Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1919 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except, Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER Preaident 1 ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates Cash in Advance. One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 15.00 One Month, by mall 86 cents

Six Months, by mail 11.75 Three Months, by mail SI.OO One Year, by mail $3.00 Ono Year, at office $3.00 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. hi i Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Adams county wants a state road north and south and east and west and deserves it. If we tight hard enough, plead a little and work together there may be a chance to get in eventually The schools of Indiana are now suffering as a result of the new tax law. As the year goes on they will be hurt, even worse. Can you imagine a set of men dilly dallying with petitions all summer and delaying the officials to such an extent that schools could not open. That happened in several instances and the new rate fixed has curtailed schools

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':from progressing the next year or ! two. The law has caused much In'convenience, has already proven to | be a fizzle and it should be repealed and a law substituted that does not give all the power to the board of , three. The people will demand that this be done at the next election. It doesn't make any difference what you have to sell, threshing machines, needloa, religion, politics, soap or

1 cabbages or ice cream, there is just J one business way, one sure recipe ( for doing it and that’s to advertise, i The successful merchants, all of them believe, in it, because they have tried it and know. The state highway commissioners seem like nice men. However we reserve our verdict until we hear what definite action is taken on the petition from this county. The resolution adopted yesterday deserves the support of the commission. They should encourage a county which has led in good road building for a quarter century. Eggs sold in New York yesterday at a dollar and eight cents a dozen, or nine cents each. The price is so high that some other fruit will have to be selected as the popular one for driving fake actors and wild eyed orators from the Oklahoma stage. The goose that laid the golden egg

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has lost her place and the hen has 'come Into her own. The attendance and the interest manifested at the highway meeting yesterday shows a general understanding of affairs, and is evidence ihat our people know what they want and want it. There can be no doubt that the tentative plans as announced give this county a rotten deal. We must pay ati exorbitant tax not. only to build but to keep up the new roads and to use them we would have to drive many miles. Our tax payers are as good as live any way. We are progressive and we believe in good roads. Look at our achieve-

ments along that line for the past twenty years if you doubt it and be convinced that It did not require a law to make us do what we believed we should do. We deserve a north and south and an east and west road. We cannot build them if the state takes our money. We cannot build our own and those in some other county too and we will be asked to do Just that if we are not given a fair deal on the plan. Adams county citizens should insist that we have a north and south and an east and west road. Allen county gets four. Wells and Huntington and Jay each get two. Shall we be content to get a little side switch and pay as much as the others* The answer is NO in capital letters. BEFORE SUPREME COURT JUDGE.

(United Press Se.rvlce) The fight to produce German opera in New York City centered today around Supreme Court Justice Bijur, who had under advisement application for an injunction to prevent enforcement of Mayor Hylan’s orders to stop the performances until after the ratification of the peace treaty. Last night's show was called off after efforts to obtain a writ failed. With fifty police ■guarding the theater and adjacent streets and five hundred in reserve, there was little disturbance. About fifty sailors attempted to march on the building but were prevented.

PROGRESSING NICELY Work on the remodeling of one of the Terveer residences, corner of Madison and Sixth streets, will be finished in a few days and ready tor occupancy by Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Terveer. A basement, bath and oth r improvements were added, with coinI lete interior and exterior remod< ling and re-decorating. A new porch at the front was also made and a kitchen added at the rear. The home is a very pretty and comfortable one. Tyndall Heads An Association payers of Adams county, Indiana, should receive a recognition from the State Highway Commission, and that the efforts should be reward; d by having at least the full proportionate share of the roads of the ■county designated as state highway:; “Therefore be it resolved, that it is the wishes and desires of the ci izens of Adams county assembled at a mass meeting at the court bone in the city of Decatur, Indiana, th it the state highway commission sh, II designate the following roads through Adams county as state highways towit:

“First: The highway running nor h . and south through the county pa , sing through the towns of Genev i, , Berne and Monroe and the city cf | Decatur, and on north through ti'elj county of Fort Wayne, Indiana; "SecomH The highway runni g', east and west through the coun H ( passing through the towns of Magi vI j and Preble and the city of Decatrr , on east to the state line. “Be it’further resolved that a co"v of this resolution together with t ; • newspaper accounts of this meeti ; shall be. forwarded to the State Hi; - - way Commission at Indianapolis, J idiana.” To help push the matter throu' i and to sec that every corner of ti )! county is interested, the followi g thorough organization of what, is ■ known as “The Adams County Highway Commission” was effectc': I President, John W. Tyndall, Decati r, i secretary, Henry B. Heller, Decati/; | treasurer. Jeff Lehman, Berne. Vice presidents for each township a d corporation were named as follow Townships—Union. John D. Nidli, er; Root, Henry Dirl. on; Preb’ s t William Aumann; Kirkland. W. L Dettinger; Washington, C. J. Luiz; St. Marys, William Miller; Blue Creek, Charles Jones; Monroe, Thurman Gottschalk; French; Joel Graber; Hartford. Harry Meshbergcr; - Wabash. George Innejchen; Jefferson Frank Johnson. Corporations —■ Decatur, C. L. Walters; Monroe,

James Hendricks; Geneva, Nathan i Shepherd; Herne, Otto Stuckey. I Upon motion of T .A. OotUchalk, the county commissioners were designated as members of the advisory board to work in cooperation with this organization to secure Adams county's more just apportionment of the roads. At the meeting also, petitions were started for signatures to the plea to be presented to the state highway commission, the governor and other officials, urging Adams county's more equitable claims. Live Speeches Made

When three o'clock came and the commission members had not yet arrived, and the courtroom was < rowded, even to standees unable to get seats, John T. Myers, chairman of the Good Roads Committee, opened the meeting and introduced John W. Tyndall, as chairman of the afternoon, explaining that a discussion of the affairs and a presentation of the matter would be made by local interested parties, until the arrival of the commission, that no time might be lost and the meeting be productive. Mr. Tyndall gave a short talk, urging that steps be taken that Adajns county not be "wiped off the map.” that she be given her just deserts, in consideration of the taxes sh® pays, and in consideration of the fact that she has made nearly 800 miles of stone roads—a greater mileage than any other county in the state, and that she should not be required to build roads for other counties without getting an equitable return therefrom also. He introduced Hon. C. J. Lutz as tne next speaker, and he was followed by County Attorney Henry B. Heller, and he, in turn by Joseph Walker, late representative of the county in the state legislature. Jeff I®hman, Chris Neuenschwander. John Houk, John A. Harvey. Thurman Gottschalk and others were called upon and responded in the greater number of instances. The matter covered by all of the speakers, and especially those who have been directly interested in the new law, whereby a state highway commission was created to build state roads, of hard substance, to connect every county seat in the state, to be maintained by taxes from the state fund, set out fully the just claim of the county. Jay county is to get about thirtysix miles of the state roads; Wells county, some thirty miles; and others in equally big proportion, while Adams is to get only six miles, and that a little spur or jut on a road very little traveled. Adams county's apportionment. according to the tentative plans, is second lowest in the state, a little county on the Ohio river being lowest. \dams county heads the list in macadam road mileage. The pie;. set forth that effort should be made to get the state road, through, north and south, from Portland through Geneva. Berne. Monroe. Decatur and thence to Ft. Wayne, or to connect here with the six-mile spur through Kingsland to the Bluffton pike; also to extend the six-mile spur on east to the state line, there to connect with the Ohio Lincoln highway branch.

The plea was made that, since the state is to keep in repair the roads of the tentative state line, even prior to the time that the hard roads can be built, it would be to the county’s interest to have included in the state route, the road in the county most traveled, to-wit. the highway running north and south. This road, from the time that it was the very first mail route, through to now. when it has been a route for commercial trucks from the counties south to Ft. Wayne, a commercial center, is highly traveled, and the plea is set forth that, since other counties use it and help create the wear, it should be repaired at state expense, and this by reason of being made a part of the state road plan. This would do much to reduce the county's expense of pike repair, which is considerable on the

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mileage which cost the county taorc than »!,000,000 to build. These state roads canont be built in a year or two or three years, but now is the time to act, it was urged, since the plans cannot be changed, when once established. ; That the commission expected to hear from the county a long time ago, i and that It was willing to give ear I

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to an sequitable claim, was evidenced by the statement made to H. B. Heller by the commlMion when be vhitod In TndlanapoHs some time ago Mr. Walker stated that action is being taken Just a year too late. He lUrged that the time the bill tor the proposed law was introduced w a « the time the farmers and other taxpayers should have been on the Job.

I Ho was the only one wh 55 ■ against the bill in the le Commercial chambers and Rlßla, ’» ter eats were strong f or (h h i but there was no opposin' part of the tax payers. 011 However, since the law „ the next be-t thing is lo Adams county gets h Pr J(1|I tionment of tha roads, it Wt - ————— — _ '