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, churloß E,xey re,urned last ! M "' r™m a several days' o« liu »‘ < ‘’’T" Merrv ' ‘* !l,,se al Ro, “ e CWy ; * ntll \ Mrs W. W. Pool, of An Mr ' “"V spending the week end , <l'' r! "’" 1 n n Clark and family. , runes B- Dlalr and Miss Anglo . MrS ntd last evening from St. nrkß . Ohio "here thcy atteuded th ’ ' Z.“ ■»" ; W X w" 1 "’ u °" 1 " nr 1 2 last tevening from Muncie Nor- , to speUd a few weeks with her Sher. Mrs. Maude Dorwln. hefot . ■ entertained Depauw University. C H. Snyder, of Wren, Ohio, was a business visitor here today. Mrs Kate Wilmington returned hum ; today from Toledo, Ohio, where .. L has been visiting her son. Vt ill | Wilmington and family She has been jn health for sometime, but is ( now much improved. The Misses Margaret Zwlck, Mar-| caret Laukgenau aud Messrs. Bob j-reeby and Bob Helm will motor to Crooked Lake Sunday to spend the day- „ , Mrs. E. F. Gass, and children, Carl, Beatrice and Hilly and Mr. and Mrs. V .1. Borman will leave tonight on a motor trip to Clinton, lowa', where (hey will be the guests of Mr. and j Mrs. M. B. Borman. p J. Darkless returned last evening from Mt. Clemons, Michigan where he spent several days. Mrs. R. Kueblcr ami •‘••on Jack.' who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Miller for the past two weeks, returned to their home at Detroit. Mieh.. today. Miss Dorothy Mil |,r accompanied them for a mouth's visit. Mrs. Will Helm, and sons, of Ft. Wayne, are spending the week end with relatives here. Mr; Elizabeth Gregory and daughter Jirene, went to Ft. Wayne to spend the day visiting friends. Mrs. Stephen Miller, of Ft. Wayne, is visiting relatives here over the week end. Miss Naomi Meyer and Harold Frazier will spend the week end with the Eli Meyer family at Clear Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Ves Venis have gone to Defiance, Ohio, they will spend a few days wishing relatives. The Corinthian class of the Christian church will have a corn roast al j the home ot J. E. Anderson, Tuesday evening. The public is eordi.>'y in vited. Mrs. R. J. Holthouse and daughter Florence will go to Chicago Sunday fora visit with Mrs. B. C. Lynch and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher and daughter Esther Lucille, left today for Springfield, Ohio, where they will visit for one week with Mrs. Fisher’s Hster, .Mrs. George Methls. Mrs. C. 11. Hammell arrived home today from a week's visit at Sturgis, Mich., and Howe, Indiana, where she visited with relatives. Rev. J. A. Seimetz. rector and Rev. Otto Peters, assistant pastor of the St. Mary's Catholic church returned from Notre Dame where the attended the annual retreat of the clergy of th Ft. Wayne diocese Herman Heinrich, laborer. Fort Mayne, 32, to Anna Hinck, Decatur route 4, 24 "*" « ———w— u i ii ■

- — ■ ■ .!■ — i mrap* duxtuk THREE THINGS TO DO 1 Build a Savings Account 2 Carry Life Insurance 3 Own Your Home I i f' I 1 A Savings Account is the first step. 11 will help you nnel the payments on your insurance. It will help you own a home. |k I Jwlr WsCKational Bank ' . Oapitrd find Surplus $120,000.00 k \ SXecqturJLndiana

Albert Heckmann, farmer, 27, to , Clara Keifet, teucher, 26, both of Preble township. Miss Rose Christen returned tills afternoon, from a several days outing at Ute F. B. France c ottage at Lake James. Evelyn June is the name of the eight pound girl horn to Mr. and Mrs. Felix Graber at the home of the latter's parents, Mr. aud Mr? L. L. 'Jerryman. Mother and bube arc getting along nicely. Mrs. Levi Shafer and daughter. Mrs. Wayne Gaunt, of east of the city were choppers here today. The Misses Mary and Helen Vogelwede went jo Toledo, Ohio, ‘bis afternoon to spend several days with their jaunt, Mrs. C. 11. Vhl. Julius Heidman, of Washington township, wus a bitsin ss visitor in I this city this morning, j Mrs. WiH’iuu Roop, nt Blue Crook I township, was a shopper hern today, j Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Pumphrey will I have as their guests tomorrow, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Chew and (laugh ter. Virginia, of Mansfield, Ohio. Mrs. Frank Spade, of Peterson, was a visitor in the city today. Earl B.v-liburi; tent to Mw Uns !>■ Ito day > spend the we k e-d with (friends. NEGROES ARE MOVING HO f 00,000 Said To Be Seeking Work In Northern Industrial Centers Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 21.- The Souih to Cay is in the throes of its second great crisis—an economic revolt acalhst tradiitons and conditions. The boll wovil has stampeded th negro and with the unorganised, or-d-rly exodus, hundreds of farm and factory hands daily, is going the plentiful labor supply, low wages and iiife of comparative leisure which lie Southland has enjoyed since before the first great crisis—the Civil war over the freedom of the negro. Agricultural experts, bankers and I students of economics view the situjation with some alarm, at estimates from official and unofficial sources show that 400,000 negroes—men, women and children —are searching for the end of the rainbow in Northern industrial centers. The feeling of apprehension is for the south —where the cotton and tobacco planter hes been forced to pay higher wages for labor in. the face of a doubtful profit on his crop—and for the north where congestion already is being experienced and lower wages are in prospect. Plantation owners and land holders are daily being brought face to face with the fact that they, their sons and neighbors are going to have to go out into the field to help pick the cotton and otherwise tend the crop. Negro Gives Up Fight The negro for years has worked for the whites as a “crop-sharer," doing the labor under the plantation owner’s supervision and assistance and divid- ■ i»ii tain I ■(■■in* « ■■■ ■« ■ ■- r«ni n; on. -

ing the procnods. But the boll wevil, a tiny Insect which bores into the j “square” of the cotton plant and destroys the product with resulting fl uuncial loss, has bored into the soul of the negro worker. He has given nil the fight against an enemy he doesn't understand and lost the long hope that next year or the next he will bo able to produce a crop that will puy him dividends. The Sixth Federal Reserve Bank in Its last monthly review shows that n ; serious farm labor shortage exists in I Florida "on account of the migration of labor to northern cities,” in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Ten- , nessee. The cities also are beginning to feel the shortage. The same situation Is reflected in South Carolina. The extent of the migration is difficult to determine because in many states, authorities have made no effort to check the number of negroes answering the call of the north and some even deny a migration is underway. Georgia Suffers In Georgia, where the state department of labor has kepi detailed statistics since the exodus first began, more than 100,000 negroes have left the state so far this year. The exodus la still under way and one state official said today that for the last three months an entire car of negroes headed from the cotton fields has been attached daily to the train on which he rides out of Atlanta to his home. South Carolina officials have figures showing 55,000 negroes have gone out of that state. The oxodus has been at the rate of 4.000 monthly and from tile city of Columbia alone 6,500 la-[ borers have gone out. Reliable estimates covering Alabama show that 60,000 left the state last! yea,- and the rate this year has been ' 0.m.'0 negroes a month. The average now has dropped to about 100 a day,’ however. The total to date this year Iris been nearly 40,000. In Mississippi approximate! • 3'),o9<H negroes have sang a farewell to Dixie, | according to reports from oflhials of the railroads. These same sources in| dicate that the exodus has slowed down appreciable of late and many are returning to their former homes. Arkansas has lost over 3.000 ne- , groes since the middle of January, State Labor Commissioner T. A. Wilson said. Whites and Mexicans’ have come into Arkansas on the heels of the ne- ■ groes, Wilson said, and as a result no labor shortage is being expericne- ; ed. Wilson attributed low wages as the cause of the migration. Saved By Oil Fields Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texad have not been so hard hit as other south- ■ ern States. The oil fields in these sections, with the resultant prosperity and era of plenty, *have counteracted the lurid descriptions of life in the' ■ big industrial centers. Tennessee has contributed less to i the exodus, state officials say, than any other state. The department of labor estimates that only 4x500 blacks have deserted their homes in that • section and a number of these have returned. Memphis has been one of the heaviest losers, but the decline Fas been made up for to some extent by drawing workers from the fields. Bankers, chamber of commercial officials and others, divided as to the cause of the exodus, mainly agree that the boll weevil has disturbed the Southland's economic structure, as Other reasons cited are the prowell as ruined the cotton plants. < mishes of an easy existance, high wages and letters from the vanguard which migrated last year picturing in I rosy hues a new social plane and improved housing and living conditions. Blames the Whites The white man has only himself to blame, in the view of Bishop J. S. Flipper, of the Afro-Methodist Episcopal church of Atlanta. The negro is going north to get protection for life and property, better living conditions .-‘nd higher wages." Labor officials now are not so concerned with the cause, however, as with the result. Higher wages in the' cities are becoming effective rapidly 1 and with the cotton season but a few' j weeks off, farmers already are entering upon the open market for labor.' Where they once paid the negro $lB a month or a chance to work on a j share-cropping, they are now offering ,$1 a day while in the cities from $2.50 to $3.50 is being paid for the negroc’s 1 services. ★ Sonic : tales have taken steps Io combat the exodus by restricting the' work of labor agents. Excessive li-| cense fees are demanded and agents found operating without licenses are subjucl to lines and other penalties, I !iu Georgia, North Carolina and Ala-' bania. but the South general is doing little to prevent its once greatest, problem, becoming the problem of the North. |

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1923.

AUTO LICENSES WILL BE HIGHER 1924 Licenses To Cost As High As 200 Per Cent More Than In 1923 Increase in the cost of 11124 automobile license, in some cases amount Ing to two hundred percent more than the 1923 foe. were made known with the release of a table of comparison) of 1923 and 1924 license fees. Auto mobile owners will find their 1924 license fees for touring cars deter mined by both the horse power ot their engine and the weight of theft < ars, while the eoat of truck licenses in Zes is authorized by a bill passed by the last legislature. lu the case ot the touring car, the weight of the car is to be the same as stated by th< manufacturer. Touring cars are divided into thre< largo classifications in determining tlie 1924 fees. The first divisions con cents cars less than 25 horse power. In 1923 the licenses for all cars of thi: class cost five dollars. The 1924 lie enscs for cars in this class range from SB.OO to $17.00, depending upon the weight of the car. The fee for car; weighing less than 2,000 pounds til ss.oo, for cars weighing from 2.00 f to 2500, $12.00; for cars weighing f.oni 2500 to 3000, $14.00? for cars’ weighing 3,000 or more, $17.09. The second < lassificntfon concern. Cits having more than 25 horsepower r.d less than 40 horsepower. Tile 192:' j license fee for all cars included 1:, this ilmcs was SB.OO. The 1921 cost ;i. ibdeAined by weight as follows,’ , l-'ss than 2500 pound . $14.00; 2500 t 3 ’o'l pounds. $17.00; 3009 to 3300 pou r is, $2 ).9O; 3500 tii 4000 pounds. $22! |0 >; 1000 pounds or more. $24.00. The third classification incltnb 1 .; cars of 40 horsepower or more, n ( I this class there is little change b cost of fees. The 1923 fee for all car | of this class was from $20.00 to $30.00t ,F;ir < ars included in this elass weigh ii'g less than 3500 pounds the fee is $21.00; for cars weighing from 2500 to 1 )00 pounds, $27.00; for cars weigh--4000 pounds or more, $30.00. License fees for electric cars were increased from $5.00 to SB.OO. Truck Licenses License fees for trucks of one-half ton capacity or less were increased from $6.00 to $10.00; trucks of more than one- half ton and less than one ton capacity, fee remains at $15.00 more than -one ton and less than two ton increase from $15.00 to $20.00; two ton to three and one-half ton increase from $25.00 to $50.00; three and one-half ton to five ton capacity are to be licensed at a cost of 25.00. Under the old law these trucks were not allowed on the roads. B The 1921 plates have orange color numerals on a black enameled background and present a pleasing appearance. They were made by the National Colortype company, of Newport,Ky. — • FUTURE OF GERMANY Country Must Pay Attention To Teaching Os Eugenics Berlin, Aug .24. —One hundred years from today Germany will either have a population of 200.900,000 cr be a Russian province, according to Professor Dr. Grobcr of Jena university. Pointing out the rapid strides being made in England, the United States aid South American countries in the matter of eugenics, Dr. Grober declares unless Germany wakes up to I the m ed of spreading information on tliis subject Germany is due to national extinction. "It will be necessary for us, if wo do not wish to entirely withdraw from the battle of peoples, to interest ourselves in the spreading of eugenic knowledge," Dr. Grober said, "otherwise we will cither disappear or become a meaningless people. We wilt .cither have a populatiou of 399,900,|O9O of bocoinc a Russian provinces .within tin: next 100 years. | "Nowhere in Germany are the uni I versifies and schools of higher education interesting themselves in Hie matter of maintaining the German racial stock. Tlie example of England and her colonies. North America, the ,Latin countries of South America and more recently Sweden and the re■suits of endeavor should awaken Ger'many. We at Jena are taking an initial step in the right direction—in an effort to purify and lengthen ImI course in eugenics which we hope man life. We have ostiiblished a .will be the forerunner of similar l<oursen throughout Germany. Our national existence depends upon how we. take hold," . Buy your tires and tubes, 'gas and oil at Bennetts. Phone [ 199. 190-eod-tf

o_ ; o Testament Re-written In “Americanese” o__ —— <5 (United Press Service) Chicago. Aug. 24—(Special to Dally Democrat)—Th,e entire New Testa-i ment, including the Lord's Prayer, has for the first time been translated and re-written in "Americanese.” Dr. Edgard J. Goodspeed, head of the New Testament department of I the University of Chicago, today an-j nounced completion of the remarkable work which offers the Bible to the public in the language of everyday life. Expressions of the ancient Greek and passages sometimes regarded as not clear, are discarded. In their' place appear “expressions of the ■street.” Children are “born” instead of being "begat.” How a policeman arrests a man or woman is told much is it is related in the present day daily press. In making public his new version >f tlie Testament, written with tho lid of ancient papyri, Dr. Goodspeed issertcd that it was his intention to make it understandable to the "flapper or the bricklayer as well as the biblical student and popularize the Holy Book so that it will be "thumb j worn’ instead of ‘shclfworn’.” Probably the most striking of tho ranslations is the professor s translation of the Lord's Prayer- It reads: "Our Father in Heaven, Your Kingloin come. Give us today bread for he day, and forgive us our debts as I we have forgiven our debtors, and du >ot subject us to temptation but save s from tlie evil one." Matthew's description of Jesut calking on the water is dealt with ir | he form of newspaper narrative. I. mils: “When Hi'-y got ir. o the boat the wind wont down. And the men in l lu boat fell before Him and said: " ‘You are certainly God's son.' ' The beatitudes begin: “Blessed arc they who feel their \ i spiritual needs, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them. r “Blessed are the mourners, for they will be consoled.” A passage from the crusifielion: “Even the robbers who were cruci- I • tied with Hi n abc-ed Him in tho| ■ same way “‘Eloi! Eloi! Lerna Sabachtheni?' (My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?) “Some of the bystanders when the? heard it said: • “’The man is calling for Elijah,' ' “And one of them ran off at once and got a spronge and soaked it in I 1 sour wine and put it on the end of a stick and held it up for Him to drink. But the others said: “ ‘Let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.' " Dr. Goodspeed declared that the bible should be re-written every so often so that is could be revised tc the language of the day. CHICKEN DINNER it Smiths Grove, half mile south of Monroeville. Everybody welcome. 18-24-25 __o Plenty of quality coal at the right price, at Bennett's Coal, Yard. Phone 199. 190eodtf|

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