Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1921 — Page 4

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The smelling committee adjourned and went home after Charles Dawes told them what the people thought about them ant! their tac-, tics. Now congress wants an accounting from President Wilson. He ought to employ Mr. Dawes to makb it for him in language that the average statesman seems to understand.. The railroads of Indiana have been granted another increase on freight and passenger rates that will make every one groan. The normal-' cy program seems to mean only those who really work, with protection for those interests on the inside of the organization. The people will not take kindly to this heavy boost on overhead at a time when every one is being asked to get back to earth. Senators Hugston and Furnace have introduced a bill providing a ?5,000 fine and fourteen years-in prison for the editor of a newspaper who

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'. says a word, good or bad, about a candidate for office. Evidently theae men expect to run for office and . want protection. The honest man is j not afraid of a little publicity but r -j the fellow with a past will no doubt ' favor this law und will urge that every editor be immediately locked up und kept there. — The impeachment proceedings i ; against Judge Landis will at least give that gentleman a lot of free advertising. of which he has already ' been favored second only to Henry Ford. Most people will probably ' think that if a United States federal I judge decides to go into the baseball business he ought to have the grace to step down and out from his high position on the bench, especially when offered a seven year contract at fifty thousand per. We are not very strong for this grandstand stuff.

The "blue law" wave now sweeping the country is dangerous for those who believe iu decent living in America. Fathered by cranks the movement has the earmarks of being supported by those who believe that if they make the good people be too good, it will react and the pendulum swing back to former standards. Sunday is a day for worship and for rest but this we do not believe means that one cannot eat a dish of ice cream, smoke a cigar, ride in his automobile or otherwise feel glad ho is living. There is such a thing as overdoing it and that’s always dangerous. Let’s just use good common sense. It’s so much better for every one.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921.

Field examiners for the state board of accounts recently completed an investigation of the affairs of the state highway commission. It was handed to Governor McCray, who road it carefully, looked wise and immediately locked it up. It has always been customary to make public reports of this department but evidently this one is not to bo given out unless some force is used to get it and if there was ever a report that ought to go to the people, this is the one. It has been claimed that a large part of the money raised by taxes and including the automobile taxes has been used for the paying of salaries to those who hold easy jobs and the charge ought to be proved or disproved by this report. Members of the legislature arc now asked to increase the appropriation and taxes for this department and they Certainly have the right to know what is being done with the money. They should demand the report and they should give it to the public. Let’s know where and’when and how they are spending the people's cash.

It is now practically certain that the Sheppard-Towner bill, the jjmithTowner bill, the France bill uud the Fess bill are dead, as far as the present session of congress is concerned. They called for the appropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars, at least 100,000 new federal employes, and such an inspiration, supervision ind control of the lives of citizens by federal authorities as could hardly have been imagined, had not the program actually been proposed, and very seriously considered. The moral is plain—it is also one that ought to be impressed on the people. A fewmonths ago it seemed certain that these bills would pass. The Shep-pard-Towner bill did pass the senate. All had been pressed by lobbies of organizations of one sort or another, and no voice in opposition was heard. The inference of statesmen anxious to cater for votes was that there was no opposition. At last, however, the people learned of the prpgram, and they were quick to see what it meant and involved. In a Washington dispatch it was said: Within the last month there has been a great awakening, and the senators and representatives have literally been deluged with protests against this sort of legislation.—lndianapolis News. TO U RNEYAT _ CHICAGO. Chicago, Feb. 17. —(Special to the Daily Democrat). —The National Interscholastic basketball championship will be held at the University of Chicago March 10 to 12. Teams from all sections of the country have the contest. Selection of the teams represent the different sections of the country will be made purely on the basis of records submitted. Teams having the best comparative records will be chosen.

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ANN! REPORT OF THE CITY TREISIRER FOR THE CITY OF I)R< ATI R. INDIANA. Receipt* Current Taxes $ 27,327.67 Interest on deposits..* 507.90 City court fines and fees 90.00 Poll tax 18.00 Billiard and pool license 26.00 Peddler license 40.00 Miscellaneous licenses .. 477.00 Miscellaneous receipts 8.53 Transferred from Special Judgement fund 770.82 Street and sewer repair fund 12.50 Total $ 29,278.42 Sinking fund $ 8,500.00 Special judgement fund 713.81 Electric light fund, including bond sale 105,896.45 Waterworks fund, including bond sale 29,201.76 Total receipts $173,620.47 Balance on hand. General fund, Dec. 31. 1919 9,817.06 Balance on hand. Electric fund. Dei. 31, 1919 4,555.69 Balance on hand. Waterworks fund. Dec. 31, 1919 1,813.20 Balance on hand. Sinking fund, Dec. 31. 1919 1.G81.32 Balance on hand, Special Judgement fund, Dec. 31 1919 2,041.32 Total net receipts $193,559.06 Less disbursements - 178,257.21 Balance bfi Ra’n<r ...‘ $ 15,301.85 DlMbiirNeuirntN Salaries’ of city officials $ 4,267.24 Stationery «and printing 560.58 Citv engineers office 934.96 Kent and fuel city building 348.2;> Deficit in bond improvement funds Health and charities - - C 45.00 Ppllce department—salaries and miscellaneous 2,41«i.35 Fire Department: Salaries ....* $3,290,00 New Apparatus .... 72.77 Repairs 188.48 3,551.25 Repairs to drinking fountains 24.35 Traveling expenses 69.05 Telephones and tolls - 280.39 Payment on city lots from General fund Payment on Noack judgement 162.35 Miscellaneous 952.94 Salary of street commissioner and labor on streets ... 4,263.89 Tools and materials on streets 458.24 Sewer construction and rep. 58.84 Certificates on N, 3rd St 2,721.66 $ 24.226.62 Sinking fund $ Special judgement .... ■2,014.83 Electric • light fund Waterworks fund 29,661.41

Total Disbursements $170.<1'10.93 Plus outstanding warrants 1,745.47 Pins amts, transferred front General fund to Light and Water fund . 5,100.00 Plus amt. transferred from Special Judgement fund to General fund 770.82 Total net disbursements $178,257.21 SUMMARY General Fund Bat. cash on hand Dec. 31, 191!) .» 9,847.00 Receipts — 29,278.4! 8~39.125.18 Disbursements .. 24,224782 8 11,898.86 Trans. 1o Electric Light and Water funds .— 5,100.00 $ 9,798.80 Less outstanding 1 warrants 86.20 Balance cash on hands, |r—e, Dec. 31. 1920 ... $ 9,730.06 Electric Light Fund Balance cash on bands Dee. 31, 1919 ... . $ 4.555.0'1 Receipts 105,896.4 u 8110,452.14 Disbursements 106,431.16 , . 8 4,020.98 Less outstanding warrants 1,537.45 Balance cash on hands. Dec. 31, >920 8 2,483.53 buirrnurk. Fund Balance cash on hands, Dee. 31, 1919 .8 1.813.20 Receipts 29,301.76 t 8 TTTjTiTno Disbursements 29,661.41 8 1,268.58 Less outstanding warrants 139.82 Balance cash on hands. Dee. 31, 1920 8 1,21173 Sinking Fund CaMi on hands, Dec. 31, '19..8 1,681.32 Receipts 8,500.00 8 40,181.32 Disbursements 8.307.50 Balance, cash on bands, Dec. 31, 1920 ...J 1,878.82 special Judgement Fuad Cash on hand Dec. 31, '19...8 2,041.32 Receipts 718.81 8 I 2,785'16 Disbursements 2,014.23 $ ' 770.93 J rahsforred to General fund by resolution 770.82 balance cash on hand*, Dec, .'II, 1920 . .. J ,11 Balance cash o!n hands. Dee. 31, 1920, in sill fluids 8 15,301.85 R. G. CHRISTEN, City Treasurer, S—S—S—WANT ADS EARN—»—$—S

BEATEN TO DEATH Two School Teachers Going Home Were Killed on Road Near Cleveland SHOT AND BEATEN Bodies Discovered by Fourteen Year Old Boy— Heads Were Crushed (United Preus Service* Cleveland, 0., Feb. 17. —(Special to Daily Democrat). —Two school teach ers were found shot and beaten to death on Bean road, about three miles from here, according to Cleveland police. The victims were Miss Mabie Foot, 24, and Mrs. Louise Wolf, 38. They were teachers in the Parma Center high school. A 14 year old boy on the way to school discovered the bodies, local police were told. The report stated that the heads of the women had been crushed, ft blood-stained club was found near the bodies. The victims were seen last, yesterday afternoQn, when they left the school for their homes.

A HEAVENLY ATMOSPHERE. There were eighty at the prayer service at the .United Brethren church last night and the most Heavenly atmosphere prevailed in the meeting. The members were all very active in their worship and seemed to feel as home in the very presence of their Heavenly Father. Many of the new members were there and a few from another denomination. There were two heads of a family taken in to membership, making fifty-one since conference in September. At the same hour Mr. O. P. Mills had Ijis; High School Bible student class in recitation in the basement, and after the two meetings were over, Mr. Mills directed the choir in practice. DECATUR METHODIST OUT The February number of th(P Deca-1 tur Methodist, a publication boosting, the interests of Methodism, and the good of the community in general, made its appearance today. It is a good, newsy sheet. and is worth the time spent in scanning its pages. CUT THIS OUT — IT IS WORTH MONEY — Cut out inis slip, enclose with 5c and mail it to Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield avenue, Chicago, Illinois, writing your name and address clearly. You I will receive in return a trial package I containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills for pains in sides and back; rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder ailments; j and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic for constipation, biliousness, headaches, and sluggish bowels. ("old everywhere. |

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