Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1921 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. IOHN H. HELLER. Editor IRTHUR R> HOLTHOUSE. Amo-,-Ute Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Jingle Copies 3 cents Ono Week, by carrier 15 cents sne Year, by carrier $7.50 One Month, by mail 45 cents Three Months, by mail 1 1 -25 Six Months, by mail $2.25 One Year, by mail $4.00 One Year, at office $4 00 Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter.

TRADE WITH RUSSIA: — There are more reasons than those of sentiment and decency to forbid us to attempt to reopen trade relations with Russia, and the most eas ily understood of these is that Russia has no money with which to pay. Russia has ruined her industries and thereby has killed the goose that laid the golden egg. She has neither goods nor raw materials at hand with which to barter. She is a slave laboring for something less than a meager living beneath the whip of a cruel oppressor. It is not as though Russia were crippled aud helpless through no fault of her own. It is not as though her people were victims of some great and uncontrollable misfortune, or that they had not the power within themselves to rise up and overthrow the little gang of ruffians who have assumed to dictate to millions. In that case America could be relied upon to send her food and her millions without cost or the thought of return, But Russia bows meekly under the lash of the despoiler. She has seen him steal her wealth, eat her food and ruin her industries, and has done nothing. The voters of this city should understand and we believe most of them do that they must vote their | party ticket tomorrow as this is a . primary when each party nominates

J' * *H*>.** J ' -1 their candidates for the November election. If yop are a democrat ask for a democratic ballot and vote for those candidates you prefer. You cannot vote for a part of one ticket and a part of another in a, primary. In the fall election the names are all on one ballot and you vote your choice but in primaries, you can vote only for the candidates on your own ticket. You are urged to vote tomorrow as it is an important duty to select the officials who will have charge of your local affairs. Republicans have no contests but there are several on the democratic side and you should vote your preference in tomorrow’s election.

' SAFETY FIRST Be sure that your Coffee is Fresh Ground when you buy, and delivered to you in White Bags labelled KASPER’S 25c PEABERRY COFFEE Sold bv Grocers Only. ~ / Big Overall and Shirt Sale NOW ON! Blue Buckle Overalls, SI.OO Best Rope Stripe Overalls, $1.35' Best Wabash Stripe Jackets, SI.OO Best Rope Stripe Jackets, $1.35 Boy’s Best Overalls (10 to 15) . 90c Kids Rompets (2 to Pair I OV Best Work Shirts Each 1 Best Black Sateen Shirts, Fach 2 Pair Heavy. Work Socks, 2 pair Good Canvas Best Black and Tan Dress Socks, \ 25c Bovs Best Shirts (12 to 14) / Each .VOL CAM IIITF’C SOUTH END GROCERY OAITI HUED an( ] dry GOODS STORE. ’Phone 204. • j ; ■if , L I Opposite Erie Depot

■ - . u. — f The primary campaign has been rather quiet but the candidates have been busy and most of the voters • buve been seen by those on the demo- , crattc side. There are three candi- • dates for mayor and three for clerk , with contests also tor councilman in the first and third wards. should vote that the men whom you i believe will best serve you are selected It’s a duty you owe yourself and the community. Os course you can vote but one ticket for those of one party have no right to select or assist in selecting the nominees of the opposing party. If you don't understand it. an inquiry will straighten you out. There is nothing intricate or puzzling about voting if you give

it a little thought. Charley Van Horn, popular and imported by the republican organisation, has been appointed temporary postmaster in Bluffton. The “temporary” clause is a joke though it is announced Mr. Van Horn will have to take an examination. The civil service part Os the program is a “blind” and the proof is that county chairmen get the jobs. Why not discard it and go back to the old plan of appointing those who do the work without trying to make believe that efficiency is Jhe only thing that counts. Did you pay your taxes’ This is the last day and those failing must pay an added penalty of ten per cent. The taxes this year exceeded even the fondest hopes of those who favored the law which caused the increase and next years will probably reach the peak. The recent legislature expended many millions of dollars which will have to be paid next year. This is clean up week. Get busy. The street commissioner and a force of men will cover the city and their wagons will go through each alley hunting for old cans, bottles and rub- j bish. If you have it piled there where t they can get it. they will haul it away, c 1 It’s up to you to see that the ashes, t j garbage and other refuse from the

winter months is disposed of. It is announced from Washington that a new official census will probably be taken within the next year or two as the last census was taken under abnormal conditions. The taking of a census costs twenty million dollars, provides jobs for a lot of the faithful but it does seem there is a more effective way of spending that much money. TJjp Knox peace resolution has passed the senate but just where are . we now? Certainly some kind of a separate peace treaty will have to be arranged if we are to get any place

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1921.

~i : r I -- F* - 1 I > LSj ( lx ///I ''Brtfhtar and brifbttr ” Chucblet H'tnlhroft Hilf, tkote rAe mi# thu fifttth Label rd Walls That Wash with Ease It’* now a aimple matter to decorate your walla with handsome tint* that can be wa*hed easily and kept clean and sanitary. 7&janize WASHABLE CELOID FINISH Meet* squarely the demand for a modern Waterproof Coati n< for finishing ALL Walls, Furniture and Woodwork Thia new wonder-product ia very esay to •ppi' . drier overnight with a handaome. ••tin-like luatre. Not ahijh ftloaa. distracting to the eye, nor a dull, flat tone Made ineight handaome tint*, in addition to Pure White You will find Kyanlsc Celoid Mnith ia fuat what you want for your walla. Come to ouratore and let ua ahow you what thia fioiab will do for your heme, r CALLOW & KOHNE on the East side of Second St., Decatur. Pjor Sick Motors b When rtnr Motor haa lad it* Pep— I U hard to dart-Ha*. Metal* KnockU*e* an extra amount of Gawbie or Oil—t Fail* to ptdc up a* amoothly and noudcaely ME aa when new* Don’t Experiment It need* a treatment oo our ‘ No. S Marvel Cylinder Re-Boring Machine ■ And F itttnj with fit area Otar tin Pietnat We ptM pep m adi motor*—Rcrtoee 100% compresaion a* yow engine A marveku* machete for quick and eco- H — Keep yowr preaeai car in K At the Shop XT “\ I of ( {J Ti j ■ Better Service \ \ I J ■ • known aa pk SCHMITZ & THICKER I GARAGE £ ’Phone 505. * and in this we will bsve to settle not only with the central powers but with those of the allied nations as well. florin un and naint tin this week

Clean up anu puiui up iuis weetv It’s a good thing for appearance and health. The winter is over. Get ready for the summer. TOKEN OF APPRECIATION We take this means to kindly thank our good old neighbors and friends of Root township in the surprise dinner so kindly brought in on Sunday, May first, in memory of wife’s passing her fifty-fourth mile-stone on this day. It was certainly kind of these old neighbors to make a drive of from eight to eleven miles after they had attended their own services, and occupy the home before we got in from our services. Somehow these kindly surprise help us to feel that we are not forgotten. Os course it was just a little shock to the wife to be taken

ip through the back kitchen door and happen onto a table loaded down and groaning under a load of good things to eat and nobody in sight. But just a glance through another door revealed the cause of it all. Thank you all, friends. ELDER, J. L. KLINE AND WIFE. PHI DELT INITIATION The Phi Delta Kappa fraternity will meet this evening, at which time there will be initiatory work. All members are requested to be present at the hall, promptly on time. * A HELPFUL IHAIR HI NT ▲ ■ ——— A lady visiting friends says ‘Parisian Sage is the best thing I have , ever used to make my hair wavy, lustrlous and abundant. It keeps all dandruff and stops itching.” Holthouse i Drug company sells it with guarantee of money back if not satisfactory. I

! * 1 I ! • John B. Stults z For a number of years a clerk at the Mills grocery store, is one of the democratic .candidates for city clerk at the Tuesday primary- He Is No. 18 on the ballot. Your support will L Ijje appreciated. —Advt. ,

1 ♦ DOINGS IN SOCIETY • ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦••a Club Calendar MONDAY. J. T. Kelly’s S. 8. Class— EvangelI ical Church. TUESDAY. C. Los C.—K. of C. Hall. Zion Reformed W. M. S.~Mrs. Otto Reppert, hostess. Presbyterian Missionary Socfpty— Mrs. Dollie Durkin. Historical Closing Dinner—Mr. and Mrs. Ed A hr. Evangelical Live Wire Class —U. E. Cramer Home. Evangelical Dorcas Class — Mrs. Nellie Meyers. • Ladies Auxiliary to American Legion—G. A. R. Hall. WEDNESDAY. Five Hundred Club — Mrs Claude Coffee. Historical Club Business Session — Mrs. Kannle Fristog. Saturday St. Vincent de Paul Ladies' Bake Sale —Schmitt Meat Markt. The St. Vincent de Paul society will give a bake sale Saturday, May 7. at the Schmitt meat market. All kinds of baked goods will be on sale", and the patronage of the public is solicited. ♦ The regular meeting of the ITesbyterian Woman’s Missionary societyo’clock with Mrs. Durkin at her home o’clock with Mrs. Dollie at her home on First street. The ladies of the church are requested to be present. ♦ The ladies of the Historical club will hold their usual closing dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ahr at their home. East Monroe street Tuesday evening at 6 o’clock. The husbands of the club members will attend. The annual business session of the members of the Historical club will be held Wednesday afternoon w-ith Mrs. Kannle Fristoe at her home on Mercer avenue. The year books will bo giv*n out at this meeting and the attendance' of all members Is desired. * The Live Wire class of the Evangelical Sunday school will meet Tuesday evening at the U. E. Cramer home, George Cramer being the hostess. Members are requested to at tend thia meeting. * Mrs. Nellie Meyers, living north ot the city, will be host Tuesday evening

--- - k to the members of the Dorcas Sunday " school class of the Evangelical ’ church. The trip will be made via in- C terurban, and class members will ? meet at the station in time to go to ’ the Meyers home on the 7 o’clock ; car. Tiff Ladies’ Auxiliary to Adams Post, No. 43, American Legion, will | meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock • at the G. A. R. hall. The ladies arc I 'urged to be present, as this is an important business meeting. SHIPPERS INTERESTED IN STANDARDIZING CONTAINERS ■ To eliminate fraud in the market- > ing of fruits and vegetables by the < '■ substitution of short-measure packages | 1 at full-nieasure prices is one of the

principal objects of specialists of the United States department of agriculture now making a study of the hundreds of different types of containers in use. For example, baskets which | contain seven-eighths of a bushel are frequently used as bushel baskets, it S being difficult to detect the short measure. In Farmers’ Bulletin 1196 from the Bureau of Markets, just published by the department, the specialists discuss the need for standard containers for fruits and vegetables and describe how the public is sometimes defrauded because' of the many types and sizes of containers now in use. Since the passage of the federal standard barrel law, in 1915, there has been a steady progress in the work of eliminating unnecessary and deceptive ’ sizes from the list of containers used ’ in marketing fruits and vegetables, ( i says the bulletin. The passage of the United States container act, establish- ; ing standards for grape baskets, berry

boxes. and small till baskets, followed in 1916. Multitude of Sizes Increases Cost. The serious lack of uniformity of containers increases the cost of marketing. say tire specialists, because of the greater expense of manufacturing a large number of unnecessary styles and sizes and by breakage in transit, which is sometimes directly attributable to tire difficulty of loading oddsized containers. There are in common use at present about 40 sizes of cabbage drates, 20 styles of celery ersues. 30 lettuce crates or boxes, 50 styles and sip.es of hampers, 15 styles and sizbs of round-stave baskets and marketing baskets varying in size from 1 to 24 quarts, whereas relatively few:’ standard sizes would satisfy all demands Df the trade. In many cases

• the 6-quart market basket, the 14- ► quart peach basket, the %-bushel bean I hamper, ami the 5-peck lettuce hamper are confused with peck, half-bushel, bushel, and bushel baskets. The two acts referred to, which establish standard containers, have done • away with a large number of unnecoasary sizes of barrels, berry boxes and grape baskets, and have awakened a widespread demand for the application • of the same principal to other container*, says the bulletin. At present there - is no standard hamper which is one of the most widely used types of con I tainers. especially popular in the eastern and central states. Almost 30,- . 000.000 of these baskets are used annually. The sizes of hampers which . re recommended by the bureau of markets of the department of agriculture • as being sufficient in number to satisfy all legitimate requirements of the trade are as follows: 8 quart, or 1 i pack: 16 quart, or bushel; 32 quart, or 1 bushel; 48 quart, or bushel. It is suggested that the latter be made in two styles to meet the prefernece in various parts of the country. The round-stave basket, for t-hich there is no standard, is popular in all regions except the southern and middle Atlantic states and on the Pacific coast. About 20,01*0.000 such liaskets are manufactured annually. The sizes which are recommended as standards by the bureau of markets are the same as those recommended for the hamper except for the elimination of the 8quart size. The splint, or veneer bas-1 kets, for which there •are also stan- j dards. are well known to the public as j market baskets. The sizes which are propoed by the Bureau of Markets arc I five in number —4,8, 12, 16 and 24 , quart. — Norbert Holthouse and Hubert Schmitt were Sunday visitors at Ft. Wayne. STOP IICHING ECZEMA Penetrating, Antiseptic Zemo Will Help You Never mind how often you have tried and failed, you can stop burning, itching eczema quickly by applying Zemo. Furnished by any druggist for 35c. Extra large bottle, §I.OO. Healing begins the moment Zemo is applied. In a short time usually every trace of eczema, tetter, pimples, rash, blackheads and similar skin diseases will be removed. For clearing the skin and making it vigorously healthy, al waysuse Zemo, the penetrating, antiseptic liquid. It is not a greasy salve and it doesnot stain. When others fail it is the one dependable treatment for skin troubles of all kinds. The E. W. Rose Co.. Cleveland, O. - —

• • Be Inquisitive! The man who wants to know a thing usually investigates. He weighs both sides of a question and then decides. We have been trying tcvget over our idea ot quality cigars and the prices that will prevail for standard merchandise to the smokers of this community as compared to cigars whose whole appeal to the trade are their prices and what we have said in out various articles is the absolute truth as we see it after a careful study of conditions in our business. We feel that we have built our good will with the smoker by always giving him the best merchandise al the least money and we are proud ot the tad that we have earned a reputation for quality goods and honesty and fair dealing with our trade. » There is nothing so important and vital in business as a reputation justly earned for quality, service and fair dealings. For years we have kept our cigar upon the highest level ot ‘l na ' ity, with our service and dealings as carefully guarded. 1 ncie has never been a temptation nor an influence enough to cause us to diverge from this policy. • x We appreciate the confidence and splendid good will of 0111 many smokers too much to do anything less than the best know how to fully merit such regard. You will always be sim that you are getting the best sigar in the world when you bu\ White Slag Cigar Company products. STICK TO THE “WHITE STAG’’ AND YOU’LL NEVER GET STUCK. The White Stag Cigar Co. . *

I Facts Worth Remembering The Peoples Loan and Trust C Oln pany is established by law to perform many duties of a financial nature. This company can serve as Guardian Trustee, Receiver, Administrator of anv Estate, Executor of Wills. Writes Fire Insurance, makes loans on farm and city properly. . v The officers of this company will be • glad to advise with any person, at anv time, regarding above important fads. ’ The Peoples Loan & Trust Co “BANK OF SERVICE” t 10C:::: -fv «!: PROCLAMATION - Clean Up & Paint Up! HEAR THIS, YE PEOPLE—THINK! ACT!! Come on. let's put things in order. Our whole citv can and should be made as clean and orderly as its cleanest home. Then we will have a safer, happier, healthier city. Ambition in its highest conception is to dream big dreams and make them come true. The splendid ambition ‘ to lyive a city clean anti beautiful is soon to become a reality by the co-operation of all the people. Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Health Officer, and with the hearty approval of many farseeing and zealous citizens, we hereby proclaim the first week of May as the Opening Week of a Continuous CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP CAMPAIGN Away with the rubbish piles! Banish the plague spots! Cleasi up streets and alleys! Cut the weeds, mow the lawns and trim the hedges! Repair and paint every building that needs it. We need this thorough cleaning and renovation. It is the sensible thing to do- for the health, safety, thrift, pride and happiness of all our people. It is everybody’s job. Every man. woman and child will be gxpected to help, bet there be no slackers. ANNIE M. DOWLING, Secretary City Board of Health L. A