Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1924 — Page 5

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■ T M| Mrs. Fred Nichols will go | BH Michigan, tomorrow io ■K,,.,,,! Christinas with their son-in ■K.' |U . daughter, Mr. ami Mrs. Clark anil family. ■t'l Mr' Dan T >' n<la " *P ent ‘he day m ■E.. iVayne visiting witli fri.-mis an,l BKadatives. ■B i.-,,.,! iKnzle arrived today irom ■H,.. ...,|.us, Ohio, where he is a sin HH ({pnt at Ohio State University, to nH, p ,.. ;il the Holidays with his moth.i Flora Kinzle. HE Vrs Della Sellemeyer left today MB tl „ t aming. Mich., to spend Chri t |H |IIP with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bailor |Hg. V .. Naomi Baker was th., gm >r at Fort Wayne today. |HK Mrs Frank Bose spent the flat ,n HH |,’ l ,rt Wayne visiting friends. Mh j. h. Peterson, and d.o: I, 1 . H 9 S |,i->~\ Jeanne, of Terre II ml . |Bb S|H nd ug the Chirstmas holidav■Hl with Mrs. Peterson's parents. Mt Ml and Mrs. Sam Butler. M"' Miss Mary Poling visited U n. „ Fort Wayne today. HH nigle from Naperville, 111. when ■M nie'e from Naperville. 11l . where MR . indents al Northwestern (■ ■ ■W to -1" ml the Christmas vacation with relatives here. ■HS c. A. Lersch, of Fort Wayne, was ; ■EI business caller here this morning. ■EI ■ Mirs Neva Graber, student nurse at M I •!;. I.’itheran Hospital al Fort , I js visiting friends here today. |E' Miss Margaret Moran, of Fort BKH Wayne, is spending the weekend K wth her mother, Mrs. J. ('. Moran. KI of Marshall street. Bn The Misses Cecile. Nora, and Fol“HLI tin Dudgeon are spending Hi, w. >I. BH|| mid with friends at Fort Wayne. Mrs. (). L. Vance and daughter 1.. ■ BKo Anna, spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne with friends. ■n o Society I CLUB CALENDAR H Saturday E. King's Heralds’"" of the M. I ■9 ' Church—Miss Helen (’hroni-ter. 7 M p. m. HR Corinthian Class and Ladle- Aid H| Society of the Christian church. BP bazaar, rummage sale and chi< ken K supper—Church basement. 8., U* B. Indies' Aid Society. cand Bi| sale —Peoples Loan and Trust CmnHg pany and Peoples Shoe Store. ■ Monday M Delta Theta Tan—Miss Naomi Dur Bb ■g Phoebe Bible Class of Reformed H Church —Mrs. Tillman Gerber. 7M". H- Research (Tub —Mrs. C. E. Bell. I Psi lota Xi Christmas party - .Mrs. Ec J. H. Borroughs, Bp. m. I Tuesday I Tri Kappa Christinas Party—Miss I Veronica Anker. ■ Moose Legionaires Christmas party I —Mrs. Nick Brown. I Antioch Missionary Society—Mrs. I Homer Ginter. | Loyal Workers Class of E- V. I Cl’ttrih—Mrs. Inez Weber, 6:30. | "Silent Workers Class of United

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Brethren Church-Mrs. Ben Pillars. Baptist Woman's Society—Mrs. S K. Shamp. Ever Ready Cl*s ß of M. E. Church —Mrs. Ed Ahr. Friday Night Club-. Mrs. Ruby Durkin. So Cha Rea— Miss Cecile Miller, 7:30 p. ni. Royal Neighbors — Ben Hur Hall. 7:30 p. nt. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zimmerman entertained six little friends of their son. Max. in honfor of his ninth birthday, Wednesday from three to six. Gaines were enjoyed after which refreshments of ice cream and cake, in Chirstmas colors, were served. Max was the recipient of a lovely gift from the guests. Those who attended included Robert Braden. Frederick Scht'oyer, Richard Mailand. Munro Foreman, and Ijiwrence Woodrow Biggs. The annual Chirstmas party and i exchange of the Psi lota Xi Sorority will be held Monday evening at the home of Hrs. J. H. Borroughs. Stunts have been arranged by the committees, with Mrs. C. O. Porter. Mrs. A. R. Holthouse and Miss Carolyn Acker in charge. I Miss Helen Gass delightfully entertained the members of the K. Z. K. Chib at her home on West Adams 1 street last evening. The home was decorated for the occasion in the lusual Christmas colors and trimmins. Five Hundred was played and prizes were won by the Misses Germaine Chirsten and Irene Host-I house. Miss Kathryn Omlor was awarded tlr> guest prize. Miss Winifred Clark was also a guest, besides the club members. At the conclusion of the games the exchange of gifts was held. Strings were attached to a large balloon and to the packages in a large basket. The guests drew strings and slips of paper directed them where to find the packages. A delectable two course luncheon was served at a late hour. Tlie Young Peoples .Missionary Circle of the Evangelical church will meet with M-s. Elmer Anspaugh Tuesday evening at. 7:30 o'clock. A ■Christmas exchange will be held in .connection with the meeting. All members are urged to attend. The Young Matrons Club met with Mrs. Alva Lawson last evening at her home on Seventh stret. Mrs. Irene Schafer read a very interesting paper on •‘Christmas.” and Mrs. Ben Schroyer sang a group of songs. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Schroyer in January. A Christmas exchange was also held after which delectable refreshments were served. o Motorist Instantly Killed Palmyra. N. Y.. Dec. 20. —John Fabain, Minneapolis. Minn., representative in this section of a Minneapolis implement company, was almost instantly killed last nignt when the auto he was driving was struck by an eastbound repair car of the llochestei and Syracuse railroad.

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I ' 1,1 — .at — ■■■■■■■■■ ■ - ■ __ . _ _ - —J< I, 3n Armenian (Christmas * By ROSE WILDER LANE The almoet unbelievable atory of what America meant to the Near East, told by a woman who was there last Chrletmas. It Is printed at the request of several readers, by special arrangement with the editor of Good Housekeeping, the holder of the copyright.

• . - T MOUNT ARARftT. ITS NAME MEANS "MOTHER OF THE WORLD"

fL . -IHEN Christmas morning comes * U> America, with its happigELfoa of expectancy, its scamparing in nightgowns, its 'thrill of bulging stockings, its sound of early church bells, the darkness of night is upon the other side of the world. It is a fact which we all know, but how bard it is to realize it! And if it is hard, in the dawn of the year’s happiest day, to realize the meaning of darkness, how much harder it was to realize, in the darkness, that somewhere there was light and joy. I \Vhen Christmas dawn was coming to America a year ago, 1 was walking In the streets of Erivan, the capital I of Armenia. The grayness of winter had been upon the Caucasus for months before that Christmas day. The thick, gray fog came down from the peaks of kfount Ararat above us —those peaks among which the Ark was stranded in the subsiding waters of the Flood —and covered the depths of snow on the plains. The Armenian villages were buried under the snow. It had been six weeks since anyone had been able to reach the villages. In Erivan, there was at least a little light. At intervals on the broken streets, lined with ruins of houses that fell in the last bombardment, there were street lights, faint yellow patches in the fog. Between the lights there was only a denseness of gray, in which I sometimes collided with a muffled figure and sometimes heard the crying, like that of a baby, of a laden camel passing invisible in the fog, complaining of the thick frost that sealed his eyelashes together. Otherwise there was no sound or movement in the desolation of the streets. And it was Christmas morning in America! Around the American headquarters, against the walls beneath the windows and thick on the steps of the door, was that mass of women and children who always huddled there, crying and pleading for rescue from the agony of the cold. They clutch at your feet and your skirts and your hands, these women, holding up their children, begging, praying. Carry a heavy cane and keep on your face a mask of anger; that will keep off these clutching hands. I*, has to be done. There was nothing else we could do, we Americans in Erivan. Even now I plead these constantly repeated excuses that were no comfort. There were Americans in Erivan that Christmas day who could be forced to do these things and still keep some belief in the power of Christ's teachings, some laith in the goodness of humanity. I do not know how. For we had to do these things because the Americans at home, in their own happiness were failing us. We had known weeks earlier that the November drive at home was tailing short of success. A great enterprise—like nothing the world had seen before—was failing. Failing because it had been built on faith. Other huge American enterprises stand firm, built on the selfish pleasures and needs of human beings. This one, with its fleet of ships, its vast intricacy of organization, Its complex and efficient activities reaching from this far corner of the Caucasus to the sunny hills of Palestine, had been built’on nothing but the goodness in the hearts of a million Americans. Every year, when reports were made and next year's budget was figured, it came to this: the continued safety of tens of thousands of rescued children rested on one invisible asset-good-ness. Now that asset was falling. As I walked through the streets f was discussing the situation with the American director, Dr. Evans. 1 forget what bitterness I expressed. “People just don’t realize—'' said Dr. Evans. “You see, in America the war’s over.” We tried to think what, it must be like in America where the war was over. “They say it’s hard times at home,” Dr Evans said, trying to understand those people in America, to excuse them. “I suppose," he said, “they feel they can't spare it. Probably they think they need it themselves. They don't know. They're tired of being asked to give, ail the time" Then we almost stumbled on something solid under our test in the bliud- | ness of the to? _ h stju^ ed u P*' ard .

and divided into three—three little boys. We could see that they were almost naked, as they crowded tato the snow to let us pass. “We’ve got to think of the ones we already have on our hands,” said Dr. Evans. It was true. Only that diminishing help from home was between the forty thousand and such suffering as was about us in the streets. We came to tho door of one of the orphanages. It was supper-time, and as it was Christmas day, there were to be prunes from California added to the everyday ration of corn-grits from Kansas. One tries to do something for the children, at Christmas. It was our plan to stop and watch the lines filing past the big cauldrons, getting their bowls tilled with that Christmas treat. An orphanage was tHe happiest place In Armenia, and we felt the need of a little happiness. The door opened, and the light came out upon the snow. On the steps we turned and saw the three boys standing there. They were probably 1 ine or ten years old. but of course starvation had left them as small as six or seven. One had a bit of sheep skin, one wore the fragment of a s leeveless jacket. The other had only a wisp of rag. They stood there, waiting to watch us go in and shut the door. “Good God,” said Dr. Evans. ‘ whether I can or not, I will!" In a corner of the corridor there was a large iron stove, faintly warm. The warmth of it met them at the I door, and they ran toward it, trein- I bling. They stood incredulous in that unbelievable warmth, looking at each ■ other and at their outspread arms as though they felt a miracle. All that the cruelty of hunger and cold can do to living bodies had been done to theirs, so they know what blessedness it is just to be warm. The oldest one asked if they might sleep there, where it was warm. We opened the door to the dormitory. The dormitories of the orphanages in the Caucasus are huge bare rooms, stone-floored, with roughly plastered walls, and two-tiered bedsteads crowded together, bedsteads hurriedly made from packing cases and old lumber. But the beds are clean and soft, and there are blankets on.them. We said to the boys: “This is where you will sleep tonight.’’ The oldest boy looked at a bed. A wonder and a radiance slowly dawned on his face. He looked upward as (hough he saw a glory shining through the stained gray ceiling and he fell upon his knees and kissed the rough bedpost, as Armenians kiss the corner stones of churches. From the diningroom came the sound of hundreds of children’s voices, thanking God in Armenian for their bowls of prunes and corn-grits. The boy was sobbing, on the floor, his cheek against the bedpost. What we were doing doesn’t matter. The long chant of the children’s grace ended in the dining-room, and then in the tiny pause before the clatter of spoons began, the weak sound of individual voices rose, and others joined tfcem in a spontaneous helterskelter of cries "God bless Americans!” The world's history has never before recorded such « movement as this American reaching-out of sympathy—of charity, which is love—from the masses of us Ameriuans to the masses of other peoples whom we have not seen. The work America is ; doing in the Near East will not long continue. Time takes it out of our hands. The children who are in our care are growing up, are every day going out into the world to make their own way. Fourteen thousand new citizens for the old, weary, blood- ■ staine.d countries of the Near East | go out from our doors every year. ; Every month sees the hospitals consolidating; every spring the throngs in the orphanages diminish. There are still 45,000 children, too little yet to take care of themselves. When Christmas morning comes to America this year, there will be American workers over there waiting for news that we have not tailed them, that we are sending them enough to take them through another year. Any reader who wishes to help in this great work should send a check • to the Near East Relief. 151 Fifth ave- ■ ' aue. Net" York Cits It ’till unfaHltu !ly reach,lts dettinaMoe

SUNDAY SCHOO! TO GIVE PAGEANT (Continued from Page One) Baumgartner Jeplithah (A Hebrew stableboy)— Paul Spuller Traveller (From beyond Jordan)— Ralph Butler Miriam. Lamecb. Zaila, Dorces (Children of Bethh’heiulsf Martha Er ma Butler. Eugene Knodle, Betty June Welker mid Murtha Jane Linn Hulda. Tieborah, Hagar, Rachel (Women of Bethlehem)— Mildred Liddy. Helen Whit right, Bessie Martz. Hester Martz Trumpeter—Charles Brown Herald (of Rome) —George Roop Traveller (From Capernium)— Lyle Fee. ssachar, Zebulon, Simeon (Hebrew Shepherds) — Gordon Teeters. John Aber, Gerald Cliffton. Joseph. Mary (Os Bethlehem)—Clur ence Spull’r. Zelma Fuhrman. A Child (Os Bethlehem)—Etta Anspaugh Balthasar, Melchior, Casper (Wise Men from the East) —Miles Baker, Dan Aughenbaugh, Herbert Fuhrman A Servan (Os the Wise Men)-Win. Ruckman. o — OBITUARY Joseph D. McFarland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arch McFarland, was born in Jay county, Indiana, Dec. sth. 1871 ami died at his home in Decatur, Indiana, Dec. 17th. 1924. Age fifty three years and twelve days. The immediate cause of death whs apoplexy caused from a long illness of heart trouble. The day preceed ing his d< ath he enjoyed an unusually happy day, feeling better than usual and remarked about same to his son, Gregg. He retired at his usual time to awake in the Great Beyond. His lifeless body was found the following morning by his son. Evi dently his life had passed out several hours before. On June 5. 1898. Mr. McFarland was united in marriage to Miss Ada Elzey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Elzey, of Adams county, Indi ana. Mrs. McFarland proceeded her husband in death June 30, 191.8. To this union was born one son. Gregg, who is married. He and his wife i have been living with his father. August 12. 1906, brother McFarland united with the First Methodist | Episcopal church of Decatur, Indiana and his life has been one of a clean consistant consecrated Christian, and for many years has served on various official boards of the church. His Christian life and character is one admired by all who knew him. Brother McFarland was a member of the Knights of Pythias and Yeo-

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man lodges of this city. Hy trsde. 1 Mr. McFarland was a barber tor many years, and followed this practice until 1913 when he was elected treasurer of the city of Decatur, and re-elected in 1917, which office h» held for six years, conducting name . in a very orderly and business like manner and with much credit to him- . self. In 1919 he accepted a position as field manager and auditor of the White Mountain Cream company . which position he held till a few wiM-ks ago. Surviving are his son, Gregg and his wife of Decatur. Indiana, his father, Arch McFarland and three brothers. John, Martin and itha of Portland and vicinity, and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Ferguson of Ridgeville. , Indiana and Mrs. W. F. Bennett of San Pedro, California. Besides r these, a large circle of near relatives and a host of friends. Funeral services were conducted from rhe First Methodist Episcopal churcli in charge of the Rev Fred F Thornburg, a former pastor, of Kokomo, Ind., and the pastor. Dr. U. S. , A. Bridge. Interment at Maplewood cemetery, Dee. 19. 1924.

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