Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1921 — Page 4

DAILY democrat Published Every Evening Exeept 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 Ono Week, by carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier 17.50 One Mon<h, by mail 45 cents Three Months, by mail 41-25 Six Months, by mail $2.25 Ono Year, by mail., $4.00 One Year, nt office... SIOO Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the portoffice at Deca-1 tur. Indiana, as seeond-class matter. Admiral Sims now says he didn’t say it. Well, why all that fuss when he left England then? Evidently what he did say, pleased the English to a fault. When Sims made his speech he was ‘ toadying” to the applause of England. Now he is trying to gain ] the good graces of Mr. Denby and the American public. ■ ' i,

We won’t get far by sitting around crying about hard times. The only way to beat the game is to dig in and accomplish something Os course it’s harder to do than it was a I year ago but it can be done and is! being done by a lot who will take ad-i vantage of the present conditions to mate good. Experts are of the opinion now that the twenty ships which have disappeared off the Atlantic coast during the past few ihonths was due to severe storms and not to Russian pirates. However, they fail to explain how this would be ]K)Ssible without a single piece of wreckage being found and in the meantime '■ the parrot, only survivor so far located, refuses to talk. It’s very mysterious to say the least. It’s only a Week until the reduced wages for railroad men go into effect but so far as we have heard there has been no reduction announced for freight rates. Until this is done and foreign exchange equalized and markets arranged, we are not going to have a healthy return from the sleep of normalcy. The trouble is that the men who have the power to change things and improve general conditions don’t seem to want to. Perhaps it isn’t bad enough yet. War is not the only thing that is what Sherman said war was. 1 A week from tomorrow two men, Carpentier, from France, and Dempsey, from the U. S., will meet in Jersey City for a twelve round contest for the world pugilistic championship. Thousands will pay the exorbitant • prices to see the event, millions will be won and lost on the results. A good many hope Carpentier will win but don’t expect it and then they don’t care how soon some one puts

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the Frenchman to sleep. It’s the most overcharged for fake in America and what else could be expected from a business in which the principals are of the Dempsey stripe of low brows?

The Indiana Fuel & Light com puny which furnishes gas to Garret, Auburn and Kendallville and charges a $2.10 rate with a ten per cent discount is asking for un Increase and claims that they can’t pay the interest on their bonds at this rate. Foolish move on the part of the gas company at this time. If they can’t make any money at the present rate which is higher than any we know of in the state, better quit. This is no time to ask an over burdened public to pay more and the public utility which makes a first reduction voluntarily is going to make the most popular move in their history. There are times when anything can be done and there are times when nothing can be done. There may be some merit to some of the proposed constitutional amend-

ments but mostly they are vicious and back of the effort is a sinister purpose which up to this time has not been explained. The state now ’ collects millions of dollars a year, from various fees, automobile taxes, j inheritance tax. the license fees, the new title law and otherwise and this all comes back on you as a burden. Now they propose to add more and to have the people vote them the authority. They won’t be able to do it if you study the amendments and vote but if you don’t they may put it over. The safest way to handle this is to make ut your mind you are against the amendments unldss shown they are to your advantage. Dawes, the new director of the budget at Washington is asking for one hundred volunteer dollar a year men to assist him in putting business into the Washington administration. Experience has taught us that usually those smart men who go to the capitol aud labor for a dollar a year get it back some where along the line with several hundred per cent interest. If Dawes will clean out the ranks of job holders and make those who are left get down to real for sure work, he won’t need so many to watch them. He might secure the help of about four hundred congressmen who don’t seem to have anything else to do and whose board and washing is already being paid by the government. In a speech in the senate. June 14, Senator Pat Harrison, the democratic leader of that body, in precise detail showed that the republicans rejected every amendment to the emergency tariff bill which would have benefited the farmer; that he himself offered the amendment reducing the percentage of immigration from five per cent to three which was adopted; that

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1921.

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P. J. HYLAND West Monroe Street neither the army or the navy appropriation bill has yet been passed; that the peace resolution has not been agreed on; that the permanent tariff bill has not been drafted; that the initiation of a movement for an armament conference .was by Senator Borah ;ind not by President Harding; that the proposed revision of the transportation system would be a revision of the Cummins-Esch railroad bill, pronounced by Mr. Harding as "the greatest forward step in all the history of railroad legislation;" that plans for funding the public debt may be announced just before the next election; that the hospitalization of sick and wounded soldiers is so bad that a democratic senator, Mr. Walsh, Mass., sponsored a resolutiin for an investigation give relief, and that the new head of the shipping board has had no connection with shipping beyond the shipping of the campaign poster "Wiggle and Wobble” of Which he Is the reputed designer. Still, as Mr. Harding remarked in a campaign speech, "Government is a very simple thing after all.’’ CARP HAS MANY FAULTS. New York, June 2-I.—(Special to Daily Democrat).—Jack Dempsey

has many faultts and failings.' But, as I said before, they are minor. Carpentier has only a few technical faults but they are fatal. In the first place I have observed in- all his work that he plays to the gallery. If he can’t keep his eyes off a small gathering of less than two hundred he will have difficulty in keeping his mind on his business when he gets in that mammoth arena with the eyes of about 80,000 spectators on him. Carpentier greatest handicap is his physique and that’s not his fault. He’s too frail to take a body punch of a driver like Dempsey. He has a mortal fear of a blow in the stomach and he has no offense against it. His sparring partners have had no trouble in getting to his mid-section. Carpentier fights too high. He’s clear off balance when he misses and when he's on his toes all the time he can be flattened by any kind of a punch. Perhaps he has been fooling us but I believe after close observation that he is wide open to a left hand. \ “SPECIAL DANCE” Masonic Hall FRIDAY, JUNE 21. \ Music furnished by Famous Metropolitan Orchestra Specially attired orchestra A wonder!ul dance with SNAPPY music. Public Invited. t-1

_i ■ . wiit mm uimiiinwXjMiC; This Wabash-Service Vdane Will Advertise the Northern Indiana Fair July 30 and 31 over Northern Indiana.

FOR THE FARMERS / Items of Interest to the Farmers of Adams County. Production of Apples and Peaches in United States, and Number of Trees. Washington, D. C., June 21. — The bureau of the census of the department of commerce announces, subject to correction, the following preliminary figures from the 1920 census of agriculture for the United States, with comparative figures for 1910: Apples and Peaches —Production and Number of Trees in the United States: 1919 and 1909. Apples: Production (bushels) — 1919 136,746.154 1909 145.412,318 Decrease (bushels) .. 8.666,164 Per cent, of dec. . 6.0 Trees of bearing age—--1920 ' 115.265.029 1910 151.322,840 Decrease 36,057,811 Per cent, of dec. .. 23.8

Trees not of bearing age—--1520 36,171,604 1910 65,791.848 Decrease 29,620,244 Per cent, of dec. .. 45.0 Peaches: Production (bushels) — 1919 51,551.251 1909 35,470,276 Increase (bushels) .. 16,080,975 Per cent, of inc. .. 45.3 Trees of bearing age—• 1920 65.654.921 1910 94.506.657 Decrease 28,851.736 Per cent, of dec. .. 30.5 Trees not of bearing age—--1920 21.623,657 J. 910 42.266.243 Decrease 20.612,586 . Per cent, of dec. .. 48.8 Apples—Prodction. The production of apples in the United States in 1919, according to the fourteenth census, was 136,746,154 bushels, as compared with 145,412,318 bushels in 1909, representing a decrease of 8,666,164 bushels, or 6 per cent. The average production per tree was 1.2 bushels in 1919, as conn pared with 1 bushel in 1909. The states reporting the largest production of apples in 1919 were Washington, with 21,568.691 bushels; New York, with 14.350,317 bushels; Virginia, with 8,942,520 bushels; California, with 7,842,017 bushels; Arkansas, with 7,163,619 bushels; and Oregon, with 6,921,284 bushels. Apple Trees. The number of trees which have reached bearing age indicates the present status of any orchard fruit. The number of such apple . trees in 1920 (including all trees which were old enough to bear fruit at the time of the enumeration, even though they may not. have borpe any fruit in 1919) was 115,265,029, as compared with 151,322,840 in 1910, representing a decrease of 30,057,811 trees, ot 23.8 per cent.

One of the most significant indications of the progress or tendency in the growing of any orchard crop is the number of young trees in the orchards which have not yet reached bearing age. The number of apple trees not of bearing age (excluding nursery stock, not yet set out in orchard locations) reported for 1920 was 36,171,604, as compared with 65,791,848 in 19 W. These figures indicate a decrease of 29,620,244 trees, or 45 per cent. This decrease in the number of young trees results partly from the fact that the years just preceding 1910 were years of especial activity in the planting of orchards in several states. Thus in most of the states of the' mountain division the number of apple trees of bearing age has increased substantially, while the,number of young trees shows an enormous decrease. Peaches —Production. The production of peaches in 1919 was 51,551,251 bushels, .as against 35,470,276 bushels in 1909. The increase in production between 1909 atid 1919 amounted to 16,080,975 bushels, or 45.3 per cent. The average production pef tree in 1919 was* 0.8 bushel, as compared with 0.4 bushels in 1909. The stated reporting the largest production of peaches in 1919 were Cal- | itornia, with 15,969.073 bushels : f Texlas. with 4,842,129 bushels: 'Oeor- | giu, with 4.188.718 bushels: Atkan Isas, with 3,340,823 bushels; and Okla

homa, with 2,947.973 bushels. Peach Trees. The number of peach trees of bearing ago in 1920 wns 65,654.921, as compared with 94,506,657 in 1910, representing a decrease of 28,851,736 trees, or 30.5 per cent. The number of peach trees not of bearing age in 1920 was 21.623,657, as compared with 42,266.243 in 1910, a decrease of 20,642,586 trees or 48.8 per cent. INVITED TO BUY STAMPS On June 15th $42,000,000 was paid to holders of the First Liberty bonds and Victory notes in the seventh' fed-i serai reserve district. This is the I semi-annual interest due on the two 'issues, of which $1,129,242,500 worth was subscribed for in this district.! Holders of large blocks of these securities are taking advantage of the low market rate on Liberty bends and purchasing more of the government bonds with their interest coupons. "Every coupon clipper has the same opportunity. Even the holder of a SSO or SIOO bond, treasury officials point out, need not be deprived of an opportunity to let their interest money make money for them. Post master Bosse announces that coupcns will be accepted as cash at the pose office in payment for treasury savings securities which are issued in de nominations of from 25 cents to SI,OOO. The $5 stamp and the $25, SIOO and SI,OOO certificates yield 4 i per cent. compounded quarterly. Thousands of Liberty bond holders | are converting their interest coupons ’ into treasury savings securities twice | a year, realizing that it is the safest I investment in the world.

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Announcement! We have purchased the Decatur Iron & Metal Co., and wish Io announce that we will assume operalion by the first of the week, and will be pleased to take your order for your coal for the winter months. We have several car loads now on \ hand, all of which is good clean coal, in the favorite sizes and guaranteed to burn. k x Now is the lime. Do not pul it off. Lei us till your bin. Place 'hat order with us today. f k X . City Coal Co. MATHIAS COFFEE, Mgr. ED KINTZ, Secy. 'Phone 641. • ’Phone 750.