Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1925 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publish** Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller, Pre*, end Gen. Mgr A. R. Holthbuse, Rec'y. & Hua Mfr Entered at Mie Poatofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as aecond clam matter. Subscription Rates: Single cople* _____. 3 centa One week, by carrier 10 cents One year, by carrier 16.00 One month, by mall ___—33 cents Three months, by mail 11.00 Six months, by mail ——3l-76 One year, by mail—_____ >3OO One year, at office— 33 00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those nones ) Advertising Rate* Made Known by Application Foreign Representative Carpentier & Company. 122 Michigan Avenue. Chicago » ROAD MAINTA'NENCEi — Road Superintendent Magley replies to our Editorial inquiry about the Harding and River highways and | explains his position and we want , you all to read it. If you don’t think , the road superintendent has a real , job, you should visit his office some , nay and listen to the complaints. We , demand the finest roads and we urge that they be kept in repair but after all the men in charge can only do i what,they can with the money as- t forded, in this county with a twenty- i five cent maintainenee levy we raise t about SBO,OOO or an average of sll7 t per mile while the state road uses r over $1,700 per mile a year. In Allen county where the valuation is so much greater a lower levy produces five f times as much money and they have c hut little more county road milage ' Mr. Magley says he has the Harding I highway in very good condtion now. a excepting the west mile. He admits the River road is choppy but says I they have used more than three times < the amount of money allotted to the < road. If money is borrowed, he points ( out it must be taken out of next year I fund and then comes another jam. 1 He also calls our attention to the fact that the roads in the south part t of the county are also breaking down fl and are requiring special attention ti and expense. j Mr. Magley declares he is anxious tn meet every demand and to do his j very best, appreciates honest criti e cisms and suggestions and cooper at ion and will go to any length to h make the Adams county highways as good as they can be, but-he cannot overdraw his appropriation, nor can ri he repair the roads without funds to c meet the expense. We complain tho roads on one band and then a object to the tax necessary to rebuild them. A' car of stone costs $90.00 and does not go very far. g e If to build a state highway we lose as many or more miles of county " road, ruined by the detour, what have f we gained? The bill which passed 1 the last session of the legislature and J wis vetoed should have become a I law. It provided that the state com- j mission maintain and repair the de i tours as marked by them which is fair and reasonable. We want state and federal roads, but we must also have county roads and there should be real co-operation between the state and county forces that the roads may 7 be as good as possible at the lowest net cost. October 4th to 11th is Fire Pre- ( vention Week. We have a lot of special weeks but none more import- < ant. Usually these special weeks mean that you are to give money or g spend a lot of time but this one is ( different. You are asked to assist in every way you can in getting rid , of those thing', which cruse fires. I.ook aftbr your furnace, stove, flues, get the rubbish out. follow the in- , structions of the state fire marshall. Y ou may avoid a serious conflagration and you help a great cause. - ■ The state tax board increased the valuations in Fulton county from ten to thirty per cent horizontally and the tax payers petitioned for an injunction to prevent the boost. Judge Carr yesterday overruled the motion to quash the petition, basing his decision that the state tax board has

Solution of Yesterday’* Puzzle L Wcl i]Dg|O Cj TO B;E R a Moir i .oinMijn u re ReM ea V RR S D A frW L[A.S[T SMn!6 T L S A uMLM Y’e TjR £ R E S'pTMf L A R EMd MSP SgG Q eMu teM bMn'e * v E R Mo the r U PIT I ’nMbWh E RE wObßa'Sk E*dMR I A , p ns u eWe M ! eKiOPiEMi Tt'MegE jßjEtc! I WMSjPi iTD' — ~ ____________________ mo authority to make an order ncrossing property assessments above real cash values That’s sound sense and ought to hold in the hgher courts. i...j Carl Mote, who a few years ago was secretary to Governor Goodrich at a very modest salary paid over $21,000 income taxes last year. We don’t know just what his game was but he seems to have put it over in real style. Must have had a big volume or a profit exceeding one-half of one per cent. , The Fords paid $21,000,000 income taxes last year and had a net income of more than ten million dollars \a month. Its too much money for one family and will become a nuisance when they begin giving it bad: to the people. Most of the objections over publishing income tax reports come from those who prefer not to have their profits talked about. About ninetynine per cent, of the people don’t care particularly whether they are printed or not. The schools wijj reopen next week. Get the boys and girls ready, insist on those who have a year or two in which to finish high school going on It will mean so much to them after a while. ♦ • ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ * * From the Daily Democrat file • * Twenty years ago this day ♦ * ♦

Total admissions for the week at the Northern Indiana fair were 27.1 000. ‘ D W- Beery has arn) injured when hnrse he was leading behind buggy jumps into the rig. Case against Le wCollins, a G. R. A I. brakeman, for trespass on the Mayer grounds, is heard by Squire Stone. Rev. E. A, (Allen, whose efforts here resulted in a new Presbyterian and the Carnegie library, leaves or Epworth, lowa. The Waring Glove company will resume work. Monday after a weeks Jose down during the fair. The Alkison bull dog succumbs to i dose of poison. Miss Opal Crawford of Marion visits here. Mr and Mrs. S. E. Whiteman, of Bluffton, are guests of the S. W. Petsrson home. o -—. ( Big Features Os ? j RADIO j ! Programs Today ? WEDNESDAY^"'FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES Copyr'ght 1925 by United Press WRC. Washington. 469; WJZ. NewYork, 454. 5 pin. to 6:30 p.m (EST) U. S. Marine band. WOC. Davenport. 484 9 p.m. (CST) —Organ recital. WLW, Cincinnati, 422. 10 p. m. (CDST)—MaIe quartet. KOA, Denver, 322. 8:10 p.m. (MST Convention program. WCAP. Washington. 469; WNO. Phf adelphia, 508; WJAR, Providence 306; WEAK. New York. 492. 7 pm (EST)—U. S. Navy band. o Young West Pointer To Hang For Murder (By William R. Kuhns. United Press Staff Correspondent! Manila, P. 1.. Sept 2 —Lieut. John S. Thompson. U. S. A., of Far Rockaway. L. I, must pay with his life for shooting Audrey Burleigh. 16 year old society favorite of the island’s army colony. The courtmartial trying him returned today a sentence of hanging !<xr the young West Pointer, who apparently in a mad fit of jealousy shot the girl to death in a taxi as they sped last spring along the moon ■ lit Dewey boulevard- '

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1925

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TELLING FAIRY STORIES It I could have my choice of tasks up- 1 say if 1 could have ray way I’d call on this pleasant earth the children in 'Twould not be that of mining gold or And watch their eyes grow wide with selling gems of worth. joy. and watch their faces grin, I wouldn't ask to run a bank or fine I'd never rack my brains for plans and department sore. schemes to make me rich. I'd like to be allowed to sit upon our I’d rack them for new ways to foil parlor floor the cross and ugly witch; And call the neighbors' children in on I’d think up startling battles for the every rainy day fairy prince to fight And tell the mfairy stories till the And have a stock of stories now to tell clouds had blown away. them every night If I could get along without my sordid But I must work both night and day weekly pay, and only now and then If Bud and Janet didn’t need good The children of the neighborhood food three times a day, surroi/id me in my den; If shoes and stockings grew on trees, And all the fairy tales I know I've told and little frocks and coats so oft before Could be obtained for other things I wish I had some magic way to gel than gold and silver notes a thousand more; I’d never hie me down to work for I’ve found that when you crowd your dollars and for dimes. mind with dollars and with dimes I'd tell the children fairy tales and, It's hard to think up fairy tales aud little nonsense rhymes. happy nonsense rhymts. (Copyright 1325 Edgar A. Guest

The People’s Voice

Our Road Problem Editor Daily Dtmocrat; Dear Sir: — " In the editorials of your paper, last evening. I find that you say that the two main roads leading into Decatu are In bad condition. I admit tha* the west mile of the Harding highway is bad, but the balance is as good a> any road in the county and so far ar the River road is concerned, it is quite choppy in places, but in no place so bad that you cannot drive as fast as the law permits. I am at a loss to know how to repair them as our highway department Is out of funds. Since the state road 21 is under construction, the River road is the main detour from Fort Wayne. With only $145 per mile in Adams county and stone at $90.00 per ton, you cannot expect the road to be maintained as the state roads are with more than ten times that or as the roads are in those counties where they receive from three to five times as much money with which to work. At the session of the legisla ture a bill passed both houses, pro viding for the state commission tc keep detours as laid out by the state department in repair, but the gover nor vetoed it. So again the state li making a showing at the expense ol the Alj«pi;jsentative of the Farm Fed eratjon was here recently, investigat lingGdje tax rate and he objected t< the ii'fflotjnt asked to keep our roadi . in lifer repair. The county audito: ■ hasUFletter from the governor sayini the ’levy should be reduced slnci

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we hav : an increases in the gas tax. It seems that no one stops to give the road question mucn thought. People should know that every year there are more miles of county roads to maintain and that they are one year older, more, and faster traffic, heavier traffic permitted under the laws. In the year 1924, Adams county highways cost the taxpeyers SBO,OOO or sll7 per mile. For the same time the state road, 26 miles in Adams coijnty, cost $44,883.05 or sl.7lolss per mile. Give us one third as much per mile and we could keep our roads in first class repair. Charles Magley, County Road Superintendent. 0 TON LITTER WEIGHING Two Litters Being Fed By Leonard Sprunger. Os Near Berne, Will Be Weighed Next Friday. Farmers will be interested to know ing that a ton litter weighing will take place on the Leonard Sprunger farm, one mile south of Berne, next Friday afternooon. September 4, at 3:30 o’clock.’ Twenty eight purebred Duroc p’gs. the produce of three sows, have been fed in one drove tjy Mr. Sprunger and two of the litters, consisting of nine and eleven pigs, are entered in the Adams Coupty Ton Litter Contest. These two litters will be 180 days old Friday and will be weighed a the meeting. It is said the litter of eleven will easily surpass the ton mark while the litter of nine will make a strong 1 bid for a silver medal, which is award- . ed feeders of litters reaching 1,800 ■ pounds in the 180-day period ; I 0 . s_s_s—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s

BANK ROBBERIES ARE DECREASING Business Os Banditry Falling Off Since Organization Os Bankers Indianapolis, Sept. 2. — (United I’resH.l The business of bunk banditry. practiced with great success in Indiana early in the year, hit hard times during the summer, it was shown today by figures of the Indiana Bankers’ Association, Sime thorough organization against the bandits was started in June, only two robberies have been committed. At Uirwill, near Columbia City, ban Jits got ,$2,000 by robbing the State hank in July. Five outlaws secured SII,OOO by holding up a bank messenger between Clinton and St. Bernice last week. Before the first of June the number if successful bank robberies for the year reached nineteen with a total loss of nearly $70,000. In eighty-eight of the ninety-two counties of the state, volunteer vigilance committees clothed with police powers mid heavily armed stand ready to take up pursuit of bandits at a moment’s notice. They have orders to shoot to kill if necessary to capture outlaws. In some counties a larger Reward is placed on the head of a dead bank bandit than on one taken alive The county vigilance committees are organized on a systematic basis, hank employes, business men and jther citizens being enrolled. The membership of the committees in the various counties ranges from 25 to .0, according to the protective livision of the Indiana Bankers’ tssociation. Arms for the vigilantes are supplied by the war department or purchased by the county bankers' associations.

A large shipment of arms for coun ties in the southwestern part of the state was received last month by the state bankers’ association. Regulat* target practice is being held by the vigilantes in some of the •ounties to improve their marksmanship against the hour of emergency. The successful robbery of the two banks at Spencer. Ind., in November. 1923. pointed out the possibility of scientific banditry to Indiana crooks. An organized gang of twelve or ifteen men captured the town of Spencer, cut telephone and telegraph wires and threw out sentries while the two safes were blown. Since then several of the bank robberies have been planned like the Spencer job. o —- OBITURARY Lily May Veais was born in Decatur, Indiana, September 14. 1891 and died Aug. 30, 1925 at the age of 33 years 11 months and 15 days. She passed away at the home of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs Glen Venis at 35 N. Eighth Street. Lily was the daughter of M. S. and Sarah E. vents. Her mother departed Ibis life June 23, 1916. Besides the father she leaves one brother,.Glen of this city; one half brother, Frank Bright of Kingsland and one half sister of Bellvue, Ohio to mourn her loss. She becamt a member of the Methodist Church at Hoagland, Indiana, at the age of 14 years and remained a faithful member. She was also a member of the Rebecca and Ben Httr lodges of this

Funeral services wjerq held from the First Methodist Church, September 1, 1925 and burial made in Maplewood cemetery by the side of her mpther. Card of Thanks We wish, in this manner to express our thanks to the neighbors, friends, choir of the First Methodist Church, the Rev. Sonuuerville Light for his words of sympathy; also the members of the Telephone Company and of the Rebecca and Ben Hur lodges for their kindness and assistance during the sickness and death of ou(' beloved daughter and sister. Also for the beautiful floral offerings sent. M S. Venis, Mr, and Mrs. Glen Venis, Mr. 1 and Mrs. Frank Bright, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mueller. — .. —o MANY VETS AIDED Almost 40,000 Disabled Veterans Benefitted By Reed Johnson Compensation Bill In Indiana. Indianapolis, Sept. 2. — (United Press.) —Upwards of forty thousand disabled American veterans of the World War have benefited during the past year to the extent of nearly 116.500,000 from the libetal provisions of the Reed Johnson compensation bill and its amendments. This was revealed today in a report received by James F. Barton, nation-

al adjutant of the American Legion, from Watson Miller, chairman of the Legion's National Rehabilitation committee. The report In to be submitted hi the national convention of the Legion in Omaha next month. The veterans who have received increases in compensation under the new legislation include shell-shocked, tuberculosis, blind aud totally deaf men and women More than ten thousand shellahocked veterans received increases of four million five hundred thousand dollars under the extension of the period for presumptive service connection on mental diseases. Under a similar extension for tuberculosis veterans, 1(1,281 benetltted nearly eight million five hundred thousand dollars. Increased dependency pay for death or disability totaled nearly one million dollars. Liberal increases wore also received by hundreds of blind, x deaf and totally disabled veterans. A review all old cases disallowed under previous laws is Alli not half completed and the full benefits of the Reed-Johnson bill have not been felt. The review is progressing at the rate of about seven hundred cases a day.

- THE ADAMS Theatre TONIGHT--TOMORROW One of Paramount's Rig 40 Features “LILY OF THE DUST” featuring Pola Negri, Ben Lyons, ■Noah Beery, Raymond Griffith. A fiery story of a girl's struggle for happiness against heavy odds, and among all kinds of men. Entertainment for the heart as well as the eye. ALSO—“OUR GANG COMEDY” 10c 25c

THE CORT LAST TIME TONIGHT “JUST A WO M AN” A hie First National featuring Conway Tearle Claire Windsor. Percy Marmont and All-Star Cast. A draniiL of a woman who made her husband a big man hut made him too big to remember the love he owed in return. “PLEASURE BOUND” Comeuv. JOc 25c Thursday Only—Viola Dana in "THE BEAL TY PRIZE”

Protection When life's shadows grow dim anti the twilight of years settles upon us, the most dependable and most comfortable companion to cheer us up—lS A SUBSTANTIAL BANK ACCOUNT. Start now and lay aside a little each week to provide a compensation for your old age. A few cents a day will do it. Come in and let us explain how easy it can be done. V ’ | ■ INTEREST PAID Old Adams County Bank W1 PAY YOU TO SAVE

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