Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 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 Single Copies 3 cents One Week, liy carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier $7.50 One Mooth, by mail <6 cents Three Mouths, by mall $1.25 Six Months, by mail.? $2.25 One Year, by mall $4.00 One Year, at otllce $4.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Dociftnr, Indiana, as second-class matter Judge Thompson of Muncle, lined j the members of the grand jury who j recommended that he resign from the bench, declaring them guilty of contempt of court and his reasons sound fair and wise. It looks like another legal muddle for which Muncte has long been quite famous. It looks like a rainy, sloppy Christ-. mas, not just the kind preferred if j we could have our “ruthers,” but I let's take it with a smile anil remem- • her that the mild weather is a Godsend to many who cannot afford to buy fuel at the necessary high price. Let’s make the lights a little brighter inside, hand out Good Cheer to our own and to others and forget that the outside is not just ideal. After it' largely a condition of mind anil vro can control that considerably if we will. The Christmas number of Rave!- J ing the paper published by the j Decatur high school, is an attractive and interesting twelve page maga- { zinc, showing much work,, consider- i

—' 1 — ■ — —- J t - r What Have You Done To Help Those f ST ARVING IN EUROPE? Food can’t be had at any price. Uncle Sam, the great benefactor has solved the . problem by establishing throughout Europe, supply stations which distribute food on the presentation of FOOD CERTIFICATES We have them in denominations of any amount, that are worth their face value in good old United States money, when presented at one of these food stations. If you have* a friend in distress “over there” or desire to give general aid, come in and let us talk it over. We Can Assist You To Assist Others , OLD ABAMS COBSTY BAXK the: old reliable Capital and Surplus, $147,500.00 Resources, $1,833,579.62 I l 1A Christmas! PresentFori (The Family A protection for their health. A protection from the weather. You could not give them a more welcomed or more valuable gift and yet very inexpensive as one does for the whole family. Closed Tops made to fit: Overland—Touring and Roadster, M-90, M-4 and Wiilvs Knight. Ford—Touring and Roadster. Dodge—Touring and Roadster. Chevrolet—Touring. Maxwell—Touring. Essex—Touring. j 1 \ ’’ v G. R. HILEMAN, Dealer. i Wiltshire, Ohio. /

< * able ability and hidden talent that ! deserves development. The stories und editorials aro well written und , | every patron of the schools may , ■ spend a profitable hour in readiug it. ■ \Yt congratulate the stuff anil all , those who have assisted In getting out the best regular number of the Raveliugs up to date. Mr. Wirt, head of the Gary schools and recognized as one of the greatest school superintendents of the entire country, has his own views on the proposed changes in the Indiana school laws and expresses them in an open letter to Mr. Hines, the state superintendent. We all believe in good schools, just as good us we can make them without imposing toe great a burden but the indirect methods used by the men who are boosting this will never receive the whole hearted support of the people of the state. Indiana does not rank seventeenth und Mr. Wirt plainly shows why. Read and study both sides of this important question and 1 use your good judgment when the i opportunity is given. -» The Woman's Club of this city adopted a resolution favoring the appointment of a woman as a member of the building committee for the new county hospital and 'there is good reasoning in this. Would you build a home without consulting your wife or mother? If you did you would probably Have a queer looking house and one lacking many conveniences that would be most acceptable to the women who would have ~to conduct the home affairs. At least l the committee should have the advice of the women and this being true it seems- hut just to permit them to speak through a woman officially

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named on the committee. We do not believe lt is always best to name women to office, simply because tho law permits it but in many instances their services will be most valuable and in those cases lt certainly should be done. At least the suggestion from the Woman’s Club Is worthy of careful consideration. The emergency tariff bill reported Monday by the ways and means committee of the house Is already meeting with determined opposition. Six members of the committee, two of them Republicans, voted against the bill. There is, it seems, little chance of rushing it through the senate. it is not impossible that before the measure can become a law, tho j conditions that are supposed to make its passage necessary will have passed. That the bottom of the present business depression will be reached in the next thirty days is tho opinion of Archer Wall Douglas, chairman of the committee on statistics and standards of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. In his monthly report he says that "acute phases of the present depression will wear awqjv steadily as the public adjusts itself to changed conditions brought about by a return to normal,” and that "unfavorable agricultural conditions especially have an unexpected way of remedying themselves.” There is reason to fear that any action by congress to relieve any class will only have the effect of complicating and delaying the process of readjustment ami postponing the return to normal.” —Indianapolis News.

Wirt Against It ✓ (Continued from page one) force a lengthening of the term in the districts that have been bringing down Indiana's average. All of the items under the head of school expenditures will be affected materially by the lengthening of the average school term. Since in none of these items of school expenditures does Indiana,rank as low as in the length of school term, the increasing of the school term will undoubtedly place Indiana in the .front rank of 3tates educationally on the basis of Ayer’s rating. The securing of this legislation is one of the best thing's ever done by the state department. In order to maintain the present standard of city and town school systems on any plan of 75 per cent, state-wide support, the townships must increase their average tax levy for school purposes at least fifty (50) per cent. I doubt it this can be secured. In every single instance where the I financing of any educational program I is state-wide in its provisions the ac- 1 tlvity is starved. 1 •(For example) The present state law limits the salary of truant officer to two t 52.00) per day. There is every reason to believe I that under a state-wide support plan I that the total collected from taxes for j public schools would not be increased. Unless this total is increased you would have just as much leveling j f • \ down as leveling up. • The leveling down would do much more harm than the leveling up "will dp good. It would be most unfortunate to limit the educational opportunities offered in any section of the state to the type of school made possible by emphasis on the state-wide support. I do not believe that the state constitution intends that the per capita cost of the schools throughout the state should be unifirm. I do not believe that where*communities in the state are not able to support a minimum standard of schools should receive state aid as it is now provided by lay. If necessary all of the present state school fund could be used tor the purpose. When the present state levy is not sufficient to aid such coinmusitics to the extent that is necessary, it should be raised. - I do not object at all to the principle that tlie state as a whole is responsible for the education, of its children. But I do not object to the principle that the state of Indiana is to muke itimpossible for any if it;: citizens ,to j furnish in public schools a better education for their children than some I other child in the state is receiving. What constitutes equal educational opportunities? I was reared on a farm | attended a country school, and even j now take every opportunity to have imy children spend as much of their : time in the country as possible. I do 'not believe that the boy on the farm c ; needs the same sort of school that the j boy in the town needs, either from a j standpoint of length of term or curriculum. I The school is not the only factor

thut enters into the development of the child. Equal school facilities can not be secured by the same expenditure of money per pupil for public j schools. The purchasing power of money is no ulform over the stute. Your comparlßin of tax valuations of the several corporations in Indiana are in the main misleading, ifi that you do not list the responsibilities of the rcspectite taxing units alongside their taxing resources. No doubt our present system or taxation for support of schools could be materially Improved. For instance —there is no reason why a railroad running through a township should pay all of its taxes' into that particular township's educational fuud when the presence of the railroad does not increase the number of children to be educated iu the township. 1 believe that such property should 'be taxed by the state for state-wide ' purposes iu place of for local purposes. ' Indiana has never secured air equitable assessment of the property in the state. This would be absolutely necessary for the equitable operation on any state support plan. One of the principle difficulties in financing the schools in any coni i unity at pn en,. is the fact that all schools in that community have to he on the same deal level (basis). li» patrons of certain schools were able, to contribute personally to the support of their schools Jn addition to their taxes, 1 believe that the level of all schools would be raised —but then they would not be on the same level. The poorest schools would be better because of the principle of doing something for yourself in place of expecting some

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I one else to do something for you. The same principle works with com- ■ inanities as with individuals. ® have too much “dead level” now am should not make a bad situation . worse." Gary, Indiana, Nov. 10, 1920. Chile's Business Methods Changing. At present, according to a consului report, Chile is passing through a transition period as regards both advertising and merchandising. Mcth- ! oils borrowed from the United States are being adopted. 1 $ —$ —$—WANT ADS EARN—S-4—s MIS OF DIZZINESS ■ — Come to Hundreds of Decatur People There are days of dizziness Spells of headache, languor, back- | . ache ' Sometimes rheumatic pains Often urinary disorders. 1 Doan's Kidney Rills are especially for kidney ills. i Endorsed in Decatur by grateful , friends and neighbors. Ask your neighbor! ' Mrs. A. A. Ackers, prop, grocery . 927 N. 2nd St., Decatur, says: "Doan s Kidney I’ills have done me more . gobd than any kidney remedy I have ever used. My kidneys were weak and I often had severe backaches that made me miserable. I also had ■ frequent dizzy spells and would almost fall if 1 attempted to stoop. My kidneys didn't act right, either I used*t>O in’s Kidney Pills as directed and they helped me right away, relieving the backache and putting my kidneys in good order.” 60c. at air dealers. Koster-Milbura Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.

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TO HOL1) SERVICES AT ONION CHAPEL jjLjMifnwT—“ * . - '-H s V * Mr and Mrs E B. Cunningham of Noblesville, Indiana, will open t M 1,;,. meeting at Union Chapel, three miles east of Decatur, an EvangelisUcmeetlngaM Mr and Mrs . Cunningham, recommended and much good is expected to result front their services here. Mrs. Cunningham is a powerful preacher and Mr. Cunningham a. song leader of great merit. Bo sure to plan to hear them and to take part in these meetings.

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