Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1926 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO J. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. IlolthCHise... .Secy. & Bus. Mar. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies '*2 cents One week, by carrier 10 cents One year, by carrier 16 00 One month, by mail 36 cents Three months, by mail 11-00 Six months, by mall H-7B One year, by mail 13 00 One year, at office |3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) • Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Foreign Representative: Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The tire loss in Indiana the first two months of this year will total over H. 000,000 according to the estimate from the state fire chief s office. The department has succeeded in securing eleven convictions for incendiarism, including six confessions this year which should aid some in reducing the number of conflagrations. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, one of seven hundred newspapers in the United States, entered in an effort” to secure the pulse of the people on the prohibition question today started publishing a coupon ballot, which you are asked to fill out and send in. At the conclusion of a ten days period, the results will be published ami should be of interest. The referendum will show with some de-1 gree of accuracy at least the percentage of those favoring prohibition as the law now stands, those against prohibition, those for wine and beer and those against it. Several Fort Wayne churches yesterday annouunced th e contest and urged members to cast their ballots while others decided to take no part in the campaign. Indiana wouldn't be Indiana without a red hot political scrap on and indications are that those who like this important part of the every day i affairs will not be disappointed this I year. In the primaries Claris Adams,! a popular and able young lawyer of Indianapolis will oppose Senator Watson while Oswald Ryan, of Anderson. Arch Graham, of South Bend, and one, or two others will oppose Senator Robinson. On the democratic side Evans Woolen will be the short term candidate without opposition while L. Ert Slack, former United States district attorney; Albert Stump, Indianapolis lawyer and William V. Rooker, Noblesville lawyer, will scrap it out for the opportunity to oppose the republican winner for the long term. And there may be others by Wednesday. During the last year th e purchasing power of the American farmers dollar was 60.3, which means the lowest buying value in twenty-five years and perhaps fifty.' In 1890, according to the government statistics the farmers dollar would buy eighty-three cents worth of merchandise. It grew gradually until 1909 when it reached the dollar mark, then backed up a little, then spurt again until 1919 when it reached its highest mark. $1.12. Since then it has steadily declined to the present low figure. The serious part of it is that the administration controlled by nu n of health who profit most when the farmer does not, is in control and will so continue until those now being forced to carry the economic burdens awaken to the fact that they might as well attempt to “dam the Mississippi river with toothpicks as to lift the prices of farm products through the medium of a tariff," as Congressman Canfield recently declared. One of the catch cries for twenty years has been, “We’ve got too Maliy laws." Like most catch cries it has more catch than sense. Even so able a man ad F. C. Dewey,, president of the Detroft bar, has declared himself willing to vote bnd campaign for a man who will pledge himself to work to defeat all new laws and to repeal as many old ones as possible. Montaigne 450 years ago may have

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State Moves To Cahcel Corporate Existence Os Many Indiana Industries Indianapolis, Ind., March I—United i Press^—The state of Indiana, under , direction of Secretary of State Fred- I erfck -Schortemeicr today moved to i cancel the corporate existence Os many Indiana industries. In explaining the action. Schortemeier .declared that under the. 1925 acts tMe secretary of state is empowered to bring action against files which are delinquent in the filing of annual reports and have their corporate existence canrcfled. The secretary of state explained that there are more than 100 Corporations in thb state which ate hot active and have not filed annual reports. Many of theste organisations actually have gone out of busihers but have failed to notify the secretary of state and are merely holding a corporate natne ih the hope that they may sometime be able to re-open. Such action, it was explained, prevents any other organization from using thr> name of already in existence and often results In hardships to organizations, which for years bpefated as partnerships with a name similar to tho one nt the defunct company. Action already has been begun against, five concerns! It was pointed out, more in the nature of test cases and if the law is upheld more suits Will be instituted at once. The companies against which the action has been taken are the Snyder Finance Corporation, of Marion county; the Manufacturing Company of Vanderburgh county; the Mausoleum Const ruebion company, of Marion county; the indWhii Manrofonm Campany. of Benton county and the Indiana Creditors Association of Marion county. ft was explained that at the present there are more than 15,00 corporations f

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jin the state listed with the secretary i of stat . ; Schortemeier declared that “a com- ! pany that does not think any more i of its corporate existence than not to file an annual report has no business . continuing in business.” He said that hundreds of new organizations are hampered because they are unable to use a name that means much to them, finding upon application that it already is used by another concern, possibly an organization which is defunct. “There are probably several hundred defunct concerns in the state,” Sehortemeier said, “that should be swept off our records. In these few test cases we will perfect our procedure and then act with great speed aaginst other organizations we find are violating the law. “Some find morning some of these corporation men may wake up and find their concern has no corporate existence. It wfl! pay them to abide by the law and file their reports within the sixty days specified." _ Indianapolis — Surety companies can be held accountable Tor their bond on a bank cashier who makes bad. Joans even though the bank may have set a limit of the amount the cashier may lend on his own authority. This was the substance of a ruling by Attorney General Giliom submitted to Thomas I Barr, state banking commissioner. ■ta.-.--....... • tatan,. WASHING POWDErIL CUTS W the B Mur’lS? grease Jr II 8

'BRITISH FLYERS TRYFORRECORDS Three Air Expeditions Take Off On Trans - Empire Flights This Morning By Minot Saunders. (U. P. Staff Corrcapondcnt) London, Mar. I.—Three British air expedltftms took off to.ljy on tranaempire Tllffhta totalling nearly 30,000 miles. Simultaneously, it wus announced that donatmctlou of the first dirigible for the Australia-England India service would be begun next ■month at Howden, East Yorkshire, in the plant at the Airship Guarantee coiilpany. Four 450 horsepower Royal Air force airplanes containing six officers and two mechanics under wing commander C. H. W. Fulford, left Cairo for Capetown at 7 a. mAt the other end of Africa, Alan Conham, Britain’s premier civilian aviator took off 30 minutes later for Cairo on the return lap of his roundtrip flight from London. The planes Kidneys and Back Made Life Miserable Says He’s Full of Pep Now, and I’ains are All Gone. “I suffered with pains in my kidneys and'back for three years. My back at times seemed as if it would break in two. I waS tired out most : of the time, and when I came home from work I just felt like I wanted to lie down. I lost flesh until 1 only weighed 155 pounds. Nothing ' I took did me any good till I found Viuna, and after taking only one bottle I was wonderfully relieved. My back stopped aching and I be- | gan to get some pen. My appetite picked up and I began to gain I weight till I now weigh 170 pounds ' (a gain of 15 pounds), and feel fine I and eat anything.”—Curtis Chappell, 1130 East St. Clair St., Indianapolis, Ind. Vhina sets prnmptlv on sluggish bowels, lazy liver aixl weak kidneys. It purinrs the blood, clears the tostores appetite and digestion, and brings new strength and energy to the whole body. Take n bottle on trial. Then if you’re not glad you tried Viuna. your money will be refunded. $1 at druggists, or mailed postpaid by Iceland Medicine Co., Indianapolis. Ind. VIUNA The vegetable regulator SOLD BY CALLOW & KOHNE — \ \ G -10-32 Buick value is winning a larger share of publicfavor every day. It took eighteen years to build the first million Buicks but only thirtythree < months for the next half million. BUICK MOTOR COMPANY Diuifton of General Motor* Corporation FLINT. MICHIGAN WILBUR D. PORTER Monroe and First Street Phone 123 When Better' Automobiles Are Built, Buick Will Build Them-

I will meet somewhere In central Africa. Flight Lieutenant Oliver and flying officer Brooks hopped off from Karachi. India at 2 a. ni.. on a live day 1 dash to LondMi. which would shatter I existing records It successful. "The dirigible to be constructed by ■ the Guarantee company will carry 175 passengers. 5,000 pounds of baggage and 30,000 pounds of mall. It will be .ciilk'd the R 101. and will require 5.000 horsepower to drive it at an average speed of 50 miles an hour. , it will have a gait capacity of four, I million cubic feet. I Austriia would be brought two 'i weeks doser to Ixunlon by the pro-1 Ijected ship whhh woald rvqnlre only 11 days tq make the complete journey.!

I / Gasoline and Corn A bushel of com will buy more gasoline today than it would buy twelve years ago. How much more? r > Using as authority the latest statistics published by the United States Department of » Agriculture, the question can be answered . accurately. The Monthly Crop and Market Bulletin gives the average farm price of corn, for 1913, as $.601 per bushel. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) averi age Chicago tank fvagon price for gasoline, for the year 1913, was $.14837 per gallon. (For comparative purposes we select Chicago as a representative city of the Middle West.) I Thus it is shown that in 1913 one bushel of ■ corn would buy 4.05 gallons of gasoline. I The average farm price for corn, during the year 1925, was $1,019 per bushel. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) average Chicago tank wagon price for gasoline was $.17276 per gallon. Thus it is shown that in 1925 one bushel of corn would buy 5.89 gallons of gasoline, or ; 45.4% more than in 1913. ! This fact speaks volumes for Standard Oil ’ Company (Indiana) success in keeping down ’ the price of gasoline, in the face of a constantly i increasing demand. This accomplishment involved the devclop- ! ment of cracking processes which doubled the yield of gasoline from a given quantity of crude oil. It is not too much to say that, when, a few years ago, this nation faced a shortage of gasoline that these processes saved the situation. Without them the price of gasoline probably would have been double what it is today. After developing these processes, the Stand- > ard Oil Company (Indiana) did not keep them for its exclusive use. It leased4hem to competitors, that they also might do their bit in I conserving an essential basic resource. The Standard —Oil Company (Indiana) believes that the farmer, particularly, appreciates its success and its persistent effort to keep the price of gasoline low. Gasoline is essential to the business of farming. Without it, modern farm practice would be impossible and much of our up-to-date farm equipment would be useless. Without it, labor costs would advance enormously: crops would be jeopardized and the nation suffer. Low price gasoline means cheap power and greater prosperity for the farmer. When the farmer prospers—we all prosper. Standard Oil Company (Indiana) General Office: Standard Oil Building 910 So. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 4208 IF I II K FOR GREATER - I H FARM PROFITS || Improved farms are generally W ffß’ must profitable. But there is always the question of what improveinciils are needed most. la Whether it is milk house etfuip- ® mint. Better live stock, a maM chine shedA>r something else. R - . i ir ■7 Now is the time to plan for farm improvements and to talk y! your plans over with your If banker. JI .Capital and Surplus' $ 120.000.00 . «!

The contract will dlriKible be completed within years. a t»o ' l,l o - - Red Men To Meet A special mnotlng of th, Uoi v lodge will be held thia evening (or * h “ punwßO of ma k |, lK r menu for brother John Krh-k, of Wuyno. The meeting win | M ’h,.i,i ' beh.M Wednesday afternoon. Dance at I. O. O. F. Mali. Wed nesday, 8:30 o'clock. Don’t forget the ( |a,L an ,. Harting sale Wednesday, M?? 3 ’ — _ ' ’ olt >