Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1921 — Page 2

DAILY DBM OCI A T < ’ Ribllahttf Ivery Evening Kxoapf Sunday by HI DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER Editor 1 ARTHUR R. MOLTHOUSE, Aaao•late Editor and Bualneaa Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor ' Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single Copies 3 cents One Week, by carrier 16 cents One Year, by carrier 37.60 Dne Month, by mall 46 cents Three Months, by mail.... 3125 Six Months, by mail 32.25 One Year, by mall .. 34 00 Ono Year, at office x 34.00 Advertising ratea made known on application. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur. Indiana, us second-classmetter. r ' ' i The schools of this city will open; Monday and everything is in readiness for that important event. The I staff of teachers and faculty is an excellent one and indications are that the coming year will be one of the most successful ones in the history of the local schools. A few signs of interest in the coming city campaign are occasionally noticed and meetings now and then of those interested indicate that. before long the candidates and thei organizations back of them will be i telling you all about it. Let’s have a clean campaign but one which will create the interest which such an important event should have. There is an automobile for every twelve persons in the United States according to figures recently published by the New York Times and on the Pacific coast there is a car for every seven persons. No wonder there has been a falling off in steam and traction railway* receipts for passenger service. And this has been done during the past ten years. We go some in this country. After all about the most important amendment on which you will vote on next Tuesday is number four, which gives the governor the right to veto a part of the general appropriation bill. We believe he should have that power. He could do no more than he must do now —sign it and he could if he desired to, save the expenditure of large sums by vetoeing such items as he believes unnecessary. Whatever you do, vote against amendments nine, ten and eleven next Tuesday. You cannot afford to do otherwise. This you will admit ft you have studied them carefully and if you haven’t you should take

IAN OPINION ON THE SPECIAL ELECTION

We are opposed to the proposed constitutional amendments. It may be admitted that there are some seemingly convincing arguments presented for their adoption. It may be admitted' that such arguments can be advanced else the presentment of these amendments would not have reached the voting stage. It may also be shown that there are very serious objections to them. Certain propositions are self evident. namely; That our present state constitution is a great I document. That it was modeled after the federal constitution. That the federal constitution was the result of consecrated thought born of a passionate desire for true liberty, and that time has demonstrated that it is the greatest governmental document of history. That the federal constitution is surrounded by safe guards, that make amendments possible only after thorough ■ action upon the part of the people, The same idea was carried into the state constitution. Section 233 of the state constitution prescribes how it shall be amended. It is clear that, the intent was that no proposal for amendment should be presented and acted upon by the legislature until such proposal was overwhelmingly demanded by the citfsenship and then carried through the procedure as therein specifically set out. The people of Indiana, seem to be indifferent towards this election. It is clear to us that the Indifference Is caused by the fact that the present constitution is me* Ing the conditions of 1921 practically as well as the conditions of 1«51. If it were not so and any inadequacy was sufficiently prominent the average man i and woman would be immediately | concerned in amendments and, changes. I The federal constitution was notj

the advice of such lenders of the state us Ralston, Durbin, Simms, Bush, Sahm and others. They tell you they are not only dangerous but almost ruinous and the state of Indiana cannot afford to take a chance ( on such a change at this critical period. Swat them. We probably notice the excessive charges and rates when they hit home. We recently purchased a sup ply of paper which was shipped from Maine to Chicago and rebilied there. The freight rate from Maine to Chicago, a thousand miles or more, was forty-three cents while the rate from Chicago here. 173 miles, was fifty-one I cents. Figure it out if you can. We i admit we can’t, but we are sure that [such unfair charges has much to do ’ with the present depression and the inability of the average man to get started. We believe that a majority will be cast in Adams county against all of ( the proposed amendments in next Tuesday's election. The feeling seems to exist here that the method of changing the important organic ''document is wrong, that the question I is entirely too Important to be light- ■ ly passed on by a small per rentage lof the voters, that many of the amendments are vicious and wrong and should be defeated —and they will vote against all of them, while admitting that several would ordinarily receive their approval. One well known citizen predicts that no more than one-fifth of the vote in Adams county will be cant next Tuesday. We hope his guess is bad and believe it is. Surely the people of this county will express their position on this matter of changing the constitution of the state. Surely you realize that some of these amendments make it possible to create further commissions, boards and debts and to take certain , rights away from you. If you don’t ; vote you cast half a vote for them. ■ If you favor them you ought to make I it a whole vote and if against them i you should help -defeat them. Another joker as a result of the acts of the last legislature and there were a lot which make the people groan. Attorney General Lesh < has rendered an opinion that the new county unit road law creates an entirely new taxing unit, meaning that ' I after we have exhausted the limit of indebtedness by township and by all ■ other liabilities we may go ahead to i' the limit as set out by this act. It

changed at any time until such changes were threshed out for years by the people and in reality congress mandated to make the changes. The state constitution should not be changed at any time until public sentiment is so intelligently crystalized upon any proposed change that the demand and the initiative for the change shall come from the people rather than from any legislature. Legislative action in recent years has not tended to encourage confidence in their enactments. Happily, repeals of unwise legislation is not such a difficult affair but tampering with the constitution is another thing altogether. The real voice in the ballot should be the AVERAGE voter. The average voter today is not an active propagandist for these changes. The average voter is the back bone of the electorate. The average voter is not radical, nor too conservative, nor is he easily swept off his feet.It is evident that the average voter is not going to go to the polls in i this election. To determine this election by a light vote, provided that ; the amendments carry, would be uni wise. It would not be a true expresl sion of the people. There is a lack r of vigiience on the part of our I people. i The constitution should not be changed in this manner. It is dangi erous and sets a bad precedent. If ; the people of Indiana at any time i fee! that any section of their constitution has become intolerable they - will assert demands for revision and , in the maintime it would be well for all to remember that the constiution is the foundation of ouf law and that j its pr6visions shouM be jealously I guarded and that ‘ Itertal vigiience j is the price of safety.” ONE WHO HAS MADE VP HIS MIND.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921. i

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continues that they may keep tholr munition plants, gun factories and ship mills operating while the world pays with the blood of its people. MINERS AT WAR; ARMY IN CHARGE (Continued from page one) war zone today to tell their followers that “the war is over.” Both William Blizzard and Dick Toney, president and secretary of the miners in this sub-district, wore confident that the miners would lay down their arms and go home with the arrival of the regulars.

The battalion from Fort Thomas. Kentucky, made its entrance into f the battle zone nnder the cover of ( darkness. Cheering of miners, farmers and store keepers marked the progress from St. Albans to Madison : where the train was placed on a sid- , Ing and the doughboys bivouaced. 1 Half the men slept while the remain- i der stayed on guard duty. Early today the advance to the "firing line” , was resumed. Five hundred men of the nineteenth infantry under the command of Colonel Martin followed the Fort Thomas battalion and before noon military occupation of the entire bat-' tie zone was complete with troops bases at Madison, Clothier, Jeffery, Sharpless and Blair. From these bases detachments will hike through the valleys and up the mountainside where the miners were stationed. If the miners have not already dispersed officers will advise them to lay down their arms. It was expected that this simple fitual would mark the end of the civil war. The first troop train into this district consisted of five coaches of soldiers with full equipment, a motor ambulance and machine guns. As a precaution three flat cars were attached ahead of the locomotive and were occupied by soldiers. Shortly after leaving St. Albans the lights were extinguished and the train rumbled and wheezed blindly through the narrow- winding valleys. “We'd a ‘heluva’ fine target with those lights on,” the doughboys explained. That this battalion is a crack outfit was attested by the fact that fully 75 per cent of the m°n are “noncoms.” They took delight in swapping banter with the residents of Madison and St. Albans as the population of those tw’o towns flocked to the train to meet them. 3—3—3—WANT ADS EARN—» -s—s •——— _ READY TO HELP YOU If you are subject to biliousness, gas, bloating, sick headache, sour stomach or other ills that result from indigestion and constipation, you can get relief with Foley Cathartic Tablets. They are a genuine, wholesome physic that affords prompt, sure and safe relief without griping or pain J. T. Osburn, R. F. D. 1, Lucasville, O , writes: “Foley Cathartic Tablets are fine. I had stomach trouble. I took Foley Cathartic Tablets and now 1 can eat anything.” Sold everywhere.

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“geneva news (Lavon Mattax, Correspondent) Mrs. Anna Lindsey und Thurman Drew spent Thursday in Winchester visiting the former's cousin, Mra. Vorhees. George Drayton of Akron, 0., arrived in this city Thursday evening and is spending several days visit fng with old friends. Mrs. R. R. Myers of 1-os Angeles. Cal., who has been visiting her brother, Ed Kroner, und family, left for her home Saturday morning.

John Scheer ami family who have spent the summer in the oil fields in Oklahoma, arrived at their home here Thurhday afternoon. John Aspy and wife and Miss Fay Shinip motored to Akron the lore part of the week and are visiting the latter's sister, Mrs. Leland Muckmaster, and family. The Adams 'County Holiness association began their tent meeting at what is known as the Roth Grove, two miles west of this place, on last Wednesday night, Rev. E. J. Glendening onducting the first service. Ou Fri- ■ day night a truck load of young peo- , pie and several machine loads of I older people of Geneva motored out I to head Rev. E. M. Dubar of the Hart- j ford City Grace church, who was 'j >astor of the Methodist church here I several years ago. An evangelist will I oon arrive and will have charge of the remainder of the meetings, which will continue through the greater part of Se >1 -mber. .Mrs. Ernest Relcheldeffer spent j Friday in Decatur visiting her grand- I father, Ervin Acker and family. Miss Cora Chrisman returned to her I work in Kansas City, Kan., on Satur- I day morning after spending two weeks at the home of her father, C. M. Chisman. Harry Gregg spent Friday in Fort! Wayne attending to business mat-Il ters. Miss Carrie Shutt left for her home I in Bloomville, Ohio, Saturday, after I visiting for some time at the home of j her sister, Mrs. A. .1. Bliss. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Riggin oi j Muncie are visiting the latter’s mother, Mrs. Rudolph Kaeser, of west of town. C. D. Porter arrived Friday after-; noon and is spending the week-end j here attending to business matters. The Misses Ruth Odle. Addie Hos-1 kinson, Elizabeth Thornhill, Katherine Fravel, Ivy Miller, Marie Tully, Dor-I othy Armstrongc, Claudia Buckmast-. er, Mary Kenney and Helen Kenney j arrived home fro mMuncie Friday aft | ernoon. The summer normal term, ended Friday and most of the above mentioned will teach this winter, while several of them expect to return to Muncie for the fall term. A marriage license was issued to Solomon Lord, born, June 30, 1898, son of Reuben Lord to wed Marie Leichtensteiger, born July 19, 1902, daughter of Henry Leichtensteiger.

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