Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1921 — Page 1

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MELLON FfflSS : WINES AND BEER An Oasis is Visible in Pro[hibition Desert-Big Chiefs Are in Favor of It BVILL ASK CHANGE In Volstead Act-Believed I Tax of Half a Million Will Result from Sales. I Washington, Dec. 20.—(Special to Bttily Democrat)—An oasis.—The irys call it a mirage—was making it-j half visible in the prohibition desert loday. I Friends of a liberal interpretation j |pf the prohibition act wore encouraged the statement of Secretary Mellon that he favored an amendment to the ■Volstead act which would permit the Kae of light wines and beer, as a means of meeting soldier bonus demands. I Mellon stated that he had a letter (from Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee asking the kmount of revenue a high tax on the ■free and unrestricted sale of light Iwines and beer would yield. The ■Treasury actuary is now working on jthe figure. A preliminary estimate (places the sum at approximately which would meet some <if the bonus demands. I Fordney refused to comment on Mellon’s statement. Mellon however stated that certain congressmen want the administration to come out strong ly in favor of a proposal to pay the war a bonus out of revenue derived from a high tax on light wines and beer. Mellou made it clear that he will not oppose such an amendment Ko the Volstead act. | Many so-called dry congressmen who are ardent soldier bonus advocates icould be weaned from the dry gold liberal followers hold. I Legal experts are now at work or. a new set of prohibition rules and regulations designed to lift the retrictions on doctors, hospitals, drug gists and medical societies. ABOUT THE SICK. Elmer Smith of South Winchester street, who has been very low for the past two weeks with hiccoughs, is some better today and hopes for his recovery are expressed. Mrs. Clay Engle, residing just across the Ohio line, who has been very ill shows great improvement and is expected to be able to be up by Christmas. Mrs. Raymond Hogshead of Wash ington township, who is quarantined , at her home for scarlet fever, is im proving slowly. Miss Barber is the nurse in charge.

lisI is THERE A SANTA CLAUS? j (New York Sun) We take pleasure in answering at once, and thus prominently, the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of the Sun. “Dear Editor—l am eight years old. "Some of my little friends say that is no Ssjnta Claus. “Papa says, ‘lf you see it in the Sun it s so. “Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa cl “ s? n'FTANLON “115 West Ninety fifth street. VIRGINIA ‘‘ ' b Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not com P rehenßlb J® minds. All minds. Virginia, whether they be mens or children* are little. In this great universe of ours man .s a mere insect, an ant into , intellect, as compared with the boundless wort aou ~ nowledge , by the intelligence capable of grasping the wlO i o .u i ‘ Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know give to your life its highest beauty a 3 , 'j t WOU ld be as dreary as if ' the world if there were no Santa (la ■ .... faith then no there were no Virginias. There wouh i ha y e uo poetry, no romance to make tolerabde ■ (>(ernal Ught with whlch enjoyment, except in sense and sig ■ - childhood fills the world would be extinguishe . hpH _ vp in fairies! You might get your papa to hue gge gaßta Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus Claus Claus coming down, what would th< 1 thjngs but that is no sign that there is no . d in the world are those that neither can ZZ °nX can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unßeßabl8 an d see what makes the noise You may tear apart the baby s world> wh)ch not tho inside, but there is a veil coven ig aR gtrongeßt mMI that strongest man. nor even the united - romance can ever lived, could tear apart. Only fai h fancy, poe push aside that curtain and view P wo .. ]d there , is glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, v , nothing else real and abiding. Uves &nd He Uve9 forev er. A No Santa Claus! Tha " k J., ten times ten thousand years thousand years from now, Virginia, n y, of chjldhoodirom now, He will continue to make fila

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BASKET BALL MEETING i A meeting of the Industrial Basket ' Hall League will be held Tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the industrial rooms, over the Graham and Walters office. * One man or more from each team to take part in the league is requested to lie present tonight. If it is impossible to attend it is urged to not- ' ify the committee named at the last meeting. The team nnd the schedule 1 will be mapped out tonight and all teams not reporting will not be entered. CHECKS ME REMY Auditor Completes Annual Distribution for Trustees and Corporations THE STATE FUNDS Also Computed—Amounts Divided for Various Funds in Taxing Units. County Auditor Martin Jaberg has i completed the work of figuring the allotment for the various township trustees, school corporations and city and town corporations, and the checks will be mailed on Wednesday to the proper officials. The funds are to be divided to the township tax, road tax 1 special school funds and tuition funds. The amount which goes to the state, o be distributed to the various funds, has also been approved and the amounts are divided as follows: State tax $ 2,252.61 Benevolent institution .... 14,579.55 State highway 9,637.32 State school 14,170.31 State educational institution 6.919.11 State vocational 949.41 State Soldiers’ memorial .. 1,482.63 County tax 61,744.88 Corporation Funds. Union ,$ 3,415.49 Root 11,633.90 Preble 3,238.71 Kirkland 7,346.11 Washington 9,463.60 St. Mary’s 16,576.1! Blue Creek 10,079.41 Monroe 11,773.4! . French ... 5,808.46 Hartford 13,545.66 Wabash 6,550.24 Jefferson 10,871.97 Decatur school 36,920.72 Berne school 11,013.27 Geneva school 6,163.01 City of Decatur 41,563.78 Monroe corporation 825.57 Berne corporation 6.135.36 Geneva corporation 3,268.59 Decatur library 2,514.31 The school corporation of the ctiy of Decatur has been advanced a part of their money, hence the check received by the treasurer of the school , board will not be so large. ■ •- Phil Schug of Berne was here to I day looking after business matters.

LUST MEETING Os the Present City Council Will Be Held at City Hall Tonight THE NEW OFFICIALS W ill Take Office on First Monday in January at Noon-Others Retire. Tonight will witness the last regular meeting of the present city council, over which Mayor Charles Yager will preside. The new administration headed by Mayor-elect Huber M. DeVoss will take office on the first Monday in January at noon. This will be January 2, 1922. Practically all business matters pertaining to the present administration has been disposed of and the new administration will start with a clean slate on January 2nd. It was understood that an organization meeting of the new administration would be held on the evening of January 2nd at. which time it is thought that Mayor DeVoss will appoint the members of he different committees on the council. At this meeting the superintendent of the Electric Light and Power Plant and of the Water Works Department may be selected the appointing of such officias coming under the jurisdiction of the members of the council. Martin Mylott is the present superintendent of the Electric Light Department, while City Engineer Orvill Harruff is the superintendent of the Water department. Mr. Harruff has been appointed City Engineer by Mayor DeVoss. The retiring members of the administration are: Mayor—Charles W. Yager. Councilmen —H. F. Linn, Jacob Martin, Dr. J. M. Miller, L. C. Helm and John Logan. City Clerk and Treasurer —R. G. Christen. The new administration is composed off: Mayor—Huber M. DeVoss. Clerk —Mrs. Catherine Kauffman. Treasurer —Mrs. Flora Kinzle. Councilmen —A. , R. Ashfeaucher, Emerson Beavers, George Krick, James Kocher, F. A. Peoples. Mayor DeVoss has also made the following appointments: City Engineer—Orval Harruff. Chief of Police—Joel Reynolds. City Attorney—F. Fred Fruchte. City Health Board members: Dr. J. M. Miller, Dr. H. E. Keller and Mrs. J. H. Heller. SPUMOUS DOLLAR In Circulation in DecaturFew Were Passed Here on Last Saturday A GOOD IMITATION But Lacks Weight and Ring of Good One Made by Uncle Sam. Decatur merchants and citizens are warned to be on the lookout for a counterfeit silver dollar, a few of them having appeared here, and it seems they had a fair circulation here on last Saturday. Clerks in a few of the stores garnered in the shekels from customers who presented the “cartwheels" for goods purchased. The imitation is almost perfect, the only thing lacking is the "ring” and the weight. Bankers on Monday morning immediately detected the “bad" dollars when they were taken to the institutions by business men, and the warning is sent out to every person In the city to be careful in the acceptance of silver dollars. This date on the spurious coin is 1899 and cannot be detected on sight, there being just a slight difference at the edge, and it would take a very close comparison to distinguish it from Uncle Sam’s seal dollars. The weight is easily noticeable, and it has a fair “ring” when thrown upon a counter. Watch your silver dollars. MRS. GAFFER BREAKS LEG Mrs. Peter Gaffer had her left leg broken at noon today when she slipped and fell on the kitchen floor. As she slipped she threw herself to avoid a little grand daughter who was playing near and the twist and the fall caused the fracture. The leg was broken between the knee and hip and at three o’clock Mrs. Gaffer was suffering considerably.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, December 20, 1921.

JUMPED HIS BOND. Finley Kelley, of Geneva, was arrested Sunday night by Night Policeman Earl Hollingsworth on a charge of public intoxication. He put up a $25 cash bond for his appearance Mon day afternoon in justice court, but when the hour arrived Kelly failed to show up, forfeiting tils bond. Early Monday morning the offender was seen going south through Buffalo and It is believed he has shaken the dust of Geneva from his feet. He is a brother of “Doc” Kelly, arrested on Satur day night and who was released from jail by some unknown person while the policeman was arranging with officials to give him a trial. treatTfighF IS UNDER WAY Nation-wide Organization is Being Made to Oppose the Four Power Treaty IS NON-PARTISAN Women to Join Anti-Japa-nese Are Opposed-Demo-crats Are Also U rged. Washington. Dec. 20. —(Special to Daily Democrat). —Organization of a nation-wide fight against the four power Pacific treaty is under way by both the democratic and republican foes ol the pact. These steps are being taken to perfect an organization even more effective than that which in practically every state lent aid to the irreconcilable senators in their battle against the Versailles pact: 1. —Anti-Japanese sentiment on the Pacific coast is being made the nucleus for anti-treaty organization there. 2. —A woman organizer has been engaged to organize women's clubs in the middlewest and northwest against the treaty. 3. —Comprehensive plans for form ing anti-treaty clubs and holding anti-treaty mass meetings are being sent everyw’here where Indications show anti-treaty sentiment. 4. —Democratic political units are being urged to fight the treaty on the theory that if the repubicans coud sweep the nation by 7,000,000 on an anti-eague patform, the democrats ought to be abe to sweep it in the com ing congressional election by opposing something they hold the country will find more obnoxious than the league. CHICKENS STOLEN Feme one entered the chicken coop belonging to Mrs. J. S. Sv ygart at 310 North Second street Sunday night and took four fine hens, leaving two roosters in the pen. The hens taken had just begun to lay and Mrs. Swygart had taken much pride in caring tor her little brood. It is believed a clue has developed that will lead to the arrest of the guilty parties. a LUMBER YARDS TO CLOSE. The Kirsch-Re, ppert Lumber Co., and the Decatur Lumber Co., will be losed the Monday following Christmas and the Monday following New Years. 300-3 t CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE United Press Staff Correspondent Chicago, Dec. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Wheat: Dec. $1.08%; May $1.14%; July, $1.03%. Corn: Dec. 46%c; May 53c; July 54%c. Oats: Dec. 33c; May 38%c; July : 38 %c. Frank Bauermeister of Tocsin was a Decatur business visitor this morn- ' ing.

4. 4> 4> 4> + + + + + ++ + + + FIRE BIG ONES + «!• — <• Washington, Dec. 20 —(Spe- ♦ 1 cial to Daily Democrat)- The ’ 4- Interstate Commerce Comniis- ♦ ’ * sion today took the first step + + toward breaking up the inter- + 1 + locking railroad directorates as + 4- directed under the Esch-Cum- 4 1 4- mins law. * 4> In an opinion handed down to- •!• «■> day the commission ordered •> ; William Rockefeller. Harold S. ■F • •> Vanderbilt and George F. Baker, + i three of the biggest railroad men + » 4> in the country, to give up dl- + > * rectorships in two thirds of the + I •> companies on which they hold ♦ ; ♦ such offices. ♦ II + These offices must be given 4r * up before Dec. 31 of this year. * ♦ 4>4k4‘4 , 4 , 4 , 4'** <•* + ♦ + ♦

TEAM IS LOCATED Al Smith Drives Valuable Farm Horses to Decatur They Were Not Found AT HITCHING PLACE Had Broken Loose and Were Retied in Another Location by Friend. Al Smith, of St. Marys township, was a greatly worried man from yesterday afternoon until “'early Gils morning. He had driven his valuable farm team to this city and hitched the aiynitils on Jefferson street short ly after the noon hour Monday. After going about the city to do a little Christmas shopping, he returned to the hitching place, but the team was no where to be found. Injuiry revealed that no one had noticed the horses being driven away No one seemed to be able to throw any light on the missing outfit. And Mr. Smith and members of ills family continued their worry during the night. It hardly seemed probable that any one would attempt to steal a team of horses hitched to a farm wagon and attempt to get away witli It, but somehow or other no trace of the outfit could be found. Some one had discovered the horses without a driver and had tied them under the shed at the KirschReppert lumber yard on First street. They were forgotten about and when it became dark and the animals could not easily be seen from the street, they were entirely lost sight of. When the men at the lumber yard reported for work shortly after 6 o’clock this morning, the team was still there, and Marshal Reynolds was immediately notified of the find. He took them to a feed yard, ordered them fed, and the proprietor at once recognized the outfit as that belonging to Mr. Smith. The horses had stood out in the cold all night, and had had no food or water since noon yesterday. They were given a good feed and were well taken care of un til Mr. Smith called for his property, and they are apparently none the worse for their night out of doors. MEAT MARKETS TO CLOSE. All meat markets in the city will be closed all day Monday after Christmas and Monday after New' Years. — Signed, Committee. 300-5 t HIGHWAY POLICY Is Adopted by Governor McCray Reserving That of Former Governor BRICK IS FAVORED And Specifications for All Roads Are Changed—To Build Hard Surface. United Prenx Staff Correxponden* Indianapolis, Dec. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The McCray ad ministration today adopted a highway policy reversing that pursued by Governor Goodrich and L. H. Wright, director of the highway com mission, during the Goodrich regime. At a meeting of Governor McCray and members of the highway commission the bars were lowered to all kinds of road construction but the specifications were revised so as to make brick and concrete roads con structed by the state as nearly of one quality as possible. The policy pursued by Governor Goodrich and Wright was to limit the construction of roads to concrete as far as possible. The specifications increase the requirements for concrete roads and decrease them for brick roads. No changes were made in the specifications for asphalt roads but it was agreed to test Kentucky asphalt which is not provided in present specifications in maintainance work. The new specifications will lie included in the requirements for construction of 66 miles of the national road to fill up the gaps between paved sections. The contracts for tills work were to have been let December 4th bi|t the awarding was postponed to await an agreement on specifications. Concrete roads must have concrete 8 inches in depth in the center sloping to seven inches at the edge. Brick speciflactlons provide that three inch brick instead of four inch be laid vertically on a five inch concrete surface and that asphalt filler be placed between the bricks.

REV. MINER TIED KNOT Rev. C. J. Miner, at the county clerk's office officiated at the marriage of Miss Alma Whlttenberger and Mr. Bryce E. Hunter of Fort Wnvne. The couple was accompanied by the bride’s mother, her sister and brother-in-law. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Whittenberger of Decatur, and the groom is a son of Mr. and; Mrs. Henry Hunter. He is a brick mason and lives at Fort Wayne, where the couple will make their home. WOMAN'S CLUB Entertains With Christmas Play—Title “Why the Chimes Rang” GIVEN LAST NIGHT Splendid Music During Play By Double Mixed Quartet -Cantata Selections. The Dramatic section of the Woman’s Club presented a very interesting play at the Masonic hall last evening, “Why the Chimed Rang,” by Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden. The committee in charge was Miss Leona Bosse, chairman; Mrs. Kathryn Niblick, Mrs. Kathryn Elberson. Mrs. Faye Holthouse, Misses Edna Snyder and Fanny Heller. The scene was laid in a peasant’s hut at the edge of a forrest near Cathedral town. On Christmas Eve it was customary for the people from the surrounding country to gather at the Cathedral and offer gifts to the Christ Child. According to an old legend when a real sacrifice was made, the chimes, which were at the top of a very liigh tower, would ring. The cast of characters included, Holga, a peasant maid—Fanny Heller; Steen, her young brother, a sturdy peasant lad —Faye Holthouse: Aunty Bertel, who radiated good cheer —Kathryn Elberson; the old woman, in reality a sister of charity —Kathryn Niblick. As the play begins Holga is entreating Steeu not to feel discouraged because the children can not go alone to the Christmas service. Then Aunty Bertel appears with the promise to take the youngsters to the great service. With much pleasure and great feeling they prepare to go but the appearance of a starved beggar woman makes Holga decide to stay and care for the pauper. With sorrow she watches Steen and Aunty Bertel depart. After they have gone, Holga, heart-broken, hurries her face in the old lady's lap. By this time the old lady has thrown off her black cloak and is wearing the white headdress of a sister of charity which Holga in her sorrow does not notice. While the girl is sobbing the hut is suddenly transformed into the Cathedral. As the woman bids the girl look her gaze falls on the priest kneeling at the altar, (the part of the priest was very effectively taken by Mrs. Alta Arnold). Wonder stricken she gazes at the procession of gift bearers, each time expecting the chimes to peal out. First comes a rich man with his chest of gold (Miss Lois Connell); then a cortler bearing a casket of jewels, (Miss Angeline Firks), a rich lady beautifully dressed who gives the very pearls which she is wearing (Gertrude Hite), an old scholar offering his vellum bound book. (Mrs. Chalmer Porter), a beautiful young girl with her sheaf of liilies, (Mrs. Faye Holthouse) and last the king, (Mrs. Olive Peterson.) As no gift has yet caused the chimes to ring every one leans forward expectantly as the king with his rich purple robes approaches the al(Continued on page six) ♦ THE WEATHER FORECAST ♦ i Indiana: Unsettled weather tonight , and Wednesday probably snow in ' north and rain turning into snow in soutli portion, colder tonight, decid ■ odly colder Wednesday. Lower Midi: Snow tonight and Wednesday, colder tonight, much colder Wednesday. Upper Michigan: Unsettled weathI er tonight and Wednesday, probably ■ snow, colder tonight, cold wave in , southwest portion, colder in east and south portions

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NAVAL VACATION ONLY HALF OVER Briand’s Instructions to French Delegates Contain Serious Strings THEY WANT “SUBS” Hopes the Requests May Be Overcome — Backdown Causes Much Surprise. (By Frank Getty, United Press staff correspondent) Washington. Dec. 20 —(Special to Dally Democrat)—The arms parley battle to bring France into line on naval questions and to make possible a complete agreement on America’s comprehensive program for limitation of naval armament is only half won today. Premier Briand in a comprehensive note of instructions to the French delegation has agreed to abandon the French claim to a fleet of dreadnaughts greater than Japan's and accept the Hughes 1.75 capital ship ratio, but the naval sub-commit-tee when it meets at 11 o’clock today was to find that this "acceptance’’ has serious strings tied to it. These are: 1. France asks a proportion of submarines and auxiliary craft to capital ships larger than that outlined by Secretary Hughes. 2. —She asks too, additional submarines "fop the protection of her rights and possessions in northern Africa.” British opposition as strong as that against Admiral Le Son's plea for 350,000 tons of capital ships was foreseen. Tlie French in withdrawing from their original stand for a fleet outstripping Japan's made it clear that they want something else in return, namely a more favorable auxiliary tonnage. The French back-down, for in no other way could the change from France’s demands of Thursday last be construed, met with general approval from the other delegations. There was a feeling today that the submarine difficulty while not incon siderable, would be overcome. The other remaining possibility of a hitch in tlie proceedings arose from France’s suggestion she should have the oretical supremacy—a matter of a few decimal points in the ratio scale, over Italy, which had demanded equality. The Italians, pleased that the French quota is to be low, probably will not object to giving France the edge. The cabled instructions to the French delegation, received yesterday. contained about 2,000 words and, it was learned today, advised the delegation as follows: 1. —France is to accept a quota of capital ships of about forty per cent of the strength of Great Britain and the United States. She is to announce a building program, extending over a period of years, which by 1932, would leave her with approximately 175,000 tons of capital ships. 2. —Before she definitely agrees to this. France is to explain to the conference her requirements regarding submarines and secure the committee’s consent to a radical change from the Hughes plan in this respect.

(Continued on page six) 'send them a greeting Send your friends and customers and the good people of Adams county a Christmas greeting through the columns of the Daily Democrat. We have made a special effort io prepare a special page of Christmas Greeting Cards to he run in next Saturday's Daily Democrat. Christmas, of course, falls on Sunday, hut as a legid holiday it will he observed on Monday and of all the holidays, Christinas is the one day. when Uncle Sam’s mini carriers deliver mail to the patrons on the rural routes. This will get your Christmas message to those on the routes on Christmas day. Professional men. doctors. lawyers and public officials are invited to use this Greeting space, together with the local merchants. We have a number of attractive Christmas Greeting cuts for your ads if you care to use them.