Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller —Pres, and Gen. Mgr E. W. Kampe Vlce-Prea. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Hulthouae—Sec’y and Bus. Mgr Entered at the I’ostoffice nt Decatur Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 centi One Week, by carrier 10 cent* One Year, by carrier $5.0( Ono Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail 11.0(1 Six Months, by mail 11.75 One Year, by mail >3.0(1 One Year, at office $3.0(1 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Kates 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. TAXES:— Though people are today demanding a reduction of taxation, other people are demanding—and preparing to make their demand effective, if possible—the imposition of new taxes or the revival of old ones. The idea that taxes arc justifiable only when revenue necessities require them seems to have been practically abandoned. So we tax thu people to "protect" certain others of the people; seek to distribute or redistribute property through the use of tile taxing power; tax the rich because they are rich and exempt the poor because they are poor—always with some supposedly moral, social, or political end in view. So it is projajsed to revive the excess profits tax, which was confessedly a war tax. Heavier imposts on certain classes of incomes are sug gested and urged. There is never any thought of whether the government. needs, or will need the money, or of adjusting income to outgo. It is a question of “distributing the burden," witli only slight consideration of whether the burden as a whole might not be lightened. There is hardly a tax that can be thought

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of that dot's not fall on consumption and therefore on the masses of the people. What the people want Is, not more r taxes, but to be rid of some of the r. taxes which they now pay. It seems r very difficult for the congress, state r, legislatures and city councils to get this point of view. Perhaps there aer many of the people to whom it £ s is not clear, as those who are the 0 while trying to devise a tax which g (1 others will have to pay, but from 5 which they will be exempt. Yet taxes 0 are widely distributed, easily shifted, d and there are mighty few people who do not have to pay some even of those which seein to fall solely on others. Practically all of them fall on production, and the consumer pays the cost of production, in which, of course, the tax is an element, and a most important one. Counting in • local, school, special, state and federal taxes —to say nothing of the tax paid in tariff increased prices — the American people are today carrying an enormous burden of taxation. The ’ question is less one of redistributing the burden than of lightening it. — Indianapolis News. Tomorrow is Memorial Day. a holi- ' day set aside for the proper paying ’i of respect to the memory of those soldiers living and dead who offered ‘ their lives that the union might conJ tlnue and this nation retain her self respect and her standing in the ‘l world. The ranks of those who ’; fought during the civil war are so de--1 pleted that the program must be 1 largely conducted by the soldiers of the Spanish American war and the World War. Last Sunday when the Memorial sermon was given there were but sixteen veterans able to attend and that was considered excellent under all conditions. Tomorrow we pay our tributes to the men who fought so valiantly and have lived so well. Its a day, almost I sacred to those who feel it and it is . fitting that business cease and that all who can join tin the solemn : occasion.

i, Some speed demon in proudly o boasting that ho drove bls car from Indianapolis to Cincinnati in seventye seven minutes. It would be intereste ing to know by wbat authority this H racer breaks the laws of the state 8 and every municipality through which t he passed and goes unmolested and e without fear of prosecution. A dozt eu or two affidavits against this man e might tend to have other people li have greater respect for the laws. a It begins to look as though William I Randolph Hearst, Bob LaFollette and B a tew other cranks are planning to f organize a third party and name I Henry Ford as the candidate for I president. He won’t get far prob--5 ably but his eutrauce would conipiif cate politics sufficiently to make I things rather interesting next year, i If he is to be a candidate we insist . that’s were he belongs, on a third ■ ticket. —o .... — . — Money Order Stolen At Ossian Cashed For SSO Bluffton. May 28—An express order for SSO, cashed on May 4 at the Exchange bank of Wolf Lake. Indiana, was identified Saturday as part of the loot of papers of $2,500 negotiable value, stolen May 2 from the express office at Ossion. At the same time word came that ten more of the blank orders had been picked up on the streets of Kokomo. Working on the two clues, detectives of the express company believe today that they are close on the trail of the thief and expect to have him in custody within a few hours. The order cashed at Wolf was made out to Mary Payne and endorsed by J. W. Payne. The agent’s signature was made “W. T. Hover” and the order was stamped with the official stamp stolen at the Ossian office on the night of the robbery. The names were all ficticious, and the fact that the name of the Ossian agent, M. E. Spencer, was not used, indicates that the robber was not acquainted with Ossian. The bank will be the loser of the SSO. The thief apparently was traveling by automobile. On the same day that he successfull passed the order at Wolf Lake, he had attempted to cash a similar one at Churubusco but was refused. It is not possible to determine exactly when the papers found at Kokomo were lost, or thrown away, - as they probably were, but the robber evidently decided to change his course of travel after visiting the northern towns and headed south again. Officials expect to hear of other orders being cashed at any time. The orders might be delayed several weeks, however, in exchanges before they are identified as the stolen papers. The loot consisted of money orders numbering E-8339122 consecutively to E-8339139, and C. O. I), checks run ning consecutively from G-3645624 to G-3645639. o 71 YEARS OLD Is Cured of Severe Stomaeh Trouble F. W. Crist, of Clymer, N. Y., w-rites —■“! bought one package of your Remedy from Thomas Downey of Corry, Penna. I find it t<s be the best remedy for stomach trouble that I ever used, and now I Can eat anything; pork, cabbage, pie and cake, or in fact, anything. And now, 1 feel better than I ever did before in my life. I am seventy-one years old. Signed F. W. CRISTIf you suffer from Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Acidity, Sour Stomach, Gas, Heartburn, Biiliousness, Headache, Coated Tongue and pains in stomach, go to your druggist at once and get a box of Dr. Orth's Stomach Remedy and when you start to take it realize that Dr. Orth has used it successfully in thousands of cases exactly like yours. Holthouse Drug Co., Smith, Yager & Falk and all god druggists can supply you. Not Advisable To Plant Old Soybeans Soybeans over one year old should not be used for seed without testing, according to word sent out from the' county agent’s office. Soybeans lose their visability, or ability to germinate, very rapidly, even if stored well. Four different varieties of two year old beaus have been put in the germinator in the county agent’s office and two of the four gave very poor results. Several farmers have asked concerning the advisability of planting old beans and have been advised to test them before planting. In an experiment conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture with eight varieties of soy-

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- beans, testing 91.2 percent germlna- ! tion the first year, they were found to test only 63.2 percent the second year. The fourth year the beans ’ tested 14.7 percent, showing that the 1 viability was practically lost. i o PRESBYTERIANS WANT BIBLE IN U. S. SCHOOLS Indianapolis, May 29. —The reading of the Bible in every public school is the aim of a platform circulated among Commissioners to the I*resbyterian General Assembly, accompanied by a resolution referred to the committee on education, originating in the synod of Washington and promoted by the Bible Fellowship headed by FL L. Edmiston of Spokane, a Presbyterian counselor. Other endorsers of the official call in this movement represent various denominations besides Presbyterians. The signers include Edmiston as president, Dr. W. S. Pritchard of Vera. Wash., as secretary, and the following Washingtonians: Mrs. !•’. C. Axtel, Bellingham; Mrs. W. A. White, Walla Walla: Dr. Mark A. Matthews. Seattle; Dr. C. W. Weyer, Tacoma; Dr. 8. L. Divine, Spokane; Dr. N. M. Jones, Spokane; Dr. A. H. Bailey. Spokane; Hon. Henry B. Elder, Aberdeen; Hon. C. H. Furman, Zillah; Dr. C. Clutcheour, Seattle; Dr. Harry L. Bell. Wenatchee; Hon. E. L. Blaine, Seattle; Dr. W. F. Davies, Tacoma. The claim of this movement for reinstating the Bible in schools from which it is now excluded, is based on the theory that “the deity of Christ is the greatest principle of the Declaration of Independence, and this nation is historically and legally founded up- j on the <jeity of Christ." The official i call further states: “The flag of a 1 Christian nation cannot abide over a sect, society or state public school system that excludes the Bible therefrom and suppresses Christianity therein." Included in the report and resolu-: tions of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions ofllcialy presented to the Presbyterial General Assembly to day was the following: "Resolved, that the Presbyterian General Assembly views with apprehension the rise of antisemitism in America: and hereby places itself on record as opposed to all propaganda calculated to develop racial prejudice, as alien to the spirit of Christ and American ideals; and that we recognize the need at the present time of commending the Gospel to the Jews in this country by a ministry of reconciliation and good-will," O — O Wife Os Sugar Beet Worker At Bluffton Heiress To $44,000 o o Bluffton. May 29—Heiress to an estate of $44,000. Mrs. Carl Cover, a Jewish woman, 30 years old, remains a faithful companion to her husband, 22 years old, who is working in the sugar beet fields near Liberty Center. The "love nest” of the couple is in a wagon provided by the Decatur sugar beet factory for its workers, j The woman claims that her mother, who owns a large moving picture, house at Paris, Illinois, is trying to separate her from her husband. Sheriff Noah Frauhiger of Wells county was asked Saturday afternoon in a telephone call from the sheriff at Paris to make an effort to locate Mrs. Cover, who, according to Mrs. Cover’s mother, had written that she was penniless and had been deserted by her husband. Through Herbert Easier, who is superintendent of the beet fields, Sheriff Frauhiger learned of Mrs.

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. Cover’s whereabouts. Mr. kJnsler said 1 that he had hired Cover nt Terre 1 Haute to come to this section of the i country to work. , Mrs. Cover emphatically denied toj Sheriff Frauhiger that she had writ-,I ton to her mother and declared ahe| whs perfectly contented to remain ; with her husband, who she added ‘ had offered to give her money a week ago to make a visit back home. It was related by Mrs. Cover thatj her father died on January 17 and | left a large estate, which has not I been settled as yet. She claimed that] her mother had caused her to become i separated from her first husband and I was attempting to do the same with 1 her second husband. Sheriff Frauhiger informed the Paris sheriff Sunday of the woman's Why Should YOU Pay Gas Tax? Dodge It!!

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