Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1919 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT »' I « 1 Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. '■■■» u JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates Cash In Advance. One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 16.00 One Month, by mail 36 cents Six Months, by mail $1.75 j Three Months, by mail SI.OO One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffiee in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. The November air is in evidence today. giving indication that it may not he long until it will require constant feeding of the furnace. Those coal men surely ought to understand that we can’t have a fire without coal and pierhaps as they do. In the meantime keep hoping that it will all come out right. The annual Red Cross roll call opened today and in this county an effort to secure the renewal of the 7,000 members will bo made. The dues are only one dollar and it's a real investment for every penny is used to relieve suffering in hours of distress. Half the money is retained in this county. Be a Red Cross booster ami member. Publishing a newspaper these days is not just exactly the softest job in the world. There is a scarcity of print paper and labor and there is the usual increase in everything used. Just at present we are short three men and working under difficulties. If your paper is an hour or so late don't complain. for we are making every possi-1 I

Cutting the Corners IN discussing the Standard Oil Company, a well-known lawyer said: “The underlying causes of whatever trouble this organization may have had arc to be found in its efficiency and its advanced methods, which make competition difficult. As a producer and distributor of petroleum products the Standard Oil Company leads the w orld. ” It is a matter of pride to those responsible to the 4649 stockholders that the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has been able toso operate its business as to insure a maximum production of useful products at a minimum of cost, and it has always been the policy of the Company to sell its products to the consumer at a minimum price. • During the past five years when the industries of the world have been disorganized by war, and the cost of production has been increased tremendously, the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) by reason of its advanced methods has been able to keep the price of petroleum products at so low a point that the people of America can afford to use the output of the Company in ever increasing quantities, while elsewhere in the world only the wealthy can enjoy the comforts of these commodities. This condition has been brought about by largely increased facilities, and by careful conservation of raw materials. Thus, in spite of tremendous increases in cost of crude oil and labor, the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has been able to fulfill its obligations in a manner satisfactory and beneficial to the stockholder, the employee and the public. Standard Oil Company (Indiana) 9 10 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1875 '

ble effort to get you all the news all the time and get the paper to you al five o'clock in the afternoon. It is said that but twenty-five per cent of the Indiana soldiers have kept up their insurance policies, issued during the war. This is a very grave mistake for the opportunity is one given only to those who served their I country arid one that should not be (thrown aside. The government has added some attractions and will send ■ representatives to this state to urge the men to reinsure without examination. Every veteran should welcome the chance. W. R. C. NOTICE All members of the Woman’s Helief Corps are urged to attend the meeting Tuesday afternoon at two, o’clock at the hall, to practice for inspection. Engage your Thanksgiving turkeys early. Extra fine birds. Dr. Trout, 'phone 868. 261t3 AUGUSTO B. LEGUIA F 99 I f /Xi ’ -•’■J? \A eetem Newspaper I nfvn Augusto B. Leguia, president of Peru.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1919

PLAN TO REBUILD LOUVAIN LIBRARY American Educators Launch Movement to Raise Necessary Funds. DESTROYEDJARLY IN WAR Geographic Society Criticizes Acta of German Invaders in Wantonly Wrecking Belgian Art—Great Seat of Learning.

Washington, D. C.—American educators are launching a movement tc i raise funds to rebuild the famous 11i brary of the University of Louvain destroyed by the* German invaders early in the war. The city of Louvain the “Oxford of the low countries," is described in the following bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society: “Not only the University of Louvain, but the city is an object lesson in Belgium and France by the German array. Early In 1915 a group of university professors of other countries drew up a petition expressing strong indignation and abhorrence at the wholesale destruction of ancient build Ings that has marked the invasion of Belgium and France by the German army” and protesting lu the strongest terms against the continuance of so barbarous and reckless a policy. German Professors Make Reply. “To this a group of German university professors, among them Gerhart Hauptmann, Max Reinhardt and Rudolph Eucken, replied that it was not true that their troops had treated Belgium brutally but that, anway, ‘we must decidedly refuse to buy a German defeat at the cost of saving a work of art.’ “If Louvain has contributed little to scientific achievement it had a tremendous effect upon philosophic and religious thought. It has been said that the city’s chief product was theology. But Germany’s contempt fol that kind of culture is reflected unconsciously in Baedeker’s guidebook of 1910, which describes it is ‘a dull place with 42,200 inhabitants.’ “Thus the German guide casually dismisses the cradle of Belgian independence, an early home of the European weaving industry, and a treasure house of marvelous art works. In one of his most famous pastorals. Cardinal Mercier, now a visitor in the United States, describes the havoc wrought tn Louvain thus:

“ ‘Tn this dear city of Louvain, perpetually in my thoughts, the magnificent Church of St. Peter will never recover its former splendor. The ancient College of St. Ives, the art schools, the consular and commercial schools of the university, the old markets, our rich library with its collections, its unique and unpublished manuscripts, its archives, its gallery of great portraits of illustrious rectors, chancellors, professors dating from th 1 time of its foundation, which preserved for masters and students alike a noble tradition, and were an incitement in their studies, all this accumulation of intellectual, of historic and of artistic riches, the fruits of the labors of five centuries —all is in dust.’ “The city of Louvain ever will be remembered as the scene of the granting to the Belgian people by Duko Wenceslaus of the ‘joyous entry.’ and the university will be associated with that character’s preservation, mon than four centuries later, when Kaiser Joseph, the ‘crowned anarchist’ of Austria, tried to deprive Belgians of their ancient rights. “The circumstances of that resistance form one more bond of uniot between Belgium and the United States of America, for it took place just ten years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, au act which left a deep impress upon the Belgian . Joseph’s Move Against Holland. “It will be recalled that Ent] -ror Joseph, brother of Marie Antoinette, had tried to abolish Holland fror tier forts. He won a .temporary vic ory because Holland at that time was embroiled with Great Britain over the former’s recognition of the U; ted States of America. "Next he turned to Belgium wi h a project for reforming the church, but the Belgians were determined iiat such reformation should not be imposed from without. When the Belgians resisted he declared its cc-di-tut ion annulled, sent an armed 1 rce into the country, and was met wilt a declaration that he no longer -.-as duke of Brabant, and that the Belgians henceforth would be an independent people, to be known as the United States of Belgium. “Though the Belgian United St tea was short lived, largely because the great powers of Europe declined to set a precedent by recognizing it, and encouraged Joseph’s successor in reconquering it, the seed of independ nee thus planted by the historic university bloomed again a half century biter, ind revealed itself gloriously in 11- 4.” Drink Aged Wine. Reading, Pa.—Aiderman and Mrs. Oliver J. Wolff celebrated their golden ■ wedding anniversary the other day by rtvlng a dinner to their children and | members of their families. There were thirty-eight guests. One of the features of the event was the serving of a'pint of wine fifty years old, which was part of the wine served at their marriage fifty years ago.

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General Badoglio is in command of Italian forces in the Flume region opposed to the troops under D'Annunzio, J who seized ths city. DECATUR PEOPLE SHOULD EAT PIE DAILY. Pie is wholesome, comining both I fruit and grain. Those who have trouble digesting pie should take ONE SPOONFUL simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka. | This flushes the ENTIRE bowel tract, I removes foul matter which poisoned your stomach for months and relieves | ANY CASE sour stoach. gas or coasti| ation and prevents appendicitis. Leaves stomach in condition to di-1 gest ANYTHING. Callow & Kohue. druggists. RUMMAGE SALE The Queen Esthers’ rummage sale will be held at the library November Sth. All those having clothing or , household articles to donate, are rei quested to call Mrs. John T. Myers who will call for the same. Every i lady of the church and their friends ' are asked to contribute. 256-t6

100%Re4 Cross \ Clear Across Your Own United States V, A +.. 5 Your Own Red Cross . t — ? The * Third Red Cross Roll Call - summons every citizen to respond with a Heart and a Dollar to meet Humanity’s peace-time needs in the Spirit of Americanism. " - — V . x . - <• ' ’ Wear It 4 w w _ I I fk | f TheEmblemof Third Red Cross Roll Call pH Share it November 2 to 11, 191 q LdsJ <*' < > Americanism This space contributed by The Junior Red Cross of Adams County

MASONIC CALENDAR. Wre There will be regular convocation of the Royal Arch Masons Tuesday evennng at 7:30 prompt. Business. DAVID E. SMITH, H. P. Peppermint for oil is produced In Michigan and Indiana. The crop of 1919 has th* estimate of 399,900 tbs. of oil from 10,000 acres and marks another step in the continuous decline from 600,000 pounds from 11,000 acres in 1914. The average yield is about 30 pounds of oil an acre.

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Elsie Janis began her theatrical career by a protest against cruelty to animals. She and her mother resigned from a theater where an 'animal act" was in progress. Millions of ducks are killed annually in China to supply the feather industry, in 1917 the exports of this article amounted to 7,083 333 pounds. TO GIVE ANOTHER DEBATE. The Epworth League has been challenged to another debate which eomes off this Friday evening at the M. E. Church. The question of debate is Resolved: “Tithing Is the best and the only way to finance the church.” Judge J. T . Merryman will give an adress on “Life Service’.” Be sure to come and hear

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