Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1919 — Page 5

♦+*+ + * + + ♦ WEATHER * 4444444.4.4.4.4.4.4444. HBtdi > na—Part cloudy tonight and •jrßhursd.iy, not much change in temperature. s. -Mrs. Leo Scherer, of Niles, Mich., who visited at Berne, came yesterday afteriaon to be a guest of Mrs. Ed Macy and of her aunt, Mrs, Martha .. MMsman. Mi>. Lima Stewart and children re-turn-1 to Wren. O. after a two-weeks’ visit with her father, Clark Brothers and her sister, Dr. Elizabeth Burns. .£■ Postmaster J. W. Bosse is walk ing with a cane on account of sprain ing his ankle in making garden. ■ Mesdames Joe Andrews and Addie ■Byrne spent the day in Fort Wayne. E Miss Martha Hosnman returned to : Berne today after a couple of days’ ’SI Miss Mayme Johnson was a Fort Wayne visitor today. Mrs. Kate Burdg and Mrs. J. M. Miller were Fort Wayne visitors today. , Si Mrs. C. L. Meibers and daughter,T< nk. Mrs. C. S. Clark and Mrs. Anna Droppieman visited in Fort Wayne today. It must be awful t’ distinguish your; self in a world war an’ then have 1 some one offer you a job in a sawmill I before you’ve been home ten minutes, , . Th’ Buds have sold ther davhnpcrt an’ closed ther parlor on account o’ ’ th’ auto. —Abe Martin in Indianapolis; News.

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visit with Mrs. Anna McConnell. The girl baby born last evening to I Mrs. Artie McGill, widow of Harry McGill, has been named Margaret Winifred. Mr. McGill died a few months ago of pneumonia-influenza. Thirteen Chicago clothing manufacturers were signatories to an agreement today, in which 7,000 employes are granted an increae in wages, effective June 1, arbitration of grievances and an eight hour day with a half holiday on Saturday. ‘Til go his bail, 1 admire his nerve,” said A. B. Smith, tallest Oakland policeman, posting $25 for release of Tom Robinson, five feet five inches and weight 135. Robinson floored the big cop during a raid. Mrs. Ray O. Sheets and son, Carl, went to Ohio City to visit with relatives. A. B. Crow flew off tne handle and got into a fight which landed him in I court. ‘ Keep on your perch herei after." advised the judge in fining | him $5 at Oklahoma City. Mrs. Rose Burdahl, of Chicago, was terribly annoyed when the burglar , broke in while she was broiling a ■ steak. She captured John Keegan and | called the police. “It didn’t burn,” i she told Burdahl. Mrs. Hester Moffett has sold the Elj wood Record and expect to leave in a few day for California where she will reside for the present at least. J. F. Arnold transacted business at I Fort Wayne yesterday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1919.

EXPLAINS LAW ! —1 Letter of Warning Sent Out by Tax Board—Bond Issues, Including Bonds MUST BE APPROVED By State Tax Board—Says Circular Sent Out to the Counties and Cities. Indianapolis, Ind., May 13 —A circular letter has been sent to all county auditors and to all cities and towns by the state board of tax commissioners directing attention to the new tax under which indebtedness can not be created by municipal corporations without the approval of the state tax board. This means that the board construes the law to apply to road bonds under the three-mile road law and under the county unit law as well as to other indebtedness. Ele Stansbury, attorney-general, some time ago wrote an opinion that the law did not apply to road bonds. The Letter The circular letter reads: “We would call your special attention to Sections 201 and 202 of the new tax law. Under these sections all indebtedness must be approved by this board before contracted. We are charged with this responsibility and tryst that you will co-operate in carrying it out. If bonds or other indebtedness should lx; issued without this approval, the question of their validity would be raised. If held, invalid, aditional questions of payments of money might Ire involved. “Wo would also, as a matter of information, say that under the powers delegated to the state board of tax commissioners by this act. this board in connection with the governor, ■shall, for the years 1919 and 1920, fix and regulate the state tax rates to meet, the appropriated necessities of the state and will avoid a large return which might accrue under the increase of assessments. This is all for your information.” Questions Answered The second paragraph of the letter is intended to answer numerous questions about stae taxes under the high er assessed valuations being made this year. Philip Zoercher, Strange N. Cragun, and Fred A. Sims, members of the stale board, all expressed the opinion that all proposed bond issues, as well as other proposed bonds, should be referred to the state board. o MEET IN INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis, May 14 —The Indiana state branch of the League to Enforce Peace announced today that ex-Presi-dent Taft will deliver the principal address at the state convention to be held here Wednesday, May 28. for popular ratification of the League of Nations Covenant. Other prominent persons who thus far have accepted invitations to speak are: Dr. Anna Howard Sham, chairman of the Won,an's Committee of the Gouncil of National Defense and Honorary President of the National i American Woman Suffrage Associa 1 tion. 1 Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president I of Harvard University. I Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue, New York. Herbert S. Hohsten, the New York publisher, formerly president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World and a member of th-' government committee on war advertising. Captain Thomas G. Chamberlain ot the First Anti-Aircraft Battalion, A. E. F. The announced purpose of the convention is to discuss the proposed plan for a League of Nations and to I organize demonstrations to show the United States senate that the people of Indiana favor the ratification of the League Covenant at the special session of congress which will be under way at that time. Inquiries received by the state branch of the League to Enforce Peace, under whose auspices the meet ing will he held, indicate‘a large attendance from all parts cf the state. Arrangements are being made on a strictly non-partisan basis, in the be j lief that the League of Nations question is too big to become a party issue. Savo sg.oo by getting your oas ranee during gns range week. May 12th to 17th.—The Gas Co. ’ 115t6 Be sure to see “Aller the; Fall,” in tour reels, and “Lu-J theran America,” in two reels, at the Athletic hall, Friday evening. May 16, at 8:15. 113 t-l

_ i The World’s Next Step NO. 3 ' National Vanity and the League of Nations By CLARENCE L. SPEED g (Written for and Approved by the Illinois Branch of League to Enforce Peace.) | It is a strange thing that in Amer-i lea, a nation that consistently has shown it has no desire to oppress the wenk or rob Its neighbors, there should! be any opposition at all to a league of’ nations designed to prevent others] from doing the tilings which the over-! whelming majority of us recognize as] wrong. The honest, law-abiding citizen does not object to state or national laws' against murder or theft because he thinks that at some time he might be! sufficiently enraged or be reduced to! such poverty as to desire to commit' these crimes. Instead he lends his Influence toward having laws passed which will provide restraint for the murderer and give care to the poverty' stricken. Yet we find people even in the United States asking such questions as, “Are we going to permit anybody; to tell us when we can or cannot go I to war to protect our rights?" or “Are! we going to send our troops across the ocean to die in Europe or Asia at! the behest of some power superior , to our government?” This is national vanity, pure and simple. We are going to do just those things whether we want to or not. We have just got through sending our troops to Europe to die in a war that we did not want. It was forced on us against our will by Germany. Our men died and our treasure was expended to an extent wholly unnecessary just because “we minded our own business” ! or sat around acting, as we fondly Imagined, on our own initiative. As! a result we went to war when our enemy was ready and we were not. and we sacrificed thousands of lives and billions of dollars which might have been saved had there been anything like a league cf nations in existence in 1914. Let’s go back to the outbreak of the European war and study that a little. Germany was in direct alliance with Austria and Italy. England, France and Russia had an “understanding.” Germany wanted war. She thought the time hud come when she could risk battle with France and Russia at the same time. She knew Austria was with her and thought Italy was safely on her side. Iler diplomats told her that England would not fight. She did not dreatn that the struggle would even last long enough to drag the United States into it. Japan, Canada, China, Australia, Greece, Brazil she discounted. Serbia and Belgium she ignored. It seemed quite certain to the Germans .that they could accomplish their purpose. Now suppose there had been in existence at that time a league of nations. Assume, for the sake of argument, that Germany had corrupted Austria to the point where she knew that Austria would be with her. But suppose Germany had known that Englund, the United States, Italy, Ja pan, Brazil and China and all the other nations would have taken sides against her, not one by one but all at once and with all their power, do you ■ think for a moment that Germany would have dared to start the world war? And suppose again that Germany had been insane enough to start a war, even knowing that all the world might come in, don’t you think that tin United States, if it had been a member of the league of nations, and with the approval of that body had volun j tartly joined in the war the day tin', German troops cressed the Belgian; frontier, would have saved thousands of American lives ami billions of American dollars by its prompt co-; operation? i What hope would Germany have had if all the nations which finally i were dragged in against her one lit til time had combined on the first day. lo coerce her into behaving like a civilized slate? The war would probably have been over in four months instead of four years. And though we got fipm this league of our own creation a summons to attack Germany the first day she misbehaved, and complied wttli It, we ( would have been acting with Just nmnch freedom of action as we finally j did. Wo had to go to war whether we ( wanted to or npt. We could not pro-1 tect our legitimate Interests nor could we keep our self-respect amt stay out 1 And when that international comma, J nity is one that we ourselves have helped to create and that is doing our < will, why should we want to refuse its summons? You will hardly find a patriotic, American citizen today who regrets j that we entered the war, in spite of' all it cost. You will find thousands I upon thousands who regret that wc i did not enter sooner. And yet at the same time you will find thousands ot patriotic Americans —many who think they are the most patriotic of all—who cannot abide the idea that there should be any organization higher than’ our own government, which could tel! us when we ought to go to war —as if in these days of the interdependence of the whole world, we had any choice | in the matter. National vanity which causes oppo I sition to a league of nations is a good deal like individual vanity whicl ! would make a man resent-the preseuet | of a policeman on the street hecans; that policeman might prevent bin from doing something he didn't want; anyhow, or direct him to do somethin,i j he was just about to do of Ills owt accord.

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