Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1924 — Page 4
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ED JACKSON'S OPENING SPEECH:— The opening speech of Ed Jackson, delivered in Castle last Saturday night, wa g a splendid effort from a republican standpoint. It was nec essarily a defensive and evasive speech, as that is all a republican orator talking on Indiana affairs, can make this year. A defensive speech can not be expected to arouse enthusi asm. which may account for the lack of it at the meeting here. Mr. Jackson dwelled at length on his record as secretary of state, bu' he failed to explain why the great in crease in salaries and employes Rather, he talked in percentages which are sometimes confusing to one unacquainted with figures. He failed to mention the reformatory grab, the $1.000,000 fair bond issue; the turn ing a >4,000,000 cash balance into ' $4,000,000 debt by this republican ad ministration of which he is a part. He said nothing about the convic tion tnd imprisonment of state of ficials or other humiliations the state has suffered at the hands of this ad ( ministration. He talked about having the license plates distributed in the counties, but he failed to .say why he did not discharge a score or mor< of clerks that are no longer needed at the secretary of State's office. He said the tax levy under Ralston was 40 cents, while the state levy now is only 30 cents but he failed to say that the 40 cents under Ralston rais ed less than $8,000,000 a year, while the 30 cents under McCray raises $17,000,00 a year, due to the differ ence in assessing property. Taxes have more than doubled, and that is
what counts. Neither did Mr. Jackson tell wh> expenses in 1916 of $11,700,000 have now increased to $35,000,000 for state affairs, and that 18 of the 23 million dollars increase has taken place dur ing the last four 'tears that Mr. Jackson hi s been secretary of state. • As an evidence of how ignorant Mr. Jackson considers his audience, he said that the state has been enabled to provide 4,180 miles of state highways without issuing any bonds. He did not tell his audience that the corstitution of Indiana does not, permit the state to issue bonds for any purpose excepting- war. And- be claims credit because his party did not violate the constitution. Can you beat it? His declaration on religious liberty was practically the same as contained in the ritual of the klan, so .that he stands on that question just where he has been placed in the popular mind. The fact that he refused pointblank to answer the question put to him, whether he was for or against the klan, is evidence that he desires to evade that question. Nothing was said by Mr. Jackson about the Securities Commission, the Dolltugs stock deal, or the Columbus Oil Company, in which so ’ many thousand persons in Indiana are financially interested. In fact, the speech was notable for the things it left out, or stated only half the facts. It was not a speech he could make in a debate with any person who knows state affairs. His sole dependence
Flashlights of Famous People
Face to Face With' George H. Ixirimer Editor Saturday Evening Pott (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) For the first year of its new birth, the Saturday Evening Post, now the most successful weely periodical in the world, floundered trying to find itself. A million dollars had been expended and no profits. Cyrus Curtis, the publisher, met George H. Lorimer, the son of the late Rev. Dr. George C. Lorimer, for many years minister at Tremont Temple. Boston, and made him assistant editor. H« certainly assisted. Young Lorimer had at that time tried his wings in journalism and made some very successful flights on the Boston Record. Although not yet called a Colonel, with a place on the Governor's staff, he was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where his father was stationed at the time. Educated at Mosely Hifch School in Chicago, he began a college course and has been given the degrees of Litt. D.. and LL. D. at Colby irql Yale. Holding a job with Armour A Company in Chicago furnished him route interesting data. He was not a shining success as a clerk, for he had too many ideas that did not work according to the rules of the lepartment—he was creating new ules. These experiences furnished he material for the famous "Letters ’r< m a Self Made Merchant to His Son.” which made a tremendous hit ’or the author editor and aded a new character. "Old Gorgon Graham.” to the cast of characters popular in best sellers. Other books. "The False Gods" and "Jack Spurlock.” 'ollowed. but the "Self-Made Merchint" appealed to sons and merchants i alike.
This work established George H Lo’imer as a real editor who not onl., knows how to direct others, but knows how to get the best work Tom an author. Many of the strikng feature stories and articles, that lave appeared in the Saturday Evenng Post were the outgrowth of closeup conferences with the editor. Attacks on the evils in modern business were projected through the medium of fiction, instead of making » frontal attack. The guise of a story gave wider latitude without comebacks. Dickens understood it; to does Lorimer. American shortdory writing was stimulated to a legree never known before. Under he traditional blue pencil of the edi>or of the Saturday Evening Post, nuch of the best material that has ’ver been seen on the stage, in the movies or in novel form, passed before it before appearing in the S. E. P. By leaps and bounds, until now it 3 a library in itself, the Saturday Evening Post has become a world institution. It has a style peculiarly its own. Millions like it and swear by it; some don't like it and swear at its advertising bulk. But all agree that George Lorimer, sitting in his office smoking his favorite brand of cigarettes, can tell more in a shorter time to a contributor of what not
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.
was on his audience not knowing any betfer, and its willingness to believe what he might say, regardless of facts in the ease. For these blind followers there is no hope. For those taxpayers who are seeking relief, there is plenty of reason to differ with ,Mr. Jackson. In all his speech there is no word of condemnation or even mild criticism for the extravagance, the waste and the criminal things that has gone on in the state house while he has oeen secretary of state. It is to be presumed that he excuses and condones these offenses and will do nothing to correct thorn. To the charges of extravagance, of waste and of official misconduct on the part of some state employes, he declined to plead guilty or not guilty for his party. He did not discuss these matters. Mr. Jackson can evade them, but the voters will not.—By Walter Chambers.
Washington, seat of the national capitol. laid aside politics yesterday, forgot the worries of politics, even overlooked plans for jobs and other things which usually consume the j time ot those who live there and vote elsewhere for the Washington baseball team had won the American
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GEORGE LORIMER says: •'Reminiscences are not interesting to the young people, looking forward to what is coming tomorrow.” to write than any man who ever occupied an editorial chair. The very furnishings of the room have something of the quaint and inspiring atmosphere of the times of Benjamin Hnaklin. The spirit of Poor Richard prevails to the extent of maintaining a solid measure of ; literary worth to the column. The typographical, make-up and “dress”j of the Saturday Evening Post was distinctly Franklinesque. The cov< ers carry a bit of red or orange, as indicating flashes of humor to give piquant phases of illustka'/ve and. artistic genius as a news-stand mag-j net drawing the 5c veery time. Editor George Horace Lorimer has traveled widely and knows what the people of the various sections are thinking about. He knows the young mind. "Editing the Saturday Evening Post is a question of balance and material, light and shade contrasts. ■ for business and literary minds. It has to be searched out. Every ar-' tide goes through the hands of a large number of readers. The people
our readers seem to want to read about are not always the men who are on the heights of eminence, but the fellows who are climbing up and on the way there. Reminiscences are not interesting to the young people, looking forward to what is coming tomonow.” The Saturday Evening Post boy is a class by himself. He rings door Indls and gets inside. They are lively agents and the S. E. P. boy is a new character in the characters cast to play the drama of "American B.iyh.r d" today. A medium -sized, rather st urdily built mah. who loves the out-of-doers, Ceoige L,orimer had humor wrinkles on his face He cannot resist the olduime habit of joking now and then. His grey eyes have a merry light as he talks of the one b’g object he has .had for the last twenty year#—The Saturday Evening Post—which is punctiliously announced "Price live cents the copy.” It is one of the few that has not increased in price since before the war. This despite the fact that the actual cost Is twenty-nine cents, sold wholesale for three and a half ; cents the (oi>v Tn- deficit is ex- | pl; ued in the magi - word “advertis-
League pennant and came home with the bacon. There was never anything like it. Thousands paraded, the president of the United States made a speech. Harris and Johnson 1 were •kings, everybody was happy and the ; 30.000 reserved seats in their park have all been sold for the games there on Saturday and Sunday when the team meets the New York Giants in the world championship battle. It's great and everyone is for them. No one expected it and while about every sport and near-sport in the country hopes they can down McGraw's outfit, most of ’em doubt it. If they can there will be more parades and more celebrations and forgetting of worries and that's a good thing. Atta Boy, Washington, up and <at ’em. The world is yours, Harris and Johnson.
Wasn't you glad you were living t this morning? This was a perfect October morning with blue skies, wonderful air, a just-right temperatun# ami everything alright. County Agent Busche tells us that the corn .is still safe and there is chance for a bitter crop than was anticipated. The beets are splendid, according to those who have tested and es »
’ tlmated them. We haven’t any great' big kick coming after all. So let's put on our best smile, look the world • iu the face and plow ou with the {'knowledge we live in the very best I part of the very best country in the •wide, wide world. — HAVE YOV REGISERED? It you’ have moved from one precinct to un-| other or if you have never registeredi I for any reason, you must do so byi next Monday evening, or you cOn'tj vote. If you are now'qualified, which I' means if you voted two years ago] and have not moved into another precinct. you need not register. Look trfter it. — o — THE NINETY-FIFTH PSALM I Come, let us sing unto the Lord, And make a joyful noise; We are the sheep of his own hand, Today we hear his voice. ' The Lord our God is very good,— I A king above all gods Let all earth praise him with a ■ psalm. Whose name all heaven applauds. j The sea is his. he formed the land. He gave strength to the hills; Me made deep valleys in the heart, And, too, the pleasant rills. I Tempt not the Lord, remember those Who grieved him forty years; Who fell in Sinti's wilderness I'ow down, with reverent fears. —A. D. Burkett. o *♦♦*♦**« + *** + « * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ From the Daily Democrat file* O ♦ 20 years ago this day ♦ October 2. 1904 was Sunday.
SBig Features Os ) RADIO j. Programs Today ); < I ~ ....2 , THURSDAY'S RADIO PROGRAM | ! (Copyright 1924 by United Press) I KGO, Oakland. (312 m) 8 p. m. (P. il C. S. T) —Radio comady. "The Man I on the Box.” ! | WIP, Philadelphia, (509 ni) 8:15 p. ,m. (E. S. T.) —Philadephia police band. I WJAX, Cleveland. (390 m) 8 p. m. ,(E. S. T.) —Program of Spanish music, followed by organ recital. | WOAW, Omaha, (526 m) Midnight] (C. S. T.) —Vincent Lopez and his <>n ! . chestra. o I Attendance At School For Blind Not Growing ! — I Indianapolis, Ind.. Oct. 2 —Work of i
the fall term at the Indiana state] school for the blind started here today with only three more in attendarce than when he took the position as superintendent, twenty-six years ago. George B. Wilson declared. Although, he said, he doubted if >; the number of blind persons of all . I ages was decreasing in ratio to -the I population, the ratio of blind children to the population is, Wilson said. 1 Twenty-six years ugo the enrolls ment at the school was 163, this year , the enrollment was 165, while the , population of the state has increased enormously in that time. He attributed the declining ratio to to the fact that children's eyes at - birth are being given more attention y every year through advancing knowlj edge of medicine and enforcement of state health laws. Any blind children are blinded at l d birth by a disease known as ophtaJ d lomy. It makes its appearance in the s child’s eyes at birth and can be pre- 1 vented from having a serious affect
if it is given immediate attention. If it i s neglected, however, the child > idjvelops blindness in a few days. Under the state law, nurses and, doctors must report cases of optho-I lomy immediately to health author!-‘ ties. On making the report, they are given a solution of silver nitrate to drop in the child's e'ye to kill the in- 1 lection. Blindness is more prevalent in children in more thickly populated cen- 1 ter s where live the poorer and more ignorant classes of people, she said. <
Farmer Invites Hunters | To Eat Dinner With Him Crawfordsville. Ind.. Oct. 3—Sweet | dreams of u hunter's paradise have I come true in this county. Silas Wright, prosperous farmer | near here and owner of a tract of | sixty acres of wooded land, has post- | ed signs like this on his farm: ' "Hunting allowed. When bell rings [ conte in for dinner." I Investigation revealed that Wrights
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ifnrm I* overrun with gray kind fox squirrels. They eat his crops so he is inviting hunters If they specialise on squirrels. —o ■— ■ — Princeton—Thomas Comer. 32. had his face badly burned and skinned mid was knocked to the floor by the spray from a white wash gun when the pressure suddenly let go while he was looking into the nozzle. Hartford City—Thieves were in c< nsiderable during fair week here.’
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