Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1927 — Page 4

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I) E C A T U R DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres. and Oen. Mgr. A R. Hoithouie Sec’y & Rua. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-Prexident Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as secund class matter. Subscription Rates: Singh, copies 1 .02 5 One week, by carrier .................. .10 One year, by carrier — 5.00 Or One month, by mail —........... .35 Three months, by mail — 1-00 Six months, by mall—_. — 1.75 J One year, by mall ............ 3.00 ®ne year, at office .. 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first rail and second zones. Additional postr->(! age added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., f.y 35 East Welker Drive. Chicago Im 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. M The United States senate by a strict vote, decided yesterday that the people needed no reduction in ■ taxes this year. Since most people ■ are not paying any income taxes this it probaldy doesn't interest the Sxaverage citizen of Adams county. We don't blame those who prevOnt!Wed an investigation of Indiana affairs. ■Ht was probably greatly to their ad■vantage not to ilo so but we do blame OMthe rest of tile people of the state for Hpermitting them to get away with Sj'heir “stuff.” Two or three men died in Fort ■ Wayne this week’ from drinking poisWon liquor, drinks made of denatured ■ alcohol. Thats getting pretty close ■ home and ought to at least make the ■average man investigate rather care--oSfully what kind of dope he is swallow-; [fing. ■ It only takes three dollars to pay ■your subscription to the Daily Demofjferat for an entire year. Most of our ■ subscriptions are due at this time of: ■year and we are urging all oup read-1 ■ ers to renew that w e may continue to' ■ serve you the news of the county. ■ state and nation. I’iease help us do ■ this. ■ Decatur is to have a big race meetEf ing beginning August 22nd and conS tinning four days and the men who ■ are suporting the movement have had ■ experience and are financed. The T same men have been conducting race ■ meetings at Montpelier for several I S years and have made good, IndlcaS ttons are that those who enjoy races ■ will have an opportunity to see the ■ real thing here this yetft. The bill to collect the automobile D* 1 license money through the county ■>- clerks offices never had a chance, it > was killed by indefinite postponement In the house almost before it lit in the committee. A similar bill is in £ for the auditors but it looks as though » the bosses down there do not propose i £ to let go of the control of this matter even though by so doing they could m save a lot of money and better serve tlie people. Decatur has lost another valuable J?citizen and builder and the communt* i'y was shocked by the tragedy in which Erastus Fritzinger met death iff at a railroad crossing yesterday. For g forty-six years lie had been a resident ■ of this county and always an active worker and leader. He bad engaged SK in various business, quarrying lime ■ stone, retailing lumber and for a long Mlime had managed the Decatur FounSf dry, Furnace and Machine Company. m In all his efforts he was fair and w! square and a beliver in doing his KH best for the things he" favored. He S” will be missed In this territory where K he wa s so well pud so favorably 4? known. — The petition for the widening of Third street from Monroe to Madison w is nt least worthy, of serious considJK eration. It is a well-known fact that K ail of our streets are too narrow for the congestions caused by automoS bile traffic. They were not laid out * with the present day in mind. Mfl'j lions of dollars are being expended to J widen streets In the cities and if at this time it can he done at less expense than at some future tme. it may be wise to do it. The block for which

| the petition bus been tiled is becout- ’ tug a business street and is tilling up with concerns which require parking spaces, the hotel, lodges and clubs, garages and similar business. We are not trying to argue with any one • about It but simply calling attention ’ ‘to the fact that this may bo the Ideal > time in which to take such action as is now petitioned for. At least we 'hope the property owners in that secj tion will think it over seriously. Senate bill No. 51, which proposes ' to license real estate dealers, looks to us like a bill which proposes to make a crime out of an act which is not in itself criminal. Some good, but we belieVe mistaken, real estate dealers are advocates of this bill. It proposes to create another commission to be appointed by the Governor. To this commission the licensing of iGil estate dealers and the regulation of this business would be entrusted. Before any one could sell real estate under the proposed law lie must pay a fee ami obtain a license. To buy. or sell, or offer to buy or sell, or exchange, or lease, or rent real estate without a license is, under the bHI. made a crime punishable by tine up to SSOO and even imprisonment for six months, or both. Such a law would certainly be In restraint of personal liberty. No wonder that protests are coming in against the bill. —lndianapolis News. o '♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ ♦ + From the Daily Democrat File 4 ♦ Twenty Years Ago Thi* Day. 4 + + + 4- + 4-4-4>4-4* + 4-4- + *4 Feb. 5, 1907. — Dr. and Mrs. Roy Archbold give turkey dinner for com- . pany of friends. F. E. France leaves for Muskogee. I. T. Joseph Beery returns to Cincinnati where he is agent for the Vegetable and Hemlock Oil Medieial company. One hundred ahd seventeen National banks have been established in I Indiana during the past year. Atz & Steele will clean your har--1 ness. 95c for buggy and $2.00 for team sets. Eight thousand dollars of the sll,000 assessments on the Lob ditch have been paid. Historical club meets with Mrs. Mary Congleton. Mrs. James Bain is at Goshen to inspect the Pocohoutas lodge. Mrs. Fred Schafer and Mrs. C. C. Schafer leave for Denver. o !+ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO * 4- + 4- + + 4-4-4-4-4-4-4- + * + 4 SUNDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIOS Copyright 1927 by Unfted Press Central standard time. WEAF, hookup. 12 stations, 4:30 p. in. Moscow- Art Orchestra. WEAF. hookup. 12 stations. 6:30 p. m. — Capitol Theater program. WEAF, hookup. 19 stations, 8:15 p. m. Titta Ruffe, baratone and orchestra. WCZ, 517 M, and WWJ, 353 M. Detroit. 2:31) p. in.- Detroit Symphony Orchestra Popular concert. KOA, Denver, 322 M, 8:45 p. m.— Cathedral Service. Monday's Five Best Radios. WABC, New York, 316 M. 8 p. m.— Lewis Richards, harpist liordist. WEAF, hookup, 11 stations, 9 p. m. —WEAF Grand Opera company in “Cavalleria. Rusticating’ WJZ, New York, 451. M, 7:30 p. m. Henry Hadley's Orchestra. ' assisted by Pred Patton, bass-baritone. WCCO, Minneapolis-St. Punl, 416 M, 9:15 p, m. — University program. * WDAF, Kansas City. 3G6M, 11:45 p. M. —Nighthawk Frolic. — o CONGRESS TODAY By United Press Senate: Continues debate on farm relief bill. Judiciary sub-committee continues investigation of nomiimtion of A. V. Melaine as U. S. attorney for middle Tennessee. • Judiciary sub-committee continues investigation of. leaking mergers. House: Considers legislative approjrtial ion bill. Military committee considers Muscle Shoals. Insular, affairs committee holds Philippine hearing. —-o ——■——— CARD OF THANKS We wish in this manner to thank i our friends for Their many kindnesses J during the sickness ami death of our | mother. Sarah Uhrick. We.also wish to I thank the minister for |tis consoling I w ords. ' The Children of Barah Uhrick. 1 i

/- i DECATUB DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, FEBRVARY 1927.

THE HOMECOMER ‘ There is n.glory quite akin to this. w'ill not restrain the critic's bitter To own a child's devotion and her sneers. But to the ones who love you best kiss. » you gtHy To have her run enraptured down Tlll , K , M)( | nutn t | H . y Wil t<h for, the street ( | U y py day. Your poor, tired, falkriug, dusty self to meet; Within that little circle you're suTo know, despite what others here preme, may find The valiant knight of every golden She thinks you splendid, honest, dream, brave and kind. What though you blunder, stumble, falter, full. Fame cannot give you what your What though outside a thousand foes own bestow. assail, Though round the world penphance If but the home you keep Is bright your name should go with grace Some still will mark your faults and The prbudest monarch could not fill all the cheers yohr place. (Copyright lack Edgar A. Guest Strict Party Vote Kills Political Probe Resolution Republicans United In Defeating Saunders Resolution While Democrats Vote As One For It; Democrats Gain Point By Throwing Challenge Directly Into Teeth Os Majority; Repeal Os State Legislation Law Asked In Bill Introduced By Representative Pittinger.

By Walter A. Shead (Written for the Daily Democrat) Indianapolis, Ind., Fell. 5 When the Indiana House of Representatives of the Seventy-fifth general assembly, by a strictly party vote, rejected to hush up or smother any further investigation of the wide-spread charges of craft and corruption in state political circles Thursday, the last remedy this side of the 1928 ballot box whs removed from the people of Indiana to (feart their own house. The legislative investigation was the last stand of all those who believe in clean government and in government for the people and not for the favored few. The vote in the house was 61 against the investigation, all Republicans —and 36 for the investigation, ail Democrats. Not a single Republican bolted from the orders of the G. O. I’. party chieftains to block the investigation. At le: st sixteen of these Republican members of the house hail previously expressed themeelves as willing to stand by the Democrats; that they were eager and willing to be a party to a movement that would at least prove innocence of their party officers mid public office holders or wipe their own clean if these same leaMers and office holders were guilty of any mis conduct. Why did these sixteen Re-* publicaas stay with their leaders? This question is cause of considerable speculation about the stale-house (•'rankly (lie result of the House vote wax all that was expected by the observers who followed the trend of affairs in the House. Harry A. Leslie, the speaker of the house, while not attempting to shield Clyde A. Walb. Republican state chairman, or Lawrence Cartwright, Eighth district chairman or Governor Jackson, is a strieilyjjarty man. He acted for what he thought the best interest of hft party. While this cannot be said of Glenn Harris, ct Lake county, Hanis, through his action in bringing the report of the committee out as he did, without even referring it to the committee on Judiciary A for discussion, agreement, lias made for himself b place of enviable power and prestige in his party. Lc-lie. too was backed by a caucus of the majority faction und not by any particular desire to shield any members of his party that might be under suspicion. Dotli acted uppn their political sense ami played .1 '‘republican game”. They were en a bled to carry the entire Republican majority with them which by tfid way. was the first expression of party resik-. laiity yet seen at this session-of the legislature. Walb, Cartwright and oth er members of the state committee were preseflt to see the Democratic measure go down to defeat. The result will be this according to tiie best informed observers.

Either there i* in the offing another move to bring about the same result as the Democratic teftohition for the probe which would have rocked the state government to its very foundutiotie; or the Republican members have received word. that some of th< state officers imHudiug Lawrence Orr, chief examiner of the state board ol i accuonts, is slated for the discard. Whether or not either of these speculations will be brought about, the fact remains that the charges will go into ; Ute 11128 primary as the chief issue 11 and the election will be fought ami ■ won oa litis ajid this alone as the isi'sue. The fight on the public service eomnflasion may be a side issue in I the campaign ant! may assuthe the proportions of uu issue, but in the minds i

of those initiated, in politics, the probe will be the big issue in 1928. In their bursts of oratory upon the floor Hqrris must be given credit for paying a tribute to the honesty and integrity of the state highway commission and the Lake county Representative played smart politics, by making his chief point in his argument against the probe that the legislature should not be turned into a court. The charge made by the Democrats were the II same that have been swept about the. state and about the nation for the past year and were first broached by Thomas H. Adams, veteran Vincennes Publisher. | From the standpoint of the Democratic minority in the house, the Democrats succeeded in doing what they started out to do. The aim was to throw the challenge dlrectlly into the I teeth of the Republican majority, placed them on the defensive, give them a chance to clean their own house, to wipe their own slate clean to put the responsibility directly up to them as representatives of the constituency which elected them. The Republican representatives re-! /used to take the responsibility, re-J fuseed to clean house of their own ac-j cord and allowed the dictation of their fl party leaders, many of whom were the' ’ very ones under suspicion to guide >4ioir vote, rather than the wishes of the Republican constituency who they, represented. | From a Democratic standpoint, the J result is a victory in that they achle-' veil their aim ’of forcing the Repub-1 lican majority to refuse the responsibility placed on their shoulders. On the' Republican side, there is a feeling! of chagrin, many of tliem appeared! sheepish and same-faced, but placed responsiblity of their position of| “party which none had shown up to this time. The Democrats who spoke in favor of the resolution. George L. Saunders of Bluffton; Fabius Gwin of Shoals;! Edward I). Bender, of Zionsville; I David 11. Heyers of Vincennes and Delph L. McKesson, of Plymouth. ; were earnest and conservative in their. statements. Charges that the governor received $19,000 from utility interests for up- 1 pointnlents favoring the utilities on tiie stale utility commission; that; “Stephensonism'’ prevailed jin the, ranks of the Republican party; that the highway commission indictments| were Framed” for political reasons; , that the state board of accounts and Lawrence Orr, the thief examiner was one of tiie principal framers of the enson; that courts have been dominatindictments at the instance of Btephed by sinister intluences; that grandjuries haev been tampered with and bought; in fact all the charges that have previously been made public

were brought onto the flour of Indiana's law making body and were passed by the Republican without denial, hut with no offer ou their part to defend their party other than to just ‘ let tilings slide" in the hope, apparently that the charges will be forgotten by 11128. Tiic Republicans, it may lie said, "have every reason to believe that the dirty linen so aired will he forgotten by 1928 for the good people of Indiana seem to have the faculty of forgetting these things when election rolls around arrtl the misdeeds of the Republican party leaders have been able to be glossed ever to such an extent they have been able to perpetuate themselves in power soely because the people of Indiana will not go to the

polls and allow the organized minority to continue in power. Repeal of the state registration law Is asked In a bill presented in the House Thursday by Representative L'*mual A. Pittinger of Selma, This measure, Is presumed to have the backing of Cartwright at the Republican state committee, at least the Cartwright faction of the state committee . which includes George Coffin of Indianapolis, for the reason that Pittinger is tied to that taction. Another measure which has been spoken of In ' this letter is the bill backed by the Anti-saloon league for strengthening ■ of the primaly bill by stretching its provisions to all state offices; have 1 the candidates name the party platform; and insure nomination by calling into use second choice votes. This 1 bill was introduced in the House Thursday. o Distilleries To Make Prescription Whisky Washington, 1). C. Feb. s.—(United Press) —In the face of apparent failure of congress to enact medicinal liquor legislation The Treasury is planning to issue permits to distilleries to make prescription whisky. Permits probably will be granted to one or two distilleries under authority already held by the treasury under prisent law. officials s lid today. Fifteen applications for such permits have been received, but no action luw yet been taken on them. o ■ — —— Clandestine Romance Is Ended In Tragedy Detroit, Mich., Feb. 5. — (United Miss Florence B. Cloutcr, 26, was near death in the hospital today from bullet wounds inflicted by a sweetheart who killed himself when she discovered ho was married and had two

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children. The clandestine Romance ended last night at Miss Clonter's home. The girl, a bookeeper, was hort by her

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sweetheart, John Finnell, wh u tllen 'W turned the revolver on hims Hi. ,i Jms instantly. ■