Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1926 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evary Evening E>oep* Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres. and Gan. Mgr. ▲. R Holtbousn Bec'y. & Due. Mgr. Dick D. Helier._ Vice Frealdaat ItatmrM at the Pontofflca at Decatur. Indiana, aa second class matter. Subscription Rates: ■tng’e copies 2 cents Ona week, by carrier . 10 cents One year, by carrier. IS.on One month, by mail 35 cents Three months, by mail SI.OO Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail. - 3.00 One year, at office—- -3 00 (Prices quoted are witbin first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones). I Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Foreign Representative: Carpenter tc Company, 123 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. How was this for a perfect May day? If you don't approve of it, please don't send in any more orders for the basket opened this morning was just about 100% perfect. Harvard is sending an expedition to Africa to hunt for "hitherto unknown diseases." Doubles* there is a considerable crop still awaiting discover; at home. _ —— It is said that a dictionary can I now lie "up to date’’ for only about five years. Presumably this is the result not so much of the need of ! editing new slaqg in as of the need ' of editing discarded slang out. 1 i. 1 Watch the stop signals at the var- i ious corners about the city. We i notice that occasionally a driver hur- t Ties across these corners, a very i dangerous thing t odo because the i drivers of other cars anti the pedes- i trians expect you to obey the police t orders and stop. t ' ■ ■ ..J. ( Now hoys and girls, that you have s graduated, what will you "com- a mence?” There is a wide road ahead , of you and those who make up their t minds where they are going and then ( keep plodding right on that way, will t bessu e to arrive. Don’t think you ] can do it in a day or a week or a , year. i “ : f Youngsters starting out to lick the Z.orld and who want to become rich should bear in mind that by saving a ( dollar a day and letting it com- j pound, will make you worth a million if you live to a ripe old age. ( And that ought to be enough for your relatives to quarrel over. . . « Both the old who remember Louisa I M. Alcott's story and the young who still read it will be pleased to hear , of a movement in England to establish a memorial to the author in the form of a "Little Women" bed in the Washington (materuTty) Ward of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn road, , London. . —- — — I The news comes that Nome is sore. I I Its people spent money on a hitching | post for the Norge and an arch of ' triumph for the victors, and then, for some reason. Amundsen failed to bring his airship to the expectant Alaskan town as promised. Too bad that Nome's remote descendants can never boast proudly of the historic flight via the Pole “from Rome to Nome.” While you can't tell what the other fellow is going to do when you meet him on the road in an automobile these days, you can be a little more careful perhaps and one very good thing to do is drive a little slower. There is nothing to this fifty and sixty miles stuff except a sure accident sometime if you keep at it. The roads will be lined with cars the next couple of days for the double holiday makes possible many trips and about every "fliv” in the country will be on the go. Be careful. The republicans have held their state pow pow. joshed this and that, pointed with pride and viewed with alarm and really promised little that •the voter can pin to. We hope the •democrats who meet next week will make their platform so short it can f be written ou a postal card, so plain that every body will understand just what* they are standing for and so outstanding tor the reliefs that are

■ a*dMa] MholinoMsteTA I A I cTHjEMSM'A t D T'b’M A T ©■©■ A S H[O R E Mwe tM r o B I nWy'eMl pilsßße 'rßo' e'rJßsJßh, |U BjgsHß IE I IN sßh|(S 11 n I c HT sWolßtre ATSi ■m a r aBodTH: iJI SE RUMSp IBaP'P E Nd a a c a ITMoMgA - c ■ □ A jJBJi t ■ SAMfls M O O KiANDj sm’ilr C hBaBeN d[ea r I K O N|D E Tl Y MFI RlB Mm SiSWR 1 E;D Necessary just now that everybody will want to vote it whether they can Sir not. They have a very excellent ichance to show their stuff. Decoration Day, in memory of our soldier dead, tomorrow and next day and an occasion when our patriotism is stirred ami when the stories of valor and sacrifice are brought before us. Its a fine ideal and one which we hope will never be permitted to fade. The veterans of the Civil war are fewer each year and it is but a matter of a short time now until the sons of those who defended the Union in the trying days of 1861-65 and those who participated in the later wart will have the responsibility of maintaining this great and important holiday. There is an adage that "There is luck in leisure" but there is no truth in that adage and there is as little truth in the preachment of many failures that "work and merit don’t mean anything anymore, the lucky man will win anyway." Os course there have been battles won by luck in which the better mau lost, but they are the proverbial exceptions which prove the rule and are so outnumbered by incidents the reverse as to be unworthy of notice. Luck-won successes are accidents. Work-worn successes are incidents. Accidents always attract more attention than incidents for the same reason that normal human beings, which are incidents, pay money to see freaks of nature, which are accidents. To depend ou luck is to play blind man a buff among the laws of nature and of man. These laws, when studied carefully, seem to prove that in the long run the best man wins the best place, and personal merit does succeed. Evidences to the contrary are merely the flips of chance. Luck smiles on those who take off their coatsl put their shoulders to the wheel, and plug away at the task. Fortune favors men who are not afraid of dreary, irksome drudgery. Luck climbs no Everests. Luck transmutes no cataract into electricity. Luck's never a ladder from the earth of mediocrity to the heaven of achievement. o SKKKSKSSKSSSXSSUj I TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ■ M — * X From the Dally Democrat File ■ X Twenty Years Ago This Day K 91 " May 29— Seventy-five men and nineteen teams are now* hurrying along work on the Fort W ayne & Springfield between here and Fort Wayne. H. A. Fristoe is arranging to open a cigar store in the Smith building Reports of "tainted" meat from the big Chicago packing plants cause a big stir over the country. Esther Butler, 8, badly burned while at play near a bon fire. J. S. Peterson chosen official “ump" by the baseball association. Indianapolis, Decatur and Ohio Traction Company asks the city for a fifty year franchise. Rev. Alfred Fowler will deliver the Decoration day address. Ed Coffee wili play right field on tpe ball team. Bart France is in the garden and Frank Peterson in center "Red” Beam of Willshire is ’here 'for the day. o — • Big Features Os * • RADIO • monday'sTive best RADIO FEATURES (Copyright. 1926, by United Press) Central Standard Time Throughout. WCAP. Washington. 496 M, WEAF. , WJAR. KSD. WCCO. WTAM. WCAE, WSAI. 12 noon—Memorial day exercises, Arlington Cemetery, with address by President Coolidge, music by vocalists and the Marine band. WGN. Chicago, 303 M. 9:30 a. m. to

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••latiM will appear ia ae*t i»»ne. THE LITTLE BOY WH O SHOULD HAVE DIED His mother cried so when she thought He lived, and yet his twisted frame His little life about to end. No more on earth could romp about; He saw her falling tears, and made He heard the children call outside, A prayer to God, as she had taught, y ut col|1( | uot go to j o j ß tg e j r game, And so the hand of death was stayCll. * XThe little boy who should have died! "Dear God." he said. "I want to live, » ft •fc*®’ l “»<* mother: "Huch a care My mother seems to need me so, Is ours who have a crippled child. ’ Let me a little while remain. Nor did she cqpss that all those years. Spare tier the hurt my death would He'd lived in answer to his prayer give. That he might keep her eyes from And gladly I will bear the pain.” tears. —l&.pyrigM HKIWT’BaW

4:30 p m —soo mile speedway auto < races, direct from indiauapolis. WEAK, hook up. 9 p.m.—Opera, 1 “L'Amico Fritz.” KGO, Oakland. 361 M, 10 p. m.— Educational program. WOAW, Omaha, 526 M. 9 p. m.— German-American program. SUNDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright, 1926, by United Press) : Central Standard Time Throughout. | WEAF, New York. 492 M. and hookup. 5:20 p.m.—Capitol Theatre program, followed at 7:15 p.m. by Allen Meguthe. tenor. WPC. Atlantic City, 300 M, 7:15 p.m.—Memorial program. WOC. Davenport, 848 M, 9:30 p.m —Orchestral concert". WLS, Chicago, 345 M, 6 p.m —Little Brown church. WJZ. New York, 454 M, 12:30 p.m. —Memorial Dey services irom Washington, D. C. o DECATUR MAN IS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT (COMTINL'ED FROM PAGE OS«) ' week, and had gone to Marion laf.t Monday, where lie had secured a job. He was returning to Marion when the accident occurred. Taylor and VaaDyne were rushed to the Marion hospital, where phjjsicians stated that their chances Jar recovery were slight. Bryant was only slightly injured and will be able to return to ’ work in a. few days. Mrs. Bennett did not state where the funeral for her husband would be held. It. is probable that the body will be taken to East Liverpool. Ohio, ) for interment. Bennett came to this city i from East Liverpool several . yeaago. He has several relatives )n bat city. T le interurban car was headed east I- when'the accident occurred, and Mr. c drove the car directly eato |flie tracks. The auto was thrown deep embankment and was

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completely demolished. Bennett was killed instantly. The two injured men received fractured skulls, and many serious bruises. Mr. Bennett was born in Ohio. Dr. Luther Bovers And Son Are Visiting Here Dr. Luther Boyers and son, Morgan. of Berkley, California, arrived yesterday for a visit with Dr. Boyers and his father, Dr. J. S. Boyers, of this city, will leave this evening for the east, where Dr. Luther wili attend several conferences and his father will take a post graduate course In New York (’tty. Morgan will stay here while his father is absent and Mrs. J. S. Boyers will join her busband the latter part of June and they will enjoy a week at the Sesquitennial celebration in Philadelphia. Dr. Boyers will be abosent from his office here until about July 1. MOOSE LEGIONAIRES NOTICE The Moose Legionaires will hold a special meeting at 8 o'clock this evening to make arrangements to go to Fort Wayne next Wednesday afternoon and evening to attend the district meeting. Is It A Pain In Your Side ? Terre Haute, Ind.—"l was suffering with pains in my side and nothing I

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DECATUR HIGH • SCHOOL AWARDS DIPLOMAS TO 38 (4'OSTIM HD FROM PAG3C OMB) the battar, time aa the pitcher and, catcher, and aocigty aa the umpire ' "Society cun tell,” aald .Mr. Hurtman, "whether or not the boy or girl t is striking or making a hit.” Society* is watching to see if the pupil geta to second base, third base and finally to the homo plate, said Mr. Hartman. The ball wus compar;]ed to service. Second base was com pared to the . preparation the pupil lias made for hia life work, and when i the pupil reaches third base, he is ■ really enjoying life's work and ia a ’ benefit to society. When he reaches ' home, said Mr. Hartman. De feels as though he has done his best and made a success. Mr. Hartman pictured the lives of Abraham, Moses, Lincoln and Wash- 1 ington, showing how those great characters in history had reached first base, then second, then third and finally home. The address was interest lug and ' contained much good advice. Cites Record of Class Walter J. Krick, principal of the J high school, made an interesting talk, , in which he enumerated many of the i accomplishments of the i class, both as a class and as individ- J mils. Thirty-five percent of the 1 pupils on the high honor roll of the i school were members of the senior , class, he said. Forty per cent of ] them have already made plans to ' I enter schools of higher learning this i slimmer or next fall. Mr. Krick call- , ( ed attention to the scholarship honors ] . won during the year by Ireta Fisher, j Doris Peters and Heretta Elzey; to , the fine work done on the school's ' annual Ravelings, by- Monai Butler, 1 Robert Macklin and Harty Heuer; I and to the honors won by different | pupils in oratory and music. Mr. Krick awarded diplomas to i four pupils who have completed the i two-year comrujercttl course of the ] local high school. They were Lois ] Ogg. Marie Hilton, Ruth Hammond i and Margeriete Burger. Fourteen ' awards were made to members of the ’ commercial department for meritor-' 1 ious work done during the year. i Mr. Worthman Speaks Mr. M. F. Worthman,. superintend- ' ent of the city schools, made an inter- i esting talk previous to presenting the ( diplomas to graduates. He told ' the graduates that they did not need 1 more talent, but that th£ir greatest i need now is a real purpose. He con- ] gratulated the graduates on their ac- J complishments in the local high school and gave them his wishes for their success. Robert Macklin, president of the graduating class, made a short speech in behalf of the class and presented a beautiful hand painted picture entitled, “At Daybreak,” to Miss i

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Blanche McCrory, class guardiau. Senior* Hold Reception Following th* commencement program. the annual senior reception was held in the high school gymnaaium. The stage iu th* auditorium land the gymnasium were decorated i In spring flowers, flower baskets and crepe paper streamers. The decora Hons were among the most beputitul I ever seen at a high school com ' mencement here. Spiegel’s orchps- , tie. of Fort Wayne, furnished mucic tor dancing during the reception. The motto of the class was, "Character is the only true diploma." The class flower was the lily of foe valley and the class colors were light blue and silver. x The members of the graduating class were. Josephine Anderson, Roscoe Harold Bock man. Richai d Louis Bogner. Monai K Butler, Francis Arthur Bllswoitb, Herietta M Elzey, Ethel

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