal campaign. Agents are needed in every nook and corner of the state. Offer help to your local agent if he has been appointed. If not, write the Indiana Society at 210 Public Savings Bldg., Indianapolis. INGLES IS CAPTAIN (United Press Service) Bloomington. Ind., Dec. I—(Speciall—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Jimmie Ingles, who played right tackle for the Indiana football team, has been elected captain, it was announced today. He is an Indianapolis boy. RED CROSS MEETING There will be a Red Cross meting all day at the J. D. Elzey home at Preble,'beginning at nine o’clock. Each one coming should bring ready prepared, one article for the table. A LITTLE WANT AD NOW AND THEN, WILL AT,WAYS HELP THE MOST PROSPEROUS OF MEN.

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