Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DALLY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pres. and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe—Vice-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouae—Sec'y. and Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Poatofflca at Decatur Indiana as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Tear, by carrier 15.00 / One Month, by mall 35 cents Three Months, by mall 31.00 Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mall 33.00 One Year, at office 33.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones Additional postage added cutside those sones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representative Carpenter 4 Company. 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Fifth Avenue Bldg.. New York, City, N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City. No TELEPHONE TROUBLES: The telephone company Is being criticised these days while the "cutover" to the new equipment is being made and this was perhaps not unexpected for there has so far as has been recorded, never been an Instance of a change of telephone systems, when there was not much complaining. It's a rather difficult job to keep the outfit going in a satisfactory manner and *t the same time make the change, somewhat similar perhaps to building a new depot and keeping the trains going in and out. There is no' doubt that of all public utilities the telephone plant is the most difficut to manage, for they must constantly deal with the people personally. I Many of the complaints now offered we are sure, are due to a midunderstanding. There has been no increase of rates over that announced a year ago. Those on two-party lines pay the old rate of 11.50 and have the ad-

vantage of the new system. By paying two dollars net per month instead of $1.50 you can have the individual line. Most complaints now come from tbo.se who ha<| a single line and are now on a two-party line. This, was done to place every one on the lowest cost basis and to get started. As soon as possible. Mr. Ehingen the manager says changes will be made to suit the customer. We spent an hour at the central offices • this morning and wo believe an honest effort is being madto give service and to hurry along the installation to a isiint wheye the business will l>e satisfactory for pa'Tons and employes. More than that <an hardly be demanded. The company will make a staunnent tomorrow or next (jay and in the meantime we believe it Is g<H»d Judgment to give them n chance. We all want telephone service and we want it as near perfect as possible. The way to get It is to co-operate rather than find ."aslt and complain. May we suKKbst also that the girls at the central office are In no way to blame for any convenience you may have been pnt to anq that it is unfair to blame them and to esc sarcastic or abusive language with them. If you have a complaint or think you hare, take It to the business office of the ct>n:|utiiy, M't's be fair. If you enn figure politics lbea<* days you are a wise one Up In Mt, «• gan Ih-nry Font who admits he hasn't My pulllire nnd doesn't Mhns to any political party, got more votes forth", demisrutic presidential' nomination than Senator Ferris, the latter beytmd Veattun. th,- most iwipeler democrat [ la tte e state and the only man elm ted to Be Unite,| Htates seeat* from the Welvertae state tn fifty years. We hffmii we can't Hgur- IL

The defeat of n lr , m 4ofc||WJW |(| tools seems to hare heca the u»t Straw la the presidential lhf ,' aspiring Ualitornian. He has called* a conference of his tencrais t a ib,.| rest and will de, ide whether to label a guud I Ilk lug or tank up. it'a a ante' guess that he will retire for the pre*|.

<>♦•ol already baa «ultt< lrui votes pledx I 'd onr way and another to a«««r<-< him »t nomination unless something. | t

——— - 3sas Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face With r United States Senator William Edgar Borah The Interpid Cicero of the Senate i 1 (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) ( When ScnaAr William Edgar ■ Borah Invited me to stt down and eat ( an Idaho apple with him, after a I strenuous hour in the Senate. I had a I glimpse of the Senator Borah not . known to the public. He munched the fruit with the enthusiasm of a farm lad and talked of his horses and the out-of-doors of his own Idaho. An outstanding figure In the United Slates Senate, William Edgar Borah, laira in (•’■airfield. Illinois, has won a distinction for his State as a national leader. When attending the common schools of Wayne County and the academy at Enfield, he was a loader in the debate on the question as to whether there were "Greater joys m anticipation or in realisation.” He was for anticipation—now he is for realization. Ready to debate anything from football to marbles, his school mates felt that he knew what he was talking about, l-ater at Kansas State University he caught the Intrepid frontier spirit of the plains ami the crusadic spirit of "bleeding Kansas.” When he hung out his own sign as a lawyer at Lyons, in the Sunflower State .he used a paint brush to liven up the weather-ls'atcn front of hi* office—with n gorgeous coat of yellow—as an emblem of Kan a- optimism. When he moved to Idaho end began vigorously the practice of law. they marked him "present.” As attorney in the famous Heywood trial, firing I mobs and six (hooters. there was evidenced the intrepid courage ms Borah. In his fight against the League of Nations and his plea for the struggling peoples of the earth, he proved a fighter to the last ditbh. In the Roosefeltlan times of ISO? he was elected to the Senate ami bt> came a Progressive, but refuse,] to I follow In the Bull Moose movement of ISU. Th- peeplc of Idaho Mem to feel that Borah I, Institution. i:<»iah admirers insist that if he hailed from

Edito-’s J*ote: Seng ten names o< your favorite famous folk now livina to Jos M'tcheil Chapple. The Attic. Waldorf Astor a Hotel. New V«rk C>ty T-- reader, o f thia psoe, are to mm n„- ( or th , t H „, 8 f r >w>

tfhforscen. arises. • . At an expense of a few thousand dollars a comfort station can to- ar , ranged in the basement of the coot; 1 house and maintained by the county i | as iu other places. It's the only waj*| . to do it and there ought not tu to- any; ( objections. If the farmers and citi-' tens in general will ask (or it we ar- t sure it will be forthcoming during thnext year. And it's a very awe. ary , and important improvement. Senator Wheeler will fight. Ilei claims the charges made against hitn are nothing more than a "frame-up" arranged by Mr. Daugherty, to cause a slow-up In the oil Investigation. It" ' has asked for a senate investigation j of himself and an opportunity to show jnst how and why he has been indlct--1 ml by a Montana federal jury.

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’ t DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT,THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1924.

; Ik t 'i.#' \ ; * q?’ J®. SENATOR BORAH says: "Camouflage may seem like a new word, but it is the old term used for bunk.. Eliminate bunco men from public life and faith in the conwnon honesty of the people will become a fundamental principle of public service." -■II— — — . Ohio or any doubtful state, he would become a prominent candbtytte tor President twt tHe Republican ticket. While an aggressive, and. in sem; respects, a radical. Senator Borah is a conservative student of history and is ont easily carried off his feet, but contends for wrat he believes to be the natural trend of progressive history. Stalwart and sturdy in appearance. ho has a deeply dimpled chin and curling lip. With an Impres've forelock, his big g«-«y eyes flash with the golden voice of an orator in apeakIng. although there is a rasp nnw and thou when he indulges in it fling of sarcasm. As a debater he has fewpeers on the floor of the Senate. He takes very little part In social activities in Washington, spends leisure hours and nights reading and studying and thinking out the problems of the average man. and the complexities of modern conditions, applying tested principles to meet the needs of the hour— without partisan restriction "Camouflage may seem like a now word that arrived jnst in time—hue ft is the old term for bunk If we could eliminate the bunco iron from public ffe.Zfaith in the common honest v of the people would br recognized as a fundamental principle of public service.” Sen tt”r Borah comm* nt* o.T the bat compreheaMvidy and contritely.

— _ , school | Is out ami the woodland (dlls; i And I carry aaay th w«wri<>s of day I I rem the heart where sorrow fails. I * I From my UMaide m,- like youth I < mam Where time and fate lead me. ;And find at last iu the o< ‘<'3ll VJ itp I 4 A riv'-r’s eternity, I —A, l>. Burkett. • The People’s Voice | ' -- ■ I (Editor's note: The following prtide entitled "This School R<dv<d a Problem." is reprinted from the Farm dourual on request o' a rural reader of the Daily Democrat.) t By Jessie Ur Artec t The high schools of this day boast that they tenth everything from car-' pentry and ctwktoff to cllisenslilp and' 1 cutumdhe. Some go a step farther . and announce that they not only t<-d, h ■ what rad ho* to cook and what to oat. ■ I bnt t'lrnish the total, doing away with I < th>- oM-faahloacd lun< h ,:nfl. The Ls-I i bette eotihty community high school

~f Altamont community. work under the direction of the borne icoutunlen teacher, not only learning to can rrttraJ Imans. beet . and tomatoes. frat canning In larger quantities than their farnl lies will use. The surplus la sold to the food depart went of the high a<b<ml tn Im served at lunch unto neat winter. for a number of years the prlnci pal of Ute AltiU'iht athool. t>. 1.. Kat ] terjohn. bad notices that the boy* and girls who bearded thamaelvoa often' did indifferent work. Ho last year be decided io have hot mrala at noon and at ntgbi fur fifteen cents a plate. bunch Fee Fifteen Cants The pessimist exclaim*, aw did the Irishman who »»• ar* Inga giraffe' for the first time, 'there can't bo wn<h a ihiag." Hut there was. and If a Inty was hunaty and like Oliver Taint, ask•M for "mur«»" he got a second helping. The fifteen mats paid the wholesale price of the food, the food classes' did the cooking, ami the rest of lh« e* penne tutu«* out of the aqbout budget. ' I

~Happy*to*relatcr"the“ better*'school work seemed to justify the expense. "These high schools are going to be the ruination of our country." wailed an alarmed taxpayer the other day. Patrons of the labette county community school can't see it that way. They have thirty-two boys enrolled in the threcyear course In vocational agriculture. What these boys raise and what they sell amounts to about' $3,000 each year. Boys Solve Big Problems Last year, the Hoof and Horn Club ordered twenty-three Holstein heifer calves, they insured them jointly and the boys who did not have the money to pay for their calves borrowed it. without, security, from local bankers; When the calves were nine months old the boys refused S6O apiece for them. The Vocational Agriculture' teacher goes to the boys’ homes ami advises with them as to the care Os their ct ops and animals. They co-| operate with the Kansas Agriculture College ’in trying out new varieties J of wheat and oats for Southeast Kan-, sas. They also test seeds and treat; potatoes with formaldehyde. The boys practice crop rotation, soil testivg. liming of soils, and learn the value of different kinds of fertilizers, poultry and livestock improvement. Visitors are profoundly impressed wflh the work in mechanics. Here the' boys learn repairing of automobiles, tractors and farm machinery, battery building and charging, plumbing acetylene welding, shop mathematics and mechanical drawing. Each student takes vocational work a half day and spends the rest of the day In the culture of subjects such as English history. music, economics nnd journalism. Often boys who have been out of sth<M>l for a year of two come in for the mechanics course instead of going to one of the big automobile schools. Such boys take to vocational agriculture and mechanics like a duck to water. During last winter they overhaul'd sixty-three automobiles belonging to parents or patrons who paid only the retail price for the parts re-1 qtiired. "Don't you find opposition to this course on the part of your local repair men?” the princapal was asked. “There was al first. Now they find that the more people know about machinery the more they will buy. (too of them recently said to me. If your boys do the elementary repairing it brings us the higher type of work, and we do not have to be bothered with the simple things.'” Mr. Kattcrjohn believe* that much time and money can be saved if boys know how to

operate and how to care for machtn- 1 ery. .A cood genm-al of blacksmithing and repair work will save many trips to town during the busy season. / Girls Care For Borrowed Babies The girls, too, have interesting courses. One of the most interesting is the ctaM tn child care. For this' class the girls l*#row the neighbors’i babies and learn how to bathe, dregs anq ' ake clothing for them. The teacher of this clgM Insists that merely being a mother diwan t endow a woman with the knowledge of how to! care for h<-r baby. Principal Katterjolin says that, “•Ince no fewer than 9« per cent of AmerieM r« ”tde must earn their living it is very essential that young people sh< u*d learn to be in sympathy ■si'll those who laiiop ami are Uie bread winners of the world. In ,idkd ut being educated away from the rough work of (he world, one should be educated to take his share of this kind of the work, without which no progreM (ould be made. That laibette county people approve of Katterjohn'a ffhllosophy Is clearly shewn by the fact that thetachool lias an enrollment o( Jsn. although there arc ivo other large high »< hools In the county ami t*» others just outride but dose to the county line. People of the community keep In touch with the school through the Weekley Labette, the official organ of the county superintendent, published by the journalism eiMMs of the acbool. The "Weekly" is another teiptai | feature; for not only dees It furnish 1 inhumation as to the activities of the

school, but it creates and maintains Int.’rest on the part of taxpayers and | prospective pupils Furthermore the practical side of running a paper la of untold le nvttt to the members of I the classes In journalism I* 0 Much Wheat Signed In Indiana Wheat Pool ******** Indiana t«dia. April It.—Between I ItmtuMi and soo.twwi bushels of wheat i are now being signed dally In the In • diana Wheat Pool l»y the state and I county fattu bureaus, who arc engaged In a campaign to secure al least fit I per cent of the state's wheat crop for • cooperative marketing. Nearly 4.- • 'otMt.eiMi bushels have been contracted Jof the il.wm.nob which will likely bn t ' necessary to Insure the success of tb« ■ wheat marketing project. • I I mler the terms of the plan, every farmer mak”» the new aeaeei«Ueii his i 1 sole sales agent for wheat for a flva'year p«*rio<L All the present vluvatur .'aud handling faUlHlvs will be required I

under the new plan, but the association will arrange for direct sales to millers and exporters. Officials of the Indiana Farm Bureau believe the new plan will result in a considerable increase in the farmers' net return without affecting the price of flotlr or , bread. INCOME FROM 80-ACRE FARM IS NOT LARGE Operators of 80-acre farm in cen tral Indiana average'about a mortngage rate of interest, on their capital, and somewhere near a hired man s wages for their labor, in addition to getting products furnished by the farm for family living and a possible increase In the value of their land, acordlng to business records obtained by the United Stales Department of Agriculture and Purdue University at Lafayette. Ind. These records show farm profits made since 1911). under various systems of farm management, on about :!ft) Sn-acre farms. The important thing Is the wide variation

E “The Car tor Everyone” aaya noted ••MOTOR” authority • The New Essex possesses many qualities which I did not believe could be incorporated in a closed car selling I for 3975. *• It is a type long needed in this country. It possesses grace and beauty, can travel at sustained high speed ♦ without passenger discomfort, is sur1 pnsingly economical to operate and does not cost much to buy. **lt is unusually smooth, accelerate. hotter than the previous Esses, which is saying a great deal, and •s 'fka' car for everyone.”—H. A. I Tarantous, in MOTOR. Ark About Our Eaty Payment Plan u r -fc. r Thc Coach *97s—Touring Model *BSO FreigAr and Tax Extra P. KIRSCH & SON I— 2nd S Jacknon Bls. Chone 333 — - - - - - — —■ — Dress Up For Easter Forget what you saw last season. Forget what your wore. This spring opens up an entirely new assortment of style, color and fabrics. All that is new and correct is presented in our large and complete stock of NEW SPRING SUITS I ♦ f V ery Reasonably Priced at $25 S3O $35 There is a lot of good things tn say about this collection and especially this—Don’t forget that wo can fit any type or figure and that means a perfect HL POPULAR FABRICS-FAVORED PATTERNS-CHOSEN COLORS • 4* A

shown In the profits of ditteroht farmers. One 80 arce farmer iu Clinton county made an average farm income of 31.722 a year for bight years, as compared with 3196 a year by the leant successful farmer. Comparison of the four most successful 80-acre farms ii> Clinton county witli the four least successful farms In the same locality showed that the farm Income of the former group from 1910 to 1919 averaged more than twice that of the other group. The farm income of the four most successful farms, for the eightyear, was $1,555; and that of the four least successful farms was $663 a year. o EDDIE HEARNE BEGINS PRACTICE FOR BIG RACE

Indianapolis. April 10 —Eddie ; Hearne, champion automobile rae- ' inc driver of 1923, who will pilot a Durant Special in the International 500-mite race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Friday. May 30. has arrived in Indianapolis to start the 1

long training ■ /'Sure, I'm going tu s J rt ‘ ■ "" '** ■ ■" enough to hpp|) „ 1p M you know I cun t (arrv H ■ the car." Hearne Wa . *" tf ® ■ about the senshin,. of c,., '"‘l H whi.'h he has been hnski,, T" k “ ■ Hearnq is one of , h „ ■ ors of ihe rating W(irl „ ■ Plete with interesting ..... " ls r «- ■ o * I ’ , ' r H $-$- $- WANT ADS HARnI. . I -WANT ■ AWNINGS I t all ||. |'_ |j nn I Factory representative I will be here I Monday, April 21. I