Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publish Every Evening Kacepl Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. < J. H. Hellei—Pres. and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe—Vice-Prea. & Adv. Mgr. A R. Holthouse— Bec'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 $5.00 One Month, by mall 36 cents Three Months, by mall ....SI.OO Six Months, by mall. $1.75 One Year, by mall $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices Quoted aro within first and second rones. Additional postage ad ded outside those sones.) ( Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company, 12J Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. T. Life Building,JKsnsas City, Mo i THE COUCH CASE:— By agreement with the state, Roy Couch, former custodian of the State- i house, was permitted to enter a plea of guilty to an indictment charging the presentation of a fraudulent claim, and Judge Collins sentenced him to serve from two to fourteen years in prison. No action was taken on an indictment charging the embezzlement of about $9,000 that is said to have belonged to the state. It is said that this charge, which might have resulted in a sentence of from two to twenty-one years, will be dismissed. There must have been a strange system of checks and balances at the Statehouse to permit the custodian to get away wifli as much money as the investigation by examiners indicated. Nobody knows how much state money Couch used. His bond was SIO,OOO, and when the examination showed that he had used up this much they quit, because no more than that could be recovered. The bonding company made good $9,878.16 of the shortage. It is estimated that during Couch's term as custodian he cost the state from $15,000 to $25,000. Items found in the investigation showed that the custodian let contracts at will, and at outrageous prices; that he bought such materials as electric lamps, cases of honeydew melons, barrels of apples, bags of potatoes, a carpet sweeper, etc. The sum of $7,000 was charged up in one yeap for cleaning the walls of the Statehouse, and it is known that Couch was not the only politician* who made a profit from that deal. Couch has been sent to prison and. happily for the taxpayers, the system has been changed by Auditor Bracken. Hereafter he will refuse to honor claims unless a receipt is signed by the person to whom the money is due. Formerly, the custodian could put in a bill for a large sum, have it paid, and divide the money as he saw fit. The new system will mean more work, but seemingly it is necessary to protect the public against possible fraud. —Indianapolis News. We need a number of improvements in this community—a comfort station or a rest room, a real place to extend welcome and courtesy to visitors —and we hope it is provided some way during the next few months. There are several other things of great importance. These things don't cost much but something. But there’s the question of hoW to get the money. If it is done by taxes it means a higher tax rate and we are opposed to that for nothing injures a town more than a high tax rate. Wo need a community chest —a fund raised for the use of the community. It should be in the hands of careful people who will not spend a dollar that doesn't come back many fold. Now the question is how can we beet raise a public fund, if you have a suggestion we will be glad to print it. Wo believe there is away to do this which will not injure any one and which will make the work a pleasure. If we can it will be great for we will go forward rapidly and wo will have the greatest community in the world if we work hand in hand. Yeti will find several real boosters for this cojninutffty if you call at the county hospital. The people who were injured in the auto wreck last Sat-

urday are loud in their praises for the people here and'declare the new hospital the most complete and the best conducted they have ever visited. Our people have offered every courtesy and extended every kindness to the unfortunate victims of the accident, thus displaying a right spirit. It always pays. Mr. Hoffman, one of the Injured is an expert interior docorator and says the color scheme at the new hospital is perfect, a fine compliment from one able to judge. Anyone who stops to think a moment knows that a community divided against itself is not as strong' as one which pulls together. It means so much to every one here just now that wo be united that we are sure you will keep your feet on the ground We are just at the place where we will go forward and become a real place where people can live happily and prosperously or we will be just a town. We have labored for many years to reach this point and we hope the good people of Adams county will help in a progressive way to upbuild rather than destroy. If the stories which now creep out

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r over the state from Indianapolis are v true and it begins to look as though B they were the increased tax rate '■ which will raise millions of dollars V is not surprising. Developments in l ' the next few wgeks according to 5 rumors will show many leaks and a I- tendency towards extravagance rathe, er than the promised economy. r • t ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ From the Dally Democrat flloa ♦ ♦ 20 years ago thio day ♦ Sept. 12.—Judge K. K. Erwin orS ders special grand jury to indict Joe 8 Osborn for murder of bis father-in-v law. > e J. R. Graber re-appointed superinI tendent of county farm and T. 11. c Ernst custodian of court house. Kingmore wins free-for-all pace at II Van Wert and Virgil C. takes 2:25 y pace at Montpelier. it John Everett and fifty-nine others y file petition to macadamize Thirteene th street. H Otto Bluhm moves cigar factory to | Rice biulding, Third and Monroe. 1 Frank Jackson disappears and I search istituted over middle west. Berne saloon men offer to quit bust iness if remonstrators will reimburse

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