Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1923 — Page 3

t — YES or NO? A Teat of Your Intelligence The correct answer to one of th ■«< _ problems is YES, to the other NO. CTOP TO THINK! Questions Ainw.-n (I Tomorrow ’.—Does ruin orißin;***- ln lh “ »»H«»’«? 2.-Can a ship l>«- accurately navitated without a compass. . Yesterday's Questions Answered 1. -Is Hawaii a possession of the United States? Answer —NO. Hawaii, is not a post.esaion of the {Jolted States; It Is a territorial unit. 2. Is the sensation of pain more a psychological than a physicfological j iicnontnncn? Answer —YES. Th<; sensation of pain is psychological, since it is seated within the intelligence. When intellii < nt consciousness is drugged and sub | pended (by ether), there is no pain. 0 Norfolk, Va.—Traffic officer Thomas ( directed a stranger to the ferry and I gave him the time. Ten minute; lat-’f • he looked for his watch. Gone. Chit ago—Mrs Edna Peters offered fl to any Ijttle boy or girl in the block who would find h°r lost dog Oswald. In less than an hour Mrs. "t-ters had 48 dogs—but Oswald. ASTHMA No cure for it, but welcome • » relief is often brought by— ViCKS V A F»O RUB Over 17 Million Jura Used Yearly Attention Moose Regular meeting Wednesday night. ■ —Dictator. BABY’S BATH means a lot to baby and a lot to you, 100. Therefore why not put in one -ot our aanitary, up-to-date, snowuhite, spotless, tubs? Baby’s bath will be an event then. Let us show you the real economy and added I pleasure from having a sanitary bathroom such as we Install and eutp. The cost is nothing when the camtort is considered. t*. J. HYLAND West Monroe Street DANCE Moose Hall Friday Evening, Jan. sth 8:30 o’clock 50c per couple. Music by FEATURE FIVE Everybody Welcome. •MtfOHBBfIHHEfIHBHHHHHHBHMBHHHHHDNBN I THE MECCA | TONIGHT ONLY S Pola Negri ®g I ’ n BH ■ “THE RED PEACOCK” F jj| RED— lor the blood in I S the heart of a wom.ii: I M who loved 100 much: O || PEACOCK lor beauty. || K shimmering color, lux- F H Ury iind life! A romance of fine I S| feathers that covered a I 3 heart of gold. fl| —Also— £*;. « Ruth Roland in X H i. .“The Timber Queen” 31 Pathe’s largest and gl greatest serial. 0 ■ 5c and Ific &

TO AID LEGION’S AFFLICTED Chalrma i of Rehabilitation Commit Ue Shows Weed of Cars for World War Victims. Many h former soldier boy Is finding Ills old officers, who; like himself.

have returned t< ttie pa tiis oi peace, spending their time and energies and money fighting his buttles foi him these days, p artlculurly those born of th« wur he helped tc win. On? of these has come to the forefront in smashing fashion

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in the national dispute between Brigadler General Sawyer and the national rehabilitation committee of th* American Legion over the committee’s claim of governmental neglect and ob structlon in providing hospitals foi the disabled veterans. He is Humphrey Mcßride, former lieutenant coiunel, of St. Louis, ami | chairman of die rehabilitation com . mlttee of District No. 9, comprising j Missouri, Kansas, lowa and Nebraska In tlie United States Veterans’ bureau designation of territory. Following Sawyer's statement to A. A. Sprague, chairman of the national committee that “we now have hospitals enough except in two districts,” Mr. Mcßride created something of a furore in mak- | Inga detailed report of conditions in District No. 9, which was not one of I the districts mentioned by the general, and supporting Mr. Sprague's strong I claim that General Sawyer fails to comprehend tlie nature of th# great problem the disabled present. Mr. Mcßride quotes the government report of 1,348 beds available in Missouri for disabled veterans and asserts a careful check by his committee can locate only 1,143. He asserts there are 5,000 cases of insane with only 492 in hospitals, and that pait of these are in contract Institutions at an average expense of S3OO a day without any supervision whatsoever j over the care given them. “There are 518 insane Comrades who should be receiving the best of care, in Missouri, Kansas, lowa and Nebraska." he declares. “They should be in hospitals. The district absolutely requires immediately up-to-date hospital facilities for treatment of 1,000 i insane veterans. “There is urgent need for satisfacI tory hospital facilities for 1,000 med- | leal and surgical cases in order that I the suspected Insane or tuberculous vet- | erans may be provided with observation and diagnosis, and that hundreds of totally or partially disabled veterans may be treated and re-examined !as the occasion requires. There are, according to the actual records of tlie ! Veterans’ bureau 6.000 ex-service men in tills district suffering with tuberculosis ; 191 are in hospitals within the j district, 52 of them in contract hospitals, 139 in government loaned or i leased institutions. Many more have been sent to the South or West far away from homes and 'families. Tills district imperatively needs two 500bed hospitals located at points within tlie district, and easy of access." GIVES HOSPITAL TEA PARTY National President Legion Auxiliary Helps Celebrate Anniversary of Surgical Patient. Jack L. Hamill of the Twenty-third infantry, Second division, had spent a year and a day in the Sacred Heart hospital in Spoknne, Wash., when Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, visited there recently. He jokingly suggested a celebration of his anniversary as a surgical patient. Mrs. John K. Neely, department president of Washington, and Mrs. Hobart Immediately arranged a ten /• CSS? a* ap* » ».,<. . "S ' » I BSalfciwi s / waßiaß ■-■ *ij * if *»-■ ~ ~ ■ - X . . .. Tea Party for One. party for one, and the event was photographed, to preserve a souvenir for ' Hamill. This was one of more | than a dozen that Mrs. Hobart visited I In a six weeks’ trip through nine west- ! ern and Pacific coast states in June , and July. In every hospital she reported finding that the Auxiliary worn- | en were welcomed by the veterans and ! by the authorities in charge.

DECATUit DAILY UKMUCKAI, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY’ 3, 1923

ALICES OUT TO REPEAT Vincennes High School Basketball Team Trying To Equal Last Year’s Record I'nltc.l Perns Mnltf Corn-Hpoixlrnt Vlncenni s, Jan. 3. Cun Vincennes iigl> school repeat, the great basketball record which it hung up in indium state atiiletic annals last season? Tills question becomes one of tha most potential lactors in the great net bailie which is going on nok in tlie 1922-23 basketball season. Coaches and funs last season declared that it was a record never to be beaten. So far as the number of sanies is concerned it will not, for •he Vincennes team this season has •0j ped off one third of last season s tchedule which probably accounted or tlie defeat of the Green and White iggregatk n in the state tourney last Under the tutelage of Coach John Adams, ‘h<» team has gone through ■>l games in the two seasons and 1 as irjpped just cue game—that to Ploomington in the state tonrney bstl March. • The Alices won SS games that scao>n and lost tlie 39th. This year iaw Adams icse what was gen’rally considered the backbone of Ilia offense. “Red” Wampler, the 125 pound forward who last year alone ■ante within four points of registering as many points as was scored on Vincennes in the 39 games, was lost, loffman tlie running guard and Theobald tlie star center were graduated. Around Jones, the Gimbelist winner of last year, and this year's cap.ain, and Johnny Wolfe the fast for ward,' Adams lias built a team which so far this season appears to be equally as fast and well balanced as last year’s wonder five. Jones has developed wonderfully, and a giant in stature he is making a whirlwind floor man and lends absolute confidence to the youngsters whom Adams has to hand as the balance of the team. A tower of strength on the defense, and a guard which no forward yet in the state has successfully scored on, Jones is also an offensive player. His dribbles have won games and he can be demepded upon to make goals when defeat looms. Martinsville can attest to this man Jones, for lonehawded he pulled the Green and White from defeat at the hands of (he Curtismen. Critics of Vincennes complained last year that Vincennes’ schedule did not list the strongest teams in the state. This criticism would not hold water for Vincennes twice defeated Bloomington, Martinsville, Columbus. Bedford and Garfield, the strongest state contenders. Chicago Firemen Retired Chicago, Jan. 'h.—Two hundred and , seventy-five Chicago firemen were ori dered retired today by Fire Commissioner John F. Cuiterton that the city might have the "greatest fire fighting I force in the world.” The men step aside because of disability, length of service, age and inefficiency, according to the commissioner. Chicago has 4,000 fire fighters. IN MEMORIAM Tn loving remembrance of my dear husband, Walter E. Steele, who departed this life one year ago, January 1. 1922: Today recalls sad memories of a loved one gone to rest, And the ones that think of you today are the ones that love you best; Your cheerful ways, your smiling face are "a pleasure to recall; You had a kindly word for each and died beloved by all. MRS. W E. STEELE. lumber'expert ENJOYS WORK NOW Gary Citizen Declares Tanlac Restored Him Fully After Fearful Attack Os Flu. “It certainly is fine to be back on the yard feeling as full of energy as 1 did when in my twenties, and 1 >?ive Tanlac every bit ol tlie credit,” said Glen B. Hunter, of 3928 Jackson St., Gary, Ind., expert’grader for the Glen Park Lumber Co. “Until 1 took Tanlac I was suffering terribly front after effects of ‘flu.’| which I had about two years ago. I had no appetite, food lost all its 1 taste and what I did eat seemed to form in hard, indigestible lumps, causing great pain and weakness. 1 had severe headaches and sleep did me little good. I woke up in the morning so tired I felt like 1 had done a hard day’s work! “It was astonishing how soon Tanilac had me feeling fine and in a little * | while I was full of old-time energy. I enjoy restful sleep now and have the I strength to carry me through the day Ino matter how great the rush. I never j hesitate to -give Tanlac high praise.” Tanlac is for sale by all good druggists. Over 35,000,000 bottles sold, i * ls_s._s_WANT ADS EARN—

RUSSIAN CITY IN BERLIN | Russians Have Own Stores, Banks,' Theaters And The Like In German City (Unlte<| Press Service) Berlin, Jan. 3. The Russians are building within Berlin a Russian city ! of no mean proportions. Already their colony has reached a population figure as large as that <>t, Columbus, 0., Indianapolis, Ind., or! Denver, Colo., according to estimates of tne local soviet embassy. Tlie Russians have their own stores and banks, their own cases and theaters, music halls and papers. Wherever night life blooms, one finds now a Russian restaurant spring ing up. The cook of the czar is employed in one. Prince This and Prin | ' <-ess That are managing others. Little ; Russian theaters, with the fascinating art and music of Moscow, lure the ( German and tlie visiting foreigner as, wel as hundreds of the Russian col any. I "Dor Blaue Vogel” (the “Blue Bird") showing the same pieces as the “Chauve Souris" in New York, is the pioneer in Russian theaters. One sits and smokes and drinks as in Moscow: one absorbs the beauty, the pathos, the whimsical humor of the playlets' even though one does not know tlie ' language. Then there is the “Rus-' sisches Romantisches Theater" with . dancing unparalleled anywhere in the! world; and, too, the “Karussel” where accompanied by throbbing music, one' sees the bloodthirsty river pirate' throw his bride into the Volga because [ liis companions complain that he loves her more than his profession. Out in some portions of the west end one hears more Russian than ' German. That is where dwell the fugitives who have saved something of their pre-war fortunes, or who have built up a new fortune in honest or dishonest trading here. In the other end of town one sees another class of Russians —dirty, haggard, cowering, i'nregistered with the police, they pursue a shady life which mingles trading with thieving.' The Russians lead in numbers of population in the foreign colony. English Speaking Colony There is an English-speaking colony of about 500 persons, which is swollen during the traveling season to ■ about 5,000, according to American - consular estimates. The English speaking colony consists of American and British officials, a few business men and newspaper men. The American colony, extended during the past year, now has its luncheon club, assembling every week or. two. Then there is a certain amount i of social life, the heart of which lies I within the American embassy. Week-' ly “at homes” have been introduced I recently by Mrs. Houghton, the am- 1 bassadoi’s wife; while the embassador with his pleasant dinners is known amongst the diplomatic colony as one of the most sociable of hosts. Within his short period of service here he I has established excellent relations 1 with German, British, American and French diplomats and business men. The French colony is comparatively small. Life for a Frenchman in Berlin is not too cheery, for he is hated by the German with an abounding hate. Just now the government is striving to reduce the immigration, especially of Polish and Russian Jews. Like- . wise a more careful supervision of vise issuance is being made in America and England, so that at the moment practically only travelers with business here can get German vises. o STATE BRIEFS (United Press Service) Bluffton —Heeding his father’s adl vice to never climb a fence with a j loaded gun, Garth Swigert, 14, shot himself in the foot while he was unloading the gun preparatory to mounting a fence. Fort Wayne—Mrs. Gazel Shorb, who is said to weigh 220 pounds, has asked a divorce from Cecil Shorb, weigh.t 120, whom she charges with cruelty,' alleging that he beat and choked her. Princeton —Mrs. George Scott received $4 conscience money in an unsigned letter in which the writer said he wronged her more than 30 years ago. Greens Fork—Oscar Nicholson, who lias driven a school hack in Clay I county for eleven years, has never been late and lie estimates he has New Harmony—Carl Stone, of Fort Branch, took five first prizes at the tri-state corn show here. Rockport—William Corbitt, 12 may j lose the sight of his left eye as the : result of being accidentally shot with Jan air gun in the hands of his brother, Warren. Logansport — Asa Guthrie, city chemist, has doped forty gallons of confiscated whiskey to make it unfit for drinking and so it can be sold for commercial purposes and the proceeds turned into the police pension fund.

AMERICAN ©LEGION® (Copy for Thl» Department Supplied by the American Legion Newe Service.) DEATH BY GAS IS DENOUNCED Prof. J. H. Mathews, Former World War Major, Condemne Method Used in Nevada. Nevada's chamber of death, the gas room which a new law in the state!

provides is to lie used for the ex-, edition of condemned criminals, is strongly denounced by Prof. J. H, Mathews, ( chairman of the' department of chemistry. University of Wisconsin, and an expert on poisonous gases. Professor Mathews served

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us a major in the World war, studying gas warfare at the Britisli front and serving in charge of the gas and flame branch of the trench warfare section ! of the United States army. “Tlie purpose of gas in warfare is to produce as much agony and torture i as' possible, in order that the victim : may be at least incapacitated, if not actually killed,” Major Mathews is quoted as saying to the American Legion news service. “And it Is inconceivable that a state should desire to use gases which produce such effects. The purI pose of capital punishment is to remove tlie victim quietly and effectively, in order that society henceforth may be protected and to serve as a warning to other potential evildoers. “It is to be hoped that civilization has reached a point where revenge is no longer a motive. Only savages torture tlieir victims before killing them; the use of any of the war gases to remove criminals would be quite in line ! with the practice of savages.” j Professor Mathew’S said there were gases which might be used for execuI tions, if the use of gas at all could ever he deemed wise. Carbon dioxide, the poisonous constituent of ordinary Illuminating gas, he declared would be tlie logical one to use. He asserted, however, that if the administration of i gas for execution of criminals were | carried out, it should be entirely in the hands of medically trained men who understand both Its use and attendant dangers. “The horrors of poorly carried out electrocutions are sufficiently vivid in the minds of thinking people to make them abhor any method of execution which may not be both humane and effective,” he declared. CLIMBS FOR LEGION POSTS George Polly, Lynn, Maae., Ex-Soldier, Gives Exhibitions to Help Raise Funds. Some people are height shy. They grab hold of a chimney on the roof of a story-and-a-half dwelling and ( look over the side only to seek the skylight and the lower regions. “Human Flies” are afflicted with the opposite complex. They can’t stand on the ground and look at the chimney without wanting to go right up the front of the building and see If a chick-a-dee has built a nest there. Such a human fly is George Polly eff Lynn, Mass., ex-soldier in the AusOS / ' .A- - ! <■</-.. I *! • U ??>! ! « W ■ “Human Fly” Scaling Building. tralian army, who for the last two years has climbed buildings from coast to coast for the benefit of Legion posts. He has climbed the Woolworth building in New York, the Custom House tower In Boston and the highest buildings In every other city of size. Hia hands and his toes are all he uses in scaling. Needless to say he has never fallen. Legion Post of City Firemen. A post of She American Legion, composed exclusively of city firemen, has been formed in New Orleans. The fire fighters plan to enter a team In the Legion athletic meet next Ootober.

I Gray Gables, on Buzard's Bay, Mas- I sachusetts, for years the summer home! of Grover Cleveland, Is to he cut tip i Into lots nnd sold on the market. "Vlbrac" steel is a new steel made lin Manchester, England, which never tempers brittle nnd is absolutely reliable in behavior under any ordinary treatment. j A 25-year-old ordained minister and his wife have entered grammer school lin the seventh grade nt Beaumont, >

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OUT OF SEASON Boy, page Mr. Volstead! Ernest Bash, living eight miles east of Portland, yesterday killed a garter snako two feet long. Whether this indicates thut the mild weather will continue the rest of the winter is not known, perhaps the warm weather Xmas day led the snake to think spring had arrived. Anyway, there is no doubt about tho snake, as Mr. Bash is thoroughly reliable —besides he still has the snake on exhibition. t