Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1923 — Page 4

DKCATim BAIL! DEMOCRAT Pub!l*b«* Cvery Evening Bxc«p» Bunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Hallot-—Pres. and Gen. Mgr S. W. Kampe— Vlce-Pree. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holttwuee— Sec y and Bus. Mgr But wed at the Postoffice at Decatur (udi uta, as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 8 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 16.01) One Month, by mail 86 cents Three Months, by mail H-00 Sir Months, by mall IJ-<6 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first anc second sones. Additional postage ad ted outside those rones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application Foreign Representative* Carpenter A Company, 18? Michigan Avenue, Chicago fifth Avenue Bldg., New York CltN * Lite Building. Kansas City, Me If we had a ten thousand dollar chest we could provide many improvement® ini the community and not effect the tax rate. A progressive community moves along. Tomorrow night Dempsey will get $250,000 for a few moments in the fistic ring and Flrpo will draw down $150,000. That’s four hundred thousand dollars from the public purse and yet we complain about the times. Most men would be pleased to have that much after forty years of service to mankind. “Before we can pay real dividends in our business we must pay dividends on said the speaker last night and that's true in Adams county if it is anywhere in the world. There may be a superficial prosperity in the industrial centers but in the farm communities there can’t be until the farmer ac tually is paid for his labors. Plans are baing discussed for a joint farmers and merchants gathering and we are for it. Such meetings are always of great benefit to those who participate. If we would meet oftener and talk over our problems they would be more easily solved. We can help each other if we know what to do. Let's work it out and have a real county meeting and decide on what is best for all of us and —then do it. Love and not hate is the cure for our ills just now. according to Mr. Kroh. Pray more and follow the Golden Rule was his advice and it is good now as it was two thousand years ago. Os course we will come through the trying times but we can come through sooner if we all help, if we all get our feet on the ground and keep them there. Mr. Kroh is coming back one of these days and we want everyone — farmer, merchant, manufacturer and laborer to hear fl|m and then we hope we all get busy and actually show the farmers of Adams county we are for them. Mr. Kroh who talked at the Industrial rooms last evening, startled his hearers and that's just what he was trying to do. It takes some hot shots to awaken the people these days and Kroh is the Billy Sunday of the farm problem. He talks plain and without any apolcgr'cs to any one tells those who listen to h‘m just where the fault lies. The farm problem is a serious one. Three million quit last year and five million will leave the soil this year to go to the shops and yet the farm is the basic producer of our wealth and is worth twice ” as much as all our other business. Those people are leaving the farms because farms are not profitable. That's the sad part of it. The shops attract the young men and the average age of the American farmer today is fortysix years. It's time we all got back ot the farmer and helped him solve his problems tor as Mr. Kroh says the best way to help ourselves is to do something for the other fellow. 4—W—■Wil— ■»! II—MM—"The sweetest grass Is on the other side of the fence; the prettiest g'rls arc over in the other village; (he best farm land is in sonic other i (immunity;, the only chance the farm boy has is to go to the city, and the only hope tor the city to get

ahead Is to go on the farm." This is the belief of many people says The Farm Journal;. "Where is the beat country in the whole world? Where are opportunities to get ahead the greatest? Where are .conditions just right to successful farming and happy living? Where should the young man go in order to make the greatest success? The answer is easy and quickly told; he shouldn't go at all. The best opportunities, and the best people in the whole world are at home. The best section of the: country Is the one where you reside r at this moment. It has taken yoir halt a Iffetime to make your many friends and establish your reputation j fcr honest dealing. Your neighbors are the ones you grew up with and one old friend and neighbor is worth a multitude of strangers. The loneliest place in the whole world is in a' crowd where you are unknown.! Heart breaking loneliness abides in he great city and never In the county. The best land is the land you are familiar with. The best methods of farming are those you grew up with. Eastern methods will surely fail in the West; northern methods are failures in the South and vice versa. Opportunities are all around you; success awaits you right at home and not at the end ot the rainbow-.” ■ • DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS WRITING THINGS "FOR BOYS LIFE” A man who has so won the loyalty as boys by his great screen work and has risen to such a position of eminence in his profession, as has Douglas Fairbanks, undoubtedly should ba nduced to give boys the benefit of lis experience by writing about those kings that have gone into the makng of his success. It has just been announced by the ”hies Scout Executive, James E. West, that Boys’ Life, the Boy Scouts magazine, has secured from Mr. Fairbanks the first of what Mr. West expects will be a series of articles. The 'rst of the series, "Youth Points the Way,” will appear in the November issue of the magazine. It is an arti■le that is bound to be read by every >oy who can get his eyes on it. This is but one indication of how the Boy Scouts of America is setting out to nake Boys' Life a magazine of unexcelled interest for all boys J:very where in the character of its special irticlues and humming fiction. COD ON BANK NOTES In the earlier history of this country the codfish was thought to be of mough importance to have his replica appear on thy colonial seal of Massechusetts, says Nature Magazine Years ago the bank notes of Nova Scotia had a codfish engraved on them, and also this pretty tribute, "Success to the Fisheries.” — o STRAIGHTLINE FROCKS Cloth of gold with very wide stripes of green, purple or flame color is used to make stunning straightline evening frocks. * WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND It’s when his wife is gone away And he’s alone, now, every «|ay. Needs some one to got his meals! Talk of apple cores and peals. He could run a cider mill! Thinks Ins'll save the grocer's bill For a while and then he geos To a restaurant and stowes Away enough to till asilo! Waiters smile —they’re not so slow, Second day, or third he tries To boil some beans, maybe fries i Some spuds and naturally forgets f About the sale—and likely lets . Them burn! You know, the average man Can do three things; open a can Os pork ami beans, a bottle of milk, B (If he's ot an especial ilk) □ And cqt an apple pjc in two. (Wifey always leaves a few.) But when it comes to guttln' meals. However confident he feels p That meal has got him on the run! 1 He never tries it more than once ; 'Less he'a a— several kinds of—- — dunce. But what's a Idler going to do? How on earth 'll he get through *i When his wife's away! •j (Cuhtinued touiujrow- N

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1923.