Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening **<*»' Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller --Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A R. Holthouse Sec’y & Bui. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-Preaident Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatur. Indiana, ae second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 °2 One week, by carrier..—.. — .1° One year, by carrier — 600 One month, by mail .S 5 Three months, by mail—-—— 1-00 Six months, by mail — — 1-75 One year, by mall — 3.00 ®ne year, at office--— 3.00 (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. Tile cleanup work is moving right ' along and a glance at the yards and the alleys will convince you. It has' been a big job but undei Street Commissioner Fisher is coming through one hundred per cent perfect. Don't miss the Industrial Association dinner Monday evening. It will be a pleasant event and from these i meetings should result many things of value. The program will last only one hour so be ready with any sug-i gestions that you believe will help. = Tomorrow is Sunday. Your plans for the day'should include your at- • tendance at the church services. The pastor has a big job and he works at it seven days a week but lie can't put it over without your assistance and! that means your attendance at church. I The Wholesale Trade Division of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce will visit Decatur next Thursday afternoon and should be given a, lousing reception by the business men of this community. Let these men know that this is a live and hustling and hospitable city. The drive for $2,050 in Adams county to meet our quota of the Red j Cross funds to be used for the relief of the unfortunate people who havej been driven from their homes in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana is nearing a successful end, greatly to the credit of our citizens. Don't overlook this opportunity to serve. This was a great week in the middle 1 wqjt and don’t think that a lot of work M hasn’t v beeu done. From eariyj fat< a: night the farmers have been in their fields and a few more days will take them out of | the depths of dispair which has been theira for the past several weeks. The | s>rospeVts are certainly much brighter! than a week ago. Democrats of Indiana are enthusiastic over the outlook for state and national victories next year and in ! this are being encouraged by hun dreds of leading republicans who believe that the only way the government can be taken from the hands of those who have had control for eight | years past is to elect democrats to office. Meetings held this week indicate that next year's contest will be a very interesting one. The Indiana Democratic Editorial! Association will hold the mid-summer meeting at Wyandotte Cave in south-, ern Indiana on June 10th and 11th i with a program of happy events in-1 eluding a trip through the second! largest cave in America. Headquarters will be at the state hotel and all who desire to join the editors on this vacation are invited to do so. Reservations can be made direct witlf the hotel at any time now. Russ Duncan, member of the last legislature ami prominent in republican politics in Indianapolis, has been found guilty of forgery, theft, conspiracy and uttering a false check and will serve a term of three years in the federal prison He stole a federal lax refund check made out to an Indiana citizen who died before he could claim it. By falsely representing himsdf to be the payee he secured the check and cashed it. With men of such tendencies making our laws are you surprised that things

are not going Just right? j- SB With the mayor of Indianapolis under suspicion, with the governor a ! defendant to a suit filed by Mrs. D. |C. Stephenson to reclaim property, .''with Senator Jim Watson headlining t cigarette advertisements and with the feeling that Silent Cal has played entirely with the big interests as I against the farmers and laboring men 2 and small business concerns, It is not D surprising that many voters are waitj Ing for next years election to show 5 their utter disgust. — i,i I With the commencement season of school, college and university ap- ' proaching, thousands of boys and girls throughout the country are confronted with that solemn problem of choosing a life career. Happily many of them have solved it or think they have. Perhaps the majority are in this fortunate group, but many others I are pondering deeply the vital question. The last United States census showed that 41,614,248 persons are gainfully employed in the United States, under the direction cf 1,516,129 administrators, executives and technical experts. It is estimated that by 1930, 1,900,000 executives will be needed to supervise the work of the ( 50,300,000 persons then employed. It is fuither estimated that only 150.000 specialists will be graduated from the colleges and technical schools to fill the 400,000 new executive posttons. , What an opportunity these statistics show for ambitious young workers to rise from the ranks of industry to places of leadership, it Is the eternal axiom of "plenty of room at the top”, but from the statistics there appears ■ to be more room than ever for the person who deserves to be there. There are courses designed to train executives, but the courses will not do it all nor will all the executives be those fortunate enough to have had that | advantage. In self-study, in inherent qualites, in ambition and industry will be found the stepping stones to these 100,000 vacancies that must be filled in 1930.—New Castle Courier <——o • — ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ From the Dally Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Year* Ago This Day. ♦ *****♦♦♦*♦«♦♦♦♦« May 7—Shrock. Lutz. Ehingen Adams, Waring, Niblick. Archbold, Fledderjohann and Ellingham elected as board of directors of the Decatur Commercial club. J. D. Hale given contract lor eight ears of coal for county. Fred Mutschler severs an artery in Park hotel is for rent. Contract to pa ve Madison and Third streets awarded to Julius Haugk for jui.ooo. Mr. Oukoo, of Japan, here to inspect new interurban power house. Marriage license —George Scheiferstein and Dora Grandstaff. Residence of Mrs Chris Amstutz on Chestnut street, destroyed by fire. Miss Mayme Terveer, hostess for Bachelor Maids. o ♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ ♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ SUNDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES fCopyright 1927 by United Press) Central Standard Time Throughout WEAF—Hook-up (11 stations) 5:20 p.m.—Capitol Theatre program. WEAF —Hook-up (11 stations) 7:15 p. m. —The American Singers Male Quartet. ,WJZ—Hookup (KDKA, KYW, WBZ) 7:30 p.m.—The National Weekly Review. , WHB —Kansas City (366) 9 p. nj.— K. of C. Convention. i WCCO —Mpls.-St. Paul (416) 8:45 p. m.—Scundvain Ensemble. MONDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright 1927 by United Press) Central Standard Time Throughout WEAF —-Hook-up (11 s(ations) 8:00 p. m.—Ponchiellj’s Opera "La Gioconda.” WJZ—Hook-up (10 stations) 5:30 p. 4 m.—Roxy and His Gang. , WLW-S-Cincinnati (422) 8 p. m.— ( Burnt Corkers. s WHZ—Madison, Wis. (535) 7:15 p.m. Educational Program University of Wisconsin. 1 WEAF—Hook-up (11 stations) 7 p.m. The Gypsies and John Barnes ~ Wells. ..; o [J Miss Jirene Gregory, teacher in the Hammond schools, Is spending the r ® week-end with her mother. Mrs. Elizas’ beth Gregory.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1927.

**** * TRY T H E * * NEXT ONE *f ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ ASIAN GEOGRAPHY 1— Name the land on either side of the Straits of Malacca. 2— Hainan and Formosa are two large islands off the coast of China; which one belongs to Jap an? 3— Is Ceylon off the southeast or southwest coast of India? 4— Is Kamchatka an island? 5— Has Afghanistan a seacoast? 6 — Is Hong Kong nearer to SJjanghai than to Canton? 7— Name four great seas situated along the western borders of Asia. 8— What great seaport is located on the extreme southeast tip of the mainland of Asia? 9— Give within 399 miles the length of the Red Sea. If) Is Mandalay a seaport* ANSWERS 1— Malay States and Sumatra. 2— Formosa. 3 — Southeast. 4 — No, it is a peninsula. 5— No. 6— Near to Canton. 7— Caspian, Black, Mediterranean and Black seas. 8— Singapore. 9— 1,310 miles. 10—No. —o MY DEAR MOTHER A year ago I gave a boquet bright And the eyes that sparkled with , delight. Were my Mother's She fondled and carressed each flow, r in turn. 1 And the memory makes me long and yearn. For my Mother. i I have a stately lily white, today I'll place it on a new made mound of clay. For my Mother. Some how I know she will see and understand And I'll try and still the trembling of my hand. Dear, dear Mother. —F. S. K. 0 Saved From Cannibals By Dancing Charleston Sydney —(UP) — Menaced by savages in the island of Epi, in the New Herides. Palmer Kent, composer and orchestra conductor of this city, declared on his return from a holiday trip that he had saved himself from injury and possible death by giving exhibitions of the Charleston. Kent told of his hostile reception by the natives. They crowded round him brandishing knives and guns. He had no brightly-colored cloth or beads, which are generally credited with tit and take their thoughts away trot t subjects of cannibalistic -cook-pots . The natives began crowding round him and tearing at his clothes. Then, said Kent, he began to dance an intricate Charleston movement. His tormentors watched in awe for a while, and then all took up the dance, while Kent whistled the orchestral accompaniment. Kent was there and then made instructor in the Charleston, and soon he was teaching the dance to 200 semi-nude men. women, and children. He declared that the natives proved apt pupils and they were so delighted with the Charleston that they loaded him with presents and provided him with an escort back to the coast. o •—— — Model Russian Farm Run By Americans Moscow (United Press)—Two young Ameiicans, Harold, Ware and George McDowell, have been electe 1 to the. village Soviet at Haslov-Kut. Neither is a Communist. They are members of the staff of the Russian Reconstruction Farms near the village, an American model farm and agriculural school. McDowell, nominated by the village head-man, was described as a 'Typical American worker and true proletarian.” The model farm on which they work now completely motorized and earns a net profit. The methods by which the American farmers et more harvest per acre than their Russian peasant neighbors are attracting wide attention. • INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY New' York. March 30. 1927. The Board of Directors have declared a quarterly dividend of Fifty Cents 1 (50c) a share on the Common Stock of this Company, payable May 16th, 11927, to Common stockholders of reclord at the close of business May 2nd, 1927. I Checks will be mailed. Transfer books will not close. j OWEN SHEPHERD, Vice-President & Treasurer.

' TOO GOOD AS A MAN! . Mr A A policeman was attracted by the remarkable pool-shooting of an individual in an Oakland, Cal., poolroom. At he marveled, the thought struck him that the player was not a man, but a wontan. !A police matron verified his suspicions. Grace Boehm, twentythree, wife of an invalid war veteran and mother of a baby girl, confessed she’s been supporting the family by operating a concrete mixer and driving trucks. s (Intetrellonal Newsreel)

Moving Mountain Threatens Highway Sebastopol. — (UP) —A 1.200 foot mountain moving at the rate of a yard a day is threatening the Yalta automobile highway skirting the shore of Crimea along the Black Sea. The mountain has been on the move for

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several weeks. Gangs of shovelers have kept the motor highway dear of loose rock and dirt which continually slide on the pavement but it is feared that the mountain is now coming so close to the precipitous sealine that the highway may be upset into the Black Sea just as tlie summer rush of holiday-makers is about to begin.

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