Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1922 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT FubllzhU Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLEREditor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE. Amoelate Editor and Buaineaa Manager JOHN H. STEWARTCity Editor Subacrlptlon Ratea Cash in Advance Single Copies , > cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Tear, by carrier 16-00 One Month, by mail 86 cents Three Months, by mall H-00 Biz Months, by mall 8 1 - 76 One Tear, by ma11....,..*.... 83.00 One Tear, at office 13.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflee at Deca tur, Indiana, as second-class matter

We will be glad to print your opinion on various questions of public Interest. That's one of the purposes and uses of a newspaper. We presume that the official statistics show that 15,000 were killed in auto accidents is warning that pedestrians should take due notice and get out of the road for speeders. According to press reports a girl Is going to cross Niagara Palis on a rope and all we have to say to this lady of nerves is that she wants to get to Canada worse than we do. The greatest milkman In the world is said to live at Ft. Scott, Kansiiv H« claims to have become so proficient by pulling a Washington hand press in the old days when he earned his money as a country editor. When officers tried to stop a boot logger near Greencaslle yesterday, he ran them down with his car. threw out a few jugs of whiskey and sped on to Indianapolis. Page Mr. Haynes, the enforcement officer. The explosion of the giant dirigible Roma, gives congress another chance to investigate, thus postponing the action so necessary on important bills which have been before them months and years. They are sure some little investigators in times like these. With her earthquakes, Arbuckle and Taylor affairs and others quite as sensational, frosts and snow storms, California has been furnishing her press agents sufficient news to make it the best advertised state in the union the past few months but the other states don't seem to be jealous of the reputation thus made. This is the oue hundred and ninetieth anniversary of the hirth of George Washington, first president of the United States, hero of the revolutionary war and known as the father of his country. The event is being celebrated as it should be in every city and every school in the country and the day is a national holiday. The destruction of another dirigible balloon yesterday, second purchased from a foreign nation to explode within six months, was a terrible disaster and a shocking accident. Possibly this loss of life and apparent waste of money is necessary to progress but a lot of people fail to understand just why it has to be done in these days of normalcy when every one else is trying to keep things moving. 1 The suspension of two banks at Corydon, Indiana, has sewed business up tight in that city. Business men who deposited their cash Saturday discovered Monday that they couldn't get it and as a result they are up against a tough proposition. School teachers have been notified that the public funds were in the bank and that if they continue to teach they can’t expect any money for months. The officers are 3340,000 short while the banks had a million and a half in deposits. - v Mayor DeVoss will receive the approval of the citizens of Decatur In his efforts to force the discontinuance of punch boards and dice throwing from various places of business. These games attract the boys mostly

1 and encourage them to form habits of gambling and spendthrift expenditure of money and should not ba permitted. Mr. DeVoss is giving his best efforts to make his admialatratlon a clean and business like service and in this he is. deserving of your loyal supixirt and cooperation. The war department Is asking con gress tor the privilege and money to train 227.000 men in various military camps this year. They would puy these men two dollars a day and It won't require many days to eat up more than the sum required for the soldier’s bonus and over which so much fuss has been made. If we can't afford to j>ay the soldiers for work performed, we can't surely afford to hire new men and pay them double the wages paid when the boys risked their lives. Some queer things being said and done in Washington these days, and mostly its being -said and nothing done. Some congressman has introduced a bill to permit the sale of beer and wine and to meet the bonus expense by a tax on these. It seems that they are determined to provide a means to meet this bill which is unpopular with at least a large portion of the people for it goes without arguing that mil- ) lions would immediately be against i the bonus if the money is to be rais- ( ed by a tax on beer and wine. The I questions are separate ones and ' should be thus decided by congress ( and the people, if they want to pass I i a bonus bill they should do it as suggested a few days ago by a saving in ' public expenses. That, would mean * in the end a big saving to the people t of this country. 3 " * ij '• t VOICE OF THE PEOPLE i

Editor Democrat. Dear Sir: — I would like to express an opinion in regard to this much agitated taxquestion. Although there is no disputing the fact that our taxes are rnormous, it seems to me too many people have insisted on robbing Peter to pay Pau land then decrying Peters misfortune. Why hasn't tax Iropped with farm products? Are they unrelated? What do you suppose the tax board man will say? 'Put your land down a low as you please, boys, and see if I care.” lardly more likely it will be, “Men you are having your dance, pay the piper!” it is commendable of course that 'he townships take pride in their public projects. But if we are prone 'o labor under the presumption that 'he public is rich there will be no end 'o expenditure. Extra rooms to the tigh school means more tax. Relecorating the school interior means nore * tax, a concrete road means more tax and a few spendy officials means more tax. Let us sweep our own door yard first and either quit towling or quit spending. Why not elect a few "tightwads” to office this fall and see if there isn't a change. However, I believe land is appraised a little too high in comparison with other taxables. It puts the townships valuation so high that its bond issue is thus permitted to become excessive. In other words it allows us to make our tax so high that we kick about it. Tlie mass meeting for the tax man and the petitions to the legislators are all right even should they bear

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R no result, They will show that the worm is beginning to turn and that s the farmers will expect more service and leas sympathy tn the future The * program of each township should be ' co-ordinated. It might be best to s turn this function over to the farm i- bureau that every county might have harmonized programs to present to the candidates for the legislature. If we want results there is only one way to get them. Go after them. Go ’ after them with that Intention and strike while the iron is hot. JOHN SMITH. Farmer. TWENTYYEARS OF RHEUMATISM IS OVERCOME Forced to Quit Work Years Ago, Win. Coble Is Now Back on the Job Every Day. Everybody in Servia, Ind., and vicinity knows William Coble, who for fifty years lived on a farm near that place. The following remarkable letter, written by him to Bradley Bros., Druggests, Huntington, Ind., will be read with interest: "Gentlemen: 1 am now seventy years old. Nine years ago 1 had to quit the farm on account of rheumatism. I had gotten down to where I couldn't get in or out of bed nor could I turn over in bed by myself. J had cramps in my hands so bad I couldn't hold a newspaper and 1 was so nervous my legs would jerk and twitch until I was almost desperate. 1 had suffered from rheumatism and stomach trouble for twenty years. “I am writing to you to say that my general health is good now. I have no rheumatism and my stomach is all right. I know you will be interested because I bought from you the Taulac which changed my candition so wonderfully. I am working eight hours a day now making brooms, and I wouldn’t take one thousand dollars for the good Tanlac , has done 1 me.”—William Coble. Tanlac is sold in Decatur by Smith, ' Yager & Falk’s and by leading drug- i gists everywhere. t WHEAT PURCHASE t I By the Goverment is Pro- < vided Measure in Hands 1 of Senate Farm Block ' TO STABILIZE PRICE j Would Be Held as a Reserve I In Case of a Crop Short- 1 1 age in This Country (United Press Service) t Chicago, Feb. 22.—Purchase by the f government of the surplus wheat of t the country in order to stabilize the 1 market is provided for in a measure 1 being considered by individual mem bers of the senate farm bloc. Under the proposed bill the fixed pries for purchase of the surplus I would be $1.25 per bushel. This was learned here today from Herbert .1. Browne, Washington, D. < C., tax specialist, who attended the 1 Farmer-Labor conference. ' “The plan calls for purchase of al) ' surplus wheat estimated between I seventy and one hundred million t bushels, the wheat to be stored in i government terminal elevators" Browne said. 1 "This wheat would be used by the : government when necessary but at i all times the supply is to be kept up < to be used in case of a large crop i failure or in case of a famine. I “The old wheat would be fed out I for the new and the suply would be i sort of insurance to the nation.” i Fixing the price at $l5O would < mean an estimated saving of 47 cents , per bushel to the farmer because of i price Stabilization. ’According to I Browne, he estimates the total sav i ing to the farmers in wheat alone i would be $280,000,000 annually and i that the effect upon other grains would mean an aditional saving of approximately the same amount to the farmers. DIPHTHERIA IN THE EITING HOME Several children of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Eiting, living just south of this city, are victims of diphtheria. The family has been quarantined and it is hoped that the disease wil get no further. —- LENT STARTS NEXT WEEK — i !• i : , < A week from today, March Ist is Ash Wednesday the first day of Lent. Easter Sunday is April 16th. With the coming of Lent many social functions are brought to an end. Banknotes are said to have been used in Cfcina nearly 5,000 years ago.

STANDIN WEAR ) 111 || I. | RIIR Gravel and Crushed Stone Roads of Indiana Holding » Up Well This Year SAYS COMMISSIONER I — Heavily Traveled Highways Were Dragged Regularly by the Department. Indianapolis, Feb. 20. —(Special to Dally Democrat) —The general condition of state roads constructed of such native materials as crushed stone and gravel is excellent throughout Indiana, standing in a very creditable manner the wear and tear incident to thaw and freeze of winter, Lawrence Lyons, director of the state highway commission, announced today. The statement was made following an inspection trip of 300 miles over these roads by A. H. Hinkle, chief engineer of maintenance, and under whose direction and supervision state roads were maintained this year. Mr. Hinkle inspected stone and gravel state roads in the counties of Shelby, Hancock, Hush, Franklin, Dearborn, Wayne and Marion. Throughout the winter, Mr. Hinkle says his department caused these roads to be dragged and scraped regularly. Roads heavily traveled were thus treated as often as three times each week. Less heavily traveled roads were dragged at least once each week. This treatment, he declares, has the advantage of filling the porus places and causing the water to drain off the surface to either side of the roads. A light coating of stone and grave! often is spread by the dragging crews when it is deemed necessary to keep the surface in proper condition, he says. Mr. Lyons explained that in a few instances some of the stone and gravel roads are cut up, a condition unpreventable for short periods during the thawing season. However, a few days of continuous dry weather will remedy this unpleasant feature, and then the supreme advantage of proper maintenance on this class of roads will be plainly discernable. That maintenance is and should be one of the strong features of Hoosier state road work is quite evident to the motorist who. after traveling a few miles on a state road that has been continuously dragged, routes over a road not included in the state system and which has not been treated to the drag with regularity. There are 1,825 miles of gravel roads. 815 miles of stone roads and 170 miles of earth roads under jurisdiction of the maintenance department at this time, and were it not for the patrol system and the constant attention given them with the drags, many miles would be impassable when the frost is coming out of the ground, highway officials declare. * A WORD ABOUT SECTION 223 This statement is issued by M. Bert Thurman, Collector of Internal Revenue, District of Indiana. Numerous inquiries have been re- I ceived regarding the proper inter] pretation of Section 223 of the Revenue Act of 1921, which provides that | each individual whose gross income for 1921 was $5,000 or over shall file a return regardless of his or her net income. Gross income, means statutory gross income, defined by the revenue act to include “‘gains, profits and income derived from salaries, wages, <r compensation for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, trades, business, commerce or sales or dealing in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of interest in such property: also from interest, rent, dividends, securities or the transaction of any business carried for gain or profit or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever.” Gross income does not necessarily mean gross receipts. A merchant for instance, in computing statutory grosd income, should deduct therefrom the cost of goods sold. For example a merchant may have gross receipts amounting to SIO,OOO, but the cost of goods sold amounts to $7,000. He has no other income. The stat-' utory gloss income would be $3,000. In case the other deductions allowed him for business expenses, Taxes, interest. bad debt, etc., amount to $2,300, his net income would be SSOO. No return of income is required in this cage.U ' ' ‘ ’A'lawyer who is married and living with his wife has gross receipts in the form of fees amounting to $6,000 and his necessary business expenses amount to $4,200, leaving a net income of only SI,BOO. A return will be required in this :asc, as taxpayers's gross income as well as gross receipts is $6,000.

BERNE HEWS Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Starr and j children Harold. Donald and Billy ol i Bluffton visited ,ut the Lewis hopie over Sunday. Auburn Thomas and Doyt McCrory and the Misses Gertrude Sprunger and Agnes Habegger motored to Bluffton. Ohio. Saturday morning where they visited with Miss Hazel Burkhalter and other relatives and friends over Sunday. Miss Mahala Bibersteln left this morning for Port Wayne where she will attend the spring millinery open ing. She will bring home another big lot of bealiful pattern hats to add to the exquisite line she already is showing. J. L. Habegger who has been ill since the latter part of last week is still unable to attend to his business. Mrs. Barbara B. Lehman who has been staying with her sister, Mrs. Win. Baumgartner, left this noon for Versailles, Mo., to attend the funeral of her son, Edmund Lehman who died of pneumonia. Mrs. Ernest Bill and rhild of fort Wayne visited at the Mrs. Leah loss home over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Lehman returned home from their visit at Hicksville, Ohio, yesterday evening. Fred Rohrer, president and mana ger of the Berne Winness Co., who has been ili for several weeks is showing no improvement. Miss Irlene E. Franz, it. N., left this noon for Bluffton, where she will nurse a diptheria case. Misses Caroline and Matilda Christner of Fort Wayne joined their sister, Mrs. L. D. Jacobs, in her visit at the Norm Jacobs home I Sunday. Mrs. F. W. Hoernemann has re-

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ceived word of tho death ot her father, Rev. Herman Heusser, pastor of the Second Reformed church at Portland, Ore. Rev Heusser is well known in this community, having been pastor of the Vera Cruz charge about thirty years ago. The charge nt that time also included the Herne coacrefation and it was .luring Rev. Heuzser's pastorate that the Reformed people began to hold services in town in the the old school house on Jefferson street. Ho was 69 years of age and had been in the ministry 44 years. ’ TWO NEW COACHES AT I. y. Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 20 (Special to Daily Democrat)—Two new I coaches have been added to the In-! diana University athletic staff in the persons of Leslie Mann, famous big league baseball player and football' and basketball star, and Kenneth Brewer, former Indiana University football star. Man has been a mem-| her of three big league pennant win-. ning baseball teams, the Boston Braves, the Chicago Federal team, and the Chicago cubs, and at present is outfielder for the St. Louis National League club. Brewer is a former coach of the Shortrigde High I School football team, and will devote his attention to football at Indiana University. — • " ■ TO HOLD CONTEST (Continued frotn page. on _ e 2_-_-.-.-.-cred. The high school speakers will be i expected to go into the question of immigration thoroughly, and to present their opinions upon the solution ; of the problem. p , —— Mrs. Fred Patterson spent the day in Fort Wayne

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