Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1925 — Page 7

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ~~ Published Every Evening Except Sunday i.v THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO . ji Heller President and General th.. 18. Holthouse •- fu cretary and Blwln( J Manager jeered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as fit , Pona cIM , SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Sjfweek !lV < arnt r - 8 cents JJ tsar, by carrier s ■ 1,1 ' L Month, by mail MAO 2L. Months, by mail cents ™ Months, by mail 8.00 One Year, by mail j|« .■Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional nosti™ n ,o.ti , < PrIC Advertising Rates made known on application 8 M 3 Foreign Representatlves-Carpenter & Company. 122 Michigan Ave ChteasoFifth Avenue Building, New York City; N. V . B ldg.. Kansas City" Mo. ~ . It looks and feels like Christmas today and another week should every one for the big event, .hist a week to shop in. ** ★ w You can’t, do it very early an;,’ more but you can still do it by shopping in the Decatur stores. They are by the way open in the evenings now for your convenience. * * * t With less than a week in which to work the fund for the Good Fellows is just half what it ought to be. Don’t put it off any longer. * ★ * * Charles Cox and Ralph Kane, who assisted in the prosecution of D. C. Stephenson are asking for fees of SIOO a day each, totaling about $15,000. It costs the state a stack of money to convince some folks who think they are the law that they are mistaken. ★ ★ ★ ★ Battling Siki, Semegalese negro, who drank gin and whiskey while training for his big fights, who whipped the French champion Carpentier, and who made and spent several fortunes, was finally "got” by a bootlegger who shot him in the back. The negro was but twenty-five years old, but his career of vice and his associations with those of low degree brought the inevitable finish. * * * * A week from tonight is Christmas eve and every thing points to a merry one. The snow is here, every one is busy, plans are being made for the usual celebrations in churches, lodges, schools and homes. Os course much of the shopping is to be done yet and the next few days will’be busy ones but the job can be done. Follow the advertisements and announcements in the Daily Dmocrat. They will help you make your selections and plans. ★ * * * There were nearly’ four per cent less marriages the past year than the previous average while the divorces increased three and a half per cent. There were 1,178,206 marriages and 170,867 divorces, about one divorce for every seven marriages. Texas had the largest number of divorces while strange as it may seem, the wild state of New York, was one of the lower ones in the list with one divorce for every’ twenty-three marriages. If the increase continues we may reach a point where its a fifty-fifty proposition. ★ ★ ★ ★ Send your card of acceptance in for the alumni banquet. It you have mislaid it, call Miss Mc’ rory and tell her to put you down for a ticket or two any way. If you have not received an invitation, you are welcome any*way if you have ever attended high school. That makes you eligible. Please remember also that wives or husbands of those entitled to membership are invited and expected, the idea being to make it a happy occasion for every one. Did you read the program? Doesn’t it interest you. Lets make the attendance over three hundred. * * ★ * A domstic beet sugar company announces construction of a fourth new factory during the present year, the new plants being located in Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming. Since tht <h< ! k>b of a beet sugar factory at Scottsbluff, Neb., in 1910, t e po' of the industry has been rapid and next year close to 1 . acres will be under beet cultivation in Nebiasa. e<Z Z v facts give an idea of what the growth of an indispensible industry means to'farming. The sugarbeet industi; i.is wen • <_ developer in many states and has safeguarded this nation again, a foreign sugar monopoly.—Goshen |l ail> Dtm< ra They Will talk and scrap in con ®J es ® which will really aid the farmer. It they wait prosperity to this country for years to com. for th ‘ e earnestly and honestly trying as h. ! h farmer as they do to please the b.g After al, biggest man and the most and he needs the farmer, for he controls the <- t’p should have a sure actual and not theoretical assistance ,l0V " father loans. If market for his product and not p [ ov,slon^’ e him el . he has a money making business he can finance himse The news story of proposed » ppr ®J” a^ r buildings, given out from Was ni ff o n building recently com$98,500 for Bluffton. Since that city n • bodv won dered pleted at a cost of $60,000 News wired Conwhy and what the story mean t. t was an error an d gressman Vestal who replied i-. . committee because was probably included by the t nut n ,j e( j the same item. It a bill introduced several yeai s a » l ’ introduced in a someshould be understood that these > ■ ‘ correc ted and what haphazzard manner anti t : ons . The only matter of changed to suit conditions ant - cities in the bill wi dependable interest is the fact that t ■ probably be taken care of finally-

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Dear Lord, our little baby bless And fill her life with happiness. Protect her through the coming years And keep her lovely eyes from tears; Keep her from pain and let her stiv . perfect as she 13 todaft HUHHHL aw Dear Lord, watch over her, lest sho Shall catch some ugly fault from me; Guard her from selfishness and pride, From anger at. some whim denied. And as the swift years come and go. Grant that still lovelier site may grow.

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PRAYER FOR A LITTLE GIRL

Dear Lord, we ask. keep pure her mind, Grant that no nasty thought may find Lodgment therein, but from above Send her the wisdom of Thy love. May there be nothing base or vile The joy of knowledge to defile. Dear Lord, this for our babe wo ask, The strength and courage for her task Keep her from Sin, and let her be Always as radiant to see. As beautiful and blithe and gay. As perfect as she is today.

Special Preparation For Naval Aviators Called Unnecessary Washington, Dec. 16. — (United Press)— Specialization of line officers of the Navy as naval aviators for a full career is both undesirable and unessential, Rear Admiral W. R. Shoemaker, Chief of the Bureau ot Navigation, informed Secretary of the Navy Wilbur in his annual report today. “The aviation problem, technically, as to the knowledge required, is no more specialized than the operation of any other type and is even less than the requirement is some of the technical branches of the line in which specialization is not necessary now." Shoemaker asserted. Shoemaker recommended that beginning with the 1926 class of the Naval Academy, after the completion of two years of general line duties subsequent to graduation, a number of graduates; considered by the Bureau to be the current officer-pilot requirement for the aeronautical organization, be detailed to that duty for five years. With the course in aviation at the Naval Academy, Shoemaker pointed out, the Bureau now has a selective means ot determining the available material in each class for detail to naval avia lion. Prominent New York Banker Is Missing New York, Dec. 177-(United Press) —Alfred Benscher, prominent broker, has been missing from his office and home since Dec. 1, the state attorneygeneral’s office revealed after alleging that Benscher owed bis customers approximately $500,000. ■ The firm of Alfred Benscher and , company is closed and an injunction has been issued in supr« Tie court . against the company and against i Benscher as an individual. According to»Deputy Attorney Victor Kauffman the Benscher firm ■ "bucketed orders.”

German Rum Runners See Big Profit In Holiday Liquor Trade By Frederick Kuh «U. p. SutC <'«rre.pundent > Berlin. Dec. IT.—(Unltr-d Desplle the tightness of th»> rum block ade along the U. R. Atlantic coast, German rum runners are hopeful that they will make a harvest from their •’holiday trail*" with the states. In view of reports of recent rum runner activity out of Hamburg, Bremen and Danzig, American agents of the prohibition enforcement forces have been redoubling their vigilance, though hitherto they have met with no success in catching German rum-runners with the goods. Informed American circles allege that the U. S. customs officer in Germany lacks the necessary staff of detective-assistants to ferret out the Volstead-acoffers. Experts declare that at least four adroit sleuths must be at the disposal of the American authorities in Germany ( if rum-running from this country is to be checkmated. At present, however, this task Is left to the consular and Treasury department officers abroad, whose time is consumed with routine business. "Until the Treasury department details a squad of enforcement agents to Germany," it is a sserted. “German rum runners will continue to thumb their noses at American legislation." Christmas styles in rum-running are "back to nature," as the trade slogan goes. That is. the conventional disguises are being abandoned and the smuggled liquor is being transported without camouflage.. J-reviously, rumrunners resorted to the ruse of label-

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ling their cases "pottery," "Chinaware" or "crockery." But this trick was found to be useless Once the stuff reaihej an American port, the customs lospec tors qdicklv penetrated Its disguise And so the Chrlsttriat fashion has returned to running the blockade with open liquor shipments and landing, unseen. ut some nook along the New Eng land coast. informers continue to "tip off" the American consulates here regardingn impendinng departures of rum-depart-ures from German ports. Hut these tips have often been calculated to direct the American authorities away from the real scent. Q— . O E. Gillium, of Herne, was a business culler in the city this morning.

THE CORT Ton ight—Tomorrow “THE EVERLASTING WHISPER” A Wm. Fox Attraction with Tom Mix and Tony, the wonder horse. A drama of love and hate in the western wilds. Action—SpeedThrills—Romance \‘A CLOUDY ROMANCE” good comedy ,10c 25c SATURDAY—Buck .Jones in “A DESERT PRICE” SUNDAY ONLY—Blister Keaton in "GO WEST.”

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Investigation Os Nation’s Foreign Policy Demanded Washington, L>. C. Dec 17 —(United Press I— A full investigation of th* administration's foreign policy was demanded in a resolution introduced in the senate today by Senator Re*d, democrat of Missouri The resolution would require the senate foreign relations committee to uscerta n if any foreign government, citizen or corporation has been expending money to Influence tile foreign policy ot the government or senate; the ability of the various foreign governments to pay their war debts and the extent to which firms in the United States have made loans to foreign debtors.