Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1924 — Page 4

‘ . — - DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pres, and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe—Vice-Fres. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouse—Sec’y. and Bus. Mgr Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur Indiana as second class matter. Rubscrlptlon Rates Bfagle conies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier IS.OO One Month, by mall 36 cents Three Months, by mail 11.00 Six Months, by mall 11.76 One Year, by mail 13.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within flrst and second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) 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. Mo April continues cold and bleak and there are so far only imaginary signs of spring, but it will come one of these days and wh'-n It does, perhaps will remain. Don't let the finance committee of the Decatur Industrial Association close their campaign without a subscription from you. They want to help your community. You should want to help them. 9 The democratic headquarters rooms over this office will be repapered nnd made comfortable as club roouss for the year. Work will begin as soon as the funds have been secured and within a few days the rooms will be ready for occupancy and will be kept ;> n afternoons and evenings and used by all committees of the men and women workers for the democratic party during the coming campaign. Dr. Robert Parker Miles, newspaper man. minister, lecturer, author, traveler and one of the most brilliant men of the American platform field of endeavor. lectured to a crowd which should have been larger, at the high school auditorium last evening. His hour and a half seemed like twenty minute*, and his wonderful address and his impersonations were as advertised, gripping, dramatic, intensely human. He has interviewed many of the work! characters and last night impersonated Gladstone. Kaiser Wilhelm and Pope Leo Nil. telling of interviews with them, how he got in to their sanctums and what they said to him. He is an interesting man and every person who heard him are saying nice things about him and his Those who are urging a paved Jefferson street will very probably realise their desires before the end of the year. Investigation of the records show the street was petitioned for and favorably acted upon. The pavement was not put in last year because of a lack of funds and Im-< bum it was necessary to put in new water mains befofe the street could be paved. The wains have all been laid enrepting between Fifth and Sixth streets and these will hr" put In as soon a* the weather petmitt and work parted towards letting the contract, it is on the program and it is quite likely that within a short time the city engineer will present ptane rimm ill-»teals One ruaaun fur delay of Improving Jho street has In-on that the eity gets a double charge becMUte the central school building octuple* a Work and the assessment against the city would therefore be high. However, It •< planned to u»k< taro of the street thh year it possible In the slump of farm prices egg, tame t» th* rescue O s ih« farmer J wife. But the egg. tuo. has htt the Slump. The tact that treekan My ft u too early to put eggs In cold H |,. ra _ I and that due to rmv*t i ota wr-ather. eggs have been tnllkd and not Ini good condition for storage has hud much to do with the slump In prices, market reports slate, Hut the everincreasing production of egg-, and ’he apparent overproduction nt the pre* i .

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r Face to Face ; With r Charles W. Eliot The President of Harvard Unis versify For Forty Years « (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) 9 ( Charles W. Eliot—the grand old 0 man of Harvard, President Emeritus j —no, he is America’s grand old man j —the flrst citizen of the nation, whose j ninetieth birthday emphasized his I great leadership of youth, and the development of American character. President of Harvard for forty years, he became its head when he was thirty-five years of age. Wfeat interest in the college was inherited through the fact that his father was its treasurer In 1909 when he retired as President of Harvard he was given a purse of 1150.000, President Taft offered him the post of American Ambassador to the court of St. James. With Boston as a birthplace he was a true New Englander. As a boy he read the novels of Scott and Dickens, showing his early inutination to dig deep into the classics. In his school days Eliot was captain of the Harvard crew. In his studies he specialized in science, and in 1854 became a teacher of mathematics at Harvard. The four years following the Civil War he spent in Europe, where he majored in the study of chemistry. Upon his return he accepted a professorship in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An opportunity came to him to go into business. A Lowell mill made him an offer at the princely salary—ind it was a princely sum at that time- of live thousand dollars a year, to become superintendent of their plant. This was the cross-roads of his early life. He hesitated, and latr accepted the presidency of Harvard Vatversity. He was revolutionary He brought in new blood 1-nd raised the standards. Though criticized for his liberal ideas of education and the "elec-1 five system” which he instituted. Charles Eliot re founded and recreated Harvard University, He increased the number of student* from one

Edito-'* Note: Send ten name* of your favorite famous folk now living to Joe Mitchell Chapple, The Attic. Waldorf Astoria Hotel. New York City The readers of this oaoer are to nominate for this Hall of Fame.

ent time undoubtedly ha* cut the price! ’ down. More than S.tWO.OW farm* in the United States produce egg» an nually valued at more than 5M0.000.000 says the United States depart ' ment of agritulture. There are many , ; specialized egg farms along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts aqd scat tered to a less extent throughout th' country, but the great bulk of market , eggs used on the large eastern markets comes from the middle west rn states where eggs are produced maini ly as a side line on general farms. In the ordinary course of marketing the egg* pass through a number of hands and must undergo a Journey of !.(»«•• • miles or so before they puss acrons • the counter from the retailer to the . consumer. More than 4“.W> < ars of r eggs alone are annually transport .-d . by rail. Mew York City is the largest consuming market, followed by Chi- ■ cago. boston. Philadelphia and San i Francisco. Egg production is uneven throughout the year, being heavy In the spring and summer and light I in the fall and winter. To fit ths supply Os eggs to the demand whleh is much more evenly spread over th«*i year. It is necesary to hold aiiou" 12 dpor cent of the eggs in gtoTae* against the months of low production in tho fall and winter. Wh-n the, packing season opens even In the face of socallsd overproduction. prhe* are bound to advance and the egg will still be a Mg aourte of revetu. to the farmer.—Marion Chronicle. ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY • • • ,♦ From tbn Daily Demecret niee • [♦ 20 peers apo thia day • April x- Jury fn pAnytorMßwda linker ease, tried four times, return* Verdict that plaintiff owns all real estate Involved. H«pilre William Haughman. >••• ' I.signs as justice of peace. .1 C. If. Cotter figures it out that 21,» i (lir. IHHi gallons <>fl water passes be- ( nesih Monroe street bridge each min Ute ‘ | St. Marys river is highest in 37 ‘

DECATUB DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1921

z*“’ "S . ■ : V a t, w HF 1 a) &JL ■ ■ ■ XAJ* PRESIDENT CHAS- W. ELIOT says: "A young man should choose the work in life in which he finds joy." "Go to church, keep a clean heart and a good conscience." thousand to five thousand. He placed the university on a strong financial basis, trebling its income. He became recognized as the spokesman of American universities. Dr. Eliot lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. on a street called Fresh Pond Parkway He is today the same .strong personality/ mellowed perhaps with years, if possible more tolerant. certainly just as open-minded as ever. He is alert mentally, is enthusiastic and optimistic. He possesses that same masterful, aristocratic bearing which often gives way to a keen humor. He is vivid, exact, tnd even snappy in his manner, cordially sympathetic and courteous. He is always actuated by the highest of motives Someone remarked of him: "He is a human Puritan,” Doctor Eliot says: “A young man should choose the work in life in which he finds joy.” Like most great men he is a good dstener. though when the occasion strives he says what he thinks. His tdviee ou how to live long is: “Go to zhnrch; keep a clean heart and good conscience: exercise your mind as well as your body- really think; exI ->rcise regularly; eat In moderation; take a full allowance of sleep; avoid indulgence in luxuries and the habitual nee of any drug whatsoever—not only alcohol, but .tobacco, tea and coffee.”

I years and over levy east of town. .Mel Butler of route five was unable , to get past Borum s run. . Edward C. Dehcrlty of Elwood is icandidate for democratic nomination I for congress. February term of court closes and it wo weeks vacation starts. George Worden is thrown from horse and lands in deep water cast lof town. . mKX—— ’**■- daily dozen Here's a set of exercises That have won a lot of prizes,— living used by many milions now each day; They'll reduce your weight all right. Made you want yiitir lied at night, — You'll be eager in the morning lor the fray. ►I • * i i Position one.—bend from the waist j (Cornet off or - Motion, arms like washing dirty clothes (or six. '! Position two. stand up. erect. i Take full breath, stiffen the neck. 4 With carje-t beater give the ruga , a thousand licks. Position throe,—-down on your knees 1 Mop and wring with strong-arm 'l snueeae. Position four is very much like play ing golf.— I Use a backward-forward swing.— IA good bruoai I* Ju«l the thing. One hour every morning takes two ounces off I Position five.—hack muchly lent. Mind upon your work Int-nt.— Cook end b«k« for tom pan;, iu kitchen turkish-' bath. Il'teiltloa six.— like iMlialu Ing. both arms full of marketing. While you hang to street tar strap and smile your wrath. Position seven.— bending down. » I i While the lathy thrashes' round lu bathtub.—and. later kicks and squalls . I

When you try to take it out, — You’ll be strong but wont be stout If you answer daily duty’s thousand calls. Position, —but let’s lump the others, System's called "The work of mothers’ Who, of home, by love and labor, heaven made. Recommended to the folk Whose home life is just a joke,— Who, for leisure lacking love, have -dearly paid. —A. D. Burkett —- - —-o LET CONTRACT TO PAVE BOM State Awards Contract For Eight Miles Os Bluff-ton-Ft. Wayne Koad Indianapolis, April 2 —John D. Williams, director of the state highway commission, announced today that a contract for building 10.1 miles of bituminous concrete road and giving surface treatment to 12.9 miles of highways in Allen. Wells. Grant and Elkhart counties has been award >d to McTurnan. Morris A McTurnan. of Fairmount, Ind., on a bid of 1144.586.40. The eight miles of the bituminous road referred Io will be constructed on the Fort Wayne-Bluffton road, according to Clifford Siniff. district superintendent for the state highway commission. Mr. Siniff said the proposed eight-inile unit would begin about three and one-half miles south of Fort Wayne and will extend to Ossian. Several miles of surface treatment will be given that part of the Bluffton road which has already been paved. Mr. Siniff said: The paving of the Bluffton rood by the state h largely due to the efforts of the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce road committee, of which A. W. Zimmerman. lianker, is chairman and the business men of Bluffton, who ha<l the cooperation of the farmers living between the two cities. Lebanon Phy er Wins Free Throw Contest Bloomington. Ind . April 2—Herbert Havens of Lebanon, captured the kingship of the basketball foul lints in Indiana when he threw 50 baskets out of 50 atempts in the first state ''roe-throw cont-at <oaducted by tb<Indiana niverslty athletic depart- ' meat, ft wag announced here today. I The feat of Havens was attested by members who saw him score the perfect record. Ethel Mandel, pupil of the Indiana I State School for the Deaf at Indian- , apolis. became girl's tree-throw chamuion with her record of 33 basket* out The ten boys' teams of ten each ‘.talahing highest and the total num-ls-r of points scored out of possibk--1.000 are as follows: La«nasport. firat 78o; Ia banon. second. 774; Anderson, third, 73t»; Seymour, fourth. 738; Remington, fifth, 70S. .Michigan (ity, sixth, 684; Morristown, seventh. <42; Manilla, eight tU*; Auburn, ninth. 6t>6; Syracuse, tenth, t>92. Blocktown Has Passed, Says Herman Reese Herman Reese, of north Preble, *m a visitor here today and said to tell the politicians when they get’over in his country they need not look for’ Bloc ktown. for they won’t find it. The last old lank mark, a log bouse on the farm of Ed. Galhuelcr was torn down i few days ago and cut into fire wood. Years ago the comer known as Black town* was a familiar one. several houses and the school house standing there. Gradually they iueva slipped away excepting the old school build Ing which waa nut in use expect for an occasional telephone meeting, i’lockluwti is off the map. (R AKERS PLAN TO HI ILD BJG CONVENTION HALL Phl|ud"phia, April 3—The eonstructlon of a giant convention, having ball and exhibition palace, combined, having a sealing capacity of approximately 13.000 persona ami a floor ipuee of Ifw.ooo squure f«-ot for exhibition purposes, is b< Ing advocated tn Pbliadeiphlu. Philadelphia, the third city in the I'alted Ulates, ia point of population t» tn need of a riant building, where convc-ntlona may be bowsed and where exhibits may be staged. It lx this nerd wbleh has tnusnd the PnlladelphU Chamber of Cuthtnerre to formulate | a prcgfrain wbb h will bring to the city | a logve'iiwti ball und nnlrtbiiton pal 'ace which will answer it* need*. I

Nearly Half Os New Telephones Installed Work is progressing nicely on the installation of the new in this city, about half of the new phones already being placed in the business hotwes and homes. The work require.? patiences and detail ’and In view of the fact that l>oth switchboards are kept in operation at the telephone exchange the telephone girls are kept busy making connedtiona and natnraly are ene countering some difficulty. The managertient kindly requests the patrons to be as patient as possible and to overlook the delay* now encountered. Everything possible is being done to rush the installation and to get the system in first class working order. Skilled experts from the Htromberff-CMTlson Telephone- , manufacturing company are in charge of the work, assisted by the local employes. The neat little telephone l>oxe» are meeting with favor with the many patrons. PREFERRED SUICIDE TO A DOUBBLE MURDER tVnlted Press Service! Paris—Despondent because he did not have the heart to execute a double murder. ITosper Dumortier aged 38 committed suicide at Lille. Ho drank poison and shot himself Dumortier still _>-onscous when the police found him explained that he went to Lille from Paris to kill two j persons who had caused his broth- I er to be arrested as a spy during the ! war. Dumortier sought vegeance. but he found an old man and his : wife. —o — ■ ■ ■ — CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the- friends and ne ighbor* who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and death of our mother. Sarah Straub. Also wish to thank the residents of Eighth and Ninth streets and the employes *f the Glove factory for the floral offerings. THE STRAUB CHILDREN - O COMMON SENSE I SE OF ROADS MEANS SAVING Common sense use of rut'* now softened by spring thaws »nd rains not only mean* Ing string of road U funds bnt economy and -('‘vantage for road user*, a stat - l.'rhwav com mission bulletin this week points out. IJght loads on small vehicles, it is - r iggested, will work to the gain of 1 road users. The driver who insists on moving a heavy load on a large | KEMP’S BALSAM

", ' , " "' ' I * T° Young Man who is not married t 0 an y Clothing Store 11 ™ s If you are a free agent—fret to roam where the fields are greenest— If you are not held down or back by aov decision other than your own—listen— Me want Io show you this Easter stock—“show you we said—and we don't mean “sell”—until you ft- * ay * o, We know that you nnd the other men in vottr i v/Z, crowd know “who’s who” and “who’s throuKh" in ■ Yl style—and we know that you hate the slant on • I r rrWtx “what s what nnd that we have the stock of “just * a! that.” fl—y X Take our English model suits— I - ) ( lake our turn-down brim hats—our collar at- * >s w»**n tached shirts—and you won’t take the same old stereo- | ; V I r| type fashion of yesteryear—not if we know you! I■' Miihacls-Slcrn Young Men's Suits •| '//< ‘ 11H.50 to U 2.50 " -a * Strlwrn or Portis Hals 12.5(1 to S’.tlO ' “ Chalmers Vnlon Sults to 1.1.1M1 I M. kolin & Son Shirts *1.25 Io 11.50 — - (3c I J BETTSR CLQTtin fOfi USS J MONEY-AL WAYb - * DECATUR - INDIANA *

road uutll surfaces again are .solid i and compact ’MAU Three tons maximum weight which I includes truck and load, are allowed I on state roads bnt highway offlials point out that It is much better for the if traffic will lighten this. And in the end it means less main tenance cost and gravel and stone roads and more quickly will the roads be worked into perfect condition a few weeks later to meet the hard grind of augmented summer traffic and touring. o INGRAM SAYS HE’S AT INDIANA TO STICK Bloomington. Ind., April 2—Every day or so brings report* in:o the Crimson camp here that Coach Navy Bill Ingram just will not be able to resist new overtures from other schools and just as regularly, during these days of spring football practice, the big Indiana coach shakes his head in denial. "I'm with Indiana to stick through the season,” he replies and then turns to his men to b<«m out instructions in the gridiron sport. A number of schools have made attractive offers to the Indiana coach and ex-Navy star, It has been learned, and among them, certain Eastern schools have been after him. Twice as many football players have turned out to Navy Bill’s spring gridiron practice as did in his'first 1 year here last season. Daily he puts

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ruck runs the risT^T by a state patrolman, t or unload. hl 3 truck or I them through r U u nds 0[ Ik tackling to prepare them niewtals for next f a j L ' o—- ' rh ” rf will t.-nift.'; 1, In the Fellow Crtm o’clock. W. M. Dates for Snrinr , - ■-«.«( Ito „, j sons will meet Thursday April 3. at 7:30 to confer M. rk ter degree. * Ms » , U C. Helm, H , P , 1 wEL( 0 M E t Knights of Eythias Thursday Night