Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. 11. Holler Pres, and Gon. Mgr A. R. Holthouse Sec’y & Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller Vlce-Presldem Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 .02 One week, by carrier .It One year, by carrier.— _.. 5.0(1 One month, by mail _______ .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 due year, by mall 3.0 U (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., 36 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Isn’t it rather queer that senators and representatives who work for six dollars per day have the right to arrange salaries for the SIO,OOO men? The good ship Spring Weather backfired last night and this morning leapfed from balmy temperature to a nor’western that made one think of Santa Claus and the Klondyke. Senator Robinson, of Indiana, tried to mix up in an argument with Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri, yesterday and as might have been expected got Worsted considerably. The "juvenile” senator should have known better than to have tried his steel the first time on a veteran of many battles. Two and a half million babies were born in the United States last year which is nearly two to one as many new arrivals as there*”are deaths, so why worry about our trade balances and gold surplus, crime, wet and dry, immigrants and such things of minor importance? An organ grinder who was killed in New York recently left a large estate and evidence given when it was being closed showed that his income for years had exceeded a hundred dyjjars a week. And here you have perhaps been feeling sorry for these poor fellows. If you had begun work at the beginning of the Christian era and had kept at it six days a week until now and had received a salary of $1,500 per day, you would have by now received just about two billion dollars, -.ffi.ri-.-ui-.l ia i/c viw Henry Ford hrs piled up in twenty-four years. It doesn't look possible or advisable. A fellow out in Kansas went into bankruptcy recently and listed among his assets one hundred million dollars in German marks. He placed the value at ten dollars though at face they would be worth twenty-five million dollars. Paper money is worth only what the government back of it says its worth and are willing to make good in gold. — " ■—! I - Because Governor Jackson has two brothers, two nephews, one daughter, one niece, two cousins and a son-in-law, nine from his family, on the state pay roll, Ihe legislature thought it no more iiian right that the salary of the city controller of Indianapolis, who is a brother-in-law of Mayor Duvall, he boosted two thousand per year and it was. George L. Saunders, representative from Adams and Wells county yesterday led a fight in the legislature which resulted in the defeat of the bill proposing to increase license mteMon automobiles. .Mr. Saunders rightly declared: "The people are tired of this perpetual auto taxation and should not be a-sked to pay extra every time a raid is made upon the road funds.” Credit the legislature with at least one sensible performance. Both houses have passed the Bennett bill which requires the state highway commission to keep detours on state roads in good condition and whereever possible to construct run-arounds to avoid the use of long detours. Heretofore when state roads have been under construction the detours

' have bceu terrible and have almost J stopped traffic in many instances und besides that have ruined several miles of county roud for the reconstruction of which there are no funds. Jits a much needed requirement and r. we are pleased it has come through the present muddle. r, . - Ohio now has eighteen hundred wooden crosses along their state high--12 ways, each marking the spot where a •(fatal automobile accident occurred. •Ol 5 They are placed there as warnings to '“I others but a strange thing about it is q' that one-third of the accidents have 0 occurred on straightaways where there is apparently no need for an accident except speeding and carelessness. Many drivers who are very careful when approaching a dangerous place such as a railroad crossing think they can drive on the straight road at a speed of sixty or seventy s miles an hour, which is perhaps just x as dangerous as trying to beat the a train. Cal Lyons, for many years a news- . paper reporter and editor and uufil ~ recently connected with the United . Press and the Columbus, Ohio, Citizen j was the speaker at the Rotary meeting last night. From all reports Cal thrilled the boys with his talk. He 1 was the first American newspaper - man to interview’ Von Hindenburg / after the war and he had many intert esting and exciting experiences. He ’ began his newspaper career on the r Huntington Herald and was for years t with the Muncie and Indianapolis Stars. He has promised to return for another visit and the boys will an- ! tieipate him with eagerness for an r other treat. o >+++++4-+-I- + + + + + + + 4 ♦ BIG FEATURES « + OF RADIO * ++♦+++++++♦♦♦♦♦* SATURDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF, hookup, II stations, 8 p. in.— 1 Walter Damrosch and New’ > York symphony orchestra. W.IZ, hookup. WBZ. WJZ. KDKA 7:10 p. in.—Boston symphony orchest.ia, Koussevitzky con- , ducting. WDAF. Kansas City, 366 M, 11.15 p. J in.—Nightkawk frolic. > WEAF, hoqkup, WEAF. WCAE, WRC. WGY. 7 p.m. —Musical comedy. WGN, Chicago, 303 M, 9 p. m.—Operatic program. o— I♦+♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY 4 ♦ * ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago This Day. •> ♦+♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ i-i-o ’i’ iiH.-ii ». hapel closes r< ■ • vival services with 31 conversions. E. S. Moses has ear drum busied when stick of wood hits him on side of the bead. Fifteen tank builders slightly injur- ' ed when scaffold breaks and falls on > new Preble tank. .’•'rank Miller receive:; broken leg in I runaway accident. Robert Downing in "Running for governor" at the opera house. Governor Hanly vetoes bill to give ' steel company at Gary special rights to 1 reclaim land. > The only saloon in Berne closed today. Miss Hattie Studabaker is visiting at Dayton. Ohio. Hairy and Will Oordua leave on a ■ tour of the gas belt seeking a business ■ location. > . o —. SHOT TO DEATH J Gunmen In Auto Open Fire On Group At Night Club Philadelphia, Feb. 25. — (United > Press) —One man was shot to death - and two others were wounded when j gunmen opened fire from a sedan on a group standing at the entrance of the Club Cadix, a night club here, early today. s John Brickett, 35, said by police to 3 be a gambler, was killed, and Michael ! Duffy, 37 proprietor of the Cadix, * was believed dying w*ith four bullet wounds in his body, Earl Brown. 0 doorman of the club, was shot in the leg. — .. — .— o —- - t -Add Boiling Water That’s All ii Then note the delicious aroma of ’ fresh ripe fruit in Sunlite-Jell. It's e your guarantee of quality. Compare Sunlite with any other galatine,dessert then judge for yourself which is best. | s And remember that attractive alumins urn dessert molds are free to Sunlite users. Your grocer has Sunlite or can e get it. Write Sunlite. Waukesha, Wic, for illustrated Free Aluminum Mold “ Offer.

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vOopyngni l»Zt> KUgar A. Guesi Senate Passes Bill To Change Election System George V. Coffin, Marion County Republican Boss, Puts Over Fast One in State Senate Thursday; “Family Tree” Os Gov. Jackson Brought Out By Senator Cravens; Governor Has Many Relatives On State Payroll; Teacher Tenure Bill Evokes Hot Debate; Absent Voters’ Measure Disappears.

By Walter A. Shead (Written for the Daily Democrat) Indianapolis, Ind. Feb. 25—A deliberate steal of the election machinery, provided for in a measure hacked by , George V Coffin, Marion com,l • Repin. lean chairman .nd boi-s of the s- ventli disirict was f-iipp. ,1 through • lie Ind!ma S’, re Sen.i'e W- le-d iy, w hile most < , th > Democratic nm'id • rs were absent. ,i. i tl .•■ th.’, wer- ;r--sent didn't ge w!. i: v.. g ing on until too late. The vote by which the measure passed was 37 ayes and 5 noes. The measure, introduced by Senator Claude S. Steele, (Rep. LePorte and Stark) would provide that the county chair man shall designate, and the county board of election commissioners "sha.ll apiMjiul the judges and inspectors in the genet al election. This duty is n ,w perfoiined by the board of nuuitj commissioners. T’-e move would give The Republicans in a vast majority of the counties in the state the con trol of the election.macliinery and particularly in Marion county, the Democrats will lose appreciably for Coffin is at odd with the present board of county commissionei s. Senator Joseph C. Cravens, (Dem. Ohio, Clark. Jeffetson and Switzerland) raised the only objection to the iiu-asuie, which w«w hurried through while a number of the Democratic senators were absent from the chamber. There is a chauce that a move will be made to reconsider the vote at the Friday session and attempt to bring the measure back to third reading. The Hewitt tax boaid measure which would take the power over bond issues from the state tax board and place it with the circuit or superior courts, as was predicted, was reconsidered in the sen ate Thin sday and re-called from the house where it had gone after passage by the senate. The measure was a direct slap at the Jackson adrninistra

tion and tile measure will again be placed on third leading in the Senate , Tl e measure is the most important ■ piece of work done by the stale senate thus far in the session and it is freely predicted that the work will have gone for naught, as it is believed the upper house will kill the measure when it is brought up tor a vote the second time. The House committee on Ways and Means intended to “sleep’ on the measure anyway, and the chances arc that it never would have been brought out of committee in the lower house. The “family tree" of Governor Ed. Jackson was brought out on the floor of the Senate by Senator Cravens Wednesday, in debate over a salary Increase measure for the Indianapolis City controller. Senator Cravens has been "tearing in" on the Republican majority in the senate on every instance since he was angered by Senator! Nejdl’s criticism the other day on a plea that the senators sensure Cravens for his charges of "graft" and “grab" with reference to salary increase measures. The total of salary increases passed so far will reach a staggering sum when totalled and Senator Cravens has vowed he will split the Nejdl group wide opcirebefore the session closes. The Democratic veteran pointed out that Jim Jackson, a brother of the Gov'ei nor was superintendent of the i school for feeble minded youth at Fort I Wayne at a salary of $5,000: Norman Beatty, son-in-law, of the Governor is employed ou the state board of health;

Faris Jackson, son of James G., and nephew of the governor, is outside fore man for the school for the feeble minded at Fort Wayne; Effie M. Jack sen, daughter of James G. and niece of the Governor, is teaching in a grade school at the school for the feeble minded: Helen Jackson, daughter of the governor, is a teacher in the ITench department at the Indiana State Normal school, eastern division Muncie, David Wilkinson, nephew- oi the Governor, by the Governor's first wife, is a clerk in the office of the Secretary of state, H. Spaan Waymire a cousin of the Governor, is assistant director of the laboratory cf the state buard of health, Calvin Jackson, a brother of the Governor, was recently removed as a menilier of the state po li foice, J. M. Summit ville, a cousin cf the governor, is state boiler inspector. Senatoi Cravens read the above "family tree’ on the floor of the senate and complete his reading in spite of intei uption by the gavel from the Lieutenant Governor and iwints ol order from half a dozen senators. The debate on the teachers tenure measure formed the hottest bit of ora tory thus tai heard in the senate. The measure which already has passed the I:;::,--.-. : ~i>are-nlly has the Senate a bout evenl) Iliv.di-u and (lie chaig'iwas made on the floor of the senate bv Senator Alonzo Lindley, leader of the farm bloc, that an attempt was being made to deliberately deceive the sea ate with reference to amendments to the measure which have been made but have not been printed. The measure then was made a special order cf business for Saturday morning al 11 a. m. Senator Chester A. Perksin (Dem St. Joseph) likened the teacher tenure measure, which would provide that teachers serve a five-year probation and then be given a life tenure, and

that they shall not be discharged except for immorality, insurbordination and incompetence, and then not until they finieli their school year, the government civil service department, which, he said, bred deterioration and eliminated competition, which would work for the deterioration in the schools. He said the bill would create sinecures in permanent positions ami would aid and abet by supporting the incompetent teacheis just as labor unilonisni support:; the incompetent craftsman at the expense of the good craftsman. Senator Thurman A Gottschalk (Dem. Adams, Wells and Blackford) opposed the measure on tho ground that instead of stabilizing the profession it would tend to unstabilize the teaching profession. Senalpr Curtis Shake (Dem. Daviess und Knok) was the only Democrat to speak in of the measure and Senator Shake asserted that the measure would make no change in the present law-s governing license of teachers. There was indication that the vote on the measure would be extremely close and doubt was expressed it’ it could pass the senate. Now comes the mystery. The Absent voters measure which started out in the house as a Dentlinger-Bender bill, a Democratic measure, passed the house and was changed in the senate to the Hughes-Bradford measure, so that it would be a Republican niensuiv. is missing. Nobcdy can find tinbill. The measure provided for the re-

peal of the absent voters law. The measure originated tn the House, passed that body and, after the authorship was changed so that the Republicans could claim credit for the bill, it passed the senate The Secretary of the senate has a receipt for the bill, showing that it was delivered back to the house. There trace of the measure ends. The speaker knows nothing of it; the chief clerk of the house knows nothing of it and the house en- ( grossing room knows nothing of the bill, incidentally the speaker and the president of the senate have had their attention called to pel sons hanging about the doors of of the engrossing rooms ut night when the engrossing room.force aie at work. It has been in the past one of the favorite forms of sport for some who have interests at stake, to change a word, or a sentence in some measure while it was in: the engrossing loom, thus compctelj nullifying provisions of the bill. In the spirit of the occasion, Senator Russel V. Harrison (Rep. Marion) introduced a measure in the senate providing for the raising of all salaries of state officers. The Governor is raisced from SB,OOO Io SIO,OOO and thereat of the state officials to SIO,OOO. In a spirit of levity the bill would provide that the altorney general's salary could be set at the option of that official in cither of the following ways —s(> per day including all holidays, or, the salary of the deputy attorney generals who prosecute liquor cases in the Marion Municipal courts, which amounts to $14,400, or, the salary of the two special assistant prosecut :rs, named by the attorney general to assist in the recent grand jury probe am’ ■ who drew $2,750 l>er month out of the Governor’s contingent fund. o Dance K. C. hall Monday night. Last one before Easter. 48t3 o NIGHT COUGHS Stopped in 15 Minutes Almost always coughing is caused by an irritated and inflamed throat or bronchial tubes, which cough syrups and patent medicines do not touch. But a famous physician's prescription recently discovered call«1 Thoxine goes direct to the cause, relieves the inflamed membranes and stops the cough almost instantly, one swallow does the work and the rc markable thing about it is that it contains no dope, chloroform or harmful drugs. Once vised you will never be without it. ITeasant taste. Safe for children. 35c, 60c and SI.OO. Holthouse Drug Co. o FORD USED CARS 1924 Touring SIOO 1924 Coupe $225 1924 Coupe $lB5 1923 Chevrolet Touring.. .$125 All cars guaranteed 30 days. HAMMOND’S USED CAR MARKET ....... ■ • ('.or. Firs’ & Madison streets Phone 45.

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