Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1923 — Page 4

DCCATUR ÜBT DIMOCMAT r ■■■■ PubllMHNt Every Evenlaa ■■o«M •unday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Fres aad O*u. Mg:. B. W. Kampo—Vice-Proa * Ad*. Mgr. A. B. Hplthouae— Bec'y and But. M<r. ■ntered at tba Poatefflca at Dacatar, Indiana, aa aacond eUaa cnattar. BubacrlpUoa KatM Single coplea * cents Oae Weak, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by One Month, by mail »5 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mall $1.75 One Year, by mail «»»»•••• $3.001 One Year, at office ••- $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside..those tones.) 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 CltyHEo The new Indiana laws are now in full force aud effect, including those rushed through the last night when a majority were against them. Tomorrow is a good day to start driving carefully. Why take a chance on accident, arrest, and other penalties? It looks like Wall) for state republican chairman. Senator Watson is deciding by elimination of proposed candidates but Lyons hasu t resigned yet and there has been no public announcement as to whether XV alb belongs to the Klan or not. A man who takes that job now must have a “hankerin'" for trouble. Two Fort Wayne judges have held that it Is not unlawful to have liquor in your possession and have dismissed cases against a half dozen men so charged ami yet the dry heads of the stale contend that the decision of the supreme court of Indiana has not weakened their power. We don’t, get it. When the buildings along Second street and other portions of the down town district are freshly painted, the phono poles painted white, the ornawindows trimmed, the light and telemental lights up, the yards trimmed ami blooming, this city is going to attract attention and best of all it will be the happiest, snappiest and best place in all the world in which to live. We can and will and are. Bluffton is making an honest to goodne; effort to stop speeding and a dozen or more arrests the past week will help more than anything they could have done. It seems thatunless this happens the drivers of cars feel they have a right to tear around as fast as their automobiles will travel. After the accident happens it's too late to be sorry. Be careful now and drive slower, watch the corners and obey the laws. The state highway commission wants crushed stone for use on its highways and we are informed directly by its members that they will be interested in propositions. Why not investigate this territory’, open new quarries and increase the facilities of the old ones? Perhaps some

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of the abandoned quarries can be I made to produce stone. Its worth, thinking about at least and we hope those who know the business will be interested. President Harding has convinced himself that the United States cani. t remain aloof from the world. Os <ourse tint’s right, the only unusual thing about it being that it was argued long before he was president ■ ami was an issue in the campaign which made him president. After the | i-i-ction in 1920 it was contended tl ?t the people of America had vot- . by a majority of seven million to build a fence around this country. I No one believed it then and the more we try it the more we are con .id that a country which pro-' duces more than it can use ought to on good terms with every nation in the world. There is no doubt that within the i-yt few months, consideration is to! i given to the building of a bard I mface road between this city and I Tt Wayne ami it is important that idfieieat attention be given to the ■mtter locally that the result will be I. st. Director Williams stated last ‘veiling while in the city that present ■ ; call for penetration of the road, perhaps next fall. We are not well enough versed in the science of road I- lilding to say that "penetration'’ is . ood or bad but we know that the proposition is of sufficient importance to the people of this part of the late to become interested to that ■ tent which will assure co-operation ■ with the commission and the build- ' u g of the right kind of a state road. The highway board is improving the 1 :.tire road from Richmond north through the state. In some places it v ill be brick, in others concrete, ma- < adam, penetration or something else. We should secure the right of ! ways, work with and through the / < >mmission that we secure eventual- ; ly the very best road through this county, both north and south. The load is largely used by summer tourils as well as by heavy traffic through this section and it is important that it be the very best. Now is the time to act.

YANKS AND LEGIONAIRES Forceful Facts Concerning the Interests of Former Soldiers. Sailors and Marines. The cost of the World War to Germany is estimated at $-19,362,090,000. The average cost of training a disabled American war veteran is $128.3,2 a mouth. The United Stab's navy has 22 destroyers and-the flagship Vick burg in | the Near East. ■ As a result of the World War. no , I fewer than 10,900 words were added to the English language. Five memorials, costing $300,000. ■are to be erected on lite battlefields |of France in honor of Pennsylvania I troops. France has 33,000 men in the mili- ; it.-iry aviation service. Great Britain ilrns approximately 29,000 in the air , service. Only 11,000 of 69,000 members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Slates army will be trained this sum liter. Ihe battleship Ohio is to be sold a , scrap iron by the Navy Departjment. The ship, built in 1901, was iin active service until 1919 Rumania is to present to the Freneb ral Berthelot in recognition of his war service to Rumania, a castle ■in Transylvania. Major General Henry T. Allen, win < o ur.i.aided th, American army of oeupation on the Rhine, retired from’ he army April 13th. Major General Charles P. Sommer•ll .now in command of the American f< r-es in Hawaii, has been suggested tn head the Veterans' Bureau. The United States now has a Real Admiral in command of tiie Coast luard. William E. Reynolds is the first officer to receive this distinction William France, a blind veteran of the World War was recently married in Mahanoy city. Pa., to Miss Edith Winkle, who has been blind since birth. Marshal Foch. of France, is said to have given more than 20.099 autographs during the past (wo years. Os this number, more than half were for' Americans. The battle of the Meuse-Argonne is by far the greatest battle in which American troops ever engaged, and ranks as one of the greatest battles in history. The oldest American veteran of the World War is Lieutenant William N.i Williams, in the Quartermaster De partment. citizens of the United States have ■ tiled between 8000 and 9000 claims with the American German Claims Commission in Washington. D. C. for war losses. crvice men are permitted

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to wear decorations of the United St ites or foreign Governments on every appropriate occasion with any kind of civilian clothes. The area now- occupied by the French and Belgians in tho Ruhr aggregates 727,131 acres, or nearly the size of Rhode Island. The military forces hold 14 city and nine rural districts. I’ewvr than hail of tiie 5,000,000 American soldiers of the World War hive claimed the Victory medal authorized by the Government in recognition of the service overseas and in this country. England has many cemeteries on the Western front containing a large proportion of unknown graves oi oidiers dead. In one cemetery there are 2193 unknown burials to 2550 known. Gunnery Sergeant Gordon Charsha. <>; the Marine Corps has mastered the i.ie, hauism of machine guns and auto matic rifles so that he can take them .-part, and put them together blind folded. In a decision in a recent test case' in Helena, Mont., the soldiers' contp -nsation measure, voted by the people of the stat.- last November, was bold um-onstitutional by tiie SttT,te Supreme Court. tn comparison with that of tiie other armies in the World War. the number of American unknown dead is mall. About two per cent of AnterJean dead are unknowns." The I French ami British proportion is I; bout 30 per cent. The British Government has erected nearly 185,000 houses in England luce the signing of the armistice in I’HS. These homes have been leased it. low rentals to those financially affected by war and industrial con ... ‘ itiOllS. The FYem h government recently r ive 150 tun's of bind at Vimy Ridge ‘o the p'-ople of Canada. A gigantic v ar memorial is to be erected by Can •la on this ground commemoraling the exploits of Canadian soldiers in the World War. As a result of a will left by Ixi j V-rne W. Noyes, a prominent ChiL agoian who died in 1919. 400 men and women who served in tlri' World Mat

I will be given scholarships in the best ■ I institutions in America. Thirty seholitirsiiips for nurses are to be awarded.! Os the 3.126,670 officers and men of j the United States army examined for discharge up to Jauary 1, 1920. only J 600.060 veterans will be available in I 1925 for Class No. 1 service, liy 1930, c-aly 423,000 will again be ready to enter the service for war. Brazil has the. strongest naval fleet i:i South America. It also has an army of 60 battalion of infantry. 41 machine gun batteries, 80 squadrons of caval iv. 90 batteries of light artillery. 81 batteries of heavy artillery, in addi I ■tion to special artillery units, six batpallions of engineers and 13 aviation, I squadrons. THAT GASOLINE TAX Will Be Hard To Dodge Two-Cent Tax Effective June 1 Indianapolis, May s—Dodging Indiana s new gasoline tax will be far from easy in the opinion of Robert Bracken, state auditor, whose office has charge of the <oii''ction of the tax. Consumers who have more than 20 gallons on hand when the tax becomes effective June 1, will be required to pay the two cents a gallon tax on all in excess of the twenty gallons, Mr. Bracken explained. This feature of the law will block plans of retailors and larfce’ consumers to obtain latge supplies of tax free gasoline before June I,' he said. As the tax will be collected from the wholesaler after the law becomes operative, and passed on through the retailer to the consumer, every Alling station operator will in effect be a tax collector and the consumers who escape the tax will be few, Mr.

Decatur high school is represented with a strong track' team this year. The locals easily worn the county track aud field meet here two weeks ago. scoring u total of 49’u points, whie Geneva, who finished .second, scored 13 points. The D. H. 8. thinly clads are engaged in u meet with the Portland high school team nt ; Bellmont Park this afternoon. Indications were that the meet would be exceptionally close. Several of the locals are entered in the sectional high school meet to be held in Fort Wayne on May 12. Tlte boys have been training hard under tho direction of Coach A. G. Moore since the county meet and they were exp« cted to muke much faster time today.

Bracken pointed out. Few Indiana motorists will driven out of the state to obtain taxfree gasoline. Mr. Bracken said, contending that motorists will not go far out of their way to save a few cents but. seek a convenient rather than a cheap place to buy gasoline. Nobody seems to know a whole lot | about the tax or what or who it will I help but here’s the measure as it was ' when Gov. McCray made his official mark at the bottom: "Be it enacted by the General As- ’ sembly of the State of Indiana. That, i a license fee of two cents (2c) per | gallon, or fraction of a gallon, is I hereby imposed on the use of all gasoline used in this state for any purpose whatsoever. The license fee hereby provided for, unless such fee shall have been previously paid, shall bo collected by the dealer selling gasoline to purchasers who purchase for purposes other than resale, i and shall be paid by the purchaser to the dealer and by such dealer to the ! auditor of state in the manner, and wfthin the time hereinafter speci-i fied.” OBITUARY — Raymond Charles Liniger, son of April 10, 1923 and died May 1, 1923.1 Mr .and Mrs. Fred Liniger, was born at the family home, three miles west i of Decatur. Death was due to indi-1 gestion. The father, mother and i two sisters. Ruth ami Esther, survive. Funeral services were held from the home at 10 o’clock Thursday morning and burial was made ini the Maplewood cemetery. The Rev. I R R. Elliker had charge of the funeral services. A precious one from us has gone I A voice we loved is still; A place is vacant in our home Which never can lie filled. God in His wisdom has recalled The boon his love has given. Ami though the body slumber here, , The soul is safe in Heaven. o Forget the past. The future will ' always have enough worry in store ( I lor everyone.

cWW The closest thing to ill y° u ’ n ie wor hl is W your underwear! UH n Ours makes dose friends for us. / B ■BL' ’ - ffEwwi When a customer says “I want sonic I nion Mjl 1 Mjj Suits”—we bring out a few Chalmers suits—anti he blings out his pocketbook. Or—if he prefers shirts and drawers—we if * equally capable. Our Underwear .section makes more dose ( \ friends for the store than any « ther ;* e P“ r,n ! C " f A A'W in the house. First—because we sell the»<-« ■ I W midenvear in America—and next—we sell t ■ U Vs close you can actually feel and see the diderente. W / n * on to I Shirts and Drawers —and \ I I there’s any weight you want 50c to : ' • - m-t Tsfub-T-Aytxb Go I J SETTER CLOTHES EOA LESS J MONEY-ALWAYS- • DECATUR • INDIANA*

TAXES ARE DUE Last chance to pay your taxes Monday, May 7th. Hugh D. Hite,

Masters and Slaves When you come Io think of il, i| j s people who don't save their money that work for Ihe people that do save it. Get into Ihe muster class by opening a Savings Account wlh this bank. 4% Interest paid on Savings The Peoples Loan & Trust Co. BANK OF SERVICH ■mHIHMaMaHaaHHnHBMHBBaaKIKHBMHMESManHMZgMMHi A" —A Here’s Your Chance ?I I | “A Stitch In Time Saves Nine” and “Saving in rime" will save you many a worry when a rainy day comes along. Come ill and let us give you a SAVEB” which is a combination limepiece and savings bank, finished in ebony for Ihe oll'ice, and ivory or nickel for the home. J.cl us explain Ihe plan whereby you can obtain ohc of these clocks FREE. Old Adams County Bank I -J

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