Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 164, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1920 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Exoept Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE. Amo elate Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single Copies 3 cents One Week, by carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier 37-50 One Month by mail 45 cents Three Months by mall 31.25 Six Mouths by mall 12.25 One Year by mail.... 34.00 One Year at office 34.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: The democratic national convention in San Francisco, in nominating Assistant Secretary of tire Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt for the office of vice president, has paid a merited „ i tribute to an American citizen whose loyalty to his country is incontestable and whose ability is not questioned. Mr. Roosevelt is a vigorous type of man, able in public office and' a genuine believer in democracy. His record is brilliant and he possesses the astuteness of mind and the genius for service that will make him everywhere. As assistant secretary of the navy he has come into national prominence, following a creditable career in New York, his birthplace. A lawyer by profession, Franklin D. Roosevelt is a keen observer of national needs and he has applied to the conduct of his office the wholesome influence which a man in the prime of life, vigorous and aggressive naturally would give. Mr. Roosevelt represented the United States naval office in the conference in Europe touching affairs of his office, and he bore himself with a distinction and credit that brought, him great praise from the allied statesmen. But it was not necessary for Mr. Roosevelt to have gone abroad to receive the recognition of, his capabilities. His record for achievement in every pubgc office atl home is distinctly laudable. His place on the democratic national ticket affords the members of bis party adequate opportunity to witness a further step in the procession of events which mark his personal career. Thoroughly American,, and a staunch believer in every | movement designed to intensity the I love for America on the part of the . foreign born, Franklin D. Roosevelt has proved the friend of the alien in the United States. In the vigor of young manhood Mr. Roosevelt comes before his fellow citizens as a genuinely clean cut representative of a family whose name and public service record are synonomous with fidel-1

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f Ry to lofty Ideals and earnestness in behalf of great principles. —Dayton Dally News. ■ At a meeting of the Old Home - Week committee last evening It was r unanimously agreed to employ a dec orating concern for the purpose of decorating the streets and crossings i and the business houses during Old • Home Week and the Northern Indi- * ana Fair. Every business house . will be asked and Is expected to deei orate, the city should be "dressed up" i for the visitors. A small fund, not 1 over five hundred dollars will be raised this week among the business men to help defray part of the expenses? including the cost of decorating the streets and crossings, the securing of budges for the visitors, the employ ing of one or two stenographers to take charge of the registering of the Home-comers and other incidental expenses that the committee feels should be paid by the Old Home Week committee. The cost of decorating your store building will be small and every wide-a-wake place of business will be "dressed” for the occasion. Now for making Old Home Week a great success. The governor of Vermont, a republican, whom Harding, the bashful front porch candidate, called into consultation relative to having the Vermont governor take some actioi], on the woman suffrage amendment, thereby enfranchising the women, has annotfheed that he will not call a special session of the legislature for that purpose. Is the Vermont governor acting on the advise of Harding', j No statement has ever been made to the contrary and it looks as if Hard ing does not want the women to vote this November. He evidently feels that the majority against him on November 2nd will be large enough with out the woman vote. You can’t imagine Boise Penrose wanting the women to vote and Harding must do as the sick man dictates. The special session of the legisla ture will try to pass a law preventing the taxpayers from getting a refund in their taxes which the supreme court has decided must be returned to them, the court holding that the tax board commissioners had no right to place the horizontal increases on property after they were assessed for their true cash value. Property owners in Decatur are entitled to a thirty per cent rebate and if the legislature succeeds in passing a law which prevents the auditor from makI ing this refund they are robbing the 1 taxpayers of just that much money, i And this legislature is liable to do anything in view of the republican; majority and what has been done- . heretofore.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, JI LY, 13, 1920. ,

Governor Goodrich's failure to call a special election in four districts in Indiana, formerly represented by democrats, tor the purpose of electing representatives to the special session of the legislature leaves approximately three hundred thou sand people without representation. And you remember what our forefathers did when they were taxed and not represented in the government controlling them. "Taxation without representation is tyranny” and the cause is no different now than before the Revolutionary War. The republicans have full sway at this special session and if it proves to be another failure they can’t put the blame on the minority. Hundreds of replies to the invitations sent to former Decatur and Adams county residents to attend Decatur’s Second Old Home Week and the big Northern Indiana Fair during the week of August 9th are being received. Visitors from all part of the country are coming and every citizen of this community should get the Old Home Week spirit and help make the week the great success that it promises to be. Decatur is noted for its hospitality and surely we are not going to be selfish during the week of the big celebration. Senator Harry New, Sr.,‘has been placed in charge of the republican speaking bureau during the campaign, which is just another rebuke and a stinging slap at Albert J. Beveridge and the Progressives. The “old guard” surely is determined to keep things in their own hands and it is doubtful if Beveridge will be booked for a speech during the campaign. As an orator Beveridge is far superior to either Watson or New and in brains he is a shining light compared to the two politicians.

The attorney’s approval of the six-ty-five thousand dollars worth of bonds, issued by the City of Decatur for the improvement of the Water and Light plant, is being held up in face of the supreme court’s decision on the tax law. It is feared that the bonds may not sell in view of the present conditions in the tax affairs of the state and if such be the case, Decatur cannot improve the Municipal plant and keep faith with its new factories. What a shame to have such a tax law. The farmers have registered their ■ complaint with the special session of the legislature against the horizontal ‘ax increase placed on their property uid rightly so, for the supreme cotir: ms held that these increases are unjust, that the tax commissioners had no right to “tack on” the extra five, ten or thirty per cent after their property was assessed at its full cash value. Every taxpayer is entitled to a refund. His taxes would then be equalized. The supreme court, composed of four republicans and one democratic member, in making its decision on the horizontal tax increases placed on the property in Indiana by the tax board, held that this unjust charge must be refunded to the taxpayers. In justice it should be. Now tie special session of the legislature is trying to pass a law legalizing he increases which is just another vay of robbing the taxpayer. The signers for the seven 1 indred Chautauqua tickets have disp sed of nearly every one of them and indications are that this year’s Chai auqua will enjoy the best attenda ce of any ever held. It should.be. Tle five day program ‘is far superior o any that has ever been given in ecatur and those who will attend v 11 get their money's worth. The C autauqua opens two weeks from t< ay. Indications are that the proposed third party of the committee of “48” may split and instead of ha ing a third pajty there will be five or six or a dozen. Radicals cannot agree and the best evidence showing the proposed new party is composed of men of the radical type is the grooming of Senator LaFollette as the parj ty’s presidential nominee. That is i where LaFollette belongs. ,

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he arrives in Decatur for Old Home Week. Make the visitors feel welcome. get the spirit and the celebration will be a great success. If Decatur is gaits decorated for Old Home Week the thousands of visitors cannot but help to get a good Impression of the town, of Rs pro gressivi ness and hustling business men. You need not bother about decorat-1 ing your place of business for Old Home Week—a man will be employed to do it for you. The cost will be small. Everybody get the Old Home Week spirit und muke the week a great success. PEST OF PLANT LIFE Indianapolis, July 13.—Several speI vies of plant lice are affecting flowers, ' trees and garden plant life and serious damage may result to tomato and po- | tato vines if control measures are not employed, Frank N. Waillace, entomologist under the department of conservation, says after a survey of conditions throughout the state. The lice suck the juices from tomato the “spud” vines -causing the 1 plants to wilt. The lice also secrci j a substance known as honey dew i which attracts bees and when par- ■ taken of ruins for edible purposes the I ' honey crop. The state entomologist, recommends this pest be controlled byspraying with a solution consisting of one ound of fish oil soap mixed in 6 ; gallons of water, or one fluid ounce of nicotine sulphate to t> gallons of I water. HUNDREDS OF WOMEN I nowadays are entering the professions lor business world and go to work day i after day in bad health, afflicted with I some female ailment, dragging one foot wearily after the other, working with an eye on the clock, and wish- . ing for closing time to come. Women in this condition should take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs. It has brought health and happiness to more women in America than any other remedy. Give it a trial.

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