Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1926 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every EvenlnQ Exeept Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. K. Holthouse Sec'y & Hus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second class matter, Subscription Rates: Single capita* 1 'O3 One week, by carrier -10. Oue year, by currier —- 5-001 One mouth, by mail -35. Three months, by mall 1-00 ■ Six months, by mail 1-75 ( [)ne year, by mail 3 00 ; One year, at office 3.00, (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Whats the use to pay Judge Landis $05,000 a year if tlfere can be an ~ I appeal from his decisions to congress It begins to look as though its about time for Nero to get out his fiddle again. Some fiend tied a box of poisoned candy on the door knob of a Cleveland home and just by accident the fact that it was poisoned was discovered. If the person is caught he should be fed the candy and if it! don’t work speedily enough, give him! a drink or two of modern whiskey. I If you will dig around just a little you will discover that there is some resolution that you can make for New Years which will be helpful to you and to the community. We hope every citizen makes up his mind that lie will strive a little harder to make this the best place in the world to live in. They have decided in Washington now that it is better politics not to make any reduction of taxes until next year so the action can be talked about in the next campaign with better results. Politics all the time. It is quite possible we would all be considerably better off without any of it if the national exhibition is a fair sample. The death of Major Edmund P. Miller removes from life one of the ity. " 'Wefi we remember 'when ue marched away with old Company 1) during the Spanish-Americau war. lie was the captain and a fine looking officer, beloved by every member of the company. He knew military rules and lie was soon promoted to the position of major and was in line for a colonelshlp had the war lasted longer. 11l health prevented his taking an active part hi affairs after his return from service but he has many • friends and admirers here who are ,j sad because of his di uth. Now really', doesn’t it seem to you that there should be something more important to investigate or to discuss in congress than the controversy over the discharge of Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, two baseball players? We like sports as well as anybody, we regret the difficulties these stars of the not long ago are having, but it seems to us a silly and nonsensical business to have senators and congressmen who are paid rather decent salaries devote their time and efforts to straightening but such matters. If all disagreements over sports are to be appealed to congress there will soon be an ugly jam in worth-wfitle affairs, if there are any. It is estimated that ten million dollars were spent in Chicago alone for liquor which was distributed as 1 Christmas presents and it is claimed by the health commission that more than ninety per cent of it was poisonous. In New York City there were eleven deaths over the Christmas week-end due to poison whiskey and nearly a hundred patients are seriously ill in hospitals there. As the New Year eve approaches it is safe to predict there will be hundreds of similar cases over the country. Whats the answer? How can it he stopped? We confess we have no solution to off ..r es-tfpl to take it as we do oiliregular report, of automobile acci- ■

THE MAN

man his form of prayer, 1 quarrel not with any creed, This world has room enough to spare For all the roads which upward lead. A kindly heart is always fair I No matter wliat ith caste or breed. I | Who plays the friend from day to day, Who sometimes puts himself asido .To smooth another’s trouble way, Who scorns the arrogance of pride i However he may choose to pray, I'm sure will never be denied. For man must live his life on earth.

dents. I After eleven weeks the Marion [ I county grand jury which lias been in- | vestigating charges of corruption in ; I Indiana politics and public office, re- I ported last evening that they cou ; d * I not return any indictments but J recommended that another Srdinl jury ■ be called to continue the luvestiga- ; lion. It is* an open secret that four 1 of the six men favored the return of indictments against several prominent men, hut the two others stood pat in i opposition. Os course it is easy to discern that this was for political , reasons and not because the evidence i did not warrant indictments. We t haven't any idea what will be done * now but we still believe that the * dirty mess in Indiana ought to be cleaned up some way or other and that there ought to be enough red blooded citizens in the state so see that it is. Decatur welcomes the young men who have come here as students in tlie fteenth term of the Reppert Auc tion school. These men come from many states and it means something to have them carry away with them the thought that this is the best spot in the world, except perhaps tlieii own home towns. The Reppert school has tamed out some men who are already acclaimed as leaders in the j profession and many who are making j good. If these students will devote j themselves and will take advantage of the opportunity thus given them they will leave here with a knowledge which will enable them quickly hAMftnaMoA KtiSHWMMun ■ ' visitors wiil be accredited every courtesy and assistance possible that they may be happy and comfortable and may derive the greatest benefit from their course in the now famous Decatur school. o ♦*+♦++*+♦+*♦+++♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY + * ♦ * Twenty Years Ago This Day. + ♦ From the Daily Democrat File * Dec. 28.—Father Wilkin suffers relapse and condition is serious. flats Masquerade at the skating rink. Fred LaDelle will be introlocutor at the Elks minsteral and as end men these stars: Dr. E. G. Coverda’.e, C. O. France, Dr. C. E. Neptune and H. L. Confer. School board listens to "kicks’’ and extends vacation period three days. President Cassett, of the Pennsylvania railroad, dies suddenly in Philadelphia. Logansport raises $36,006 and expects to land sixty new indie rties with the money. S. W. Hale, of Geneva, is on a trip to Texas. Joe Mann, of Travers, Mo., is visiting in Decatur. i Walter Johnson (not the pitcher), elected chancellor of the K of l’ lodge. _o Baby Injured When Mail Train Hits Auto Indianapolis, Dec. 28. — (United i Press.)—Karl Lind, Jr., two years , old, of Springfield, 0., was in a serious condition in a hospital here today with a fractured skull suffered when the auto driven Ijy his father 1 was struck by a Dig Four mail train i on the outskirts or Indianapolis lute I yesterday. Karl Lind, the father, oscuped unhurt but the mother and another 1 child, Dorothy, 6, were cut and bruin- ! ed. — o i J. Dwight Peterson returned to lud- , iunapolis this morning after a several i days visit here. R. R. Schng of Berne was here today distributing calendars for the Rank of • Berno.

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Where liute and sin and wrong abound. ’TIs here the soul must prove its worth. ’Tis here the strength of it is found, And he has justified ills birth Who plants one rose on barren ground. The test is: Is he kind and true, Too big to play the brute or (beat? lu ail he does and tries to do Is he a man men like tw meet? If so, I say, when life is through He need not (ear the judgment seat.

» as * The PEOPLE’S VOICE K a a a This column for the use of our a a readers who wish to make sug- J‘. a gestions for the general good K a or discuss questions of interest. K a Please sign your name to show a I a authenticity. It will not be a a used if you prefer that it not be. a a a •A *.» ** %p r* i» »» a* is i» a* a* a* »* M ■U (I SI M SI >• «• • » *1 si *»•••»«••»«* The Primary Law Editor Democrat: The indicator ou a barometer does ' not travel on u straight line, it will dip and zig-zag and raise, and due to various influences mark out a very irregular course. The coniines of an empire are never stationary, exeept for shotr intervals. They are either . expanding or shrinking or expanding.

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During the life of ou„ man its prestige may drop to zero or travel to a mlgluy power. Political liberty also follows the chart of an Irregular course. Peoples have followed political tyranny with a. wave of sudden extreme liberality. While communistic tendencies have been succeeded by political reaction. Two modern examples of the latter are the tyrants Mussolini ami Napoelon. A few years ago reversion to political dictatorship resulted In the enactment of the pri- . mury law in tilts country. Simply because this country is a democracy does not free it from its problems ol representation. Today we are engaged in a fight for the preservation or annulment of that law. Influences that shape human events are in conflict over the disinabillty of retaining that law. Let us look, at some of the arguments against the primary — that a poor person couldn’t make the race for senator and let the primary still nominate county candidates. This latter would not lessen a great slghi the initial cost of bolding the primary itself. That a peoples man could make the race for senator is evidenc led by Mr. Stump running the primary race on a thousand dollars, while the times e convention named a poor man i are as numerous as tensteeth. Thus j it is apparent that if the farmers are i as prosperous as the Republicans said I they were prior to the last election that most uny farmer were he so j minded could make a creditable race.' What was the reason we were given a primary? its purpose, 1 believe,' was to get the pig out of the poke. It was to compel the candidate to take his blanket off, as It were, and let the people of the state look hiru 1 over. Conditions had gotten where

. capable of helping to choose a candl- , data. Now, hava than* raasous been , realized or ar# they an utter failure? Hus the principle of having each candidate declare his position bean found wanting and should we revert to the convention system and have our candidate* set before us covered over from top to bottom like Barney Google's Spark Plug: Primary or convention would not prevent a man from becoming aligned with certain interests. When a candidate is chinning with the moneyed interests it is like so many cases v» ( . read of in the papers. No one is fooled, although flrst the woman pretends to be then the man, when a man showers some woman with cost t y presents he expects her to pay for them —not In the coin of the realm — hut in her coin, and when she in turn asks payment he pays in his coin—t rather cold-blooded arrangement, set It is the same when the canditate accepts large hunks of filthy ncre from some rich magnate, after dection he is under obligations to reurn payment in his coin. Who is to blame for this condition in politics? That legislation must be bought and paid for is it it the fault of the man, (.he primary or the people? And would a convention correct this bar- j ter or only make it cost less. There | should be a penalty attached to our! primary law automatically removing 1 from th 0 race any one spending over j a certain limit for if he runs with a flock of grafters before election, chances are that the election itself will not instill higher ideals in him. This type should be eliminated altogether from public life and the con-! vention will not do it. 1 I was much interested in a state-! ment that a candidate would have to \

■ pay $50,000 if lie wished tv send a , letter to each of 1,900.000 voters dur- , ini e primary. In the first place there aren't that many In Indiana and if there were only half would be of the ' candidates party. If he were foolish enough to send word to all he would 1 be like a candidate during a primary who was the only one on the minority ticket, This man just tore around in the spring and advertised in the papers that he was running In the primary and, would appreciate their support. Whereas if any votes were necessary and he was on good terms with the wife she could have taken care of the nomination. Os the 750,000 party votes usually three are in one family. This would give but 250,000 separate letters of if gotten wholesale would cost something like five to six thousand. Now if the man / wished to demonstrate his economy he could send the county paper with his speech in to all who didn’t take it in his party. And he needn't bother Lake countyall democrats there take a snooze on election day. John Smith, farmer. ' Noblesville Man Missing. Indianapolis, Dec. 28. — (United j Press.) —An appeal was made to po | lice today by Bliss Johnson for aid in finding his father, Edward Johnson. 67, of Noblesville. The son told authorities his father left home for a visit in Broad Ripple and failed to return to Noblesville after the visit. - 0— — W. A. Klepper motored to Fort ) this afternoon. - If you wish beautiful snowy white clothes always use Russ Bleaching ! Blue. A1 lgrocers. [£2—.

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