Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1921 — Page 3

'.-JI One of the unsolved mysteries is I ■wliy people are so rarely killed by hull- t ■rtones. Only one case has been re- < Korded in Europe. Such fatalities .<

Quite an Unusual Display of Jewelry Watches, Rings, Etc. Suitable for Graduation Gifts 'I h;il show in part, our preparedness for that great event long to be remenuiered in His or Iler life Graduation Day. Add your quota to their cup of happiness by presenting them with an appropriate gift—a watch, a ring—not necessarily \ expensive for no matter what you pay at this store you tire assured of receiving your full money’s worth—always. Reasonably Priced and Guaranteed Pumphrey’s Jewelry Store DECATUR, INDIANA ~ =; “WHITE STAG” Segars Just the smoke for “Finicky” Smokers Londres Extras, Bc, 2 for 15c. Invincible Size 10c r FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS J* • * - ' i ' ~ 1 ■ ;

■' T T" ■ " — - — — ■ Fordsort ” J I1’!' : k ill -wl t n ll HI j "* / $625 f. o. b. Detroit • 111 1 What Henry Ford Says About i Machine Power Farming : “In the tractor the farmer now lias a machine in which is ' harnessed one of the most adaptable, efficient, economical i sources of power in the world—the internal combustion engine. h “The tractor will multiply the productive capacity of each individual farm worker from three to four limes over. 1 “Il will put the farmer on a par with the city manufac- !< turer. It will put his produce-producing factory—for that is 1 what a farm is—on to an efficient production basis. j* “It will enable each worker to earn so much more that he < can be paid more and still leave a greater profit for the man who |ll|; hires him. II will enable the farmer to work fewer hours in the I day, giving him more time to enjoy life. t “I believe the tractor will make farming what it ought Io IP , be—the most pleasant, the most healthful, the most profitable business on earth." 11l v Hi II r 111 e Shanahan-Conroy Auto Co. I > AUTHORIZED FORD DEALERS. I d I_n | , I, . _ _ - ~ . sssssjU 1 !!

have happened more often in Indlt than anywhere else. In the Mordabat district, May 1, 1888, about 250 per sons were killed by a hnilstorm.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. TUESDAY. MAY 17. 1921.

STABILIZING r- * The economists are agreed that j one of the moat serious of our after- |i war problems is how to make agriculture safe for the agriculturist. g It is becoming plainer every day t that when we have solved this prob- g lem, we shall have gone a long ways a toward making the world safe for a everybody. r Although the basis of our prosper- ( ity is the soil, the government has a uniformly exhibited the most pro- c ' nounced partiality for the manufac- - i turing interests, many of which itl s has fostered at the expense of agri | c culture. It is time the farmer received some L “first aid" consideration. His pres- [ j ent plight is worse than it has been ! | for many years. Despite the fact ( that a drastic process of deflation has f forced down the prices of his products v to pro-war levels, and even lower, he | - is still facing the highest costs of | a farm supplies, or rail transportation. f and of local, state and national gov-1 1 eminent in the history of the mod- , ern world. r _ Speaking in Washington the other t day Herbert Hoover called attention c to the fact that the present rate on t grain frdm Missouri River points to j f New York is 30 cents a bushel, as .. against 10 for grain from Argentina to New York, which he said created f a situation that “would change the t granary base from the central states t of the west to foreign nations.” He g also offered statistics to show that j a there has been a 50 per cent greater i £ decline to crop prices than in the 1 1 prices of manufactured articles. I £ “Certainly these levels," he declared, | f “must come into step or the agricul- j r tural industry and its standards of . living will be undermined.” It is beyond dispute that the farm- r er’s boasted annual surplus has be-' t come either a negligible or a minus ( quantity. In hundreds of cases the I „ returns from his labor are barely t sufficient to pay his interest and g taxes. At the best, they are constantly fluctuating between a small ( profit and a loss too big to be borne £ for long. 1 1 Until the farming business is sta- i f bilized it will be impossible to stabil-1 ( ize any business. And to stabilize the> farming business it will be neces- t I sary to do something more than to j j restore a “normalcy” which represents merely pre-war crop value plus post-war costs and taxes. That sort S' of normalcy will not revive the buy-

THE FARMER ’ I Ing power of the farmer. Only fair prices for his products can do that. In this connection wo cannot refrain from pointing out that it is the great and distinctive achievement of the best sugar industry that it has given the farmer the inestimable assurance of a fair return on his labor and capital. No matter how tho prices of his other crops may slump, the price of his sugar beets remains a fixed and irreducible quantity. His contract with the beet sugar factory puts him on a cost-plus basis —the safest basis on which any business can be conducted. A particularly striking illustration of the "edge" which the beet growing farmer has on his non-beet grow-1 ing neighbor occurred last year when the price of so many farm products! fell below the cost of production—when it took a 60-pound steer hide to pay for a $9 pair of shoes and 40 ] acres of average oats or corn to pay | for the services of the hired man for the season—for at this very time the beet grower wn» getting not only his regular contract price but • a small bonus besides. Compared to the lot of the average farmer, it could be truly said of him. as Mr. Gump so proudly said of himself, that he was “settin’ on Old Luck’s back." The importance of the sugar beet crop as a reliable money-maker is enthusiastically attested by the country bankers, than whom there are no shrewder observers or appraisers of agricultural conditions. Almost without exception they bear testimony to the year-in-and-year-out profitableness of the sugar beet crop. One of them in Michigan last fall put his testimony in concrete style when he said: “It is noticeable that the man who grows beets is not coming in to borrow- money to pay his taxes.” Which tallies exactly with the remark of a country merchant in the same state, “the farmer who is paying his bills this year is the man who had the sense to raise beets.”. It is the certainty and permanence of the reward of human effort that make for general progress and contentment. It is because the beet sugar industry gives the farmer jnst his sort of an assurance that it has become one of the greatest agricultural assets of the mid-west and Rocky Mountain states. Information About | SUMMER TRAINING CAMP FOR CIVILIANS At Camp Knox, Ky„ July 21 to I August 20. Opportunity for a month’s vacation at the expense of the United States government is afforded the boys and young men between 16 and 35 years of age in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia, comprising the Fifth Corps Area. This vacation will combine the advantages of healthful outdoor exercise with the benefits of military discipline, drill and field maneouvers under the instruction and supervision of officers of the U. S. Army. Uniforms will be issued free of charge as well as all necessary military equipment. Those attending the camp will be quartered in barracks. Good shelter is thus assured. The food will be wholesome and nourishing. Recreation is also provided for and it is planned to have numerous games and athletic contests after drill hours. In the evening there will be band concerts and other entertainment. i ’if 1 ' 91 *' The men and boys of the Fifth Corps Area are especially fortunate in being able to receive this training at Camp Knox which is known throughout the country as the largest military reservation now being used. The terrain of the camp, with its valleys, hills and stretches of level ground makes it possible to have field maneuovers, sham-battles, etc., under conditions of acutal warfare. It is the hope of the commanding general of the corps area to have representatives from every section of the four states attend the camp. Here is the proceedure: Obtain an application blank from the chairman in your county, have a physician examine you and then get a character certificate from some public dfficial. Forward all this at once to the M. T. C. A. headquarters, 1200 Lincoln Bank building, Louisville, Ky., or to the commanding general, Fifth Corps Area, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. You will be notified in due time whether or not you are accepted for tiie camp. It you cannot obtain an application blank, write for one at either of the two addresses just given. Because he criticized newspapers which display “sensational events,” a Denver pastor published an ideal newspaper for one day. The publishers of the Denver Post invited the pastor to become editor-in-chief for May 5. On that date the minister dictated how the news should be displayed, determined news vallie, directed assignment of reporters and had complete control.

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SPORT NEWS Fort Wayne Prove Victors. 1 The Fort Wayne high school base 1 ball team proved easy victors ovei 1 the local high school nine in a game 1 staged at Bellmont park yesterday aft 1 ernoon, the final score resulting It to 3. The game was called at 3:31 ' o’clock with a large number of fans present. The game went fairly we! ' up until the fourth inning, neither side 1 scoring up to this time when the vis • itors started the ball a rolling ami registered two runs. The locals scor.< their first marker in the fifth inning while the Fort Wayne boys crossed 1 the plate two in the fifth, fourth in the sixth and seven in the ninth, claiming ’ the victory by an easy margin, the score totaling 16 to 3 in their favor. j W H 0 ’ L L W I N ? I , | 1 New York, May 17. —.lack Curley, wrestling impresario and close friend of the Frenchman: ‘*Carpentier will win the champion ship. His speed and skill will counter act what weight and strength advan tage Dempsey will have over him. Carpentier has as much punch as Dempsey and he can hit more accurately. The first may not be long. The more rounds it goes the easier it will be for Carpentier.” , | Watching the Scoreboard I 1 . 4 ' Yesterday's hero —Cy Williams busted a homer with one on in the second inning and the Phils beat the Pirates 3 to 0. Coumre held the Giants hitless for four innings but they ran him to the showers in the fifth, scoring five runs. The Reds lost 7 to 4. The Cardinals battered Miljus and Mitchell hard and won their third straight game from the Robins 4 to 3. The Yanks had two big innings—the first and ninth —off Duster Mails and took the third straight game from the Indians 6 to 3. Meusel got a homer and Ruth a triple. Urban Faber rushed to the aid of Dick Kerr when he started to wobble and won his fourth straight game, beating the Athletics 8 to 4. The Braves had no trouble hitting ,11m Vaughn and the Cubs lost 7 to 1. Detroit and Washington made a total of 35 hits, Detroit winning 17 to 11. Eight doubles, eight triples and a homer by Heilman were included. The Woman's club will meet this evening at the Industrial rooms, this being the regular session.

" movies now teaching NEWEST JAZZ STEPS Do you want to learn how to dance ! all sorts and conditions of jazz from I “ the simpler steps to the soul-shaking wonders of the rampant shimmy? Great is the great god cinema, indeed, e for having introduced Paris fashions, merely to the process of being worn by stars, to the remotest provinces of e provinces of the country, it is now be-1 t ginning to show those sartie prov-l 0 inces the one-step and three-step — which, by the way, the provinces are ' u already adept at. However, it is is cartain that Madge Kennedy’s latest 11 Goldwyn picture, "The Girl with the e Jazz Heart,” from the story by Robert Shannon, is replete witli the dances B " of tiie day, Gilda Gray, noted shimmy(l ist, is present among others. The

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I picture comes to the Mecca theater ; two days, tomorrow and Thursday. ' NOTICE FOR BIDS FOR COAL — Notice is hereby given that the De- ■ catur Public Übrary board will receive bids up and until Monday, May . 23, 1921, at 5 o’clock p. m., for forty (40) tons of Pocahontas furnace size I coal. j Bids will also be received for like ; quantity for coal of other quality. All bids must be for the coal delivj cred in the basement of the library. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Decatur Public Library Board, Henry B. Heller, Secretary, 17-20. WANT ADS EARN—s—s-—$