Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Free, and Gen. MgrE. W. Kampo—Vice-Free. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouee— Sec’y and Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Poetofflce at lecatur, Indiana, aa aecond claae matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week,by carrier ....... 10 cents One Year, by carrier ■>« 35 0° One Month, by mail ....... 36 cents Three Months, by mall SI.OO Six Months, by Mall $1.75 One Year, by mail 300 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices (footed are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City n. Y - Llfe Bulldln 8’ Kan » M cl 2t- Mo THE STATE’S FINANCES: — The failure of the Governor to discuss in his message the finances of the stale, or to give any information concerning them, fully justifies the resolution of Senator Cravens calling for reports from the auditor of state and the state board of finance. We do not suppose that there is an intention to withhold information. Indeed information could hardly be withheld since the records are public records, and open to the inspection of any member or committee of the legislature. But it is much better that the facts be presented in an official way. trans milled by the executive to the legislative department. It would have 1 been well had the governor, following custom and precedent, gone into the subject. But we are quite sure that his silence is not to be taken as indicating that there is the slightest desire on his part to keep the legis-' lature ignorant, or to deprive it of knowledge without which it can not act intelligently in regard to any of ' the matters that are to come before it. Nevertheless the legislature isj without this necessary information, and it would crtainly be within its rights to ask for it. Such being the purpose of the Cravens resolution,' there can be no reasonable objection thereto. It ought to be passed as a matter of course, and without a dis-1 senting voice. it is now in the hands of one of the judiciary committees of the senate, which will no doubt report it prompt ly, and of course favorably. The re sponsc to it, when agreed to by the senate, will also, one can not doubt be prompt and satisfying. Os course the people, as well as the legislature, are deeply interested in the financial condition of the state, especially since it is intimately connected with the subject of taxation. On this whole, subject there can not be too much publicity. The case is so clear that it can hardly be necessary to argue it. We do not believe that there is on the part of any one any disposition or wish to evade or shun publicity.—lndianapolis News. The scrap on the primary law will be a lively one from present indications. Tonep and| Beveridge '.have opened up and the law makers are hearing from home.. It will require

lOne-third off on O’coats AND 205 TO 33S OFF ON SUITS I Have Made Them Easy To Sell. Sale Ends Sat, Jan. 20th. | TEEPLE & PETERSON

nerve for tha Watson people to push It through and yet really we doubt if the people earn much whether they do or don’t. Evidently a good many want the primary law to use If they want to but from the primary vote the pust few years such a small per centage take part that it seems hardly worth th e high cost. Whether it’s a primary or convention the majority Is always accused of machine methods and the result would not frequently be different. The Daily Democrat will be twenty years old tomorrow and those years have sure slipped by. It seems not more than a fourth that time since we begun but they have been such busy years that We haven't had much time to keep track of speed. We cannot tell you how much we appreciate your support and your assistance. We hope you continue it by renewing for the coming year. Most every one feels like this year is to be an extra good one and it will >e if we don’t just talk about it. Put on your snappy bonnet and help make tilings count this year. One of the best ways is to get started early in he spring on a new house. We need i hundred or two this year. Several justness deals of size will be ready tor publicity in a short time and then '..e will all step. A bill has been introduced to fix a limit of two per cent for bonded indebtedness on roads instead of ( I lour. It probably won’t get far but 1 it would go a long ways towards re- ' during taxes if it could be passed. i The trouble is we want so many improvements and then complain when e taxes are high. We can’t eat our 1 < ake and have it too. i A leading Indiana financier ami 1 hanker recenty expressed himself i most favorably towards Decatur, dei < laring this one of the best cities ot 5.000 population h e knett of any- . here and he is right. He predicted that the city will double in population within the next few years. He is a wise man and we hope a good | prophet. !— . . ——S? The fifteen hundred troops have i been ordered home from the Rhine. I i’resident Harding promised it should' ! be his first act after assuming office. I Well any way we are glad the boys are coming home. The war closed four years ago ami certainly outtroops have had no business overseas .or some time. . Though the present session of the 'ndiana legislature is but four days I old in actual session more than half a hundred bills have been introduced. Going pretty good for an assembly doped to pass not more than a dozen j new laws. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Lebanon, 46; Thorntown, 28. Warren, 33; Van Buren, 27. Anderson, 53; Marion, 23. Elwood, 36; Fairmount, 30. Lapel, 34; Frankton, 21. r> New York. Jan. 11—Bill Roper will retire as resident football coach at Princeton and he will be succeeded by “Red’’ Gonnert, freshman coach, according to a report.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TDIRSDAY, JANUARY H,

JACKIE COOGAN’S INCOME BE $1,500,000 YEARLY FOR MANY YEARS

Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 11—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Jackie Coogan, 8, world’s greatest self made boy who has an ambition to be a fireman or a second Douglas Fairbanks when he grows up, is about to sign a contract which will guarantee him a steady income of nearly $1,500,000 a year for several years. Jackie’s papa and mamma were in conference today with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford who are reported to be the suciewful bidders for Jackie's services as a movie star. Master Coogan's contract with Sol Lesser recently expired and six of the big companies in filmdom have been bidding for his services. All of them were said to be offering contracts with a salary running well over the million mark. Reports are, however, that Doug and Mary hope to sign him "on their own hook" and make films through the United Artists. No self made man has ever made a more rapid rise than Jackie. Less than four years ago he signed his first contract, to appear in "The Kid" with Charlie Chaplin, at $75 a week after his parents had refused S4O. Today “the kid" is worth close to 11,000,000. the money being placed in a legally constituted trust fund for him by hi* parents, thus insuring that he will have it when he reaches manhood. Most of the money is invested in real estate, stocks and bonds nad an oil well as Huntington Beach. California. The oil well— Jackie Coogan No. I—is1 —is running 3, thousand barrels of high gravity oil! a day, netting him nearly $4,000 a day. His mother and father draw only salaries as managers for Jackie,, and say—they earn it. Jackie’s rise to fortune at eight] dwarfs anything in American financial history, and his income from sal-' ary investments will be close to 1 The People’s Voice Some more facts regarding the! county unit plan of education —they | seem to provide for nothing more than added expense and the loss of local control. No saving in the proposed plan of changing and centralizing school control in a State Board of School Commissioners. The legislation provides ' that members of the board, and the [ seven department heads in authority ! beneath the board shall be appointed Iby the governor. The survey recommends that the Nfl'e e of State Super- , intendent of Public Instruction be also i made appointive, salaries to run from - five to ten thousands of dollars forl department heads and members. The | cost in the state administrative department will be approximately sixty thousand dollars annually.. The cost of maintaining the various depart-I ments of education with increase of staff and salaries outlined in chapter 1 eleven of ty-ir recommendations' would increase from about eighty ' thousand, to one hundred and forty or fifty thousand. Os this amount about twenty thousand is to be derived from teachers’ license fees, and | seven thousand from federal funds, I leaving one hundred and twenty, two one hundred and twenty-five thousand . to be borne by the state tax payers, as against fifty thousand paid by them now. Adams county pays the state, approximately $7,079.99 annually more than it receives back. Forty counties of the state received more than they paid in, under the county writ plan in all counties, taxes woluld greatly increase, as a result of the enactment of this new proposed legislation, which provides the way for extensive centralization, building, transportation and instructional programs.

$6,000,000 yearly before he Is grown up. Doug and Mary, it Is said, will pay| $500,000 as a mere contract clincher! I and give Jackie sixty .per cent of the net profit from pictures which will run well over a million a year. “An even greater problem than | signing contracts and Investing Jackie’s money is keeping him a real boy.” his mother told the United Press. “We don’t went him spoiled, pamp ••red or any different from uny other real American boy.” And that is the reason why Jackie is perhaps the most economical millionaire in the country. His weekly allowance is six dollars and may be increased to ten when his new contract goes through. He also gets fifty cents for each “stunt" he thinks up for himself to use in the pictures. Jackie came into the room during the talk about the offers received. “I want to work for Doug,” he broke in. "I’d rather be in a picture with Doug than In one by myself. I’d rather sign for one per cent—” Then mother Coogan changed the subject and Jackie resumed the reading of his book. Jackie is a favorite with the stage hands and actors. He is not at all pampered and likes to be somewhat of a rough neck. The Coogan back yard is a neighborhood hang out. Boys have their shack there and make a regular play ground of it. “What do you want to be when you grow up?" Jackie was asked. “I’d like to be a fire captain,” said Jackie, looking up from his. book. "I had a swell ride in San Francisco on the ladder automobile with the fire captain. That’s what I want to be,” I “Well, next to a fire captain?” “Well, next to that, I’d ike to be • Doug Fairbanks and climb walls and 1 shoot a bow and arrow.” 1 Each portion of the county, would at- ’ tempt to out build the other, all hav- : ing access to the county school funds. I The counties that have exhausted 'their bonding privileges, and not on I an equality with the best, would draw lon a fund supplied by all the taxpayers of the state. The cost of edu cation in Indiana in the last seven years, has advanced from fifteen t< forty-thj , ee million, largely as a result of carrying out the dictates of the: centralizationists. Wr are told by* the survey, that j during the last five years efficiency in | school work has dropped. The United States investigators of educational i affairs have found that Indiana stands [seventeenth, a number of states have the county and semi-county unit j i>lans. A significant thing about this government report, is that those states with semi-county, and county unit control, do not rank as high as ' Indiana. Indiana operated its schools [ under the county-unit plan for ten . years from, 1850 to 1860, it proved a i failure and was discarded and a better NOTICE I As I have been appointI ecl to look after all paper I agencies in Decatur, temI porarily, all paper bills are I due me after Jan. 1, 1923. f* City News Stand, ■j Elgin King. ■ | -a-’ « wssw *

I system adopted. It U 'that the trustee’s salaries woukl be I .sufficient to l ,ay ,he ‘ tv to | new officers created in o 0 “ nty “ administer county-unit upon investigation it was fmm th. t there would be no saving point, and the taxpayers can ha no sense of security only »» o »’ ,>onfcU ’ of' the centralizationists. Ihe tax- | pavers of the state do not take the position that a child should not be [educated, but that a parent should be permitted to use part oi the r earnings to keep a roof over the child's head, providing it with the comforts of home life, and in all things be able to help it to go out into life to be a successful contender for a decent existence. If the parents and children are made slaves to the , tax gatherer and eighty to one hun | dred per cent of their net earnings and often more is required of them to meet the obligations placed upon them, by the taxing officials, home life will be destroyed, democracy go into discard and tea parties formulated. A TAX PAYER. — -ORAN NEEDLE INTO KNEE Young Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Heber Humbarger Suffers Accident Maxine, the five-year old daughter ' of Mr. and Mrs. Heber Humbarger,' 347 South Third street, suffered a • very painful accldennt yesterday fore- i noon when she fell upon a needle which penetrated one of her knees. | The child had been playing with a needle and thread, it is said, but had laid it down with a piece 4bf doth. She stumbled and fell on the cloth, the needle penetraynng the flesh to great distance. An operation was performed on the child’s knee, following an X-ray examination, and it was necessary to make a deep incision before the needle could be procured. The needle had been broken off in the flesh and was imbedded a half inch from the skin. o MACCABEES MEET TONIGHT An important meeting of the Macca’bees lodge at Carpenter’s hall tonight and every member is urged to be present. IRA BODLE, R. K. ' DrKING’S PILLS || —for Pa s>’ j I THE CRYSTAL I Benefit Catholic Girls Basket Ball Team || LAST TIME TONIGHT B Thomas Meighan - in George Ade's m Funniest Story “OUR LEADING f CITIZEN” The good hick star as R a big lovable, ne’er-do- E well who turned Main B Street upside down. B More fun than a circus, Rmore American than K? buckwheat cakes, a B warm slice of real life B flavored with romance li and spice. Cast includes Theodore IT Roberts and Lois Wilson » —Ai.SO— Pathe News & Comedy. E| Special Music ® 10c-25c -

CARO OF THANKS w „ wlgh to tW"the friends and L hms for the beautiful floral ofX SS’sku family Mrs \ D. Ilunsicker and Mrs. Owen Davis, were Fort Wayne vUij loi-s toihi.V- — —

The Young I Business Man I One of the best things a young business B man can earn is the bank habit. (Jet R acquainted with banks and banking laws. K 7he success and permanence of your car- H eer will depend upon it. This bank wel- H comes the young business man. ■ We make loans on farms at a very H reasonable 'ate of interest. If you are in K need of a loan consult us before looking ■ elsewhere. ■ The Peoples loan & Trust Co. I BANK OF SERVICE | The Cort I T-H-E-A-T-R-E I LAST TIME TONIGHT I “Rose O’ The Sea” I A 7-reel First National Attraction featuring ■ Anita Stewart and Thomas Holding I flic romance of a girl—waif of the sea—lluowii into B the perils of the stronger sea of society. ■ —Added Attraction — I “A HICKORY HICK” I ' Two Reel Educational Comedy. Fun-Fun. ~ I 9 Reels , 10c-25c ■ || Mecca Theatre TONIGHT AND TOMORROW | “1 Will Never Let My Girl Work As I I Have Had To Do.” I How often have you heard well-meaning mothers say ■ this? And what tragedies ottimes result from unwise I motherly affection that denies girls the safe guard of Busy I | Hands. I The King of Jazz i That’s what they call Ted Louis I And he deserves the title too. He gives his headline vaude- | ville act—the famous “feather dance” in ! I “IDLE HANDS” I Starring GAIL KANE I I —ALSO— I CHARLES CHAPLIN in “A NIGHT OUT” I s, 9 Big Reels 5c and 10c I Folks See—“IDLE HANDS” I

I’ 'V .and pain? \ k |MENTHOL#rUMI I gives quick 1 B relief. S $ -$-$-WANT ADS ■