Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1921 — Page 1

Volume XIX. Number 188.

A BRIEF RECESS MAY BE GRANTED If Congress Stops Acting Silly and Gets Down to • the Real Business FOR A FEW DAYS President Returns From Vacation to Find That Mice Have Been Playing By Raymond Clapper. < Itnlled !•«•»-. (ervlce}, Wa Ington. D. C., Aug. 10—(Sp P . rial to Daily Democrat).— President Harding called leaders of both houses of congress into conference again today in the hope' of bringing on agreement to end the legislative deadlock and enable congress to take a brief vacation. Questions giving the president the niost trouble are: 1— The extent to which taxes can be cut. 2 —Agreement on a tariff bill which will satisfy conflicting interests of producers and consumers in all sections of the country. 3—Enactment of the railroad relief measure before congress takes a recess. The president returned from his ten day vacation/ to And these questions in a sadly tangled state due to the inability of leaders to reach an agreement with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. The president has found it necessary to crack the white house whip over refractory leaders. He is trying to do this with as much tact as possible but he was unable to iron out the situation in two long conferences yesterday and today he called senators Lodge and Curtis back to the white house in a further effort. The president is agreeable to a congressional recess but he feels strongly that congress must stick on the job until the railroad relief bill is passed so the government can clean up the millions in railroad claims. The claim of administration officials is that thousands of idle men would find work if the railroads were thus •aided. Behind these railroad and tax troubles looms the tariff. Harding and his advisers recall the disaster that befell the Taft administration when it revised the tariff upward and the problem now is to remain true to the cardinal republican principle of pro tection without throwing up a tradt barrier which would deay the recovery of industrial prosperity.

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE Washington, D. C., Auk. 10. — Ac cording to the census.of 1920 then are 389,445 children 7 to 13 years o age in the state of Indiana and of this number 369,713 or 94.9 per cent, were reported as attending school. In 19U the percentage attending school was 93.3 thus maintaining the same higl standard. Os the children 14 and II years of age. 80.2 per cent, were at tending cphool and of those 16 and 1. years of age 39.3 per cent. Os the white children 7 to 17 year of age 93.3 per cent, were att nJin trhool in 1910 and 94 9 per cent, ir E)ur colored; children of the came age the percentage in the saint interval increased from 92.7 to 94.2. •_ ♦ STARTING A NEWSPAPER 4 * '♦ ♦ A publisher of Mississippi, 4 (> furnishing the Information for 4 ♦ the Southern association, says 4 4> he has been asked what it will 4 4 take to start a paper, by a friend 4 4 of liis who wants to get into pol- 4 i 4' itics. 4* He replied that you can start 4 4' a hand set weekly lor $4,000 or 44- $5,000. if you put in a typeset 4 4' ting machine it can be started 4 4 for SB,OOO to SIO,OOO and if yon 4 4- want a daily add abcut SIO,OOO 4 4 more for a good presa and other 4 4' equipment. ! 4 Then he added: "I said start 4 <• it.” 4* “It may be necessary to spend 4 4 several times that before the pa- ♦ ♦ per ever pays dividends." ♦ “One good weekly is ample for 4 ♦ any city of 5.000 population. One 4 ♦ good daily is ample for any city ♦ ♦of less than 30,000. No weekly 4 ♦ has ever been made to pay -n ft * ♦ city that has a daily. The poor- ♦ ♦ est excuse in the world for start- 4 ♦ ing a paper, is for boosting some 4* ♦ one into politics.” —Inland I less 4 ♦ Bulletin. 4*44k* + + 444444444

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

BABE IS DEAD. Mrs. Fred Hanacher was notified by telephone this morning of the death of the four months' old babe of Mr. and Mrs Carl Hotter nt Fort Wayne, the mother and Mrs. Haneher being sisters. The grandmother, Mrs. Jane Schaffner, was also notified, und she and Mrs. Hancher left at noon for the Letter home at Fort Wayne. There are two other children in the family. REAL BOULEVARD The Route Extending Fifty Miles From Ligonier to Butler is Transformed THE MANY TEAMSTERS Who Made Business of Pulling “Tourists” From Mud Seek Other Sites

Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 10. — With only two more miles to be improved, which work will be concluded within a short time, the important trans-con tinental highway in northern Indiana known as State Road 17, will be tram formed from a route of dips, bump and curves into a stretch not dissim ilar to a boulevard, Lawrence Lyons director of the state highway depart ment said today. This road extends for approximate ly'so miles from Ligonier througl Kendallville to Butlerville and, as an important travel artery of the stat, road syrtem, is a favorite route oi motorists from New York City ant Cleveland through Chicago to point of interest aong the Pacific coast. For several months the department has engaged in i?building the roa.’ and surfacing it with gravel. The minimum width is 28 feet and gravel is spread a width of 16 to 18 feet. Curves were rtraightened and grades eased and particular attention giver to drainage, the result being that tw< bad sections widely known by tour ists as the “Butlerville hole” and the "Darrow hole” are eliminated. Because of a lack of upkeep and inadequate drainage surface water from contiguous high elevations collecte< on the road which rapidly det?rior ated. At the Butlerville hole, a short distance from Butlerville, a year age it was not an uncommon sight to sei half a dozen big motors stalled and waiting turn to be towed to soiii ground by a team. Usually such t "lift” was accompanied by a stipend of not less than |5. and men witl teams found business good at al! hours of the day and night, especial ly in the rainy season. Darrow Hole near Waterloo in De Kalb county was identical to the Butlerville hole and for several rod; there was in fact no road at all. In repairing this stretch of road tht righway department surfaced with gravel because in the north when there is considerable more moisture it is found that gravel is better thar all other road material; also cheaper Gravel spread properly with sufficient crown and grade to properly drain the road, but not to induce accidents and it affords a surface for ideal traction, according to A. H. Hinkle, chief engineer of maintainance.

NOW YOU BETTER LOOK OUT (Halted Service). Washington, D. C., Aug. 10 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The department of justice today began gathering evidence for a new raid on profiteers. The profiteers are not to escape, it was made plain, despite the fact that the supreme court recently knocked out the anti-profiteering -provisons of the Lever act. "The justice department still has behind it the powerful anti-trust laws and other acts designed to prevent artificial price fixing," declared Guy D. Goff, assistant to the attorney general today. The new line of attack will be mainly against open price associations and organizations of dealers and speculators. Goff emphasized that the justice department in its campaign will refrain from any act that may be construed as an oppression of big business. —•— THEY DIDN'T FIT Indianapolis, Aug. 10. —Harry Ball does not have the kind of tailor shop that suits burglars. A burglar entered Harry’s place of business and tried on all the suits in the store, and because none fit he went away disgusted. He tried on practically every suit in the shop, about fifty, but failed to find one the right size.

FORMER RESIDENT Returns to Scenes of His Childhood—Visits Aged Couple at Monmouth DAVID Ft SCHENCK Eighty-nine Years Old— Enjoys Good Health, and Works on Farm Each Day A visitor at this office last evaning was D. F. Schenck, living in Fairfield county. Ohio, near Baltimore Mr. Schenck is in his eighty-ninth year, and foimeily resided in this county near Monmouth. He left here seventy years ago, and this ir his sec ond visit to Adams county in that time, the previous visit being a year and a half ago. He is well acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lord at Monmouth, and in company with Fred and William Morrison, of near Willshire, with whom he is visiting, drove to Monmouth yesterday afternoon and had a great visit with them. The three knew all of the first resident! of this part of the county, and the hour spent in reminiscences was greatly enjoyed. Mr. Schenck was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, in 1832. He came to Adams county when he was nim years old, and lived here ten years When he left Decatur, there were but ten or fifteen houses in this city. The country was nothing more than a wilderness. and he remarked of the wonderful progress that had been mad* in the years that had passed since he left this community. He is in excellent health, and work; considerable on his farm in Fairfield county, < Ohio, each year. He can read and write without the use ol glasses, and just to show us he was not joking, he picked up a piece of paper on the desk, borrowed our pen cil, and wrorte his name in a neat and perfect lettering. He is now anticipating getting into the corn field and cutting his 300 shocks of corn, a jot he has done annually for a numbet of years. When asked to what he attributed his long life and remarkable good health, he stated that he had not used tobacco or liquor in any form at any time, and that he had always aimed to get the proper amount of rest and exercise. He has no relatives here, and just likes to return for old-times sake.

CHANGE OF VENUE Will be Granted Governor Len Small Who Thinks Fair Trial Impossible IN SANGAMON COURT Governor is Arrested and Released on a $50,000 Bond Late Yesterday By Laurence M. Benedict. (Inlinl Service,). Springfield, 111-, Aug. 10. —(Special to Daily Democrat). —Len Small, Illinois governor, arrested after two weeks of playing hide and seek with Sheriff Henry Mester today was offered a change of venue by State’s Attorney Fred Mortimer. The governor has frequently been quoted as saying he would not be given a fair trial in Sangkmon county court, where warrants charging him with embezzling large sums of state money were returned. In a statement today, Mortimer outlined a plan whereby the governor could obtain a change of venue into any other county when his case comes up for trial. The governor was at liberty on posting $50,000 bond. "The offer of a change in venue is not made because I have the slightest notion that the governor could not be given a fair trial in Sangamon county,” Mortimer said, “but we are anxious to give him every consideration possible." The governor will be arraigned on the first Monday in September before Jadge Ernest Smith here, along with two alleged conspirators Indicted with him — Lieutenant Governor Fred Sterling and Vernon Curtis, a banker of Kankakee. —— ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ THE WEATHER FORECAST ♦ Indiana — Showers and thunderstorms tonight and Thursday, warmer in east and south portions tonight, somewhat cooler Thursday.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, August 10, 1921.

+ ARMOUR HOPEFUL ♦ ♦ Chicago, Aug. 10—(Special to | ♦ Daily Democrat) —J. Ogden Ar- + mour today told the institute +of American packers that the ♦ going will be less difficult from + this point on," for American 4» business. + "We believe firmly -that the ♦ tide of business has turned.” ♦ said Armour, reporting tor the + finance committee of the pack- + ers’ organization at their an- + nual convention here. ♦ "We are on the same road to- + day that we were a few years ♦ ago, but with the difference that + the end of the road seems to be +in sight. At any rate, there are + evidences that the worst part of ♦ it has been traveled.” +♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦

A BETTER VISION Os Home Management, the Girls Who Attend State School of Economics WILL BE PREPARED To Assume the Duties of a Housewife—Esther Fuhrman Represents County Indianapolis, Aug. 10. — Absorbing new visioifs of home management, girls from all over the state who attend the State Fair School Os Home Economics this year will be prepared to make better housekeepers and better home managers for their farm er husbands, 1. Newt Brown, secretary of the new Indiana department of agriculture, said in an interview today. The state fair school of home econ-’ oniics was founded three years ago by the State Fair Board. Then it had an enrollment of forty students. Last vear there were 65, and Brown said he expected nearly a hundred to at tend this year’s term. The school is to be held in th< woman’s building at the fair grounds. On the first floor is the kitchen, where the students prepare their meals, see cooking demonstrations and hear lectures on kitchen economics. Adjoining the kitchen is the dining room, where the girls serve meals prepared by their fellow studentq, Dormitories for the girls are on the second floor. In addition to cooking and dining room instruction, the girls are to be given health and physical culture talks, and will be taken on shopping expeditions. On these trips. Brown said, the girls will be taken to the department stores, the city maiket bouse, bakeries, packing houses and flour mills to get a general idea ol food and clothing values and become more intimately acquainted with the methods of preparing foods. In selecting these students, he said, a girl from each county witl the highest ability and the highest standing in farm clubs will be chosen and all her expenses will be paid by the state. Mrs. Charles M. Lindley of Salem Mrs. Charles of Otterbein and Mrs. Louis Taylor of Newburgh are to be the instructors. All three have done field lecture work at Purdue university. Miss Esther Fuhrman, daughter o' Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fuhrman, will represent the Root Township Home Economics club, having won the right in a membership contest conducted by the club a few weeks ago. ■ ■* Mrs. Henry Rodenbeck received word that her niece, Mrs. Frank Ellison, who underwent a serious operation last week at the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne, is improving nicely.

444444444444444 + OPPOSED TO AMENDMENT 4 4 + ♦ Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 10 — 4 + (Special to Daily Democrat) — 4 ♦ Opposition to the proposed con 4 4- stituticnal amendments which ♦ 4> would give the legislature un- ♦ ♦ limited power in the matter of 4 ♦ taxes was expressed today in + ♦ the report of a committee ap- ♦ ♦ pointed by Chairman Bosse of 4 + the democratic state committee. + 4« The committee characterized + + the income tax amendment as ♦ ♦ "just and equitable.” The com- 4 ♦ mittee is not opposed to classl- ♦ 4- fication but declares the pro- 4 + posed amendment provides for ♦ + so much that is dangerous and ♦ ♦ would open the way for future 4 ♦ legislatures to make the tax 4 ♦ burdens heavy, the report said. 4 444444444444*444

BIG HOME COMING Is Planned in Connection With the Union Township Community Picnic WEDNESDAY, AUG. 17 Regular Meeting of Club Last Night — Addresses by Quinn and Merryman The regular monthly meeting of the Union Township Community club was held last evening at the Kohr school house with a large attendance. M. A, Clem, vice president, presided and interesting discussions took place. Judge Merryman and French Quinn of Decatur made the addresses. Committees were named for the big picnic to be held in the Otto Bieeke grove on Wednesday, August 17th and from the amount of enthusiasm displayed the picnic will be the biggest affair that Union town ship has ever had. An effort is being made to have all former Union town ship residents to come back for that day and make the picnic a "HomeComing.” Union township is making a great success of these community meetings and the benefits that are being derived are greater than the most san guine expected. They will continue through the coming fall and winter and many plans are being considered to make the meeting even more en joyable. TO HOLD CLINIC Smith & Smith, chiropiactors, havi decided to hold a children's clinic oi Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it their office over the Morris five and tei cent store, for the children of schoo age—between six and ten. This wil. be entirely free, and adjustments wil also be free while the clinic lasts which will be Indefinitely. The chiroe praetors believe there are many chil dren in the city and county whi . would be spared considerable troubh in after years if parents would glvt them the necessary attention at thi time. The only requirement to ge the free adjustments is that the par ents accompany their children so examination, that any irregulalit.' might be thoroughly explained ti them.

CAIRN FOR STONE

Is Placed on Top of Mount Eanon—Was First Man to Scale the Famous Peak BODY IS IN CAMP At Eau Claire and is Met by Wife and Son of Mr. Stone and Others Banff, Alt., Aug. 10 —(Special t< Daily Democrat) —A cairn atop Mt Eanon today honors the first man t( scale the peak—Dr. W. E. Stone, late president of Purdue University. It was just as he was stepping tc the topmost projection on Mouni Eanon that Doctor Stone fell to hi) death, Rudolph Aamar. Swiss guide, explained today. The party that brought Dr. Stone's body out of the abyss where he fell, scaled the pre clpitious peak to erect a cairn there in honor of their friend. Mrs. Stone, who was not far below her husband when he fell, scrambled down the mountain below where her husband’s body was found, in her hysterical efforts to find it. The body was found about 800 feet below where he fell. Mrs. Stone was rescued from a ledge far below that when rescuers went after the pair two weeks ago. The party that went after Stone's body encountered heavy sleet and snow and was delayed one day. Dr. Harlan Stone, deau of law at Columbia University, brother of the dead explorer, accompanied by his nephew, David Stone, was due at Eau Claire camp today, where guides have taken the body. Mrs. Stone now completely recovered from suffering and exposure while marooned eight days on a mountain ledge, will join them there. BURKS HAVE A DAUGHTER Barbara Jane is the name of the new daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Sim Burk this morning. Mr. Otto Luttman of Root township was a caller in this city today.

SERIOUSLY INJURED. Earl Sudduth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellas Sudduth, was seriously injured last evening, when the horse he was driving became frightened and fell back on him, causing a fracture of the shoulder and bruising his back and tearing the ligaments of his right arm. Word from the Sudduth home this morning, is that he is resting better and will get along all right. AT THE' BOOTHS Inspectors, Judges and the Clerks for Special Election Are Appointed MEN AND WOMEN Election Will be Held on September 6th — Many of Clerks are Women The list of inspectors, judges and clerks to serve at the special election on Tuesday, September 6th. as appointed by the county chairmen of the democratic) and republican parties have been approved by the board of county commissioners and the auditor authorized to notify each individual of his appointment. The democrats had the privilege of appointing the inspectors and clerks, while the republicans appointed the judges. Many of the clerks are women. The voters in the county will vote on the thirteen proposed amendments to the state constitution at the special election and everyone is urged to go to the polls. County Clerk John T. Kelly will act as the ahlef of the canvassing board and :he results of the election are to be sent to him by the inspectors the lay after the election. The list of inspectors, judges and derks are: East Union — Frank Mclntosh, inspector; E. W. Wass, judge; Mary Clem, clerk. West Union —John W. Blakte, inspector; C. S. Mumma, judge; Edna Fleming, Clerk. East Root-—Harvey Tieman, inspecor; Reuben E. Gilpen, judge; Harold Tiernan, clerk. West Root —Phil Baker, inspector; -laniuel Fuhrman, judge; George Schefferstine, clerk. North Preble —Ernst Doehrman. inspector; P. Reed Caston, judge; Clara Kiefer, clerk. Soutii Preble—Charles Werllng, inipector; Fred Schueler, judge; Susie Dilling', clerk. North Kirkland—Simeon J. Bower, nspector; Frank W. Spade, judge; Eunice Ernst, clerk.

South Kirkland —Amos K. Stoneturner, inspector; William M. Yager, ludge; Hattie Crum, clerk. North Washington—Ben Biting, in ipector; G. W. Raudenbush, judge; Peter J. Spangler, clerk. South Washington — Thomas Noll, inspector; Essias T. Jones, judge; George Faust, clerk. North St. Marys—S. T. Welker, in ipector; John H. Helm, judge; Mrs Walter Koos, clerk. South St. Marys—E. W. France, in ipector; J. W. Dague, judge; O. S '"ortney, clerk. North Blue Creek—Edwin Miller, in ipector; J. P. Hilyard, judge; Nola Jryan, clerk. South Blue Creek—J. M. Foreman, inspector; Elmer Eley, judge; Mary Alpe, clerk. North Monroe —John Nelson, inspector; B. F. Shirk, judge; Mrs. John Crist, clerk. Middle Monroe—l. G. Kerr, inspector; E. W. Tumbleson, judge; David t'. Depp, clerk. Berne “A” —John Eicher, inspector; John H. Hilty, judge; Milton Gilliom, ■lerk. Heine "H”—drover Moser, inspector; Fred Rohrer, Judge; Nellie Gottschalk, clerk. French —Joseph L. Graber, inspector; D. A. Baumgartner, judge; Martin Moeschberger, clerk. North Hartford—D. Forest Hoffman, inspector; Will Judd, judge; Elizabeth Fielder, clerk. South Hartford — Eugene Lindsey inspector; Noah A. Pusey, judge; Rosa Anderson, clerk. North Wabash. —L. N. Stahl, inspector; Samuel Teeter, judge; Leona Long, clerk. Ceylon—John F. Felty, inspector; Roy B. Lewis, judge; Ada Hall, clerk. Geneva “A” —Alva Fenstimaher, inspector; Alva Vorhees, judge; J. L. Yaney, clerk. Geneva "B” —Frank. S. Armantrout, Inspector; Edward Pusey, judge; Hazel Widdows, clerk. West Jefferson —William Adang, in(Continued on page six)

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SAMUEL RALSTON ON AMENDMENTS Ex-governor Says the Proposed Changes Are Dangerous and Warns People VOTE AGAINST THEM Believes Some Changes Should be Made But Fears Power Thus Conferred

(By Former Governor Samuel M. Ralston, Written for the United Press) I am not one of those who believe that the present constitution of Indiana Is too racred a document to be in any wise modified. It was made by men, who realized that they themselves wete human and that their work would in the course of time show Imperfections. They therefore, wisely provided how this-instrument might be amended, when it failed to meet the needs of ths people. But in their wisdom they were careful ‘nbt to suggest that any of the agencies of government should have pewer to modify the constitution without regard to the will of the people. And the fact should not be overlooked that the people would never have adopted out constitution if it had not contained a provision giving them the last word on any proposal to change it. To avoid making a mb lake in amending this organic law, by which the people have parted with certain powers original!}- in themselves, an amendment has got to have the approval of two legislatures by a majority vote before the people will take it up for consideration. In other words, in the adoption of our constitution, the people were careful to see to it that they remained the masters of government in this state. The people reserved this right in

themselves because they were not willing to delegate absolute power to any agency of government. The fact Is the whole structure of government in this country is builded on the idea that the people are the source of government and that they and they only should bo entrusted with absolute power to determine in the last analysis the particular form of government under which they shall live and how it shall be changed. No nation sets a higher estimate on life, liberty and property than does this one. These are the three sacred and indispensable foundations of civlization. No one of them can be dispensed with, and civilizaztion continue to refine and bless society. To guarantee the citizen, therefore, in these rights as against the state, the fourteenth amendment was added to the federal constitution, providing that “No state shall deprise any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, or deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” This amendment, it will be observed. guards just as carefully property and the right to acquire, hold and enjoy it as it does either life or liberty. All three are national rights and the shield of the f dCral constitution is thrown about them. But while this is true, the Four(Continued on page two)

++++++++++++++♦+ + NO TIME. TO CUT ADVERTISING ♦ + ♦ ♦ Elbert L. Ashcroft, of St. ♦ ¥ Paul, northwestern representa- + fr tjve of the Burroughs Adding ♦ +■ Machine Company, expresses the ♦ ♦ opinion that business conditions ♦ + today do not warrant the cur- + ♦ tailnient of newspaper advertis- + + ing. He believes that the re- ♦ 4> cent stagnation was largely the ♦ ¥ result of a mental attitude and + + that as soon as business men + + generally begin to place orders ♦ + for things needed in their busl- + + ness they will begin to get ♦ ♦ more orders for the merchan- ♦ ♦ dise they have to sell. ♦ + “The concern with which I ♦ ♦am associated,” said Mr. Ash- ♦ + croft, “is spending its money in + + newspapers today to advertise ♦ + its belief in this, and the more + ♦ who follow this examph the ♦ ♦ better it will be for everjlody’s ♦ ♦ business. ♦ + “There are two things we all ♦ + need to do to dispel this bust- ♦ + ness gloom. We must adver- ♦ +■ tise and talk better business + ♦ and do all in our power to start ♦ + the normal flow of money + ♦ through business channels.” + +♦+++♦♦♦♦♦++♦+♦♦