Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1921 — Page 4

DAILY DEM OCR A T Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. XDHN H. HELLER Editor IRTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, As»odate Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Rates Cash in Advance Jingle Copies . 3 cents Dne Week, by carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier 17.50 One Minith, by mail 45 cents Three Months, by mail.... $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 aDeiw ~ tur. Indiana, as second-class matter.

There is a suspicion that when Thomas Edison and Henry Ford think their businesses could stand a little free advertising, they start something. A theater ticket 2,000 years old has been presented to President Harding. Perhaps it was good for the show where the present-day actors get their Jokes. Business men of Decatur can help brighten up, the town and add about a hundred per cent to the appearance if they will arrange to light the store fronts. Why not? The cost wop t be more than a cigar a day. Crops in this section keep right on coming notwithstanding the wails of us humans. Never have they looked more promising and never were indications brighter for a bumper. If those who are now manipulating affairs will give their attention to the creating of a market which will permit the farmers to sell their products at a profit, all will be well and Adams county will be a happy community when “the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder's in the shock.”

The Fort Wayne News thinks Harvey a great man and agrees with every thing he said in his recent speech. They even seem to think it was just proper for his nine uncles to refuse to serve the Union in the Civil war. It's certainly a queer form of patriotism and it’s a safe guess that the News and the other partisan sheets now defending this wild eyed diplomat in his partnership with England, will take back all of it and supplant their commendations with condemnation, long before his lour year term has expired. No statesman will become great along the lines lixed by Harvey and his fame will be short lived. The public will now- demand a lower freight rate. Aside from the rate of foreign exchange and the almost total disappearance of export trade, there is general belief that present business conditions are due to the excessive freight rates and now with a reduced overhead of nearly a billion dollars to the railroads, there can certainly be no excuse for a long delay in the announcement. The wage slash means more than four hundred million dollars saving to the companies and the reduction in cost of coal saves another half billion. There seems to be no reason why we should not step along if the financial kings will now permit it.

An eleven year old boy is being tried for murder at Knox, Indiana, tins week and the court room is packed each day with sight seers always hungry for the sensational. To those who feel different about such matters come thoughts that such cases might

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I DPINK— I g»»een I I River» I : I IM BOTTLES OR I I XT FOUNTAINS I I, J S fl 'cSTj B Teleohone 92 ■ 7 413 Fornax St. I be disposed of in a better way. The boy claims the killing of his playmate was accidental and the eye witnesses are too young to understand the meaning of an oath. The defendant id court for murder sits upon the lap of his broken hearted mother and his seven brothers and sisters play about the room. It is a sad scene for this enlightened day»and too serious to run alongside of the Stillman divorce and the Haman escapade. The hearing should be in juvenile court and behind closed doors.

One of the strangest points made against the Fordney emergency tar iff bill, which recently passed both houses and was agreed upon iu con fcrence, was that with starvation in many parts of Europe the American farmer found no market for his products there even at the present prices because of the inability of Europe, t< buy, having neither money nor credit. How, then, was Europe to buy at in creased prices? On the other hand it was pointed out, the farmer would have to jiay a higher price for what he buys by reason of the tariff imposed upon him by the bill. The con stant decline in the export trade is the best evidence of Europe's inability to buy. In February, this year, the trade balance in favor of the United States was $274,000,000; in March only $132,000,000. a decline of more than 50 per cent. Some interesting figures are now available regarding the energetic way in which Germany has gone tc work to rehabilitate her foreign trade Production must be running along at a brisk pace, in that country, as indicated by export figures, and there must be money to spend in Germany, as indicated by import figures. At the present moment Germany is ac tually the third best European customer the United States has, according to figures supplied by the department of commerce. She comes immediately after France, with Great Britain still holding first place. This increase in trade with Germany has taken place while trade with every other European country, except Spain, has shown a marked decline. By comparison with the period im mediately preceding the war, it is seen that the United States is selling

more goods to Germany than in 1913. In the nine months ended Match 13, 1913, our exports to Germany were valued at $2G8,09J 878,' against im pwts of $140,887,434. Since June. 1920, American commerce with Germany has not been under legal prohibition. For nine months beginning with July, 1920. ending with March, 1921, our exports have totaled $312,188,468 to Germany and our imports $70,668,128. Exports are thus $44,000/000 higher than ’n the before-the-war period; imports $76,000,000 lower. The British Industries Fair, Lon don, for 1921 opened on February 21 its doors at the White City, Shepherd’s Bush, to the buyers of the world. GETTING ALONG GOOD Women are,as great suherers from kidney and;bladder ailments - - men. Foley: Kidniey -I’iJls?lielp;'rM’’.tiiu)blood stream of'impurities’ that cause rn'eumatiC/paisis. backache, swoiieu. aching joints and-stiff, painful muscles. Mrs. Carey, Box 91.i11. F. D. No. 2, Middle-town,-N. Y., writes: “I had-kidney trouble’ever'since I was a J little!girl, but.-I am, getting along good'since I bave,taken ;Fbley f Kidney Pills.” -They ac.t immediately and; hplp restore the kidneys to healthful activity. Sold everywhere.-—Advt. ■

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1921.

APPLYING TESTS iGuaging Native Ability of School Pupils From the First Grade to the HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS Subjects Vary With the Grades—First Graders to Prove Ability (By I*rof. W. F. Book, Head of Phychology Department Indiana Univer.) (Written for the United Press) In applying the Indiana intelligence tests to guage native ability of school pupils, from the first grade to high j school seniors are given the tot. ~ the subject varying with the grades,. Naturally the tests for the first grade pupils will seem easy and simple to the parents of school children, but these tests have been compiled with :>. view toward finding the ability of •he first grade pupils to recognize words when the words are mixed with combinations of letters having no meaning.

This example from the First Grade Reading Vocabulary will illustrate the keen qualities the first grade pupils display when they successfully pass the test. The gp.ample: rint cow cux chai rusl In this example caw is the word hidden among the meaningless combinations of letters. Another example: rutr els time tsul bael. The third combination pf letters spelling time is the correct word hi ‘.hat example. Then are twenty-sfr .>n dilforent examples, each one edittaiuing a word which should be jn .he vocabulary of the fit st grade pit.

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Big Hereford Cattle Sale! 60 - Cows and Heifers - 60 From Two of Indiana’s Well Known Herds BELLMONT PARK Decatur, Indiana Tuesday, June 7 Auctioneers: Col’s. Reppert, Gartin and Schmitt J. L Priddy & Son, Warren, Indiana Fonner Stock Farm, Decatur, Indiana i ‘ !'■ ! ■

P'ls. In the phjftjf (<rrt«rty tu,.-wefftig •caoH', bsjlpivhreceives £2,points, tlip.io .pottjfr' apptf-’ Ing in c 'to .-flint.' out of too tn the Variojij for, first grade puit'A. r.ighj (s H&t&T tjte for Yet.< ’hex -giylngj’ p r the t - how*, f .weft test■ w!sijsflT Hliutru-i tim-<>f a tixatiipi-0 tnii oqe .ilmt Is- itt i;iie '.e. Ph 1 ml •i'hfc-i ’s'i/dfcl-.’

, iA.WW-.-I.JPT V- ••” For third word iii each I’ne the test, is Ico arranged that the correct woAls 'do not appear in the simo position in any two linns, one time it is.tlft' first word, a second time the third -Of 1 fourth word, and the position ' varies Jtu.each example. I lit' pu* > survey already conducted <t .H • ,sbnd pupil sin tile ’ e»J ‘Ap?uUty ‘be, even the same township : iftfe <s ly i e unjuavts,'bptb ptipils atfd teach|.<U rifor-.aamJe quality or i>f school work from classes

v. inch differ so widely in native : mental endowment. i -i First June Bride — ■ (Continued from page one) Lonj| has lived at Crestline some time, | Tlftj marriage as a surprise to their many friapds, and probity was 'the first June wedding in Adams ; comity.

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AN ADVERTISEMENT helped he. Mrs. Lucille Mackey, 16 Eueiuti St.. Washington. Pa., writ •% winter m\ 3-year-old girlbwhts cold which left her witlca drjJ It bothered her most at nr t would cough until she ,vcsu:< think she must have had cough. 1 raw an adveiliwmisj K'oley’s Hopoy ami Tar. i trid and bought two bottles anl.hr left her before she fiuished>tiy tattle. She had gotten iwfnhli but now she is as fat as.evst.'’ Sold everywhere.—Advt.