Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 11 October 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlshsd Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. X H. Heller—Pres, and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kamps—Vtce-Pree. * Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse—Sec’y. * Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies ——3 cents One week, by carrier cents One Year, by carrier — 85.00 One month, by mall ... —-85 cent s Three Months, by mall „ 81.00 Six months, by mail 75 One Year, by mall 8300 One Year, at office . . 88 00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Ratos Mads Known on Applleetlon Foreign Representative Carpenter A Company, 123 Michigan Avenuue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City. N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City Mo. For the present at least Washing ton will be seat of baseball glory. It’s fun to be around a newspaper office these days. Today we have football scores to give out. "Bucky” Harris, youthful manager and Walter Johnson, veteran pitcher of the Washington Senators baseball team, showed the world yesterday how to win a real victory. Hats off to the Senators. With the world series over attention will turn to the campaign and the football games with the former having the best of it for the next three weeks. Organization work .speeches, rallies and the real effort to win will now be made and it behooves every good citizen to take part. You are invited to call at democratic headquarters. The rooms are open afternoon and evening and much interest is now being manifested there. Plans are being made for the rest of the campaign and the more who take part in the making of those plans, the more successful they will be. Get in the and women. Among the biggest men on the democratic state ticket in Indiana this year is Lew M. O'Bannon, editor and publisher of the Corydon Democrat *at Corydon. Indiana. He is able, clean, courageous and honest and a safe man to vote for. Compare his record to that of his opponent and we will be satisfied with your decision. Taxe s will never be reduced so long as the state tax board which sits in Indianapolis continues to spend money at the rate of five times what they did a few years ago. They can explain until tlfey are blue in the face, — but it doesn’t prove anything for every tax payer knows he is paying more and that it’s because the state tax board has made it necessary. Adajns county democrats will present to the voters during the next three weeks their position on political questions. Speeches will be given in every precinct in the county and voters should show an interest in these meetings. The first ones will be held Tuesday night and will be continued until election day. Attend them. John Adair will speak at the couit house in this city next Thursday night. It will be one of the most im- < portant meetings of the year for here ie a man who is asking to represent i you in congres 8 and who will at this time tell you why Ke wants to go there, what he hopes to accomplish and what his election means to you. He will tell you also about the past ' record in tlje state and nation. Arthur Gilliom, a former Adams county citizen and a candidate on the republican ticket for attorney general has been left off the slate of the state committee, according to reports from Indianapolis. It seems that for I one reason or another he is not in accord with the forces who want Ed I

i — ___ Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face With A. C BEDFORD Chairman of the Board Standard Oil Company ' (By Joe Mitchell Chapple) i “It is the work that we volunteer i to do that pays best in the long run. As an office boy I remember how 1 offered to help the cashier draw balances for the bookkeeper, make up vouchers and carry books to the safe, doing errands that I felt might help along. An expert accountant took an interest in teaching me, not only bookkeeping, but principles underlying accountancy and fundamentals of recording and analyzing business transactions which was the basis of my success in later life.” Alfred Cotton Bedford, with whom I was visiting, was born in Brooklyn in 1864 at the time that it was known as the “city of churches" and famous as the home of Henry Ward Beecher and Plymouth Church. Educated in the Adelphi Academy, he made a tour of England. Germany and Switzerland in early youth, with his eyes wide open. Beginning as a clerk in the house of Jaffray & Company was his education and destiny later led him to make another start in the employ of the Bergenport Chemical Company, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company. Promotion was inevitable for the boy who volunteered, and he soon became the general manager of the company and representative of Charles Pratt & Company. An eventful day in his life was when he was made a director of the Standard Oil Company in 1907. It was the start of executive advancement, as he later became treasurer, vice president, president and chairman of the board of the world-renowned Standad Oil Company. During the war he was chairman of the Petroleum commission of the Council of Defense The authorities at Washington well understood that when A. C. Bedford said he would provide petroleum for the ships when the supply was waning, it was sup plied. As chairman of the executive of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and chairman of the American Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce, he kept in touch with business conditions all over the world in the trying days following the war. For many years his hobby has been the Y. M. C. A. work. The “Y” work in Brooklyn has been looked upon as the standard of the United States because A. C. Bedford has put the same energy in this work as in his business. As executive head of the Standard Oil Company, he opened the doors at the headquarters at 26 Broadway. In connection with this event Mr. Bedford gave utterance to a sentence that will never be forgotten by those present: i “I intend to keep my door • wide open to every person who has legitir ate call upon me.”

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

Jackson elected governor and Van; Orman elected lieutenant governor. We believe the Jackson crowd will; be taught a lesson this year they will: remember the rest of their political lives. - .J.- 1 ... The Literary Digest admits it sent ballots to three times as many republicans as democrats so the result of their straw vote is not in the least surprising. Just suppose this office took a straw vote and sent the ballots to 7uo democrate and 300 republicans, would you call that a fair test? It’s quite probable as charged that the scheme is a gigantic propaganda campaign by the repubicans. At least it cannot prove much as to results in November since the facts as admitted are so one-sided. Senator LaFollette is changing the republican party with many misdeeds and the republican political managers with crimes and near-crimes, the use I of large sums of money and the ex-1 change of legislature preferrment for; thsir campaign funds and LaFollette: knows for hi has been in close touch i with them for a third of a century. f His support is dwindling each day,' I but the voters should easily catch the ■ * significance of the things he says. I Davis is clean and above reproach in I

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1921.

> • K « k . SW- / - r . I I ’.A : . lUIMB Ip Jk WraE k W , y I A. C. BEDFORD says: s "Plan your life. Map a course, go f forward step by step and don't get the sequences mixed. Do one thing 1 at a time.” i t s

■ ] He believed in publicity concernI ing all the affairs that had to do with . the public. There are many young s men who owe much to the kindly ~ counsel of A. C. Bedford, whose terse j comments are a guide book. “Plan out your life. Map a course. , Go forward step by step and don't get sequences mixed. Do one thing at a , time. There will be many things f when you don’t see all that is included in “one thing" that must not Ibe overlooked. Everyone has 'a , chance, not one chance, but many , chances. The high fliers who go up f like skyrockets usually come down in > a crash. The young fellows who . wantonly waste their golden hours , of youth and opportunity by not seekng are a tragic spectacle.” • In our little chat, he stopped to pay . tribute to his mother: "I owe all my ippreciation of the finer things in , life to her. Even when I had a job i that I did not like, handling ribbons in a dry goods store, it did not seem like a manlike job. but 1 learned , there the value of system and order in the drudgery of taking inventory in the old-fashioned way of item by item. In th6 dry goods store 1 observed the value of selling right. The sad results are good customers being , oversold and sending him to bank- . ruptcy. overloaded with Wholete and , unsalable goods. This to me was an . impressive lesson.” , When he position as a book- . keeper, a friend remarked: “I had . rather see my son dead than starting in as you are doing.” but he did not understand the stuff that was in . A. C. Bedford. He was a bookkeepi er. yes, then plus. Poior to the World War be made a ■ tour of Europe ( and gathered his in- ■ formation of oil fields in Russia. Roumania and the Near East in a first I hand, on-the-spot method. In a prit vate capacity he has accomplished i much more for public service than - marly men who have been elected for I that purpose. The labor situation he s I sums up in a sentence: “Adequate ; wages and absolute independence to a'my mind are the rights of every man i-! who works—no matter w hat that ocjcu pation'may be.”

every way, is offering you his splendid ability to fight your battles. Isn’t that what you want? I In this day and age it is unpopular perhaps to suggest that voting for political parties is the safest thing to do- but the fact remains that when a •j political party is held acrouutable t for the inefficiency or shortcomings * of officials elected under their banner, s quickest relief is in sight. There are

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‘ ’ good men In every party but they are 'not always elected to office and the i political party back of them should be held responsible. The G. O. P. | should be made to explain in a more] satisfactory manner than they have so far done, the terrible conduct of affairs at Indianapolis mid Washington, or they should be ousted from power.! The pastor of your church Is a conJ sistent worker In the community, | using levery means he has to help you and yours, not only now but for all time. Can you imagine what this country would be now without the churches and the men who have un-, selfishlv devoted their lives to the i work of building them up? Do youj realize that every minister could if he wanted to earn more money and| have an easier lite if he devoted his ability as the rest of you do to that task? He is giving all he has that , your life here may not be wasted? t Don’t you think be is entitled to your I presence at the Sunday services? It’s little to give when it means so ! much. • I Q '!♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ From the Daily Democrat file* ♦ ! ♦ 20 years ago this day ♦ »««*•♦****♦*•♦ Oct. 11. 1904—Traveling man craz- ’ ed by drinks shoots up passenger coach on Pennsylvania railroad near Warsaw. Among the injured was George Gault of Monroeville, well I Baidln® I Radio weather seems to I have arrived. Have a set I installed now and enjoy I music, speeches, sermons, I sport events; the air is full of good programs. New Items VVe Have Added: Freshman - Masterpiece 5 tube receiver in mahogany cabinet. Best buy in the radio field, $60.00, less tubes and batteries. Shamrock - Harkness 2 tube Reflex will operate loud speaker on distant stations. $35.00, less tubes and batteries. Erla-3 tube Reflex kit panel drilled, base board marked, all parts necessary to assemble, $49.35. Makes a mighty good set. 1 Thorola - Loud Speaker, and superior in volume to I Super-sensitive, finest tone 1 speakers costing much I ill more. A trial will con- I i vince you, try it out on | your set. See this week’s | adv. in Saturday Evening I Post. Timmons B-Liminator. I It takes’ the place of “B” I batteries. Works on all detectors as well as amplis fier tubes on all types of e sets. 22 •/? to 45 volts on , detector up to 135 volts on J amplifier. We have tested this outfit and find it O. K. See this week’s adv. in Saturday Evening Post. Tubes — Burgess “B” r batteries, parts, etc. in ” stock. We will demonstrate in your home. e B H. Knapp & Son B

> known here. Democratic Glee Club makes first I appearance at Jefferson township 'meeting. , Mr. and Mrs. G. Berling are at I Battle Creek. Michigan. J Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kunkle are attending farmers institute at Purduel Eggs drop to 9 cents per dozen. Dick Reed and family leave for Seattle, Wash., to make their i home. Miss Grace Sutton and Mr. Henry Pennypacaer of Buffalo married at the Sutton home at Geneva. Girl baby born to Mr. and Mrs. Ollie '

' . % WTO PRICES ftvl Tut! Tut! *1 J I ■U-A-’l Last week came a man who “doesn’t have to watch his pennies’’ but who owns barrels of B t /Z them—because he makes every one count. Ay / / . “If your prices are not too steep. I’ll buy aIB ' suit today—but I won’t pay a farthing over $45" was h* s speech to us. 'Mr “You don’t even have to pay s4s—for we H: 0 i have cabinet after cabinet of fine suits to fit you H K s' Sir,’ at $35 and S4O” we replied. E Prices tut, tut at John T. Myers Co’s E y u they are too reasonable to reason with. Michaels-Stern Suits B $18.50545.00 I —"xg: —Michaels-Stern Top Coats $14.50 to $25 “ — ~— Stetson and Portis Fall Hats $2.50 to sl2 K fefub-T-Ayeo Ge I (J BETTER CLOTHES FOR LESS J MONEY-ALWAYS- f • DECATUR • INDIANA*® I V II I I I ■ I Ji ■ JvT Why not a Trade for the Boy? I I ' ’* BS Fort Wayne General Electric apprentice B school was started in 1913. More than 50 g young men have graduated from the school ■ since that time. The courses are of three and | » four year duration. | ■ In 1921, forty out of forty-six graduates were | still working in Fort Wayne General Electric. I Os the missing, one was attending a university, g wo were deceased, and three were working g for other concerns. | 1/ I comp.: n y - h« puntVi: record f show l s that perce i nt of . I r forty-two cities and . graduates preferred to remain employees o s stat"'; the t nZarVst'one Fort Wavne General Electric. | being at the address * ■ given below. ■ st7adj y £ e ?heie plant's* 3 COmmOn Scf education Pll'' g and j i/ e * and hou'."are take a four-year apprentice course as a macnin- ■ a place ist and tool maker, or a pattern maker, or I molder. High school graduates may take » 1 fru’ndly“nd'h.^pf d uL im three-year course for electrical testers or dratu- | * men. I General Electric |> Company Graduates from any of these courses can secur g Decatur, Ind. employment at either Ft. Wayne or Decatur- | I M< '<o i GENERAL ELECTRIC I

'Mills. I| ( I (’. H. Dettingor, Charles Dirkaon, | and Martin Heckman leave tor St. I ’ Louis to attend fair. I o I One child in 50 was u high school I 'student In 1923. J NOTICE to - MOO8E~" I The Trail, a special degree for I Moose members Is to be put on at I . Portland soon and the occasiou will I he a delightful one. A delegation I from the Portland lodge will be here's next Tuesday night to tell us about'! it. All members are urged to attend | the Tuesday night meeting. Please | come. 11 R. iR. GREEN, Secy. ■ 242t3 1

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