Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1923 — Page 4

DICATUB DAILY DSMOCKAT Publish** Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pres. and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe—Vlce-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouae—Bec'y end Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Poetoffice at Becatur, Indiana, at second claas matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week,by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier ..... 16.00 One Month, by mall ......... 36 cents Three Months, by mall ...» SI.OO Six Months, by Mall >1.75 One Year, by mail 3.00 One Year, at office 13.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. 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. Life Building. Kansas City, Mo. It is announced that the Equitable Life building, largest in the world. New York City, U-for sale at the bargain price of forty million bones. If a man earned live thousand a year it would take eight hundred years to earn and pay that much money and longer if he has to pay income and toher taxes and live out of the salary. How do they do it? Tile, floors in the engine room of the Pendleton prison, marble baths ali over the building, equipment as good as can be found in any public build ing In the world is contemplated by those who favor the appropriation of two million more for the reformatory. Most honest people can't understand why this is necessary for buildings designed to take care of law violators. Indiana owes about two and a half million dollars and is slipping behind more each day. It's time to start for shore and the sooner the legislators now in session realize that fact and start to trimming appropriations the better it will be for the people. When Governor Ralston retired from office there was a balance in the treasury and not a cent of debt. Looks like some where down the line there has been some mismanagement. When Governor McCray sent word to the legislature that he would immediately furnish the report of expenditures on the new reformatory, the republican leader moved that the motion made and carried the day previous be reconsidered and Mr Gottschalk seconded the motion, showing good judgment and leadership. There was no desire to do anything but secure the information and that being at hand the motion to reconsider was in order. Kansas City is the latest city to claim a "cinch” on the proposed Yeomen home. Mr. Farmer stated there that he would select twenty favorite cities out of the five hundred competing and that Kansas City would be one of them. Evidently the time for deciding the very important matter is still a question of doubt. Decatur hopes to be named us the one and only place and there is not the slightest doubt that we have many advantages and an excellent chance. Decatur will again entertain the basketball teams of Adams and Wells counties at the spring tournament, announcement to that effect being made yesterday by the state athletic officials. The school officials and others here will make every effort to please the visitors and to see that they get such a square deal that no Complaint can be offered. We believe that the visiting teams and their coaches and officials should come here with the desire to aid that purpose. The event will be held in the new gym, a splendid place and with every facility for entertaining she Visiting teams and their friends. Flans are completed for the instal'uWun ot light posts one each side of Second street between Jackson and Jellerbon atm within a few weeks this proveinent wiu nia( j ( ... The posts 1,1 to those in front of ] art house anq on t | le east s jd e ( - 'dock betwe en Monroe and Madison now f conform. Hao property owners wm „ 1 nnßta .u ' pay for the posts, the city maim,,,; UiUnu ‘mu K them. It $

is an Improvement long needed and one which we hope will prove so popular that It will soon spread all over town. Nothing adds more to a city than lights and at the low cost there is no reason why we should not; have them. Two picked teams, of eight men each, race to see which can assemble a Dodge car the faster. The winner puts the car —motor, top and all—together in loss than fifteen minutes. You don't find that kind of speed iwj any country except America, even in I contests. More important auto trade news is Ford's decision to build a 310,000,000 plant in St. Paul, to employ 15,000 men. It will save freight, bring his product closer to the big sales field of the northwest. This is a straw shoing the way the wind blows. In the next few years you’ll see many other industries scatter. It t ill be complsory readjustment to the giowing problem, transportation. - Indianapolis Times. RECALLS OLDEN DAYS Rochester, Ind., Jan. 16, 1923 Edi'.or Daily Democrat: Tie 20 years ago stuff you are printing these days is making a hit with me. I remember very vividly wh<u Mi. L. G. Ellingham (Lucy) tool: over "The Democrat” and how the present proprietor flew around just like any youngster would when rec iving just the thing he wanted. 20 years ago you will remember was tin days when Yager, Bosse, Moran, (Ju Ige Moran, 1 mean) were in their teens tor at least they thought so and acted like it some-times) everybody sei med to have a good time and no thought was given of Old High Cost of Living. Come easy go easy. But time has changed all of these things and we like to read about them for it brings to memory bygone days and wit't those memories we think of the pleasures of that day and time. I said times have changed. In looking ov< ■ an old scrap book of mine I find tlie following printed in 1904: “Oi l King Cole is a merry old soul, A merry old soul is he. A t m of him once cost two and a half But now it costs nearly a V”. V.’hat a difference eighteen years ma ce. Today the last line should run' "Now it costs us an X and a V.” V’ith best wishes, I am as ever, H. A. FRISTOE. — • TO THE PUBLIC 1 feel that I should have the informi‘ ion as to why I was dismissed fro.a the police force. I have tried to look after my duties and should be informed wherein I have failed, if I 1 ave. I appreciate many favors from various people, especially the teh phone operators and wish to extea 1 my sincerest thanks tp these and all others who have been kind to ate and rendered assistance. J. M. BREINER, o MIGRATING TO SOUTH "Gentlemen of the Road” Seeking Sunny Climes of the South (United Press Service) Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 17. —The annual mi; ration of the “Gentlemen of the Ro; d” from the bleak and wintry north winds to the sunny climes of (he south is on in full swing. From all over the northern part of the United States these gentlemen of leisure, even as so many millionaires who each winter turn their steps toward the sunny south, are flocking into’ Florida and other part along the Gulf Coast. A poll of the Salvation Army hotel and a number of cheap lodging places shows that each week several hundred "hoboes” arrive in and leave Atlanta—the gateway to their "promised land.” "They come in at all times and in all shapes,” Staff Captain Braun of the Salvation Army said, “and leave when tlie spirit moves them. Many of them want to work when they come here, but after a few days the same work grows monotonous and they make a change.” Some of them, considering Atlanta sufficiently sunny, stay for a while. The majority, with visions of Florida, where they believe tropical fruits grow wild by the wayside and that "Fiji Island attire'” is the year-round custom, tarry only long enough to change "blinds” on trains. From every walk of life the road claims its devotees to make up the steady stream of free lances that pours through Atlanta in the fall of the year. "All classes are represented during the year,” said Captain Braun. "Doctors, lawyers, preachers, actors —and hundreds of foot-free young fellows, all drawn by the lure of the open road.” In the spring the migration will start again. But this time it will move the other way. - • s_s_s— WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17,

§ INVITING BOBBY g By MOLLIE MATHER J (C 1(11, by Wnur» N»w«p.p.r Union.) Bliss was tying morning glories on the porch vine, when the letter came. Lizzie brought it over from the post office. Bliss looked like a human morning glory—ls such might be —with her soft pink cheeks and her violet eyes, and the very dancing lightness of her. | The letter was from her stepmother, who spent most of the time abroad with her husband, whose business affairs tailed him there. Bliss and the stepmother were the Nest of friends, and it was this understanding friendship which left the girl in sole possession of her former home. Lizzie, her own mother's trusted helper, was also left in charge. The girl had been given her mother's family name, and those who loved her —and there were oh, so many—thought ft the most appropriate name, for surely the bright presence, was as they said, a “blissfully happy one.” “Trying, too, to make other?) as happy.” Bliss seated herself on a lower step to read her letter. It was written In behalf of some new-found friend of her mother’s. “A dear woman.” the letter said, “from our own home city, who, widowed, had come over here, with her young daughter. I have talked with her about you, of course. Bliss darling, and she was moved to write you—her inclosed letter speaks for itself.” Bliss unfolded the accompanying letter. “My Dear Miss Carmen: Your mother has told me about you und your pretty home in the country village. I, who am far from home, wish that its hospitality might be extended, through your kindness, to my poor boy. left alone in the hot, dusty city. I know that Bobby is lonely without his mother —for, you see, he is my baby, and I’m afraid my friends are right when they say I have made myself too necessary to him. But that is away of mothers. My little girl is with me here. I wonder if it is asking too much to suggest that you write him—just a little line, if j'ou are, busily occupied with other matters — ami perhaps some time you will let him come out to sun himself in your lovely old-fashioned garden; I am seeing it through your mother’s eyes. I know it would do my poor lonely Bobby a world of good, and I would be always. Yours most gratefully, “ESTHER GALE.” Bliss bounced in to Lizzie. “Just think,” she cried, in ever-ready sympathy, “of that poor boy left alone in the city, while his mother and little j sister are away in Europe. I shall. write for him to come, Lizzie, and you shall make him some of your fa- ■ mous cookies. It will really be pleas-; ant to mother the motherless child.” So Bliss sat down to her letter. one evening at sundown Bliss was hanging a rope swing for her untie!-; pa ted guest, beneath the apple tree, and was looking very young herself, when a man approached through the hedge. He smiled, as he came near, then stooped to adjust the swing board, which lay at the girl’s feet. “Will you tell me.” he inquired, where I may find Miss Bliss Carmen?, An elderly lady, I would fancy her, as she is a friend of my mother. A wailmeaning friend,” added the man, and smiled again. “I am Miss Carmen," she absently replied. The man stared —rudely, she thought. “You!" he exclaimed. Bliss nodded. “You wanted to •eel me?” The man laughed. Then Instantly i he excused himself. “I was certain! that a friend of my mother's as you stated you were in Bobbie's letter, must naturally be near my mother’s age. Indeed —you are just a little girl in a swing.” Bliss slipped from the swing tn stand before him. “What do you know of Bobby?” she asked. The man stood up. “I am Bobby." j he announced astonishingly. “I suppose mother is to blame for your mis-! take,” he said. “She always refers to my sister as her little girl, though Sue has long been married. I, to ray confusion, am her ‘baby,’ because I happen to have been the youngest in the family. But —I did like my in-! vltation. its true hospitality, the real thing all through.” From the open kitchen doorway came a spicy odor; Lizzie stood tiers curiously regarding the visitor. Suddenly laughing. Bliss put out her hand to him. “I must keep my proipise about the cookies," she said, “And the hanurpek afterward?” ha smiled Into the violet eyes. “And the hammock,” agreed the girl. And as they walked to the house together, he was thinking jubilantly: ■ “'That match-making mother of mine is on the right track at last." , Discriminating Dye Foufld. Al remarkable new dyestuff;has been discovered that will select which piece ’ of material it will dye and which it will not. By this means a white mate 1 rial can be placed in a bath of dye Stuffs and dyed two colors in one opI eration Thus, alnixed material of cotI ton and artificial silk placed in a bath of the new dyestuff will come ou? with the cotton threads dyed hlue and the silk fibers dyed red, yellow or orange, ' according ip the nartlcular dye used. s —

CONSOLIDATION OF R. R.’R Interstate Commerce Commission to Argue on Consolidation (By The United Press) Washington, Jan. 17.—Three great system-consolidations of western transcontinental railroads and their feeders in the rich agricultural regions of the middle west, as tentatively drafted by the Interstate Commerce Commission and proposed to the railroads involved, were to be submitted to argument before the commission here today. Flung across the vast domain west of the Mississippi in three parallel bands from Chicago to San Francisco, the consolidations would carry the bulk of (he nation's transcontinental traffic. The consolidations under discussion here today are of the Union Pacific with the Chicago and Northwestern, System No. 13; the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe with the Western Pacific (including the Denver and Rio Grade), System No. 16; and of the Southern Pacific with tlie Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific System No. 17. Other minor roads are included in each consolidation as feeders to the main trunks. The purpose of the consolidation proposed by the Common under the authority of the Transortation Act of 1920 is to strengthen tlie country's network of carriers by grouping weak roads with strong, and to enhance the I public interest by creating great coinIpetitive systems in the nation's several regional subdivisions, such as the Northwest, the Southwest and the Mississippi Valley. At the same time, the Commission is endeavoring to create systems of approximately the same valuations, so that uniform rates may be charged over the whole country, all under the»direction of the Commission. The Commission lias previously held hearings on consolidations in Southeastern and Northwestern United States. Objections to its plans were voiced by the carriers involved in both sets of hearings. Similar objections are exected to be advancecd by the roads involved in today’s hearings. The Union Pacific in articular is violent in its opposition to the Commission's plan to bracket the Central Pacific (now part of the Southern Pacific interests) with the Southern Pacific, because such grouping would shut the Union Pacific out of the port of San r-.. -.i,.,.,,. The Union Pacific now used the Central Pacific under an agreement. ' Shortly alter today's hearings get I under way, the Commission is expecti ed to issue an order calling the roads ! involved in Systems 18 and 19, in the Mississipi River Valley, to hearings I here. The principal roads involved in I these systems are the St. Louis and Sail Francisco and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, in System 18, and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Missouri Pacific and the Louisiana and Arkansas in System 19. At the normal rate of growth the United States should have 150,000,- | 000 population by 1950.

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new fertilizer found ’ Berlin (By mail to United Press.) German agrlculltursl rtwmlstry . developed a new fertilizer o 1 earthly, turflike substance, which it is claimed develops a crop more fully than any other fertilized now in use., The new discovery, just announced, was developed In secrecy. It was dis , covered that It would be possible to increase many fold the number of ba-, dill in soil, thereby increasing great y ; the nitrogen productivity of the sol in which they worked. The method, by which this fertilizer is obtained is • not made public. However, it is declared it is a rich bacteria culture developed In an earthly substance' similar to the turf of swamps and low • lands. The new; fertilizer. Record-I ing to information, is also very cheap — GET YOUR CALENDER To those who had their picture taken during the months of October. November and December at the Pot ter Studio, we have a calendar for you that you may have by calling' for Saturday, Jan. 20th. On account of the Christmas rush and sickness afterwards we have not been able to i get these to you sooner. Come Saturday and get your calender. It PORTER STUDIO. —o— Chicago—Elsie Smith a typewriter at the Chicago contagious disease hospital, was carried on the payroll at SBO a month. A vaccination certifi i cate was made out for “her.”

AS f■» \\ Off to school on a winter morning Ik! // \ \ —fresh and rosy—or pinched and chilly ? ' UK /// \ That’s a matter for Mother to decide. lw 1/ ' Children, as well as grown-ups, need Xa a hot mealtime beverage that is wholesome, invigorating, and free from harm- aLTHra ful after-effects, J® > " W Coffee is known to be harmful —especially to children, Wk That is why so many thoughtful mothers give their children delicious Postum. This pure cereal beverage gives needed warmth and comfort, has delightful flavor and aroma, and NX is free from anything that can injure the health of children ■ VI or adults. Js I Your grocer sells Postum in two forms: Instant Postum |Ss (in tins) prepared instantly in the cup by the addition of 3 boiling water. Postum Cereal (in packages) forthose who prefer to make the drink while the meal is being prepared; made by boiling fully 20 minutes. prP' POStUm FOR HEALTH Sj -There's a Reason" 9 Made by Postum Cereal Company, Inc., Battle Creek, Michigan -'**l

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