Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1922 — Page 4

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DIVORCE LAWS ARE NEEDED NOW: — "The crucial objection" to political activities for women has always been, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reminds us. the theoretical danger to ‘‘the traditions of home life.” Now ‘‘women are planning to do something for the protection of the home and the stabilizing of our social life that men alone never would do,” and if they succeed "they will justify their right to the ballot.” The plan referred to is the movement sponsored by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs for uniform marriage and divorce laws throughout the 48 states, by means of a constitutional amendment if necessary, by which both marriage and divorce will be "made more difficult.” With the general purpose of the club women and, on the whole, with their program, editors are in hearty sympathy, although there is a divergence of opinion as to the best way to accomplish' that purpose. That such legislation as is propos-1 ed “would mark decided advance in j the welfare of society," the Green Bay Press Gazette is certain, and it \ agrees with the St. Paul Dispatch that "that great organization of women could not undertake a better work within the scope of its pur- j poses, and is entitled to the most 1 respectful consideration by the na-I t ion al and state legislative bodies," for the end toward which it is work mg “is greatly to be desired.” The need for uniformity in laws regulating both marriage and di- 1 vorce, “is apparent,” says the Albany j News, for while such legislation has always been the province of the states themselves they have, as the Jackson Citizen Patriot puts it,l “functioned badly.” The result, thej 1 Muncie Star notes, is that “at pres- | ent we have almost as many codes I as there are states,” and these codes, the Kansas City Times adds, "are about as far apart” as can be imagined, “the variations running all the way from South Carolina, which grants divorce on no grounds; to Nevada, which grants it on practically any cause the human mind can I*l Your Dream Smoke Come True White Stag Londres 8c 2 for 15c Try ’em— You’ll like ’em.

conceive." “Laws regulating marriage and divorce should be uniform throughout the United States," declares the Grand Rupids Herald, "because conditions with which they deal are practically uniform.” As the Philadelphia Public Ledger expresses it, “there Is no essential diderence In human nature or in personal character between the inhabitants of the seaboards or the inland reaches of America to justify so many different sets of warring regulations with regard to marriage and divorce.” The Boston Transcript is one of the strongest republican papers in the country. Read what they say about the present national administration: “The party in power has neglected its opportunities, faltered in the face of grave and pressing problems, played fast and loose with the veterans of the great war, goose-stepped

before organized hands of noisy mi--1 norities, honey-fugled the pacifists, s enacted a tariff bill that, as we have repeatedly said is “a disgrace to the republican party and a menace to the ’ nation"; insulted the intelligence and ; inflamed the passion of the electorate in many parts of the country by appointments to office that are indefensible on any score—for an example. E. Mont Reily as governor of Porto Rico, and a whole tribe of political swindlers south of the Mason ( and Dixon line. Nothing but good should come from the wigging the people have given the party in powi er. It was not only deserved but . timely. If the warning it involves is heeded during the next two years, the republicans may win in 1924. If it is not, the party deserves nothing short of country-wide defeat.” President Harding made his address to congress yesterday, urging j ship subsidy and telling them that “A ship subsidy is good business.” It is for the fellows who will benefit j but how about the people who must I pay seventy-five millions a year for I a decade? We believe the people are j tired to death of always voting some ’ thing to some one else on the theory j that if they prosper the country will. Have they ever voted any fortunes to you? Tomorrow belongs to the Yeomen. J Let our visitors know it. We believe ■the campaign made in this community to locate the home has been the most appealing of any in the United States! and that the men who will finally de-1 cide the location for the Lome are I i deeply impressed. Let’s carry on and ■ 1 let nothing remain undone to show 1 these men what we have and just I why we feel this is the ideal place for , the school. Illinois Millionaire Begins Prison Term Joliet, 111., Nov. 22 —William Bross j Lloyd a "scab of his class” entered prison here during the night to serve a two to five year sentence for violation of the Illinois espionage act. Lloyd, member of one of the wealthiest mid-west families, a Harvard graduate and a communist, blamed wealthy associates for his imprisonment . “They didn’t like it because I spoke what I thought,” Lloyd declar- 1 ed. “I opposed most of the things | for which they stood. I was a scab i of my class.” | The millionaire surrendered voluntarily at the prison gates at midnight. An automobile which took him from Chicago with Mrs. Lloyd and a group of friends in a farewell party, circled the gloomy wails of the prison j several times to give Lloyd a chance to survey his future home. It then I pulled up at the main gate and Lloyd | was taken into custody by the I wardoiwLloyd was given a bath on the state and assigned to a detention cell, temporarily. Today he was measured for a suit of prison garb and assigned to teach in the prison school. o New York—“ Carl Mays will pitch for the New .York Yanks next year. UH bet dough that he wins 25 games for us,” Col. Huston, part owner of the Yanks said. Waivers were asked on Mays as a disciplenary measure, Huston said. Jas. Watson Says, “I’ll Ne,-er Forget When Father’s Hogs Got Cholera." “One morning he found 20 hogs dead and several sick. He called in the Vet, who after dissecting a rat caught on the premises, decided that the rodents had conveyed germs. Since then I am never without RATSNAP. It's the surest, quickest rat destroyer I know.” Three sizes, 35c. 65c. $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Holthouse Drug Co . Lee Hdw. Co.. Schafer Hdw. Co., ■ Callow & Kohne. W. W. Parks, WillI shire, Ohio.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1922.

; The People’s Voice 1 Editor Daily Democrat '■ Decatur, Indiana, a Dear John:— ~ The other day I met a republican. I wouldna knowed he was a republican if he haddenda 4>een aneakln 1 thru an alley. This was the day • after th eelection so just to rub it in 3 I sez, “Howd the Lection turn out?" [ He sez, “We republicans are like the Perverbal Lazarus." "How’s that?” 1 I asked. “Got licked by dogs,” he ■ answered. 1 couldn't stand that so right then and there is where ‘nother republican got beat by a democrat. ; But there won't be no bad feelins cause there blamin things on to Wat- ' sin this time. That campaign as awful hard on an editor I'll betcha. 1 been a wonderin what you was agoin to fill your paper with now that everything is

over. You know as well as Ido that we can't let the old paper sink cause w<> gotta use it to put Ralston over in 1924. Then too the Yellow Jackets need it for their official organ to spout off about kickin the pumpkin and nockin 'em stiff. Just to show that I'm a willing geezer to help things along I wrote up a few things about my boyhood days. I think it will fill quite a space and if you use big type it will fill more, well known that without me tellin' how^ its done. Now this story of mine is a story about me. I wrote it myself and I orter know If you think you won't liqe it don’t read it. Some of the subscribers will like my story. Others will call it punk. But so it is with all stories —all men —all women —all places. You can’t please everybody, John. There is lots in this story that others wouldn't write and lots that I won't write again. Some will not like the story cause its personal. Others will like it for the same reason. Those who have written better stories will pity me. Those who have written worse ones, I pity! N ALBERT R. SMITH of Bluffton Will be in Decatur for a few days to Artistically Tune, Repair or Rebuild your piano or player. Every job positively guaranteed. Local reference furnished. Trips to country and nearby towns. Leave orders with LULU GERBER Call 52. , j The How of an Investor A man becomes an investor because he possesses judgment, foresight, thrift, the ability to deny himself when it is wise to practice self-denial. These qualities lead him to accumulate savings. The same judgment leads him to invest those savings, with a house of high integrity at the most favorable return he can secure. Our clientele is composed of fifty thousand such men who have never failed to receive seven per cent, annually on thej: investments with us. ‘ The R. L. Dollings Co. “Builders of Business” INDIANAPOLIS SUTTLES-EDWARDS CO, Local Representatives A. D. Suttles, Secy-Treas., General Manager. State License No. 2,317. Rooms No. 9 and 10, Morrison Bldg., South of Court House, Decatur, Ind. I I THE MECCA I ® Last—Time—Tonight g? S May MacAvoy in gag 0 “ A S HOMESPUN VAMP” ® See this dainty little O slur, shining her best. jg S- You will like it. —Also—- ' sff-10c ; ■ ft jS THURSDAY & FRIDAY Constance Binney in ' || “MIDNIGHT” KL ; ■sc and 10c jfc

But to return to the story. Now hold your hat 'cause here goes: How I Started In Well! She just took my eye—both eyes, for that matter- Young, gushing, bashful, laughing, happy black eyes, red cheeks, cherry lips, black hair, pearly white teeth, voice Ike a warbler, step like a fawn, gait like a zephyr heart as warm as the noonday sun! Took my eye- AY; she took my two eyes. Come to think of it she took my heart akmg with my optics. She—Heavens bless her animated photograph!—was just rising sixteen. Sweet? No name for it! I was older. I should be older, and I was. I was rising nineteen hard on uinneteon and a half. We were neighbors. That Is to say, our paternal relatives were neighbors, as the farms of our paternal relatives joined. My paternal relative was my uncle by birth, and I was his nephew; but the farms joined just the same as though nothing had happened. Her name was

' Sue. Her name was a sweet name 1 to me. It flowed right into my heart. ’ We met by chance—the usual way. > I went to her house on an errand. 1 Sue was there and so we met. 1 went for a pail of vinegar and she I poured it out for me. When I got home my aunt said the vinegar wasn’t ! good. I knew why—Sue had looked ' into its depth, and gave it sweetness! Sue had a brother. He was alder ' than either of us. Hank was his name and he worked the farm. But 1 I liked Sue just the same and we often met in the orchard, when I went to steal fruit; and the old man —that 1 is, her father —sent her to drive me out! Take care, old man! lam after 1 the other fruit what you hain't dreamed of! ' It took hey a good while to drive I me out. I was often chased by her—chased so far I had to go part way 1 home with her! Then, we met on the hills, when after berries. i Lie still, fond heart; You're/dreamin’ of her now! I Well! Time flew on. just as time al- 1 ways does. We both increased in years and I got to lovin’ her more 1 than a little. At least I wanted to t visit her by moonshine. It was the ' fall of the season. I had cut corn all I day with my parental uncle. I was 1 tired; but love said to corn-cutting > fatigue, “Get thee hence," and it ■henced at once. ! I enveloped myself in a boiled shirt with a linen collar. I put onto I me a dickey belonging to my uncle. I had but few store-clothes of my ' own. as I was not wealthy in worldly 1 dress and such! I put cinnamon essence on my hair. It smelt good— 1 exceedingly good! I spit on my shoes ■ and polished them with one end of . an old clothes brush. What a polish. I It makes me sweat now, to think how I rubbed those faithful cow-hide stogas! My shoes were strong if not graceful. All the aforesaid work I did in the kitchen. It was after seven o'clock in the evening. Gayly I sallied out of the wood shed door, and with beating hopes wended my way down to the rustic farm mansion wherein dwelt Sue. It was a nice night—a very sweet, fragrant, moony night. A big time to make love to a girl rising sixteen! My heart was like a volcano all the way there. I went by the house—dasn't go in! Went down the road a few rods, and walked back by the gate. Saw her paternal relative sitting by the stove. Went past the gate again. Saw her other relative by the table darning. Went by the gate again—saftly, so as not to awaken the dog, as he and I were not very familiar. Saw Sue at work by the stove, making cylindrical envelopes for sausage. Went by again; fixed my hair, pulled down my lower end and pulled up the upper end of my shirt; turned, came back, and very carefully lifted the latch ot the gate. Not yet! I hesitated a little longer. No one offered to hurt me and I the cinnamon stuff in my hair reviv I ed me. I went to the door. On it I knocked q.ore than twenty knocks all I at once. “Deary me!” said the old lady. I “Some one at the door!” said the I old man. “And I at work on these—!” said I Sue. I I waited a short, fleeting moment, I and socu the old man came. I “Wy-ho’v-de-deu, Ed?”—(only that I wasn’t the name, then) —said he. I “Pretty well,” said I. 1 “Did you knock?” said he. j ’• did, indeed!” said I. I “I thought I heard you,” said he. ’ “0000 l GO!” said I. ! Then the old lady said, “Come in'” I I then wen: in, and sat down. The I old man—J e sire ot Sue —then ccnI United his avocation, whi was a I newspaper. Then the old lady, ,as I shfii darned the' stockings, conversed I with Bie. She asked me how was my I uncle —and my aunt—and tqe, myself I —and the corn—and the apples—and I the beef —cow—and the elder. | Then she took up to darn one of I Sue’s stockings. She ran her hand I into the extreme toe-end of it. How I I wished it was my hand she was I running into it but it wasn't. I Then Sue came into my presence,

and my heart went up again? Strange how that girl affected me, to! She took a seat and sat down. I said nothing—only, “Good evening. Sue!" and 1 kinder laughed a little. “Good evening!” said she, just as Then the old man—her paternal—laid down his paper, Idaned forward, and put one hand on each knee. Then be looked at me and Sue. Thon he pulled off his boots, maintaining a severe silence meanwhile. Then ho took off his stockings. Then he yawned, and said: “Well, mother, guess J'H go to bed!” He then arose, went out on the door-step to see what kind of weather the morrow would bring forth, came in, and went to his couch! soon the maternal relative went to her retlracy, and we—that Is, But and I—were left alone. This was the moment! On one sii.e of the stove sat she; on the other side sat I. We thus sat some time. Then she unhitched a little toward me and in talking I drew a little toward her until I nibbed my back against her chair, and I snugged toward her! Pretty soon ‘snugging'j was played out, and we had reached each other and there we sat side by. side. We had not been so sweetly contagious to each other a bit more than two minutes by the old clock in the"! corner, when. "Sue!” same in sharp tones from the bedroom in which was the parents. "Yes, mother!” said the fair and' fragile daughter. A moment or two with our hands j close together and our hearts beating in inward bliss. \ "Sue! Remember that candles is candles!” “Yest, mother!” said the daughter, and she blew out the light. “Why, Sue! How can Ed see to get out?” came in wondering tones from the bedroom. It was a hard job! We stumbled over the parental’s boots and over a chair. At the door I had an accident. I was going to whisper something into Sue's ear and she accidently turned her head and I whispered right into her pretty sweet mouth. Then she slapped me and I thought she was angry. On the way home that night something said sparking wasn't what it w*as cracked up to be; and a lacerated, crushed and desponding heart indorsed the sentiment. Sue wasn't as mad as she acted for a week later I received a little piece

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