Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1927 — Page 4

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Automobiles do not eat hay. corn or oats and conseifnently may answer the often asked question, “What's wrong with the farm?” but few if any farmers would be content to drive old Dobbin along and listen to his neighbors whiz by. Youngsters here's a tip. When dad says in reply to your request for the definition of a word, “look it up. you remember it longer,” just put it down that dad has forgotten it. Otherwise he would take advantage of such an opportunity to impress you with his wisdom. According to the evidence of a secretary of D. C. Stephenson, the "old, man” gave Governor Ed Jackson a Studabaker automobile in 1925. Well “Steve” elected him and bossed the legislature and had control of things so it only seems proper that he should fit his governor out in style. Honestly, isn't it ail disgusting? Ten years be added to your life if you begin soon enough. So says Dr. Charles Mayo, famous surgeon. The dangerous age for a woman, he adds, is from 1G to IS, but the dangerous age for man is from 50 to 55. If you can't keep your eye on them he advises locking them up. Many fat people die, he declares, because of lack of girth control. Gland transfusion. Dr. Mayo declares, is bunk. Jim Hid became famous by his record as mayor of Kansas City and the fame carried him to the United States senate where he has made hints' If felt in numerous ways. Big Bill Thompson, mayor-elect of Chicagowould like to follow in his footsteps and is said to even have presidential aspirations ami expectations but if you will compare the records and accomplishments of the two men as mayors of their respective cities, you will find them the very opposite of each. The big population movement of the

next ten years will be away from the big city — not to it. according to Kessinger's Mid-West Review, which declares in a full page editorial that cities between five and fifty thousand which show' spirit, vision, a definite program, an organization to carry out the program and work have the best chance. All the little cities will not lose; all the larger cities will not gain. The dead towns will slump, while the live towns progress, but the progressive cities of from 5,1100 to 50,000 will grow taster than the big ones like Chicago and New York. Will Decatur be listed with the live ones or the dead ones?

A journalist in the east wants to know if the time is coming “when the government will dally undress the citizen, put up the windows of his bedroom, conduct him. to his bed. put out the light, tuck in his covers, hear his evening prayer and'kiss him goodnight.” He belie vs the “bureaucracy” at Washington is carrying its" paternalism to outright inatemalism, and that the care with which officials in pursuit of “big brother” service to American business men, housewives and tamers disclaim any paternalistic intent is proof of their consciousness of the true state of affairs. Concrete examples of the “materualism" which he protests against are department of agriculture bulletins explaining the

"Just Jby EffinLCoegMffl MEN THE WOULD WIDE OVER Men the world wide over. Men, whate’er their duty, ‘Work and dream and play; Birth, or caste or creed, Travel to discover Seek that touch of beauty, Fortune miles away; Which their souls may need. Irnugli and love ami labor Friendships, garden roses, As the years go by; Homes that ring with mirth Friendly with a neighbor, When the long day closes, Just us you and I. Prove our common birth. I Men the world wide over. Stripped of pomp and fashion, Hope and strive and plan, Wealth and fleeting fame, , Long to play the rover, Freed from every passion, Harry, Joe or Dan; Men are all the same. Whatsoe’er the name is, And in those tomorrows, Low the place or high, We shall neve see; Life to them the same is, Still the joys and sorrows As the years go by. Like our own will be. (Copyright 1525 Edgar A. Gueiai

-—----- - - — - — proper method of hanging curtains ii: ■ the home, giving recipes for Hallow 1 een confections, on arrangement and grouping of kitchen equipment, con 1 taining Christmas dinner suggestions; such studies as the living cost of thirty families in a Maryland county and the possibility of establishing a school for training teachers of retail store methods. Attorney-General Sargent's statement that no further action is contemplated by the federal department of justice in connection with the Indiana highway Commission's disposal of surplus war materials practically disposes ot all the charges made against it. The indictments returned at the instance of D. C. Stephenson by the Marion county grand jury against John D. Williams, director of the commission, and Earl Crawford, formerly a commissioner, were quashed some time ago at the request of Prosecuting Attorney Remy. The government's connection with the case came through • the .possibility hat it might have been defrauded in the disposition of the material. Much of it was allotted to the states and some of it was of no use in highway work. District Attorney Ward reported io his chief that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing in Indi ana. The .Marion county charges were permitted to drag from month tc mouth, with the accused men demanding trial again and again. The quashing of the local indictments and the announcement by the government hat there is no evidence on which o base any federal prosecutions relieves Williams and Crawford from any odium that might be attached ti their public service, but there is one mystery that has not been cleared. I’he public is entitled know why the indictments were returned, and why the government was asked to aiake any investigation. D. C. Stephenson is reported to have said that Williams and Crawford were framed because they refused to turn the high way commission over to a political machine. Whoever gave false evidence against these men ought to be punished. Somewhere along the limit is evident that perjury was com mitted. In justice to Williams and

Crawford, the men who swore falsely against them ought to be punished.— , Indianapolis News. • p*************** * BIG FEATURES * «• OF RADIO SUNDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright 1927, United Press) Central standard time throughout 3 WEAF, hookup, 19 stations, 8:15 p.m. I Kathryn Meisle, contralto; Ebonora Cortez, pianist. WPG, Atlantic City, 300 M, 8:10 p.m.

Vesseila’s band. WEAF, hookup, 10 stations, 6:20 p.m. Capitol Theatre program. WCX, Detroit, 517 M, 2:30-p. m.— Detroit Symphony Orchestra. WIP, Philadelphia, 508 M, 9 p. m.— Rossini's Oratoria “Stabat Mater.” MONDAYS FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright 1927, United Press) Central standard time throughout. WJZ, hookup, 8 stations, 6:30 p.m. — Roxy a ink his gang. WEAF, hookup, 10 stations, 9 p.m. — Deiibe’s opera “Lakme.” WLW, Cincinnati. 422 M, 10 p. m. — Burnt corkers. . WCAE, Pittsburgh, 461 M. 6:50. p.m. Duboi’s oratorio “Seven Last Words of Christ.” WEAF, hookup, 10 stations, 8 p. m. — I Gypsies, with John Barnes Wells, tenor."

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n ♦ + ♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦ + ♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY * ♦ ♦ * From the Daily Democrat File ♦ 1 ♦ Twenty Years Ago Thi* Day. ♦ (+++*++++♦♦++♦+♦ it April 9—The Irvin Brandyberry fay r.iily has moved from Boulder, Coloraa do, to Uidgeviilp, Indiana. [j A divorce from her husband Joseph Creatore, famous band master, granted his wife. Governor Hanly suffers relapse and condition is serious. ' Arguments begin in the Harry Thaw t case. Modern Woodmen organize with 1 class of 44. Premium lists for fair are out. Dates are August 27-30. Two-cent fare law goes into effect * and round trip tickets are no longer 1 issued by railroads. Charles Denby, of Indiana, appoints cd American counsul-general at Bhang liiii, China. *TRY T H E * * NE X T O N E * * ¥ i $**43*43*333333* ‘ THE CHINESE SITUATION 11. What great Chinese river has been the scene of recent activities in the Chinese civil war? - 2. What is the chief privilege for foreigners embraced in the general term extraterritoriality? 3. Who is the chief military leader . a cf the Chinese forces opposed; to the Nationalists? : 4. What important leader of the Nationalists was born on British I territory and educated in British schools? 5. Who was the American naval commander at. Nanking who de-1 livered the ultimatum as a result i of which the remaining foreigners were allowed to escape? G. What American educator was i killed by the Chinese at Nanking? 7. When was the Boxer Uprising? 8. Why was it called Boxer Uprising? 9 What. city, recently captured by. ‘ the Nationalists, was once the I j capital of China? 10. What is the principal commercial watercourse of China? Answers 1. Yangstze River. 2. The right to be tried in foreign ti courts instead of local Chinese courts. 3. Chang Tso Lin. 1 4. Eugene Chen, Nationalist foreign minister. 5. Admiral H. H. Hough. 1 6. Dr. J. E. Williams. e 7. 1900. \ 8. Because it was instigated by a native, anti-foreign secret society , j known as the Boxers. o

THE GREAT WAR 10 YEARS AGO __J The Canadians capture the famous German stronghold of Vimy Ridge as part or a general British advance of i 1 to 3 miles along a front of 13 miles. | which resulted in the capture of 6,000 German prisoners. Dime size, No. 2 and No. 2‘/2 sizes Large and Meaty Finest Packed at any price

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ll our nutive dogwood, and Jiid»‘i tree I or red bud. Soon we will be joyriding 'j over the country on tho warm afterII noons, and be no charmed with naI ture all around us, almost to the point i of recklessness. We see off In the dis tance a splotch of lilac color against J a back ground of dark browns, nnd ‘ dull greens, and almost bare bushes ! and trees. We are tempted to park the i ear alongside the road, ignore the sign on the corner of “no tresspassing alj lowed”, and start across fields and fences, and when we come to the object of our pursuit we find a beautiful Judas tree. They are usually located on or near the banks of u creek or river. The leaves are heart shape. But there are no leaves as yet. But the branches and even the body of the tree are thickly covered with clusters of lilac colored blossoms, resembling in shape of bean blossoms very much. Either In the shrub or tree stage it D wonderful to behold. And before we realize it in our eagerness to poseis,

i our hands are full of twigs. Our arms . are full of branches, and wc start back to our cur. But where Is the beautiful lilac color that was painted on the landscape by the Master Artist. Gone. In a few moments what it took years to ci eate. Gone, for years, possibly for always, for there isn’t much else left but the body and roots of the tree The same thing can be said of our dogwood. Both trees are beginning to be rare In our locality. Why not study to recognize both trees when they ate yet small and in the dormant stage, and then ask the land owner for permission to dig one or two, and repliyit them on your own lawn and enjoy their bloom year after year, and those that have no lawn of your own, ofcourse get a nice bouquet for your flower vase and etiioy them. I have seen Autos drive along the road decorated with both kinds of these blossoms, fit for a flower pageant, and 1 was sorry when I thought of the ruthles destruction, and I am quite sure

I tllat my soul woulu be to know that my ashes Mou m * M “ a hillside near a brook ~l ° l red bud trees as thev ' h ' out around the old R enol(ls ’ ,ri * •Mrs. George H. 0 Card of Th.nki We wish to thank the and friends f or the kl)lll (1 J' llbw ' acts they have done during !he ness and death of our dead lath . r * tor the beautiful flora] often#,. comforting words and Bynwtll ‘' * Minister, and to the quartct w,f day school class for their servU. dered. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Foster. — 0— - _ NOTICE H. A. STRAUB, The expert Wl i| paper <• eaner. the man that knew how, will make that dirty paperZ like new Small or large U" g go any place. (Pnpcr-haug.) p r "„ right. Ail work guaranteed. Ph Me OQQ ' Hint mi