Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1923 — Page 3

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Mr. and Mrs. Dan Eckrote, formerly of Linn Grove, will play an intrtant part in the operation of the li ispltal. Mr. Eckrote will see that the grounds are well kept and will lo* after the firing, of the furnaces in the winter time. Mrs. Eckrote is a p-actieal cook and housewife and will be in charge of the kitchen.

High Collars While it Is not expected to become | a popular style, the high collar is " THE LEGAL DETAILS 6 o E HENRY B. HELLER County attorney who looked after the legal details connected with the building of the hospital.

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Missionaries of Manhood

Saving the Flipper a Problem for American Military Schools SOCIETY might turn its attention

M for awhile from the flapper to her twin brother, the flipper. It seems to be pretty thoroughly established that the flipper is in need of just as much saving, if not cons! d e r a b 1 y

dulgence, a condition which educators inform us is a besetting American sin. Little Willie, aged four, is told it is bedtime. “I won't go to bed,” says he, and crawls under the davenport. _"lsn't he cute?" says Mother. “That young man has a will of his own,” states Father proudly. Way Ahead of Father Willie stays up for another halfhour, parental indulgence starts its Path of laxity, and the son of the house receives his first Impression

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seen on some of the most chip costumes. Lingerie collars are not so 'favored as those of the malerial of 1 1 the frock. 1 O : O THE ARCHITECT 'O — O ♦ ■ ■ ' W.' •' & "‘w? HaMMIUS . S OSCAR HOFFMAN Local architect who drew the plans for the hospital

Any system of education to merit approval must promote physical development, patriotism, good morals and love of law and order. The system best calculated to contribute to good ( citizenship is that which pro

j duces harmoniously and simultaneously healthy mental, physt- , j leal and moral development, j ! The influence of a military edu•I cation in this direction is readi1 1 ly apparent. A review of the successful men ' | of all countries will reveal the s I abnormal proportion who have I j enjoyed military education, trainI I ing and experience. f l —lra L. Reeves in “Military Ed1 ucation in the United States.” ' ! f of contempt for constituted authority ’ which does not constitute. ’ “He takes after his father,” as 1 a ‘ saying, passed out a decade or more ’ ago. Today the American youth is so far ahead of his father that the latter I might as well be scratched. All of • which, if one Stops to analyze it, is ■ creditable to neither father nor son, “The lack of discipline, training, system, punctilio and common everyday etiquette in our young men Is one of the most deplorable of existing conditions to which is no doubt due the existence of a general disregard and disrespect for constituted authority," states one writer. A right serious indictment that, and one which is pretty hard to refute. A host of parents may rise up and cry objections, or the charge may not even he challenged. ''The old man.” as he is dubbed irreverently by the flipper, has bad so much dust thrown in his eyes by his offspring that be is

more. The premise is that the flapper has been plucked from the burning, but the flipper still flips on. A flipper in the parlance of the day, includes all species of the genus male frotn the first long pants to the first ballot. He is declared to be the offspring of prevalent parental in-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1923.

Description Os New Adams County Hospital o— —— o The Adams County Memorial hospital is one of the njost modern and complete hospitals in the state. Erected on the Old Fair Grounds site, facing Mercer avenue on the east, Grant street on the north and High street on the west, the building, constructed of light buff brick laid In chocolate colored mortar, trimmed with Bedford stone is three stories high, size 111 feet by 36 feet, 8 Inches with a wing, to the rear center having two stories and basement. The wing contains th ■ boilers, the laundry and fuel rooms In the basement and Is -11 feet by 43 feet. The building contains 31 single bed rooms and three wards, having a bed capacity, exclusive the sun rooms, which may be used in eases of emergency of 37. There is a sun room on each floor large enough to accomodate 9 beds each, bringing the total bed capacity to 64. Basement Floor consists of: — Boiler room, fuel room, laundry room, elevator machinery room, room for future refrigeration plant. There are four rooms in the basement, 1 unsigned, which may be fitted up in' the future for X-ray, dark room and dark testing; room, janitor's toilet room, clothes chute, incinerator or kerneator garbage burner. Ma>n or First Floor consists of:— Main entrance vestibule, reception lobby or memorial court, reception room, office room, dispensary room, I superintendent's bed room, floor nurse's station, eneunciator silent call system, telephone, diet kitchen.; dumb waiter, refrigerator, gas plate, sink, cupboards, shelves, plate warmer. Utility or sink room, clinic sink, slop sink, gas plate, bed pan sterilizer .bed pan rack. Sun or day room, 12 ft by 32 ft. Six private bed rooms, 1 3-bed ward; main kitchen; dining room; rest room for help; 2 detention rooms; toilet rooms and bath rooms; linen closets; clothes chute; dust chute and garbage chute to incinerator. Second Floor consists of:—Ten private bed rooms, 1 3-bed ward, sun room or day room 12 ft. by 32 ft., general operating room, maternity room, sterilizing room between the two rooms above mentioned, surgeon’s rest room and dressing room. I diet kitchen, utility room or sink room, floor nurse’s station, linen closets, toilet rooms and bath rooms, I

more likely to shake his bead and remark fatuously, “I’m glad my son is not like that." Home Training Needed Discipline and obedience and politeness, along with a lot of other character developers, should begin at home. The stern old Spartan father

and even the French peasant of today had the right idea. A disrespectful son was so but once. The punishment was sufficient to deter him from a second attempt. The American father forgot about the "spare the rod” axiom so many years ago that his impotence in compelling obedience and respect is lamentable. • Contempt for parental authority steps quite naturally into contempt for any authority. Municipal, county, state and national laws—excluding, of course, those which prescribe punishment for a felony—are regarded by the flipper about like father's “no” — well meaning, but scarcely to be obeyed. Who ever saw a youth drive a motor car within the prescribed speed limits. To the flipper a highway ordinance is a “scrap of paper.” Dodging Prohibition One might go further and point to the highest law of the country—the

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The Superintendent and Staff of Nurses I

w** *■ * - .f F MISS EMILIE C. CHRIST HOSPITAL SUPERINTENDENT Miss Christ, the superintendent of the Adams County Memorial Hospital, was for four yeaVs in charge of one of i the units of the big government hospitals at Ancon. Panama Canal Zone, on the Pacific side of the- Isthmus. ■ She is an experienced nurse and was graduated from the Lutheran Hospital in 1911, practicing two years at jthe Robert long hospital, Indianapoi lis, before receiving her appointment. She is now in complete charge of the hospital and under her supervision, assisted by the other nurses it is bound to succeed.

clothes chute, dust chute and garbage chute to incinerator, laboratory room, electric blanket warmer. Third Floor consists of: —10 private bed rooms, 1 3-bed ward, toilets and bath rooms, linen closets, diet kitchen, utility or sink room, floor nurse’s station, clothes chute, dust chute and garbage chute to incinerator, dumb waiter. The floor and root slab of reinforced concrete. The finished flooring in all bed rooms, dining room and sun rooms will be white oak with varnish on same. The flooring in the corridors, operating rooms, the diet kitchens, utility rooms and all bath rooms and toilet rooms is of Terraz- .; zo. The main stairway and the ele-

Constitution —which contains a recent amendment: also a certain act which provides for enforcement of the amendment. Drawing conclusions from that, however, proves little. New York’s Governor showed recently that in breaking the Volstead Act we are running true to the

Jfo & ’B pe ill JiW.r ‘ A MISS IRLENE FRANZ Miss Irlene Franz, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. Franz, of Berne, is also a floor nurse at the new Adams County Hospital. After graduating from the Berne High School with are class of ’lB, Miss Franz entered training at the Lutheran Hospital and was graduated from there in 1921. She was on duty at the Wells County Hospital for a short tithe and has done private duty nursing at Ft. Wayne, Berne and Decatur.

vator continues up to the roof for the convenience of getting the bed clothes onto the roof for sun sterilization and for sun baths for convalescent patients. A cistern of 1,50(1 barrels capacity provided for soft water needs of the bath rooms, kitchens, boilers and for all sterilizers. A private pressure water system was installed to supply soft water throughout the building. Each of the private bed rooms are approximately 10 by 12 foot in size. The main operating room is 16 by 20 ft. in size with the window' lighting to the north. The main operating room, the maternity room and the. main kitchen are provided with gas and electric lighting, to avoid being

I old order and that “like father, like l son,” still prevails. There is agreement on all sides that the American youth has gotten pretty well out of father’s hands. No one seems to agree upon the cause of ' it, and the public, as Kipling once told us we do, “turns to the instant need of things.” In other words, we are seeking a remedy for an admitted condition. Dr. Lyman Abbott in advocating a solution once said:

8k felk nggHig A--: ■ ■ MISS ROWENA SHOAF Miss Rowena Shoaf, who made her home witli the C. J. Lutz family for the past several years, was graduated from the Decatur Hight School With the class of ’l7, after which she entered the Lutheran Hospital for nurse’s training, and was graduated in 1920. Miss Shoaf was witli the General Electric at Ft. Wayne for eleven months and had been on special duty at Detroit, until she was called as surgical nurse for the Adams County Hospital.

in the dark, in the event the electric lights should fail at any time. QUAKER CON FERENCE Young Quakers Meet At Earlham College For Conference Richmond, July 30—The annual conference of young Quakers opened at Earlham college today with 400 members of the sect from ail parts of the Tinted States in attendance. The conference, according to leaders of the Friends Church will be the most important gathering since annual meetings for the purpose of teaching the history and policy of the church were instituted.

e [ ’’Though lam a member of nearly every pe/me society in America, I am s rapidly reaching the conclusion that n 1 a system of compulsory r: I:'.;ry servo | ice for a limited term would be of inf calculable benefit to the young men e of America and to the country as a t whole.” e Since the World War all thoughts d of compulsory military ed'i don have been anathema. Just why is not apa parent. Some hundred of million Americans should know by now that sometimes war is inevitable and that when it comes lucky is the nation which is prepared. The whole trouble is that the public has a vast misapprehension of the real purposes behind a military education. Most people insist upon seeing it as only war training, and that’s all wrong. Good Military Schools “The advantages derived from a military life for young men and boys are so many and so evident that par- | ents should grasp them eagerly for their sons,” states one authority on j the subject, “if the situation were 1 such as to compare the work of a | good military school with that, of a I civil school of high grade, or to watch the results obtained under those widely different systems, it is believ- | ed our military schools would bo I crowded.” The writer is not thinking in terms ’ of West Point or of compulsory mill- | tary education, but in advocacy of the | military school which takes a youth ‘ and prepares him for life or col.'ego. It is a system which, he states, “is ; calculated to develop self-reliance, a | manly and independent nature, per- j sonal neatness, etiquette, polished and I refined manners, a wholesome respect I for law and order, and the highest type of the American citizen.” What the Flipper Lacks In the modern military school, in fact, much less time is spent on mere

Vz” MISS NAOMI BUTLER Miss Naomi Butler, one of th ( > floor nurses, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Butler, of 301 North Fifth Street. Miss Butler attended and was graduated from the local high school in 1918 after which she attended the International Business College at Ft. Wayne, in 1919. She then entered training at the Lutheran Hospital, from which institution she was graduated in the spring of 1922. Miss Butler was one of the four of her class, who made the highest grades in the state examination at Indianapolis. She worked with Dr. Good, at Van Wert. Ohio, ak office nurse for eleven months ami since that time has been on private duty.

The list of speakers includes Roy Calvert. London: Howard Diamond. , ditor of the "Young Friend,” London and Gilbert Howies, a Quaker missionary who spent many years in Japan. The conference will continue until August Sth. A very unusual dinner frock combines a ros colored satin blouse with a black atin skirt, very much draped and very long. Smocking is associated with c-bil dren’s frock ; and artists' outfits, but now it is seen on some of the most i delicate satins and crepes for eveining wear.

drill than the public imagines. The average uninformed individual seems to consider the training as entirely physical, designed simply to make a man sit and walk erect and develop more or less precision of habit. The reverse is the case. The military school aims rather to train a youth in initiative, self-confidence and ability to do well all that his hands find to do, to take care of himself, to keep all the rules of hygiene rather than study tactics and to be more familiar with the respect and regard due constituted

authority than with the manual of arms. Some one has called military schools "Missionaries of M a n h o o d.” Judged by this definition given by Charles W. Larned, noted educator and historian, the title is apt: "The military school trains for character and for the State. It syste-

matically develops the body, and ft educates the mind along a consistent line for the double purpose of clear thinking and effective practical work. It exercises the character in discipline of action, habits of subordination to lawful authority, strict personal accountability for word and act, truthtelling, integrity and fidelity to trust, simplicity of life, courage.” In analyzing that definition it is pretty apparent it embraces about everything the flipper lacks. 1