Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlihtd Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. j. H. Heller— Pree. and Buz. Mgr. K. W. Kampe—Vlce-Pres. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouze—Seo'y. and Bus. Mgr. 1 I ■— Entered at the Foztofflce at Decatur Indiana as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents Oue Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier >5.00 One Month, by mall 36 cents Three Months, by mail 11.00 • Six Months, by mail 11.76 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 sones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. — Ill'll ■ Foreign Representative Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Be a Good Fellow. Help the poor kiddies have a happy Christmas. The weather man predicted "Thursday fair.” We would hate to print

what we think he is, but you can easily guess. You will enjoy watching your children and your folks have a happy Christinas all the more if you drop a few dimes in for the poor children of tile community. Be a Good Fellow. The selection of Clark J. Lutz to be moderator of the Fort Wayne Presbytery is an honor which pleases tho many friends of the well known lawyer. He is splendidly qualified for the place and will serve with credit to himself and his church ■ '■ I —— Chairman Walb has tried and convicted Governor McCray so what’s the use of having a long trial and all the trouble consequent? AH Mr. Walb has to do is to sentence the governor and appoint some one to take his place. Huntington has raised about seven hundred dollars to pay their share of i marking the Harding Highway through that county. Mr. Stone reports splendid progress and before spring breaks the preliminary work will be out of the way. Then will come marking and improvement. It is destined to be one of the leading east and west roads of the nation. The ladies in charge of the Good Fellowjb club will do the very best they can with whatever amount of money is donated but they need several times what has been sent in so far. They will do all the work of buying the gifts, and distributing them to the proper places which makes it easy for you for al) you have to do is to send in a few dollars or drop your contribution in one of the boxes and then go ahead and have a good time yourself. Don't put it off another day. Twenty-two big ships loaded with rum and liquor of various kind are anchored just outside the twelvg mile limit off New York City. The plan of course is to dispose of the big stock for Christmas and New Year celebrations and the trouble is that it will be unloaded. Officials make a bluff about guarding them, but the ships keep on coming and going and that's proof that they do business. It is said the ships are so thick they

HARDING MEMORIAL Now is the time to make your contribution to the Harding Memorial Fund. A national campaign is on this week to raise $3,000,000, Gift's are to be in loving remembrance. They are to be voluntary. They are to come from nonpartisan sources. A school child’s dime will b< as welcome as the merchant prince's large donation. The idea is to have EVERYBODY give something. For your convenience tile following blank is printed: ’ IN MEMORY OF HARDING Mr. Harry Fritzinger, 1 am sending you herewith, my check for is..) payable to Harry Fritzinger, Treasurer, as a contribution to the Harding Memorial Fund. '- ‘ t Name Street address City .T ‘ Please write plainly, so that a correct record may be kept. —. * -

are u menace to navigation. During tho past year it is estimated 10,000 people have died from drinking poison liquor. It's a serious and will be so long as the laws are' , violated. Congress has st At ted off as usual. About the first bit of law-making pro- [• posed contemplates creation of a new official commission. Every little commission, you know, has a money i meaning all its own. This new deal 1 if consummated, will provide a select 1 company qf experts. Including two Up- ( to-the minute women, whose duty it i will be to "determine the alcoholic i content of intoxicating beverages." 1 The real idea, it is plain, is to attack the prohibition laws by establishing drinks that are not too alcoholic, but just alcoholic enough. Os course, there is now government machinery aplenty to handle matters of this kind, it they need care at all, but appeal to this machinery is not in the scope of our modern statesmanship. Not at all. The main purpose of bunk legislation of this kind is to raid the treasury. Every commission and every bureau needs money with which to employ clerks, and agents, and experts, and inspectors, and investigators, and each of these in turn must have more money to employ as-

sistants and helpers of one kind 'or another. So it goes. The innocentlooking legislative project develops into a rapacious, blood-sucking leech that feeds on the public purse. Talk about cutting down the expenses of government! Trust congress to prevent anything of that kind transpiring.—lndianapolis Times. TH GUIDE ) s * - *- Though nights be lonely and the world sleeps, Success his faith 'watchfire keeps: Though paths be long, bramble o'ergrown, Sussess still struggles on,- alone, '■/hough skies be sunless, utterly drear. Success still struggles on, alone. Though tasks be hard and others give up, Success drinks deeper of faith's full cup. Success, (when you see though glory’s gauze And hear beneath the world's applause). Is a man with callouses, scars, carelinned, But eye uudimmed, undaunted mind? Shoulders stooped with the heavy load, Bruised by ambition or necessity's good, But with lips that murmur a chorus, >l' will." As lie steadily toils up the last long hill. —A. I). Burkett i • _o **•»>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ » -I + From the Daily Democrat flies 4 + 20 years ago this day ♦ A December 13th, 1903 was Sunday. Q— Z __ DePauw Beats Illinois Urbana, 111.. Dec. 13 DePauw University's basketball team defeated the University of Illinois quintet here last night, by a score of 29-28. Shelbyville — George J. Mcßride, city civil engineer of Shelbyville for almofet ten years, has resigned.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1923.

■- 1 — ’ The People’s Voice I r Single Or Dual System? Uncertainly U. 8. A. Dec. 13, (Special To Daily Democrat) Wo have continued our research .'work for another week, and find the 1 work very difficult. We lacked facilities, but later found the place to be first class. We were not looking for good, diamonds, nor precious stones, but were looking tor fundamental nuggets. Determined to find some of these rarities we began to dig with tools we had ut hard. Figuratively speaking we began with the Literary Digest and of a truth it reminded us of an old fashioned pumping shovel plow that we used during our boyhood days. It did not go deep enough and was made to slide over roots. You do not know what wo mean unless you have used such tool. It makes your arms and shoulders sore and when night comes you find that you have only scratched the surface. We changed tools, first using the daily papers, the Firey Cross the Magazines the (Sunday Visitor, and the Western Advocate, finally gave up without geting what we wanted. Eventually It was suggested that we use Science and logic. We hastely prepared’ a tool from the above named materials making the blade of science and'the handle of logic, calling he contraption a scio-logical spade.

Digging went fine and in a very short ime we had unearthed a whole city ■ in Southern Michigan containing sixty I thousand, people. This city was not I inusual except it had a v wonderful I water system. The wells were three I hundred feet deep and were fed by I huge lakes that rendered a flowing I dream of millions of gallons per day I that emptied into mammoth cistern. I The water was pure containing no I leadly germs. Digging was so fine I .hat we kept on and soon unearthed I mother city in Northern Indiana that I contained more than one hundred I thousand people. It also had a water I system, but its source of supply was I dual drawing water from deep wells I and a murky river. The two systems I were connected by defective valves. I The pure waters soon became polluted I with deadly germs; typhoid fever and I leath were the results. In horror we I hrew down our soci-logical spade and I began to mediate. The questions soon I came. I Where do we get our spiritual I drink? Do the waters of life flow from I he eternal lake of pure water or have I we a dual .system, and are the_ two con- I aected so that the polluted waters of I materialism can poison the pure I vaters of eternal life? There is no I iced of turning to propeganda to get I he solution of these questions. We I urned to the Bible and found that I Christ had told us over two thousand I years ago not to connect these two I systems H. G. Wells, the historian | aid that Christ vyas the greatest man I >n earth, because he set the millions I o thinking. None before, nor since I has been like unto Him. He told the I Jews that they had polluted their I piritual water. This made them I angry and they were willing to mur- I ler. If you tell a man today that he has been drinking from a dual water system he will get angry at once. This inger shows the germs,in his system. | Pure spiritual water does not contain germs. j Paul drank the drags of a bad sysem at the feet of Gamaliel. He had | murder in his heart. That very thing | , ; s causing trouble today. People try to mix their drinks and become as crazy as drunken sailors. They, miss ] , represent the church they belong to and bring odium upon every thing ’ with which they come in contact. Eximine their system of drinking water ind you will find that the germs get in through the weak spots of ignorance, malace, hate envy, jealousy, pride, coveteousness and selfishness; to many 1 valves or inlets for any system. Their - defects are easily found but hard to mend and Paul discovered all thia in his life at once set about to rectify r the wrong. His aim was to imforin the world of his find. . Next Sunday Dec. 16th we will sU'tdy "PauTZ Aim And Method", He said "I am not ashamed of the pospel, for j it is’the power God unto salvation to every one that believith” Hom 1. 16. naMgUlhadi—.rsffwetaoin etaoin ta o j ■ - Purdue Beats Rose Poly In First Game Lafayette, Dec. 13—Purdue romped through Rose Poly in the first basketball game of the season fo> both teams here last night, winning by a score of 45 to 7. The Boilermake.s outplayed their opponents in all departments of the game, particularly in basket shooting, Rose displaying a glaring weakness in this. The visitors were held without a field goal in the first half, which ended ?3 to 2. Spradling, playing his first game for Purdue, scored eight times from the \. /

I flair, while Robbins and Gullion ulao , 'scored heavily. Bluffton Masons Move To Own Their Own Home ■ ' Bluffton Dec. 13— Preliminary steps] taken at the regular meeting of the/ 1 Masonic lodge Tuesday evening may ' lead to the purchasing of u netg home for all of the Bluffton Masonic orders. I A committee to be oppointed by ' Worshipful Master John Carnail will,j within the next few days, conduct an ' inquiry among members of the frateri nity as to their sentiment in regard to the matter. If conditions are, favorable, a permanent committee to raise . a building fund will be appointed. Cloid Ratliff wits elected worshipful master of the Masonic lodge in the annual election of officers. Other , officers elected were: J. Kennedy, sepior warden; C. Verne McKinney, junior warden; Arthur Kirkwood, secretary; Herman Thomas, treasurer. The appointive officers will be made known by the worshipful master by Dec. 27, the night of installation. Judge Landis Still Ruler Os Baseball (By James T. Kolberti (U. P.lStaff Correspondent) Chicago, Dec. 13 —The dynamic little I . king of baseball still sits on his throne Judge Kenesaw Mountain LandisJ the fiery commissioner of baseball.

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crushed his opposition with a torrid speech to tho joint meeting of tho American and National league owners laic yesterday and concluded with the • duly "to take It or leave It.” I While the happenings ut the meatI ing are being hold secret. H was loarn'cd on excellent authority that the Sujlge lid m>t give his enemies tin opportunity to start an offensive. He leaped to the attack. He used a few i harsh words, including a charge that i ■ certain folks wt re "swineish.” He ’ ' headed off an attack on his miscell-1 anous expense account of $12,00 last i year by stating that he had the vouchers for cvet'y cent expended. Ltndis told the moguls he was fed up on the abust and slures heaped on him and ended by offering to give up i $59,000 a year job. The meeting' ended with tlie judgb winning .almost every point. Notorious Leader Os “Egan’s Rats,” Killed St. Louis, Dec. 13. —James "Slicky" Hennessey. 21, one of the leaders of "Egan’s Kats," was killed and isadore "Izzy” Londe, 19, equally notorious gangster was injured today when Hennessey's car skided on a subur- | ban road and crashed at high speed ! iw> a telephone pole. » Londe and two police characters I who hurried to their rescue from Maxwelton Inn. headquarters of gang (nearby were held by police pending investigation.

Both gangster* had been arrested 75 or more times in the last five years on charges ranging from carrying concealed weapons to rubbery and murder. They were said to have

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