Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1926 — Page 4

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Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Only two more days, kiddies, to be extra good and then Christmas and Santa Claus and everything. You can't shop early any more but you must shop soon if you are going to do any this season. There are but two more days until old Santa is due to arrive. Since the poor man can't afford to run for the senate and the rich man can't get his seat, whitjjer do we drift? Perhaps some day we can save all the money we now pay these law makers. You may not feel the Christmas spirit, you may not be entering into this great event, but just the same its here and the vast majority of folks will proceed to celebrate it over the coming week-end. Better come along and join the happy throng. Kansas City has adopted an ordinance which provides a twenty per cent tax on cigarettes, adding a burd en to those who are already paying fancy prices for Christmas drinks, but providing a "side line" for the bootleggers. A Buffalo man who sold poison •whiskey and killed more than forty people has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Some times we wonder just what a man has to do to receive an old-fashioned dose of punishment. Some times we can't help but feel that if there was as much effort to convict men charged with murder as there is to acquit them, the society would tie uetier off. We need -in this country just now stern administration of law and less attention to technicalities of law. Frank Smith, senator-elect from Illinois, has accepted the appointment to fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator McKinley and will report early in January when congress reconvenes. He will meet opposition but is reported to be ready to expose others whom he says have behaved just as badly as he has. Let the good work go on. The Good Fellows need about seventy-five dollars more to complete their Christmas fund for the poor kiddies and there is but twenty-four hours in which to secure it. Surely no one in this prosperous community wishes to think ' that a single poor boy or girl will be unhappy next Saturday because they have neglected this little duty of giving a few dimes or dollars to this purpose. If any one knows how we can have the road improved between here and Monroe without the granting of the easements of property owners, we hope they will speak right up for it doesn’t seem we pre going to get it that way and thhts the only means provided by the state highway oommission. Yet no one denies that it would be a splendid improvement and one that should not be passpd up its certainly a real problem. The local sugar plant today closed a short but very successful campaign ami will soon conclude the distribu tion of many thousand dollars U those farmers who engaged in the production of this crop the past yegr The fall rains ruined many acres bui

the plant made the best rup In its history and the net results will be quite satisfactory, it is predicted. They expect to increase the acreage inext year. We regret that Commissioner Landis has found it his duty to silo such serioua charges against Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, two men who for twenty years idols of baseball fans in America. He accuses them of joining with two others to throw a game between Cleveland and Detroit in 1919. Seems like a long time to investigate but Mr. Landis no doubt has the "goods" on them and he will > be upheld in his position of making the facts public for only by so doing can the great national sport be main- ‘ tained and thats the judge's job. A great change has taken place in our time in the meaning and importance of the word “sacrifice.” The original definition of this word was an offering of anything to a deity.” But we have learned that sacrifice also means something very different and very practical in the scheme of modern life. As we study all of the factors which make for our material success in this world, we learn that there is a close relationship between sacrifice and achievement. It is not so much through great sacrifices that ] we attain success and happiness as < it is through our ability to make little sacrifices habitually. In this way, by the practice of sacrifice, we learn how , to avoid the wasteful indulgences and , extravagances that destroy the real | purpose and benefit of our lives. It < is comparatively easy for anyone to make a sacrifice under the lash of < necessity: but if we expect to escape ( the exigencies of necessity and per- ( haps adversity, we must early begin t she practice of helpful sacrifice. Thrift Magazine.

* BIG FEATURES ♦ * OF RADIO ♦ >+++++++++++♦♦+♦ Wednesday's 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1926 by United Press Central Standard Time WEAK —New York and WCAE Pittsburgh 9:39 PM. Dekomen's “Folk" opera, “Rip Van Winkle. WHAM —Rochester. 7:15 PM. Rochester opera company, — Eugene Gossens conducting. WJZ—New York 9 PM. — Nathaniel Shilkret's orchestra. WMAQ— Chicago 9 PM. — Christmas Cantata. WDAF— Kansas City — 9:30 PM. — Anne Mack, Soprano. —— — O~- » TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ fr * > Twenty Years Ago Thi s Day. ♦ * From the Daily Democrat File + Dec. 22 —Efforts will be made to pass a law at the coming session of the legislature requiring a prescription to buy opium and other “dope.” Misses Gy and Mayme Dorwin are visiting in Indianapolis. Dr. J. M Miller elected president of

aft J <; A CHRISTMAS PRESENT ? "1 THAT MULTIPLIES j J| Open a savings account lor i isf || boys or girls. Put the pass H books on the Christmas Tree. W Encourage them to save for the W things they did not get for H* K CJii’istmas. Think of the num- M ® r bcr of good things each can get ft With that one Christmas gilt. pt Do part of vour Christmas . t J shoppiiig al the | rfgpital and a

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1926.

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« Why choose the baser role? Why fling high dream away? Why desecrate the soul For pleasure’s little day? Why not, though strong or weak The greater conquest seek? Why turn your back upon All that is fine and true? Why waste your life as one Who sees no struggle through? Why join with them who choose The certain way to lose?

the County Medical Society. Louis Yager is home from Toledo for the holidays. Miss Nora Smith is home from I. U. for the vacation. Mr. and Mrs. George Zimmerman are Bluffton visitors. Lard is 7c per pound. Postoffice team defeats K of C. bowlers two games out of three. Miss Jean Lutz entertained the A. H. C. club at Brookside farm. O !r— Old Clothes Men Seek International Treaty Washington D. C. Dec. 22. — (United Press) —The rag picker is no longer u downtrodden, unfortunate individual. The old clothes dealer, whose cries on the street are familiar to everyone is seking an international agreement by which he will play a leading part in world trade, according to advices front Berlin received by the Department of i Commerce today. Rag dealers from all countries of the , world met in Faris some time ago to i draw up regulations which are considered necessary to eliminate the dis- ' ggreements which arise frequently between exporters and importers of rags. 1 The trade in rags between the Unit- ' ed States and Germany assumes con- , siderable proportions annually, states >

Great Reduction in Coal Prices All $9.50 lump coal now SB.OO All $7.50 egg coal now $6.75 X Delivery to any part of the city. Call 199 Bennett Coal Yard

Boy. take the sterner way! Aim high and strike for fame! Lose if you must today In honor, not in shame. Don’t choose the ways of sin Where there's no hope to win. Doomed at the start are they Fail not with them, but stay. Who neither dream nor dare, Holding your record fair. Then it you miss your quest Fail fighting for the best.

the Department of Commerce. The rags, collected by rag pickers from all over Europe, are used in this country for paper and board production. —■ o Pleasant Mills Gives Contata The Methodist Sunday School of Pleasant Mills will give a Cantata "Santa Borrows Trouble" Christmas Eve. Friday December 24. There are

I Let Your Christmas Gift Distribute« | Cheeifjhroughout the year by Giving | IfSurnifurc || (I I few jd AU Year Round ' • S $ When you give furniture, you give happi iess for the years—and since the cost is $ wa HMH only what you choose to spend, it brings large returns in pleasure, gift ma? hRhI take the form of a new chair or table, a smoker, a lamp, all the way to a complete jA J* ’Hffijn new dining room suite for a dear one. We have many beautiful pieces and sets W Smßh " bMIMH here— won t - vou browFe about until you see the perfect gift for some one yqu 1 H---E The Family Dinner I " * eSMk Then on Christmas day E TTAM \ K __ have the family sit down /f-M ■Jjjß * \ V, TSi y- ■ to dinner around a new A I ■"" liSfil V i table. Give mother and x ■ B Kll $ I'dad a new dining room - f ffe 11 N V ' "—*? , to |g t suite. We have several I I H-- r Sr M walnut dining room " I 1 5 ' suites, in different styles i w' 11 111.. ja M I °n which we are mak- f jrWlYo's-T— fl * ■pi SPINET ing a special Christmas -■" I iwoira price during this ***** g DESRS »ix-.... a * n, a Davenport Tables ? ? i Good Selection of — ! • - ! rt « A Q A large assortment of new and cheer- -if ' iii ( X J /) ful lamps. New style shades and col- r* ..jdy vf, •q . j / s ' 1 ors—-a gift which will help brighten v , 11 i the home throughout the year. , ISI , ~ • . Room Lamps ?2.50 t« $5 '2^—l ! tri Always appreciated by eA Tx W /I the wome and they add Bridge Lamps $lO to S2O g/il I grace to the home and FJoor , .............sl2 to S3O are convenient as well. ® © ® u ! i We have several fine M ? walnut and ma- A Cedar Chest For HER Wj "SieSle * tables. These tables are made Jo The one gift always appreciated and of the finest wood, Walnut to tPTcM ÜB ed by sweetheart, mother or sister and Mahogany and are worth | w", X& and sreves as a lifetime gift. seeing—worth giving. w Give A Comfort- Genuine Red Mountain Cedar Chests QI Q QQA i able Rocker sw'.oo to »30.00 3)10 to 3 Mother or dad will ap- W * ln “‘ Ca “ s - C “ dar Li " ed - SMOKERS W preciate a comfortable $25.00 to $15.00 - ~ § rocker. All styles to for the Men V, choose from and at 1 . .. “■ nrwe ß tn suit overvnnp An excellent line 01 fine Wood, leather or reed Uooful giflo in fine furniture through. appr'Sa-‘in and w.U eonatruqed. jj. tb.^ I. wood and patated | $5.00 t o $25 I ) r $ 1(o$12 | OPEN EVENINGS I Beavers & Fryback | FURNITURE F OR THE HOME ? 1—- . ,-J | i ’ 1

about 20 oharacterx >p action depicting Old Santa ip trouble becauae be thlnka be is not wanted any more. Spies are sent put and return with the message that Santa is wanted and needed just as much now as ever. Santa discards the Airplane idea and returns to his

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tleigU and reindeer and (tana un his journey of Christie"; cheer. A free will offering will be taken to be sent to the unfortunate peoples of the earth and to teach them the lesson of tbo

The STANDARD OIL Service Station Corner Winchester and Mercer Avenuewill close at 12 O’CLOCK NOON SATURDAY—CHRISTMAS DAY and remain closed for balance of day.

love qf Christ. Christ 1« just as much needed today as ever in th e Worl|| Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anker moto re(J to Fort Wayne last evening.