Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1927 — Page 4

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I) E C A T U R DAILY DE M OCR A T Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller— Pres. and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at tbe Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies# — $ .02 One week, by carrier—— —— .10 One year, by carrier —- 5.00 One month, by mall — .35 Three months, by, mill — 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 Jne year, by mall 3.0 b Ane 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. Something new to worry about—the price of French wines is advancing because of the reduced grape crop of last year. if your'subscription to the Daily Democrat is due we urge you to renew. It doesn't mean so much to you but it does to us for there are two or three thousand of them. Please renew at once. The special two weeks simultaneous services in six Decatur churches will soon be over and it is the desire of those in charge to make the closing nights the biggest and best which means that they must have the cooperation of those interested. The street commissioner's force has been on the job steadily since the snow came and it has been some job. Moving tons of snow, keeping the walks and streets clear and pleasing every one is a gigantic task at which the boys have done well. The people of this country have some twenty-five billion dollars in savings, a remarkable showing and the more so because less than halt our people have really engaged in Ute, protttaMr and safe and sane habit of systematic saving. • Doc Pabst, of New York, says the average kiss transfers 40,090 germs, but that all but a thousand of these are harmless. Now Doc quit your kiddin’, they’re all harmless or there wouldn't be enough people left in the world to make up one game of solitaire. The heavy snows have caused a slowing up of business throughout this section for while you may •But' realize it the truth is that hundreds of farmers have been snowed In. At least the roads have been so nearly impassable that those who could avoid it have not ventured out. Consequently business has been rather slow. With the roads now open, it is expected that trade will be brisk during the week. There were 521 deaths due to automobile accidents in seventy-eight American cities during December. Last year in those same cities the lowest number of deaths from autoTnoblle accidents in any month was 350 and the highest 676. These facts are from a U. S. department ot commerce bulletin. The sad part of it is that almost all of the several thousand deaths are due tw> avoidable accidents which means carelessness. George Saunders, representing Adams and Wells county in the legislature has offered a resolution asking for an investigation of alleged corrup.tlon in politics and state offices for which he deserves credit. Certainly there has been rumors of a condition that ought to be cleaned up and surely there can b e no harm from such an examination. If there is nothing wrong the slate should Tie] cleaned and the matter forgotten While if there is grounds for the charges there should be a house cleaning. At least the citizens of the state have a right to know the facts and this seems the only way to get them. Senator O’Rourke of Fort Wayne has offered a bill to the legislature which if passed will take the job of issuing autqniotible licenses away

from the secretary of state and place [’ it lu each county with the auditor. It I would save u lot of money and break |up a powerful political ring which I are two teasons why it probably won’t , 4>e done by the present adminlstra- '. tlon. If this was handled by the re- * spective counties and the money ex/pended for roads repairs, we would be really getting some where tor this would permit the reduction of local I taxes and benefit the people in many J ways. We wish the senator luck. ~ \ About this time of year, when all J seems dark and dreary, when another II snow has come to cover the cleaned sidewalks, when smog, coal soot, freezes and this, that and the other unpleasantness seem to combine to make life hardly worth living—about this time the postman rings the doorbell and leaves a parcel. It is the annual garden seed catalogue. We . have a school of writing designed b>’ its authors to lift one out of the dumps, but tile critics have had little to say of the benefits of the garden seed catalogue. It comes at a time when the mind is at the lowest ebb, •and when there is a feeling that winter never will end and that naure no more will put forth leaves. The new catalogs look very much Use the old with tomatoes, redder than any tomato that ever grew in the garden, with radishes, onions, cauliflower, parsnips. Brussels sprouts, head lettuce, turnips, beans, potatoes, melons, squashes and a score of other things that will grow it the soil is right and the gardener knows his business: and with so many kinds of beautiful flowers that there are some to suit every taste and growing condition. It is too etyly to work in the ground but it is Kot too early to dream of what is beyond. Spring can't be far behind.—lndianapolis News. — —o ' — - ♦ ♦'♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO 4 +*++*+*+++++**+* Friday’s Five Best Radio Features Copyright, 1927, by United Press Central Standard Time Throughout. NATIONAL BROADCASTING CO — Hookups (26 stations) 9:30 p. m. —Garden scene from ‘ Faust” Chicago Civic opera company, broadcast direct from the stage, with Mmes. Mason, Pavloeka and Olaessens. and Messrs. Hackett and Vanni’Marcoux. WBAL—Baltimore, 246 M, 9 p. m.—An hour with great songs. WMC—Memphis, 500 M, 7:30 p. m.— WMC anniversary broadcast. WRVA —Richmond, 256 M, 7:05 p.m. —Comic opera. WGR—Buffalo, 319 M. 7:15 p. m.— Address, Bruce Barton. o ri- + + + + + '!- + + t+ + + 4t ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO. TODAY ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago This Day. + ♦ From the Daily Democrat File 4 +++++++++ ♦ + ♦♦ + + ■» 20 years ago January 20, 1907 was Sunday. 'U. S. Soldiers Buried In France Total 30,540 Washington. (United Press)—Tim number of American soldiers now buried in cemeteries in France total--30,540. X. A. Price, Secretary of th" American Battle Monuments Commission. told the House Appropriations committee dining consideration of the Independent Offices supply bill testimony published new reveal ■ In other European oemeterlee, Price said. 130 Americans killed In the World War are buried. He said th<bedies of 46.214 soldiers had been returned to this country. —— o — Prohibition A .Joke Says Ex-Kansas Mayor Topeka. Kan., Jan. 20. —(United Press)—Jay E. House., former mayor of Topeka, declares there is no question about the swing of the prohibition pendulum. “Maybe it isn't so apparent in Kansas," he galtfi, “but in the east prohibition Is becoming more of a joke every day—it you can call such a I tragic thing a joke.” During the course of a dinner recently given in Topeka the speaker asked House if ho wus still a Republican. "I’m a wot,” he replied. —o — — ' F. W. Dibble of lensing, Mich., for- • mer resident of this city, was here yesterday visiting with relatives and , friends. JIIh son, H. O. Dibble, of Caro » Michigan, owner of a chain of five and ten cent stores, was at Bluffton and ether places purchasing stock for his stores.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, JANUARY 20.

Resolution Asking Probe Os Polotics Is Far-Reaching Resolution Filed In Lower House of General Assembly, Wednesday, is Most Drastic Document Ever Intro- : duced In Legislature; Hearing Is Expected Next Week; Manipulation Os State Budget Charged; New Gerrymander Bill Is One Os Most Daring Ever Attempted; New Bill Would T a k e A u t o License Work Out Os Hands Os Secretary Os State.

r . By Walter A. Shead (Written for the Daily Democrat) 1 Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 20.—1 n the 1 most far-i-Mchiug, sweeping resolution 1 ever offered in the Indiana General , Assembly, Democrats of the lower • house of the Seventy-fifth session, , Wednesday, hurled u challenge of clean government at the Republican majority and croseed the Rubicon of political expediency by demanding that ' a non partisan committee of live members of the house be named and clothed with the power of a court of record to probe into charges of graft and political corruption in state and municipal government*. Never in the history o: the state, has such a drastic document been filer! oa record in the law-making body of the land. The measure, introduced by George L. Saunders, of Bluffton, rep resenting Adams and Wells county, aims its inquisitorial shafts at the state highway commission, the state board of accounts, the Marion county grand juries and elective and appointive state and municipal office holders. The resolution, immediately referred to the Committee on Judicialy A. chairmaned by Glenn Harris, of Lake county, will, no doubt, be brought out on the floor ot the House in a divided leport one signed by the eight Republicans, the minority report by the four Democrats on tire committee. No hearing is expected on the resolution untin next week, when Harris has indicated that He will urge a public hearing. This will give Democrats a chance to air their charges more specifically and also give them a chance to get plenty of publicity. R. Earl Peters, Democrat state chairman, in a public statement issued in conjunction with filing of the resolution in the House, set out the Democrat stand on the legislative investigation as follows: "It is without a desire to exploit for political advantages unfortunate circumstances which militate against the name and honor of the state, that Democrats are uigtrig this investigation of tile charges made.” In connection with Peters' statemcn' he made his first .comment on the biennial message of Governor Ed Jacksen, taking issued with the chief executive in the matter of the state tax levy, the state debt and the budget system. “in 1925, the state levy produced but $15,015,911,” Peters said, “Whereas for tlie same year the total state col lections from all sources aggregated $52,836,192.69. Notwithstanding this '"i 7111. AZ.;.; r.,d,u lain, as pointed o,it l» the Governor, a member of the state tax be ard predicts that the collections in 1927 will equal if not exceed the collections of last year. Direct and indirect taxes under tile Republican administrations have consistently increased until, under the Jackson administration, approximately ot.e million dollars a r e collected and expended each week cf the year. “Governor Jackson boasts that the state is out of debt. I don't see how it can be said that any state is out of debt when it owes 569,900.000 alone in gravel Foatl bonds.” Peters said. “Governor Jacksen gave hi- administration credit for this achievement of bringing the state out of debt. Former Governor Ralston, the last Democrat to serve as chief executive, turned the government over to his Republican successor free of any debt, as such, and Republican administrations have contracted the only debts accruing subsequently and these were paid only by increasing collections from $12,054,310.27, the amount collected during the last year of the Ralston administration, to $52,836,192.69 the sum collected last year. Peters charged that the budget had been manipulated by administration er . that every principle had been violated. "Under the budget law”, Peters said, “wholesale transfers have been made . from one fund to another to aecomo- , date employment of additional clerk i hire and for purposes deemed expedient for the advancement of political . aspect. of his administration.” immediately after the introduction i or the investigation resolution in the house, tlie Senate Republicans adjoin tied and went into caucus. It understood that they discussed what - action would likely he taken with re- ■ gard to the resolution, but no decision 1 was reached. ) Chief interest in tlie Wednesday ats ternoon session was centered on a pubi He hearing on the Cann bill calling for !• repeal of the state utilities act. Utlll- | ties from all over the stale, and rep

resentatives from foreign utilities doing business in the state were repree seated and the argument waxed hot. t It is expected that a divided report 1 will be returned by the committee on r _ - rights and franchises in the Senate, f Thursday. i Tlie G. O. 1 . Senators attempted to f caucus on their stand on the bill for t repeal of the’direct primary law, but I - there was such a dlveisity of opinion | • that adjournment was taken without • headway. . I A gerrymander measure, couttining ■ the change in political line-up of districts and including the Lawrence I , county gerrymander which caused the ’ I famous "bolt” of the Democratic mem- | f bers of the senate to Dayton at the [ 1925 session, lias been introduced in j the House by Representative Huro-d i , R. Donnell, of Jennings and Decatur , > counties. ; ■ The measure would attempt to “help I out the Fourth district for the Repub- I lican colun.n by transierring Franklin | . Decatur, Perry and Wayne townships | in Mat ion county, the Seventh district, j . to the Fourth district. The measure i would take Lawrence county from the I Third to the Second district asd make J the latter dist det assured in the Repu | blican column. Tlie First, Fifth, Sixth, I Eighth and Twelfth districts are not | mentioned in the bill, but changes in { other di tiicts are an attempt to make j a.l except the third district comfor- i tabiy in the Republican ranks. The > gerrymander is one of the most dras- ! tic and daring ever attempted and, J of course, w ill meet with determined I opposition by the Democratic minority 0 in both houses. The measure was sent j to the House committee on congres- ! sional reapportionment. j A bitter fight is expected on the J floor of the Senate Thursday over a . divided report on Senator Gray’s (Dem) bill from the Judicialy A committee, which seeks to repeal authority of the chief examiner of the state board cf accounts for investigating contracts let by local taxing units or boards of public works. The measure, it is understood, caused a bitter discussion in committee and the debate on the floor is expected ’ to be shat p. Lawrence Orr, who has the backing cf Governor Jackson, of course, is bringing political pressure to bear in an attempt to defeat ttie measure. Orr is chief examiner of the board of accounts and, as such, brought charges against the highway commission which caused indictments against . Earl Crawferd, Democratmember of the eontini 'lon, and Julih D. Wil- ■ Hams director. One measure of Interest to every • county in tlie state, introduced by Senatoi Edward O'Rourke Fort Wayne Wednesday, takes the licensing and registration of all mqtor vehicles cut of the hands of tlie Secretary of State ■ and placed it in the hands of the various county auditors. The measure automatically abclisher approximately ■ 200 jebs in the secretary of state’s office end makes the auditors deputies I under the secretary of Slate. The meai sure is said to have the backing of the county auditor's association. Vegetable Growers association would i receive an appropriation of SI,OOO for publicity purposes under a bill introi duced by Senator Joseph Cravens, (Dem. Madison.) in the senate Wedi nesday. Another bill which would take away some of the powers of the justice of 5 peace, would place authority for holding insanity inquests in the hands cf • the Judge of the circuit courts instead- ; of the lower courts. ( A measure by Senator Cann, which - increases the limit for expenditures on county ditches from S3OO to SI,OOO, 1 passed the Senate by a vote of 44 ayes , ? and no nocs. _ l|

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