Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except 1 Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. He11er...... Pros, and Gon. Mgr A. R. Holthoueo Sec y & Dua. Mgr. Dick D. Heller .....Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, aa second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies) —1 02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier Z— 5.00 One mouth, by mail .s 5 Three months, by mail....— 1.00 Six months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mall 3.00 4ne year, at office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second rones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. This was a tine spring day with October skies and everything else except the brand of weather that would “freeze a February dog.” We've just about lost faith in the old signs. i Our campaign for renewal of subscriptions is nearing the close and ‘ we are hoping that you will renew al once, it you haven't done so before this. Recently a number of prisoners, ' including several prominent men from 1 New York state and ’he east were paroled from prison, indicating that ' (they either have greater pull with the administration at Washington than do the friends of Warren McCray 1 or else bootlegging is not after all considered a serious crime. Better join tile, hundred good fel- ' lows desirous of imifroving conditions in Decatur and attend the banquet at •the Knights of Pythias home Monday t night. Get tickets from Cal Peterson. Will Linn or Dick Heller. You will -enjoy Howard Wisehaupt's pep talk, the reports and the suggestions. Your attendance and your continued copperation is desired. The metropolitan press is busy i again trying to convince the “butcher, the baker and the candle stick maker" that times are good. Why waste ; all the space? If its true there is nothing to worry about and it it rsn t true they all know it and all the , space filling editorials and short . squibbs will not change it on e iota. We believe in optimism but we also believe in dealing square with the ( public. £ | Opinion abroad is divided on Coolidge plan,” says a headline. Os course that is true and the sad part I of it is that they will not now or for some time agree with anything. We ■ say. We have withheld our suitport j too long and it is not likely that ; France or Italy or some of the other • nations across the sea will break their . necks to do as we ask them. We will • savp time ami money by attending to ; our own business. 1 It will be worth your time ami the | expense to hear Senator Jim Reed s . address to the democratic editors of ( Indiana at the Claypool hotel Tues- ■ day night. Even his enemies admit he is a brilliant, powerful and resourceful matt who knows a lot about 1 conditions in the United States, inMudiug Indiana, and who can tell it in an interesting manenr. You are cordially invited to attend if you care . —— I Some one seems to have "lipped off” Governor Jackson, Chairman Wall) and some of the other boys down at Indianapolis that the tax bill which passed the senate the other day is just a 101. of "apple sauce” whft.li wouldn't work and which will get the state Into such a hopeless muddle that it would take years to straighten out and now they are scurrying around to try and correct it or defeat it or prevent it or any thing that will get them out of the "nine-hole.” While tile republican press is worry-1 Ing over the McAdoo-Smith tight, it. there is really such a thing, th'ey seem I to be overlooking the things that President But er, of Columbia University, has been calling to their at-

I tention. They seem to forget that '.Mr. Lowden, of Illinois, and Mr. Wat' on, of Indiana, aud Vice-president ... and several others are walling Air any slip in the Coolidge organization machinery that will give them , their chance. , L. A. Graham has been duly nominated by the president to bo postmaster in Decatur and his confirmation by the senate will follow within a day or two, it is expected. Mr. Graham is qualified for the position, having had many years of business training attd will enter his new position with enthusiasm. Mr. Harry Fptzinger who will retire has made a good record, having proven efficient and courteous and faithfully industrious. Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, and it is being observed and celebrated in thousands of cities and hamlets. I Sixty years ago it didn't mean so much but as the years rolled by and the people have had an opoprtunity to study his life, his work, his thoughts, Ibis Gettysburg speech, his rugged •youth, his battle for knowledge, his Jiil.iiii cm.-m to I lie presidency and his guidance of the ship of state during the most trying years of history, he has become greater and greater. It la fitting that we should call attention to his labor and his love for humanity, that we should sing his praises and teach his wisdom to the children. The campaign for good roads is lltill on and will continue until the T,tatc highways extend each way through this county and until pavements are built which will place us alongside all others in this line. It takes a continual battle to secure these toads through the state commission for it must be remembered that there are ninety-one other counties in the state all asking for similar improvements. We expect a battle at that end but we should not have one here. We should all work for the betterment of Adams county and this is the important thing that can 'be done it this time. Please help put it over. Arrangements to secure the easements on the route between here and Monroe have been started by the commission and will be carried to court W necessary as it now seems it is. We are sorry but we see no other way. o GERALD SAMUEL CHRONISTER "Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fail and thin; And softly from that hushed and .;-..-,k , .’ l ;t'u">oom Two angels issued, where .but. one went in.” / Gerald Samuel Chronister, beloved ( v<m of William and Liana Chronister, departed t.his life to be with God, at five o'clock Tuesday evening. February 1. H)27. He was born November :;e, 11)15, so that his stay in the home' was just eleven years, two months I and one day. He was a regular stu- . dent in the Decatur public schools and a member of the 6B class. Ever since he was old enough to go- Be attended the Evangelical Sunday school. Gerald had been a well and, strong boy until last October when he was afflicted with iheuroatisin which a little later led to valvular heart trouble, resulting in his death. In his suffering and weakness he was always patient and cheerful and smiling to a very marked degree. He was a very lovable and winning child. The janitor of the publit schools where he had been attending bad this tribute to pay him: "He was liked by all. Iroth young and old." He believed in God and prayed to. and trusted Him. We believe he is with Jesus. , Wlriie we must ho inclined to feel his early going is untimely, we must [nlso God does all things well: and that the day will come when our faith will be changed into glorious sight; then we will understand and be satisfied. Six sisters proceeded him in death. Then survive, who keenly mourn their loss: the parents. .Mr. and Mrs. William Chronister, the following children, Mary, Helen, Marcile, Robert. at home, and t'loycc Chronister, of Battle Creek, Michigan; the grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Samu -1 Chronister and Mrs. Rachel Andrews. “There is no death! The stars go | down To rise upon some fairer shore. 'And bright in - heaven’s jewelled crown They forever more. .There is no death! An angel form I Walks o’er the earth with silent I tread; / He bears our best loved things away, | And then we call them 'dead.' He leaves our hearts all desolate; He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers; Transplanted into bliss, they now Adorn immortal bowers.”

DECATUB DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1927.

SNOW FALL There Is fresh linen on the earth to- Waiting the morning’s first faint day, streuk of gray. A tnooth white covering where the 1 look upon this glisting counterpane roses sleep. Smoothed o'er > poppies and the No fretful dreams distrub their mignonette ” slumbers deep. Aud know that while life throbs the The cvm can see no sign of disarray, wish is vain No evi”tu-e of anguish or display So restful and so fair a couch to get. Os tumblings and of tossings, such Man for his slumber no such splendor us sweep knows The beds which weary, troubled As that which winter spreads abovd a mortals keep, rose. (Copyright Edgar A. Guest

Farmers Bloc Shows Its Strength In House Friday Agricultural Faction Refuses To Accept Unanimous Report For Indefinite Postponement Os Bill For Raising Mortgage Exemptions From SI,OOO Ta $2,000; Farmer Bloc Functioning Like Steam Roller; Both Houses In Muddle Os Bills; Nothing Said About Budget Bill So Far.

By Walter A. Shead , Written for the Daily Democrat. Ind'anapolis, Ind., Feb. 12—The farmer bloc, for the second time in | tlii- :■ . <-at v fifth general assembly, showed its strength, this time in the house, by refusing to accept a unanimous report of the House committee on Ways aud Means for indefinite postptmment of the Cline measure proviitfug for raising of mortgage exempt ions from SI,OOO to $2,000. by a vote of 67 to 10. Ri uresentative Cline, of Bargersville. lone handed, saved his measure and tue farm bloc flocked to his support. Tile measure is one of the many revolutionary farm measures being sponsored by the Farm Bureau Federation. The committee on Ways and Means held the measure imprac ti, ibl. returned a unanimous p port lor ind-unite po tponmi-ut. Itepudi-al'-ion of the unanimous report of the committee is a very rare occasion and legislative experts asserted that they could not remember when such an .■**»■•:: in tl lature. Only ten members of the House sided with the committee. With only seventy-seven out of a Ipos: hie 100 members voting, indications aie that, a number of the represen’ativi.s dodged a vote on the issue. Ind. .I'ioi,.- pre that the farmer bloc which is functioning like a steam roller with former state senator Ora C. King-of Sweetser, and former lieutenant Governor Ed Bush as lobbyists, will carry t.he radical farm tax measure through the house. The measure already has passed the senate by a vote of 37 to 10. The leaderless house and senate have no control of the members from a i>a>’y Handpoint and ’he members. .. are going down the line for the things the farmers :e---gardless of their practicability. The oleo measure, aimed v o prohibit the use of oleo margarine in state institutions, is another of the measures baked by the farm bureau. Although the measure is admittedly unfair and discriminatory, there is lit’Je doubt expressed, but that it will pass the state senate, having alrettlly passed the house by a large majority, although the provisions of the bill will cost the staU- in the neighborhood of $200,000. In an effort to spee UP the bills that are daily piling up both tue house and senate are scheduled for a Saturday session the first so far in this session. Both houses nre. in a muddle of bills, little having thus far been, accomplished. Practically no constructive legislation lias been passed or killed, most all bills thus far having been those applying to local situations. The action of the Republican Stale Committee in seeking to control the George Rogers Clark M< morial commission has caused a furore among the supporters of the bill. The measure has been made a political issue, with Ewing Emison, of Vincennes, Republican chairman of the Second district leading the fight for a place on the commission. Emison, it Is understood, seeks to represent the state committee on the memorial com mission, which would establish a $2,000,000 memorial to George Rogers Ciaik on the site of Fort. Sackville at • Vincennes. Harry Fenton, secretary of the stale committee Friday boldly and frankly admitted that Emison should have a place on the commission. The Republican state committee lead by Clyde A. Walt), state chairman is opposed to former Governor James E. Goodrich, holding a place on the commission. Goodrich is a 1 member of the original present commission and as such would hold a post on the committee of eleven memI hers as now constituted under the .terms of the measure. The G. 0. P.

I machine are seeking an amendment I which would increase the number of the commission to fifteen members, I the Governor to name five, the historical Mtcitwies to name five, the speaker and the president of the senate each, to name two and the governor, to act as a member. Under this arrangement the state committee would control the commission-with a majority of eight members. Friends of the measure are fighting this annulment and staved oft a motion to reconsider the vote on the military affairs committee and recommit the measure which is up for second reading in the senate. It is understood tlie G.O.P. machine amendment will be offered when the measure comes up for second reading. On motion of Senator Carl Gray (Democrat, Pike and Gibson) the’ senate Fiiday made the Moorhead utility measure a special order of business next Wednesday morning. Th< Moorhead measure is the measure which would abolish the personnel of the public service commission and provide for their election from th efive supreme court districts. Senator Howard A. Cann, author of rim ( ~nn bill for outright abolishment of the commision, voted for the postponnient of action on the Moorhead bill as the Cann measure is scheduled for second reading next Tuesday morning. The Public utility question arid tlie farm tax measures continue to be the outstanding features of the legislature thus far. Members of the Farmer bloc asserted Friday that some tax experts would be called into se -ion with the house ways and nn mis committee in an effort to untangle the difficulties encountered in <r ■ ■ I, 1: < pointed I.nt ill. letter previously. There hasn’t been a word said in any quarter about the budget bill providing for an ex. nditure of $48,000,(W 0 for the biennial period. According to indications, the Governor’s pet scheme of showing a reduced state tax rate will go by the boards with the introduction of a bill providing for a three-cent tax levy for a period of ten years to raise money for the high< 1 institutions of learning in the daft. Tho tux rate is now 24 cents, the three-cent addition bringing it to 27 rents. Governor Jackson during has been enabled by a switching off the two years his administration funds and juggling of accounts to show a reduced state tax rate, although the state expenditures have materially increased. 0 “The Show-Off” is Best American Comedy. “The Show Off.” that classic of the Ami’i'ican comedy stage, which headed Mantie's "Best. Playsl’ in 11’25 and which was nominated for the Pulitzer (prize, will |>e Hie offering of the Wright Pkvyers at the Majestic theater, Fort Wayne, next week, beginning Sunday matinee. Philip Brandon, who has not. had a title role for several weeks, will appear as tilte "show off." the town cut up and smart alee, with his store of wit and his practical jokes. Brandon will fill the role excellently, s'nee lie demonstrated his ability in similar parts during the present week when he appears as the radio announcement in “If I Was Rich.”. “The Show Off" is a wise-cracking show, with an abundance of action and a wealth of plot. It teams with humor and should be as popular tu Fort Wayne and northern Indiana as "The Family Upstairs” and other comedy successes presented by the Wright Players. Bargain matinees will be offered, as trsual. on Wednesday and Saturday, Early seat reservations are urged at the usual prices of 50 and 75 cents for night shows and 25 and 50 cents for the bargain matinees. Last performances of “If I Was Rich" will be giyen this afternoon and night. Arthur Kohl appears in tlie leading role.

WKSKHHSHSBHSBKSSS 55 M ~ « The PEOPLE’S VOICE ” M W This column for the u»e of our 8 reader* who wish to make sue- S geations for the general good K K or discuss questions of interest. 8 W Please sign your name to show 8 M authenticity. It will not be 8 W used if you prefer that it not be. W 8 <8 S 3 8 888888 8 8888 838 LETTER FROM ARKANSAS Editor’* note: The following clipping wa» »taken from an Arkansas newspaper. It is a letter written by Cora G. Essex, who, with her husband formerly resided at Monroe. They drove from Monroe to Dewitt, Arkansas, last fall and are now located in the latter place, Mr. Essex being an undertaker. DeWitt, Arkansas. January 2, 1927. Dear Folks: This is Sunday evening, and it has been a very fine day. The sun shone brightly and some people were out to church this morning without wraps. We are all located now and our first call came today.

Now, I'll try to give you an idea of our trip. As you know, we drove a Mort Limouseue funeral car. When wi left Monroe, Ind., w# were all well bundled up and had two blank ets over us. We started at noon and got to Noblesville and loaded our car for the trip, ate supper, then drove to Indianapolis where we expected tit get our routing to our destination. It was not ready, so we drove on and will say here that we were much surprised at the complete marking of ail roads we traveled: all the way here we had no maps aud asked for information but three times and never got off the right road. We spent our first night at a tourists' lodge twenty miles west of Indianapolis stopped at ID.IH) p. a. and it was very cold. The next morning we were on the read at 7:00 o'clock,/ tlie sun was bright but tlie air »vs very frosty. With tlie exception of one short detour we drove all day on good pavement. We passed through few towns 11 Illinois from Marshall, tlie first ’i'.iuois town, to Vandalia, where we ‘urned south to Cairo. The roads in the southern part of Illinois are ill hills and curves and furnished ilenty of thrills and beautiful seen oy. We got to the Ohio river at Cairo and took a 9:00 p m. ferry down the Ohio, into and across the Missippi to Bird’s Point. four miles, on the Missouri side. We kept on until 11:30 p. m. and spent tlie second night in a new hotel a' Sikeston. a town of about 5.000. The weather seemed considerably warmer the next morning and we liscarded a blanket Missouri was very interesting to us. We saw our 'irst cotton field just a few miles Tom Sikeston and a little later in he day saw many negroes out in the ’ields with long sacks for carrying nicked cottop. We passed dozens of highjacked wagons full of cotton m ‘he wa« to the gins. Mules by the thousands and for tho first time, we knew why the famous book. "Through Missouri 011 a Mule” was so named. There did not seem to ')<> so many fine farm homes through he cotton district, but many cabins •or negroes. We passed under the massive archvay into Arkansas, at 9:25 a. m. Tuesday. We had -g’bod paved roads '(> TurreP a,r>d rro'-v rood gravel to Earl on the Bankhead ’lighway ’.hrough Brinkley, Forest City. Devil's Bluff, whore wo paid a ‘oil of one dollar to cross the bridge over White river. We stopped a few minutes in front of a hotel at Brasfield and very fat colored ffiiman well loaded with valises and dressed al! in white, rushed up to our car and in surprise kkrew up her hands, rlrimped her luggage and exclaimed: 'T.aw me. I dun thought that this was the Little Rook; bus!” She lost no time in gathering un her belongings and hurrying away.

We went on west to Hazen, turned iouth there and continued south to Stuttgart and arrived at our brother’s home in time for supper. The ■hiklren were very glad tp get out )f the car and highly entertained their relatives here for the remainder of shat evening. We had gone 750 miles ami stopped only to sleep and get. gas. DeWitt, where we are now living, s the county seat of Arkansas county, the center of the rice-growing district of this state. it is a typical southern town of about 3,000 inhabitants. We have temporary quarters for our funeral establishment at our home until we find a suitable location up town. The county jail here !h quite old and lias a real-for-sure gallows where people have been hanged. The chief county officer here is the sheriff ami his duties are

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over his duties is $1,000,000 as collector and $45,000 for other duties He is Paid a handsome salar. but h's hitu in, ° bOn! ° hazardous situations. , .. . There was no embalmer tn tut town until we came and the nearest one to us it at Stuttgart. 26 miles away, so wo have quite u territory to cover in our 'work. * ... , Contrarv te the general opinion of Arkansa.A I vill gbe you tho following brief information in suppoit of this state: Jt Is a state of crop diversification and has a long list of crop*, embiaciug all of the stales of Its neighboring states north, east, south aud went.. One-fourth of the 10,000,000 acres under cultivation would be cotton, another one-fourth in corn and the remainder of this is divided between rice, wheat alfalfa, clover aud other hay crops, also pouches superior In color, size and flavor to those of California and garden crops of every kind. Arkansas is abundantly supplied with raw mateiV and vast stores of cheat) fuel, inclumng oil. natural gas, lignite, coal aud wood. It also lias exceptional waterpower possibilities aud is fast becoming an important manufacturing state. It possesses 48 distinct advantages over any other state in the Union. The state slogan is: Arkansas, tho Wonder State: Climate Without Hurricane or Earthquake.” So far we can vouch for the above as we have Isen having but little freezing weather and plenty of sunshine. The children spent most of New Year's day playing out in the yard with only light wraps. Wishing you a Happy New Year. I close with Love to all. CORA G. ESSEX. Box No. 52. DeWitt. Ark. 0 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ »•♦♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Sunday's Five Best Radio Features Copyright 1927 United Press Central Standart Time WEAK —New York. 499 M, hookup 5 stations 3 pm.—Dr. S. Barkes Cadman and Sunday men's c inference WJZ —New Y ( ( rk 454 M, and hookup 4:30 pm,—Radio Vespers. WEAF —New York 492 M. and hookup 6:20 pm Capital theatre program. WEAK New York 492 M. and 19 station hookup 8:15 pm, Mary Lewis soprauo of the Metropolitan opera Co. WCX—Detroit, and WWJ Detroit 2:30 pm. Detroit Symphony orchett-a. Monday's Five Best Radio Features Copyright 1927 United Press Central Standart Time WEAF —New York, 492 M. aud hookup 9 pm —Opera, "L’Elisir d'Amore.” WJZ —New York 454 M, 7:30 pm—Henry Hadley’s orchestra, and Vera Curtis, soprano. WSB —Atlanta, 428 M, 8 pm. Zimmer Harp trials and Erna Korn, contralto. WJZ—New York 454 M, with KDKA and WBZ, pm—Light opera hour. CNRO —Ottawa, 357 M. 7:30 pm. Petite orchestra de concert. —— Get the Habit —Trade at Home, It Pays

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