Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1927 — 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. AR. Holthouse Sec y 4 Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copiw — • One week, by carrier One year, by carrier One month, by mail •» Three months, by mall J™ Six months, by mail J One year, by mall One year, at office (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. You should hear Charles Brandon Booth at the high school auditorium > this evening. After reading the speech of D. C. Stephenson before the Michigan City court on his own behalf we are convinced his Indianapolis coal business was Just a side issue. That fellow who predicted earthquakes for 1927 seems to have known his business for a three million-dol-lar series of quakes struck southern California on the very first day of the year. Gold money is attractive to look at and makes of course desirable gifts, but its not best for those inclined to, be careless, in just one week after Christmas the New York City telephone office reported finding sixtyfive 35.00 gold pieces in the pay boxes , in that city. That number of people “ had evidently used the gold coin thinking it was a trickle. it seems that the biggest job for. President Coolidge th e coming year - is to decide whether or not he is to he a candidate for another term. Thats perhaps important for him but 'if we can t accomplish something • worth-while in these off election years there isn’t much chance to get - anywhere for the rest of the time is - taken up with politics. How many of your good resolutions did you smash over Sunday? If you w have accidentally stubbed your toe so " early why not start right in again? If we renew our good iuteutions a dozen times between now and next New - Years day it will be just as well and - perhaps a lot better. In other words you can make any day in the year tire starting point of better habits, better intentions, better living. — It is predicted that the state budget to be presented to the legislature will reach $65,00b,000 and so all you folks who voted for a continued high speed administration as well as those who didn’t may get ready to “reach” into your pockets for more state taxes in one form o- another, for if that I amount is appropriated, it must be paid and you taxpayers are of course the “reachers.” For the first time in many years New York City did not have a Christmas crime v.ave and faces the New Year it is announced wi‘h no “supercriminals'' at large. And these facts it is claimed arc due to the wonderful operation of what are known as the Baurnes laws. Under these each conviction advances a man one step towards permanent segregation and witli the fourth conviction comes life imprisonment. Ther e is no time off a sentence there for good behavior and no appeal to pardon board or court. The laws include a number of teeth that will prevent crime, including one that carrying a revolver is a felony. New York is having less crime when most states are having more. Why not tollpw such a law? H this community wishes to forge ahead and wants to know the most important thing to do, we believe wc can tell you. Its to organize foi better roads. We don’t mean just talk about it or to meet and select officers and then forget it, but make plans for actually securing a norli

JJ ty F.rtjja/A. ‘ Tu, PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR • Lord, I have wished them a glad New Help me to spare them the needlees Year, tia ” •-»™’witWffi Wished them all joy as they come Let m( , g 0 w j t h a smiling face > and go. Clean und strong till each day shall ’ But I must go farther than that, I end, • know. Pls enough always to play the > For time is barren of mirth and cheer friend, • And the day brings little of gladness Let me brighten their lives with a > ‘ here touch of grace. I I have wished them a glad New Manly, and kindly, and true, I’d be. > Year, but Oh, So that never their heartaches shall I pray for the wisdom to make It so come from me. (Copyright 1915 Edgar A. Gueat

and south and an east and west main road and tributaries. Its possible to do and there should be enough public spirited folks here to make such a ■ drive the coming year. In a decade from now there will be little traffic In those towns off the main highways. Just now we have golden opportunities and w e are showing but little interest in something that really means more than the securing of industries. Wish we could wake you up on this proposition some way. After January 10th and for four months, according to orders from the ( state board of health, your dog must 1 be either vaccinated and so rendered immune from rabies or else be muzzled. Th e order is backed by the laws of indiaua and failure to meet the requirement may result in the death of your pet or in a fine for you. Just j how they will determine whether a : dog running along the street has been properly vaccinated we have no , knowledge but we presume he will have to be tagged or otherwise : designated so the policeman will not have to determine by guess or by gob. You may think the proceedure foolish but the action was taken after the state laboratory had examined the heads of 661 dogs and found 340 of them rabid. There is agitation just now to change the three months of school vacation from summer to winter and firm as you may b e of the opinion that this would never do there are arguments in its favor. Heating and ventilation of school rooms has never been perfected and in most of them the air is very bad indeed and the temperature uneven. Stuffy school rooms are perhaps not the best for growing children, though most of us weathered the test. Th. , e is more danger of contagins in the winter months and more of the children’s ailments are prevalent. One of the big expenses of school is the heating which could of course be saved. Outside the fact that the children themselves prefer vacations in the hot ■ months when they enjoy the great outdoor?, there seems to be some ad vantages to the plan. Any way they aie going to talk about it and so we may as well be thinking about it. W*t*44**4*f*4«* ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ (♦ ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago This Day. ♦ ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ *444444*4*4**41* January 3.—Stores announce closing at 6 P. M. except on Mondays and Saturdays for three months. First passenger car run from Decatur to Fort Wayne is successful. Heavy rains past twenty-four hours I cause Indiana rivers to overflow. Postoffice team leads in city bowl- ( ing league. Mr. and Mrs. Horace HoUhoff hold family reunion. 1 Steel celing is being pu. in at the I Old Adams County Bank. » Elka cleared $306 from minstrel j show. r Merchants complain about the warm weather which Uaa seriously affected r trade. f Niblick and Company open annual I- January sale with big rush. a —o—s 1 Suicide Ship Carries g Munitions For Navy Washington. Jan. 3.—(United Press) c —Transportation of all sorts of materlais, ranging from anchors to a tin of sardines, between the Atlantic and Pac ctfic coasts is made possible through >r the Naval transportation Service, one )t of the little-known departments of the government. Drubbed the “suicide ship" because of the dangerous cargo in her hold, II the U. S. 8. Nitro is probably the most

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important ship of the fleet. She performs the hazardous duty of carrying ammunition, explosives and inflammables between coasts and although the vessel has been operated continuously at maximum capacity during the past year, no mishap has occurred. The Naval Transportation Service is self-supporting and at the same time trains officers and men in transport duty. In the maintenance of this service, the Navy Department has developed a skeleton organization which in time of emergency can be quickly expanded into a transoceanic “ferry boat" service. o Strong Regulations Against Birth Control Are Adopted In Italy Rome (United Press)—Mussolini’s ' boast of Ms countrymen, that “prolific main" is the key note of the compaign we are, and prolific we intend to re- . I against birth control propaganda organized by the Fascist government. A great number of Italian workmen, estimated at well over a million, who traveled between France and their native country were said to be the cause of the spreading of birth contro’ propaganda, with which the laborers had become embued during their stay beyond the Alps. The Fascist gevernment. acting in close union with the Catholic Church, immediately took steps to combat the introduction of such practices into Italy, and the determined opposition of the Mussolini government led to the inclusion in the new police law of a section dealing with the subject. Cause 113 of the new police code declares that all writings, advertisment pamphlets, designs plastic images or lectures which divulge or explain or advertise means tor preventing conception or avoiding its results are considered immoral and ate forbidden under penalties. Even the mere possession of literature of any kind advocating or explaining birth control becomes) a punishable offense under Ihe new law. , With the authority of the Catholic Church to endorse the edicts of the Fascist government, birth control i: not likely to make much headway iu Italy, where there are now, as recent statistics showed, 20.U00 families with ten children. o Another Oil Well Is Struck Near Petersburg Petersburg, Ind., Jan. 3.—(United Pressi— The second strike within a month oy the Moulton. Noble. Lamar and Laughmiller oil company was reported here today. Drillers said they struck 13 feet of oil sand yesterday morning and with in less than an hour 75 feet of oil stood in the hole. The strike was reported on the James Thomas lease, two miles east of here. The company has leases on 6,000 acres adjoining. Other wells will be started at once, the company announced. Three weeks ago the same compair drilled a ten-barrel well t n the J-,hn Shea farm, three miles northeast of here. o Annual Central school play, H. S. auditorium. Wed. and Thurs. night. 2-2* Exactly Suited to the needs of Elderly People There is a sound therapeutic reason why Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds is especially suited to the needs of elderly people. Because it contains no chloroform, no opiates to cause constipation (that bugbear of advancing years) and to dry up the natural, necessary secretions. Mildly laxative, wonderfully soothing [ and healing to the irritated area, Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is a fine dependable family medicine for all coughs 1 and throat irritations, lingering “fiu“ D coughs and disturbing night coughs. B Exactly suited to the needs of elderly people . Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound Sold Everywhere

Tuberculosis Death Rate Cut 100 Per Cent In Last 20 Years, Report Shows New York. Jan. 3 (Uniled Press)The death rate from tuberculosis has been reduced 100 percent in the last 20 years, the National Tuberculosis Association said In a statement Issued here today, commenting upon tho recent report of th« United States (onSUS Bureau, which showed that the death rate from this disease had de dined from 90.4 in 1924 to 86.6 in 192 j More than 100.000 lives were saved In 1925, the association declared. "When the National Tuberculosis Association began its work. -’2 years ago," the statement continues, the death rate from tuberculosis is 200 In every 100,000 persons. In 1955, it had fallen to 86.6. The significance of this decline will be realized better when the figures are stated in another way. If the death rate of 1905 had per sisted in 1926. there would have been more than 10.000 additional deaths from tuberculosis. • When the tuberculosis campaign was begun, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the I nited States.. The new figures of the United States Bureau of the Census, indicate that heart disease heads the list, as cause of death, with nephritis as second cause and tuberculosis as fifth. "The United States has saved as a result of this decline in the death rate in 1925 alone, the duge sum of over J550.000.0u0, valuing each human life at $5,000. This gain is net over and above other saving that cannot lie computed, plus the savings and 1 health and happiness.” o WILL DISCUSS CHICK FEEDING (COXTINVED IHOM PAGE ONE) f I ly fed in unclean litter, being needed 1 by the baby chicks. It is needless to, say that by method many of the|

i An Icy Road Did It! A machine racing toward you, a quick turn of the wheel to avoid it, a treacherous bit of ice—and in the next in* stant, your car in the ditch, badly smashed. Who will pay the damages? THERE HAS BEEN NO COLLISION. SNOW/, then ram, then freezing weather! Even though you may have collision insurance, are Every street and road a sheet of ice! Chain. you sure that you would be protected? In each of and sk’.x.ful driving are of no avail when that these accidents there has been no collision. Your sudden, desperate skid comes—and your car finally car has not hit any stationary object, nor has it been wrec ' £ ‘ Wh° will pay the damages? struck by any moving machine. These are known -C.R HAS BEE., NO COLLISION. as “road bed” collisions, and in many automobile -A CLEAR ROAD AHEAD, a comfortable speed, insurance P° licies >’ ou would not be protected, your attention relaxed. A hidden patch of loose The broad liberal policy of the OLD TRAILS gravel, a jerk of the wheel—and your car turned AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION over, badly damaged. Who will pay the damages? Protects you in such emergencies. It includes “road THERE HAS BEEN NO COLLISION. bed” collisions and upsets as well as ordinary colli-wtcmt-ttwe- .u . . . . .. sions. Our policy carries no trick phrases, no legal -NIGHT TIME, the road burdened wfth traffic. loopholes. It is written as you yourself would want An oncoming car behind blind- _ it wnttcn ing headlights. An instant’s confusion. The other car speeds by, winds of I•* tu . r,.ii but your, I. i„ th. ditch with . t' r, r y 0“ « broken wheel, ruined fender and | P rote «’ on Y°ur car. We give twisted axle. Who will pay the ' automobUe » nsuranc / damages? THERE HAS BEEN - rmmmum cost. Allclaimsad NO COLLISION L justed P rom Ptly and fairly—ask our 5X11107 holdcrs - rv" ... - . . .4*o Leo ‘Dutch” Ehinger u Herman M. Gillisr Office—Lenhart, Heller and Schurger ® Phones 104 and 2 OR ice—-American Security Co. Phones 172 and 794 ' Old Trails Automobile Insurance AssTn HOME OFFICE: INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA ** —

' difficultly. of feeding young chicks to eliminated, since it '.gulre. IttUto * . fo rt to keep mash hoppers aupplled W *E D. Griffin, of the P« r < , ’ ,e Poul?rr Department will discus* thl* new practice along with many other point* - be taken up at the "Poultry School to be held in Geneva Wednesday, January 5. It will be remembered taai Mr, Griffin was unable to attend a school scheduled for Geneva several weeks ago. because of illness. The use of cod liver oil in preventing leg weak ness and other ailments will also be discussed, along with the use of gls** substitutes and other measures design ed to take the place of sunlight during cloudy weather. With the increase in the poultry in dustry and the subsequent greater demand for hatching eggs, farmers are becoming interested in knowing how greater number of winter eggs may ,ie obtained. Not only are more eggs desired, but their ability to hatch is also important. Steps the average farmer can take to get more eggs, of the kind that will hatch, will be explained by the poultry specialist. The “Poultry School” will be held iu the Masonic Hall, at Geneva. The SORETHROAT? DON'T GARGLE Here’s Quicker and Better Relief Why suffer pain, soreness or dis-1 comfort while waiting for slowacting gargles to give relief? Here's a physician’s prescrip<on called i Thoxine thafl is guaranteed to give relief in 15 minutes. One swallow taken internally goes direct to the cause, and kills the germs. No chloroform, iron or other harmful drugs. Safe and pleasant for chil-1 dren. Always ask for “Thoxine.” 35c. 60c and SI.OO. Sold under moneyback guarantee of quick relief. HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. 1

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