Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evary Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J, H. Heller—Prea. and Bus. Mgr« E. W. Kampe—Vice-Pres. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouse—Sec’y. and Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur Indiana as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents Ono Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 15.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mall SI.OO Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mail 13.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zonls. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representative Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. According to Mr. Stone the securing of the Harding Highway is equal to securing a factory with a payroll of $250,000 in thirty weeks of the year. That's worth thinking about. The address delivered by Mr. Willinner was so filled with facts and ideas that on suggestion by Mr. Quinn and the unanimous request of the Decatur Association he promised to send the address to Secretary Confer and we hope to be permitted to print it in full in a few days. It's worth reading carefully. Mr. Schaub, one of the Auburn men here last evening, is an enthusiast for the country club and is pres- 1 ident of the Auburn association. He said the securing and operating of such a place the first year or two was “no before breakfast job - ’ but can be done and he urged the people here to continue their plans until success comes. Mr. A. D. Stone, field secretary for the Harding Highway announced^ for the first time in Indiana the route proposed through this state and Decatur is the first point definitely decided. This city will get the route whether we help in any way or not but if we want to get much publicity and real benefits we should get in the game with an earnestness that will bring results. There is no doubt that much benefit would be derived, as well as much pleasure if farmers could be induced to join the Decatur Industrial Association. Those who know from • Auburn say there is just one way to do it and that is DO IT. We are for Mr. Klepper’s suggestion to start in next week for one of the reasons we don't do things is that too often we just talk and agree and then let it go at that. Auburn sent over a delegation of fifteen live wires for the Industrial supper last night and we hope they enjoyed their visit half as much as we enjoyed having them. They told us many splendid ideas which are guaranteed to work because they have been successful at Auburn where conditions are very similar to here. The address by Mr. Willinner was an able discourse on a subject which he well understood and splendidly expressed. Auburn starJld her commercial organization about twenty years ago with thirty-six members and by persistent efforts have improved their community in-numerous ways and the club now has a membership of about 700 of which 200 are farmers. They are seriously considering changing the name to “Community Club” instead of Commercial Club, a fine idea for after all the real purpose of such an organization is united community spirit. We enjoyed the event very much and we congratulate Mr. Niblick, Mr. Wemhoff, Cal Peterson and the others who so splendidly put it over. Let’s have them often. It will probably surprise a great many people to learn that careless-n-ss with matches and smoking materials today constitutes the greatest single cause of fire loss in the Unit-

ed States, yet the carefully compiled statistics of the National Board of Fire Underwriters show this to be true. “It is the custom of the National Board of Fire Underwriters to , combine, under the classification of 'Matches-Smoking,' fires due to eith- ’• er of these hazards," says W. E. Mair lalleu, general manager of the organization, “because so many of the match fires are due to burning lucifers thrown away by thoughtless 1 smokers. The destruction of proper--1 ty from this cause now amouuts to ' n< arly $26,000,000 a year, which is far I more than the toll exacted by any i other hazard, despite the fact that the damages from ‘Matches-Smoking’ are so largely preventable. The remedy lies in educating the people to a greater degree of carefulness in handling lighted matches, cigars, cigarettes and pipes, and, to their credit, it may be said that two of the largest tobacco companies in the country, and two of the principal match producers, are endeavoring to change the habits of their careless customers by imprinting suitable precautions upon cigarette and match boxes.” In course of time, the effect of these appeals to the public should become visible; otherwise it is fairly safe to predict that public sentiment will bring about further enactment of personal liability laws providing for civil punishment of persons guilty of causing fire destruction by their obvious carelessness. A life sentence has just been given to a Mexican at Sacramento. California, who set fire to a school house and burned 10 Japanese children to death. o Shock of Fall Is Fatal Washington, Nov. 21. —Falling so stoiqes, Albert Karlson. 51, suffered no broken bones and told doctors he “felt just a little shaken up.” Tire shock killed him four hours later. —o The Fourth Down By Willie Punt Pardon us, you grid fans, if we devote considerable space to basketball today, but we had a real net game here last night. Our friend N. Reed, who writes Tip Offs for the Bluffton News, was over last night and witnessed the slaughter of his Plii Delts. He didn’t have much to say after the game. Here's wfliat he said in his column yesterday: “Whisperings, to the effect that the much daunted Decatur Leaders will be left trailing in the wake of Bluffton's whirlwind galaxy of caging stars, were heard among Bluffton fans today. The ‘Leaders’ may have to recognize another name such as ‘Trailers,’ after tonight's battle." Well, since Tippy was here, we gueHs he knows who were the “trailers” last night. “Bluffton's whirlwind galaxy of caging stars.” Wonder what he will call the Leaders, now. He used nearly all the nice words in the dictionary to describe the Phi Deits. Our friend Out of Bounds says: “The district champs have already had their right to the title disputed by Union Center and we’re wondering what Decatur will have to say on the evening of Dec. 28. The game will be at Liberty.” We’ll say it with actions, Outta, as actions speak louder than words. “Tabby” Andrews is one of the neatest net performers we have seen on the hardwood recently. He has more endurance than six average players. Bill Crist is one of the cleanest back guards in the game and he is just about as hard to get around as ! any of them. too. Ask Kyle, Johnson ■ and Cummins. I Yager. Bryan and Byerly did some I clever floor work last night. ’ Now that that is out of our system, 1 “signals.” Purdue is sending out her usual bear stories before the annual clash with Indiana. We hope both teams “ are at their best so there will be no alibis. _i ,t “Beat Van Wert" is the battle cry j. on Ahr's Field this week, as the Yel low- Jackets prepare for their Ohit iiuvaston Saturday. ,t t- The Peru Tribune says; “Playim

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;1 their greatest game of the season the f Tigers swamped the strong undefoat b ed Decatur team by the score of 40-0 i- here Saturday. Every Peru player , played as he has done at no other ( time this season.” This bears out our statement that the Tigers were playing over their heads Saturday. • Had both teams been playing in • their usual form, it would have been > a mighty close battle. “Tutes,” who has a column called “Lampings” in the Tribum'. ' asks us what we have to say now, i after reminding us of a pre-game ■ statement made by us to the effect . that Decatur would win. We say we were out-played by a good team.Tutes and we were the victims of about 100 pounds of extra steam which had been developed in the Tiger machine during the last week. The People’s Voice Sunday School Next Sunday Truth is the most difficult thing on earth to understand. This is a universal fact. The human race has searched the skies, the mountain peaks, the valleys, the interior of earth so far as possible, and have traversed its surface almost from pole to pole, and yet, the unknown is beyond. From a materialistic standpoint, all we know is very much limited. We demonstrate with one illustration. During the times of the very recent past, man grouped his way through the dark by the aid of the shell-back tourch. the oil lamp or lantern, that did not much surpass the brilliancy of the jack-o-lantern, the lightening bug,. Improvements came. As a matter of truth ,it has been but a short time since Benjamin Franklin lured the lightening from the clouds by the use of his kite string. When he did this, he had but little knowledge of electricity. It was an impossibility for hime to foresee the results of his wonderful discovery. The present gen. eration sees this in part only. The brilliant street lights, moving cars, humming factory wheels, telegraph, wireless telegraphy and a thousand other things are but a part of the whole truth. The greater part of our citizens today are little suspecting the vast schemes that are developing in the brain of our own citizens to make electricity a greater comodity. There is scarcely a state in the union that does not contain from one to four wonderful sites for hydro-electrical plants. Before long every state In the union will be tied to gether by mighty high tension wires that will carry thousands of electrical volts. This will not only furnish a cheaper unit for power but for light and heat, also. Less chopping of wood, less cleaning of furnaces and stoves will reslult. Who can fortell the economical result? The future is the only revealer of the truth. The consumer of this electrical comodity can enter his home of a winter evening turn the switch to his'heater, tune his wireless and sit down amidst the best oratory, the best opera singing or hear his favorite church choir located within any state in the union sing praises to an Omnipotent God. No, mythology is half so mysterious. This all at a low cost because man ' works in harmony with God’s laws and changes the rushing mountain water- ' full and the floods of the lower lands from distruction to construction. Did Benjamin Franklin forsee this? No, he did not. While gazing at the lightening that played around and through 1 the fleecy clouds, he little suspected the millions of voltage that flowed 1 from pole to pole, beneath his feet. Now, Mr. Editor, Stop! Look! Listen! The unseen forces are around ’ us today the same as they were around Mr. Franklin. We only get glimpses of the mighty, unknown. What is gravity? What is the force that holds the planets in their orbits? What causes the currents of electricity to run from the sun to the t earth a distance of 92 million miles? 3 What causes them to vibrate millions 3 of times per second? What gives the j blade of grass its vitality, arouses the grain of wheat from its slumbers and keeps the heart beating for more e than three score and ten years, and fills it with a iove we call divine? Dr. Steinmetz, who has bee i known i, as our modern “Jove, the Hurler ot Thunderbolts,” says that it is not .1 h s Geo. “Handless” Sutton o Hie Miracle Man of Billiards will play Exhibitions at Lost y Bros. Billiard Parlor Friday 1. afternoon anil evening, 1 am io 8 P. M. 100 or no count. I j H l I, I, HU

e. within the realm of science to sav. t- Astronomy, chemistry, metaprysics 0 and all sciences fail because these are r of one plane ot lite and is of the mar terial which this mytery is of the t immaterial. We know that some ins explainable force enters every fiber . of our being and like electricity it » can be generated. “For where two > or three are gathered together in my name, then am 1 in the midst ot them” This force is not a commodity and can I not be bought nor sold. We say • force because the Great GaJilcean • teacher hurled this force against all manner of disease as well as evil L spirits and they gave way. We say force because Acts 1:8 says, "But ye ’ shall receive power after that the ) r Holy Ghost is come upon you; and 1 ye shall be witnesses unto me. both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. This declaration is the basis of the Sunday school lesson for November 25. Mr. Editor, you will notice that this force was a healing power until the potetition be gain to commercialize the ignorance of the people. Turn to John 12:32 and read. “And 1, it I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." The scripture is a doctrine ot tower an I strength. It is not a myth. The rise and fall of nations. The heart aches of all mankind will reveal penalties that are the result of violated laws that are as potent as any thunderbolt that was ever shot from the coudy skies. o : JOINT-EASE FOR Stiff, Swollen Joints Rheumatic or Otherwise Says: “When Joint-Ease Gets in—Joint Agony Gets Out.” It was a high-class pharmacist who saw prescription after prescription fail to help hundreds of his customers to get rid of rheumatic swellings and stiff inflamed joints. And it was this same man who asserted that a remedy could and would be compounded that would make creaky, swollen, tormented joints work with just as much smoothless as they ever did. Now this prescription, rightly named Joint-Ease, after being tested successfully on many obstinate cases, is offered through progressive pharmacists to the millions of people who suffer from ailing joints that need limbering up. Swollen, twingy, inflamed, stiff, pain-tormented joints are usually cairned by rheumatism, but whatever the cause Joint-Ease soaks right in, through skin and flesh and gets right to and corrects the trouble at Its source. Remember Joint-Ease is for ailments of the joints, whether in ankle, knee, hip, elbow, shoulder, spine or finger, and when you rub it on. you may expect speedy and gratifying results. It is now on sale at all druggists everywhere for 60c a tube. — • + TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ " ♦ 4> From the Daily Democrat files ♦ ♦ 20 years ago this day ♦ Crand jury returns 19 indictments. Samuel Gompers is re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor. I Col. Fred Reppert returns from ; Danville, 111., where he held three I successful sales. Tom Carey of Fort Wayne becomes i night clerk at Burt House. I I Edward Twigg and Miss Orpha Weaver married at clerk's office. 1 HBHHHHiHHHHHHHIH I THE CRYSTAL I Tonight Oply , ■ “THE CUB 1 ? ■ REPORTER" ■ A big special, featuring W e H Richard Talmadge IB d■ , ■ , M An exciting newspaper f! H comedy drama. A grip- ■ ? ■ ping story of Chinese H q H underworld life, roman- || ■ tic. thrilling and mvsti- H t ■ fying. g —Also—--1 ■ “Jollywood” I i K A good comedy and H , H International News ra Is ■ H e H 10c—25c g ‘ Get your tickets every even ■ 11 1 H ing for the drawing on the M Rug ou display in the Bos- ■ B ton store. \ H

Mrs. Hensicy entertains the Young t Matrons club. * Mike Belger of Fort Wayne Is here on business. ♦ Dance at the Columbian club for ' the Misses Tribolette ot Louisville, t ■. 1 Charles Yobst U given contract for plumbing postoffice building. i "Shinnyhouus" arrested for stealing eight bushels of corn valued at $2.50. Io - — LEGION MAY LOSE SAVINGS Columbus, Nov. 21. —Fear is held by members of the American legion post at Hope that the savings of the post will be lost if the state bank there is thrown into receivership. Stockholders of the bank assert, however, that the bank will not have to go into receivership and that it will weather the financial storm brought on by a number ot worthless checks were returned to it. Old Folks Made New “It is now five months since I took a course of your medicine for gas and stomach trouble and 1 am feeling entirely well. My frineds all tell me 1 am looking twenty years younger and I certainly feel as they say. I am recommending Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy to all ailing with stomach and liver trouble." It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflamma-l tion which causes practically all' stomach, liver and intestinal ail-j ments, including appendicitis. One' dose will convince or money refunded. For sale by Holthouse Drug Co. — and all good druggists. O g SERMONETS OF SCIENCE 1 if mere man with all his limitations. Can make a thing that will record vibrations — (Music records, wireless telephones) So perfectly, that voice of friend is I known Across a thousand miles, or, many | years God, omnipotent, it then appears Can make provision that each idle word, Each thought—or good or ill —in heaven be heard. —A. B. Burkett.

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