Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1923 — Page 3

(fewer arrests made ■stale Conservation Department Shows ■ Large Increase In Funds Indianapolis. Oct. 29.-ln<T«a.<lug ■.< funds mom than 120.000 over last ■ r W lih nearly 70 leu* arroMa for ■violation of laws, demonstrate lo the "■skeptical that by constantly pr htl"* doctrine of conservation th. 1 ■ ra.ts,. is making splendid net galn.i. flam) that the citizenship gradually is flcoopcrallng to use Judiciously of 1 and aquatis life of the state. Mflprrs just submitted by fienrgo S.y yiannfeld, chief of the fish and '■game division of Ihe state conserv:;- ■ tion department, lo Richard Lieber, |B department director, show. M The receipts of the division for the ■ fiscal vear closing September do. to ■ tailed $17".0G580 against $148,964 06 ■in 1922. showing a gain of s2l 101.71. ■ The disbursements were $173,644.45. Bas against $132,788.26 in 1922 or $4-».-Bs6s.ih more. "The amount spent in B excess of receipts was $3,578.65. and ■ may look like poor business." Mr. j ■ Mannf' id says, “but the division carB r i,.,| over a surplus of $83,289.59 from ■ 19’2, and on October 1, had a bal 'Saner of $79,810.94 available for u-t' ■in the present now fiscal year." T'te ■ largest expenditure of the year by ■ the division was for building a new | B hatchery at Avaco in Lawrence conn-1 Bty. Approximately $25,000 has been; B spent so far and probably an addition's al Bum will be invested before the I B hatchery is completed. It is intendBed to propagate other fish here foi ■ stocking public waters of southern !n- ■ diana. as four other hatcheries operat Bed by the conservation department B are located in central and northern ■ Indiana. ;i "The total number of licenses sold Bto hunt and fish,” the report Says. B "was 176.770, as against 153,392 sold lin 1922. This is a gain of 21.539 B resident licenses; 1,782 non-resident ■ fishing, and 57 non resident hunting ii- ■ censes. In the 92 counties, all but

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Friendship Between President Coclidge and. Shoemaker Lucey Promises to Become an American Legend.

f' — PERSONS who subscribe to the Ir J doctrine that “even a cat may look at a king" a little ■“““v while ago ascribed importance to an old shoemaker of Northampton, Mass., because President Coolidge took the trouble to answer a letter the old man sent him after Mr. Coolidge entered the White House. Others, and perhaps wiser ones, on the principle that a man “is known by the company he keeps,” are inclined to count the friendship that was revealed as much to the favor of the Piesident as to that of the shoemaker. Endorses Coolidge • A visit to the basement shoemaking •hop of James Lucey on Gothic Street, just off Main, in Northampton, and a talk with the upstanding grey-haired, blue-eyed craftsman will make clear to anyone the reason Mr. Lucey’s firm friendship for Calvin Coolidge is one of the finest endorsements that New England President could have. Such a trip will leave the visitor firm In the conviction that here Is a friendship founded on the mutual integrity, honesty, thoroughness and pride of work of both shoemaker and President. The conclusion will be that if Mr. Coolidge is as good a president as Mr. Lucey is a shoemaker; if he has the enthusiasm for his job, the carefulness in choosing the best materials to work with and the patience in shaping them to their most effective and reliable use that James Lucey has, he thrill be a very good President indeed. Reportorlai Assaults At the time the writer talked with Mr. Lucey the shoemaker had been the objective of reporters from half a dozen cities for half a dozen days. Some of them had come flaunting ten dollar bills In his face to persuade him to talk about his friend. These he had waved aside with contempt. Others had come tactfully and spoken as one gentleman to another. To these the I shoemaker made laconic revelations about his connection with President Coolidge or had occasionally flooded over with seemingly irrelevant anecdotes bearing on the various characters In Northampton They had be -n only apparently irrelevant, however, for in the telling of each one the sturdy independence and the keen judgment of character possessed by the old shoemaker were made evident. The Legend • The occasion for reportorial assault Jhky be told again here, for quite likeit will be Included in the traditions j •nd histories of the personal charactjrdstics of the men the American peo

1 14 showed gains In suh-.s Times 'showing decreases were Hoon<>, Car I roll, Clay. Clinton. Dekalb, Gibion, i Hendricks, Jasper, Miami, Perry, Put ; man, Ripley, stnrke and Wayne. I “Counties showing the greatest gains in license stiles were Marion, 3,354; Allen, 1,269; St. Joseph, 1,745; ‘ Madison, 1,163, and Vigo, 788. ,Cour. I ties showing the greatest loss were ’ Miami. 134; Dekalb, 110; .Starke, 7SRipley, 73; Hendricks. 73, and Wayne ' 81. Switzerland county which trebled its sales by Increasing from 155 to 430, showed the greatest single gain. ' Scott holds the record for the least number of licenses sold with 121. yet shows a gain of 10 sales over 1922. ■ | "The total arrests for violations of I the fish and game laws were 1,698. Os ' 'this number 1,669 were tnad' by- 1.•tried wardens; the others by non'Salaried men and peace officers. Nonsalaried wardens showed little nc. . tivity. | Total convictions numbered 1.610: | dismissed cases,, 38, and 50 cases pending. Total fines and costJ amounted to $32,130.12. In 1922 tl.er- | were 69 more arrests and 56 more convictions." Mr. Mannfeld nttribu'es the de crease in the number of arrests to thfact the public gradually is becoming more coopetative with the depart jment and offenses are fewer. Also | the violator of today is more skill- , fill at evasion, therefore more difficult to apprehend. I GROUND BEETLE MAN’S FRIEND One of man's friends is one of lieground beetles known a-t Calosoma sycophanta, saya Nature Magazine of Washington. It is a glittering green and old beetle with a head and thorax of deep purple. It was imported from Europe among other natural enemies of the gypsy moth and brown tail moth. Both adults anti young ol the Calosoma beetles are extremely voracious and feed on other insects. especially the carterpillars of ntotl-. -.

pie have called to be their presidents. • Coolidge’s confabs with Lucey the shoemaker; Lincoln’s swapping of stories around the cracker barrel; Roosevelt’s thousand and one characteristic contacts with the ordinary I folk who kept him in touch with the beating heart of America —there is nothing incongruous in the relating of these and other human aspects of American presidents. The occasion then was this: James i Lucey had written a letter of pride and congratulation to Mr. Coolidge when the latter succeeded to the presidency. Mr. Coolidge immediately addressed an answer to: “Jim Lucey, , who would rather be called a good ' shoemaker than the President’s c übier, friend and philosopher.” The letter read: "Not often do I see you or write to you, but if it were not for you 1 should not be here, and I want to tell you how much I love you. Do not ; work too hard. Try to enjoy your elf , in your well deserved leisure of age. | Yours sincerely, Calvin Coolidge." President-Maker The meaning of Mr. Coolidge's saying that if it were not tor Jim Lucey he would not have been president was soon explained. As a political influence among the Irish Republican voters early in the President’s political career Lucey had brought in enough extra votes to insure Coolidge’s election to the legislature. What was behind the friendship and the "love" took more careful study to reveal. It came out eventually as Mr. Lucey stood stolidly before his last one day in August working away at repairs on a woman’s “turned" shoe. He refused to interrupt his work merely to talk. It glinted from the lucid blue eyes of I the s'xty-six years old man as he occa- ■ sionally turned from the job to emphasize a remark Even the small-lensed, i steel-rimmed spi ctacles, the rigorously laundered blue shirt, the bristling grey-and-brown moustache and the’ i firmly set jaw which occasionally ' opened to afford exit for a good steel j nail that was hammered vigorously ! into the piece of hemlock tanned I leather, that Mr. Lucey was molding. I Into a heel that would “outwear three j pairs of these new fang led- sort." seem-I led to give fugitive glimpses of the | spirit that sustained the friendship I between president and shoemaker. | The’.' told of value given for va!u“ i | received "Value" anil "quality’ were | words Mr Lucey proved fond of using in speaking of either work or p-rson-alitles Persona Histories It developed that ’:w common s* : patbies that dr<-w th* |’-»->i<inr a■! the shoemaker toge.h t were rehu rd

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1923.

CHILDREN ARE sound — Modern Children As Sound As Parents Says Mrs. A. H. Reeves. t Indianapolis, Oct. 29.— lloyn and . girl i of today tire fundamentally as : sound as their parents and grandpar-*, ■ < nts wen- in their younger days, do-i ■ chtres Mrs. A. H. Reeves, of Philadelphia, president of the National; Congress of Mothers and Parent [ Teachers associations, who attended > the recent meeting of the state asso-; | elation here. I i "There are as many good boys and : girls ns ever,” she said. "It is true | they're going a faster pace, but everyi , one is in these days. Present condif tions are due to the moral upheaval ■ that follows every war. “Mothers were out of their homes doing war work'. They had to bo. Young girls were allowed to dan,-o with any soldier and to pick up any man in uniform to take him riding. The greater freedom that started then is still affecting us. “But the younger generation is beginning to realize that it is no more fun to get drunk than it is to do any other disgusting thing. The thrill of going sixty miles an hour is wearing off. They see that they must pay the price, and they don't think it worth while. | "After all. young people now are only doing the things that some young people used to do, but didn’t have the opportunity.” THE COST OF LIVING I Report Shows It Is Still Possible To Live On 90 Cents Per Day. — Lafayette, Oct. 29. —It is still possible to live on less than 90 cents a day. This price bought three square meals a day, a good bed every night, and all the necessities of life, accord-' ing to completed figures on costs at the summer practice camp for civil engineering students at Purdue Uni-

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® u. * u. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE | not only in their common attitude to ward their different Jobs but even In their pers rial histories. Cal' Coolidge ' conies from a line of thrifty New England pioneers who eaine over in ! the eighteenth century and he is like i unto them. Jim Lucey was himself a l pioneer who came over in the nineteenth century. in ISSO to be exact Both had sought with in lefatigabb energy and uncompromis'ng ntegr.t' to make their respective niches in the . world Lucey said his family was originally ! French The Irish of It "Tlie De Lucey* came to the Conntv ' Kerry among the Kiliarney Lakes s.x hr.ndr- d years ago Pret y soon they . ; dropped the De and now they are inert- Ir.sir than the Irish themselves". Jim was a parent Iced 'is a shoemaker. I about the tm. of tile Fr inco-Prus mail war 'hero in County Kerry lie I)"- • 5 |. 1( j good "aitsmim In IXXfi b“ ame to Am- r i,. tii.-t working n

versify The report shows that all livI Ing expenses of the 120 students who ; attended the eight week camp at i Pentwater, Mich., during June and July averaged $49.50 for the entire period or approximately 90 cents a day. The student paid $75 ut the be> ginning of the camp, $25.50 of which ' was returned to them for all trans--1 portation expenses. The fact that they did not. starve is shown by it typical menu; Breakfast: sweet cherries, breakfast food I telght kinds), fried eggs, bread, butter, Jam, milk and coffee; lunch: cold nt-at, fried potatoes, lima beans, jam, raisins, cookies, bread, butter anil milk; supper: roust beef, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, corn. Jam. peanut butter, bread, strawberries, cake and milk. An old hotel was rented and fitted up for living quarters. . • STEEL INDUSTRY By BRUCE SHORT. (Pns. The Engineering Sales Cor.) Written for the United Press. Indianapolis. Oct. 29.—The general attitude of the steel industry is much better in many respects than it has been for some weeks. Tile October business shows an increase of about ten per cent over September, indicating a better condition for all business inasmuch as steel is considered a barometer of trade. This optimistic trend, does not apply to all branches of the industry I as the strip mills are operating at , only about thirty per tent capacity I and the pig iron market continues to decline. Orders in these branches are being taken at fifty cents to a dollar below the prices prevailing last week. As forecast last week, the railroads 1 are withholding their large orders presumably for price declines. No price concessions have been made yet 1 owever and it appears there will be r..» general change in the price level i, with the possible ix?cptloi| of isola ed orders.

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Boston and Cambridge then down in Connecticut bui settling upon North i ampton b fore 1885 Chiefly because it was a college town. Smith College is jat Northampton anti Amherst is a ; short distance away. To Amherst, early In the 90s came ' Cal’ Coolidge. Before long he came j to Jim Lucey to get hisshoes repaired. 'The two often sat long in philsnnhica; .'O'iv> rst'ifou on the chances of It'. After Cal' left Amherst and began law practice it: Northampton he continn d to go to Jim l.ucey’s shop the same

A hopeful condition for the farmers > Is seen In the fact that rerolled stock, i especially In light rails, has declined I in value and is now quoted us low as • SI.BO per hundred pounds f. o. b. Pittsi burgh. The change in price of this ■ material was good news for the sari rners and the manufacturers of agricultural implements who use re-roll-ed stock in large quantities. ■ Manufacturers of implements are ■ still somewhat dlsccurnged, however, I over the outlook for the farmer. They . say farm demand for their product I will not return to a normal basis tin- . Itil 1925. The reduction in price of I re-rolled steel will, in a measure, help I bring nbrmalcy closer for agricultural interests an<l thut business direct- ■ ly affected by the conditions of the farmer. o PURE BRED HOG RECORD. — Duroc-Jersey Sow Produces Almost Two Tons of Pork In 180 Days. Wth an official weight of .3,898% pounds for a litter of twelve Duroc-i I Jersey pigs. Texas now holds the world’s record for tonnage of pork i produced by one sow and for average • weight per pig in six months' time. The litter was weighed Sept. Ist. when 180 days old. under the super- , vision of A. lu. Ward. Swine Specialist , of Texas A. & M. College and officials of the McLennan County Earm Bureau. The pigs averaged 321.9 pounds per head and made a daily gain of 1.8 pounds for the whole feeding period. The last twenty days the daily i gain was 3% pounds tor each pig. This champion litter was bred and raised by Vic Hill of Chalk Bluff. McLennan County, Texas. The dam of the litter is Scotts Lucy No. 1,396.278, a registered Duroc-Jersey sow ; that was sired by the grand champion i boar of the 1919 Texas State Eair.There were fourteen pigs in the litter which was farrowed March sth. The cow was three weeks less than three years old when the contest ended.

shop in which the tatter now pltes bis ; trade. When politics called the young 1 ( m Ldge. Lucey proved ac invaluable ■ counsellor. He could pass on practical knowledge, and tbe> found a common ground in their proud insist- ' ence on ethics Success Comes Success came to Coolidge and he I climbed from one office to another, but though his visits to Lucey’s shop became of necessity less frequent they continued to be as loyally made. The last one was in April of ><’ $ ! this year, and Mr. Lucey JO has a fondly cherished sp memento of it in the copy of a letter Mr. Cool- F idge had written at that y time in an effort to bring l help to ills old counsellor. | in a personal matter. And > ’ he has the answer, ad- ■ dressed to the Vice President, which brought the required result and which 7 Mr. Coolidge turned over > to his shoemaker friend. Os course. Mr. Lucey is

not g ving his private .oticerns out tor publication; but he showed bis visitor the greetings anti signatures that proved the correspondence It was significant of the ' fleets of the visits of skeptical metropolitan reporters that Mr Lucey thought without its being requested of giving proof I tor his word. Imagine if you please, j anyone’s doubting .Jim Lucey’s word jin Northampton! But when one be I comt s a national figure one must lie orepartd against the chare- 4 'ving From tl-' t to I. - t bis l|o->d w'-oe

i The total value of feed including , pasture necessary to produce the litter was $229.84 making the cost of each hundred pounds $5.89. The pigs will lie sold for breeding stock but as they were worth 9% cents per pound on the market the day weighed, they inode u net profit of $140.51. The litter consumed 8,996 pounds of skim milk, 5,42" pounds of corn feed meal, 2,100 pounds of pig chow and 200 pounds of corn. They hud the run of an eighteen acre Bermuda grass pasture with shade und water. In order to be correct und certain on every point the latter was earmarked when seven days old by County Agent, E. it. Euduly in the ' presence of the president of the local County Livestock Association. The I scales used to weigh the litter were I tested and sealed by the Waco city I inspector of weights and measures. I Mr. Eudaly supervised the care and feeding of the litter during the entire test. Mr. Hill received $335.00 in cash prizes which were offered by the National Durocßecord Association of I Peoria, Illinois, and Waco business houses. * INDIANA HIGHWAYS State Highway System Touches All Cities of Any Size. Indianapolis, Oct. 30. (Special.)— Distances are shortened, isolated parts of Indiana placed in touch with the larger commercial anil industrial centers, and southern Indiana's fruit belt and great scenic beauty now have an outside market and is available to thousands of tourists respectively, by augmentation of the state highway system and the construction and maintenance work of the past year, John D. Williams director of the state roads' body declared today, speaking | of future plans of that governmental agency which is putting the state well to the front in the good roads program of the nation. Mr. Williams said that the federal aid system in Indiana now touches

i maker’s last —the sturdy dependabili-1 ty of Jim Lucey stood out. it was the same unquestioning adherence to the best and most thoroughgoing rules of conduct that have made, so it is said, (alv.n Coolidge’s reputation in Mas sachusetts. No "Cobbler” Jim Lucey scorns the name of cebbler becau-e to him It means someone who putters at a job. i ■r j off '• i *<«»* ■■ ' I ® U. A U SHOEMAKER LUCEY

I "There were years when I did no I repairing at all." he said. “I made shoes. I do repairing now because I persons are not willing to pay tor the time and work that go into a hand . made shoe. I made two pairs for a j man last winter and he thought twenty dollars a pair was high for | them. A man can't make a living now j | making shoes by hani unless he j [charges thirty dollars a pair. He can't ; 1 make more than fl’a or six pairs a 1 j week and do a rignt Job. while the ’ factories make hundreds of thousands 1 j a day." Auld Lang Syne The old shoemaker paused In regret f over the days that were beginning •. to go thirty-two years ago when he I moved his shop to its present location, r "I had to raise the house and move ■ il back six yards to get my shop built unde' It." lie explained "I didn't have - l>-t they trust'd me f r

each of the 92 counties, and that Mate roads pass through all but four of ninety-three cities of over 2.500 pop illation. Cities of this class excepted uro Dunkirk, 2,5.32; Gas City, 2.870; Hobart, 3,450 and Napanee, 2.678. A population of 1,472,48.3 or 99.22 per cent of the population of the state maiding In cities over 2.500 are served. Relative to towns under 2.500 population. the state system passes thru 537 municipalities and serves 239.204 people or approximately 40 per cent of the population living In towns of tills class. State roads pass thru a total of 626 towns and serve a population of 1.711,687 people or approximately so per cant of the public living In cities und towns, und 58.41 per cent of the total population of the state. Assuming that 30 per cent of the state' rural population is served by state roads, then a total of 1,951,687 people or 66.6 per cent of the total population of Indiana benefits from the state highway system. There are approximately 4,652.5 miles in the Indiana state road system. On the basis of population served in cities and towns only, the average population per mile of road is 367.9; on the basis of total population served, the average population per mile is 419.5. and on the basis of the state's entire population, the average population served per mile by state roads is 629.9. - • *I*POIVTMI'.VT OP AlHllMfflllTOn Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of clamor Fuelling, late of Adams county, deceased. Th* estate Is prohehlv *nl’-ent CHARLES I’. I-’I ELLING, Administrator. Oct. 13. 1923 Imre H. Erwin. Atty. 16-2.3-30

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what I didn’t have. I paid off every penny, and I own the house now.” No one now, he said, is willing to put the time necessary into learning shoemaking as a handicraft. The handicraftsman, concluded Mr. Lucey, Is dying out. The machines have done for him. “Not that the machines are not all right, if there's a man with brains behind them to steer them right," he conceded honestly. “Even an automobile would be no good it you tried to steer it through a swamp.” This brought him to the subject of materials. “I’m a leather man,” he said, sniffing contemptuously at various other shoe materials that had been offered him tor use. "You can’t do a good job of shoemaking with other stuff. It won’t stitch right. You can’t cut it right. And none of it will wear like real good leather. "I Want Leather" "Remember the war?” he asked. “Did they send anything but leather over for the soldiers? Os course they didn’t. They wanted leather. I want leather. His mind returned to the relation between shoemaking and shoe repairing. "Sometimes I think." he said, “repairing takes more skill than H . making shoes. Os course you can do a bad J°b at either. Jim ; J" Lucey puts quality into both, and he charges a pretty good price for his work.” He looked at the nail he had just drawn from his mouth. He didn’t smile, though one could see he was pleased. In this respect he showed throughout the talk the same impassivity that is generally ascribed to President Coolidge. Foreign Trade "People send their shoes to me to bo fixed even after they leave Northampton.” he said presently. "From Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and other places. A good deal of my work goes outside the town and they send me some awfully nice letters. I wish I’d kept them.” A good deal of Coolidge's work baa ! gone “outside the town” too, and for 1 the same reason. It was honest and thorough. That is the reason James Lucey will give you and which other Northampton residents will give you. And just as James Lucey does not j expect others to go back on their support of his work, because he known it is "quality" work, so he has not a doubt that Coolidge will succeed himself as President. The Next President "You don't head him off,” he said confidently. "He’s alright, and no- ; body's going to have that job until my friend Is through with it.” Having said that Mr. Lucey took • t piece of leather off his bench and > intimated that he was too busy tn rj talk any more.