Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlehad Every Evening fxeept Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. /. H. Haller—Pres, and Gen. Mgr. K. W. Kamps—Vlce-Prea. A Adv. Mar. A- H- Holthouse—Sec'y. A Bui. Mcr. Entered at the Postofflce st Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Ra|ea: Single copies — ■« ■■ 1 cents One week, by carrier .—lO cents One Year, by carrier — H-00 One month, by mall —cent* Three Months, by mall ———ll.oo Six months, by mall —31.75 One Year, by mall ,——-33 oo One Year, at office— *3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones Additional postage added outside those eoiee.) I Advertising Rated Made Known ee Application Foreign Reproeontotl’e Carpenter A Company, 123 Michigan Avennne, Chicago, 1 Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City. N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City Mo J TIDE EBBS TO DAVIS:— l ( Ten days until election. |i Ten days until the citizens of this ’ country go to the polls to register ai decision affecting the future destiny . us this nation. !1 And it i 8 not strange that as the 1 end of the campaign nears unpreju- 1 diced observers should see a realignment of sentiment everywhere ex-' ( cept in the South as a result of a < clarification of issues and principles, j Fogs of prejudice and partisanship > Obscured the vision of many votors 1 I at the beginning of this strangest of < political campaigns in American his- f tory endured longer than they could j have under normal circumstances. < but they have been dissipated under * the straight-from-the-shoulder 'on- ’ slaughts of John W. Davis, revealing , the duplicity and demagoguery of the j democratic candidate's chief oppon- > ent in all nakedness. r Mr. Coolidge's man Butler played the trump card of the G. O. P. when he inflicted his fairy tale of a demo-cratic-LaFollette “conspiracy” to throw the election into congres a upon: I the country. It not only failed utterly and completely, but proved to be the prize boomerang of the most insipid campaign ever waged by a major political party. , Davis today has the edge on the Coolidge-Dawes lineup in many states that even democrats were ready to concede to the republican column only a few weeks ago. Republicans by the tiiousands now are face to 'ace with the realization that hope of a Coolidge victory is naught but a fanciful dream. It wa s bound to be. So has the republican chairman's attempt to stampede the electorate into supporting his candidate reacted upon hs party. It's Davis or congress, and es the two the country is swinging to the support of Davis, with a great rand of intelligent voters holding to the belief that election by congress is preferable to four more years of Coolidge. State Chairman Walb has warned the standpat republicans that the governor elected at the coming election may have to appoint a senator. Just •whom he refers to is a guess as both Senator Ralston and Senator Watson are in fairly good health. However, jiaturally one thinks about what would result in case such a thing did happen and there are a good many just now who guess that Jackson might have a hard time to decide between Walter Bossert and D. C. Stephenson, better known as ‘ The Old Man.” It’s enough not only to worry Walb, but everybody in the I state tor it might be a grave disaster and we have had enough of that kind of stuff the past few years. Adair is making a clean campaign for congress, uhcussing issues and explaining his position on vacious matters. He served ten years in congress from 1907 and 1917, cince which time Mr. Vestal ha g represent ed this district. Mr. Adair spoke lien lust week and tonight Mr. Vestal wil tell his story. Compare their record fur accomplishment. You are tfbou -

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Facejto Face With Gerald Swope President General Electric Co. Radio has brought us wonder days. The speed of the lightning flash of electricity has ben challenged. The great plants of the General Electric Company have been "busy corners." The immense broadcasting stations at Schenectady. New York, send out messages that go ten times around the earth in a second. The mission of the General Electric Company is suggested -in the first book in the Bible: “Let there be light.” Every bulb through which incandescence glows, every gleam of light that pierces the curtain of the night, radiates in some way from the activities of this giant corporation, directly and indirectly. In the Equitable Building. New, York City, up among the thirty! floors." I found the executive head of this largest electric company in the world directing the great administrative affairs of the plants that create a stream of light that turns darkness into day. Gerard Swope is a man of fine features. large eyes and an electrical engineer to hts fingertips, keeping in touch with the march of scientific progress. On the banks of the Mississippi, in the good city of St. Louis, Gerard Swope first saw the light of day. As a young lad. he turned his face to the ( rising sun and came east. Securing his degree in the Massachusetts Institute of Techology, he was ready for a “job.” ’Those were the days when graduates were given hard knock jobs, rather than "positions.” A helper in the General Electric, he celebrat ed his twenty-first birthday moving' trucks about the yard. Two years l later he entered the employ of the i Western Electric Company. Transferred to New York as general sales manager in 1908 he began stepping forward lively at an electrical pace. Elected president of the International General Eectric Company in 1918. four years afterwards he logically became the executive head of the General Electric Company. ' During the war he was a member of the general staff and served as assistant director of purchase, storage and traffic. A fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers/ and member of various scientific so[cieties during the war won him the Distinguish Service Medal of the United States, and made him a CheVaiier , of the Legion of Honor of France. Every time I meet Gerard Swope face to face I wonder if any other human being has as much detail inside ‘ his head. The millioms of different

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to employ a man to go to Washing--3 ton the two years beginning next 1 March 4th. Look them over, size, them up. study their records and se-i e lect the man you think is best quali-, 0 ficd to do those things >’Oh desire to '' be done. That’s all we ask. e . ■ ■!»—"■!- !- Ed Jackson, republican candidate; 1- for governor, is according to the Injdianapolis Star, state repub'ican of- | f cial organ, traveling through south- • ern -Indiana just now promising the • citizens of that part of the state that 1 if they vote for him hard enough to c elect him he will see that they get 1 more paved roads. Well, that means 1 we people up here will pay for them. - Jai l icon la a real Andy Gump, prom--1 i ung every thing everywhere. What 1 he wants is votes and if be has to stretch things a little to get them, he 1 is willing. if boys continue to destroy propi erty after being warned, there is ' but one thing to do and that is arrest i* them. The officers do not want to do ■ this and people do not want to insist i on it but if they refuse to obey the i law then they must be taught the les|son. Tell your boys about it and help I prevent arrests. Don’t wait until as- • ter it happens and then blame the ofor those whose property has ■|beei) destroyed and who are forced u to for protection to file affidavits. e Dr. McCulloch, democratc candidate II for governor of Indiana is touring the is twelfth district and will speak at the theatre this evening. He

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V ‘Il 1 XA < x ‘ GERARD SWOPE says: “Continuous and concentrated v.ork is necessary for results. It requires ju.lt much loss of power to start a generator each time. There must be I a scul to machinery—mute, but it! speaks a language as definite as our own.” ! units that constitute all the parts i r that enter the manufacture of dec trical equipment-are to him as plain ! as the alphabet. Electrically day by, day and night by night he is on ' speaking terms with every sort of a generator. He kne w the late Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the ■ telephone, and his experience with the Western Electric Company, having to do largely with the manufac-' ture of telephone equipment, gave him a wide range of knowledge for J his work with the General Electric. In the ul<l days Gerard Swope rave unstintingly of his time with no limit : to the hours it might take to solve an electrical problem. Work was i.ieasnred by the task to be accomplished , rather than by the time clock. "Continuous and cencentraicd work is necessary for results. There is ■loss of power every time the generator is started, and this great loss of .power in transmission is stil-a problem. "An object lession is furnished in I the operating of machinery. Adjusted. balanced, oiled and cared for. a machine will respond like a human being to fair and just treatment. There must be a soul in machinery, mute though it may appear, because it speaks a language just as definite as our own. Like human beings too. some machines live longer and serve a better purpose than others—ereatj ed under the same conditions. “The milions of generators in their million -of evolutions every day cover a mileage which, if measured . by distance on the surface of the | earth, would bring the moon within , commuting distance.” ■ i I then went on the roof to greet the ; “Around the-World” fliers and began t kinking it over.

stands for good principles of governneat, believes in home rule, is clean, Fionest. efficient and c apable. We be- • lievc the people cf Indiana will elect /him governor on November 4th and

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that he will serve you well. 1 Remember the meeting at Berne ; Monday night when George Emerson Francis, famous platform orator will make the principal address. There will be a band convert, a good time and you are cordially invited. The democratic campaign in this county will close with a big rally here on the night df November Ist. Plans are now being made and. will be announced soon. Get ready tor a good time. All the women of the county who are interested are invited and urged to hear Mrs. Flynn and Mrs. Gubbins at democratic headquarters tomorrow evening. A PRAYER H MN I am so weak. Lord, be by strength, So blind, show me the way; ■ So ignorent, O make me wise, O help me. Lord. I pray. i I would be always, always,—thine, Would do thy holy will, — Yet every clay must cry, “Forgive,— 1 1 am a sinner still!” I |O come, dear Holy Spirit, come! Refine my soul renew! Cause me to love what thous dost love, | To do what thou wouldst do. Abide with me, —abide in m«. | That I may do no wrong! Though tempted oft. I shall net fail. If thou dost make me strong. —A. D. Burkett. o ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TOD** ♦ ♦ * j ' ♦ From the Daily Democrat flee* ♦ ♦ 20 years ago this day ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Oc.obcr 23. 19(14 was Sunday. Big Features Os \ RADIO ] ( Programs Today \ THURSDAY'S RACIO (Copyright 1924 by I'nited Press) WJZ, New York,-(455 m> 2:30 p. m. , iE. S T.(Frank Lafarge pianist Edna L Bachman, soprano; Madeline Hubsizer, : opranoffi Grace Devine contralto. WEAK. New York. (492 m) and |\VEEL, Boston, (303 m II p. m. IE. : S. T.).— Vincent Lopez and his or- - cites - ra. WiP. Philadelphia. (509 m) 8:15 p. m. (E. S. T.) —Philadelphia police band’s. . * C.N , Calgary, (439 m) 9toll p. 'i m. mountain time —Special operatic

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