Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1923 — Page 4

DICATUB DAILY DWMOCMAT Publish** Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H Heller—Pree. and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe—Vlce-Prea. * Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouee—Bec’y and Bua. Mgr. Entered at the Puetofflce at Becatur, Indiana, aa eecond clave matter. Subscription Rate* Single copies ....... ? cents One Week,by carrier ....... 10 cents One Tear, by carrier ....... >6.00 One Month, by mall ........ 35 cents Three Months, by mall >IOO Six Months, by Mall ...* $1.75 One Year, by mall 3.00 One Year, at office >3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and eecond 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. Governor Ralston will address the democratic editors at their meeting Thursday night of next week and much interest is being manifested in his message at that time. Mr. Ralston will attract much attention in the United States senate and is receiving many notices now which lead his friends to believe that he is to be considered in a national way. It has been officially and emphatically announced that President Harding, Secretary Hughes and /Ambassador Harvey are in perfect agreement on this country's foreign policy, contrary to the recent stories of a marked divergence. Hut the announcement of complete harmony gives no intimation of what the country's foreign policy is, and the public is as much at sea as ever. Ex-representative Alice Robertson Is reported to be of the opinion that the people of this country are no more appreciative of a woman’s statesmanship than the average man is of a woman’s cooking. The general impression is that the average man is highly appreciative of the woman who knows how to cook, however lacking in enthusiasm for congresswomen he may be. Eliliu Root is quoted as saying recently that so many men in public life know so little about our foreign relations that they are not able to discuss them with knowledge or to act upon them with intelligence- Os i course Mr. Root did not call any I names, but with his experience and accomplishments he ought to be a good judge of the qualifications the lack of which he deplores. A bill reducing the limit of bonded indebtedness for road purposes to twq per cent instead of four has passed the house and there is a chance that it will go through the senate. This would reduce one half the road building and consequently the road taxes. While the law has been the same for years the burden came when valuations were trippled and the Innit unchanged. In all of Germany there are but 82,605 automobiles and of that number twenty thousand were sold last year, this being pointed out by a writer as a sign of prosperity. Compared to this nation that is but a drop in the bucket. In Indiana alone there are six times that many automobiles and more cars are purchased each year in this state than they have in Germany and that state probably ranks eighth or tenth in number of motor vehicles. In 1914 Germany had 00,000 cars, in 1920 this dropped to 22,000, advanced in 1921 to 60,000 and last year to 82,000. The comparison is interesting.

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The publicity given the sad atory of Wallace Reid seems to be bearing fruit, as his family wished. For example, the chief of police of Toron- ' to has asked for a law to permit the • application of the lash to persons convicted of peddling narcotic* on > the ground that imprisonment is not a sufficient deterrent for this class of offenders. The records for 1922 i show a heavy increase in the num--1 her of convictions under existing law I against the sale of drugs. ' At a recent meeting of the Kiwanls , club in Gary, Mayor R. O. Johnson made a statement in which he showed the attacks being made on him, by whom and why and likewise the effort he has made to dean up Gary and keep it that way. He declared the fight is t£ng made against him by big gambling interests and openly announced that he would be able to clear himself when given a hearing in court. At the conclusion of ills talk Mayor Johnson and his administration were given a unanimous endorsement by the Kiwanis members in a rising vote. The club is (imposed of prominent men in all v alks of life in Gary. McCray and Beveridge are appar- < ntly working hand in hand. Haron Rothschild is the emisary who makes caily visits between them. The baron \as for many years the political manager for Bev. Now no doubt thinks he is putting one over cn the Mooser and Bev things he is playing the game in a smooth way. Back of all of it is the political fence building for the 1924 support of Indiana for it is said that Mr. Hurding v ill not be a candidate for re-election ' nd that a snappy contest will be on to select a candidate. Senator Beveridge is at work, so is Senator Wateon. They are working to secure the Hoosier line up and nothing is being overlooked. The trouble with Ameri an politics is that it occasions too iany trades in legislation and otherwise. always at the expense of the people. —o — — The People’s Voice To the Editor of Decatur Democrat: If knowledge of the life of criminals I 'iid what. leads to criminality is of any : ii porta nee, just go on Indiana and vaste three million more of the peo--1 le’s money. Ignorance and crime go I:.nd in hand. Wherever you find an ignorant class of people there is no development of character, no purpose t i i life, dishonest, wretched creatures, I I '"ho lie, steal and think nothing of it. How much better it would be for Indiana to spend three million dolars for the very best schools to educate these people who would only grow to be worse criminals behind your prison ears. Under the good influence of effl- < lent teachers possibly the criminals v.-ho are so because of heredity, for that is what most of them are, would become intelligent, useful people and Please tell me how many you have reformed in your prisons and reormatories in Indiana. In the states of Kansas and Nebraska today there are more college bred men and women than in any other state in the Union. I Statistics show that they also have the fewest criminals. In the state of Illihois, at Dunning, they have a hospital II or the insane. They have a school in connection with the institution to train all of their nurses for the'care of these people. In the year 1919 they sent home 1090 people or patients who had been well cared for. In Indiana anything from fifteen years and up can strap on keys to their belts and become an attendant. No knowledge and no fitness required. Please find out Indiana, how our five thousand people you have in asylums are treated and fed and tortured. Thousands again wasted and ail to no purpose. Find out how many ever get home. How much longer is such work going to go on in Indiana before the people will call a alt and see that money should be rightly spent where it will be a benefit to humanity and help to lessen criminality instead of increasing it. TEACHER A HOME SUGGESTION Democrat: •' Enclosed find 25 cents in payment for ad in which 1 asked to hear from I party having residence property for sale or trade. Answers convince me that there are many people who would leave the city if they were not held here by their property. Prices they ask are not exorbitant. Keeping people satisfied in a town

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is a bettor advertisement than extension of residences in' number. Therefore it seems to me a better proposition for "Home Builders” to buy homes from those who want to leave and fill them with those who want to come in, (if there are any, besides aged and retired farmers), than to build new ones. These homes can be bought for much less than can be built now. The class of labor attracted here, it a “new industry" would happen to come, would not demand ultra modern homes, and" if so, these could, at less cost than building entirely new, be remodeled. Answers to this ad, convince me that in a final show-down for a "homerun,” there would be more "corners” than there would be' "pussies who would want corners.” The people of this town, especially the business men, have been patted on the back too much. They are too self-satisfied; to selfish. They would never do a thing for a town unless they knew it would mean so much actual cash in their Individual purses. Too optimistic a view does more harm than good, as Abe Martin demonstrated recently. After one or two bitter disappointments news of "a new industry coming" becomes funny. Some years ago I had opportunity to sell a piece for more than I paid. You advised people to hold property as a new industry was coming (besides the G. E. which was already assured). 1 refused to sell then, and later when taxes raised and the general slump came, 1 was glad to sell at less than I paid for it. Am still glad I sold then. If “Home Builders" want to locate any people here and have no place to house them, I can cite them to a great many who answered this ad in desire to sell their residences. Respectfully, MRS. TOM KANE.

EDUCATIONAL SURVEY (Continued) Results in Spelling In spelling each pupil wrote twenty words, which were pronounced and given in sentences by the examiners. For the fifth grade the words were: Account, butcher, captain, clerk, fashion, feel, honor, husband, length, machine, minute, nineteen.' pupil, quarter, recite, sign, silence, soldier, student, Wednesday. The words of the seventh and eighth grades were: acquire, original, dis--asc, annual, association, excellent, completely, disappoint, attendance, familiar, extension, inferior, merely, necessary, merit, cordial, probably, quantity, sense, planned. These are common words, all to be found among the first 5,000 of those most widely used. They are also words which have been studied by Indiana pupils. Os the fifth grade words, one is studied as early as the second grade; of the others, four are studied in the third grade, seven in the fourth grade, and eight in the fifth grade. Os the seventh and eighth grade words, one is first studied in the fourth grade, five in the fifth grade, eleven in the sixtli grade, and three in the seventh grade. The test is. therefore, a per l fectly fair one for Indiana pupils. The results of the tests- are shown in Table 11. City schools show deficiencies in spelling or about a half, year iu each of the three grades tested. The pupils of the s/mall rural scools in the fifth grade are a full year | beind standard, and those of the seventh and eighth grades are two years below normal. The results in spelling thus conform to the results in reading. Table II Tlte Achievements of Indiana Pupils in Spelling in Terms of Grade . Standards Township: Grado sth 7th Bth 1- 4.4 5.3 6.4 2- 4.6 5.5 6.9 "•teacher 4.7 5.5 6.7 4- 4.7“ 5.6 6.5 5- 4.6 5.4 6.5 6or more teachers 4.8 5.5 6.6 Town 4.7 6.1 7.0 City 5.1 7.0 7.8 Country-wide stand. 5.5 7.5 8.5 Noto. —in this table scores are given in terms of the grado of work they represent. For example, the entry 4.4 for fifth grade pupils in one-teacher schools moans that these pupils who are half way through the fourth grade usually do. (To be continued) I ’ ! ’ i 1 ■-! THE SCHOOL SURVEY ' Editor of Dceitur Daily Democrat: Surely all should rejoice and be glad that we have mon and women in the i state of Indiana as able as thoso in the , educational survey and thoso who - made the report of this educational , commission. We are told by one of these edui national specialists that the rural

schools are sick. When the school is sick so is the community, or county, or state. The»e specialists should be heeded, for they know. If your child were ill and you called your local physician and then a specialist, you would surely feol that they knew more of the case than you do—for the study of medicine has been their life's work. Just so with the educator. They know where the remedy Is and what to do. Farmers may known how to farm, but they do not understand and know what the educational specialist does. It surely takes a lot of egotism for people who have never seen inside of a grammer grade school to criticise such people. What a grand thing it would be if partisan strife could bo abolished as easily as township lines and the efficient man or woman recognized with no reference to party. This will be the effect in years to come when the county unit of school administration becomes a law with township lines wiped out, territory to choose five good men and women from, broadened from township to county, and the people broaden with the territory. This is what real education does for the individual. The county unit of school administration has never been tried in Indiana but has been in effect over five years in our neighboring state of Ohio. The greatest thing that Governor Cox did while governor of; Ohio was to call a special session of i the legislature to pass the county, unit bill. Ohio left Indiana miles be-, hind years ago. Are you content to so remain? Anyone can surely see why trustees do not wish this.change. What do they care for the schwols, unfit, uneducated farmers, but for the money they get. Progressive people and educators place the scholar far above the dollar. State superintendent Mills said away back in 1877, "that the weakness of the township system is nothing short of a sad blemish, a serious defect, a radical oversight, which cannot be too speedily erased from) the statutes." He knew. Why delay this matter longer. Proverastiuation |

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is the thief of time robbing the.people and what is still worse, robbing the children who cannot ' ACID IN STOMACH SOURS THE FOOD Says Excess of Hydrochloric Acid Is cause of Indigestion \ well-known authority states that stinach trouble and indigestion are I nearly always due to acidity—and stomach—and not, as most folks believe, from a lack of digestive juices. He states that an excess of hydroehlorlc add in the stomach retards digestion and starts food fermentation; then our meals sour like garbage in a can, forming acrid fluids and cases, which inflate the stomach like a toy balloon. We then get that heavy, lumpy feeling in' the chest, we eructate sour food, belch gas or have heartburn, flatulence, water-brash or nausea. , „ He tells us to lay aside all digestive aids and instead get from any pharmacy four ounces of Jad Salts ami take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast, while it is efferverclng, and furthermore, to continue this for one week. M hile relief often follows the first dose, it is important to neutralize the acidity, remove the gas-making mass, start the liver, stimulate the kidneys and thus promote a free flow of pure digestive juices. , , . Jad Salts is inexpensive and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with llthia and sodium phosphate. This harmless salts is used by thousands of stomach sufferers with excellent results. Roger Swain and Bob Cummins, of Bluffton, visited friends here last evefining. Germs look sad and cross the ■ street before passing a house clean-; ed with Blue Devil. 29-31-2 I

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