Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1919 — Page 3

. SIGNS FIFTEEN BILLS. **»-d pauun) vTbAMbgtuu, D. C., Mar. 3—(Special to Dally Democrat)—President WlUon today approved fifteen conpieMtoaal bills and one joint resoluTfte most important measures signTM postoffice appropriation bill. ; Tho measure authorizing resump)ipn pt voluntary enlistment in the iffey. The bill allowing soldiers, sailors, • and marines to retain their uniforms ** dother equipments The act authorizing the payment of allotment of enlisted men in cases Vhere disputes have arisen and dePendents have consequently suffered (torn the discontinuance. i r»~- ■ 0 BUNDER BALE MARCH 11TH. Fred Bender, living 6 miles south*»f of Decatur, or one-quarter mile Wprth of Pleasant Mills, will hold a Hth. Four head of horses, 4 head of *«W and 6 head of hogs will be sold. Look tor sale bill in Democrat, public sale at his residence on March FRED BENDER. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG.

K FAMILY MAN: Whv Spend So Much Money on Shoes? ' Here Is what Tracy Munson of Jophn, Missouri, says of Neolin Soles: “Judging from my own experience, they wear four times longer than other soles and have the additional advantage of being waterproof and slip-proof. Why continue to wear extravagant old-fashioned soles when you can get these money-saving, long-wearing soles on new shoes in any sule you like for any member of the f.TSily? Good shoe stores everywhere earry them. And don’t throw away your old shoes. Have them re-bottomed with Neolin Soles and enjoy the comfort of a re-soled shoe which is not stiff or clumsy. Neolin Soles are a discovery of Science, and are macle by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, who also make Wingfoot Heels--guaranteed to outwear all other heels.

Loans Loans Loans We make loans on farm property for I*4 per cent on ten years’ time, with privilege of partial payments. We also have plenty of money to •» property. Let us know your want*, THK DECATUR ABSTRACT & UAH 00. 157 So. Second Street Decatur, - - Indiana Henry B. Heller, Pres. E. Burt Lenhart, Wy

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BLUFFTON BEASTS GENEVA. Bluffton. Ind., Mar. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The local high school team defeated the husky Geneva bunch last night on the home floor, 38 to 17. Coleman refereed and took the fight out of the visitors by calling nine personal fouls on thrtfe Geneva players and putting one of the best men out. This prevented the visitors mixing it up as the "ref threatened to put the men put of the game. Geneva will even it up at the Huntington meet, they declare. PUBLIC SALI. As the farm has been sold and I must move, I will offer for sale at the Fred Bentz farm, 5% miles northeast of Decatur, or % mil* south and a half-mile west of the Bleeke churoh on Tuesday, March 4, IBIS, beginning at 10 o’clock am, the following property, to-wit: Horses, 2 Head: Sorrel mare, 7 years old, sound, weight 1600; sorrel mare, 6 years old. weight 1600, sound; sorrel mare, 13 years old, and a good worker. Cattle, 8 Head: Holstein cow, calf by side; red cow, to be fresh by day of sale; spotted cow, to be fresh about March 22; Durham cow, to be fresh about May 1; 2 steers, about year old; 2 heifer calf, 10 months old. Three brood sows to farrow the 6th to 14th of April; 18 fall shoats, weight about 50 to 75 lbs. each. 100 head of chickens. Farming Implements: One 3-in. Studebaker wagon, with bed, good as new; narrow tire wagon, top buggy, hay rack and corn rack combined; Monarch cultivator, 6-ft. cut McCormick binder, Walter A. Wood tedder, good as new; Superior grain drill, good as new; disc, good as new; spring tooth harrow, walking breaking plow, 2-shovel cultivator, 75-cral. plow, 10-in. breaking plow, 75 gal. hog fountain, mud boat, grass mower, 4 good brood sow stables, 2 sets double harness, set of single harness; some corn in crib, clover hay in the mow, some timothy hay and oats, grind stone, iron kettle, log chains, Cow Boy tank heater, post auger, gal vanized chicken nests, DeLaval cream separator, Laurel range, wood cook stove, 3-burner oil stove; about 2 tons coal, hay rope, 50-gal oil tank, bundle corn fodder In the barn. Terms: —Over $* a credit of nine months will be given, purchaser givnig bankable note bearing 7 per cent interest the last 3 months; 4 percent off for cash. No goods removed entll settled for. R H, BLINKING. Harry Daniels. Auct. Ferdinand Bleeke, Clerk. 24-27-2s-l-3 —o DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG.

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KEEP THE LOAN FINES BURNING, I WORKERS! the Jeb” Shell! Bi the ••fan tiitiry Liberty Lean Leaders et Seventh Dietriet. tSLMK STICK It FISTS i — . Chairmen and Their Alda Must Not Galt Bntll All the Government's War •bllgatione Have ■ ew> BlechargoA. Beteraa at the five state headquarla I’tgcsge show that the county chairmen and other important workera la the Seventh Federal Reserve district are signing up for the fifth big lean. They are actuated by the Mint sense es duty, it is reported, as fills tbe breasts es the soldiers now held la France. The soldiers over there long for home; but they realize Xhat their work is sot done. Garrisons itiut be held along the Rhine until peace has been formally signed and •• terms es the peace treaty have carried out, *• ■*' W* if M reo * Bhahrm* and oth* workthraaMieet the Seventh Federal R«**ve gisarict, the men who are re«***blo far the HmbcUl pert of the ►er. aaaaet gait tatll the financial obUaatieva a* diaSbanißd. The big bills ter say gag**** cense la bataedl•t*y after the opiapietlon of that work. It would bo ea irrespoaslble heel eyes au, it a conceded on ajl ham*, who would refMe responsibility for that part of his contractor’s bl* feat cable lb after Bio driving es fee last anil. I>e Fourth Liberty Lean paid off *• Busa outstanding treasury cortlflwntae es iadobtedneu and furnished «*aagJt new Money to carry ttie gov- ►■* *1 uatll Mld-Do«emher. Since *Mt Bate She treasury department has Bomb borrowing from the banks at the rasa < IBUb.OOO.UOO a week, and by B» Mm* *s Victory Loan hi offer ed w* owe nearly Mx billion dollars. The FrW Isom laoney wiM pay off these Bae* i*u* aad carry the government untß *>e mousy raised under R-o 181$ rv’Mio as* begins to some la. 3>m *44* tanwißßfoM of Mio war s**•*) * Muronae tn Che day te dr.y *•>** ***M*fi*. The total sos !>«•***Car <ho fest fl**, |hut s** bUoa shirk. Tbe JaaMary ** 4Vbßr la*, bat mcaadeA •* **th *e*t 3un*ry. B*. e|**hß to show a eanatfi*The high dally one<B* *» «M if have B** •» to <B* Hhldatlen es the war end w«* unavoidable. Th** * a m«* of anatn* *ll- - 4 bo 4«ah away- -eentwcU. ■*•4 i«* by b*Mo«* mon for the ■*■4 tf*B«*en of MuniHans that %**<** bop* aboelßtdly eawsntinl W A* *» *■» on for a th* ws*fc « **4b !***

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•nt th* fafr*t|uStt loan worker who fc saying th st he cannot fipd time *• pAMOTpat* In th* Viator? drtvn. or Arae a*t fa*l rty ehltfktrws to do so my b* *»rg*ri *<th eowardlOh. It ts ratty *a**gnfted where such an attitude it encountered that the man fears the fifth loan trill not be a success. The man who la preparing to Cult now, it 1* pointed out, Is doing so because he does not want to be identified with a failure. Th* answer to thia is that nene es the 8,000 marines Who stepped th* victorious German aamaA en Parle at Chateau Thierry ■SBM M he exMsatl Item f*lfi| Into •tee fight bMadn he eapetiedi it tn hi a ghftare. Ttt all the f*r«gti tom W7 aadn thenght that the A«xl<:»u •soil not atop the Germans at thin jtwlnt. Another argument answers a good leal of half-hearted comment which Maintains that It makes no difference ■whether the banks have to take the loan. But the business mad or the I wage earner who thinks that It makes | no difference to bltn Is decidedly mistaken. If the public does not take the bonds the banks, as everyone knows, Must do SO. Now on December 31 {he national banks of the country had resources of $20,642,224,000. Thia was the first time in the nation's history that the total ever got above the twenSy-bnuon mark.

This enormous banting power shows, ■ tar One thing, that the nation can take another six bfllfon loan with; i ease If the organisation gets out and ■ worts. But ft also shows something els* The twenty billion, of course, Is <rsaGy mere than the total that is ae-) iwally available fer credit operations, ts th* banks should have tn taka the Greater part of th* next Itan, and to [add this burden (o the more than twa fbiUlon 00V tied up to liberty losm, [and the

that will be Issued nert summer and (fail, tboro will be a very much reduced balance for general business credit accommodation. Sveryone knows what credit limitations did te business in the days when fighting was going on. The readjustment pause that has followed has lessened the demand, out the minute bwiino* starts forward on the reconstruction boom, as it will In a short time, every dollar of credit facilities possible will be in demand, and any such limitation as a failure of the Joaa would entail would mean business stagnation and unemployment. Every loan worker in the Seventh Federal Reserve district must realize that the success of his own business, or the size of bis own pay envelope, Is tied up with th* success of the government's financial plan. Finally, the nation has such an enormous amount of new wealth that it la Impossible to assume that the loan will fail. Everything says that, unless patriotism and common sense were both stricken dead in every American breast upon th* signing of the armistice, the loan will be a success. National bank deposits In 1913 amounted to only $6,051,689,087; today they amount to $15,051,000,000. Farm profits on the 1918 crop have been enormous and the 1919 crop promises to be the greatest in history. The hard-coal mines of th* country produced 76,649,918 gross tons of new wealth In 1918 and the petroleum wells added 345,500,000 barrels of oil. The natloaal balance of trade —the excess of oßpoct* over imports—has grown ftora $252,677,921 in 1908 to $3,150,000,*0 la 1918. In four short years we have *anged from a debtor nation owlag $4,000,000,000 abroad, to a creditor uatioa that la owed $10,000,000,•00 by foreign Battons and their people. AaU lastly, American basks hold the greatest accumulation of gold over knewa m history— a* much as Is owned by tho noxt eight most wealthy uattesa put together. Any dtla* who fears that the fifth lean cannot m$ will act bo subscribed has Uttlo of the courage and confi<ence that made America famous at Chateau Thierry aud Cantlgny and in the Argoane Forest.

HELP "FINISH THE JOB." WOMEN BIG HELP ON VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN Preliminary Work Is Wall Mapped Out —Big Showing in Former Loans to Ba Exceeded This Time. PreUialnary returns show that the w«»fc workers of the Seventh Federal district are eut to lupkw a big Showing i> the Victory Liberty haa*. Waaan ohalrmaa and workers «ra ayarywbwe algulug «p for tbs Mk CMipalfi. Thera liars bees rwy saw raatfaaMas, It 14 reverted, from wornos who Mt that their obligation ta th* aatlea had an dad because the Bfhtfn* t» France was ended. On the eeatrary. It is asserted by Mite Gaaee Dlxoa. d tree ter for wurneu, Bevstifh district, sad by nk»r leaders In the wearea‘a leaa activities, the w»aian writers feel mere strongly Utas aw* their ebllgatlen te gat out aad ysteeaally pa after bond sub'serfptiene. The vary faet that individuals are fennd wbe de not appreciate the ebllgatlen raatfag a»oa the otvlllaa fopnleiloa baa eroueaA la double force the jetileSe aeaae of duty la the brans es *• woman week era. Those ere aaaSKlag tbreagb letters re•aiv<s at Chisago haadqaarters by ovary asail that they Intend to work twise as bani ae la any procedlug leas— rs first bo peealble—la order to wiateram the “fitter” sentiment that Is maaifearttaj Itself among cerbafa Individuals In every community. Preliminary wwrk la well mapped Wirt in a majority of the eonatlM la the distrlet It is planned to have a larger number of women workers enrolled everywhere than was the case tn the preceding loans. Workers already are semrtng pledges from rewnlto end veterans and it la promised that a better showing will be made In every stntb than In any of the Liberty loans so far placed. The Fifth loan, it is pointed out, will come at a time when women on lhe farms and In the smaller communities can give an especially large amount of time to the loan work. The drive, coming In April, will precede the active farm and garden work and the women will, therefore, be In a position to concentrate on the campaign In a way they were unable to do in the Fourth loan. The results of thn Victory Loan are Expected to prove a monument to the patriotism and self-sacrifice of the women of the Seventh Federal Reserve district, for the spirit of service Is the animating principle of the American people at this time. HELP "FINISH THE JOB."

OUR PRAYERS By JEAN MAHAN PLANK. We pray and we weep with emotions that weary ns; i Ready to worship our heroes of war. rWe put them on pedestals high as old I Sirius, Citi at them proudly os cheer from L fifat K we’d get to touch with Divine Law I toystemods, [ Draw fire tc forward our Impulses tbnd, RftaawM carry the massage to God

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VISIT IN VENICE — Hugh Perkins Writes of Trip to Historic City of Canal Streets. k VISITS BIG SHIP And Sees Interesting Things Mr. Perkins is Stationed in Italy. Extracts from a letter written by Hugh V. Perkins to his wife: Wad. Eve., Jan. Bth, 1919 My Dear Frances: —It is nearly a week since I wrote you, and yet it doesn’t seem possible. I try to keep my time profitably filled, but nothing occurs to greatly vary the monotony of our days here. Even our mail is still on a strike on account of some unsettled question of Christmas right o’way, I suppose, because I an; confident there are several letters due tme; so it is likely I will soon be sub- ' merged with mail, and the pleasure of ’answering it; and it is a pleasure, 1 when, as now, we have congenial I circumstances under which to read and write, I Sunday morning I read awhile, then come over here for the usual service, , Both chaplains were away so the Y men took charge; the singing was [ especially good, I thought, and the : talk was in harmony with our present I circumstances. Monday I was in j charge of quarters, hence tied up for the day; there was little to do, so I j had some time to spend in reading: [ “Lyrics of the Lowly Life” by Paul : Lawrence Dunbar. I previously read' ■ the introduction by W. D. Howells, ' but that had not fully removed my I : prejudice against the negro, but 1 j must say that, while his poems can- [ not be compared to the work of Poe. Keats or Shelley, I was much surpris-[

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ed by the beauty and humor I found ’ 1 within the book. Yesterday the clouds were weeping [but I had another pass to visit Ven-: ice, and did not feel like staying at[ home for a little water when there is ; so much of the same commodity in the city I visited. Just as I left the [ station at Venice I met another Wooster man by the name of Hart, of [ > the class of ‘18; it was his first trip 1 jto that city so we joined company,; [ and, boarding a gasolene launch on [ the Grand Canal, rode to the Rialto I bridge. Then a five minute walk; [ brought us to St. Marks Square which [we found under several Inches of 1 water in places, owing to an excep--1 tionally high tide. As we were saunt- '. ering along the water front we were ■ hailed In the language of America ; by a iigure in black slicker sou’west- , [ ers, and asked if we didn’t want to [visit the ship; we surely did, and , soon found ourselves riding on the ’ ■ choppy waters of the lagoon in the ; 1 launch of one of our newest type de- ' i stroyers. We spent a pleasant two . hours talking to the hands, and see- , I ing the ship. Without question the t [ most interesting thing I saw aboard . ! was not the torpedo tubes, of 4 inch , [ rifles, or triple pressure turbine eng- . j ines, but it was that intricate and ; • delicate instrument, the gyroscope; [ compass; before seeing one I did not I I; know of the existence of such an in-1 ! strum ent. I will add that the wh- i lof the electrically operated gyroscope rotate at a speed of nineteen I hundred revolutions per minute in-1 side steel jackets. After a little driving around on our I return trip, our general host, the mail j orderly, set us down at the wharf and | we bid him good-bye. We then went I ■through St. Marks, but -were barred j from seeing the wonders of the Jhical [ [ ; palace as on that day officials of the; Italian monarchy and representatives [of Dalmatia were holding a confer- 1 ’ ence regarding the possible inclusion ■ ’of the latter in the domain of the | i former in the final establishment of: < I territorial lines; so you see political 1 1 compacts are still enacted within the i 1 (same walls from which for so many i i

1 centuries issued the governing in[fluences of the Republic of Venice. The rain had ceased during a part of the afternoon, but by the time wo had returned to the Rialto it again made itself conspicious; so 1 procured some post cards and we boarded [ the gas boat for the station. Hart and I had a very pleasant return trip and after parting from him at the • station in Treviso, I made a brisk trip out here to my billet; being tired I indulged myself with ten hours untroubled sleep—except that once I awakened to find myaelf on the fleor with a pair of shoes under my back, , I having carelessly rolled off my bed ■ sack. The rain has been falling continu- ; ously all day so I have been permiti ted to remain In the dry, on easy i street. I think of you many, many ( times, and have dreamed over and I over again of the time of my return, but have no idea when that will be. ; ; I am quite well, and enjoying this life as much as possible. I love you, ( ; sweetheart, more dearly than ever, and long to see my baby boy. Your own Hugh. • Hugh V. Perkins, Co. A, 332nd Inf., A. E. F., Italy, A. P. O. 901. KEEP LOOKING YOUNG It’s Easy—ls You Know Dr/ Edwards’ Olive Tablets The secret of keeping young is to feel young — to do this you must watch your liver and bowels — there’s no need of having a sallow complexion — dark rings I under your eyes — pimples —a bilious look in your face — dull eyes with no sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety per cent of sll sickness comes from inactive bowels ami liver. Dr. Edwards, a well-known physician in Oliio, perfected a vegetable compound mixed with olive oil to act on the liver and bowels, which be gave to his patients for years. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets, the substitute for calomel, are gentle in their action yet always effective. They bring about that exuberance cf spirit, that natural buoyancy which should be enjoyed by everyone, by toning up the liver and clearing the system of impurities. You will know Dr. Edwards* Olive Tablets by their olive color. 10c and 25c per box. All druggists.