Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pres, and Gen. Mgt K. W. Kampe— Vice-Pree. & Adv. Mgr A. IL Holthouse —Sec'y. and Bna. Mgr Entered at the Postoffice at Decatui Indiana an second claae matter. Subscription Rates Single ccpfes 2 centi One Week, by carrierlo cents One Year, by carrier 86.06 One Month, by ma11....86 cents Three Months, by mail 31.00 Six Months, by mail 81.75 One Year, by mall 83.00 One Year, at office 83.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones Additional postage added outside those aonea.) Advertising Rates Made known en application. Foreign Representative Carpenter A Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Fifth Avenue Bldg.. New York. City. M. Y. Life Bldg.. Kansas City. Mo WHERE DO THEY STAND?: In the days of the past it was expected that when political parties met in convention they decided upon certain policies and told the voters of the state where they stood on matters of interest to them. The democrats will convene next week and the citizens of Indiana will expect from them suggestions that will, if carried out, better conditions in the state. There are a number of questions up and the planks regarding them should be

*a —•— ■*v ■ — ww--- - ■ 1 — — - - — definite enough to convince. The platform adopted in the republican convention last week is admitted to be weak and is being criticized by leading newspapers of the state. Here is what the South Bend Tribune, one of the strong republican papers of northern Indiana says of it: “The platform adopted by the Indiana republican convention is not i an altogether appealing instrument. While it presents the attitude of the party in Indiana on certain questions of the day. others are made conspicuous by their absence, it must be far from satisfying to those vigorous, old time republicans who have been ac- 1 customed to hitting hard and to a display of courage that carried cod vic- ,

tfon. The platform has its elements of strength and may satisfy those who are timid or who are averse to calling , a spade a spade. While it seems to endeavor to make clear the party's views yet between the lines one can hardly fail to see deliberate intent of omission. “With the intense feeling that exists against the primary system as now operating in Indiana it was a mistake that the platform made no pronouncement on that vital subject. It should have carried a plank that committed the party to such I’-gHia-tire action as would produce a better system of makbtg party mmiination* than the present primary. That this was Ignored weakens the platform and subjects the party to just criticism. It was n<« necessary that the platform should specify the method of making nominations but that it . • ■ a tk..

jhould bo before the people of th* state as unequivocally In favor ot a business-like met heel that would return u» to that representative government Intended by the father* and make certain obtaining • Maher type of nominee* than so aften result from the edatlng abomlnattle and disbtNtcst primary. , •'Whether the npuklican party In Indiana will be able Jo win cm the pronoamentente of thfn platform remains to be »»en. It mftst be remema a les

bered that the Indiana! democratic convention I* yet to be hrl.l and that the Indiana democrats tnpy be wise enough to profit by whatever they think the Indiana rcpublhgina have left undone, if »m-h wb>don< crane* tn them they may go be tore lhe people with a platform that will be disappointing to the r- publU.ue/' A drive over the <Hy win eotfvlnco you that real rttnrt ha. b-e n ma* to clean up ami fl* up, 'bough ths riles the past five week* have intarient-d considerably. There I. one thing ns> ticnabk ho*»rer. and ’hat t* that •rd careless tn throwing pajwr around

Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face ; With Mrs. Asquith ir ■■■ Wife of the Former Premier of Great Britain (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) 6 From early girlhood Mrs. Asquith, s the wife of the former Premier of 0 Great Britain, has created more stir 5 in the affairs of the Empire than 9 many leaders in the Cabinet. 9 When 1 met this frail little body 1 of the plucky English type on her • tour of America, aha did not seem much like the heroine of the novel "Dodo" that made such a sensation in England because they said it was 1 Mrs. Asquith in romantic days. She has always been a much-talked of woman because she knows how to write books and say things that will be talked about. Her hooks have at

r times rocked England to its very • foundation and her highly original mint! and remarkable personality and reputation for saying unconventional things has amused Europe to the point of hysteria and hiccoughs. 1 While she lectured in America, she lectured America at the same time. I for Mrs. Asquith is not a myth. Her,' daughter is Princess Bibesco. the wife' of the Roumanian Minister to the 1 United States, who has lived many ' years in Washington, and whose tat- ‘ est portrait by Augustus John. A. R. ’ A., is one of the most notable exhibits! in this ytar's Academy—consequent-[ 1 ly Mrs. Asquith was among kith and , kin while in America. | ’ “Frankly. I am not enamoured with i r your American methods of traveling.”! *

She had just arisen st 5 a. m at the end of aS all-night jowrney in a sleeping car and was busy with correapoadeuce that had accumulated, for Americans will write letters —and the English ate punctilious in replying. “The thing that baffles me is that! the American people and your news paper* seem to have is mind a mythical Mrs. Asquith. Oftentimes there Is nothing that brings a clearer under stamling more quickly than a ment-l al jolt. 1 believe in speaking and' writing with the candor of real friend j ship. 1 am most hopeful concerning young America despite the wails of, pessimists. Women arc beginning to understand that they have their own Htea to live and a woman's life can not be lived without living fer oth era" While the real Mrs. Asquith is enveloped in a romantic halo of aristo-

Editor's Note: Send ten names of your favorite famous folk now living to Joe Mitchell Chapple. The Attic. Waldorf Astoria Hotel. New York City. The readers of th's paper are to neminat* far this Hal! of Fan-e. — '

Nothing looks much worse than a lot of scrap paper flowing around on the lawns and just a little effort will stop this. Eevery citizen and the street department, co-operating is anxious to I have the town i<«ok her best and it's I these little things that count most I See that the paper is pieked up an*! burned and that the yards are kept clean. Mr. Carpentier, of France, wil meet Tommy Gibbons, of St. Paul, in an arena at Michigan City next Saturday afternoon and several thousand peo pjle have paid twenty two -taller# per for ringside seats. Bovernar Branch seems unable I" .decide whether It ts to hr a boxing match or a prix* fight. Well air. the best proof we know of i«.

that sporting gentlemen do wot pay that sum t© see a ping pong gam* and they are at least expecting s Nttie ! real action and hoping for a knock out. Cali it what you pleas*. Youngstown. Ohio, distressed by the lack "t funds with which to conduct tie buuincsa of the munbipallty have] adopted •” empktymrnt tax. assessing every person in th* city who hold* a job from port*r to bank president, tmm two dollar* io tti-M p*r year.

That's going the limit in taxing and If the people stand for that without grumbling they ar. certainly a good lot. our attention ha* been again called to the condition of th* approarbes to Um Hchriman brtdg* As they arc now and have been for several week, they are dangerous and unless they are taken care of a serious a«.ld*ni which msy be rather egpenslve. Is ’ likely to happen there. It should be given Immediate attention. —. AT THt CROnbINQ •• Here its two men whom we agree

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f 9 Ink ! . w w; '■ Ml 'wrllF 1 i MRS. ASQUITH says: 11 “Oftentimes there is nothing that brings a clearer understanding more quickly than a mental jolt. I believe' In speaking and writing with the candor of real friendship." —■ ■ 1 -

cracy characteristic of the novels bv English authors, Americans expected to see one of those duchesses described by an American novelist, who aspired to ape the British plnn and, began his book with an Asquith an! broadside: "‘Oh Hell!’ said the! duche«s. as she tripped lightly across | the marble floor, while Lord Algernon flecked the ashes of his cigarette' into the fireplace” Then followed a; description of a dinner. Dickens started the vogue, and now an Eng-1 livh novel is not quite complete tin- ’ less somebody is eating. As the wife of an eminent English statesman, the Rt. Hon. Harbert Hen-J ry Asquith, she has played her part in English politics. When Herbert 1

. j Asquith was making his career in the . I debates on the Home Rule discuss'on. . as ChanceUor of the Exchequer, as • counsel for Charles Parnell, the Irish , leader, and the celebrated Barca ret ft lai. Lady Asquith was in the whir! 1 Aa H< me Secretary in the Gladstone Cabinet. Aso.uith began a notab’e career in which Mrs Asquith has - not failed to figure conspicuous)v. through her lively pen, whicli has, I kept England a«og with eßpeetaScy las to what Mrs. Asquith might do | next. Opinions and impressions of America, gathered during her trip ’ i does not make the profound itnpresi siou it might have made had Lady i Asquith not tried the American stump speaking lecture platform, where gesture and florid oratory does, not quite fit with the solid and sedate method of English conversation and public address.

Have won the cut-glass bonnet; The first of them blew out the gas; The other stepped upon it. —Unknown Author. (Big Features Os RADIO Programs Today (Copyright 1924 by United Press) WJZ .New York. (4U Mi 7:35 P m (E S. T-i—Operatic recital Aid*. ! WIP. Philadelphia. <&IS Mi »P m. ! iE S T.l—Annual Gem be I Brothers meet cal revue. WTAA. Ballas. (47« Mi * 30 !• m. • (C. S. T.l— Concert by the Mozart

Choral club. KP<> Sas Francisco. (432 Ml t to lb p. m. (P. C. S. T ) — Stanford university night with Stanford university band and giee club. err A. Toronto. (4®o Ml 7 p in. (E. S. T >-Organ recital by George Orsha m. # ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ *♦ TWtNTY YIAR3 AGO TOOAY ♦ ' 1 *—— ♦ Proin the Dally Dsmocrat tilts ♦ ♦ 20 ytsrs ago ttps day •» ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦

I ----- - - I May 27-“Nlnth annual commence--1 went of Nt Joseph school« will b* ’ held gt the House opera house June Wth. Henry Lnakenmt of Dncaimr and , Amm> Htrarby of Hern* appointed on , Isiard Os (a* review. O Jmkson ships hl* bowling alleys * to Rochester. Ind •l Test oft well I* being drifted on the y'lt. K. Erwin farm four miles northIJ west of town. , Ikcatur of Pythias initiate ! class at Willshire. I’ People & Hoiihouss give crmiraC' to carry mails for government tot |7oo per year. — .. John \og|ew»<|s display* lim bring of fish caught from rirar. i

” ' Mrs. W. H. Nachtrieb and Mrs. F. L. DeVilbiss are visiting Mrs. Moffett at Elwood . Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Smith entertain Young Matron's dub at their honir on West Monroe street. 1 rtSs^^****—' PHILIP AND JUNIOR Abo nt the same age. about the same size,— I Whatever one does the other one tries. If the pilhows-and covers are piled up in bed,— 1 One dived from the foot-board and one from the head. If Philip is crying about a imd bump. Examine Junior’s head,—there is the lump! If Junior climbed into the crab-apple tree. You'll find a tear. too. on Philip’s pants knee. If one stepped onto a poor baby chick 'in the effort to catch It. they both need a stick. The onljr, difference. is. one had bad lock ’Cause a chicken is harder to catch than a duck. I You can’t always tell-which one did begin it. ' But yon always can figure, both of

> them were In it. i , When Junior's Ma said. “Now June 11 yon sit there’’’ ; And “set him,” why. Philip climed onto a chair. J . Talk about tttmblc-bttgs. crickets of ,! flees.— • They aren't in it with such boys ar ) these! • — A > a r' Some “Cold Days** Are Recalled By Monroe Resident i ’ - Monroe, Indi.ina May 27. 1524 Daily Democrat. Decatur. . 1 “I read a story in your paper the other day nbout tho snow of May 22 IS*3. I remember it well and that 1 had plowed earn all the day before. It did not hurt the corn as I had a rood crop that year. The carpenters were putting up a barn for me and went out to work in the morning with every tiling under snow. L ‘ I suppose you all I told New Year's day of the winter of 156344. Company H of the old , S9th. was at Memphis. Tenn« *se. and was out on picket duty th«t i night. It was very <nid even that far south. '.Vs had a shed in which ,so take shejter. but It was so cold pl we had to send to camp to get teamsters to get us wood an we could have fire, using three or four big i. trees and a stack of hey. As we hiked tack to camp the next day the ground was covered with snow. John Hendricks. Say* One Million Die Unnecessarily Annually > < United Pre a Service) Kirksville. Mo.. Muy 27—A million . persons die unnecessarily every year. Dr. Eva Kate Coffey. Los Angeles, told the annual convention nt the A mere lan Osteopathic association here today You ean live to he 10() If you live <■ right, she thinks. Establishing th* p | "purely preventable death*'' would + .>>ave • million lives and i-ualhcii the 4- life span to l«» years. Dr. Coffey thinks. Kh«. views life m a hundred- - mile run. with health offering aid and disease the handicaps. People not of «- "old ago.'' but as the result Os M*M .. definite ailment <aua->d by Incorrect • living, she said. Shu claim* ths human mechanism ought to be adjusted d by an osteopath once a month. n i ii On i» hi pn i ■ Race Govrx Urged To Use Reasonable Speed • Indianapolis. Ind.. Muy 37.—0 n Decli- oration Day. th* day pending the two days following, there will he If heavy traffic over highways leading is Indianapolis, due tn the International ft spm-dway races. This event attracts >r thousands who come In antomobiles Many «o«ne from distant states. te It is th* deiir* of ths Indians Kifcl* way Uotatniasion. say# John D Win

t. iams, director, to provide every coni’ venience possible to handle the tremendous crowd and to facilitate trafn fle in safety over state roads. r ii Mr. Williams urges that traffic travr el at a reasonable speed and refrain from reckless driving in attempting | to reach the city In haste. Small towns t ilong the state roads are qpquested H to keep the main streets open and ► not permit them to become clogged I I with parked machines. Two way traf- | tic should not he Interrupted, and all I . traffic is advised to slow down to | moderate speed in passing through g ; toqrns. >| The state motpr police Will patrol g all the main roads leading into Indi- I anapolls and maintain a sharp watch P for reckl-ss drivers and speed fiends,.P The commission has erected danger I warning signs at such place's where ■ the lightest hazard exists, and traf- g tic is urged to obey these signs for 1 .they have a specific purpose. When P the motorist sees a diamond shape P sign, whether or not it has on it “Nor- P row Hoad," “Curve,” or “Slow," the p ar should proceed slowly. Respect j| of these warning signs will prevent j| many accidents. Williams points out. S All obstructions ordinary not dan- I gerous but which might menace heavy 1 raffle have been white washed. State I road numbers appear on telephone I poles"and the back of signs. ■ A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superin- = tenjient, after a trip over the entire - system, says roads tn general are in ■ splendid condition, and marked as to I make it possible for anyone to find I their way to Indianapolis without dis- I Acuity. £ Detours will -be found well marked I around all places in roads closed for I constrnction. Some of these detours I may be a little rough, but the great I majority are in good condition. All 1 grave! and stone surfaces to be used B for Speedway traffic? will be dragged I the day before the race. S Fort Waynt traffic should take Road I No. 7 to Huntington and thence on ■ Road No. 11 to Anderson. From An- B derson traffic may go on Road No. 11 s to Greenfield and theme west over B paved Nationnal Road No. 3 to Indi- d mapolis. or west from Anderson on ■ R<»ad No. 33 and thence south from B (Noblesville over paved road to Indi- B anapolis. A good detour is marked I around rough street In Marion. Ind. o 9 PAINT YOUR CAR IN A WEEK I We are now equipped to ■ paint tour car in a week’s time I from the bottom up. Decatur ■ Auto Paint & Top Shop. 1 U I. O. 0. P. I e ||i All members of the 1. O O. F and B Rebekahs are requested to invite ■ heir friends to the dance to be given E nt the I (). O. F. club rooms Wednes- B day night. AH those who have been B meeting with us br ng a friend and fl let this be one of the largest and B most sociable crowds yet. j Noble Grand. I ’

Kil liW ii w «HijL k - VERSUS KNOWLEDGE f I “If— “Why didn’t I?"—How differently thins* would h«'e hern. r I We hear it on all side*. CoutWiess thousand of widow* and those to whom monel lefl have been deprived of their inheritance by injudicious invc-«'n* n! ' i j A unique distinction nssociate* itself with this bank. and that i' every widow or other person who has consulted with u* about inner** - 5 ance* han actually Rained—-that i* when they followed our adiice. The proper invcMinii of trust fund* i* the hiffhonl ohllgailoti ii hnn! J a*uniet— whether one hundred dollar* or one hundred thousand doll« r • we give all auch investments serious thought and study. • Fifty year* us crystallised know ledge i* at your disposal when .' n:i ♦ lomult with i OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK 1 , gp

HOME BUILDERS NOTICE The stockholders of the Home Builders Association will hold their annual meeting at the Industrial rooms at 7;30 tomorrow evening, Wednesday, May 2«th. It Is Important that all members be present as some action of interest to every stockholder wil probably be taken.

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