Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller —Free, and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Katnpe—Vice-Pres. 4 Ads. Mgr. A. R. Holtbouae—Sec'y. & Bui. Mgr Entered at the Poatofflee at Decatur, Indiana, ae second clan matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 2 cents One week, by carrierlo cents One Year, by carrier|s.oo One month, by mall —26 cent 3 Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six months, by mailsl.7s One Year, by mail>3.oo One Year, at office 13.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates Made Known on Application Foreign Representative Carpenter 4 Company, 123 Michigan Avenuue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City, N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City Mo. HEAR SENATOR SAMUEL M. RALSTON AT THE COURT HOUSE TOMORROW NIGHT, AT 7:30. .John A. M. Adair will speak at R. rne tonight and Geneva Wednes-I day night and the voters are urged, to hear his message. One week from today is the last I day for registering and there are al, thousand voters in the county who| must qualify during that time if they,! wish to vote. You should attend to l ' this duty th: s week. i 1 Let's not overlook the fact that the j time is near when action should be t taken to convert the old cemetery i into i park. Under the law. the no-]’ tices for removal of bodies must be 1 taken after November first and be-* fore February. There are some legal ; steps necessary and if there is delay t now it will mean passing it up for an- * other year. The change can be made! 1 here as it was at Van Wert with but , slight expense and it is certainly worth a little effort. Senator Ralston of Indiana, leader" of Hoosier democracy will open th" democratic campaign here tomorrow night and his message should at least be of interest to every voter in : the county. He is honest and truthful ' and able. He will tell your aliout present state government and national affairs and we are sure it will be I • * I beneficial to the people if they will

listen and then take his advice. Forty year s of public service without onee misleading you should give you confidence in this man of and from the people. He will speak at the court room at 7:30 tomorrow evening. Ed Jackson made his speech at New Castle Saturday night. It had been planned for weeks and delegations came from many counties, showing that plans had been made to secure a crowd. They overran the city. Mr. Jackson declared in favor of religious liberty and said he was a friend of Jew and negro, but the meeting itself was a contradiction fot| ft was planned and carried out in the mysterious manner of the klan. J

Jackson and other candidates are trying to carry water on both shoulders this year and they find it a very difficult thing to do. Jackson was nominated by the klan and they are trying to elect him. Don’t let them fool you on the issues. A number of local people, pastors and church workers, are striving J'or a good cause just now. that of establishing a school in whic h those so desiring may take a course which will fit them as teachers in Sunday school. This i 3 a matter long delayed and most of us have had the impression that anyone could get up before the children Sunday mornings, read the Golden icxt, a..k a few questions and' smile at the answers and thus serve! as teachers. And they could but howfoolish. If we really want to study' and learn at Sunday school, isn't it' just as important that teachers be l qualified as it is that they know just l how and what in any other line? It’s! a g"od course to take. You will on-

Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face .With JOHN McCORMACK I Noted Singer i (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) 1 When John McCormack throws 1 back his head and pours out those 1 pure golden tones with the clear enunciation of words, he seems to be addressing an audience. The popular tenor of his time holds a little card in his right hand. Months, and even years, he has studied notes on that card to attain a clearness of expression, bringing out every syllable of a word. Some have said that he sings his words more distinctly than many men speak them There are songs that will always be associated with John McCormack no matter who may sing them in later years. “Mother Machree” is one

of these. Mothers who have heard him sing this song will never forget it. for he seems to be talking to the little mother in the village of Athlone, Ireland, where he was born in 1884 That day the ancient harps of Erin must have welcomed a singer While attending school at Summer , Hill in County Sligo, his voice attracted attention but there was no 'thought of his becoming a great singer. His ambition was to become a barrister —to wear a wig. Friends I seemed to be more interested in developing his voice than he was him self in those days, but he reluctantly 'vent to Milan to study under Signora Sabatini, winning the first prize ini the music festival at Dublin, where he sang that summer. His London debut as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana in 1907 was the beginning of his notable musical career. In a short time he became one of the most popular concert singers in America, under direction of Charles Wagner. In 1919 he took out his final papers as an American citizen and has received many honorary degrees. There are many impresarios who think there are better opera singers than 1 John McCormack, but there is acer-, tain human appeal in his voice. One day while passing in front of St Patrick’s Cathedral be met Reed M iler, a brother tenor, for the first time. He inquired of Miller: “I understand you can reach high cr Miller replied in the affirmative and did it tight in the street. McCormack responded with a high C. “I am not going to let any church singer beat me.” He reached high C and one note higher. The policeman came rushing up—but was soon satisfied it was not a riot call.

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

joy it and you and the community will profit. It’ s queer that after the admitted wrongs of government at Washing-' ton the past three years and the crimes in the state house at Indian-' apolis, the people would even consided returning the republicans to pow- ' er until they had completely white-1 ’(Washed themselves. We don't be-j .lieve they will, straw votes to thei .contrary noth withstanding. In this I 1 state Ed Jackson is secretary of state '.now and he has been in that position’ | six or seven years. The expenses of j his office have steadily gained an<l| .his ”100% Americanism” is a blind

to catch democratic votes. In Washington. Mr. Coolidge has been vicepresident and president and he has known the inside of the lamentable story of graft and greed. And he has kept silent. You will vote five weeks from tomorrow. Remember that it will be up to you then to say whether you favor a continuation of affairs as they have been or prefer a change. Roger Babson says that only future can tell whether 'or not we* will continue to issue tax exempt state, county, city and township secruities. but that unless we curtail the present rate of issuance, the interest and the payment necessary to i retire them, will bankrupt the counpry. He claims that is what has deI creased the price of farm lands beI cause the taxes have made farming I unprofitable for many. Babson goes ( <>n to say thait the greatest cause for ’ phe bonds is road building which is but that American like we

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921.

I '.V> ; MftH ■ T f ' r ■ft JOHN McCORMACK says: “Frankly I sing to please the audi ence. There is a freedom in singing at concerts that never can be felt ir opera.”

1 Tall, sturdily built, with a wealth 1 of hair, and clean-cut features, hi has all the genial, mixed quality of his race. His royalties on records ! now amount to more than any other living singer. He feels that his nat ural field is the concert stage. T< use McCormack's words: ( "I do not see any sense in wearing . such gorgeous costumes as seem tc be necessary to be an opera singer—- ; when they really want to hear you . sing." . i McCormack is responsible for the gradual assumption that the Ameri ' can concert going public now feel | that if a man is truly a great tenor he must come from Ireland. He has a following that is intensely loyal One man in Omaha. Neb . mortgaged his house in order to guarantee a contract to bring him there During the summer, with his wife and family. he continues his studies as as siduous’.y as in the days at Milan. There are the hours and hours of iWork; and the preparation tor one concert counts in the equation when McCormack s fee is considered. While McCormack takes a great interest in the business management of his tours with his manager. Charles L. Wagner, he abides by his manager s decisions. He told me once at a concert: "I do not always sing with all the expressions 1 would like to use, bei cause I have found that when the people desire to have a popular song sung in a certain way it is my duty to serve them. Frankly, I sing to ' please the audience. There is a tree dom in singing in concerts that never can be felt in opera, where you feel that you are singing more to those on . the stage than to the audience.”

go to fast and try to do it all in a few years. We have jumped from mud roads to concrete highways within a few years and at the rate Jof $25,000 per mile, we can easily bankrupt every county in the country. At present his chart is nine per cent, below normal and he says that will continue unless we give less to I the tax man and more to the business man. , The People’s Voice ' — WHAT HAS BEEN THE MATTER WITH OUR DEPRESSED FINANCIAL CONDITION THE PAST FOUR YEARS? That there is now SIO.OO per capita less in circulation than was in 1020 when Mr. Harding was elected; good or bad. this is a fact. There is now in the hands of the government at Washington two billions and a half ' of unused gold. By this I mean that , the official circulation statement shows that on May Ist, 1924 there was in the government hands $4,460.1X1.615.00 of gold. At that time -bn circulation of money was $4,760,113,559.00. (See circulation of money * dated June Ist. 1924.) Now. since I", the Federal Reserve law the reserved requirements are 40%. it can be easily seen that 40% of the circulation deducted from the gold in government hands leaves over two and one half billions of unused gold. In other words, instead of our currency being based upon 40% gold reserve, the reserve is 93% of circulation. As a matter of fact, the gov ernment has discovered that there are $433,000,000.00, of hoarded money, in other words “stock money" that is not accounted for in the banks or any other cash reservoirs. In addi-

* tion to this, the bunks are increasing their percentage of reserve. and. of course reserve money is not actually J in circulation Hence, 't Is perfectly plain to be seen that the government has done something to curtail the money which necessarily curtails credit. The fact is, that what it did was this: Mr. Harding's tidmit: siration compelled tit" banks to liquidate all loans secured by libert..’ kun I bonds; that busted the country, as well as broke the word of the g ivernment. By '.his simple transaction,! thi liberty loan bends were nccumu-i lated by the very - rich at about eighty or eigh'y-five. and then they were put back to par, thereby giving a net profit to the profiteers of at' leaf, fifteen to twenty per cent cn| twenty-two billion of bonds. Os course, all of these manipulators cun! sit back and say that we are havfbr.l .ibor.nding prosperity. The result is seen in the closing! down of factories; vial mines, at d ini the distress of merchants and small leak rs. The banks have been coni- ( lolled to stop loaning -because the: loonie, not making any money, have! topped depositing in the banks. If ,11 of us won) I quit whispering to) ourselves that finances is a mystery J beyond the law of ordinary man. and vonid get down to the proposition ‘nemo dat quad non habet.” which best expressed by the old Latin. I neans. that no one gives what he,] <rr. not. Bini.- do not get deposits' vhen money is not in circt ritior. i redits are b .1 the easy flow of f'n-li nefai transaeiuns. based upon the I rtainty of fkitl payments, but th” J Inal payments must be in and vhen everybody knows that th- cash; s not in existence, and cannot be. gotten, then the credit based upon' he cash will not be forthcoming ( There are too many people preaching | onfidence in others when they have j no confidnee in themselves, nor injj he others being able to pay, and : •hey will know the reason why. H When we will understand and admit hat business also is not a mystery, nit is merely the making of money | ind spending it. then we will appre - date what, effect the startling facts, t have enumerated above are having), || ipon finance. Nobody on earth ever saw any H rood times except on a rising market, i 'hat money is man-made, not God | made, and that its only function is j to pay off balances, to represent j savings to be a medium of exchange.|> l There is a line at which it can be on verted into the adjuster of prices. ' that line has been passed, and it is I now adjusting prices and dictating | what business shall be transacted. j bv whom, when and where. I am a . , i sound money man. An American who wou d be otherwise now is very fool- ! ish. because the United (States has ) bout one half the gold money of the j wi rd. I has a greater stock in gov ■)( ernment hands than had England, j Frame. Germany. Russia, Belgium | and Italy at the beginning of th<• I World War. The government is now]) borrowin;, money from banks, when I it has in its coffers two and one half I billions of reserved gold. j Tin Republican party has promts- j ed relief to the farmer, but what hash it. done? There has not been a time I j In the*i>ast four years* when the ) farmer has suffered he has for the want of protection. His dollar today is only worth 67 cents. We must re- , lieve the present condition of the farmer before we can expect better tinis. H is our very “back bone" of prosperity. Yours very truly, 11. C. NIBLOCK. — o ‘ THE BOOTLEGGER l I In the night, under cover of darkness r He peddles his bottles of booze; Thinks he can win in a game I Whete hundreds just like him will f lose.. t Expects to out with Uncle Sam t To escape, though others are caught; That the still will not be discovered None know, where the white-mule » he got.' For a price he kills o his conscience; v Exchanges sweet day for dread nights, B Disgraces his friends and his family; p Forties a citizen’s rights; , Tunis his birk upon heaven: Mocks at the mercies of God; o Makes Sabbath his heyday for" sinr ning,— • ~ And boasts that his pathway is broad. r d And the end?—handcuffs and prison; pl Hard labor with never reward: , In exchaange for good name, a numel her; • j For home a cell and hard board. • | Escape? He must saw through iron s' bars; r ' Must dig through walls of cement; . !M"-t break off locks —in silence—l', tools he must, somehow, in-

; vent. i 1 His bread, then? Garbage, wormt. eaten; H He will crawl through the weeua tn the mud; Be hunted with hounds be retaken. ’ Be brought back, covered wd.i t blood. I Will enter the prison a young nian: ( i t ome iat wh.-n hi hair ha turn ed gray; I , Despised—loved “ones gone—forsaken II (), turn to tile right while you may ' A church bell Is culling you—listen! | | A welcome -ong floats on tile air,. A pilgrim band, pressing toward heavNi, Their joy nnd their peace you may A hand of help reaching out—grasp it! i To a cross it was nailed, once for you! O t.ow while the voice of love pleadeth. Return thou to God and live true —A. D. Burkett. ■ o «♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ * From the Dally Democrat filsa ♦ * 20 years ago tffla day ♦ *♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦ Mrs C U- Schafer leaves for ConI)\M L "" at II K. of C. Hall HI Thursday,. Oct. 2 ■ -RS 3?alnner’s dancing kh »! Clara 7:30 PR jll Assembly Dance 8:30 R ■I Good Music Assured. X B 3 Admission— H Sents, 50c Ladies. 15c ■ H ■ Q F. 1. Schurger. Mgr. ■ r K : THE ADAMS : ■ I * THEATRE ■ —TODAY— i Bound to Please • » U I \\ illiam de Mille . Production ■ I ■ with gt Richard Dix and g Lois Wilson j in 1 I “ICE BOUND” ® lee Bound will hold you g n spell bound. There’s Ire- g in inendous story power in s g this romance of storm I g swept, sunshine seeking i a souls. ■ M i |l A Paramount Picture p ( —Also—f| “Smithy” B A Pathe Comedy gj Popular Prices | 5c and 15c f 1 —o— E TOMORROW | Iff "DAMAGED HEARTS” f K ?

I You can only Travel 5 I 12,000 miles away I from home! . I I fs The world is only 24.000 miles in eircuni- ■ ,U- . ference. If you were to start out tomorrow to see <4 —how far you could go away from Decatur ,'ou £ could only go 12.000 miles in one direction and then you would find yourself coming back againi ln '* e ,ace of this hu^e * stylish and varied stock, the man who sends away or goes awaj K" ■ mW his Fall suit or o’coat finds the further he invesB tigates that he could have saved carfare, shoe wkgj IB leather, postage stamps and crowsfeet by coming 'HF 77 fIHM Q to John T. Myers Co. as straight as the cro« IJ II WF Michaels-Stern Value First Suits and Overcoats J. $14.00 “ $42.50 s Stetson and Portis Hats. .$2.50 to $12.00 JA-** * Chalmers Union Suits.. .SI.OO to s4.ao * M. Kohn & Son Shirts TeU-T-Ay&to Go J better clothes tor lets J money-always- | -DECATUR - INDIANA* *

verse for a visit. Five freight curs demolished In) Erie wreck at Mercer street crossing Standard Oil Company is putting in ( new pipe lines through county. Miss Bertha Voglewede entertains for Miss Kittie McCarthy of Fort Wayne. Surprise for Mr. and Mrs. Charles i Lang on 16th wedding anniversary. Eggs advam e to 20c per dozen and ' butter goes to 12c per pound. lb n Hur» lodge is entertained at l'< rt Wayne by lodge No. 15. Berne parties go to Lima'to identiI ty goods stolen from Baumgartner tore. Suspect is held there.

HEAR 1 Senator Samuel M. Ralston I i at the . ■ COURT ROOM I DECATUR E Tuesday Evening, Sept. 30tlil .. \ H x I flßiilbiflKiii' ~ ' ■ * j - mm 11l ftik. I I X I Under Auspices of the J Adams County Jefferson Club I (Political Advertising) M fl] IT" I

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