Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1921 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. ■— ■ 4 JOHN H. HELLER Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE. Amociate Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single Copies 3 cents One Week, by currier 15 cents Ono Year, by carrier 17.50 One Mouth, by mail; 45 cents Three Months, by mail $1.25 Six Months, by mail $2.25 One Year, by mall $4.00 One Year, at office $4.00 Advertising rates muke known on Application. - - - Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. laSSSMsaaßtswaaMasa i President Harding has decided not to make any out of town engage- ( lueuts for a while, criticisms having , reached Washington of the dilly- . dallying which has been going on' there at a tthie when real effort or ( ut least a bluff at it semes the prop- ’ •I er thing. MSHaaMMMNMKMSMMsaSMSS Sixteen Iren are candidates for the Indianapolis postmastership, in- 5 dieating that there is no trouble in £ finding men to fill the job at the cap- ' itol city. The list includes a number ’ of prominent political workers with Freddie Schortemeler included. He , Is the secretary of the republican t State committee who is urging a par- 1 titan vote over Indiana in the city ( elections. t Well, it is announced that the report recently sent out from Wash- 1 ington that a family could have two hundred gallons of wine for family , use —in case of sickness of course - was a mistake and that the order meant you could only have pure fruit juice, without any “kick” or ( “authority." For the fellow who got t busy and made up the wine, the mis- I take may not prove a very popular 1 one. L —l— ... - Holm O. Bursum, republican, was elected United States senator in New Mexico in Tuesday’s election, his plurality over Hanna, democrat, being about 7,000 which is 4.000 less than that given President Harding. Though it is claimed the result is a vindication of the normalcy program of the administration, this is disputed by independent authorities who say the result was due to factional fghts among the democrats. And now’ there is alarm that the democratic members of the senate will join with Senator Borah to defeat the treaty with Germany. It is admitted they can do so if they wish but there is doubt if a better treaty can be secured under the present administration. The present treaty secures whatever force and virtue it has from the Versailles treaty, a large part of which is ratified and it is probable that is the view which > will eventually be taken except by such irreconcilibles as Borah, Reed and Johnson. The Decatur Industrial association has not indulged in a very vigorous effort the past few months for the reason that it was felt that at this time securing of industries or expenditure of money would be impossible. However the coming months should anil will include a number of addresses by builders of communities and the ground work for boosting things when the good times break. If you have ideas that you feel will help, suggest them and first of all become a member of this association, the only purpose being a united organization for the good of the community. All the experts agree that the worst of the depression is past, and that basic conditions have been improving for two or three months. There is no need to rehearse the evidence which appears from day to day in the newspapers. AR that is necessary is to point out the “ tendency Wliicli’* Dteftttrsw day 4<Udu/. progress is Slow, may not always be clear to tho casual observer. That tendency is unmistakably upward. The only difference of expert opinion has to do with the rate of improvement and the fixing of the time when the growing activity is destined to develop into a

I boom recognizable to everybody. Roger W. Babson, one of the most conservative of professional business observers, expects u ‘distinct upturn' In the coming winter or spring. He thinks that there should be considerable improvement, though, before that, coming in the full, as tho result of “the sales and advertising campaigns now being planned by some of the foremost manufacturers and merchants." Advertising unquestionably will have a great deal to do with the revival of business. The stores and industries that have already got on their feet are the onus that started early, and advertised heavily along with their price revisions. A big market is just about ripe for the fnauujacturers and merchants who are wise and bold enough to make a strong appeal at the strategic time. —Kendallville News-Sun. + + ♦ + ♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦ + ♦ + TREES IN THE COUNTRY + ♦ ♦♦ + ♦♦ + *♦♦♦♦♦♦ + While reading Mr. Quinns article about the woods north of Decatur and the beauty he can see there, while many others are blind to it; also about the beautiful elms and maples of Decatur, I have been thinking long and hard for a good many years, and I feel I just must speak “up in meetin’.” While our natural resources in the way of trees, shrubbery and vines are to be found by the score, most people do not know them, and never see them, because they can’t appreciate, and their Idea of cleaning up is with the ax and saw. Instead of studying the landscape, and thinking how many years it takes a beautiful elm to grow, or watching a shrub one season to see what it blooms or bears, it is considered brush and rubbish and consigned to the fire, whether it be along a building site or a public road. Last winter there appeared an article in the Daily Democrat written hv a soldier, teiling about the beautiful shady roads of France, comparing them with ours, and asking if the country people couldn't be legislated into planting trees on their own land along principal roads. I think not, because it takes more than man's alotted time to -grow elms to maturity. And trees while young need protection from live stock and insects which would mean much work and expense for the land owner,' therefor he won't plant more than for his own benefit. It is also a sad fact that most of them are included in the above mentioned class. My idea of legislation would be something like this: Require all road superintendents to have a knowledge of forestry, and the authority to see to it that road contraciois. telegraph, telephone lines do not take the liberty to chop and butcher every tree that comes near the wires.

1 need only look out my window to see a young elm that grew voluntary just outside the land owner’s fence. Telephone men came along recently and all that is left of the entire tree is the split stubs of the main limbs, and the ground covered with dead brush for the owner to clear away. Another elm not more than ten rods on down the road just inside the fence with one-half the top chopped off. I call to mind, as we drove along the road one autumn day , a [urge beautiful sugar, with symetrical, dense, colored leaved top, th? only one that stood just inside the field fence, with a great hole, I call it. chopped in the side of the top to the very center. The same ruthlessness goes on in regard to the building of roads. I know of a double sycamore that stood with about four inches of the body over the direct edge of the road grade, and no amount of persuasion by the property owner could induce the contractor to let it stand, for the specifications call for a clean sweep of everything inside of so many feet. In the southern part of Washington township there was a large elm, in the center of the crossroads, until the roads were macadamized, when it was cut down. The stone could have been bujlt around it, making it a beautiful landmark. “Nuff said.” Everybody can see for themselves. My plea is preserve the natural ornaments and the land owners will become interested and add to by planting and caring for trees and shrubs. And as years go by, our public roads in beauty will be second to no other country. MRS. G. H. BRIGHT. —— « '•SCHOOL DAYS, SCHOOL DAYS” Do yon 'remember the - old » guag about school d'ays being gcldr.n rille it is wrong to..s«'n<i a coughing, sneezing, spittfiig cTifld th'-.gvhrol to spread disease germs among other little ones. Com mon colds are infectious. Protect your own and other little ones with Foley's Honey and Tar. This safe family remedy checks coughs! and colds, loosens phlegm and mucusus and coats raw, irritating membranes with a healing, soothing medicine. Sold everywhere.

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CHILD TRAINING AT HOME PLAY-UTILITY OF THE CARD-BOARD BOX By Mrs. Richard K. Thomas.

Have you a card board box in the house? If you have two, all the better, n half-dozen better still, for whether you are a mother with one child or a half-dozen, ranging from six months to twelve years old, you will never find yourself ut u loss when the old toys pall, or the day is rainy. Os course the box must have qualifications; and u few accessories are necessary, according to the ages of your children. The accessories are so simple that any household may have them or the children may make them. As early as six to twelve months, baby tires of his rattle. Give him the lid of a clean white box, or make two slits and tie his rattle to it. it will never cease to amuse his anew. Do not forget the qualifications, clean and white. Then if he puts it in his mouth it will do him no harm In his second year the child will enjoy a whole box or several boxes which he can take apart. Also give him a large lid. into which his toys may be piled and turned out again. Tho child of two or three years begins to want accessories. A string attached to a box makes it into a line wagon or coach. No wheels are necessary. Pulling and carrying are the first activities suggesting themselves to a child and a little girl likes a few covers with the boxes, such as clean cloths to make a bed for dolly. With the new experiences of the fourth and fifth years which are going to be reproduced continually, the box gains additional value. A half-dozen boxes joined with strings make a train, a few’ spools provide* wheels and a smokestack. A large box and a few small ones make a tea table and chairs. The painted engine and the real tea table may have lost their charm. The box toy is your alternative. At the Kindergarten age a pair of scissors, at your suggestion, and a

Is there a kindergarten in your community? No? Then wh|>’ not practice kindergarten principles in your own home? I do not mean by this that you must sit down and devote every second for three hours to your children. Hut teach your child while you are about your work. Teach him through play. Today play is considered a great factor in education. “Play is the expression of awakening instincts. Watch your little girl with her doll. The doll is her baby and she is its mother. Through this play she is developing the instinct of mother love. Watch your little boy playing store or fireman. He, too, is preparing for future manhood. Let us then teach through play. It is an acknowledged fact that the kindergarten gives a child certain advantages, by cultivating self-confi-dence. the power of observation, originality of thought and other qualities. Let us see if it is not possible for the mother to develop similar characteristics at home. First. Self ocnfidence: If the child asks to help with the dishes, make the bed, or perform other little tasks, do rot be too busy to listen to the request. Accept the offer of assistance with thanks, even if the work takes longer or needs to be done over. Remember this is one of the ways of develeping self-confidence and - helpfulness. Disouragement will not cultivate self-confidence. Second, Ability to memornize and think: Children love anything rhythmic, whether the words are understood or not. Repeat or sing nursery rhymes and jingles to the children. Soon they will be repeating and singing them after you. Find the time during the day to read or tell them stories. Every child loves a story, especially if acted out. Third, Love of Nature: When out for Walks teach the children about

The adage that a man is not fit to command others until he can command himself is never mor*, true than in the training of children. A mother who has acquired self-control has mono than half won the struggle of controlling her children. In the course of a conversation the other day, a mother remarked to me, “I don’t see why Charles has to pick just the time when I busiest to be the most exasperating.” What a picture that gave,me of the mother! { I cojild see'heff in the afterrfooi)'sit-* ting quietly'with'her mending basket, answering Charles’ interminable questions with tact and pffTiencc; osteritw into his “pretends,” and making the child feel that his mother was a real pal and playmate. Then I could see her a little while later, bustling about the witchen getting uppper, Charles still asking ques-

few paper fasteners, which you help adjust, awaken riew possibilities. Boxes of less stiff and heavy cardboard are more adaptable to the scissors. Wagons with wheels that turn, or tables and chairs with legs us u result. line big box in which to put the furniture serves as the doll house. The suggestions that follow the idea of ii “house for dolly” will be amply forthcoming rom the children themselves. With another and another year, while hands grow better trained, possibilities widen rapidly. All kinds of furniture (made without your assistance), rows of houses, stores, a whole community in fact, may be the outcome. Your big boys and girls can find endless amusement indoors or out. making their own accessories, and collecting the boxes themselves. Further suggestions are unnecessary. They are for the children themselves to make. You will find they are able to make them much more rapidly than yon can yourself. What I wish to impress upon you who are mothers or even you who are limited, is the value of weighing the “play-utility” of an article before throwing it away. Do not discard things which hold possibilities for the training or entertainment of your child. And save, at least, the card board box. I 1 THE CHILD OF THE ALIEN When can our language, our cus- | toms and ideals be so easily graspI ed and assimilated as during the | impressionable years of early | | childhood? It has been stated that I | we have 14,00(1,000 foreign born | people in .this country. Help us j to give the children of these al- | | iens first lessons in American cus- I toms, manners and ideals by es- | tablishing kindergartens for them. | For information address the Na- | tional Kindergarten Association. S I West 40th street, New York City.

TEACHING THROUGH PLAY By Mrs. C. W. Savage.

the trees. Howers, and birds. Nature can be known and loved in the parks of the city, as well as in the woods and reading nature stories supplements the first hand knowledge the children are gaining, thus adding to their interest and appreciation. Fourth, Observation: This can be cultivated by giving a chid magazines, calling his attention to the pictures and pointing out every detail. Then as he studies tor himself, not . one thing in a picture, no matter how i small, will escape his'eye. And he will become observant not only of pic- . tures, but of everything else about ■ him. Fifth, Originality: With blocks, the i sandpile or plasticine, (the latter can be purchased at stores carrying school • ’ supplies) a child can be instructed in - the making of various objects. Soon ■ he will branch out for himself, doing - really creative work. Sixth, Cleanliness and Orderliness: A child should be commended for ■ picking up his toys whfen he has lin- • ished his play, having it impressed upon him that these toys are his re1 sponsibility. If notice is taken of his 5 clean face and hands before and aft- , er meals, then constant reminding will > not be necessary. Kind and gentle 3 appreciation is an inspiration. Fretful s criticism disheartens. With my little two and a half year -old daughter, I have followed the - Kindergarten thought, including the • above suggestions', and the results have been most successful. 1 0 o GUARDING CHILDREN | Dr. P. P. Clayson. former Uni- I ’• | ted States commissioner of edu- I r | cation, said, “Our children must be guarded as loyally as the counj try itself and the Kindergarten | is an important factor.” Do you wish to obtain the adii j vantages of kindergarten training ■. | for the children of your common- | ity? If so, address the National I I Kindergarten Association, 8 West 1 1 | 40th street. New York. t o o

CONTROLLING CHILDREN By Margaret Wright North.

tions. After a few half hearted replies, mother turns on Charles with |m impatient, “Charles, if you don’t stop asking me questions I’ll send you to bed. you drive me wild.” There is a moment of silence and then another question. “What did I tell you? Now not another word.” Another moment and then a hesitant, “Say, Mother?" “Charles! Go right upstairs, take your clothes off and go to bed.” Now where was the fault? Was Qharles being -4‘most exasperating” or ’w;is! ft just that Mother vtas not in the mood and lost her patience? That mother was expecting too lUuclj.of her child. She wanted him to appreciate’fhfi Sihrin-that getting supper put upon her mind, body, and nerves. Since cooking was outside his experience, he could not. put himself in her position. Even if she had quietqly told him that she could

not play with him any more, giving tho reason, he would not have been able to change his play without her help. He was so filled with one idea .that a new suggestion was necessary. How easily it would have bN-n. when she could not whrk with his chatter going on. to have suggested that lie go to the front window and count tho number of white horses going by while she was getting supper; and ttell how many windows he could see in the houses across the street; or that he show her how nice a house he could build with his blocks. Because the mother expected the child to have the self-control which she herself lacked, disjileailure and resentment replaced the sympathetic friendliness of the afternoon, and Charles was unjustly punished. I>et us remember that children arc very much like rivers, it is impossible to stop thorn, but comparatively easy to change their course.

SEEDS OF CIVILIZATION “Now, here stands the world at 1 the parting of the ways. I Civilization has reached the cross- | roads. I Civilization is on the verge of be- | ing dominated by Science. Science will dominate for Good or Evil. Good means Progress. Evil means Destruction. Which shall it be?" o— • , I Why not begin now to sow the I ' seeds of Civilization for tomor- I i row? The Kindergarten makes | 1 for progress. For information I write, to the National Kindergar- j ten association. 8 West 40th ' street. New York City. I , — —i WHY IT SUCCEEDS Because It’s for One Thing Only, and ' Decatur People Appreciate This. Nothing can be good for every- j thing. Doing one thing well brings sue cess. Doan's Kidney Pills are for one: thing only. For weak or disordered kidneys. I Ask your neighbor! Here is Decatur evidence to prove ( their worth. B. R. Farr, 148 N. 2nd St., says: | “Doan’s Kidney Pills have always helped me when I have had attacks of kidney complaint. My back ached considerable and I had lumbago . pains over my kidneys, that made it hard for me to stoop. My kidneys didn't act right either. Doan’s Kid-1 ney Pills soon rid me of the trouble ' strengthening my back and ridding me of the pains and other forms of .kidney complaint.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills —the same that Mr. Farr had. Foster-Milburn Go., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. T. Thirty Running Sores Reinember, I stand tiack of every box. Every druggist guarantees to refund the purchase price (60 cents) if Peterson's Ointment doesn’t do all I claim. I guarantee it for eczema, old sores, running sores, salt rheum, ulcers, sore nipples, broken breasts, itching skin, skin diseases, blind, bleeding and. Itching piles as well as for chafing, j burns, scalds, cuts, bruises and sunburn. “I had 30 running sores on my leg l for 11 years, was In three different hospitals. Amputation was advised.; Skin grafting was tried. I was cured : by using Peterson's Ointment.”—Mrs. | F. E. Root, 287 Michigan Avenue, Bus-I falo, N. Y. Mail orders filled by Peter---■ll Ointment Co., ine., Buffalo, N, Y. 1

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