Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by HIE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller President and General Manager E. W. Kumpe Vice-President and Advertising Manager A. R. I tollhouse Secretary and Business Manager Entered al the Postntlice al Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single Copies 2 cents Otte Week, by carrier 10 cents Otte Year, by carrier s”>.oo One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail $1 .00 Six Months, by mail •• ••• $1.75| One Year, by mail . $3.00 One Yeai\. at oll'ice $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 Filth Avenue Bldg., New York City; N. Y. Life Bldg.. Kansas City, Mo. The greatest men these days are those just great enough to have escaped connection with the oil inquiry. For instance there is Mr. Stone, who has been named attorney general because he is not smeared with political mud or Doheny oil. * * * * w LaFoliette is still going out in Wisconsin and will lead Mr. Coolidge by a hundred thousand when the total vote has been canvassed. It is quite evident from the primary results that they don’t particularly ‘‘cotton’’ to the president up in the northwest country. ♦ * * * There is an okl adage which runs something like this: “Don’tcross the bridge until you get to it,” and down at Memphis they have adopted a slogan which is a take-off and shines out on display cards: "Don't try to cross the railroad tracks before the engine gets to it.” It works just as well in Adams county as it doos in Tennessee. * * * * We have heard that several business men have decided ideas on whether.or not a tourist camp should be put in here and if so where it should be located. The time and place to discuss this isj at the Industrial meeting at the rooms next Monday evening. Ix>t’s make it an interesting and valuable session. That’s the way to do things. Come and express an opinion. * * * * Candidates for office must file by tomorrow evening or their names will not api>eaf on the ballot and this effects candidates for committeemen, supervisors and all others excepting delegates. So far a number of townships have not presented any candidates for members of the advisory board a rather important office for their services arc needed i<> authorize appropriations. It is expected that the democrats will havfc a complete list of candidates for county and township officers. *** * * A seventeen-year-old h>y. Burdette Shiail, was arrested a couple of days ago while enroute to Fort Wayne with several quarts of liquor, which he says he had stolen and proposed to dispose of in the city! The lad is yell leader in the BltifTtoft high school and his artest surprised those who knew him and thought him a fine boy. There is something rather sad alx>ut it for the lx>y no doubt felt that if older men could get away with the scheme hejould also ami he perhaps did not fully rt alize that he was violating law in knocking at the prison door. ♦ ♦ ♦ * Fort Wayne will harness the Maumee river and build a power plant which is estimated will produce more than million kilowats of power annually at a cost of nothing. That’s wise and some day in the next generation or two a thousand cities in the United Stale; aided by the government will do a similar work. They talk alxiut Mayor lloscy, abuse him about petty matters and make him a political football but he has done several progressive things whl< hr will mark him favorably in years to come for after all the tf'irth while things are tho-e we do for frthbrs ami which live longest. * * * * it cost $1,1G7.70 to obtain a jury to try Governor McCray. Each time a prospective juror ambled intodhe boX. the taxpayers hail to cough up $9.52 and there were 129 jurors. > 4 igtirc it yourself. Those on the jury now are paid $2.50 per day, $1.50 a day for room at the Washington hotel and $1.95 each day for meals. The state up to date has paid the official court reporter 11.16 G. The governor is indicted on 199 counts. If they try each one separately Marion t-ounty will have to float a tomd issue to pay the bills. It costs a heap of money to get justice them- days but we got to have It. ♦ * ♦ * The ' O operation given the sugar cbni|>ailj by the fartners of Adams county thia year is splendid for tvcry one cbhccnied ahd is nnt only appreciated hy the officers ahd stockholders td that big company, but by the business men and clllxens Os Decatur. The acreage this year is over land of this 3,000 acres an- in Adams <ounty. largest since the first year the factory operated and the production this year from that acreage will be larger than the first > ear because the work is lietter understood by those who engage in it. It’s fine for everybd<% including the factory, th«- farmer. the merchant and the citizen and when a thing Is good for busiiwss w ill in Adams County. every! «sly it ought to grow and prosper. We arc sure the ls?ct * * * * A meeting wax held in Celina, Ohio, yesterday for the purpose of Issit iiuV h paved road from Dayton, Ohio, to Fort Wayne, Indiana coming thmigh Winehire and this city. No tmficc of the meeting hail itcen received here or a delegation from this county would have attended. It is said the federal highway commission " ill stand half the cost and this may simplify the pro|X»sitlon of securing a paved road ls»twcen this city and Fort Wayne, the state paying but half the cost. • These paved highways arc sure to come and they will of course in the future lie th<’ main roads. Several more meetings are to lie held warn concerning this proposed improvement and Decatur and Adams county people will no doubt join in enthusiastically.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT,FRIDAY APRIL I. 1924.

Flashlights of Famous People

’ Face to Face With Prince D’Annunzio • Italy’s Leading Literary Light ■ —- Warrior-Poet—Savior of FiI time —Is Made A Prince I I i (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) ’I Gabriele D'Annunzta played a more 1 striking role as a patriot than a poet in Italy's war effort. The king has made him Prince of Montenevosa, but his glory will hardly be enhanced by the bestowal on him of this title. He reply was one that might have been expected from the poet warrior: "I am sure that Your Majesty did not wish to give an empty fief to an idle lancer.” Gabriele D'Annunzio, a master of words, is the most successful living combination of the artist and ttye man of action. He distinguished himself in battle in away which was not child's play. Twice wounded, he bears thb lasting scar of war in the loss of one eye. To save Flume he defied Nllti, whose plan was to cede the city to Jugo-Slovakia. So D'Annunzio, who had won the hearts of his soldiers, raised an army and occupied the city of Fiume with his famous legionairs. D'Annunzio is a sntall ntan, thin, almost with the face of an ascetic. Tct he is physicially alert. Kvery i morning ho rides, and in the afternoon lie fences. Abnormal in the resistance of fatigue, and. 'though sixty, he appears much younger, requiring only four hours of sleep. Without doubt this physicist fitness accounts for his marvelous energy he displayed throughout his war activities. -No monkey glands are required Cor D'An nunzio. In 1915. at the age of fifty-two. , when he had sworn that he would, in the future, write only in French, he made the discovery that he was really and entirely Italian. The man who thought he had exhausted every intellectual experience except death, revealed a new zest in life, culminating in the actual leading of an army. “11 Vittorialle” is the name of the ville at Gardone where D'Annunzio pends most of his time, living in retirement. Many admirers regret his withdrawal from public life. Only those very close to him know whether ! this retirement is duo to illnaas. »U»-, approval of the actual political situation. or just a tempermentai whim, j D’Annunzio may be called the'

Editor 1 * Note: Send ten n»mes of your fzvorlte famouz folk now livmq to Joe M-teWetl Chapple. The Attic. Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City Th. readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fime.

I '“* # *^ jt -« MV CALVARY *»h chri.t. did yon oh«e walk lii • duaty load Au«l weary ibis’ And did you tn Whore ulil.ni ii nn<* where sorrow laid th-ir load And comfort nu n? And . ometlmea w hen The ann was act and stats were shining bright, '.Mid mountain flower.. Ilnouth dewy hours. Hid yon with longing h<-.irt pray nit lb" night* And did <<ei (••• I the Mint of r*'Vcrt", The |»ln of need? IHu y<etf heart Meed ' For |Mii[i|en crashed by inhumanity? And did yeti try to stem the tide Os aHßsttnakn, rtue-atrlfe and rtue| Itretli? And did jr*»tr know how dull nud hIOu * [ Our lltlhda and li<atts to nnderrhutd yoiirt:eed? Thtw ftoistcpa on the mountain iid< afr thine. They )end right up io that tell Min Extended inward He cold, ph- lip of lillbe; A wondroua light shine* through file night lllnminatlng now thin |mih (or tub; (tod give mb s', feiigih Io bland at loUgth t’pou the xuinmll of my Calvary. —A. I». Burkett AAA##****** • ♦ ♦ < IA TWENTY TIARt AbO TODAY < A MW.M. 4 ♦ Aram th* Dally Democrat fllaa < ♦ 20 yearn ago thia day * ♦AAA♦*AA'A A A • A < April I—Two big hr house*. pro I

4 O * Jw. , GABRIELE D’ANNUNZZIO says: .• “I am sure that Your Majesty did I not wish to fl iv ® empty fief to an . idle lancer.” i N-er- t. ’ r ‘T.ompers of Italy,” as he is president , of the Seamen's Union, the most pow- | erful trade organization in Italy. He is , th'Cir chief, and they follow any in- . clination b<V may have. ( When D'Annunzio occupied Fiume , for eighteen months. Mussolini was I editor of a powerful daily paper. . Mussolini visited several times at FtJ time and gave him editorial support. Pescara, a small Adriatic city be- , tween the mountain and the sea. is the birthplace of DAnnunzio. Behind him there was no literary line. His father was a land owner, having some fifty farms around the city of Pescara, of which he was mayor. D'Annunzio's first book was "Primo Vere," and it was written when he was sixteen. There are three boys in his family, and two of these with D'Annunzio, were in the air service; the third boy was in the navy. Captain L’go D'Annunzio, the youngest, brought the powerful Caproni super-airplane to the United States, and this son still remains in America as president of a large automobile concern. And I he talked to me like a real chip from khe D'Annunzio block, reminding me of the time 1 met his father in Rome during the war. Whatever D'Annunzio does, he does with superlative energy. His tastes are simple. An omnivorous reader, he is a spasmodic worker—he works fiercely, however, having been known to shut himself up in his room for . sixteen hours at a time. He works at his writings as an artist paint a picture-writing a little on this short ' story, an a<T in this play, a few chapi ters on this novel, then perhaps j chronicles a certain historical period. | .Just now be is writing up the notes he ’ made during the war.

—-I — - ■■ - petty of J. W. I'lace Company, washd away l>v flood with Io n of IS.trtO. House t were filled with lee. lUur' J. C. White leans (or Mamie ro attend M. E. Conterwiee. Eire does some dntnhgc at the Michael V.'ertSbel ger house. , Easter Sunday was dbsertitl In Deleatur ybsterday. Exra Mallonee. sun-unltb, #3. div al Ovid. Michigan. C. It. T epic Is clerkin’; at the Hub • lothint: store, clover !/■«( buys Detroit 4c Toledo Line Simoon Hines plans trip io Ihikota and .Montana and HfMgtts frotn Sch- , mitt Meat Shop. A. N. Steel Is ulvr.i contiiti t for drilling weft on cotitt htitt c corner al 11.20 per toot. ■ -Q — — .... IBig Features Os ( RADIO Programs Today \ M'JY. New York. (405 Mi 8:25 pin. i t E.S.T.I- Broadiaxtin* “Ixdlypop," I iitiisicul romedv hit, direct from the. I KniekerlMM her theatre. WGY. Kihm-etady. (Suu Mi. 8 pm. and ln:3o pm. (E.S.T.i—Cohtert hr jt ylon College til"., ami .Musical claim and danre program by I'niod college dance orchestra. WCAP. Washington. (4«» M i 7:30 p.m, (E HT. i—Com ert by the on hue tra of the V. S. army bund. i WDAF. Kanaav City. (HI Ml 8 p.m. , (C.H.T. • "Amatmir night.*’ WtIAW. ttmahu. (328 .Ml J p.m. (C. S.T.lt l«Mth regiment bund concert, with uaaiatlng artists. o— — I. . ; The People’s Voice A-- - ‘ A■ 1 ■ A RUNNING TMg PADOLF A The city track, Tur- day struck the | crossing wutchmun. William Hud »■ jriuth, and then the paMeuger train

due here st 12:55 struck the city I truck. The persons in the truck at the time were Arthur Baker and Henry Sttvcni. Tly>y reqelvVd a j few minor ihjtirieA and William Sud'duth received an Injured leg The trucks httve a habit of “running the Paddle.” They have "run the paddle” at Mercer Avenue and Dine street nnd if it doesn't stop and keep to the right a hedvy fine is Uut’. t I Please take notice. A WATCHMAN —— ALL OVER INDIANA Columbus— Librarians and their assistants of fourteen counties will hold a district hitseting here Thursday. | Linton—The city council has granted property holders' petitions for the paving of sixteen streets. Tipion— The Chamber of Commerce here is considering employing a’secretary to look after affairs of Illi <>i ganizatioii.

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