Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1923 — Page 4

OSCATUB OMLT DIMOCMAT PukiitM* tv*ry Kv*nl*g ■*«**■ Sunday by THF DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pre*. and San Mgr E. W. Kampe—Vica-Praa. A Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouee—Sec'y and Mun. Mgr. Entered at the PoatoSco at ■•catur, Indiana, as second claaa matter Subicrlption Rata* dingle copies 2 cents One Week,by carrier ....... 10 cents One Year, by carrier >5.00 One Month, by mall 35 cents Three Months, by mall .......... SI.OO Six Months, by Mall 31.75 One Year, by mall ......... 3.00 Ono Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within Erst 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, Kansan City, Mo. THE EDITORS MET: — The Indiana Democratic Editorial Association held a rousing meeting at Indianapolis Thursday and Friday of last week and the sessions were the best attended and the "pepiest” ever conducted. More than five hundred people attended the banquet at which J. H. Heller of this city presided and the speakers were Senator Ralston. Senator Taggart, Mrs. John W. Kern and Dick Miller. Ten minute talks were also made by Leaders Gottschalk of the house and Cravens of the senate. The editorial association was formed in 1881 by John B. Stoll who was the first president. Many leading newspaper men of the state have held the offices, among them being George Shanklin, Dan McDonald, Josiah Gwinn, Lew Eilingham, Dale Crittenbergcr, Walter Chambers, Col. Crampton, Royal Parcell, W. C. Ball and others. The meetings have long been feature al tractions attended by those interest ed in newspaper work and politics. At the first meeting in January 18X1, the principal speaker was Senator Thomas A. Hendricks and the great

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With a Book at Hand for tie First Light of Dawn. By G. Lynn Sumntr Director of Advertising, Interna t ion al Correspondence Schools, Scranton, and Author of “Abraham Lincoln as a Man Among Men." THEY told me that the Lincolns had a baby at their house, and so I jest ran all the way down thar. 1 guess I was on hand purty early, for when I held the little feller tn my arms his mother said, ‘Be keerful with him, Dennis. fur you air the fust boy he’s ever seen.’ I sort o’ swung him back and forth; a little too peart. 1 reckon, fur with the talkin’ ahd the shakin’ he soon began to cry and 1 handed him over to Aunt Polly, who wuz staudin* by. ‘Aunt,’ sez I, ‘take him; he’ll never come to much,' fur I’ll tell you he was the puniest, cryin’est little youngster 1 ever seen." Never come to much —that was the prediction made just 114 years ago at the cradle of Abraham Lincoln. Today we know the destiny that lay before the infant, and how it was to make a mockery of the backwoods prophet. But on that February day in ISOB when Dennis Hanks, cousin of Lincoln’s mother, uttered his prophesy in the cabin that marked Thomas Lincoln’s clearing in the Kentucky wilderness, much could have been urged In defense of his judgment. There was nothing by which the gloomy Dennis might know this ■puniest youngster,” undisputed heir to ignorance, poverty and isolation. was to burst from the shellKite oblivion cf h.s environment into' the title and state of "the Greatest American.” In fact, had someone told Dermis that a passion for study and a love of learning were to bring about this mlracl® he would have scoffed * Dennis wao no student, auo kuuvv not tc.o

democratic *tntesmen of the country have had a place on the programs during the forty three years. At this meeting of the editors the plans were changed somewhat and next year the banquet will be proceeded by u day and a half program of great interest to newspaper work, era with special sessions devoted to weeklies, small dailies, large dailies and a combined meeting. The organization is one of the best of its kind in the middle west. The indana legislature started on the final three weeks this morning, and there will be all kinds of fire works. • The house and senate are torn into factions and it is next to impossible to get any kind of a bill ' over. The rough shod driving of last week has reacted and the governor and leaders are now trying to reconcile the members on each side. So ' fur about a half dozen bills, none of them important have passed. The ' democrats are determined to fight to the last ditch to save the taxpayers ' which they feel can be dispensed 1 with at this time. Each session these 1 days is an interesting one and the spectators crowd the galleries and the halls. Keep your eye on the 1 returns. A personal letter from Will Hays, ( president of the Motion Picture Pro- : lucers gives us first hand informa- , Gon that "Fatty” Arbuckle has con- , eluded not to face public opinion and has signed a contract with Reel Comedies, Inc. to produce pictures instead of again trying to star as a performer. He thinks Arbuckle has i right to make good if he can and of course he has. We are sure the '.verage person will not devote much lime to preventing him doing that .ion will there be much sentiment in favor of him. lit other words he will • have to produce pictures the people 1 rant and sell them on merit and the 1 less his name appears the better for him. Let it go at that.

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power ot study. Yet Lincoln be- | gan bls progress toward earthly i immortality the day be learned the 1 alphabet. The Loo Cabin School Lincoln was ten years old when • he first went to school. Th i school j house, located about four miles from the Indiana farm to which ( his family had migrated, was a structure ot round logs, just high , enough for a man to stand erect beneath the loft. The floor was ot split logs or "puncheons,” ths chimney of poles and clay. Greased paper on a framework of spilt boards formed the windows. "Lincoln was always there early,” writes Nathaniel Grigsby, who attended the same school. "He was always at the head ot his class and passed us rapidly in our studies. He lost no time at home, and when he was not at work he was at his books.® He kept up his studies on Sunday, and carried his

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A bunded and fourteen years ago today Abraham Lincoln was born near Hodgensville, Ky. No American lad ever started with more to overcome.’ His parents were poor buck woods people and did not believe in education. You mi Abe split ratlls, did the hardest kind of work but by an energy rarely exhibited educated himself and became the great citizen of the world. The boy of today lias the same or a better chance. There is room at the top for the lad who works honestly and means it, who trys for results rather than his pay cheek, who has ideals and believes in his country, who is honest and fearless and who tries. This is Lincoln day and every good American recognizes its significance. A nice political quarrel is that now aroused by the opposition of Congressman Will Woods to the appointment by President Harding of Senator New who retires March 4th to a cabinet position. It has been reported that the senator is to be named postmaster general to succeed Work who is to be made secretary of interior. Woods’ objections may defeat him but any way it shows the inside troubles of the party and that it is every day and in every way growing "worser and worser.’ News friends are insisting that he be named and there is more interest than ever in the outcome, xfood's objec tion is that New did not help to put Beverdge over last November. *— BIG TEN STANDING W L PC lowa 7 0 1000 Wisconsin ..' 4 1 800 Michigan 4 1 800 Illinois 4 2 667 Purdue 4 2 667 Indiana 1 2 Northwestern 2 5 285 Chicago 2 5 285 Ohio 1 6 114 Minnesota 0 5 000 — o S—WANT ADS EARN—3—s—s

books with him to work that he might read them as he rested from labor.” While Lincoln attended various schools between the ages of ten and seventeen and stood high in his classes, he was in point of regularity far from a model pupil. When funds were low in the Lincoln family, young Abe worked on the farm or for a neighbor. So frequent were these calls made upon nim that ft is estimated he never spent more than 100 full days in schbo, In his, life. Knew a Few Books Well Although ft would be hard to find anyone who owes less to the public school system than Lincoln, be was supremely trained in the college <jf lonely thought. • In his youth, his books were few. Weern's "Washington,” "Aesop's Fables, 7 Bunyan’s "Pilgrim's Prog ress" and the Bible constituted virtually all his boyhood library.

BtW AMI) UtlW Wili k iAkct /wj a c w° MT WE LOVED THE SAME GIRL The only girl I ever loved was one of those old-fashioned girls with blond, wavy, coal-black hair and fiery light blue eyes. She was of medium height, tall and inclined to be rather short. She enjoyed home life above everything and spent most of her time in ballrooms and cabarets. She was always thrifty and tried to spend every cent of her allowance the day it came. We were getting ready to be married, and everything was going to be fine until I asked her, "Dearie can you play the piano?” She tried. Well, after that, 1 decided 1 just • couldn’t : poll iter career. Mac. THERE ARE BIRDS LIKE THAT Dear pditor: What is ti spendthrift? 1 am asking this of you to settle a bet. Please be exploit. Louise. A spendthrift, my dear, is a cake eater who buys you a soda and takes you home on the street car, then hangs around the hall expecting you to bawl him out for being so reckless with his money. PUN-ISHMENT When I was but a little chap And guilty of some error, My father took a harness .strap— Oh. ’twas a rein of terror! UNPREMEDITATED THOUGHTS Duty is only character-deep. Do your duty as you see it. and as soon as you see it. Honesty pays in the long run and also in the short spurt. One of the reasons why honesty is priceless is because it costs nothing. Insist upon having what is due you by doing your duty well enough to get it. SHERMAN WAS RIGHT WAR IS H Lieut. Harry J. Rockafellow, Jr.. overseas with the 17th Machine Gun Battalion, tells this one as acually happening during our recent entanglement overseas.

But these books be knew thoroughly. Stretched at full length upon the floor, sometimes leaning on bis elbow, more often lying on his back with an upturned chair for a headrest, he studied by the : light of glowing logs. Wrote Down What he Learned ( Lincoln had no knowledge of , psychology or pedagogy to guide , him in forming habits of study. , Yet he recognized clearly that he j who would grasp and hold secure a new idea must immediately find words in which to express ij. So it was his constant practice to re- > duce to writing any. new thing ha 3 learned. Near at hand as he re- , dined by his log fire was the blade s ot a wooden shovel. It served him as a slate. When every available . inch of it had been used, he shaved s away the surface with drawknife [• or plane, obtaining a new white d| surface for his charcoal crayon, r . | On the walls of his Cabin be chalk-

During th* Mnuie-Ar«o*ne offensive I I the boy* mixing things right liv*ly t with tho Frlt»ie». An officer in charge r of an advance detachment. amid a i shower of bullets, suddenly command- ( ed "Down!” Every man in the detach- i ' ment. except one. dropped ' Seeing him still standing the officer j yelled "Down there, Kelly!" Kelly , f tapped his hip pocket, replying, " Tis , sorry 1 am that 1 can t, sor. but 1 got a , t bottle o’ cognoc in here an’ the damned , stopper's lost.” BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE i I stood on the bridge one evening. As the sun was beginning to sink; t And along came an undertaker. Who offered to buy me a drink. > Tiny—“ What makes the leaves turn i red in the fall?" Her Elder Sister— "They're blushing t summer.” 1 WE'LL BET HE’S A SLACKER (Headline in Chicago Tribune) SEEK MAN BEHIND f GIRL’S END HERE 1 OURS NEEDS A COUPLE OF NEW GLANDS i (Class, ad in Macomb, 111., Journal' i FOR SALE—A 1919 Chevrolet 490. I Will sell all or any part. Kenneth , McFadden, Vermont, 111.—131t6. BOOK AGENTS Os all the pests that roam the land ' to vex the sons of men, book agents take the prize so grand, they do so help me Jen. I saved up thirty seven bones to buy a brand now lyre—the jone I'm using has bum tones and all it's strings are wire—and for those' thirty-seven smacks I could have s bought a peach; its strings all sport golden backs, its box was made of 1[ beech. But I can’t buy it now you ' sec —my money I have spent—a nervy , agent came to me, a dapper looking; . gent, and sold me half a ton of tomes, i all bound in blue and gold, it authors > name was Beeswax Holmes who wrote] of heroes bold. I didn't want the dog ; goned set—l told him forty times that ] with expenses to be met I needed all my dimes—but he just hung around , my shack, day in, day out. 1 swear, un-l i til 1 got my-buckskin sack and paid - him then and there. My thirty-seven] t plunks are gone, no more will they reIturn; how 1 will get that lyre, 1 swan, 1

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ed the things he needed for fu- 1 ture reference. After an adventurous experience in the Black Hawk War, Lincoln entered the grocery business at New Salem as partner with William F. Berry. He also served as postmaster. The store was far from a profitable venture and his revenue as postmaster was small. It was while hs was earning a scant and uncertain support with the assistance of any odd jobs that came to hand that he found an opportunity to learn surveying. i Trained Himself as Surveyor , Again we find him employing the ! methods ot home study. With • some slight help from a friendly , schoolmaster, he- mastered every book on the Intricate subject within reach. Day and night he studied. So Intensely did he apply t himself that friends were alarmed ’ at his haggard looks. What would . have required six months' study t on the part of the average person, s he had learned in six weeks, and 1 learned it so well that he became > one ot the tyost expert surveyors i- in the State. His proficiency com- » blned with his reputation for honi- esty made him a frequent arbiter a in land disputes. i Then came a term In the Illinois e Assembly, followed by a determi--1 nation to study law. In Springe field he is found next poring over e law books from Major i, John Stuart.* Agaffi his program t- of self-education is a success, and ■ '-—■ I. , .■nil II II I ,

I cannot quit* discern. I h» v « that thousand pounds of book* but they re no good to me; Id trade the whole blamed works, gadxooks. for half a gill of tea. And 1 have made a solemn vow—l’ll keep it sure safe—the agent who attacks me now will get a broken pate- I’ll boot him smartly in the pance, where he sits down, you know, and then I’ll chn.e him clear to France where flvurdeHHeH Uncle Dud. — mi mi innirr"" Field Goals

Too bad they didn’t play basketball n hundred years ago. Wouldn’t Honest Abe have made a fine center? "Auburn players and fans were treated royally by Decatur citizens. After the game, the gymnasium was turned oer for purpose of dancing and the special ear reached Auburn late Friday night with a tired but happy lot of passengers even though Auburn did lose.”—Auburn Star. We’re mighty glad you had a good i time. Auburn. Our pleasure is magnified when we know our yisitors enjoyed themselves. We'll meet you again. Following the week-end skirmishes Purduo is found tied with Illinois for I fourth position in the Big Ten while Indiana holds down undisputed possession of sixth place. Indiana didn't play during the week-end and Purdue defeated Ohio, 26 to 21. lowa won from Northwestern, and Chicago defeated Minnesota. Illinois plays at Indiana tonight. Minnesota comes to Bloomington on Saturday night. A dopester in the Sunday Herald and Examiner picked lowa to win the Conference race with eleven games won and one lost. Michigan with two loses, and Wisconsin, with three defeats, were his second and third choices. He may be right but we’ve got a hunch that the said dope- ' ster is going to have a few surprises i before the season is over.

he becomes known far and wide for his triumphs in the courtroom. Passion for Accurate Language Lincoln had a veritable passion for exact thought and accurate expression. As a child he was roused almost to anger when he heard people using words and forms of expression so vague and Indefinite he could not understand them. At such times he would withdraw and ponder their sayings until he had reduced the thought to language understandable to any boy. As he expressed it, he was never easy until, tn handling a thought, ho could "bound it on the north and south, east and west” When, in the study of law, ho met repeatedly the word "demonstrate,” he sought a definition that differentiated it from "prove," Finding none that satisfied him, he stopped the study of law until he had learned perfectly every proposition in six books of Euclid. This done, he felt he had a true conception ot the word "demonstrate." Taught Himself Military Strategy Lincoln was careful in selecting ths thoughts wiih which ha stored his mind. It was not everything he wanted to know. As he read and studied he made not«s in abundance. Later he considered and reconsidered his notes, and oply such as be thought worth while retaining did be attempt to fix in his mind. «. i Th® habit of study, of securing I accurate, thorough and complete

If Coach Moor*’* d perform next Friday njrt, Portland Ilk* W burn laat Friday night. . U suffered at Portland earh w ’**’ season ought to be revetiaed Jay county lads have |» ee 7 tri T ‘‘ comparatively fast this »e*m. ever and their strength must underestimated. #<,t U Minnesota and Ohio State t ing a hot fight for the cellar in the. Big Ten standing. A t Minnesota occupies th H Mnl berth with five defeats and no Ohio has won one out of s „,. n Chicago and Northwestern also ? their eyes on the lower berth y has won two contests and , Let ’em have it. Purdue .nd We were informed by a reli ,., inforrant today that the handed to us last week by /T which said Myers and Wemhoff the Catholic high school team » going to enroll in the Decatur hIA school next fall was unt Oua J Myers and Wemhoff will be RCtn the C. H. S. lineup next fan i t stated. , — •— — —— YES or NO? A T**t of Your Inttiiigaatf The correct answer to one of these questions is YES, to. the other NO STOP TO THINK! Questions Answered Tomorrow 1. Is an engagement to marrj ■ based upon an ideal? 2. Is marriage based upon u ideal. Yesterday’s questions answered 1 Is gold the most precious mt tai? Answer — NO. There are tut? metals more precious than gold—ph. tinum and tungsten and radium The most precious of all is radium ol which there are only a few ounces in existence. 2.—ls marble quarried like smite? Answer —YES. The reason whv I marble appears to be. artifleial is that the process of polishing gtre« marble a surface smoother and mm ornamental than all other natural i stone.

knowledge of everything that concerned him, constituted a large part of Lincoln’s genius. It followed him into the White House. When, as President of the baited States, he found himself the rea and responsible commander- in • chief of the Union forces, he began a study of war and of military strategy—a study so deep and intensive that he becams. as is nogenerally known, ono of the master tacticians of his time. <• was one of the few Presidents •who could discuss military operations with the assurance of » member of the General BUff. who could offer intelligent construttlvo criticism of movements under way and who coal originate campaigns that pelled t£e admiration of professioaal strategists. Lincoln—ths Greatest Student That so much did come of 1J»coin, and that the gloomy Denais Hanks should have been so confounded In his prophesying was due to Lincoln himself. Ceaselessly through the years he was preparing himself— laying up as - some divine commission th# thing his mind should know. Lincoln, the rude, the u ° coutl }; ■ the penniless, shakes off the ters ot a pioneer environment little better than savagery to trlump i in Lincoln the Student. It ’» 10 this fact, perhaps in target. ; ure than we have realized, i our nation owes ita very W*-