Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1926 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Exoepl Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres. and Gen. Mgr. A. R Holthousa Sec'y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller._ Vice-President Battered at the Postoffice at Decatur, tadlana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Btngle coplee.™ . 2 cents One week, by carrier , -- -.10 cents One year, by carrier — >5.00 One month, by mall 35 cento Three months, by mail >1 00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mall. ■' ■ - 3.00 One year, at office— 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first anil second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones). Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Foreign Representative: Carpenter Sc Company, 121 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. How was this tor a perfect May day? Jf 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 “hitherta »n---known diseases.’’ Doubless there is a considerable crop still awaiting discovery at home. It is said that a dictionary can now be “up to date’’ for only about five years. Presumably this is the result not so much of the need of editing new slang in as of the need of editing discarded slang out. Watch the stop signals at the various corners about the city. We notice that occasionally a driver hurries across these corners, a verydangerous thing t odo because the drivers of other cars and the pedestrians expect you to obey the police orders and stop. Now boys and girls, that you have graduated, what will you “commence?" There is a wide road ahead of you and those who make up their minds where they are going and then keep plodding right on that way, will bessu e to arrive. Don’t think- you can do it in a day or a week or a year. Youngsters starting out to lick the world and who want to become rich should bear in mind that by saving a dollar a day and letting it compound, wiil 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 (maternity) Ward of tire Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn road. London. The news comes that Nome is sore. 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 sqre 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 platfprm so short it can be written on a postal card, so plain that every body will understand just v..at they are standing tor and so for the reliefs that are

fH^ r p H ItTheWsWa’d TOMA T ofloH A S H ! O R E MweJL ° B I NWV'EjsJII _ Wh u RJ|sb|r E I N'Mtfdjgs’ I 1 i.g.hTsßoWtW.Xt s ■m a r Agg D TWE 4 'lA;A|| SERUMS|||aPPEND . A sßbßm ac a wBJBdo » ■S A Ho O kWa N • SM I'HCH|A|ENDjEAR o’u r'sMe I K O nWd E Ml I sBRiE I Di Yiecessury just now that everybody will want to vote it whether they can i'or not. They have a very excellent chance to show their stuff. Decoration Day, in memory of our soldier dead, tomorrow and next day and an occasion when our patriotism is stirred and 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 thefse who defended the Union in the trying days of 1861-65 and those who participated ip the later wars ■will hav e the responsibility of maintaining this great and Important holiday. There is an adage that “'1 here 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 man 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 on luck is to play blind man s 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 beat place, and personal merit does succeed. Evidences to the contrary are merely the flips of chance. Luck smiles on those who take off their coats, put- their shoulders to the wheel, and plug away at the task. Fortune favors men who are not afraid of dreary, irksome drudgery. iLuck climbs no Everests. Luck transmutes no cataract into electricity. Luck is never a ladder from the earth of mediocrity to the heaven of achievement. gRKSSKSSXSSSMSSXg ■ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ■ Jg ———— 3 From the Dally Democrat Filo ■ X Twenty Years Ago Thio Doy K ■ " SXS3SXXKHRBXBKSSS May 29 —Seventy-five men and nineteen teams are now hurrying along work on the Fort Wayne & 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 arks the city for a fifty year franchise. Rev. Alfred Fowler will deliver the Decoration day address. S.d Coffee will play right field on the 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 ♦ i MONDAY'S”MVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright, 1926, by United Press) Central Standard Time Throughout. 1 WCAP. Washington. 496 M, WEAF, i j WJAR. KSD. WCCO, WTAM. WCAE, i WSAI, 12 noon—Memorial day exert 1 cises, Arlington Cemetery, with ad- } dress by President Coolidge, music by vocalists and the Marine band. ’ WGN. Chicago, 303 M, 9; 30 a. m. to

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4:30 p. m. —500 mile speedway auto , races, direct from Indianapolis. WEAF, hook up. 9 p.m.—Opera, "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, 451 M. 12:30 p.m —Memorial Day services Irom WashI ington, D. C. 0 DECATUR MAN IS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT (CONTINUED PACE ONE) week, and had gone to Marion last ?4onday, where he bad secured a job. He was returning to Marion whc;i the accident occurred. Taylor and VaaDyne were rushed to the Marion hospital, where physicians stated th«)t their chances for recovery were slight. Bryant was only slightly injured and will be able to return to ► work in a lew days. I 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 "‘from East Liverpool several ', |n hat city. ttW interurban car was headed east I- whti| the accident occurred, and Mr. epeatreft drove the car directly onto jthe .tracks. The auto was thrown o-jovefta fieep 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 Boyers And Son Are V isiting Here Dr. Luther Boyers and son, Morgan. of Berkley. California, arrived 1 yesterday for a visit with relatives. Dr. Boyers and his father. Dr. J. S. i Boyers, of this city, will leave this evening for the east, where Dr. Luther will attend several conferences and his father will take a post graduate course in New York City. Morgan will stay here while his father is absent and Mrs. J. S. Boyers will join her husband 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 tp go to Fort Wayne next Wednesday afternoon and evening to attend the district meeting. Is It A Pain i In Your Side ? i Terre Haute, Ind.—'T was suffering [ with in my side and nothing I

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DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL AWARDS x DIPLOMAS TO 38 (pO.YTHfI'KD FROM PAGE ONE* the butter, time an the pitcher and catcher, and society as the umpire. "Society can tell,” said Mr. Hartman, “whether or not the boy or girl is striking or makipg v hit.” Society is watching to see if the pupil gets to second base, third base and finally to the home plate, said Mr. Hartman. The ball was compared to service. Second base was compared to the preparation the pupil has made for his life work, and when the pupil reaches third base, he is really enjoying life's work and is a benefit to society- When he reaches home, said Mr. Hartman, 1&e feels as though be has done bis best and made a success. Mr. Hartman pictured the lives of Abraham, Moses, Lincoln and Washington, showing how those great characters in history • had reached first base, then second, then third and finally home. The address was interesting and contained much good adviceCites Record of Class Walter J. Krick, principal of the high school, made an interesting talk, in which he enumerated many of the accomplish agents of the A-aduaking class, both as a class and as individuals. Thirty-five percent of the pupils on the high honor roll of the school were members of the senior class, he said. Forty per cent of them have already made plans to enter schools of higher learning this summer or next fall. Mr. Krick called attention to the scholarship honors won during the year by Ireta Fisher. Doris Peters and Heretta Elzey; to the fine work done on the school's annual Ravelings, by Monai Butler, Robert Macklin and Harry Heuer; and to the honors won by different pupjls in oratory and music. Mr. Krick awarded diplomas to four pupils who have completed the two-year commjercgtl course of the local high\ school. They were Lois Ogg, Marie Hilton, Ruth Hammond and Margeriete Burger. Fourteen awards were made to members of the commercial department for meritorious work done during the year. Mr. Worthman Speaks Mr. M. F. Wort liman, superintendent of the city schools, made an interesting talk previous to presenting the diplomas to the graduates. He told the graduates that they did not need more talent, but that their greatest need now is a real purpose. He congratulated the graduates on their accomplishments in the local high school and gave them his wishes 9*r 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

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Blanche McCrory, class guardian. Seniors Hold Reception ; Following the commencement program. the annual senior reception was held in the high school gymnug1 ium. The stag 6 auditorium und the gymnasium were decorated ' in spring flowers, flower baskets and ’ crepe paper streamers. The decoral' tions were among the most beautiful J ever seen at a high school commencement here. Spiegel’s orchestra. of Fort Wayne, furnished music ’ for dancing during the reception. I The motto of the class was, "Character Is the only true diploma.” Tbc class flower was the lily ot the val- > ley and the plass colors were ligi|t lihje and silver. The members ot the graduating class were. Josephine Anderson, Roscoe Harold Bockman. Richard laiuis Bogner, Monai K. Butler. Francis Arthur Ellsworth. Herretta M- Blzey, Ethel

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