Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 310, Decatur, Adams County, 31 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, Vice-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse, Sec'y. & Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postoffico 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 muil 35 cents Three Months, by mail sl-00 Six Months, by mall $1.75 One Year, by mail — 13.00 One Year, at office ..... $3.00 (Prices quoted are withn first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) ■■ mi i ii. Advertising Rates Made Known by Application. Foreign Representative Carpenter & Company, 123 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, REDUCE TAXES, NOT RATE Members of the legislature and state budget officials hope to pave the way for a tax levy of 25 cents in Indiana to operate in 1926. in this connection it is noted that there is prospect of a reappraisement of prop-erty-for taxation. The demand is pretty general tor a lowered valuation. If the state tax rate should be lowered and appraisements be reduced something genuine in the way of tax relief would ensue. Tax relief is what is wanted. Nothing will be gained by cutting the state tax rate two or three cents and increasing the valuation to make up the difference. What is necessary to tax relief is resolute purpose by the legislature that state expenses shall come down. Expenditures this year have run close to three times the expenditure during the last year of the Ralston administration. Allowing for a'l cost increases, tiiat must seem too heavy an increase to be covered > i by the narrow period of eight years. In considering the increased cost , of government, the enormous advance in taxes and the burdens borne by taxpayers, it should be carried in mind that through automobile license fees and the gasoline tax the state is obtaining revenues of millions which were not available to the Ralston administration, mentioned here merely for purposes of the comparison. These added revenues go to specific account, it may be coni ceded, but to account that the state would be obliged otherwise to some extent to provide for by taxation. The state is paying too much money for government. The legislature is con fronted witii the duly to reduce expenses and expenditures. A good many shortcomings will be overlooked in the record of the oncoming general assembly if. when F at rei ord shall have been written, it lie aljso written that economy was pursued, expenditures reduced and tax relief granted. And tax relief doesn't mean tax rate, but less money actually paid by the taxpayer on state amount. — Fort Wayne Journal-Ga-zette. Summing up Decatur for the year 1921 we find it an average one at l-.i-l. During most of the time the x iri< : industries have been going a’oiig i:ice!y and al this lime every one of them s enjoying a full run and adding employes. Thats a h mllhy condition. The sugar plan! hits just concluded a very good campaign, the fl. E. and the Casting cjini' my arc going at high speed with the largest number of employes since they opened, the Mut.schler Racking company have added a number of improvements Hiis year and are employ-i-’g mo;-' Ilian fitly people*. Krick. T;. udall t'ompany have been increasing lloir Imrtmi s the past several months and all the other industries are moving right along. The farm conditions while slightly bettor than for two yr three .years past are not up to v h'lrc they should be but taken ;>'! in .-ill eoaditioa.; here are livable with gotnl di luces for betterment. W<> hope the year 1925 will be one o' plenty and proseprity. We can h iiiik.9 It that if we will all try it h ’rd im we can. Lets do it. il. x'.:“r io include in your liet

. ■ Flashlights of Famous People

Face to Face With Arthur Brisbane The World-Famous Editor 1 Uy Joe Mitchell Chapple t On his nineteenth birthday Arthur 'Brisbane ascended spiral steps to the New York Sun office with the conisciousuess that he was a member of the staff, and reported to Charles A. Dana. He was immediately recognized as a real reporter. He could go 'out, get the facts of the story, and report them in a crisp but readable manner. It was not long before he was made London correspondent. In London he grappled with world news in such an able way that he was called back and made editor of the inventing Sun. His success on that paper awakened the attention of Joseph Pulitzer, who sat under the golden dome of the World building and watched the young man develop. He was one of the first editors to handle seven editions in a day. • When William Randolph Hearst catne to make his conquest of the East, he recognized, as did everyone in the W'orld of journalism, that Arthur Brisbane was the top notch newspaper man of the country. They made an arrangement which was not limited as to salary, and within a Jiort Arthur Brisbane was known as the highest priced editor in the world. The success of the New York Evenng Journal under Brisbane was intantaneons. It rapidly expanded igo the Hearst Syndicate of newspapers—the largest in the world. Arthur Brisbane holds the distincton of being the first to print the ■<litori.il in large type and to dignify he back page. The inside, he mainained. was not conspicuous enough >r such pearls of wisdom. The virlity and interesting manner of his iiseusS'Ons of world problems have j made Ins editorials veritable encyclopedias of the current thought of the time. Like Patrick Henry, he knows no .ay of forecasting the future except by the light of experiences in the ast. Bucklin's 'Civilization" gives him "new" ideas. His Bible, chart uid copy of "Heart Throbs” are a hart of inspiration to him. His ruling passion is to remain a ewspaper editor. In 1917 he purbased the Washington Times, and I < year later the Milwaukee Evening, j iVisconsin, and turned them both over ! o William Hearst, remarking facetiously as he did it :• “I don't care to own a paper. 1 simply want to work on one. You | an t own and edit a paper at the 1

.tutor's Note: Send ten names of your favorite famous foil, now living to Jos A tchcll Chapple. The Attic, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City.* Tne readers of this paper are to nominate for this Hall of Fame.

,f good intentions for the year, one ] o boost and help your community 1 ivery "Kay you can. We need you if nd we hope you will enter into the spirit of things in a whole hearted nanner. If five hundred people in j this county would honestly try to do lomething worthwhile, something that 1 vould live and somthing that will ie!p everyone, there is no doubt as to the results. Tonight the bells ring out the old year and tile whistles toot in the new. Meet, young Miss 1925 with a smile mil make it so genuine It won't •nine off for 365 days. You feel belter, you do better, you are better when you smile so loud it becomes a laugh. Well its too Hl,'- now 10 K r * cvc ovor 1924 and what -It brought to you. The only way to get even jf you think it didn't treat you right is to -profit from your experiences and snap into 1925 with so much resolution to win that you can't be headed. A Happy. Prosperous New Year of .course is our wish for every one in Adams county. , — s ♦ s♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦• ft TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ft ♦ , A From ths Oslly Democrat ni*« • ♦ 20 year* ago thia day ♦ ft*ftftftft*«ftft*«ftA Dec. 31. 1904 —Abe Boch retires as i county auditor and George McKean .as surveyor and wilt be succeeded toI morrow by C. D. Lawton and L. L. ■ Saumgarlser. f tai Miller sails, his famous race A

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1924

'' ;■ * f Jr : 4 ' ARTHUR BRISBANE says: I “I s mply want to work on a paper. ; You can't own and edit a newspaper . at the same time." [ same time.” Whether in his office on William , Street, or at his home in Hampstead, 1 Long Island, Arthur Brisbane is coni' stantly on the alert for facts. He i dictates most of his work to a dicta--1 phone, and has it handy at all times. , | "Many a jewel of thought is lost, be- . cause there is no one to take it down, and we are too lazy to write it,” he says. "The dictaphone, by being always ready, saves me a lot of trouble and time.” So Arthur Brisbane has to virtually talk as well as Write many thousand words a day. I have met Arthur Brisbane at breakfasts, at luncheons, at dinners, and at evening affairs, and there is never a time that he is not on the a'ert for something new. His blue eyes sparkle while his massive intellect is at work, and he speaks in a sharp, decisive way. He has been - criticized because he insists upon throwing the “bunk" out of the Eng lish language and using only expressive monosyllables. After all he has written in pra'se and criticism of others, he insists that i there is nothing worth saying in a ' sketch about himself except that “I am a newspaper man. sixty years old next December, and have been working forty years at the newspaper business with some success, as newspaper men go.” He won’t allow anyone to make more or less of him thin plain Arthur Brisbane, born in Buffalo, December 12. 1864, and educated in the public schools here and abroad.. He signs his letters with a blue pencil that has caused havoc to the ■ I work of many a timid reporter or j sighing sob sister. His signature A. :is as simple and distinctive as Lincoln's. He has light hair and an j expansive brow, and next to editing. likes to ride in an automobile and 1 hammer away at other magnates who 1 own them. I

liorsc, Joe M. to Col. John W. McKean. John, 96. Jefferson township, is first Adams county citizen to pay 1905 taxes. “Finnegan's 400 at opera house tonight. Bernard Brake finds pocket containing S9O turns it over to C. S. Niblick who discovers the owner, Mrs. A. J. Benz. H. A. Hartman and family are guests of Toledo friends. John Fonner of Piltaburgh visiting A. J. Smith family. Marriage licenses Jacob E. Biteman and Orraa Burk; Albert Griner and Carrie Sudduth.

Q -r I Far oft, farther, fainter still, Dies the echo o'er Uic hill “Peace on earth, — Ueuco and good will!” Silent now the angel's song, Seen no more the heavenly throng—- • Triumphs evil yeU—and wrong. i More than half earth's fruit of labor I Spent to wound and .kill oun neighbor, Keen-edged yet hake's sword and saber. 1.1 But the souls of men ore whiter, • And the load of life is lighter t For the star of love shines brighter. I Slowly niitids of men aro turning For the better days are yearning i Prayers for peace in each heart burning Hark! All earth takes up the strain Sings once more the sweet refrain •peace on earth,—-Peace and good »l —A- D Burket'.

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eve celebration. o A New York And Chicago Prepare For New Year (By Frank Getty) (United Press Staff correspondent) New York. Dec. 31—After all, when New Year's evo rolls around, there , is only one Little Old New York. I ( And so Broadway is preening itself today for ona grand and glorious fftlst’ with which 1925 will bo welcomed. I The theatres are putting up their ’ prices and the cabarets are nailing down their tables. Head waiters at Manhattan's restaurants and night clubs report an unprecedented demand for reservations. / Something of the prosperity fore- a east by financiers for the year that c will be born at midnight is Reflected ' in New York’s plans for the cclcbra- ” tion and while Prehition Commls-1 stoner Rerrick announced that hoi has been assured of co-operation by hotel and case proprietors in enforcing the Volstead act there is evidence that recent efforts of the storm tossed vessels and crews along the limit have borne fruit, chiefly of the grape variety. Wet And Noisy At Chicago Chicago, Dec. 31 — Very wet and i is the forecast for Chicago's New Year's eve celebration. Hotel, and caiarets 'eport 4 re-, ’cord number pt reservations, ranging , I

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from $5 to $25 per plate. Dry enforcement officials announced they would guard against violation of the prohiibtion act. Squads of federal agents, disguised in dross suits, will tour the cabarets .but little | fear is expressed as the entire enforcement department is little more. I han a postage stamp compared to the area to be covered. j Vast quantities of assorted liquors have been pouring into the city during the past few months and tonight tire celebrations will do the ultimate pouring to the New Year. — Q The Peoples Restaurant will serve a Special Chicken Dinner New Year’s Day. Reserve your table now. 50c plate. ——— — • —. Bishop Alerding Leaves ' Entire Estate To Diocese Fort Wayne. Dec. 31. —Bishop Herman J. Alerding. in his will made December 28, 1900, 21 years ago Sunday. bequeathed all his property, real astato and personal, in foe simple toi Most Rev. Henry Moeller, archbishop if Cincinnati, as trustee, until his' yuccesor as bishop of the Fort Wayne diocese shall have been “canonically appointed.” Judge Wood admitted 'he wilt to probate yesterday. On petition of Archbishop Moeller, Rt. Rev. Msgr. John H. Oechtering, diocesan administrator, and Rev. John E. Dillon, diocesan chancellor, were named executors of the will by ■ Judge Wood, The executors gavo

bond in the sum of SI,OOO. £ At the time the will was made g Archbishop Moeller was bishop of I Columbus, 0. The will provided that I Bishop Moeller and Bishop Thomas I S. Byrne, of Nashville, now deceased, should be trustees of the property. The will was witnessed by William P. Breen, local attorney, and Rev. John Bathe, then diocesan chancellor, who died several years ago. Attorney Breon filed the will for probate yesterday. —-o —— Cop Shoots Heroine, Hero And Villain • (L'N’lTlllti '’t IvSS SERVICE) Marion. Ind., Dec. 31. —Patrolman Charles Truax show tho hero, heroine and villian here. His revolver accidently discharged while, he was adjusting it. The bullet plowed through 300 ages of a book of popular fiction. — o , | Eat New Years Dinner at Hotel Murray. It. —_. 0 ; * AUCTION SCHOOL NEWS, * •:« ♦ —by— ♦ * « “Bob” C. Smith * The 1925 Auction class is only in . jtb infancy, but u progressing very • ntjely under its shrewd managei

ment. The, boys uro Bettinif treated pretty rough, but will probably get mended laqaJn by the Uiuo Uis term i» ready to bo closed. Some of thoae with weak knees are beginning to heal and the iianilker.chiefs that were wet caused by per- , epiraiion due to stage fright, are all about dry now. Ctjl. Studer, from Austin, Minn., the las' student to arrive was given the third degree of initiation—(and It was u serious one indeed) and he ( rays, he ia getting over bls sorenees , frem riding the goal and will be able to go on with the work. Mr. Bergquist, of Central. City, ’ Ncbrusku, (the little fat fellowl says. ’ "Gol. Garten's setting-up exercises are worse than pitching hay on a hot day,” but ho thinks they will help reduce. Col. Guy Pettit, the capable instructor from lowa, is going to make a soloist out of our friend Mr. Ander- ! son. he thinks, if ho can get him to say. "That’s where the tall cqrn grows!” By the time Col. Reppert gets through pounding the Auction spirit into our backs, we will feel like a cyclone has hit us. Col. Prescott has just arrived from l enver, Colo., after a three-days side 1 and is very wheezy from a cold. We l ope he gets better so he will be 1 able to give us some real information that we all know he has in store. I The students called the house to order yesterday afternoon when class work ceased, and elected class of-1 ficers for the term, which are as follows: President, J. M. Mergquist,’Central i Nebraska; secretary-treasure.; H. Earl Wright, Centerburg. Ohio; class editor. Robert C. Smith. Jackson. Tennessee: class orator, Stafford Wimberly, Kearney, Nebraska. We are going to try and make the 1925 class the peppiest and best class yet. I ~ L_ ■' . .1 11. — ,J_

This is to thank you for the many favors you have shown us during the past year, and to extend to you our sincere I wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year. The Peoples Loan & Trust Co. Bank of Service I - ! 1 I. 111 I ' ' staiaMSKMs£khfißte -.dtwsiiSL • . 1 I Right Now is the time to Open | ! SAVINGS ACCOUNT I I ' By opening a SAVINGS ACCOUNT tomorrow, making whatever size deposit yeu can and doing 't regularly every week throughout the year, you will be greatly surprised how rapidly it will grow into 1a sizable amount. Interest on savings is payable uiery six mouths w hich helps swell your bank. account. Os course, it is your privilege to draw thia money out at any time whenever needed tor an im mediate purpose, thereby eliminating the necessity of waiting for your savings money until a specified tma n order to meet an urgent obligatou which might other,wt.se have to wait for a good many months from the time of immediate need. There's Lardly a iierson who could not. if they •would, lay aside a few confs or a few dollars each week. And that's all it takes to get and ha ea real SAVINGS ACCOUNT. s4.Ob opens an account at this bank Come iu and let us show you the details of our Aaviugs plan. Old Adams County Bank l|| Ths Liank for Everybody ||| "iMUUIIIIWW ■ li.ili r V i «

Zion Lutheran Ch U r A ' W. Hinz. P Mtur ■ German service at 7:30 thi . S English service at lo a ... I day. ' i H J Strictly I)ure al ll)orkSa I 17 / 2 c lb. Phone |(i |. yy e er ‘I- <»ilpen,s Grocery, ENTERPBJBB DRUG CO. I I For that sparkling, snappy. I happy, healthy feeling have the Chiropractor keep both the motor and sensory nerves 'in perfect condition—SO TH AT I , VITAL FORCE MAY BE I NORMALLY TRANSMITTED. I CHARLES & CHARLES E CHIROPRACTORS Over, Keller's Jewelry Phone 628 ( —Office Hours— i 10 to 12—2 to 5—6:30 to 8 I