Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1921 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT PublUhsd Ev«ry 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, by carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier 17.50 One Month, by mail 45 cents Three Months, by mall $1.26 Six Months, by mail $2.25 One Year, by mail $4.00 Jxie Year, at office $4.00 Advertising rates made known on Application, Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. IT MIGHT BE WORSE: — If anyone still is lamenting the recent payment of income tax and feels that the exactions of the federal government are excessive it may prove a bit comforting to compare our rates with those imposed by the British government. The small-sal-aried individual here does not pay a heavy tax, but not so those living under the British flag. In Britain the system is somewhat complicated, but an illustration will show the difference. An Englishman having an income the equivalent of $2,500 and having no unusual exemptions will pay a tax of $506.25. Here he would pay S6O. In view of this comparison it would seem entirely appropriate and not at all Pharisaical to feel thankful that we are not as the British are. In the instance cited the British subject would pay more than 20 per cent of his income, while an American would pay but 2.4 per cent. A man with a wife and minor children would pay a less percentage on the same income, but in all instances it would be much in excess of what we pay. It is true, probably, that we know little of burdensome taxation compared with what is endured not only by the British, but by other nations of western Europe also. We complain that the government dips into our incomes that seem all too, small to meet our wants, but we should be thankful that we do not live across the Atlantic. We might have expert knowledge on the subject of taxation such as we should not desire. No tax is entirely agreeable, but it is easier to pay a small tax than a large one. Henry Ford makes Fords and millions. He also runs a weekly newspaper called the Dearborn Independent. For a couple of years that paper had a difficult time and a small circulation. Then the editor attacked the Jews and they retaliated by filing law suits and refusing him loans The circulation jumped to over 300,000 and the fight grew. Recently because of the influence of Jewish business men, ordinances were passed in a number of cities suppressing the sale of the paper and arrests were made. The principal of such a law is un-American whether we sym-

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pathize with the movement or not for under such a theory, a democratic council could suppress a republican paper and vice versa. Those attack- , ed have the right to use the courts for redress but no community should stand for u law or an order which suppresses publication of newspapers because of expression of opinions, i It's dangerous. __________ The sixty-seventh congress conven- ' ed today and tomorrow President Harding, following Mr. Wilson’s example, will appear before a joint session to read his message. The new tariff law designed to aid the big manufacturer, will be one of the outstanding battles for legislation and while we can't see how it will help any at this time when foreign conditions make a tariff unnecessary from any point of view, it will be refreshing to have congress really trying to do something. Changes in the tax laws, a budget system and other legislation is also to be recommended. At the meeting of the Decatur Industrial Association next Monday night representatives of the farmers of Adams county will present their purposes and in turn they will be given the ideas of the members of the industrial organization. This is a real getting together and should result in progressive steps which will rebound to the benefit of both associations. The way to progress is such matters is to meet and talk things over. If every township and town in the county will organize community clubs similar to that now so popular in Kirkland township and then exi change pumbers on the program, it i will go a long ways towards cement--1 ing a more friendly feeling between j neighbors and town and country folks. Many times we misunderstand each other. Really our interests are identical and there are many ways I in which we can help one another. ___________, — If the sixty-seventh congress doesn't do more than the sixty-fifth and sixty-sixth, about the only thing of interest will be the size of the appropriations. LEGION NOTICE Don't forget the regular meeting tonight at the G. A. R. hall. Business session promptly at 7:30, open session with lecture on Vocational Training at Bp. in. Mr. Harry C. Travelbee of South ®end will speak on this subject and all ex-service persons whether members of the Legion or not are cordially invited and requested to be present. JOS. C. LAURENT. Adjt. ♦— » TO STOP FALLING HAIR You can easily clean your head of dandruff, prevent the hair falling out and beautify it, if you use Parisian i Sage. Holthouse Drug company sells it with guarantee to return price if : not satisfactory. “The Heart of a Child." featuring NAZIMOVA at the Mecca tonight and tomorrow. It

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woatetw LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE (g) LINGERIE SHOW SURE TO INTEREST WOMEN If Eileen Percy is vain on any subject (which is unlikely) it surely must be on the subject of lingerie. How do we know? Well, that is a secret; but those who are interested in lingerie —and what woman is not? —will have an oportunity to find out. by seeing the models that Miss Percy displays in her latest William Fox farce comedy, “Why Trust Your Husband?’’ which will show at the Crystal theatre tonight. Miss Percy in this picture reveals lingerie of the finest and daintiest materials, and peeping from trunks and strewn about her boudoir are many exquisite examples which will be appreciated by all women. Also the Fantomas serial. “THE HEART OF A CHILD”

Nazimova, the screen's greatest actress, conies to the Mecca theatre tonight and tomorrow in a picture of Frank Danby’s most celberated novel, The Heart of a Child.” In this, her newest production, the Russian star appears in a character entirely different from any she has essayed in the past, that of Sally Snape, a cockney girl from the Limehouse district of London who is forced to face the world with no oth er means of protection than her innate goodness, her inborn sense of what is right, her child's heart. There is in “The Heart so a Child" a gorgeousness of pictorial beauty. The early teeement-street scenes are done with amazing fidelity to detail, yet created with an eye to the picturesque that brings their shabbiness to border on the quaint. Such later bits of the story as the Bohemian revel, the theatrical dressing-room scenes, the glimpses of Lord Kidderministers’ hunting lodge, with its manorial dignity, and later the superb beauty of his family estate all go to make up a series of strikingly pleas ing scenes. NAZIMOVA, the incomparable at the Mecca Theater tonight and tomorrow. It Mrs. Means Dead (Continued from page one) Funeral services will be held Tuesmother. 'Mrs. Luella Erwin. Crescent day afternoon at the home of the avenue. Fort Wayne, at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will be at Lindenwood cemetery. A number of the friends and relatives will attend.

+ POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ♦ + + + + + + + + + 4'4> + # + + + Please 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. Please announce my name as a can | didate for the democratic nomination ! for city clerk, subject to the decision of the voters of the primary, fliesdav, May 3, 1921. JOHN H. SCHULTZ. Please announce my name as a candidate for mayor of the city of Decatur, subject to the decision of the democratic primary to be held Tues'day, May 3, 1921. HUBER M. DeVOSS. Please announce my name as a candidate for the democratic nomination for city clerk, subject to the decision of the democratic primary to be held Tuesday. May 3, 1921. JOHN B. STULTS. Please announce my name as a candidate for mayor of the city of Decatur, subject to the decision of the democratic primary election to be held May 3, 1921D. D. COFFEE. You are authorized to announce my name as a candidate for clerk of the , city of Decatur, subject to the de- j cision of the democratic primary elec-[ tion. to be held Tuesday. May 3rd. I CATHERINE E. KAUFFMAN.

♦ DOINGS IN SOCIETY ♦

Club Calendar MONDAY. Delta Theta Tau Sorority—Vlrgine | Smith. Pythian Sisters' Needle Club —K. of i P. home. TUESDAY. Thimble Club—Mrs. Wai Wemhoff. W. C. T. U.—Mrs. Martin Beery. Catholic Ladies of Columbia—K. of C. Hall. Zion Refornred Men—Rev. R. El | liker. Otterbein Guild — Miss Gertrude| Chronister. WEDNESDAY. So-Cha-Rae—Miss Cecil Miller. Shakespeare Club — Mrs. Htlen Blossom. THURSDAY. Evangelical Loyal Workers — Mrs Roy Cliffton, South Third Street. U. B. Work and Win Class — Mr. and Mrs. Levi Strahm. Reformed Phoebe Bible Class—Mrs. Edgar Gerber. U. B. Ladies' Aid — Mrs. Sephus Melchi. Spelling Match —U. B. Church Basement. FRIDAY. Baptist Philathea Class —Mrs. H N. Shroll. M. E. Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society—Mrs. Dan Erwin. SATURDAY. Pastry Sale, U. B. Ladies’ Aid, section 2 —Schmitt Meat Market. The Loyal Workers’ class of the Evangelical church will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Roy Clifton, at her home on South Third street. Members are urged to attend this meeting. * The Philathea class of the Baptist church will meet Friday evening with Mrs. H. N. Shroll, First and Rugg streets. Miss Ruby Miller will have the program. + The Work and Win Class of the U. B. church will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Strahm on South Eleventh street Thursday evening. Every member of the class is urged to attend. Also all members who have not paid the SI.OO toward the fund which the class is to raise by May Ist is' asked to please bring same to he class meeting. A number have already paid but quite a few have not. and the time is getting short. ♦ Fifteen young ladies meeting at the home of Mrs. Daniel Falk last Friday evening, formefl a new social organization, selecting the name "So-Cha-Rae,” the subject of the new society being for the purpose of holding social gatherings, card parties, sewing parties .etc.. at the homes of the members in turn. The first meeting will be held Wednesday evening with Miss Cecil Miller at her home on North Second street. Five Hundred will be played, and amost enjoyable i time is anticipated.

Mrs. Dan Erwin will be hostess Friday afternoon to the members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society. + The Shakespeare club will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of | Mrs. Helen Blossom. Mrs. J. H. Hel- ! ler will have the paper, the subject Ito be “Newspaper Methods and Policies’,’ ~ and “Great American 1 Editors." Mrs. Edgar Gerber will be hostess Ito the Phoebe Bible class of the Re- ' formed church at her home on North ! Third street Thursday evening. Miss Ode Fullenkamp entertained lat dinner Sunday Tony Hackman and Vincent Borman. ♦ The Christian Endeavor society of the U. B. church will have a spelling match at the church basement Thursday evening. Everybody is invited. ♦ The Otterbein Guild of the United Brethren church will meet Tuesday evening with Miss Gertrude Chronister at her home on Ninth street. Members please be present. The United Brethren Ladies’ Aid society will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Sephus Melchi. Mrs. Will Pennington and Mrs. Jesse Schwartz will be hostesses, and every member is urged to be present. GOES TO MUSKOGEE. H. L. Center will leave this eve- i ning for Muskogee, Okla., where he ■ will look after business for Mr. F. E. ’ France, who is not physical able to make the trip. Work on the new I Conter plant will go on under the' supervision of Mr. France Conter as- ! sisted by Mr. France. Herman will, I probably be absent several ■weeks. $-4-4—WANT ADS EARN—4—s—s!

I THE MECCA I |j And Now TONIGHT AND TOMORROW I NAZIMOVA it Creates her greatest characterization, that of Sally, in A Dramatic and Romantic > Masterpiece of the screen, "The Head of a Child" & Sally was dancing in the street to a hand organ when someone shouted to her H “Wot a lark! Yer father's dashed yer mother’s 'ead in!” After the tragedy that orphaned her What? The life romance of a cockney 3 girl from the tenements of limehouse: of the London theater and aristocracy. Admission —Adults 25c; Children 10c.

OPERATED UPON. Robert Sonday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sonday. was operated upon Saturday morning at 9 o’clock at the Decatur hospital, the appendix, adenoids and tonsils being removed. Dr. Rayl and Dr. Burns performed the operation, and the lad is getting along as nicely as could be expected. AMERICAN COMMITTEE SENDS SUM TO CHINA New York, April 11.—Funds sent to China to date through the American committee for China famine fund total $2,992,019, according to an announcement last night by Verndn Munroe, treasurer of the American committee, from the headquarters at Bible house. 16 Astor Place. Contributions received from states whose total is now more than SIO,OOO amount to $2,210,888, as follows: California, $63,323; Colorado, $10,377; Connecticut, $28,137; District of Columbia. $21,573; Illinois, $107,170; Indiana, $18,700; lowa, $31,993; Kansas, $35,117; Kentucky, $38,092; Maryland, $10,653; Massachusetts, $160,899; Michigan, $62,272; Minnesota, $71,864; Missouri, $28,657; Nebraska. $23,952; New Jersey, $68,080: New York, $850,522; North Carolina. $58,838; Ohio, $131,626; Oregon, $12,106: Pennsylvania, $280,752; South Dakota. $11,615: Texas, $15,601; Virginia $24,015; Washington, sl3, 644: West Virginia $10,959, and Wisconsin, $18,593. “The Heart of a Child,” featuring NAZIMOVA at the Mecca tonight and tomorrow. It

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