Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT PubljakH Kvery Evening RxmH Bunday by THB DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pre*, and Gea. Mgr, E. W. Kampe— Vlce-Pret * Adv. Mgr. A. B. Holthocae— Bec'y. and Boa. Mgr. Entered at the Poetofflce at Decatur ladlana aa aecond claaa matter. Subscription Bated Single copies — cents One Week, by carrier .. — Id cepta Ono Tear, by carrier — 11.00 One Month, by mall —centa Three Months, by mall ..... >I.OO Six Months, by mall — .—>1.75 Ona Tsar, by mall >3.00 One Tear, at-office ——>3.oo (Prices quoted are within first and second senes. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Baled Mate Kasim on AnUoattca. Foreign Bepresentatlrd Carpenter A Company, 123 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City, N. T. Life Bldg. Kansas City. Mo.! The Ad uns County Witness tile very unusual position that because the court house is located in Decatur and not in Berne, the commissioners' should not be encouraged to make any • repairs or improvements. Splendid co-operation and progressiveness.

Some one has suggested that the re-j publican national committee select as their slogan for this year’s campaign. “I ,--t Corrupt Enough Alone.” That's not so bad, but the committee is having a difficult time to decide between that and another offered—“ The Full Oil Can.” "Put honest men in office and then see that they stay honest,” was the' warning given by John W. Davis in his speech. It is a well known fact : that too many officials in Washing-. 1 ton and Indianapolis have betrayed the trusts imposed upon them the past ( few years. Surely the people will not agree that they be permitted to repeat. It is time for the voters to take hold of things and vote for their own best and dearest interests. I The city budget for Decatur for next year is three thousand dollars I, less than this year’s, but because of the reduction in valuations, the rate ' will be two cents higher. The officials are making many improvements and*

have at a considerable sum this, year on new lights and at the city plant. Next year they hope to keep' en improving and to take care of the pan ment of a street or two. It is' good management as you will find if you investigate. Many complaints are heard just

now because of so many people oper-J < ating ears with the mufflers open. It i is most annoying and is particularly | 1 noticeable near Five Points where, < the cars which stop at the signals there make a lot of unnecessary noise. Mr. Carroll appeared before the council meeting at the recent session thanked that body for the new reguli-| Hons. expressing the opinion thirty many accidents have been thus avoided but asked for a stricter enforcement of the law concerning mufflers. ■ A few arrests would check this within a day or two. For a few hundred dollars, properly < expended, the old cemetery on Win- 1 Chester street can be converted into <

an attractive park with beautiful drives and walks, benches, drinking fountains and changed from a spot which causes nncomjylimenfary comment to one which would make every visitor who passes that way, a booster tor us. it need not take away a single bit of sentiment for the park l can be kept sacred in memory of those PioiMcrs 'whose remain# rest there, by' making it a Memorial Park, not a play l ground or a camping place. U ought l to be done and it can it some organization will take charge of the work

■ ■ ... . I ■, The city of Knoxville has a happy’ s surprise to offer the people of Tenses-’ t see and other American cities gener- 1 , j’ly by a splendid showing of the work ’ ing of its city manager government l which proposes to offer a. comfortable rebate of $280,000 or 10 per cent, of I

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Face to Face d With Senator B. K. Wheeler r Vice-Presidential Nominee on Third Party Ticket ' (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) I Many felt that they were called. Ji but only one could be chosen the I Vite-presidential nominnee, when ) Robert M. La Follette made a choice I for the Third Party ticket. Senator | Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana . was ready, having bolted the Democratic ticket. From the rough and radical training of Montana. Senator Wheeler is fully prepared for a turbulent campaign. In the village of Hudson. • Massachusetts. in a farm house among

the bell-topped elms, Burton Wheeler was born with a good deal of the t old fighting New England spirit in | him. The youngest of a family of i eight children, and his father the (Village shoemaker, young Burton learned to “peg hard” early in life. As a youth he recited orations in I school, but his purpose was to sej cure a business education. Travel|ing back and forth from BijAton while attending a business training | school, he acquired the habit of talk-

i ■ i ,ing politics. , Obtaining a Job as stenographer > 'in Boston, he soon revolted against |jotting down the hooks and shaded I lines at the dictation of others. His ambition was to be a lawyer and do ' a little dictating himself. Reading and dreaming the legal vernacular, he felt that some day he would be a lawmaker. Encouraged by his older brothers, be heard the call of Horace Greely. "Go west, young man," and with his meagre savings went to Ann Arbor. ' Michigan, and attended the Univers- 1 ity Law School. Waiting on table, ' mowing lawns and tending furnaces outside of lecture hours enabled him to earn as he learned. The day of his graduation he started for San Francisco, but on arriving at Butte, ' Montana, thought he would stop off 1 there and earn some more money, i This was in the days when a “tenffi 1 erfoot" with a broad New England i accent was nbt always most wel- 1 I come, but the young attorney hung out his shingle and began taking I 'damage suits for the miners, throw- 1 ing down the gauntlet to corpora- < tions. Assisting in the election of 1 Thomas J. Walsh as Senator, he was < , later appointed Federal District At- i

Editor’s Note: Send ten names of your favorite famous folk now living to Joe ' Mitchel! Chapple, The Attic, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York'City. The readers of this naper are to ncminate for this Hall of Fame.

| 1924 taxes paid and unpaid. This is ■ probably the first time any city in the 1 United States has returned dividends to its taxpayers— i.e.. really its stockholders. In addition the tax levy will j be reduced from $2.11 to $2.19 1-2, in-'

eluding a tax for payment of interest on $3,850,000. Thig record spells efficiency, business ability and loyal daily application of business principles to city government, Senator Watson in a speech at James Lake yesterday took cogniz- [ anee of the well known fact that thou- * sands of republicans will not vote for 1 Jackson, Sherwood, Van Arman and I others on the state ticket and insisted that they should close their eyes! and do it whether they wanted to or not or whether or not this was for the best interests of the state and her citizens. Jackson is supported by the klan, Sherwood is being attacked because of charges that as head of

I Franklin College he issued diplomas ; not earned and Van Arman is a well J known wet leader, who is disapproved by many dry republicans. Watson declared he was for Jackson as much as for any other candidate on the ticket. It was a meeting of apologies 1 and a disappointment to many who at--1 tended and were surprised to find the notes of discord in the ranks. I J The rest room and comfort station at the court house should be added if it can be done without imposing any

burden on the tax’ payers and we are sure that is the position the county council and the county commissioners will take next week. Every court , * louse in the middle west -provides , Buch comfort for the people of the entire county and the request here is not an unusual one. The improve1

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'■ -«• V ■ i SENATOR WHEELER says: “The logical political division is Progressive and Reactionary. These are Radical times.” torney in Montana. Accused of being to friendly and tolerant toward aiding the enemy aliens during the war. , . ,

when the boys overseas were depending on supplies. President Wil-. son refused to reappointment him. Young Wheeler came out as a candidate for Governor of Montana ' against the regulars of his own party but with the endorsement of the Nonpartisan League. While defeat ed the Democratic nomination for Senator in 1922, and was elected by a handsome majority. Arriving in Washington, he immediately aligned himself as one of . . I

I the La Follette group, and became 'a conspicuous figure in the “Teapot Dome” investigation, then coming in- ■ to national limelight. Upon a visit to Hudson, TJassachusefs, his old home, he was give an enthusiastic ovation by the old friends. It was little thought by his | boyhood friends that the barefoot lad who pegged shoes would get a sena- ' torial “out" or “in" card. “My father would often discuss politics and philosophy and recite I poems while he hammered away, and I was always listening hard He insisted in those days that the logical political division was Radical and i Conservative or Progressive and j Reactionary." i Senator Wheeler has been vigor i ously attacked for receiving legal < fees while a Senator —but the Senate | after inquiry, adopted almost with- 1 out dissent a committee report find- 1 ing him innocent of any violation of the law, either in letter or in spirit. He promptly bo..«i the nomination of John W. Davis and Governor Bryan at Madison Square Garden and continued his political fortunes with La Follette, whom he considers the only Presidential nominnee Uiat is a real radical.

ment would be for the people of the j county who visit here frequently and j whom we are sure would appreciate it. The cost would be slight but the i convenience would be great, the peo- ' pie want it and would have it if pos-

| siblb. This year the budget is likely ,to be larger than usual because of i necessary buildings to replace those destroyed by "fire at the county farm, but we know the council and officials ' will do the best they can. That’s all any one can or will ask. f PSLAMS RESUNG 3’ The First 1 Blessed the man who walketh not Where godless councils guide; Nor standeth in the sinner’s way 1 Nor sitteth by his side: 1 3 But whose delight is in the Lord s And in His rightenous law; Who meditates therein by day And night—nor finds a flaw. That man is like a fruitful tree Planted beside the stream,— i In season it abundance bears, i Its loaf is always green. r Ungodly men are like the chaff ’ Driven by winds away; . ' They shall not with the rightenous i stand. — or in the judgement day. —A. D. Burkett. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Yocum, made ' ( a business trip to Paulding, Ohio, ' Tuesday. 1

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ * From the Dally Democrat fllee ♦ ♦ 20 years ago thia day ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I August 28. 1904 was Sunday. ——- —- ■ o - " Fanners Urged To Save Old Corn For Seeding The spring of 1921 was unusually ' backward in many sections. Following tills, the growing conditions were not good, with the result that the bulk of the corn is extremely late throughout the Corn Belt and northward. It Is so late that most of the crop will lie unfit for seed unless frost holds off longer than usual. <l'he United States Department of Agriculture is calling retention to this fact at the present time in order to prevent, if possible a serious seed.corn situation in the spring of 1925. i The higher prices for corn in the lad few weeks are drawing much of the 'old crop from the farms. Farmers not having enough seed corn for 1925 left over from last’s year's

supply should save the best of their bulk crib corn from which to obtain {seed, if necessary. If tills year's crop is killed by frost before it is ! matured, this old corn will provide a 'source from which seed can be selected for planting in 1925. _ * Woodland Adds To Value Os A Farm Indianapolis, Aug. 28. —(Special to Daily Democrat)—A farm is worth more money if it has a woods. Real estate men with wide experien< e in selling farmlands say that a woods ad<ls ten to fifteen per cent to the value of any farm. In order words if there is a woods of ten acres on a farm of 120 acres, it wi 1 add $1,500 to that farm if the land is worth $l5O per acre. Most prospective buyers insist there be a woods on the farm, and it .is difficult these days to sell a farm without a woods, unless the buyer happens to be from a prairie state and is ignorant of the advantages of such. Each year farmers appreciate more the value of woods, says Charles C. Dcam, state forester, whose division of the state conservation department. A woods means cheap fuel that never fails and that is worth many dollars annually to the possesor. con-

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