Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1925 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller, Pres, and Gen. Mgr A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y & Bus. Mgr Entered at the Postoffice at Decatu* Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 2 cenU One week, by carrier 10 cente One Year, by carrier >5.00 One month, by mail 36 cents Three months, by mail SI.OO Sig months, by mall $1 76 One year, by mall $3.00 Ono year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first an<? second zones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates Made Known by Application. Foreign Representative Carpentier & Company. 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Vote tomorrow at the primary It's a duty you owe your community. ■First voters should remember if they vote tomorrow they are registered without further trouble. And after you have voted, see that your neighbors and friends do so. Rather peculiar weather, but no different from that of former years, we guess. Yon know fifty years ago Mark Twain wrote: "Everybody talks about the weather, but so far nothing has been done about it.” The lily trucks started out early this morning and will during the week gather all the rubbish which has been placed in the alleys as directed. Mayor DeVoss urges your co-operation to make “our community dean, healthy, thrifty, safe and beau tiful.” Manufacturers Record, a well edit ed magazine, is advocating that the

way to destroy the bootlegging business is to make it unprofitable and the way to do that, they say. is to pass laws providing a penalty of tin Mill amount of all the money he ha made out of the business with a jail sentence for good measure. Thats line but like the old "rat story" you have lo catch them first. Saturday was a big trade day ir Decatur. The crowd came early ami remained during the day, reminding us of the old times when Saturday always brought a crowd to town early in the- morning. The next gift day will be about the middle of .June and efforts will be made to make it even more attractive than those we have had. It pays to be progressive and to keep tilings moving and thats tin purpose of the Decatur Advertising Association and we feel they liavi done well. Tomorrow is primary day and the campaigns are closing in the various cities in Indiana, in Decatur it has been the quietest on record. There is but one contest in tomorrow': eb-ction. that for the mayoralit? nomination on the democratic ticket. For this honor, two well known men. George Krick and Charles Yager an candidates. They have made a cam paign among (lie voters and have appealed through the columns of this p>'ir witii advertisements to tin people of the city. So far as we know it has been a well conducted effort each making a clean campaign on his merits The verdict is up to those who vote tomorrow. We hope a large vole is cast for it is always a good sign when the people of a community take an interest in those affairs which have lo do with selection of public . officers. In recent years there seenn to have been a tendency to stay away from the polls, a sort of don't care altitude. The way to secure good government is to show an in terest and we hope every person en tilled io vote tomorrow, takes ad vantage of the opportunity. In a city that has its fair share of jailbirds, and is on the whole just . ibout as callous about them as other pities, there is an old gentle man '''*?.?■ his o vn way of helping

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yet to come. Only $1,000,000.00 of Ihis tax is spent in Jay county, the other million is coliewicd by the tax j gatherer and shipped to our capitals at Indianapolis and Washington, to maintain tlie institution called govern ment. and but a small part of thi.million dollars ever seeps back to Jay county. How long can tlie farm er pay at Hie rate of SB.OO per acre each year for government? How long can Hie farmer turn over to the tax collector 455 bushels of wheat at one dollar per bushel; each year this head tax of $91.00 per year placed upon bis family of live? How long can the people of Jay county pay this vast subsidy, this tribute, this rake off ? Can tlie -average farmer owning So acres keep himself and family and pay overhead to govern ment at lhe rate of $155.00 for a family five, each year? Will tlie occupation of farming stand sueli overhead? What will Hie fair lantfrof Jay county be«if tills system continues? —Portland Sun. (> — ( Big Features Os t RADIO ) Programs Today f Monday’s Five Best Radio Features WPG. Atlantic City. 9:30 p.m.(EST) Hayden's oratorio, "The Creation'" festival chorus. KOX, Denver. 8 pin. (M.C'.T.) .... Music Week program. WDAF, Kansas City, 8 pin. (CST) Ivanhoe band. WEAK, Nejv York; WW'J, Detroit; Cincinnati; WOC. Philadelphia; WCAP. Washington; WEEI, Boston. WCAE, Pittsburgh: W.IAB, Providence, 9 p.m. (E.S.T.) —Gypsy string ensamble. KGO. Ogkjand, 8 pin. (PCST) —- Educational program. 0 —— _ ♦ * * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ ——— ♦ ♦ From tlie Daily Democrat file ♦ ♦ Twenty years ago this day ♦ : May 4 —Annual enumeration shows , 7.628 children of school age in coun- . ty, Decatur has 1,230, B«ne 398 and Geneva 372. James Haney Erol.a conductor ’ on first train Into Decatur, 1871. on

the 0. R. A I. in dead, aged 68 Ainos Torrell, known aa "Happy Hoo'.igun" confesses to burglarizing local stores. L. G. Elliufham elected president of Commercial Club; L. C. Waring, vice-president t E. B. Adams, secreI tury and C. 8. Niblick, treasurer. Senator Beveridge sails from N< w York on trip to Mediterraniun. Wedding of Miss Lizzie Miller and Mr. Hen Eiling will occur Tuesday Morning. Ed France of I’leltsanl Mi.is moves into his new residence. —o * THE MIRAGE OF LIFE I often look through the mist of years And think of my boyish hopes and fears Os fancy’s castles, bejeweled and rare t I And girded around with fields fair. ■ Os how the world would know myna me, My picture hang in halls of fame: How listening throngs would sway like reeds. May buy my books and praise my deeds. Tlie years have passed. As mountain peak Records from travelers who seek — As mirages upon the heated plain Show lakes of light—sought for in vain. So hopes, once held have vanished. I quite— Some forms best lost to tear-blind sight; So long sought goals seem far away As when 1 'rose with morn's first ray. • And yet. fond faitli renews life's' dream, , Who sows beside spring's lovely i stream, And, patient, labors through slimmer hours, Shall harvest the grain, gather the flowers. —A. D. Burkett. o The People’s Voice The Controlling Force » Editor Democrat: A certain great criminal lawyer's philosophy of life is that people are controlled by forces not subjective Io their will-power—in other word.;, their actions are involuntary. There arc naturally two sides to this question, but be that as it may, a parallel is furnished in agriculture. Namely, is the prosperity of the farmer in a measure subject to control by forces within the power of the farmer or not? If the prices for farm products afford an equalization of exchange or better is that prosperity? If it is then wc must have it. But who has any to sell outside of hay? Isn’t it a coincidence that what we have plenty of is cheap while what is high we have very little of? Over the demand the farmer has no control or little, yet, the supply is a factor subjective to partial control. Will the farmer again over produce certain crops as two years ago? , Speaking of economy, our noble'

Buy SIOOO On Partial Payments Many of our depositors have bought their first here on the partial payment plan. 'they have deposited: $3 a week for about 72 months; • or $4 a week for 51 months; J or S2O a month for IX months. 1 Any of these deposit plans, with I the help of compound interest will bring you over $1001). ’ Figure how much you can dc1 posit each week or month. ’ Then buy your $l(t(M) here on | 1 partial payments. B<jnk Capital and Surplus 3120,000-QG[

I President. Mr. Coolidge, deserves l passing commendation. Yet on »ec-| ond thought why didn't he do us the | mail order houses do on their guaranteed tires—give you au adjustment on a new tire for your worn old one and keep you coming. Now. 1 haven't heard of many congressmen resigning so they surely were not greatly peeved I believe paid-up life initirunee should have been given them. If it was good for tile it surely would have been good for the congressmen; yea, ami the mail clerks also. What is sauce for the gander is sauce fol* the goose. Now "ain't 1 right, or ain't I?" as Golduh says. j Still speaking of economy, I believe our local officials slipped a cog recently. Why should I beat about the bush? Under heading of your valued paper of March 25 or 26, Mr. Editor, occurs these lines, "Large balance in dog t.ix fund.. l/-ss than half of amount collected paid out for j losses. Dog owners in Adams county i paid $5,033 in dog taxes during 1924 The exact amount being paid out for losses is $2.004.50. The balance of $3,129.2# (?) was paid into the county treasury by the trustees." Now it I scents to me that the powers that be ' might have slightly reduced the dog 1 tax for 1925 just to show that their heart was in the right place, you j know. ' Now. to change the subject abruptly. We elect a township assessor eviry four years. We elect one in each . township for tlieir good judgment, presumably, to appraise the property in that township. Now, do they, or are there about 200 appraisers in i ach township? What I mean is, an assessor should appraise or assess property by peronal contact, not | sight unseen, else we should hire blind men. Yours respectfully, John Smith, farmer. oI THAT OLD DOG OF MINE i I remember many years ago When I was but a child | I often think how things have changed. | 1 started from the wilds. We didn't have the radios Or air ships in the air We didn't have electric lights A shining every where. I remember well my old black dog So faithful and so kind I never will forget him That old pal of mine. I My father owned a dairy h‘T(l The finoA of their kind 1 used to drive them to lhe field Witli that old dog of mine. I remember well one bossy cow She tried to run away And father said you get her And he got her by the tail. He brought her back the"’ gently For he was very kind Ami gentle unto evrything That old dog of mine. When mother sent a message To licr neighbors over there It didn't go by telephone A flying through the air. And it didn't go by radio Across the country wide 1 took it on a paper And the dog was by my side. We didn't have tlie picture shows To see Italy now and France And see all the burglars That are robbing now the banks. But I just lived good and happy In those years of olden times Witli my true and faithful friend

I That old Pal <>t mine. Mrs. AJ. Boyd. - -0 ■' " —■ Ohio Woman On Trial For Poisoning Relatives Medina. 0.. May 4 Mrs. Mi rtha Wise. 41. who said her'funeral com-

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