Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1923 — Page 3

UWE kidneys 1 exwneoby YOUR DOCTOR I - I T k salts to Wa,h Xldneyi If Back ; T ‘p„ n. You or Bladder Bother. „„, sh your kidneys by drinking a F ? nf water each day. alao take ’u Xaslonally W n noted wile tells us that too much L*h food forms acids which almost r, ' h .iv« the kidneys in their efforts « eioel t from the blood. They bem»PsluMish and weaken; then you * .nffer with a dull misery in the kidney region sharp pains In the back JI .lek headache, dizziness, your or h «ours tongue Is coated, and Tn th e weather is bad you have X twinges. The urine gets tuTy. full of sediment the chanI. often get sore and irritated, obliging vou to seek relief two or, times during the night. ,b To help neutralize these irritating ~lds to help cleanse the kidneys and flush off the body's urinous waste, get ?o r ounces of Jad Salts from any nt.rmacy here; take a tablespoonful „ glass of water before breakfast or a few days, and your kidneys may ten act fine. This famous salts is Lde from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for years to help flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys: also to neutralize the acids in the system so they no longer irritate, thus often relieving bladder weakJad Salts is inexpensive: cannot injure and makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink. By all means have your physician examine your kidneys at least twice a year. — o COLD WINTER IS FORECAST Attica, Oct. I—Weather prophets here have seen a sure sign of ap-| proaching cold weather. Thousands of swallow’s have been observed flying southward. One day a flock which was a quarter of a mile wide and required two hours to pass a given point was seen flying south-1 ward. This, according to old citizens of Attica, is an indication that the icy breath of winter is not far away. o WANT ADS EARN—S s—s 5 5-$-WANT ADS. EARN—I—S PUTS-SORES Cleanse thoroughly—then, V without rubbing, apply— VICKS ▼ Varoßub Over 17 Million Jara UeaJ Yearly Crystal—Oct. 4-5-6 “Human Wreckage” with Mrs. Wallace Reid /— —" A Ashbaucher’s FURNACES LIGHTNING RODS SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING PHONE 765 or 739 KOTHCE The annual meeting of the French township Fire Insurance Company will be held at the Election school house in His. No. 3 in French township, Adams county, Indiana, on Satur-; day, October 6, 1923, at 10 o’clock a. m. Every member should attend this meeting as the election of officers will kike place at this time. The election of officers will start promptly at one o’clock p. m. Hunch will be served on the ground. John Mosure President.

More Home Grown Sugar Will Reduce The Prices Government investigators find 75 per cunt of the Cuban sugar crop under control of New York banks who are Intimately linked and Interwoven with sugar refiners of Cuban sugar according to Charles H. Allen. President of the Farmers Sugar company, of Defiance, Ohio, who spoke at noon today, Van Wert, Ohio, at a meeting of the Rotary club. Mr. Allen heads a company of 1,200 Ohio farmers who are building their own sugar factory and said his sole purpose In accepting the Invitation to speak was to show how sugar prices can be reduced and American agriculture Improved by growing more American sugar on American farms for the American people. "The sugar we use between now and next winter, when the beet sugar factories begin grinding, we are comI polled to buy from these New York | bankers and their allies," said Mr. Allen, "because they own the Cuban sugar the only source of supply for the rest of the year." "The boycott started by the women, if strictly held to and if severe enough will hold the price down by reducing consumption but the only real relief Is an increased production of sugar grown on our own farms," continued Mr. Allen. “The American sugar industry with the exception of two small companies, one in Ohio and the other in California, are independent of any trust control, according to Mr. Allen, and it handles a product com posed of nothing but the sunshine that warms the soil and the rain that falls upon it. Sugar is Carbon, Hydrogen | and Nitrogen—elements contained in the air and water and when these are | chemically united in right proportion and extracted from the beet the rest of the beet goes back to the land. For this reason sugar takes no fertility from the soil. i “We bought in 1920 nearly one bill lion dollars' worth of foreign sunshine and rain,” said the speaker, “just as if we did not have any ourI selves, is that not like us improvident Americans’ It is an economic crime to sell the exhaustible mineral matter 1 of the soil: it is even more of a crime to use it to buy sunshine and rain of which we have plenty, “If the American industry is stimulated and encouraged it will eventually provide the only effective remedy for the protection of the American housewife. "We used last year 5,700,000 tons of sugar. 615,000 tons were grown •on American farms through the production of sugar beets; 250,000 tons ■ came from American grown cane from | Louisiana and Texas. We bought all the rest from tropical countries, over 2,500.000 tons coming from Cuba. "When this American grown sugar is sold and eaten we are in the hands of the owners of foreign grown sugar. The bulk of the American sugar had been eaten by the first of February this year and it is significant the price immediately after began to soar. American farmers and American sugar extractors received no benefit from the high prices.” OVERHEAD COST (Continued from Page One) pay of patrolmen, superintendents, engineers, district engineers, commissioners, directors, clerks, assistants, stenographers and expenses that are not included in the actual construction of roads and bridges and the keeping of them up. At the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 1922, the maintenance department of the highway commission was employing six district engineers, thirty-one sjmerintendents, forty-six foremen. 20 ptgtTolmen, thirty-six me- | chanics and ajjutXz'")o laborers. The pay of the dSb not counted as I overhead. The superintendents, pa- | trolmen, foremen and mechanics are appointed by the director, and, as a I rule, the director knows nothing about I the foremen and patrolmen, but takes the recommendation of the superinI tendent. Thus there is a good chance for politics playing a very important > i part in selecting the employes of the highway commission who are not 1 technical experts, particularly as the laborers are hired by the superintendent. Overhead Cost Division. The overhead cost of the highway commission as shown by the report is divided as follows: ADMINISTRATION. I Commissioners, per diem $ 5,650.00 . Commissioners’ expense 4,271.76 Director's salary 6,000.00 i Director’s expense 910.93 < Chief clerk’s faalary 3,310.74 1 Clerical assistants and ste- , 1 nographers’ salaries 10,692.00 i Postage 2,059.86 ( i Telephone and telegraph .... 2,381.90 i Stationary and printing < supplies 6,095.22 Miscellaneous supplies 254.64 Miscellaneous expense 209.18 i Freight audit 10.00 i Total $12,146.23

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1,1923.

Os this amount $30,935.43 goes for c salaries and personal expenses, or a I little more than 73 per cent, of the q administration cost Is for salaries , alone. | Adminiatration and Construction. j The overhead charges in the depart- | ment of construction show the fol- j lowing: j Chief engineer’s salary $ 4,000.00 ( Bridge engineer’s salary 4.000.00 | Field assistants' salary 77,094.59 Offic e assistants’ salaries 51,085.93 1 . Testing bureau salaries 11,269.911, Testing bureau expense 3,680.73', Traveling expense 15,484.44*, Blue printing 2.104.7 t I Supplies and repairs 2.213.87 ( Advertising 1,721.49 Miscellaneous expense* 181.70 ' Total .. $182,837.37 Os this amount $176,615.60 is for salaries and expenses or 96 per centJ of the total cost of the administration of the construction department. Employes In Department. There are in the construction department 170 employes; Chief en-' gineer, $433.63 a month; road en1 gineer, $225 a montn. and assistant road engineer and office engineer, each $l9O a month, making a total of $1,038.33 a month. In addition to these there is a testing engineer, 9! draftsmen, 43 construction engineers, 15 assistant engineers. 66 inspectors, 8 computers, 5 rodmen. 5 instrument men, 10 chainmen, 2 clerks and 3 stenographers. | Charles Gray is chief engineer; A. H. Hinkle is superintendent of maintenance, William .1. Titus is bridge engineer and George Bartley is equipment chief. The salary of the chief engineer in the construction department Is $4,000 a year, and the salary of the chief bridge engineer is $4,000 a year. R. E. Finley is engineer of bridge design, under whom work 6 bridge designers with salaries of $165 to S2OO a month, 6 bridge detailers at $135 to $145 a month and 3 tracers at $125, making a total of 16 men in the bridge drafting room. The engineer of construction is W. W. Hadley, un-1 der whom work 9 field bridge engineers with salaries of $l5O to S2OO a month, 9 bridge inspectors at sllO to $145 a month, making a total of 20 men, including Mr. Hadley and his assistant, in charge of bridge construction work. This work in the bridge office is handled by 1 clerk and 2 stenographers at S9O to sllO a month. This makes a total of 40 employes in the bridge department in eluding the bridge engineer, represents a total salary during the month of August, 1923, of $6,398.59. The cost of administration of the construction department as shown on page 17 of the report, is $147,450.43, but the report does not show how much of that amount are salaries of employes that are not named. The overhead of the maintenance department is set out as follows: Superintendent's salary $ 5,000.00 Traveling expense * 424.02 Temporary employes’ salaries 1,533.00 Temporary employes’ expense 378.32 I Clerical assistants’ and stenographers’ salaries 8,391.77 Advertising 314.86 General expense . 169.73 Total $16,211.70 Os this amount, $15,727.11 goes for salaries and expenses, or 97 per cent. Maintenance Salary List The salary list for the administration of the maintenance department, as shown in the report, is $31,728.07. However, this sum, listed in the report as administration of maintenance salaries, does not include all the salaries of the maintenance department.l because the total of the salaries of the engineers and expenses, and sal- ‘ aries of district superintendents and I expenses, as shown in an analysis, of the maintenance department, amounts | to $70,965.58, which was expended for the district engineer in salary and expenses and the district superintendents in salary and expenses. 1 The overhead of the equipment de- I partments follows: I Salary of chief $ 2.925.00 Clerical assistants and stenographers' salaries 3,693.0011 Traveling expense (chief) . . 748.85 ’ Traveling expense (truck re- 1 pair men) 2,132.07 1 Light, heat power, etc 6,727.73 1 Miscellaneous expense 3,532.92 * i Total $19,759.57 1 Os this amount, $9,498.92 stands for 1 salaries and expenses, a per cent of ' 48. 1 In the equipment department is an 1 item of $7,999.99 marked fixed 1 charges and rent, which is overhead. I In the report there is an item , motor 1 vehicle supplies $501,278.02, and the c report does not show what this item 1 includes. It might be supplies gr it |« might be the original cost of buying s equipment. I The Maintenance Districts ' The maintence division is divided t into six districts and each district is divided into subdistricts. They are as follows: t Crawfordsville District—The salary 1

of the district engineer In this district ' is $965.83 and his expenses, $222.50. The salary of the district superintendents in the subdlstrlcts are as follows: Crawfordsville, $1,646.77, expenses, $115.80; Fowler, SI,BOO, ex- 1 penses, $319.28; Greencastle, $750, ex I penses, $91.73; Lebanon. $1,558.03, ex- ; jenses, $170.98; Terre Haute, $4,752.42 expenses, $365. Fort Wayne District —Salary of dis- , trict engineer. $2,400, expenses, $530.- , 36. The salaries of the district superintendents in the subdistricts , are as follows: Ft. Wayne, SI,BOO, expenss, $70.49; Goshen, $687.50, expenses, $112.26; Kendallville. $1,689.24 expenses $210.03; Wabash, SI,BOO, expenses, $153.20; Warsaw, $1,575, evpenses, $147.81, .Greenfield District—Salary of dis trict engineer, $2,400, expenses |5603.59. The salaries of the district superintendents- in the subdistricts tire us follows: Anderson, $1,500, expenses, $607.37; Cambridge City, $750, (expenses, $71.38; Greenfield, $1,67b, expenses $283.15; Indianapolis, SI,BOO. expenses, $121.94; Muncie, $687.50, ex--1 [lenses, $125.01; Portland, $250. ex'penses $23.92; Tipton. $266.12, expenses $4354; Connersville, $1127.42, expenses $262.12 (discontinued); Winchester, $925, expenses, $274.23. Monticello District —Salary of district engineer, $2,400, expenses $552.54 The salaries of the district superintendents in the subdistricts are as follows: lujporte, SI,BOO. expenses ( $139.12; Monticello, SI,BOO, expenses $273.21; Plymouth. $1,762.50, expenses $103.92; Rensselaer, $1,575, expenses $211.85; Valparaiso, SI,BOO, expenses $234.71. Seymour District —Salary of district engineer $2,400, expenses $533.15. The salaries of the district superintedents in the subdistricts are as follows: Aurora, $1,650, expenses $249.18; Bloomington, $687.50, expenses $45.17; Columbus, $1,765. expenses $252.88; New’ Albany, $1,585.08, expenses $254.44; Seymour. $1,451.61, expenses $84.14; Martinsville. $1,050, expenses $208.28 (discontinuedl. | Vincennes District—Salary of district engineer, $2,400, expenses $492.99 The salaries of the district superintendents in the subdistricts are as follows: Dale, $1.5,5, expenses $181.98; Evansville. $687.50, expenses $83.65; Linton, $691.67, expenses $116.73; Paoli, $1,573.33, expenses $134.41; Vincennes, SI,BOO, expenses $253.50; Princeton, $962.50, expenses $207.52. The report on Page 10 shows that in these districts and subdistricts, the district engineers were allowed a total of $12,965.83 for salary, $3,035.13 for expenses, and the district superintedents of the subdistricts were allowed $48,256.69 in salary, and $6,707.93 for expenses. The report shows that the total salary for the commission amounts to $255,968. This of coure, is overhead. The entire pay roll for labor as shown by the report, is $1,059,997.48, which is not overhead. This is the wage paid for work, and thus the reports shows that about one-fourth of the labor account goes for salaries. The administration of the equip(ment division totals salaries and expenses of $7,366.85. Adding to the $225,968 listed in the report, the various salaries that are charged in the different departments in the report, it makes a total of $275,235.51 that the commission pays out each year. Six District Engineers In the maintenance department there are six district engineers, who have charge of 500 miles of roads | each. The district engineers are W. ' H. O’Neill, A. D. Hastings. H. C. Offett, E. C. Lockbridge, Virgil Lee, C. C. Newson, each of whom are paid $225 a month, except Mr. Lee, who is paid (S2OO a month. There are also thirty- | one district superintedents. each of I whom has charge of from 95 miles to 125 miles. The following are paid $165 a month: Clifford Siniff, R. M. Brown, F. R. Gay, George T. Pearce, E. E. Foster, C ,M. Herriman, R. C. Parker.; and S. P. Stein. Thefollowing are paid $l5O a month: C. R. List, C. W. Sentman. H. W. West, A. A. Davis, D. C. O'Brien, William Allan, A W. 1 Haydock, H. W. Mendenhall, George 1 R. Cadle, Earl Smith, J. L. Williams. The following are paid $137.70 per month: Otto Fritzpatrick. B. S. Rippey, J. W. Jamison, A. M. Bennett, i William Sayre, C. M. Merriman, Charles Weeks, S. G. Johnson, Steve Stalcup. The following are paid $125 per month: H. F. Lutz, Alva C. Redman, Frank Schwab, H. F. Creamer. The names of the forrnen are not mentioned in the report, but they are paid from 50 cents to 60 cents an hour. The patrollmen are paid from 25 cents to 40 cents an hour. The mechanics are paid as high as 70 cents an hour, some of them getting more than others. The 3,000 laborers are paid from 21 cents to 35 cents an hour. These employes are supposed to work eight hours a day in winter and ten hours a day in summer. The daily net paid circulation of the Decatur Daily Democrat for the past six months was 3,186.

I. U. Grid Teams Plays Northwestern, Oct. 13 Bloomington, Oct. I—Barring accidents, the Indiana University football team is expected to have a light but powerful offensive combination when ft meets Northwestern at Indianapolis Oct. 13. The Crimson backs have shown a fleetness of foot in the early scrimmages which hints that the Crimson may develop a dangerous open game before the season gets far under way. Indiana will open the season with DePauw here Saturday but Coach Ingram is pointing his men to their first Conference game with Northwestern the following Saturday at Indianapolis. With the exception of the usual -un of bruises and sore muscles, the Cream and Crimson athletes have been free from injury. Coach Ingram i declares that this good fortune will, have to continue, however, if Indiana is to show impressively on the football field this fall. The Hoosiers are surprisingly weak on reserve strength and only last week “Navy Bill" issued another call for candidates In order to bolster up the second team and add to his string of substitutes. The problem of finding a kicker of | college caliber continues to confront the Crimson mentor. He has tried l practically everybody on the squad at punting and as yet has found no, one who can qualify. No starting lineup has been named for the first game of the season andj it is likely that nearly everyone on the varsity squad will see action during the course of the game. Woodward and Ninnes, ends; Fisher and Zaiser, tackles; Middlestadt and Springer, guards; Capt. Butler, center; Wilkins, quarter; Marks and Zivich or Moomaw, halves and Sloate full, have formed the first eleven in most of the scrimmages but it is not certain that Ingram will start these men at the outset. o ANGLIN WILL BE IN FT. WAYNE TUESDAY. OCT. 2 Foremost Tragediene .to Appear at the Majestic in “The. Woman of Bronze” Pre-eminent among actresses is Margaret Anglin. On all too rare occasions when she leaves New York and comes to Fort Wayne, the American stage is richer and on Tuesday, October 2nd. Miss Anglin comes to the Majestic theater,- in her play, “The Woman of Bronze.” But the play is Margaret Anglin and Margaret Anglin is the play. She “Sweeps us with her in her whirlwind of passion.” This is the verdict of all audiences throughout who have sat enthralled watching her in "The Woman of Bronze.” Her portrayal of the tortured, heartbroken woman who loves a man so much that she is willing to tread the road to Gethsemane if only she can keep him true to his big work in life, has been judged artistically so fine that it transcends the limitations of the present day stage and presents life that is pul- • satingly real. Miss Anglin brings a superb New York cast and an entire ! new production on her visit to Fort Wayne on October 2nd.

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BIG YEAR FOR QUAIL Many Quail and Rabbits Reported In State This Year H’nlted Press Staff Correspondent) Indianapolis, Oct. I—With the return of the season when crisp breezes make the blood tingle, the call of 1 the open is sending your true Hoos--1 ier to the garret to get down the 1 trusty shotgun and oil it up for ac--1 tion. • For Hoosierdoni will be a sports- ! man's paradise this autumn. Take George Mannfeld’s word for [ it —we're going to have more quail to m’ss this fall than ever before in his memory. And he ought to know for he’s state director of fish and game conservation.

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"This is the best year I ever saw for quail," Mannfeld said today. “Anywhere you go, you bear the call of 'Bob White’. "Mild winters, good breeding seasons, protection by the farmers, and observation of game laws by the public are responsible for this unusual crop." Not only quail—but hunters will see more bushy-tails scurrlng out of view around tree trunks. And rabbits — "Gosh," Mannfeld said, "There’s more cottontails for fellows to plug away at. The woods are full of them.” Mrs. Hugh Hite and Mrs. John Schafer went to Fort Wayne today to visit their mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Wherry.