Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1925 — Page 7

SECOND SECTION

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT PREVAILS IN CITY

ENGLAND ENJOYS BEST CHRISTMAS SINCEW9RLDWAR * Xtirosphere More Cheerful And Jolly This Year; Things On the Amend season not without hardships, however London, Dec. 24.—(United Press) — With the court still in full mourning. British Isles are having rather a subdued Christmas though the atmosphere is more cheerful, if not more jol.y, than it has been at any time since the War. Things appear to be on the mend for the inhabitants of these isles, and there is a contagious sense of hopefulness abroad in the land which makes a sound foundation for Yule Tide. The royal family, following its custom, is spending the day at Sandringham but it is as quiet as a family party, conscious of a vacant chair, and the usual banquet which King George gives on Christmas eve to the servants of Sandringham House will, of course, lie omitted. The Christmas dinner of the royal family will be very simple in order to release as many as possible o f the servants for their own little family imrties. London itself if not boisterous, is distinctly cheerful, due chiefly to the widespread conviction that the European mess is slowly hut surely getting straightened out. The shops have done an enoimous business and the streets have been congested, with happy throngs. The theatres, especially those which produce the traditional "Christmas pantomime” for the British public, report heavy bookings. Following a strange British custom, a vast flood of "red demand notes from the Income Tax authorities, threatening summary action against all belated taxpayers, poured yesterday amt today into the stream of Christinas mails but this grim bureaucratic device does not seem to cause widespread l depression. | With more than a million Britons still unemployed, and with strike difficulties close at hand in mining, railway transportation, shipbuilding and heavy engineering, the season can not be described as one of unalloyed good cheer, but there is at least optimism in the air which is more than can be said for Christmas days of recent memory. The belief that the Locarno pacts, signed early this month, mark the beginning of a new period of normal European trade relations is at the bottom of the almost universal cheerfulness. The old English Christmas famous in story and poem of the family gathered in the oak beamed ancestral dining room with the cheerful fre cracking merrily while the round rosy lord o. the manor three sheets under the wind sang songs and noisily shouted his orders, is rapidly becoming a thing <>•

< ail : ■ I : greetings ~ I With kindest feelings towards all * we wish the readers of the i Home Paper $ ' « A MERRY AND JOYOUS f CHRISTMAS -S'- | OECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT * ss

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Failure To Attend Church Causes Man To (let Trip To Prisor South Bend. Ind., Dec. 24.—(United Press)—Failure to attend church services today cost Donald Blackburn. 24, convicted forger, his liberty. Judge C. E. Pattee, of the St. Joseph circuit court revoked a suspended sentence and ordered Blackburn taken to prison to serve u two to fourteen year term when he learned the man was not attending church. PLAN CHARACTER EDUCATION MEET State Superintendent Os Instruction Announces Plans For Meeting Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 24.—(United Press) —Dr. Henry N. Sherwood. State Superintendent of Public Instruction, has completed plans for a state-wide conference on the subject of, "Character Education," to be held In Indianapolis on Wednesday, January 13. The conference will he open to the public and it is believed that many religious leaders of the state in addition to almost all of the leading educators will attend the meeting. Dr. George Albert Coe of Columbia University and Dr. George 11. Betts, of Northwestern University, wellknown authorities and write:son Char, acter Education, will be on the program along with a number of prominent Indiana educators and religious leaders, including the Rev. Dr. Frederick E. Taylor of the First Baptist Church, Indianapolis; Superintendent L. L. Caldwell of Hammond; A. L. Trester, Secretary of the Indiana Athletic Association; Superintendent J. O. Chewning of Evansville; Dean la’il V. McNutt. School of Law. Indiana University; Williab H. Remy. Prosecuting Attorney of Marion county and Fred Hoke of Indianapolis. All sessions of the conference will be held in the Hotel Lincoln. Ihe morning session will be based on the theme. "The Community and Charac Iter Education." and will, be called >' order at ten o'clock by Superintendent Sherwood. A practical program for Character Education will be discussed at an afternoon session following a luncheon for all the conference visitors. The evening session «Il be given over to a discussion of problems of particular importance to yo.mg people. Superintendent W - " ■ I den of South Bend will preside at the ’evening session. > the past. ~ Instead, we find the Eng is- ■ -of today, celebrating its Chnstnuo dinner in the spacious dmmg rooms -> hotels. The extremely heavy dDukrnt that characterized bygone ( according to hotel propneto s ha been considerably modern ted own to the great popularity ot dan m iwhfch requires a certain equilibrium and a.so to t e Englishman's disinelinat.on to natP)

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Jill public. So when England tomorrow forgets : ! fur a day its debts and doles, and gives i itself unreservedly over to Christmas ,it will be in the fashionable hOte,S ,-Ktner than in ancestral mansions that the Christmas dinners of the prosperous will be held. -j-. .fore the war, Christmas was one I of th* dullest days of the year,”’said i,tm head waiter of the Hotel Metropse today, "but to show how times iX changed. every available table i h ave. has been hooked for weeks i... '. .ivrn’ee tor tomorrow. Christina- >- are elaborate, but not extraI ordinarily so. Turkey is almost um- . 11., ordered-, also Christmas pudIdHlg and mince pie ■•We still make quite a fuss over the ( | ■■ |,e continued, “turning the I ights out and covering the pudding Q (turning rum-real rum y’anderLand. not synthetic stuff. I "Champagne of course is the favorite I drink and as you see there is quite a »ide range of brands to choose from say'ng which he produced a wine list calculated to make a thirsty American " r ’en with envy. The champagne list •dene 1 sted fifty-nine choices of chain including Mumms, Pol Rogers, H jdsiecks, Krugs, and many others at • from twenty-two shil;in:.s per quart bottle to 51 shillings • 8 B’’ eateMt M» cWty a Hmmpagne of the vintage of 1830 was lis(e d at !M» shillings per ot ’ shillings per liquor K laBS - -Some, of course, will like a b t < ( , a „ x wine-business of tuning : ....,, ~l gea of Bordeaux wines .fourteen wine to the page—“some a little Burg ndv” (two pages “Some Port” (two r * ) “with probably a considerable . X hol - wanting a bit of whiskey

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 21, 1925

(running his finger down a list giving a choice of Buchanan’s Black and White. Dewar’s White Label, Petei Dawson’s, John Haig’s, Walker’s Red Label, "Sandy Mac’s,” Nieholl’s Scotch Cream and “Our Own Special Blend-Pre-war strength,” “All genuine stuff ; —too” he remarked carlessly. “England has its debts” he com-hid-ed Pope Makes Plea For Regality Os Christ Rome, Dec 24.—A plea for parliaments and international gatherings to recognize the regality of Christ was voiced today in the Popes encyclical which renewed the suggestions contained in his recent allocution and demanded for the church “full liberty and independence from civil powers, as its own right

Slippery Streets Cause Accidents In South Bend South Hind. Ind., Dec. 24—Auto accidents, resulting from slippery . streets had taken a toll of one dead and twelve injured here during the last 24 hours. Mrs G. Burdette Stapples. 22, died ' from a fractured skull sustained ' when an automobile driven by her husband skidded from the road and overturned. —— 0 _ Population Os New i' State Shows Increase Albany, N Y„ Dec. 24. - (United . PrPSH) -New York State’s population n I today was fixed at 11.162.151, a gain of e 776 924 in tin* last five years, it was •• announced by Mrs. Florence E. S.

Knapp, secretary of state, as the state census bureau completed its tionOs this population New \ork City supplies 5,8711.356. a five year growth lof 253,308, the federal census of 1920 having shown 5,620.048. I — Selling Os Race Horses Not Profitable Business Columbus. Ind.. Dec. 24. -(United l Press)—The selling of race horses isn’t a profitable business these days, \V. B. Daugherty said following his return from Chicago, where he sold five horses for $125, less than enough H to pay his transportation to the Illi- . nois metropolis. —

a — " Hamilton County .Jail Empty After 11 Months Noblesville, Ind., Dee. 24. - Memor les today alone filled the Hamilor county Jail. It was empty tor th first time in more than elevei months. , . . Probably no other jail in the stat, had the attention of public focusei on it more during the year than th local bastile, which for seven month was the home of D. C. Stephensor Earl Klenck and Earl Gentry. Want Farm Bureau To Probe Highway Commissioi Shelbyville, Ind., Dee. 24. — (Unite Press)—An investigation of the stat highway commission by the Indian Farm Bureau Federation was demaw ed in resolutions approved today 1 the Shelbv county organization. • The resolutions condemned the stat , organization for its endorsement < the commission.

Hundred Homeless Children Conduct Raid In Moscow Moscow, Dec. 24. —(United Press) — A hundred homeless children, part of the vast herd which have roved in bands since the war, today organized a Christmas raid upon shops in the heart of Moscow. Police intervened and repulsed the ragged urchins, arresting four 13-year old leaders. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MADE Report Is Os Interest To Quarrymen, Gas, Coal And Oil Operators of State Indianapolis, Dec. 24. — (United Press) —A report of interest to the nuarryman, gas, coal and oil operators of southwesterna Indiana was made public today by Dr. W N Logan, of the state department of conservation. The report was made as the result of a survey conducted during the last summer in Knox and Gibson counties. In ills report. Ixigan points out. that "In the Waliash river valley the bedrock formations are concealed by an alluvial and glacial covering of sand and gravel about 100 feet in depth. Beneath this formation are about 1,000 feet of sandstone, shale and coal, sometimes with thin limestone of the Penn sylvania age. "In Gibson and l ike counties, two of the Pottsville sub-divfs’ons have yielded some petroleum and natural gas. In West Princeton. Davidson shallow the Mcßoberts and Monroe city gas sands of the Pennsylvania area are found. "Tile rocks which underiy these rocks are of the Mississippian age. The limestone formations are harder to penetrate but may be split up my the shale partings." Tile report also urges drillers and operators to furnish the state conservation department with samples of drillings from the various wells. o— ——— Pastor Finds New Car In Place Os Old Flivver Frankfort, Ind.. Dec. 24. —Rev. H. L. Crain, pastor of the Presbyterian

church here is driving a new automobile today When he sought his old Ford car he found a new Overland six sedan parked in its place with a card which read "To Rev. Crain and family from members of his congregation." Thief Steals Police Badges From Office Os Greencastle Mayor Greencastle, inn., Dec. 24. —(United Press)- M embers of the Greencastle police were shorn today of the visible sign of their authority A thief broke into the office of May or Zeis and stole every police badge owned by the city.

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MANY EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED FOR HOLIDAYS Schools And Churches Give Christmas Programs; Pupils Enjoy Vacation POOR CHILDREN ARE REMEMBERED Christmas spirit prevails In Decatur and Adams county. Several churches and schools have held Christinas programs and others will be held during the next few days. Tile municipal Chrlatmas program was hedl on Liberty Way yesterday evening and the beautiful tree, lighted with colored lights, will lie left standing on Liberty Way during all of next week. The singing of Christmas carols and the distribution of a treat to the scores of children present, featured the municipal program, which was sponsored by the Woman’s Chib. Schools Are Dismissed Ry this evening, all schools in Adams county will be dismissed for the Christinas vacation. The public schools in Decatur have been closed since last Friday evening The Catholic schools in Decatur and all other schools in the county cloned today. Most of the schools will resume work on Monday, January 4. Ijocal stores have enjoyed fine business during the last few weeks, ami their greeting cards, carrying the best wishes of the merchants to their customers, may be found on other pages of the Daily Democrat today The Good Fellows Club, sponsored by the Delta Theta Tan rororlty. will bring Christinas cheer to the unfortunate children of tlie city and community tomorrow evening. Nearly S3OO in cash has been contributed to the club and other articles, such as gloves, coal, dolls and story books, ' have been furnished by individuals a iid films. Van Grant, manager of the Adams theatre, will give ti free moving picture show for the chi ilren. . Business to Be Suspended Business will be at a standstill in Decatur on Christmas day. Stores will 1 be closed, the post office will be closed , and no city or rural deliveries of ma I will lie made, and the Daily Democrat ’will suspend publication for tile day. n Special services will be held in several h of the churches. Several events have been planned for Christmas week. Chief among i these will lie the Decatur high school ialutnnl home-coming and banquet at the high school building on December !28; the basketball gam between De- ’ caturand llluttti n high ■h< < 1 at the d high school gym on D"<embc th< e i basketball game between the Catholic el high school varsity and alumni teams on December 30. at the Catholic high y-i school gym. and the annual Tri Kappa e dunce and card party at the Masonic hall on the- night of Dec-mber 31.