Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1924 — Page 2

DECATUR I DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlahed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pres, and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kasnpe—Vlce-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse—Sec'y. & Bui. Mgr. Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatur, Indiana, ai second clan matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies > cents One week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 15.00 One month, by mall 35 cent 3 Three Months, by mail * Six months, by mail 31 75 * One Year, by mall $3.00 ' One Year, at office $3.00 :l (Prices quoted are within tint and ‘ second zones. Additional postage ' added outside those zones.) 1 — r Advertising Rates Mede Known on Application G - I Foreign Representatl v e Carpenter & Company, 1 123 Michigan Avenuue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg.. New York City, < N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City Mo. t t - . No trouble to "keep cool with CoolIdge” today and we might add that t if the winter is as cool as the summer t has been in comparison, we will all ! be shivering by the 4th of March. Perhaps it would be well to change ( the slogan to “Keep coal with Cool- > idge.” 1 _________ t An unsigned communication sent to this office suggests that instead of an auto day, the merchants give the same > amount of money to some needy pdfson in the community. The letter has t been turned over to the Advertising 1 Association, always glad to receive f suggestions tor the betterment of the t community and genera! conditions. * John A. M. Adair will speak at Linn , Grove Saturday night of this week. 1 at Berne next Monday evening and 1 at Geneva one week from Wednesday. He will present to the voters of southern Adams coanty his platform and his ideas. As a candidate for congress he is making a vigorous campaign in every county in the district. Be sure to hear him. Auto day drew a large crowd to Decatur and there is no doubt that the people like activities on the part of the merchants. Within two blocks we noticed eleven Ohio cars parked, , showing that many come from quite a ' distance. The largest number of ’ tickets ever issued filled the big drum on Liberty Way. The gift days will be continued. It pays to keep your town well advertised for people naturally prefer trading in the livd places, especially when the greatest values' are given for the money. Harry M. Daugherty has issued a statement including a supposed signed statement and affidavit from Gaston B. Means, that the evidence giv-

en by Means was untrue and a fabrication made up by Wheeler. As soon as he heard of it Means issued a denial that he had ever made such a statement but admits that he .did sign a statement for Daugherty which he did not read. The public will be-i lieve that if Daugherty had any proofs of his innocence he should have pre. sented them before he was ousted and such evidence as is offered now is purely political. It might be better for the G. O. P. not to dig it up just now. Carleton B. McCulloch, democratic ■' candidate for governor, impressed hisi I ’ audience Saturday night with the con-' vineinp. arguments of his speech. He 1 not only tells what is wrong with In- ' diana government but how he pro-;' poses if elected to correct' the wrongs.' 1 When asked by some one in the audi- * ence where he stands on the klanJ' question, he Teplied that “There is' room for but one government in thij< country and that form of government l ! must be based upon the constitution."!' He opposes any secret political organization which might tend to weaken' the government of this greatest country in the world. He is convincing the voters of his ability and honesty. He will carry the state on election 1 date, it is confidently believed. | I

Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face With P. T. BARNUM Great Showman (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) "The Greatest Show on Earth” is tae one line ‘hat no press agent has ever been ab'e to improve upon. Now every year I see at Madison Square Garden ,v e same magic words and that portrait which was emblazoned on our born door —benign with bald head and silvered rim cf hair hanging like a halo. P. T. Bar- | num—the first in my “Hall of Fai e” As a lad I had to c.’trcome the hr:. j on the circus, but wrei I told mother I just wanted to go to see if Mr. I'.'iT- ( m.m looked like his picture, she re- , lented. Arriving at the Cc only Seat in early morning. I watched them raise the great tent and break ground for the rings. A new world was to be ’ unfolded that day. Lit ns from the I , XV 1 I jungles w' I *.* icn. ii j ; there were i*e ?- bears and se , s from the Arctic; the e.i-tli was e.cfrcled at s 1 glance with living ;.nd breathing sr.iteals. Fit st following the parale in. I 1 the tnornin b*-t .nd the sh.*i>k;ng,' ca'iope. we boys cat across lots and walked clo < to I' T Barnum, riding)' ir a victoria behind a white hors J — ( the hero of the hour. The excitement of th* side show i emit- fluttering canvas had now passfl It was one o'clock awl there was ! a rush for the o;g tint from the red and gilt ticket wagon nesting 1 in that ' great crowd. Before the “main entrance” to the big show sat Barnum in all his glory, with a diamond sparkling on nis ehjit front The 1 ptebian camp chair seemed like a 1 throne to us boys looking longingly ' over the ropes. I wedged in through ' .he crowd and declaimed with a Fri- ■ day afternoon bow. “My motherzlaid i con’d just come and see you!" He looked at me wjth a gleam in his eye. and replied in a staccato voice: 1 “What’s that? What's that?” “My mother said I could just come ■iml see Mr. Barnum.” I repeated as i looked wistfully at the crowd pushing in. With one hand on my shoulder, and motioning with the other, he turned his face toward the tent and said, “Run in. run in quick." I held back and pointed to my chums —a signal front him was enough—we dodged under the ropes and on toward the magnet rings in which things were going around —Laving the menagerie for later. Here was the basic reason for the fame of this showman —he was the great friend cf boys and girls. He provided them with the alibi so well known and effectively used at one time or another by all boys, “I want to go and see the animals,” which is certain to bring forth thq price to the circus. When we lads retired from that , wonder of this first circus and had a "look at he animals,” we decided to find Mr. Barnum. for we .wanted to “go with the circus.” When we

Editor’s Note: Send ten names of your favorite famous folk now living to Joe Mitchell Chappie, The Attic, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City. The readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fame.

A crowd estimated at twenty thoui sand people saw' and heard John W. Davis, democratic candidate for president, at Fort Wayne Saturday evening and they were in no ways disappointed. He looks like his pictures, | a clean cut handsome man, with a firm jaw and a wonderful speaking voice. He says things straight out and his explanation of why* he is a democrat and what that party stands for and the history of the oldest political organization in the world were interesting and convincing. He is gaining as the favorite in the campaign and will finish strong on November 4th. He left immediately after his speedh for the east where he will rest a few days and then strike out again through the middle west. It is said he will speak at Muncie on October 7th during his trip through central and southern Indiana. 0 ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ t ♦ ♦ the Dally Democrat files ♦ 1 ♦ 20 years ago this day ♦ i ****«.4.*44-*«**<» | ' I Sept. 22. 1904.—Council takes twenty more ballots, total of 270, without choosing city attorney. i Committee is securing options en land for Closer Leaf division. i Surprise for Miss Grace Reed who

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, SEPTEMRER 22, 1924.

AO' V P, T. BARNUM says: “In newspaper work keep close to big men, big events, big things. The American loves the superlative. They demand the superlative." found him and told our story, he frewned: "Boys, gg back home and earn money for the next circus. You don't know the show business yet. Practice your somersaults in the hay loft at home —you'll get less bumps. Remember, no free tickets next year!" His face was th? classic epigram that "there is one sucker born every minute.” His book, “The Humbugs of the World,” a frank expose of him self, made a tremendous success. Who will ever forget “Jumbo.” from the jungles of Africa, n with the great ears flapping. The "Baby El phant" he produced was the first set n in this country. As Mayor of Bridgeport, he understood how the mass mind worked. Many a politician since his time has read and re-read “The Success and Tr'umphs of P. T. Barnum” as a textbook. If P. T. Barnum had not been the greatest showman on earth, he certainly would have been a conspicu >uc figure in public life. He was a real campaigner who blazed the path for the popular American amusem< nt. not forgetting the three c's in his category—"curiosity,” "credulity” an I “cupidity.” Now comes the sequel. In 1890 1 made a pilgrimage to Bridgeport. Connecticut, to see Phineas Taylor Barnuiu and thank him for his kindness to a barefoot boy. He was then four score, but there was the same kindliness as when he told us “to run in quick.” “Yes, I will live and die a showmen. I first hitched my wagon to a star—‘Tom Thumb' — later Jenny Lind; all the-world loves the big show- one way or another.” ■ So well did he believe in his own estimate to the last that his probated will imposed upon all successors the obligation to preserve the name of Barnum in connection with “Thq Greatest Show On Earth.” This last interview burned itself into my memory. After be had soliloquized. he turned and looked directly at me: "In your newspaper work, my boy, keep close to big men, big events, big things—the American loves the superlative—they demand the superlative.”

i- will leave soon for Spokane, Wash. Virgil, C. wins 2:20 pace at Hicksville, Ohio. Dr. J. B. Ward of Geneva is moving t . to Anderson. The peach crop is short and those 1 d< siring them are advised to buy now. i. DeWolf Hopper in ‘Wang" pleases a big crowd at Masonic Temple, Fort g ; Wayne. ( | John T. Myers is selling machinery for the John Deer plow company. a | Democrats organize First voters s , club. - J o pftOfltfiiir? When The Sumac Bushes Bleed There’s a lonely, rusty rustle in the fields of yellow corn; There’s a sorto’ purple palor On the mists of early worn; There’s a haze on the horizon And at night, you feel the need Os a little bit more cover. When the stmiac bushes bleed. Sweetpotatoes, pink and swollen. Pumpkins dream of iKing pies Orchard’s full of yellow apples (And the screen door full of flies;) Pickaninnies suckin' sorgum. Sparrows on the sunflowers feed.

•In the a sober air of autumn When the sumac bushes bleed. I Katydids get klnto’ drowsy And the crickets can't but crawl. (like their tegs wore weak or lazy Or they were afraid they's fall.) X’ “Green and gold will soon be going.” Sigh the winds unto the weed, — When the air is tinged with autumn And the sumac bushes bleed. —A. I). Burkett. HIGH SCHOOL~FOofBALL Jefferson of Lafayette, 10; Peru. 8. Kokomo, 26; Crawfordsville, 0. Ft. Wayne. South Side. 68; Auburn, 7. Ft. Wayne Central, 20; Columbia City, 15. Muncie. 6; Newcastle. 0. Noblesville, 13; laigansport, 0. Huntington. 0; Warsaw, 0. o BANK STATEMENT ALBERT REPPERT, President JEFF KLOPFENSTEIN, Vice Preel dent. C. R. SMITH, Cashier. JOHN G. HOFFMAN, Ass t Cashier Report of the condition of the Farmers' State Bank, a state bank at Preble, in the State of Indiana, at the c'ose of its business on Sept. 15, 1924: Resources Loans and Discounts $117)370.39 Overdrafts 1.45 V. S. Bonds 1.798.80 Oilier Bonds and Securities 20.412 97 Premiums Paid 139.86 Banking House 4.000.00 Furniture and Fixtures ' 4.275.00 Cash on hand and due from Banks and Trust Co’s 19,284.74 Cash Items 11.69 Total Resources $167,294.90 Liabilities Capital Stock —paid in... $ 25.000.00 Surplus 2.000.00 Undivided Piofits 2,300.30 Demand Deposits 57.610.94 Demand Certificates 80.383.66 Total Liabilities $167,294.90 State if Indiana, County of Adams, ss: 1, v'- R- Smith, cashier of the Farmers State Bank. Preble. Ind., do ■ solemnly swear that the above state ment is true. C. R. SMITH, Cashier Subscribed and sworn to before mt this 20th day of September. 1924. CHARLES A. FUHRMAN, Notary Public. My commission expires Sept. 12, 1926

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