Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1923 — Page 3

The First Train (Continued From Page One) was going to happen as regards that railroad and its rolling wonders. Had you not. been notified that yon had In a highfalutin' way voted against your self a yearly tax for said railroad that would take all the rows and shoats you could raise | n a generation to pay for? So, we say, you would be aware of what was going to happen and feeling that you were interested both financially and morally, you would just naturally have a fever. All right. Word would come In the way word used to come before they had telephones, that on a certain day after breakfast the too-too would toot for the Madison street arousing.' What woud you and yours have done? It is to be presumed that yon would get up before the rooster had hatted an eye lid and do the chores and rustle the corn pone and the sowbelly and hitch up Buck and Berry to the chariot and the whole darn fam ily would be on their way. Well, that is what they did. Others did the very same thing. It is to be remembered that there were gentlemen then living in the environs of our county seat who had whiskers that had to be braided before they could climb a fence, who had never seen a locomotive, let alone a red caboose, it is also to be remembered that there were public officials at that time who also had' never seen the monsters — even though they had been to Monroeville, where the Pittsburg railroad was-h-cause whisky was 120 proof in Monroeville those days and it was a long time between trains. All right. Picture to yourself the scene. Locomotive snorting and smoking, flat cars wobbling, red caboose bobbing, train men tableauing, popuace staring. An od friend of mine, who has lived in Decatur for about forever, said to me “Did you ever hear of the time the old gentleman Parry and Judge Studabaker went to New York to see Jay Gould?” “Sure I heard the story" says I, “but go ahead and tell it to me again." “Well,’ says he, “you see this is how it was: Mister Parry was a Quaker, only about five feet four and

The Real Power Behind Prohibition

Competition for World Markets, Not Anti* Saloon League, Back of Dry Movement in England, Germany, Japan and Central Europe, Says Economic Expert.

r~ "I ROM the viewpoint of the I fl I powers that really caused ■■■■ it, prohibition iu the I nlt< i MnWJ States la an outstanding success Tula success is of a sort to imprune and even to alarm foreign observers With the result that similar forces to those that caused problbltlon la America are now at work In the chief European and some Astatic countries. These statements are made by Charles Edward Russell of New York Otty, who was a member of the President's industrial Commission In 1919 and has been known as an economist for a number of years. They are printed in The Century Magaxlne for January. Big Business Dry The Anti Saloon League, according to Mr. Russell, did not cause the dry spell In America. The present theo retical aridity of the country wou<d have been brought about whether there was such an organisation or not The underlying movement was never a moral or religious one. but is Indus trial and commercial determined by the precepts of good business and In spired by the noceaally of increasing the efficiency of factory production It was the big business m- n of Amer lea who were responsible for the Eighteenth Amendment and th* vol Mead Act, and one reason they were Successful was that they went to work quietly. — __a___a A 1.. Use

Kngland Drying Up England, reports Mr Russell. Is si moat aa dry at present aa the t nlted ! Platea The same f >r... ba' . !>• - u at work there Id the same qul«"t way. While Pussyfoot Johnson has be< n getting hla eye knocked out and grtUng a lot of publicity about It. the British workingman baa been «»ttln« ' the alcohol knocked out of bls ale with hardly any notice at all. * The movement In England and the United States atarted during th» war. when the necaaalty of making munitlona of war an expeditiously aa poaable revealed drinking aa seriously In terterlng with rapid and regular production The no lew strenuous com- t eorclal struggles of peace bare had ■ Bar their war-cry. aa well, tb" neceealV for lowered production costs. and

. tuh, always wore a I Albert coat and a huge fiat “DPo.I b roil d brimmed beaver hat. Which Was odd enough when attached t ' din, and he had a voice like a fog 1 J. o ''" B Br,f) ,lk ” « Htevedore. J Weil, he a nd the Judge had had writ •J Ings with Jay Gould wiUj (11 l(|fla (u ( .ndml of having Jay take a R(>( Jiv 4 J ". nch r,f "‘ P railroad's bonds nu<| it !” '* nt at that time they „ !'ad not the slightest intention of .mpklng Jay a present of the capital I S " ck " f ,h " railroad, they not know , ini', Jay very well. an <i S() at , UH| lh( . y New York to complete the deal. The J Judge I,ought a new plug hat ami the an appointment to meet Juy In r »ld gentleman Parry wore his beaver I and away l hey went. | In a couide of weeks they got to , N“W tcrk along before supper some I lone and the Judge says to Uncle William that now we can get a good rest and lie fresh to see Gould bright and early in the morning. 'Nay, i fi lend David,' said Unde Parry, 'not ' so, thee and me shall see Jay this ■ very night.' says he. They voted aye and no, hut Uncle Parry had the strongest voice. They registered at lUm best tavern in town and had a \ supper of good things to eat of whatever it was they had to eat those •lays, but both being teetotalers they simply ‘et’ as one might say. 'After this duty had been performed, Uncle Parry approached the desk of the host and says he, ‘Can thee tell me where 1 can find Jay Gould, wo have important business with .him?' 'Certainy,' says mine host, the landlord. Mr. Gould is on the fourth and top floor attending a ball. Mrs. Gould abetted by her husband are entertaining a couple hundred (lite | with a considerable sprinkling of ; prospective railroad stockholders.' [ ‘Thank thee, my friend,' said Uncle Parry and with a ‘follow thou me, David,’ marched sturdily up the four ' flights of stairs, Studabaker followI ing hesitatingly. | "All was gayiety on the party floor. Fine gentlemen and filner ladles in [ their gladdest 1870 glad rags were terpaichoring. Still sturdily, this [wonderful little old Quaker strode In . to the almost center of the ball room, j the Judge halting at the doorway. All > astonished eyes were on that queer [old figure, sensing his sterling worth

'I ' i Increase of Business First Year of Prohibition in U. S. Per Cent Business of Increase Department Stores.. .Seventeen Chain grocery stores. Fort y-three Chain drug stores Nineteen Chain 5 and 10 cent stores Eighteen ■ Moving pictures Millions of i Dollars, impooel- , ble to measure. Life Insurance Policies 1917 A ISIS Average outstanding 1J.175.000 1920 & 1921 Average outstanding 17,191.000 Increase in their value ....55% for lowered alcoholic content In beverages, to make the lowered production costs possible. International Movement Japan, not to be outdone by her western rivals fur trade supremacy, has made the entering wedge for pro hlblilon an enactment against selling liquor to anyone less than twenty-eno years of age. Norway has complete prohibition. Sweden Is apparently on the verge of making prohibition country wide. The Austrian Government I* com-

inn mltt*d to It Tbr movement grows In Kwltxer- ] land. Splrllous llnuors can no longer be sold in Itelglum. Local option baa been adopted In Poland and Csecho-Rlorakla. In Italy the winemakers are study Ing other uses for their grapes. and restrictive houre aru In force against saloons Prohibition la ganlna atrength own In Franoa. the home of the grape and of wine. Heraua mlt dec Stein Even in Germany, where the beer ateln la aa familiar an emblem aa the donble headed Pruaelan eagle u.ed to be. reports Mr. Russell. "It la yet lo ba determined that the German teals t

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1923.

and the native simplicity of a child—' as he peered from one to another, with his brazil brimmed beaver on, mind you—Quakers did not remove their hat within doors, you know--and from tluit great chest camo the thundering request for Information that shook the candles out of the chandeliers, "Is Jay Gould in here?” Quickly from among the throng a little grey bearded man stepped for ward ami with kindly courtesy said, I liat is my name.' ‘| am glad to me, I thee, friend Jay.' suld Uncle William grabbing Gould's hand in u[ mighty clasp that made Gould wince. I’ll'nd Stiulabaker and | have come Io see thee and wo have little time to waste, hast thou leisure now?’ 'lf the ladles and gentlemen win excuse me, i have,' answered Gould and they| having smilingly assented the great railroad magnate and the grave old' Quaker .and his friend walked off together for tin half hour's confab that was resumed the next morning to a satisfactory ending.” Yes, Uncle Parry got the money and the Pennsylvania Railroad com patty ultimately got the railroad, but that is another story. Well anyway, that was a great day in Decatur. There was hardly a dry •■ye in town. For that matter there was hardly a dry whisker, A goodly number of kegs of nails were opened up. A good time was had by all. The town marshal called a moratorium for the day. The evening shadows came at last and Pa and Ma and their brood hitched Buck and Berry Into thefr wooden harness and 'twaa the, end of a perfect day. So progress makes her mighty sweep. The marvel becomes the I commonplace. The ambitions of, men are never stilled. It seems to I me. we can well afford to halt in our mad tmpetous rush and tip our hat to the memory of Uncle William and our own brave boys of Adams county, who were not afraid to do and vote ami pay. Knights Os Columbus Notice Regular meeting Monday, Decern i her 31. Business that requires the at | tendance of all members will be dis [ posed of. l>-t all member* attend. G : K. 3tx 11 ■ 1 9— - — MMa Knock spots out of dothinK anti t utfs —Spee-1 lee.

, for beer is stronger than the Herman astuteness about the world struggle.” In explaining the leal force behind * lprohil.itit.il the Century writer 1 traces the history of the morel and r> - ligious drive toward the same end. “For more than forty years,” b.writes, "a national political party bad regularly and with facile arguments offered prohibition to us at the polls ai.d we would hate none of It. Not ,-i perceptible dent had It ever made In the electorate. Yet probibition was on the verge of national adoption. It for once we can wrench our minds away from the question whether pro- - hibition is good or bad twlth which I we have nothing to do here), this will seem to us one of the strangest facti in American history.” Anti-Saloon League Not Guilty Coming to the actual passage of prohibition the writer says: "Many editorial and other learned commentators have agreed that the force at work these wonders to perform la to be found In the marvelous organisation and audacious methods of the ! Anti-Saloon league. On examination I the Antl-Saloon league does not appear to be more man clous nr more audacious than a thousand other like associations that have never compassed th* like magic. The task was to move the legislators In thirty-six States to vote for a measure that I traversed human experience and etis-l toms and Involved an enactment tew of the legislators believed In and still fewer had any purpose to obey. ”lt was a thing harder to conceive than an ateless Great Britain or * wltteleaa France, and nothing In the AntlSaliM.n league seemed likelier to cope with Its terms In Isis than in 1900.'' Red-Llghta Out, Too Mr. Russell turns almost Immediately to wbat h* considers the real ex j planation. stating: “Evidently, badt of these manifestations was at work an other pXw»r, great, rather subtle, not well defined, working wisely, silently, end irresistibly. What this power was might have been surmised by anybody that noted th* part In the movement for national prohibition taken by th* largest and most astute employing In

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t. Milwaukee’s Christmas Tree Is 400 In One Milwaukee is no longer predomin- , ately a German city, but the spirit of i the old Germans who gave the city ' its character is still strung upon the municipal lift; espiclally at Christmas time. Due to advertising, the city of Mil- [ waukee has been given u fleeting , fame for many thing, but oqe very ; legitimate element of fame has been j overlooked the Christmas Tree. ,'Perhaps you have not associated MilJ waukee with Christmas festivals, but ■ If you are ever there on Christmas , Eve, go up to the Court of Honor i which stretches from Ninth to Elventh streets on Grand avenm—be there promptly at 5:30 and a marvelous spectacle will greet your eyes. First you will see the Christmas Tree, which Is made of 400 Christmas | Trees, standing seventy-five feet high, and topped by an eight-foot electric star. You will see the mayor, who is a Socialist, and his wife, who Is a Catholic and Rev. S. Paterson Tood, Protestant minister and secretary of the Wisconsin Jord's Day ' Alliance (think of that —a reformer!) standing side by side, waiting for the moment. Mr. Todd is there, having been chosen by a committee com prising all the churches, Catholic and Protestant of Milwaukee. At the stroke of the half hour after ' I five. Mayor *Hoan will turn the switch that lights the glorious star. I The chimes of a near-by church will ; break upon the evening air in the old Christmas hymn. “Adestes Fidelis." Another pause and the Tree is flooded by varicolored light, and the Police Band, leading a massed chorus of five hundred singers, and they |n turn leading thousands upon thousands of spectators, begin the program of Christmas hymns, "O Come All Ye Faithful." Holy Night. Silent Night," and “Onward Christian Sold i lers.” A brief pause ensues and silence; the treetowers anil glows above the [throng. Then a blare of trumpet* and "On Wisconsin” is sung as only Wisconsin can sing it. This is the way the people of Milwaukee say “Merry Christmas" to

I w c . I. j ! : • w i ? ■til 11 J a TRADE FOLLOWS THE ORTS

tereata In America. The fact wan well known then and came afterward to be widely published that thia Internal bad Itnanced and Inspired the cam palgn for the amendment that other agenclea bail managed What In aome Quartern la equally well known, bill baa neter been puldlaht-d. la that with in a few yearn thin name Interest baa abolished the red light dhir.ct In ev ary Am»r'can city. If this will not open our even, we must be blind in deedThe econumlat ewllchea tn an ac count of the inefllclmcy that valeted In English factories at the atari of the war; the email number of employee, who reported for work on Monday and other irregularities interfering to an Immeasurable extent with rhr processes of production He describes the way th<- Government, without an laaonlilng tbe workman bv d rerllv ■lilting their beer, reduced iheumottni of grain that could be used by br»w cries. with Ibe result that ibe beer!

one another at the Court of Honor. » The program does not vary from year to year, and it Is carefully timed to i- consume but one half an hour. , f The tree Is one of the wonders of f the occasion. Every year a car load of 400 average-sized Christmas trees are brought to Milwaukee. And every year the telephone company gets out cf storage a telephone pole • seventy-five feet long, studded its I i|s entrle length with sockets for ' trees. The pole Is sunk into a centrent socket six feet deep anil two feet In diameter. Into 400 sockets arrant'. ■ ed at Intervals the length of the pole, the 400 Christmas trees are placed, so i that each tree becomes only a branch • of the larger tree thus made. j It Is a real Municipal Christmas • Tree In that it is in charge of a com- ■ mission appointed by the mayor, al[though the money for the cost Is con i tributed by the business mon. The i simple announcement that the lime has come to prepare for the tree Is • sufficient to bring In the necessary .[funds, laist year $1,144 was contri- > bated and $919.42 spent. Everything i is done at cost, except thu Police ■ Hand who volunteer their services. ■ [ There is a little story attached to i that. The church people of Wiscon- • sin became Interested enough In the • Police of the state to fight for a state law giving them time off. like any ■ other class of workers, and the Po lice Band takes the Christmas Sea■I son to show that the police remem- • her It. . In previous years the shut-ins InI vallds and aged of the city were tak I en in automobiles to the Court of [Honor to hear the program, but be- • 'cause of the weather at Christmas [time an improvement in that arrange : II ment Is to be made this year. These i guests are to be brought to the place -; in automobiles as before but Instead [ of sitting through the program In the • open air they are to hear it by radio ! I in the Grand Aveune Methodist char •ch near ' by. Station WCAY will i broadcast the whole program. laist ' : year It was heard in San Francisco ■ and New York. i Milwaukee people are proud of ■ their Municipal Christmas Tree, which, by the way. |* only one <|e- ■ velopment of their communal celebra i tion of various holidays.

became In tbe course of lime natty near beer and non intoxicating Beer and Taste Taxes were reduced to discourage the tradlc In liquor, and the hours at which saloons might be open wer* curtailed, especially dorms the perl | <>ds when th»li dispensation of liquid i cheer would Interfere with the work inginan'a rfflcivticy As a consequence. ”K«r the populs tlon at home," Mt Itusavl! nays. "His was the year of greatest sobriety the country had ever known. It was also the year of the greatest production »f Bclency. Production kept ewu pare with sobriety Tbe leaenn of this demonstration was not lost " The Land of the Free “ The land of the free where * man can't get a drink.' was al first a favorite sneer of the complsient Hrtton aa he read of America's draconic remedy for the Inelhrlrncy br»d by Idtluk" w.llea Mr It mart), "ft l« a

Interior Decorators Contribute A Share to Internationa! Amity By an Interior Decorator

A bureau of architecture and interior decoration In the organization of the League of Nations might [ not be ao absurd as it sounds, interior decorating does its share with the other arts in promoting international understanding. The vogue of the English type of house among American homebuilders, with it* rich quiet dignity. Its almost medieval casement windows and its substantial walls and ceilings would seem in the nature of a link between two nations. A

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The fancy Is emphasized in the library, lined with books which tn most American home* will be in the common language of England and America, embodying the inestimable heritage of English literature. The general characteristics of the English manner of interior decorating Include celling* that are in decorative relief or beamed, walls panelled in oak or oak finish, or wainscoted well toward the celling and topped by a strip of * rough stone-colored plaster.

New York —Alexander Ihibin, au- j thor of the song. “Just a Girl That | Men Forget." is accused of having i forgotten hl* wife 11 times since . their marriage in 1919. according to a suit separation filed here.

sneer that In these days is fading from British lipa” The course followed by the United Riateg was similar tn that in England, though method* differed. The enter describes them, leading up again to ’ hie interpretation of the facts that will |>etH>nch prohibition forever in this ' country and indicate clearly enough

'To do same job 7 non drinkers or rttitinH IO drinkers

| Casement windows which preferI ably awing outward uud are buug i with casement lace curtains are equally characteristic. Lights are in antique bronze or wrought Iron bracket* which give a candle effect. Furniture exhibit* a generous amount of uverstutfcl upbolsh ry and tends to Juccbian. Elizabethan and Stuart design* Figured rugs are used to advantage. The solidity of the typo is carried out downstairs by hangings at doors and overdraperies at the

Jr windows of heavy texture in tapestry color*. Upstair* the richness and heaviness of the style may be varied, for only in the moat pretentious houses are the high wainscoting* and vaulted ceilings repeated there. English chintz wall paper*, matched by chintz overdraperies may be used. The uniform appearance of the exterior I* preserved by the fringed casement lace at the window.

Oklahoma City Nothing but happiness should come from the following combination, says the marriage | license clerk here. Mins Gladys luirge was issued a lii-en.ve to wed i Frank Kina.

that It will gradually become worlA wide. "The theory of prohibition may be good or bad," be writes; "it Is to the physical fact of prohibition that we chiefly owe the strangely placid economic waters In which we now navigate. At a time of profound agricultural depression all other industry should suffer. Other Industry does not suffer now, but does more than usually well because increased production efficiency enables production to stand the strain of raised wage levels.” Foreigners Wako Up “Foreigners are beginning to note these facts,” bo says, "even if we ignore them. After two yean of American prohibition, Mr. 0. C. Vile, a British business man and anti-problblttoa--Ist. came to this country to observe the workings of the new reform. Oa his return ho was quoted as declaring In a speech at Hirmlngham that . seven American workingmen wttb the same plant, same materials, same faI eUltlee, would produce more than ten British workingmen.” "Viewing With Alarm" A member of Parliament Is quoted as saying that American workers are producing, man for man, three times as much as th* Hritfah workers. Others are quoted, and an array of figures la given to show how departmon* store, chain afore and other businesses have prospered since the coming of prohibition. "For years previoue to the war. International distribution was adjusted to a certain well known balance of producing conditions.” he continues. “The admittedly superior intelligence aud skill of the American workingman were offset by the high Am-riean wage scale; otherwise, American production would have flooded th* world? Prohibition in America has dlslocaty thia adjustment / , What Uncle flam Learned / "Early in 1939 the I Commerce In Washington sent / one of Its skilled observers / f . the stat" and prospects nt w ,’trade. On.hie return he sa/ I ’ found th* master producer , countries looking with w/ ! the new figures of Amer/ / lion and production coat/ conclusion, as It was ty petition would drive Ejf tense to adopt probl/ escape from It wo/ that would rc>t r* / lea. and no imaglnf ■ thing more itnpr/ ”Ruch.“ ends / 'hf. present aspect/ ' dream. Whll/ t| . '' It* reform a/ I th* world./ Xt. ' bothers lit/ vastly e r / er reaso/ { <i t . I bltlnnts/ I toe.” / — L