Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1920 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Associate Editor and Business Manager. JOHN H. STEWART....City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One Month, by mall 35 cents Three Months, by mai1.........31.00 Six Months, by mall 3175 One Year, by mai1..... 33-00 One Year, at office 33.00 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rate made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter.

Take a look at the store that does not advertise and you’ll cast your eyes on a dark and gloomy store room. The state tax board is evidently unconcerned whether or not the ■ Decatur Public Library remains open. Possibly they figure that the school children can get down the almanac for their research work. A meeting of the Democratic Cen- i tral committee will be held Friday 1

morning at headquarters in this city and all members, together with the candidates for the various county of flees are urged to attend. If those garden seeds sent out from Washington by the congressman from the eighth district are to be of any service to the home-gardeners they had better be rollin’ in. Surely the sender hasn’t got cold feet Write to your relatives or any former citizen that you know and invite them to come to Decatur this summer for the Old Home At eek and the big Northern Indiana , Fair. You'll have a chance to entertwin them and they’ll enjoy the week. Kirby Risk has somewhat shown his usual color as a poor loser and his inability to fight his battles alone.

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Os all things American people despise a poor loser, and a person who cannot meet his fate with a smile cannot expect to get much consider ation from the public. Risk sounds like a barking dog that cannot get over the fence. Join in the big parade on Satur day, April 10th, and meet the Fort

Wayne people who are coming to De catur to attend the dedication of the General Electric building. Decorati your auto and meet the party at the 'bridge and show our “city friends" Decatur is glad to welcome them It's going to be a big day and the event will mark a new beginning f®r Decatur. according to census figures sent out from Washington, Warren, Ohi< seems to carry the banner so far ir, making the biggest increase in popu lation the figures showing a gair

y there of one hundred and forty-four e and a fraction of a per cent. Some f. advance and we're not afraid to be' a new hat that Warren’s increase i. more than that made by Decatur, but a don't worry, watch us grow’ within 1 the next ten years. We’ll pass Fort f Wayne? We are pleased to say that a maI jorily of our merchants and busines. houses are good advertisers and they w ill convincft you that it pays, but r you fellows who haven’t had an add ! in the patter for six months or longe , s get busy and let the people of thi I community and the newcomers to . our city know that they can purchase i whatever they need and want in De catur. That’s one way to help make the town grow. The saying “small but mighty’’ is applicate to the little state of Dels

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ware that seems to hold the baly ance of power In determining wheth-, er the women will enjoy full suffrage this year. • It Delaware pusses ( , the amendment the women will haw? the right to vote tor the presidential ii electors at the coming election and right now interest is centered on this state but press reports say that . the legislature will not pass it. Dont ( i say Delaware to the women if such 1 I be the case. If the Decatur Public Library is;, kept open and it is sincerely hoped i that some arrangements can be made 1 to do this, local citizens or the ' Library Board will be forced to bor- 1 ■ow money for the operating extenses. There is no use arguing the idvantages derived from a public in- 1 titution of this kind, suffice to say hat it aids in providing a means of, ,

'ducation for both the young and >ld and if the doors are closed' ’or several months during the year it will be sadly missed. It’s a poor ax law which prevents the people 'rom appropriating their own money or the upkeep of an intitution of his kind and the voters will demand t change at the coming election. Dr. Carleton McCulloch, the demo-j' ratic candidate for governor, is not , i candidate of any special interest in , he state nor did he enter the race 1 hrough any coercion on the part of ny particular faction or group of 1 .ten. He stands pledged to serve the ( ixpayer and the public in general. , le is not radical on any issue and I relieves in safe and sound govern- * nent, administered in the interest 1 f the people as a whole. Being a uccessful business man and with I n enviable war record besides, I >.e at once gained recognition and I btained the endorsements of leading I itizens and democrats in the state. I le is worthy of every tribute paid I o him and. if nominated, will lead I he democratic party to victory this’ I all and will fight for the interests of I he people in general. I In view of the interest in cer- I ain parts of this county relative to I >rogress being made in Indiana in I onsolidation of the rural schools in- I o district schools we print the fol- I owing editorial from the Indianapo- I is Star: !

“Indiana is making a very creditable record in the improvement of its rural school facilities. The campaign for the consolidation of country schools, launched in 1890 but not well under way until the legislature had passed needed laws seven years later, has, resulted in the closing of 3,990 one-room schools in the state and the opening of 1,002 well-equip-j>ed and graded school buildings to take the places of the abandoned structures. It is reported that the average cost of the consolidated school building in Indiana is $20,287. Three hundred of those are in the country, 528 in villages and 135 in larger towns. Manual shop work is provided for in 234 buildings; 331 have home economics laboratories; 231 have agricultural laboratories and forty-nine have separate auditor iums for community gatherings. Tho average number of teachers at the Indiana consolidated schools is four and one-half. The little red school house had its place in the early history of the country, but its time is rapidly passing. In the nature of M such an institution, the one teacher H in charge of pupils of all ages and fl stages of educational progress could Mecca Theatre I TONIGHT

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not possibly do Justice to the children of the district. The modern conwiidated school makes possible grading of the work and the hiring of teachers especially equipped to teach in the various grades, Those who at tend the consolidated schools ar® ar forded substantially the same advantages as are provided in the schools of the cities but with such modifications ar are adapted to the requirements of residents in rural communities. It marks progress in rural education. iu which Indiana takes a leading position. It may not be feasible to do away with all the oneroom schools in the state. No doubt there are districts in which, due to physical conditions as to roads, nil s and the like, consolidation would be difficult. But in these days of rapid transit and good roads Indiana should approach much nearer than it has to the 100 per cent of efficiency that would mark the last practicable degreee of consolidation. An excel lent beginning has been made but there remains much to be accom plished." . • Adams county ranks as the seven ty-third county in the state in the progress of rural school consolida tion, there being four district schools

in the county.

TO REPRESENT DISTRICT Donald Badders of the Portland high school will represent this county in I the district contest conducted by the State High School Discussion League of Indiana, according.to announcement made by Ray K. Brubaker of the Pennville school, county chairman. The original plan called for a county contest of representatives from the various high schools in Jay countv, but Dunkirk, Redkey. New Mt. Pleasant. Bryant and Pennville are hot represented this year because of various

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