Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1921 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Alioelate Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor SubscWptlon Rates Cash In Advance Single Copies 3 cents One Week, by carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier 17.50 One Month, by mail 46 cents Three Months, by mail $1.25 Six Months, by mail $2.25 Ono Year, by mail $4.00 >ee Year, at office $4 00 Advertising rates made known on Application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. After a Sunday that reminded us of the good old summer time, comes rain and colder weather and a pre-1 « diction of a cold wave which reminds ! Zus of the old saying “If the frogs ~ croak before Easter, they will look — through glass windows before sum- * mer.” “ Taxpayers petitioning for improved “ reads and public buildings should ~ take into consideration that the ac- ” tual cost of brick and mortar, stone M and gravel is not all that must go ** into the improvement these days of high finance. Selling the bonds with — which to pay the bills is some job, - and when a contractor is forced to pay a nice little bonus to have the « bonds taken over, he must, of necessity, get it at the other end of the - deal —*nd that is where the taxpayer comes in. Money is scarce now, and bonds are nnt bringing par by a long « shot.—Bluffton Banner . Z Dr. Samson made an eloquent appeal to the people of this community for a sane observance of the Sabbath and declared that the blue law campaign was instigated by enemies of ■ the church who hope to so overdo the work as to cause a reaction and he is no doubt right for he has been engaged in the work for years and knows much about the campaign so far as the church is concerned. The blue laws as advocated by some would certainly cause a rebellion among the people who feel they still | have the right to live and breath, even on Sunday. Bert Taylor, better known to the public as "B. L. T.” editor of the linotype or two column of the Chicago Tribune, was buried today and with him passes that feature for he was a character unique and without successful imitators. Aside from the humor of his paragraphs one could

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always find a thought that was big! enough to make one think. He was not only funny but fearless und cynl- . cal and while his thoughts as expressed were not always iu line with ■ the editorial comment of his paper. “ they were worth reading and he will be missed by hundreds of thousands of readers over the land. An epidemic of mild smallpox is i sweeping over the country and there are few communities in which cases | cannot be found. So light are many of these that in many instances the | person having this once dreaded disease scarcely knows he is ill and as a consequence the ailment is spread to others. There is a sure way ot fighting it and that is by vaccination ■and in some places general orders 'requiring this protection have been (issued by officials. Along this line the following from today's Chicago Tribune should be of interest: ‘•The health department report issued yesterday showed more persons have been vaccinated during the last three months than during a like per iod in twenty years. 'One of the most encouraging features of the work has been the splendid co-operation of the business men of 4he city,’ the statement continues. “They have evidently realized that vaccination against smallpox is a protection in business and trade of every kind. Vaccination as a means of control of smallpox has been tried for more than a hundred years. It has never failed when properly done. It is the only means of preventing smallpox; the only way in which every one can be protected against it.’ ” “Truth About The Blue Laws” (Continued from page one) or later suffer a breakdown, of their mental, physical and spiritual self." said Dr. Samson. The speaker told of the time when Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy, issued an order during the war to the effect that seamen in the navy should be given one day's rest in seven as far as possible for “it is not only a religious duty but an industrial neces- : sity,” Mr. Daniels said. The speaker quoted Dr. Henry Van- ! Dyke, late ambassador to the Netherlands, who shortly after the signing of the armistice said: “The preservation of the Lord’s day for the higher and nobler ends of man is among the most important of the after war issues which the world must face.” Attention was directed to the command to “remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.” “It is a divine institution which was established at creation, demanded of the patriarchs, incorporated in the decolog. emphasized by the pro-

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Do you know why it's toasted To seal in the delicious Burley tobacco flavor. LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE phets and apostles, and also confirmed by Jesus Christ when on earth, who declared: ‘‘The Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.’ This divine institution has never been repealed, but is perpetual and universal in its obligation. "Special attention should be given to the ‘holy’ aspect of the command. The tendancy of the times is to make it a holiday rather than a ‘holy’ day. “The remembrance is important for physical reasons. It meets an urgent demand in our being for release from the drain and strain of ceasless toil. Experience and history testify as to its value. “But we are spiritual beings. God made us immortal. The Sabbath is essential for spiritual interests and cultivation. That is vital because the spirit of man dominates the mind and flesh. “Besides being a divine institution and a human necessity it is an American institution. Civil Sabbath laws are found in the constitution and in the statutes of forty-seven states. Their existence is the basis of the Supreme court declaration in 1892 in the Holy Trinity case, that ‘This is a Christian nation.’ “If the foregoing is true, is it ungodly, inhuman and un-American to attempt to destroy this institution. There is an effort to this end. Those who would give us the ‘Continental Sunday’ are enemies to our American civil Sabbath. The speaker charged that this effort was being led by the motion picture producers of the country. In conclusion he said: ‘‘Where there is no Christian Sabbath there is no Christian morality, and without this free institutions cannot be sustained.” Dr. Samson also said that if the American people will continue to persist in desecrating the Sabbath they will lose their American morale. The observance of Sunday is not an optional matter but is in accordance with the laws and covenant and a part of our national life and being and it is for this purpose that the National Reform association, is facing this commercialized greed. The speaker is advocating no.new laws on the subject, but is speaking in defense of.the laws now on the statue books. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT Pleaso announce my name as a candidate for the nomination for mayor on the democratic ticket, subject to the decision of the primary election to be held May 3, 1921. 63-ts CHAS. N. CHRISTEN.

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♦ DOINGS IN SOCIETY ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ft Club Calendar MONDAY. Woman's Club—Postponed. TUESDAY. Thimble club —Mrs. Carl Pumphrey. WEDNESDAY. Shakespeare Club — Mrs. C. C. Schafer. THURSDAY. Root Township Home Economics Club —Mrs. Charles Gage. SATURDAY. Easter Cake and Candy Sale — Schmitt Meat Market. The Shakespeare club will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. C. C. Schafer. Mrs. Frank France will have the paper. Her subject will be, “Diplomats of the Allied Countries." • * Mrs. C. Gillig and Mrs. Rosa Schum will be guests of Emma Gast of Celina, Ohio, over Easter. * Miss Ora Weber of Indianapolis is a guest of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Wai Wemhoff, of North Fifth street. ♦ Mrs. Charles Gage will entertain the members of the Root Township Home Economics club Thursday afternoon. Every member ot the club is ipvlted. ♦ The Woman’s society of the Baptist church will meet with Mrs. John Chronister on West Monroe street. Mrs. Shamp will have the missionary program. • There will be given an Easter cake and candy sale at the Schmitt Bros, meat market, March 26, 1921. This will be given by section ncniber one of the U. B. Indies’ Aid society. ♦ The meeting of the Tri Kappa sorority which was to have been held Tuesday evening, will be held a week from Tuesday with Miss Naomi Meyer, on North Fifth street. ♦ Thirty friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Schafer of Winchester street gave them a pleasant surprise Friday evening at their home in honor of Mrs. Schafer’s birth anniversary. A.' splendid luncheon, consisting of sandwiches, pickles, salads, coffee, cakes and pies was served, and the evening was mo-st pleasantly spent in a social way. Don’t forget the combination sale at the First street barns next Saturday afternoon at one o’clock. It’s a good chance.

ADOPT AN ORPHAN Mr. and Mrs. Otto Peters, Fort Wayne, Take Charles Rice as Their Son / . INJURED IN ACCIDENT Carried Into Drug Store and Mr. and Mrs. Peters Became Attached to Lad A special to the Indianapolis News from Fort Wayne announces the adoption by Mr. and Mrs. Otto Peters, former Decatur residents, of a four-teen-year-old boy, Charles Rice. The adoption came about in a peculiar way, the lad having figured in an accident, and was carried into the Peters drug store. The dispatch to the News says: “Two weeks ago Charles Rice, age fourteen, was an inmate, of the Allen county orphanage. He is Charles R. Peters today and has a good home and foster-parents. An accident proved the medium through which Charles won his good fortune. “Charles was sent on an errand for the matron of the children’s home. On his way back he started to cross South Broadway, at a point near Savilla avenue. As he stepped from behind an interurban car, an automobile struck him and hurled him to the paVement. “Passersby carried him into the drug store of Otto Peters. Peters called a physician. The principal injury was a long scalp gash over the left eye. Although the cut required a number of stitches, ,the plucky youngster never uttered a whimper during the painful procedure. “Peters was impressed by the boy’s unusual courage and Mrs. Peters also became almost instantly attached to him. They have no children of their own, and, when they learned that Charles was an orphan, it did not take them long to decide to adopt him.” Mr. Peters is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peters, former residents of this city, and Mr. Peters is a sister of Fred Jaebker, former assistant cashier at the First Natonal bank, her parents residing at Preble *•

EASTER SOCIAL The Young Ladien’ club of the Bobo M E. church will hold an Easter social in the basement of the Bobo school house March 26. 1921. There will be a bazaar und plenty of good euts, Come and enjoy a good time with us. Welcome. ’ 68-tfi * NO MORE DANDRUFF f A leading hair dresser says she has found nothing us good as Parisian Sage to banish all dandruff and make the hair wavy, thick and lustrous. Holthouse Drug company sells it on money back plan. “THE IRON RIDER" One of the most intensely dramatic photodramas that it has been our pleasure to see for some time will be shown at the Crystal theatre tonight, featuring William Russell in “The Iron Rider." The suspense grips one at the very outset and increases in tensity as the picture progresses. In our view this photodrama contains enouzli interesting entanglements to make half a dozen ordinary pictures. Russell’s leading woman is pretty Vola Vale. The ;>trture concerns a young lum her company foreman in a lawless town, who takes the oath of the Iron Rider band, organized thirty years before by his father, in order to put down lawlessness. His difficulties and perils are serious, and the girl he loves is the daughter of the sheriff—the latter being in league with thei lawbreakers. How the boy clears himself in the > eyes of his father of a supposed violation of his oath as an Iron Rider, escapes being lynched by a mob. and finally brings harmony to discordant elements that seem to defy human means, is startingly told. Admission, ten and fifteen cents.

NOTICE Notice to property owners owing me for the construction of the Elm street sewer and branches that I have left the matter with Merryman & Sutton for collection and they are empowered to make settlement for any one so desiring to settle. While 1 admit these calims are out-lawed. but not as to a lien against these properties pnd the only way out would be by quiet title suit and this in many cases would amount to more than the assessment. The sewer is as good as any ever built and has so proven and some enterprises could not exist without it, but still refuse to pay. JOHN S. BOWERS, Contractor. Also the list of names to a contract signed by many to help pay for the abuse of our stone roads are subject to and same tolerated by our authorities in charge of letting contracts are violated in quality of stone and in many cases, slighted in construction and I as a tax payer of Root and Washington townships protest to using any material outside of that sonamed in contract and will enjoin anyone violating his contract. JOHN S. BOWERS. BEHER THAN CALOMEL 1 • Thousands Have .Discovered Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets Are a Harmless Substitute Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets are the result of Dr.' Edwards’ determination not to treat liver and bowel complaints with calomel. For 17 years he used these tablets (a vegetable compound mixed with olive oil) in his private practice with great success. 4 They do all the good that calomel does but have no bad after effects. No pains, no griping, no injury to the gums or danger from acid foods—yet they stimulate the liver and bowels. Take® Dr. Edwards’ Olive* Tablets when you feel ••logy’ , and “heavy,” Note how they clear clouded brain and perk up the spirits.

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