Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Free, and Gen. Mgr B. W. Kampe—Vlce-Pres. * Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouse—Sac'y. and Hua. Mgr Entered at the Poatofflce at Decatui Indiana aa second class matter. * Subscription Rates Single copies cents One Week, by carrier cents One Year, by carrier - $5.00 One Month, by mall cents Three Months, by mall , , |i on Six Months, by mall $1.75 One Year, by mail . One Year, at office —13.00 (Prices quoted are within Grat and second sones. Additional postage added outside those aonaa.) Advertising Rated Made Knows on Applleatlon. Foreign Representative Carpenter A Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., Nov York City, N. Y. Life Bldg., Kan tea City, Mo. A swimming pool, a county rest room, the new switch and a SIO,OOO stock yards. These are four things worth shooting at and securing for the community during the next fewweeks. That will be real progress and will meet the approval of the publie. Doctors and experts declare there is no whiskey marketed now that is fit to drink. Even that which comes from the ships anchored beyond the twelve-mile limit is so new and green that it will eat the lining of your “innerds" out as quickly as lye. The next generation will not pay the prict in money or in health. The republican press is making much ado over the fact that wheat, corn, hogs and other commodities from the farm are showing higher prices. The only trouble with it is that they haven’t any thing to do with it and the gamblers may see an opportunity to make more money selling than in buying before election day ami then—the boomerang. In the meantime those who have stuff to sell can ’profit if they ar?“ grind enough guessers to sell at the right time and that’s when your goods show a profit. Two men are in jail at Evansville charged with driving an automobile while intoxicated. One of them, it is said, ran down a little child. The charge should be changed to murder or assault with intend. The worst enemy to society these days is e drunken man at the wheel of an auto mobile and the Innocent bystander it, usually the victim, it is said that America lost 48,000 men on the battle fields of France during eighteen months of the war. That was'awful But during the last eighteen months in this country, approximately, 100, 000 people have been slain by automobiles. These are figures to be coin pared and here is something to thinl about. One of the serious things in this country is that a large percentage o those eligible to vote do not do so. We all complain about government and laws and this and that, but we insist that those who do not exercise their right of franchise, have no right to kick and grumble. This is an important year when certainly everyone should be Interested and should vote one way or another. A study of the conditions of government in this state and in the nation should arouse you to a point where you will want to vote and work for some political Party and the candidates. In this <aunty records show that about onesixth <»t those eligible, have not been voting and that is a better showing than most counties. We believe the 4 v ot« this yoar wlu ever cast at a general election— Hart ford City N<*ws. Most people cheerfully pay thf , gasoline tax of two cents a gallon Like all indirect taxes, the payer doe not know it But the average automo bile owner does not enjoy having h! money thrown away. He paid it tc get better roads and is entitled tc

! Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face T. ’ ' With r. Frank G. Carpenter ir Famed World Traveler (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) 0 In the mystic light of a morning li 8 the Orient, Frank G. Carpenter, th< 0 famed world traveler, passed away al 5 Nanking, China He had his often ex 0 pressed wish fulfilled. He died at hit [) post at work and in a’ fur-off land j where the perspective of the home . land might seem like heaven. Twenty-nine times he crossed the ocean and became the most adventuresome and celebrated of all travel writers. On the threshold of three-s-oreiind len he laid aside his busy pen after visiting and writing about almost every nation on earth. Thousands of descriptive travel stories for , millions and millions of readers is his modest record—more than any writer existing. In the Sunday papers his letters had the style of one of the family writing to the folks at home, giving them information that they could readily understand. A library of books, a veritable working shop equipment was a part of his luggage, and he was never at loss to dig out Information on any land or clime. On his last journey lie was revising his life letters for a set of travel books that have been published from time to time and have become standaril travel literature. In the schools all over the country the American boy or girl has come to know Frank G. Carpenter and his books as well as their teachers. A tiny, slender man. with sandy hair and mustache, a soft, well-modu-lated voice and kindly smile. Frank G. Carpenter had a distinctive charm of personality. A heroic struggle for life with a frail physique was made since his early boyhood. With all this handicap he became the greatest universal reporter of his time. In MansfieM, Ohio, a well-to-do banker Announced to his force on May Bth. 1853. that there was a new-red-headed baby boy at his home. This bundle of humanity proved a regular boy and insisted on going traveling even in the days of kilts, until his mother tied him to the clothes line to hold him captive. Newspaper work as a legislative correspondent for the Cleveland Leader gave Flank Carpenter a chance to write and observe humans. Falling

I Editor's Note; Send ten names of your favorite famous folk now living to Joe Mitchell Chapple, The Attic, Waldorf Astpria Hotel, New York City. The ; readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fame.

them. The car owners of Indiana are i contributing almost $5,000,000 a year 1 - 11 in gasoline taxes and as much more in license fees to the cause of good roads. Thi-j is more money than it took to run the entire state a few years ago. So fast has the money been offered the highway commission that it has not been able to use it to good purposes, and thousands have' been wasted. The commission this! year has double the income it had two years ago, but we shall not have double the paving nor double the m-intenance. Inasmuch as the road mileage has increased only 20 per cent., the maintenance should be increased proportionately and the bulk of the money should go to new paving and new bridges, so that the amount for that purpose could be lyore than double the 1922 program. The truth is that the income of the i- highway commission could be,cut $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 and the same results be had with ordinary management.—New Castle Times. The small town wins again, in politics over the city. Clarksburg, W. Va„ had somewhat less than ten thousand inhabitants in 1910 and when it s now famous son, John W. Davis, was born, it was nearer five thousand than the ten thousand rank in census classification. Clarsburg was Mr. Davis' home until 1910, and, after settling in New York City as a lawyer, he still maintained his legal residence in the old home town. It uannot be compared with Plymouth, VL, in rural atmosphere and sparseness of population, for West Virginia, unlike Vermont, is I a commonwealth that has been cartried along for the past generation on I' 1 high tide of industrial develop- ’ yet there is nothing of the me ~ rr’ Polis i n Clarksburg. American IP tdents and presidential nominees I wl th rare exceptions, been rear-

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* fl 11 -9L I ■ la 1 FRANK G. CARPENTER says: ‘ "I have sold eight million words to the newspapers. Only a newspaper ■ man or a writer can comprehend 1 what this means.”

1 ill from a breakdown, he went t ” Europe, then on to Egypt for his 1 health; then and there began his famous travel letters. More than a correspondent—he was a historian for • the people. In his library at the Cosmos Club just before leaving on his list voyage he chatted happily: > “Well I have sold eight million words to the Newspapers. Only a' newspaper man or a writer like you , can comprehend what this means." I Week after week, year after year, i Frank Carpenter continued writing . and traveling and he knew how to i travel. When he left Washington on the last trip he had imposing credentials. with seals as big as saucers, more than any potentate would have. He laughingly showed me that to wear the medals and decorations he had received would cover every inch ' of his coat, fore and aft. The first interview ever granted by 1 Premier Li Hung Chang of China was given to this little daring Amer I lean scribe. He had lunched with kings, queens and emperors, and yet 1 Io the last of his life he remained the simple, quiet, unaffected, modest - Frank Carpenter, who loved to visit with friends amid the treasure tro- < phies and rare books in his library, , or over the back fence of his two-r.undred-hcre peach orchard on the , top of the Blue Ridge Mountains, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. This was his favorite spot in summertime and was called Johannesburg in honor of his wife Jowtiu, who was his ' pal and companion- until* she took her Journey to the Beyond.

ed on the farms or in the Small towns of the country, and this year circum- ; stances have conspired to emphasize this tendency. LaFollette's native place was Primrose, Wte„ and, while it is a beautiful name, it is hard to locate on the map, Ihe republican pointed out in April that one of Governor Smith’s handicaps in winning j the democratic presidential nomina- | tion was hi 8 birth, up-bringing and i life-long residence in New York City. It may be unjust; it may be a gross form of discrimination, but the boy born and reared in a large city still has no more than one chance in ten, compared with the small town or country boy. of becoming president of the United State— Springfield Republican. - O ■■ ♦+♦++++♦+++++♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY * ♦ 4 ♦ From the Daily Democrat fllea ♦ + 20 years ago this day + *****♦* + <»***«* Dr. J. S. Coverdale and son, Clark, are fishing at Rome City. Real turtle soup at Koenemann's Saturday afternoon and evening. Committee return from Toledo with * assurances that division and shops V of Clover Leaf will come here if «übi, sidy is voted. ( , Citizens Telephone company add- , ing third line from Fort Wayne to 1 Geneva. Girl baby born to Mr. and Mrs. C. u N. Christen. 1 Fare to Rome City is SI.OO for the round trip. Eggs advance to 17 cents per dozen. Bolling meat is now 3 cents a - pound. , Fred Sellemeyer and Mrs. Fred ( Heuer visiting at Magley. Alva Gilson of Louisville. Ky., it visiting friends here. 1 Decatur Tennis Club challenges Bhiffton to a match. o . i— Seymour—When Edward Phillips waded through a cat-of-nine-tails patch barefooted a severe case of blood poisoning set in.

i THE CONVENTIONS ( The conventions, now, are over And the candidates are named , Some, who thought to win the honors, Toward ollvlon are aimed, j Others, whom we’d scarsely heard of j Now ure in the driver’s seat , And their friends assure the nation , That they simply can’t be beat. I i We are told, by sons, that Davis , Is the only man can save us; . Others, say Mister La Follette, Is the one to fil our wallet; t And still others point to Coolidge s ' As the man we need for ruleage. t I 8 Well. —they can't all ba elected, , That's a cinch. But anyway • Whoever wins we'll all be loyul i And rejoice or else endures | Not like bleeding Mexico, — I Here we “take our medicine;” I Knowing that, in four more years | We’ve a chance to try again. —A.-D. Burkett. * (Big Features Os ! RADIO | Programs Today J TUESDAY’S RADIO )■ (Copyright 1924 by United Press) I WJZ, New York, (455 Ml and WGY I Schenectady. (380 M) 7:30 p. m. F. | S. T. —Concert by New York Phil- g harmonic orchestra. | WCX. Detroit, (517 M) 10 p. m. E. g S. T. —The Red Apple Club. KDKA, Pittsburgh (326 M) 8 p. m. I E. S. T. —KDKA String Quartet. | KGO, Oakland (312 M)—PC. S. T. | —Varied concert program. | WOAW, Omaha. (526 Ml 9p. m. | C. S. T. —First Christian Church or- a chestra. o I “Keep. Out Signs Greet City Motorists Everywhere J Indianapolis, Ind., July 29 —No * trespassing! ‘ Keep out! I These and similar signs greet city I motorists on every hand when invad- I ing the country seeking to spend a I few hours in a woods far from the I city’s paved, hot streets. I And it is a situation that could I have been avoided, if some in the past had nm. abused the privilege many farmers extended campers. But what a penalty a few thoughtless have imposed upon the great mass of law-abiding people, for it will-take a long time to convince lambowners that all who seek the pleasure of the countryside are not destructionists. Discussing the subject with many landowners, Charles G. Deam, state forester for the conservation depart- I ment. finds that not only have farmers been put to considerable cost to clean up after campers and picnlcers, but frequently serious damage wrought was never paid for by the offenders. Some people have little scruples in taking possession of a cool, inviting woods without the courtesy of first gaining permission from the owner. They spread their lunches and enjoy it in the open woods, but defile the grounds by leaving remnants of food. 1 melon rinds, papers, tin cans, etc. ’ Often /they start fired under trees ' that kill Ijie lower blanches, “regis- • ter" by carving their names and initials in the bark, and occasionally 1 . leave camp fires to spread and cause serious property loss. 5 Deam says, most farmers do not object to the right kind of picnicers l in their woods, but rightfull? resent i visits of depredators. This state con- '• servation official urges that campers refrain from cuting fences, be careful; 1 of fires, return all waste papers, re-! D mains of edibles, cans, etc. to their own gaibage cans, and remove the '• cans oft the property. In other words leave the property in as good shape if not better than when vou entered it. Remember too, says Deam. that a this woods is someone's private property the same as your home and d grounds in the city. The least one 1 can possibly do is to ask permission B to enter, .jurtesy goes a long way, and then too, if damage accidentally K is done, have enough principle to pay for it. Don't evade your responsibilities. The right kind of people can 3 make the woods open for all, while Irs responsible ones may easily bar na, f ture's playgrounds to all but the owners.

ALL OVER INDIANA New London - New London given a thrill When Lieut CU^ rd lermun arrived hero in an •• from Kansas to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ellerinan. Alexandra -I’olice here have d cleared was on hoy vandals, w io been wracking gardens. South Bend—“l have to keep m books balanced,” said Rollo Duiai deputy city clerk, when he <I |U and caught Nick Natalie who ran ou. of city court without paying 11 Bluffton—C .C. Randall Is back in jail for keeps now. Merchants complained he loafed around town too much when he was a trusty serving sentence on a forgery change. Flora— Ralph Tollen had troub.e with a light on his flivver ami used a lantern. Now he is collecting automobile fire insurance. Frankfort Clinton county claims the oldest threshing ring in the state, organized twenty years ago. " W. Rose is president, Albert (’ripe, secretary, and George Koons, tresui er. « ■THEHAMS ■ THEATRE ■ I ■ ■ WE MADE A B ■ TERRIBLE MISTAKE B a We only booked B Fred Thomson and Silver Kint>. his horse, f I in I I “NORTH OF■: ■ NEVADA" | ■ for ■ ■ TODAY ONLY j j! Thomson is l oin Mix’s S B closest rival on the screen * = today. The story, well, it s I ■ a real red-blooded West- * ■ eril full of pep. not a slow B | minute in it. . B Try and see this picture | volt'll like it. ‘ -Also- I “Telephone Girl” | Series No. 3 | ■ Each series a complete | I picture. Not a serial. j and I Pathe News ® 5c and 15c ■ ■ TOMORROW I “MARK OF THE BEAST” | Friday and Saturday ■ | “West of Waler Tower” ■

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