Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1919 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT iuuiitiied fevery Evening Excep Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER Presided ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE Secretary subscription Rates By Goverumeut Order Las* to Advance. One Week by carrier ......10 cents »ne Year, by carrier JS.O(J One Month, by mail ......35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mail $1.76 One Year, by mall $3.00 Jne 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. FINISH THE JOB:— • Come in strong on this Victory Loan. The most important tiling before the country in a business way just now is to clean up tile war stuff and get solidly readjusted on a normal peace basis. This loan fa the biggest item in that program. If you do not take, it the I .inks will—wjth 't further gieat dose of credit inflation and an uhfa.vor.ible reaction, on prices just wMeii it is tremendously important to get "down to a firm foundation. Every subscription to the Fourth Liberty Loan th. uld be duplicated for this loan; a little better than that, in fact, for too much of the Fourth Loan was carried by the banks. In this whole matter of adjustment to peace we are still a good deal in the wartime habit of looking to the 1 government, but broadly speaking government cannot do much. It is ■ Ue to us —ail ot us. r iaally. only the people can do it. Government can I cult the I . ,'d.- nd otter them for sub scripiion. But it is your individual subscription that is going to determine whether the loan is absorbed by the public and paid for out of im-orhe or whether it simply inflates iiank credits all 6ut of shape. And it is upcu you individually that the iucemveniences of inflation will' fall. urn* upon government. This ’oan is finishing the job. Do not turn your backoff it'and walk off with the window casings not in. the doo:s unhung and’rine r. of Half .-’tingled. lhe firing is all over, but it is nene tco agreeable for near two milr American cifiteiis who are still in Europe—doing police duty, sitting round garrisons, a long way from heme, wondering about their families and -their jobs. You can bet they would like to get back. But they have to stay there until the job is finished. They have every right to expect you to stay on your, easy end of the jab too. You are a Led to buy the best payer in the world at a goed rate of interest, when the security and cxemptfens are considered, and to pay tor it cut of your income. As a slraigat-out business proposition it is ■worth while. But it is more than a business proposition. It is part of the war for demoeraey.-Satui-day Evening Pest. Society Brand Clothes There are none bettei and few as good. We hav< a nice assortment in green; and blues that have beer selling as fast as we can ge them. Do not fail to sei these-before buying you spring suit. $28.50 to $42.50 THE MYEHS-DAILEI (TOIVniRAIX V Save $5.00 to SIO.OO

E When the recent republican legi: lAture adjourned, Governor Goodriel in a sejf-oeteerned manner, made y speech and told the people that h Wl(s proud of the record made by hi y lurty. He cited the county unit rca - law and the tax law as examples o constructive legislation, but did no state that a i«rson might be payin; taxes next year on an inflated value s . 0 tion. Now comes the announcemen a from the governor’s headquarter; 0 that he is considering on calling t 5 special session of the legislature it order to unravel the county unit rout 8 k l "’> numerous defects having beer found in its construction. Os course J you must help pay for this extra ses , sion, but they say that’s part of the - much advertised constructive p>ro • gram. Somehow the common peopk haven't much praise for that kind of legislation. And after you have sent in yottr report of income, all employers of labor must make a import of the amount of salaries paid to the employes, officers and anyone connected with the firm or corporation during the past i ’ year. Reports of this kind must be in the hands of the revenue collector not tutor than May 15th. a sixty day extension having been granted and for failure to thus comply with the law, will make -tu liable tn a one thousand dollar fine. It’s cheajrer to fill out and Send in the blanks. Let’s finish the job. pay the bills, bring the boys home and resume normal pea. ♦> time business. That s what Victory Bonds will do. = — r _ ... . , | SOCIETY | Club Calendar Friday. H -rijrii-• , • is„ Lyle and T> aid Foe. , . . , f Pocahontas Needle Club. r. Christian Pastoral Helpers— Mrs. N Mangold. Ben Hurs—At Hall. ' Y. W. W. A. Surlier—Evangelical C Lurch. Saturday Ruth Circle Pastry Sale —Gas' office U. B. Ladies’ Pastry Sale—Baker & Hower’s. _ , :.- . Sunday Otterbein Guild—U. B. Church. T uesday. Two-cent Sup; er—K. of P.<H.ill. When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no per--onal during of which it is Incapable. —Leigh Hunt. Rev. L. W. Stolte and daughter. ' Naomi, joined Mrs. Stolte and a party of fifteen or more from the local Reformed church, in attending the mislonary convention of the Zion Classis held at Port Wayne yesterday and -ast evening. John Gideon and family, Burt Baxter and family, of Payne. O. motored ’to this city and attended to bsiness nd remained for supper with Mrs. G. E. Steele. The Hope Girls' Bible class cf the ■'agley Reformed church enjoved a i ■?e evenings entertainment last eve-1 ti’ng with Mrs. Rudolph Koltpr gear Vagit jr. A fine program was given, tich included a iong by Mies Hattie I luor-, a plan', solo, by Miss Amaffida I tKhte; a reading bv Miss Adele JaI rg. After this. 8 ] unr h was served.* |’h- meetings will be hr Id once a , -n... t,,. :r, Mrs. William -rt-tzmann. will be the next hostess. A, the meeting o? the Loyal We-L r . » cla-s at the. hr. me of Mrg John ■ nnitz last evening, arrangements t,- made to give a cafeteria «>,r TCT 1" the Evangelical chiiivh e ’.turday evening, April 26. Twenty. [g wo were present last evening and enjoyed the. excellent entertainment -r---ranged with contests and other amuse -l ments by a committee including Mrs e Joe Palmer and Mrs. Frank Butler. LT Mrs. Henry Adler was hostess t< the Evangelical Aid socict; yesterday afternoon when twentj l ine enjoyed the hospitality of th home. The collection was ten do lars. Ice eroam, and cake were ser ed. , The ITiite-1 Brethren Ladies’ At society will open its pastry sale ? rhe Baker & Hower meat market « ’ nine o’clcek tomorrow mernin; r Pastry will be sold and ths ladle i will also have a parcels sale. . Th I parcels will be open for inspectio however, so that one may take he choice, the articles being priced a cording to their value. Everybody : invited to’ come. .

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. FRIDAY \PRTL 11, 1919

J VERSE CONTESI a le ’ is Submit Short Verse or Lim erick in Victory Loan C»t ’ Jt ! Contest by April 15. Lg . _l ’ " ” " a HOW TO DO IT it 1 Women Take Tart in Whipni pet Tank Celebration in Many of the Counties. n 1 e | i A Victory verse contest Is one ol I the features of the Fifth Victory laxin c ' campaign. The contest is open to >; children and grownups who wish to e : submit a verse not to exceed twelve |f ■ lines in length on the -subject of Vic- ] lory Loan. The one requirement is I that it must contain the words “Victory Loan." Limericks will also be •- accepted. >- - Decatur and Adams county will no t ’di.ubt submit verses in competition. . i These are to be submitted to Mrs. j William. Herschel!. Director of Puh- “ licity, Woman’s Liberty Loan Comt mittee, 7.02 Lemcke Building. Indianapolis, not later than April 15. r , In many of the counties in the , state, in which the whippet tanks ar? 1 ton: ing, the women ane taking an active part in the Tank Celebration. Floats arc rigged up and LibertyLoan literature distributed from then: > by women and women speakers also I speak from the top of the tank. Remember to buy your pastry at the Ruth Circle sale at the gas office Saturday morning, beginning at ten ’ o'clofk. MANGON"fnx WORK IS ENDED from Page One) : < ientiy educated regarding the loan. ; that the preceding campaign, may this time be short, but snappy, ex- , tending only a week in duration, being the week beginning next Monday, April 14. Here, he introd”*e-i D..n Erwin. icKnirimm of the .s’eaknra - bureau/ wfto fcet . forth th* plan for meetings '.during the week’s camFafgn, prccctl- : ing- the drive. It is the plan that the township ■ captain and his solicitors -and all ini tei'e-'ted. he’d a meeting in one place ilk; the township, instead of holding them at several places as heretofore. Estch cMipwtJn i&-to the epeak era’ bureau where U*® uneetjug is to Le held, and the tim.b. and arrangem -nts will be made to conduct the i program at that time. Boys Encouraged by Support It was at this point that Major Robert Schrock was called upon to , speak. »Hc told how- eagerly lhe boys at th? front watched the heme papers ’ and others for the results of the liberty loan drives If the drives were ; supported by the people at home, the boys knew that they had the sympathy and support of the folks tack, home; and as long as they had that, they were willing to work for them at the front. The liberty lean was the index whereby they gauged the interest of the hcme-rolks. The boys ere not all home and those who are across, are still watching the result of th? drive. “A v ull dog,” he said. ‘is the best dog of all, because he hangs on til! the job is finished.” “I know," he said, “that you’ll hang on till the job is finished.” Sergeant Graham Sceaks I Sergeant Paul Graham, of Monroe,; brother of L A. Graham, of this city, next took th# floor, and was greeted during the detailed and most thrilling account of his experiences at the front, with an audience that heard with breathless interest a story that a few years ago, would have been be-j vend the wildest dresm- of mankind.’ First, however, he affirmed Major Schrock’s account of the interest with which the boys at the ficnt watch the result of lhe liberty loan, it was a : matter of especial pride, he said, with - the boys from Adams countv. the way, .- the people at home rolled up their -- more than share of the money neede ed. aw i lt waR a matter s. they often bragged to the ether hov.i, I feeling that the peer!® O s old Adams ...I NOTICE TO Bi ODE RS y-; The board of directors of the Fannie ers Light and Power company win 11- receive sealed bids for the con Slroc ■v- tton work of the 15% mi i e Mectric liAe at the office of the county B «en' id Hi Decatur on Friday evening. April at 18, 1919. up to eight o’clock. Bid? at can be made on the pole .setting an; ig. wire stringing alone or oti the whch •:S job complete-. Specifications may h be had by applying to the secretary on The board reserves the right to rcr ject any er all bids. ic- FARMER’S LIGHT & POWER CC is C. S. MUMMA. Secretary 87t6 Decatur, Ind., R R. No. i

!■ were behind them in their worl I i there. in telling of his war experiences, he begun with his sailing for France. Or his vessel were 3,000 negroes and 40< whites. When partially across tbt ship struck somothing, tiiat. wus sup P< -ed to be a submarine. un.l the ex citement, esiieeially of tho emortonal negroes, who mad oil sorts of pray era and promises, furnished an an.a 1 I ing remembrance ’.tier tlie danger I was over, alt hr ugh it caused anxietv [at the time. The ship, however, es- ’* caped any injury whatever, and the journey proved oil rwise uneventful When they came within sight of Brest France, a very pre'ty picture unfolded itself, at a distance, but this was <con lost sight cf when they stepped i f j off into the mud of France. n i Sergeant Graham who was a mein°lber of the signal c< rps, told cf his ” I participation in eug.igements at Soise sons. Chateau Thiery, Si. Mihiel and > J Argonne, bringing vividly to his audis ence. a picture of events that they >]had heretofore known only in general e’ in some of the gre test history the I world has ever kno m a Especially interesring was his ac- , count of his being taken a prisoner • jbv the Germans in t Srrt?ml er 1 ‘ His department had gone on an -. expedition to take a certain village, and a portion of the men. in advance iof the others, in< ludfitg Sergeant Graham, and numbering in all twen-ty-ae.ven. entered the village and captured forty- Germans. Being lost from their snppori, Sergeant Graham and ’ a corporal tried to make their wayback to their comrades, but ran into a nest of light Germans. The eorporial got away to safety, but Graham, .; at bay, drew his fire rm. and dropped L (two cf the Germans. Getting behind a stone wall, he tried further to get the drop on them, by clinging to the top of the wall with one ar ■ and usi ing the fire arm in the other. The Germans also entered fire and in the I over-powering battle, he was shot in , one wrist and wounded itj the other .arm and the wall was shattered, burying hi munder the d> i>ris and render- . ing him under the debris and rendervived he crawled out from under the . debris and found a score or more of Germans surrounding him, probably ,-expecting a hundred Yanks to crawl out. He was marched off into < ; er- -. mar.y and put through several" swi .it- . periods to extiWPt fr m him. as they s< wpe<lro ’mve ths idea .that he was possessed of much that J would lie of interest la them. He did have in Jiis j.ossesxi|a. s new signal , cede, but he succeeded in destroying . that. The old code still remained, however, and this he burned over with s .jb® result. . kkax-it oily XJJtfu-fed the /C’ efmans n djelns cm} ’ was 'not then in usej His experiences in his questioning, ; were told and were amusing, especial- ; ly in the way that he confused them . by giving false information. . He told cf his prison fare, which , consisted o’ a very thin soup for dinner. and a thin piece of sawdust bread ‘for supper. He told of how . tome ate grass and he himself, found dandelion root very delieiout under those conditions, although at home he had never liked “greens.” He did net see the worst of German prison life, however, because of the , few months that he was there, and , that at the end of the war. However. .he knew of terrible conditions that , Siad come to those who had been in a long time, some of whom were taken away to live lives of slaves, with meagre clothing and food in bitteriy cold weather. A tom pan ion of his. returned to the states, but lost his heelth threugu starvation over a long : period. I He ‘spoke very highly of the work cf the An erican Red Cross, at Bern, Switzerland, through whom the prisoners were fed and who really owed their lives to them. Thc«o Rel Cress workers bave given sevoral years of their lives tt> this work, without pay. find are still doing «•». MAJOR ‘SCHROCK" IS AT HOME (Continued from Page One) Mar first and will yper.d two months at the Polyclinic. I Major Schrock left the states as Lieutenant Schrock, sailing from NewYork with the forces of base hospit ?! number nine, August 7, 1917. Being among the first of the medical corp . . they carried their own equipment. ; His boa-. The Finland, had an uneventful trip over until they sighted land, whc-n they went through about 1 an hour’s submarine attack, but landed safe at Saint Nazare. August 20. ‘ V. ith his ship was a convoy carrying five other trrtbps. , first was to Chateevroux ■ w ere be whs statir.-aed in the hosplta al. nr-til <s™♦ ... H le s.r/M s w * 8n he was ord- - e-ed to detail service with the Fren-h v- 2X a a nd aTw tO fr ° nr HnP ww? so ‘ . tnree and a half months. He was with the French a. their attack on 0. November, andwtrio during the fi E hZ mg over the Soirocps. Ftsnes Chat 3. eau-Thiery Chalons and Rhei ms 6ec .

k tors. Transportation was nude by motor truck service, during this time n he was under French control. n In January he was sent back to the >0 base hospital at Chateauroux where e lie was chief of the surgical service, ( > for the treatment of b?ne and joint v- cases. Here he was stationed until il after the armistice was signed. During one period he was granted temporary leave to go to England, r where he made some special observay tl.ms. He was later transferred to s- the chief of die service at base hose pital 114 at Bordeaux, France. Here I. the orthopedic and bone cases were t treated and gotten into sha]*e for I- transportation overseas. There were s 1800 beds at this place, while the hos.l pital barracks over the entire village h.ifl a capacity of 16.000 beds. ;. tVhen he went over his corns cars tied dielr own equipment, and they located in a hospital completed be1 sere the war for the treatment of in- - sane, now turned over for war pur- ,- ].os-•-. At first they carried ohly 800 1 beds but these wee later increased i to 2200. ; From March 1918 to January 1. 1919 - he averaged 2.000 patients daily. ■ Cases came in by train loads from within thirty-six hours io four <la> < i after injury. Major Schrock was released for re- - tum late in February but there was : a delay in transportation and be was i . obliged to remain for a month long ' ■ er at Bordeaux, not sailing until L March 25. [ A very pleasant co-incideace was - that Captain Harry Erwin, an old De- > catur hoy friend, happened to sail on the same ship. The Wilhelmina and , they came together as far as Fort Wayne, from which place Dr. Erwin went to his home at New Haven. | The hospital where Major Schrock ' was located has be<*n closed and th< Red Cross nurses there, were released and returned home in March. They wore chiefly from the New York hospital. | During the course of his service, he was promoted from lieutenant to captain and then to major. Maj< r Schrock was a graduate, of! the Decatur high school in the class i of 1901. He then completed courses! in several of the. best colleges and j universities in the country. This! with the womleruil exi'crience he has! jmifeed in war work, will no dgjiqt iflnke, him one of the leading surgeons! in the country, is the belief or his ■ many friends, N AVIGATION ’6f _ RH!Ne“ (Continued from Page One) frlatter kaiser is regarded as net feasibly. it Is not yet entirely vriiet'm r his i uuislinwmt. will rasf with a mere -moral indictment According to reliable information, it is certain that steps will be taken to prevent him from ever regaining his old position. It has also been intimated that away would be found io bring him under al’ied control, but by what means, outside of a local indictment, it is not clear. So far as Wil-! helm’s moral responsibility for most cf Germany’s crimes is concerned, there is not the slightest doubt among many members of the commit-! tee. But -the difficulty lies in estab- ! ib-hing Icjal evidence before a regu-' lar court: Grand Admiral Von Tirpitz may be * charged with the Lusitania deaths,; for moral responsibility would include not only crimes ordered but those which might have been prevented. The reparations bill, while not naming a definite figure, will require --n i initial payment of $5,090,000,000 within two years While proltable apportionments have been a closely guarded secret, it is understood that Germany will be required tn reitr burse each nation in toll not only for property damage but in some degree, for lost man power. The French senate almost unanlnwt“4y adopted a manifesto th ma >dim* that Germany will pay all the costs of the war. London. Apr. 11 —(Special to Daily j Democrat) —Capture of an entire lied camp lu northern Russia was. claimed by the bolshevik! in an of-i ficial communication received by ( wireless today. ~~T WCLCENT "SUPPER". ' . There will be a two-cent supper at the K. of P. home next Tuesday from I 5 o'clock on. Take your supper there • and stay for the big parade. Menu: Creamed chicken, mashed potatoes, dressing, salad, fruit salad, noodles, ' gravy, meat loaf, pickles, pie, ice cream, cake, coffee. This will be given by Section No. 1. Pythian Sisters. Get your lots plowed early. Good jeb guaranteed. 'Phone 526 or call at 10’’3 So. Winchester St. ‘lt i Onion Sets, 5c per quart at Steele & Bleeke’s. It Get your Onion Sets at FuiWe are selling them at 5c a quart. Cabbage Plants at 10c a dozen or 3 dozen ior 2ac. ;

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