Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1925 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sonday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller. Pres, and Gen. Mir A. R. Holthouse Sec y. &■ Bus Mgr. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, at second class matter. Subscription Rates: Siugie copies ■- 2 cents One week, by carrier 10 cents One year, by carrier. >6 00 One montn, by mail 35 cents Three months, by mail >IOO Six months, by mail - Sl-T5, One year, by mail — >3.00 One year, at office —>3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones- Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made Known by Application Foreign Representative: Carpentier & Company, - 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. INSPECTORS AND THINGS: — Walter Chambers, editor of the New Castle Times and one of if not the best posted man In the state on governmental affairs, author of the! budget bill now being credited as the! saver of funds, state chairman of the - democratic party and wise in those I things best for all the people, thus discusse'l boards, commissions and, inspectors in a recent issue of his paper: "For several days the editor of the Times, as a member of the State! Budget committee has been going, over the salaries of appointive State officers and employes to fix them fori the coming year. It is not the size! of the salaries that surprises one fori 1 in many instances one wonders why! l any man would want a position at I th" salary that is paid. , r "Hut the most surprising thing is the : number of inspectors and invest igat I ors that are traveling around at pub-i lie expense looking into our private , 1 affairs and some of them with extra-! ordinary power—a power sufficient to] tike our property or disrupt a family ! The State Tax Board has a big force! of such men: so has the Public Ser i vice Commisisoa, the State Fire Marshal; the Health Board, the Industrial! board, the Stat" Board of Charities. I some of the state institutions, until i the number runs well over a hundred' of these inspectors and investigators,' or one for every county with several! additional for the larger counties. They do things that twenty years ago I were not considered a function of | government. Some of them are good.! some indifferent and others positive i nuisance and detriment to the state, ■ Nor bav e we referred to the prohi- j bition officers that come under federal control, or the 34 state policemen and the numerous game wardens that make life miserable for th® fellows who hunt or fish out of season and beyond the rules of the game. Nor have we mentioned the oii inspectors * bo get >l,aW a year for being politicians. “A large part cf these inspectors could be done away with, although some profile might think the wheels of state would no longer go ’round if them* jobs were abolished. In any event wo should like to abolish forty of them and see what would happen to us poor mortals.” Decatur owns her own municipal slant. For a patter of a century this tplant For a quarter of a century this j until now it ranks the equal of any I *to be found in a city of our size in I the country. We are able to take f are of the needs of every on" and at a cost much lower than those cities secure where large corporations are furni.hing power, light and water. Compare it with any you wish, investigate the conditions at th" city hall and you will b< proud of old De tutor and the work accomplished here. It has taken courage, sacrifice on (he part of juauy, but they have won and ’he plant is able to tik" care of a»d keep pace with the growth of the city. Don’t permit it to b" changed or interfered with to your detriment, support the city and assist them now when t hey are inviting prospective mauuiactors to locate here. The best way perhaps to serve your

| Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle ff U'QMSrr'E'A: L||iF’R"A r pl g A s jSBT r e N o ■debutß&t.atel dWs, i s k s|s IU PWp E P O TWaAfC M c abWEhia.'yJHm a 6 ADA MB a KR! O!N ■ B > E TWL*E S SHIM; I dMd Bp i;AT eßp & e h s® p A M E®C ON C L. ' R OfOLMBP'O r ßej AlylE; i . i community is to buy a lot and build ' a home. You can secure real estate * in Decatur at a price which makes ' your investment safe, you can build at a reasonable figure, you can own your own home if you want to and you ought to be proud of owning one in this splendid city where every factory is operating, where w'e have good schools and churches, where we have many miles of paved stretes and >are building more, where our streets are well lighted and where we are installing a system of ornamental posts which attract much attention, where we will soon be on two state aud feditral highways, where we own a muI nicipal plant that is running smoothly and making money. Buy a lot. build a home, be a real part of a real com.rnunlty. This is fire prevention week and by I proclamation of the governor of the |state and the mayor of the city, is to he go observed. As a property owner and a citizen you are asked to cooperate with the fire department to take such measures as will guard against fires. Fifty-four years ago ou 'the 9th a cow in Mrs. O'Leary's barn ' kicked a lantern over and the greatest fire in the history of the nation 'occurred in Chicago. Fire prevention] week is held over the country on the anniversary of that disaster. In conjunction with the officials insurance’ agents urge that you guard against I fire aud protect yourself by carrying | sufficient insurance. It’s a very imi portant matter. I George Krick, democratic candidate ! for mayor. has served as a member of' jibe city council the past foffr years anil in that capacity has had much to do with the progress made. He is I a manufacturer, a business man and lis well qualified in knowledge of the affairs of the city to serve you. On tbs* ticket with him you will, And men ! and women, chosen because of their I ability to serve the people of Dei catur. The election will be held four weeks from tomorrow and its time to be thinking about it for much de- : pends ou the verdict during the next i tour years. Voters in Decatur and the other ■ towns in Adams county where city or town elections will be held in November do not have to register as the elections are held under the old cities and towns act. It is important that you vote and if you arc eligible, if you have resided in the state six months and in the township sixty days and your precinct thirty days, you have the t ight to cast a ballot is the coming election. Just enough snap in the air this morning to make you throw back your shoulders and announce to the world that you will do something worth white for everybody and incidentally for yourself. Let's go. ♦♦♦+♦♦+♦♦+♦♦♦♦+ * Big Features Os * * RADIO ♦ * Programs Today * ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Monday's Five Best Radio Features Copyright 192 u by United Press WJZ. N"w York. 151. 7 p. m. <E. S. T.i—Levitow’s on bestre. WHIT, lowa City. 481, 7:30 |> in. ((’. S. T. Educational courses. WLAF, Kan-a, City. 386. 8 p. m. (C S. T. > Ivanhoe band. WLW. Cincinnati. 12'1. !». .;•• p. m, <C. S. T.i- O. Henry playlet. KFC. San Frauen,co. 428. 8 p. ui <P. C. S. T.t—3oth Infantry band. o — -5! 5! 3 TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY 1! . » ——a ’ I: From the Daily Democrat File ' K Twenty Years Ago Thia Day 1‘ V * d *i M •> «> O (J «l O k) U U c. | Elkc purchase furniture of C. Y r ‘ "I. U. aud take lease on rooms u

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CLEVERNESSw* ND SINCERITY One was clever, ami one sincere, The cruel hurt such a hit would One was handsome anti one was mean. P ,ain * Now the clever man had a greeter 1 Owe drew laughter ami left a tear. fame I The other wtnev*d at another's pain. For laughter pleases the carefree ' throng. And he seemed dull when the clever But he who toileil with a humble name spoke. Had a truer knowledge of right and And he seemed slow when the wit wrong. _ began. * —rt T *~” ' . r , For he never shurpennd a jibe or joke We luusli al the jibes, be they foul or To wound the soul of his fellow uian. fair. \Vc smile when a iiinibic mind w For lie c ould feel, as it were h’s own. near. Th** sting of envy- and malice keen, Bu* of cleverness must we all beware, Aud he knew, ere ever the barb was ' we give our love to the one sinthrown cere. "' ' right I *.' Edgar A. < l su*->t ” — ■ - ———=?»

Morrison block. Miller family reunion is held iu Un-1 ton township. County commissioners entertained at tbe David Mesbbergcr home in Linn Grove. New baseball organization plans a real ground with grand stand at Steele s park for next year. Baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs M. K. Hower. .Mr. and Mis. I. A. Kalver leave for a ten day’s visit to Chicago. Number from here attend 33rd annual meeting of the synod of the porthwest Reformed church, now in session. Dora Thorne at the opera house and a [lacked house. -■-o The People’s Voice | Time To Gather Seed Corn Ed’tor Daily Iternoeral: — Believe it would be a good thing to call aUent on of the farmers of Adams county that this is th*- rim- to secure the best seed corn. They all know i'. ► but perhaps a few have overlooked it. If you will go out into the fields now and select the largest and best cars. ► remembering that "like begets like.” tie a string to the ‘cars and hang them in a dry building, so tbe chickens and nice can't get to them. let theta dry y/ilil spring, you will find it dry and tn just th' right condition for planting. Seed corn is always higher price in th- pring and with the splen- >• crop in ’his county now there >. no reason why every farmer s hould not have pknty of bis own and in prime coudit'on for planting. WAubingtnu Town-b p Farmer x Alexander Is Temporary * Alumni Secretary At 1. I. n> - - - S Bloomiugtone-ind.. Oct. s—(United Preset—The office of alumni secretary I! of Indiana University will be filled “> temporarily by W. A. Alexander, InJdiana. University librarian and directjj'vr vl Ute memorial iuud uUUfaigU. Mi.

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Alexander will serve until a ian be appointed by Edward C. Von Tress Jr who re.-mitlv rts'gaet! to ■>» eater business in Florida Mr. Alexander is an alumnus of the University and a native Hoosier. He was dean and registrar of Swarthmore College for many ; ears ami has served as librarian at the State University since 1921. He is well known among the 39,(>imi alumni and former students of the University. Mr Alexander is largely responsible for the succesl of tVe memorial building «.uui>aigti tu which there are new If.niMt subscribers. More than 9i.400.0fN lias been raised for the pnrpose <f building three structures at the State University. Two of these, the stadium and the women’s dormitory have been constructed. Upon coming Io lnd : ana University in 1921. Mr. Alexander immediately W-gan the campaign for a building fr.nd afyong alumni and students of th'- University. Mr. Alexander gradtiaide from tbe Institution la 1901 with the A. B. degree. OBITUARY I’eter Albr’ght Harker was born in Van Wert county; Ohio. Oct. 14. 1851. He died at bis hoine in Harrison township on Sept' inte r 29. 1925 Age 73 years, 11 months. 15 days- He was bapt.zod in the Lutheran church. He was the son of Jacob Frederick and Mary Harker. He bad seven brothers and two sisters, all of whom are deceased. Ho leaves to mourn, a host of relatives and friends. A light. from our household is gone ' A voice we loved is stilled A place is vacant in our hearts. That never can be filled. We take th-* mode of expressing our sincere thanks to the neighbors and friends who so faindly assisted us during the death ot our beloved uncle; to the pallbearers, and Rev. 1 Schrow for bis comforting words. Fred Harker and family 1 * Miss Dorothy Miller of Fort Wayne, > spent ’he week-end with her parents. Mr. aud Mrs. J. 0- Miller and family.

STRAIGHT TALKS WITH_AONT EMMY ON A NARROW ESCAPE “Oh. Aonty, I te»t *» ** lk * yo«." sold Maud, bumtiag te o® Auot Kmmy. "Those bonds Tor's fat bar gavo us for * wedding preoont have UMltured and Tom ban tha money, a man io trytef to let Tom to tevoot in a radio company. I wnat your opinion on it“ ■Don't hurry; tall me everything yon ran remember,* onid Aunt Emmy. -Well, Tom didn't oeem enthnuiaotic. Then Mr. Brown the ealesmxn. ante that if he bought stork in hte company, and wanted hie maney nt any time, the company would bny bock hio etock.* “Are you auro tat eoid that?" interrupted Aunt Emmy. 'That 'i a oizim that ta not made by peoyte connect nd with dependable inreoumont housee. Unleea you have an agreement with the company clearly aUtiag that K will ropurchaao ito oteck, etgned by one of its oMcera, you would have great difficulty in getting the com peaty to buy back your stock. A company cmnot be compelled to repurchase its own stock. Do you know who Mr. Brown »?* •No," replied Mxud. “Neither dose Tom, but he ooerna awfully nice and Tom liked him right from tbo etart. He is good looking, well dreoned. and has beautiful manner,. * Aunt Enrmy sniffed. "DM ho offer to sell you preferred stock on which dividends are guaranteed?" "Why, how did you know. Aunty?* exclaimed Maud. “That ta exactly what he did.“ "I thought no,” »a!4 Aunt Emmy. "Reliable stock salesmen don't promise that a company will repurchase its stock, nor do they promise guaranteed dividends. Unless a company operates profitably, it cannot pay honest dividends of sort, guaranteed or otherwise. You can see how foolish it is to believe that you can get dividends just because some one says they are guarant""'!. The only guarantee in the world for dividends ta the successful operation of a company. Guaranteed dividends is a glib phrase used by trnserupuloes persons to got. money ftom unthinking one*. A whHe he.k the country was flooded with fcFo oil stock. Now promoters are trying radio stock." "What shall I do?" cried Maud. "Tom is with Mr. Brown now at the store to buy the stock with the bond money.” "You just iro to the phone and call Tom." said Aunt Emmy. "Ask him and Mr. Brown to meet you »X the bank at ten o'clock. Tell him not to buy the stock until you talk with him again. Half the money ta yours. Then call the bank and make an appointment with the vice president to diecase an investment.* About noon Aunt Emmy's telephone rang. It was Maud. “The queerest thing happened, Amty,* she said. “Mr. Brown agreed to meet us at the bank at ten o'clock. Tom and I waited until eleven and he never showed up. Then Tom tcld the vice president about it and he said we bad a lucky escape. Only last week the bank looked up the company Mr. Brown represented and it ta absolutely no good!”— A. B. Aymos. TO MAKE FARMING YIELD BETTER RETURNS' ■ The outstanding possibilities of oo operative marketing are more largely along the linen of standardising and improving production, eliminating excoas varieties, standardizing and improving grade and pack, statatiitng j production, regulating flow to market, j improving distribution as between markets, developing new markets, 00l leetive bargaining, betterment of financing, correcting trade abuses, and representing producers before legists tire and administrative btM’es, says H E. Erdman, associate professor in California Collego of Agriculture. AM of these should, of course, result io higher net returns, he says, adding: "If I were to Bet the limitations I should put them about as follows: "1. Cooperation eannot fix prices that are out cf Uno with supply and demand acedistoag. Cooperation cannot eliminate the middleman. It can, and does, of i course, establish the farmer,' own axenaes to taha the placet private agencies and often puts one cooperative agwuey where several dealers formerly operated. “I. Co-operation eannot reduce pws greatly except in so tar as an increase 1 in scale of operaHoßs makes tor lower i costs. Korea of the getns es targe i beats operation, however, are dissi- ,, pated becanse of tendencies toward extravagance. “4. Cooperatives will not run alone. Constant attention is required or the part of the membership because ‘what is everybody a business ta nobody's busin exa' 5 “e. Cooperation dees not permit s the fanner to hold has nraduets far a d higher price without also oom polling j him to assume the risk® of gstung a r lower price. '•>. The outsider eften geu o much of the benefit as cooperative marketing ae does the memher, and in some cases gets arore because he ’ does sat have to bear hta ebare as s. etrtatn deveJopmtet expenses. Thjs r. id 4 dpc-dti Stzadicaj is eecytrauca."

I North Vernon — Robert Moore has [quit his whltd apron job. He has reLlgned as manager of a chain grocery I store to take a job in a garage Warsaw — For th* second time within a month, Lamoin Lippey. age S. fell and fractured hi* left teg in the same place.

Gasoline —12*4% of Operating Cost The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) contends that gasoline is the cheapest commodity in the world, when considered m relation to the service it gives. It contends further that gasoline is not a major expense in the operation of an automobile. In support of this contention, we present below, the experience of Mr. Royal S. Kellogg with three different tjmes of cars, as reported in the August issue of Nation's Business. Mr. Kellogg has devoted himself chiefly to cost accounting in the News Print industry- He is a highly skillful enthusiast in arriving at accurate costs. Operating Cort of Car No. I—Price1 —Price >792.90 14000 Mile* from July 31. ISIS to Feb. 1,1918, . 11 Cents per Mile Depreciation 3.0 c Repair*. Upkeep. Accessorie* ~.26 Tire* . 2.0 Insurance, licences, etc 1.5 GASOLINE 1.5 Garage 4 Total 11.0 c Operating Coot of Car No. X- Price >1379.74 13-494 Miles from April 19. 1918 to June 30, 1921, 18 Cents per Mile Depreciation 4.9 c Repairs. Upkeep 4.7 Tire* 2 4 Garage 2.4 In«*iranc<* licenses, etc. .... 1.9 GASOLINE 1.7 Total 18Dc Operating Coot of Car No. J—Price 42238.22 33100 KWe* from June 30. 1921 to March 13, 1923. 12.7 Cents per Mile Depreciation 4.9 c GASOLINE 2.1 Insurance, licenses, etc. . . . 18 Repairs, replacement, maintenance . .16 Tires 1.1 Garage . 12 Total 12.7 c Carrying Mr. Kellogg’s computations a bit farther, we find that for the ten-year period, the average operating cost for the three cars was 13.9 Cents per Mile. Os this the cost of gasoline was only 1.7 Cents per Mile, or a fraction less than 12*<% of the total operating cost. It is worth your while to consider these figures with care. We suggest that you keep an actual, detailed record of the cost of running )Dur car. In this way you can know to a certainty how little money you spend on gasoline in relation to the total operating cost. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) continually concentrates the energies and facilities of its great organization on keeping the pnee of gasoline at a low lex-el, to render the greatest service possible to the thirty million people of the Middle West, and to maintain the quality of its products at a high standard of excellence. Standard Oil Company ~ (Indiana ) General Office: Standard Oil Building 910 So. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 3943 Your Money Every day thousands <»f dollars are deposited in fliis bank and purl of this win is your money. But. Ilie question is, arc you depositing your own money in your own account where it will work for ♦'OU? If not, tlicn ill'', iiionej you should be. saving i s slipping out of your liand** | *■ ind into the bank account , >f soniconc else. H' l ' lailik will eventually g ,,f • vour nioiH'y. so why not have it in your own iiain* • I — 4% Interest Paid Old Adams County Bank I | WE PAY YOU TO SAVE.

i SPECIAL SALE NOTICE In connection with the W p n„ ' *»le. to be held at hlx rtaidonca t? mite* east of Decatur. Tuesday <? ■ tober 6th, 1 will offer about U * . of corn iu the field on my tarui I of Decatur. Henry Krick 2