Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 289, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1923 — Page 7

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday hv THE DECATI B DEMOCRAT CO y * ••.......President and General Manager E. W. Kamp*' Vice-President and Advertising Manager A. B. Holthousc Secretary and Business Manager Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second class matter. 'SUBSCRIPTION* RATES Single Copies 9 , One Week, by carrier 10 fpn|s One Year, by carrier ' *- ()() One Month, by mail ....35 cents Three Months, by mail (Ml Six Months, by mail SU7S One Year, by mail $3.00 ! One Year, at office $3 00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones’ Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg.. New York City; N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Moi Be a Good Fellow and help the kiddies have a Merry Christmas. A few dimes will be appreciated. Do it now. ★ ★ ★ ★ You will have to work fast if you do your Christmas shopping early. Read the advertisements in today’s issue and profit by following the suggestions offered. ★ ★ ★ ★ When the president speaks of "abounding prosperity" he should remember that not all of us have been elevated from an income of $12,000 per year to $75,000. ★ ★ ★ ★ Perhaps the returns from North Dakota where he received but 5,000 votes from a total of 200,000 had something to do with Mr. Ford's decision not to have a conventfon at this time. "Senator Nedjl favors removal of McCray” says a headline. Os course and of Branch too and then he becomes governor. He is no doubt strong for the immediate impeachment of both and as speedily as possible. ★ ★ ★ ★ Governor McCray makes faces at Chairman Walb and the others who are insisting that he resign. He also tells them his attorneys will conduct his defense in their own way and intimates that he doesn't care for suggestions from enemies. It’s a had mix-up and doesn't get "much better fast.” ★ * * * By orders of Henry Ford himself, the conference scheduled for the 12th of this month when it was expected the flivver king would be nominated for president on a “no platform, no party” plan, has been called off. It may be held later tn some middle western city but perhaps never. Evidently the hour with President Coolidge placed a ‘:soft pedal" desire on Mr. Ford. ★ ★ ★ ★ Mr. O. L. Vance and his committee are trying to work out plans for the tourists' camp and will appreciate suggestions. One made today was that the camp be established on the south part of the old fair grounds but the objections is that it is considerably off the main roads, rather difficult to mark to and and would perhaps be objectionable because of the Memorial Hospital being so close. Help them work it out. ir ★ ★ ★ Call it World Court. League of Nations, co-operative government or what you will, but help speed the time when war will cease and nations work one with the other as do the states of this country. The people do not want to think of wars at least for several generations. We need a foreign market and we can benefit by a common sense agreement with the countries of the world. The United States must and will do her part eventually. Why not now?" ★ * * ★ Small towns which have suffered on account of lack of fire protection would do well to follow the example of Monroe, Ind., where the citizens have just put into service a new hook and ladder truck, simple but effeitive. A particularly commendable feature of the improvement is that the contract

■ yJW I mmxiouß FARMERS OPEN THE WAY TO CREDIT when they deposit their crop money in this bank. Prepare now for next I, spring’s possible credit needs. Capital and Surplus $120,000.0u

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for building the new truck was awarded to a-Monroe blacksmith who has turned out a handsome "job" In flaming scarlet. Monroe now has an organized fire company of 15 men to man the chemical wagon and hook-and-ladder truck. An electric siren will be added to the town's equipment In the near future. Small towns frequently have been the scones of heavy losses from fires as a result of inadequate equipment or unsystematically organized fire-fighting forces. The $20,000 blaze at North Webster some time ago might have been avoided by an application of the methods Introduced in Monroe.—Fort Wayne Nows. * ★ * * Prsi(lf»nt Coolidge In his first ninssagu to congress declared himself on most of the important question In a clear manner. He favors a World Court and admits the need of It but Is against he League of Nations no doubt for political reasons. He Is opposed to the soldier’s bonus, favors tax reduction and thinks the tariff law Is all right and talks about "an abounding prosperity" which is not as genera] as he seems to think it is. He has laid down a program for congress and has done so In such a positive way that there should be some results, one way or another, good or bad. which would at least be an improvement over the sessions of the past few years. And now commences the big fight. The progressives are against many of the president's recommendations ami hold the balance of power. Congress is filled with men who have presidential aspirations and who will destroy that they may Increase their individual power. The results, very much in doubt, can only be told when the session has ended. In the meantime the burdened people hope for the best.

Son of Peter Lux. Corn King, Wins Corn Prize Chicago. Dec. 7. —Maurice Lux. age thirteen, of Shelbyville. Ind., won the junior corn sweepstakes prize Saturday night at the Intenational corn and hay show here. His exhibit of ten ears of White Dent corn won over several hundred other junior entries. Young Lux won a part of the $12,000 prize money given by the Chicago Board of Trade anil gained possession of the junior corn cup, which was won last year by Glenn Thares, also of Indiana. Peter Lttz, father of Maurice, duplicated his son's feat by winning the senior corn sweepstakes. Another son, Frank, won the sweepstakes in 1921. Other Indiana pize winners at the international show included Robert Wilson, age eleven, of Muncie, who won the grand championship in the junior feeding contest with an Angus junior yearling; Charles Driver, of Aurora, who scored the highest number of points in the stock judging contest, and Pauline Gadbttry. of Hartford City, who took fifth prize in the senior yearling class with a shorthorn steer. The Purdue University team finished seventeenth in the stock judging competition. Indiana Men Winners Indiana corn men today won first prize in Regions 3 and 4 east, and will compete for first honors with those in the western part of the same regions. In Region 3. W. D. Littlejohn, of Kentland, and A. F. Troyer, of La Fontaine, won first on yellow and white corn, respectively. In Region 4. Ed Lux, of Shelbyville, of the famous Lux corn family, won sweepstakes on white corn. The judges had not completed yellow corn judging at noon. The hay and grain show, in the charge of C. I. Christie and W. Q. Fitch, of Purdue University, is the largest ever held, with more than 5.000 entries in the junior corn contest. Maurice Lux was the center of interest today for many persons, as he posed for photographers and was interviewed by newspaper men. Mary Ternet. of New Haven, Ind., who won sweepstakes in Region 3 in the duh class, competed with the Lux boy for highest corn honors in the club class, thereby winning the reserve sweepstakes. Great for Rheumatic Pains and Swellings When rheumatism settles in any of your joints and causes agony, distress or misery, please remember that Joint-Ease is the one remedy that brings quick and lasting relief. It matters not how chronic or aggravated a case may be—rub on Joint-Ease and relief is sure to follow. ~ , Joint-Ease is for joint troubles only •ind is a clean, stainless preparation that all druggists everywhere are recommending. RETIREMENT FUND 12.000 Teachers In Indiana Have Availed Themselves Os Opportunity Indianapolis. Ind.—Approximately 12.000 public school teachers in Indiana have availed themselves of the advantages of the Teachers’ Retirement fund, Estes Ducan, executive secretary of the board said today. "The doors have been dosed for teachers now in the work to become beneficiaries of the fund,” Duncan stated, "but new teachers applications can be submitted at anytime.” "The fund has already grown to nearly $1,000,000. A few years will see a magifident fund to provide for the future wants of the teachers. “We are buying only bofids of the most conservative character instead of the mortgages and like securities

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which are slow to realization. "It is imperative, however, that the state meet its share of the stability incurred by this membership of the fund. Were all the teachers of the state beginning teachers of the last two years, the state’s liability would be small, but since many of these teachers have had years of prior service, it means that the state has not been contributing its share to meet the liability when the teacher retires. "The deficit must be made up in the end by taxation. This should not excite anyone for the reason that the program to raise this deficit may extend over thirty or forty years. "The teachers of the state as well

Rings That Will Please as Christmas Gifts We have a display of Gift Rings that will prove most appealing to you as gifts when you see them. There are many unique and attractive designs, beautiful and clever mountings. A large selection of stones and precious metal. Open evenings until Xmas. We will lay aside any article you choose. i >■ J Keller’s Jewelry Store z I Waste Is Criminal Economy A Virtue YOU CAN SAVE EASILY WITH US Id these days of high prices and advanced living costs yon have a double incentive to save. , The savings bank account of today represents the foundation of many a fortune of tomorrow. Building up a reserve Is not difficult after you have begun it, but the important thing is the start. We invite you to make that start with us. We pay 4% interest on money deposited in our savings ? department.. Don’t delay—do it now. Old Adams County Bank i i

as the board of trustees are vitally Interested that this program to raise that fund be provided. It will require but very little increase in the tax rate to provldk for this liability In the years to come-." The fund will provide a disability pension of SSOO annually for any teacher who is permanently disabled and has paid the proportionate share of his or her salary into the fund for ten years. Up to 25 years of service, the teacher. upon retirement, may receive the

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full amount paid Into the fund, with four percent Interest. After twenty five years of service* the teacher receive an allowance or pension upon retirement. After 40 years of service the teacher receives tile full annuity of S7OO.

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The full annuity U provided part by the state and part by the teacher. Yearling payments by the teachers make up sufficient capital to provide s3<iit of the annuity while the atato contributea capital lor the s4<>o. • • «. wiNt arm (B