Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1918 — Page 2

HAIL ’i DE MOU RAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by ■—< - I I ' , The Decatur Democrat Company £ JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary ■ •’ ‘ ' L, iwmwv -i i —. . .11 111 I ■«««»* I J Subscription Rates By Government Order, Cash In Advance. 1 One Week, by carrier 10 cents , One Year, by carrier $5.00 . One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mail $1.75 Ono Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Secretary of State HERMAN L. CONTER For Congress. Eighth District WILLIAM H. EICHHORN For Judge 26th Judiciad Circuit JOHN C. MORAN For Prosecutor 26th Judicial District E. BURT LENHART For Joint Senator JOHN F. DECKER For Representative. Adams County JOSEPH W. WALKER For Clerk Adams Circuit Court JOHN T. KELLY For County Treasurer FRED W. STUDLER For County Recorder ANDREW J. CASE For Sheriff SEPHUS MELCHI For Coroner D. D. CLARK For County Surveyor ORVAL HARRUFF For County Assessor WILLIAM FRAZIER For Commissioner, Second District C. C. BEER For Commissioner. Third District ROBERT SCHWARTZ “—------ ~~ -rElection is but ten days away. The democrats have made good, vote to continue them in office. The men on the democratic ticket in Adams county are your neighbors and yen have known them many years. They can be trusted. You know that limes are prosperous and that affairs are going along smoothly, even though the nation is going through a great crisis. Better let well enough alone. Vandalism is not patriotism and those who engage in it under such a cover are knocking on the door of prison. This government cannot afford to and does not for a minute approve of such actions. Herman L. Confer is an Adaris county man who has earned his right to your vote. He leads the Indiana state ticket, chosen because of his record as deputy secretary for six years. He will earn every penny of his salary if elected and he will appreciate a vote at home that will show our faith in our own citizens. Willis A. Fox. the democratic nominee for state superintendent of public instruction, is worthy of your vote. Those who know him best, will 41 you that he is fair and just in ail things and will serve the people of Indiana, in the very highest and most

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capable manner. He is educated, courteous, kind and honest and he will give every one a square deal. You make no tqistake when you vote for Willis Fox. Herman t’onter should receive a handsome majority in Adams county. There is no reason that we can think of why any person living here should not vote for him. He is capable, an excellent ciltien, a man wio will attend to the duties of the office. Do a little boosting for Center. It will help Adams county in many ways to have one of our men in state office. Vote for the interest of Adams county. Vote for Center. There are many ] us sure to arise during the nex: two years in this country, following the w. . and during the reconstruction period The administration in Washington are for the people, anxious to have

laws enacted that will lie of the great-1 est good to the greatest number They are not bound by any big interests. They are for you. For these and a thousand other reasons they should have the opportunity to act. Don't tie the hands of your friends. Help them by giving them a democratic congress. Vote for Eichhorn. One republican teld us yesterday that the only objection he had to Mr. Wilson was that he hadn’t appointed enough republicans to important positions. He was reminded that nearly all the important places were held by republicans, naming Schaub, Ryan, Goethals. Hughes and a dozen others and he was asked to name the democrat holding a job who hasn’t made good and he replied Daniels. Can you beat that for unlimited nerve? Daniels, the man who has so managed the great office an st cretary of the navy and so planned the details that more than two million men have been sent across sets with practically no loss. And then well then lie got busy and hustled away. President Wilson is the acknowledged leader of the world today. He has made good because he has had the assistance of such men as McAdoo, Baker and Daniels and hundreds of others. He has chosen men, because of their ability for the particular place for which they were needed and to which they were called. The great care exercised by these men and others under them ithe reason that we have passed through this world’s greatest crisis without injury to business. Better not tie the hands of the men in Washington who are doing these things which are for the best interests of the common men. The thing to Jo is to aid them in every way you can and the way to do it now is to elect a democratic congress. President Wilson appeals to the people of this country to stand by him, issuing a statement to the voters which it seems should appeal to

[every fair minded person. To argue that a republican congress is ju ;t as helpful to the president as the democrats is "bosh.” and no one knows it better than the slick politicians who argue it. You never heard of a republican president asking for the election of democrats to btfbk him, you know that if the opportuiiity presents itself that men of the [Jim Watson type and the Albert Vestal kind of partisan, will put the president in the deepest hole they can find. This is. as the president says, a serious time, and the people of this country should stand loyally back of the administration. The way to do it is to vote for Eichhorn. Every citizen entitled to a vote under the laws and constitution of Indiana ought to vote at the coming election. The privilege is yours as a part of the world's greatest democracy and you should avail yourself of the opportunity. In every township there should be an effort by the good citizens to see that the vote is ca d. This year has been an unusual one in politics because of the fact that (other great and serious questions I have taken the time and efforts of those who heretofore have created

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interests in political questions Just at the time when the campaign was to open a two weeks’ whirlwind Ilaish. along came Hie influenza epidemic and the orders that no public meetings can be held. As a result for the ! first time in fifty years there has not . been a political speech in Adan s county. It therefore becomes your jduty more than ever to see that the I vote is cast on election day. Do your full duty. ++4.++*++ + + + + + + + + MR. MARSHALL’S + QUESTIONS. ♦ ++♦++++++++++++ My Fellow Citizen#:— It has been my purpose to meet I you face to face and tell you w hat I i thought but the mournful epidemic of influenza has so touched me and 'mine that this may not be possible, 'although I hope to speak to a few of I you. For old times' sake may I not I ask you to sit down by your firesides (and dispassionately answer, not to me but to your own consciences, these questions: Do you believe that the world will ever go back to where it was on August 4. 1914?

Do you believe that 10.600,00 men have agonized. sa<*rffieed and died that you and 1 should now put In our time discussing the views which for meriy divided us? Do you not believe that, when this conflict is over, there is to he a new world, and that part of the new world is to be a new America? Have you any idea what the problems for solution will be when this new America emerges from the conflict? If not. can yoti not afford, with me. to delay taking sides until you know what the problems are to be" Have you not always voted as you thought was for the good of your conn try? Do you not believe that the good of your country demands the winning of this war? Are you willing to admit that, though there may be no difference in the in dividual patriotism of average citizens. still this war is being waged under what was elected and is known to the world as a democratic administration? Do you thing the German people know that Woodrow Wilson is a democrat? Prior to our entrance into the war. did the German people think a large body of our citizens were favorable to their cause? Did all those who were favorable to the cause of Germany vote against Woodrow Wilson in 1916? AVill any of those who still secretly remain fa vorable to the German cause vote the democratic ticket this year? Have not the German people almost lost hope of any valuable sentiment in their favor among us? Do they not now believe that this country is behind the Wilson administration? Could anything revive their fainting hearts more than republican victory? Would not republican success convince them that we were again a divided people? Are you satisfied with the conduct of the war? Would not anything which tended to indicate your dissatisfaction prolong the war and keep the boys still longer over there? Why, if satisfied, should a patriot want a change?

Has not republican support of war measures always been accompanied by so-called constructive criticism? ‘lf you put republicans in power, will they not waste time trying to make Wilson do it their way. while your boys pay the price of delay with their lives? If the republican party had had its way, where would Josephus Daniels be now? Where would be Newton I). Baker? Where would be the Browning gun? Where would be the Liberty motor? If republican politicians have supported the war whole heartedly, then they must be satisfied with th<j.,democratic administration ami. if they are satisfied, why should you not be? If you are satisfied and they are not, why should you vote their ticket? Does not Woodrow Wilson occupy the center of the world's stage today? Do not friend and foe alike hail him as the world’s leader? Forgan ancient prejudice are you going to say. “Away with him!” Dare yon vote in such away as to convince Europe that you are repudiating the Wilson way of winning the war? Do you doubt that republican success will be ‘ hailed at home and abroad as repudiation? Do you want the election returns celebrated in London and Paris, where Wilson is honored, or in Berlin and Vienna, where he is hated? THOMAS R. MARSHALL. October 23, 1918. Q Mrs. D. R. Wise, of Ohio Citv. who visited at. Sturgis, Mich., stopped' off for a visit with her parents, Mr.' and Mrs. N. 0. Grove.

SOCIETY tuuxnynr .nu,n: ur.Ttxuxusttxr x a Tether a man and he'fl pul! like mad at the rope: cut him loose and he'll immediately come around and proceed to try to tie another knot in it. —Helen Rowland. A recent editorial in an Indianan(dis paper is given over to wonder as to whether any use was ever made of th ' registration cards signed in Indianapolis. The Woman's Section office is frequently appealed to and has given help from the cards, notably in the recent call four nurses. In our notes from the women's section for the Sunday Star of this week, attention was called to the fact that the Indianapolis office has helped local physicians through the cards, in finding nurses, and that Wayne county has testified to the splendid tiling system established by their registration officials. Can not our publicity women from each county send us some examples of the actual workings of the registration cards, so that we prove to the unbelieving editor Unit "the labor of obtaining the signatures" was not wasted, as he gravely fears? Notes of Women’s Section of Council of Defense. Mrs. Velma McGill went to Berne this afternoon to join her niece. Mists (I ace Rjeickart. of Midland. Mich., ■n a visit at the George Gates home

(’. O. Pumphrey and family have as their guests over Sunday, his mother. Mrs. R. J. Pumphrey and daughter. Mildred, and his brother. H. R. Pumphrey and wife of Del'.ware. ().. who motored here. H. R. Pumphrey leaves November 1 for France where he goes as a field worker for the Red Cross. "Woodrow” Saaki. of a small Sumatt district school in Placer county, California, does not show his patriotism only in his name. Woodrow do* nated his horse to the Red Cross after he heard a Red Cross speech and guaranteed the horse. “You just offer see him trot when his insides gets food.’ he said. The horse was immediately accepted From "Vignette?, from California.” in the November Red Cross magazine. In every hospital in France and England wh» re a sick or wounded American soldier arrives, there is a Red Cross worker to visit him. In England the soldiers visited every month amount to s,ooo.—From the November Red Cross magazine. The 1). 1). bunch, composed of senior. gills of the Decatur high school, had their weekly meeting at the Walter's home on Fifth street. They enjoyed a pleasant evening and were later joined by their gentlemen friends. —Contributed. Mrs. Roy Wolford and nine children. Hazel. Pauline, Billy, John, Louis. Mary. Guy. Helen. Edward, returned today to Fort Wayne after a week’s visit with her parents, Attorney and Mrs. Shafer Peterson.

SHARES A DUGOUT (Continued From Page One) trenches and had a look at “Mr. Bosche" out in No Man's Land. Could have hit him on the head with a stone but was afraid 1 might insult him. Am feeling fine, am well satisfied, getting along tine with my work, and can say “This is the life." Lots of love JESS, Second Lieutenant. Battery B. 102nd F. A., U. S. A. P. O. 709, American E. Frame. o ESTRAY NOTICE Three stray shouts came to the home of the Gelmer Brothers, five and a half miles east of the city. Saturday noon, and were taken up there. The owner may get them by calling there. 25243 GOING TO~CALIFORNIA Otto M. Ryf. Berne manager of the Schlosser Bros, cream station, and deputy food administrator, and his family, will leave the first of next month for California, where they lived prior to coining to Berne a year lago. They go because the climate here does not agree with their little daughter’s 1 health. He will be succeeded as cream station manager as | well as local deputy food administrator, by Sam Si mi son. He may assist his brother-in-law in government dredging work or take a position in a ship-building ya-rrl. or go back to newspaper work. REV. KING CUTS THROAT, (United press Service) Buffalo. N. Y., Oct. 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Rev, ■ Robert A. King of Wabash college. Crawfordsville. Ind., cut his throat, with a razor on a New York Central train nearing Buffalo, today. He died shortly aftt

erward King was a professor at Wa . bash. He was on hts way to a New I York sanitarium for treatment for treatment for nervous breakdown. BE SURE °TO VOTE (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Oct. 26 (Special to Daily Democrat)—Fearing that the .tention of employers and employes in important war industries might be so centered on winning the war, that the importance of the coming election might be overlooked. M. E. Foley, speaking for the state council of defense, today issued an appeal to voters to go to the polls on November 5. Employers are asked to co-operate and attention is called to the law giving the laboring men four hours to vote. Failure of employers to give th«ir employees this opportunity to vote is violation of the statute, Foley pointed out. CITY SCHOOLS REMAIN CLOSED City School Suerintendent M. F. Worthman stated at noon today that the city schools will remain closed next week, which will be the fourth week of the enforced vacation on account of the influenza epidemic. The local health officers had made inquiry of the state officials as to Whether we would be allowed to open next Monday, but as no answer had been received by noon today, and it thought that their answer would not be favorable to the opening, il was decided to make the announcement that they will continue to be closed

BUYS RADEMAKER HOME The old Rademaker homestead on Third street has been purchased by Jacob Oraler well known farmer of south of the city, the consideration being $3.00(1. The Omlers will continue their residence on the farm during the period of the war, or for a year or two. that they may help in this way as much as ixissible, but expect later to come to town to make 'his place their home. o — INCREASING IN PARIS (United Press Service) Parts. Oet. 36—(Special to Daily Democrat)— The Spanish influenza epidemic* continues to spread here. Municipal statistics of the past week show 1.945 deaths in the Paris region, of which 880 were officially attributed to influenza, against 1.445 death from all causes the preceding week. The normal death rate for the lame period last year was 721. TEACHERS’ EXAMINATION Twenty took the teachers’ examination this morning in the circuit court room under the direction of County School Superintendent Ed S Christen. vpi’oi vrtiEvr ”»i- bxki i tor. Notice is hereby given (hat the undersigned has been appointed executor of the estate of Daniel Donovan, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probabH solvent. H. F. COSTELLO, Executor.

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DRUGGISTS!! PLEASE NOTE VICK'S VAPORUB OVERSOLD DUE TO PRESENT EPIDEMIt Tremendous Demand Last Few Days Has Wiped o w Excess Stocks That We Had Estimated \\ ould Uutil Next .January—Last Week’s Orders ( a |u tor One and Three-quarter Million Jars~Todav\ Orders Alone Amount to 932,459 .Jars.

Big Shipments Are Enroute to jobbers—Until These Arrive, There May be a Temporary Shortage—All Deals P <,S J’ ported—Buy in Small Lots Only. RETAILERS CAN GET IMMEDIATE SHIPMENS DIRECT BY PARCEL POST. This advertisement is written on Monday. October 21st. It is directed to the attention of all distributors of Vick’s Vapoßub. both wholesale and retail. In an emergency such as the present epidemic—our duty—and your duty—is to distribute Vapoßub in the quickest possible manner to those sections stricken by influenza. We. therefore, call your careful attention to the following: DANGER OF SHORTAGE IF SUPPLY IS NOT CONSERVED On October Ist we had on hand, at our factorv and in twenty warehouses scattered over the country, sufficient Vapoßub to last us. we thought, until January Ist. allowing for a 50 per cent increase over last year s sales, and not counting our daily output. This big excess stock had been accumulated during the summer months. Then this epidemic of Spanish influenza hit us —and in the last ten days this stock has vanished. At first we thought this tremendous demand would last only a few days, but the orders have run: Wed., Oct. 16—18.504 doz. Thur., Oct. 17—25.326 doz. Fri., Oct. 18—39.256 doz. Sat . Oct. 19—45,833 doz. Mon. Oct. 21 —77.705 doz. Up to Saturday. October we have actually shipped for this month $400,284 10. or over two million jars of Vapoßub. THE PROBLEM NOW IS TO DISTRIBUTE VAPORUB QUICKLY Most of this tremendous quantity is still enroute to the jobbers, but freight and express are both congested nowadays, and it may be some time before this supply reached the jobbers. In the meantime, therefore, it is necesary that we distribute, as widely as possible, the stock that we are manufacturing daily, together with that now on the jobbers’ and retailers’ shelves, in order that it may get to the influenza districts quickly. Or normal output is about 4,000 dozen per day. We are putting on a night shift, but it will be a little while before that is producing. WHAT WE ASK THE WHOLESALE DRUGGIST TO DO. Last Saturday we notifed all our jobbers, by special delivery, as follows: Ist- —Deals and quantity shipments of all kinds are cancelled. Fill no quantity orders of anv kind, whethTHE VICK CHEMICAL

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH. 1 here can be no church services Held tomorrow, since the health authorities deem it necepsary for the prevention of an epidemic breaking out locally, to continue the known order in force. All three great visitations are upon us. liar, hard times, yes, famine; pestilence. If anything, these serious times call us to repent of our sins and ' to place our entire confidence and trust in the forgiving and loving grace of our Father in heaven. We hope to have better understood by now the beautiful words of the Psalmist: "So will [ compass Thine 1 altar. O Lord, that I may publish with 1 the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of < all thy wondrous works. Lord. 1 have I loved the habitation of Thy house, and i the place where Thine honor dwell- i eth.” Ps. 26. family worship—the reading of | Scripture in and to the family, and joint prayer not exceptionally, hut | regularly and daily, may it be held . among us. This is inviting the Sa- . vior to make His home with the family. as He once did m Bethanv, and establishing His title as Lord and Master in the home. And it lifts up the soul from the commoness and 1 sordidness of every-day business and I trade. The Scripture lesson for tomorrow. * Matt. 18:23-35; Phil. 1:3-11. Reformation Day. October 31, will 1 be celebrated by services on next c I SUUday ' A ' W HINZ, Pastor. I . german soldiers OLD men A Union City~^Mi U r m writi ’ home says: "Just think, at the last of this 11 month we get io wear a service stride a for six months’ foreign service. i E rtont think, though, that ril get. Iwo,t. Germany i 8 pretty well ’ played out ’’ I

er taken by our salesmen or J your own. Sell in small lots nr I 2nd—Order from us in as small ,7 I titles as posible. if you are ,' fc | will try to ship a limited amount I parcel post or express, and Mv , I charges ourselves. 3rd—ln order to make distrtbm I still quicker, we will ship direct I your retail customers quantitd not more than three (3) dozen | size at any one shipment "" | 4th—We are now out of the jo ... I and will be for the next ten fl’ I WHAT WE ASK THE Rpt I DRUGGIST TO DO. ’ Buy in as small quantities as sible. If you have any salesn-1 don't bother about them—no need -1 write us—it is absolutely I to fill these orders at this time the jobbers-in your territory are of Vick’s Vapoßub. we will ship , by parcenl post, prepaid, quant? J not more than three (3) dozen size in any one order. Naturally . can’t open accounts at this time . your check or money order for J amount must accompany order f>write us stating to ship through jobber, as we then have to wait »'• we write this jobber and get his o. I if you wish the goods to comethret: your jobber, have him order then. : you. SNOWED UNDER WITH CORR' SPONDENCE. Our force has already been \ to pieces”—twenty-four ot our are wearing UnelV Sam's khaki-,, this recent rush has simply be us. All otlr sales force has been I ed in to help the office force and fd tory. We just mention this so l won't hold it against us if your i I and letters aren’t answered proc:.; I’ySPECIAL BOOKLETS ON SPAMSINFLUENZA. We will send, on request, to as j ', tail druggist, 100 or more little b, I J lets, just issued, on Spanish inGie:, i I giving the latest information t . j I this disease —its history—the sy. I toms —the treatment, and parti® I J iy the use of Vick’s Vapoßub t.-J ' external application to suppleott ; physician’s treatment. NEW WAYS TO USE VAPOF.i in addition to the usual meth I i using Vapoßub—that is. applied ' the throat and chest and covered | ’ hot flannel cloths —our customers writing us daily telling of their . i cess in using Vapoßub in other w I ' particularly as a preventative. T? ’ melt a little in a spoon and I • the vapors arising, or melt in aMI zoin steam kettle. Where the '--I kettle is not available. Vapoßn be used in an ordinary tea »•" Fill the tea kettle halt’ full of K'l • water, put in half a teaspoon Vapoßub from time to time-L the kettle just slowly boiling and) hale the steam arising. According to a bulletin just ' by the Public Health Service. • Stiles, of this service, reeoinnffi that the nose be kept greased a- ; preventive measure against the r • enza. For this purpose VapoM • excellent. i CO., Greensboro, N. C.

Thursday the doughboys wen ' I I ing in the prisoners, and 1 might || quite a few. too. They pu: them the bull pen for transportation. *-W as soon as they got inside th'ty » -fl drop in the mud or anywhere |K for a rest. Out of a crowd o: I judge, of 200 only om man * j standing. They were not men t>i i-fl fighting age. A few were very wfl but most of them were old men. »:• ■ f goes to show that the kaiser is nl- - at the end of his rope for men *j| French officer told me that in a were quite a few prisoners were en many of them bad packager a food eaved from their own rati® ! H that, they were sending back home | their families. We are all rea-o^I’' 1 ’' I comfortable, well fed, and even • an issue of smoking tobacco p: ■ \ regularly. You can readily see differences in the condition of two armies. The Germans have it ble urging their men forward, ■ American officers' troubles are holding the men back. It is a 1 trast which can only be realized fl the full extent by one who has sc | MEETING POSTPONED County Auditor John Moenre ceived a telegram this morning fl U. S. Houck, president of the In" flfl county commissioner’s assoc!’ 11 j stating the annual meeting °f county commissioners and r ,wll fl erintendents had been Indetnit H postponed on account of the inilu"- j epidemic. . HOMER PARRISH IN ENGI-A h I Mrs Mary Parrish has a J her son. Homer, for a year 01 ' h '„ ■ al Camp Shelby, Miss., has aiti' 1 ■ England. for RENT~An * 8-room h ' ,us '.., u 0 South 10th St. Call ’phone sat). |