Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 309, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller, Pres, and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe, Vlce-Prea. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y. & Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 2 cents One week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier _ 15.00 One month, by mail.... 35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, 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 Carpenter & Company, 123 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, A Cleveland judge has held it is lawful to have not to exceed two hundred gallons of wine in your cellar, that amount evidently being the idea of this jurist as to ones needs. If you cun have that much wine, why not that much beer or whiskey? Get your New Years resolutions ready. Don't pass it up because you made some before and failed to keep them. You were better off any way and the thing to do now is to make them with a firmer determination to stick this time. I Attention is called to the fact that with the heavy snow on the ground, birds should have food. This is especially true in the rural districts and farmers are asked to scatter some feed where the quails and othei birds which arc helpful to them can get it and thus prevent the destruc tion of bird life in Indiana. Kid McCoy was finally found guilty of manslaughter and one of the sobsisters who sat on the jury, boasts of her efforts to make the compromise. Think of it. When we reach the point that all a prize lighter has to do is to get on the stand and whine and then be heroized fur murder, its time to quit and start over. The Daily Democrat during the year 1925 will prove a welcome visitor to'your home. It will tell you the news of your county, state and the world each day, it will give you' the markets, the sports, the court happenings. features, locals, items from the wires, legislative happenings, congressional news and the events in which you are. most interested.’ The next month is the period when our mail subscriptions are due. Renew at once and help us make the subscription list'one hundred per cent perfect. Forty high school boys are being examined before the Deleware county grand jury this week in an effort to ascertain where the school Ixjys and girls of Muncid are getting their liquor. At several dances recently the voting people showed convincing signs of imbibing. Those bootleggers who ar - selling to these children deserve punishment severe enough to stop the practice immediately and to vam others of what will happen to them if they traffic in goods which injures the health and the future of these young people. Though it:, “sinful to gel a skin- ■ full” of booze on New Years eve, just : as it has been for a long time and since 1918 unlawful as well, preparations for a hilarious time is being i made io Hie c lirs and the orders of < police are laughed at. in New York i cover charges of ten dollars a plate is flu- popular price and in the lead- < ing places all chairs have been reserved. It will be the big annual drunk. That not the fault ot the law. I> ; H - fault of the officials who permit it. No laws will stop timse or;ie . it not enforced. Dr. Henry Sherwood, appointed superintendent of public instructions, following his election to that office 1.- I November, is asking that the' bilaij of the office be boosted from' 1

Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face With William Gillette X The Viiual Sherlock Holmes i Horn tile son of u United States • Senator in Hartford, Connecticut. [ William Gillette was also born to be i an actor and a playwright just as a ' iark is born to soar and sing. His early ambition to go on the stage prevailed despite vigorous opposition from his family. Hailed some years igo as the young evangel of a new Iraiuatic era, he has become the Nestor of the stage. Gillette found the stage cumbered with obsolete traditions and injected life into an art that was sadly trammeled by the traditional trappings of an archaic drama. With a thorough academic educa- 1 *ion, supplemented by special courses it the University of New York, Mas- 1 sachusetts Institute of Technology 1 inti Boston University, William Gil- ( lette earned his education while play- 1 ng in stock companies in these ( cities. From the first stag 1 !? appear- ‘ mce he displayed a genius for writng plays, and since the time of his ' brief apprenticeship be has appeared ’ ilmost exclusively in his own plays. ( “Too Much Johnson” started him ■ well on the road to fame as a play- 8

wright, while “The Professor.” "The Private Secretary” “Legal Wreck.” Held by the Enemy” and others ach added measurably to his reputation. It was in “Secret Service” and Sherlock Holmes” that he reached, he pinnacle of his fame as a playwright; as "Sherlock Holmes” in the play of that name he perhaps dismayed most fully his wonderful art, •f character delineation. When Conan Doyle wrote those I larvelous detective tales he might well have had William Gillette in lind as the great exponent of deletion. Seeing him upon the stage, we rubbed our eyes to see a characer of fiction step bodily from the rinted page and materialize before ur very gaze. The actor gave a more onvincing presentation of a celebrated fictional character of Sherlock Jolmes in the role of the great deective than the author of the look. Since early youth William Gillette Sas been immersed in the develop-

I ■ lltor's Note: Sew ten names ot your favorite famous foil: now living to Joe tX’ The Attic, Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York City. Th. readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fame.

5,000 to $7,500 and if the reports of ransactions in connection with the ssuance of diplomas from the colege he headed, are true it might be veil to give him the increase. His dace on the ticket was protested .gainst by many-leaders but he stuck nd the people voted for him just he same. The administration is ertainly getting off to a start which moves every thing charged by opponents during the campaign. Intend of making- efforts to reduce overhead, it seems every thing offered is to make it higher. The year has been nothing to brag of as regards the weather. It ends with tin accumulated deficiency of >ver 600 degrees. That is nearly two degrees a, day for the whole year. Two degrees does not seem much on my particular day; but over a long period, it makes a very appreciable difference in the feel of the weather and in its effect. A few degrees variation, prolonged for weeks or months, may bring confusion into igriculture, seriously affect many industries and temporarily change tile climate of large areas. It has been a cold year, as years go. There was a late, cold spring, followed by a late, cold summer. The latter part of autumn brought a pleasant stretch of unexpectedly warm weather.-—Thou genuine winter set in earlier than usual. Christinas day broke the -thermometric record oi half a century for chilliness, over a large part of the United States. In order to bring Hie national temperature back to the inevitable "average," there will have to be a long period of warmer weather sooner or later. Will it come in 1925? The mathematical chances favor it, but there is no telling Especially there is no telling about this winter. Setting in so 'severely, it suggests a long, hard Lea sou oi the traditional "old-lash-l •

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1924.

j K ” WILLIAM GILLETTE says: “We are all fascinated by mystery —our own lives are a mystery and the future is visioned by deductions from the past.” ■■ meat of Shakespearean plays more fully than any disciple of William of Avon, since those far off days when strolling players sang and danced and mouthed and mimicked in the inn-yards of Merrie England. Now. with his cat “Peter” he lives in lonely state in his great stone Hill, near Stonington, Connecticut castle on the brow of Seven Sisters Alone?—nay. not alone! Hear the soliloquy of this sage of the stage: “We are all fascinated by mystery —our own lives are a mystery—our

i future is visioned by deduction from . tb.e past- If there were no mystery | —what a tame old world this would b d Now, there’s Peter, my cat—he lis a mystery—and I am an enigma to I him. Perhaps that’s why wc get along so well together. There is al ways something we don’t know about each other that sustains interest from I act to act in the play of life.” In the seeming solitude and silence of the great stone chambers with their lofty vaulted ceilings, the walls hung with rare and priceless tapestries and rugs, and the rooms are people with a passing throng—memoriae of the youth and later years; and the spoken word and the stifled the corridors resound to the laughter sob of those moving and convincing characters sprung from the busy and wondrous brain of William Gillette, the veteran actor and playwright who his made history for the American stage. I

ioned" sort. Perhaps as good a guess as any is that it will be that kind 1 of winter, and then the rest of the year will mike amends for it. —Goshen News-Times. ANOTHER CHANCE How good of God to give another chance, Each glad nc wyear new hope again implants. We turn our back upon the weedy 1 past 1 In richer soil flower seeds of faith ' w<; cast. > Resolved each day to do our level best > Krom dawn ’til sunset gilds the golden west. ! And though we know, full often we have failed, 1 With confidence the new year thus 1 is hailed. [ It is God’s way»* that earth each year improve. Its life a little more like heaven's 1 love. —A. D. Burkett. ( Big Features Os ? RADIO j J Programs Today < TUESDAY’S RADIO PROGRAM j (Copyright 1924 by United Press) I KGO. Oakland. (312 in) Bp. in. (P. U. J. T.) —Graes cathedral choir and ' ’ Berkeley week day. church school

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Millard Cowan and Harry Reichart are among those injured when Crescent Gas company's plant at Hartford City is wrecked by explosion. I Fire Chief L. C. Helm receives bad cut while assisting in fighting fire at jail. Otto and M. Kirsch and J. O. Selle- ■ ineyer are invoicing their lumber stock at Hoagland. Mose Krohn is visiting at Freeport, Illinois. . 3 Mrs. W. A. IjOwcr is entertaining ■ the Young Matron’s club this afternoon. 1 'Commisitraer David Werling is on the sick list. s — o * tfLKS MEETING TONIGHT There will be a meeting of the - Elks lodge tonight at S o’clock. I There will be an initiation and eats. L All members are urged to attend. I ->--o L FORCED TO HELP i. «IW^ APR i i on ® r " ierl ,10ai l’ a ße (Jne)' ' * of life. Siuterbeck robbery aiid didn't the four were in such a ihur|-y-to leave this section. The yoyug Paulding man didn't 1 even have a chance to get a good d look at the three men iu the back

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seat. The one in front told him to I look straight ahead as the men in the I back had their guns ready to shoot I him if he didn't act right. ] Traced Two Miles Before Alden's return to Paulding j to tell his story, Van Wert and Pauld- I ing county officers were at a loss to 1 know bow the bandits had made good ' their escape. After they had left the Sluterbecks bound and gaggea «u,wi' robbing them of SIOO and some guns between 7 -and 8 o’clock Saturday I Morning the big Cadillac sedan drtv■en by the four men stuck in a snowdrift just south of the Nickle Plate tracks on the Van Wert-Paulding ■ road. While they were stuck, Mr. | Gillem. who operates a garage at Paulding, came along and tried to i help push the car off the road. After j he left the men they walked t*o miles north along the highway. Later ■ every family living within these two miles reported seeing thejn. But about the experiment farm they disappeared, and how they disappeared remained a mystery until yesterday. Gears on the Cadillac transmission refused to work and it was towed in- ' to Paulding. When the Illinois li-; cense plates, 407,047 were traced, it ' was found that they had been issued > for a Nash coupe belonging to O. W. ’ Severns of Chicago. I —o — ' NOTICE U. B. S. S. Willing Workers class 4, eighth , grade department of the U. B. Sun3 day Schol will meet Thursday. Jan. 1, 1925 at the home of Mrs. W. H. 1 Foughty, corner Madison and 13th 1 streets, instead of, at the Howard

Aome as first announced. J. J. Foughty, teacher. o - BIRTH A nine-pound boy baby was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Milton C. Werling, of Preble, at ten o'clock last evening. Mother and babe are getting along splendidly. Mrs. Werling. who was formerly Trcva Ray, is a daughter ot Mrs. Ves Vcnis, of 1015 West Adams Street, of this city. 0 Move To Boost Salary Os State Superintendent . . —.Jfc Indianapolis. Dec. 30. —A move to boost the salary of the. state auperin- , tendnnt of public instruction from $5,000 to $7,500 annually was in progress today. Revised estimates of operating expenses of the departraeut of public instruction submitted to the budget , advisory committee and state budget ' officials by Dr. H. N. Shcrwod. head of the department, includes an itqm of - $7,500 for his yearly salary, it was t learned. i Benjamin Burria. who retired as superintendent of public instruction t ou Dec. 1. made out the original bud 1 get estimates for the department and t set the salary at $5,000.

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