Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1926 — Page 3
| f losses in I SJ|ITE ARE HIGH I l.« For First Six Weeks I nf 1926 R Mor? Than I 1,1 $3,000,000 in * "** I r " b ‘ I J r W' I '"'"' ■ .i, of 1926. ending on February I *„’« been u-H nU.ve the 13.000.(100 I 1 future* vn file In the office of I Jjflre nur-Mi Alfred Horton, re I ''t ef.rreA *M'h were compiled ■ I rtevnie H See. cashier and auditor I department, do nut include the I Ltrou.’ fire swhich occurred at VaiI po. flary and Evansville this I ’the records show thad during the I seriod for whi' h figures are available I Jure have been a total of 623 fires in I Estate which have been reported to I <k( flr» marshall. | gf f told the United Press that the I mmber of fires for the period and the I .mount of the loss will be swelled maI urially »hen other reports are reI rdwd. I | t W as said that many cities and I towns do not report their fire losses I until the last of each month and as I , result, it is likely the total loss in ( the state will be in the neighborhood O s 13.5v0.000 or $4,000,000 for the first two months of the year. The loss of the 623 fires which have been reported so far this year is ••450,565. P° lntPll out - It has been estimated that the fire Ims at Valparaiso was $300,000, at Gary SIOO,OOO and at Evansville, where I brick factory was destroyed, $30,• Nt. • See's records show that of the 623 fires reported, ISO ocurred during the tat fifteen days of February. The loss from these fires, not including the Gary, Valparaiso and Evusville blazes, was more than $371,Wu, it was pointed out. In connection with the heavy fire loss reported during the first six weeks of the year the arson department has been exceptionally busy. Milton Wareing, head of the dlviton, reported that his division has been called upton to investigate a total of 64 blazes during the six-week period. Os the number of cases investigated - the department was unable to find uny > trace of incendiarism in 52. Sit confessions were obtained by the Investigators and in five instances where the persons implicated by the arson investigators, stood trial, conditions were obtained. One acquittal was granted by the courts and one case was dismissed at the request of the department after the investigation had been made. it was impossible, Wareing said, to acurately estimate the amount of loss suffered in the eleven cases in which and convictions were obtained although it is believed that the fire bugs caused a loss of more than IMo.oon. ■ —o “Your Health” This Column is conducted by the Adams County Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical Association in the interest of the public’s health. the NATION'S HEALTH "The value of modern scientific medicine in the battle agdinst dis- 1 ease and in the conservation of the cation's health and happiness can be appreciated in no better way than by a review of the United States Public Health Service report recently submitted to Congress by the burgeon General.” Thus reads the bulletin issued today by the Publicity Bureau of the Indiana State Medical Association ’hich comments upon the high spots °f the Surgeon General’s report. This report may be regarded as she annual inventory of the health of Jhe nation.” says the local bulletin, and th e absence of epidemics in the country is evidence of the success “■'he U, S. Public Health work. According to the Surgeon Genera s report the United States headed Ile ’l st °f civilized countries of the uo, ld in 1924 in the number of cases smallpox reported. Complete reUr " 8 are not yet available but preihunary fi gurea indicate that the "umber of cases of smallpox in the u “lted States in 1924 was between 'Ty and sixty thousand. There were known deaths from smallpox in e thlrty.five states from which reds have been received, every one ‘ w hfch could have been prevented J v& ccinatk>n and revaccination. Plorabie as these conditions are, e y dwindle almost to insignificance
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SJZI&DTAJM.I W REL>r A, I o V.TA VShZi EJ»iSf Colonel L. G. Nutt, bead of the Government’s narcotic bureau, rounded up more than 7,000 drug addicts during the year. Major-General John L. Hines urges immediate passage’of a selective draft law for rapid rnoltilization of an army in case of another war. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, forecasts early end of anthracite coal strike. Lincoln C. Andrews on inspection trip in South Atlantic to plug liquor leaks in Georgia and Florida. ♦
Fast And Reckless Driving Is Leading Cause Os Automobile Accidents In Indiana
Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 27. —(United Press.) —Fast and reckless driving is the leading cause of automobile accidents in Indiana according to figures contained in a report of A. H. Hinkle state highway maintenance superintendent. on file in the state house here. This report shows that more than half of the auto accidents reported on the state highways in 1925 were directly traceable to fast or reckless driving. Hinkle's report points out that despite repeated pleas for careful driving and the expenditure of thousands of dollars annually to insure safety on the highways 284 more accidents occurred in 1925 than in 1924. The highway commission, it was pointed out is making every possible effort to make the highways sate. Thousands of dollars are spent annually to improve crossings, roads and for the erection of signs marking dangerous spots on the highways. Persons from out of Indiana who have travelled the roads of the state had declared that the danger spots on the state highways of Indiana are better marked than in any other state in the union. The commission also has eliminated many bad turns and in its paving program is striving for roads that will be as nearly “acci-! dent proof’ as it is possible to make! them. During the latter part of 1925 103 when compared to the ravages caus-j ed by smaiipc:: before the discovery j of vaccination. In prevaccination days, one out of every ten deaths due to smallpox. If this rate prevailed today, it would mean 135,000 deaths from smallpox in the United. States every year. Prior to the dis-] covery of vaccination, nine out ofj every ten. persons suffered from an I attack of this disease at some period of their lives.” “Think of meeting only one person in ten whose face would be free ( from the scars of smallpox. Or, to put it the other way round, think of j one hundred million people in the United States today, who, were it not for vaccination, would have their faces and bodies horribly mutilated by this dread scourge. After you have thought about these possibilities, ask yourself the question wheth-] er or not you should go and get vaccinated. | “The average length of human life in the sixteenth century was estimat- ■ ed to be between 18 and 20 years. At the close of the eighteenth century, it was still less than 25 years, and as late as 1900, it was between 45 and 48 years in the United States. Com- . paring with these figures the present ■ average length of life in the United ; States of a little more than 56 years, I and remembering that approximately 15 years have been added to the span of life since 1870 in the United > States, and considering that in India. 1
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deaths occurred on the state roads as compared to only 50 in 1924. Hinkle's report shows. How many accidents occurred on county, and township roads is not shown in the report. The total number of accidents on the highways during 1925 was 654 compared with only 370 during 1924. These accidents resulted in injuries to 529 persons while a total of 255 were injured in 1924, Hinkle pointed out. More than 300 collisions, the report pointed out were the direct cause of collisions on the state roads. Although there has been a notable increase in the number of automobiles using the highways of the state in the last Jew years this factor has been a neglible one in tlie increasing .number of accidents Hinkle pointed out. Os the 103 deaths reported, thirtyseven resulted at grade crossings. Os this number 21 of the fatalities occurred at steam road crossings while 16 were killed at interurban crossings. Nineteen persons were injured in crossing smashes. In addition to fast and reckless driving the chief contributing accident causes were listed as intoxica- ‘ tion. glaring headlights, narrow roadi ways, and bridges and collisions with I telephone and telegraph poles set too near th e highway. ' and China, for example, at the presI ent time the average length of life ■ still remains about 25 years, we can, in some measure, appreciate the I value of modern methods of preventing disease and of conserving health and life.” o ' Lebanon — Stricter rules for admission to membership in the Boone .County Bar Association have been adopted by lawyers of the county. Gary — Ten cases of smallpox in Gary are causing city health authorities alarm. Thirteen cases of chicken j pox have also been reported. — s — ' !'.?= Why is it necessary to urge people to take care of their health ? Indianapolis, Ind.—“l have takers several bottles of Dr. Pierces remedies
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SOAP BOBBLE INVESTMENTS , 1 By HARftY DANIEL
Editor's Note: The following ar.tl vie was written by Harry Daniel, former resident of Decatur, and is reprinted, from The Thrift Magazine Mr Daniel is private secretary to Mr. Strauss and editor'of The Thrift Magazine. Romeona Is authority for the statement that a fool is born every min ute. Now hold that happy thought for just a second or two. There are ('.it minutes in every hour, 24 hours in every day, or a gross national production of 525.600 fools a year, it is from this source that the billion dollar a year loss in soap-bubble investments cotnes in this country, so that the actual cost of being a fool and remaining so consistently through life amounts to just, about $1,902.60. In the selection of investments It is surprising how careless many persons are at times. For example, nil stock Is divided by financial experts into four general groups or classifications, as follows: red, blue, green and yellow. There is, of course, some pink stock being offered to the public, but this is the exception that proves the rule. Yet how few of us ever stop long enough to look into this important side of the investment problem. All we want 'to know is how' much the dividends or profits are going to be. When we are told that a particular stock will double in value every morning before breakfast or that if all the dividends of such and such a company were placed end to end they would reach all the way from here to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kans., we are satisfied. A shrewd Ohio investor we recently heard of had the right idea. He insisted that every share of stock he purrtiased must be pea- ’ cock green with a yellow seal on it. When the president of the corporation was indicted and three of the directors drank carbolic acid and blew out their brains with what many believed w r as suicidal intent.
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some doubting Thomases thought this investor's stock would be I entirely worthless. But such was not the case, for, having selected ' only stock of one color, he. was able to use every single share at it in repapering the old summer kitchen. Manifestly the careful security buyer should not be Influenced too much by the great scenic beauty <n ' his stock. He should find out some ( thing about the assets of the com I pany. Take, for illustration, in the - case of a ten million dollar corporation, be should try to find out exactly huw many chairs, umbrella 1 racks and cuspidors constitute its assets. A friend of ours who has almost completed his quota of $1.902 60. bought some oil stock not long ago ■ on the strength of a letter sent out ' by the company that its assets con- . sisted of six good producing wells. ■ At the inquest it was discovered ' that the assets referred to were six • producing ink wells. Truly the poet hath cried in his joy, ‘‘America the name is oppor- ' tunity.” To illustrate the truth of > this beautiful sentiment, an tunity only a short while since was offered wide-awake investors to buy stock in a company being formed to convert the sun's rays . into fur-lined hath-tuM or some' such groat public necessity. But before they had time to utter a; single bath-tub, several of the offi--1 cers of the company received a flattering offer to come right down to Atlanta, Ga.. and be the guests of good, old, big-hearted Uncle , ■ Sam for ten years. Reports in financial circles state i ■ that there is now considerable activ- ■ ity in amphibious homesites. An 1 amphibious homesite is one that • spends most of Its time under; water. A building lot always • should be taught from earliest in-' t fancy never to grow too fond of . 1 the water. There are many choice t building sites now being offered to • the public that could swim the
Omaha Sniper
[FRANIk, CARTF-Rj Death from an incurable disease, according to physicians, will cheat justice in its efforts to punish Frank Carter, insane sniper, who terrorized Omaha. Neb. Carter, trapped by railway men. confesse.-j killing two men and shooting several others. English Channel. This reminds us of the story we heard the other day about a .Missouri investor who ordered a small fruit farm by mail from Chicago. He paid SIOO cash down. When he went to claim his property in a distant state, a strange thing occurred. There wasn't any farm there. In filling his order for a farm, the promoters had just- naturally forgotten to put in any land Well, boys will be boys. If anybody should ever try to sell you an investment that h-> says will make you rich not later than one mouth from next Thursday, t'on't pay any attention to him unless youi summer kitelien is badly in need of repaper’ng.
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Claim Disallowed The claim of Ixuils A. Brunner vs. John .1 Fox . tale was di allowed on agreement of the parti? r Case Dismissed The case of Milton L’ v John .1 aud F.mma Meyer, wan dnmi;i .ed on motion of the plaintiff. Sale Reported In the (state of George Ern t, the report of s'ale was filed and approved. The deed was ordered, filed and approved. To Sell Real Estate In the estate of Loretta Acker, the real estate was ordered sold at private sale. Estate Settled In the estate of William Kufclehan. the final report was filed and approved, the estate settled and the executor dlsfbarged. To Buy Monument In the estate of John I. Fox, the administrator was autluirizecl to buy it monument for the decedent at -a price not t t exceed SKS. To Make Partial Distribution In tlte estate of Lemuel (). Bears, a petition was filed by Bert W. Bent's for an order against the administrator to make ei partial distribution to the heirs of $1,500 each. The petition was tustained and (he administrator ordered to make the partial distribution. To Sell Real Estate In the guardianship of Phyllis Joan R Iler, the real estate was ordered sold at private sale. The sale was reported, and approved. The deed was ordered, filed and approved. — o Sullivan — A birthday celebration ended in tragedy at the home of Wilbur Coyner, living near Merom. Mrs. Emerson Burroughs, a sister of Coyner, dropped dead dining the celebration. Valparaiso — A drive is in progress to raise $1(1.000 for the families of two firemen who met their death in Valparaiso’s half million dollar fire this month. . Daily Democrat Want Ads Get Results
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