Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J, H. Heller—Pres, and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe— Vice-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse —Secy and Br.s. Mgr. Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatur, Indian*, as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies * cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrl-r S6OO One Month, by mall 36 cents Three Months, by mall SIOO Six Months, by ma 11... $1.75 One Year, by mail $3 00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage ad ded outside those tones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter A Company. 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Ute Building, Kansas City, Mo With the state rate fixed at 30 cents on the hundred dollars, yielding nearly sixteen million dollars in revenue next year, there ought to be some way to object to the spending of this colossal amount, the most of which goes for overhead. In Oklahoma the legislature is going to decide if their governor is to be ousted, while in Indiana, the re publican state committee will decide the matter for the people. What's the use of having a legislature when the committee can do the work? President Coolidge has made his first speech, addressing the Red Cross convention yesterday and now j his political bosses and C. Bascom • Slump will attempt to tell a few things what the president stands and . does not stand for. His speech con- < tained less than one thousand words and lie failed to outline his course as to foreign affairs. The rains have let up for a few i days and the beautiful fall days seem to be with us. The corn crop is rip- ( cuing and the harvest days will soon j be here. It's the beautiful time of the year when the open country seems to i beckon you and when those who love nature as God made it like to get out in the woods and enjoy the beauties at hand. i To V'' sure, it costs more for state oil inspectors to drive about in automobiles than to travel by train or trolley, but just think how much better they like it! Nor should the beneficial to the politicians—effect of more intimate political contact be forgotten.—The Indianapolis News. One of the reasons that the state tax rate was increased for next year. Most people, at least those who pay taxes believe in keeping down public expenses, consistent with good government and in reducing the tax rates to the lowest possible level and when public officials strive to do this, due credit should at least be given. In Decatur, the city's rate was reduced eleven cents on the hun- ' dred dollars, making a saving of over $10,000.00 to the taxpayers and even it you want to find fault you should at least give the council and Mayor! DeVoss credit for striving to do the right thing. The city's rate is lower than that of any nearby town, which shows that the local officials have acted in the interest of the taxpayers. A man who spent twenty-live thousand dollars for a house and contents I and refused to spend a hundred dollars to stop the leak in the roof, which spoiled both, would be eonsid- > ered a tool. But there are many counties and many states which spend from ten to twenty-five thousand dollars a mile for a good road, and refuse the hundred dollars a year needed to keep it in perfect order. The time to begin to repair a good road is the day it is opened for traffic. Homely philosophy says that a stitch in time saves nine, and road experience proves that a bucket of oil, a little sand, a few rocks, and a man with a shovel now can save the expense of a whole road gang and expensive machinery later. The modern road consists of a foundation course of ttouc a smaller, lighter course on ♦ n p. a veering course of

still smaller stones, a binder of oil and sand, and perhaps a top dressing of the same. As long as the struct ture is complete, the road will wear. Hut let time, or a too heavy load, or ' frost, or some other cause, dig a hole . through the wearing course into the foundation, and the "bad spot” will begin to “ravel.” Stones will break away and roll down in the ditch, the surface will disintigrate and in. a comparatively short time a large and rough hole appears, A good road is no better than its worst mile. A mile of holes and ruts cuts down the usefulness of ten miles of good road. To repair a large hole costs much money. To inspect the road often and stop up the little hole when it starts is very inexpensive. The greatest city tire in history could have been put out by a child with a cup of water if found in time. So can the worst possible damage to roads be inexpensively prevented, if the maintenance is begun in time. —National Highways Association. The Decatur Chapter No. 112 R. A. M. will confer the Royal Arch degree Tuesday evening, September 25. All members are requested to be present 226t2 L. C. HELM, H. P. Something to Think About. "Goin’ to law," said Uncle Eben, "is mighty apt to be a trip dat don' let you know whah you's g'ine or when vou’ll git back." —o —- ++++++++ + ++ + + + + 4- TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY + <• ♦ + From the Daily Democrat files + 20 years ago this day + + ■!•+ + +♦ + ♦+-+ + + ♦ + More than -10,000 paid admissions ' to the fair during the four days, is is officially announced. B. E. Baker of Chicago, is visiting in Decatur. Miss Arnedia Weicking, Miss Justice Cook and Miss Florentine Wald, if Bluffton visit here. Rev. Mygrant and family of Wolcottville, visit the J. T. France family. Howard Dorsett Company are playing at the Bosse and pleasing big crowds. Twenty-five photos for 25 cents at the new gallery over Burns harness store. James Girard and wife of Fort Wayne are vititing here R. E. Stone and wife of Muncie are attending the fair. Marriage licenses —Lawrence Entry and Ada. Kiser; Joseph Kobin and Margaret Kelley. ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. Whom Angels praise let men adore. Let reverence adound; Salvation's pearly gates swing wide. Let sin no more be found. Let friendship flourish, goodness grow. Let sorrow be no more; Let everything that lives rejoice, Peace reign from shore to shore. Archangels gladly do His will, Let men walk in His ways; They are redeemed and happy now Who served Him all their days. As in the Heavens, so on earth, Father try will be done; Let earth to Heaven be conformed, 'Til Heaven and earth are one.

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1| CHILD CRIMINALS s ■' -'Juvenile Criminality Increased Since War In France r (United Pre.. Service) , Paris, Sept. 25 —Juvenile criminality has increased to such an extent' in France since the war that efforts 1 to combat it will probably be discusst ed in parliament when the chamber ) is convened after the vacation period. t In 1913, the number of child delta- . quents who appeared in the special courts was 1.924. In 1918, it had rls- ' cn to nearly 4.000 and in 1922 to 5,800. Meanwhile the population has been ■ decreasing. If this increase is not , stopped the next generation of Frenchmen will be 50 per cent apaches. ' “When there is no home-life there 1 is no morality,” said Dr. Roger Dupony, assistant director of the department of mental hygiene at the St. Anne Hospital, in explaining the causes of this phenomenon. "During the war the father was at the front, the mother was in the munitions factories. the children were in the streets. Those children, and especially the children born in that frightful period, growing up in the midst of lamentations, cries of despair, listening to tales of slaughter, acquired a sense of the littleness of hnman life. “They watched death in all its forms and grew familiar with it. Life has lost for them its pre-war value. Moreover, a wind of immorality swept through the nation in consequence of the family disorder into which the war plunged us. As happens after all great cataclysms, the national organism remains profoundly upset. There is a general commotion, one of the results of which is a general breaking down of moral forces, a weaken- < ing of the moral fibre.” Moral education in the schools, the suppression of the disastrous influence of example and the treatment of children as children and not as young men and women are the remedies recommended by Dr. Dupouy. , e BABy SEX PROBLEM Old Problem of Determining Sex of Baby Before Birth Nearing Solution By Carl D. Groat (U. I’. Staff Correspondent) Berlin IBy Mail to United Press). —The age-old problem of determining beyond peradventure in advance the sex of a bay is near solution. While the “stethoscope method.” recently reported, is almost infallible, it sometimes reports a girl instead of a boy and vice versa. Hence, German medical experts are now occupying themselves with achieving a system biologically perfect. Dr. Ernst Graefenberg, Berlin's foremost gnecologist .revealed to tne United Press details ot' a new “serum" akin in its application to the famous Tuberculin" test, which he believes will make it possible to tell months in advance of births when the offspring will be male of female. Graefenberg's scrum is developed from certain glanduler secretions of male and female. ]f the male serum is applied and fails to react, the chances are that the forthcoming baby is female; but then the female scrum is applied and gives a definite reaction it proves the sex of the baby. This process is reversed to determine a boy baby. Mrs. Jennie Fuhrman, of Marion, Ohio, was a guest of Mrs. D. D. Heller. Sunday. • 4

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GREAT AIR MEET ; International Air Races To Be Held In St. Louis, Oct. 1,2, and 3 St. Louis, Sept. 25.—The International Air Races to be held at St. I Louis, October 1, 2. and 3, will bring together the world’s greatest aviators and all who are interested In aeronautics as a means of transportation. In order to insure the holding of the races there, St. Louis was foreed to outbid other cities by constructing a new flying field at a cost of $209,000. Cash prizes of $13,300 and silver and gold trophies worth over $50,000 are offered, the winners. The races will be preceded on September 29 and 30 by an aeronautic exposition, in which famous aircraft will be shown. These exhibits will include the Barling Bomber, the largest airplane in the world, recently launched at Dayton, Ohio; the ZR-1, the first American Zeppelin ever built, whose exploits have lately filled the press, and many other interesting and notable feautres. The largest searchlight in the world, of 1,200,000,000 candlepower; the Mummert, smallest air plane ever built; ten night-flying airplanes and pilots of the U. S. Air Mail Service, who will fly to St. Louis in formation; and the famous T-2, which made a non-stop flight of 2,700 miles from New York to San uiego,, California, will bo shown during the meet. The races proper Will open with the On-to-St.-Louis race, in which airplanes from all parts of the United States will fly to St. Louis, cash prizes totaling SI,OOO and two silver ! trophies being awarded the winners, j The finish of this race will take place , on September 30, The United States Army and Navy have entered 57 of their best flyers and their most reprenentative types of aircraft for the races and will have large squads of enlisted men encamped at the field to assist with the arrangements.

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A POPULAR GAMBLER Man Loses Eleven Million France In , 2 Hourt And 20 Minutes Deauville, Sept. 26—Nobody in this Normandy coast resort knows his name or his origin, hut he's the most popular man who ever sat in the| Casino at the gambling hours. He speaks English. Spanish. French, Russian and half a dozen lesser known tongues with equal fluency. He is believed to be a South American. He was playing at one of the baceaiat tables when suddenly he got up and remarked to the croupier: "Well, it looks as ts 1 had no luck today.” He bad finished two hours and twenty minutes play, with a loss of exactly eleven million francs, which, even in these days of the mounting dollar, comes to three quarters of a million, dollars. Yes, he's very popular in the Casino —» o WARNING! . ■ •" 1 hereby warn all evangelical I Christians of all denominations against certain books and literature ot the International Bible Students Association which I am informed are ( being circulated around Decatur and vicinity. Their teachings are not in line with the teachings of our Deca- ■ tur churches. They are the succes-: ! sors of Pastor Russell, who has been 1 exposed several times. The Brook- ! lyn Eagle exposed him once and Dr. | J. J. Ross, Baptist pastor in Canada, once exposed him, to my knowledge. They are the Russelites under another name. F. D. WHITEBELL. Pastor of the Baptist Church. • ______ MOTIIKR IIK< IHHimw (HIGH HEMISUV "My mother had a severe cough. 1 bought In r a bottle ot FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAB and it helped her at once. Also gave my sou several doses and his cough disappeared." writes Mrs. S. L. Givens. Greenfield. Virginia. For quick relief from Coughs. Colds. Group. Throat. Chest, and Bronchial trouble use Foley's oner- and Tar. Stood the test of tiimI seiA-ing three generations. l,argest| . 111, g .■. ii 11... : . , '• _

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