Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 308, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1920 — Page 4

. DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlzhed 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 Rate* Cash In Advance Single Copies 3 cents One Week, by carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier 17.50 One Month, by mail 45 cents Three Months, by mall $1.25 Six Months, by mail.. $2.25 One Year, by mail $4.00 One Year, at office $4.00 Advertising rates made kiown on application. Entered at tho posloffiee at Dera tnr, Indiana, as second-class matter Resolve to roll up your sleeves and start the New Year with a firm determination to lick all opposition and meet every obstacle. We will nee 1 real .pluck and courage and persevercnce and hustle to win. And one of the regrets we must S-face with the new year is the fact that we must go through a sixty day session of the legislature, with its freak bills, its crooked lobyists, its political pulls and all the other things that have become a “bogey" for the Indiana tax payers. • Hon. Joseph Walker who relins st; y repn t entative from this county today has a record of service most worthy ami worthwhile. He has filled the place for four years and iias faithfully attended two regular and tw ■ special sessions. His vote has always been cast for the people and as a real representative of the citizens of Adams county. He has advanced by his services as representative and his friends wish for him many happy New Years. ♦ Hon. Thurman Gottschalk who will represent Adams county in the 1921 session of the Indiana legislature is showing the proper spirit in . n; ii in.’ t > n ■et tho e inti rested in the work of that body. He will . ‘ be here Monday afternoon to consult with the people and to get their <' ideas of what they wish hint to do. ' (. Realizing that he is the people’s ser/r vaut he will make an honest effort to represent you and he is entitled to your assistance and your conft- . dence. ‘i -4 Will Hays seems to be the favorite ;• . for postmaster general and his apr y pointment means efficiency in that Ai department as well as a perfectly or..v, ganized political machine. When a politician gets the machinery of the postoffice department with its several hundred thousand employes in his ’ hands and knows how to use it, he has the greatest agency in this country to distribute propaganda and socure reports and no one will dispute • ' the fact that the Indiana deacon knows the game hud usually gets results. That’s perhaps the secret of i Sull- -in boy heir »tin Harding slate. —T™ ! = Today we turn the last page of the sA’ ’ year 1920 and tomorrow we start upon iy. a new and clean book. The past year has been morp than the usual strenuous one with its high cost of living, its many turns in the business tide and its ups and downs, but avciaged up it has not been so bad at that. Decatur and Adams i olmty ■'*' Lave gene forward a step. What does r, the future hold? It depends largely fe upon the efforts we iii;i|ta. ..J—*’ — ■•’l • I |-1«| I S S I ’ i l | OLD Aiis » | THE v ' j * ■

' knowledge anti without fear of the scrutiny of the state board of accounts or their fellow citizens. We wish for . them continued success and long ,i lives. Wo have before us the Congressional directory of the present sq'ssion of the congress, and while much I like all previous publications of the ! sort, it contains one intensely interi esting feature. In the midst of the autobiographies of the United State* 1 senators we find that of a man who has been tried by a jury of his peers and found guilty of a crime against the slate, it is not often that a convicted criminal awaiting his sentence to the penitentiary is thus honored. Hut as we peruse the autobiography, along with the others, we observe nothing to indicate that he differs in any wise from his colleagues. Os coufse that is not true but it does seem the senate's sense of self-respect would impel it tc the speedy purging of itself. — Fort Wayne Journal-Ga-zete. 1 It i.- easy to make campaign promises but often difficult to carry them out and those republicans who aroused the people by frequent references to the income, excise and luxury tax now b in;- used to gather in the money with which to pay the war debt and who | have been trying to solve the problem of how they can get this money, keep up our credit and still do it painlessly, find “there ain't no sieh animal." There never was nor never will belt popular tax law for those who must pay and it is easy to criticize any law made by man. This practice was followed by the republican politicians; the last year and now it's up to them. Ito make a better one if they can. Even now we read reversals of opinions from leading citizens and “brightest minds” indicating that perhaps this canot be done. The sales tax will i-rove unpopular, perhaps more so than did the excess profit instrument and after all the debt has to be paid. Why not do it, openly, honestly and fair? GLOOMY DEAD SEES LITTLE HOPE FOR OLD ENGLAND (By Webb Miller, United Press staff correspondent) London —(By Mail) —Going! Going! Gone! That's England, according to Dean I Inge, who lives up to his reputation for “gloom” in a lecture on "Eugenics and Religion.” Discussing the birthrate, the decrease of the middle classes and the increae of the lower, Dean Inge deplored the fact that the best stock was 1 ing taxed to bring up the worst. “Our best stock is being crushed out of existence. ... 1 don’t see any future for my own class. Politicians take no interest in race improvement. They believe, naturally, that the unborn have no votes.” The dean declared that it was the anti-scientific temper, which was rampant today, that was the enemy of en- , genics. “The nation,” he said, “especially the government, behave as though the nation has come into a huge fortune through the war. We have no great ' men of any description today—wheth--1 er statesmen, scientists, poets, pro--1 phets or philosophers. [ “ have faith in the old proverb that tilings refuse to be mismanaged for a long time. It is certainly true that we are breeding from our worst stock 1 and the best is being crushed out of < existence.” j He pointed out that during the nine teentli century the middle-class gov- - i governed — imposed the lid them and took care Ivaste. The accumulate 1 ■country becam.e prodig- ■ the end of the century ■the hands of the tin ml anti-eugenic legislauejn afford to make the ro comfortable and the ■Continued to have good for them. great war has brought tftaxation. The goose i»-n eggs is having its 3 this moment. Before Vo a thinly disguised fisc scraps of paper lion’s debts are inill mean the dis<s tax-paying class I the masses who have to tax themeall the tune will >r. be very poor and x Wrbaiized.” K

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1939

ARE PERFECTING PLANS Officers of the I. F. F. A. have been I rapidly perfecting details of the new federated marketing service of Indiana which is intended to foster and guide tho cooperative commercial ac-l tivities of all local farm organizations in the state. In this they have had the active assistance of the officers of the Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ association of Indiana and of the Indiana I state grange. Full co-operation and| participation of the benefits of the service is extended to all other farm-1 ers’ organizations in,the state and it! Is the intent of the federation to be of | service to all. The farmers’ requirements for fer-1 tilizers for spring use will be handled in a large way by the marketing service and prices and information are now being collected and will be available for distribution at an early date. Managers, secretaries and purchasing agents of local organizations —many of whom have been transacting business on a co-operative basis heretofore are arranging to pool the orders of all of their members in accordance with instructions already sent out. It is claimed that tho system will simplify the selling problem of manufacturers and lessen tho cost of placing orders and of subsequent distribution. ANOTHER BOND The Royal Neighbors’ lodge is the latest to report the subscription of a five-dollar health bond from the Christmas seal chairman, W. Guy Brown. Tlie report of the chairman will show most gratifying results for the city of Decatur in the purchase of these bonds. Don't fail to come to Miss Mary Heavilon’s Big Free Cooking School Monday afternoon at two o'clock in the lower room of the Public Library, Third street. F-S

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A Happy New Year This is my grueling io the merchants, manufacturers, shippers and patrons of lhe (.lover Leaf in this community and I mean it from lhe bottom ol my heart. Therefore, I have resolved to work harder during 1921 to assist and accomodate you, one and all and I ask your cooperation. I am more than grateful lor lhe support given me as agent ol lhe Clover Leaf railway in Decatur during the past year and hope Io ’ be able to render such service during the coming year as Io warrant your continued confidence. May the New Year be a Happy and Prosperous one for you and yours. S. E. SHAMP Local Agent ('.lover Leaf Railway

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