Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1927 — Page 4

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I) E C ATU R DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE OECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres, and Oen. Mgr. A U. licit bouse Sec’y & Buz. Mgr. Dick D. Heller _....Vlce-Pre»ldent Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, us second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single coplew $ -OH One week, by carrier — -Id ; One year, by carrier 6.00 j One month, by mall — .US | Three months, by mai1..... 1-00 j Six months, by mail. I TS; One year, by mall — 3 00 ®ne year, at office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second (ones. Additional post* age added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scbeeror. Inc., 33 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Filth Avenue, New York. Tomorrow is Sunday- go to church —drive carefully. Tin annual deau-up starts Monday morning. Finish the spring job by painting, if you need it and don't forget to stamp tire weeds out before they get too muck of a start. Miami. Florida, wants the democratic national convention next year, which might be alright if they deride to hold it in February. If the rains don't let up pr, tty soon through the corn belt we will be paying about a dollar a piece for roasting ears pretty soon. They bad six inches of snow down in l’eturshurg. Indiana, yesterday. I Thats tile home of M. MeStoops who! is spending tlte bad season here because of our excellent climate. Hope is a wonderful tiling and we all had it again tins morning when we saw the clear skies wild felt tin keep air. Perhaps the rains are over for a while. Are you ail set for the city truck:: Monday? They will haul away the cans and rubbish which has gathered on your lot through the winter, provided you have gathered these things according to instructions and placed I them in boxes, barrels or baskets so they can be handled. ! I ■- — - Owners of automobiles who have not been listing them for taxes should know that th recent legislature p- sstrii a iii a requiring lue secretary • ■state tir furnish the county treasurer with a lrst of owners licensed and those who do not turn them in for assessment or who fail to pay taxes on tin m will lie subject to a ten per cent additional cost. It never occurred to most of tis that they could spend a lot of money, do some damage and yet not remedy the Hood conditions which threaten the city of New Orleans. Press dispatches tell us that the dynamite htilsts failed to have any® effect on the torrents of the Mississippi. Heading off a mad river the size of litis one is some job and when we stop to think about it, of course the job might fail. Allen county completed -the raising of their SIO,OOO assessment for Hood relief today. We should finish the job here early next week. Donations over Sunday should put us over the top with our $1,025 quota. Never was money really needed more than it is by the Red Cross right now for the relief of those marooned in the suffering st ctions ‘of Mississippi, Louisanu and Arkansas. One of llte soundest'and best investments that any one can make just now is to buy a farm. A few years ago the lands in this section were bringing from two to three hundred dollars an acre. That was too much, but by the same token land can be bought now for much less than it is worth. An investment in farm lands ttow will double your money in a few years and be Idle safest place for you to put your extra money. Each week farms tire offered for sale at prices which are less than the improvements thereon would cost. The people of this country and a part of the outside

| world must be led from the farm pro- ' duetlon. Values are bound to go up soon. Next week three farms will be sold at auction In Adams county. You have a chance to buy one of them at j your bid and you are foolish if you , 11 don't invest in some Adams county I ; 1 real estate right now, before the up- 1 ward trend gets too strong. .. There is a charming paradox lu the 1 t ease of the South Carolina bootlegger , j who objected to the attempt of the i collector of internal revenue in his ; j district to make him l>ny a lax on hisj' I illegal income. Several courts have considered the issues in the ease and ( now it has reached tlie United States \ supreme court. The federal revenue t act makes no distinction between in- ' comes from legitimate business and those from unlawful or criminal oper* ( at ions. Still, if lias ben held that a , bootlegger may refuse to file an in- t come tax schedule on the ground that - he would Incriminate himself by nmk- ’ lug tlie sort of return required. Con- j press might overcome that difficulty | by explicitly granting bootleggers and a other offenders immunity from prose- i option on account of information reI veaied in income-tax schedules, but it has not done so. Manifestly, as the government contends, it bootleggers ] and other lawbreakers need not file 1 1 income tax schedules they constitute f a favored class of persons and escape f burdens borne by the law-abiding. t Such a result does not strike the average citizen as harmonizing with 4 reason or justice, yet courts have A ruled that way under the constitu- fl tional provision against self-incrim- 4 ination. it will be interesting to mark the supreme court's solution of the It gal puzzle. -Chicago N«an + +tttt+tv+****** t BIG FEATURES + OF RADIO * +++++++***++♦♦♦ *' SUNDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright 1027 by United Press) j Central Standard Time Throughout. WEAF— Hook-up (17 stations) p. pi. - Gala Closing Atwater Kent Concert, Frances Alda, lamise Homer. S'.ires. Keimaid Wcrrenruth, Charles liackett and others. WJZ —Hook-up (WJZ, KDKA, KIWI 7:30 p. m. —Collier's National Weekly Review. WEAF— Hook-up (12 stations) 5:20 pan.—Capitol Theatre Program. IWOC Davenport • 454) 9:3(* p. in — WOC Little Symphony. l I KDKA —Pittsburgh 4: Ho p. m. —Twi--1 light Hour of Music. j MONDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES :Copyright 1027 by Coiled Press) I i • . "j i > r | * • * * .<*4«m #,i WEAF— Hook-up (11 stations) 8 pan. C Rossni Opera, “The Barber i of Seville. ’ WJZ—Hook-up (!) stations) 5:30 pan. i —lloxv and His Gang. WPG—Atlantic City (300) 0:15 pin — Gaul's "Holy City". Atlantic City Festival ( boir. KOA Denver (322) 9:15 p. in.- Denver Music Week. Concert of Modern Music. , WUALr—Baltimore 8 p. m. — Staff Concert. 0 * + * + ****• + %■* + *** ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY * * * ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago This Day. ♦ ♦♦++++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* i April 36—Mrs. Jeff Bryson entertains for her guest, Mrs. Charles Doty j of Itellefountaiue, Ohio. German Building and Loan Association is again issuing stock. : Decatur has 1,318 children of school j * age, a gain of ten over lOuti. Mrs. Florence DeVilbiss has several | i ribs broken and quiet badly bruised j , in an automobile wreck at Lancaster, Ohio. Foundry from Marion. Indiana, to ’ locate here. Building to lie erected in j ' tlie Meibers additiou. • D. J. Gutlfoyle elected president of t the Decatur Furnace Company. C. A. i Dugan is treasurer and James Daughoi ty, secretary. Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Drummond en I terlain for Mr. and Mrs. It. Earl I’e- *• tors. s Murray House bus demolished in a e runaway. il 0 i . THE GREAT WAR 10 YEARS AGO «I ! * American tank steamer Vacuum | u sunk by U-'lloat with reported loss of j k 30 men including naval gun crew. s French mission proposes that Ameri-j can troops be sent to France at rate of s 20,000 a month beginning in August. ( Get the Habit —Trade at Home, It Pays

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“Indiana Traveller” Stops in Decatur; Abandoned Cemetery Sets Him To flunking

The following article about Decatur appeared in the April 24 issue of the Indianapolis Star under the caption, I "Little Stories of An Indiana Traveller,'’ by Ward Hunt Deau: The Nickel Piute station serving Decatur is in the extreme outskirts of the town. South from the station lie cornfields and eastward, across the road, by looking closely one would discover an undent and neglected graveyard with tombstones choked and almost hidden by weeds and underbrush. The station agent was a self-satis-fied Beau Urummel with cheap cigar cocked Jauntily in tlie corner of his mouth. His pink shirt with collar to match was a tiling of rare beauty and his red necktie screamed aloud to the heavens above. He was leaning out the ticket window concentrating on a highly appreciative country maiden about to visit the old aunt back on tlie farm. 1 had gotten up a dozen times to pace tlie station platform only to fall back disgustedly between my grips. While looking out the station window I first became aware of the gray tombstones almost hidden in the matted grass. I took one more look at the living and decided it would be more interesting among the dead, so crossed the road into the graveyard. It was a bright morning and sunlight was streaming through great forest tries onto pathetic, forgotten graves. Some of the markers were broken and lying on the ground. Reading the names and dates, I thrilled at the realization that here

*TRY T H E * * NEXT ON E * | **************** AMERICAN HISTORY 1. Who was the first President elected whose home was west of tile Allegheny Mountains? 2. Who was commanding officer of the "Rough Riders" in the Span-ish-American War? ; What public office did Woodrow Wilson hold immediately before liecoming President ? 4. Who was vice-president, during tin' Wilson administration? 5. What prominent woman radical was accused of inspiring the assassin of President McKinley? G. Where did President Coolidge take the oath of office upon succeeding President Harding? 7. Wha? Presidents since 1012 made trips beyond the borders of the United States? 8. What great international conference was held in this country during President Harding's administration? 9. Name two great American cities which were captured by the British in the War of ISI2. 10. Name four states containing portions of territory claimed by Mexico prior to the Mexican War. ANSWERS 1. Andrew Jackson. 2. Col. Leonard Wood. 3. Governor of New Jersey. i Kmma Goldman.

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slept tlut.se wlio h«ul clicci 100 yearn. ago. Here were buried Indiana pio* 1 neerH-tho.se brave souls who blazed the way tor us softer ones to follow. Only Young People Subtracting birth and death dates. I was amazed-to find only young people holy' —the oldest was 40. This was a graveyurd of young folks! Where, then, were the old? The train was whistling far down the tracks. H roared into the station and came to a grinding stop. I climbed aboard and as we started and then gathered speed the clicking of the wheels over the rail joints were singing. “Where were the old? Where were the old?” With eyes dosed my imagination began to visualize pioneer days of these early Indiana people —the terrible hardships, Indian fighting, backbreaking work of clearing tlie timber to make farms, disease without proper medical attention, grinding poverty. No wonder in those graves rested the young. Teople in pioneer days perhaps were old at 40 —old and tired and ready for the long rest. We were coming into Bluffton and the wheels clicking over tlie rails were singing. "There were no old. There were no old.” And here I was getting off the train older in years than any buried back there but still a young fellow thankful that pioneer days were over, thankful that my forefathers and fate had placed me in a softer age.

G. Plymouth, Vt. 7. Presidents Wilson ind Harding. 8. Washington Arms Conference. 9. Washington and Detroit. It). Texas, New Mexico, Arizona und California. o Canadian Thanks Peru Man For Preventing His Suicide Peru, Ind., April 36—(INS)—Immaculately dressed and prosperous, a young Montreal. Canada, newspaperman, walked into the offices here of Charles Wolfe, former county auditor. to thank tlie Peru man for preventing ins suicide last year. "I've discovered t'.ie world isn't such a bad place, after all,” the young man remarked, "I've come here to give you my thanks.” Last year, at the international convent on of the Kiwanis club in Montreal. Wolfe met the young reporter when the latter attempted to borrow i money to buy poison for himself. Wolfe lent the money—for food, not for .poison, and argued the reporter out of his self-destructive intentions. O Three of Adams county’s best producing farms will be sold at auction to the highest bidder. | Very easy payments. May 3rd. I six miles southeast of Decatur. «. BMn if --'"v. m »4W g three miles east ot Monroe.

SCHOOL BUILDING WRECKED BY WIND I Twenty-two Pupils Injured When Building Is Blown Down At Scottsburgh Scottsburgh, Ind., April 30. ill’.) - Twenty-two pupils wore recovering today rroin injuries received when the Rose Hill school west of this city was wrecked by a windstorm yesterday. The gale the most severe in the history of this community, completely demolished the building, burying several of the children under the debris. Elmo Walker, 8. was the worst hint, it being believed that lie suffered a fractured skull when buried under bricks from a fulling gable. Rescuers hud to dig away the wreckage before

Red Cross Needs $5,000,000 For Flood Victims; I Mobilizes All Relief Resources at Memphis I 1. -Main Street” in one 0/ the 32 refugee camps established by the B Red Cross is shown in the upper photo. In the foreground tico helpless *' B t'icftntz of the merciless waters arc shown inspecting their new quarters. %/ B f. A group of refugees receiving food from a Red Cross canteen \ * j H worker. Mass feeding such as this has been necessary in some camps \ jIMSt' mtl B but is being avoided wherever possible. \ | 3. Acting Chairman James L. I'icscr of the licil Cross who is assist■ 1 xng the administration of relief from base headquarters at Memphis, Ten- LV 6 ncsscc. B *— —»[TH more than 100,000 per- Secretary of Commerce, and An- Cro-ha 1" n 1 f sons already homeless and drew W. Mellon, Secretary of the the Mi? :- ppi \ahey W I UL-J tl.e mighty Mississippi Treasury, to work in conjunction powers of a general in war. He» S threatening each instant with Red Cross officials. At the quarters of the nef corps s» f to tear its way through ad first meeting of this committee Memphis Tenn.. bason 1 ditional towns in the one-time hap- with the Red Cross acting chair- cers of the Army, Navy, Comwrtl B py valley, the American Red Cross man, James L. Fieser, and others, Department, Coast ! ■ ia. . ■ Kurts itself face to face with prob- it was decided that a miuimum of Health Service and eterans • ■ » . _ .... inr nun ■■ V • VIWMWWWUKT. ... • , c- .S-,lliO*|M.a»»ry. <■ ( «<»*»» ■»! the past century. care of the flood sufferers. with Mr. Fieser, sectary avow B The President of the United The disaster was reported to ex- Major General J*" l l "‘ B States has actively participated in ceed in proportions the Florida army engineer-. K mobilizing governmental agencies hurricane of last fall, when the R. Redden, medio.,. .0-' = B and resources to assist the Red roster of homeless was SO,OOO. It Red Cross in MeJiputs, H Cross In Its relief program. On differs in that there is huge total the gigantic program. B April 22, following the custom in of dead and wounded. In this case. Relief funds rou I previous disasters of the first mag- however, there is no definitely cut come in to National e B nitude, he issued a proclamation out problem as in Florida, for the headquarters in Aasutng o B calling upon the people to sub- elements have not finished their to chapter hi adq.- rs B scribe to the Red Cross relief fund, havoc. Whether the waters will state and ail th.* - j » pr the I This he did in his capacity as start to recede within a few weeks possible to do is bring c. B President of the United States and or whether they will continue to refugees. Quotas “”' e ,.0 -oOOof B President also of the Red Cross, rise Indefinitely, sweeping addi- sigued to the chap B He followed this action with the tional houses down to the sea and these arc collecting B appointment of a special commit- engulfing additional acres of farm- to leaving for B tee from his Cabinet, comprising lands and villages, cannot be fore- Rieser expressed b-- ‘‘V'“ on j Dwight F. e Davis, Secretary of seen. the American peopl- '' War: Curtis 'j. Wilbur, Secretary Henry M. Baker, national direc- generously to Uk of the Navy; Herbert C. Hoover, tor of disaster relief for the Ked Hood sufferers. — Men, Women and Child' ren Are Starving Ilejp these poor flood sufferers by giving to ibt* RED CROSS FUND . ] )fC n goodi Adams County has been tailed on to give 5*1,025 and although the rcspo" M the need is so urgent that the quota must be raised now in order to serve it* t nn| Drop your donation in one of the boxes at either of the three hanhs l Murray Hotel or the Daily Democrat office, or give it to Miss Anna Whines, Secretary. Adams County has never failed to help the needy and this cause is 01 of the worthiest for which an appeal was ever made. GIVE NOW Daily Deßoert*' This advertisement donated by The Decit"i>

lie could be glvuu first aid treatment. He is still unconscious today, Others Injured Include: Harvey Comer, 10: Pearl Comer, 10; Frank Denveler, 0: Julius Uenveler, 14; Oeonta Richey, It: Dorthu King, 14; lloliert Murphy, 7, and Laura Jean Filch, 8, ull suffering from cuts and bruizes. Mrs. Evelyn Furnish, teacher was also cut und bruised. Burns were lifted front their foundations, chimneys blown from houses and hailstones large us murbles were driven through window panes by the force of the wind. Fruit trees lu orchards were laid fiat and it Is feared the fruit crop has been ruined. Mr. and Mrs. 1. W. Mucy and daughter, Macibu, arrived last night. Mr. Mary went to Gaty this morning and his family will remain here for a visit while he is übsent. Many front here attended the Shrine meeting at Fort Wayne last'cveniug and report a fine time.

font needs a WifT^ 1 I Uel one nc Nt \y t j ‘ B itoi iuin. M 'l’o«l li B , WomanYountT* fe suffered from beat-L ? "»«I B backache;, m y m , rVea \ Wtj B ? ond ‘«ton ti,?S R AM East thing IJ* B Bs '& «JJ 1 to bft'l| | ar ound | \ w a3 bat.u B 'w able to drat J B W /ST amuStot I V /(A/ Work* 11 ? 6 ho *a ■ £9 n- 1 took i 5 Prescription and it e reaL d F,,MI « B all inward trouble, restore?*" B ■ -* a r" K-sfjS I