Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. H?Uer. Pres, and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe, Vice-Prcs. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holtnouse. Sec’y. & Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postofllce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 2 cents One week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Mouths, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mail .. $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are withn first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made Known by Application. _.. Foreign Representative arpenter & Company, iKwttjbigan Avenue, Chicago, FiftnZi&Mn«e Bldg.. New York City, N. Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. off the tail-end of that terrific nor’ western blizzard today and Several days of the same brand are 'd by the weather man. The ’ coal eran and the merchants smile at this seasonable dose. Are you a Good Fellow really just a bluff? Help pass Christmas cheel around by giving a small amount to the Delta Tan fund for the' poor children. The young ladies themselves, started the move with a* $25. sirbsefiptiou and additions from day <6 day hive brought the sum up to .jijriK.ione-fourth of the desired amo|Bt tv make it a regular Christ- ( mas -for, the- youngsters. Dig down , and feet a few dimes out and help the ( goorh. cause jUlong. v/. ~ i CldiStmas , tomes but once a year. Its > Mk day. ' This year it comes in about two weeks. Are you ready for I it? If not now is the time to shop. , The stores are filled with beautiful. useful, attractive and worth while ( articles which will make just the right gifts. Select them now while you have the opportunity and while the clerks have the time to wait on you. Read the advertisements in the Daily Democrat. They will help you solve your problems. You would lie surprised and alarmed if you knew' how many young men' are carrying revolvers. Why do they do it? Most of them feel that its a' smart thing, a sort of bravado spirit,' but the trouble is that they may use them some time in the wrong man-1 tier. Tiie legislature could help some i

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Ilf they added about about five years 1 lin tho penal farm for any person ■ caught with a gun without authority j and it might stop a few affairs like ■J the one at South Bend Saturday night ’• when a half dozen people were shot, '•j Two prominent members of the faculty of Princeton University de- , fend the cross-word puzzle The * things in this world that really count *1 * are the things we do without any ) ; reason—like eating mince pie. or getJ ting married. The minute we begin I to think of them or attach any ' significance to them, they became boresome and harmful. The first cross-word puzzle was designed as an - i amusement, intended to lure thoughts from the landlord and to keep us from worrying about where next month's alimony is coming from.! , In a world where not even the wisest I i of us can give any good reason living, it’s funny to hear somebody talking about the “educational value" of cross-word puzzles. — New York Telegram. Murder used to be a terrible thing, punishable by death or occasionally I when there were mitigating circumstances, by life imprisonment. DurI Ing the past few years however there I have been many cases of acquittal on! the grounds of insanity, drunkenness' or something else and often times less than life terms have been meted out No more startling instance of the silly soli sentiment which seems to be running a course has been reported however than that of a few days ago in Michigan when a young man beat his school teacher who had rejected him. to death with his fists and a club, plead guilty and was sentenced to from four to fifteen years in prison. The very longest term this hard-hearted murderer will have' to serve is about ten years. Is it to be wondered at that crime increases? When Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter decided to make her home in California a year or two ago, she offered her picturesque home, “Limberlost” on Sylvan lake, near Rome City to the state at a nominal price, if it could be taken over as a state park ■ * and while the movement never culI | uated there are many who feel that ' it would be the most attractive place' 'of its kind in the state. Iler death lias revived the question and Richard | Lieber, Indiana director of conseri • ation. will lead a campaign to secure

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8 this wonderful beauty spot where a Mrs. Porter has gathered every kind y of plaut life known in tho middle a west, where the trees are the tallest t'aud straightest, where birds and in;.l sects make their home and which would be not only a public park but ea monument to the great Indiana •J authoress. 8 A paid secretary for the Industrial 'Association for 1925 would mean a f man of experience to inap'out a program of progress anil then work ten /hours a day to see that it Is carried J out. Under the present plan we meet t 1 occasionally, discuss matters and dei 1 dare intentions and then we all get •’ busy with our own affairs and the big J things needed are permitted to drag. J The right man on the job would prove I the best investment we ever made. 1 Decatur is just at the point where 'we should go forward. It we don't I we will slip back for communities like individuals do not stand still. Which will it be? We firmly believe

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Monticello. — George Moore, 21.1 senior and athlete, wa« sentenced to' a year in the reformatory tor ateal | ing $22.84 from a teacher's desk all high school. Gary. — The city council here has decided to draft a new traffic, code. The ordinance will include now pro-; vl4itWs,.(pr traffic and parking.

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