Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1924 — Page 2

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Holler —Proa, end Oen. Mgr.' U. W. Kampe—Vtce-Pres. * Adv. Mur. A. R. Hoithouee—Bec’y. and Bus. Mgr. • Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur' • Indiana aa second class matter. Subecrtptlua R»tee " Single copies . > ceuta • One Week, by carrier ——XO cents 2 One Year, by carrier 15-00 One Month, by ma 1135 cents • Three Months, by mall 1100 ~ Six Months, by mall 11.75 One Year, by mail — $3.00 One Year, at office ——s3.oo (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rater Made Known oo Avalisation. foreign Representative Carpenter A Company, . 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City, ” N Y. Life Bldg.. Kansas City, Mo. How atout repairing the downtown 2 alleys? It won’t cost much Io take up " the brick, turn them and put them . down on the gravel again and it will ’ t jve money in the long run. Democrats of the eighth district ‘ will meet in Muncie on Thursday, August 21st, at two o'clock in the afternoon. at which time plans will be discus.ied for the campaign. State Chairman Walter Chambers will be there, bo will John Adair and James R. Fleming, district chairman and other lead- • era. It will be the start of the campaign, rather the time to plan the „ -•art. All interested are Invited. Your attention is called to the fact that fair week has passed and there have been ro robberies, serious accidents or other things to mar it. The I olive have taken good care of the city and the crowd and they deserve a "thank you.” We insist that too often we do not declare our appreciation when things go along alright, but It takes cire and attention and the officials, who are human, should be told that they are doing well. The budget for next year’s expenses in operating New York City total $490.009.000. No wonder that city is reputed to be the best policed, have the best fire department and other agencies for the benefit of the public. They are paying for it. And no wonder it takes a billion a year to run the government if it takes nearly half as much to operate one city. President Coolidge took his father John C. Coolidgo of Plymouth. Vt„ to the station after a two week’s visit, gave hf a hand a shake and said "Good-bye," to which the father said, "bye.’ They certainly don't waste words. .Vs the old man departed a secret service man standing near remarked, "They are just alike, only the old gentleman is more so.” The fair < losed la-t evening and many thousand people enjoyed the event. Unfortunately and because of an unusually Into season, the farmers were so busy that most of them could, not attend. The financial part of the transaction was perhaps not entirely Butistaetory, but the managers went through with the entire program and gave every thing advertised, paid their premiums and deserve the credit due th-—, for tolnr game. It seems to <»> the general opinion of patrons I •nd management », wcU t hat th- fair ' hould be held later la the season and i I bi will very likely be done next vesr. t why not haveahar-'c , ** kind of a C eie.| bratlnn to which the farmer, of this'B t rrll >ry stay com. without n % h, cU '< their work’ . The New York World doesn’t take kindly to Ford’s decision to dkjvhargJ every employee who., breath smell/ of liquor and discussing it in a er.*' castle vetn. editorially, nays; Henry Ford has started a wavf of inform bigger than anything he dreamed or. Already R. Q. Merrick, division prohibition chief, has been caught in the. h.ickw.i-h. He's carried aUay with' • i

Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face ' . With John N. Willys Noted Automobile Manufacturer (By Joo Mitchel] Chapple) Is it subconsciousness—or is it Instinct? Ask n-arly any boy'the name and make of an automobile whizzing by and he can tell you right off the bat. Bac k of it is the dream of some day owning one. Since the pioneer days of automobiles. 1902, "Wiliys” has been a conspicuous name on the live list, when a man struggling on the stieets of Terre Huute, Indiana, with a small, one lunged gasoline propelled vehicle, boasted that he had three-horse-power and could go five hundred feet without stopping. Passersby gasped at the sight and shook their heads. "Poor nut —poor nut—screws are loose,” As a boy John N. Wiliys was the proud possessor of a bicycle repair ing shop. Early and late he was fix-1 lug the punctures and straightening oil flu- handlebars for his comrades. The start was made in Canandaigua. Nt w York, the city of his birth where he was torn in 1873. From a bicycle J < xpert he naturally evolved into selling automobiles. In 1905 John N. Willys decided to make cars himself. He liked the name "Overland.” a fitting name for a vehicle that supplanted the prairie schooner of pioneer days. Then he moved west to the automobile centers to look after the making of the four hundred Overland cars that he had sold. Taking a train east or west at a junction point decided the career of this dynamic young man. who decided then and there to become an aatomobite maker He decided tp ■purchase the Toledo factory while shaving and went without his breakfast to complete the deal. In a short time he had an army of fifteen thousand men at work building five or six hundred cars a day. The same name that was on the bicycle shop was transferred to the motor cars that are now sold the world over—the magic name of "Willys.” . i A quiet man. with premature gray hair, gray eyes, soft spoken, but dynamic. John N. Willys is enthusiasm personified. A great lover of paint-, ings and art he enjoys leisure hours in the atmosphere of the old mast--ers, yet keeping in touch with the

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 this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fame.

the Ford idea. It only the government furnished him clerical help enough he would circularize all large employers in his district, urging them! to discharge any and every man whose breath ot liquor. It j ■ would go a long way, he declared, to-J > ward making this nation dry. This . nation must be saved at any cost, so 1 the sooner the task is begun the soon- , er it will be over. Some employers.' ■ from policy or principle, may hesitate - or decline to have the breath of their • employees smelled every morning ■ when they come to work. Hut a worthy cause is bound to win in the end. If there remains any consider1 able number of employers so deaf to ■ the call of righteousness, so dead to ' their duty, as not to heed the Merij rick summons, then congress cannot I fall in the emergency. Let there b» I a law, backed by a constitutional I amendment if need Im*, making it a capital offense not to install a smell-ing-statlon at the gate of every factory, mill and mine in the land. If it comes to the worst, federal agents can be placed on guard to see that no guilty man escapes. Salvation comes high, but we may still hope to attain It on the Ford smelling plan if only the government* will take hold of It In earnest. — - o—— —— ♦ «*« + + + + + * + +*+! ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ Prom the Daily Democrat files ♦ 20 years ago this day ♦ 1 **♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦ ■>'hn \v. Peterson, 85, rjt county died noon to . I r 1 .1 ni " Tw Huh gfo,. u . ..•*> A,,. ™,v,... y ' L A - Higdon ot New > . 3Ke m rooms at. rear of & t Lower offices. 41

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1921.

, s w JOHN N. WILLYS says "The more I am associated with automobiles, the more I see they are something like people.” new masters of trade. There was a poetic glint in John i Willys’ eyes when, in his New York office, he gave me this analogy of the mechanism of an automobile to the anatomy of a. human body,* without fear of mixing his metaphors: "The more 1 am associated with. - automobiles, the more I s'ee that they | are something like people. They are the most human machine built. The ! carburetor is the heart; the engine.| the lungs; the lights, the eyes; the horn, the voice; the tail light is the ear listening for the bumps behind; the condition of the tody is always important for comfort; the springs are the muscles; the tires are the rubber heels: the wheels are the legs; and no automobile could amount to much without a good clutch; it is as important to have brakes to stop as it is a spark plug to start; it needs lubricant for good digestion; it needs ice water to keep cool; it enjoys a tan in hot weather; it works better 'ate at night with the full moon shining and nothing in sight; there are li ft-hand drives and right-hand drives but the drive that remains most popular is the one-hand drive. The service of an automobile often depends upon the care it receives. Men who i would be very careful to feed and water th-ir horses: every morning are negligent of their automobiles. Motor cars apreciate cleanliness and care, ( and require it just the same as the human body.” Just then the voice of the car outside summoned us.

Dave Vol* sell* saloon hereVnd will open one at Bluffton. John Itupright sold 236 pounds of | honey to Decatur customers today. Ten pound girl is born to Mr. and ■ Mrs. Charles Omlor. i E. B. Adams returns from Atwood i lake. Fred Fnichte opens law office in j IFcatur. City council appoints T. C. Corbett i and E. X. Ehinge'r as members of library board. A tax of one mill 1.4 vot- , led to support it. o !Big Features Os ( RADIO S Programs Today ( SATURDAY RADIO FEATURES (Copyright 1924 by United Press | WJZ. New Volk, (455 M) and ( i Schenectady, CISO Ml 7:15 p. m. (E. jS. H 4 Johann Strauss program, (Golden band. ‘I KSI), St. Louts (546 Ml 9p. m. (C. t S. T.l Missouri theatre orchestra. i WMC, Memphis, (500 Ml 8:30 p. m. , (C. 8. T. I St. John's male quartette. ( WDAF, Kansas City, (411 M) 11:45 ip. m. (C. S. T.i Night Hawk Frolic. I WEAK New York. (492 Ml 9p. m. |(E. S. T.l -Vincent Lopez and his orchestra. I ILTIL" 11 ' • •'GOOD ENOUGH" Beware of a thing that is "good enough,” It never Is goed enough; The workmanship you will find is poor The material, —second grade stuff.

'lt will last a while, but just when you I I need It most it is sure to fail. And the neighbors or newspapers i one or both, — 1 If a gift, 'good enough" insults the l one Who revelces it. because the giver Has figured thhe getter down in a i class With the gift,—ring or liver. "Good enough” means the workman doesn't take time To do things right, first to last; And “failure" his future correctly forecasts. As ‘careless’’ portrays his past. In my wastepaper basket right now is an “add,” — Some firm wanted me to invest,— The "add writer” used the phrase “good enough.”— So. I didn’t read the rest. I’m afraid of a thing that is called "good enough” It is NOT.—not by a blank sight! I tell you a thing is not good enough. Until it is right.—hear me, RIGHT —A. D. Burkett. ——o National League Team W. L. Pct. I New York - 58 31 .652 Chicago —• 52 38 .578 Pittsburgh 47 41 .534 Brooklyn 48 42 .533 Cincinnati 46 47 .495 ! St. Louis 38 53 .418 1 Philadelphia 35 53 .39S' Boston • 34 57 .371 • * American League Team W. L. Pct. Detroit 53 39 .576' New York 53 40 .579 Washington 53 40 .570 St. Louis 45 45 .500 Chicago 44 47 .481 Boston •. 41 50 .451 Cleveland 41 51 .446 Philadelphia 37 57 .394 J American Association Team W. L. Pct.) St. Paul ~... 56 41 .577 Louisville 53 40 .5701 Indianapolis 50 41 .549] Kansas City 45 49 .479' Columbus 44 49 .473 Toledo 44 50 .468 Minneapolis 43 54 .443 Milwaukee 41 52 .442 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American Association Milwaukee, 2; Kansas City, 5. Minneapolis, 5; St. Paul, 8, Others not scheduled. American Leagqg No games scheduled. National League Pittsburgh, 2; Boston, 1. Chicago. 4; Philadelphia, 10. St. Louis, 13; New York, 5. . Cincinnati-Brooklyn, rain. ♦ '• + + + + ■>■++ + + + + * + + * WATCHING THE SCORE BOARD + ♦ + ♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 4 t Yesterday's hero—Mike Gonzales, the St. Louis Cards’ backstop, who, in i catching Hack Wilson ■ napping on first, stopped a dangerous Giant rally in the fifth. It was the homecoming game of the Giants after a western > pip but the Cards ruined the occaston with the long end of a 13-to-5. Jeff Pfeffer, former hurler for St. Ixmis and Brooklyn,'pitched his first game for the Pittsburgh Pirates and defeated the Boston Braves, 2 to 1. /■ The Phillies got the best of a slugfest with the Cubs and won 10 to 4. — Word “Finish” Not In Carpentier’s Vocabulary (United Press Service) New York, July 26—Not knowing 'be word "finish.” George Carpentier bearing numerous scars from his fight Thursday night with Gen« Tunney, will stay in America with the expectation of meeting the Ameri can champion again. Janies J, Johnston, promoter of the last fight, has announced that negotiations are already under way for a return tout, to be held here late in August. DIXON TO PHY HERE TOMORROW North Manchester Team Disbands And Cancels Game With G. E. The Dixion, Ohio, baseball team

team will meet the General Electric team on the local diamond Sunday afternoon. The North Manchester team had been scheduled for Sun day"s game, but that team has disbanded this week, making necessary for the local manager to schedule another team. The Dixon manager has secured the services outside players for Sun lay's game, Including a battery from Lima. Ohio. The visitors will be a.

It Pays To Be Careful One angle of Retting better telephone service can be obtained by telephone users giving the COR. RECT NUMBER. Ary number of well meaning peoIple have the habit of just giving the number in the book a casual glance, thinking they have it impressed in their minds enough to put it over correctly. In the meantime, however. some little insignificant thing gets a part of your attention and asI a result one of the figures in your number is twisted in the giving and the wrong number is called. • Another very bad practice is asking for such and such a phone, givling the name and never even at- , tempting to look up the number and transmitting it in the approved fashion best designed to give SERVICE. This takes time if the operator attempts to look it up or if she turns it over to the chief operator, it takes time and also keeps the phone used from getting any other call thru that may be calling them. All such things go to make the phone call service slower and one of the things responsible for not getting the Nth degree in QUICK SERVICE in telephone calls. WE THANK YOU Citizens Telephone Company — — V r — ; Are You Protecting YOUR Family? “v T , re T l T in?2r ad YOU may have thought, it i had Life Insurance it would not keep*ME iom ymg. I rue, but how about those loved ones at home who are depending on YOU for support? Are they not as dear as life itself? T-f VATT vnn ‘ . Wt ‘ re J?oing on a long journey wouldn’t wan ts were provided for until your thnr * hat thenif death should take you from / ' X P U e . ave thc m sufficient means so that enn ? ? i n °* Sl '^ er ; There is no way by whiqh you thiwio-h U1 T^ a V ( safel ‘ v Provide for their welfare as through a Life Insurance Policy. no iitliniiiistrilor 1 no* ’ " , ’ c > *■* will that no Lawyer can break. It needs •iMht to Cr Iwn < eS'T’ n ° court Hm cheek is brought *“'ve a Policy With I \v i n on? <’* of cost trouble. If you rest assured th,,( (].,, . ' s < 1 11 l‘< serve Lite Insurance Company you can family will have the check b.l’th h ’ y * hUt l;,i<l !IW:, - V wi,r . "! ‘huk loi the amount ol insurance that YOU carriedi* Yoi r Lov'<i <’;!!,. 11 isn ’* Y(,r is d,i,i " p; ' ° n, s ’ them while YOU can do it 11 1,1 kl ‘i<ls ol stniMlard policies. Take the kind that suits you. Y ours For Protection P . . A k r cnt—Decatun Indiana copies Loan & Trust Bldg. w Phone lob -

, . D umber of root The G. E. team w»l Xin H “ eup: H “ rVey Wl '° I,nS Played shortstop for Muncie Normal ' school, win wl,h the ,ocal9: . |,|er, Blackburn or Appleman will . d 0 the hurling for the locals. Probable lineup of the Decatur team is: I coffee. If.; Kngte, cf.; >ord, c., Bus- . (onbarger. 2b.; Cochran, lb.; Harvey, , s - l-Yauhiger. 3b.; Peterson or Sch ,„,.i',ier, rs.; Blackburn, l>.; Appleman

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