Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1919 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT r~i r Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THS DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER Preaident ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates By Government Order Caeli In Advance, 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 mall $1.75 Ono Year, by mall $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. The people generally feel that we might as well go ahead and clean up Mexico, stop the border trouble and settle things for good. For a good many years these dark-skinned neigh- J hors have been keeping things stirred up and whether they realize it or, not, they are at the end of the game. When Uncle Sam gets through with Carranza this time, he and his countrymen will know what is what, and why. Never since the oldest inhabitant came to Decatur, has there been a better opportunity for progress than now. At least two factories are anxious to locate here, and they look good. They w ill employ men, bring j money here, increase business in every way, boost the price of property and help every citizen A little hustle on the part of the people here and less growling is all that is needed., Fight, light, fight, light. We regret very much that J. R. Meeks has resigned as county agent, and we are sure that hundreds of others who have watched his splendid work here will feel the same way. We are told by farmers, many of them, that his work has been of real help to them and that he has done more to make his office a popular one than . has any other man in his place. If I this be true he should be prevailed upon to remain here. A good county ( agent saves many times the cost of,

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? his salary and expenses and there Should be some inducement whlich I would cause Mr. Meeks to change his mind. I. — - !— President Wilson has again begged the United States senate to quit horse V play and settle down to business. He pointed out yesterday to the foreign relations committee that the safe and sane plan to restore the country is to endorse the treaty and he showed s them how many lines, the military, ) industries, mining and many more > were held up awaiting action on the 1 treaty by the senate. Surely these men entrusted with the good of their constituency will not longer hunt exi cuses for delay in this important matter. The treaty should be signed, the league of nations endorsed and the country settle back to normal condi- ; tion. Any thing else seems a crime. One of the leaders in congress is Janies IL Mann, and he is performing in a most amazing fashion these days. J When the president recently urged congress to get down to business and take care of the serious home problems. living cost, railroads, soldier’s land bill and others, this great lawmaker replied that it was “chicken feed.’’ If his district don’t make hay , out of that remark the people are a lot of bantams. Never in all the history of this nation has there been so much important legislation for the folks back home and yet this little two by s>ur congs(esnman has the ' nerve to call the grave questions chicken feed and to tell his colleagues that they can do as they ptlease, but as for him, he refuses to stay unless the sergeant at arms brings him in for each roll call. Can you beat that for good citizenship? County Sui erintendent of schools E. S. Christen, is to be congratulated for his efforts in securing the very best instructors and lecturers available for the teachers’ institute which will be held in this city next week. Such noted persons as William D. Henderson of the University of Michigan. Dr. Charles 11. Albert of the state Normal School of Bloomsburg, I’a.. 1 Harriet Eleanor Cook, instructor at the summer Normal school at CanonsI burg. Pa., and Miss Edna Marlatt, instructor of the Victor company, Cam-

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? den, N. J., and Senator Franklin i McCray of Hoosier prominence, have s been secured for the sessions. The teachers will appreciate his efforts and will no doubt be benefited and receive , much good from the talks and expers ience of the instructors. A teachers’ s institute is an important event to a i community and it cannot be made too I good. , — Congress has repealed the Daylight Saving law. Well, we should think they would. Now. if they can pass a law that we can’t have any day light they may be successful in keeping hidden the fact that they have howled three months and accomplished nothing. One can’t blame them for favoring all the darkness they can get. Congress can adjourn now any time they wish. They have done. After weeks of effort that has almost worn them out. the members of the magnificent body have succeeded in over riding the president’s veto and have repealed the daylight savings law. They have showed him, by gosh, that he can’t tell them how many hours they can strut around. "Aain’t” it a fine, big. wonderful bunch of intelligent men? Os course food, railroad and labor problems are “chicken feed,” but this day light question—that saves every thing and everybody. Talk about your bosh. About nine out of ten people to whom we have talked rather favor the new hours, while the other one doesn’t know or care much about it, but anyway the congressmen have made a great record. They have passed a bill over the president’s veto and they all feel good. RUMANIA ASKS UNITED STATES TO SEND THEM TEACHERS Bucharest, —“To import to the new-ly-awakened peoples of the old world the American capacity for organization is the greatest immediate duty of the American people,” declared Dr. Dimitri Jonescu, of the University of Bucharest, in an address at a banquet given to the members of the American Red Cross mission. “We hope that the work of the American people will not stop with the splendid achievements in Rumania of the Red Cross,” said Dr. Jonesuc. ‘‘Send us some’ of your masters to explain to us the results of your researches and your splendid methods of work —to accustum us to your spirit of organization, which, during the war, was shown to be so far superior to the formerly so-much praised German methods. “Rumania wishes to thank the American people for what they have done for us —the queen, the king and the royal family join with me in expressing our thanks. ‘lt is the duty of the French and Anglo-Saxon civiliziations to spread today their beneficial light over the world, chiefly in the newly-created countries which have been called to' a new national life. “Rumania is a nation of 16.000,006 inhabitants which, by its music, its

+++4.++++ + + + + + + + . + ■ + Indianapolis, Aug. 20 —(Spe- • + ial to Daily Democrat) —Stan- < + ley Wyckoff, federal sugar dis- < + tributor for Indiana today issued • * an order requiring wholesalers ' + and retailers who have been < + charging more than the govern- < + ment price for sugar immediate- ' +ly to refund the over-charge < + under penalty of being barred ■ + from handling sugar. < + The sugar order came as re- > + suits of a telegram to Washing- < + ton by Wyckoff asking authority ' + act. He received a reply stat- < + ing that the district attorney had • 4- authority to revoke the license of < + dealers making the over charge. < + District Attorney slack told < ♦ Wyckoff today his office will co- < i + operate fully in the matter. < I + Refund by dealers must be ■ 11+ made upon presentation of in-' 1+ voices showing that mure than ' + the regulation price has been ■ + charged- Should the dealers re- 1 + fuse to make refunds Wyckoff ■ | + has asked purchasers to forward ' 11 + the invoices to him together I + with any other information dealI + ing with the case and he will ■ I + turn the fact over to Slack for ji+ action. I + The order stat.es that wholesal■j+ cr» whp have charged mpre than ■ + ten cents a pound for sugar exI * cept ' in ca «es where higher ■ + charges are permitted ter | ♦ m packages and retailed w’ho ■ ♦ have charged more than eleven I + cents for bulk sugar and eleven ■ + and a half cents tor package ■ + must make refunds. B +++++++ + + + + + + + + *

HAVE THE DATA Showing Profiteering in Clothing Will be Laid Before House Committee PALMER RETURNS From New York Where He Spent a Week Inxestigating Conditions There. (United Press Service) Washington, Aug. 20. —(Special Io Daily Democrat) —Data tending to show profiteering in clothing is expected to be laid before the agriculture committee today, when Attorney General Dalmer appears in sunport of his proposals for extension cf the Lever food contol act. Palmer, it is believed, will reveal some of the facts now known to be in possession of the department of justice concerning the manufacture of cloth and clothing. Clothing generally has increased more than 100 per cent in price in three years, government statistics show. The federal trade commission has figures showing the cost of manufacturing many articles of clothing. These cost figures are below retail I prices of men’s suits, shirts, hats. I shoes and a score of other articles of aparel. These figures also are available for use by Palmer. Palmer late yesterday returned to Washington from a week-end trip to Pennsylvania and New York to confer with the senate agriculture committeemen in his offices. The senate committee has also considered Palmer’s proposed amendments before it. Before the house committee today Palmer will tell tlso of the need to broad-j en his nation-wide profiteering and food hoarding investigations. One amendment provides a jail sentence for food profiteers, which Palmer will tell also of the need to broadNo penalty is provided for punishment of profiteers convicted under the . Lever food act, although hoarders ! may be sent to jail, fined $2,000 or:; both. Palmer today also was studying ag- I riculture department reports on meat ; now in storage. These stocks of prac- ’ i tically every kind of meat held in ; storage have increased sinqe August ! 1, 1918. Frozen pork storage holdings in- ; rceased 47.661,045 pounds during the i year: pickledpork holdings 16,266.225 ; pounds; lamb and mutton 4.128,094 i pounds: cured beef 2.792.992 pounds. ] while miscellaneous meat holdings in- ; creased 8.305,104 pounds. Holdings of frozen beef, dry salt pork and lard alone showed decrea---es in amounts stored compared with last year. Frozen beef holdings decreased approximately 12.000.000 lbs.: dry salt pork 4.000,000 and lard 3,000.000 pounds. art and its poetry, has proved itself capable of assimilating your civilization and of becoming its champion. Help us to found here the hearth of culture for the Orient.”

WITHOUT ELECTRIC POWER Chicago. Aug. 20 —Cities in the Fox River valley were still without electric power today, following refusal of 60 per cent of the employes of the Batavia Power plant of the Aurora. Elgin & Chicago Electric railway, to obey an order of Federal Judge Evans directing the receiver of the company to resume operation of the plant. Many Decatur people are attending the fairs that are being held in neighboring towns. Celina is holding one this week, and Van Wert is advertising theirs for the first part of September. Crystal Theater “Jane Goes A-Wooing.” A big five-reel production of Ihe Paramount film company, featuring the dainty little screen actress, Vivian Martin Are you looking for something good? Something that will be of interest to you? If you are. and are desirous of seeing a .good,show, don't fail to see this great production to- ■ night. It’s a Paramount, ■ and a Paramount is always ’ good. Remember you will k see it At The H CRYSTAL THEATER

HUN PRISONERS COMING HOME i Berlin—(By Mail)— -Germany is pre- ' paring for the homecoming of thousands of its prisoners. While their return will probably inflict on the la--1 bor market a great new burden. Germany hpsn’t reckoned that in the reckoning, and just now is jubilant over the fact that they are soon to be release. 1 Their return to the fatherland will be accomplished with customary German methodical (plans. A comulete reception machinery has already been created. A number of stations for delivery in German territory have been erected, and there the homecomers will be officially | From these delivery stations, t& will pass to transfer camps, where they will remain three or four days while they receive military discharges and are examined to ascertain whether they are in need of hospital attention. Each man will receive 50 marks cash and an additional sum which will permit him to have an eight weeks’ vacation.

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