Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1927 — Page 4

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DECA T U R DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller_..Pre«. and Oen. Mgr.' A. R. Holthouso Sec’y A Bu». Mgr.. Dick D. Heller......Vlce-Prealdeut Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copit*...l ®2 One week, by carrier.— — -tvj One year, by carrier — 5.00 | One month, by mail - s5 Three months, by mall 100 Six months, by mall 1-75 One year, bj fatal! 3 00 j 3ne year, at office- 3.00 j (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates: ' Made known by Application. Scheerer. Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. The commencement season is near and with many it's the happy time of th? school year. Great days for the young folk and may they enjoy them. A balloon went up 41,000 feet in the air yesterday, establishing a new record. No doubt true with many of us who may never get up that high. A bright sunny day with the trees budding out makes everyone feel thankful that they are living in Indiana and not tn the Hooded sections of Arkansas or Louisiana. A new city park, an athletic Held and several more blocks of ornamental street lights and Decatur will continue to be one of the unusual fine cities in Northern Indiana. Clean-up week is about over, but that's not saying we should neglect the alleys a*d back yards Ute rest of the summer. Let's keep the city looking spick and span. The new and lower light and power rates and the special cooking and heating rate of the City Light and Power plant, which went into effect the first of the mouth, have been attracting favorable comment -from papers in nearby cities. Do y<Su appreciate that Decatur has one of the lowest light and power rates in the state? . . i y— l The flood situation grows worse in Louisiana and thousands have been driven from their homes by the rising waters. Levees have broken in the iiuriiie.ii"'part of'tue state and tire suffering and financial loss of the inhabitants is difficult to picture. A few dollars given to the lied Cross will help those who need it and now is the time to drop a dollar or so in the fled Cross boxes. With tile new ordinance taxing itinerant shows, circuses, minstrels.

and other exhibitions, operators of 3 merry-go-rounds and carnivals, and ■ patent medicine vendors from $25 to IB - $lO a day, this class of outside enter- |H tainment will be barred from this city. ■ There is plenty other means of enter- I tainment and after the new ordinance I is published and becomes law, a 1 penalty wilt be attached for those I who violate its provisions. I James E. Armitage, politician and,! one of the political leaders in Marion' county, was found guilty by a jury , yesterday of contempt, on .charges of attempting to bribe a juror when the Duvall case at Indianapolis was being considered by the grand jury. He was fined SSOO and sentenced to three months in jail. The court overruled a petition for a new trial and indications are that the political leader will have to serve his time. Adams county, long noted for its many miles of improved roads, will j continue to build good roads this year. Next month the commissioners will award contracts for four more macadam roads and during the summer two or three hard surfaced roads will be built, (lood roads may be expensive, but in the long run they pay for themselves and help make a better community, a better market and happier people. Reports come to this office tffat a farmer was seen working in his fields with a tractor at midnight last night. The rains delayed plowing and sewing

of oats and getting the fields in shape for other crops and if you want to ' sec a busy place now-a-days, just take I a drive out in the country. The | farmers are working hard and those I who have made a success of the bus- • iness, say that It Is not too late to ' sow oats and that prospects are good for a good crop. City street commissioner Amos Fisher and force of men made a ■ record this year in covering the town I and gathering up the hundreds of boxes of tin cans and other rubbish in the annual Clean-Up week cam--1 palgn. The street cleaning department completed its work yesterday and the trucks visited every section of the city. Mr. Fisher stated that if the truck drivers failed to pick up the cans and boxes that n-telephone call to his home would bring a truck ami the rubbish taken away. That s setv • ice and we commend Commissioner Fisher on his work. In the United States as a whole, according to the National Industri; 1 Conference Board. 53 per cent of the raw materials of industry come from the soil. Most of the industries nowusing farm products, however, are food processing plants. This is all very well, but what we need particularly is the development of industries ,1 which will convert farm products | into something other than food. The ' capacity of the human stomach is definitely limited, and therein lies the farmer's difficulty in expanding his market. The wants of human beings in all other lines are limited only by their ability to buy. The farmer s greatest opportunity for an expanded market lies in converting his crops into products other than food. 3ie Prairie Farmer. — —o — *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦-♦**♦♦♦ ♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ , ♦ ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago Thi® Day. ♦ May 5, 1907, was Sunday - — O ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦! ♦ OF RADIO * FRIDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF —(18 Stations) 6 I’M. Goldman Band Concert. KOS —Denver (322) 9 pm. Gilbert and Sullivan s Opera "The Mikado I WCCO —Mpls-St. Paul (416) 9:30 pm.l Grisez Woodwin Quartet. "■. ■' . :“'J : . I. < • ' Recital, Sophie Braslau. Contralto. WJZ - Hook Up 4 stations 6:30 pm. Royal Hour. o Newcastle — B. 1). Cockrill and i James Greet, theatre operator, are under arrest, charged with violating the Sunday blue laws by operating their shows on Sunday. Affidavits were filed : by Prosecutor Paul 11. Henson on request of the ministerial association.

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¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ ¥¥¥¥ * TRYTHE * * NEXT ONE * ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ SPORTS 1. Name u titled English hurdler i now in this country. 2. What three cities are reported to be lending among aspirants for, 1 the site of the 1936 Olympic ■ Games? L 3. What horse won the Two Thou-' sand Guineas nt. Newmarket this year? ' 4 Who won the Big Three football championship last fall? i 5. Who is the present intercollegiate tennis singles champion? fl. What golfer has won either the , national open or amateur title for the last three years? 7. How many times in succession 1 has Yale beat Harvard in rowing In recent years? , 8. What country won the 1924 Olym- ! pic championship in polo? 9. What American horse was high money winner last season? 10. Name tho player who attained the highest batting average in the 1926 world's series. ANSWERS 1. Lord David Burghley. 2. Berlin, Rome and Barcelona. 3. Adam's Apple. 4. Princeton. 5. E. G. Chandler. fl. Robert Jones. 7. Six times. 8. Argentina. 9. Crusader. 10„ Thevenow, Cardinal shortstop, with .417. o , THE GREAT WAR I 10 YEARS AGO | I f French capture 4300 prisoners in attack south of Laon. Qi I I Clean Up Week Say, People, Why not get in line? And clean up Decatur Os all dirt and grime. Gather up all the cans And rubbish and junk. The way it looks now Makes Decatur look punk. Put all your debris And refuse in a can. It will be gathered this week | Bv the city rubbish man. Keep your lawn mowed. Give yous house a coat of paint. . So when visitors come to Decatur. They can make no complaint. Cut the weeds and the grass, On all vacant lots. I Plant shrubbery and flowers And make beauty spots. And so. everybody. Have a little more pride And make Decatur A better place to reside. o Dancing Class Friday night, 8:15 to 9:15. Assembly 9:15. — Sun-Set I ° | Mrs, F. M. Schirmeyer spent the day in Fort Wayne with friends. The Simple Way Add a pint of boiling water to a package of Sunlite-Jell, 'hen note the delicious tantalizing aroma of fresh ripe fruit. No object onable odor, because ilie gelatine in Sunlite is pure ami high grade. Compare it with I others. Then judge for yourself, j Your grocer has Sunlite or can get it.

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London (United Press). — "Mirror* suicides" are the iatest attraction to* those who take their own lives Numerous cases of suicide have been found here recently where the| suicide committed has been deliberately staged before a mirror. In each case a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind lias been entered. Several noted pathologists and psychiatrists have recently devoted some time to a study of the apparent complex which causes suicides to stand before a mirror while taking their i lives. One psychiatrist has declared I that the cause is a "complex of death''j where the subject has so long thought, of death tiiat he is anxious to view fori tile last time someone in the agonies

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