Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. 11. Heller—Pres, and Gen. Mgr E. W. Katnpe—Vioe-Pres. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouae—Sec'y. and Bus. Mgr Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur Indiana as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 55.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mall SI.OO Six Months, l»y mail $1.75 One Year, by mull ,3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage ad ded 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, Mu Tomorrow is Sunday, a day for rest a day to go to church, a day to help your community by forgetting worries and cures, business and politics and helping the pastor make* your church a place of real interest. "Little Orphant Annie" made famous by the great Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley, is dead at her home at Indianapolis. She was Mrs. Mary Alice Gray an old childhood playmate of Riley's at Greqasburg, Indiana. Every child in Indiana and a million or more* over the country fee) they knew the little* "orphant" who came to our house to stay. The* Adams County Jefferson club will hold an election in a wee k or two and will complete plans to take an active part in the* coming campaign. They can render uuu-h assistance to the central committee and provide many interesting events during the year. Similar organizations in many counties have proven most successful and if those interested here will respond the club can be made a big part of the community and the c ampaign. I The test of whether or not you want to boost this community or want some one else to do it for your benefit will come next week when the* finance committee calls on you for an assessment towards the fund with which to meet expc nses of improvements to be made this year. We get what wc- pay for and if we don't pay anything w e don't receive much in return. If we put ourselves and our money back of al prjq’-ct, it will go over. We say th<*| test is at hund. Ix*onard Wood could have been! president, according to his son. if he! hud accepted an offer to give certain things greatly desired to big oil in terests. The son will testify before* the senate committee. Perhaps he c#n explain why he did not tell the Idg secret when the leases wore being made* and thus protect his country. Perhaps someone else can tell who did ac ce pt th.-offer. lzM>ks like the try had been bought and sold. It Is cim .chd that Washington needs a doctor but whether it will be th** famous Dr. Copeland of New York! or Dr. Ralston, or Dr. Daniels. or Dr 111 Johnson or Dr. Coolidge who Is now on the job with the* sick patient. I remains to to* decided by the family I of voters in America. It sto be hoped I that while the important mutter Is being decided the patient does not become* m serious that n major opera•lon U uccessary. The poor fellow Is. •uHeriug from a ' Fall." Yesterday waa the test day for filing pelHlona |,y candidate* for governor. I president and vh wprvHdent In Indi I unn For governor, petitions were til- • d by Frank A. Pri.-.t of Marion and! tdln It lloli «f Kokomo <> n u, tleaw truth ticket and by Ellas W. Dulber* ger. an Indianapolis attorney on the republican ticket. making a total of eight democrats and six republicans. Cocdldge and Johnson Will be on the republican primary ticket while no democrat < filed, the- Indiana vole* c-v|. di’ttil* 4 hf'jittf < h» K il' atuu.

Flashlights of Famous People I

Face to Face r With r .John Roach Straton Fundamentalist—The Man Who Fights I‘.roadway s By Joe Mitchell Chapple 0 g A crusader, a two-ifsted. hard-hit n ting man of God. always the defend j ant at the bulwarks of Christianity, j lie lights with both hands, and equally j effective* with his right or his left. ] That kind of man is Dr. John Roach . Straton. the pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. New York City. John Roach Straton fights the devil and all his satanic relations, or those with a toward leaning with unmitigated fervor. He personally attend-' ed the Dempsey-Carpentier tight and i branded It as a return to the gladia-| toiial combats which debauched the Romans and ruined Rome. His bit- 1 tc rness against licentious dancing] led him on a tour of New York City's I cabarets, which resulted in several ] arrests. , At his office at Calvary Baptist ' Church on Fifty-seventh Street. 1 found him seated behind his roll top desk, the many papers on which mia+rt indicate his being a bank president instead of a minister. There i sat the man whom New York calls I "the sensational preacher." the man who lights Bioadway. I made I mental survey of him. He is tall and sttalght, well-proportioned, square! shoulders, smooth shaven, with gtey eyes exhibiting a keenness of penetration as they look directly at you through his rimless glasses. His hair, with a decided dash of iron-gray in it, is neatly trimmed and parted on the side. There is a squareness of jaw which indicates the fighter that he is. At first glance he seems to be | an energetic type of business r.u-n and on second glance you know that I he is. John Roach Straton has made re-i 1 ligion a business. He speaks slowly ' with a pleasing voice. His words 1 come easily and naturally, giving the, l impression that he believes deeply in 1 everything he says. Speaking of the I Jberatlists or Mod-1 erniats, he said: "The ringleaders among the aggteslve Libelalists of New York are' ilitkod with notorious forms of world . |l'n *sv. The preacher who seeks to, I break down the Bible leaching con-, I corning divorce in older that he may 1 marry with good conscience, that preacher who has disgraced his church and Protestant Christianity by . introducing dancing by bare-legged 1

Editor's Note: Send ten names of your favorite famous folk now livinq to Joe Mitehell Chapple. The Attic. Wafdorf Astoria Hotel. New York City. The readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fame.

The people are entitled to an explanation of the exact connection of Edward McLean with the Cnited dtatei government. He seems to be a Secret member of the secret service department, had the codes of the department of Justice. was so important that the president am! bit secretary kept in touch with him by jfivate wire and he seems to fSe! though this coentry was a part ot his vast possession*. If be own* us, let's know it so we may respect the "boss.” If hr don’t, he should be no Informed, that he may be respectful to the government which we thousht belonged to all of us. Numerous office holders who ire drawing pay for the work for which they were employed are now out traveling over the state and the nation, trying to secure other offices. There is Hiram Johnson, a senator from California and James Heed a senator from Missouri, both candidates fdr president and both scouring the- country for support. There are some- matters of more or less Importance in the senate these days and if these men know so much about how it ought to be done. It mcms their places In the senate chould be oc c uplud. There are others who hold city or < ounty or state offices who are drawing salaries, doing nothing to earn It and devoting ihvir time which belong < to their constituency. In seeking votes. All thosei things Increase cost of government ■ Indirectly. r CO-OPCRATIVE MARKETING I Warsaw. Mar. ?> 'Vheat growers ■ l, |nt Koxc-lusko county nt a meeting r.hc-hi here deetdod to Join with wheat | o aruwe-r* |g other Indiana counties In , t .|lhe cooperative' marketing of their jjgraln < ontract* already have been signed by a large number of Kost lllisko couny farmers.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATCRDAY, MARCH 8, 1921.

jfe: • '-VJ -So DR. STRATON says: "The Bible, the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible. The Church of ! Christ is not a hospital to nurse sick saints into heaven.” . r^—r*r^— r 1 . girls even Jn God’s house: that I preacher who shuttle-cocked the i morning services from eleven o’clock i to ten thirty in order, as he stated, to i give his people more time f>r auto- , mobile riding, golf. etc., on Sunday 'morning; that preacher who has in his congregation a leading young society woman who has become famous now for working up prize fights and attending them herself; and ; others in the city who are in the fore- ; front of the rejection of the Bible and its way of holiness for men. are all Modernists. "The church of Christ is not a hospital to nurtp* sick saints Into heaven, but an armory to train good soldiers of Jesus Christ." * Dr. Straton is the most fundamental of Fundamentalists. The frontispiece of his church program contains his pictorial platform. It is a Bibbon which rests the Calvary Baptist Church, and underneath he has written the words, "The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible." John Roach Straton was born in Evansville, Indiana, of southern parents. His father was.the Rev. H. D. D. Straton. He begun his education at Mercor University. Macon. Geo* gia. and later attended the University of Chicago and the Boston School of Oratory. Since entering the mini-try Dr. Straton. though still a young man. has held four notable pastorates in Chicago. Baltimore, Norfolk, and New York City. When Dr. Straton e«u< to Neu York he catne to an afistocrattc church. It was one of the old cercmoniat refot med churches where there was little religion and lots of form. Today it Is practically a new church. Ke made it democratic for the rich and poor alike. »

r"" , »♦♦♦«♦♦♦**♦♦♦ * t » TWENTY YEARS AGO TQUAY ♦ t aasawmsaM— • I ♦ Erste th« Dally Democrat fllas ♦ • 20 years ago this day ♦ j voooaoooowosos March S—Al! saloons of Herne closed after court rules on several cases. Nelson May loses pocket bo< k conlaiuing t'.*s while watching a Hugo beer dance. Surprise party for Joseph Hower, on his 43th birthday. * .Mrs Charley Miller dies st Whittier. Cailfornto. «. John Mougey. and family moves to M. Marys. Ohio. Hr. J. M. Miler makes first run of season In his Cadllac which has been housed tor winter. Jake Sc-lilc gc | arrives from !>unla|c. lowa for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lower move to Auf n house- on Fifth street. ’ Ne w tllo floor i* being laid In Kills building. t Charles Knapp granted Purdue scholarship hy Commiaalon rs. ---- 1 o—. • EVANGELICAL MEN MEET MONDAY NIGHT , ■ Members of the Evangelical Hrotht rhond havu •> treat in store tor them on Monday night when they wl>! be permitted to hear two up-to-the-mln-ute addresses. The occasion will be ' the regular monthly meeting of the brotherhood and all men of the church arc eordfnlly Invited to ati tend. The addresses will be given , by very able speakers and those who | miss h< urlnz them will miss something worth while. The meeting will convene nt 7:3®. Mr. nnd Mre. James Elberson returned fiom Indiunaiwdia last night nftrr attending the Automobile Show held there this week. HU -■"■II I I 111 I l<ll |ll I ■ English prints and flowered <re ■ tones make very summery looking i freaks that need only gav rlb>mti , girdles or ling'-rhc coihirs ami cuffs . In the way of trimming.

-■ —1 Gene Stratton-Porter, Famous Authoress, Writes Letter To Former Geneva Associate Now in Los Angeles, California; recalls incidents which occurred when she lived at Geneva; tells of her travels front the time she left Geneva until present time.

A few years ago Mrs. Gene Strat-ton-Porter, the now famous authoress, lived in Geneva where Llmberlost Cabin, now known around the world because of its place in her stories, still stands. One of her favorites in that town then was Mrs. Adeline Higbee, now of Bellevue, Ohio. The following letter from Mrs. Porter to her old friend recently appeared in the Bellevue Gazette and is reprinted because it contains many interesting paragraphs for the Adams county friends of the great writer: “My dead friend: 1 "Will Hale's wife is spending the f winter in lais Angeles and she told 1 me the other day that word had reached Geneva ,that you were not feeling well and were unable to carry on your usual activities, and so I am wondering if, while you are resting , and recruiting, you might not enjoy paving a few lines from me. "When I look back on the years that both of us spent in Geneva, 1 can see that we each had our secret sorrows and our disappointments, but at the same time we had some pretty good times and life was not altogether barren and dreary. I do not think the least little thing ever occurred that is not still vivid in my memory, either in the ( life of the town, of our literary club, of the church work, or any ramification of our daily existence. I certainly should enjoy talking over old times. I have not been back to Geneva in a long time. Each year life grows increasingly busy. It was not so long after you left Geneva that I left also. 1 went up to the northern part of the state on an exquisitely beautiful trip of lake shore and bought one hundred and twenty acres where I built a work shop and started a wild flower garden that ran to the proportions of twenty thousand specimens, most ol which 1 located and collected in the wild, aside from the writing necessary to support my families which by that time had spread to the number of five, and I have had this job on my hands through the war and ever since. \ * "I loved that location and should have remained there to live and to die had not the question of help become utterly inmposible in the country. "The house was a big structure containing about twenty rooms and to keep it equipped with the modern conveniences of light, heat and water required specially trained men that I could not secure in the wood*. The war was a horrible time and I ended by breaking down with the flu with no nurse and a doctor forty miles I away. In desperation, I fled to CailI fornia and I have been here during I the winter ever since. "Last fall I offered the place on the lake shore to our state for a bird and wild flower preserve, offering to donate to the state my work and a small fortune in timber that the place con tain<*d. if they would reimburse me for the expense of the buildings and the cost of bringing in and setting the wild things that 1 had gathered there. I have not yet had an answer to this proposition. Some of the prominent state officials are working on it. I hope that it will go through. "In the meantime, half up the side of the Sierra Madre mountains on the south, six miles from the sea and about a twenty-minute ride out from where I now live in the city of Los Angeles, I have bought five or six acres of baby mountain with a little canyon on either aide and on top of this with a fine view of the ocean and its surrounding suburbs. 1 am planning to build me another work shop. I am using an exterior form that I hope looks like California and will not drive away the birds which arc thick in the shrubbery, over the , | mountain and tn the canyons. The little piece is untouched and I hope Ito fix me a work shop here In which , to .-nd my days dose to the sea and . with jnorc sunshine than I ever have . found any place else tn my experience with this lovely world. I am using the plans of the cabin at 44*- lake switched around a little differently and building a projection room for 1 lantern slides sn«l my picture Inter--9 'cat a. "Mr. Porter is here for the winter I and with Uh* exception of toy secretary. wy are alone, A niece I have h<u| with me for the past eight years la away at school. Jeanette now lives about a mlh* from me with her two little girls, and new husband to whom she has been married for the past six months. He Is a man with t whom I was associated for two years 1 In tny picture in*crogtd before he and » Ji attndle were married. He is a very fine youngster in every particu-

lar and they are very happy together. He takes great interest in helping with the training of the children, two little girls, one aged ten, the other twelve. There also lives here a favorite niece of mine with her family. another niece with her family, live very close to me, my oldest sister and my eldest brother and his wife live about a mile away, and 1 come nearer being among my own people here than 1 have anywhere that 1 ever have lived. "I like it' in California unspeakably because I love being out all the year around. I understand that at this time people are freezing to death and snowbound-where 1 lived when we were acquainted with each other, but here I am wearing exactly the same clothes that I wore at the lake in July and August, riding every day, bareheaded if I choose. There is a basket of sweet peas from by own garden on my drdkser, we have had roses all winter; the orange and almond tress are a bloom and the apricots and the fruit orchards will be along presently. We are only a few miles from the sea where we can fish or bathe and picnic on the rand. The roads are like barn floors and I have two automobiles and a driver so that I can get out whenever 1 have the time. "One feature about Los Angeles that is particularly lovely is the chance for association with al) kind of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of writers, painters and musicians and sculptors that I meet here. This is the element that my life al ways has been deprived of previously. Next to the sunshine I appreciate it the most of anything in California. I certainly wish that all of my friends could be here. “Concerning the work that 1 have done. 1 think the books now run to the neighborhood of seventeen. For the past three years I have written regularly for McCall's. I have been interested in helping a youngster pull that publication from a loss of thirtyfive thousand dollars to its owners the year he took the editorship, to an earning capacity over all expenses paid and a million profit to its owners. to a circulation exceeding that ot the Home Journal, to forcing the Journal to lowwr its prices to McCall's prices, and to the clearing of a million in profits the past year, it has been an interesting job and I have had lots of* fun with my share of it. "This year I am writing each mpnth in Good Housekeeping and I also greatly enjoy this work. I have made i practice ot doing a book every other year and a year ago I began with my own company under my own supervision to make pictures from my stories in order to get them on the screen with fidelity to themselves and to my ideals of how a moving picture should be made. "As the years go by I can see my self changing. I am sorry that we are not where we could have the pleasure of knowing each other now. I really cm quite a respectable person by this time. Life has moulded me and hammered me and taught me and punished me and delighter me until I have deepened and broadened so that I could be very much more worthwhile as a friend than I could possibly have been as the narrow minded, bigoted creature you knew. I have tried with all my might to keep sane, to keep sweet, to be true to my friend* and just to my enemies. Knowing you as I knew you years ago, I know that you would be infinitely more worthwhile now because you always were a growing concern. I know that you have kept your faith In God and your love of your fellow-man. and I know that you have lived your life so that It at any hour a call should come to step up higher, you would be fearless and ready even a* I am. "I have kept fairly well in touch with you throughout the years through people who have correspondrd with you and through Lorrne’s friendship with Utcretla, and *0 I know probably as much about what has happened to you as you know <-onlerntna me. When I think over the old days. I cannot help feeling that we had a good deal ot tun. I remember the Fourth of July that ended In Luceretla'a accident to her eyes that frightened all of us *o dreadfully and 1 I recall (he day I Insisted on viaiung 1 nil afternoon with you and discovered at the end of the visit that you had • boon wild to maku preparations tor > dinner guests that were soon to aril rive. Today I can hear the sound ot I your voice iu laughter and tun set* II myself peeping through Ihu flowers 1 of the eiqiurrvßtgty to locate ymt gg < you bati'J 0.-aiuu the wall ot*ld> r. holding my fital li at ol brand ikat I

I had driven full of nails. Hugo spikes left from the logs of tho cabin! But do you recall that after I learned I was not t© put tha yeast ou ice what very lovely bread 1 did make? I certainly wish I had some of it now. If we could not do anything elite in those days, we sure could cook! It makes my mouth water to think of the good food that we had. •‘Now I must close and go on with my mail. The days grow increasingly busy and Instead of getting easier my job is enlarging until at the present minute I really need two secretaries instead of one. I never have been able to cut a mass of correspondence as my families and friends seem to feel that I should. 1 would love to see you and Luceretla and her little family and all of my friends of the old Geneva days. To all ot thum and to you. 1 send every friendly, icving wish. If you can find time, write niu a few line* and tell me how life is going on with you. "As ever, yours, "GENE STRATTON-PORTER" — o DECATUR IN ANNUAL ORATORICAL CONTEST Bloomington. Ind.. March B—Unusual8 —Unusual interest in the tenth annual state high school oratorical contest is evidenced in letters being received here by the Indiana university extension division under whose auspices the contest is held. Decatur high school is represented among the 290 high schools having candidates for the state oratorical contest. Last year 305 schools were enrolled, while the number of contestants wax about SOO. The subject for discussion this year is. "A Practicable Plan by Which the, United States May Co-operate with | Other Nations to Preserve tho Peace! of the World." Nearly 100 circulating I libraries containing material on the I League of Nations, the Permanent i Court of International Justice, disarmament. and other subjects pertaining' to international relationship, furnished by the state university, are being I continuously used by high school stu-1 dents in all parts of the state. Local contests are now only a few ] weeks away. County contests will be held on or before March 2S: the district contests are set for April 11; I and the state c ontest will he held at | the university April 25. This is qlsoj the date of the finals in the state-wide* I act in contest at the university, in ] which there will be fifty-two contestants. The winner of the oratorical I contest will be acclaimed tho champ ion orator of Indiana Gold, silver. I and bronz medals will be awarded the, three best high school speakers among I the thirteen district representatives I The winner of the state high school! oratorical contest last year was Jerome Salm, of Central high school. Evansville. Indiana; Arthur Crabtree, of Shortridge high school. Indianapolis. won second prize: and Miss Mary Elizabeth Plummer, of Bedford won third prize. Other winners during the history of the contest were as follows; 1911, Donald 11. Snyder. Wabash; 1915 Galen Knight, Wabash; 1918, Ralph Nicholson. Richmond; 1917. R. Mlles Warner. Muncie; 1918, William Carleton. Central high school, Evansville; 1919, Robert .Riley, Manual Training high school, Indianapolis; 1920, Thurston Harshman, Muncie; 1921: Kaith Masters. South Bend; 1922. Georgia Mitchell. TRACK ELEVATION AT Ml NCIE IS PROPOSED .Muncie. March H —Elevation of railroad tracks here would cost more than 12000.000. according to officials of the* Nickel Plate andJiig Four railroaefaar The official* have promised the Chanilwr of Commerce and city officers to do everything in their power to bring about track elevation here. Mrs, c L, Walters and daught ir. I 'ort Wayne.

: Murray Hotel Caie : ; Menu For Sunday I ■ Home Made Noodle Soup ■ ■ Fricassee of Chicken, Hot Biscuits ■ . Roast Loin of Pork " ‘•J Mashed Potatoes a ■ Lettuce • ■ J Home Made Apple Pie and Ice Cream J r ■ Tea—Coffee—Milk J J Price 50c ■ *■ - Pick Huffman. Merr. ■

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