Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1921 — Page 2

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No One is Perfect S Ever have the idea you are not good •’ enough to join church? Forget it! 1 b I'l ' \ A one ’’ P cr * cct ’ but every Chris- ■ 1 f Li tian is striving toward the perfection 9r set J esus Christ. Take one step -J ! at a time. X -Jr Attend church services regularly. ! y?V Study the Bible at home and in Sun- tj d a y school. Perhaps you attended Sunday school years ago. You still need the same old Bible. It has a message for you and ! your children. Come to Sunday school and church. H . . The Hood of Jesus Christ cleanseth r—"| !21 us from all sin IsJ Churches of Decatur

REMOVAL OF WAR TAX ON EXPRESS SHIPMENTS WILL BENEFIT PUBLIC. 1 — The public will save approximately i $1,500,000 a month as a result of the elimination of the War Tax on express i shipments, according to George C. '

SOLD UNDER jaai&r. I WE don’t care what kind of baking powder you are using—we don’t care how much you pay for it or how good the results —you’ll never know how wholesome and tasty bakings can be until you try Calumet. Nor will you know the meaning of greatest baking economy. That’s more than a claim. It is an incontestable fact. Lzi us prove it —without I risk to you. Let us show you how to secure I superior baking results and to save on baking costs. Just ask r your grocer to f! send you a can. Try it. Then if you are 1 1 not convinced that Calumet serves you 1 1 better than any baking powder you have 11 ever used—if you are not sure it saves 1 1 you where inferior powders frequently •1 1 cause waste, tell your dealer and he will cheer- 111 fully refund purchase price. Order a can today. 11 Calumet is the product of the largest 11 . and finest baking powder factories 11 in existence. Its wonderful excel- . II lence has made it the choice of ! II eading Domestic Scientists, | II eminentChcfs, and the most 11 popular leavener with 1 II America’s most panic-, 1 I g II ularhousewives, m I II ‘I I II CALUMET BAICXXO NOTE— * A pound can of Calumet contains full 16 oz. Some baking powders come in 12 oz. cans instead of 16 oz. cans. Be sure you get a pound when you want it ■ ■ - ■■ » " WILL YOU HELP THE SICK AND CRIPPLED CHILDREN AT CHRISTMAS? 1 1 Ten thousand children In Indiana need hospital treatment. A i [ great, free hospital for ALL the children of the state is to be erected 11 next year. Funds are needed for the building. Will you include i this worthy Christian undertaking In your Christmas giving? Please ] fill out and mail the following blank today. «• » » JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN To Assist the sick and crippled children of Indiana to obtain hotI; ' i pltai treatment, I enclose the sum of Dollars ] I an a Christmas gift to the Riley Hospital for Children. ! Name — Address - — • 'T r jit City.or Town I'«. Mail this blank with cash, check, money order or stamp® to Riley ;' H Association. U East Vermont St.. rgdtasapolia. Indiana. ■ d-

Taylor, President of the American Railway Express company. An announcement to this effect was made today by B. H. Elzey, local express agent. The ‘’Revenue Act of 1921” eliminates the War Tax of one cent on every twenty cents and fractions there-

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of in transportation charges on all ex- . press shipments. This tax during the ! year of 192 u amounted to $17,503,915. The average transportation charge for each express shipment was approximately $1.50 and the average War Tax tor each shipment was eight cents. | The elimination ot the tax, therefore Mr. Taylor states will virtually amount to a decrease in rates ot a little over five percent. Mr. Taylor believes that 1 this should have a tendency to stimulate business and thereby accelerate , the rapidly improving conditions throughout the entire country. ' “The American Railway Express company handles approximately one i million shipmenu a day or nearly four I hundred million shipmenu a year,” • Mr. Taylor goes on to say. “The elimination of the tax will relieve the American Railway Express company ( ot an Immense amount of labor which has been involved in calculating, entering on waybills and collection ot tax, not to mention the expense ot checking and accounting entailed. “The Treasury Department has requested express carriers to advise all claimanu who have claims pending | for overcharges, or whole file such claims after December 31, 1921, that claims for refund of tax should be filed separately on Treasury Department Form No. 48 with the Commis- I sioner of Internal Revenue within four I years from the time tax was paid. ■ claim beting barred by statute of limi- > tations if received after such time.” ;, Mr. Elzey, local agent, pointed out , that as the Revenue Act becomes effective January 1, 1922, the tax on all; shipmenu forwarded “prepaid” on or before December 31st will be collect \ ed. On shipments forwarded “col- i lect" and arriving on or after Janu ary Ist, the tax will not be assessed Bankers Held Meeting In Berne Auditorium (Continued from pagej the farmer raising live stock and thus keeping up his farm, should be en - couraged. C. A. Dugan, cashier of the First National Bank of this city was called on to give a report of the meeting held in Indianapolis a few weeks ago at the call of Governor McCray for the purpose of extending financial credit to the farmers, through the Finance Board. Mr. Dugan told how the application bad to be made by the farmer, that the interest rate would not be probably over 7% percent. and that the loans could run for a term ot three years, but must be renewed every six months, the same as any loan. C. J. Lutz, attorney for the First National bank was called on and in a tew words, complimented the people of Berne on building the auditorium, while Attorney Frank Cottrell, who j the toastmaster said was the oldest attorney in the county, told what good fellows the bankers were, how they helped the community and to the surprise of many there, "said the bankers always did what he wanted them to do." C. L. Walters, attorney for the Peoples Loan and Trust company of this city discussed the banking business from a lawyer’s standpoint, stating that the banks needed borrowers and that you would always find the attorneys in front of the window and that he differed with Attorney Cottrell when he stated that the bankers always did what he wanted them to do. The toastmaster then called on a former Decatur citizen and resident of Adams county. Lew G. Ellingham of Fort Wayne, who besides being the publisher of the Fort W T ayne JournalGazette and The Evening Press is also a director in the Old Adams County bank of this city. Mr. Eiling ham told of his early experience in the newspaper field when he established and first published what is now the Decatur Daily Democrat, the daily paper of Adams county and the financial struggles encountered therein and told how the tanking business was a matter of faith between the borrower and the bank and that he was always glad to visit the people ot Adams j county. Editor Fred Rjohrer of the Berne , W’itness told how the building of the i Auditorium was made possible, how i the subscriptions were secured, the [ mopey raised and how the people of [ Berne built it, without letter a coni tract to a regular contractor. He i stated that he did not know why poor [ newspaper men should be invited to a 1 banker's meeting and be given the opi portunity to hob nod with them, except i for the reason that they wanted some- [ one to revise their speeches tor the I papers and in our attempt to do that i the Daily Democrat's representative i wishes to submit the above as a ref port of the meeting and add that we i thoroughly enjoyed being the guests of i the Adams County Bankers. ; —..... . ..a ; BEN HUR. ' i All members of Ben Hur are re II quested to attend the meeting tonight l[ as election of officers will be held J and other important business.

®ltIE ®. Aman LEGION (Copy tor Tfclo Doportmont SupplloO K the Amorteaa Lotion Nowi Sorrier) GOES TO PRISON FOR BUDDY < Harry W. Haley. Canadian Soldier, 6«rvee Time to Bav» No Man’e Land Comrade. ' A story of personal sacrifice, unique tu annals of the World war. is that Sot Harry W. Haley, who served in Leavenworth prison to repay a war-time buddy for his life. Haley has written the American Legion the first account of his action. Wounded and left in no man’s land, Haley, a Canadian soldier, was slowly dying from loss of blood when he was picked up by Private Thomas G. Jones, an American. After taking his buddy to safety, Jones disappeared. Back tn the lines again, Haley was captured by the Germans and lost all trace of his rescuer. On May 20, 1921. Haley arrived at the home of his sweetheart in Canada. His wedding was to occur at 8 o'clock and the guests were assembled. Then Private Jones reappeared. He had deserted the army at Fort Slocum, N. Y.. because, he said, they were going to send him back to Germany. He was suffering from mustard gas burns and had a wife and two children dependent upon Mm. Haley acted quickly. Telling Jones to return to his wife and keep quiet, he informed his fiancee of his intention. She declined to wait while he served the term Jones would have to spend in prison. At the hour of the wedding Haley took a train for St. Paul. Minn. He gave himself to the first police officer he encountered, declaring he was Private Thomas G. Jones, wanted for desertion. Tried by court-martial at Fort Crook, Neb.. Haley was sentenced to dishonorable discharge and six months in prison. He had served all but 18 days ot his sentence when authorities, by. checking fingerprints and identification learned of the substitution. The Legion Is petitioning President Harding to purge the dishonorable discharge from Haley's record. NOTED LEGION GUEST BUSY Marshal Foch Nearing End of Tour of Forty-Two States and Jaunt That Totals 18,000 Miles. When Marshal Foch sails for Paris and much needed rest, he will have

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traveled a total of 16,000 miles on his tour of 42 states as guest of the American Legion. More than 200 towns and cities will have been visited by the allied generalissimo, in each of which the local Legion post and everybody In the community put

forward their best to entertain the French hero. The Legion tour takes Marshal Foch from coast to coast and from New Orleans to Minneapolis. Despite his seventy years, the eating of artistically gotten up banquets which are more or less digestible, and almost as many speeches each day as there are hours, th® marshal will go back to France “feeling fine.” He likewise withstood ’ the administration of the degree of LL.D, conferred upon him by 17 universities and colleges. One of the marshal's last photographs, taken in an unguarded moment, depicts his “fighting face,” ac- ’ eording to his aide’s. American Legion members of the Foch party, however, declare it moreover shows the effects of the long strain on the allied leader. Above the Draft Age. 1 John Sylvester Myers, one hundred ’ and two years old, walked from his > home at Lime Ridge to Bloomsburg, t Pa., to address a meeting of the . Bloomsburg post of the American Le- > gton. Myers told how he tried to get . Into service during the World war. but ( was rejected, because he was “above ‘ the draft age." The centenarian told an Interesting story of his life. He 1 had served In the Mexican and Civil ■ wars, and was rejected from service s during the Spanish-American war bet cause of his age. Ha has also served s tn the nary. He has been married . three times, his last marriage being » at the age of ninety-two. “I teel Just ' as good as I ever did,” dedired the veteran. He Is Not Dead but Blsepeth. “So the saloons are dead." mourned the overseas veteran, returning to the land of the free, for the first time t since 1917. 4 "Yes," answered his friend cheerily, •it you can communicate with their Its.”—American Legion Weekly.

Ch?- „„ (Copy tor Thio Dopartmont Suppllad 'n lh» Aratrlean Lotion Wowo Sorvleo.) ""sms: .i ii— COMMANDER WELL KNOWN C. D. Cunningham of Centralia, Wash, Was Prosecutor of I. W. W. Assailants of Legion Men. One of the best-known men In the country In I. W. W. and other radical circles is the new commander of the American Legion of Washington. He 4, ls O- D - Cunning‘i jr-tvi ham, Centralia. JSSI The nation was I j ■ shocked on the ** Orßt anniversary ' ot Armistice day k by the wanton 'Mjpr killing by radicals A in Centralia of four American Legion men who were participating in the parade. Firing from vantage points on the young veteran marchers, the I. W. W. sihughtered four outright, wounded others and took to flight Cunningham was one of the leaders of the chase which captured Wesley Evereeey, ringleader of the radicals. The state turned to Cunningham as special prosecuting attorney In the ensuing trials of the murderers. In the court proceedings, which held the attention of America for eight weeks, Cunningham was pitted against the best legal talent that the national organization of the I. W. W. could muster. Cunningham was victor, however. The radicals were convicted and a year later Cunningham won again, when the Supreme court upheld the verdicts. During the war Cunningham served as an infantry private at Camp Pike, Ark. HOW THE SERVICE MEN STAND Checking Up at Washington by Legion Reveals That Many Members Are In Limelight When President Harding replied to Representative Lamar Jeffers, Alabama, and the legislative committee of the American Legion that there were no ex-service men of outstanding qualifications to be members of the American commission to the International disarmament conference, there was a checking up in Washington to determine how service men stand in the eyes of the American electorate. A statement later issued by the Legion showed that the President appointed an ex-service man as secretary of the navy and another assistant secretary. His alien property custodian was In service during the war. The assistant postmaster general is an exservice man. An A. E. F. veteran is head of the national budget. The President confided the task of organizing the new veterans bureau to a former soldier. The public has elected 26 men who served either in the army or the navy to the house of representatives and two to the senate. In nearly a dozen states service men are the governors. Eight members of Secretary Hoover's national committee on unemployment were ex-service men. —Z —o ORDERS AN INVESTIGATION. Washington. Dec. 23.— (Special tc Daily Democrat).—A national-wide in vestigation of both wholesale and retail prices of food-stuff of all kinds, shoes clothing and fuel was ordered today by Attorney General Daugherty. Daugherty stated that this is ths beginning of a concerted effort tc bring down retail prices. Retailers are responsible for ths wide difference between the wholesale

WEAK, RUN-DOWN. UNDER-WEIGHT MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN Os Decatur Do Not Need Medicine — But a Balanced Diet

Such conditions are usually caused! ' by malnutrition. Malnutrition Is the i failure of the food we eat daily to i properly nourish our bodies. It lacks ! the necessary growth-promlting elei ments called Vitamines. ! There are plenty of Vitamins prep-j J stations appearing on the market—- , but only a scientifically approved! , product should be used. t At Jefferson Medical College, Phil-; 1 adelphia. there has been perfected by ] Dr. Philip B Hawk, Professor of Physiological Chemistry, after months ! of clinical experimenting an active • j fcod balancer, in tablet form, which i contains the vitamines Yeast. Rice, Eggs, Milk, with Beef Protein, Nuclein and Iron. It is very palatable, and when taken as directed three or four

It's nice to be pleasantly surprised by Mrs. Mary Preston Cooking Expert and Food Analyst A woman I know had an experience with Heekin’s that I think is well worth repeating. She had read one or two of these advertisements I write. So one day when she was ’phoning her order to the grocer she asked him to send her a can of Heekin’s Baking Powder. After she’d used it several times, she was as enthusiastic about it as I am. Everything she baked was very successful. But she decided that such an excellent baking powder must be high-priced. When she got her bill and saw that Heekin’s cost much less than any other baking powder that even approaches it in quality, she was so surprised that she called up her grocer to see if he had made a mistake—i but he hadn’t. For Heekin’s is truly economical. And a better or purer baking powder cannot be made. It is full-strength down to the last spoonful. No foreign ingredients are added to give false impression of quality. Heekin’s is the favorite with I thousands of women. i I know that any woman can get successful baking results with Heekin’s. And The Heekin 1 Company feels so sure of this, that they make ■ this guarantee. If anything you bake—using Heekin’s—doesn’t turn out to your entire satisI faction, the price of the full can of baking powder and the price of the ingredients in whatever you i bake will be returned to you. Simply.list the prices and send with your name and address to The Heekin Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. ’ Buy a can today and use it—you’ll like Heekin’s. •j ZU, -I \ It ■ taME i ( Mw j \ J s \ 1 y !t —- ■ —

and retail price of necessities, Daugherty said. Many retailers have band--0 ed together in associations for the purpose of profiteering, Daugherty U added. 5, “Retail prices are too high,” said y Daugherty. “They are out of line with the prices paid for raw materials and e the prices paid the retailers.” o William J. Burns, head ot the bureau of investigation ot the departe ment of justice will conduct the investie gation.

times a day before meals absolutely’ provides the necessary Vitamines or ' growth and strength promoting ele ! ments needed to prevent and remedy malnutrition and its resulting diseases. This Vltamine Tonic Food is I called BUSTO. SUSTO is the only tonic nutritive ever scientifically tested and approved after complete clinical investigation by nutritional experts in one of the leading medical colleges of America. Not an ounce of SUSTO w as altered to the public until its tonic food value was definitely established after months of practical tests made by th > nutritional experts of Jefferson Medi cal College, Philadelphia. If any run-down, under-weight man,

Daugherty claims prices are out of ■ proportion to the wholesale prices. b The investigation will reach back to the farm and other sources of production of raw materials. The attorney 1 general also is interested in breaking i up the trade association organized for 1 the purpose of crushing competition which result in profiteering. Vernon Riley of Blue Creek township • j made a business trip to this city to i day.

woman, or child will take SUSTO as ■ prescribed three times a day for a month we guarantee they will feel better, stronger and weigh more than they have for a long time. This will only cost them about 13.00 —10c a i day—and they would not take S3OO | tor the benefit received. Here, therefore, is the first 0PP c ' r ' tunity offered to the people of pec 4, tur who need strength and vitalityare under weight, run down, anaeo* I’' 1 ’' who have under-nourished children or feeble old people, to call at Smith, Yager & Falk's Drug Store and get a guaranteed strength and body-builder • that has been approved by a nutritional expert of one of our greatest Medical Colleges.