Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1923 — Page 4

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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. REFORMATORY EXTRAVAGANCE:— If the legislature is not impressed, and deeply, by the pamphlet of Walter S. Chambers dealing with the re-' formatory transaction it will have to explain wherein the senator is wrong. The Governor is asking for an appropriation of $2,0U<),000 to finish the reformatory, the total cost of which, exclusive of land, sewage, wall, etc., will, Mr. Chambers says be $2,500,000. In the pamphlet is this: Each prisoner at the new reformatory will not have a parlor, bedroom and private bath, as has been cur rently reported and almost believed. But the cost a prisoner, from $2,500 to $3,000, wotdd easily build a very handsome parlor, bedroom and bath tor every criminal there. The average cost of the buildings is estimated at 40 cents a cubic foot, whereas, Mr. Chambers says, some of the finest high schools of Indiana have within the last year or two been erected at a cost of 3 cents a cubic foot. “The taxpayers of Indiana are,” Mr. Chambers says, “ask ed to pay a third more to care for criminals than for the youth of Indiana”—and they pay as we all know exorbitantly in many cases for high schools. An up-to-date 100-room hotel, with bath and telephone for ■

| RESULTS COUNT ■ - Constart effort intelligently directed Ft rm always produces desired results. u T ‘ During the history of the R. L. Mortgage Dollings Co., they have endeavored 5% to constantly protect their clients’ interests. Every legal device and Loans every possible safeguard has been f afforded them. We feel proud to point out the conspicious success their efforts have accomplished. Each of their clients has received 7'< income regularly and has been free from worries as to safety of principal. See us for R. L. Do ling’s safe-securities. t We loan money on Horses, Cattle, Machinery, Furniture The Suttles—Edwards Co ' General Manager Phones 104 and 358 Rooms No. 9 and No. 10—Morrison Building ’ South of Court House i DECATUR. INDIANA I Dwelling Property I I For Sale! I I We have a good house and e | lot in the north end of Deca- ? | tur which we will sell to the W | right person on easy pay- £ j ments and long terms. Can U give immediate possession. B If interested, call at our oft ice 54 | TheSchaferCompany I 101-117 N. First St. j H

every room, was recently built for $150,000, or $1,600 a guest as compared with $2,500 an inmate In the reformatory. A handsome brick home ean. It is estimated, be built for $15,000 or 25 cents a cubic foot, or for $25,000 or 40 cents. If the finest of everything is put into it.” “Housing criminals.” it is suggested, “In $25,000 mansions is giong some in these days of high taxes, mortgage foreclosures, etc." Several of the state institutions cost only from SSOO to SOOO an inmate. The cost a prisoner in the last cellhouse built at the northern prison is only S3OO. as against $1,500 at the reformatory. Two small factory buildings at the reformatory, of fireproof construction, of 24,000 feet floor space each, will cost $144,000 or $3 a foot,

as against $25,000 or 40 cents a foot, for the binder twine plant at the northern prison. Mr. Chambers says: In the requests this year to the budget officers is one for the north- < rn prison for a complete new power plant to cost SIOO,OOO. The northern prison has 1400 prisoners, and many more industries than contemplated or the reformatory. But the de luxe institution at Pendleton wants $460,000 for a power plant. Why the dis- ! ference? All the comparisons made point the •same moral. The budget officers, to take another case, authorized the building at the State Penal Farm of a new kitchen and storehouse of 1 rick anfl concrete construction at a cost of $7,500, to accommodate 600 inmates. On the same basis. 1,200 nen could be provided for at the reformatory for $15,000. Yet $350,000 is asked. The engine room of the reform- . lory is to have “a floor of quarry t ile or terrazo” material that is used n only the very finest public buildings, though cement would serve quite as well, and cost much less. The brick of which the buildings are constructed costs $27 a thousand. Yet the state owns a brick plant at ihe Penal Farm, from which the brick could have been bought at the ost of only the coal and transportation, or sl9 a thousand. The followng is another specimen of extravagance: The plans and supervision at the reformatory will cost more than 1200,000. The same architect who : ot $15,000 for the Southeastern In-

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vane Hospital Is to get more than SIOO,OOO for the reformatory. He is to be paid more than $30,000 for supervision and all he furnishes is half the pay of one man, $1,500 a yeur. If the construction takes two years the architect will get $30,000 for his services and pay out $3,000. All of which reminds us of the extravagance shown in building certain schoolhouses in Indianapolis, which is again brought to mind by the exhaustive report of the educational committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The question before the legislature in this case is not one of sustaining or not opposing Governor McCray—there is no politics in vclved—but of saving money for the people of the state.—lndiana polls News. If the opening of Dayton avenue tor two blocks, Seventh to Ninth, will stimulate building in that section of

p the city or benefit the casting comi- pany or the General Electric, us is !’ * ;1 .tainted, there should be no delay in f granting it. At least the effect to I » secure the street and the promises ’ Implied of building in that section is mcouraging and the city council, de- ? lirous of doing that which is best for ’ the entire community, will, z we beJ ieve, do the right thing in this mats er. So long as there is no crossing ( between Nuttman avenue and the 1 trchbold' road, a distance of about ' ’ialf a mile, that territory west of the j .ailroad will not build rapidly and there is no reason why it should not lecouie a real addition. I Charles M. Neizer. lawyer, banker, business man and whose actiives the >ast twenty years have made him a > eading citizen of Fort Wayne, will peak at the Industrial rooms here ■ Tuesday evening. You are invited to hear him whether you belong to the . issociation or not. Surely you are • 'nterested in this community and its future. The Industrial club has the .jet terment of conditions here at i heart. That’s their one and anly pur--1 pose and you can help by getting in touch with the things they are doing mil then taking a part. Attend the meeting Tuesday night and sec if you lon’t like it and the work planned for 1923. The People’s Voice — x ■ .11 The Rod, A Relic of Barbarism It is almost unbelievable anyone in i this 20th Century would have to remonstrate against the usage of the rod. Parents and teachers; did you ever stop to think that you were great big cowards. You only use it upon the helpless. When you think ■ a child is stronger than you and take the rod from you and hold you. why, you resort to other means more satisfactory with the child. A child that has not power to reason is not a fit subject to wield the rod upon. A child that is possessed with that power, why not use it? How much knowledge does the child receive through the rod? It creates fear, disgust and hatred in the majority of cases. None of us are willing to go back to our forefathers knowledge and use the sickle to cut our grain. This should • be the age of progressiveness. Then, why do we go back to their mode of punishment? Parents and teachers, if God has given the child a more mature mind in their youth than you have at your age, let them govern themselves as you do when they get too large for you to whip. “Keep Urn child busy” and ‘‘patience” is the two rods of correction our 20th Century people should use. How many parents and teachers have in their possession a book on "the study of child nature”? If we Americans would put as much time in trying to learn how we can raise better boys and girls as we do on our poultry and livestock, 1 believe the world would be getting betting rather than worse. A parent made the remark just teach them right and turn them loose. That is their method, is the reason our boys and girls are smoking cigarettes and loose in their morals. I’arents, if you cannot be with your boys and girls, send a chaperon. When we think of our delicate nervous system we canot lay a pin point on the surface of our bodies unless we feel you expect these nerves to perform the function of carrying and receiving messages when they ate briiised , or half paralyzed with the iisc of the rod. 1 would like to know whore we can lay our hands roughly on a child and not injure their body which God pronounced as the temple of the Holy Ghost. 1 want to make one suggestion to the parents, teachers anfl all that have authority over the helpless. “Reserve a meditation room in your

home with a rug, comfortable chair, 1 stove and a stand with a "Bible on it. When you get in that nervous ' state of the mind that you feel you can stand It no longer and feel like getting the rod which you keep for that purpose, just instead, repair to this room, turn to the first Chapter of Matthew and read until you come to a chapter in the New Testament that will give you authority to strike a child with anything. If you find such a verse, why, just go and whip the child to your satisfaction and let me know the chapter and verse that you found It in. 1 am like tiie folks from Missouri: I want to read it, also. “Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for such is the Kingdom of Heaven” and except we become as onv of them, we cannot enter therein." ■ "How dare we to lay our hands, or . , .... .1.1......

a rial on the precious little jewels? 1 am bitterly opposed to barbaric government in the home, school, church, state, or nation. ROSA BROWN. EDUCATIONAL SURVEY (Continued) Why Are the Results in the Rural Schools So Unsatisfactory? Chance plays a large part in determining the education an Indiana child receives. If he is obliged to attend a one-teacher school he is for the most part denied opportunity for work in music and other line arts, and in the household and industrial arts. His eimentary school life is limited almost entirely to the drudgery of learning tiie simple fundamentals; but in these subjects, in which he may be expected to make ills best showing inasmuch as his work is practically limited to them ho falls far behind at tile end of his ■ lementary course. Why are the results of the rural schools so far below those of city schools? Many causes suggest themselves. The average rural school teacher has not herself attended school as long as the average city teacher, and therefore, is not so well prepared to teach; the rural teacher has more clases to instruct, and hence less time to devote to any one grade. Tiie school year in tiie rural sections • is shorter than tiie school yeur in the i cities. Rural attendance is not so regular. Rural schoolhouses are in general less well adapted and less well equipped for school work. These and oilier conditions militate against successful work in the small rural school. Tiie shorter school term generally found in the rural schools in Indiana : its itself almost enough to account for . the difference between the work ac- ] complished in the country school and |in the city school. For example, in I the three years between the fifth and eighth grades aural pupils do the work of 2.1 years. In the same three years city pupils do 2.6 years’ work. But a year in the rural schools tested moans only eight months of actual Jwork, while the school year of the city pupils tested means on tiie average nine and one-half months. That is. in eight months the average rural pupil advances 70 one-hundredths of a grade, and the average city pupil in Hie same length of time advances 73 one hundreths of a grade. This difference in progress is, of course, only an approximation, but it indicates that the quality of teaching iu the rural schools is about the same as it is in the city schools, and this indica l tion is confirmed by actual observa tion of classroom work. For, though here and there, in the cities and in the country, classroom teaching of a very high order, particularly in the primary grades, was observed, on tile whole so little good teaching was seen in tiie course of the survey that the results of the tests are not surprising. As pointed out elsewhere, the training that elementary teachers have received in the teacher-training institutions of the state has had littl.i effect on classroom work. Rural teachers are as a body immature, unprepared, inexperienced, and deficient in teach- : ing skill. The teaching in cities and towns is little better than in the country. because to a large extent the teachers of the cities and towns are recruited from the country. The country school teachers carry their poor * rural school methods with them into ! lite towns and cities. Moreover, ex- < epf in a few of the very largest ci- ( lies', teachers are without tiie a* sistauce of helpful supervision. ( To bo coutinned) ' -o— — ’ Monroe Drops Close Game to Fort Wayne Monroe f high school’s ( basketball team .dropped a hard fought panic’ to Hie Fort Wayne Central high quintet ■’ in Fort Wayne last night by a score ’ of 16 to 15. Central was in the lead ' 12 to 6 at half time. Monroe strength- “ ened in the second period and outplayed the Fort Wayne lads but were 3 nuable to overcome the lead. Lam- * menyan starred for Monroe while * Hosey was largely responsible for r I Central’s victory. J a.

•J** 1 coww mi &* c Arline it adancing so rapidly. She can play better with her feet right now than most people can with their, hands. I (From the Allentown, Fa.. Call I I Mr. ami Mrs. John Barto purchased a self player piano. Arline Barto is, going to take lessons from Miss Smith. STAN says: | “If a truck driver could say the ( mean things some women think of| there’d be some tall cussln’ around this world.” HELP WANTED—MALE WANTED—A smart, breezy young man of demonstrated selling ability,

to go to Oklahoma City and call on Governor Jack Walton and get his order for a dozen silk shirts, and a full dress suit. As a special inducement we will allow our representative to present the governor with four pairs of checkered spats made to his order, if successful in this (lie position will be made permanent. Address BVO % of 1. The help situation is getting better and better every day. Some young fellow is going to be surprised when he realizes how easy some salesmen get the business. PLEASE INCLUDE OURS. TOO (Card in Tailor Shop) UNCALLED-FOR TROUSERS We have a hundred pairs all ready to wear out. IT’S A GIFT Jiggs: How is that young Billy Hoppe making out? Scruggs: Fine in many ways they say, but he’ll never be able to make the home brew his father did. FOR STATE-OWNED BANK Nebraska Legislators Want Bank in Which to Deposit State Funds (United Press Service) Lincoln, Nebr., Feb. 3. —One million dollars for the establishment of a state-owned bank is proposed as an appropriation from the state treasury in a bill introduced In tiie Nebraska legislature by Axtel, of Lincoln county and Rasch of Madiqpn. In this bank, according to tiie terms of the measure, all counties, cities, school districts and other governmental subdivisions, as well as tiie state itself, would be required to deposit their funds. In time deposits for periods of six months or more 2 per cent interest would lie paid. The money is to lie loaned out at a rate not exceeding 4 per cent. Single loans could be made up to the amount of $50,000. The state-owned hank would be empowered to do a general banking l business and to establish a branch in every county, after two years. It would be managed by a board of three directors chosen by the governor, secretary of state and treasurer. No one interested in a private bank would be allowed to serve as director. So great has been the demand for seats for the engagement of the popular actor-singer, Fiske O'Hara,scheduled for today, Saturday matinee and night, that the Majestic management arranged late Friday afternoon to extend the engagement for one more performance, which will be ou Sunday night. OLLIE MYERS FARM BARGAINS 132 Acres located in Ashtabula county. Ohio, 3% miles to school, 3% miles to town; 90 acres under cultivation, 38 acres in pasture and 4 acres in thnber. Soil sandp loam with corn, oats, hay and potatoes as main crops; 20 to 30 fruit trees; good well and spring. Improvements, consist of new modern 8 room house, hardwood finish, cement basement, large cistern, furnace and slate roof. Large basement barn, slate roof, horse barn. 2 silos, milk house and tool house. Price $13,000. Immed- I iate possession. 1 farm of 200 acres for trade; fine location; good buildings, on good road; would prefer Implement store. 140 Acres on improved mad; fine buildings; 1 mile from town, church and school; soil dark loam, level ' land, as near like Monroe, Ind , ‘as 1 can tell it. Price $125 per acre. 85 Acres on good road; 13 room house, slate roof, toilet, bath and furnace in house. Granery, poultry house, hog house, ice house and barn, 70 or 80 apple trees. Price S6OOO. This price is less than what the house could be built for. 30 Acres on good road; 6 room house; miles from town; 20 some apt, <s trees. Price SISOO. Acres, 1% mile from concrete mad. 1% mile to town, % mile from school. Improvements consist of 5 , room hiuse witli good basement, good - barn, silo, granery, poultry house, milk house and other outbuildings; 13 1 cows, 2 horses, 100 chcckens and all , farming (-oolti; 49. peach trees; a good sugar bush of about 400 trees. A bar--1 gain all for S6OOO if sold soon. ‘ I was born and raised in Adams 1 county. Blue Cscck township, ami . have lived in Ashtabula county for 12 years and I would be giad to show mp friends some of the Ashtabula 3 county farms that I have listed, io- - cated second door south of the First B National Bank. r OLLIE MYERS, Pox 365 Ashtabula county, 14-20-27-3 Jefferson, Ohio

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