Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 11 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. Holthouse.,. .Sec'y. &. Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 2 cents Ono week, by carrier 10 cents One year, by carrier 15.00 One month, by mall 35 cents Three months, by mail 11.00 Six months, by mail fl-75 One year, by mail..* 13.00 One year, at office 13.00 (Prices quoted are within first aud second sones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Foreign Representative: Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. NEW FEDERAL BONDS: — Two features mark a new issue of $.">00,000,000 in long-term bonds offered by the United States treasury. The interest rate will be 3% per cent., the lowest since the first Liberty loan, which bore 3*-a per cent., and was totally tax-exempt. For the second time since the World War more than par is asked as a purchase price, the offering being at 100i4. The other occasion on which this was done was in March. 1925. when 100*4 was received for a bond issue with an interest rate of 4 per cent. The receipts from the new bond issue will be used to assist in the retirement of $600,000,000 or more in short-term treasury certificates, bearing interest . at I*4 per cent., which fall due next ( Monday. At the same time the gov- , eminent expects to retire about , $100,000,000 in third Liberty loan , 4*4 bonds from sinking fund accutn- ( ulations. ] When the transaction is completed j there will be a slight net decrease in . the national debt, now standing at approximately $20,000,000,000. In two other ways the country will gain. The i sale above par will yield the treasury j a premium of $2,500,000. That is a small amount considering the magnitude of government financial oper- ; but it emphasizes the value of > federal securities as a conservative i investment and promotes sane financ- i ial thinking concerning investment in < private ventures. The other gain is from the reduced carrying charge the country will have on $500,000,000 of I its debt, due to an interest rate de- ’ crease of 1 per cent. The saving for 1 a year is put at $6,150,000, and the 1 whole life of the bond issue will be 1 thirty years, although it will be call- * able in whole or in part after twenty years. The 1925 4 per cent, bonds offered 1 by the government, at 100*4 lately ' have been quoted in private trading at 101 or better. The treasury de- ' cision to seek the same premium on 1 the new bonds, bearing a slightly lower income rate, undoubtedly was based on observation of the increased prehiium the 1925 offering is commanding. Then, too, a curbing of excessive speculation in stocks, and lowered tax rates, promise to add to | the amount of fluid capital available , for the purchase of the highest grade I securities. —Indianapolis News. i The first telephone message was sent in 1876, 50 years ago. So great has been the growth of the system ' that now in 1926, 67,709,000 telephone * converaations take place each day. I The two telephones of 1876 have in- , creased to 16,000,000 instruments today. The first telephone line of 30 feet lias grown to a network of more than 40 million miles of wire; and switchboards, buildings, pole lines, cables, conduits, aud other forms of plant have been constructed, costing ' over $2,500,000,000. As President W. S. Gifford, of th e American Telephone ami Telegraph company, recently said, “The advances which have been made during the first 50 years of the work of the Bell System are unparalleled in the history of communication. They are contributions which will make forever memorable this great tepoeb in our progress. We are now >at the beginning of a new era filled J ■with boundless opportunities for advancement in the business and science 'of telephony. Upon the foundations ' that have bteu so securely laid, .we •

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1 can look forward to the telephone ftystem of the future, which In effect-' iveness and useful service, will surpass all that has gone before.” Looks as though the fight between Attorney General Uilliom and Rev. Shumaker is real ana conies from some feeling deeper than is shown on the surface. Both of these men are republicans, partisans of the brand which puts politics first, but the viciousness of the battle now waging between these men indicates they have decided to go the limit even it it hurts politically. The attorney general has filed a complaint charging Shufnaker and two of his associates with contempt of the supreme court and declares he will go through with it, no difference what happens. Congressman Black of New York dares the president to tell what he knows about the non-enforcement of the dry laws and the silent man in the White House will not accept the dare. If the truth were known about the inside arrangements on the booze proposition, the voters might turn things upside down in the next election and the administration is composed of men who know politics and play It as a business, three hundred and sixty-five days a every year. There seems to be a gang of rough neck safe breakers in this community and it ought to be broken up. During the past two weeks they have wrecked several safes and the boldness of their operations indicate they are not overly careful of their movements or fearful of being caught. The night officers should make an ext ’a effoit to land these birds. ( By the way its only four days until th L . fifteenth and by that time you must have your income tax report in 1 the hands of the revenue collector at Indianapolis or be subject to the penalty, which by the way is quite severe. The Fighting Five from Berne will represent Adams county in the regional tournament at Fort Wayne Saturday and a bunch of loyal Adams county boosters should be there to help them fight and win. This ought not frighten you. just two or three years ago we had one like this—now, we’re talking about — on the 9th of May. o s K 55 TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY K H K 55 From the Dally Democrat File K 55 Twenty Year* Ago Thia Day K 55 K 55558a855855555gaa88 88K March 11, 1906, was Sunday. —o—

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Last night an ancient book I read. Two hundred years ago Its author very plainly said The torch of Irope burned low. Wrote he: “No comfort can 1 see For this sad. dreary world! Our glorious past is doomed to be Into destruction hurled. "The beauty of our age lies dead, Our youth is pleasure mad; The love of virtue long has fled, Men’s manners now are bad. Courage and honor are no more. Women are o aves: to dress, Nothing the future has in store But misery and distress.”

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XXXXXXKXX X X X X X 8 8 X X X « The PEOPLE’S VOICE * x x X This fcolumn for the use of our X X readers who wish to make sug- X X gestions for the general good X | X or discuss questions of interest. X , X Please sign your name to show X X authenticity. It will not be X X used it you prefer that it not be'. X X X XXXXXXXXX X X X X X X X X t Spring and the Highways Editor Democrat: * Spring will soon In- here, with blooming plants, bidding trees and all na-' ture beautifying its handiwork. And as we watch the snow flakes whirl and swarm across barren fields, through the orchards and dash across wind swept places we realiie that although due, spring must be just around the corner somewhere, conversing with farmers prosperity, perhaps. Also, the grades will soon come down the road putting it in condition for summer traffic. However, here is what I saw done on a road in Adams county a year or so ago: The road was pike and the grader graded in sod and dirt fiom each side until there was a ridge in the middle of the road from eight to ten inches high of sal and dirt. Os course, there was some gravel mixed with it, but just in the proportion to have made a cracking loam for corn. It looks like retrograde road building when we have to put humus on our highways. I was of the impression we | had left the mud road stage far to the ; SIWHBI I Did it ever occur to anyone Adams county and Wells were missing ,'a good opportunity, apparently? Dogs | are kilting thousands of dollars worth ; of live stock in each of these counties land no remedy has been forth-coming, | There has been a truck driver working out of Anderson a couple weeks - ago corralling stray dogs. Why not ’’send him an S. O. S. and turn him 1 loose a week or two in Adams and the I

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I put away the ancient book. “You poor old world,” said 1, “Your future’s had a sorry look. That fact I can't deny. Two hundred years ago in dread ; Old Age with troubled brow Deplored the ways of youth, and said Just what it’s saying now. “But still you've lived two hundred years ; Past your predicted doom, And made some progress, it app|ars, Despite the inky gloom. Today our youth is pleasure mad, In fear our heads we bow, And 1 presume 'twill be as bad Two hundred years from now."

saanc in Wells county. It takes grease to cut grease and parasites to kill parasites. We have duly elected and competent officials at the head of our county government. Here is a suggestion to i enlarge their usefulness: Every year I we build a certain amount of roads, in the county. The road is sold to a ■ contractor who builds Nn' read. Why not let the county build them? The contractor does not build the road for pleasure He surely makes some money out of it. Our officials are surely as efficient as the contractors and I why not save this amount to the several townships and again, when a road is rebuilt, the old road beiUs invariably torn up and (Scattered. Why not, if the old road is not mud, begin right on top? in some eases thus, half the stone will be sufficient. Many roads in Adams county bbat they want rebuilt, could be made practically as good by renovating them with a continuous thickness of stone, not a load one week, then a load of shone next week ■ ■ I. Hill ■■■■ w*——

_!!_ J . ■— .. 1 1 Nerves All Unstrung? Decatur Folks Should Find the Cause and Correct It. Are you all worn out? Feel tired, nervous, half-sick? Do you have a constant backache; sharp twinges of pain, too, with dizzy spells and annoying urinary disorders? Then there’s cause for worry and more cause to give your weakened kidneys i prompt help. Use Doan’s Pills—a stimulant diuretic to the kidneys. Decatur folks recommend Doap's , tor just such troubles. Mrs. E. A. Mann. 1003 W. Monroe . St, Decatur, says: "My kidneys ’ never acted regularly and 1 had 1 severe backaches. I also had ner--1 vous headaches. 1 used Doan's Pills ; from the Holthouse Drug Co., and they relieved me.” (Statement given ’ October 23, 1920.) On June 7, 1924. Mrs. Mann said: t "I atn glad to recommend Doan's t again for they have always rid me , of kidney trouble:'’ 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn *-Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.

at the other end | A story $s told of Abo Lincoln about ' the time he was attorney for a <eitain client in a bankrupt case. The bankrupt owed the client, so the client had Lincoln investigate nil Visibilities of getting any money from the bankrupt. Here is the result of Lincoln's investigation: “In his office, said Lincoln. “Is a dilapidated desk and one old rickety chair, and a large rat hole in a corner that would bear looking into." I Now as for the suggestions I have given here, they might be of no practical value, yet at the same time, like Abe Lincoln's rat hole, they might bear looking into. I Yours respectfully, John Smith, farmer. 1 Q Yoeman Lodge Pays .SI,OOO To Widow Os Dr. Keller Silas Whit mas, secretary of the Decatur lodge, Brotherhood of American Yeomen, last evening delivered a check for SI,OOO to Mrs. Anna C Keller, in payment for an insurance policy carried by the late Dr. H. E. Keller and which was taken during the drive a few years ago when this city was trying to land tile Yeoman home for children. The proofs were ‘sent in last Friday and the check arrived yesterday, showing promptness iii meeting claims. The Yeomen now have a membership of about 130 and ‘the lodge is going along nicely. o —— Michigan City — A new record for short honeymoons was established here. A Chicago woman quarreled with her husband an hour after their marriage at a resort near here. The case ended in the divorce court.

I In Memoriam— I H I I S in "fi To Our Friend and Business Associate I In the death of George 11. Miller, Decatur has lost an accomodating public ollicial and a splendid citizen, the neighborhood a servant and || S Iriend and his business associates a companion who will be sincerely « K missed. £ M His beloved family sutlers the greatest loss'in the taking away of a 8 g| devoted husband and father and words fail in expressing the heartfelt 1 K sympathy we extend to them. S afe 11 lose who have been associated with him “on the corner,” day Mg alter day and who came into contact with him in a commercial way wish 8 to express their admiration for his many manly and excellent qualities, J, for his high business ethics and his desire to serve- not only his patrons, but the entire neighborhood and we wish to give public evidence of this y rE esteem by closing our places of business during the funeral—the time when his friends and neighbors might pav their last worldly respects to ■ him, j 1 IB • Hur places of, busyness wid be closed from Nine o’clock in the inornJ't |*’k unld twelve o dock Friday noon, during the funeral so that we who have been associated with him in business, who met him daily in our * » | i<’ig’l.i , oi hood, ,nu y "PJ* others impaying our final respects to a ■ public official, a leading citizen, a kind ami devoted husband and father Efa and a business associate whom we loved IE • SB ii i i, i SU wisl ! 1° ex h‘nd a word of encouragement in hat Mr. Miller has left them a rich heritage of honesty, loyalty and devolion Io duty. j j r ■ 1 Hower Bros. 1 . H M. E. Hower Simeon Hain * ■ I Maier Hide & Fur Co. i j Sa Zimmerman-Carper Co. 8 M M B H i Wmoi I |—

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