Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1924 — Page 4

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Now that Illinois and Michigan have voted against Hiram Johnson, the California senator has the choice of becoming regulai or warming up to Bob LaFollette. Evidently he is too liberal for the one and too conservative for the other. * * * * Help the Industrial Association du things for the community by giving something to the fund to be used for that purpose. We want paved roads, attractive river banks, play grounds and rest rooms and the way to get them is to pay for them. Can’t be done without money. • * * * * The Chicago Tribune, advertised as the “world’s greatest newspa]K'r” has lost again in efforts to control Illinois politics. Senator McCormick, part owner of the paper, was defeated in yesterday’s primaries and Governor Len Small, who the Tribune has consistently opposed, was renominated. The power of the press fs some times over estimated it seems. Senator Wheeler of Montana, who has Isen assisting in the investigations connected with the oil scandal at Washington, has been indicted by the federal grand jury in hjs own state for accepting fees from oil companies after he Ijecamc senator, it’s probably a plan of those mixed up in the one affair, to throw mud on those engaged in the prosecution and thus lessen the effet politically. . j * * * * Governor McCray did not take the witness stand ou his own defense as the evidence closed yesterday without his story being told. Os course the jury cannot take this fact into consideration but the people can and will. For months the governor has been insisting that the people have no right to judge him until his side of the story is learned and then he refuses to testify. Why this change of altitude? •> • a * An effort will lie made t > have the county build a comfort station and rest room near the court house. Petitions are being prepared and signatures secured asking and urging the coujity council to mike this improvement. It can be done easily on Court street and we believe would prove a popular improvement. The sentiment of the people will lx* ascertained between this time and Septcmlxr when the county council meets to appropriate funds for next year. _ • * ♦ • In New York and Brooklyn just now there is a wild rush to the Imriier shops and that trade has suddenly become a profession so great I.', arc their services in demand and so expert must ’hoy lx*. The increased bu iness is due to the fai t that in Brooklyn alone mon* than two thousand women of ages forty to fifty are daily rushing to the barlier shops to place their hair upon the “bob" : gying it came again and there is evidently no stopping the craze ago it was the claim that bobbed hair was disap|x*aring but this spring it came again and there is evidently no stopping to the erase * * * • “Congress is x ting to get down to business” says a Washington dispatch and that tells the story of four months of “horst playing” by the majority. Remember when they met last Decern ber how they Ixixstcil great things and predicted much helpfu legislation and adjournment before June Ist? Weil, if they miiki good on the latter jwirt they will have to step along. A luck of lead ership and the split in the republican ranks is the real cause an< it’s no wonder that the election* being held over the country signi fy a change. The pedpie are sick and tired of do-nothing con gicsM's and they have had them now for six years. • • • • Dale J. CritteniaTger, eighth district candidate for governor on the democratic ticket, served two years as auditor of state am made h splendid record. He had charge of that important baai ness head cf the stab- the last two years of the Ralston adminis tmt ion and had the honor of signing the warrant which paid of I the last of the state debt. He knows the resjamsibility hr wouh assume and he is capable of handluig the job. He talk a lot ahoui reducing taxes but we will never do it until we have another gover nor like Marshal or Ralston, who will reduce expenditure*. H will take several .yearn to d<» it but wc have to start and this ycui Is a g<xxl time. * H • Itealwr should have a tourist camp. (If that, Uirre ran la* n» doubt if you will take ihr word of those who have huhdged in th< "gaaolina gypsy" life, Each y ( . Mr the numlier who make tours ol the country, camping each evening, is growing. It’s a delightfu vacation and unhappy life. These people spend each morning al average of five dollars for supplies for the day and that moM) g's 1 tn those plates which provide a convenient camping ground eqiiip|a*d with gas. ciectri* light, water .telephone and other con'•niemes. We Is'licvc an ideal lamp can lie arranged at Bdnuml I’ark at a very low cost and that it would lx* wiser than expemlnn a thoiiMiid dollars to arrange araHher eamp. Don’t think yot are being thrifty by lyeing stingy. If y „ u C#H inVl . Ml rfcw (k) |j ur , and get it back ten fold you are only standing in your own w»j when you refuae to invest or oppose a proposition.

DECATUR DAILY tIEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1921.

Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face With Ernest Thompson Seton The Naturalist Who Makes His Animal Heroes Human (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) Walking through 1 the groves at Lakewood. New Jersey, 1 heard a falactto voice using hfghsoundlug iMitanicul terms. "That sounds like Thompson Seton." said the late John Burroughs, who was with us. And sure enough, the tousely black head appeared. Editors, authors, artists mid scientists of note had foregathered there for a weuk-end. and now we were listening to the good-natured chaff of two naturalists, at the time Roosevelt was gunning for "Nature fukers." Not agreeing on a bug or a bit of bark, they reveled In Nature’s mystic secrets and talked in language foreign to me. for like Nat Goodwin the only Imtin words i could remember were "aurora borealis” and “delirium tremens." Ernest Thompson Seton was a sturdy enthusiast* in those days to humanize Nature. With the eyes' and soul of an artist he began his career sketching and using a palette' and brush to portray birds. t,itb.e as a cat. he jumiwd from limb to limb in the tree. Picking up a beetle by the roadside, he began commenting: “A man who docs not love Nature and cannot see In a bird. tree, flower, or Insect some kinship, docs not seem to me altogether human." John Burroughs was having his innings with some wildflowers hn discovered and the wq.sls rang with laughter—like children—as these two .Nature lovers talked of plant-, trees and animals, as if it were all to th -m an open book. The career of Seton Thompson or I Thompson Seton has lieen a varied one. While attending the Reusing ton School of Art in l/nidon. h • broke down and bud to return to his home in Canada an invalid. Os this disappointment he said: ‘.My heart was breaking when I had | to leave the stuffy air of the dear old British Museum, where I bad re' eled in books I hungered for. but the misfortune proved an important turn in my life earner." » Ardent and entlm ua lie In his ( study of Ixvoks and animals, he had aspired to become an artist. Sent to the prairies of Manitoba with a broth-

Edito-'t N»t«: Send ten of your favorite famoua folk now livlnq to Joo Mitchell Chappie. The Attic. Waldorf Astoria Hotel. New York City The ;e»der* of thia pvprr are to nominate tor this Hall of Fame. . .... 1 11 X " i

♦ TWENTY YEARd AGO TOO** • ♦ From tne Dally Democrat "<•» • ♦ W years ago this da» * Mlns Mattie Spade and Mr. Jiwx-I .Mouri' marrii-d last evening by ll<-v | Sprague TwentyJiJin-t- app£c*4i>ns to be rily mail larrlers take euaiaaUoti here today peter Klrst h <t»mp|etes ffrut auto ■ mobile, building all but .the motor. Wren votes dry lo I#, llepublit unit bobl county eon ven Hon and name dclegulea lo state aud district coiiveutiona. S2tid annual nus-tlng of Northern Indiana Tc-aetoeru AsMvckiiion is on tl Winona. Mrs. W. 8. Hughex Is vialting in Chicago. Mima-,, Frances llryron. I’ansy Bell and l.i>< U<% liuie ar*- visiting at Fort Wayne. Jcdiu Bui her >hd men* purcliaaa merry go-round tutnuk" fairs. Torn PHer-rxi and Carl Frame visit at the John Mucky farm.

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f r ERNEST THOMPSON SETON says: "A human who cannot feel in Nature —in a bird, flower, insect or tree some kinship does not seem to be wholly human. er who was homesteading, he be< stne stronger and continued his study of native birds an danimals. “There Is not a spot on aprth that does not seem to furnish something of interest to anyone interested in Nature, for where can you find u marvel or miracle equal to that which God has provided in his great outdoors 7" As Government Naturalist to the Province of Manitoba, he laid the foundation for his success as a naturalist. On the threshold of seeming triumph his eyesight became impaired. and an ouilist warned him of the illrc comequence should h - use his eyes for six months. In the blindness of those long months, he did some thinking, lie had made a start as an illustrator of birds and animals and ch-ifed under I his enforced rest, but h put away his iminta and brush, little realizing that Ihe would find "Loti." the wolf, and the pailng Mustang, two animal heroes who have been the means of placing him among the galaxy of litenuy lights. As a school boy h" uacd to write on natural history subjects and was later » popular contributor to magtizin> s. but hit fs-n I proved the handmaiden of his brush. As we said goml-bye he confessed: "Although I have I ft the strict line of histnriMil truth iw. many places, the animals I wrote about uro to me real characters. They live the live. II have detdeU d and showed the stamp of heroism and personality more strongly Qian it is the power of my pen to relate.”

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M-* - ; ’V - .. VL- *** • Smilling Through It is fine to meet a fellow with a v siulJe upon his face Every lino where it belong#, every wrinkle in its place. With a voice as full of friendship as a melon full of Juice. With his temper tied up tight and his I uigh and whistle loose, V With a -handshake that is helpful and a cheery, "How are you?" ■tv drives away the clouds. —leaves your sky chuck full of blue; Makes you feel life’s worth the living, makes you strong for any trial— The fellow who is friendly and who | greets you with a smile. —A. D. Burkett. |

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