Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1924 — Page 4

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Congress proposes to adjourn June 7th. Yhy put it off? They don't do much and when they do the president vetoes it. Might as well quit now and start the campaign. ThaVseems to be the most important. * * * * Wall street is betting five against thirty that Coolidge will tie the next president, which doesn’t indicate a lot of confidence for :omc reason or other and the strange thing is that a week ago they were betting two to five. It is explained by some that the bonus veto by the president is unpopular among millions of voters. ★ * ★ ★ The road between here and Fort Wayne is anything but comfortable for the autoists, several hundred tons of heavy stone having been dumped on it and if you do happen to get through without skidding into the ditch you will find it has been expensive in wear and tear on the tires. It’s funny that this system is not med on other macadam roads in the state and we wonder how long we will have to stand for it here. ♦ ♦ ♦ * The Washington investigation is just as interesting now as it was several weeks ago but the people seem to have gotten used to it. Yesterday George Remus who is serving a long term in prison testified how die paid $250,000 to Jess Smith, partner and roommale of AtiZrncy General Daugherty for protection he didn’t get. If a clean confession of just what has happened in Washington the test'/nony has been quite sensational. And they have the the last couple of years was given, you’d lie surprised even though nerve io say this investigation is unwarranted. / The first big railroad to couple its rail service with an cx- < tensive motor truck system is the New \ork Central. It is already using trucks for package freight and rapidly increasing the milcA former generation of* railroad men wdtik! have fought motor truck competition by trying to strangle it. People arc wiser now. They keep the old and adopt the r*', using l>oth—knowing that there is plenty of work for both. Steam railroads already arc inadequate for transportation needs. Before long, progressive railroads will be establishing airplane routes.

You can get your feet on the ground letter if you will relax tomorrow and spend a couple of hours in your church—the one you prefer. We drive hard all week, we imagine the problems are big. that tlg' affairs of the nation are on our shoulders, that business is a tough proposition and that we have all kinds of troubles. After ad what happens in the few yciu’s you are on earth arc insignificant compare I to what is going to happen the millions of years after you quit hustling for a living here. Billy Sunday says • The lx>rd is my Shepherd, 1 should worry," as he goes to the hospital. That’s Billy’s way of saying it, but not so bad at that. * ♦ • • The democratic district meeting held at Winchester yester day was an orderly but enthusiasTL affair in which James R. Fleming, of Portland was re-elected chairman of the district by acclamation and Mrs. Mary E. Gubbins, of Muncie, was again honored by being chosen vice-chairman. Clyde M. • hatiin, of Union City, was elected wx-retary and George Beelie, of Anderson, treasurer. A resolution endorsing William A. McClellan of Muncie as a candidate for judge of the appellate court was adopted. Then- had t>een some talk of oppoMtion to Fleming, but no nomination was made against him. Mr. Adair. John McFee of Muncie, Judge Caldwell, of Winchester; George Saunders, of Bluffton; Mrs. Gubbina; Mr. Chattin and others addressed the meeting and excellent organization and the outlook of gams wen- reported from every county. Tla- «ounty ticket nominated by the democrats in last week’s primary is one that can be enthusiastically supported by those who dc:dre careful and economic government and these candidates will be elected next November by majorities that will leave no doubt in your minds that the people want them. They arc all well known. Dore B. Erwin, nominated for judge has practiced law here for many years and is recognized as a leader of his pnlfrsaion: Thurman Golt chalk. for representative, has served three terms in the legirlaturc and was the minority leader in the last house, wquitUng himself with deserved cnslit; John T. Kelly. preeecuUng attomry is experienced, careful, honest ami able; Martin Jaia-rg Is known an eno of the most capable auditors of Indiana; Ed. Green, iwm-der. know* his duties and will serve you faithfully; John Baker, sheriff is one of the beat officers who has ever served| Adams county In that capacity and deserving of his second term Ixralea Kleine, treasurer, is one of the sturdy and substantial' farmers of the north part of the county, honest to a penny and in-1 duetrhus and careful; Dick Hoch is a real surveyor, licensed and capable whi knows how and does it; Dr. Mattox, of Geneva who Ivis nerved as coroner one term and has taken care of the duties j in a iati*faclory manner. It’s a ticket made up of candidates who wnnf to serve you and can. men of excellent chaiwter and much] ability. With the »plcndid organisation back *f them, they will tall up ferft majorities next November.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1921.

Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face With August Thomas Dean of America* Dramatists (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) With a dramatic climax Augustus Thomas paid his tribute to the memory of Professor Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, at the one-hundred-nnd-thirty-third anniversary at the Biltmore, by reciting the words of the firs message ever sent over the wire in experimental days: "Attention; Tin* Universe; By Kingdoms: Kight Wheel." The dean of playwrights, Augustus Thomas, is .a sage ami philosopher; a popular guest at every important banquet table. “I like to attend dinners where there is a specific object in view, rather than just a gathering for mutual admiration and eating." A fluent speaker Augustus Thomas now occupies much the same position i nthe theatrical world that Will Hays does in the motion picture field. The level headed judgment of Augustus Thomas goes a long, long way towards settling matters. When Dr. Elihu Baldwin Thomas went down to the postoffiee in St Lottis. Missouri. January 8, 1859. he 1 remarked with more than professional unction. "It is a boy.” This boy was christened Augustus and still retains' the traditional Missouri insinct—ho has to be shown. Educated in the' public schools, young Augustus began studying plays during his granular school days—anything to avoid studying. As a page boy in the forty-first Congress he secured material for plays and 6 years in practical railroading made him feel closely akin to the telegraph key. While making out waybills he longed to become a writer and illustrator and later worked on St. Louis, Kansas City and New York newspapers, not only as an editor, but became proprietor of the Kansas City Mirrow. Reflecting jhe genius of the American popular playwright. Augustus Thomas has lived the life of an American. having been a candidate for the legislature. Even in the titles of his plays Mr. Thomas is thoroughly American. His plays. "Albania.” “Arixonia.” “in Missouri.” would indicate he started in to cover the history of the forty-nine states. In swift succession came other plays which have caught popular fancy. Who will forget the wonderful moments of "The W'tchin- Hour.” “The Copper Head.” "In Kentucky.” The last of his largo family were "I’almy Days" and Mem-c

Editor's Note: bend ten names ot »cvr favorite tamoia lota now living to •oe Mi'ghell Chapple, The Attic Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City. Thr -»nd«r» ©f 'his p->u«r »r» to nominate for this Hall of

WqA.'jSL- ' ‘I A PIECE OF Pr.OSC (Written by a roadihle) Not everythin-; t» poetry. Some* things are pn*y proas. Far In - anc< now. a balky hor,r. or pt*»ky thieve-1 Ing ert w-i. Or mllkingdlme when ill-- | are bad; teaching a calf l« drink. ■ iw-tting hen. when ah» went net; spo le l epr- the - tb«- matador! Th,- kitchen fire. - »h< n it won; barn! A clothesline, when It break a hu*l>an>l. whin be "takes 3 spelt!" lUirnt beans and fallen takes! And rirhlng,—wbt-n th« fish wtprt bite; chilly. drlxxly urntn.. n collar button when Its teat! Hut prose tbat'a pro.tV- tha''s real prose—devoid of lender testing, that colorless a smrithiMS wit; that'* dry and unappcallnn; that make* a i«dlew hn'e himself and want tn not be wriir- la. to be miles from ah; where, and 'out of gasoline!" —A. D Ihirkrtt. **•••*•«*••*«•* • • rwnwTv v*a»n aoo • • mmsmi ♦ ift PwrafT* »hm hftlly Om**frC»ft* ♦ I • W» rears ape this day ♦ Mar 17.—Attempt mpde •*» aaaaasinate Governor I nit bln. while 'spoaklnf !x-for» African M K. confer -enr-a In Chicago. | Jim ilurn* get* prison soitlcntn for . burglarising Hower stare. v * lame. M< Donald charged wit If murder of Bsrab Schafer at Hedford. smm on trial. Mrs. 0. M. Hsasley la rioting at

' vdRT A ... JMF ■ Ol AUGUSTUS THOMAS says: "The hope of America today la vision. A people without vision must perish—and imagination is the one quality which impells progress.” esis.” 1 have sat next to Mr. Thomas at several banquets and watched him cover the tablecloth thereabout with cryptic notes in a space about three feet square. A man of medium build, smooth face, a rather florid complexion, with plenty of hair left on the top of his head, Mr. Thomas holies his age. His is a sturdy figure in evening dress and he might be taken for a. character in one of his own plays. "An artist is an inventor. Artists like Morse and Robert Fulton became inventors, for inventors, after all, ' have the same Impulse as artists, blending colors, reaching for the subtle* of harmony, seeing visions that do not appear on the retina of the average eye. All people are more or less plawrights. They construct their own little dramas with the ‘I will and you will not'— the eternal combat of emotions. Watch children at play and see them staging their little scenes, when they play house and howto imaginative visitors the boys talking to their dolls and the boys fighting imaginary Indians. The hope of America today is vision. A people without vision must perish—and imagination is the onesguality which impels progress." “What is your favorite play?" “It is trite when you say you cannot name a favorite among your children. 'ln Missouri* still remains a favorite. The Best in writing a play brings it close to the author. When it is a babe in swaddling clothes you seem to love it most and then when it grows up and flies away you turn your attention to the next child.” , Whether in the Green Room, at banquets or social functions, on the farm or on the street —everywhere— Augustus Thomas Ij adaptable to the scene.

Conncatt. Ohio. Mr*. Harry Winn-; of K.-dkey. C.ilifo nia it» visiting hero. 1.-piiliie .in. in state convention in Illinois an* dead locked. Yuli's Lowden and Dine-n am leading candidate*. 47 Jtallot* have been take*. Hwkakln I !!!'» wild west eLow will exhibit here May 31*L Mias Mints Acker U vteltit-g In r brother at C. tier •. Ten pound girt born to Mr. nnd l*r--. Itan flatter. 7 I Big Features Ot ) RADIO j Programs Today J • I'. I*, stair Correrpondant) Writ, Newark. <4's M> 9: in p, nt (E H. T.i-The putlmin I’or'nra tymnet of Atlanta, oa. V.JZ New York, liil Ml 8 p. in. —ltlnner of the K»<ervt*npneefti as-awl-itlon with nddte by <; -n-ral Pcmhlr-r. Oc nvra! MafM | end other*. WTAM. Cleveland. (3»*» M< 9 p m. (E. ft. T.i— Frogrnn of dance mwde. V.UN. Chi’ngu. I«*n Mj 7 io I* p .m. tc ft. T.i- Program of riotaEnl and .-xipular music. FILI, lata Ant-In, (5K M|kp m. IR. K T. I—lJelcn Mariiinaonh pritua donna.

Sunday’s Features WJZ. New Work. <435 Mt 11:43 a. m. iEßT.lt—Concert of the Bunday Hyntphony society, Josiah guru, conductor. . WKAF. New York. 1492 .Mt and WCAI’.. Washington. 116» Ml 6:20 p.m. ft T 1— Musical prosratn from the Capitol theatre New York WOAW, Omaha. <*>3S Ml 9 pm. (C.8.T.? —Danes musk by Jack Gard-

Flowers And Lots Os 'Em Are Hobby Os Willard Steele, Veteran Farmer, Gardener And Finand er Has lived entire life in vicinity of Decatur; Built beautiful Belmont park; is verv ini heating chickens up in morning and working until taps are sounded in ail nib r '° U8 ’ snug fortune in worldly possessions doesn seem to worry Willard. ‘ gn ‘ case -

Uy F. Q. Almost every one around in this [section o’ the country know: Willard | Steele. He has lived near Decatur all his life and is getting pretty well along in years. Willard is the chap that waned and built Bellmont Park from the time it was treeloss and flower-loss and I- jautifully stamp freckled, up until a few years ago when he Fold the beauty spot and has been wishing ever sinew that he hadn't. Willard is a regular fellow. He is industrious which means that lie is a great worker and by great worker is meant that he gets up every morning and hustles long before the 1 rooster yayns and goes to bed when taps are sounded at the all night cases. In between that time he seems so busy ihat one could play check <rs on bls coat tail, that is. if he wore any coat. Willard, from al] repot is has aycumulated a snug fortune in dhe way of worldly possessions but that don't seem to worry him any as long «s folks will permit him to live about the way that he has always lived.

I Willard's full name Is E. Willard 'industrious Steele. May all youth please take note of that. Many years ago when Willard was a great deal younger than he Is now ami wh-n most people thought the only possible Use for a tree was to have some thing they might cut down and also thought that any he-man who spaded a 3xl flowe" bed and plant it to flowers was simply "not all there"—yes. many people really thought that- well. Wilard at that time then and there end ever since has been planting trees, shrubs and flowers. • Now. when it is said that he did all that It Is not meant that he planted a tree or two every year or so and perhaps a flower bed every ban year. No, tha* was not the way of it at all. Willard plan'ed tre s and sb rube and i flowers v< ry day*. holidays, Sundays, I after night amt brtore breakfast when and wherever the ground was hospitauble. If the ground was not partici:- ' tary hospitable W Hard was prone to do things to it that increased its morale. He planted and planted and planted. |!v the some token he- also watered those trees, pruned them, coaxefl them, manicured them and [praise be to glory. bred them. Now all this time t'uct Willard was planting and tending th so darlings of bls heart. (and thev wer" no bsn.i he had a'canny eye to "aomc.hing else again." as you might say. H" ' was a good ground user, every toot between trees and shrubs and flogrer beds was wor'h to him about a millon doll trs a fool. n<. never neglect- ' c-cl the humble potato, the golden t quash. the ruccuhnt onion, Hu. , melora mid all the family thst may

n< r‘s orchestra. I WI'XA. iMliu-. (!75 Ml 9;3'» pm. ■ (C.S.T.—Dunce miufe hy Jack Hardner’a orchestra. KPI. Ix>n Angeles, (163 Mi I p.m. I (P.C.S.T.* Matinee initsit ule directed by 801 Cohen. — Ossian Considering A New Water System ClUsctta of (iimian will gather Tue« day even'ni; of next week at the conirmnitv bnildlna to dtacusa Um proI'ore.i plan for installing a new water ny-trnt In A meeting wis held Tuesday evening cf ihU week nt which flnte figure* nn the pro;.oil tlon were presented to the business men of Ossian by Measra. Cole and Moore, rcprcsinutlv,. at two South 1 i'« nd firms A vote taken at the nieotlnp Tuesday ahowcal that all of the bnslnmu I men wertt !n tavJr c? the piopod- | li<>n and II I hoped that ail of 'he fifteen* will attend the next mooting In-order th»t rptnn definite steps e<n ho taken. | Th«j estimated <«»s| of * sj-a’em for |(*M>aa li about 8254*** to |B9<>9*l. The plan g>n«rnlly used to orttanfte bt tn form a coiup.uiy slot iuntie emwhieri stork tn the i»m»unt of Ilti.W* and preferred Mork to the amount of Ira.MM. If the romp: ny Is formed In (J, ha. 11 will be known a* <he o* .«!-n Water rmt'pnny. . The town, rngrauonted by the town .Loera of trusires. |« exported to be coms a stnckhol'lrr to the antmin* of rrihiwinfi Mnr k. 1 taking a lax levy of < 8* o ils on ths hundred dollar* to .cover the ripsnsr. Then wh*n 'he plain l« put Into operation, the In come from the water user* provides 1 a fund for the town board to purjclia«n «l«» the preferred gtoek. nn<! . in that utunnar It will tluaiiy b-vaua • the sole wn»r. • I

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be raised in well regulated garden sail. That feature was not forgotten and year after year with the aid of many he Ipers he gardened "right rmart" as they used to say. and sold all that garden truck to the hungry of Decatur. Ob! yc, he collected a fee for ail that luscious and detectabl • vegetation and why not? Who should say him nay? Wore they not i fine eating? He raised only g'lod . stuff, his melons were delicious. thousands of boys can testify to that 'so can th? writer. But remember, nil these years I Steele’s park enow Belmont Park* j was growing, growing in loveliness i and in health. Each year more lovely than the year before. The glorlou t maples grew higher and higher and more rounded and put on more beauty every season. Willard didn't just plant those ' trees hit or miss. Hr had method, tha- ' man. He did not hire a landscape gardener nor landscape engineer with instruments and levels for Wiflahl | had some eye himself and be planted "by guess a nd by good". In mafectic rows and perfect citcb’s and he would spit on his hands and plant on the right spot every time. "Why did you go to all that work, all that Hfe time of ever-- clay effort." we asked Willard. *Wh.-’ was vour motive?" "What did yo-i expect ns an ultimate accomplishment?” “Man yor what?” Well we got oir ■answer. Rather surprising answers, /■ou my admit. % "N<>." savs hr. “No* for money." Tbft sounded rea unable •o U:i f»»r if b.e bad planted *hr»ae trees I -t’d UctncTs just for money liltt re-

Sunday Movies Banned In State Os Ohio — ' Columbus. Ohio. May 18—The suprer.te ooint Tuesday ruled that moHim pictures coiiio under the «lai.alti cation of theatrical perlorinattcca and a 1 atich are subject to the Sunday 'c'osfng hiw In Ohio. The division promise* to be the most sweeping ‘n It* effort Issauso of the al! iiuhaelng wording of th- • ee'lon of the law on which it Is laiMd. Even showing of movies in churches Sunday evehings proluibly v ill be prohibited under the new Internrctatlon of the law. The lourt's ruling came on an appea! of Walter Ilk-hards of Findlay, who v.-*» arriuv-d and fht-d under the set l-'ti at |.<bue. f> r operating a me vie on Suniten Richards' conviction was upheld by the common pleas and appeals <nurt» cf Hapeoek <minty and It mot th* •iinr trcitnu-nt in iho stipr'-tue court. 1 _ 4—— Infant Death Rate In State Decrease* (United Ptom Servlcci L-idW'oo|is, Ind., Mnv 17- A bnby ! beth In Indlbna hna better chance tn teach Its first birthday anfrer. ary than It did n few year ago. The Infant inorlsUiy rate from pre 'vrntahl-i rnnses has shown a mukrcl dncrtutM durlnc the pits' flveyear< ported, aceordlng to Dr. Ada Heliwoliycr. director of the Infant end 1 child hyalenr division of the atatr heard of health. In lite period from 1918 to 1923 Blackford 1 minty showed a decrease, the greatest of any county in the stale. Onion. Noble, Jsnningv. t'plon. Porter and Harrtedu <utu‘les al! ■howad a d«*tfa into under flfty flve

turns would have |,. M cents a day.- B o me day, ‘ i question "What seemingly [words to express himself and "1 don't know, , h * -IL ’ And then body likes it?" That w :is [could get out Os him, perhap, lh ;• plains the motive. I We asked.-'im try . san , ln . ways grow for you?” t , * he answered and continued. «| over have to replant, t K ,„. 88 , J have the " growing hand"? What is the "arowinß h anßfc What Is it always behind th.-X Ing hand, we may a »k ou rs ,.| V(> ,, Would we bo inclined to think fh-.t one could have the "growing b.sMand NOT love to do the planting m the tedious tending? I We pressed the question "why aj the work?" We got another surprise In his answer, "You see." M j« fc, “it wasnt renlly work, yon see. ni, |to do it." Os course he liked to do t

of course It was not work as wae ; people t eckon work, it was joy, tb' , ( rcay joy of living and pertafu w ■ may now feel inclined to think that i Willard hes been getting a lot of fa and happiness out of life all the~ . years. May be som- of us has I seeing him from a wrong angle. Hu he led a narrow life? Well, pertap isome of us may not think so. When Willard sold the park did h qCIt all this pleasure? Not by uy means. He had many arr«s left,ml he has gone right on. planting trees, •:-owing flowers, raising early and bite, every day end eve? day is a Sunday to that man. 1 1 Did you see his flower beds IM year? No?, well you missed sna* thing. The east-end corner near th school house was one hed of posies as big as a c hurch—one might say it iis a church, a regular “prate. [ from whom al! blessings flow" iburtk sending ,lts beauty and its fragtun to the high hesvens and in that s-d---1 Ing sharing to every .wayfarer vte rfiay p-SFs that way. The lied is ii blossom in all its glory, again tbs [spring. Seventeen hmiclrccl baits litre planted there. We sahite y«. j ' Willard, yon can w< ,r pants that m {patched Deri Iten to IWncheh. di ‘ '■our entn may lie a horee that Is f’ret cottaln •<» n Icin'- yard, yow waron w'ui only half a l ing but ** have consciously or tincnnwiorlv won hipped at the altar of God' K?c*t outdoor* and your offering.: based c-eoded as an im c nse to th- wff i skies. May we learn from ym <• love lw tier the growing things aW hi'ld t« a fond hope that othm he Me sod with the "r.r. *ing hart

p» r 'hmimnd ' 1 ahowing n h h rat ■4» It’S th" perhal war-- Ohl". !>*. "t* X 9; Vrimlkicn. 94. end L il' . IK. k* ■ thorsnnd During the past year Lr<>«n o«»V ' with -n cvcrige of 11' ltd ini d<«ih ' per thousand ted the eta' l '- county had 111. Slcuher. P‘7 and'*■ ’ mll on. im». 1 Th • <!ra:h t-dt of infants bl ' v 1 cat In the !n«->lni«-d rur. I th irtrltM* ■ l ln ronrcaieil ‘n.lnsirial H"#*- *** | 1 reports Indi- tied. The avcrsgi’ Infant mtu'.d’v " in Indiana from I'H" "• lG< par Igor and. In if' 1’ " to F 6 pm 1 tbouaaud and in I'*-- •* CM rcr thousand. As part ' K’.nmt children were examd'"* b.» departmeut la»t year: Dr .‘-''b* " 1! laid. —a — - Single Rifle Shot Kills Two Uuih’ (C f ntaff Furr' . ! <!r ,..n... I*o . Wt. IT A ’ rl-o’ from n rtfl« *’* ' the murdep of Mi«* l••’*' ,, ' h . 19. of Itolisyebur*. I*' Hl " 1 ' , Oaaoter. 89, proaidoni of Ing class of Marysville ta'* h authorities |n»e»ite«iinK , l"‘ ir tutlav disclosed. The IWO high «hooi killed from amtewii. ( male polite. The dlrl * i "‘ , the «leering wheel and lit* •" r Ing, ar If about to step >n*" 11 hla bead hanging over l> A eluate atcrl jacketed hm ’ . (rated the ,-onn« i«-'“" g. pawed throuph th* h-s!y "I leoberger. |