Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1923 — Page 4

DICATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evary Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Prez. and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe—Vlce-Prea. ft Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouae—Sec’y and Bui. Mgr Entered at the Postoffice at Becatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week,by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 25.00 One Month, by mail ....... 36 cents Three Months, by mall 2100 Six Months, by Mail 21.75 One Year, by mail 3.00 One Year, at office 23.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Life Building, Kansas City, Mo. Prosperity does not just happen. W t . must make it and that’s wny every person should help. Do soni° thing yourself to produce good times. If a thousand people do that in Adams county it will be a big year, won't it? The records show that during 1922 the railroads loaded 919,828 cars of freight as compared to 741,341 in 1921 and 837,953 in 1920, showing a greater freight hall than during the big year. Governor McCray will recommend I hat the legislature enact but a few laws and be careful of those, which is correct. The members of the body could make a big hit by putting through the necessary laws and then adjourning, but they won't. The Bluffton Banner published a fourteen page special edition on New Years day, which was a credit and which required much effort. They published a complete resume of happenings during the year, including all births, deaths and marriages. The paper was liberally supported by hap py New Year cards by the Bluffton merchants. Look out how you stand on the gasoline tax law. Two cents a gallon tax will raise millions of dollars but if it requires an additional force to collect and take care of it you may not be relieved of any other burden after all. The danger is that the next legislature will convert the tax thus raised to the general fund and it will then be squandered. If state government cost is reduced as it should be we won't need any additional tax and that s the safe way to play the game. The governor will recommend the strictest economy by the legislature in one breath and the next will ask for an appropriation of three million dollars to complete a prison building at Pendleton. It just don't seem to balance. Arrangements must also he made to tqke care of a debt of two and a half million made the past year and with nothing to show for it but a salary list, 'talking economy will not cover up extravagance in state government. Don't overlook renewing your subscription to The Daily Democrat while paying up your bills. Our special offer this month includes a useful premium and you will want th e paper th ■ next year when every indication points to better times and much activity. A community is judged by its newspaper and we want to help make this county and city the very best in all the world. Send in your news 1 items, be a booster and urge your 1 neighbor to take the paper also.

' dually people who steal money do '• because of their desire to have the il >xury and the power which goes Tdance Moose Hall I Friday Evening, I Jan. sth 8:30 o’clock wc per couple, I FEATURE b FIVE

with wealth. The other day a Boston man eighty years old was sent to prison for stealing $300,900. Evidence showed that he had been honest during his entire life and had the reaped • of every one who knew him and a high financial rating. What peculiar • mania caused him to make the misstep just at the period of closing the book of life can hardly be figured. ! It seems natural to want more even ' when they have more than enough. J, , ■ The Indiana legislature will con vene Thursday. In the house fortyeight democrats and in the senate eighteen will fight for the curtailing of expenses of the state government and a number of republicans have announced their intentions of assisting them. One member has made the startling statement that expenses can lie cut ten million dollars without curtailing efficiency. The wild expenditure of money during the war and the period following should be stopped short. State expenses are more than double that of pre-war times and the trouble is that the taxes must be paid out of peace time pocketbooks. The law makers who keep in mind that the people want reduced expenses and taxes will make the biggest hit with the people. Charles Schwab, the steel magnate, tells what he would do, if he had a son, as follows: “if I had a son 1 would see that he would receive the highest education in the United States. Such a type can not be gained in universities and colleges where clam distinction and snobbishness are often too prevalent, although such institutions may give him supremacy in technical things. But those traits do not make for a successful business man. The ideal edudation on which his future success is in the great public schools of this country. There is no real education except self-education- What he gets in school, after all, is only the foundation in which his future success is built by actual effort.” Very often the sons of very rich men fail to walk in the pathways outlined for them by their fathers who were educated in the school of experience. The young fellows have an entirely different conception of how to employ their time as they journey through life. You can never tell. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank those who so kindly assisted us in numerous way during the illness and death of our father and brother, James C. Coverdale. We appreciate the flowers from the Good Times club and from all the others, and the many kind acts. MRS. INEZ COVERDALE JONE’S MR. and MRS. GEORGE DUTCHER MRS. HATTIE ALLEGAR CHARLES COVERDALE POLICE FIGHT GUNMEN Chicago Officers Continue War On Lawless Element, Killing One (United Press Service) Chicago. Jan. 2.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Heroes of the Chicago police department continued the war on gunmen here, today. In a battle with four men who attempted the “shoot up the town, Detective Sergeant Fred Kohler killed one of the bandits and captured another. Kohler was wounded and brought down his man while prone on the sidewalk. Yesterday policeman James' O’Neill brought in John P. Christis, after a gun battle on the street in which the policeman was wounded. O'Neill refused to use the last cartridge in his weapon when he knew the bandit’s ammunition was gone. The officer in a hand to hand struggle overpowered his man.

War In Near East May Have Begun Already (United Press Service) London, Jan. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat) —War in the Near East, feared as a result of the break down of- the Lausanne conference, may already have begun, according to re. ports reaching London today. No official word of actual hostilities has been received, but various dispatches reported : a revolt in the Mosul Vilayet, where Kurds and Turkish tribes were said to have I burned British airplane hangars. Mo- ! sul is the second most important British air base in Mesopotamia. The Daily Mail today said such an uprising against the British was reported (from Angora, the Turkish national'lst capital.

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AUCTION CLASS STILL GROWING > — Enrollment Os Michigan Man Today Brings Total Enrollment To 35 Four new students entered the Reppert Auction School yesterday. The now members include C. E Beatty, Hollinsburg, O„ and Wni. F. Ellerbrock, Laurel, lowa. Nebraska brought the number of states represented up'to eighteen, by the arrival of Abe Parrish. Alma, Neb. Harry H. Ross. Manitoba. Canada, was the last man to arrive to enter the school on New Year’s day, and is the second man to come from the Dominion, Chas. Frederick Taylor of Saskatchewan, Canada, having enrolled on the first day of the term. The second week of the term began with intensive training by the student body under the personal instruction of Colonels Reppert and Gartin. Visitors on Monday were Tony Hackman and Jack Brunton of Decatur, former graduates from the Reppert school. G. P. Phillips, of Bellevue, Michregistered in the school today, making the total enrollment thirty-five. o GENEVA NEWS Miss Helen Foreman, who has been the guest of her cousin. Miss Zella Whiteman, for several days, returned to her home at Muncie Monday morning. Harland Whiteman, who is employed in Fort Wayne, spent the week end here at his parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Neusbaum and little daughter, of Detroit, left for their home the latter part of last week after spending the holidays here with Mrs. Neubaum's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kuntz. A. J. Bliss and family, who have been spending the phst week or so with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shutt, at Bloomville, O„ have returned to their home here. Forest Watson and family motored to Lima, Ohio last Saturday and spent several days there with relatives. Earl Conner and son, Jack, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray McCollom, of Decatur visited relatives in Geneva Monday afternoon. Carl and Ed Schug of Fort Wayne spent New Year’s here at their parental home. Miss Elizabeth Martin went to Ft. Wayne last Saturday where she visited her sister, Mrs. Thomas Ragan, and Ray Fowler and wife. Mary Francis, the little daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Reicheldeffer, who has been ill with pneumonia for the past week, is reported to be somewhat improved. Francis Macwhlnney, who has been employed in Kendallville for several months, spent the week end in Geneva with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Macwhinney. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Gee left for Lansing, Mich, last Saturday where they will make their future home. Mrs. Gee was formerly Miss Nina Betz. The Misses Ruth Linton and Savilla Sprunger went to Preble Saturday where they visited Miss Fay Shimp. Jed Grace and family, who have been visiting relatives here for the past week or so, left for their home in Vicksburg, Mich, last Saturday. Mrs. Grace Whiteman and two daughters, Lulu and Esther, returned to their home at Columbus, IndMonday morning after a short visit here with the former’s daughter, Mrs. Mark Macklin and family. Miss Garnet Cooper, who is attending Teachers’ College at Indianapolis, returned to that city Monday after spending her Christmas vacation here with her sister, Mrs. Josephus Martin. Mrs., Mary Wilhelm and daughter of Portland spent the past week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Martz, returning to their home at Portland Monday. o

Militia On Duty At Mer Rouge, Louisiana (United Press Service) Mer Rouge, La., Dee. 2.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Militia on duty here was strengthened today to guard against an expected reign of terror aimed at persons, who have exposed activities of bands, murderers and terrorists. A calvary detachment entrained at ■ Jenuings today to augment the large i topee preserving peaee in Morehouse liarieh. The orders were issued folI lowing the kidhapping of Harold L. Tecgrestroin, a state witness, by a hooded mob Friday at midnight. —~o Miss Gladys Flanders returned to' Peru this morning to resume her work as a teacher in the city schools after a visit with her parents.

1922 POLITICAL UPHEAVALS Overthrow Os David Lloyd George In England Moat Unexpected Os All (United Prezt Service) Political upheavals of a domestic n» ture occured in most of the leading I European countries in 1922, the most unexpected being the overthrow of David IJoyd George in England, and perhaps the most significant the nearrevoluntlonary assumption of powtr of the Fascist!, headed by Signor Mussolini, in Italy. in England Lloyd George was driven from office after seven years premiership as the result of a revolt of the [ Conservative wing of his coalition government. He resigned October 19 and , was succeeded three days later by Andrew Bonar Law, Conservative leader. At the ensuing general election, November 15. Bonar Law’s party was returned to power by a substantial majority, Lloyd George having but a remnant of his party left. Italy had two cabinet crisis before the advent of Mussolini. First Premier Bonomi resigned in February, endeavored to form a new cabinet, but eventually gave way to Signor Luigi Facta. The Facta cabinet got into trouble in the late summer, resigned but endeavored to reform. After the country had been practically without a government for over a fortnight, the militant Fascist! too charge, marched on Rome in what was the most remarkable “constitutional revolution" in Europe’s history, and forced the appointment of their leader Benito Mussolini as premier. France had a political crisis as the result of the Cannes conference and Premier Aristide Briand was hurled from office, being succeeded by exPresident Raymond Poincare. Germany, after a troubled political life under Premier Wirth eventually changed governments in November. Wirth being succeeded by the shipping magnate Cuno, as a premier. Greece had numerous political crises which culminated in the overthrow of ping Constantine, the impeachment and execution of three ex-premiers, two other ministers and a general, by the revoluntionary committee. Spain passed a troubled political year, Premier Allende-Salazar being succeeded by Senor Sanchez Guerra, who resigned but accepted the premiership again December 2. Portugal’s past year resulted in the overthrow of several cabinets, and tw-o revolutionary outbreaks, which, however, were not of international importance. o FRENCH INVENT NEW GUN New Weapon Expected To Revolutionize Use Os Naval Artillery (United Press Service) Paris, Jan. 2—More powerful than the Big Bertha which shelled Paris from a distance of sixty miles and capable of being used aboard warships built only for 13%-lnch guns, a new weapon which, it is believed, will revolutionize the use of artillery in naval warfare. Is being studied by the French government experts. One of the astounding features of the invention, due to the labors of two French scientists, is that it eliminates the recoil shock of the biggest guns.

Utilization of the newly discovered I principle in the armament of naval ! units would practically nullify the es- I feet of the limitations imposed by the I decisions of the Washington anna- I ment conference. • Naturally the details of the inven- I tion, the salient feature of which is I the Galliot-Bory brake, so-called from I the names of the discoverers are I kept a profound secret at th e central I navy laboratory and at the navy and I war offices, where the results of the I trials have been recorded and await I official approval. But enough has 1 been learned to make possible a gen- I eral description of the principle. J The caliber of naval guns is limited I by the Washington treaties to 400 mil- I limeters (IS inches). France has not I the money necessary for the construe- I tion of ships capable of carrying guns I of that caliber. To use smaller ves- 1 ! seis, such as those built for 13%-inch I guns is not to be thought of witli the 1

guns of today, because the recoil shock would simply shake the plates of the vessel loose. In this connection, it is estimated that when a 13yainch gun is fired the recoil shock can be expressed as a force of four million horse power acting tor one-hun-dredth part of a second. Heretofore the effect of the recoil has been attenuated by a device per mitting the gun to run back on its ' carriage after the discharge. But hero arises a grave problem. Take,' for instance, a French scyenty-five. The initial of’the projectile is 1,800 feet a second and the gun runs backward its entire length after the discharge. As the recoil shock increases with the initial speed, the weight of the projectile and several other factors, it is easy to see that, with a 16-inch naval gun. firing a projectile hundreds .of times heavier than the land shell and with an initial ve-

; loclty of more than three thousand le«t a second, tha lOT * ,h **** i ship trouw ** Mroo * h t 0 pro ’ ll,e for the recoil. Engineers Galliot and Bory have, it !b assorted, solved the problem by n device which opposes to the recoil { shock an equal force acting in a con- > trury direction. Theoretically the gun f could be suspended from a cablq.hlgh, 1 in the air and fired without the slight ' est recoil. f Another feature of the Galliot-Bory brake is that the gases which escape from the mouth of the gun at the mo 1 ment of the discharge are whisked away behind the weapon, suppressing ' the flash and the smoke clouds which ■ even with smokeless powder, darken 1 the field of vision of the gunners with- ■ out hiding the vessel from the enemy. I If You Have The Blues ’ If you have the blues or something 1 and can’t produce a smile, Just park your automobile on the corner for a while. And make yourself acquainted with the latest style in vogue. Watch society ape nature, 1 With powder-puff and rogue. ' * They come from every walk of life, from valley, hill and town, And daub their handsome features with the make-up of a clown. From millionaires to flapper, have joined the sacred throng. And nature asked to step aside, So they may pass along. ; Some very wealth}’ British at Providence did scoff. The Titanic tackled nature and nature cast her off. It was the crowning work of ages, was the British boastfubplea. j Yet it rests in peaceful slumber at I the bottom of the sea. When you play the game with nature, I you must play it on the square., You cannot cheat the umpire nor play i the game unfair; For nature stands responsible for: every breath you draw, And you have to pay a forfeit, if you violate the law. A reckless driver of a car, all nature j seemed to spurn, i He heeded not the rocks ahead, he | reckoned not the turn; A crash, here nature stands erect, her , duties never shirks, The law is self-adjusting, a*id never fails to work. Oh! God of earth and heaven. Return again we pray! The devil drives the auto. Bring me back my horse and sleigh; j return my warm fur collar; My laprobe, whip and then, let me I drive the road with nature. And my sweetheart once again. A sleigh ride in the gloaming, howl the soul with rapture swells, Luna flirting with the faries, and the ‘ jingle of the bells. Though bent with age and all its) cares, I love to sit and dream;; When all the world was real and nature reigned supreme. By E. F. GILPIN, 943 E. Market St., Indianapolis, Ind. 11

77 /M' . .... J I Have you been to I John T. Myers Clothing Co’s. I SALE ■ I Bargains! Bargains’* I Suits, Overcoats, Hats, Caps, I Underwear, Furnishings, Etc. I You CanjL Afford To Miss This Sak

STATE BRIEFS Bloomington— Special provision has been made for the comfort of fat men at a theatre just opened here Wltli eighteen seats inch *’ wWer than the others. I Culver —Seven small children left 'fatherless by the disappearance of Ralph Nye, of this city have been taken as wards by the county and are offered for adoption. Royal Center- —Nicholas Barnhardt, 66, is dead here with concussion of the brain after being kicked by a horse. Princeton—When Cyrus Turner appeared in city court here to help a , friend by paying his fine for voilating I the liquor law. he was taken into CUBI tody and fined for intoxication. Brazil—A Brazil newspaper anI notinced it will continue its fifteen year old custom by giving a stiver ( drinking cup to the first baby born in this city in 1923. Monticello —One thousand men are expected to gather here Saturday for , the annual fox hunt. Anderson —What is believed to be one of the largest babies born in this city was a son born to Mr. and Mrs. George Gray, which weighed sixteen pounds. Rochester —Rev. James W. Niven, of the Baptist church here, was presented with an automobile by members of bis-congregation. ■ . -u

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