Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1921 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlthsd Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO JOHN H. HELLER Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Asso elate Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single Copies 3 cents One Weik. by currier 15 cents One Year, by carrier 17.60 One Month, by mall 45 cents Throe Months, by mail $1.25 Six Months, by mall $2.26 One Year, by mail $4.00 One Year, at office .. $4.00 Advertising rates make known on application. Entered at the postoffiee at Decatur. Indiana, as second class matter FOREIGN • CONDITIONS: — Those who have been unable, or '■nwilling to see that prosperity and fen safety in this country were very largely dependent on prosperity und safety in other lands, will sooner or later be educated by events. It seems n long way from the wheat fields of the midwest to Germany and Russia and England. Yet in a financial and commercial sense they are very close together, as close as markets and goods to be sold in them always are. In Chicago during the present week it was “uneasiness regarding European financial conditions" that was responsible for falling wheat prices. In the market report was this: With a spectacular new break in the value of the German mark, and with further evidence of great strain in the British unemployment situation. wheat traders showed apparent lack of confidence on the buying side. In addition, reports were current that Switzerland had decided to obtain all her cereal supplies from Roumania instead of from tills country because, of the difference of exchange rates. Then, too, the recent cut in ocean freight was said to have depressed consigned No. 2 hard winter wheat at Liverpool. Wheat on Wednesday sold as low as $1.17, and corn and oats fell with the wheat. Last May it sold at $1.64. and in February at $1.66. Since then it has been steadily falling in price, falling more noticeably since the enactment of the “emergency" tariff which was to do such wonders for the farmers. But the point that it is now desired to make is that at the present time foreign conditions are in a very true sense American conditions, and therefore it is that anything that we do to make them worse will have a very bad effect on our own people. The German mark plunges downward, unemployment increases ominously in England, Switzerland turns to Roumania for wheat, and the American farmers have to take less for their product. We are in truth all bound together. The power of foreign peoples to buy in this country is limited by two things—their own comparative (or actual) poverty and lack of resources, and the high prices prevailing here as a result in part of the state of exchange. Under such conditions there ought to be large imports by Americans, since the country is a good one to sell in, and it is through the shipment of goods that foreign debts must be met. But there is a shortage of goods in Europe, so that imports I CRYSTAL TONIGHT “TIGER TRUE’’ A Universal special production, featuring, Frank Mayo The story of a hunter of big game w >. on the cfe I of his departure for Africa meets with an adventure in New York which surpasses in thrilling developments any experience he had ever encountered in the savage wilds. Naturally a woman is vitally concerned in the situation. —Also— A good two-reel comedy with plenty of pep. Come tonight. ; Admission 10 and 20 cents

P into America are not what they should, under present conditions, be. Yet it Is seriously proposed to >. check imports, und In some cases to r cut them off altogether, and thus to >- prolong tlie present exchange situa-, r r tion, prevent or make most difficult the payment of the debts due America and Americans from abroad, and H actually to force Europeans to turn I D to other countries thun our own for * wheat and breadstuffs. An additional 5 result would be to weaken uud disstress still further the peoples of Europe, and still further to impair their 1 value as customers. If we can bring our public men to look on Europe as ‘ our market, perhaps they can be ■ made to see that it is bud business-— to say notiiing of morals —for dealers to quarrel with their market, and a species of Insanity to do anything to weaken its buying power.—lndianapolis News. The local sugar factory will open their annual campaign within the next couple of weeks and that fact means much for this community. A large force of men will be used twen-ty-four hours a day, two shifts, and the plaut will operate every day, including Sundays and holidays until after the first of the year. The handling of the freight, the paying for the beets and the general prosperity of a sugar campaign is one of the most helpful any community can have. Adams county is fortunate to have this institution, a fact realized more than ever in times like these. The democrats of Berne held a rousing meeting last evening and nominated a ticket composed of splendid citizens who have at heart the very best interests of their community and who will if elected as is now predicted, conduct the affairs of that thriving little city in the very best manner possible under all conditions. The party has always stood for the people as against special interests or concentrated controll of affairs and it is encouraging to learn that they will give their opponents an old fashioned campaign battle. A half dozen buildings will be erected in Decatur by early spring, plans now being made to that effect and the indications for a real and substantial boom, not of mushroom growth but of lasting worth is assur ed. There is no reason in the world why we should not all be optimistic. When the break comes for better times and it is we sincerely believe close at hand, Decatur and Adams county will step forward as never before. The year 1922 will be one of the most progressive ever known here so get ready for it. OCTOBER 8, CANDY DAY I Chicago, Oct. 1. —There is a new national holiday—Candy Day. The National Confectioners’ association has selected October 8 to be “the sweetest day of the year.” | All other holidays in the calendar, I say the confectioners, have a political, | sentimental or religious backfround. I Candy Day is for everybody, without | respect to age, sex, religion, race or politics. Everybody on that day is expected to receive a gift of candy from somebody. Incidentally, of course, the candymakers will profit. Dr. Roy Archbold’s office will be closed Monday and Tuesday while ho attends the Northern Indiana Dental association meeting at Fort Wayne. MEAT CHEAP HERE ' Syney(—By Mail to United Press) — Meat may be high elsewhere in the world, it Is not in Australia. Imagine fillet de mignon steak at 22 cents a pound PetaiF—according to the price fixed by the Profiteering Prevention Court —rump steak at 20 cents, sirloin at 18 tents, short loin chops at 16 cents, leg of mutton at 13 cents and shoulders at 11 cents. This does not take into consideration tire depreciation in exchange. If that is done, these prices must be reduced by about 15 to 18 per cent. 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, iyou can get relief with Foley CathaAtic Tablets. They are a genuine, wlnolesome physic that affords prompt, sure and safe relief without griping or pain. J. T. Osburn, R. F.* D. 1, Lucasvflle, O, writes: "Foley Cathartic Tableds are tine. 1 had stomach trouble. I took i Foley Cathartic Tablets and mow I |can eat anything.” Sold everywhere.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER I, 1921.

IS COMING BACK ‘ "~T.' J. • » ' German Industry Is Flourishing and Idle Has Decreased to 400,000 FINANCES ARE POOR Cutting into South American Trade of Great Britain and America. (By Carl D. Groat, United Press staff correspondent) Berlin. Sept. 30. —Germany’s industrial situation is bopnjjng.,'-. Its governmental flmuiiy'®, however, are in a ruinous condition, 41th scant prospect of improvement in- me near future. \ J? German industry has been'' gradually but surely coming to thn fore since the revolution. Two summers ago everybody, except the far-seeing and those who had no propaganda to turn out. were saying that Germany was “ruined."

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But her industrialists have not been Idle In the meantime. And the workmen, formerly obsessed with “strike fever," luive long since passed the stage where they hope to achieve their euds by strikes on any and all occasions. In place es this strike lever has come the old pre-war "Arbeitsulsi’ —willingness or desire to work—until now Germany has only around 408.000 unemplojed. Ab a result of the growing reconstruction. Germany is now doing a tremendous business abroad and at home. She is cutting iuto the South American trade of America and England, due mainly to thc fact that het* exchange is so depreciated that tliese countries cannot, compete with her. Stinnes, Krupp, and von Haniel have been busy consolidating smaller concerns, improving their processes und organizing for a campaign that comprelxends securing of a large slice of tlie world's trade. Take Krupp’s, for instance! The world knows Krupps mainly for its guns and munitions, for its "Big Bertha” of wartime. But Krupp, while always employed to a certain extent on warlike work, has ever been a tre-

mendous peacetime steel industry. Its products have been known the world over because of tlie secret processt* which made their steel superior. Today, Krupps employs about 99,000 workers, or 18,000 more than before the war. Tlie Increase is partly due to the fact that extra shifts must I* installed to meet the eight-hour day requirement. But. it also meajis that Krupps Is now on a full pMoe footing and "going strong.” The last vestiges of gun manufacture have been swept away. Now, Krupps is a mammoUi steel plant, making locomotives, car wheels, freight cars, machinery of various kinds. Krupps is merely a sample. What Is true of achievement of this concern is true of virtually every line of German industrial endeavor. Tlie Only industry suffering a slump is shipbuilding. This is dull, owing to the fact that Germany can now buy ton-, nage cheaper than she can construct it. She has, however, already placed the nucleus of a new commerce fleet upon the seas, and every Indication is that within tlie next few years she will again have “a plade in the sun” as respects ocean carrying.

Germany has talked much of racializatlon since the revolution, but hue done nothing Important to achieve it. The great undertaken by such men a* itbines and *w» ,Tlin ' iel are aociallatlc In the sense of their all-ln< luaivetwa*. but lire quite under private control. The consolidations are so tremendous us to rival the roniuntlc combinations of vast industries lu America. It can truly be said that German hl' dustry is flourishing But, on the other side of the phlure. Germany’s flnan< es are In a dM|>uiring condition. Swamped with debts and reparations, her budget la skk. It is estimated that to meet her debts, including reparations. Germany upist raise at least 100.D00.000.0d0 i»i>«r marks a year; nnd must do an export business of a.ooo.tiup.ooo to 2.5tw.vm».0«0 marks more annually than before the war. The German task is immense. Her industrial leaders, however, are striving to readjust their methods to meet the new requlrementts. These requirements, aided by bad exchange, are mak'ng business for Germany. Her leaders say that, if she. is compelled to go to the bitter end with reparations,

site will have acquired an industrial technique und ability which will giv „ her a supreme place in the world', business. ——--a— SPECIAL MENTION The September issue of the Indiana Presbyterian gives considerable H pa t (. to a write-up of the Derotur Presby. terlan church and her young people and praises the work of the Rev. all j Mr». Saunders In their accomplish, ment Tine article states that two and one half years ago the Decatur church had no young people’s society, At this time there are forty-six active membars, and during the past year the average attendance has been forty, five. There Is also thriving Junior C E. society, and the young people have accomplished much in other ways, | n , eluding the organization of a Decatur ‘ Winona’ ’club, a cut of a group of the members appearing In the story. - e-— Mrs. Milo' Glendeuning from near Geneva, ahoppedd here this morning. P. A. Sheets from the State Line made a business visit here this morning.