Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1922 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evary Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. rfOHN H. HELLER Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Associate Editor and Business Manager J. R. BLAIR.; City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier ............. >5.00 One Month, by mail .' 35 cents Three Months, by mall SI.OO Six Months, by mai1....,., $1.75 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, ns second class matter DR. CLARK;— Heartfelt sorrow among the people of this community over the death of Dr. David D. (’lark was everywhere evident today. His busy, active interest in everything going on, his desire to serve, his attitude towards mankind, high or humble, his view of life and his social qualities made bin very popular. He was bluut and honest, a man who had convictions and expressed them but in all this county you will find few if any men who have not a word of praise for him and you will find hundreds who admired him and who today deeply mourn his death. He loved companionship and he loved the world, administering to rich and poor alike, day or night. He was an indulgent father, a kind husband, a splendid citizen of the highest integrity, loved by the community, ,his fatpily and his friends. What better record for any man? In public office he was efficient and courteous, in his extensive practise he was kind, con siderate and ever anxious to do all in his power to lend relief, in affairs for the improvement of the community he was always a volunteer and a substantial help. We will miss Dr. Clark in many circles and we extend to the heart broken family the sincerest sympathies of a saddened community. An exchange editor speaks his mind rather sternly and pointedly in the following: The President, strenuous advocate of economy, is enjoying his beautiful now launch, purchased for him out of the people’s money, to convey him ®

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I’ from the whurf to the Mayflower ant 1 back again. Os course a fine luuncl bad always been provided for thia pur r pose, but some official who probably • desired to win the approval of the £ royal eye for a prosperous moment conceived the idea that the successor s of Jacksou and Lincoln should ride in i palatial state such as was affected by * the Homan emperors of those luxur- ) ions times preceding the fatal day I when the barbarians stabled their ’ horses in the Forum. A forty-five . thousand dollar launch is the result; it is used about five minutes per week, i It is built of solid mahogany from the forests of Santo Domingo, decked with ■ the silver of Mexico and cushioned ' with the silks of the Orient. It would require the fervid Imagination of a Poe , or a Rider Haggard to visualize some of Harding’s predecessors using the . hard-wrung taxes of the farmer and the laborer for this ostentation of lux . ury while preaching economy in every breath. Who can imagine old Andrew ■ Jackson, who slept in his tent with bis spurs on in the Muddy Shalmette bot . toms waiting for the British to land allowing his understrappers to buy such a bauble for him out of the i people's money? And how would Lincoln look, who could split more rails from sun to sun than any other man in his country, lolling back in the down-filled cushions of this wonderful boat? The party of Lincoln has fallen into strange control in these later days. It must be tine to have a job like h< se public service auditors and have to come to a community where they know they are neither needed or wanted and live all summer in such an atmosphere. They will never be popular here for every tax payer they meet will feel they are being imposed upon It seems to us they would pack their little old suit cases and report back to Indianapolis where they can sec the ball games and enjoy the vaudeville performances under tin shadow of the state house. Well have you voted? It’s the duty of every citixen to assist in the selec lion of the officials who will have charge of the county and federal of flees, the townships and who will act as delegate to the state conventions The way to secure better government i, to pick out the most efficient offi cers and this is the day. Election returns will be received at -his office tonight and the public is invited to help themselves to every onvenience we can offer, either in person or by telephone. Democratic headquarters will also be open to the public and returns will also be sent there. * ? CONFESSIONS OF A SENATOR + + + *** + ***** — CHAPTER V. Washington, May 2. —The senator was chuckling over a sharp passage it arms between two of his colleagues an the senate floor. They had bristled it each other and had couched fcro■ious retorts in that peculiarly stilted language which the senate regards as properly fulfilling the requirements of politeness on such collection. That little spat reminds me,” said the senator,, “of the time Senator X's wife tried to get him to beat up Senator Y.” Te broke off into a laugh at the recollection. “Wish I could tell you all about it," he said, finally, “but part of the story is taboo. Anyhow, Senator X,. gone now for years from the senate, got into a dispute on the floor with Senator Y. X was a mild mannered man, inoffensive, bookish and hard to make angry. Y was one of those belligerant everybody, and got away with it most of the time. “He pressed poor X pretty hard one day, until the mildness all evaporated, and X answered him back pretty roughly. Y was flabbergasted. He had picked on X as something easy for that day’s amusement, and to have him a veritable worm, .turn on the great Y was astounding. Word of it spread through the cloakrooms like wildfire, and the senant filled up in a jiffy. “Once started, X, .like many of Ills kind, was hard to stop. The further he want, the madder he got, and the drossing down he gave Y was a beauty. Y tried to comeback at him, and they finaliy began to get personal. The | v ice President kept bis hands off as

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d long us he dared, for as he told me h afterwards, be wanted to see Y get all that was coming to him. "At last, however, he had to stop the y fuss before it got to rough for sen--10 atorial dignity. Y crawled out of the t. chamber like a whipped dog that day, ir and X. madder than a wet hen, started n for the cloakroom. ‘As he went, ho happened to glance up, and looked into his wife's face. She 1 was in the senatorial gallery, and X V wilted when he saw iter. r "The good Mrs. X was what one e might call strong minded. X got one . flash at her faco, and turned pale. She was mad clear through, and X thought her anger was directed towards him. e He hid out in the cloakroom but she * l sent for him. and after stalling as long d as he could, X went to meet her. d "The next morning he phoned me to P come to his office. Such a sight! The man was a wreck. B “ ‘Why X,’ I said,, “what on earth is > wrong with you? Are you ill?’ He r| was pacing up and down his office, almost tearing his hair,, biting his lips / and behaving like a man demented. { “‘lll,’ he echoed, 'ill? I’m dead, s that's what I am,’ And ho broke out into the most emphatic and sustained burst of polished profanity I ever re--1 member to have heard. Nobody had f ever heard him swear. "Well, to make a long story short, I got from him at last that his wife demanded that he bring her Y's scalp ,or his head on a charger, or something 1 like that. Seems Mrs. X’s niece had been having some social rivalry with I Senator Y’s sister, and Mrs. X laid the i attack on X in the senate by Y to that . social war. It was an affront to her, she said, and blood, .buckets of it, or words to the general effect, .would be required to wipe out the stain on the X honor. “ ‘What shall I do?’ wailed poor X He had sent for me to advise him. J had to laugh in his face, though ! heaven knows he was a sight for tears rather than laughter. “ ‘She insists I must assault him, and by physical violence wring from him m apology to her and to her niece, as well as to myself,’ he went on. “That was too much for me. I had to get somewhere where I could laugh. So J managed to tell him I would get in touch with him later, and then 1 staggered out. I took a few of my colleagues into my confidence, and we got word to Y that X was looking for, him to carve him up and that he was carrying a couple of big guns. Y, like most bullies, was a coward, and when the senate met that day, his absence on official business' was announced. He didn't come back for three weeks, and I may say that thereafter he let X severely alone. X never spoke in the senate after that without first looking furtively into the gallery to see if Mrs. X was there.” DID HIM MORE GOOD Many men and women suffer from backache, rheumatic pains, stiff points sore muscles and other results of kidney trouble because they neglected the first warning symptoms. Foley Kidney Pills aid the kidneys to throw out poisonsous waste matter that causes pain and misery. Stephen Lewis, Eldridge, Ky., writes: ‘Foley Kidney Pills did me more good than all the other medicine I ever took. I had > kidney trouble ten years. I don’t have , my pain like I had before I took hem.” Sold everywhere. Al William made a business trip to Willshire today.

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e HOW RURAL PATRONSCAN 11 ASSIST A POST OFFICE R Postal service for rural patrons, i- can be improved by full cooperation o of the patrons, the efforts and desire ~ot the carrier 1b to give you 100% j service, and patrons can materially help the carrier to do this if they B will see that the roads are kept in , good condition, that the approaches . to their boxes are clear and well filled in with stone or gravel, and by promptly and willingly correcting 9 any irregularities affecting their boxes when asked to do so. Rural patrons can assist their car--1 rier by placing stamps on their let- ■ ters Instead of placing unstamped 1 mail in the boxes, togther with money t for the purchase of required post»ge. This delays the carrier and prevents > the patrons from receiving tbelr ? mail as quick as they otherwise would. If necessary however to i place money in a box it should be , put in a coin holding receptacle or be properly wrapped so as to be quickly taken from the box by carrier. Money for the purchase of Money Orders should not be left in the box but should be handed to the carrier and a receipt obtained. If you will help to carry out these 1 regulations, the carrier will do his part. Thanking you in advance for your co-operation. I am Your public servant, JOHN W. BOSSE, P. M. THE BENEFITS OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY The wave of crime confronting the world today has not abated to any noticeable degree despite all fforts to check it. The seed of crime is garnered from many and various sources, and the least among these sources is, by no means, the unscrupulous literature with which the world is inundated at the present time. All evils, all fads, as well as truth and culture, have their printed propaganda. In no previous era has the careful selection of reading matter, relative to the training of the mind, been so important as now. So tremendous is the demand for reading matter in our time that it has brought forth new authors in every department of literature, and not a few of these authors are actuated solely by mercenary motives as their productions but too well mirror. Reading ’is a most powerful factor in the building of man's character, but the wrong kind of reading matter is equally destructive to the character; hence, the greatest care must be exercised on the part of those to whom the cultivation of the youthful mind is entrusted. The library, therefore, be it restricted to the family use only, or be i it one to which the public in general has access, must be carefully purged of all reading matter that might produce an adverse influence on the mind of the reader. It must be considered the granary or storehouse of intellectual food and as such should contain nothing but wholesome food adapted to promote the health of mind and morals. It has been deemed necessary for the physical health of man to introduce Pure Food Laws, and thanks to the philanthropical zeal of the farmers of that law, many lives have been spared and the general health of mankind has been greatly benefit- ' ed. A similar law governing the in tellectual food would be one step, at 1 least, towards the reduction of crime. Until such a law be enacted our pub lie libraries must do sentinel duty, observing and giving notice of dangerous literature, and counteracting i it by dispensing the antidote. In matters of literature the tastes of men differ, and this taste is especially pronounced in the youthful reader; history, science, fiction or! whatever else appeals to the reader should adorn the shelves of a library but conformity to facts, systematized knowledge and elevating exhibitions of events must characterize all literature that enters a library. A library thus maintained Is a veritable asset to any community. REV. J. A. SEIMETZ. P 0 R T L AND~NEWSP A PER - HAS CHANGED HANDS A deal was consummated on Saturday by which the management and ownership of the Commercial-Re-view, published in this city, passed into the hands of Mr. Franklin Hildebrand, newspaper man of Wabash, Indiana. The change took place this morning. The new owner and publisher was for a number of years owner of a newspaper in Wabash. After selling out there he bought and published a newspaper in south-, ern Illinois, selling there about two ago since which time he has been at Columbus, Indiana, as assistant in the same line of work in the newspaper office of a brother of Mrs. Hildebrand. The former owners of the Commercial-Review. Mr. B. F. Sprungcr and S. C. Gouty, have not yet definitely settled what line of work they will engage in.-—Portland Republican.

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + AMERICAN HISTORY ♦ + DAY BY DAY ♦ ♦ By T. P. Green. ♦ ♦ ♦ May 2. ♦ + Thomas Jefferson was made + ♦ American Minister to France on ♦ ♦ May 2, 1785. ♦ + A San Francisco fire loss * + 2,500 buildings and $3,500,000 oc- ♦ ♦ curred on May 2, 1851. + — + Gen. Stonewall Jackson was ♦ ♦ wounded by his own men by mis- ♦ ♦ take on May 2„ 1863. ♦ — + The Ohio National Guard (38- + ♦ 000) offered services to the I’res- ♦ ♦ ident on Muy 2, 1864. + • - * ♦ A SIOO,OOO reward for arrest + ♦ of Jefferson Davis was made by + ♦ the President on May 2, 1865. ♦ ♦ + + Steam engines and paid fire ♦ ♦ department were installed by ♦ ♦ New York ou May 2, 1865. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ - CHILDREN IN SPRING TIME Mrs. C. Osborn, 7812 Hillside RdCleveland, 0., writes: "My granddaughter was trouble with a cough for nearly two years. She took Foley s Honey and Tar and her cough is now gone. It loosened the phlegm sa she could raise it easily.” Foley s Honey and Tar is just what children should have for feverish colds, coughs, 'snufffles" and tight, wheezy breathing. Be sure tp get Foley's. It cheeks croup and whoopiug cough, too. Sold everywhere. —• PLEASANT MILLS HIGH SCHOOL GIVES DIPLOMAS TO ITS LARGEST CLASS "It is the fit and the efficient that survive in difficult times. If you would become good citizens you must become fit, efficient, and learn the real meaning of the word thrift while you are still in your youth.” That was some of the advice that Dr. Sherman Davis of Indiayi University gave to the seniors of the Pleasant Mills high school when he lectured at their commencement exercises last Saturday night in the Methodist church. Sixteen students were awarded diplomas. This is the largest class that was ever graduated from the school. “The American boy generally makes a mistake when he comes to interpret the word thrift,” continued Dr. Davis. He usually prefers holding a well paying position to training himself for a better position in his future years. As a result he becomes dissatisfied when he grows older.” Invocation was given by the Rev. E. Maupin. The class was presented by R. J. Mann, principal of the school. E. S. Christen, .county superintendent of schools, made a short talk concerning the records achieved by the school since it was started, . The alumni of the high school entertained the graduating class at an informal diner in the basement of the church immediately after the commencement exercises were over. About one hundred persons were present at the dinner. Those who received diplomas were: Bess Hanert, Velma Hilyard, Della Lougenberger, Flossie Everett, Frances Colter, Eathyl Hileman, Elisha Merriman. .Bernice Masters, Byford Parisch. J. Whittredge, .Harry Fortney, K. Whittredge, Miles Defter,, Oscar Yost, Mary Shell. Jesse Shell.

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