Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1925 — Page 4

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The weather last evening and this morning was of the gray, damp brand, not conducive to good cheer but we are all thankful that during the pastj week the farmers have made much J progress in getting out their corn I and beets. « I Write Congressman A*. 11. Vestal I and Senators Watson aqd Robinson j and urge that they take care of the 1 interests of Decatur in the proposed i “pork" bill. We have waited loug i and patiently. Let’s show a little « pep now’. i

Thanksgiving Day was fittingly observed here and the occasion was the usual happy ono. Os course today most of the folks are trying to get over the effects of too much to eat and finishing what was left from the feast but happy over the recollections of a happy day. * The football season is over and we are sorry. It's a tine, clean, outdoor sport that helps to make one forget the troubles and worries of every day life. It's good for the folks to be interested in how the games will result and its fine to take an occassional day or half day off to witness this great American sport. The city of Richmond. Indiana, decided a year ago to advertise their municipal electric light plant. The results show a fifteen per cent, increase in business, due to new customers and to increased use of electricity in the homes of old customers. The city "dads'’ were so pleased with the results that they have appropriated $2,000 for newspaper advertising in 1926. Os course it pays.

Wnhiu ten minutes yesterday four cars disobeyed the traffic signs at the corner of Winchester, Adams and Mercer streets yesterday. We are informed this is not unusual and one of these days a terrible accident will result if such violations are continued. Rapid driving, recklessness in equalling when cars are goiug to turn and other preventable causes of accidents should be avoided. It is getting to be dangerous to drive and the only way to correct this is for every one to be as careful as possible. The track in congress is now being greased for a "pork” bill, carrying $180,000,000 for new postoffice buildings over the country and it is more than prdbabTe that it will go through. As prepared it includes Decatur, which by the way is the only county seat city in the eighth district which does not have a federal building. We believe billions of dollars have been wasted by building $25,000 postoffices at a cost of $70,000 to SIOO,OOO but since about every towm in the country has one, we want one here and w e believe we are entitled to it in preference to many other places. The $180,000,000 will be spent and the effort here should be to secure <i modern and attractive building, all we can get for the money expended.

The Indiana Fann Bureau Federation which met at Indianapolis this week, unanimously expressed unqualified confidence in the state highway commission and asked for the reappointment of Earl Crawford, whose services have been so satisfactory for several years. In resolutions adopted they deplore tile efforts of politicians to control the board and add this paragraph: "We most heartily indorse the courageous efforts of our form

Solution of Yostsrday’o Puula JJ ’-T'’ 'e'dßr* ‘ *S' K sjg T -t’ o| LOR JBFp DH S cg|B E EBOIH A l. ama ; h||e;r;e>a/UW — er director, Earl Crawford, in his efforts to place the Indiana state highway commission ou a business basis and to remove its administration from political influences, and we respectfully request his reappointment.”

While conditions appear better 'than a few months ago, we insist that healthy good times cannot come unpil the farmer sells his crop and his 'years work at a profit. It costs an Average of sixty-eight cents per bushel to raise corn in the middle west. There is no justice in forcing them to sell that crop at from fifty to sixty cents. (I’he farmer must work twelve to fifteen a day for months to produce the crop upon which we live throughout the year and until he is paid in comparison •with returns from other labor conditions will continue had. There should be some means of guaranteeing to the farmer payment for bis work even when crops are Igrge enough to produce a surplus. Publicity is a great tiling and the oftcuer we receive complimentary notices in the metropolitan newspapers and the oftener they talk about Decatur, the better it is for the community. In the recent issue of Literary Digest appears a half page advertisement for the Ferguson Construction company, of Cleveland. It contains a picture of the General Electric plant at Decatur, together with the statement that it was built under a contract by which they received a bonus for completing the building ahead of schedule and referring to the local plant as one of the most modern and best of the G. E. branches. A full page circular I sent out by Doubleday. Page & Company, famous publishers, contains a reprint from one of French Quinn's articles on the Gene Stratton-Porter memorial. These things all count and should help us in making this a fetter community, better known.

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KSKKSKSXKSSSSSJXaX X x H TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY E X K From the Daily Democrat File E Twenty Years Ago This Day 55 55 S 3 55 55 51 55 E 55 55 55 E X X S K 55 55 55 X The American Bank in Boston fails. The state treasury has a balance of $400,000. Receipts for the year werp $6,700,000. Red Fqrnan elected a 8 manager of the Palace Bowling alleys Young Matrons’ Club holds business meeting with Mrs. D. M. Hensley. Tom Railing writes W. A. Ijower that his team is leading in the Old Mexico league and Tom has lost only one game,. • Charles Lapg has opened a tailor ■Shop over the Winnes Sho4 Store. John Russell took a large bunch of hides to Fort Wayne this morning. __

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Said the fibfi to the man • Qu the rivulet's brink. As he reached for a ixittle And st irtiuj to drink: “I am just a poor fish And when hungry I eat; I am lured to my death By what seems to be meat! “it is true I'm a fool, And I don't stop to look When a minnow 1 see If it's lied to a book. I take a long chance For the food I require. But not every minnow is tied to a wire.

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Indiana Is Becoming Large Industrial State Indianapolis, Nov. 27. — (Ulrtted Press) —Indiana will soon be one of the largest industrial states in the nation. according to Lionel H. Edie, director of business research of the school of commerce and finance at Indiana university. The prediction was made today by Edie to the Indiana Development council of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and other organizations which arc preparing for an “all Indiana" campaign. The development problem of the state, Edie, said, around the bringing to Indiana of industries which have a large demand for the state products, “The mining industries alone cannot become of sufficient importance to hold large possibilities of growth and expansion," tl\e report said. “By drawing upon tfie resources of meaals, Indiana can develop the manfacture of iron and steel. The possibilities of expansion by this general course of action are gerat.” _____ o

Schools Asked To Observe Indiana Day indiauapplls, ind., Nov. 27. —Dr. H. X. Sherwood. State Superintendent of Public Instruction has issued a statement asking the school officials of the state to make a proper observance of Indiana Day, December 11. In writing the school officials. Superintendent Sherwood said in part: “The last General Assembly made December 11. "Indiana Day,” Inasmuch as our state was admitted to the union on December 11, 1816. It was not the ’ intention of the Legislature to add a t holiday to our present long list but I rather to set aside a day on which We might commemorate tine achieve- ' nients pf pur state and stress the qual- : ities that make for good citizenship. t| "With the admission of Indiana, the 1 I Union numbered nineteen states. It [was then a going concern. It had

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"You are smarter than I, But I'll venture to say You play with your life In the very same way. If the label reads "whiskey” You don't stop to think,It may be rank poison. But you'll take a drink. "You laugh at a fish That is caught on a hook, Though a bass that is hungry Has no time to fbok. But the man who will drink All that's -labelled today As whiskey, is truly A poor fish. I’ll nay!”

weathered two storms that seriously threatened its existence, one made historic by the Kentucky-Virginia resolu- ( tions, the other by the Hartford con- ( vention. Indiana came into the union ( after the Hartford convention. Her ( people had faith in the national gov. eminent and federal constitution. It was another manifestation of wliat, in all probability is thc-outstandiuf si igb fact in our history, the victory of the forces of union over those of'separat'on. "This day also calls to mind the contribution of the United States in the field of government. What was once thirteen sogei igu and independent states with rivalry and jealousy became a union in a federal state. It was the first.state of this kind in the 1 history of the world. Other states or--1 ganized after this pattern have appeared. Today we talk about the United ! States of Europe. It is a compliment to the idea of federal government | which America has given t»e world. ■ “The anniversary of Indiana's admission to the Union is'an excellent | time tp emphasize the dtfty of voting. It is said that in the last general election only fifty-one per cent of our vot-

ers went to the polls. No one is entitled to the privileges and protection « of opr goyernnienet who fails to meet * the obligations of citizenship. It i 8 just as necessary to vote as to pay taxes. - Good citizens should weigh the issues ( of the day and voice their sentiment ,at the polls. o — Newspaper Ads Bring Large Profit To The City Os Richmond, Ind. Richmond. Ind., Nov. 27. —The city of Richmond has $2,000 today to spend in newspaper advertising of its municipal electric light plant. A 10 to 15 percent increase in the plant’s business in recent years was attributed entirely to newspaper advertising and the city “dads,” in fixing the 1926 budget, included $2,000 to continue advertising in the newspapers next year. i

Girl Falls In Love With Man Who Says / He Is Martin Durkin Chicago. Nov. 27.—(United Press)— ( Introduced to a man whose name was given as Martin Durkin, Anna Epperson. 20, of South Bend. Indiana, immediately fell hi love with him, and a sow days later wrote to her father, R Epperson. 4u4 East Donald oreet, South Bend, and told him that she was going to marry Durkin. ."I know he is u murderer,” the letter said, "but we all have our faults." Epperson became alarmed Into communication with the Chicago police. Police conducted a raid on a local rooming liouse yesterday and arrested Anna and several men. The man whom she was going to marry was Sam Albane. Albane was released when he said it was only a joke about his being Durkin. Anna and two men were due in morals court late today. - Two Killed In Gun Battle In Chicago Chicago, Nov. 27. — (United Press.) —Sergeant .lames Carroll and Ben Custer, a taxicab driver were killed and another policeman and a civilian were severely wounded here today by .'our men, who police think were beut on robbery. First reports \vei’e that the leader >f the band was Martin Durkin, the 'shooting sheik” who lias killed a federa) official and a policeman in .wo sensational shooting escapades. Captain Benjamin Enright, after an investigation, declared th e affair way an attempted hold-up. Carroll and Patrolman James Henry were on guard in a saloon on South Halstead street on a tip that Durkin vas in the neighborhood. Near 4 a. tn., there was a rap on the door, it .vas opened and four men rushed in and started shooting. Oarroll and Custer fell dead, and Henry and Gus Soeldner dropped, severely wounded. The four men then ran out and disappeared.

IN MEMORIAM In Memory of Lewis C. DeVoss Lewis Cass DeVoss, son of David ind Dorcas DeVoss, was born August 28, 1848 in Randolph county, Indiana. He was admitted to the Bar in the rear 1882, and shortly thereafter ettled at Decatur, Indiana, where he at once entered upon the practice of his profession, and where he continled to live and to practice law until his death, which occurred on Novem»er 23. 1925. At thp tipie of his death le was a member of the firm of Derosa & De Voss, the film consisting if himself and his sen. Huber M □eVoss. The Jay County Bar had a very high regard for Mr De Voss, both as t man and as a lawyer, and the news of his death is a great shock kg us. Mr. DeVoss was one «>f the ablest trial lawyers in the state, and his death is a distinct loss to the Adams County Bar and to the people of Adams county. With the Adams County Bar «uid the people of Adams county the Jay County Bar mourn his loss, and extend to his bereaved family our sincerest sympathy. JAMES J MORAN, JOHN W. SMITH. TODD WHIPPLE EMERSON McGIHFF, R. D. WHEAT. Committee of the Jay County Bar Association. 1 ■" ■ ■ ■ ——

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