Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1925 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCKAI Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE. DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller. Pres, and Gen. Mgr A. R. Hnlthouse, Sec*y. & Hue Mgr Entered at ftte Poetoffice at Decatur Indiana, as necond claw matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies . 2 cent! One week, by carrier 10 cents One year, by carrier *5.00 One month, by mail W cents Three months, by mail 11.00 Six months, by mall 81.71 One year, by mail— $3.00 One year, at office 18.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates Made Known by Application Foreign Representative Carpentier & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. <• DON'T SAY IT AGAIN— You have heard it said. Perhaps you have said it yourself. It is one of the supposedly smart things that people say—the smartalecky remark about the telephone operator when you don’t get quickly the number you want. In Columbus, Mr. Harry Gunnett was working on a car in his garage, the doors beging closed. He was overcome by carbon monoxide gas from the exhaust. The victim] felt himself fainting, but stunbled to the telephoen and removed the receiver- As he did so he collapsed with a moan, and was unconscious. Miss Kuhlwein called the assistant phone operator who answered "Number please!" when the light appeared on her board. It was one light among hundreds, in the course of a hard day’s work. But the operator heard the groan, just as she answered the signal and she received no other response to her repeated calls. She knew that something was wrong. Miss Juhlwein called the assistant chief operator, and presently the chief operator joined the consultation. The three could have said, "Well, it's none of our business. Let’s keep tlje traffic moving and let that one light burn." But they didn’t. One of them called the| police department while the other two checked over the numbers and located the address. The police emergency car was flashed, and Mr. Gunnett’s Ute was saved. Telephone company records are full of such incidents. —Cleveland Press. We have heard dozens of people enthuse about the splendid program at Chautauqua this week. We have been told by those in whom we have faith because of their knowledge of music and the] best lectures, that the entire week has been so well balanced that they have been repaid many times. Now comes the, real test. Will w e give the necessary support to make it equally as good, better if possible, next year? It takesj effort, real work, much time and a lot of energy by. those who make it possible year after year—and they get nothing more out of it than you—perhaps not as much t because duties connected with the enterprise takes so ranch of their time. Y’ou can make it so much easier bysubscribing for a few tickets now and then assisting in creating the interest necessary to make it the biggest event of the season. Its a fine thing to do for its a great asset to the community. The Shenandoah was smashed to pieces on her second birthday, as it was on September 3rd, 1923, that it was given her first flight and pronounced a real airship. She made nine successtul flights, including one to the Pacific coast and she cost $2,000,000 and the extras. ' Perhaps the money thus spent is wasted for dirigibles have not proven a success and many experts doubt that they ever will. The terrible accident yesterday is deeply deplored |for the nation needs the fourteen fine men whose lives were thus snuffed out. The price of stocks is dropping, has been for-several days and the cause is diagnosed as an after effect of the coal strike, more reason why strikes are a bad thing and should not be conducted unless absolutely neces-

I Solution of Yesterday** Puzzle Lj I 8 E IHHKv lI S A NtEjMl I N IAN A,E £.■ i' G’OjJWl A. A V I N N A yHMRE. N tsMs ac • Tin' l oMr. 1 fcsßsl N.oj e’ljSla, rlßkep n ain dßßbjp’ eU fijBBY E A ' [K ■■p A 4 IIDMTIO<EI 1 J AT/ro‘d ' L?LA.IA'bMBBKIAffiNj I hary. However, one trouble is that no one has ever figured a plan which will eliminate them. This is just the first signal of what may be expected during the next few months. Every day you put off buying coal is costing you money, and we are not saying this to boost anybody’s business. The coal operators hold meetings and so do the men who are striking, but the consumer and the public are not taken into any of the councils After ail. haven’t they some rights? Suppose that some time they decide to go on a strike. Oh yes, that is "restraint of trade’’ and prohibited by law. Looks like another instance of the tail wagging the dog all over the lot. We don’t know just how hat it was yesterday, but It was one of the warmest of the year. About the only happy thought w e can give you about St is that the nights are quite comfor table and the Wtather could be a "djrn sight’’ worse. With a score of others from this connty we slipped over to the Goshen fair yesterday and we found it all that had been advertised. Its a big show, the crowd was enormous, everybody happy and boosting for the Northern Indiana Fair.

♦ ♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ From the Daily Democrat file ♦ ♦ Twenty year* ago this day ♦ ♦ ♦ September 4. 1906. —The September ter mos court convenes. Bart France is appointed court reporter. E L. Taylor buys the Park hotel from Daniel Myers. Adams county students leaving for college. Surprise for Frank Faurote on his 46th birthday with over 250 guests. Decatur defeats Upland, 6 to 2 in fast ball game. Robert Schrock leaves for Crawfordsville to teach in high school. T. H. Baltzell plans to show his Shropshire herd at the state fair. John Nid linger has his herd of fine Durocg at the Ohio State fair at Columbus this week. M. F. Cowan of Hartford City is visiting here. John Trout leaves for Lafayette to enter Purdue. >, Eggs were up to 18 cents per dozen today.

[Big Features Os < RADIO j Programs Today / FRIDAY’S RADIO FEATURES WGY, Schenectady. 380, 7:40 p. m. (E.S.T.) —WGY players in “Blieve Me Xantippe.’’ W’BFG, Altoona. 278, 6 p. m. to 5 a. m. (E.S.T.) —Anniversary program. KFI, Los Angeles, 489, 9 p. m. (P. C-S.T.) —Light opera program. KGW, Portland. 492, 10:30 p. m. (P.C.S.T.)—Hoot Owls WEAF, New York, 492; WTIC, Hartford, 475; WJAR, Providence, 306: WCTS, Worcester, 268; WCAP, Washington, 469, 10 p. m. (E.S.T.) — S. S. Leviathan orchestra and male quartet. —o Gasoline Consumption Increases In Indiana Indianapolis, Sept. 4. — (United Press)—A sharp Increase in gasoline consumption for July was shown today in the report of Archie Babbitt, state gasoline tax collector. Three million three hundred and sixty-thtee thousand more gallons of gasoline were consumed in the state during the month than in July. 1924. Total gas tax (Elections for the month amounted to $853,385, an increase of $351,827 over July 1924. o — j_»_$_WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s

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THE DOCTOR MAKES A NINETY-EIGHT

Oh courier, drive hard and fast, and bear the gladsome news. Nor slow nor stop for traffic oop, for fear the race you lose; Go seek the place That's known as Grace, The hospital, I mean And shout the word Os what’s occurred Upon the eighteenth green; Go breathless to that little room where white-robed surgeons wait And tell them that a brave M. D. has made a ninety-eight! Go tell it to the surgeons cool, and tell the gentle nwse. Tell interns, too, and patients who show signs of growing worse. Tell one and all Within the hall, The relatives and friends,

The People’s Voice j (EDITOR’S NOfE: Sidney Williams was one of the United Press correspondents covering the numerous attempts to swim the E n glish Channel | this summer. Williams worked with g I speedboat with which he was enabled to follow the swimmers closely and then to get ashore speedily with news of the result of the effort. The following is an interesting close-up picture of just what "failure” meant. By Sidney J Williams (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, —(By mail to the United ( Press.) —The last bitter moments of a swimmer's struggle to conquer the English Channel for man ordeal terrible to behold. PkAure a grasping, benumbed man or woman—who has expended his or her last ounce of energy; chilled to the bone; fatigued into semiconsciousness, bruised from bufeting waves; fighting to reach the white chalk cliffs of Dover and win the greatest victory a swimmer can accomplish. Failure Is followed by an awful quarter of an hour. Powtrful men like Wolffe and Burgess have been known to sink and were only rescued with utmost difficulty from drowning. I saw Colonel "Tiny" Freyberg—he is a six-footer and weighs over 180 pounds—vainly trying to reach the cliffs between Dover and Deal, only a j mere five hundred yards away, during the closing minutes of his recent magnificent attempt when he had swujm seventeen hours through a long, chijiy night. His face was spent and drawn. His

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From floor to floor And door to door Give out the word he sends; The trick is turned, the art is learned, no more he wails his fate Another doctor stands with those who’ve made a ninety-eight! Give out the news in English first, and then in Latin phrase. And if you speak the ancient Greek, in Greek resonnd his praise; At first they’ll doubt But be you dtout And flinch not when they sneer, Ijet them regard The doctor’s card And join his skill to cheer. For few the surgeons who can shoot a golf ball far or straight. And glad they’ll be to honor him who’s made a ninety-eight.

body was like raw meat from the buffeting it had received from the sea. One eye was badly swollen. He was semi-conscious, but his will was indomitable. Sporadically, he would rouse himself and batle anew with the ever-increasing force of the ebbtide. Began to Moan I He began to moan. We on the escorting tug could barely force our selves to look at his struggles. Sears left from his uumerabie war wounds showed up vividly through the patches of grease still clinging to his body. I No one spoke exceptmg Mrs Freyberg. For minutes on end she encouraged her husband with every whim and artifice she could bring to play. All to no avail. The Channel was gradually beating off another heroic effort. J Finally complete exhaustion overcame Freyberg’s will-power. He began to siak. Swimmers on the and in the sea rushed to his aid. Willing arms were thrown round him and he was carried to the rowing boat alongside the tug. Freyberg wa • helpless to aid himself. He lay like a log in his rescuer’s arms. It was many minutes before his i wife and trainer could envelop him in hot blankets, and lay him beside the smoke-stack to warm up. A gallant attemp. but the grey, grim Channel had won out again. Swimmers who have been in the water for many hours are very sus- - ceptlble to small influences. When I climbed aboard the tug escorting Freyberg, Mrs Freyberg rushed to me and asked me if I would kindlv remove my-hat and rutfle my . hair. She explained that if her husband i spotted me from the water looking *

fresh and alert, it would be enough to discourage him from continuing the attempt. Mademoiselle Sion, the forty-five-year-old French swimmer, whose recent magnificent failure only a mile and a quarter from Dover, wffl live In the history of women’s xttrmps, suf sered untold agonies when the cook of the tug escorting her was proparing breakfast for those on board. Mademoiselle Sion had had only one ■meal since She entered the water shortly after eight the previous evening. Seven hours of a reemingly endless night had passed slnc<e she had tasted food. The smell of the meal under preparation reached her. Last Tragic Hours Vital hunger assailed her. She tried all she knew to escape from the smell. She begged for food. Only hot beds-tea could lie given her. She struggled on The swim was entering its last tragic hours. One of the main contributory factors of her failure can be put down to the physical agonies she enduped when ■ hunger assailed her during the early hours of the morning. Dover boatmen, who have spent a lifetime on the waterfront, are without doubt the finest judges as to whether a swimmer will be successful or not. Never once have I known them to go Wrong. The old •’salt" who took me in his motor-launch to Freyberg’s tug, predicted the failure of the Colonel. He asserted that Freyberg was too far from the English coast at that particular time to be able to do battle with the ebbtide to be encountered later.

He also predicted to within four hundred yards the point where Freyberg would abandon. He was contorversial to lYeyberg's trainer, but he was right. Dover boatmen idolize anybody who makes the attempt. They assert that it is one of the biggest hnjnan endurance feats imaginable. They are righl. —o ■ ■ — Word has been received from Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Somers, who with their son have been /pending a vacation at Passaic, New Jersey, that they will return to their home in this city next Tuesday, September 8. [Asbbaucher’s FURNACES LIGHTNING RODS SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING Phone 765 or 739

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THE CORT TONIGHT <)NLY “THE RIDIN’ COMET’ featuring •>«* world champion cowboy YAKIMA CANUTT A brave man! A lovely girl! A great horse! A great picture! • HEEME JEEBE” comedy. 10c 25c Sfitnrdav Kiebanl Talntadpe in ‘Tearing Through." Sunday ant! Moiwlay “The Hall Way Girl.”

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