Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1922 — Page 3

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24. 1922

; INDUSTRIAL HOME-WORK OF CHILDREN j Industrial home work in a State i with no system o£ regulation means i child labor at ages and under condii tions prohibited for factory employi ment, according to a report just issued i by the U. S. Department of Labor [ through the Children’s Bureau. The I report is entitled “Industrial Home Work for Children,” and gives the reI suits of a study in three Rhode Island i • cities. At the time of the study, none i of the labor laws of that State applied i to work done in homes. j It was found that at least 5,000 chil- [ dren under 16 years had done home i work in the course of a year, that over I 7 per cent of all the children 5 to 15 j years of age, inclusive, in the three [ cities, had been engaged in such work I during that period, and that 3.5 per i cent had worked for 30 days or more. [ Os these 2,338 children who had work- [ ed at least one month out of the year > and had received compensation, 4 per I cent were under 6 years of age and ,i 46 per cent were under the age of 11. < The standards set up by the state of ( Rhode Island for school cliildien and [ childicn working in factories were vio-1 j. lated | in the case of home-working i • children, the report states, in four re- » spects: Children of school age re- [ mained at home occasionally or for j extended periods to do home work, I contrary to the compulsory school-at-j tendance law of the State; children [ under the age of 14 were engaged at • home in kinds of work which the law I prohibited them from doing in factor- [ ies; children under the age of 16 who j worked in factories did overtime work • at home contrary to the spirit of the i law limiting hours of labor; and chilI dren injured in the course of home [ work did not receive compensation 1 under the workmen’s compensation i law. Injuries, especially accidents | from machines installed in the homes, i in addition to eye strain and fatigue upon school work, were frequent. JOE BOYER TO ACT AS ASSISTANT STARTER IN DECORATION DAY RACES Indianapolis, May 22.—Joe Boyer, Detroit millionaire driver, will not battle for the SIOO,OOO in prizes in the! tenth annual 500-mile race, Tuesday, May 30, but he will play an important ! part in the race. Hoyer has retired as a race driver but has been selected by Capt. E. V. Rickenbacker, of Detroit, the starter of the race, to act as his assistant. The post of assistant starter is an Important one in the conduct of the race as his post is on the track and it is up to him to line up the field and prepare it for the start, also to act as “laison officer” between the chairman of the technical committee, stationed in front of the pits and the starter and referee, located in the official stand at the tape. Boyer's passing as a race driver is regretted by many fans as he was always a spectacular driver and one wiio would go out and get the last ounce of speed out of his car, regardless of consequences. In the last two 500-mile events Boyer has been among the leaders at the start and a factor all the time his car was in the running. In the 1020 event he had his Frontenac out in front practically 1 every lap of the first 500 miles and ■ won the lion’s share of the $20,000 lap j prize. i

ORDER $1.20 GAS AT INDIANAPOLIS ‘ il Indianapolis. Ind., May 24. —Author! j, zation of the increase of tln> price of < gas in IndianapolU from U 0 cents to , $1.20 a thousand cubic feet, effective i May 20, was made when a temporary Injunction was issued in federal court , against the Indiana public service commission. 1 The injunction was issued by Judge Albert B. Anderson, of the , Indiana federal district court; Judge Francis K. Baker and Judge Samuel Alsehulor, of Chicago, members of the United States circuit court of appeals. siting together In hearing the petition of the Citizen's Gas company, asking that the gas rate be increased to $1.25 a thousand cubic feet and that an injunction be issued to prevent the order of the Indiana public service commission for 90-cent gae from being carried out. The gas company was ordered to file a bond of $75,000 each month in advance wit li the clerk of the federal court to provide for the refunding of excess payments in the gas bills of the comsumers it the final disposition of the case results in a lowered gas rate Tho injunction order also provided for the impounding of the 30 cents difference between the 90-cent and the $1.20 rates pending the final settle ment of the case. If the final ruling of the court should be for a rate lower than $1.20, consumers will receive refudns on gas payments. Hold Sale Confiscatory. Action in bringing the petition was based on the contention that the ruling of the Indiana public service com mission, if carried out, would be in violation of the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution, in that it would result in the confiscation of the property of the gas company without due process of law. Henry H. Hornbrook presented the ease in behalf of the gas company. He was assisted by Paul Haynes and Paul Y, Davis. Mr. Hornbrook read an affidavit atI tested by J. Dorsey Forrest, secretary and general manager of the gas com pany, in which he answered the public service commissions criticisms of the management of the gas company made when it denied an increased rate. Mr Dorsey also declared the 90cent gas rate was confiscatory. Mr. Forrest, in his affidavit, contended the gas company had lost approximately SIOO,OOO in selling at $6 a ten coke that had cost $lO a ton to manu fauture. In answering the criticism of the public service for the expenditure of between $65,000 and $75,000 for of flee improvement at a time when notes I were overduo at the bank and when a bond payment was about due. Mr ; Forrest said the gas company had not I been extravagant nor lacking in judg ment. He said the improvement was necessary to care for increased business and to safeguard the health of the company’s employes. Conditions Changed in 1920. The gas company, the affidavit declared, during the 12 years between 1909 and May 4, 1921, has been able to provide gas at 60 cents a thousand cubic feet because of the substantial profits from the sale of by-pro-ducts. Conditions in 1920. Mr. Forrest set forth, resulted in making it necessary for the company to contract for large amounts of coal in order to operate the coke ovens. In November, 1920. it was said, the coke market slumped and left a large amount of high priced coal on hands, which resulted in a great loss in the receipts for coke and by-products. In answering the criticism of the public service commission that the gas company should have sold the accumulated coke at $3 a ton rather than keep in in stock, Mr. Forrest insisted that such action would have been poor business judgment, and would have endangered the solvency of the company. Mr. Forrest admitted the coke market had improved, due to the national coal strike, and that shipments of coke were being rushed to supply the blast furnaces of the Pittsburgh district, but he said high freight rates had resulted in the company obtaining only $6 a ton for its coke f. o. b. Indianapolis. Sees no Improvement Soon. No conditions existing now, or likely to develop in the next twelve months, Mr. Forest averred, would permit the company to realize more than three or four percent on the fair value of the company's property without a rate of more than 90 cents. Don’t Always Blame Hens When Eggs Are Scarce. Rats may be getting them —U. S. Government Bulletins prove they know how to get them. Break a cake of RAT-SNAP into small pieces and place where rats travel, if there, RAT-SNAP will get them —positively. Three sizes, 25, 50, SI.OO. Sold and guaranteed by Holthouse Drug Co., Enterprise Drug Co., Schafer Hdw. Co., Lee Hdw. Co., H. Knopf & Son and Collyow & Kohne.

"We picked Up Seven Large Dead Rats First Morning Using Rat-Snap" So writes Mr. B. E. Carpenter, Woodbridge, N. J. “We lost 18 small chicks one night, killed by rats. Bought seine RATSNAP and picked up 7 large dead rats next morning and in 2 weeks didn't see a single rat. RAT SNAP is good and sure.” Comes in coke ready for use. Three sizes, 25, 50, SI.OO. Sold and guaranteed by Holthouse Drug Co , Enterprise Drug Co., Schafer Hdw Co., Leo Hdw. Co., H. Knopf & Son and Follow A- Kohne. e WANT ADS EARN—S-s—-$ — —a ORGANIZATION OF HUMAN LEOPARDS IN LIBERIA IS IS PRACTICALLY EXTINCT Rt. Hev. Walter H. Overs Ph. D. D.. Episcopal Bishop of Liberia who has returned to the United States on furlough, brings word that the secret r ti g nfootanieavssaonizaaEßMlNAT organization of native assassins known as tho 'Human Leopards", which lie discovered several years ago while exploring the hinterland of Liberia. lias been practically exterminated by the Government officials. This was a society composed of savagt s which did a thriving business in exterminating those who, for any reason incurred its displeasure. "If a member of the Leopards wantad his enemy put out of the way,” said the Bishop, “he laid the matter before a meeting of the organization and lots were drawn to pick the man "or tho job. This man then donned a headpiece made from the head and shoulders of a leopard and witli steel •laws adusted to his hands went forth ind lurked near the accustomed aaunts of his victim until he appeared and was dispatched. As a sign that the murder was the work of the Leopards the scalp or a few fingers of the victim were left on the spot where the assasination occured. The body was carried off into the jungle where it was usually eaten amid weird cannabalistic rites. “It is evidence," said Bishop Overs, ‘of the progress the Liberian Republic has made toward law and order, ind of the advance that religion and 'hristian civilization have made in he country, that the Government has succeeded in stamping out this depraved and murderous organization.” Bishop Overs, who because of hin explorations in the Liberion back country and the surrounding region of ■outhwest Africa was recently made i Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London, is on extended eave of absence in the United States ind wyi nq). return to his Episcopate intil after the meeting of the General Convention of the Church in Portland, Tregon, next September.

IF 7 ' ; R»r Im Dollars and Ninety / \ \ Cents f ';'' - " Y‘iE 30x372 tire situation / j f ! t< . today is just this — / j r The man who buys an / i T USCO at $10.90 is justif fied in believing that his money is j r going farther in tire value than it J f ever has gone or could go before. j r Naturally he appreciates the qual- /■ySQ|| 4 f ityofUSCO. That was established \ f long ago. . . * r It is still fresh in his mind that a£r' l f USCO led the national market : j r into the $10.90 price range. j f * * * J r The makers of U.S. Tires /r f always intended the 30 x/< 1 f 372 USCO to be the high- ' t est value in its field. sff -jjy i ' r Atslo.9QHcrcates i f a new classification T ,j J f of money’s worth. 1 r j f United States Tires F are Good Tires j r Copyright j ; J|- , ||W r j A t usco 1 I United States Tires j•. f United States (jj) Rubber Company j Fifty three The Oldcit and J.argfit Twa hundred and OF . Factoriei Rubber in the Il’erlJ tM'rty-firt Uranchet -« w 3f p / -3 charg&l \ AVhl’rC Durkin's Modern Garage, Decatur. Charles Brouwer, Monroeville, Ind., Porter & Beavers, Dtecatur. R.F.D. No. 4. I ’ you can r iversi e Garage, Decatur. Central Garage, Monroeville, Ind. I . hliV Miller Bros., Magley, Ind. Leuenberger Bros., Monroeville, -’L , Liechty Bros. & Co., Monroe, Ind. Wm. Linnemcier, Preble, Ind. 1 U. S.Tires:

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