Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evenln 0 Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller...-Pres. and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Bec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies• One week, by carrier—.lo One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall- -35 Three months, by mall 1.00 Six months, by mail 115 One year, by mall—3 00 One year, at office 3 00 (Prices quoted are Within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. "The Wright bill would hit drunken drivers,” says a headline. Well, where and when? If it doesn’t hit them until after they have hit the pedestrian or the other car, it won't Interfere with the business so much. Th e Price of gasoline dropped one cent in Indiana this week which still gives no excuse for increasing the tax to five cents a gallon or boosting licenses so high that the little plates cost more than a used car. Disgusted because the women are copying masculine fashions London men have gone back to whiskers and mustaches, say foreign notes on styles. Now girls try to imitate that one. Coolidge economy doesn't even re•epect the U. S. regulations for the American flag. The one on the white house was ripped the other day and the president had it hauled down and patched. Looks like we might be in for a little winter. With a foot or more of snow on the ground, slight flurries today and the promise of much colder tonight and continued tomorrow indications point to a steady menu of old-fashioned January. Oh well, we have the satisfaction that about every one els e is shoveling snow. Three fourths of the United States is covered with the white blanket. The snow started in Alaska, went south to New Mexico and east to the Atlantic and lasted forty-eight hours. Charley Chaplin says he is the saddest man in America. He could also have added "the biggest fool." A man his ag e deserves to be sad the rest of his life when he marries a little girl of sixteen, abuses and mistreats her and deserts her after two children are, born. We can’t work up much sympathy for him. The representatives in the general assembly got so mad when they arrived in Indianapolis and heard that a bill had been passed two years ago providing for ten-dollar a day salaries for members but not effective Until 1929 that they passed one of their own. They don’t intend to let those young fellows who are coming on speak of the 1927 boys as "pikers." If any part <>( the charges against Charley Chaplin by his girl wife are tru e "Fatty" Arbuckle was a gentleman and a scholar in comparison with this low brow. It is more than probable that Chaplin pictures may bo barred from the picture houses when Commissioner Hays finishes his investigations. In the meantime the sixteen million dollars of property and stocks of the screen artist are being guarded by the receivers. J. Dwight Peterson, well-known Decatur man wlw has been with the City Trust Company, of Indianapolis, since his graduation from Indiana University was yesterday elected a member of the board of directors of the bank, a deserved honor. Dwight has advanced steadily with the City Trust, an institution which by the way is breaking records for growth. Dick Miller, well-known here, is president of the company. A NorthWvileru University pro-

Opinion Split On Bill To Change Absent Voters Law Divided Report On Murden Bill Looms In House; Move To Amend House Rules To Conform With Those In Senate Meets Opposition; Adams On Scene To Push Demand For Probe; Fort Wayne Editor Deserts Ranks Os State G. 0. P. Committee; Legislators Fail To Get Pay Checks; Petition Asking Parole Os Warren T. McCray Is Circulated.

i By W. A. Shead, Written for the Daily Democrat (Indianapolis, Jan. 14. —A divided re port on the absent voters bill introduced in the house by Truman Murden (tepr., Cass county) loomed today after the house committee on elections had held two committee meetings. one of them public, and failed to reach an agreement. The Murden bill provides that absent voters ballots may be cast only in person in a period ten days before an election. Another absent voter'! bill in the house repeals the presen absent voters ballot entirely. Sen ator Alldredge, repn., Anderson, ha a bill in the senate which merely pre vides that absent voters ballots ma; be cast only by those who are absen from the county on election day. Th e Democratic move to amend th house rules to conform with those 1. the senate met opposition Thursda. from some Republicans, who are wit the Democratic minority on the sui ject of the legislative probe which i projected. The Republicans take th. position that shearing Speaker Harr. Leslie of his power to hold up or han down bills would antagonize Lesli to the Democratic move and poin out that without this power the nov .amous "road ripper" bill, which wa inally defeated at the 1925 session would have passed. It will b e remembered that through this prerog;. .ive of pocketing this ’measure. Les de held it up until the last few day of the session when there did not re main time for it to pass through the renate. Leslie is believed to favor he legislative probe and. when he was approached on the subject by ; Lem Trotter, member of the Indian ipolis board of works and a cog in ; .he George Coffin political machine, | asking him to use his influence to , dock the probe, Leslie said: “If you are that rotten you ought aO.J’e investigated." Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes pub.isher and chairman of the executive i committee of the Republican Editorial , Association, has taken up headquartsrs in the English hotel where ant. ] dans to throw a bomb into the ranks >f the Indiana Republican Editorial . association members who are in their mnual mid-winter session at the Columbia club. Adams asserted Thursday that, he .vould offer a report of the executive ommittee containing his charge s of wholesale grait and corruption and nuch of the evidence he has uncovered to prove his charges. One of the developments of the lay's session atXlhe editorial meetng which overshadowed the legisature for the day, was the apparent lesertion from the ranks of those oyal to the Republican state commitee of Arthur Remmel, editor of the •’ort Wayne News-Sentinel. Remmel is said to be ready to back .’essor declares that its possible to get along witnout a stomach which he calls the most stupid organ of the body. To prove his theory he tried it on his dog and says “Towser” got along just fine. The only objection is that it requires twelve hours to eat a meal, it being necessary to eat so slowly that the food is practically digested as it goes. Os course at that rate three meals a day would require most of our time. The state highway commission wants 340,009.000 to spend the next two years, it takes money and plenty of it to build roads and of course therd are demands from every section of the state, but most Indiana folks, | we are sure, prefer to take it a little slower since there are several other things to be considered in this expense business. Remember we have to build several million dollars worth of gyms'and tracks for the colleges. . The first week of tno simultaneous i meetings which are being held in six 1 Decatur churches and a number over i the county closes tonight and reports t indicate that these have been the ' most satisfactory meetings of their ' Rind ever held here. There is inter- ■ eat and enthusiasm and th,. messages • are helpful and the music inspiring. It is the hope of those in charge that next week may prove even better » than thia and that the ultimate good i

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Adams and the "insurgent” group in their fight to place the G. O. P. editors on record as favoring the probe of alleged crooked politics. Remmel’s paper contained an editorial on the biennial message of Governor Jackson, recently, which Utterly scored the governor for his effort to block any legislative probe. The editorial points to Jackson’s invitation to a probe when he was forced into the bpen at LaGrange last summer by Theodore Roosevelt, and his stand in his message where he threatened to block it. „ As this is written, the members of he general assembly have not receiv>d their pay for the hr>t week, alhough Thursday was the first pay ay. It is understood that Arthur L. lilliom. Indiana attorney general, has aid the appropriation bill passed nder suspension of the rules and rising the pay of the members of the rsembly from $6 to $lO per day, a >tal for the session of $36,600, is unonstitutional. Gilliom, however, had lade no formal opinion and Louis owmati. state auditor, was holding p pay warrants of the legislators. I is understood that the original pro■osal of Senator Joseph Cravens, I Dem., Madison) that the approprition be passed in a lump sum and urned over to a committee for dismrsement as compensation, is the >nly legal way the legislators can ibtain their salary liow that they, lave repealed their own salary law making the new one take effect January 1. 1929. A split was looked for in th e senate over the hill of Senator Gray. Democrat, of Petersburg, to abolish the board of pardons. Senator Cann. Frankfort, asserted Thursday that he had sufficient votes in the senate to , pass his measure which seeks to ibolish the public service commission and set up iu its stead thtj. old railroad commission and the fianthise system of governing utilities. It is understood, however, that the measure will have rougher sailing in the house. A petition was circulated in the senate Thursday, calling on the presi-' dent to parole former Governor Warren T. McCray. Only two Republican senators refused to sign the petition —Senators Russel Harrison, of Indianapolis, and Kline, of Huntington. : It was understood the Democrats were willing to sign the petition. The paper will be taken to the house Friday for signatures of the lower body j members. It was understood that 1 after the senators placed themselves ! on record as favoring the pardon of McCray from the Atlanta penitentiary, I a concurrent resolution would be introduced in the house for passage and submission to the President and the two United States senators at Washington. | results may be helpful during the weeks and months io come which is as certain as we are sincere about it. Abolition of th e public service commission is provided in a bill introduced in the sepate yesterday by Senator Cann, of Frankfort. There is a wide spread feeling over the state that the commission should either he amended so the utilities could not control it or abolished and the powers returned to local boards. For years there has been discussion along this line and now we shall see what the real feeling is. — -*-0 ++*+++***4«***++ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ + OF RADIO ’ ♦' <•+++++*+ + + + + + + * + Saturday’s Five Best Radio Features Copyright 1927 by United Press Central standard time I WEAF—Hook-up (15 stations) 8 p. tn. —Walter Damrosch, lecture with music. "Goetterdaemmerung," by Wagner. WJZ—Now- York. 7:25 p. in. -New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Hans Lange, conducting. WBZ—Springfield. 7:10 p. in.—Boston Symphony Orchestra. WLS—(Chicago, 7 p. m.—Barn Dance (6 hours). KDKA—Pittsburgh, 5:30 p. m.—Westinghouse Band. - — - —-—— o — DANCE Saturday night at the K. of C. hall. Music by the G. E. Harmony Boys. Ilt2 Get the Habit—Trade st Home, It Pays' I

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