Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. 11. Heller President and General Manager E. W. Kanipe Vice-President and Advertising Manager A. R. Holthouse Secretary and Business Manager 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 $5.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mad $1.75 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 Rales made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter A Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City; N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. The only way to tell “spring is here’’ is to look at the calendar. ♦ * * * A reckless driver is dccribed as one who passes you in spite of every thing you can do and that's why you sometimes wind up in tlie ditch. ★ * * * If they don’t do something besides just dig up sensational scandal at Washington pretty soon everybody will begin to think they arc playing politics. ♦ ♦ ♦ ★ If it takes a week to get started at empannelling a jury in the McCray case it will be easily understood how the chief executive can stave off the end until his term is over. ★ ★ ♦ ★ The Jefferson club will meet tonight to elect officers and to plan for a part in the campaign. There are many things they can do which will help the county organization and it is hoped that every section of the county will be represented in tonight's meeting. *•* ★ ★ Two or three thousand democrats will gather at Indianapolis Tuesday to discuss and hear discussed plans and politics. The leaders will be there and so will many of the rank and file. It will be a big day for the candidates for'governor and for places on the state ticket and everybody is invited. * * * * The basketball season is over, it’s a little early for baseball and about the only thing on the sport pages these days is what might have been or will be and an occasional fistic encounter. Pretty soon we can go fishing and who cares a ding about football, baseball and basketball when he can hook a five-pound bass. * * , * * The man ami woman who successfully pulled a bogus checkwriting campaign here last Saturday, put on a similar stunt at Hbwc, a little town on the north state line, a few days before coming here. It is probabk* they are working this week within a hundred miles of Decatur and it might be a good idea to broadcast the manner they worked here. It is said that with a few exceptions members of each team which lost in the recent state basketball tournament were joined in tears by many rooters. There is but one excuse and that' is that every one is tuned up to high tension and there m&st be] some way to get out of it. Weeping seems to be the hatural course and yet we all admire those who take their defeat with a smile and a . hake of the head which means we will lie back next year and lick ’em. ♦ ♦ ★ ♦ Soft roads always come with spring. It can’t Ik* helped and the only way we can have gmxl roads during the summer ami autumn is to be as careful now as possible. Superintendent Magley and his assistants do not enjoy filing affidavits against those who abuse the roads by violating the laws in hauling heavy loads on soft roads, but it’s the only way they have to protect them and save you tax payers money. Every one ought to help them save the highways for a few* weeks until the frost is out of the ground. * * * * The pages of tips paper are filled these days with edverii<>. mcnta of the live stores of this community. Do you read th**m? There-is much-to be gained and these displays may solve many or all of your problems. You cam fill your market l>asket before you leave home, that is, you can select just what you are going to fill it with ami figure just what it will cost. You can pick out your spring suit, fit the children out, buy your car, your machinery, your gifts for any purpose, in fact, you can d-> your trading by keeping in touch with advertisements in the Daily Democrat. Try it. *' * * * Charles 11. Alien, president of the Farmers Sugar company of Defiance, Ohio, owned by 1.200 farmers, in an address before the Decatur Rotary club last evening, stated that to grow sugar heels only air, sunshine and rain is needed and that the beets did ! *’ l aap one ounce of fertility out of the soil. Mr. Allen urged the raving of sugar beets as n moans of saving the fertility of farm soils and told how it was living done successfully in many places. The speaker gave'many valuable facts al»out agriculture and predicted great prosperity for all if sound economical principles are carried out. * * * * lln democratic committee men of Adams county will meet a wei I, from tomorrow in this city, at which time J. Fred Fruchtn Will tern ci his resignation as chairman anH the election of a new man for that important place -will be held. It is probable that Wh'icicr is selected at that time will lie re-elected when the committee is nxirgani/a-d alter the primaries. Mr. Fruchte has sorvnl his party faithfully and efficiently. This is a presidential war and the new chairman will have a busy job requiring much of his at tert t ion during the next six months. He should be qualified, desirous to serve and z cquipped to handle the many details. The meeting of the committee will be of importance.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY. MARCH 21, 1921

■ Flashlights of Famous People

V I Face to Face 1 With Elsie Janis . “The Lady of a Million Laughs” (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) * Called the “lady of a million j laughs," Elsie Janis has done much • more than make people laugh—makI ing people happy is the main objecI five of her life. In the bloom of her success she became the patron saint of the American Legion and the dough boys overseas. That is why the doughboys would go far these days just to see and hear Elsie Janis. f With the distinction of being born in Columbus. Ohio, she Insists she is not a candidate tor President. Her first appearance on the stage was as "Little Lord Fauntleroy." a little win 1 some Mack-eyed lass who received the glowing tribute of a President in the White HouseWherever she appears her personality shines out. for Elsie Janis is more than an actresa. She is an author, a student of public life, a poet—one who would make a success should she choose to run for Congress She knows how to win favor and to please people. Her sense of humor was tried out overseas. Once when trying to sing with a husky throat she asked the boys what she should do’ "Got a lemon, Elsie." "All right, come right up," was Elsie's quick retort. Os the thousands of homesick doughboys in France who heard Elsie Janis sing, none who survived the conflict will ever forget her. and there are many homesick Americans today, even in the crowded cities, come within the radiance of an Elsie Janis performance that makes them feel right at home. The poem. “Blind." which she wrote during the war. has taken its place among was literature. Inimitable in imitation, she removes a’ few hah pins, fluffs her hair, and then, whether it is an imitation of George T’ohan or other celebrity, there is alwu'■■s some.bglg gentle and sympathetic in her impersonations. Quick, ah rt in mind, tender hearted, with vivacious beauty, and a keen understanding of human nature, she is the a]K>theosis of the girl undreams Her spirit of giadness is like a sunbeam Editor’s Note: Send ten names of yoi Joe Mitchell Chapple. The Attic. Wall The readers o’ this paper are to

II ... Editor of Decatur Dally D mocrat:- ' Woodrow Wilson The eagle has passed on! —into the blue— l ( And all the chattering of th« sparrow dim*. < They ould not l>ear to the eagle rise i Beyond the rexdies that their t mu’l , I wings knew. ( Above th" housetops they could com j pass toe - ■ 1 But .hjiough they strove to blind the eagle’s eyes . ! With tlutt, ring wings—to stay him with their cries. Ho rose and passer!—above, beyond their view. jAn eagle alway’n Ih a lonely one I The lar heights call to him and must go. j But little birds cannot look on the r! M<n. lAg'l what an eagle knows, they cannot know. ’ When he is gone the small ones >' know, at last. That there, above their hnaH.an eagle I passed By IlMelle Morcloe Montgomery.

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Illi* VV-’W ELSIE JANIS says: “My ideas have always been so broad the most of my friends wear shock absorbers.”

trail across the waters; it echoes to the laughter and memory of her voice and lining animation in her spirit. After all. what Is there except personality’ Elsie Janis makes her audience feel. In the very way she lifts them beyond themselves, the gaiety, the impulse of her own life. Everyone in tho audience feels that they are the particular person being entertained The simplicity and the universality of her'appeal extends from the doughboys to the poor boys Jrom the Bowery, the Salvation Army lads and lassies, as well as to Princes, Kings. Queens and Ethporers whom she has entertained. Her home on the Hudson is an historic retreat. Lakes, hills, flowers are her surroundings. When a fire was discovered in her home recently, she directed the fire fighters in putting, out the blase, and saved the house like a real “emergency girl,” The Fire Brigade, in brave scarlet uniforms, had been her guests in years past, and this was their chance to prove their gratitude. On her last tour of the Keith Circuit I had the pleasure of again talking with Elsie Janis in New York. I had met her overseas, during those dark, dreary days of the World War. | and during our *alk, with that tamil- i iar toss of her head, she said: “My ideas have always been so I broad that most of my friends wear I shock obsorbers.” I Many insist that Elsie Janis would:! have made an eminent succeas of any- II thing she undertook, for she seems to I bo one of those individuals whoil know how to diffuse herself. >ur favorite famous folk now livina toil Idorf Astorga Hotel, Ne.w York City. II nominate for this Hall'of Fame. ]

And which is sweeter, oceans roar, I Or lark upcn the wing’ I You Rave th- night its shining stat I And grass itw sparkling dew.-• I 'tut all shall lie forgotten when. I At Inst, we look on you. I —A. I). Burkett I »♦♦**♦«***«•* • • . ♦ TWFNTV YEARS AOO TO3AY «| ♦ From the Oaßy Oernocm* *'•• ♦ I ♦ ?t> years ago thia dav •. ••♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦••♦J March 2!—French Quinn, president II <>f the Commerical club sends T. P. H Shonts. president of th.- Clover I>>nf iu special invttatlen to dull Decatur i tab. ; Mr. and Mrs. George Ikuiucr cclcbr- II ate sliver weddingOtto I'rcmerkunip caught in fly | wheel kt prist mill, in saved by brother Haymond. i Pictures of Itaelulor Maida of ho-| cater appear In Cbteago chnmieln. The Date ruu-yer Bokne ht orchestra || of route throe haa many datoa. Jerry ltu>«e!l. captures a "thunder- I pumper", queer h'.rtT which looks like | a pheasant and makes a noise of a coon. , Dr Frul Patterson elected maator : of tkintua Delta t »< rutty at Indianapolls Thl'vrslty, Big supper in celebration of Cat Kunkle's birthday. Gibhons-Carpmtier l ight Will Be An "Exhibition” (United Preaa Service! Chicago, March 31 Arraiißoinenta lor th? fijfht lutwren Tommy GibImna and Gcorgtt Carpentier, schidul- < <t“T<»r Mlch'gnn City. Ind,, on July t will be tiimln h'-re neat Tuesday at a <<>nfer*'ti< h twrf n Floyd Fitgetmmona, promoter, Eddlt Kane. Gildmna' ' maniigt r, and Jim k Curley, repriment- 1 1 luu CariH-ntlt r. Articles will ho Hlgn-d and ('trfclie JHlNtt'd. As the law of Indiana. Gililauci and Cariu*nticr will stage an "ekhlbill<>n M tof ten rounds; FTiUnimona said. Cliil>on> is to receive a pen-ntaje of .the gate while Carpentier haa !««■• 1 liven a guarantee with th* pctvlirgw I Z

of part of receipts. • Fitzsimmons said there would be no trouble about holding the match in hi , Michigan City arena, but word from the governed* office was that the matter hud not been called to the iittmtlon of Governor McCray. A i beery tree two ventures old is > till bearing fruit In a Japanese park.

Ml' Today is the first Jaw day of Spring! /L' And it should be the last day for jour 'X Winter Suit. / \ Today, thousands of men in all English AftHfV ’’HlJJTnpirtJ speaking countries are following the very sound tradition of buying new clothes on March 21st. You’d get lots of fun, satisfaction and pride out of this same habit. We’ve done our share—the new suits are I < within easy reach—financially as well as optically I /N-eF 1 K Dress up—no man can afford to carry all his \. style in his wife’s name—and in the name of the \ first day of Spring we invite you to come in and *1 try on our Michaels-Stern Spring models. jk f Michaels-Stern Spring Suits.., .$18.50 to $42.50 Portis Spring Hats $2.50 to $5.00 jwßf ’ , Chalmers Union Suits SI.OO to $2.50 rf’-’ Kohn Spring Shirts $1.25 to $3.50 r»»eq|v, I'efuL-T'Aytxb G© J BETTER CLOTHES EOR LESS J MONEY-ALWAYS- • DECATUR • INDIANA •

Another Bjg Savina Special Price for SATURDAY MARCH 22nd on I 31 x 4 Vacuum Cord 5 Ply Clincher Cord Tires I THIS is your chance to | buy a BETTER TIRE for LESS money than I you ever have before r GET Elberson Service Station I South Second Street

Sectional Oratorical Contest On March 28 Principal Paul W. Limon, of the Decatur high school, received word this morning that the sectional oratorical contest, held tn connection with the national contest on tho Constitution. will be held at Morton high

school, Richmond, on Howatd Brumley will , local school m'this eonZ’T won the preliminary eont'. last week. Mr . Brumley, .^I** 1 ** ’’Marshau a n d^ Ul^ nst . While the oil there will be political W1 |B i,lstllll Trlbun, **