Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1923 — Page 3

sU ltVt IN RABBIT African Children Are Firm in Their Faith. —— ...prfor .r Not. th. Younfl.t.r. " th* UniWd Stat*. Will Not Me Shaken. Ti-e Earter rabbit la »n importer, »] .He ro-byul<ht pretender to the, , e ..i’’belug the waclv creature that friMl gifts to children uu the day, , ‘j,... the Lenten eeam»i. ihe; thlCa title «us made 1,1 All “‘ r “ u •£»»— Hutlana old- t’ohfe- tlonrrs and the " " of Easter cards haw cotuM„d«Tth tvytuuker. to put the hoax i'oss say* a local book shop ptvprl- “ ‘ uu antiquarian of some according to a New York Suu been possible, he aaya, to nuke the Children of America believe ... the bunny because of a most strikh . resemblance to the real heir to the .latent traditions of every land about the coming of spring the Easter eggs aud all that sort of thing. The rabbit only doubling in America for the hare which holds the real title. And i hare Is not the same thing as a rabbit It happens to have somewhat the; »auie habits, happens to look like the white hare featured In German tales for children. The httrc, he says* Is bom with lt*< e ,es open; it never sleeps. The rabbit 1> burn us blind as a kitten and catn. ps continually. there is the lore of old Egypt, l shore the hare was the familiar of th, iuoob even as the cat was her fa-1 write. Pasht, the moon, kept the, hip-lit watch, so did the hare, which i a. s called "un,” meaning opener, or! ‘•to open.” There are other tales of the moon H ud the mystical hare, tales which j were old when they were Just begin-, ting to cut stone for the pyramids, i tales that the Sphinx had to hear when ■ she was only lu her teens. In all North * iuzJSuKB WWf African legends the rabbit is out of i the running Ln so far as the myth is concerned. Even tn England the rabbit had no •tandlug tn the early days—the days. ti;y, when Chaucer was raving about the sweet showers of April, the roadhouses. the Jolly pilgrims. In those davs they were feeding sleepy heads doses of hare's brains to make them wake up a little. But, at any rate. American children; believe la the rabbit and no country in the world begins even to supply so mnny effigies of the little creature In cotton and in plaster and In candy to t'ldldren. or go many pictures of It on all sorts of tester greetings for grownups, as dues the United States. Maybe the title has changed hands despite old world tradition. Preparations for Easter. mS -jf ■ . HH i a feasants of Central Europe carrying ■iue green boughs for Easter decoraions. Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday, the Sabbath before i.aster, commemorates the triumphant !1, .\ of Jesus into Jerusalem, when was greeted by a great multitude « i° spread their garments in the line " progress and cut branches from the "■ees and "strewed them In the way," - v Blessed is He that cometh L ? flme of the k 01 *: Hosanna in 1 ghest." Thia enthusiasm waned, ion ever, and five days later occurred ths crucifixion. from a very early date this day ~-7*. fßlled Patm Surt ® fl y. for It i' Mn . du f) y the church that palm - m '^ S ’bould then be carried In ,wMr SS T° n lD lln itattonof those strewn °re Jesus In Jerusalem. It Is still ihesT Ce t 0 ppPßer ve a portion of , (y| ' ' " l IS anil burn them for holy. Ash w i ’** P' ftce d 0,1 the head on' 1 ednesday of the following year. 1

< ; — 6TORIES Famous Old Ohio Hotel to Be Rebuilt

COLUMBUS, OHIO.—The Nell I < house, which for more than a ' 1 century has housed famous < ; men and women of Ohio und : i I the nation and whose registers are ] < veritable pages of history, Is being ; ' torn down. A new Nell house is to be constructed on the site. It will j cost $4,000,000, and Is expected to be , opened lute In 1924. The present building Is about sixty- | five years old, but William Neil’s first . tavern was built In 1822 on the same site. In 18.39 a more pretentious hos- , telry was erected; Charles Dickens on , his American tour was a guest under > its roof and had something to say ( about It In his American Notes. November 6, 1800, the night of the day of Lincoln’s first election to the ] ' presidency, the second Neil house was ' ] destroyed by lire and shortly afterward the present building was cun- 1 struct ed. Fifteen presidents of the United ' States have written their names on ’ Neil registers. Andrew Jackson was ’ the first. The signature of A. Lincoln can be seen on the old books. William ' Henry Harrison, U. S. Grunt, Ruther- I ford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Wil- < i limn McKinley, William 11. Taft, Theo- ’ <lvre Roosevelt, W’oodrow Wilson and I I Warren G. Hurding are some of the i

They Beat Death and His Time Clock

PATERSON, N. J. — Firemen, I policemen and civilians, working in relays until they were exhausted, burned and battered ] their way through an almost Impregnable steel vault in the People’s Park bank and, at the end of four hours' desperate effort, brought out alive a nineteen-year-old clerk who had been locked in accidentally at fi o'clock In i the evening with an almost man-defy-I Ing time luck set for 8:15 in the morning. The youth, unconscious, his face i blackened, his tongue lolling from the ' long confinement In the air-tlglit space, was rushed unconscious to a hospital. IHe was Charles de Giacoma. It was ! ttie belief of surgeons that the boy would recover. But the congested face, the stare of horror in the unsee- | ing eyes, the bruised and bleeding I knuckles, and the battered shoes all i I told how the Imprisoned lad had tried , ] to beat and claw and kick his way through the three inches of armor | plate and twenty-four Inches of reI inforced concrete, and It was feared that his mental condition might be af- ' fected. Only the heroic, ceaseless battle of the rescuers got them to the end of their job in the nick of time. Even then the boy would have died had an oxygen tube not been thrust through the first tiny breach in the stout walls

State Park in the Famous Indiana Dunes

INDIAN APOTJS. —Governor McCrajof Indiana has signed a bill passed by the legislature for a Dunes state park of 2JXIO acres in Porter county, along the shore of Lake Michigan. The bill creates a commission of six and authorizes a tax levy. Indiana nature lovers are all pleased. I some on the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread. Many, however, are downcast over this result of ten years or more of earnest endeavor to get an adequate reservation of this wonderful dune country, which enjoys an international reputation. Before the war a small army of enthusiasts labored earnestly In an effort to get a national park of about 15,000 acres. The federal government approved the area as suitable for national park purposes, but would not appropriate the money to buy the land from its private owners. The federated dub women and several organizations of Indiana, Illinois and Michigan tried to raise the millions of purchase price in order to present the area to the government. Federal Investigation showed the land to be held at prices from S2OO to SI,OOO an acre for speculative purposes. The owners said: “One Gary was built on the dunes. Why not another'.'” Two thousand acres means a strip

Pretty Girl to Preach to the Young

NEW YORK.—A bright-haired, eager-eyed slip of a girl, with an amazing faith deep in het I heart, is to “sell” religion in youth’s own language to the boys and girls of that impish “younger generation.” This blithe adventuress is Rlieba Crawford, twentyfour, the pretty Salvation Army lass who used to stand evenings at the corner of Forty-sixth street and Broadway, head thrown back exultantly, strong young voice ringing out In song or exhortation to an outdoor audience, which, from mixed motives of curiosity and real interest In an extraordinary personality, was always large. i One night the crowd grew to such I proportions that a policeman arrested Rlieba for obstructing traffic, and when he led her away 10,000 angry men ami women followed to demand her release. Such was her power that hundreds ' i were brought to repentance by her i words, but soon after the Incident of I the arrest she resigned from the Sal- i I I vatlon Army. : As soon as the of this got about i

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Other chief executives of the nation who slept under the Nell roof. Five of these presidents made the hotel their home during lesser terms of] office, An Ohio political di-al else- ( where was unthinkable. A memory that will live long In Columbus Is that of the affection between McKinley and tils Invalid wife. Every morning when Governor McKinley reached the street he waved a "good-by” to his wife In her window. And at any old time of day it was! quite possible to see husband and j wife exchanging signals, she in her hotel rooms and he In his office in the capltol across the street. William Doan Howells was frequently a guest. Other names on the register include those of Jenny Lind, Louis Kossuth, Admiral Farragut, Salmon I*. Chase, Gen. Winfield Scott, Phil Sheridan, Horace Greeley, Adelina Patti, Artemus Ward, Henry Watterson, Phoebe Cary, Ellen Terry and Mark Twain. President. Harding wrote n letter of regret nt the passing of the old hotel. He said among other things: "It windows were eyes and walls had tongues what a story the old Neil house could tell of the public life of Ohio and the nation for two generations.”

I and the fetid chamber flooded with the I life fluid from compressed tanks , hoisted to the roof of the vault. Thousands standing in the street cheered when at last the limp body was tugged out, the ambulance went dunging away and the sweating res-, cuers came reeling away from their i gloriously finished task. An automobile sped away in advance of the ambulance to bear news of the rescue to the parents who with i difficulty had been kept ut home, j where every few minutes bulletins of the fight to save their sob were rushed' to them. The news got to them just in time to save them from collapse, i One there was who did not hear the cheers as the youth was borne to the ; hospital, a fellow-clerk who, In a moment of thoughtless skylarking, j had shoved to the ponderous vault | door, only in a joke, but had shoved i It just too hard, so that the click of the tumblers burst upon his horrorstricken ears. That clerk, having given the alarm, having clung, hopeless, miserable, conscience-stricken on the edge of the crowd that toiled at rescue, slumped unconscious just before his friend was carried out. He was William Templeton. Charles’ first conscious act was to cry uiit forgiveness for his friend, who stood at his hospital bed.

■ I three miles along the lake shore and 1 I one mile wide. The rest of the dunes i i ' will lie filled with resorts and shacks • on leased land, if not with Industrial] - plants. Five years from now the' Dunes state park will be surrounded 1 by parked automobiles and the sand . | will be black with humanity. It will be just about as enticing to a wilderness j lover as is Lincoln pari; in Chicago on a summer Sunday afternoon. ' However, three miles of the finest fresh-water bathing beach in the world - is not to be despised.. And the “walk-ing-dunes” will probably keep on marching inland from the water's edge until man puts a stop to the process. ' You see, the sand for the dunes is torn j away from the west shore of Lake! Michigan, between Chicago and MU- j waukee, which in a few years will be protected against the ravages of the lake by breakwaters and piers. But unless the park authorities are one hundred j>er cent efficient the cranber-j ry and orchid, the wild grape and bit-ter-sweet, the lady slipper and prairie' fire, the cactus and water Illy, the trailing arbutus and hepatica are doomed. In short, the result of ten years of: work by enthusiasts is a local breath-] Ing spot for the millions in the Imrnediate vicinity of the Illinois-Indiana state line.

dazzling theatrical offers poured in up< 1 on the astonished girl, and her friends began to predict that, with her beauty, 1 youth and charm, the World would soon 1 be at her feet. But to their surprise she did not announce her choice of ' vaudeville, musical comedy, motion pictures or serious drama. Rumor coupled 1 her first with one, then another, but ' she was silent. Now, however, the se- ’ cret is out She has refused all the offers. I' 1 1 "I shall never go on the stage,” she f said the other day. “I wanted to, be- , cause I love money and good times and ( pretty clothes as much as any girl. ] But I have got to follow my call. 1 am going to lie an evangelist—a preacher , for the young. I ( “I will represent no creed, because ' I believe that all sincere creeds are • good. Young people are bored now by 1 the'church. There are lots of people J to preach to the old folks. I am going 1 to reach the youngsters while 1 have ' youth and can let them see that I understand all.” |

LIFE BEYOND DEATH Easters Revelation Has Opened New Vistas. Natural Science Silent in the Presence of the Great Belief and Expectation. Easter brings completion to the »<-i---eu<es! AU the secular sciences conduct man us far as death, and there they stop. The door of the tomb is a wall, tail,] strong and Insurmountable by them. Geology, geography, astronomy, ] chemistry, physiology, biology and Ils other divisions bring us on, with an always Increasing precielou, to an understanding of life's functions and activities, up to that point. There they drop us, for beyond death natural science has not learned to travel. It has no formulae to express anything ou i the other side of the closed door of j death. And after much bruising of brain, and vain beating of hands agniust that < bstacie, it confes-ea Itself beaten, It has come to an impasse. It declares that be< uuse It cannot puss, that there is no passage, nothing beyond—the tomb Is the end of all! Either that, or It accepts the Easter miracle-as It must, if it will be fair towards evidence, towards historical revelation and towards theology, "the queen of all the sciences" —and acknowledges that Easter's revelation crowns all human knowledge, and opens before It new, endless vistas for exploration and future progress. it would be a sorry conclusion to al) science if it brought us only to an ending in the corruption, the anulhtlatlou of death. And au unsatisfactory ending! For the great majority of mankind never has, and never will believe that the dosed tomb ends everything! Life here Is too full of inequalities to make that Just! The analogies in nature, which find no definite ending for anyOS® i jix Oldest Church in Jerusalem. : thing else but life, help to prove It untrue! And Justness and truth are the keystones upon which natural science builds up all Its theories to arrive at ultimate fact. i Science, which Is perhaps the projecI tion of the ripest and best of humaai Ity, needs Easter. For Science cannot avert death! Men live to their threescore and ten, | or beyond that for a few years of labor and sorrow, as they did in the Psalmist’s days, before science had traveled i very far along the roads of development. But since Easter rolled away the wall from the tomb, science may now claim to bring men onto the threshold of a new and glorified life, the resurrection life. The tomb Is now but an episode In Ilves which were—always were—lmmortal. Easter shows the tomb Is open on the other side from us—open onto a new garden of Edenlc soul life, the Paradise of God. And some day It Is to open on our side also, and let those blessedly resting ones out into renewed bodily life, which cannot be bound between a birth and a death. For one man actually, undeniably went through the tomb into that Paradise, and came back at Easter with an everlasting, undying body! Just as the little crocus looks up stiff and straight, as a prophecy that all the temporarily dead bulbs aud roots and seeds will arise in their own time. Science teaches the Imperishability of matter, and it Is true logically endowed when, advancing a step, It teaches also the Immortality of man. Then there is but another step onward, to a grateful acknowledgment of the truth taught by the well attested fact of the Resurrection, that as He rose so shall all our dead also arise at the great Easter, which shall fulfill the promise of all the Springs! It is the mission of the Church which is His Body here and now to complete the thus Inspired teaching of the natural sciences, and show ns that every one who really desires so to do | may spend eternity along with Its ] King and Owner, after the last Easter has opened for ever the tomb of death! —Montreal Family Herald |

MONROE NEWS Mrs. Lawrence I'.uil* r returned from n several days' visit with relative in Berne. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Rinehart entertained a ntitnbi-r oi relative- at dinner, Sunday. Mr. and dr-. Homer Wititer-gg entertained Mr. and vlr Adolph Haney, Aliases Margaret and Irene Striker, |ol T'.erno, and Mr. Siahh-y, oi Genova, as theli guests Sunday. Mis. Howard Kelh-i and daughters, 1 Margaret, laiiiir.e, and l.ois Ellen, of HilLsbuig, Ind., arrived here Saturday afternoon for an extended vi.ilt with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Holla. Mrs. Keller was formerly Miss 1 Naomi Dulin, and Is well known here ' and has many irietida. Mrs. ,1. I . Hocker is suffering from an attack of rheumatism. Mrs. Hannah Durkin, living southJ east of here, Is reported as b*-lng in ''a serious condition suffering from a ' < omplieatlon of diseases. Her recovery Is said to be doubtful. Several of eur young people attended - the Independent Basketball tournament held at Muncie, Saturday. i Miss Ruth Gilbert, teacher in our ' schools, moved last Saturday from the ' \dam Pease property In the south part of town. Into the V’al Snell pro p>-rty on west Washington street. i Several of our farmers began sow- . ing oats and grass on Monday niorui Ing, notwithstanding (he cold weather. Manager Homer Winteregg of the Monroe Tile and Building Block com ‘ pany, Informs us that the wheels of ( progress will be started on next Mon- , day, April 2. to grind out block, brick. and tile with practically the same old hands as heretofore. Mr. Winteregg anticipates a busy season In filling the many orders now ou band and for the home trade. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rrandyberry Were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Martin, in Hartford City, over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McKean and family visited at the home of his father, Mr. J. W. McKean and wife, in Bluffton over Sunday. Miss Martha McKean was the guest of her grand father, Mr. J. W. McKean, over Sunday. Thu senior class of the Monroe high IF SKIN BREAKS OUT AND ITCHES APPLY SULPHUR Just the moment you apply Rowles Mentho-Sulphur to an itching, burning or broken out skin, the itching stops and healing beylns, says a noted skin specialist. This sulphur preparation, made into a pleasant cold cream, gives such a quick relief, even to fiery eczema, that nothing has ever been found to take its place. Because of its germ destroying properties, it quickly subdues the Itching, cools the Irritation and heals the eczema right up, leaving a clear, smooth skin lu place of ugly eruptions, rash, pimples or roughness. You do not have to wait for improvement. It quickly shows. You can get a lltte Jar of Rowles Mentho9iilpliur at any drug store.

, FTn*"l A super-production I of new Spring Hats- # *w[x7 in which there is not fi a su P er ’ n *h e cas t! Stars all the shoice of the land brought Io ffijßHXg Decatur in one tremendous troupe. ■ / I f? a t s IkutlNew York men are looking at on 5 auaugujnw Fifth Ave.—blocks that Philadelphia men see in J. ™j nj *every block on Chestnut street —and not a dozen - r <• "S. but a downpour! Greens, Browns, Tans. Pearls—the colors you like—the shapes that like you—all at new prices that will mak'jf you like us! The lid is off the last word in shapes has licen said. Come in and see them—no obligation to buy. Imperial and Stetson Soft Hat5...52.00 to $6.50 L. Needles Brooker Shirts..sl.2s to $7.50 New Caps 50c to $2.50 Silk Hose with Clocks7sc to $1.50 TotuL* T -Mytxb Qd J BETTER CLOTHES FOR LESS J MONEY-ALWAYS- Suits • DECATUR • INDIANA*

I chool will present the comedy drama Untitled, "Esmeralda." of Friday evening, March 30, at the u-bool auditor Slum Everybody should attend thin

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