Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1922 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

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HOUSE will pass the SOLDIERS’ BONUS BILL HU IS INTRODUCED UNDER SUSPENSION OF RULES DY VOTE OF 276 TO 126-DEBATES LIMITED TO FOUR HOURS.

Correnp«iiil<-nt WMhington. Mar. 23-(Special to; ngi!* Democrat)— The house over-. whelmingly adopted the rule permit-] w me bonus |)ill to eome up immediately under suspension of the roll call vote stood 276 to j 12C. (By Carl D. Croat. United Press j staff correspondent) Washington. Mar. 23—(Special to, W ly Democrat)— The soldiers' bo acs bill will be pssed late today by | the house. its majority probably will be 3 or 4 to 1. Its pathway, smoothed out by W arrangements in advance, will be strewn with nothing more serious . than talk. This talk will be the flag saving, brave-soldier-and-slacker type or poor-tax-payer-and-overburdened-business variety, according to wheth-, er the speaker is for or against the j bonus. The total time—four hours—for debate is so limited and the crowd of speakers so numerous* that for the most of the men there will be only a couple of minutes talk —with leave to “extend remarks in the congres-. sional record." Once through the house, the hill goes to the senate where it is likely u linger long and probably under p alteration o ELECT OFFICERS Everett and Hite Company Hold Annual Meeting— Build Next Year The annual meeting and election of officers of the Everett and Hite Wholesale company was held last evening at the office of the company on West Monroe street and the following officers and directors elected. President, John Everett,; Vicepresident, C.. A. Burdg, secretarytreasurer and manager, Henry Hite.. The board of directors is composed of the following: John Everett Henry Hite, 8. E. Hite. Hugh D. Hite, M. E„ Hower and C. E„ Peterson. Mr. Everett stated that the company would not start the building of their new building until next year, it depending whether freight rates would be reduced this year. The company has purchased ground for the erection of a large wholesale house on West Monroe street. WeaW Indiana: Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday, warmer in south portion tonight, colder in north and central portions Friday. Lower Michigan:Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday, warmer in extreme' southeast portion tonight, colder Friday. fresh southwest shifting to northwest and north winds. ♦4+++ ++++ + + + + + + 4. AMERICAN HISTORY ♦ DAY BY DAY + By T. P. Green + + + March 23 + * ~ * ‘ The famous speech of Patrick + ' Henry was delivered on March + * 23,1775. 4 * A British military force was 4' * landed at Peekskill. N. Y., on 4- •' March 23, 1777 4 * ~ ♦ •''iathaniel Green was made U. + 8. Quarter Master General on * * March 23, 1778. 4. ~~~ *B* he Confederate Constitution 4* was ratified by Texas on March * * 23, 1861. 4 . 4 Tb * A ~1 ant ’‘ Poligamy act was de * 1 »red legal by the U. S. Su- ♦ * C ° Urt on Mar ch 23, 1885. 4-

JOKER IS JOKED I Much Excitement and Mer riment Results Last Evening When number of Friends TURN THE TABLES On Unsuspected Perpetrator of Joke. Answers Matrimonial Ad. When is a joke not a joke? Answer: When an officer of the law enters in to proceedings and much to the conI sternation of the perpetrator turn: ! the tables on him. And thereby hangs I the tale of woe. According to Hoyle and by all recognised rules of the game, a successfully carried out joke 'consists only of two principals, the victim and the joker. evening however, a precedence was set in thi.Icity proving that much more sport can be secured when there are twe victims and a dozen or more jokers For the past several days tiie fol lowing want ad had been carried it (the advertising columns of the Dem locrat: WIFE WANTED—I am 41 years | old, industrious, of good habits and desirous of marrying. Will be interested in receiving reply from woman about 35 to 38 who has property. Address “C. C.” care of Hotel Murray.” It so happenes that residing in the same city with this lonesome and ex emplary Beau Brummel, there also lived a popular young superintendent of a large manufacturing industry possessed of a winning personality and an effervescence of fun-loving characteristics into whose fertile mind was immediately instilled the idea and opportunity of perpetrating a joke on the innocent and unsuspecting aspirant of connubial bliss and wealth. The inception of the idea was followed by prompt action on the part of the p. y. s. who called up “C. C.” during the afternoon and made an engagement for 7 o'clock last evening, the meeting to take place in front of the hostelry. Being .of an exceptionally generous and benevo lent nature and desiring that as many of his friends as possible should par ticipate in the fun, the p.y.s. proceed ed to notify these friends of the time, the place and his Intentions, and re quested that as many of them as possible be present. Unfortunately for the p. y. s. however, he failed to take cognizance of the fact that there are always numbered among a I man's most intimate friends, few who ' are inclined to be jealous of any ' achievement or extraordinary enI deavors on his part., and as a result I these modern “brutus's” met in I secret conclave and formulated a dastardly plot against the unsuspect- ! ing originator of the evenings enter (tainment. The program was carried ' out as per schedule, the p.y.s. appear- ! ing in front of the hotel, attired in a '; womens costume at the appointed hour and from numerous dark shadows and corners peered forth the eyes of a large number of apparently ' j admiring friends. Within a short ,time the happy “C.C.” made his ap--1! pearance on the scene and grasping .; his lady-love by the arm proceeded ,' to stroll through the principal street , j of the city in a most approved lover- , like manner. Everything seemed to , be going smoothly until the corner , of Monroe and Second street was ,' reached when to the great consternJ atlon of the couple, especially in the , case of the p. y. s„ Policeman Briner , and Nightwatchman Franks appeared , on the scene and took the “young , lady" into custody.. After having , gone some distance toward the jail. , the situtaion was explained to the p. ► (Continued op page five)

; r —— r A View and Detailed Description of the I Adams County Memorial Hospital ■ ■ '* ■■H" l ————ll I ' ■' !■■■■/ I f - HMM > ’ i wMI MO -Following is a complete description of the exterior and interior of the Adams County Memorial Hospital which will be erected on the Old Fair Grounds site, south of Decatur. Bids for the construction of the hospital will be received sometime in May. The building will be three stories, with a basement.

(By Architect Oscar Hoffman) Bed capacity, not including the Sun rooms which may be thrown into emergency wards, 37 beds. There is a Sun room on each floor large enough to accomodate nine beds each, bringing the total bed capacity to 64 beds. The main building is three stories and basement, sixe 111 fl. x 36 ft. 8 in. with a wing to the rear center two stories and basement, this wing houses the boilers in the basement the laundry and fuel room, size of wing 41 ft. by 43 ft.

MEET ASSESSORS N. K. Todd, Representative of State Tax Board Checks Up Work OF THE ASSESSORS Pleased With Progress Made so Far —Ask That Real Value he Taken N. K. Todd, representative of the State Tax Board, met with County Assessor William Frazier and the township assessors this morning in the auditor's office and compared the assessments of personal property and real estate so far made this year with the assessments of last year and in comparison with the different townships. Mr. Todd expressed satisfaction over the work so far accomplished by the township assessors and complimented,) County (Assessor Frazier for his efforts in trying to get an equal assessment in the county. He stated that the average assessments so far were about right, but in some eases were too low and advised that the average be adjusted. The meeting was a very friendly one, Mr. Todd joking with the assessors and erpressed a willingness to help them and urged that they assess the property at its true value. He stated that if the assessments in the different townships did not correspond that it would be necessary to place an horizontal increase on it. Mr. Todd stated that it was the duty of the assessors to assess property at its real value and that each man be assessed as his neighbor. When asked about the total valuation of personal property and real estate in the county, Mr. Todd stated that he did not look for much of a decrease or lowering of the total valuation this year over last year, especially after all assessments were equalized. He stated that some property may be assessed too high and others too low and that he thought the average would be about the same. o OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR GIVES BOND Okmulgee. Okla., March 23. —Gov. J. B. A. Robertson of Oklahoma, under indictment charged with accepting a bribe to permit a bank which was near insolvency to operate, was at liberty today under $5,000 band. The governor slipped quietly into Okmulgee last night and went to the office of Eaton and Carter his attorneys. He was met by sheriff Bowers

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, March 23, 1922

Basement Floor consists of: — Boiler room, fuel room, laundry room elevator machinery room, room for future iy;.t-igfXsi(t|on plant. There will be four rooms in the basement. ■ unasigned, which may be fitted up in the future for X-ray. dark room and dark testing room. Janitor's toilet 1 room. Clothes Chutet, InqineraXor , or Kernerator garbage burner. Main or First Floor consists of: — Main entrance vestibule, reception lobby or memorial court, reception room, office room, dispensary room, superintendent's bed ) room, floor;

TO RATIFY TREATY VUnlted Press ftervfce) _ I Washington, Mar. 23—(Special to Daily Democrat) —An eleventh hour poll of the senate on the four power treaty, taken, today by administration senators, showed it will be ratified; tomorrow with the Brandegee reservation attached bv a vote of at least 69 to 27. Ihe poll also disclosed the fact that the danger of an upset due Io the desire of some republican senators to eliminate the Brandegee reservation is past. Fewer than a dozen republicans would vote for a motion to strike out the Brandegee proposal. SPELLING MATCH For North Half of County Will be Held in This City Friday ONE AT GENEVA Teams From South Half of County Meet There. Conn ty Contest March 31 Two spelling matches will be held : in this city Friday evening begin-1 ning at 7:30 one at the Athletic hall; and the other at the court room the seventh and eighth grade teams from , the north half of the county meeting j at the court house, while the fifth and sixth grades from the same district will meet at the Gym. At the some time the spelling match for the south half of the county will be held at Geneva, the teams from the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades participating. The winners of these two | contests, a team of fourteen being; selected from both the north and south half of the county will compete for the county championship which will be held on March 31. County Auditor Martin Jaberg and J. D. L. Cline, principal of the Decatur high school, have been selected as the pronouncers for the spelling match at the court house, while Miss Nellie Winnes and Walter Krick will pronounce for the match at the gym. An admission of ten cents will be charged and the public is Invited to attend. County Superintendent E. S. Christen has been informed that the teams from Union, Root, Preble and Kirkland are planning on winning the honors and much interest is being shown by the pupils. (Continued on page five)

nurses station; eneunciator silenf call system, telephone, diet kitchen, dumb waiter, refrigerator, gas plate, sink, cupboards, shelves, plate warmer. Utility or sink room, clinic sink, slop sink, gas plate, bed pan sterilizer, be<l pan rack. Sun or day room, 12 ft by 32 ft. Six private bed rooms, 1 3-bed ward; main kitchen; dining room; rest room for help; 2 detention rooms; toilet rooms and bath rooms; linen closets; clothes chute; dust chute and garbage chute to in(Continued on page three) ,

TO INCORPORATE • Will H. Berling Produce Co., Will be Incorporated ; for Amount of $75,000 PAPERS TO BE FILED Today With Secretary of State. Eastern Capital In terested in Company. Incorporation papers will be filed with the secretary of state tomorrow for the Will H. Berling Produce com pany, successors to Berling & Moltz, 'and the new firm will be incorporated for $75,000. W. H. Berling, who bought the com- ; pany in at receiver's sale yesterday 'at $29,900, stated that the new firm would open for business Saturday of | this week at all the plants. Some eastern capital is brought into tlie company, the foreign stock- ! holders will be announced tomorrow. | The company will do a general whole[sale produce business, in eggs, poultry, cream and other produce. Other local stockholders, it is stater, are John H. Painter and Jess, | Markley. Mr. Berling who is general manager of the entire chain of plants, states that Fred Huffman, local young ; man. would be his assistant manager I at the local headquarters plant. Plant managers announced are as follows: Montpelier—Charles Eddington. Hartford City—W. 11. Clingenpeel. Warren —Clifford Ruse. Swayzee—B. H. Smith. La. Fountain —B. B. Siders. Redkey—No manager named, j Gaston —No manager named. Amboy—No manager named. The Bluffton Produce company formerly a branch house is sold to Art Costello, and is not connected with the Berling Co. Mr. Costello is operating the plant himself. —Bluffton Ban- . ner. HALF FIND WORK - Indianapolis, Ind., March 23. —Half the nation’s unemployed world war veterans have found jobs in three days of the American Legion’s employment drive, it was said at national headquarters here today. Approximately 400.000 have been I given jobs. There were 700,000 jobless veterans when the big push i started Monday. Encouraging reports have been received from every state in the nuion it was announced.

RESISTANCE TO MINERS’ ’ STRIKE QUITE PROBABLE TIE-UP WOULD NOT AFFECT INDIANA FOR OVER THREE MONTHS-RAIL-ROAD WORKERS MAY JOIN IN A SYMPATHETIC STRIKE.

ENJOY LECTURE Appreciative A u die nce Hears Dr. Winfield Scott Hall At Presbyterian CHURCH LAST NIGHT Subject of Lecture is Man’s Upward Struggle”. Was Very Instructive A large and appreciative audience; was present last evening at the Presbyterian church to hear the lecture delivered by Dr. Winfield Scott Hall on the subject “Man's Upward Struggle." Dr. Hall is at present in the employ of the government to bring the doctrine of hygiene and eugenics before the public and owing to his natural ability and experience along this line, and being a fluent speaker and orator, is meeting with wonderful success in this work. In his subject last evening he began with the creation of man. some 6,000 years back, he very graphically described the different stages of racial advancement from savagery Ito barbarism, from barbarism to chivalry and from chivalry to the present high plane of living. He then compared each individual life with thtfa gradual advancement illustrating how the child between the age of 3 to 10 years instinctively followed the traits and inclinations of the savage period, while from the age of 10 to 14 years he was more or loss ■of a barbaric disposition, and how the chivalrous nature became pronounced during the ages of 14 to 221 years. Special emphasis was also laid on the manner by which parents should discipline children during these ages. During his visit in the city yesterday. Dr. Hall held several meetings for the students of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and high school and also gave a lecture in the afternoon to the teachers and parents, and which was very interesting and pleasing. IRELAND’S CIVIL WAR Ulsters and Republican Troops Prepare for the Battle— Houses Fortified <Vnite«l I’rewM Service). On the Ulster Front, Caedon,| County Tyrone. Mar. 23—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Snipers' rifles were barking defiance across the Tyrone border early today. Along the Monaghan frontier, Ulster volunteers and Irish republicans army troops are facing each other across a narrow no man's land. Farm houses are being fortified, shallow entrenchments have been thrown up. Both sides are ready for the threatened civil war. The trouble along the ulster bord-' er is the climax of a series of raids | into ulster by Sinn Fein extremists. Ulster constabulary has been rushed to protect the Tyrone frontier and Irish republican army troops, apparently striving to create trouble and; upset the establishment of the free state, have been reinforced until the situation assumes the aspects of Guerilla warfare. Belfast. Mar. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—A bomb was hurled into an entrance to St. Matthems Cath--1 olic church during Lenten devotion last night. Two women who remain ed on their knees were terribly wounded by the explosion. Others of the congregation had hair-breath escapes. Two boys were killed in sporadic sniping throughout the city and other bombs were thrown. o —— Mrs. Agnes Andrews left for Ft. Wayne this morning where she was called by the illness of her sister, Mrs. W. F. Rosenwinkle.

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I’nlted I’rexM Start Correspondent United Mine Workers’ leaders may encounter resistance to their tie-up plans in the "war council" of the general policy committee at Cleveland tomorrow. President Lewis, entering the meeting with a program calling for a fight to a finish with the operators will | find Illinois representatives insist- | ing that the miners of each state 1 negotiate separate agreements with I the employers. Meanwhile, the A. F. of L. announces Itself as solidly backing the miners in their suspension of work : scheduled for April 1 and Lewis announced not even an appeal from President Harding would halt the tie-up. Indianapolis, Mar. 23--(Special to Daily Democrat) —The coal strike will not be seriously felt in Indiana for more than three months. Tho public needs are assured until summer and the utilities have their bins full with the usual reserve which will last for ninety to a hundred days Charles L. Henry’, president of the Indiana public utility association said in an interview today. Washington. Mar. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The government will protect the public against any .violence that nnght fplloyv a walkou’ of coal miners' April 1, Attorney'General Daugherty warned today. “I am not taking sides in this matter, but I wish to make it dear tho public will be protected.” lie said. New York. Mar. 23—(Special to Daily Democrat) —-Confident that th“ railroad workers of the U. S. would join in a sympathetic strike if the anthracite miners suspend operation April 1 was expressed today by John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers. “The railroads," Lewis said, "are a constant source of help to the miners and we can count upon their help as well as that of the American federation of labor and similar organizations. “As yet we have made no request, for assistance.” Anthracite operators and miners representatives met this afternoon at the union league club in an attempt to discover a “way out" of the difficulties which seem leading inevitably to a suspension of work April 1. A report that the operators have I decided to demand a 25% wage reduction however dispelled hope. The rules of the railroad brotherhood provide against sympathetic ■ strikes. Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 23 —(Special to Daily' Democrat) —Separate state made agreements between mine owners and miners may yet avert the nation-wide coal strike called for April 1, it was learned to- ' day at United Mine Worker’s headquarters here. Whether the strike actually materializes depends now upon the power international officers of the union are able to exercise over their subordinates at a meeting of their i policy committee in Cleveland tomorrow. o See Irene Castle in "French Heels" Friday at the Crystal Theatre. -Tri Kappas have the tickets on sale. —o 44.4.4444.444 444444 4 GOVERNMENT IS SHORT 4" 4 4•b Washington. Mar. 23 —(Spe- 4" 4» cial to Daily Democrat) —The 44 1 treasury faces a shortage this 4> + year of approximately $200,000,- 4 1 4- 000 because Income tax pay- + + ments of March 15 have fallen 4> 4* considerably below previous 44> estimates, it was stated official- 4> 4. ly at the department today, as 44* the house prepared to increase 44> the fiscal burden by passing the 4* •b soldier bonus bill. * 4>4‘4-4-4*4-4-4-4>4-4'4-4'* + *