Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1926 — Page 4

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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 A Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller Vlce-Presideni Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, hy carrier 5.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3 00 One year, at office. 3.00 (Prices quoted are within tirst and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Seheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. You are invited to attend the Garrett meeting at the Berne auditorium next Friday evening. The campaign will close three weeks from Monday. There Is much to do in the meantime n you would carry the message of your convictions to the people. Meet us at the registration tent on the morning of Tuesday, October 19th. Its Dairy Day—a big free entertainment tor the farmers and a good time for every one. Dairy Day is going over with a bang if the weather is half way decent as has been ordered by the committee in charge. Delegations are coming from many counties, there will be three bands, several quartettes, a number of features and the big bartoecue. The corn and beet exhibit of the club boys and girls of Adams county J will be on display in the corridor of the court house on Dairy Day and will 'be worth seeing. A hundred youngsters have worked throughout the season to produce the best corn and beets and it will be interesting to know the decision of the judges. Reduction of the state tax a fewcents is but a blind. A movement h#s already started to increase the gasoline tax and the automobile license fees at the January session of the legislature. They can take away more money several times over that way than they could by holding the tax rate up. Did some one ask “why change?” There are a number of reasons in Indiana some of which are now betog. exposed by-Thomss Adams. Qf„ course if vou like this W atsoa-R0bin- ....... . <»<»» ■■ ' < - ..... 3 you don't want a change but we have a hunch that a majority of the voters will declare by their ballots that they don't relish it. Did you read the program for Dairy Day over, carefully? It includes about everything we can think of to guarantee a fine time. Hook up the flivver and come, to Decatur on that day. Its time for a day off any way and you will enjoy the bands, the speaking, ti e quartettes and choruses, the gift distribution, the corn and beet display and all the events. Michigan now has a law requiring applicants for marriage licenses to wait five days after the license is issued before they can marry. This seems to have stopped hasty marriages for according to the marriage license clerk, one couple out of twenty did not marry after thinking it over the required five days. It is believed the law will prove a preventative for the rapidly increasing number of divorces. ■ ■ I. DuPont of the famous powder manufacturing company claims that a chemical has been discovered which will cause one to do without sleep Instead of retiring after your days work you can take one of these pills and feel as refreshed as though you had enjoyed your eight hours. Fine for the “night owls” but some how or other we can t help feeling that the average person likes to drop off at and forget it 411. Most of can get enough excitement and thrill

during slxtecffi hours as was Intended r for Adam some years ago. One of the big features of Dairy Day will be the formal opening of the r rebuilt Cloverleaf dreameries, one ol r. the best institutions of Its kind in the 11 middle west. At a cost of *75,000 the r, plant has been rebuilt, added to and modernized by the iustallatiou ol the very latest machinery. You will en--2 joy a trip through the plant on that 0 day and we venture the assertion you 5 will be surprised at the growth of ® this spleddld concern. (J 1. MMJXJi 0 The Addins County Witness says “a Jot of people are going to feel cheap on the morning of November 3rd Jf they have voted the democratic ticket.” Well, we would think a lot of them who have been voting the republican ticket would feel “cheap" any morning now when they read the . headlines in the daily papers telling ( of the* scandals, intrigues and combinations which have been prevalent in Indiana. 1 Collection from the gasoline tax for ’ the fiscal year ending September 30th were nearly nine million dollars, an 1 increase over the previous year of 30 per cent, or over two million. If a similar increase is made next year the amount thus raised will equal the entire amount expended by Governor Ralston in the last year of his ad■ministration. Thats why we can’t see the income tax law. Surely we have now enough ways for being drained of all the cash we can get together. Finnis J. Garrett, democratic leader in congress, a brilliant orator and one of the brainy men of the party will be the headliner at a south Adams county meeting to be held at Berne next Friday evening. A large crowd is anticipated and the rallyshould be one of the high spots of the campaign. The Dunbar band will give a concert proceeding the meeting. Mr. Garrett has been a member of congress for years and is recognized as one of the sound thinkers as well as ou e of the able exponents of Jeffersonian doctrines. A delegation from this part of the county will attend. There has been a sudden change in che attitude of Governor Jackson, other republican leaders and their supporting newspapers concerning the charges by Mr. Adams and others ol his "probe” committee relating to certain contracts with D. C. Stephenson. Though Adams had tried for months to secure some assistance from the state house, the "nothing doing" sign was constantly evident After he made his startling announcements a week ago, a hurry up call was - .... ■' T'*. ‘ men of the state who were members of the republican editorial association. They decided that Mr. Adams was dreaming, in his dotage and didn't know what he was talking about. Then the Chicago;' newspapers took up the fight, evidence was produced and so much interest manifested that yesterday there was a complete reversal. Now there is a decided inclination that the matter be cleared up. hoping of course that those things which will reflect discredit can be covered up. denied or disposed of in some manner. Their position is ridiculous and their arguments so ■ flimsy they are silly. ! O * ’ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ * + , ♦ From the Daily Democrat File + * Twenty Years Ago This Day. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ r Oct. 9. 1906—Charles Bonham ap--1 pointed G. R. & I. agent at Bryant. , r A. G. Briggs, E. E. Zimmerman, f Frank C.Wechter and M. Kirsch notriinated for county councilmen by democrats. Indiana Federation of Clubs in sessr ion at Marion. a Mr. and Mrs. Chris Meyers. Geneva, b are parents of bouneng baby boy. >. State correction conference meets „ at Muncie. Several delegates from here attend. Bluffton bowling team defeats Deu catur. 2,505 to 2,365. e Rev. W. H. Daniel offered place as r editorial writer oq„ Chicago Inter e Ocean. t First snow of season falls. 1 Attorney General Charles W. Mil ?I Ur speaks at republican meeting al Ll . court bouse.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1926.

e THE HIGH COST OF IMPROVEMENTS

We left the juon to build a room, e A simple sun room on our plac e , Wherein a plant or two might bloom To give the home a touch of grace t Now here at Pointe Aux Barques we u »tay { Flooded by bills whlyh we must pay. Perplexed we sit and sadly sigh And wonder what it is they've built, la it a castle towering high 8 With glistening cupolas of.gilt? I> Or have they tacked upon our home f Some ancient masterpiece of Rome?

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+♦♦+♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ ++♦♦++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ SUNDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES Copyright. 1926. by United Prezs Central Standard Time . WEAF—New York. 492 M. 9:15 p. m. — Louise Hunter, soprano, i Clarence Whitehill, baritone, Metropolitan Opera company. ‘ WJZ—New York. 360 M, and hookup (5 stationsl, 9:15 p. m.— Ukranlan National chorus and symphony orchestra. WLW—Cincinnati, 422 M. 8 p. m.— Radio trip to Ireland. . WEAF—New York. 492 M, and hookup, (five stations)—3 p. m.— Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, and the Sunday Men's conference. KYW—Chicago. 535 M. 7 p. m.—Sunday evening club services. Monday's Five Best Radio Features WEAF—New York. 492 M. and hookup, 9 p. m. —Opera, "The Bohemian Girl." WTAM —Cleveland. 389 M. 7 p. m.— WTA.M concert orchestra. WCCO —Minneapolis-St. Paul. 416. M, 8 p. tn.—University program. KGW —Portland, Ore., 492 M, 10 p. m. —Vaudeville program. WHAZ— Troy, N. Y . 380 M. 10 p m.— “Transcontinental” program. o High School Teachers Os Journalism To Organize Franklin, Ind., Oct. 9 —For the firi>t time in Indiana, high school teachers of journalism and advisors of staff publications will meet at Franklin College, October 23 to organize the Indiana Journalistic Teachers’ and Advisors' Association. The first annual meeting of the new organization will be held in conjunction with the fifth annual convention of the Indiana High School Press Association, to be held at Franklin College, Friday and Saturday. Oct. 22-23. The two groups will meet together yearly. Dr. Myron McCurry, head eff the department of English at Franklin College, temporarily heads the general committee of teachers and advisors in various sections of the state. Other members of the committee ire Miss Ella Sengenberger, Technic<l4 High school. Indianapolis; Miss ide bAs&r |a-.bool. Fort waje. ; M. McCabe Day. Huntington; A. W. Grsison. Morton high school. Richmond; F. R. Noffsinger, Wayne school, Union City; Miss Edna Gay Calvert, Sullivan; Miss Cordelia Smith. New Albany: MisJ Ruth Alford. Bedford; Forrest E. Horn. Hagerstown; L. M. Hopper, Hammond; Miss Mary Miller, Lebanon; William A. Baker, Elkhart; and Miss Grace Arnold, Wiley high school Terre Haute. Following a breakfast with the Faculty Women’s Club as hostess, the teachers’ group will organize with the adoption of a constitution and the election of officers. Addresses will be given, and an approved course of journalistic study in Indiana high schools will be discussed. Roundtable discussions will be held. v —O ' The Good Samaritan Os The Highways The famous parable might read this way—modernized a bit. “A ceratin tourist went out to roll a kittle rubber on a summer's day and while so doing, snapped a propeller ' shaft, ran out of oil and burned out a bearing. “A traffic cop looked on him and passed by on the other side, bawling him out for blocking traffic; yea, he took his number and likewise wrote l * in a book. “And likewise a bird came along in 8 a big limousine and looked on him Q and also passed out of the picture. “And likewise about an hundred s ‘ others looked on him and passed bv yea, passed most rapidly. 8 “And then, just to show human r ‘ nature wasn't all sour, a regular fellow came along in an animated rattrap, looked o him and had corppas- !■ stop on ii—, and stopped and said, it -how come?’ Has the old wagon nm out of mileage? Can I be of any

I think by all the bills which come That Michael Angelo they've hired To build that small solarium And give tbe extra apace required. Or Phidias they've called upon To duplicate the Parthenon. I ordered hut a simple room And fancied that I knew the cost,' But shrouded now I ait In gloom, All hope for solvency l» lost. They said they'd build a sun room small, I m paying for a city hall.

i help, and I don't mean maybe?' “And he got him out a rope and J tied one end of it to the derelict and the other to his rat-trap and towed the unfortunate man and his car to a garage, where the damage was repaired.” We do see them now, once in awhile —oh, every once in a big while. Sometimes when you have come out of an insignificant side street and tried to get on to a busy highway and the line of cars just wouldn't stop to let you in, it seemed as if the Good Samaritan must have been a bachelor. And then, some pleasant open faced man stops, waves a hand at you to go on —and you know the Samaritan never died, —and his tribe is still marching on. He is one of the sweet spots of motoring. And, agadn, you meet him when everything has gone wrong and your car has quit cold. He stops and lends s helping hand. He is one of Nature’s noblemen. Biff most of us cannot wait in time of trouble for this good Samaritan. To wait and wait and look and look is like one Big Auk looking for another. So there is just one best thing to do. Be a member of the Hoosier State Auto Association. Then in time of trouble just phone their nearest service station and help is on it's way at once for you as a member. If you are out of the state any of the other 830 affiliated motor clubs under the AAA banner will come to your rescue just as the Hoosier State would for their member. And as a member you get touring information, maps, legal protection, and the satisfaction of helping get signs of all kinds, prevent accident, and fight the legislative battles of the motorist. The headquarters of this organization is Hotel English, Indianapolis. o Spain Has. Lack Os Prospective Husbands; May Adopt Turkish System Madrid. —(United Press.) —There is a shortage of men. and too many women are looking tor a husband in Spain. From inquiries made. It appears that Spain is gving through a main ninnial ■“‘fry iSaS'.’ - — ■ Madrid during 1925. there were 1.300 marriages less than in the preceding year. In Andalusia. Cataluna and Levante. there have been thirty per cent more births of girls than boys. This counds bad for the future. There are good reasons explaining tbe lack of prospective husbands in this country. The Moroccan war has caused the loss of a good many young Spaniards. Also, the increased cost of living has forced numerous lovers to give up their ideas of marriage, when between twovkisses, as they say here, they figured how much they would have t ospend to create a home. Spaniards console themselves read- ( ing that in France there are more than three million women without husbands and for whom the only solution would be to marry a foreigner. It has been suggested that in countries where the number of women is much above the number of men, the 1 taw be changed along the Turkish fashion which force? men to get mar-| 1 ried once they are twenty-five, and to ' take a second wif e when they reach the age of fifty, provided they have not already done so. In the meantime. the lonely Esp'anolas kep on sighing for the husband of their ’ dreams who is becoming more and 5 more improbable. O -y : —■■ , Liner Wrecks Tug In j Harbor; Eleven Drown j Faris, October 9.—(United Press)— v The liner Paris of the French line. which left New York October 2, crashi ed into a tug. overturning it and I- drowning eleven persons in the bar- •- bar of Harve, according tc a dispatch i- from Hane, I, The Paris was completing its royn age t'o Eur'-pe wh»-n the crash oo y c.urred. ’

Killer Os Famous Robber Chief Fears Law Will Demand Life By John O'Brien. (U P. Staff Correspondent i Parie. —(United Press.)—Romanettl, the notorious Corsican bandit who was killed last April In an ambush after he had defied the gendarmes tor twenty years, was doomed to death the day he abandoned the traditions of the "maquis" and began to reap a financial harvest out of his exploits. A correspondent of a Paris newspaper obtained from the man who did the actual killing a detailed story of Romanettl's end. The name of this man is kept secret because the friends and relatives of the bandit are looking for him according to the law of the vendetta. "It was bound to happen." said the slayer. "It might have happened any day In tbe last ten years. Romanettl was using bis undoubted popularity with the peasants for political purposes. He was also making a fortune. That is not in the traditions of tbe real Corsican bandits so I decided th finis? him. 1 had no personal grudge against Romanettl but I came to the conclusion that he had gone too far. "I offered my services to the chief of the gendarmerie who fell in with my plan. I imposed only one condition. 1 wag to be accompanied by two of his men. Well. I feared that Corsican gendarmes might have a certain sympathy for the bandit so I insisted on being accompanied by gendarmes from France. They, at least, would not be swayed by any feeling of friendship and would not interfere with the execution of the plan. “Romanetti had lost confidence In the men who shared his life in the wilds of the maquis and usually travelled alone. I knew bis routes. I took my old hunting carbine because lam used to it. I make my own cartriges. With the two gendarmes I left Ajaccio in a driving rainstorm at eleven o'clock at night. I had certain information that Romanettl would come through a mountalu pass about dawn the following day. "The place we fixed on for the ambush was ideal. The narrow path through the defile is bord-d on one side by a steep mountain, on the other by a precipice several hundred feet straight down. No chance of anybody escaping their way. Then from the point of vantage where we placed ourselves we couid be sure of seeidg first Romanettl's head, then his shoulders and body, finally his horse as he rode up the slope. “At ten minutes after three d heard the sound of the horse’s hoofs. A few seconds later Romanettis head appeared. I waited until his body was outlined against tbe sky and fired.

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He dropped without a sound. He got two bullets in the hrtffrt. "It is sad to kill a man. even a bandit I lost sleep smt appetite But, after all, somebody had to do It” o— “ President Os Mexico Takes Masonic Rites, — Washington. Oct. »-(Unlted 'Press President Calles of Mexico will receive the Scottish Rite degrees of Masonry, the Scottish Rite headquarters here announced today. Calles once before had petitioned for the degrees, but insurrections in Mexico prevented the rites being ad ministored. He petitioned again re-

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