Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1926 — Page 4

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A penny for (f Christmas seal means fi penny with which to fight tuberculosis. Buy all you can use and then ‘some more. Eleven shopping, days and then Christmas. Os course you have most of it done by now but you can still fill in your wants by watching the advertisements of Decatur stores. It begins to look like we will have to learn how to vote legally all over again. They have about decided to change or repeal the absent voters' law, the direct primary law and the registration law. If President Coolidge spends ten weeks in the west as he is now’ planning for neat summer he will discover a lot of things that would take him tqn years to learn sitting in Washing-' ton. i Tile Good Fellows club is coining along just fine and dandy and already half the minimum of three hundred dollars has been subscribed. Keep it up folks. You never gave to a better cause than that of helping the Delta Theta Tau girls provide a Merry Christmas for the poor boys and girls, of the community. Give now and give as liberally as you can, but give something.

This nation had an increase of a half million dollars this year, in excess of what was needed to meet everything. And yet President Coolidge and others in power insist that 'we ought to be careful about lug taxes tor tear some years we won't do so well. It seems to us it would be time enough then to worry about that part of it. Just now whatj we all desire is a reduction in tax overhead. Regulation of radio territory so that you can get one and only one pro-I gram on the ‘same wave length at a ; time is one of the problems to be. considered in congress this year and many people are supporting the proposed measure. If the boys will do that and go home most of their constituents will be satisfied, but the trouble is there are some fifteen thousand other bills to be considered

and disposed of in some manner. Eggs are retailing in New York City for $1.05 per dozen, which of course means that a lot of poor people cannot indulge in this line of food, it 'seem.- unnecessary when based on the prices in this section of the country. but is partly explained by the fact! that on the same day recently when the wholesale prices decreased five cents the retail prices advanced just that much, rfi other words they are showing the consumer whose boss : there. Though most of the leaders of the automobile associations in Indiana supported the present administration with their votes in the November election they are now admitting that they will have to put up “one h—l «f a fight" to prevent the loss of the $490,000 in the auto theft fund which along with every thing else has been dumped into the general fund for use as the governor sees fit. We don’t understand why they don’t vote as tli<*y talk. The Mid-West magazine which has gained considerable prestige the last

couple of years is boosting for the nomination of Governor Lowden, of Illinois, by the republicans and Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri by the democrats. The editor declares Lowden could defeat any democrat and that Reed could easily stage a f landslide if nominated against Presii dent Coolidge. There is no question that the of the west and middle j west will not warm up to an eastern man in the next election. They have been overlooked in the legislation at Washington and the pull of the present administration is too much in favor of the down easterner. The Hoosier State Automobile Association is planning to make a drive on ‘a number of improvements to the state highway system, one of which particularly appeals to folks in this section, ‘ That the state highway com mission be authorized and required to

s maintain the detours it establishes ami keep same in condition, tit to use. ,' and also authorize the commission to let bridge contracts up to a fifty foot span as part of the road contract.’’ It i seems silly to close a main road for t a year to build a road and then anI other year while two or three small , bridges are being built. It is also unfair to the counties to tear up two or three side roads as detours without any effort on the part of the state I to maintain them. I Good roads represent one of the most important factors in the develop ment of any community. Any one who doubts this, need only make a comparison between states with and without good Antiquated road building equipment and practices pre vent tile prosperity and high standard of living so generally prevalent in the . good roads states. State leaders are awake to the situation. E. N. Todd state highway engineer of Kentucky, ( says: ’’The experience in this state S has been, that only a modern organ ! ization can maintain roads that handle 1 a heavy traffic, and of course, this or- , ganization must be equipped with , modern machinery and with experi- > enced men to operate it.’’ In many states, the practice of permitting 1 farmers to work out their poll tax

i with horses and makeshift equip inent was abandoned, long before the modern tractor and road machinery were perfected. The net result of the ’ adoption of tractors, road machinery ' and proper road surfacing has been a much larger return for each dollar ’of the taxpayers’ money expended for rn»d s In one Missouri county, a •saving of nearly SB,OOO was reported in four months, as a result of substituting tractors for horses. The automobile has so revolutionized our mode of living, that it is not surprising to know that the science of road building has progressed more since I the advent of the automobile than for a century previously. Each year ' proves more conclusively that to withstand present automobile and truck traffic, ‘any heavily traveled rock or gravel road should be protected by some waterproof, shock - absorbing wearing surface. —- ... o

+ OF RADIO ♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I Sunday’s Five Best Radio Features ( Central Standard Time WEAF—Hookup (11 stations) 8:15 p. m.— Mme. Frances Alda, so- I prano of the Metropolitan Opera. i Kl’O—San Francisco, also KFI and KGO, 4:55 p. m.—San Fran•l cisco Symphony orchestra. , WCX—Detroit and WWJ. Detroit, 2:30 p. m.—Detroit Symphony Orchestra. ■ WEAF—Hookup, (7 stations), 6:20 p. m—Capitol Theatre program. 1 KDKA— Pittsburgh. 5:30 p. m.—Twilight Hour; KDKA bittie Symphony and J. bloyd Mahoney. baritone. i Monday's Five Best Radio Features i l Copyright 1926 by United Press ’ WJZ—New York. WGY Schenectady,' WMAK. Buffalo, 8.30 p. m.-x Address on “Waterpower,", 1 Governor Smith. [ WJZ—New York, 7:30 p. m. —Henry■ Dudley's orchestra and Rich-1 • ard Hale, American baritone, ■ s WEAF— Hookup (9 stations), 9 p. m.' Grand Opera, “Norma.” WHA— Madison. Wis., 8 p. m. —Edu rational program. I WEAF —New York and WRIT and WSAt. 7:45 p. m. — Talk by Daniel Frohman. theatrical producer. — o — | ’ Miss Caroline Gerkc, of north of the t city, was a visitor here Friday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926.

Oast fblKsfl PLEASUREAND PAIN

’Tis pleasure men desire and loudly praise, Joy is by poets world wide over hung. Laughter la loved alike by old and young. All hearts are lured by bright and sunny ways. Men dream of happy, care-free, restful days When never shall the bells of grief be rung. But all shall flit like butterflies among

The poppies which the breeze of the man. (CopyrtKht 1925 Edgar A. (.ueat

>++♦+++♦+♦*+++♦♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY + ♦ ♦ > Twenty Years Ago This Day. ♦ ♦ From the Dally Democrat File + »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Dec. 11—President Roosevelt sends special message to congress asking hat American citizenship be granted citizens of Porto Rico. There will he sixty-one lawyers in the next session of the Indiaua legislature. The Shah of Persia is dead. Harry Cooken declines job as rlreet commissioner and John 1). Stults is appointed. O. L. Vance is selected as a delegate to the state meeting of the Business Men’s Association. „ Misses Mary and Amelia Niblick visit in Fort Wayne. Norman Lenhart elected Master of be Masonic lodge. Fashion stables receive a new bus from Chicago. George Mentis, county assessor, is ill witlTpneumonia. t . o RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT in Memory of Nora Kitson Parrish. To the officers and members of Chapter No. 127, Order of Eastern Star: God in his wise providence, has seen fit to remove from this labyrinth of human life our beloved sister, Nora Kitson Parrish. T|io she suffered pain and weariness through many months, she was always patient and cheerful and steadfastly, cept her faith in that Star in the

East. To her daughter, and her brothers and sisters, this Chapter extends its heartfelt sympathy. Be it resolved.—that this Chapter has lost a most worthy member whose memory yhall always linger with us; and be it. Resolved,—that our Charter shall be draped for thirty days, that these resolutions bq spread updn the records of this Chapter. MAY ME MYI wS, Mo.NTA A. HEN NELLIE HANEY, Committee. o Max Lorber To Coach St. Louis Hebrew Association Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 11.—Freshman Coach Lorber, of Indiana Uni-1 versity, will take up his new duties at the St. Louis Hebrew Association, S. Louis, Mo.,‘January 2. Max has been freshman coach at Indiana since his graduation here in 1925. No new p*it has been selected as yet. However- it is understood that no new yearling mentor will be signed until next spring. "Wally" Middlesworth has been signed as a year-around coach and this will help take care of the freshman problem.

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summer stwayis. Yet from the things despised, from pain and care, Insistent duty and harsh failure's sting. From all the burdens which a man must bear The greater glories of the spirit spring. To days of ease are tuned the pipes of Pan. But hardships ure the builders of

'LETTERS TO ! SANTA CLAUS • Decatur, Ind., December, 9,1926 1 Dear Santa Slaus. I want a booksatchel and a game that is all I want for Christmas. Kathryn Shell. Decatur, Ind., Dec. 9, 1926 Dear Santa: Please bring me a doll and a nice story book and bring Lorraine a doll and a dollbed bring me a doll bed to and bring me a pocketbook and bring me some candy. And bring Lorraine a little pocketbook and some candy Lorraine would like the little pocketbook to be green. To Santa. From Juanita. Johnson. Willshire. Ohio. December 9. 1926 Dear Santa: It will soon be time for the reindeers to come. Will you please briug me a ni e sweater my sister Faye Virginia wants a ring and a new hood. Baby brother wants a rattle-box. Also bring some candy. We will be good children. From your dear friends. Marcile, Faye and Donald Myers Decatur, Ind., Dec. 9, 1926 Dear Santa Claus: I want a boocksach and a game.

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That's ail I want tor Christmas. KATHRYN SHELL. Decatur, Ind.. Dec. 8. 1926 Dear Santa Claus. 1 am a little girl seven years old. I am in the second grade. Please bring me a by!o for Christmas. And a red sled. And a sack of candy. A little desk and chair. And a sweet jucie orange. Don’t for get Glorine Springer. From your little Friend Margaret Richard, R R. 9 Bellevue, Ohio,. December, 9 1926 Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a litt’.e horse, a doll, a book- some candy, nuts and oranges. Do not forget my sister Mary Ellen. She wants a doll, a book, some candy, nuts, and oranges. I am three and she is seven. Do not forget my Grandma in Preble. Do not think I wrote this letter because my big sister wrote it for me. She is ten years old. 1 hope you don’t get the gout from walking so much. Remember ail the poor children too. I am sending you a big fat kiss. Your little friend, Carol Foley. R. F. D. No. 2. Bellevue, Ohio The kiss —(X) — oM. S. ELZEY, Jeweler Over White Mountain Creamery, west of postoffice. Watches and Clocks repaired. I take orders for all kinds of jewelry, flocks, watches and diamonds. I now have tortoise glasses for sale. Come in and I will save you money. 291-6tx ' M. S. ELZEY. oEczema Can Be Cured So can the various skin and scalp diseases. Try a box of B. B. Ointment It curses most skin and scalp diseases when used according to instructions. At all druggists—Get a box today. I

SURE thing \ j) ave i ust the finest kind of X ' \ Gifts for any one owning J | an automobile. ■— z * z* •s y For InstanceAUTOMOBILE ROBES $3.50 to $15.00 CAR HEATER S—for all care-installed $2.50 to $35. SPOT LIGHT S—installed $1.65 ,0 $8.50 STOP LIGHT S—installed s4.oo ,0 $8.50 CIGAR LIGHEER S—installeds 1.25 to $5.50 MOTOMETER SS.OO to SIO.OO bar cap $2.50 t 0 $5.00 STEP PLATE S—a pair put ons] .75 to $5.00 REAR VIEW MIRROR BSc to $2.25 AUTOMATIC WIND SHIELD CLEANERS Installed—in both vacuum and electric.. -$5,50 *° FLOWER VASES $1.25 to $2.50 TIRE LOCKS... s2*oo t 0 $5.00 FLASH LIGHTS SI.2S up ‘ These are accessories that any owner of an automobile will a’’!’'' date. We have several items not listed above. Come in We can help you with your CHRISTMAS SHOPPING LISI Maybe one, two or a set of tires, is needed for the car, or a 5 gahnn can of Mobile Oil. Special Low Prices on Tires and Tubes during the Holidays. W. D. PORTER BtJICK SALES AND SERVICE , Corner First & Monroe Sts. Phone

than the Price Suggests In the year just drawing to a dose tire price of Dodge Brothers Motor Cars was materially lowered. Yet during this period more important improvements were incorporated than in any year in Dodge Brothers history. Advance , were made in engineering and body designs. The cars possess a greater degree of smoothness, silence and ease. They are more comfortable, more beautiful. Current prices—made possible, of course, by constantly mounting sales—arc therefore not an obvious measure of value. Prices, in fact, have never told the full story of Dodt e Brothers dependability and basic worth. But now, more than ever before, there is far more value than the price suggests. Touring Car SB6O Sedan sj lo Coupe $9lO Special Sedan . $lOlO Delivered Saylors Motor Co. I’hone 311 213 N. First St. We Also Sell Dependable Used Cars Dooee Brothers MOTOR CARS DEMOCRAT WANT ADSTeT K®S