Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1924 — Page 4

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Foreign RoproeentatW Carpenter A Company, . 12S Michigan Avennue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., Now York City N. Y. Use Bldg., Kansaa City Mo IN THE MOVIES. Some of the leading moving picture stars and producers content them.•elves with putting out one big picture a year. Uncle Sam. who has becotte a real movie magnate, is turn . .ng out his pictures at the rate of one every other week. He hires fairly good actors and takes his pick ot the country’s loveliest scenery. Then he shoots, and the resulting films are said to thrill millions of observers every day. The pictures range from one-reel fillers to seven-reel thrillers. The titles are as varied as the pictures including such interesting ones as "Out of the Shallows,” “Behind the Breakfast Plate,” "Red Enemy,' “Garden Gold,” “The Modern Pied Piper",and "Anne’s Egrette." People, animals, mountains, and even tiny < insects take part in these photoplays. The pictures are instructive as will as beautiful and Interesting. Eieut. Lowell Smith, who commanded the American round-the-world flight, is the star in "Red Enemy,” which he appears as leader of an aftplane squadron on forest patrol duty. They find a forest fire and discover that a camping party is trapped in the burning- urea. Thrilling fire fighting fi Hows, and the rescue of the threatened people makes the happy ending. By watching for Uncle Sam’s movies Ute citizen can learn in a comfortable way a good deal about many interesting things. He will enjoy much sheer entertainment. This is proved by the fact that the / demand for such pictures is already greater than the supply. Theaters, schools, colleges, churches and all sorts of community organizations apply for them. There is now a. government moving picture office and studio in Washington, equipped with . the Very finest machinery for the work. Other counties are planning considerable road improveufents and there is sopie talk here. We have for thirty years depended almost entirely on the township roads and we have built about 700 mites of macadam road. No county in the state has a better record either for progress or for economy, but we live- in the speediest era of all time. The automobile has forced many changes and one of the first to be considered seriously is the better road problem. With two state roads through the county, we have a splendid start. However, there are several roads, like the one from Berne to Chattanooga and the one from this city

i to Willshire which will probably never be taken over by the state commission and which we will have to take care of. Both will join paved roads from Ohio and it Is most likely that In some way or another we will have to pave these and one or two other roads the county. Whether this should be done by townships or by the coupty as a whole is a question now being discussed. We should' figure it out and do it the best way, but do it we must. Tite testimony offered by witnesses

Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face Witß STEPHEN LEACOCK Master of Humor Crying for humor and more humor the weary old world welcomes a good natured writer. Friends and admirers of Stephen Leacock have called him a master of h’lmof. Under the Impression that he dashes off these humorous skits in idle moments when his brain is not functioning on the serious labors of an economist and a college professor he is asked: “Writing humor must be easy for you ?” , When I plied the question which he had .met a thousand times there was a merry twinkle in his eyes: "My experience is exactly the other way. Writing of solid constructive stuff, fortified by facts and figures, is easy enough, but my experience is that when I try to cudgel my brain for happy thoughts there is a short circuit. No trouble writing a treatiseon the folk-lore of the Fiji Islands or

the declining population of Dundee. There are plenty of cold storage facts in the dictionary. That is why 1 would rather have written ‘Alice in Wonderland’ than the whole 'Encyclopedia Britannica.” Stephen Leacock himself is known almost everywhere the English' language is read by discriminating people—a genial soul amon the iterati — whatever that means. A biography written by himself for English newspapers was characteristically Leacockian. On December 30, 1869, Swanmoor. Hants. England, witnessed an event that inigat have occasioned a conjunction of the planets, for on that late Stephen Leacock was born. His parents immigrated to Canada and located at Lake Siincore, Ontario, at; a time when farmers were making just about enough money to pay the hirdd men and save enough seed corn for the next year. He confessed: f "By this process my brothers and I were driven off the land and have become professors, business men and engineers instead of farmers.” After trying school teaching for jwbile-hc gave it up in disgust and borrowed money to go to the* United States and live. Attending the University of Chicago, he studied economics and political science, surviving until he secured the degree of Doc tor of Phildfcophy. He has facetiously remarked: “A degree means that the recipient is examined for the last time in his ilfe and pronounced completely fuU. with no capacity for receiving furth-

t editor’s Note: Send ten names of your favorite famous folk now living to Jog Mitchell Chapple, The Attic, Waldorf Astoria Hotel. New York City. The readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fame. . - ii——ii—. . .„iea<ia m ————— —.

in the Hawkins case now being heard( i in federal court at Indianapolis. I , ■ makes the people wonder just what , ■ kind of a ‘Tdue sky" law we have in , Indiana and why since the stock was | 1 not worth a dollar, it could have I , i been sold over the state in large andlj - small quantities. It is explained by . I the reason that law as passed carried i a provision that the act should not ? apply to those companies organized prior to August Ist, 1920. Unsound [' companies then doing business in the L " state were thus licensed to go as far 1 as they liked and could, and they I ’ evidently did~it. The two outstand ! • Ing companies were the Bollings and ’ the Hawkins. Page Mr. Jackson. He ' knows. President Coolidge, according to Washington dope is planning to be a candidate to succeed himself in four years. Several things are to be considered besides the retaining of Senator Butler as his manager, which he has looked after. He must make good by securing some needed legislation through congress, fifties must be moderately good at least and then the

precedent fixed by President Roosevelt that serving an unexpired term is the same as serving a full term and that would make the third term controversy come up again. If Mr. Coolidge can go through the four years without friction inside his organization and provides prosperity, no one will deny that he has a chance. But its four years away and a lot of things can happen. PerhapsT we had better just wait and see how it comes out. Your Christmas shopping can be done now as well as in a month from J now and yon will avoid a lot of in-

DECATt'E tiAfl.Y DEHfOCfIAT. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 19.1924

WWOKIgy ■■ B MR. LEACOCK says: ’ “To write something out of one’s own mind worth reading for its own sake is an arduous contrivance that can only be achieved in fortunate moments." just that on the day of diploma delivery.”

; er knowledge or information. I was I With his graduate papers he was j able to secure a real job as a school . teacher and finally became professor of economics at McGill University in Montreal. He insists that he has . more leisure in a single year than a business men in his entire life. “I have a real summer vacation. I . have time to stop thinking for months . at a time and enjoy myself. I have . ,w*hat the business man can never enjoy, the habit and time to think of] the odd and humorous. When I stop ( thinking I begin writing It is the 1 . thinking you -think that wears you out.” Lecturing extensively throughout Great Britain, Canada and the United States, he has wide opportunity for | ■ observation. The results of these lectures, he points out with pride. | were eventful, preceding the Union | of South Africa, the banana riots in j Trinidad and the sand storms in the - Sahara. “To write something out of one’s own mind worth reading for its own sake is an arduous contrivance that} can only be achieved in fortunate , moments." said Stephen Leacock.) leaning back in his chair, scratching , his head. He has plenty of hair and is disqualified from joining the Bald Headed Club. A mustache, massive head, twinkling gray eyes and a gen- . Proas frame well filled out in grace- 1 fill curves is indicated when Stephen' Leacock appears in person, whether on the platform or in the private nooks of the humor corner in his' study. [•

s convenience and enjoy it more. There ( is a feeling of satisfaction itr having < your gifts all ready before hand that J yon can’t get any other way. At least we are so informed by those , who have tried it. The stores arc| now filled with beautiful and useful , i articles. Ixiok them over and niakej your selections, before the big rush starts. ißig Features Os ( RADIO | Programs Today |

WEDNESDAY'S RADIO PROGF/X (Unpyrlght 1921 United Press* WCAP, Washington. (469 ml and WEAF. New York. (492 7:30 p m. (E. S. TA —Concert by (to V. S. Army band. WBZ, Springfield. (337 in) 7:45 p. 1 m. (E. S. T.)—Wagner’s musk; drama "Die Walkure’’ direct from Symphony hall, Boston. KLZ. Oakland. (509 ml 8 (>. m. (P. C. S. T.) —Student concert program. PWX. Havana, (400 ml 8:30 '(>. m. (E. S. T.) —Cuban Navy band. WDAF. Kansas City, (411 mV 8 p.jn. (C. B. T.)— Concept by Kaws«B City Federal Music clubs. — . o .. ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ From the Dally Democrat files ♦ ♦ 20 year* ago thio day ♦ Nov. 19. 1904 —Eggs are 23 cents a dozen, butter stays at 12 cents. Citizens object to Elm street sewer assessments, council will vote next Monday night. 1 Official vote shows Hanley bad • plurality over Kern for governor of

Indiana of 84.1KA Father Schirlck of St. Henry, Ohio killed in a runaway accident. fien Hnfs Initiate class of eleven. Calvin and Daniel Sntltef return from Fargo. N. D. I. I t’yle goes to Wayland. Michigan as engineer at G. 11. A I. pump station. Third quarterly services will be hold by Elder Wade at M E. church tomorrow. Secretary Taft and world Mir board award gold medal to Marton Beall for his brief of I’hiltipine exhibit at St. Louts. • MY TASK.—MY HOME To be as courteous at home as when in public I desire good will of men. K To cheerfully perform each humdrum task, Without delav. as love and duty ask. / To daily share their lot with whom I live; As may require, comfort or pleasure 1 give. To honor God at meals and faintly prayer. Teach those who IParn of me: kind heaven cares. / Provides the best that purse or power afford. In books and music, furnishing and board. I To beautify my lawn with trees and flowers, — .Make home a paradise for quiet hours. ' .1 By little daily deeds of thoughtfulness Leave memories, the after years shall bless.' To know and grow, love Him. trust and obey, And so. so dwell in peace through all my days. And of His boundless grace I humbly ask. What I may need, to finish, this, my task. —A. D. Burkett. —o ■■ ■ eight farmers INSTITUTES IN ADAMS COUNTY (Continued from Page One) tertainmeftt and the.like. According to the county agent, the speakers obtained for this year’s series of institutes are able people and undoubtedly will bring a message of interest and value to all who hear them. Records in the, county agetit’s office show that a total of 3187 people attended the 21 sessions of the 7«institutes held last winter. | .. 0 'Should Consider Needy Parents Before Autos (United Presse Service) Indianapolis, Nov. 19.—Needy parents should be considered before seIcdnd handed automobiles. | I This was essentially the comment |Of the Indiana supreme court in up .holding the provisions of an act passled by the last legislature providing that children ar,; responsible for the

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[support of their parents in case the , latter are unable to support them1 selves I The court is making this decision, ! upheld the decision of the Mwrence circuit court in the case of the state 'against Bernard Lundy, ot Bedford. Lundy, who was said to be able to support his parents failed to do so and took them to the county poor »■ " ■■-■-■■T — - —. I * i j For I Colds, i [ Crip, yfe ! i enza j and as a i Preventive ? | /Lwfl* ® | (Bromo 11 \Quinihe! tablets | The First and Original Cold and Grip Tablet A Safe and Proven Remedy I The box bears this signature Price 30c. ®

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farm. Lundy declared that he was I married and his expenses were so' great that he was unable to support them. He. said he spent SIBO a month to support himself and his family, of this item, it was found that $44.50 was for the purchase of a second handed automobile. * F

| These Tinies Justify I Your Supreme Effort I Present day prosperity ami opportunity sbouH I cult for the best you have. j We expeet prosperous times anil excellent cmditions to continue for the years to coiue-but- || Today—the present—is all that is ours. NOW I is the time to profit from these conditions. Are You Working 100% Efficient? Oftentimes the services of a good Bank cat add largely to one's working efficiency. We advise our patrons to work safely and cot- . servatively. but where additional financing is needed to secure ycur best production, we solicit your ! cal. You are not doing your duty unless you ere i running at full production and up to full capacity. Old Adams County Bank The Bank for Everybody .. v __ - . . -

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