Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1921 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every 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 C«eh In Advance Single Copies 3 cents One Week, by carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier 17.60 Dne Month, by mail 45 cents Three Months, by mail 51.25 Six Months, by mall $2.25 Ono Year, by mail $4 00 One Year, at office $4.00 Advertising rates ma dr known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter.

A NEW PREPARATION FOR OILING THE ROADS: — Decatur is going to make its first experiment this week in oiling the macadam roads. No one will dispute the fact that many of the gravel roads should be oiled. Some of the states, Michigan and Ohio, oil the country highways and the Indianapolis News in discussing the subject, has the following to say, which will be of interest to local officials and property owners: "Practically the only methods used in keeping down dust on Indiana roads and streets are by sprinkling and the application of oil. Sprinkling loses its effect as soon as the street becomes dry. Oil gives satisfaction if properly applied. G. C. Dillman, maintenance engineer of the Michigan state highway commission, treats not only of sprinkling and oiling, but of other means of dust prevention, in the American city. He ays there are two general ways in which the dust problem on gravel roadways may be solved —by retaining the dust or by preventing it. Water, calcium chloride and sulphate liquor are used to retain the dust and bituminous materials, such as oils and refined tars, to prevent it. When applied to a road, calcium chloride absorbs moisture front the air, maintaining the surface in a damp, clean and odorless condition. With reference to its application Mr. Dillman says:

“ 'lt is advisable to use calcium chloride after rains when the surface of a road is in a moist condition. By so doing, better penetration is obtained. For the first application I would advise not over one pound per square yard of surface treated, subsequent treatments being from onehalf to not over three-quarters of a pound. The number of applications each year depends upon the quality of gravel on which the chloride is applied, and the character and volume of the traffic carried. Under moderate traffic, two applications a year are sufficient, while if the traffic is heavy, three maybe necessary.” "The chloride is applied with a lime drill, hauled by a motor truck, in flake or granular form. Proper application. says Mr. Dillman, will make a gravel road practically dustless and aid in maintenance because it holds the dust particles together and thus conserves the surface. Dragging in dry weather as well as after rains are also recommended. There is a tendency during the fall and spring months for such roads to become slightly soft but the treatment is held to outweigh this disadvantage.”

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A week from tomorrow the great Northern Indiana Fair opens at Bellmont park. It will be the greatest fair held In this part of the country. The races will equal or surpass those at Indianapolis. The fair has been well advertised anti no matter who you talk to, whether from Columbus, Toledo, Indianapolis or South Bend, say they are coming here for the big week. The free attractions at night will be worth coming miles to see and if you have not already invited your friends and relatives to enjoy the week at Bellmont park you are passing an opportunity to entertain them that comes only once a year. Boost the fair and attend. The Information has been given that the coming disarmament conference will be a secret conflab among the rulers of the different na-| tions. Press correspondents will be barred ami the country will be left in ignorance as the progress of the meeting. The importance of the discussions may warrant such a secret meeting, but do you -remember how the press criticised President Wilson when he did not give out the details pertaining to the peace conference, which was of greater importance to the governments than the coming meeting on disarmament? To hear Governor Small of Illinois talk and threaten to call out the milifta and shoot the first man who attempts to arrest him, makes one form the opinion that he has a little of the bandit blood in him or that he received his schooling in diplomacy and executive ability from Trotsky. The world will believe Len Small guilty until he stands trial like the average citizen would and proves his innocence.

Press reports say that congress is ' to get busy this week on the tax re--1 vision. Since the administration has ' decided that it will take four billions to run the government this year, Secretary Mellon might as well with--1 draw his objections to the paying of a bonus to the soldiers for it will ' not be any harder to raise a billion or two more and pay them, than it ' will be to try to collect the amount he says he needs. I Ships with cargoes of liquor are docking at nearly every port in the country. One day the press reports say the smugglers have been caught . and then the next time you pick up a ■ paper, you learn that the ship has 1 disappeared. Funny is it not? Commissioner Blair might send his army of fifty thousand Hawkshaws to watch these ships over night. The drought, as it can now be correctly called, is ruining the prospects of bumper crops, but somehow the good farmers, even in spite of the weather and normalcy prices, do not seem discouraged and are working like Trojans at their task. Our senators and congressmen might profit by their example. President Harding spent the weekend as the guest of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison in the Maryland woods where they slept out-of-doors, talked with the birds and played among the flowers. Those distinguished gentlemen must believe in the old saying, “one touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” The Ohio Utilties commission is losing a lot of good time in granting Henry Ford's petition for a lowering of freight rates on his railjoad. Commissions in any state are about the same—they work slow. What we need right now is a good rain. Let it come down in bucketfulls, hut for the sake of the corn, Mr. Weather Man, let it come tonight. —— • — Helpful Hair Nets A lady visiting friends says “Parisian sage is the,best thing Leverjused to make my hair wavy, lufrtrouH‘ ; ;md abundant. It'keeps away all dantiruff and stops itching." We guarantee it. The Holthouse Drug company. ——• L. NOTICE Leave your reders at Yager Bros, or call at 115 North First street if your sewing machine, phonograph, or piano needs attention. 174-t3x D. A. GILUOM, City.

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