Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT 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 Vlce-Preeldent Entered at the 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 mail .85 Three months, by mail _____ 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 Dne year, by mail 3.00 ©ne 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. If you owe any income tax for last year you must send in your first quarterly payment not later than Monday and not to do so is foolish and expensive. The day when the boys and girls can hide behind their mothers’ skirts is about go;ie, and we’ve noticed that the apron strings are passing, too. — Alexandria Tribune. A baby born into the world in Detroit a few days ago cried so loudly that the doctors decided he had appendicitis and performed an operation which was successful. Suppose its alright but in our day they called it colic and operated with a warm cloth and a few spanks. Pep, enthusiasm, action are the ingredients needed to make a community move. Haven't you some suggestions to offer that will create these. Spring is here, everybody is waiting to start and all that is needed is some united effort on most any cause. Lets get busy. Send n your ideas and tell us how we can make this a better community in which to live. Nevada is going after fools money. The legislature of that state has passed a bill legalizing wide-open gambling. It will bring millions of dollars to the state and make every one prosperous for a while at least, but usually such wealth doesn’t count for much. It belongs to the “come easy, go easy" class and always attracts a citizenship that is undersirable. Gambling in Nevada, boose iu Ontario, get out of the road of the tourists. Governor Jackson has signed the Huffman medical bill which adds a member to the state medical examfnIng board and makes it difficult for chiropractors and drugless healers to continue. The bill had been hardfought and was passed by a majority of one vote iu the house and a very few in the senate. It now becomes a law and gives the board power to seek injunctions against unlicensed practioners, a power long sought iu this and other states. The roads! Are you helping the superintendents to save them? You should, even if its a little inconvenient to you. It will not cause you nearly as great a loss to carry a lighter load now as it will to have bad roads all through the year. You can't eat your cake and have it, by which we mean, you can't ruin the roads at this time of the year and still have first class highways to travfl over after a while. Remember the limit when the roads are soft is just about what your truck weighs. Work with those who are working to save the roads. Its important. Now, that so many officials, judges and others, have had their salaries raised on the theory that the people get better officers with increased salaries, it is a question whether the present officials shall appreciate the favor, with the reason for granting it given. However, the increased money will be appreciated even by those now filling the offices, and time will tell whether better men and women will be secured for the higher salaries; in fact, most of the present officers likely will be renominated. The taxpayers were not In favor of higher salaries at this time, but the legis-

I lature refused few requests and even ’ added to some salaries without any Request on the part of the officials,! and these officials will be both sur-l prised and pleased at their good' fortune. The taxpayers will merely . bear up without any grin. — Noblest ville Ledger. Eastern advice to the farmers of the west and middle west and south I is to plant less grain ami cotton so 1 the pric.es will look better based on ' I , | supply and demand. Propaganda ad'l vocating a twenty-five per cent, de- , crease in crops is now being circulated and then if they can be lucky enough to have a partial failure, higher prices will be obtained to be talked about in next years campaign. Thais the way they propose to counteract tlie defeat of the McNaryHaugen bill which was designed to really aid the farmer in marketing his product. If you like it, alright, we don’t think much of it. | Bluffton patrons are jumping up and kicking their heels together for joy since the report is out that the Bell Telephone Company made a clean profit of more than two million dollars last year. This profit is net, understand, after all the big wigs and the hired hands have been paid, all interest knocked off and ever'thing. Bluffton patrons have helped in this grand profit by paying an increased rate —a rate a dollar higher on each j residence phone and more than that . on each business phone compared ] with Portland where a private com- ; pany owns the plant. Great is the ' Bell.—Bluffton Banner. o ' ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY + ♦ * ♦ From the Dally Democrat File * + Twenty Years Ago This Day. ♦ ++++++♦♦++♦+♦+♦♦ March 12 —H. A. Fuhrman is first farmer to sign a pledge to buy a lot. 1 Over eight lot pledges signed first twenty-four hours. Linn and Patton given contract for 1 improvement of Murray Hotel. John * Bollinger will du the brick work. ’ Rev. Edward Bergman accepts pastorate of the Baptist church. Legislature adjourns after a stormy last day. 280 laws were enacted. Boston releases Tom Railing, Deca- 1 tur’s star ball player. Case of G. E. Me Kean vs City of ’ Deecatur compromised for S3OO. ,* Brice Thomas gives a birthday party ' to a dozen friends. Home of Adam Wise on Gloss street * struck by lightning. M. Casuner Perier, ex-president of 1 France is dead. o ++++V+t++ttt+t++ " ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ 1 + OF RADIO ♦ MONDAY’S 5 BEST RADIOS * c WEAF, hookup, 10 stations, 9 p. m. 1 —Bethoven’s Opera “Fidelol.” WJZ, hookup, 8 stations, 6 p. m.— 8 Roxy and his gang. WCCO, Minneapolis-St. Paul, 416 M, 8 1 p. m. —University program. * WEAF, hookup, 10 stations, Sf p. m. — ’ The Gypsies. 1 KTHS, Hot Springs, 375 M, 9 p. m.— 1 Spanish Serenade. 1 SUNDAY'S 5 BEST RADIOS WEAF, New York, 492 M and 19 station hookup. 8:15 p. m. —Atwater Kent hour; Marie Mareile, ilopramo, Allen McWuliae, tenor. KDKA. Pittsburgh, 309 M. 5:30 p. m. —Twilight hour of music. WCX, Detroit, 51M, 22K, 353 M. 2:30 p. m.—Detroit Symphony orchestra, Rudolph Reuter, pianist. WJZ. New York, 454 M, and WBZ, KYW. KDKA, 8:30 p. in. —National review. WCCO, Minneapolis-St. Paul. 416 M., 10 p. m.—Municipal organ recital. _o . THE GREAT WAR 10 YEARS AGO (By United Press) The United States formally notic- 1 ties all nations of its armed neutrality 1 stand. The government decides to furnish 1 merchant ships with naval gun crews ■ as well as naval guns. Petrograd cut off from comm'inict- 1 Hon with world; alarm expressed in ’ London and other allied capitals o— ■ —— Logansport.—E. C. Riffe of this city claims to own the oldest rifle in Indiana. The old weapon was manufactured in 1819. 108 years ago, and wan 1 brought to this country from Holland ‘ by Riffe's grandfather. The gun still . works. I

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. He boasted of his rights and said That as it pleased him, he’d behave. He cared not what his neighbors said, To no man would,he be a slave. He bought a bugle once, and played So long and loudly that he made A nuisance of himself, and then Thu judge next morning lined him "ten.” Another time to see a show He paid two dollars and a half, And sitting in the fourteenth row He promptly started in to laugh He roared so loudly, people near Above the din no sound could hear. This was his right beyond a doubt, But still the ushers put him out. These things called “rights” which

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GEORGE YOUNG IS A BOY SCOUT Youth Who Won Catalina Island Swim Believes In "Be Prepared” Motto By Frank Kingaard Boy's Life, the Boy Scouts' Magazine Defeating the greatest endurance swimmeis of the "world in perhaps the most grulling, body-killing, soul-test iug water feat ever accomplished by a human, George Young, seventeen-year-old Boy Scout, swam the frigid t eacherous Catalina channel of Southern .California on January 15 and ••••on $35,000 offered by William Wrigley. Jr, for the first to achiece this nexttoimpossiole passage. One hundred and one other swimmers, including Norman Ross, farfamed Olympic champion, two men who had previously crossed tbe English channel, and an Eskimo (1) w»-re dragged, exhausted, cramped and “frozen" from the tide-ripped and icy current. Out of the great, cosmopolitan congregation of aequatic devotees, George Young, previously imhearlded and little considered, astonished the woild by his prowess and struggled ashore famous and rich! He Fept Going Hortatio Alger never had suuh a theme as that of this boy who crossed the Canadian boundary, made his way with his pal, Bill Hasting, from Toronto to Los Angeles on a motorycle with side car, who entered the midwinter water almost penniless and at the end of 15 hours, 45 minutes and 38 seconds had battled his way to international glory and to fortune. "1 just kept going!” is his own story of his deed. Behind that is the Scout motto “Be Prepared!" That's the sermon that this scout gives to all of us: “ ‘Be Prepared’ and then ‘keep going’ ’’ Guarded as he now is, night and day tey two burly policemen, heseiged by contract-makers who want him in motion pictures, on the vaudeville stage, to endorse hair tonics, sweaters, food stuffs tooth brushes and everything imaginable, this boy allowed me to take him away from a “mob" and for half an hour we were closeted alone while he told me of his life, his swimfeat, and gave me a message to the Boy Scouts of America through the Boys' Life. Message to Scouts This is his owir statement to.. scouts: “Keep going, always! Revere your mother; s. > is a saint. Never touch tobacco or alcoholic drink. 1 pity, ever: if I do net blame, the boy who wastes his time on idle things that bring no good. Develop both your mind and your body. The physical self is a delicate machine, with you as its engineer. If you take care of your body it will serve you faithfully. This is your job. ' Be Prepared’ is the scout's motto ami I am telling the truth when I say it was this motto that helped me conquer the channel. All my good luck wishes to all Boy Scouts. Keep going—and never stop!” George Young was born in Scotland; His parents moved to Toronto when he was a baby He has been a swimmer since he was three years old, in the St. Lawrence river and Lak*' Erie He developed his ability to swim iu the coldest water, and in winter time would cut out slabs of ictj to swim in freezing temperature. To this early self-training lie attributes his ability, to cross Catalina channe. Heard of Offer Geoige was in Toronto when he heard that William Wrigley had offeied $25,000 to tbe man or woman who would swim from Catalina Island, the famous sea resort, to the mainland of California, near Los Angeles, a dis- ■ tance of approximately twenty-three

mortals boast By lawyers nicely are defined, But they are legal terms at most And purely figments of the minds. For one may have the right to sing, Ijungh, shout and make the welkin Hug, And yet must keep himself within The line where others’ rights begin. Brown has the right to sleep, and Jones With all his boasted freedom here Should stop his bugle’s blatant tones Long ere the midnight hour draws near. Jim has the right to laugh, but Joe Also paid money for the show; And when Jim puts the piny to rout The law steps iu and throws him out.

miles, against terrible tides. This was the opportunity for which • George was “prepared" and he knew it. His life-long pal. Bill Hastings, hud the remnants of a motorcycle. And each borrowed sixty dollars from his mother, Somewhere in the west, they are not quite sure whether in Arizona or Arkansas or some other state, the vehicle gasped its last ‘‘put-put" and dieil on their hands. They made the rest of their way in an automobile with a couple who gave them a lift. On the morning of January 15th, George and his pal were possessed of but sixty cents in real money, but George had the utmost confidence that he was going to win. There were 153 pitted against him, of whom 102 ac : tually started and swum to the point of exhaustion. In this number the boy was just a nonenity! "Ross will win said the experts. “Ten to one nobody gets across!” said the gamblers. George started out with fifty-two strokes to the minute, later cutting this to forty-five. He pulled himself from three to four feet with every stroke. He needed the tremendous total of 50,000 of those powerful strokes to carry him across, and with each stroke he was pulling his 187 pounds several feet. Try that, you scouts who puff with your daily dozen. Swam Thirty Miles He headed for the very nearest point of the California shore, but not iu a straight line. He probably covered thirty-three mile strainght distance. He started at 11:21 o'clock in the morning. He refreshed himself, occasionally and sparingly, with hot chocolate. All day and far into the night he “kept going.” When nearly every other swimmer had been pulled from the water, and long after midnight, George saw victory ahead. And then he swam into a vast bed of kelp. This would have been the last straw for even veteran water dogs". The pot of gold at the rainbow’s end would have been forsaken, But George —well he turned around and swam back two miles in that icy water in the darkness of the night! At this time the check for $25,000 reposes in a vault. George is waiting for the arrival of his mother. He wauls her to have it intact, to see just how it looked when it was handed to him. A Regular Boy He is a regular boy, five feet nine inches tall of marvelously broad shoulders. His strong jaw is noteworthy evidence that he would naturally keep going. He is unaffected by his fame. "1 wish," he told me, when we were together, "they'd leave me alone. There’s never a minute of rest I’d like to be quiet for a while and get away from this fuss.” “1 was a scout in a Toronto troop,”

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he later told me, "and ’once a ucout. always a scout.” 1 keep in touch with scout activities and when I can, will settle down ill a new home, * l,h Mother, 1 wuut to get into scout leadership work." The life of this boy, just a tew days ago a poor yout, is now a round <>f fetes. Fabulous sums await him Men of afstirs wait upon him. And this * b the reward of clean living and slnctre devotion to every tenet of the Scout Law. — o— ——"• — For Sale-Quick A splendid down town property and building site, the old Riverside barn on First street. 109 feet wide and extending back to river. Must be sold at once. A bargain for some one. It will make you money. 11. S. Michaud, Phone 1»4 60 4te

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