Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1922 — Page 1

Volume XX. Number 125

LLOYD GEORGE SAYS WAR SULL THREATENS WORLD BRITISH LEADER IN SPEECH AT LONDON TODAY ATTACKS THOSE WHO HAD MADE WORK OF ECONOMIC CONFERENCE MORE DIFFICULT.

Loudon, May 26. —The world still Is threatened with war, IJoyd George declared in a speech at the hotel Cecil today. The premier castigated the critics of Genoa. Speaking at a luncheon tendered by his supporters in parliament. Lloyd George began with an attack upon those who had ‘ made more difficult the work of the economic conference.” "When these critics demonstrated the joy and satisfaction at every prediction of failure and evinced gloom and wrath at every prediction of possible success, I could not help but conclude the wish was father to the thought,” he exclaimed. Lloyd George then took up Eritalns position at Genoa. Having mobilized something like 9 1-2 million men for war. he said Great Britain was entitled to have something to say when peace was established. "Neither Britain nor the world of humanity is yet out of danger,” the premier said. "There are perils near our coasts and inside the limits of our island,” IJoyd George declared,: "Therefore, we must continue in a spirit of cooperation until the last of these perils has vanished." This was cheered os an indication the premier had determined to hold, together his coalition government. London, May 16. —Great Britain today accepted and approved Lloyd George’s apology for Genoa. The overwhelming vote of confidence which the little Welshman won from the house of Commons yesterday after eighty njinutes of briliant ora tory, was reflected by public opinon l and press comment today. The vote was 235 to 26. Attacks upon IJoyd George and his policies at the Genoa conference are made, but on party lines. The country as a whole, after listening to its premier’s word picture of the Russian threat to civilization has voted him another chance to meet the menace; at the Hague. The keynote of IJoyd George's speech which carried all opposition before it yesterday was: “Don’t shoot unless you can show how I could have bettered my aim.” The premier based his whole speech, not upon accomplishments but upon the danger that lay in not settling the Russian question. He declared Genoa had been the first step toward peace. The prime minister was to make an important speech today at a luncheon given by his supporters in parliament nt the hotel Cecil, celebrating his return from Genoa.

Secret Orders Attacked By Dr. Conant Last Evening

Said Most Loges Are A Religion and Not Christianity A large crowd jammed the Baptist church full last night to hear Dr. Conant's sermon. “Will Lodge Members 0° to Heaven?”. He approached the ■object from an angle of which no one dreamed. The audience was amazed at the consumate skill, yet startling fearlessness, with which ho handled, the theme. The masterful logic of the evangelist crushed everything before him like a giant juggernaut, and no report can give an adequate Idea of tho effect of the sermon Produced. His text was taken from Genesis 3:4-5, “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For Hod doth know that In the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall like God, knowIng good and evil."

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• ADAMS COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC JOLY 4 L i Committees Appointed Today Make Arrangements for Annual Affair FIRST SINCE 19 17 , Annual Affair Discontinued i at the Opening of the Wold War Committees to have charge of the various plans for the Annual Adams County Sunday School picnic, to be held in Berne on July 4, were appoint ed at a meeting of the county Sunday School Association this mornng. The meeting was held in Berne. The picnic this year will be the firsi one held since the opening of the World War. Previous to the war the picnics were annual affairs and it is planned to resume the custom. Tin (officers of the county association art-: C. O. Lehman, Berne, president; E. C Bierie, Berne, first vice-president; L L. Baumgartner, Decatur, second vice president; and Miss Huldah Gillom, oi Berne, secretary -treasurer. There will be a morning and after noon program at the picnic. Refresh . ments will be sold on the picnit I grounds at a price just large enough to cover expenses. Bands will be se cured to furnish music, and every Protestant Sunday School in the county will be given a part in the program. Following are the commitees appoint ed today: Program committee: C. O. Lehman. Berne, chairman; John Duff, Linn (Grove; Mrs. Clara Anderson, Geneva; •J. E. Nelson, Monroe; and Charles Col ter, Decatur. Publicity committee: C. IT. Sprung er, chairman; Kenneth Shoemaker, Geneva; Rev. R. R. Eiliker, Decatur Grounds and Refreshments: J. P. Habbegger, chairman. Mr. Habbegger will appoint the other members of his committee. Entertainment committee: Rev. O. O. Lozier, Berne, chairman; Clarence Leichty, Berne; Garmen McKean, Linn Grove; and Rev. C. L. Haney, Decatur. Charles Thieme of Union township spent the day in this city on business.

He said in part: “It has already been said in these meetings that ■ Christianity is one thing and religion !is another. God is the author of ' Christianity and the Devil Is the author of religion. No one can get : Christ until religion goes out. The whole Christianity is a person, and the whole of religion is an ideal. In order to become a Christian, you surrender to a Person; in order to become religious you begin to strive after an ideal. The whole of Chrstianity is "done”, and the whole of religion is "do". Christianity 'has to do with faith, and religion has to do with works. Christianity is Christ; religion is an Ideal. Let us draw these distinctions very carefully tonight. “A list of Ideals to be striven after Is religion, but it Is not Christianity. It Is a million miles from Christianity! "Is your lodge a religion?” One man answered with a hearty, (Continued on page five)

ROTARY CLUB ENJOYED FINE TALK AND SONG Dr. Conant and Mr. Clark Entertained Rotarians Here Last Night PLAN TOURIST SIGNS (Hub Voted to Cooperate With Industrial Association for Camp Site The Rotarians had the pleasure of laving as their guests at their lunchion meeting last evening, Dr. J. E., Conant, Mr. Harry D. Clark, of Chicago and Rev. Whitesell', pastor of the Decatur Baptist church. Dr. Conant and Mr. Clark are conducting evangelistic services at the Baptist church in this city. , Following the luncheon, President Bell called on Mr. Clark for a song and his powerful and beautiful voice was greatly appreciated. Dr. Conant gave a splendid talk on character, stating that a successful business man must have a good moral character and cited instances where the most successful men of today were church leaders and devote Christians. He stated that character, the kind that counted was given to a man and not achieved. His description of the perfect character of Jesus Christ was wonderful and the Rotarians more than appreciated his twenty minute talk. The Tourists Signs. Wai Wemhoff reported that the members of the Decatur Industrial Association were going to cooperate with the Rotarians in the establishing of a tourist camp in Bellmont Park and ihat the Association members would share a part of the cost in erecting the tourist signs at the principal road crossings .in and around Decatur. Mr. Wemhoff reported that an estimate had been secured on the cost of the signs and the club voted in favor of committee going ahead with the work and seeing that tile tourist grounds were established and the signs erected. Ijist year tile Rotarians took the initial steps towards the establishing of a tourist grounds and with the assistance and cooperation of the Industrial Association their plans will become a reality this summer. SCHOOL ANNUALS TO APPEAR SOON “The Tattler” to be Completed Saturday—“ Ravelings” Next Week The annual edition of “The Tattler” published by the hoys and girls of the St. Joseph High school will be ready for distribution on Saturday, while the annual copy of "Ravelings,” published by the Seniors of the Decatur High School will be issued from this office the first of next week. Both books are a credit to the schools and to the boys and girls who edited them. The annuals are brim full of school notes and contain accounts of the 1921-22 school year and will afford not only the pupils an hour or two of good reading, but will be of much interest to the parents and to practically every person In Decatur. Ravelings will contain from 130 to 140 pages, while The Tattler contains 4S pages and cover. Ravelings con taining the pictures of this year’s graduates, 54 in all, the teachers, school board, Superintendent Worthman, Principal Clino, cartoons and drawings, pictures of the Freshmen, Sophmore and Junior classes and many other pictures of interest to the pupils and their parents. The Tattler contains a picture of the Commercial graduating class of the St. Joseph’s school. The staff of editors, and reporters for the Tatler are: Editor —Margaret Myiott. Business Managet —Aloysius Schneider. Circulation Managet —Andrew Appelman. Joke Editor—lrene Holthouse. Athletics Reporter —Earl Christen. School Reporters — Anna Baker, (Continued on page four)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, May 26, 1922

++++♦++♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦ ♦ ON HOME BREW + ♦ ♦ ♦ Milwaukee, Wis., May 26—Attl + l+ tude of the anti-saloon league ♦ | 4- toward home-brew, was outlined ♦ '•I- lined here today by R. P. Hutton. + * superintendent of the league in + i 4> Wisconsin, as follows: •> + Home brew for home consump- •! + tion —not sale. + + Legalizing of home hrew be- + <- cause the brewers would have too <■ 4- many "frlejids." <• 4- Approval of dandelions for ex- + terlor ornamentation but not for 4 + interior decoration. + + + 4- + '!- + + + + ++ + + + .!.t PLEASANT MILLS SENIORS WILL GIVE PLAY IN DECATUR NEXT MONDAY NIGHT On next Monday evening. May 29. the senior class of the Pleasant Mills high school will present a home talent play entitled “Star Bright” in the Decatur high school gumnasium. The Pleasant Mills seniors of 1922 are giving the play in Decatur as a benefit for the Decatur high school seniors of 1923. The play is very clever and has been presented In Pleasant Mills this spring. All who have seen It speak very highly of its qualities of entertainment. ASCENSION DAY OBSERVED HERE Fort Wayne Minister Spoke to Audience at Lutheran Church Last Night Ascension day was observed as customary by a service yesterday in the Lutheran church. Rev. Paul Miller, of Fort Wayne spoke before a large audience on the ascension of Christ, saying in part: "The festival of the Ascension of Christ is as old as Christianity itself, he event which commemorates has ever been made the occasion of special annual services within the Christian church, it is one of the fundamental parts of the Christian religion and ranks with the birth, death and resurrection of Christ. For this reason the Apostolic Creed also contains the confession: I believe in Jesus Christ —ascending into Heaven and sitting at the right hand of God the Father." "The account of the ascension in the Bible is a very simple one. There is a total absence of the pompous or bombastic, as we should expect it, if the ascension were not an historical' fact. And because of the fact that this event in the life of Christ is attested by reliable eye-witnesses, Christianity has ever accepted ft as an historic truth. "Christ's ascension completes His work for redemption, for which He had been commissioned by the Father. | Having finished his work at the time of His death, He now Returned to His original habitation. He did so in viable manner, ascending before the eyes of ilis followers. The latter were the witnesses of the event and bore testimony as to the historic truth of the occurence throughout the world, a testimony for which many of them had [ to endure a martyr’s death. Having completed His mission Christ returned into His state of majesty to receive (Continued on page four! MONROE WILL HAVE A CIRCUS Maloon Brothers’ One Ring Show Will Appear There on Memorial Day Monroe will have a real for sure one ring circus, dog and pony show, known as the Maloon Brothers Circus, which will pitch its tents here on next Tuesday morning. May 30th. This aggregation visited Monroe two yearge ago, as a dog and pony show, and was greeted with a large crowd, but it claims this year to be better than ever before. It is a clean and entertaining show one that will please the kiddies as well as the old kids. Unsettled weather tonight and Saturday, possibh showers; not much change in temperature.

FIRST CONCERT OF CITY BAND WELL ATTENDED Streets Filled With Autos of City Folks and Farmers Last Night BIG BENEFIT TONIGHT Concert an d Vaudeville Acts in Gym for Benefit of the Band A large audience of city folk and ■ country people enjoyed the opehing '! concert of the Decatur City Band ’j given on the court house lawn last ' nignt. The streets surrounding the 'band stand erected in the southeast 'jcorner of the lawn, were filled with 1 automobiles. The crowd was a good 'sized one for the opening concert 'which showed that the community is -behind the band in its efforts to eni ( tertain the public and boost the comI inunity. The band will be strength I ened soon when several members return home from college for their sum- | mer vacation. During tile intermission in the con cert last night, Mr. Kenneth Malcolm, of the K. M. Attraction, which will fur i nish the vaudeville numbers for the | benefit entertainment of the band toj night, made a short talk and told how ‘ the merchants have helped the band 'already by subscribing for advertis ' ing space in the program which will •consist of ten pages. The Schafer , Hardware Company also donated the ' use of the large show window in their (building for displaying the box and tools used in the “Sawing a Woman in Three Farts” act which will be given - at the benefit concert. ' | The vaudeville at the benefit concert tonight and tomorrow night will consist of five high class acts. There will be plenty of music, good singing, danc- ' ing, and good laughing comedy, in ad ' dition to the sawing a woman act. | The band will meet tonight at the I corner of Second and Monroe street at [7:30 o’clock and will play two selec itions there before proceeding to the 'gymnasium. The gymnasium doors will be opened at 7:30 o'clock ami the concert and show will start promptly at 8:15 o’clock. (Continued ou page four) OFFICIALS OF COMPANY HERE General Electric Plant Was Inspected By General Manager—Others G. E. Emmons, Schenectady, N. Y„ general manager of the General Electric company, F. S. Hunting, retiring manager of I lie Fort Wayne ami Decatur plants, Walter Goll who will [succeed him in that position and E. A. Baines, superintendent, visited the plant in this city this morning and called on a number of their friends and acquaintances. Mr. Emmons expressed himself as being delighted witli the progress nowbeing made in the Decatur plant ami the high grade product of the local factory. About 250 people are now em I ployed and the outlook for a future growth is splendid. Mr. Emmons declared the Decatur plant of the finest in the country and said he was more than pleased. It was largely through the efforts of these men that the factory was located hero anil the people of this community naturally feel very kindly towards them. Several new machines are now being added here and plans made for continous growth of the electric plant which makes a speciality of small motors. Business conditions arc looking up and as we emerge from the depression this concern will move for ward quite rapidly. Mr. Hunting will assume his new duties with the Robbins & Meyers Company of Springfield, Ohio, July Ist and he expressed bis regrets today that in doing so he will sever connections with the General Electric and part with old and tried firends in this community. Mr. Goll who succeeds him has been the assistant manager at Fort Wayno for a number of years (Continued on page five)

SEN. WATSON TO SPEAK 1 IN INDIANA FOR BEVERIDGE SENATOR ATTENDED THE CONFERENCE . WITH GOVERNOR M'CRAY AND OTHER REPUBLICAN LEADERS IN INDIANAPOLIS THIS MORNING. I

' - PLAYGROUNDS FOR CHILDREN ' IS SLOGAN NOW Member of Civic Section of Woman’s Club Taking Lead in Movement A DOLLAR A CHILI) Leaders Say That Amount Will Finance Building of Playgrounds i Do you really love the children of 1 Decatur? Will you give a small sum to provide tennis courts and play grounds for them. ! The members of the Civic section ' of the Women’s Club, Mrs. C. C. ' Schafer, chairman, are working to beautify Decatur and to provide suitable play grounds for the children, in various parts of the city, with I adult supervision. It is a worthy cause and the women have the support of the business men of the city. At a meeting of representatives of > the club and various business .associations last evening it was decided to make a campaign within the next , few days for the purpose of raising a fund sufficient to make the desired improvements. A dollar for each child in town who will have the use of the grounds, will lie the slogan and it is hoped that every one who can will assist in raising this in one day, the exact date to be fixed later. Plans now made include a tennis court and play ground on the old I Weber lots, corner Monroe and Third streets and in the. various school ' yards. Besides tennis courts there will be devices for the use of children of all ages. ; Besides providing play grounds for tile hundreds of children the movement does another thing. It beautifies various parts of the city for well kept play grounds add beauty to any city and the fact that these grounds will be supervised by adults make them safe for each child and will proI vide many hours of the right kind of amusement for the boys and girls of Decatur. Its a splendid, wonderful effort and deserves not only your moral support but your financial support. If each of us gives a little we will scarcely notice the investment and we will do (Continued on page five)

Babe Ruth, the Mighty, In Trouble Once More

Star Baseball Batter Again In Danger of Being Suspended fUn’tM P’OMR Chicago. May 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Babe Ruth was ordered i not to play baseball today until a [ further ruling lias been made by President Ban Johnson of the American League as a result of Ruth’s j quarrel with an umpire at the polo grounds in yesterday’s game. New York, May 26. — .lust returned I from long banishment for breaking ; rules, Babe Ruth, the king of swat, is ’ again in danger of punishment as a result of having thrown dirts on an umpire and chased a lusty fan through ’ the polo grounds grandstand yesterday. Exile stares him in tho face. Decision on H. M., the bambino, rests today with Byron Banchoft John-

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(I nl«»d «erv|r*> Indianapolis, May 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Senator Watson will take the stump in Indiana in this year’s senatorial campaign in an effort to secure the election of Albert J. Beveridge over Samuel M. Ralston, I democrat. [ "I probably will talk more for Mr. i Beveridge than he will taik for himself,” Watson informed newspaper , - men following a conference with - Governor McCray and other republi can leaders here. John Owen of Noblesville, Indiana, manager for Watson and Ed Bower. . of Delphi prominent in party circles accompanied the senator to the state I house. I It was reported there that they were drafting some of the initial plans for the republican campaign in which Beveridge will seek the senate f seat of Harry S. New and thirteen candidates for congress will try to make a solid republican delegation to the national house of represents- ’ I tives again. | Watson and McCray both refused 1 to discuss their conference. I They expressed general satfsfac- ‘ | tion with the work of the convention ; which closed yesterday aftenoen ’ i after nominating the ten state ofll--1 ! cers noxv incumbent and adjusting a ' platform which calls for repeal of the Indiana utility or amendment vote to make it mere responsible for the wel I fare of the people. ’ [ Watson was asked if Senator New' ! defeated candidate for renomination, r j would be given a cabinet post. : "I don’t know of any vacancies in the cabinet now," he replied with a smile. ' The senator also refused to com- ’ ment regarding the charges of Senator Caraway of Arkansas, naming 1 Attorney General Daugherty as a 1 party to a contract to obtain executive pardon for Chas. W. Morse, ’ financier, from federal prison, for ’ $25,000. “I believe the attorney general can 1 take care of himself,” Watson asserted. He will go to the home in Rushf ville leaving here at 5 o’clock this afternoon After visiting there a short time he will go to Winchester to visit his mother who recently cel- ' ebrated her ninty first birthday anni--1 versary. “RAVELINGS" i The 1922 edition of "Ravelings.’’ r the high school annual will be off the 1 press and ready for distribution on Monday. All students and others 1 wishing copies of the annual are ask- ! ed to call at the high school building 1 between the hours of 3 o’clock Mon day afternoon and 9 o’clock Monday ’ evening. The books will be issued i from the high school building.

son. president of the American league, I who is investigating the circum- [ stances. Babe’s blowout came in the third ■inning of the game between the Yanks and the Washington Americans, Then Babe had singled and was trying to 'stretch it into a double. He slid into second amid a cloud of dust and umpire Hildebrand waved him out. With Ruthless rage Babe was on his feet and when he came up a handful of dirt with him. It went toward the umpire, powdering his coat front [and trickling down ids collar. Hildebrand motioned Ruth to the [ dugout. The stands booed and razzed Ruth. I Singling out one particularly lungful fan, Ruth climbed with the agility of a cat over the dugout roof, jumped through the boxes and chased his tormentor. He was missed as he paraded to the showers.