Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Evary Evanlag Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Baller—Praa. and Oaa. Mgr E. W. Kamp*—Vice-Pro*. A Adv. Mgr A- R. HoltAoua*—Bee’y- * Baa. Mar Entered at the Poetofflce at Decatur Indiana, aa aeoond claw Matter. •übaerlptloa Rated: Single coplu . ■ .. 1 centa One veek, by carrier cents One Tear, by carrier — 11.00 One month, by mall — —l> cent* Three Montha, by mall —_|l.oo Six montha, by mall —- —■—H. 75 Ona Tear, by mall _ —i, 11.00 One Tear, at office—- — <uotod are within ftret and aecond aonea. Additional goatage added ontaldo thoao aoaea.] Advert lal ng RafoC ■add Eeowa M i 1 ■■■ Foreign RepreaoaUtm Carpenter * Company. 11l Michigan Avonune. Chicago, Plfth Avenue Bldg.. New Tort Citv N. T. Life Bldg.. Kanawa City Mo Congress is now in session. That ought to warm things up a little. Join the Good Fellows club and help distribute Christmas cheer among;the kiddies. >s * "f» yiew of the brand of weather we have been having this season it seems rather superfluous to caution one to keep cool. Be a Good Fellow by contributing a half-dollar, a dollar or more to the ■ Good Fellows Christmas fund. Place your donation in one of the boxe--located in either of the Decatur ‘ banks or at the Daily Democrat of , flee. 1 —*l "I 1 During the month of October In- . i diana motorists paid $494,483.9u m ( gasoline taxes, and increase of S7B,- | Geo.o :) over the previous month. At i that rate between live and six mil- 1 lion dollars will be collected during ’ the year, which should help in build ing a few roads over the state. Three weeks from tomorrow and Santa Claus wiil be making his annual visit to the homes. Get your gift list ready and do your shopping now. Don’t wait until the last minute and then spoil the pleasure of Christmas with worry and fuss over what you should buy for friends and relatives. The 68th congress of the United States convened yesterday and from now until March 4th, when President Collidge is inaugurated, politics will be played. The session does not promise to be one of much interest in the way of legislation, but the lines will be laid for action after next March. For a suggestion as to what to do. congress might pass an appropriation for a new Postoffice at Decatur. Over at Bluffton the suggestion has been made that at Christmas time the sockets along the curb which hold the flag staffs be used in planting Christmas trees along the street during the holiday time. Huntington is doing the same thing and reports from there are to the effect that several hundred Christmas trees will be “planted” along the sidewalks in front of the business houses. The argument is that the trees lend to the Christinas spirit and if local merchants wish to do the same thing the trees would not be hard to plant. The Delta sorority today opem d Its third annual campaign for contributions to the Gqpd Fellows club. Surely you want to do your port in distributing cheer among those who otherwise might be forgotten by Santa on Christmas eve. Last year nearly three hundred dollars were contributed to the fund and every cent of It was spent in buying something useful for little children and older persons who needed the necessities of lite. It is your opportunity to again contribute towards the fund and in that way help to make someone happy. Christman time Is meant to do works of kind

■ -■* ■ ■ Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face r. r. • With r. Katherine Tift Jones r, i g Interpreter of Ante Bellurn Days in the South 8 By JOE MITCHELL CHAPPLE 0 Amid “the days of crinoline" clus i ters a romance that is alluring Tc 0 preserve the stately sweet cjutoms 5 of that day Katherine Tift Jones of ) New York recites the stories of the ) ante belluin days, of the old South. 1 There are more angles to her work > than impersonation. In hearing her recite her lines one is impressed with her clear enunciation, even in dialect—for a dialect well spoken is better understood than jumbled English. Her audience is given a real pieture of the relations existing between master and slave of the old regime. Her work interprets poetry to the masses, stimulating their imagination and awakening a desire tor self-expression in clear cut phrases. People love poetry if they hear it often recited. Homer and the lays of the old minstrels were popular with the people of their time because they preserved the traditions of the past as they passed along from village to village—singing the old. old stories that never grow old — of love and adventure and heroic achievement. James Whitcomb Riley enhanced the beauty of Hoosier dialect by reciting his own lines—and saved for future generations what could not be recorded in history. “1 am delighted", said Mrs. Jones “when people come to me after a lecture and say that hereafter they are going to buy more books because of a new interest in the beauty and art of poetry." Mrs. Jones has some ideas on the negro question and makes no apologies for her statement. “Sometimes I think the negro should go on Jis bended knees and thank God tor some of the years 'of bondage. It was a means of bringing a race to quick fruition During tha period of two hundred years in slavery the negro as a class acquired what it had taken the Anglo Saxon fourteen hundred years to accom-i plish—language, the Christian re-j ligion. the use of tools, the domestic and agricultural art and now, best of all, triumphant freedom.” All this was said with an eloquent glow on her face. “There was sacrifice." Mrs. Jones Ml -a.- . rs _ — a_ — ______

Editor’* 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. , {

ness and. with the average person, r the occasion opens the way to do 1 it. Boxes will be placed in the De-j catur banks and in the Daily Democrat office and those who wish to contribute towards the Good Fellows fund should drop a dollar or five dollars in them. It is finer to give than : to receive and at Christmas time ■ this spirit should fill the hearts of, all. The Good Fellows Club is worthy i i > of your donations and you'll feel i much happier on Christmas morn if r you know that you have helped someone. The chief item pf comment among 1 the republicans in Washington last week was the display of Indiana', greats and neargreats by Senator j Watson. Just now Jim is having some little trouble in properly influencirg the president that he is the big and only noise in Indiana republicanism, and the thing nearest his heart is to land his candidate to the judgeship made vacant by the promotion of Judge Anderson. Jim has laid all his money ‘on one Judge! Baltzell. and is making his fight for him and him only. The president I and Attorney-General Stone have not' yet said the word that would .Wr. Baltzell. and Watson is worried, so why not put on a demonstration, i and he did. He had State Chairman i Clyde Walb. he had Joe Kealing. he had one Emison, who managed the Coolidge campaign in Indiana, he had ethers of lesser degree of. pedigree, and they gathered in Washington. Jim took them up to see the president, but yet Mr. Coolidge has not ■ said the wqrd. Only a part of the •. silence for which the president is -. noted, probably, but Jim wants to .’ | know, and wants to know now. Os course, in this display of greats I . Messrs, New, Beveridge and Good- 1 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1921.

7 : tlf H 11 ydjfe 3 i. <aSs W, cl wP r I 1 KATHERINE TIFT JONES say»: 1 "I do feel grateful for the fact that ' I had a mammy, knowing that relationship will never exist again—a , 1 rare thing to look back upon—a lev-' ' mg, trustworthy, angelic, old black) ! mammy.”

, continued, “as there is always sacri ' fice with progress, but it seems to me no such terrible suffering as the 1 white race endured during the long' struggle upward, with its thousands ' of battles, famines, and all the other * hideous atrocities that seem to lie * in the pathway of the onward trav- ' eler. either as an individual or as a nation.” j 1 A true daughter of the Southland. 1 Mrs. Jones is in love with the negro 1 of the old time, for he had something 1 that is an ideal of loyalty and service 1 —Faithful, trustworthy and so much ' of a poet and musician through God < given gifts that the negro music of today is the folk-song of America. ' ( After reading several poems in which she seemed to bring the very atmosphere of the old South, she continued: “I do feel grateful for the fact that a 1 had a mammy, knowing that rela tionsh p will never exist again—a 1 rare thing to look back upon—a lov- t ing, trustworthy, angelic, old black t mammy.” I ? Attjrcd in the costumes of the' times—some of them the very dresses worn in the old days—Mrs. Katherine Jones gives a program that charms I and fascinates, elevates and. above y ail. entertains; for it is a glimpse of human life in a charming setting * a , With all the winsomeness of a .South j ern belle before the Civil War ifi her t ccstnme and speerh one feels trans s potted back to the days of grand j mothers and great grandmothers who f danced the stately minuet, quadrille ' s or iancers. o

rich were lacking. They do not be- (■ long, you know. —Bluffton Banner. ( o . j The Bible And The Public School Think you friends, the great All-Father. Is not grieved that men should rule His good word of faith and wisdom , I As a text book from Ute school? I J I Strange the most immortal music Ever heard upon the earth. Should be hushed, lest hearts that hunger Hear of our Redeemer's birth. Ought not every lad and lassie Learn about the pastures green And the lilies and the sparrows.— How His love and cures are seen. IHe who said. ‘Love one another." j “To thine enemy be kind." Is he not earth's sanest teacher? Greater wisdom who can find? Ye who seek to solve life’s problem | Know ye not the Jesus' plan? Toward the Father, love, obedience, | Aud good will twixt man and man. Lot our children study Jesus Mind an dheart with Him keep tryst, Peace will come, the world be happy When it learns to live like Christ. —A. D. Burkett. c

♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY « ♦ From the Dally Democrat fllee 4 ♦ 20 yeara ago thio day 4 ♦ i December 2, 1904. —Home of Mr. land Mrs. Edward Beatty, tea miles I

■ 'northeast of here, destroyed by fire and their 13 month old babe porUhoa. | New electric plant at Berne damaged when spring in patent governor losens and engine is amaahed. Holt house ditch completed by David Ritnour of Portland, contractor. Yager's furniture store displays |7(>o gold pleated bedstead in window. St. lamia World Fair closes. Moro than ninteen million people attended during the year. Grand jury completes duties ami returns twenty three indictments. W. A. Kuebler home from Chicago stock show. Barney Kalver is attending to business at Winchester. (Big Features Os ( RADIO Programs Today ( j TUESDAY'S RADIO PROGRAM I (Copyright 1924 by United Press) WBZ. Springfield. (337 tn) 8:15 p. I m. (E. S. T.) —Ballet music of the I Pavolwa ballet troupe, direct from I Boston. I KPO. San Francisco, (423 n>> S p. I m. (E S. T.) —U. S. Annji band. ’ KGO. Oakland. (312 nt) 8 p. m. (p. I C. S. T.)—KGO players in “Merely I Marry Ann." ■ WCK, Detroit. (517 in)- 10 p. m. I (E. 8. T.) —The Red Apple club. | WEAF. New York, (492 m) WFI. | Philadelphia. (509 m) WCAE. Pitts I urgh (462 mi WEE!. Poston. (3e3 tu< WCR Buffola. <319 m) WJAR. Providence. (3Sh m) 9 p m. Everready entertainers. Cigarette Beetle To Be Discussed At Meeting (United Press Service) Lafayette. Ind.. Dec. 2—The haunts ' and habits of a pet which is beginning j to harrow the lives of Hoosiers will , be revealed at the annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of science beginning here. December 5. it was announced today. The pest has the terrifying nam of . Lasiederma serricone. or lanuagtC the cigarette bettie. The revelation will be made inaddresses by Howard E. Enders, of; Purdue University and Harry Dietz. I assistant state entemologist. Diets said the entomologists' department has had during the pas’t three years, quite a number of inquiries from per- ; sons who have complained that these bugs have gotten into the upholstering of their chairs afid davenport and have multiplied there, consuming the stufing. The bettie is brown and about one eigth of an inch long. It feeds off the flax tow and the Spanish moss which is used in stuffing upholstered furniture. They get into the home, factory, store, or wherever the furniRegular meeting of Decatur Chap- | ter Royal Arch Masotfs, December [I 2. 1924. at 7:30 p. m. All members h are requested to, be present. ’ L. C. HELM. H P. j

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NOW OPEN ■ The Decatur Flour & Feed Comn !■ wishes to announce their place „f i, H now open to the public. Located at TlfiT K i Ist street, Decatur, Indiana. bO, M We will handle the following produce. 8 Pacemaker Flour UctSl ■ Seal of America Flour & Gold Star Flour I Pastry Flour B Bran and Middlings H Also Chicken Feed. S Feed orders will be cash as delivered H (rive us 41 call. ■ C. G. Strickler Mgr. ■ Phone 70 R MXKIgOgR,XJ(IK(K(.. » „ K'k.K'ko: :: I These Times Justify I | Your Supreme Effort . S il s I'roseiit day pr<wperity ami opportunity should call for the best you have. We expe ct prosperous times ami excellent eon. I ditions to contiune for the years to com* bi- - I, i K Today—the present-is all that is ours Now is the time to profit from these conditions |H Are You Working H I 100% Efficient? H j Oftentimes the services of a good Bank cau add largely to one's working efficiency. We advise our patrons to vlork safely and onservatively. hut where additional tmanc tig i~ mail ed to secure joar best production, we solicit jour fe You are not do ng your duty unless you are j running at full production ami up to full capacity. Old Adams County Bank I The Bank for Everybody Wt Big Bargains In I USED CARS I 1922—Dodge Sedan. Repainted ■ A-l condition—Good as new. S 1923—Tw0 Tourings B Ist class condition. s 1920— Ford Coupe—has been used B only a very little. B 1922— Ford Coupe B good shape. ■ 1921— Dodge Roadster—Repainted B New tires—good shape. £ 1921—Star Coupe B Good condition. §1 1923— Star Sedan— S Ist class condition. H 1921—lord Touring—Starter and demountable £ rims. Ist class condition. ■ 2—Used Fordson Tractors s in good condition. g All of these cars can be purchased on the payment pl all Your old car can be turned in as down pajnienl. We have several older cars, no[ listed here, that «c < an || sell at a very low price. g Adams County Auto Co. I EXCLUSIVE FORD DEALERS sn I j ■