Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1922 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Bv»ry Evening laoqpt Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. vOHN H. HELLER Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUBE, Associate Editor and Business Manager J. R. BLAIR City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single copies 1 cento Oae Week, by carrier 10 cents One Tear, by carrier ~...■!■?•.. 1600 One Month, by mall.. 35 cents Three Months, by mall SI.OO Six Months, by ma 11........... $1.75 One Year, by mall $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage ad ded outside those sones.) Advertising rates made knows on application. Entered at the postofflce at Deca tur, Indiana, as second class matter A Government expert has figured it out that ninety-eight per cent*of all the bootleg you buy Is rank poison Make sure your supply is of the two per cent. This Is "own your home" week in many cities over the country. Has it oct tired to you that Decatur needs t more moderta homes and that man) who now pay rent could easily build, I thus helping the community and mak ing themselves more comfortable? Os course those who like the high taxes can vote as they please next November but we will be surprised it a majority of those who have the franchise do not notify the powers that be'in Indianapolis of their dis gust at the wastful expenditure of funds by the' state. Taxes will be tht big issue in the coming campaign How will you vote? i Valuations of land and property in Adams county have been reduced 1 about one third and its now up to tin i board of equalization and then the state tax board will have their opper i tunity to put on a horizontal increase i Their efforts seem to be to make tin i taxes higher instead of lower as is th* demand but they will find the peopb * equally determined on the other side The annuel howl is now being mad< over rates charged by Indianapoli: hotels over the speedway race period ’ and in turn are being “kidded’ by the capitol papers. It does seem impos ~ sible that a city could do this year as > ter year and get away with it, and th< ■< crowds increase, but it’s true and s< . long as it is you need not expect any l( decided change in the custom. r „■ "■ ■ Decatur factories are running full > time and advertising for help, a mighty good sign that prosperity if rounding that corner finally and will ,

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* soon be on the straight road and goinj on high. If ft wasn't for the coa strike and the threats from tho rail road men and if the owners would fix freight rates we would soon realize tlx war Is over and got down to business The tariff bill has been side tracked and will probably stay there until after tho election. The boys in charge of that special know there is danger ahead and they propose to not let it Interfere with the results In November. At that they are not fooling many people who give attention to such matters. The great trouble is that most of us don’t until its too late and then we squeal about the results. A nine year old Portland boy quarrelled with a playmate aud a crowd apparently enjoyed it until the lad' plunged a knife into the otlFr boy’s throat, causing his death. Now thei boy must spend his life until he is of age in the reformatory. Perhaps if the quarrel had been stopped and a little effort made to make the boys feel friendly the terrible act which takes the happiness out of two homes, would have been averted. Nearly a year ago after considerable; trging aud a request from the county commissioners, the state highway com mission sent word to this paper that tn order l?ad been issued for guards ;o the entrance of the bridge just torth of here on the state road but .he everlasting delay which has seem >d to be a part of their program is in ■vidence and up to date not a thin;, fas been done which leads us to be ieve they intend to do so. The othei evening, we are informed a car stop ted just at the edge of the enbank nent. It's an outrage and almost s, rime that this dangerous place is per nitted to continue unguarded and wt ire sure it does not tend to popular ze the commission. _* MEETING HELD TO GAIN PUBLIC OPINION ON FORM OF INDIANA WAR MEMORIAL Indianapolis. June 5. —Architects ngineers. county and state official! ■nd interested citizens from all ovei he state met today to obtain an ex tression of public opinion on the torn' >f the Indiana War Memorial to b< miff here. "1 have kept my mind free of plant egarding the character of the Memor al ’ Thomas R. Kimball, architectural idvisor of the Indiana memorial com nission said, "in order that I might irofit by the suggestions that may b< >e offered here at the meeting. "After the meeting I shall formulate he best program for the selection o m architect. The present state o rar plans may be regarded as like ; ■lean sheet of paper. Neither the ■ommission nor I will draw a line or hat paper until we have seen whethei here may not be from some unex >ectod source suggestions as to the narks that should be made.” According to Kimball the American 'nstitute of Architects will work in co iperation with the state in the en erprise even though at some points of 'he provosions of the state law do not ■oincidence with the established ruling if the institute. It was though at first there would be difficulty in plan ning of the memorial in accordance with the law. Marcus Sonntag, of Evansville, ■hairman of the commission, said that ilthough the public may be somewhat impatient at the progress of the commission, he believed in wisdom and caution rather than speed. * STEEL CARS TO STOP BANK HOLDUPS (Inlfrd PreMA Service.) St. Louis, Mo., June 3. —A “commu nity” three-inch armor plated motor truck, equipped with placements for riot guns, will appear on the streets of St. Louis shortly, to prevent rapidly increasing bank messenger holdups. A chauffeur and one or two armed guards will ride inside. A safe will also be carried. “Jesse James was a piker compared with the bandit of today,” declared A. H. Heller, vice-president of the Bremen Bank, in revealing the co-opera-tive plans of the nine banks and trust companies to cope with the outlaws. The majority of the institutions have been the victims once or more of the bandits’ depredations during the past year. Daring holdups of the banks themselves have lately been succeeded by eqnaliy daring robberies of bank messengers on th streets and trolley cars. WANT ADS EARN—-s—♦—s

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1922

ig fUUlßUtimmzax»»««| M I YOU never need pay 2 i- I more than 5 cents for » x B a good cigar If you buy 2 I' I g AM for It by full n.m. » Diatributora „ ■ ? —— TONSI LITIS i Apply thickly over throat — , • cover with hot flannel — VIS|» Oltr (7 Mlllior Jan Used Yearly • 1 JAPANESE RESIST ANY REDUCTION IN ARMY STRENGTH By Clarence Dubose. I nltril Pre.. Malt < urrexpondent Tokyo (By Mail to United Press) —"There may be another war almost any time." That's what General Gilcht Tanaka, former Minister of War was quoted as saying in an interview published in the Nichi Nichi, one of the foremost Janancsea newspapers. Tanaka is generally regarded here as leader of the militarists, since the death of Field Marshal Prince Yama gata. However the militarists were weakened greatly by Yamagata’s death and there is opposition to the mllitar ists now by men who did not dare un dertake that fight while Yamagata lived. Tanaka is firmly against the present effort to reduce the Japanese regular army. “f it were absolutely certain that there would be no more war in the world," he said in the Niehl Nichi nterview, “I would be absolutely in favor of army reduction—in fact, under inch conditions, I would want to abolish the entire army. But, as it is, there is no knowing when there will be another war. So long as there is any such possibility it is only proper or us to be prepared for any emer tency. To reduce, the army blindly would be very dangerous for Japan." The Nichi Nichi added that Tanaka s greatly concerned over ‘signs of the imes indicating a weakening of the military spirit” and that be is “deter ■mined to fight resolutely to preserve ‘ihat spirit.” Also General Yamanashi, war min ster, in an interview not long ago trged the Japaneses to preserve their ’military spirit.” He added, however, that this spirit, which had brought Tapan to its present position, could ba applied to peace pursuits as well as war. He urged the maintainance of ’he spirit, not necessarily for war, but for industrial, commercial and other developments. Russia and China are the countires named by military leares here as the potential trouble spots, necessitating Japanese prepardness. They declare, with unanimity, that they have no thought whatever of war with Amer ica. WARSAW LEGION POST PLANS ERECTION OF A FOUR STORY HOME SOON Warsaw, June 5. —John C. Peterson Post of The American Legion, is planning the erection of a 4 story Legion home here. It is planned to rent the lower part of the building to the muni cipality for a city hall. A. J. Smith, Robert Colter, Col. Reppert and several others from here attended the big Hereford sale at Wapakontea* Ohio today.

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SAKS HE NEVER USED MONEY TO A BETTER ENO Evansville Man Declares His Wife’s Health Had Been Failing for Five Yers but Tanlac Fully Restored Her. "I never spent money to better advantage than when 1 bought Tanlac for my wife,” said Carl Meyer, 303 1 Ross Ave., Evansville, Ind., wellI known machinist with the Hercules OM Kllgill'' CO. “For five years my wife gradually went down in health. She could scarcely eat anything and what little she did eat formed gas which pressed up into her chest and caused her hours of suffering. She complained of aching ail over, was awfully nervous and fell off in weight until ft looked like she couldn’t kep going. ‘Finally she learned about Tanlac 1 from her brother-in-law and began to take it. Now she can eat anything sleeps like a child and has regained her lost weight and eight pounds besides. I just can't express my gratl tude to Tanlac. I believe it will help anybody.” Tanlac is sold my all good druggists — • BOY SLAYER SENTE NC E D (Continued from page one) does not "want to say anything to hurt her worse.” Dr. Harriett Wiley examined young Silvers at the county jail last evening. The examination was such as is given all prisoners before they are taken from the jail here to another institution, and she gave it as her opinion that the boy was lacking in mentality. The mother of the boy prisoner said her son has for some time dn tertained a desire toward being a cowboy and that on the morning of the day on which the murder was committed, the youth had made cowboy belts for himself and 5-year-old brother, James. She said he had knives stuck in the belts and that she took the knives away from him and the younger son and hid them. The mother also said that Robert liked to attend “wild west shows" and constantly attended theaters when pictures of this kind was shown. REVIEWERS IN SESSION (Continued from page one) tai increases of 30 per cent on all real estate in the towns and cities in the county, 10 per cent on farm real estate and 5 per cent on all personal property three years ago, the total assessed valuation as certified by the board of review was $39,906,570. After that state tax commission placed the horizontal increases on all assessments this valuation was boosted to $50,000,000.00 in round figures. The valuation last year was about $49,000,000.00. Mr. Frazier’s compilation shows that the personal property in the county this year is assessed at $7,714,055.00 and the real estate with improvements included at $26,442,745.00. Last year, or when the last real estate assessment was taken, the average assessed valuation of lands and improvements was $126.62 per acre and land without the improvements, $113.13. The compilation this year, which is only tentative shows that the valuation of lands and improvements is about one hundred dollars per acre and without the improvements around ninety dollars per acre. The board of review may change the assessments as they see fit and until they complete their work, the true I cash value of all property in Adams County will not be known. It is thought that even after assessments are adjusted or equalized by the board of review that the state tax commission may order another horizontal increase placed on the property FORMER DECATUR MINISTER DEAD i (Contlfiued from page one) I it is thought likely that he died yesI terday morning. | The Rev. Goodwin was pastor of I the Decatur United Brethren church I about eleven years ago. When last I heard from he was with his daughter, I' Mrs. Olive Odum,, in Rich Valley. As I that i was not very long ago, local I residents believe that he was with I his daughter when his death occured. I Further information concerning his I death may be received soon. I —T •——— | Mrs. Roy Archbold and daughter, I Miss Josephine arrived home last eve Ijning after a week visit at Toledo, Ann II Arbor and Waseon. ■ I

QUAINT INDIAN FESTIVITIES TO ÜBHER IN OPENING OF CATHOLIC SUMMER COLONY ♦ - On June 16th. the Chippewa Indian from Wisconsin and the neighboring etates will meet on Victory Heights, I the new Catholic Summer Colony ' near Stone Lake, Wisconsin, for a most unique ceremony. The Corner Stone of the Indian Mission at Re- . serve will be laid in the morning. I Thereafter a great Indian barbecue with ancient Indian ceremonies will ■ be held, followed by the old Chlppe- ' wa tribal dances: the squaw dance, the war dance, and other ancient dances. The governor Will address the Indiana, as well as the Hon. Felix J. Streychmans of Chicago. The con--1 ferring of the Chippewa tribal honors on Rev. Julius DeVos, the venerable president of the Catholic colonization society, will conclude the festivities. Special trains from all the neighboring states will be pnt in service to accomodate the throngs of . visitors. The place chosen for this beautiful and quaint ceremony is Victory Heights, near Stone Lake, Wisconsin the spot on which the first whiteman's cabin In Wisconsin was built. Victory Heights has now become the site of the first Catholic Summer Colony in the United States. It is a great penfnsula plateau of surpassing beauty, covered with virgin forest, and commanding a view of hundreds of miles of glistening water and beautiful woodlands. The peninsula is being built up with numerous rustic log cabins of quaint design, to accomodate the throng of Catholic vacationists for the summer season. The work is conducted under the supervision of the Catholic Colonization Society, U. S. A., with headquarters at Chicago. This society is the national organization for Catholic colonization endeavors in the United States. Because of the signal favors conferred on the Indians by this society, it was decided in the high council of the Chippewa tribe to confer on the president of the society the highest honors in the gift of the tribe. ... ■ - —•— SUIT LOSES S2O WITH YEAR’S USE ■qi ntted Pre.. Service.) St. Louis, Mo., June 5, —What’s a’ last year’s suit of clothes worth? Circuit Judge Landwehr believes S2O less than the original price is about right. James Maxwell attended a movie entertainment, wearing a nifty garment that set him back $72.50. So absorbed did he become in the picture that he failed to notice until the close of the performance that the seat he occupied had been recently renovated with a nice coat of green paint. Much of the paint left the seat of the chair for the seat of his trousers. Judge Landwher agreed with Maxwell that the coat was of little value without the pants, and gave him judgment of $52.50.

~ 1 i i I Another Policy Becomes J A Claim • ■ I This morning Charles W. Yager, agent for the Western Reserve I Life Insurance Company received a Check for SI,OOO from the company in settlement for the Policy Carried by Harvey Ault of Jefferson I township in this company. Mr. Ault had only paid two premiums on the Policy when he was called away. Where could he have found a better investment for the little monej' he paid the company. We are here today. We do not know where we will be tomorrow. Better be on the safe side and protect your family while you have the opportunity. The cost is nothing compared with the benefit derived. Do it now. Then you will have no cause for regret when it is too late. Yours For Service, h Charles W. Yager - . ;; Telephone 456. Decatur, Indiana ■ ' t - 1 ' I

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