Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1919 — Page 3

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DECATUR IS ENJOYING ? A BIG BUILDING BOOM OVER A DOZEN PROJECTS ARE NOW UNDER WAY- REMODELING HOMES AND BUSINESS HOOSES ANO BUILDING NEW STRUCTURES. —

I If you take a little trip around town you’ll see that Decatur is enjoying a regular building boom, there being four building and remodeling projects under way in the business center’ while scattered over the city at least eight or ten homes are being remodeled and new ones under construction. . Tin work of wrecking and removing the old Allison house on North Second street, at one time one of the most beautiful homes in the city is well under way and the new owner of the property, J. F. .Arnold stated yesterday that the erection of the six modern bungalows, three on second atre.-i and three on -Third street ifould begin as soon as the old structure was removed. Mr. /Arnold purchased the property last week of the Allison estate. Schafer Building The Schafer building on East Madison street is biing remodeled, a new front being put in and interior improvements made for the purpose of using the spacious building as a dis- * play room and garage for the Oakland and Chevrolet automobiles, the Schafer Hardware company having the agency for these two cars. Large steel framed windows baiag placed on both sides of the driveway in the building, thus affording stylish show windows for the automobiles C. N. Christen has the contract for the work. The Klepper Home Work has already begun on the erection of the modern home for Mr. and Mrs, W. A. Klepper on Mercer Avenue, on the lot south of E. B. Adams. The course of the alley running alongside of the lot, between ■ Winchester and Mercer Avenue, is being changed upon permission from

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i the city council and the location is ’ i one of the most desirable in the city. l ’ r i A modern home will be built. The Picture Show The carpenters have practically : completed the taking out -of the,. ; shelves, elevator and partition in the - Terveer building on Second street, 1 . and B. M. Miller the lessee of the: building, hopes that by June Ist or a I ’ little later that he will be able to:, open his picture show. A new floor' will also lie placed in the building ] ’ and Mr. Miller intends to give. Deca- ; tur one of the best movie houses that!. can be found anywhere. Homes Remodeled The R. D. Myers and Dr. J. Q. j Neptune homes on South Second and 11 Winchester streets are being remod--1 eled. 'The improvements include a1 cellar, porch and modern conveniences. •* The Chris Boknecht family will ’ : scon move into their newly re-model-ed home on Third street. The house ' has been stuccoed, a porch built i nnd all modern conveniences placed ' therein. It was formerly the Debolt place. i 1 , I Work Progressing The remodeling of the Holthouse ' building, formerly occupied by the Miller restaurant and which has been ( leased to the Holthouse, Schulte company, is well, under waj As soon, yas Completed , f the H<ith|u<ye Schulte company occtipy will hav,6 one of tin?-finest basinet -hdwies. ' the vity' • W ;'l'• t > :'■■■. ‘i i th,e stnicttfrM of the James scin filling station has already beet ( erected bn the lot, corner of j and Jafferson streets and the building , will be ready for occupancy wltjb’in ( few weeks. Autoists will iinH rifts • new service and filling station J?f

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much convenience. Gasoline and oils will be sold there. , One of the biggest projects under l way is the building of the water tank and reservoir for the ETie railroad on this side of the river, just south of the tracks and the bridge. It is a large building and the work is being pushed to completion by the contractor, C. N. Christen. Will Build Bungalow O. H. Odell, who purchased the Mrs. Mary A. Steele residence on Winchester street, will take possession of the same about June 1. The residence will not be remodeled this year but next year they expect to make a bungalow of the same. . THE ROTARY SPIRIT Red roses for the living, and handclasps warm and true, A heart that's tuned to giving, and strength to dare and do; The sound of honest laughter, the joy of honest toll; For those that follow after, to leave a finer soil. All this has been and ever will be the Rotary' Plan, A man’s sincere endeavor to serve Ills fellowman. A little less self-seeking, a little more for men, Less bitter in our speaking, more kindly with the pen; A little less of swerving from paths of truth and right, A little more of serving and less of dollar might. More peaceful with our neighbors, and stauncher to our friends. For this all Rotary labors, on this its hope depends. ( I To smooth the way for others, to make of life the most To make the phrase “our brothers” mean more than idle boast; To praise sincere endeavor, when praise will spur it on, Withholding kind words never until the friend is gone; This is the Rotary spirit, this is the Rotary dream, God grant that we may near it, before we cross the stream. —Edgar A. Guest, Detroit. a * TREES FOR HIGH SCHOot (United Press f * Washington, May 16 — Eighteen maple trees were planted in the grbuhds of the Lawrence Kas High «qhool. says a report to the American Forestry Association, in honor of the students who gave their life to their country. RALPH MOSER Teacher of Piano and Violin Classes in Harmffhy, Counterpoint Formal Analysis and Ensemble Studio 206 So. Second St. Decatur, Ind. 11l ••This coffee’* fine, good wife of mhw. I’ve never known such flavor, ••ft’s Golden Sun Your praise has won, And now that brand I’ll favor.” ‘6 GOOD coffee is the result of honest effort to obtain and skillful' ly blend the choicest berries, and release by accurate roasting and careful steel cutting the full flavor and aroma. Peddlers do not sell such coffee. Your grocer does. The Wools on Spice Co. Ttoledo. Ohio

NO PLACE FOR IT Bolshevism Will Not Secure Foothold in America Says SECRETARY WILSON There is a Mistaken Idea That the Bolsheviks Have —Not Like Russia. — Washington, May.ls— Bolshevism will secure no foothold among the workers of the United States according to the statement issued by William B. Wilson, secretary of labor. , Most of the support of this movement the secretary explains in a letter to James Wilson, President of the International Association of Pattern I Makers, comes from the mistaken be- j lief that it is democratic. In an extended argument Secretary Wilson quotes from Lenine’s own speeches | to prove that the Bolshevik govern-' ment is not even a dictatorship of the proletariat but absolutist in type like Czarism. The secretary’s letter fol-j lows: “At the dinner of the employes of| the Brooklyn Navy Yard given under the auspices of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor April 30th. I made the statement that I had no fear of bolshevism so-called, securing a foothold amongst the workers of the United States; that bolshevism, as understood in Rus sia. meant the dictatorship of the individual, or. at most, the few, with the purpose of introducing compulsory labor, goaded to higher speed by the introduction of the Taylor system under the direction of an individual dictatorship; that I did not believe that any of our people, inside or outside of the trade union movement, j whether conservatives or radicals,, would support or -advocate this kind of government when they came to know what it was. "You. have asked me for the source of the information that 1 based my statement upon. I am sending you herewith some excerpts-from’ a speech made by Nicholas Lenine. Premier of the Russian Soviet, Moscow, April,' 1918, as published by the Rand Schoo! of Social Science for purposes of propaganda in this country, which fully sustain the statements 1 made. “The average American mind in interpreting the term “dictatorship Os the proletariat” has understood it io | mean the will of a majority - of' the' workers imposed upon al! the other members of society. We have been almost unanimous in resisting this i theory. From the beginning of time I until the creation of the United States J the workers had been excluded from a voice in governmental affairs. There was a perpetual struggle to remedy the wrong. The philosophy upon which they acted was that every person who had to obey the laws of a country ought to have a voice in determining what those laws should be. They are still imbued with that principle and consequently have had no | 'kindly feeling for a dictatorship of ' the proletariat. “But clearly this is not the print-1-( I rle being pursued by the Russian boti shevists. They fear the will of the * i majority just as much as Kaiser Wili helm. Emperor Carl or Czar Nicholas J did. and boldly declare the dictatorship of the advanced class awakening to a new democracy, and this group is to bo the sole judge of how the people shall live, what they shall do and how they shall do it. It sets up the dictatorship on exactly the same plea that every autocrat has used, that he knows better what is good for the people and how they should be mild treated than they know themselves. ■This subjection’ 'may resemble the 'mild leading of an orchestra conductor’ it the proletariat is submissive, good natured and obedient, but ‘it may take the acute form of a dictatorship’ enforced with a 'merciless and firm rule’ and ‘iron discipline’ ‘against those who violate this control or who are careless with regard to control.’ WALKS UPSIDE DOWN I Because he walks upside down as well as right side up, the back and white warbler Is also frequently Call Chick Feed, $3.90 cwt. Good clean feed. No grit.—E. L. Carroll & Son. 116tf

ed the black and white creeper, says the American Forestry Association of (Washington, which is conducting the national bird-house building contest i This bird lias been called a symphony l in black and white because of the I beautiful manner in which these two .colors are used over his body. His head is barred black and white with a white stripe over each eye, he has white wing bars on each wing and the inner webs of his outer tail feathers are white patched. This bird gets most of his food by gathering insects and grubs from the crevices in the bark of trees, thus destroying pests . which might work injury to tine trees. o BECAME HIS OWN GRANDPA I married a widow who had a grown daughter. My father visited our house very often and fell in love with my istep-daughter and married her. So my father became my son-in-law and I my step-daugh'er my mother, because she was my father's wife. Some time afterwards my wife had a son; he is jmy father's brother-in-law and my I uncle, for he Is the brother of my stepj mother. My father’s wife, namely, my ——

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