Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 8 November 1924 — Page 3

FAMILY OF VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT

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I THE PRESIDENT AT HIS DESK W*

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m Above photo shows President Calvin Coolidge at work ;.t his desk in the White House. The photo was made ■ shortly after Mr. Coolidge became president following the death of President Harding.

| The Future of Fann Land Values ■ r COMPARISON OF LAND VALUES WITH HUMBER OF FARMER BANKRUPTS ■ j HtlCt UNO WIO MCRUIt U WtMtR WUtOTCT KWag! ; <s3 U I HR WMI MO IMMIMM IMM I Ml? IMW [ MM~| f I ACM COURTS i i »»0. I C.OOO I~ K : 111! I \ J 5.500_ I — /\ -' ■ I 10. / \! ’ 5.00 C gE II — — J 4 ’.r ts— ~ -~ IS. / \ / £.SOO_ I|| n /_ /< <-°°° . I I «s. / I ' 3.500 II 7 r ? r |- y y ■ 95. .o/ , I I I 2-SM-I "J - / i ■9 SO. pLOt/ ! t - 000 i «» X X / I t. 300 I -XJ MI __ ‘V.._ z -’ 00? | I ?*• I i • ■■■*-». «»yg» iiiwwwh' rour.o.rjgj!. 5 ,52

•Hm fHrn,ers are making money on their crops the value of plow land iKn S ' gh an<l bankruptcies are few. Reverse the situation and the bankrupt-’ iH.M tUkes a sti-alKht upward turn.' That's what is happening now. Farmer iK tI' UPtCICS flre ° n ,lle i " , ’ rt ' as <‘. land 'allies are sliding down the scale <lue I I iv. 07 ’'Kricultural prices since the war. Ea r Sl]| j at does the future hold for farm land owners? Is this the time to buy 1R,,,. 111 ® S *ars-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation, after completing a survey of J" Ues <:ov <- r ins » Period of sixty years, predicts that high land values are B E ba<k Hnil ,h «t within a decade farm land prices will again be on the < limb. tL the d “ys of the Civil war to around 1900 farm land vnlu , es 8 ’!®" ed ’ J' Ee ; l4lnfl was considered a safe investment. Beginning in 1• " \a Klefll h P: by 1910 " le here price had doubled. Still land continued to nse I ni. ,eca use of the advance In the prices of farm products. Blie r«„u ar bro «K>’t Higher prices for farm products, crop values Increased. HL, vin U 1 , t . Was a 11111,1 b "" ni - I! V 1920 the average price of laud per acre wa ! Bro’imet i Bher tllan ,n 11,17 at ,he opening of the war. Fann bankruptcies I I burin™?. 2,000 ln 1917 t 0 I'ooo 1 ' 000 ln x9l9> . t<■ rmr l iiir , K ‘ le P ,os Perity period of the war many farms were bought. I H atle( , rt a " d h °° n ’ 918 Pinnated that 10 per cent of the country s farms I 'Soe/J, ? ands ’ Foll °wlng the war %e collapse in prices of grains and Ine How lana?” 0 Taiueß tumbling for the first time in twenty-five year- .v Hs'”l </ deciease< l In value from an average of S9O per acre in 19-" “ ff M t^ r ° P Vnlucs P« r "ere fell from $36 In 1919 to sls in 1921. IHirntK K) . years there has been a gradual increase, the average <»r ■■’ ML fede™? VPar " le avera!fe rlsin * t 0 5 22 - Farnier hnnkruptcy proceednigs Her cent AV C r° Ur,S Ju,u P ed fr om 1,000 in 1920 to 6,000 In 1923. M, ] le l1 "' 1 J t of the land owners In 15 corn and wheat producing states in the upper J uosippl valley lost their farms.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1924.

Pec,** Gathered in Many Parts of W<jrld The pearl Is a globular concretion 1 found in the shells of certain bivalve | molluscs, highly valued for ornamental purposes, and classed among | gems. The principal sources of pearls j are the pearl oyster, found throughout the Pacific ocean; the pearl mussel ; and the freshwater mussel. The chief pearl fisheries are those of Ceylon, carried on principally in the Gulf of Manaar. Those of the Persian gulf > were known to the ancients. Pearls ’ tire also obtained from the Sulu archl- ■ pelago, northeastern Borneo; New Guinea, Gulf of Mexico, and Australia. Native divers descend GO or 70 feet, weighted by a stone and lowered from a boat by a rope. They carry a net and gather the pearl oysters in It. They remain below for 30 or 40 seconds at a time, and are hoisted to the surface after signaling with a rope. The oysters are allowed to rot on the beach In the sun’s rays. Then In seven or ten days the decayed oysters are searched for pearls. Artificial pearls are largely made in France, Germany, and Italy, by blowing a thin globe of glass and tilling It with a solution of ammonia and fish scales. Prometheus The word Prometheus, the name of a character in Grecian mythology, means forethought, and forethought is j the father of invention. According to j the Grecian tradition, Prometheus taught man the use of fire, and in- I structed him in architecture, astronomy, mathematics, writing, rearing cattle, navigation, medicine, the art of prophecy, working metal, and Indeed, every art known to man. The tale is that he made man of clay, and, in order to endow his clay with life, stole fire from heaven and brought it to earth in a hollow tube. Zeus, who J in Grecian mythology corresponds to ■ Jupiter in the Homan mythology, in punishing Prometheus, chained hhn to a rock, and sent an eagle to consume his liver daily. During the night it grew’ again, and thus the torment of Prometheus was ceaseless, until Hercules shot the eagle, and unchained the captive. i I

’"”' ■.■—s «■**" - .«». — - - -r- — I — .n Carrying Good Humor Too Far Tli re was ome u woodcutter who i iiuil tlie reputation of being the most guod-huiuored num for tweuty uifies round, says a writer lu the York- | shire Post. His life had been bunt, for his parents hud died wbeu he was barely sixteen, und he hud had to support himself by woodcutting, with uo help from any one. He hud never been able to marry, und lived by himelf In a small hut deep lu the forest, t one day he wus out cutting down a v> •>• hard oak tree; lie had only struck a few blows when —cruel: —the handle of hls ax broke In two, and | lhe head, bouncing oft a knot In the wood, rolled away down the steep hillside, and In a moment hud vuuished i from sight Into a deep ravine. This wus the only ax that the woodcutter possessed, but he simply smiled, scratched his head, lit his pipe nnd rei turned home. It wus cold weather, and on reaching his hut lie found that • wolves had broken in and eaten nearly nil his food. “Never mind,” he said to himself. “No use getting angry. [Il s lucky I still have a bit of cheese locked in the cupboard, nnd as for the ax, I'll have to try to borrow one.” ; That night there was a heavy snow-' ; fail and the woodcutter woke to find il is roof leaking, and snow streaming ■ onto tiie tloor. "I must mend that 'otiiorrow,” he thought. "I’m lucky to I I •ve a bed to lie In.” But during the next hour, the blizzard redoubled; the woodcutter's roof gave way ly; he was snowed under In his sleep [und never woke. This story shows [plainly that good humor, though a in tul quality, is a little dangerous if entirely unmixed. : — ! Esparto Grass Used for Many Purposes [ The route to Gafsa Is constantly . traversed by trains of camels with es- ' purto gruss. This grass is very plen-' [ tiful in the central uplands of Tunisia, i but as a depot is sometimes a six days’ Journey and 60 centimes is the price of a load, there is not much of a fortune in it for the collectors, remarks the Christian Science Monitor. I At the depots it is pressed Into bides with primitive presses and then exported. Esparto is of very tough texture and great flexibility, and for centuries it has been used for making ropes, sandals, mats and baskets' In the Spanish navy cables made of esparto are used. | Gafsa Is an Arab town with no European buildings except the barracks. Two Arab houses, at a little distance apart, constitute the only hotel. The oasis here is specially beautiful, particularly the apricot trees which are of immense size and apparent age and laden with very small fruit. Arabs never prune their trees; when the fruit becomes too woody to eat, down comes the tree. I Smelling a Rainbow From time immemorial English country folk have believed that they can smell a rainbow. Os course it is a mistake to believe that a rainbow Ims any smell, but the peculiar odor ' may lie caused in this way: Rainbows [are most comnion in the warm days of spring, when growing vegetation of many kinds is giving out fragrance ! and the moist air is filled with a wonderful blending of aromatic odors. How many people believe that the direction oil tie. wind nt the turn of the season indicates what is to be expected .luring the coming three months 1 There is no scientific evidence that such Is the case. Probably the Idea arose from the circumstance that British weather tends to preserve its character. Thus, if a certain kind of weather is experienced for ten days, the probability is greater that the type will persist for another period, rather than that a change will come about.” High Value of Brick It is an Interesting fact that brick making, the most ancient of all the industries producing manufactured building materials, is today one of the basic industries of the nation. It is difficult to destroy a brick. Vast quantities of the bricks made in the early days of tlie induslry may still be found on tlie sites of the ruined cities of antiquity. Bricks made nowadays are composed of exactly the same material and manufactured according to the same principles as the ancient product. Tlie composite price of brick all over the United States works out today at a little over sls per thousand. Brick, therefore, is a manufactured article weighing from four to five [pounds, costing about a cent and a [ half, and capable of giving several 1 thousand years of service. It is the cheapest manufactured material on the market. Cuckoo Superstition! p- There are numerous superstitions associated with the hearing of tlie cuckoo’s first call. In the maritime highlands and Hebrides if the cuckoo is first heard by one who has not broken his fast some misfortune is expected. Indeed, besides the danger, it is considered a reproach to one to have heard the cuckoo while hungry, says the Detroit News. I in France to hear the cuckoo for the first time fasting is to make tlie hearer "an idle do-nothing for tlie rest of the year” or “to numb ids limbs” i for the same period. There is a siml- j hir belief in certain parts of the west | of England. In Northumberland one ! is told, if walking on a hard road when [ the cuckoo first calls, that the ensuing season will be full of calamity. To be on soft ground is a lucky omen. i • ■ ■ - '

SEA HAWK AT CORT || THEATER THREE DAYjj Having viewed the vnni ■■ blt'ge i'| dramiis and spectacles dea'lim wiiirl adventure on land. )<><. I ph<>io;i):iy!| lovers uro curious y u wiilillif, the in I itial showing of what H n aided n j the greatest wa druimi • v<-i filmed i] Frank Lloyd's product lon of lb J Sen 1fnv.1.," ii First Na' oiml IT tun 1 adapted from Rafael Sal.iifinl' <■• , lirated novel of the slime title. I I will be shown at the Cort tfii-a'' .• on, I Sunday, Monday ami 'l'n- d.i. “The S< a lia v I:for i vs yu :. r [ [ one of the best se|ie,-< on '.e p >P'i [ hir fiction shelf, ami dealing with the j colorful adventures of I ii" . h kti j'ht nnd sweethearts tml Barbary cor- | stdrs, hut roquired a •<;..intic back ground for Us many vivid . <-cm-. Four gigantic sea going vessels of the Sixteenth Century, exact i: I every detail and manned by over u | thousand sailors, cor airs, galley i slaves and officers, participate in J much of the action, several naval ) batt, es. during which ships ram into J each other betid on. then lash them-J stevle-s together, while their crew engage in hand to hand coinbat, are sa d to be nut a few of the unique and h ghly excitin scenes of th. production. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Walters, of east of the city, were shoppers here this afternoon. o COAL—Lump and Egg None heller—price right. ZIMMERMAN-CARPER < O. Phone 233 2G7t3 Norib Side Beauiy Shop Bobbing of Children’s hair. Morning Marcel ...75c Afternoon Marcel SI.OO Modern equipment and an experienced operator. 325 North Third Street.

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| The ADAMS Theatre I I One Day Only Tomorrow—(Sunday) Matinee 2:30 Night 7 and 9 o’clock I I «ss - > v . y 1 QSe yvealest Ltnte r'' Story of all ” A Motion Picture xj&ijw U Sensation That Will ML'jKfc ! Linger Long in the j Memory of All Fortunate Enough to See It. 4'- IT Ir / M /si ® Inspiration Pictures, Inc. I IW r/jurumag / TjV G CHAS H. DUELL, Jr., Pr«». | | Present f I SQmSBBH By F. MARION CRAWFORD 5 See Miss Gish, the greatest dramatic actress of the screen, in a role which is unforgetable because of the power of her acting. See her in the biggest picture of the year, a story of intense drama with spectacular views of Vesuvius in eruption, and thrilling desert battles. This is your only chance to sec this wonderful picture NOW SHOWING AT LOW PRICES Children —1 ftc Adults —25c Starting Monday on a 3 day engagement THE COVERED WAGON” j I