Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 28 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-Pres. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouse—Sec’y. and Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur Indiana as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents Ono Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One Month, by mall 35 cents Three Months, by mail 11.00 Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mall >3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second tones. 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 Col. George Harvey, who has been progressive, democrat, republican, now announces be is an independent ami will say what he pleases and vote as he likes. From his record we take 1 it he has been pretty much that all ' the time, with his eye on a job. 1 Work in beautifying the river banks began this morning and during the next few weeks it is expected there < will be a decided improvement in the : appearances along the river through ] this city. It’s a real step ahead and t deserving of your boosting and help. 1 1 Democratic voters in Adams county I should remember when they vote next 1 Tuesday that Dale J. Crittenberger is a resident of this district has been a . political worker for forty years and has never refused a request to help t his party or his district. He is a can- ’ didate for governor and a clean, mor- , al, upstanding man of experience. , — ] Thia week U the lime to clear. i yard and get tlie rubbish ready so < the city trucks can move it next week 1 There are abou* fifteen hundred i homes in this c’t) and if the people who occupy each one of these will give a few hour to the clean-up proV days, the house a cleaning will be complete. Charles F. Murphy, ‘’boss” of New York, who died the other day rather suddenly, was not a victim of the drink habit, in tact it is claimed he was a total abstainer. But ho died from overeating and Insufficient ex- 4 erefse. a sin we all indulge tn more or less. A full stofhaeh is dangerous, especially to those who have reached | the age of fifty or more and who are inclined to take things easy. The last lap of the primary races are on. Election day comes a week from tomorrow. Up to date the < ampuigns in this county have been clean and sane and without mu« h mudslinging. Keep It that way. It dm-snil help a community or a political party I to light in per.-a n.illties. Candidates should put in their bust licks th* next w<<»k, fight mh hard ax you ran in a' < |< an «nd open manner, entile and accept the results. People live longer these days and the greatest reason is that the sanitation is better, w« give more attention to keeping clean nnd getting rid of germs, we kill the flics nnd the rsts und of course medical sclcnc.. has improved and surgery lias advanced. The clean up week Is important for the reason that besides Improving the sPtM'arnace trf the city it benefits the cmnrtmnlty frum a health standpoint ‘M course ws are going to all do II this Week. Chauncey M, la-paw r.-c.ll. that l away back in the eighteen sixties' Alexander Graham Ik-11 otmd him a! sixth Interest In the telephone fnr |lo.tXMt, but unfortunately the prosldent of the Western Union Telegraph Warned him that the telephone was only a toy and would never bn of any practical use. Such are the mistakes made by shrewd but uniiuaglnativr business meh. The venerable Chaun-

Flashlights of Famous People

r Face to Face ? With r Captain Robert Dollar The Grand Old Man of the Pacific (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) > It was the veteran “Grand Old Man I of the Pacific,” Robert Dollar, speak- • Ing to me in his San Francisco office. • He was preparing for another voyage 1 to China. 1 “Lucky is the man who fails in business when young,” was the consolation offered me. by a friend, as a young man when 1 saw my life savings go in a smash. I did not fully appreciate these words until time rolled by, but set doggedly to work to begin over again, starting in the lumber business as a foreman. At this low ebb in my fortunes I married the girl of my choice. We began working together to wipe away dollars of Indebtedness year by year." Now the name of Robert Dollar is known over the seven seas. His buttle of life started when he was ten years of age. As Harry Lauder says about Scotch caution and pluck—“Ye cuflna beat it." You Just see the Western Hemisphere filled with names like that of' Donald Smith. Andrew Carnegie, James J Hill —empire builders, master pioneers—that had the nerve and the courage of the frontier. x When the heather was in bloom in 1841 little Bobbie Dollar was born over a lumber yard office in Falkirk. Scotland. Arriving in America, a motherless child. Robert Ikdlar first 1 lived in Canada, but before long felt the call of the great Northwest and 1 launched Into the lumber business. 1 In a Canadian lumber camp as a chore ' boy he began making figures upon 1 ’ the shingles and studied, worked and ’ dreamed. A small library of books * was part of his "turkey" or equip- ■ moot moving from camp to camp. > At jhe age of twenty-one he was foreman, and then came the ambition > to invest* and re-invest in timber and - lands. A long, long way between in I vestment and realisation, for he had 1 thought that he had mastered every < phase of the business and was getting along swimmingly when — crash! I came Black Friday, leaving Robert ' Dollar at twenty-seven a bankrupt. Then it was that his real life began I as he related to me. < Studying the possibilities of ex

Edito***! Note: Send ten names of your favorite famous folk now livinq to joe Mitchell Ch.ppie, The Attic, Waldorf Astoria Hotel. New York City. The readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall cf Tame.

ccy says that if he had Inve-ied h 4 would have made $150,000,000. According l<» the announcement of ’ the Amiocfatlon Opposed to the Pro hibition Amendment, Governor Pin ' chot was defeated on a clean-cut dry j ' and wet issue. Mr. Pirn hut appears 1 to take a similar view, although there 1 j are those who say be wax snowed under by order of the Republican ma-! ! chine of Pennsylvania. He claims that the “liquor InterexU" were solely responsible tor hit defeat ami a< eonllng to n ports. he still is dhpo. ■ <; to brand every one opposing Jilm a* • either a bootlegger er hireling of thanti prohibition forces. The road meeting *'• Marys to morrow Is important for the geoplof this county for plans tor the proiM»-i cd Dayton Fort Wayne highway will lie discussed and step* tatacn. TbU city will send a delegation to represent us and we arc sure the community will stand back of any thins they do under the leadership of Mr O. L. Vance. Um- ibairman. Ws '.-Ent on those main highways and will do any thing within reason to b< Ip the good causii along. The work of piling li-avy stone on the road In-tween hero and Fort Wayne has begun and will prolmbty continue during the uatnmer. They ' seem determined to make everybody . favor a hard surfa< cd road. It should make ux all renew every effort Io induce the commission to give us a j modern highway through thia county I and to Fort Wayne. It will be easy if ■ Sr can have the sincere co-operaflon • ( those who own the land along the a routes. Fifty-foot rlghtofways must y. be secured, the fences moved buek, S|Stc., but think of ll—you got a hard e surfaced road free and malui slued ». without rust for ail time to < ome.

DEC ATI Tt DAILY DEM.O.CpA >' MONDAY, APRID 28, 1921.

I ■ ■ i I <• i I ■ CVW'-P CAPTAIN ROBERT DOLLAR says: ' "Permanent progress in business can only be made with an honorable name.” porting lumber to Great Britain led l him to study more closely the map of; China. Looking over the forests of I the Pacific slope he discovered that I making lumber was easier than mar-'I keting it. and the chief factor in the I distribution of lumber was to have-1 ships to transport it Then was born I the idea that resulted in the great ■ Dollar Steamship lines of today, with'B a regular monthly service around the IB world and officees dotting the map of B every country touching the high seas. B “Permanent progress in business B can only be made with an honorable B name- Punctuality is important and B spurts of hard work are of no use;! it is the steady, persevering. work that wins." When China passed from the old dynasty to the new republic. Robert I Dollar was called as an adviser. During/the World War he arranged with China to build thirty million dollars’! worth of ships for the United States. They ordered this money paid over! to him without bond or contract, an expression of personal confidence ini .m individual unsurpassed in the his-j lory of the Orient. When he arose I observed in Cap-IB lain Dollar a Uli. sUtely gentleman ■ of the old school—patriarchal in ap- B pearance, with white beard and high IB forehead, and carrying hU shoulders B erect —a picture of B<-otch stability. iB Before I left he honored me with a t ß glimpse of the diary he has kept for|B nearly three-siore years. It is one of •he most important! private diaries in existence, illuminating .many events of the past seventy yean not includ<d in printed histories.

>*<-*«*♦*♦**« • ♦ • • TWENTY YEARfi AQC TODAY « • ♦ Prom tec Dally Democrat s-ea • ♦ 20 years ago this day • April 28-Contract for Sam H <iud- Q ler and Stcngal and Cm g busin- , s ■ block at Berne I t to Artifieal Ston- B Fompany for $2 827.91. Tit'- b' • N will be 4*'x7<i and two stories. Judge David Studa'tskar U i- ri- U ously HL M Me-Hug of directors of fair held I at Berne. I Free mall delivery hi Deotur will I | «tart n< xl Monday. M ill boxea I ji-H-atcd at fourteen corners. | I r i ' I us “J T.” and "Navy” pre adtant-d I to 4o cents per i-ouii-I. I Russians r<-pulse Japs at Liao I Yang and cause heavy losses. I P. J. Hyland is ill with rbcumati m I ...nd Charles Yobat l« reading meters I Surprise iwrty (or John It. Miller N ' near lloudunt* c< kbraling Ills birth- tl - day. Il I wml ''*****>- “r3 THE JOKF.RS JOKED Some soldiers. tt*» y say. slartt-d out one day To have Mtme fun with a. mule - Though practical jokes on inmoent I folk Was strictly against the rule. i They strapper a muthit.v gun fast on its bock.—• Muxsle toward Its tall.*— [ Ba-k- d the beautiful b«ast to the edge of s bluff. 1 Irf-st damase be done by tbu hulk While the major act the gun to so off 1 The soldiers stood 'round In a row! , Waiting to see how straight (he mulei I Could shoot at a target, you know.! I When the popping begns lite looked loua-l * With an injured, excited air,— • w

sHHH'reswvr m mm wo**’."*— . _ r - m t- T -| — Then his feet came together,—he spun like a top And that gun—pointed everywhere! 1 The major suddenly thought of a maid He must instantly go and see; The lieutenant left, —posthaste,—for the fort,— Tiie commandant climbed a tree! The privates went over the edge of that bluff Like peas rolling out of a laid > The sergeant *dug in" on the double quick,— Commending his soul to, —the sod!

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----- -wo. 1 ' i That mule,—yet,—they say, has a nervous way, Whenever the gunners shoot; But those men, wherever they meet I that mule Invaribly stop and calute.! —A. D. Burkett ITLuceton—"Champion egg eater of the world" is the title claimed by his friends for Samuel Martin. He is said to have eaten 50 eggs in one day “with other things in proportion” at i the three meals.

NOTICE All persons knowing themselves indebted to the firm of Meyer & Lenhart please call and settle accounts. See .1. M. Lenhart at the MiU. or Naomi Meyer at the Smith & Bell office. Prompt settlement will be appreciated. 100t6 Hear Miss Lavina Louisa Wigglesford Custard read a group of original poems. Cen-j Hal play, auditorium, Thursday night. It!

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