Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1922 — Page 2

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlthad Every Evening Except Sunday by . THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J, H. Heller—Free, and Gen- Mgr E. W. Kempe— Vice-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse—Sec'y end Bus. Mgr. i.— ——— Entered at the Poztoffice at Decatur, Indiana, aa second class matter. Bubecrtptlon Rates Single coplea * cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier *5.00 One Month, by mall 86 cents Three Months, by maU,.j_.... u *l-00 Blx Months, by mall *1.75 One Year, by mall *3.00 One Year, at office *3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second tones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter 4 Company. 122 Michigan Avenue. Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Life Building. Kansas City. Mo. PUTTING IT UP TO MR. VESTAL:— The Portland Republican is continuing its efforts to make Congressman Vestal show his hand in the postofJice fight at Portland. In last evening's edition under the heading “The spineless Mr. Vestal” they said in part: — "Harry Fritzinger. Republican chairman of Adams county, has been appointed postmaster at the Decatur postofiice, the applicant adhering to the rules of the civil service and the appointment being recommended by J Vestal, congressman from the Eighth . district. The office in Portland is still va ■ cant, the Democratic postmaster; holding over until his successor shall have been appointed. Four applicants from this city filed their recommendations and conformed to the rules and regulations in such matters. under the rules of the commission July 18th of this year, the same time Mr. Fritzinger filed his application and endorsements. Yet these grades have never been returned by the commission, and Congressman Vestal has made no recommendation. Why is this? Why has not the commission handed down the grades. Why does not Mr. Vestal look after the matter Is it possible, as has been charged that the civil service commission is only a farce —a tool — a body that means nothing but an ad-

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ded expense to the taxpayer It is true that the commission hands down the grades at the behest of the or withholds them at his request. Whatever the reason, It places Mr. | Vestal in a most embarrassing position and lays him open to the charge of playing politics. The commission should be informed of conditions and the hurt their laxity is doing Mr. Vestal. No doubt the commission would forward the grades of the men who are applicants for the position here, and enable Mr. Vestal to give his time and attention to his campaign without worry. There is a very strong belief that Mr. Vestal, himself, is the real cause of these grades being held up. There Is now every reason to believe that Mr. Vestal does not intend to recommend anyone for the office, or allow the commission to return the grades until after the November election. In this way, he hopes to stave off discussion and keep down any agitation and dissatisfaction that may arise before that time, and should the grades be made public. Should he be successful in being returned to Congress, he will then recommend whom | he pleases—and according to the plan of Lawrence Cartwright and others, and said to have been sanctioned by I Vestal, Dr, M. T. Jay of this city, will 'be the one recommended and ap- ' pointed. But If Mr. Vestal is kidding himself into the belief that this course will j prove a success and bring peace, he - is badly mistaken. There are many, a great many Jay county voters, men and women, who will cast their vote : for the Democratic candidate, unless a postmister is appointed before November. They openly say so. They further declare that, if Dr. M. T. Jay iis appointed before the election, i neither will they in this case vote for Mr. Vestal. There is no exaggeri ation in these statements. Anybody |can, with a little time at their disposal and a desire for information, learn that this is so. Bad political advisers, and bad judgment has been the ruination of Mr. Vestal. It is beginning to look as if he was not big enough man for Congressman. He is out of his class. A peanut politician is about the calibre of the present Representative.” The tariff bill is to be pounded through adding to the overhead of every citizen in the country and to the benefit of but a few. It will not bring good times but will we fear defer them. The truth remains, that good times, actual and real, cannot

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come in this country, until the farmer has sold a crop at a profit and he cannot do that so long as we increase | his expenses and fail to provide a market. The tariff bill now being , passed will eventually prove disastrous to the party now in power and whether it causes political overthrow this year or not you can bet your last dollar that eventually that very thing will happen, for when demonstrated to our people they will refuse to stand for the certain results of an exorbitant tariff law. In the meantime we will have to grin and bear it. The fact that state expenses jumped 33% in a single year, or from 21 to 28 million dollars in 1921, will need a lot of explaining. So will the fact that the state is spending two million dollars more this year than its receipts need explaining. Furthermore. a magnificent retreat for state prisoners is being built at Pendleton ■f hat will cost more than *22,000,000, although only *BOO,OOO has been appropriated. The other *1.200,000 will have to be provided by the next legi islature to build this prison de luxe, i It is costing *2,000 per prisoner, or about the same as it costs to build a I line hotel with a bath in every room All these things and many others must be explained away in the 10 I days allotted by Mr. Beveridge for that purpose. The Maine election has finally been figured out. Here are the figures—you can arrange them to suit yourself. In 1920 Mr. Harding received 136,000 votes while Mr. Wilson received 59,000, a republican majority of 77,000. In the election last Monday the republican candidate for senator received 100,000 votes and the democrat 77,000, a republican majority of 27,000. It looks like a shrinkage of fifty thousand to a man up a tree but perhaps there is some way of proving that the trend is for the administra tion. Help yourself. The bonwt bill will be up to the president now. He has announced time and again that he will veto any bill which does not arrange to raise the money which this one does not. Eastern papers accuse congress of wasting their time in passing a bill designed to secure the votes of exsoldiers under false pretenses and passing the buck to the president. The time for a show down draws near and they are not fooling any one but themselves. K. OF C. NOTICE Regular meeting Monday, Sept. 18th. Important business to be taken care of. Members are requested to be present. G. K. —• Methorists To Meet In Brazil, Ind., Soon Brazil, Ind.. Sept. 15—Brazil is preparing to entertain over 400 ministers from Sept. 26 to Oct. 2 when the annual Northwestern conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will be h®M in this city. The program for the annual conference is complete in the main details and will soon be in of the printer. Bishop Frederick D. Leete, of Indianapolis, will preside and will deliver and address at each morning session at 11 o'clock. Bishop Theodore S. Henderson, of Detroit has been secured for an address on Friday on the conference. His subbject will be “The Order of the Day.” Prof. Norman E. Richardson, who has the chair of Religious Education in Northwestern university, will deliver addresses on Wednesday, Thursday. Friday, and Saturday afternoons of the conference on the general theme of “The New Program of the Church in Religious Education.” Other speakers of prominence in the Methodist church are scheduled on the program. Prof. R. G. McCutchen, of DePauw university, with the university choir of 150 voices, will give a musical program. LARGE ONION CROP IS REPORTED IN NORTHERN INDIANA THIS SEASON Warsaw. Sept. 15. —The ouiou crop in Kosciusko, Fultfon. ' Elkhart, and Wfhitney coupties will be the largest iu many years. A harvest of 500 bush; els to the acre !s reported by many farmers.

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ DOINGS IN SOCIETY ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ CLUB CALENDAR Saturday Pastry sale by Baptist Woman's Bible class at Schmitt's meat market. Dramatic Department of Woman's ?lub at Old Adams County Bank — 7:30 p. m. Tuesday Pot Luck supper—Rebecca Lodge. C. L. of C. Shower for Miss Edith Miller at K. of C. hall. Thursday Dinner party and miscellaneous shower for Miss Edith Miller at home of Miss Agnes Weber —6:30 p. m. The Do Your Best Class of the U. B. ■hurch met last evening at the home of Lucy Fisher with thirty two members present. After the regular business session an interesting talk was given by the new teacher, Mr. Jesse Sphwartz. A vote of thanks was given by the class for their former teach-

or. Mrs. John Hill, who has been so ( faithful in helping the class. As this . was the last meeting which Mrs. Min- , er could attend with the class, they ( presented her with a beautiful black ( leather purse as a token of their love. , Light refreshments were served after ( which the guests returned home wish ( ing Mrs. Miner success in their new , home. * 1 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Drake and . amily entertained at supper last eve- . ning for Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Miner | ind son. Wallace, who left this mornng for their new home at Napanee, Ind. They also helped Mrs. Drake to celebrate her 26th birthday. COSTLYFIREAT NEW ORLEANS, LA. Three to Five Lives Lost in $6,000,000 Fire Which Occurred Today tlnitv.l PreHs Service.) New Orleans, La., Sept 16.— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Three to five lives are believed lost and approx! mately *6,000,000 damage was the oil of a fire which started in a box car loaded with burlap near the armj warehouses here early today. It swept the two thousand ft. govern ment wharf and two story steel shed , in front of the warehouses. Half an hour after the fire was dis covered in the car the whole length oi the wharf was in flames and firemen were helpless. The frames were several hundred feet high at times and could be seen for miles around the city. NEGOTIATIONS ARE CONTINUED Rail Shopmen Seeking Agreements Wjth More Individual Roads Chicago, Sept. 16 —Rail shopmen today continued to negotiate agreements with individual railroads. Sixteen railroads had already signed and the men ordered back to work. Vnion leaders claimed that by the ■d of next week settlment would be •cached on 63 roads at least. Carriers which have decided to light the Baltimore agreement took steps today to form or perfect company union. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy has affected an agrqjement wi h its shopmen not based on the Jewell compromise. Union leaders declared that hundreds of shopmen were returning to work w-thout authority. “Stories carried in the newspapers of the settlement have sent hundreds of men back to work on roads on which no agreement has yet been reached,'' John Scott, secretary of the shop crafts organization declared “I want to urge the men not to go back to work until they eceive ord =rs from headquarters.” In the meantime a recess was taken in the Daugherty injunction hearing. The federal government closed its case last night ai d the defense will not start until Monday. Chicago Grain Close Wheat—Sept. 1019 j: Dec. 101%; May ZlO6. Corn —Sept. 62’t; Det. 57%; May" 6(1%. Oats —Sept. 37%; Dec. 35%: May 38. VALPO TO HAVE BIRTHDAY Valparaiso, Ind.. Sept. 16.—Valparaiso university will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary Tuesday, Sept. 19. it was announced here today. ——e WANT ADS EARN—S

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Reception For High School Teachers Held A very pleasant evening was spent at the Presbyterian church last night when the members of the Christian ! Endeavor Society of that church entertained the high school teachers. The church was decorated with hitter sweet, A number of very entertaining games were played after which refreshments were srved. — « ■ " "■ ““

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