Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 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 Qen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 9 .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier B OO One month, by mail — .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 ®ne 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. Clean up and paint up. This is the cleaning season and there is nothing more important. Its good for health and for appearances and makes every one more comfortable. Property is moving in this section and reports of sales of city and rural property are good signs. A number of new homes are to be erected during the next few months and there is a general trend of prosperity that should make every one here feel very 1 good. An hour or two in church tomorrow , will prove the best thing you can do for yourself and your community. I Forget the worries and trials of life , for after all we are here but a minute i or two as compared to eternity and i its the great after while that is most i important. A tax payer in the south part of ( the city urges property owners to ( keep their premises clean while a tax payer from the north end of town urges tenants to assist property own , ers to take care of their houses which are an investment. Both are right of course. All of it makes a better com munity. While there is a large supply of coal on hands and the prices will not advance suddenly, its safe to predict that if the miners strike continues as now seems probable, for several months, that following the opening of . N ♦.■..v.y ■■ ■ • ■ «* icxm nati.it, i.»«v. »v. »»!»■» c* tinuous upward trend. It would be safe and perhaps quite wise to buy your coal supply for next year as early as you can. — —- ■ ~ I We certainly haven’t gained much as a result of the World war. According to information from Geneva. Switzerland, the nations of the world are spending three billion dollars annually to carry out the program of armed preparedness. How foolish it is to thus waste lives and money and yet we claim we are civilized and have reached the highest point of < education since time began. Some i times we doubt it. Judge Dearth slipped by the senate and escaped impeachment by two votes on one of the seven counts of the indictment returned by the house of representatives, but he should not permit that to give him any thing like an inflated opinion of himself. The people of the state pretty generally, from what we can learn, believe that he was guilty as charged and admitted it ami a vote of the people would convince him. As mayor of Chicago, Mr. Dever has won the admiration and graitude of the citizens. The whole nation knows him and respects him. He has surrounded himself with able lieutenants and has given the city the best government it has had in the memory of the citizens. He found the municipal finances in shocking condition, the public schools in a state of neglect, the police force in a condition of utter demoralization and other branch <m of the municipal service deplorably out of gear. In affairs of public administration he has shown himself a builder in every sense of the word. He has shown himself also a man of the people, just and ,considerate and helpful. For, having come up from the ranks of the wage workers

I by his own hard work, ho knows their ’ needs and he sympathizes with their aspirations. This is the man who Is a candidate for re-election to the offlee of mayor, not because of personal ambition, but because thousands of citizens, regardless of their political affiliation, persistently urged him to be a candidate. They did so because of his absolute honesty, his absolute fairness and his untiring, faithful service.—Chicago News. This community was greatly shock-{ ed by the news received last evening I that Ralph Todd, well-known Bluffton banker had committed suicide by i shooting himself. He had been connected with the institution so long and so closely that he felt, according to a note which he left, that ; the closing of oik' meant the end of the other. Worried because of the disaster which embarrassed so many | of his friends, his mind no doubt became confused and he ended his life.; Such occurrences are not so unusual but nevertheless so sad as to become tragic. We are -sorry for our sister city and county in which however we have great faith, believing that their determination and striving will soon cause the clouds of gloom to arise. ; Mr. Coolidge has steadily insisted, that there shall be no tinkering with the tariff by congress, and yet he persists in tinkering with it on his own account. Step by step he has been I revising the tariff upward while the consumers forget and are forgotten. As the score now stands, there have been thirteen increases against two decreases. The duty has been lowered on live bob-white quail and on paint-brush handles. In the latter case the reduction was made at the request of an American manufacturer importing the handles from his own factory in Canada. In no gase has the duty been lowered on a really competitive commodity, even when the ‘ariff commission has recommended it.—New York World. ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ » ♦ ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ > Twenty Years Ago This Day. ♦ ♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Apiil 2—President Roosevelt calls E. H. Harriman, railroad king a plain every day “liar.” County commissioners are at Fort Wayne to inspect concrete bridges Palace team defeats Klondykes by ... --s’.r. — ■ «— •■■■ by three points, closest games of season. Council passes three ordinances to improve streets over mayor’s veto. Appellate court affirms Faylor-Stu-dabaker case which has been tried five times. Fred Busse, Republican, elected mayor of Chicago by 13,121 over Edward Dunne, while council is Republican 35 to 34. John Yager is visiting in Dayton. O Railroads advance freight rates. City purchases mechanical street sweeper. >+++++++++****** ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ SUNDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WGN— Chicago. 303, 3 p. m. Chicago r Philharmonic orchestra. WEAF- New York, and hookup 6:2!) pm. “Major Bowers’ Family", 8:15 pm. Atwater Kent hour. WCCO Minneapolis St. Paul, 10 pm. Organ. WLS — Chicago, 12:15 pm. — WLS Players. WJZ.—New York 7 pm—Hotel Commodore orchestra. MONDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES' WEAF—Hookup 11 stations. 9: PM.— Opera "1 Pagliacci.” WJZ—Hookup. 9 stations, 6:30 pm — —Roxy and his gang. WABC- New York, 316 M-, -8 PM.—I Barrere Little Symphony. WSI I—lowa City 484 M., 9:30 PM —J band concert. WEAF —Hookup 10 stations, 8 I'M. — I The Gypsies, with John Barnes, Wells, tenor. —o Eurasian Race Link Indicated By Skulls Loudon (United Press) Skulls of a race supposed Io be the connecting; link between Asia and Europe were; exhibited here recently by Sir Arthur! Kieth during a lecture to the Royal' Cidleke of Surgeons. The skulls had been discovered in an ancient cenie- ) levy in the Taklamakan Desert, Gent- i ral Asia.

’Just TblKsft B™" 11 n«Aw«ll NO TIME TO WRITE “No time to write," is what he said “Dear Mother, 1 am feeling well, And yet he’d had a day. And busy as can be, At seven o’clock he quit his bed Th|s u haßt line t 0 tell And hurried on his way. IHe might have penned a little line ' ou not t 0 tret oer nle ’ : And still have reached his desk by I’ll see you when this job Is done, nine. Till then, I am, your loving son. ■ a sheet of j aper and a pen I timed myeself and that I wrote Were handy things, and yet In sixty seconds time, Ik-fore he hurried out at ten It’s just a hasty little note. He smoked a cigarette. And 1 was forced to rhyme i Before that smoke had reached the end But such a letter any day A line or two he could have penned. Would drive a mother’s fears away. (Copyright 1925 fcdgar A. Guest

ssx xxx ssskx x k x x x ■ s « The PEOPLE’S VOICE « x s This column for the use of our X :i readers who wish to make sug- X II gestions for the general good X IS or discuss questions of interest. X 55 Please sign your name to show X II authenticity. It will not be K If used if you prefer that it not be. X 15 8 XXXXRXXXXHRSSXXSXX Clean Up Time , Editor Daily Democrat:1 lead in your Peoples Voice colI iinin last night that "Spring is near”, by a “tax payer in the south part of the city,” and 1 notice that he is urging the board of health to get after property owners and make them clean up. 1 am a property owner in the north part of the city and want to say that the board of health might also get after some of the tenants of property. Recently, a house we own was vacated and we have worked five dais and are still at the job trying to get it back into condition so it is fit to live in. The people who moved out left a pile of dirt, feathers, bones, old , clothes, rubbish of every kind that has taken much hard work to clean up. Tenants should help take care of a property and should want to live : n healthy surroundings to keep things clean and to get away from filth. Mt are not rich, but it happens that some of our savings are invested in a property which we rent. Its hard to see that, property abused and I believe that there should be more effort on the part of many tenants to assist the owner in keeping up the property and in keeping it and toe premises clean, healthy* and presentable. My plea is for the owner ,f property and for the community. North End Tax Payer. « ¥ ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ ¥¥ ¥ * ¥ * •¥ ■•mt-l-'rH E * < * NEXT ONE * ¥ ¥ *****¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ 1. What country suffered the capture of its capital and the burnin of its capitol by a hostile army in 1814? 2. Give within fifty billion dollars the present estimated total wealth of the United States. 3. What state which was twelfth in population in 1806 is still twelfth in imputation. 4. How many cardinals are there in the college of cardinals? 5. Os what state is “Here we Rest” the motto? ; 6. What is the second largest city of Great Britain? 7. Who was the Black Prince? 8. What have Neal Dow, Frances E. Willard and Wayne B. Wheeler in common? 9. Give the real names of the persons who wrote under the following pen names: (a) George 1-3 iot lb) O. Henry (c) Mark Twain id) Ouida (e) Pierre Loti 10. What noted polar explorer is the only person to have reached both the North and South Pole? Answers 1. The United States. 2. The Bureau of the Census’ most' recent estimate was $320,803,862,000. I 3. Georgia. ; 4. Seventy. I 5. Alabama. ' 6. Glasgow. ; 7. Prince of Wales, son of King Edward HI of England. 8. All are prohibitionists. 9, (a) Marian Evans (b) W. Sidney Porter (c) Samuel L. Clemons (d) Louise de la Ramee (e) L. M. Julien Viaud. 110. Roald Amundsen. I o . THE GREAT WAR I 10 YEARS AGO | I ! President Wilson in his message to j Congress recommends a declaration that a state of war exists with Germany and urges that Congress authorize a war upon Germany with all the : resources of this country, liberal ere- ; dits and full aid to the allies, and provision of the immediate addition of ’ 300,000 men to tire U. S. Army under the principles of universal service. Among striking phrases in the Presiijjent s war message were. “We have no quarrel with the Ger-

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I, man people." ; "The world must be made safe for ! democracy.” ! k "1 advise that the Congress take ! immediate steps not only to put the • country in a more thorough state of • defense but to exert all its powers • and employ all its resources to bring ■ the government to the German Empire • to terms and to end the war". <o . — : Angleworms Doing Injury To Lawns Lafayette, Ind., April 2.—(United Press) —Reports have been received here of annoyance and injury done to lawns and greens by earthworms, according to an announcement made today by the Purdue Agricultural experiment station heads. Earthworms are not "difficult to control, according to Prof. J. J. Davis, head of the ’entomology department of the station, who gave out a formula for combatting the pests. Three ounces of corrosive sublimate dissolved in a quart or two of hot water, diluted to fifty gallons and sprinkled over the infested ground, abcut two gallons to the square yard, will discourage the worms. Davis said. o , Mrs. Virgil Krick visited friends at Fort Wayne today.

fc s FASTER gl ttg ®V i IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER Z I an( l cver - v man < woman and child will want a new MW i I SU ’t’ K 3 hat or pair of shoes. figg|V)j j Where will they buy? ME MMk&W JBt ,{ ’ MERCHANT:—Put jour message in practically every -*. _ I home in Adams county by using the advertising j. ’ ' ' Mr I columns of the W Decatur Daily Democrat Ug. gjfflV." \ 1 Delivered to more than 1.320 subscribers in Decatur and to more than 3,300 in this county and trading radius. r ■ I I "Your Job Printing- Ht If P° '? u hnnw that we have one of the best equipped job print- HBHHSmk* I I ” t: plants in this part of the state and that we can fill any kind §gESggiS?j' *• k, a- -w of. an order for printing, office forms, catalogues. and general wSS&UsHsk: printing supplies?' - Sk '' (Mv ♦ B Complete service in the publishing t •JPI and printing line. WmM ll'-, u * -liM\ \'s|a < >?Sr ) Ti'Vw z 'y.wiw; 1 •

SPECIAL FARM TRAIN COMING Adams County I armors Have Chance To Learn About Corn Borer Adams county farmers will have a real opportunity to get their information up-to-date, as far as the corn borer is concerned, when the special train stops in Decatur next Monday, and in Berne Tuesday. The special is being operated by the Purdue Agricultural Extension Department and tne Pennsylvania railroad, and a corp of workers from Purdue, both entomologists and soils and crops specialists are with the train. G. A. Ficht, of the entomology staff, will be with the train to answer questions about the borer and other insects. K. E. Beeson and M. O. Pence, of the soils and crops department, who have worked in every county of the state and 1n other states on. soils and crops work, will answer the soils and crops questions. In addi-j tion to these men R. G. East, formerly agricultural agent in Shelby county and now agricultural agent for the Pennsylvania railroad will be with the train to help conduct the educational work and look after the movements of the train. The train consists of two cars, one an exhibit car. showing how and how stuble pulverizing machine and other not to handle the corn fields, the new ways of battling the borer. Many er- _ Weak stomachs cause Biliousness If you are nfteh bilious, try this hrwwßt treatment Fiat: Eat simpler foods, snowing direv tita system to irapmra Sscond: Stimulate better digestion and bowel by iakiiig Chambastam a Tables f t one week Th<r an>use healthy digestion, get <prick re- . M suits 50c or 25c pocket fiiaee * at rr*.rr druggist. Fbr free aam- gj* pie write Chamberlain Med. Co. 502 6th Ava. Des Moines, CHAMBERLAIN’S TABLETS

roneous reports concerning the borer are going the rounds In Adams county, and this special will furnish the I means for everyone to clear up their Ideas upon the insect. Since It is very likely that this county will be within the quai-antin-i ed area by next fall, it behooves everyone who la interested in any way in the agriculture of the county to inform himself fully upon the subject. Should the borer enter the county. It will mean considerable change in methods of farming, and the more information one has on the

il I’ *1 EVERY man has a per- > feet right to become a > pauper by waste and extravagance; but he S has no right to call upon the thrifty man to ■ support him. H I G .Capital and r 1 " " 1 " "" 11 " 1,11 11

subject, the easier th» situation\ hl be met. UorUand High School Awards Honor L e tt eR Portland Ind. April 2.. n olller , were awarded to nineteea i™, ’ eleven girls at i’ortiund big’. yesterday. Thirteen members of Panther football s quad recehM " e varsity “P”. six basketball i el .J were awarded. The gt,| s who ’ letters were members of !he .., basketball team. The seniors wf|| " ceive sweaters.