Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1919 — Page 1

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WORKING TO LINE BP THEIR FORCES Vote on .Johnson Amendment to Peace Treaty will probably be Taken l^ T SENATE FRIDAY Debate on Floor Todav__Johnson Makes Fin.j |>| ca —Cummins Bill (United Frees Service) Washington, Oct. 23-(Special to Daily Democrat)— Wniie debate raged on the senate floor over the Johnson treaty amendment today democratic and republican leaders worked strenuously in cloak rooms to line up th eir forces on their proposed reservations. No vote was expected until tomorrow on the Johnson amendment. ' Further reservations will be consid- ( e r ed by the foreign relations committee at a meeting late today. Johnson making a final plea for his amendment to equalize voting strength in the league declared that he introduced it with the most implicit faith that it would be accepted by tne senate with enthusiasm.

■ Washington. Oct. 23—(Special to ■ Daiiy Democrat)—The senate inter- ■ stat.' commerce committee today votB rd to report favorably the Cummins I railroad bill. Some miner changes B were made at the last moment but it B was stated the important provision B remains without change. B Washington. Oct. 23.—(Special to B Pally Dmocrat)—The state departB went was awaiting word front the em i has>y at Mexico City as to the fate cf ’ W. C. Jenkins, American consular I agent at Puebla, Mexico, who is held by bandits for $150,000 ransom. Although the Mexican government! has promised to makxwtmtx .effort- to - rescue Jenkins, there was no word ns to what measures have been taken. It was understood that Mexican troops have been sent to receive him, (By Raymond Clapper, United Press staff correspondent) Washington. Oct. 23. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Treaty supporters prepared today for a fight to obtain unqualified ratification of the pact. Senator Hitchcock declared there v are many moves ahead for the administration forces, despite the word that several mild reservationists have indicated their approval of the foreign relations committee reservations as agreed on yesterday. One move contemplated by Hitchcock is a straightout vote on ratification of the treatv without reservations. He is expected to plan maneuvers with a view to putting the republican party on record against a simple ratification of the treaty before the reservations are voted on. Scores of amendments to reservations will be offered by democratic senators, it was stated today .Dozens of roll calls will be demanded, they say. Democratic senators heard with some surprise reports that the mild reservationists group, including MeNary. Lenroot, Hale and probably Colt and Kellogg, plan to support the resolution of ratification including reservations, as approved by the senate foreign relations committee. Senator Smith, Georgia, also was reported to >ean toward them and Senator Shields, another democrat of Tennessee, voted "ith republicans on many of the reservations in committee. Senator Mc--1 umber is the leading republican '’ill opposing the committee reservations, Roth Hitchcock and Senator Swan sn n. leading the administration fight, declare no reservations will be adopt'd which will send the treaty back for nF "otiation. Senator McNary, one of the mild leservationists, gave as his opinion toriay ' that the preamble agreed upon 1' the foreign relations committee,! which would require three allied i owers 4p accept the senate reservations before American ratification be'(>nies effective* would not require lenewal of negotiations. Diplomatic' ranges would be sufficient they de dare. If other mild reservationists accept t us view. Lodge probably will be able 0 carry a majority with him on the nal vote, provided the six democratic totes, which republican senators maim, materialize.

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WAS HILTY AUTO Yesterday afternoon while in Decatur to attend the road booster* meeting, John Hilly hud the misfortune of hit.ing Joshua Parrish of that place, when his Overland automobile. The accident occurred at the corner of Second and Madison streets, between the court house and the Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson clothing store.- Berne Witness.

BIG GAME FRIDAY — Football Game Tomorrow' Afternoon Between Local Hitfh School Stars AND CONVOY, 0., H. S. Marks Closing of Schedule in This City—Best Game of Season Predicted — The football fans of this city will witness the last game of the season to be played in this city, tomorrow afternoon, when the Decatur high school squad meets the fast Convoy, Ohio, high school team, the game to be played on the local court located in the Ahr field. The locals have been putting in some hard practice every evening after school, and by the ability they showed in defeating the Fort Wayne high school last week, they will be able to give the Convoy outfit a run for their lives. The kick-off will be at 3:30 o’clock and the largest crowd ever attending a football game is expected to be on the grounds. The Convoy team yomes to this city with a good reputation having defeated some strong teams but the local fans are assured a tight game as the local stars have developed some wonderful and will be able to take care of the visitors in an excellent manner. Mr. France Confer of this city will be the official referee of the game and Mr. T'hl, of Convoy will act as .JLSWWJA- „ The locals will journey to Fort Wayne Tuesday afternoon where they will clash with the Fort Wayne high school warriors, the team they so successfully defeated last Friday, and which game will mark the closing of their schedule for this year. The locals will need your support tomorrow and it will be well worth it, as this game is predicted to be the best of the season. Line up with the rest of the looters and watch the locals win. Yea, Decatur, let’s-go. CARING FOR BEES Will Be Subject of Talks by C. 0. Yost, Bee Inspector of the State HERE NEXT WEEK Meeting at the Schwartz Farm Near Berne and Hawkins Farm North C. O. Yost, state been inspector, will be the guest of the Adams County Bee association Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Two meetings are arranged to which the bee raisers and others interested, are cordially invited. On Tuesday the meeting will be heM at one o’clock at the Jacob Schwartz farm, two and a half miles north of Berne, and Wednesday afternoon at the W. W. Hawkins farm, four miles northeast of Decatur. Mr. Yost will talk about the various diseases, how to winter bees, howto feed and care for them. Mr. Hawkins is president of the local association and it may surprise many of our readers to know that more than a hundred farmers of this county are engaged in bee raising and are studying it more than every before. The work is not only profitable if scientifically done, but about the most interesting in many ways, of any work on the farm. You are invited, and urged to attend these bee meetings. VISITS GRANITE QUARRIES George Wemlioff, of the Wemhoff Monumental Works, has returned from a week's visit in Vermont, where as a guest of the manufacturers, he I visited the granite quarries at Barre, Va.. and also visited at Northfield, Va., and other points of interest. Miss Margaret Todd and John Newberry of Chicago are visiting with i Mr. and Mrs. French Quinn.

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HEAD OF DRIVE — W. Guy Brown Has Been Appointed to Head Drive for the Red Cross CHRISTMAS SEALS i Indiana’s Quota is TwentySeven Million Seals — A Hard Worker. Indianapolis. Ind.. Oct. 23. W. Guy 1 Brown of Decatur, will lead the Rod Cross Christmas Seal Campaign for Adams county this year, according to announcement today by E. Q. Laudetnan. executive secretary of the Indiana Tuberculosis association. Mr. Brown has been appointed campaign chairman* on the recommendation of Thomas J. Walsh, a field worker for the association, who has been id Decatur conferring with leading citizens on plans to raise funds with which to fight tuberculosis. The Red Cross Christmas seal sale does not open until December 1. but Indiana has a huge task on its hands, and the Tuberculosis association is making its plans early. The state 'is to be called upon to raise $270,000 through the sale of 27.000.000 Christmas seals. This amount almost doubles the largest sale ever made in Indiana. It is made necessary by the fact that during the war the fight against tuberculosis lapsed and the disease has made some headway. The quota for Adams county has not yet been announced but Secretary Laudeman stated today that he plans to go over the estimates and announce the county's share soon. The money raised by the sale of seals is to be used in placing a tuberculosis nurse in the schools in every county in Indiana. This plan is based on the idea that health education is the best kind of disease prevention. Chairman Brown will have the assistance and co-operation of a committee including several of the most prominent citizens of county. vaWblOeet On Display in Window at This Office, Contains Valuable Sus?ar PAID FOR THE LAND Crop of Mr. Reicheldeffer Brings Greater Returns Than Land Value Displayed in the window of this office may Be seen an eight pound

sugar beet, grown on the farm of Charles Reicheldeffer of near Geneva. It may be of interest to you to know that according to a test made at the Holland St. Louis plant, this beet contains several cents worth of sugar at the present prices and it is not of extraordinary size for the Reicheldeffer farm this year. The beet was raised according to one of the field superintendents on just ordinary land, valued at about $l5O per acre. The yield of sugar beets this year on this farm was twenty-four tons to the acre, bringing an income of about $225 per acre or a half more than the land was considered worth a short time ago. While this is not the average yield there are many farmers this year who will have fifteen tons to the acre and at the present prices this will bring a big return and makes the crop a valuable one. The sugar plant is operating smoothly this year and the campaign promises to be a great success at this time when sugar is so badly needed. The local plant is receiving much publicity just at this time. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette gave them a page of write up and pictures last Sunday and the Indianapolis Star will have a feature story of the plant next Sunday. NO NEW SYMPTOMS (United Press Service) Washington. D. C., Oct. 23. —“The president is making a satisfactory progress as is possible,” according to a statement issued at noon today by Drs. Grayson, Ruffin and Stitt. “No new symptoms have developed." the announcement said. • L CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE (United Press Service) Chicago. Oct. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Corn: Dec. $1.24%; May ! 1.22%. Oats: Dec. 71c; May 73%c.

STATE MAY OPERATE (United Frees Service) Dos Moines, la.. Oct. 23 (Special to Daily Democrat) Ssate operation of lowa coal mines, should the miners strike become effective Nov. 1 is under consideration, Governor Harding, lowa, announced today. If the coal miners strike causes /public suffering” the lowa executive expressed the opinion he had power to order the mining of coal, and intimated he might use Governor Harding said it would be necessary to call a special session of the legislature to grant him power to act in such an emergency. NOW B’LIEVE mon ’Twas “Some” Show This “Oh, Oh, Cindy!”—Screaming Success SEE IT THIS EVENING If You Couldn’t Get Into the Gym Hall Last Night —Musical Success. Oh. O-li-h. Cindy! Oil, hoy! But it was “some" show, b’lleve muh! —At the Athletic hall last evening, when two hundred of the best musical and dancing talent in the city, in a series of colorful, tuneful, and scenic scenes presented the delightful farcial and musical revue. “Oh, Oh. Cindy!" Every seat in the large hall was taken —and more. too. for many had to stand. But there is one consolation for those who could not even get into the hall —-the show will be repeated again tonight, beginning at 3:15. For some weeks. Russell I. Rowland. of the John B Rogers Producing company, has been directing the rehearsals, of this show, which is given under the auspices of the Delta The-.a Tau sorority, and the play went off without a thing to mar it. The rising of the curtains maike.T a season of "continuous’fun Applause punctuated' every minute.

The musical, while light and fluffy and airy, with melody and wit, nevertheless took occasion to present a little lesson, that contentment and happiness may be found at home if one’s mind is made up thereto. The hit of the evening was Dr. Fr°d Patterson, as Terence O’Hoo’igan, stage manager of "The Follies," but even more so as “the fairy godmother,” the queen of the fairies, or the winsome, short-skirted lassie of the footlights. This part he played to such perfection, witfl his blonde wig. crowned with roses, his milk-and-white “complexion,” his short fluffy skirts that more than one masculine heart was disappointed in its throbs when it finally leaked out that the comely stage “lassie" was a “he.” Follies show girls, known as "The Big Four" were parts very nicely taken by Florence and Genevieve Bremerkamp, Margaret Smith and'Mathilda Berling. while Miss Agnes Kohne made a hit as Blanche Blondina, also of The Follies, and a chum of Cindy, or Cinderella, a feature portrayed to perfection by Mrs. L. A. HoUhouse. The Three Bears, inseparable shadows of Blondina, were Felix Holthouse. Joe Kortenbrer. Oscar Lankenau. Stephen Uraig. bethrothed to Cindy, was Elmo Smith. The play hinged about Cindy's constant discontent, and how she was finally brought to realize that contentment is a matter, not of place nor of possessions, but of state of mind. This was brought about by a dream of hoi's, that she had visited the isle of Robison Crusoe, and of “heart’s desire,” through a wish granted by the fairy godmother. The things that happened in dreamland and the various characters she met there.,formed the basis of the production of the scenes of the play.

The character of Robinson Crusoe was played by Hugh Hite; that of Friday, his right hand man. by Felix Maier;, and that of Saturday, Friday’s rival for the affections of Lady White, Cindy’s negro maid, by Richard Durkin. Lily White was Miss Glennvs Mangold. France Confer made a hit as Ferdinand Grotox, producer cf “The Follies” and in the dreamland characters as “Santa Claus.” The negro choruses, the special dances, the aviation chorus, the dance of the fire-flies and the gnomes, the (Continued on page two) WEATHER FORECAST Indiana —Rain probably tonight and Friday, colder In north.

ID GIVE DEBATE! Question as to Whether Young People’s Societies or Organized MEN’S S. S. CLASSES, i Are More Vital to Church ' Will Be Discussed at the Methodist Church I Quite an interesting debate is scheduled for Friday evening .it 8 ■ o’clock at th.* Methodist church when the question as to whether the young j people’s societies or the organized■ ’men’s Sunday rchool rlar-ir-s are more i I vital to the life of the church, ..'ill be discussed The spf alters for the Epworth Lea ! gue or>lt” of the ehu.rb, reji esent Ing the young people, are Herman Myers I Myers and Charles Downs; those of! the men’-, classes, C. L. Walters and O. L. Vance. Judges will be the Rev. W. S. Mills, the Rev. A. H. Saunders an-i Rev. L. W. Stolte Besides the debate th* following! interesting program will be given, and aspeeial invitation is given to all, to hear the same: Reading—Gertrude Yager Duet—Mrs. Dan Tyndall. Mrs. W. P. Schrock. instrumental— Ralph Mosci Vocal Solo —Donald Gre'-e. HOGS STILL SLIPPING (United Press Service) St. Louis, Oct. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Hog prices on the toboggan for two weeks continued the downward slide todav. Price- reached tiie lowest mark in more than three years when sales made early today at the national stock yard at 12.70 with the top 5 cents higher. I

I SPECIAL MEETINGS AT FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH * £ ; I y ft 1 z DR. A. G. A. BUXTON

Ccmiftencing Sunday evening, October 26. 1919. Dr. A. G. A. Buxton, popular preacher and lecturer, will conduct a series of evangelistic meet ings in the Christian church, at the corner of Monroe and Fourth streets. Dr. Buxton is quite well known to the people of Decatur, having delivered addresses upon several occasions, and has been pronounced by all who j have heard him one of the best speakers ever listened to in this part of the country. The doctor has lectured in almost every state in the union and has been the rector of several of the most prominent and fashionable Episcopal churches in the East and Wes* He was born in England and was brought up in the Angelican church. |in which communion he was a priest >

MENU FOR TWOCENT SUPPER The Paatora) Helpers will have ; lenty of the following for their supper ai the K. of P. Home Saturday' ’< veiling: Creamed chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, noodles, baked I I beans, macaroni and cheese, potato salad, fruit salad, doughnuts, pie, cake, i coffee, and ice cream. The doers will 1 be open at 5 o'clock, prompt. TO BE HELD HERE Missionary Institute of the Woman’s Missionary Association Will Be HELD IN DECATUR Monday, Oct. 27th—Huntington Group Included —Three Sessions. A series cf six missionary Institutes 'are being held throughout the conference. The fourth of the series, that of | the Huntington group, consisting of ! fifteen charges, of which Decatur is a member, will be held at Decatur United Brethren chruch. Monday, October 27. The review of the mission study books will be given by Miss Anna Humes, a representative of the Winlona Summer School of Missions. | This institute is open to the public land the assembly will gladly welcome those from other churches who can attend. The hour for the evening address will be seven o’clock on account of the speaker leaving at 8:34 over the Clover Leaf railrqad, in order to reach Galveston in time for the next institute on Tuesday. Come and hear her (Continued on Page Two)

for nearly twenty years. He is a college and university graduate possessing the degrees of B. A., M. A., B. D.. Ph. D„ D. D.„ and LL D., from some of the best American schools. He is a member of the Adams County Bar. and of the Supreme Court of Indiana. The doctor is a forceful and fluent speaker, a sincere consecrated gentle man and knows no fear in presenting i the truth from a broad minded nonsectarian point of view. He will i speak upon several vital and import- ! ant subjects during these meetings. ‘lCome and hear him. You will not be -disappointed. Hemember the hour. | seven-thirty .every night except Satilurday night. Remember the place. . | First Christian church, corner Monroe t|and Fourth streets. .

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NEW ESDI FORMED OUT OF WRECKAGE President Wilson ('reales New National Industrial Conference and the SESSIONS .WILL GO ON Delegates Representing the Public will Remain— Ixibor Group Leaves (United Press Service) Washington, D. C.. Oct. 23.— (Special to Daily Democrat) — President Wilson today constituted a new naj tional industrial conference from the wreckage of the first one. At his cuggtstion, transmitted through Franklin Lane, chairman, the delegates representing the public will remain in session to seek 3 solution of the nation’s industrial problem. The delegates of the employers were ' excused from further attendance and the labor representatives walked out yesterday but the public conferees, the president tcld Lane, must carry on the work. The public group will be expected to make an exhaustive investigation cf the entire nat’onal situation just as the original conference of the public capital and labor had planned to do. Lane explained. “This greup will carry on the work of the committees already appointed by the conference reorganizing them where vacancies have occurred to them through the adjournment of the original conference,” Lane said. “New members will be added to the croup if ' it seems necessary. 1 Peoria. 11l , Oct. 23.—(Spe-inl to j Daily Democrat) —A telegram was j sent today tp Samuel Gompers. pres-

. ident of the American federation of labor by the state federation in contention here, urging him to immediately call a special brotherhood to form 1 an bffefisive and defensive alliance. The resolution declared the “capitolistic class is drunk with power.” is ’ exploiting the working man. that it must be curved and oppressive cost cf living must come down. Washington. D. C„ Oct. 23—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Decisions that will determine whether there will be a strike of soft coal miners on November 1 will be handed to Secretary of Labor Wilson when he meets with operators and miners at 2 p. m. today. Wilson expects to make the decision public shortly afterwards. Both operators’ and miners' wage scale committees, called here by Wilson to avert the strike, were meeting independently today to decide whether they will accept Wilson's compromise plan offered to them late yesterday. Indications were that the operators would arrept, if they have not informally decided to do so. Operators declared that miners' leaders had advised a vote against Wilson's plan, bpt this was denied by John Lewis, acting president and other officials of the United Mine Workers. Washington. Oct. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Advice of President Wilson was sought today on the practicability of having the public group of the industrial conference continue in session to adopt an industrial code. This followed a conference until a late hour last night of Secretary Tumulty, Chairman Lane, Thomas L. Chadbourne, chairman of the committee of 15 and B. M. Baruch, one of the representatives of the public. Tumulty put the problem before 'the president at an early hour this morning, it was learned. Lane, it is stated, is anxious to

have the public group make a report to the president saying what it believes should be done to bring cooperation between capital and labor. His opinion is shared by Secretary of Labor Wilson, it was learned. Some of the public group feel that this course of action would be useless since labor has walked out of f ' the conference. Those who favor ■■it believe that public opinion would < 51 force labor to adhere to the princi■jples laid down by the public group. 1 The president’s advisers take the - position that the interests of the publie are paramount and must be safee guarded, no matter hpw widely di- . vergent are the views of labor and - capital. The plan which the public . group might suggest would serve as > a basis for industrial peace, they ( hold.