Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller —Pres, and Gen. Mgr g. W. Kampe—Vice Pres. & Adv. Mgr A R Holthonae— Sec’y. and Bus. Mgr Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur Indiana an second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier H-00 One Month, by ma11.<...,...33 cents Three Months, by mail >I.OO Six Months, by mail >1.76 One Year, by mall >3.00 One Year, at office >3.o(' (Prices quoted are within first ann second sones Additional postage ad ded outside those sones.) Advertising Rates Made knows sn application. Foreign Representative Carpenter A Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg.. New York, City K. T Life Fldg., Kansas City, Mo Now It is claimed that malaria • germs will cure paralysis and mosquitos may be used to inject the germ into the patient’s system. Os course the victim will have the old fashioned ague but this can be cured in a mouth with quinine and any way that’s better than a useless arm or leg. It does beat all what we are learning these days. . If you will read the history of the “Knownotbing" party you will find a great similarity to the Ku Klux Klan of today. The name came from tin fact that it was a secret political or ganization and in 1855 it received a million and a half votes, electing nim governors and forty-three members of congress. It was opposed to foreign era and Catholics. Two years later the party had gone to pieces. Similar organization in this country from time to time have been short lived but are always dangerous and in other coun tries have proven disastrous. If you are within earshot of bust ness leaders, you hear them discuss lag the business slump and their explanations of it usually includes e mumble abodt "those investigations in Washington.” Those Investigations have had no more to do with it than if they had taken ptace i n Timbuktu on the e<tae of the Sahara desert Business slipped because the public <urtails*its buying. Stagnation in the retail fl«ld naturally backs up into wholesaling and manufacturing chan neta. The late spring started dull u< s« in buying —lndianapolis Times Under the taws of Indiana not onb the print ipals and backers of a prlz* fight are liable to arrest, conviction fine and a jail sentence but likewis« (Aery one in attendance. Govern”’ Branch sent hta adjutant general t< the. fight today to ascertain whether it Is a prise fight or a boxing coolant If It la. the former the fifteen or twen ty thousand spectators will be Hable While some contend that a prise fiffh' ta a fight for a prise. others insta* that a tailing eMtmt becomes a prix-’ fight when it la u finish affair. It It probable the fight today may rasa I’ in a test in court. Joe Hoyer won a brilliant victory* If the 500-mile race at Indianapolis y»» terday, driving hta Duessenberg cat around the long course in five hour* and five minutes, amuahint the rec ord by three miles an hour and de (rating Cooper In • Hfudabaker by t minute. Hr jumped up from fourtl place to first In a few taps and held the lead after a spectacular drive. It was the greatest race ever held In Ibt trtMa. seventeen of the twenty-two ma chines starting going the entire dis tanre, Thta afternoon Carpentier ant* Gibbons mat in a fistic encounter a’ Michigan City. Indiana is getting sporty. The week <4 June 13th Is to be devoted to Child Writer* in Adams county and a staff of experts from the state board of health Including » woman physician, nurse, clerk an<’ staff director will hold conference! and rive lectures illustrated by inn, tug picture* lu different parts ot lb*

i " ~ -q Flashlights of Famous People I i

; Face to Face ; With Scott Cardelle Bone IT GoveraOr of Alaska (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) B [i When Major Frederick Martin re- , cently collided with an uncharted j mountain peak in Alaska on his aeroplane flight around the world, It nuide i that far-off, alluring, sombre, solitary i land of isolation seem like away station farthest north in the domain of Uncle Sam—discovered by President Hording in his last days. When the Presidential party landed at Metlaktla they were greeted by Governor Scott Cardelle Bone When appointed Governor of Alaska. Mr. Bono’ urged President Harding to make a trip to Alaska as the one essential thing to adjust Alaskan problems. On February 15, 1860, in the year] Lincoln was elected President, a bo? born to the Bone family in Shelby County. Indiana, was named for General Winfield Scott, the hero of the Mexican War. After the usual prelude in the print shop during high school days, young Bone found himself In the newspaper business in Indianapolis. A quiet, methodical worker, his dreams of going to Washington and sitting in the press gallery 1 •ante true in the early eighties—soon ifter he became managing editor of he Washington Post. As President of the famous Gridron Club. Scott Bone proceeded with he order of business of that organi:ation —the inspection of candidates or the Presidency. Running the taunt let of the ruthless and satired ire of "Grid” wit and repartee was onsidered the overture of presidenal hopes, letter ho established the Vashington Herald, but in 1911 felt ho call of the West and took charge •f the Post intelligencer in Seattle. Vashington. familiarly known as the P I." Here in Seattle, The Gateway 'Tty. his enthusiastic interest in Maska crystalized when he made a our of that land. It was a happy moment in the life >f Scott Bone as Governor to welcome he first President who had ever trodi he soil of Alaska. “This is a supreme moment in the . listory of Alaska,” he said. “We now have with us a real Alaskan Presilent." and the people cheered and hildren shouted in the downpour of ain which failed to dampen their -nihus asm. A jaunt of a tliousand miles or so locs not count in Alaska. Governor Tone has visited almost every nook ind corner ot this vast domain of

I ‘ editor's Note: ten names of your favorite famous folk now living to Joel* Mitchell Chapple, The Attic, Waldorf Astoria Hotel. New York C‘ty. The readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fame. , - ——— - „ i i ■' ■ — -

— county. Children betweep th v ages * »f on# month and seven years will be 1 civen thorough physicial examiaa- ’ tious free. The week has been ar- I ranged through Mrs. Faye Smith- 1 1 Knapp. president of the local ’ League of Women Voters and Miss I Emilie Crist of the Memorial hospital , and will be beneficial In many ways? Conferences will be helft at Pleasant Milla. Decatur, Kirkland. Monroe, Geneva. Berne, rtinn Grove, and Jeffcr-. fl son. The co-operation of every one ( and particular of parents of children* mder seven years of age is urged that the week may produce great good. i - -0 I > TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ' + ' From the Dally Democrat files ♦ > 20 years ago this day ♦ »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ C F. Trite leases ienter room of. tew Allison Stndabuker block and "luh Clothing store takes the corner •oom. 1 Ml** Etta Rnmdyberry makes grade" if 91 In county grade examinations end receives free scholarship to Na-' ional Normal University. Buckskin Bills Wild West show terr. Small crowd, bum perform tore. First of eight cases entitled WII-] tain Magner vs. William (Jlcndrntng »t ai. dome nd I tig total of JfS.W •pens In court. Mrs. J- D. Wlschamit and sun, .toward, are visiting at Bluffton. George Wcmhoff la buying stone at Jcdford. Ind Joel Reynolds and Ham Frank arc •ppolntorl night policemen. Tom ftallh’-. league pitcher, recov•ring from seige of typhoid fever at "Mitas, lexas. Htuukst at rommerctal club for ’‘remit Quinn, former president who • t» presented with gold watch.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1921.

• iWfe, -s S " wMBg f.,* i 'vWSHBPi SCOTT BONE says: “The best investment that the i United States ever made was Alaska, 1 costing two cents an acre. Alaska has already produced a billion and a quarter dollars in products.” s fifty thousand square miles. 'I Governor Bone is a man of medium height, mustache tinged with gray,! dark eyes, carries his head a little to 1 one side and speaks the language of a diplomat and writer. When the President left him at Sitka in a glorious sunset, Governor Bone measured his last words with deep feeling. “We cannot express the gniti tide of the people of Alaska living on the 1 far-flung frontier line of the U. S. A. I Here the spirit of the pioneer prevails'■ that appeals to the adventuresome, spirit of young America. Twenty five j years will wotk magic changes in this. Alaska of ours. It Is the best investment the United States ever m ule-1 i Alaska cost two cents an acre and! has already produced a billion and a, quarter) dollars in 'products. With j the aid of airplanes, Alaska may some day become only a day’s jour-! ney from Washington.” The Esquimaux of Alaska own their own herds of reindeer and have a range where ten million can be sup)»rted. The first herds Were brought across from Point Barrow on the Arctic Sea and represent a great pro-J duct of future meat and food supply. I ’ There is no danger of the meat supI ply giving out as long as the Mora n | end great acres of Alaska are open! for the range. As Governor Bone pointed out to f Lun the great herds of reindeer, he i, said: . L “Once a human hand touches a > faun, its mother disowns it. Esqui-j---maux herders handle them with rein- ; deer skin gloves. So with the affairs!of Alaska. 1 find they must be handl- L <d with gloves or Mother Congress', seems to disown us through the twen- L ty-tbree government bureaus in, Washington that operate in Alaska-”!

( Big Features Os \ RADIO 1: ■ Vi / Programs Today V WJZ. New York. (455 Ml S p. tn. , (K 8 T)—Creighton Allen, pianist. WBZ. Springfield <337 Ml 8 JO p. m. (K 8 Tl—The commonwealth quartet. WSB. Atlanta (429 Ml 10:45 p m. ((' 8 Tl—Hind Help Skylark. WHAS. latulsvllta (400 Ml 7:30 p. in. ((' S Ti—Concert by the Treble Clef club. (•FC A. Toronto (4<wi Ml 7:15 p.m. (K 8 T> Concert by Queens Own IliCes baud. w«wnwnawmw«ss"» I Oratoria “Creation" To Be Given In Berne iMSB , Berne. Muy 31.—0 n Sunday evening June sth. the M'-nnonit* choral soI «ety In .Berne will render the lieautl- ■ Tut oratorio. Haydr's •Creathn." in 1 Its annual spring concert. The so- ' clcty which caaslsts of approximately j 140 voices, has born rehearsing the famous and tMMMtitul production for 1 many weeks and a splendid rendition I may bo expected. The society In also very murk pleased to announce the cast ot ex- ' coilent assistants for the rendition, such as the soloists and aceompa ilsts. Mrs. Annie Heberts tta»ls. of Elida. 0.. who her sung before local audiences on units a number of occasions, will I sing the soprano solos. Mr, 8. L» Fluecklger. of Kewanee. 111,, a former local young man. will sing ‘he tenor I solos. Mr. Emit Tafilnger of the European Schoo! of Mode. ,*lll sing the bass solos. Both Mr. FJAecklgar and Mr. Tafliuger have sung tba tenor > and bass solos in the rendition of the , Messiah last winter.

rtii “FOLK” OR -FOLKS” I like the way Guest writes that word Its the way its pronounced,—the way its heard By common folks, — . By most of folks. Os course .the college professors,— and such, insist that he uses one letter too much. That its wrong. That the word’s in a class With sheep and deer and barley and bass, ( Trout and lover and wheat and smoke But still 1 prefer the way its spoke—'En By common By,—well, just folks. / lit may seem homely and rather crude To th,ose who. with knowledge arc deeply imbued, But common folks—j (That’s most of folks. —) . Are so genuine and so numerous,— (They say “gtad-i-o’-lus,” not glad-i’-o-lus,” They always say “home” not, ‘‘‘domicile,” — That last word ,to me, sounds a bit like,—) Well You may call it “refined” to say “just folk" But 1 like Guest's way,—the way its spoke. ‘En By common Men, — By,-Well, just folks. A. D. Burkett, saw voiciiiir IN ERUPTION Mr. And Mrs. M. M. Frisbie Saw Famous Volcano In Hawaian Islands Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Brown have received a letter from their daughter | Mrs. M. M. Frisbie. who is touring I the western stales and the Hawaiian I Inlands with her husband. In whftb ; Mrs. Frisbie tells of seeing the I Kltanea volcano in Hawaii in eruption. I Much has been said about this volcano j in news dispatihes during the past few' days. Mh and Mrs. Frisbie saw the . final eruption of the volcano before ! the Volcano hotel nearby was closed i and nil tourists jtrdered away, on ac- ( count of the danger. Mrs. Frisbie de-1 scrilted the interesting sight and stated that she picked up a small piece I of rock three miles from the volcano. J which she is bringing back as a | souvenir. Mr. and Mrs. Frisbie expected to i reach San Ffancisco on their return from the Hawaiian I lands on last Wednesday. They were married recently and are taking the tour as' their honeymoon. Thev expect to re- i turn to Indiana sometime in August. | Mr. Frisbie is a former Bluffton 1 merchant. Mrs. Frisbie formerly v.a» ' j Miss Mary Brown. Berne Lad Wins Prize In State Essay Contest Berne. May 31.—Earl Neuenschwandor. a pupil of the sixth grade in th* Berne schools during the recent school year and the eldest son of Mr and Mrs. Mcnnff Nvuonschwandrr, ot Berne, won distinction by winning third prise In this state In the "safety •asay” contest under the auspices of She Highway Education Board. Th<Neuenachwander tad received a postal «ard yesterday morning bringing to him the good news. The wtnn. r ot the state I* a pupil of the Fort Wayne school* whose cssay will be entered in the National contest at Washington.. D. C. —«■ — o ' '■ . Bandits Get $20,000 i - • Kansas Ulty, May 31—(Special to i Daily Democrat)— Thr<e bandits hold up two measent' ra tor the Argentine i State bank here today and escaped with 120. WM). . The holdup we* almost an ixart . duplication of a luddtip of th' same . two mrasenger* who yers robbed of i the same amount November IS, 1923. I .. „ — A CONGRffSB TODAY « ffsnats r (Ttisidrra child labor amendment. » ftaiutheriy ln.ralla«ilou. I Muscle Hboata tiearimtr Mayfield inquiry. r Moua* Consider! McNara-Haugm farm re | lief tali.

WILL ATTEND ;! CAMP MEETING ' Decatur People Expect To Attend Church Os God Affair At Anderson Several Decatur and Adams county people expect to attend the annual international canrp meeting to be conducted by the Church of God, June 15 to 22, inclusive, at the camp meeting grounds at Anderson, Indiana. The. large tabernacle has a seating capaci j ty of 5,600 and if galleries were install-1 ed it wtnild seat 10,500. The camp grounds are an inviting place. It is a fine shady place consisting of many acres of well-kept lawns. There are several large buildings. Meals, lunch, water and lodging are obtainable on the grounds at area- I so&able price. Guards are stationed over the grounds which assure safety to automobiles parked on the grounds. Bible truths are taught by able ministers and splendid music is provided There are eight or more services daily. • i Pleasant Mills Epworth League Elects Officers The yearly election and monthly social of the Pleasant Mills Epwortii league was held Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harve Davis. There were about 60 present. The elect on of new officers for the I coming year was the main feature of I the program which resulted as fol * lows: Pres id i nt —Miss Midge Davis; first , vice-president. Mr. Ralph Smith; second vice-president, Mr- Lowell Smith; third vice president. Miss Letah Steele; fourth vice-president. Miss Mr.dge Davis; secretary and treasurer, Miss Helen Masters; pianist, Miss Helen Schenck. These officers will installed at lue regular Sunday evening League ■ rvice next Sunday. The next regular socal will be held June 27th at! tlio home of Mr. and Mrs. George • Foor. ■ VL’F J . i ' rt? '* •S” ■ r.’ H tT’. fw IONE DOZEN FREE I / SMOOTH- EDGE \ L o o o 6! \SAFETY RAZOR BLADE7 \ HIS. Cfl. 7 To introduce Cosmo Safety Razor Blades in this community we are of- i sering one dozen smooth- ‘ edge blades, as shown in ( above cut, for 50c and we ! will give you one dozen , extra blades absolutely free of charge with each order for one dozen or more. Cosmo Agency P. O. Box 145 Decatur, Ind.

■'i.-r.^«' wspasi.. • - • " If we could stand a ■ Chalmers Union Suit i J beside your bed toI hHU morrow morning You’d whlk in—cull tip—drop in or wnd in fiv J for three more of the name kind. /f ■ M... You would enjoy a new M>nt«alion—and lie- ‘ ’i A. ■ fore the week wan out you would say—“ How . y I \ ( t"Ak have I lived 37 yearn without knowing there wan I I Much a difference in Union. Suite!" <\‘ 1 // i Spring weight* now sellinu tael er than we k-M have eter been underwear move up Second street. Ipwtff-r-' k‘j y II K B * i The Union SuiteMe to 92J9 ' The Shirts and Drawer*.. .50c Io 51.25 ||i 1 Silk Homsoc to 51.50 II Irish tele Sweaterso3.so to 07.50 * J scire.# cianies k>a less J hokey-always ~ * DECATUR * INDIANA ,

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