Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlabed Every Evaalag < Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. a Heller—Pres. and O«a. Mr. E. W. Kempe—Vlce-Pree. ft Adv. Hr ft. B. Holthouse—Bec’y. ft Bw. Mr Entered at the Postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, ss second class mattar. Subserlptiea Ra|eft Single coplea ~ — ,-J cents One week, by carrier .. — —lO cents One Tear, by carrier ■ —>l.oo Ono month, by mall _ — ■» W cents Three Months, by mall — >IOO Six months, by mall ■——Sl.7s One Tear, by mall — ». MOO Ono Tear, at office .» 1* 00 (Prices (noted are within flrat and aecond sonea. Additional poatage added outside those aonea.) Advertising RaOod ■ ado Keown oa Analtoetlon Foreign Representative Carpenter ft Company, lit Michigan Arennne, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., Now Turk city, N. T. Life Bldg. Kansas City Mo. Used as we are to police bandits in Chicago, Toledo and other large cities, the news that the Hagerstown bank robbery was committed by two former Fort Wayne cops is rather startling. When men who have taken an oath to protect people and property indulge in Jesse Janies tactics, the conditions are serious. i The new fad of cross word pussl- s has m idea lot of people dig up the old dictionary, wipe off the dust and thumb more leaves than they have done in a score of years. Now if some one will work out some com-j binations so we will have to hunt up ' the Bible, we will all agree that here is a benefit to the country. The cross word is a great vocabulary builder as well as the most sensible « Indoor game we know of. The stock market is soaring these days which doesn't mean much to any one except those who are on the right side of the betting. And don't forget that what goes up must come down and when the stocks begin to settle, as they are sure to do. some one will be holding the empty bag. These spurts come and go but don't get excited. Better invest in something solid. The flurry indicates confidence in future business but be-1 yond that, nothing. Prof. G. 1. Christy, of Purdue University, is being prominently mentioned for secretary of agriculture in the Coolidge cabinet and its goes without saying that this appointment would meet the approval of every one in Indiana, regardless of politic, ft would alscf assure a splendid administration of the high office, for no nian in America, is we believe, better equipped to handle the affairs in the agriculture department. He is by no means untried for during the World War he acted with great credit as assistant secretary. Unless the job requires a politician, we 'would say the president could make no better selection. • Accordin'-’ to the official count. Judge Willoughby will become one of the supreme judges of Indiana by one vote. Those who feel that their vote does not matter much may well consider this. Any citizen in the state who voted for Willoughby cou’d have defeated him by voting for hi, opponent, Deuton. The former is a pronounced wet man while, the latter is a dry advocate, yet it IS probable that several hundred thousand men ami women who would be insulted if they were called “wet” helpto elect him. He ran 150,000 behind his ticket und just a little effort and just one vote would have defeated him. Its something to think about. We may complain occasionally about the cost of maintaining educational institutions in this country,! but after all we are very proud of the fact that this nation discounts' til others along this line. In every township in every comity, you wiil find .splendid schools, not the kind they had a short time ago where ■feudin', writtiii’ and ’rithnietic” •

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• I Face to Face With HAROLD LLOYD The Spectacled Screen Favorite By Joe Mitchell Chapple 1 What would the small boy movie ( fan give to wear the horned eyeglasses of Harold Lloyd, that rollick- [ ing soul who Is known in every household, as well as the next door neight bor? There is magic in that Harod , Lloyd smile that is always framed in black horn glasses. A human who learned early in life, when he was selling popcorn which his mother j made, that people welcome a smile.' Harold Lloyd lives in the joy of laughter. He was popular with the public as a popcorn boy. The family was always moving from place to place ever since the day he was born, thirty years ago, in , Burchard. Neb. They stopped one whole year in Denver, where he had several bo** working under him on a Daily Post delivery route. At midnight he was a candy vendor in a theater and appeared on the stage i as a real newsboy* in a Show in which i Janies J. Corbett, the prize fighter, j appeared as the hero. Astronomy has always been and t still remains his hobby. As a lad* he became acquainted with a man ( who gave lectures on the stars. He | paid his hard-earned money for a!f 'glance now and then at the Milky | t Way before he wore glasses, and his , ambition now is to own an observ- j atory and have that old man’s tele- ( scope somewhere abouts. « The family were moving about so c much that he did not spend many t years in school. When he was brush- j, ing up the clothes of an actor and v helping him in his dressing room and hearing him recite his parts, the am- j, bition was fired within him to be an j adtor and astronomy suffered for a t time. His professional appearanee -j on the stage was in “Tess of the p VUbervilles." The praise that he received from Mr. Ingraham at that ( time was reiterated by the late Frank a Bacon of “Lightning” fame, who was t in the cast. After Harold L.loyd has passed the c awkward seventeen stage he began t his real education in the East Denver t High School. During that period he t wanted to become a prize fighter, for he loved athletics and dreamed of a s 1 career in tlie ring. At this time his I father had a windfall and decided to t go to New York or California—it all < depended on the flip of a coin, it; I j was decided to go to California, and -1 a movie screen hero’s fate was de ; t ided. Harold was then eighteen and had scarcely heard of motion pic- . tures. About a year later he was,

Edltor’e 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.

I were taught, out schools where the’ • children are prepared for the battle of life. This county now boasts . eight commissioned high schools and r numerous grade schools of high standard. During the past few years. , progress has been rapid and the . changes expensive and we gre not > through but our people will not stop ' i t now. This is educational week and y a good time to tell the school ofI ficials, superintendents, teachers and , all connected with this wonderful . work, liow much we appreciate the efforts they have made and are mak- . ing. Men and women give their lives to this great profession, instructing our children and preparing them for the years to come. Many of us take it too much as a matter of course. We owe them co-operation in many ways. A recent announcement by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company that it must seek a foreign supply of cross-ties to support its many miles of steel rails is but another indication of the passing of the great American forests. This one railway requires 6,000,000 ties annually for its 1 roadbeds. White oak, from which the best ties are cut, is becoming scarcer every year, and other woods are not suitable. So the Pennsylvania railroad will seek a new supply of cross-ties, either In central or , South America, and this brings us I once again to a realization that our ■ | own forests, once the greatest in the 1 world, are fast disappearing under 1 the ever increasing demand of our • growing industries. During the war ’ this situation was brought to our

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-aS ■ /ft HAROLD LLOYD says: “I never do things with the idea of making people laugh. I just do them because I feel sort of funny inside and do what the impulse dictates.” playing the part of an Indian in a picture being made at San Diego, and he proved to be a good indian. Later on he was starring in one-reel, comedies known as "Lonesome Luke,”] and from that time it seemed as it', picture fans never forgot Harold 1 Lloyd, for he then put on the spectacles. Unconsciously he seemed to radi- * ate the spirit of youth and jolity. The millions of laughs that have come * from looking at Harold Lloyd's antics on the screen has added real merriment to the gay old world on its orbit. Organizing the Harold Corporation in 1923, the first picture, 1 “Girl Shy,” proved that it was an organization worth while. From that time on Harold Lloyd became a household word in homes where they saved up picture money. A medium sized man. very quiet in his moments to himself, dark eyes, there is not much resemblance to , the freckled-face newsboy of Denver. ; There is the grace of good humor in < every action and movement. In a < dress suit he appears like a Prince , Charming at a Cinderella ball, or in ; a hobo make-up Harold Lloyd is Har j old Lloyd. < "I never do things with the idea of making people laugh. I just do ; them because 1 feel sort of funny inside and do what the impulse dictates. The horn-rimmed glasses have a story ail their own. “1 was not much of a student in school, but I always associated hom-er-rimmed glasses with a college boy. I never was a college boy, but I ] thought 1 would like to be one. so I am making up for lost time. lam act* i ing the way I think I could have acted if 1 had been a college boy located on the gold coast.”

’ attention more than once, when certain woods were needed for carrying out our shipbuilding and airplane construction programs. The Pennsylvania is only one of the great railroad systems which bring our states ' into one great union. Thert> are approximately 250,009 miles of rail1 road in the United States. In every 1 one of these miles about 3,500 cross- ’ ties are needed. The vast forests of 1 North America are gradually being 1 used up and efforts so far made to 1 replant them have been on too small ' a scale to be worth-while except as r an indication of what can lie done j through a national reforestation pro5 gram carried into effect on a huge I' scale by the federal land state govr ernments. i o r—- * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ B ♦ 20 years ago thia day • t ♦ ♦ * From the Dally Oen\ocrat file* ♦ j — Nov. U. 1004 —Clover Leaf subsidy - election called for Tuesday, Deccm- • *ber 20, the railroad company filing /agreement to build round house, icing /plant and switches at cost of $90,000. ( Pythian grand 'lodge will build a : $300,000 home at Indianapolis. <| Decatur football team composed of ■ Harruff, Bell. Burn. Schroick. Erwin. ■ F. Peterson. Cal Peterson, B. France, White. Sellemeyer and O. France r challenges Bluffton. 5 Hyland and Yobst land contract to r install heating plant at Burt House. j | E. Carroll will begin buying new’ i-'Corn next Monday and will pay 50 _ cents. Frank France of Muskogee. I. T., is r here tor the winter. The prohibition vote in Indiana

'was 24.280. | Mike Bolger of the Centlivre brewery here taking orders. wLim J.,, Sa a «r~- TFt* 1 • PSALM 103 Bless the Lord O thou my soul. For all his benefits; Who executeth righteousness In righteous judgments sits. ) Forgiveth thine iniquities. All ty diseases heals; Iledeemeth from dlstruction. crowns, With mercies heaven feels. ißemoveth they transgressions far As east is from the west; With good things satisfies thy mouth So thou art daily blest. » The Lord is gracious, slow to wrath He will not always chide; He doeth not keep his anger long. His mercy plentious, wide. Like as a father, so the Lord, For he remembereth That we are dust; he knows our frame, — A passing wind our breath. lor such as keep his covenant. He hath prepared his throne; mercies are from age to age To all his people known. Ye angels that excell in strength That do his will above; Ye hosts, ye ministers, all works,. Bless ye that Lord of love. • —A. D. Burkett. : o , Educational Methods Arc 1 Developed In A Life Time An old couple sat rn their room one afternoon. The old man was 1 reading over James Whitcomb Riley’s Children’s Poems, and the old lady ' sat knitting socks for her grandchil ’ dren. The old man read these lines and seemed in deep thought for a 1 few seconds: 1 Oh what did the little boy do ’at nobody wanted him to. Didn't do nuthin but rqmp and run And hoop and holler and bang his ’ gun, x And bust fire crackers and *ist have fun. And at’s all the little boy done. Memories of his own childhood passed through his mind, and he remarked to his wife. “Grandmother, low times hav;e changed? When I was a boy, school was a burden to roost children. We were not supposed to move at all beside w’alking quietly to a classroom and back again into a hall. Most boys preferred doing to work, doing hard labor, to staying cooped up in a schoolroom." Grandmother looked thoughtful, then replied: "How different school life is for girls now. When I was a girl we could never romp and run and have the glorious tianes that girls have now. A girl had to be quiet and sedate. She was usually sickly, and many left school on account of ill health. Now girls of all ages have short, hair play active games, and are healthy and happy.’ Reminiscences came thick and fast and comparisons crowded one upon the other. Grandmother continued.

“Now when a child misses his lessons or seems stupid he is not spanked. but he is required to drink milk at school and to take more open-air exercise. Pretty soon he is likely to be among the best of his class in health as well as in his studies. I do not remember exactly the date, but a few years ago the schools introduced folk and rhythmic dances, and shortly afterward the awkward age for girls seemed to have been omitted from their lives, and as for i health, our grandchildren could be > used as health samples any day.” > This suggested more recollections i to grandfather and he replied, “Mod- > ern educators showed great wisdom hin building swimming pools * in schools. They utilized a strong • childish instinct as a basis for education. Now numberless children frolic , in the water and get splendid physi- ’ cal development.’’ ’ The two grandparents had just agreed That gymnasiums and swim-' 1 ming pools in schools were the greatest modern blessings for children' 1 and the best movement in education • in many a day, when voices of chil | '• dren going home from school were, heard from the street. One said, “I passed a perfect posture test,’’ auoth--3 er said, “I am 10 pounds overweight; do you think tenuis will reduce me?” v Another voice said, “You know, D that unless you stop eating so much candy at recess you may be fat. but >■ you won't have enough strength to 'carry a feather.'” X i Still another cried, “Won’t our.

!mothers be surprised when they visit school tomorrow. Physical Education Day. and see our program?” Then the little grandchild was heard saying. "My grandmother is going to visit my room and see our health play She says that she wants to live to be a hundred years old and she things she can learn how in our school." The air is full of good news about j health and physical education. Everywhere It Is the leading topic. Do not fail to get the latest news and do your part in the movement. , ~ —o— The People’s Voice GO TO IT BOYS Positively no hunting or trespassing? Who! You have another think coming. Why? Here it is. 1 Jiave hunted on more farms in Adams county than any other man except one. 1. as well as others would deem It grossly wrong to deprive others of the pleasure I once enjoyed. So go to it boys. Hunting is free on my farm. ,W. A. Fonner, o— — PLANS TO SINK SHIP CONTINUE Secretary Os Navy Goes Ahead With Destruction of Battleship Washington. Nov. 15. —Secretary of the Navy Wilbur today went aboard with plans to sink the U. S. S. Washington off the Virginia capes, despite announcement of William Baldwin Shearer of New York that he will carry his fight against Its destruction to the District of Columbia court ot appeals. Shearer’s first attempt to halt scrapping of the Washington failed yesterday when the district supreme court dismissed his petition for an injunction against Wilbur for want of jurisdiction, holding a tax payer has no right to interfere with the destruction of the battleship. Shearer immediately decided to appeal from the decision. Wilbur, meanwhile has ordered five tugs to tow the Washington from the Philadelphia navy yard today to Hampton Roads. Va. Shearer’s attorneys claim Wilibur should hold up action pending their appeal and if he does not. they will hasten into court for a temporary inunction. SPECIALS SPECIAL! AH this week Marcel 50c Manicure 50c This week only. Teeters Beauty Shoppe, Call early for appointments. Phone 667. 274t3x T Q Quality Coal. Phone 199. Emerson Bennett. 273tf ' Q Apples. Tuesday and Wednesday. Zimmerman-Carper Co. Phone 233. MT 0 — Just received 2 car loads of cement. $2.75 per bbl. Mason lime. $1.75. Acker Cement Works. 272t6x

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