Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1923 — Page 4

DKCATUM UAILY DKbOCMAV •>uau«h«< (vary Svantag ■■•••< Bunday by THE DECATUR OEMOCRAT CO. J. H Balter—PfM anti Gen Mgr K W Kumpe Vtc«-Prn» * Adv Mgr A. R Holthouae— Bec’y and Hua. Mgr Entered at the Poatofflca at ■ecatur. Indiana, at second class asattar. Subscription Kales Single copies 2 cents One Wenk,by carrier ....... 10 cents One Tear, by carrier s6.ofi One Month, by mail ....... 36 cents Three Months by mail ........ SI.OO Hli Months, by Mail $1.76 One Year, by mall 8.00 One Year, at office $3 00 i Prices quoted are within first and second sones Additional postage ad led outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter At Company, 122 Mi< lilgan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Lite i'uildiug, Kansas City, Mo. WHERE ARE WE GOING:— The legislature Is going wild and there is a grave danger of the state ]>• ing bankrupted unless something is done to head off those who arc spending money as though it were Russian rubbles or German marks and could be produced as rapidly as it can be printed. If the appropriat on bills get through as planned the annual expense of the state will be; >re Ilian forty million dollars which i compared to fourteen million the' l ist year of the Ralston adtninistra-: t • n. Much of the money is being , wasted and dislpated and in the | yild riot every ono seems to have lost track of the promise to retrench The serious part of it is that they I plan to expend four million dollars more than is provided as the state's Income. As there is a debt of more than two million now. its easy to see that wo are going to the financial ‘ i.iw-wows" about as fast as we can. S nators Ji • Cravens and Walter t Himbers v ho have been fighting the

. t. M .... ~._ i ■■■■ —- .-■■---- ..:... '■■*■ ' ■ I HhjjL \ It closes this month I ! . - /><> R, Our 20th Annual Renewal Campaign i -'Z I ? Jb’ '** r 11 _i—i— ~— 1 • , > —!■■ » : —. i.i I .' 'j- 'i . ; NEVER ■ in the history of the DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT "O’ Has a renewal campaign been such a success or thtf response from our X z> k/X loyal family of subscribers been more general and quickly answered. Ilj|T « fa/ They Renewed by the Hundreds an( l during the month of .January and the first three weeks of February over 1800 subscribers renewed to 1921 and received one of the useful and j J>*A > practical We Want You To Renew Now Needle and Sewing Outfits ! Wc invite you to renew this month and receive one of By actual count we gave our over 1800 needle cases, ~ , , , , ~ . , during the month of .January and February to those who (he needle cases, seem to please oui subscribers bet- renewed their subsciptions to 1921 and from present inditer than any gift we ever gave them. Like the paper, it is cations it looks as if eveyone of our 2000 mail subscribers will renew or be paid in advance before our campaign is a necessary article and has a place in the home. brought to a close. Are vou one of the 200? * I Know I What’s Going On By Reading The Decatur Daily Democrat It and keep posted on county, slate and national affairs and those items of news that interest you by having the county daily come into your home for another year. I Renew NOW or You May Forget It and Then You’ll Miss Getting the Paper | I - I

battle for weeks have Issued a stalou«nt lu which they say in part: •'lf the Republican majority in the Indiana legislature had set out to deliberately send thu state of Indiana on the financial rocks it could not have done a hotter job. A million dollars is appropriated for this or fur that with the same abandon that a drunken sailor would buy another drink. When the appropriation bill left the house thu first of this eek it carried almost $9,000,000 from the general fimd for the ensuing year. This Is SBOO,OOO more than available from al) sources. And the state is already $2,000,000 behind and going deeper in debt at the rate of almost $5,000 a day, to pay ordinary running expenses. In Ihe face of these facts the maority in the senate proposes to add ■tactically $1,750,000 more, so that ho appropriations will be $2,500,000 n excess of the receipts. Never was •here anything like this done in the luaucial history of the state. In addition to this $2,500,000 added by the senate it passed a bill authorring the state fair board to borrow $1,000,000 and spend it as it pleases, here being no stipulation whatever as to the use to be made of the money. Never before was a loose appropriation made of this kind. In addition to the million dollars, the state air is to have an annual tax levy of $135,000. When the job is finished ihe legislature will have spent at this; cssion $4,000,000 more than the, tale's income for next year. When t is remembered that the state's in- 1 ' I'ome this year will be $1,600,000 I nore than last. year, owing to an in reaso of 3 cents iii the state levy, his must be added to the $4,000,000 : 'ii that the total increase of expense . his year over last year’s income i mounts to $5,600,000.” — '-'J The Decatur fire company has not uni a single call since December 22, 'tactically two months. During all ist year the total losses from tires ' ti this city were $1,300. We wonder by the insurance companies don't .ike notice of such records of careillness and give us a better base ate on insurance. If the shoe was

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OU th« other foot wt would probably get a boost. A queer thing about this i Insurance business is that on the slightest pretext our rates are increased and then when you mak<> i corrections you find it impossible to meet all the excuses they oiler to get i your ratu back to where it once was and where it belongs. A man named Bryan claims to have invented an automobile which will 1 travel on legs instead of wheels, the legs going forward without raising or lowering the body of the car and at. a ratu of eight, miles au hour. Os course we smile. When the horseless] carriage was announced however our grandpas laughed out loud and when I the steam engine was ready for a test ■ not ono person in a million believed I it possible. Often the prepostrous and impossible things pun out. Senator Borah has figured it uUI to i kuat's heel—tho farmers of Ameri-I ea lost eight hundred and a half mil-: lion dollars because of drop in prices' duo to the loss of the European mark ] <>t. And who caused the loss and the drop? Seems as though we remem b«-r of some of those now holding high offices arguing just a few i months ago the other way and now they meet themselves coming back. It would be a great help to Decatur if the light and telephone poles were painted the same color and if the business fronts were painted to cor respond. Think it over and let's see 'if we can make people talk about ♦ Io- attractive appearance of our good town this year. Chicago chain stores are engaging • in a bread battle and as a result the housewives of that great city are now buying bread at the ridiculous price of two loaves for a nickel. Needless to say no effort is being

made by tho public W lacure a pc* < ’ e conference. rio ffhlw war M aww hi olV BwrrT ' AND THE GRO&M WORE SMOKED GLASSES (From Boone. lowa. News-Republican* A pretty wedding oceured Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I’, E. ■ I McColloum when their daughter j Helen Lily was given in marriage to j Mr. Ray O. Lamb. The bride wore a I gown of dark blue channelise satin and carried a shower bouquet of roses. Tho bridesmaid wore a bouquet of Russell roses. ART FOR ARTS SAKE i From Fayetteville, Ark., Democrat), "Thu Fayetteville School of Fine! and Applied Arts" is the name given' lo a new art school Io be opened here' within a week by E. C. Aumick. Mr. Aumick has been engaged in commercial art for some time, having :iad charge of the painting of signes, on the trash boxes recently placed on tho sidewalks on the square in big; iowns and in Hauler. A FACT If some people would make it a rule to pay as they GO —they would never get very far away from home. Then they’d have to walk back. Sum uv thes daz we ar going tu lorn the nu wa uv speling and then wo will be in the same class as inter! smart mens. At present we ar tu bizy hi tak a day off. With the wintry brezes bloing yu ma sc us du a stunt at it. It's czy. Willie. SHOCK KILLS AUTOIST AS GIRL STOOPS FOR HANDKERCHIEF New York. —(United News.) —William A. Crane, 55, of Amityville, L. 1., died of shock today because a girl stopped directly in tin- path of his automobile to pick up a handkerchief. I jest never heard of the like.

Something must be done about thoM short skirts. AND THEN SOME Why should you sigh fur th« things that lie Beyond you hi regions unknown. ■ if you only sigli for thu people that lie, i You'll use all tho sighs that you own, What say, Sir Oliver? Tom—Ho, you fell In love with her at first sight. Jerry—Yep, 1 sure did. Tom—Well, why didn't you marry her? jerry—Didn’t you know I was gifted witli second sight? Believe me, I saw her and she Was a sight. STAN SAYS: The way to a man's heart is through ills stomach, but many a man has used the short line route to a woman s his check book. CLIMATIC ORDER The cinch bug gets the wheat, the l ‘ bumble ben the hom y, bed bugs Idle you in the night and the coal bug gets ! your money. - — but why get threshed? ; The youth who sows wild oats, tis true, must reap as he hath sown: but i then bis father ought to do. some threshing of his own. John D. Rockefeller blames the 'big headlines in the newspapers for the mud rush of the American people •after wealth. What paper was it that i started John D.? Fargo Frank. Why, the appeal to reason, of ; course. When a. ductor was asked if !>•• ever made a mistake he relied as follows: ‘‘Yes. once 1 was called by a patient and diagnosed his cane as stomach . ache—you see, 1 only learned the following day that he was rich enough to have appendicitis." Stick out your bank book and say "Ah!’’ : A man in California writes to the . Ford company and tells them that

they should foal W for the reason that, the Ford la the only car mentioned in tho Bible and to prove it cites them to a passage in ixUh which «y>: w " nt “P tn 0 Heaven on high," and asks, by heck, what atlier bul “ For ‘ l ‘ ouU ‘ ,l< ’ 1 thought it was a Cadillac—it climbs steps. BUM ADVICE I started out to build a pen to house my Duroc Poland hen and thirty-sewn chicks; 1 had the nails and lumber, too, a hammer, saw and een a screw all needed in stlch tricks. But ere I'd labored half an hour my neighbor. ■Jermiah Bower, came toddling to my I side aud told me I was building wrong, that I was making it 100 long and eke a foot too wide. And 1 believed this grizzled coot and changed my plannings all to suit the way he said should be; I'm sitting now in bleak despair and tugging at .my tangled hair—n painful sight to s<e. I built my h< n coop far too small, ii didn’t till the bill at all in anv way or 'shape; and I could punch old Bow r's ' mug and beat him with a harness tug : 1 for causing all this scrape. My chickens roosted in tile trees and caught a poultry Bright's disease—and twenty of them croaked: and that old brill- , died hen of mine died witli cirrhosis of the spine—she got her topknot . soaked. Tile next fool guy who tries to hand me bum advice of any brand will get a great surprise. I'll bust him one upon the ear; I'll break three ribs, I greatly fear and darken both

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