Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1927 — Page 6

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Free, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec'y & Hue. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vlce-Preildent Entered at the Poatofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Ratos: Single coplen 1 .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail ..— -35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by tnaik 1.75 Dne year, by mail —-— 3.00 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., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Portland claims that 75,000 chickens are being hatched there each week, which is a lot of chickens, of whatever kind. Wonder if they have Yale locks on the coops or just let ’em run. So this is spring? Well, howdy do. Your arrival yesterday must have been in disguise but your appearance today has every mark of the young lady we expected and hoped to see. Hang around a while. If you forgot to vote yes or no on the question of daylight savings, you can assist your councilman by telling him your opinion. Its easier to serve you if your officials know what you want. The floods and the rains may be discouraging but they are the surest signs of spring and we know by some fifty years of actual experience that we have to have them at this season of the year in order to get the real weather a little later, so keep right on smiling and working. When the new acts are published they will include a law making it permissable to drive your car forty miles an hour on the country roads which should not cause you to think that this law in any way protects you against reckless driving. It will still be just as unsafe as it ever was and after al! we ought to have the good sense to be careful whether there is any law or not. —s. ——CTMI The government is now operating two power units at Muscle Shoals and have three more units ready. They ate selling the power they are making there to the Alabama Power Company. They get two mills a K. W. and the company sells it for eight cents. Thats a lot of difference, forty times as much as it costs. Seems as though the government either should get more or prevent the purchaser from holding up the consumer. ■» Circular advertising is a good follow up of newspaper advertising perhaps, but used alone is a waste of money, according to the experience of the most successful retail merchants in the United States. If you try it and it you depend upon it to any extent you will discover the facts for yourself. The daily newspaper is the best advertising medium in the world and we are not afraid of any other idea or plan. Besides this you owe support to your local newspaper for tnere are many times when you want the information furnished through that medium and a live paper is the best mouthpiece any community can have. Think these things over.

By an overwhelming majority the people of this community have voiced their projections to the proposed daylight savings plan. The city council ■will no doubt follow that desire and ! while it represents perhaps not more 1 than a tenth of the entire vote it is probable (hat the ratio would be about the same if every body had taken advantage of the opportunity to express their feelings. Many of those who voted against the proposition would favor it if there were some way in i which it could be made universal or 1 even state wide, but the many incon-, veniences which follow when there is I more than one time are too great and the opposition to the plan is, we phould say, more determined than I

| those who have favored It. The votes D, have been saved so that they van be ! rechecked if there should be any doubt as to the accuracy of the count. You have been reading considerably / recently about Boulder Dam and we t. wonder how many people know what . it is. We didn't until we looked it up. Its so far just a project—an effort to build a gigantic dam, per--2 haps the largest in the world In the 9 Boulder Canon in Arizona—-to take s'care of the water which starts away 9 up north of there in the spring and 5 D conies down, mostly through the J Colorado river. In the springtime enough water comes through which if bottled up would irrigate millions of acres of land, make millions of horse power of electricity if properly harnessed and provide pure water for a lot of cities like Los Angeles. Os course thats a great idea and of , course there are a lot of interests to . be considered. Seven or eight south- . western states would benefit and then , there are those who want it for irrigation, the cities wish it, the power companies are hungry for the big profits they could make and even the p nation of Mexico can figure how they ?' would benefit. That's why the pro- ; posed bill gbt into a jam in the sen- . ate recently. + + + ■»>+♦*** + * + * + + * ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ From the Dally Democrat File ♦ » ♦ Twenty Years Ago This Day. ♦ ++♦♦+++♦++♦++♦+♦ Match 22 —Pennsylvania railroad announces they will oppose track elevation at Fort Wayne. Fifty-fifth annual conference of the Evangelical church will be held at Fort Wayne first week of April. W. W. Watts resumes his position with the Schafer Hardware company. 1 Gus Rosenthal, now a traveling man. 1 locates in Chicago. t Interurban car hits a calf and is hung up several hours. Supreme court holds the SI,OOO . liquor licea.se law for Indianapolis is valid. State board of agriculture authorizes ’ sale of SIOO,OOO worth of 4 per cent i bonds to build live stock pavilion at t the state fair grounds. , Work on remodelling of the Murray ! Hotel starts. *****«*4>*«*fe**« ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ ++♦++++♦+++++♦♦♦ WEDNESDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF —Hookup 5 stations 8:30 pm.— Balkite Cycle of Romance. WJZ—B stations 8 pm—Maxwell Orchestra with Dixie Jubilee Singers. WRVA—Richmond (256) 7:30 pm.— Historical Broadcast “The Convention of 1775”. WTlC—Hartford (476) 7:ls—Stephen Foster Septennial Program. CNRM —Montreal (411) and Cnro Ottaw (357) 7:30 —Operaic Hour. o i THE GREAT WAR 10 YEARS AGO American ship Healdton sunk with 21 men missing. This was the seventh ship sunk by submarines since February 1 with a total of 36 lives lost. President Wilson engaged in preparation of his message to the extra session of Congress. Public mass meeting in Madison Square Garden cheers proposal of speakers to send United States expeditionary forces to France and Russia. o Palace Turned Over To Baby Princess London —(United Press)—Princess | Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke and

Duchess of York and possible heir to the throne, is being robbed of no com- 1 forts at Buckingham Palace where) she is staying with the King and Queen. | The royal granddaughter has virtuall ly taken over the Palace and even the I apartments usually at the disposal of her uncle. Prince George, have been vacated to make more room for the nursery. Prince George has moved to another part of the Palace and is ocI copying the apartments formerly used by the Duke of York when a bachelor. I The nursery itseief is decorated in blue, one of the favorite colors of the Duchess of York. When the weather is good, the baby I Princess is taken across the road to enjoy the sunshine of Hyde Park, or to the Palace Gardens behind thej Palace. /

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Aunt June was one of the worrying 1 kind, '- Early and late with a troubled mind Fearing the worst, in her chair she sat Grieving herself over this and that. If Aunt Jane's particular stock in trade I Was things .of which she could be , afraid. There wasn't a horror of which she'd read ! That ever escaped from her shaking . head. ( Murder, robbery, death at sea, Troubled and frightened her terribly. ■ I.v>-rv possible »-vil which may occur r Was a terrible thing which might happen to her. f She feared death by trolleys, and death

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: READY TO PUMP ■ PENNVILLE WELL d • New Oil Well In .Jay County Expected To Produce 100 Barrels Per Day ► The well recently drilled on the Horn farm, west of Pennville near f the Lupton pony farm, has been ceas- * ed, and a power is being installed. r two tanks have also been erected near ’ the well, one a 100-barrel tank and I the other a 60-barrel tank. A pipeline . from the Jay-Blackford county line will be built to the field in order to J dispose of the oil. This well, it is < thought, will make 100 barrels at its initial production. Plans have been i made to drill a number of other wells in this section as soon as the weather will allow hauling. Oil men are of the opinion that with , the coming in of the well on the Horn farm a new field will be opened up, ) that will be as good if not better than . any ever struck in that part of the county. Leases have been taken on ! practically all of the land around the well, and with seasonable weather, old-time oil activities will be witnessed in that part of Jay county and in . Blackford county. The No. 3 well on the Brinkerhoof. near Bryant, has been put to pumping. During the first 15 hours the well ' made 72 barrels; Thursday 32 barrels ' were pumped, but no effort has been made to ascertain what the production will be after the well is pumped steadily. In this section, there will also be many more wells but down just as soon as weather conditions will permit. Lease-hounds have been busy for the past few days and it is said most of the land in the vicinity of the well is now under lease. With the exception of the Horn and Biinkerhodf wells, there has been but little drilling done in Jay county this winter. Sir Oliver Lodge Has New Theory On Cancer I London (United Press—That cancer may be a catalytic growth, involving the chemical process of catalysis, was suggested here recently by Sir Oliver Lodge. “My suggestion," Sir Oliver declared, “must not be thought to be more than it was Intended so hint from a layman to be taken for what It is worth. Naturally, as a layman. I speak with the greatest difficulty on a subject like cancer, but in making the suggestion I had in mind the chemical action which has been shown to occur in radio valves. ‘“They are liable to a king of disease which is caused by the action of water and it may be that something similar is going on in the body and causing | cancer.” Prominent cancer specialists do not take Sir Oliver’s suggestion seriously The general opinion is that the sugI gestlon is novel and interesting, but I that there is no evidence to support such a theory. It is pointed out that catalysis is the chemical process involving the decomposition of a compound of its elements. o BIRTH Word has been received by friends and relatives at Monroe of the birth of a boy baby to Mr. and Mrs. John Moore, of Montpelier, formerly of Monroe. The baby was born Monday and has been named Jack McGee. The mother, before her marriage was Miss Blanche Tabor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Tabor, of .Monroe ,and the grandparents are celebrating on the arrival of their first grandchild. o ... — Get the Habit —Trade at Home, It Pays

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by fire, Nothing but had news came by wire, And the curious thing about my Aunt ■ Jane Is all that she gathered from life was pain. It never occurred to her once to think That thousands of steamers at sea don't sink. By a horrible fate was her life accurst, She was doomed forever to fear the worst. Never she looked to receive the best Always by gloom was her mind impressed ; And at lust death ended life’s frightful round, But not once was she murdered, or robbed, or drowned.

Students With Tummies Proves To Be Dummies New York (United Press) —Fat students get the skinny marks. A survey I on physical unfitness in the colleges made by Dr. William R. P. Emerson • ' for the Woman's Home Companion reveals that obesity and poor scholarship go hand in hand. An obese students in Dr. Emerson's report, is defined as “one whose weight, on the basis of height, is more than twenty per cent above the average.” “Proper control and training of your - son who is now in high school," urges Dr. Emerson, “can soon start him on the course of health which will save ' sim from membership in this group of corpulent deficients, at present one ’ of the greatest debits in the college! situation." —— o METHODISTS TO CONVENE APRIL 5 Annual Session Os North Indiana Conference To Be Held In Goshen Goshen, Ind., March 22 — (United Press)—Final plans were being made here today for the annual session of the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to be held here April 5-11. Between six and seven hundred ministerial and lay delegates from the' six conference districts are expected, to attend. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Indianapolis, will address the opening session of the conference on “The integrity of the Constitution,” it was announced. Other notable speakers al-' ready included on /he program are Bishop Charles Edward Locke of St., Paul. Minn., who will preside at the conference; Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Pittsburg, Pa., and Bishop E. L. Waldorf, Kansas City. Appointments will be read at the final session of the conference, Monday morning, April 5. At this time

Better Mornings via Breakfasts That ''Stand By*' You Quaker Oats Urged Widely by Authorities FOREMOST educators, editors as well as leading business institutions like General Electric Company, now are widely urging breakfasts that “stand by" as an important aid to success. That’s because it is now known that over 70% of the day’s important work, in offices, stores, etc., falls into the four morning hours—the hours from 8:30 to 12:30. In most American schools, including Princeton, Yale, most State Universities and some 2,000 grade schools throughout the country, 80% of the important classes are held before luncheon. Thus, largely on expert advice, millions now start days with Quaker Oats — food that “stands by” one through the morning. Excellently balanced in protein, carbohydrates, minerals and the important Vitamine B, this delicious food is ideal for banishing listless mornings. Today get Quick Quaker that cooks in 2% to 5 minutes or regular Quaker Oats at grocer’s. Quick Quaker

the 1327-28 pastorates throughout the state will be known. A feature of the conference will be a DePauw University banquet on Friday evening .following the DePauw University choir will give a concert. The Fort Wayne, Richmond, Muncie, Wabash, Logansport and Goshen districts are included in the North Indiana conference. O — , The beat household experts recom-, mend Russ Bleachlug Blue. AU grocers , sell it. TT -

SPRING TIME IS HERE! Now is the time to prepare your ( <’ A’J Lawns and Gardens 2 JL Get a bag oF SACCO special prepar- i / // /I ed fertilizer for your Lawn. Garden, A ‘MSa/v <■-') Flowers and Shrubs. We have it in 5, r and 100 It). bags. For making up the New Lawn or I renewing the old one, get a few pounds ■%’/ of our SPECIAL MIXED LAWN Seed, 7 W* made up from choice seed and a good ~ •'T germination test. Bulk Garden Seeds ’ a full line of new tested seed. Make Field Seeds of All Kinds up your list, bring it in and let us till p h feeds j s lips A]talfa RT’I k fenrV ” “ I t and sweet clover inoculators. 50c bu. lor sure Bl LK GARDEN. t J Flower sppds and Bulbs . Reed Elevator Company Phone 233. * 722 W. Monroe St. ■; • • < I ■ ! I ! C■ A \ I iw j I / w 1 /} i I : A smart outfit for Spring Suit of Pigeon grey; good shoulders, easy lines; semi-peaked lapels, trim hips. The tie is of bold stripes of blue and orange. Hat is of light Pigeon grey. . I . r, n j A new style service—new value standards from HART SCHAFFNER & MARX 1 hese makers have style scouts who report from every big style center, the latest tendency—you get it immediately. Through immense buying power and increased volume, they’ve put values with clothes that have never been see before in the clothing world. We’ll show you remarkable things in Spring Suits and Top Coats. Top C0at5..525—530—532.50—535 Suits..s2s—s3o—s3s—s4o Holthouse Schulte & Co.

English Motorist Is Strangled By Own Car Ixmdon — (United Press)—-D. J Handley-Seymour, u Cambridge University undergraduate, met death In an unuiual manner when he was strangled by his own motor-car. He opened the bonnet of his machine to look at the engine. As he bent over a long scarf of the variety I now popular among Oxford and Cam- ■ bridge undergraduates became caught

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