Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1921 — Page 2

"CUSEN" THEM WRONG Tho following letter received at this office today is published verbatim» Aug. 10. IMX. to the Democrat offlus: — I wood like you to publish this in your paper if you please. 1 want Mr. and Mrs. Klink to now they are cusen the rong par tie for being in there watermellon patch and they want to go a little slow as we will not stand for eney thing like that. Our boys does not hafto steal for a liven nor furthermor it wood not be good for them if we catched them at It. MH. umi MRS. HINDENLANG.

Easy Way To Ward Off Cold It's better to take a few pleasant little tablets and ward off a cold than to pny big doctor bills and lie In bed for days or weeks with pneumonia. During the fall and winter months when grippe and pneumonia keep the electors busy, health authorities urge everyone to "Wateh out for symptoms of colds and get after them right off." Take no chances. At the first sign of milffling und sneezing get a box of Lightning Laxathe Quinine Tablets and stop the cold within 24 hours. Lightning Laxative Quinine Tablets are safe, pleasant; never grqie or sicken. Drug- -„., rja ft c them. Only 2'- i»» :• box.

TONIGHT Wanda Hawley in “THE HOUSE THAT JAZZ BUILT” fAU was not going well In the Rodham household. It began to be evident after the first kewpie found his way in. And J when young Mrs. Rodham began lying abed till noon, and the living room began to look like a cabaret, there was no longer any doubt of it. Jazz had Cora in his clutches. And when Jazz enters by the door, -1 love flies out of the window, j You will laugh until you weep at the carryings-on of these newlyweds. Wanda I Hawley is without doubt the i most irresistible comedy art- | ist on the screen. See the Jazz House.

El IHjMBING I I* ! r -jl^—— YOUR MORNING SHOWER will do you a world of good—ask your doctor! It is.refreshing and Invigorating and you will feel its good effects ail day long. Let us place gn at-to . ate shower ba'h in your bathroom. II should be '• port of your equipment. P. J. HYLAND West Monroe Street “ms' Notice AUGUST 10 Last Day To Pay Your Gas Bills. Oilice Open on above night until 8:30 p. m. NORTHERN INDIANA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY 105 N. 3rd St.

Samuel Ralston On Amendments (Continued from png* one) teentb amendment does not otherwise seek to control the states In' regulating ‘their domestic affairs or interfere with their political Independence. The state* are free to adopt their own tax system, classify- ■ ing property for taxation as they please, so long us there Is uniformity , In application and an absence of the exercise of arbitrary power. The proposed amendment giving , the legislature power to "provide by law for a system of taxation" is a revolutionary proposal and will authorise that body to tax w hat it pleases and to whatever limit it desires. And yet men urge its adoption on the ground that under it a tax system can be worked out that will bring more property on to the assessment list by taxing some persons at a lower rate than others. So far as I am concerned, it will require more than the bringing ot an additional few hundred thousand dollars on to the assessment roll, to be taxed at a mere pittance, to get my consent to surrender all constitutional limitations on the legislature regard ing tho subject of taxation Constitutional safeguards are not to be bartered away in this manner and the people owning visible property can well afford to endure the injustice now-

imposed upon them until they can get a legislature that will propose a safe and sane modification of section 1 or article 10 or our constitution, if indeed it should at all be changed. Under the constitution of Indiana, adopted in 1816. equally in assessment and taxation of property did not prevail. Favoritism in taxation did not then meet witli the approval of the people. Property was then hidden from the assessor, just as it is today, and when section 1 of article 10 was under discussion, in the convention of 1851. the member who had offered it said. ”1 believe that there is hardly a subject connected with our state government which has attracted more general attention among the people I than the existing inequality in the 'assessment and taxation of property." What assurance can the people have . that, if they remove all limitations on i the legislature, a more equitable and satisfactory tax system will be enacted than we now have? When ttee kglslature was much freer under the 1 1816 constitution to work out a tax system than it is under our present | constitution, things vuere just as unsatisfactory as they ate now. Intangibles then escaped taxation, and the lands, herds and flocks of the farmers were required to bear the greater part of it. The truth is that the right sort of an effort has not been made by any political party to give the people as good a tax system as can be wot ked out under our present constitution. And when we are told that the people can trust the legislature without any restraint upon it, to deal fairly and wisely with them on the ini|>ortant subject of taxation, we should not fail to reflect that this proposed' amendment shows what an Indiana legislature can be persuaded to do. perhaps with the best of motives. In the quotation I have just made, from the appeal in support of the propos'd amendment, it will be Observed that it is urged that a part of the expenses of government should bmet through a classification of prop-1

. erty or an income tax. if these expenses should be met in ■ this way. why ask for the amendment? 1 I think it will be fairly admitted by . the legal profession of Indiana that Senator Evan It. Stotsenherg is one among the very first lawyers of the , state. He was attorney-general when the commission on -taxation in 1916 ' was considering the tax question, jin one of his opinions to that body he called attention to the fact that "the (only state having a constitutional proj vision requiring an equality of raite ■of taxation which taxes incomes is ■ Massachusetts.” He pointed out to the commission ' that it has been held by the supreme 'court of Massachusetts that a law ' which makes an assessment upon i incomes at the same rate as otlrer property is constitutional and that it i would be constitutional in Indiana to ! model an income act "after the Masisachusetts rule and tax incomes deI rived from sources other than real and personal property, at the rate fixed for other taxable property.” It is not necessary, therefore, to adopt the proposed amendment in orider to get an income tax law. Under I the holding of Senator Stotsenberg, I we can have such a law without surj rendering all constitutional limitations on the legislature, and this fact I should not be Ignored. Absolute power in governmental agencies has been 'the curse of the world. All mankind yet trembles over the assault recently i made through an abuse of this power |on civilization’s richest achievements, and Indiana cannot afford to any branch of her government so’dangerI ous a power.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY. Al C.I'ST 10. H>2l. . - t

| Carrying On With the American Legion Not to be outdone by the Women's Auxiliary of the American lat«lou and the various associations of wur mothers, "Dad" Is now forming an association <>f hl* own. The new father's organization la known as the "Ordar of Loyal Datto." It will co-operats with ull patriotic orders, aud will be especially affiliated with the American I>glon. "Dad" Sheldon Foote, of Ft. Myers, Fla., Is the founder of the paternal order. Its principles will encourage "clean, patriotic living, Irrespective of party, politics, race or creed." Men whose sons served In the Spanish-American or World wars, or w ho served in the army or navy at any other time, will be eligible. • • • A sales system for the hundreds of practical articles and ornaments that are being made by disabled veterans, is being developed by the East Side post at St. Paul, Minn. The sale opened on Bastille day, July 14. with a carnival, the proceeds es which will aid their unfortunate comrades in civil re-establlshmetit. The American Legion Welfare Bureau of St. Paul, 1* fighting for the unemployed ex-service men with financial handicaps in what It terms a determined ‘effort to "keep the bread line aud soup kitchen out of St. Paul." • • •

Thomas J. Bnnnigan, the new vice commander of the American legion, is well-known in New England for his record as chairman of the legislative committee of the Connecticut department of the Legion. He waged a fight against politicians who, he declared, were trying to "commercialize, federalize and politicalize soldier legislation." As a result of this campaign the state of Connecticut turned over to tlte American Legion as disbursing agent, a fund of $2,500,000 for the relief of needy ex-service men and their dependent families. • • • Capt. Harry C. Brumbaugh, formerly executive officer of General Pershing's information force which kept track of every man in France aud the movements of all troops and individuals, has been chosen executive secretary of the World war veterans' state aid of Oregon. Brumbaugh was formerly treasurer of the Legton Publishing corporation and assistant national treasurer of the American Legion. • • • After surviving several engagements of the World war in which he won a j Croix de Guerre and was twice cited for bravery, Clifford A. Laflin, member of the American Legion, died St St. John’s hospital, St. Paul, Minn., as the result of a pin scratch. Laflin was a first lieutenant in the Seventeenth field artillery.* Infection from th? scratch caused his death within a few days. • • • National Commander Emery of the American Legion placed a wreath ou the casket of Private Gresham at memorial services which marked the return of the hero's body from France. Commander Emery and Private Gresham were members pf the same brigade. The former was severely wouuded and the latter killed in action. Private Gresham was one of the first three Americans killed in France. • • • A summer camp, conducted by the American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans of the World wur. known as Camp Galbraith, in honor of Col. F. W. Galbraith, Jr., late commander of the Legion, has been opened in a SIOO,OOO hotel near Port Townsend. Wash. The camp Will continue until September 15, and will lie open to all veterans and their families for whatever period they desire.

• • • At the suggestion of Victor J. Miller, president oi the St Louis (Mo.) ■police board, the Frederick W. Stockham post, American Legion, voted to form a committee to co-operate with the police in ridding the city of crime. President Miller characterized their work as a thankless effort to see that Americanism starts at home. • • • Personal letters congratulating all aliens who receive their final citizenship papers, are sent out by F. M. Wood, commander of the American Legion post at Okmulgee, Okla. In the letters, Wood offers assistance of the Legion in steering a clear course in Americanism and pledges fellowship. • • • The site for Kansas City’s $2,000,000 Liberty Memorial building will be dedicated October 1, the opening day of the national convention of the American Legion. The dedication will follow a parade of some 30,000 members of the American Legion from all parts of the world. » • • More than 6,000 former service men have been assisted financially and otherwise by the Connecticut department of the American Legion, according to a recent report. Approximately >250,000 from a fund appropriated by the state of Connecticut, has been spent in the soldier welfare work. • • • Among the cities that hare tossed their hats in the ring as candidates for the 1922 national convention of the American Legion, are Mew Orleans, Baltimore, Houston and Han Francisco.

♦ DOINGS IN SOCIETY ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ CLUB CALENDAR Wednesday. Wednesday Afternoon Club —• Mrs. B. W. Johnson. Thursday Work and Win Clues—Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stuckey. Good- Fellows Class—Geruld Clifton. South Third street. Methodist Mary and Martha Class Picnic—(H. E. Butler Home. Zion Reformed Missionary Society —Sunday School Room. Friday. Woman's Home Missionary Society —Mrs. Walt Johnson. Christian Ladins’ Aid- Mrs. Lee Reese, Tenth Street. The Mary and Martha Sunday school class of the Methodist church with their husbands will have a picnic supper at the country home of H. E. Butler Thursday evening. Members please bring the money for the Armenian fund. + The Woman's Home Missionary society of the M. E. church will have a regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Walt Johnson on Marshall street. Every member try to be pretent. ♦ The Tri Kappas met with Ireta Erwin last evening at her home on North Second street. After the business meeting refreshments were served the remainder of the evening spent socially. Mrs. Pierre Goodrich of Winchester and Mrs. Richard Longshore of Montpelier, 0.. were ou* ot town guests. ♦ The Bluffton Tri Kappas and the Decatur chapter will motof to Honduras Friday evening and have their annual picnic. The Decatur girls will leave at five o’clock and meet at the homy of Miss Frances Dugan. • The Christian Ladies' Aid society will meet Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Lee Reese, on Tenth street.

The Woman's Missionary society of the Zion Reformed church will meet Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the Sunday school room. Important business and an interesting program. Evefry member is requested to be present. ♦ Little Jane Murray was six years old Tuesday, and several of her little friends were invited in to assist in celebrating the event. Games such as children enjoy were played for a couple of hours, and then the little folks enjoyed a fine lunch prepared and served by Jane's jnamma. Those who enjoyed the little party were the little Misses Marjorie Carroll, Mary Kathryn Tyndall, Louise Haubold. Rose Mary Linn. Helen Linn. Viola Magley, Dolores Klepper, Helen Dillman of Fort Wayna. and Masters John Carroll. Edward Linn and Talmage Render. Miss Jane received a number of beautiful presents. ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Ross Malonee entertained for 6 o'clock dinner last evening Mr. and Mr-. William Nickleson and children. Lois. Wayne and Earl, of Columbus, Ohio, who are visiting relatives in this city for a few days. PETERSON THRESHING REUNION At the close of a very successful threshing campaign the Peterson threshing ring held their third annual reunion meeting last night at the home of Martin Stalter of Washington township where a good time was had. Officers were elected for next year. After this cake and ice cream were served There were in all present seventy-five at the gathering whose names are as follows: Martin Stalter and family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Andrews and son, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Parkinson. Mr. and Mrs. George Squires and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Bright. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bentz and family, Charles Arnold and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Squires and family, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ginter and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Baker. Mrs. Emile Egley and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Amspuugh, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Carper and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Titus and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Werling and family. Mr. Linnemeier, Fred McGiill, Grandma Fisher and Grandma Andrews of Decatur, and Miss Nora Carr of Harrodsburg. Ky.

CONGRESS TO RECESS •• (United Pres* Service)' Washington. Aug. 10—(SpeiicmI to Daily Democrat)—-Con-gress will recess a week from Saturday for a month's vaca- ! tion. according to an agreement . between President Harding and Senator Lodge, it was officially announced today. »!■■■■ I. .... . WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s

TWAS A SURPRISE TO HER NEIGHBORS Terre Haute Woman is Restored to Health After Six Years of Su Hering — “Since my remarkabe restoration t<> health I believe everybody in our neighborhood is talking about I an-, lac, said Mrs. Mary A. Peyron, 94 Ihigh avenue, Terre Haute, Ind. "My health failed about six y.-ars ago as a result of stomach trouble, and no one will ever know what I i suffered during all hese years. I liv ed on a rigid diet, not daring to eai i the things I liked most, but even as | careful as I was 1 suffered tortures at I times from indigestion My back hurl , me, too. and as I couldn't get in a comfortable position I got very little | sleep at night. I got-thinner and i weaker every day and was as despon-. dent as a person ever gets to be. In ' fact I gave up ull hope of ever being well again. "This was the condition from which | Tanlac rescued me and 1 will be . grateful to it the longest day I live j I'm like a different person now, eat ing anything 1 want, sleeping ail j night long without waking once an I getting up in the morning as refresh ed anti happy as I used to do before I my troubles began. 1 have gained ■ eleven pounds in weight too. and it's | easy to believe what everybody tells ; me—that I’m the picture of health . My advice to everybody who suffers | like I did is to get Tanlac." Tanlac is sold in Decatur by Smith. Yager & Falk and by leading drug gists everywhere. _ ...» ENGLAND SOON TO BE WITHOUT SPEED LIMIT London. Aug. 10. — Country people are awaiting with concern and motorists with joy the removal of the speed limit in England. Week-ends at present are terrors to the rural districts. bi ' cles. runabouts, touring cars and the whizzing Juggernauts of char-a-bancs With their twenty or forty passengers tear up the narrow lanes of the green English countryside. 'Nobody knows what's going to happen when, as planned during the next few weeks, the speed limit is withdrawn and police court charges against offending motorists become "reckless" instead of merely "fast" driving. The Red Cross bears the expense of sending to Europe all bundles of clothing, clean and good, either new or used, that are sent to them at De- ' catur public library lower rooms, on Wednesday. August 17th. Mrs. Josephine Euchcff and blether, Mr. Joex Lange, of Cincinnati. 0.. are in this city the guests of Casper and Charles Lange families. Mrs. Euchoff was a resident of this city a number of years ago.

IT” i I B XT I V 7a 1 B C° me on along! 11 n Fill up your makin’s ' U - Papers with P. A.

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Summer Cold* Cause Headaches. GROVE’S latxative lIROMO QUININE Tablets relieve the headache by curing the cold. The genuine bears he Hignature of E. W. Grove. (Be sure you g''t BilOMO.) 80c. we<)

Prince Albert is sold in toppy red begs, tidy red tint, handsome pound and half pound tin humidors and in the pound crystal glass humidor with sponge moistener top. wl t Hg Copyright l»J1 ’ ay R J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Winston-Salem. Jl ♦