Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR PALLY DEMOCRAT >II I I Publlßk«| Kvery Evtnlafl Bccapt Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pres. and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe—Vlce-Prea. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouze—Sec’y and Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription' Rates Single copies * cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier *SOO One Month, by mall 35 cents Three Months, by mail *IOO Six Months, by mall 11-75 One Year, by mail * 3 -°0 One Year, at office *3.00 (Prices quoted are within flrat and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter * Company. 12! Michigan Avenue, Chicago FUth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Life Building, Kansas City, Mo Henry Ford has a reserve ot $210,000,000 and don't know what to do with it. Nq wonder he is thinking seriously of getting into polities. He can spend it there. Merchants will co-operate with the managers of Discovery Day auto races by giving tickets of admission with purchases of goods. That's the right spirit. Help those who are trying to make things go. It always pays in the long run and in many ways. The managers of the DempseyFirpo light have an advance sale of tickets for nearly a million. Now if some one will make them restore to the banks out in Shelby, Montana, the thousands which wrecked those institutions, the fight game will be in better standing. Ernie Haines, road house proprietor at Fort Wayne has bumped into the real thing. He was brought up before a federal judge in Toledo Saturday and when he plead guilty was bound over under a $30,000 bond which he has so far failed to give and is languishing in the Lucas county jail. All efforts to have the bond re duced have failed and Ernie will probably have to dance this time. The best way to keep a community together is to keep things worth while moving. If the people are interested in the upbuilding of a city and county they have less time to devote to destructive matters. Don't tear down or destroy our opportunities to make this a better place in which to live. A long, strong pull together‘by broad minded people is the surest way to progress. If yon have any other idea you are wrong. Save the roads. That’s one sure way to help save on expenditures and keep the tax rate down. If you cut the roads to pieces, of coursse it takes much more to repair them and during the next six or seven months every citizen should remember that. If it takes less work and less material to put the roads in condition next year, just that much less w4ll have to be raised. It's all up to us as citizens. There is still hope that the country not going to the bow wows. Marie Price, the fifteen year old Fort Wayne girl who has been getting a lot of notoriety recently and who was billed to appear on the burlesque stage at Cleveland has been spanked and sent home. She was dated for last Sunday but Saturday was arrested by the juvenile officer and taken before Judge Adams who gave her the choice ot going to her home and staying there as a decent girl or spending the next few years in the girl’s reformatory. She went hone weeping. Now if her ma will take her over her knee and then hand her a brom and a dish cloth she may come out ot it. Any way the public won't have the opportunity to make her think she is a heroine. The city tax rate will be reduced eleven cents over the present rate, this being the decision made last evening The new rate is seventysix cents as compared to eightyseven cents last year and Mayor DeVoss this morning certified that rate to the county auditor. The action of

the council 18 most commendable and shows the right spirit and a desire to reduce the upward climb of taxes which has been prevalent for several years because of constant demands, r. r The township rate has also been rer - duced five cents on the hundred, u f( worth while accomplishment. The officers have reduced the budgets in the city and township to the lowest • possible penny and these rates will a i) no doubt stand. The city reduction » means a SIO,OOO cut in funds availj 5 able but those in charge feel sure > they will be able to meet every obit- ) I gation. The Daily Democrat has accepted a Newsparfer Association Membership in the National Highways Association (Washington. D. C.) with which are affiliated two hundred and two road associations and organizations. It stands, not for any particular road, but for Good Roads Everywhere, through the establishment of 1 National Highways. The motor and : motor truck have come to stay. The ! farmer of twenty years ago on an isolated mud-wallow, miscalled a road, who today lives near a hard surface road and drives his ’car to town and back in an hour where formerly he required a day, knows what roads and ears mean to him. Good roads mean prosperity; they mean progress; they mean education; they mean a full life, worth living; they mean the greatest amount of goods purchased for the least amount of haulage; they mean greater profits from farm produce because they cost less to haul over good roads. Good roads everywhere mean prosperity and happiness everywhere. That is why we have become a News paper Association Member of the Association which will eventually produce Good Roads Everywhere! * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ * * ♦ From tho Daily Democrat fllaa 4 ♦ 20 years ago this day ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•* Sept. 11.— Prosecutor Moran Cles criminal case No. 1748, state of Indiana vs. Joseph Osborn, murder. Clover Leaf begins building switch to Krick-Tyndall tile mills. Twenty teams added to force buiidig traction grade and camp is estabUsed at Monmouth. Contract for heating plant for court house awarded to Theodore G. Scheid of Bluffton, Ohio for $2,199. Albert Acker of the Burt House is visiting at Van Wert. Miss Rose Fulleukamp is visiting Miss Alice Wall at Bluffton. Tom Railing arrives from Dallas, Texas where he was a leading twirier in Texas league. Citizens Telephone company receives 65 foot poles for Monroe street cable. Miss Grace Miller goes to Chicago to resume studies at Chicago Music college. COMPANION PICTURES Awake, O steeper, thy savior prays! Danger is drawing near! Could'st thou not watch oue little hour? Hast thou no word of cheer? Thy friend hath a cruel, treacherous, foe, That eeketh li r m even now; t Could'st thou not guard the outer gate When blood-drops bathe his brow? If olive trees give sheltering shade And earth an alter ot stone, Could'st thou not watch? O sleeper 1 awake! Thy friend prays—all alone, t Alone forgotten by those who vowed Faithfulness unto the'end; ’ Alone he must drink the bitter cup, But he longs for a human friend. I s—s—s—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s S—S—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—*

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Trousers and Their H Upkeep In Figures i "" Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 11.—Trousers worn by Marquette University i students here cost SIBO,OOO a year. i It costs only *1.25 to hold them up. 1 This is a part of the startling inL formation given out through a paini phlet issued recently by the University press to its advertisers in the 1 city. The report was compiled by • students in different departments ot > the school and shows that $2,500,000 . is a conservative estimate for the total buying power of the student body of 4,300. Because of the many social func--1 tions at which the students want to ' appear in their best, clothes make up ■ the biggest item, which is $180,040, , while only $1,125 is spent for belts, suspenders, safety pins and other contrivances to hold up trousers. Eight thousand six hundred pairs of shoes are worn out every year, which adds about $55,900 to the total It costs students $8,600 more to keep their hands warm and free from being chapped, and $10,500 for hats and caps. Neckties add another $15,000 and their underwear increase thf amount by $27,000. About $21,000 is paid out for handkerchiefs. Although there are but few coeds at the university, the reports without itemizing the different kinds of clothing, says it costs about $650,000 to keep Marquette coeds in style during a school year. Soap is listed at costing $4,300, while shaving cream comes to around SB,IOO. The report figures that each student pays out about $1 a year for talcum. This, bf course, does not include the coeds. According to the report Milwaukee theatres get about $125,000 worth of business during the school year, while confectioners get something like $43,000. Cigarette are also a big item, being listed at $78,750, and other tobacco at SIO,OOO. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse A. Swartz and daughter Lola, Miss Mary Bauman and Mrs. Luther Hower motored to Winona Lake Sunday to attend the United Brethern conference. EVANGELICAL BROTHERHOOD ENTERTAINED LADIES ROYALLY About fifty were present last evening at the Evangelical church when the Mens Brotherhood entertained the ladies in a most entertaining way. In the absence of Mr. Runyon, president, who was detained at home on account of the condition of Mrs. Runyon who was injured in a fall recently, Mr. Hocker was in charge of the meeting. The regular business of the brotherhood was taken care of first in an open meeting. Mr. L. L. Baumgartner gave a short talk on “gumption,” which proved very interesting and clever. Rev. R. W. Loose also gave a short talk on “Going Forward,” which was appreciated by all. The ladies were then called on for a few words, and a few of them responded with clever stories. At - the close of the meeting the “eats” committee, with Sam Black, chairman, served a delicious lunch.

Here’s a box of 4FW Fall Underwear gT and your name is fl JgS on the cover! WIHr, IT -wfAujnpa Il’s y° nr weight in warmth—your length in ' e ß s your kind of sleeves and below the neck there is room for your chest. j ' 11 A In fact, it’s so like you that were your MolhAX. cr ol ‘ Wife to hold up one of these garments un- ! folded, she would exclaim—“ Why, that is John’s w> i size exactly.” ff i Your price loo—for we figure you orc a ; reasonable man and these prices are reasonable. ■ Come in and toast your shins! wa jWI ‘““T. . Vuio . n . Sui . u sl-00 10 $3.50 W//■■: sl,l,l ?. i .' udUra 'T " . 50c51.00 \.W ' A little heavier Hose ’> II A little jauntier Caps. I TefuvT'Myecb Ge J BETTER CLOTHES FOR LESS J MONEY-ALWAYS—- • DECATUR • INDIANA*

Bluffton Boys Try To Run Huntington Youths Out of City Bluffton, Sept. 11.—Chief of Police Henry Gebrett was called upon Sunday evening by citizens residing In the vicinity of Wabash and Oak streets, to disperse a gathering of Bluffton youths bent on running out of town some half a dozen Huntington lads who were here to call oa girl friends. Chief Gehrett says there were fifty of sixty of the Dufftou youths .they explained to the chief that they sought to even up scores with Huntington visitors in general, in retaliation for Bluffton boys having been chase out of Huntington recently. They admitted that the particular Huntington boys treed last tight were not specifically accused of participation in the Huntington affair, but it was proposed to make an example of them. Chief Gehrette succeeded in persuading the local youths to disperse without any violence. He told them and the Huntington boys that visitors to this city were to be afforded protection and the Bluffton boys were advised that if they went to Huntington and the "running out” tactics were tried again to appeal to the Huntington police for protection. MANY ELECTRIC LIGHTS — Percentage of Residents In Indiana Having Electricity Is High. Indianapolis. Sept. 11. —Percentage of residents of Indiana living in electrically lighted dwellings exceeds I greatly the percentage for the U. S. or the world, figures compiled here show. About 2,000,006 persons in Hoosierdom or two-thirds of the population live in electrically lighted dwellings. The U. S. stands first in the actual number of persons living in houses equipped with the übiquitous meter. Abe Lincoln's fireside study light has been discarded for Edison’s glowing hairpin by 39,000.000 Americans. Uncle Sam has a substantial corner on the telephones in the world, ( the figures indicate, with 11,000,000 j of the 22,000,000 existing telephones i vibrating to all manner of American patois, from flappers’ to farmers’ ] lingo. Less than 6,000,000 diaphrams quiver to the many tongues of Europe. ' i NOTICE Party taking package of Tyro Tape 1 and box of face powder from Mutsch- ' ler meat market Monday afternoon I is known Please return and avoid < complications. F. E. Keller, Monroe, Route 1.

FUNK’S SPEEDWAY WORLD'S FASTEST HALF MILE TRACK 2nd ANNUAL 100 MILE SWEEPSTAKES POSTPONED UNTIL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 35 WORLD’S FASTEST CARS ENTERED WINCHESTER, INDIANA

The People’s Voice Editor Democrat: There are many questions agitating the public mind. Some affect a person one way, some another. Some affect the pocketbook, some the children, but all are of interest. The prosperity of the farmer, or rather the lack of it, Is one of the much battered objectives. Tho two literal interpretation of every law maker elected to any law making body to proceed at onco to function brings forth the idea of why not missing an election or two, or, at least a few sessions, or instead of law’ makers why not elect a body of “repealers” as an experiment. With the beginning of the school term we are face to face again with that lluifning school question, vital to our children, ourselves as parents and as farmers. The question lias been raised, “are the rural schools being taught the right attitude towards life’s battles?” We witnessed many Bth grade failures in the exams last spring. This might not reflect on the teachers but would Indicate lack of thoroughness in preference to speed. Schools formerly were thorough.; Speed was unheard ofAnd again, what becomes of the rural high school graduates? They do not return to the farm. Do we not need I brains on the farm? What calls them from their native heath? JOHN SMITH, Farmer. o Elmo Ehinger and Bob Meyers will go to South Bend this evening where they will attend Notre Dame. FIERY, ITCHY SKIN QUICKLY SOOTHED WITH SULPHUR Rowles Mentho-Sulphur, a pleasant cream, will soothe and heal skin that is irritated or broken out with eczema: that is covered with ugly rash or pimples, or is rough or dry. Nothing subdues fiery skin eruptions so quick iy, says a noted skin specialist. The moment this sulphur prepara tion is applied the itching stops and after two or three applications, the eczema is gone and the skin is de lightfully clear and smooth. Sulphur is so precious as a skin remedy be cause it destroys the parasites that cause the burning, itching or dis figuremont. Rowles Mentho-Sulphur always heals eczema right up. A small jar of Metho-Sulphur may be had at any good drug store.

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