Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 29 March 1922 — Page 4

DAILX DEMOCRAT RuhlishM Every Evening B*o*pl . Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Amoelate Editor and Bualneaa Managar JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Ratsa Cash In Advance Ring! a Coplea «... 1 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Tear, by carrier......v... 16.00 One Month, by mall .- 35 cento Three Months, by ma11....i.... 11.00 Hix Months, by mall ■»..■ 31.76 One Tear, by mall 13.00 One Tear, at 0ffice......v...... 13.00 (Prices quoted are with!* first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflee at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter.

The spring weather for a few days has disappeared and we have the oldfashioned average today. It's a little | early to expect anything else. Attorney General Daugherty is opposed to civil service and said so yes terday. So are we and so is every one else when it is administered the way the presnt administration is doing it. The one and only and first 1 qualification of an applicant is that he be a republican. The school qquqestion has been well discussed through the columns of "The People’s Voice” in this paper, but there are other questions deserv ing of thought and it is hoped that the people will take them up in this manner. And it makes interesting reading and gives new thoughts to many people. According to an Indianapolis dis patch a Mr. Benning of Anderson will contest with Albert 11. Vestal for the republican nomination for congressman. That city is also the home of Mr. Vestal and they will probably have a right merry little go. The course of a candidate never runs real smooth very long. The request of a writer in the “People's Voice” column for information as to the salaries of township and county officers was answered in yesterday’s paper. We are glad toi give such information whenever oh ■ tainable. We do not claim to know everything but we will try to secure for our readers any information they desire when requested to do so in good faith. The committee named to present Mr. Farmer the claims and desires of this community that the Yeomen's national home be located here will formulate their plans and the pro gram for April 10th in a few days and you will be apprised of same. Every citizen should be glad to give any assistance possible toward this splendid and possible achievement. We are sure you will. Your presence at the public meeting may mean much. John Tyndall for congress will, we believe, receive a vote in Adams county which will leave no doubt in the minds of the people of the district as to where he stands with his

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’ own people. Those who have ao quaintances among the democrats over the district can assist the cam . paign for his nomination by urging r them to support him in the primary. • A letter from you to some one In J some other county may mean a number of votes. i The state tax board has discoveretl I that the tuxes to be raised this year 1 will exceed the amount they expected j and estimated over $300,000. In oth- ; er words they will make the people I of the state pay in that amount more 1 than necessary. When they figured the estimate on vauation they seem to have missed it something like a hundred and fifty million dollars. And that's efficiency. Os course the money will be used, for there is always some place where it can be dumped but of all the years in history to make such a “ball-up” they, could not have selected a worse one. An announcement coming from Decatur today that John W. Tyndall will be a candidate for congress on tiie democratic ticket is good news to the democrats of Wells county. Mr. Tyndall is well known in this county, and is known as a man of action. 1 one who has opinions on all questions of the hour, not afraid to speak them out and has the ability tfTdo so. The district will be mighty lucky if it should break away from Mr. Vestal and put John W. Tyndall in congress The country needs some new blood in congress, and a man of the ability and courage of John W. Tyndall would be a mighty good place to start. Several years ago Mr. Tyndall was in the state senate, where he made a great reputation. He is engaged in the tile business in Decatur, where he is a part and parcel of all the worthy enterprise of the city and county.—Bluffton Banner. THE COURT NEWS A new suit on onte has been filed entitled First National Bank vs Al bert Doan and Charles Springer Com plaint was filed and summons ordered returnable April 10. Lenhart & Hell er represent the plaintiff. In the divorce proceedings of Harry G. Whittenfeld against Marion Whit tent'eld, leave was asked and granted uhe plaintiff to amand the complaint In the action on note filed by the Willshire Bank Co., vs William Durbir and Clyde Wolfe, appearance was en tcred by D. B. Erwin as attorney fol the defendants and was ruled to an swer. The suit on account filed by the I Berne Grain & Hay Co., against John Ireland was dismissed and costs paid by the plaintiff. In the case of State of Indiana ex rel Addie Laisure vs Leo Gause, by agreement of parties the cause was continued. In the action to foreclose chattie mortgage filed by the Nichols Sheppard Co. vs. Jasper Wable, finding was made for the defendant and the clerk ordered to pay to the plaintiff the sum of $593.27 that had heretofore been paid. Judgment was also fonnd against the plaintiff for costs in the cast. Separate exceptions were taken by the plaintiff to both the finding and judg ment. Mrs. Chahner Schafer spent yesterday in Fort Wsyne. Mrs. Eflle Tickle of Wren shopped in Decautr this morning.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1922

Hie People’s Voice By Josephus Denials. "And you didn't get a daniu step further," was the declaration of a loading member of Congress a few days ago. It was time sojnebody spoke out vigorously for the soldier and sailor lads who saved the world in 1917-18. "You men sitting before me,” continued Joseph W. Fordney to a convention of follow-lumbermen, “cheer ed them madly and marched with them to the depot as they entrained for France. "And you didn't go a damn step further," he thundered in righteous indignation to men who having told the lads that "when you come back victors anything and everything that America has will not be good enough for you." Petition for Bonus. It is not about time the soldier's compensation bill was discussed on its merits? It is now many months since the mon who served in the army and navy during t lie World War petitioned Congress for the compensation carried in the measure that passed the House last year and was smothered in the Senate. The right of petition is safeguarded by the Constitution. Every American citizen has an inherent right to petition his public servants If would seem that in the absence of a constitutional privilege the men whose valor saved the world could have a hearing by Congress without being in tulted and ridiculed and denounced for exercising that simple privelege. Hut from the minute the officers if the American Legion, speaking 'or 90 per cent of the American soliiers and sailors who were paid less than S4O a month during their miistment. suggested that the United State follow the example of prac ically every other allied nation and jive the same character of practica : ■ecognition generously given the sol liers who followed Washington and Hrant, there has been a hue and cry hat they were trying to "commer ■ialize patriotism.” that they were ‘seeking to surrender the glory of sacrifice for paltry dollars” that they were “making a raid on the Treasury,' tnd were “dishonoring the uniform hey wore by wiling to accept mone ary compensation,” and were tryinr o “run the government by a noisj ninority clamoring for a bonus."

The Real Test. If the men in Congress responsible or legislation were more determiner o do justice to the soldier and sailoi han to the profiteer and the othei ■ich, they would re-enact the bill lay ng again every tax repealed befon 'hrismas and continue those taxes unit this debt of honor is paid to the nen who wore the uniform. That it he real test. If the responsible con tressmen would take that course the noney would be forthcoming without my real hardship on any man in the Jnited States. It is a wanton insult to say that my soldier or sailor desiring the com tensation proposed is “commerciallz ng his patriotism.” If so. George Washington “commercialized his pariotism” when the Virginia legislanre voted him stock in the companies irganized for the development of the vest, after the War of the Revolution, ind the soldiers who followed Grant vho received large tracts ot land after 1865 in recognition of the service in he Federal army. If so, nearly every soldier who ever served in any war "commercialized ils patriotism” by accepting money or and or other valuable consideration. There is a deep-seated reason for the compensation to the soldiers. It is found in these facts: Reason for Compensation. 1. Very many of them came back home in debt for the support of their families incurred while they were fighting for their country. The pay of $8 per month at the price of provisions and clothing in 1917-19 did not go very far. While they were in training or oversease men exempted from military service were being paid from $7 to sls per day for the character of work the soldiers and sailors would have done if they had remained home. Congress voted a bonus of $240 a year for every civilian employe of the government who received over $1,200 a year, and now it haggles over smaller compensation for the men in the trenches. 2. There are between three and five million people unemployed in the United States, and many of thes are men who quit college'or gave up their jobs to wear their country’s uniform. They have not been able to. obtain steady employpiept at repumeratifce wages since demobilization. In some cities where national depression has brought hard conditions, not a few of the men who honorably wore the uniform have been helped by public or private charity. Such humiliation ought not to be expected of men who in the world’s sorest need gave all

they were and all they hoped to be to secure world peace and permanent pt a-, e. It is through uo fault of theirs peace und prosperity did not follow the armistice. They did their part nobly and well. 3. Here Is a concrete case: A father—there were many—had two sons One went to the war. leaving his family to be supported by his father. The other remained al home, obtained good pay. and after the war obtained a civil service position paying $2,250. The boy who went to war lost his job. has not been able to pay for the care of his family or to obtain regular employment since. Neither Individuals nor corpot aticns have been as patriot Ic as they promised during the war and have kept many nonservice men in I heir employment while roldters have asked in vain for employment. And though the law requires preference to be given to soldiers and sailors it: public position, the law has not been respected in many instances. Those are mong the reason why the compo'istf'on law has been pressed. What Congress Should Do. If Congress will restore good conditions in America os that all exservice men may depend upon steady employment, the compensation bill would not be urged. Unless that can be done and done speedily, national gratitude demands the passage of a measure of relief and recognition. If Congress would give half the time to finding away to pass the measure that they devote to finding ways how not to pass it, or how-to defeat it by wonosing impossible methods of raising the funds, the matter would be settled at once and the needed relief af'orded to the men to whom the world >wes the early end of the war. At least Congress should not now, tnd in a direct manner without giving promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. Is it any wonder the soldiers feel humiliated and the county disgusted?

DOLLARS AND “SENCE”. Much is being written these days . in the subpect of the “One Cylinder" ; >r the consolidated school: and many , .hings presented byway of argument . ‘hat are really no argument at all and , io little toward settling the question. . it has been pointed out that inasmuch , is some of the greatest men and worn- , m of a half century ago acquired their j jducation in the one-room school, and tiled their places with credit to them- ( reives as well as rendering isestimable ( service to their country, their illus- ( rious careers stand as an undying . estimonial to the efficiency of the j 'one cyllinder” school and makes it ( he last word in popular education as- | rerting that any change byway of , mprovement is wholly unnecessary j ind not to be thought of. , Well, would these same folks argue ( hat inasmuch as Washington, Jack- - ion and Lincoln didn't ride in street i :ars, automobiles, or flying machines, hat they never talked “over the phone” or listened to machine made •nusic, that we should not do so >ither? Would they contend that since pur grandfathers or fathers for that matter cut their grain with the cradle, •aked and pitched their hay by hand, vent to town and church in the "big vagon" and sent a neighbor on horsepack for the doctor, he having to ford urbulent streams, while the afficted suffered for hours, would they say ike wise now? Would thes good folks now argue hat the one room school is too sacred in institution to be descrated by the rand of progress, declare that we ibould remain forever static? Would .hey contend that as they say the fenerations of fifty or a hundred fears ago "enjoyed” their inconveniences, lived happy* and got through tomehow, that all modern improvements and conveniences, are wholly innecessary and ought never to have been introduced. Isn’t it a little strange that we are willing to pay for my and all kind of improvements if we have to borow money to do it. but m the subject of improved educational facilities we raise our hands in holy horror at the expense. Now the fact is that on the question of the advantages of the consolidated over the district school there is no ground tor argument at all. The whole matter can be narrowed down to a question of dollars and cents if there be any question on that score. If the oft repeated statement that the country’s best asset is the boys and girls, be true, then why spend money for every convenience and improvement under the sun calculated to make life worth living, and undertake to economize when the most important interest is at stake? But now for the real question in the matter considering the fact- that-sopie, townships are in debt from $7500 to SIOO,OOO for road construction and more to follow, that many of the roads are not in condition to make hauling by truck possible. That under the law the trustee provides high school privileges by transfer into townships where none exist, it it advisable to add a debt ot S6OOOO or more thereby |

making taxes already near the break Ing point, higher still? Well let * the writer thinks that one of the mis takes being made by the advocates of consolidation its in adhering too strictly to township lines, thereby making the schol units to small and making the building of too many schools necessary. It looks as though there are a number of localities In Adams county where two or at least the greater part of two townships could be combined, making our school unit larger and cutting the cost to each township of building and maintaining in two. A debt of S3OOOO would not nearly be as burdensome as a debt of $60,000. The exact distance to haul assuming of course that the condition of the roads permit of transportation by trucks would not be worth mentioning. But there is another side to this. The folks who are preaching econ omy from the townships seem to be perfectly willing to spend the same amount of money in patching up or blilding new the one room buildings. Suppose now' we start in rebuilding the one room buildings at a cost of SISOOO each as has been proposed. How long will it be until we have as much money tied up in one room buildings as we would have in a modern, well equipped, consolidated building? Economy is a commendable virtue and it would be well if more of us had the knack of practicing it more consistently, but to spend from S3OOOO to S6OOOO patching up or rebuilding the one room school in a township in preference to spending the same amount or even considerably more on a modern central building is a queer brand of economy. Now folks if we want to save money, let’s save it. The fact is that very few district school houses built 10 or 15 years ago would pass inspection, and if one district is entitled to a $15,00 building, why not other districts? Another thing the writer predicts that in less than ten years centralization will be established by state law whether we will or not; and then what becomes of our SISOO one room school buildings? Haven't we enough one room building here and there over the country built at the cost of thousands of dollars, used a few years and then abandoned and today standing unused, a monument to the nearsightedness of somebody? Why spend more money in like manner? The only interest the writer has in the mater is that of a taxpayer and one who wants to see our boys and girls have a better thing of it than we had. The writer's children would profit little by the establishing of a central high school in this township, but he went, to the one room school, wore linsey shirts, jeans trousers and leather boots, sat all day with wet feet ate sorghum molasses, com bread and fat meat. Later walked five miles

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mornlug and evening to a graded school. No one cmileuds that the one cylinder school was a failure, nor that our parents did not give ue the boat they could for which we honor them and severe their memory but somehow J have little consideration for the idea that what was good neough for us is good enough for our children. Our parents did the best they could in pro Tiding educational facilities and why Should we do the same as well as we do In all other ways and things that go to make them useful aqil happy, especially while we are buying automobiles und all other modern conveniences regardless of cost. . — AN OPERATION TODAY Dr a. I). D. Clark and J. C. Grandstaff performed a successful operation this morning on the four months old child of Mr and Mrs. Earl Straub of Preble for the correction of a hair-lip. The child is getting along nicely and will soon entirely recover. a Owing to the vast tracts of snowy land in Russia, cows grazing there in spring frequently wear colored spectacles to save their eyes from the glare.

OFTEN * w 1 b® women & A w IS the money savers of the family, 31 They have the real knack of sav< ICaSt ing, and taw, too, how to make 1 ft / one dollar do the 1 v/O work of two. Os We welcome the accounts of thrifVour ty women and will J be glad to assist INCOME them in business matters. Old Adams County Bank The Friendly Bank New Bank Building

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