Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1920 — Page 3

""■* '**' • — — at;ERIE APPOINTMENTS Tl.p following Hr „ tl| , |M ,| lllmpr| . K <>( offlclals.or the chlPiiKo * kh, , , road thill an* now In eiwi; llPorßc T Depiie. tneWianlcui i Intendent; John It. Sexton, ~ onulnew, VVlllinm v. Kennelv j erul freight and passenger agcm; M. j lievt N Breland, freight claim u.lj.ts-! tor; John W. Cofer, auditor; James V. j Overton, chief of police; Harry \v.! Xrttmplcf, assistant treasurer; forest i W. Rosser, superintendent. Chicago \ Hammond terminals; Kdimind 1, How. cn, superintendent of Marlon division. ' A I WALLACE, Manager. A friend of the family in Ihe winter time— when 1 roughs are prevalent, is DR. MARSHALL’S LUNG SYRUP * None Better. Family size. SI.OO. Other sizes. 25c-. r »oc. By All Druggists.

Oftentimes the services of a "nod Bank can add largely lo one’s working efficiency. We advise our patrons lo work safely and conservatively, But where additional finanicing is needed to secure your best production, we solocit your call. You are nol doing your * duty unletss you are running at lull production and up to full capacity. . '" 9NMMNRIMB I Start a Bank Account Nothing so far advanced in the way of industrial betterment has been developed that w ill increase the morals and efficiency of an employee as much as the great satisfaction of a steadily increasing Bank Account. The Victory Saving plan is the best plan that can he offered. (Jet acquainted with it. The Peoples Loan 4 Trust Co BANK OF SERVICE What makes a Strong Bank? A BANK’S STRENGTH CONSISTS OF: Large Resources Ample Cash Reserve Adequate Capital Capable Management, We invite your investigation in regard to this bank. First National Bank DECATUR, INDIANA.

WORK IN RANK OF PACE T, "‘ Klilrlits of I'ythiuH lodge W H| I '’‘ v 1 ‘ w,,|, h in tlio rau.iiU of pago at ihn '■ iiior nii-otitit* oil 'Cli^n t'.iluy ovnnlnv. All numbers of (In* lodge, and OKpci - inlly the tli'i’Mc team, are urged to bit ■I II STEWART, Acting e. CARD OF THANKS 1 li« I::i4i<• of ihe Union wish (i thunk tin- people who were so 11b'■ml in helping them :<t fho Hell :m<! U.ii,i|,i- siile;‘ a |Mo Mr. I poll and Mr. 1 'Under. The Indies .1. ared over slin. Afraid of Flu ? NO NEED to lie, if,you use ordinary judgment. Why wait until you really have it Ivul cold, la grippe or the Flu? LIGHTNING LAXATIVE OUININK TABLETS Will Not Gripe of Sicken Should In* kept in rvrry home—ready for tt'e time when eonns>ne feels “creepy", •‘chin, ', "achy” and "just know they ate catching cold". Safe deiK-iidubf. —and quick in action. Will not grip** or sicken, (e-t a ts,v today from your drugget or dealer. Only 35 cenu a box.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH a, 1020.

WANTED: A MOTHER! J j Olio tiny leeioitlv an Agent of the' Hoard id' Stale <'hnrHlos, whose tlulyj it h lo llml litote s for homeless eliit- j drt'it. visiitvl one of the larger orphanOKI'S of Imllnim. On reneliltvß the institiHlon hi' received a friendly groetii from the' superintendent a putliet- • ieally eager one front the children. They nil knew him and (hoy knew why he lame. With the superintendent he entered Ihe hoys’ division. Eager, expectant face-, loked irtlo hi and there WtiSf a rapid lire of questions. "Hay, Mi ter, ain’t you going to (tike me " "I've been here a lour time; dot.’i nobody want me " Don't yon tltjnk I could make good?" "If I'll try. will yon pet me n home?" One unprepossessing lad said; “Shucks! 'Tain i no use. Mister, fiut won’t you just take my name for luck?” And thus the questions continued, Bright, active, ettßer little fellows, sixty of them, all hungry for love and Individ•;itlity of home life! In Hit* division (lie agent heard ih<> same questions and wishes more quietly expressed. Here were forty Rirls. wanting and needing home care, ti’Jtfning and individual consideration. Some of them \ver<' very bright and attractive and all of them capable of dei velopmeut. They arc happy and well j cured for In tiiis institution, hut tlic-y j want real homes tike other children. One of tile brightest Rirls. but not at all prepossession, sidled up to the matron and Rave expression to what was in every hungry little heart when site , whispered, “Will he pel me a maina?'’j Here, then, in this one institution were a hundred children wuntinp and needing homes and mother love. The agent had several applications in inis pocket, bpt not one of them could he filled. What v/as the trouble? Simply a of age. The applications called for blue-eqed, curly-haired baby Rirls, or fine, sturdy taby boys, or for either boy:: or Rirls over twelve years old, and in all this group there wasn’t a single child ready to be placed 1 who wag under five or over twelve years old. There was nothing for the agent to do but to carry his applications back to his office and place them on file. ’DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY RIG! THANKFUL FOR | HER HEALTH Before Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Mrs. Penkey was Miserably 111. Ottawa, Ohio.—“ After the birth of 1 my baby 1 was troubled with serious

71 female trouble. At I times I was so weak and nervous I could not stand it to hear jy my baby cry. I tried ■ doctor’s medicine b with no results. At S last a friend advised R me to try Lydia E. 1 Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound I which I did and am J| tompletely cured. iHI am thankful for

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your wonderful medicine and you can use my testimonial as you think best.” : — Mrs. John Penkey, R. 3, Box 6, Ottawa, Ohio. | Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- ' pound, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotics or harmful ; drugs, and today holds the record of being the most successful remedy we . know for woman’s ills. If yJu need such a medicine why don’t you try it ? If you have the slightest doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will help you, write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential) l.vnn, Mass., for advice. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman, an:' held in strict confidence. It Doesn't Take A Sherlock Holmes To determine the many ad--5 vantages and saving in money in buying Stcond Hand Auto Parts? We are buying old cars every day. The part you were look. , jpg for yesterday may be here today. Top Cash Price FOR JUNK Maier "ide&FurCo. -30 years In Decatur." ’Phone 442.

SHOWING LESS: ■■ " ' l-Z! 1 Little H<cl School Houses 1 are Being Consolidated \ Into Districts f RESULTS OVER STATE > U Nearly Half of One Room 1 School Houses Have Been Consolidated < The Indianapolis Star in telling of | the progress made m the consolida- ( lion of the rural schools says: j A thirty years' campaign for the consolidation of rural schools in indiatiu, by state educational leaders has resulted in the reduction of the number of one-room schools in the stale from 8,853 in lWtii to 4,880 in 1920. ' The total number of one-room schools abandoned in favor of consolidated schools Is 3,990. or 45 per cent. Randolph county leads the state, with 92. J per cent of the one-room schools in operation in 1890 abandoned this year. There were 115 oneroom schools in the county thirty years Rno and only nine remain, the number of abandoned Schools being 10(1. Montgomery county is second in tile state in consolidation, with 91.1 per cent of the oneroom schools of 189" now abandoned. Marion county is third on the list, witli 90.8 per cent of its one-room schools abandoned, but nine remain>'ing in the county. There were ninetyeight school schools in Marlon comity in 1890 and the number of aban- , (loned - schools for the thirty-year peri iod is eighty-one. Other leading coun- > ties of the state in consolidation work ■ are Rush, with 88.2 per cent of its 1890 s one-rootn schools abandoned; Deln- • ware, 87.8 per cent, and Wabash 55.5. • j The six most backward counties In t Indiana in consolidation work, according to available reports, are Harrison, > Orange. Monroe. Crawford, Martin, ; Hike. Harrison county had 135 one--1 room schools in 1890 and now has 1?S ’ such schools. Orange county has 1 abandoned only two of its one-room schools since 1890. a reduction of 2.1 per cent. In Monroe county only one [ district school has been closed during the thirty years of the consolidation campaign in Indiana. The county now has ninety-two one-room schools. No Change in Thirty Years [ Crawford county, the reports indicate, lias seventy-five one-room schools, the same number as thirty [years ago. Available records indicate tli|t Martin and Pike counties have ■ not only not'acconiplislied anything inward consolidation, but actually have ■ 'more one-room schools now than i’t ; 1.890. Martin county thirty years ago L had eighty-eight one-room school and j now lias ninety-six. Pike county had - seventy-six such schools in 1890 and 1 now has eighty-live. The largest number of one-room I schools at the present time are in ■ Washington county, 117; Greene j county, 110; Allen county, 109. The i smallest number of one-room schools • in 1920 are in Randolph, Marion, Monti gomery and Rush counties. Itandolnh ’ and Marion counties have but nine i schools remaining ami Montgomery and Rush counties now have eleven I one-room schools each. I Tjte consolidation movement means the passing of the "little schoolhouse j on the hill” with one teacher, and the substitution of a modern school build- ■ ing with a eorp of trained teachers and adequate equipment, to which pupils living at a distance are transported at public expense. There are now 1.002 consolidated schools in Indiana, _ taking the place of the 3,990 one-room _ schools abandoned since IS9O, according to recent reports. Three hundred of the consolidated schools are located in the country, 528 in and 135 in larger towns. v. Average Cost The average cost of the buildings and equipment of the consolidated schools of the state is $20,287, according to official reports. Manual shop work is provided in 234 of the buildings, 331 have home economics laboratories, 231 have agricultural laboratories and forty-nine have a. separate auditorium for community gtheriags. According to official reports 57,059 pupils are being transported to the' consolidated .schools a', annua! cost of $ 1.250.4G0. There are now 4,193 school wagons in use in Indiana. County school superintendents report that the pupils are entirety satisfied with transportation and that 90 per cent of the parents are satisfied. The pupils ride an average of four and onehalf miles to school and are on the way an average of one hour a day. The average number of teachers for the consolidated schools is four and one-half. The consolidation of rural schools in Indiana began actively about 1890. according to school officials. Only

threw counties of the stale reported movements for consolidation prior to h 1897, Frank I). Jones, former stale u superintendent of public Instruction of n Indiana, In tt report published In 19ihi * gives Uic credit to William S. Hull, of t Washington township, Rush county, for be ing The original promoter of con sotidation in Indiana. In IS7<; Mr. Hall closed five schools and erected a J grade school in the. center of the township. Wayne county, Clay township, Is given credit for establishing Ihe lirsi complete consolidated school with one central building, having abandoned five district sehoNs and transported the children to the building in four hacks. Consolidation Law A law was passed in 1997 that gave ample opportunity for consolidation to communities where the people desired to benefit by the provisions of the law. This thw is the one under which school trustees act in Jhe abandonment and consolidation of schools. Since 1900 the movement toward complete consolidation has grown rapidly in many counties of the slate. Much of the consolidation work which has been done in Indiana is the result of the efforts of pioneer leaders in this work who have been in charge of the schools in various counties, according to educational leaders. In Randolph county, which leads the state in consolidation, according to the 1920 reports, t-ee L. Driver, formerly county superintendent of schools, worked for many years with' complete consolidation of the county! in view. I,ee Swells, Marion county school superintendent, has had a large part In the. work in Marion county, ac-1 cording to state school officials. In Tippecanoe county, Brainard Hooker, j formerly superintendent of the county \ 1 schools, was active for consolidation. Robert K. Devricks, hPad of the men-1 • uscript department in the office of the 1 state superintendent of public instruc-| • tlon, as county school superintendent . for Wabash county, was one of the: . .early leaders in consolidation work - and is actively identified with the 1 movement at this time. b D. N. Hines, state superintendent of j l public instruction, some time ago ept pointed a committee, to make a rural j school survey of Indiana with B. J. v Burris, assistant state superintendent . of public instruction, as chairman. , This committee is expected to make j recommendations for the l>etterment of the one-room schools remaining ins Indiana and to urge further consol i j dation wherever possible. Mr. Hines has been holding a series of rtlsal school meetings throughout the state and has urged consolidation in every j county. t Just received a fresh supply of our famous ;joc lb. coffee. ' Try it.—Steele’s Grocery. 1f i

PURVEY SHOWS HOW SLUM LIFE j lim- ■,: I ■ ■ ii i'.w \i<j ? mt ni in hionlinij the ranges in Ue- ~~~ , aa y y toil and incident; the first step of AVNrfvhA "" | » ' ‘ (tejtinrjf that must be taken by the j § w etmreli before these laughter-less — 1,1 1 May learn to laugh. Interchurch World Movement field worker questioning East Si.* woman in survey to determine causes that make slum life so sordid. In every large American city are thousands of given dace are responsible for the people who do people who do not laugh, they have toigomn Already the study has seen behind the faces the how. They have almost forgotten how to smile. influence of the slum itself, squalid and filthy. It To find them one must go to the slums. There, has seen the tenement house, cut off from the light, in ugh narrow streets; in littered courts and alleys dirty and drab without a provision for the h. ID. • . , , . , „ houses and comfort of human beings who crowd tie .icc he u,u! |„ Urn shadowedl windows. of into it and call It “home." It has seen D ■ in: ,n: are face- that are seldom ligh ' la ,. y f ac t or y > the ] o ng, deadening horn of toll, th and rarely with smiling. wage that barely suffices to keep life in the bod Why? and give it shelter. There is an answer in the faces. They are marked It has seen the disastrous emergency of s,i. ;.i: with deep, hard Hues. And the lines are stamped with no money to pay for medical care. It has by care. It is a look that has come so often and seen the food, Insufficient and of Inferior qn:. lit > has remained so long that the Imprint is there all that can be bought with what tnon y th : forever. And it has seen years of labor drag on without an Even the faces of the little children are set, hour of leisure. And it has seen the too swift stolid, old. coming of age. The answer of the faces is a surface answer. It These are the general forces that slay laughteris an effect. And behind every effect is a cause. these and the hopeless vision of the future, the Seeing these laughter-less faces, the Protestant animal submission to what seems irtnutal !o, th" Churches of America want to know what it is that belief that even death is preferable to .eh . M creates people who do -not laugh. Through the But the Interchurch World Movement :u iInterchurch World Movement, which seeks to make seeking mrire than this. It is obtaining r.’.ets. possible "loser co-operation of these churches in details, records of actual conditions, wherever the* the achievement of their work, they are going he- conditions exist, that it may set the situation .my ffi'nd the fee - behind 'he effect to the cause. For before tho Church as a problem with cv rv f: the Inter"' urcU World Movement is making a study clear, the solution of which would n- in law: ’which Will show, t-.-’.'ei'flcully. what conditions in any for the people who do uot laugh.

The order of the Eastern Star is believed to have originated In the Uniled states in 1778, but made 111 Ile proreHS until 1850.

— PLU C K (By Edward A. Guest) When tilings are running crosswise and the engine’s out of gear. When the road Is rough and rocky and the sky is far from dear. When you're plainly tip against it and you’re surely out of luck. That's the (Into to use your courage and to show your stock o! pluck. Most anyone can travel on u road that's smooth and dear And anyone can get there if he only lias to steer, But when the motor’s bulky and you're running in the muck. If you're ever going to get I here you must cull upon your pluck. There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are dear and bine. There's no joy In merely doing things which anyone can do, But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to lake When you reach u destination that you thought you'll never make. So when everything's against you and your plans are going wrong. Just face the situation and keep moving right along Don't sit down and wail and whimper, even though you may be stuck, You're not absolutely helpless if you still possess your pluck.

INTRODUCING SAHLUKENE * QUEEN OF WITCH DOCTORS Sahlukene Cole, once queen of the Zulu witch doctors, '' T&g A. has abandoned her V XT'* practice and is study- . . * jjj Ing Christianity. Odo * .Sa, 4 #s<*«-'■ i&g? was known as pro- i Uv ' ~ rt* mier “caster out’’ of jf ‘‘m^id en 1^ s 1lirß1 irR • N passed on to the maiden that she might keep ber hush;. *j in an everlasting grip. It was through the efforts of Dr. James 11. McCord, a Congregational medical missionary, that Cclc became interested in Chridianii;Dr. AlcCord is now in the United States in the interest of a medical institute to he started in Durban. Here the Zulu witch doctors will he taught medicine and surgery.

Owing lo the scarcity of steel,Cauada vvil nor )u> In a position to build slid ships for at least, two or throe v ,liir * I:#**!