Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. j J. H. Heller. Pres, and Gen. Mgr. E W. Kampe, Vice-Prcs. & Adv. Mgr. A. K. Holthouse. Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postofllce at DeeaturJ 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 31-00 Six Months, by mall $1.75 One Year, by mail - $3.00 ( One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are witbn first and] second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) v Advertising Rates Made Known by Application. Foreign Representative Carpenter & Company, 123 Michigan Avenue. Chicago. Fifth Avenue Bide.. New York I'itv N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Christmas is costing the government more than two million dollars in extra expense for handling the mail and its worth it. I My what a change — thirty years ago, according to a Cincinnati paper, beer was selling there for three cents a glass. It must have been a Christmas special. A dollar or two in the Good Fellows fund will help another child or two have a merry Christmas. Get your contribution in this week. Plans to give the poor boys -and girls a good time on Christmas are now being made by those in charge. Got your dollar in. The cold wave loitered a little on tlie way but don't “kid” yourself that it won't arrive. You can safely plan I for some real weather unless all signs . go wrong and this one is not likely too for at noon today old King Frost had arrived in Chicago and from ' there west he had brought out every ■ heavy coat, wrap and cap some hours ( before. Better get ready to shiver. Governor Branch and other leriiers insist that we must have a iu rural police force in order to maintain observance of speed laws. Now there may be some reasons for a state police force and we don’t bl une the bankers for supporting it after the record of the past year or two, but if their main job is to pinch the fellow who foolishly exceeds the speed limit, we will be getting into something for k will require thousands to do this in any thing like a methodical manner. Christmas comes one week from tomorrow and as the day draws near . we seem to feel a kindlier attitude in everyone we meet. Old and young are more tolerant of each other, hearts are a little warmer, the elbows of the shoppers are not so sharp and we are a little more inclined to forgive things that might at other times irritate us. Without the spirit of the Christmastide, it would be a cold., and cheerless event. You will enjoy it more if you help the poor boys and girls and the easy way to do it is to subscribe to the Good Fellows fund. Ed Jackson’s brother, James, a leading member of the Indiana klan, is the first evidently to be paid off. He has been named as superintendent of the Indiana School for feeble mind-* ed children at Fort Wayne, succeeding Dr. Biggs who resigned to avoid being discharged. Now laugh that off. you people who thought Jackson 1 wouldn’t reward those of the klanj who assisted him to secure the nomination and win the election. Young Jackson has had no experience and there seems to have been no reason for tlie removal of Dr. Biggs, but it came any way and there will be more surprises to follow. | They don't fool with murderers I over in England. Recently a man! named William George Smith was charged with the crime of murder. 1 He was tried and convicted within a* fortnight and sentenced to death in' a few days. There were clrcudistences which seemed too many to call for mercy and besides Smith had

■ . . Flashlights of Famous People ;

Face to Face j With Charles F. Horner — Maestro of Speakers By JOE MITCHELL CHAPPLE As the Field Marshal of five thousand four minute speakers during the war. Ch.tries F. Horner, of Kansas | City, deserves his distinction as the I maestro of speakers. Previous to this he had built up one of the largest Lyceum and Chautauqua circuits In the country. His broad vision brought to the people of the remote districts in the mid west territory which he covered the best of public enterta'nment from La Scala grand opera. William Jennings Bryan. Paderewski. Sousa to the most successful of the Broadway plays. The mountain peak is brought to Mohammed in his work. Born in Menominee, Wisconsin, in 1878 he moved with his parents to Nebraska and had the regular career of a farmer boy on the prairies. After a fewyears at the I'niversity of Nebraska he studied law, but Blackstone was a bore to him. He became a teacher in public schools and taught young ideas how to shoot and later did some shooting himself while riding the range and operating a large cattle ranch. After attending a Chautauqua ih his home town he felt that it held the formation of a career for, him and he decided to launch into) Chautauqua work for himself. He I met with unusual success from the! start because as one of the people. of the west he knew what they wanted in the tent. Later he established a Conservatory of Music or a train-, ing school in Kansas City for the different companies and attractions in his concert. It became an institution almost as important as the Chautauqua itself, wielding the influence of a college or University itself. The first time I met Charles F. Horner face to face he was at this' college in the midst of rehearsals. Three or four companies were in rigid training and they were being couched and rehearsed by New York stage managers with all the care and thoroughness of a Broadway production. During the war he was logically the man to head the Speakers Bureau of the U. S. Treasury Department, Red Cross Drive and in the Training Camp activities and proved a conspicuous success. Identified with the successful development of the Smileage Book Campaign he produced a regular Chautauqua for the doughboys overseas and at home. The two successful Democratic campaigns, 1912-1916. found him Chief of the Speakers Bureau. With fall his other activit’es Charles F. Horner was editor of the Olathe K insas Register, a regular old-fashioned newspaper in active touch with folks at home. This proved that there are l others of the galaxy of Sunflower editors besides William Allen White and Howe, of Potatoe Hill.

Editor* Note: Sono ten names of your favorite famous folk now living to Joe Mitchell Chappie, The Attic, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City the readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fame

’ been a World War hero, so a hundred ' thousand Brittishers asked for a;' mitigation of the death sentence. > , They scarcely received attention. England may be too severe but just the same the records show that nation astonishingly free from murders.. Last year there were just seven in the entire country while in this nation there are many cities with many times that number of homicides. History shows that some years ago! London had many adventures for newspapers, murders, holdups and' * crimes of everv kind. Perhaps that, I explains why they became hardnosed, and perhaps in due time we too will 'learn to punish those who make oth--1 era suffer. — JB I Don’t fool away your time with thej peddlers. They are numerous these days and we have received a half 1 1 dozen reports of how smoothly they J fooled Decatur c tizens recently. One man took a number of orders for a ( | child’s blackboard at $15.00 and the :same article could have been pur- < I chased in one of several local stores i for $3.00. Another agent sold silk stockings at a fancy price, another ! sold brushes and others sold perfumes ( and spices and novelties ijut it is al-i ways the same. These peddlers must; make good profits to travel around as they do, they pay no taxes, but are simply fooling you and takiiig •f i

' DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17,1824;

Ml .-«•* if r v IJF ... j® l CHARLES F. HORNER says: "Most people cherish an ambition and longing to make public addresses.! It is as common to men as the ambition of grade and high school girls to become moving picture stars.''

In a, recent volume, "The Speaker and the Audience.” Mr. Horner has given h's ideas on the subject in a frank manner, using quotations and gems of orators as a text. Here his early training as a teacher served him well. "it is the spoken word that counts. We are fond of making jokes at the expense of the orator and public speaker. While we will not admit ' it,” he said to me fumbling his watch charm meditatively, "most people ■ cherish an ambition and longing to make public addresses. It is as common to men as the ambition of grade and high school girls to become mov- . ing picture stars. This ambition not gratified causes men to make little mean jokes at the expense of the orator and call it hot air. The business nun reads his dreary manu-i script and says, ’I you facts and not spread eagle oratory.’ Such quips are an expression of an involuntary but significant compliment to the speaker.” Mr. Horner understands the speaker and doesn’t hesitate to speak out in meeting. He has managed thousands of speakers. “Your speaker has his faults and weaknesses most greivous. Heisjiresome. or interesting according to the individuals. ’ Oftentimes he is self Centered, that’s why he is a speaker. Sometimes, very selfish and vain, and seems perverted in his theories but says things that ring true. I've heird good speakers, bad speakers; I’ve been inspired and bored: but rarely have I failed to derive some value from a speech.” There was something of a speaker's eloquence in h's eyes and man- . iter in speaking of Faith as the one , foundation on which the speaker must build. He called ft the very Father of Hope, the breath and the very essence of growth and the basi.j of I every great and good action or speech. Hope and Charity he did not 1 mention because they are embodied in the all embraeive ideal of Faith.

business away from the leg tiinate business houses. When you patronize an agent who calls at your door, be sure to know who he !s and who he represents and unless you know, they are alright don’t waste time on them. Retail stores are public service institutions and every community needs them. Don’t destroy them by paying smooth peddlers outrageous prices. Help support those I who he'p to provide the taxes for j better roads, schools, fire and police I protection. That’s what makes good | community-loyalty. 0 » rWENTV YEARS AGO TODAY * • . » Oom the Deity Democrat fl<e» * » 20 year* ago thia day ♦ »*♦«*♦****<»«•* Dee. 17. HMM — S. A. Coppcs, of Ridgeville identifies buggy and harness stolen from him November 27th and located by Marshall Green. Forty hours devotion will begin tomorrow at St. Mary’s church. Peter Holthouse accidentally locks customer in his clothing store. He was finally resuced. Rev. Jerry McKean, of Seattle, visits relatives here. Father of Dr. I'. B. Thomas dies at Glencor, Ohio. Joseph Cohen of Bleding. Michigan isits Bogner family. o 1— Several Adams county trustees are attending the meeting of trustees at Indianapolis this week.

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BANKER EXPLAINS BANKING SCHOOL! I). J. Harklcss Explains Proposed Course To High School Pupils D. J. Harkless. ea h:er of the Ohl Adams County Bank, spoke to the puipls of Decatur high school and the jDecatur Catholic high school this hnorning in regard to the courses In elementary banking English to be 'given by the newly organized chapter of the American Institute of Backing. The classes will start work the first of January and meetings will be held on Wednesday night of each week. | Pupils of the two high schools and anyone else who so desires are incited to join the classes. Twentynine lessons will be given after which an examination will be given. Sister |Vera; principal of the Catholic high school, will teach the class in English 1 and C. A. Dugan, president of the First National Bank, will be the instructor in banking. The classes will • meet in the Catholic school building. | . O1 Hunt For Soldier Who Murdered His Wife Uidianapolis. Dec. 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Jack Dorsey, a sol dier stationed on recruiting duty at Vincennes, was hunted today for the slaying of his wife. Mrs. Ferule Fae Dorsey, 25. Mrs. Dorsey was shot by the i estranged husband in the presence |of her mother here late yesterday. Dorsey went to the home of his wife’s mother a few minutes after Mrs. ’ Dorsey returned from work. He followed his wife into the front j room of the house, saying “This is i what 1 have come to show you," uc-

‘NORTHERN INDIANA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY Notice of Dividend on Class “A” Preferred Stock The Board of Directors of (he Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company has declared the t- regular quarterly dividend of one and three-quarters jtcr cent (1 ) upon each share of the outstanding Class “A” Preferred stock, payable January 14, 1925, . to stockholders of record on the - company’s books at the close of business on December 31, 1924. W. D. BOONE. Secretary, •

cording to the story; told police by the woman's mother. A moment later he pulled a revolver and shot her instantly The woman'* mother ducked behind a tsvenpoH and Dorsey fled Ns trace had been foand him early today. Dorsey and his wife separtted just before Thanksgiving. o— Nev- York Maurice Manning, a chemtst. has lost his auto license for "drunkenness," although he never took a dritik | n his life. Experimental work in stl’.l requires him to use

~~ REMEMBER ■ s Men Like M I World ’ ' I Masters 4 ? and ■ I 11 White : Stag . H Like Children i Love Candy. 1 They Leave “Nothing Unsaid” I The A B C of Christmas is g All Buy Cheerfully M z\nd along with the useful gifts you give, see ’ ■ that the men folks of the family have plentv ! B of Cigars to rint? the Christmas ( himes. ■ Packed in boxes of 5-10-25-50 & 100 Cigars || Prices from 75c up to $3.75 | “SAY IT TO THE SMOKER WITH ■ For Sale By All Dealers | E Phone 204 Opposite Erie Depot I Sam Hite’s I Big Christmas Sale I

CANDY We have one of the largest assortments of Candy in the city, uood Chocolate Drops, J Best Chocolata Drops, French Cream Candy QAz* Pound jwVV Fancy Fudge. Pound Best Hard Mixed . Pound Peanut Crisp, Peanut Squares, Jelly Beans Pound Old fashioned Stick Candy, lb 2uimU Other Varieties too numerous to mention. Big Discount to Schools and Churches

BIG CHRISTMAS SPECIALS 10 IPs. Fine Granulated Sugar ?5C Fancy New Seedless Raisins ’ IvC •‘er lb ' O'*/, Fancy Eatmore Cranberries, Zt)C 2 lbs. . O * . Fancy Sliced Pineapple in heavy syrup OFC/* Red Pitted Cherries, Zvt Per can ’ ’ jj* i Quart cans Fancy Sweet Pickles Quart cans Fancy Queen Olives ,)0( Large cans Little Elf Pumpkin |i_)( Large cans Yellow Free Stone Peaches Z -jt in Byrup

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MTS I Our Nuts are new. direct from K . the Golden State. Beware of ■ cheap, cold storage nuts, lhey will run bad. ■ Large New Soft >he'l *)-,/» ■ Walnuts, lbOvV E Fancy New Mixed I Nuts, lb I Fancy New Brazil O'aP ■ ! Nuts, lb. "V i Fancy Fresh Roasted lUn ■ ![ Peanuts, lbl ORANGES I , Big shipment direct from tl» ■ coast —Golden Navals, ■ Sweet and Juicy E ■ I Small size, 1 Sis K i Per dozen * ■ ! I Medium Size, z ,)C E Large Size, j()C 1 Per dozen ' ■ Extra Large Size. ZIIJC ■ Per dozen ||