Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1927 — Page 4

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1) E C AT I R DAILY DEMOCRAT PußlUhed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres. and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Secy St Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Foetofflce at Decatur. Indiana, us second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 02 One week, by carrier — -H> 1 One year, by carrier 5.V0 j One month, by mall -85, Three months, by mall — 100 Six months, by mail — 1.75 One year, by mall —3.0 U (One 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. THE C. E. PLAN:— More than 25,000 General Electric employes hold bonds in their corporation, for 122,500,000. This Is an average of $903 per man, an increase of 5 per cent in number and sll3 per capita holding since last year. The investment is made through the G. E Employes’ Securities Corporation that holds securities in 100 of the General Electric affiliated corporations. The General Electric, like every other great corporation, is an assemblage of units, united for economy of operation. These 25,000 employes are part of the corporation; men sensible enough to waste no time lighting the spirit of unification of business as it is today, but able to save a little working capital and honest enough to invest it in the business by which they live. They would have been little shopkeepers, two generations ago; asking two or three times the present . prices for the goods that under the old plan had cost so much more to produce. It one man, or a dozen, owned or controlled the General Electric or other similar great corporations it might seem a menace. When it is all America —the laborer, the clerk, the profi ssional man, the stenographer, the banker—that owns our great ‘corporations. the country is safe. The statesman who said "You can't indict a whole nation,” saw the mighty truth. With the vast bulk of all corporate' holdings in small, widely-distributed, uncontrollable personal units, the thought of monopoly is altogether idiotic. As the “monopolistic” myth is exploded. one also sees the old theory that ow net ship and management of an industry should be the same, going into the discard. It is altogether possible and probable that the executives of the General Electric are pickj~ - t tial. t. The largest stockholder in the Gen- • oral Electric might be a poor man- . ager and vice versa. The management is responsible to the public, the workers and the owners. Ownermanagement does not guarantee good - management, hen c e management should not hinge upon ownership.— r The Manufacturer. ex Newspaper advertising in Ameri a cost $235,000,000 last year, a gain of r $15,000,000 over the previous year. It 4 C has been argued that advertising hi *•' so much waste, so much added un- “ necessarily to the cost of the articles ’* sold. In one sense, ij, is true; if the sales could be made without it, the ’ prices could be just that much less k to the consumer. But the world buys only on information. It travels belt > cause it knows where to go, what it can see, how much it will cost. It J builds new houses because it reads how other people build and live and enjoy. It dresses in new fabrics because these come to its reading eyes. It is many times cheaper to get all this information by reading than in any other manner. The world would settle down into a jumble of ignorant, unkempt, leave -me - alone provincial units, but for what it reads in the advertising columns. The word "accident” by derivation means something which "falls across.” Falls across what? Why, some orderly procedure! Accident implies an order violated. If there were no order in the world there would be no accidents, for all events would then be

, equally casual, Order implies pur--1 pose. A bad adventure is one contrary to order and purpose, it results in an accident. Cross u street absentmindedly and in violation of the order , of traffic. You wake up in the ambulance. That's a bad adventure, according to the National Safety Council. ... A visitor dropped in today and asked us why a city apparently us progressive us Decatur, making u real | effort to step ahead, would permit a lot in the center of the business section to be used as a dump. He said that while the Limberlost Trail sign hid it to some extent, it was like sweeping the dust under the davenport to hide behind that, ashes, an old wagon, refuse and dirt. A Utile

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Tomorrow is the Opening Day of the New Staley’s Service Station The Fine Brick Building Erected Corner Second & Marshall Streets A better and finer Service to all Car Owners I | GIVEN AWAY FREE! Save money I One quart of Oil given with each purchase of 5 gallon TOMORROW marks another step in our march of progress as we open to the public olir I ** ————— H* new and up-to-date * More deliveries for the Every day in the week, Q | commercial car we feature values in tires. Delivery car owner, cwt Wp V 11/C k-Z LCILIVZI * Our values mean more nC WW* T 4VV mileage-at economical , , . , i u n cost - Sc I Corner Second and Marshell Streets cial «r owner._u»e Silver- Here yOU get SiIVOtOWnS | ofVOUf —just parked full nf miles The I YOU arc invited to visit us in our new home as we are here to take care o J Silvertowns at prices | automobile wants. that cut their cost per mile Famous . . ... timcs , thelowestithpseverheen. IT WILL lie our aim to render a prompt, efficient and courteous senice < • aS / WWBte . Goodrich —— -—' I Tires Convenient drive-ways and a bat- We will continue to sell ~" 0 ( ■BA I f] f> * cry three pumps will serve you Tires, do Vulcanizing and lire ! Nameymirprice; Exclusively win, standabo gasoline. pair work ot all kind, we have the tire | jf'V'f to match it! j n I _ —- — — In our stock of Silver- 9 . f u[ . * ia a I A line of ACCESSORIES, OILS and GREASES. Special arrangenun KKSKAXII Decatur | , f Jfl U® Jnw Cord*-we cam offer I draining crank cases. bl ■ SF/ youanythingyouwant, B —. in low price savingsor |j * | I l -”—■” | Always Ready to oerve iou I Staley’s Service Station I I v»! I Second and Marshall St. PhOncM7 Decatur I JLz 11 V C ll* • ■

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927.

• effort would make it presentable and • he insisted it ought to be done. We noticed severs lots last eve- . niiig, on which the weets have not • been cut. That means trouble for the neighbors who are just now try- - ing to get their yards in condition for the summer. Lets pull together folks,' lets keep the old town looking good. We are in deud earnest when we tell you that we want Decatur to be the liest appearing as Well us the best trailing town in America and we can make it that If we all help. Cut the weeds, keep them cut. trim up the vacant lots. If you start, perhaps some one will fellow. Farm lands in Adams county are ineieasing in price, which is natural.

1 1 A few yetp-s ago we reached the top peak. It was too high and when the back-up came and they started down, they wont far below actual value. Now its bucking up and the pendulum is swinging the other way. It will reach a basis some where near what its worth. Now is the time to buy farms In Adams county. They arc the best In the middle west. Some folks call Friday the 13th a lucky day, some declare It unlucky. Het you would have a hard time convincing Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder that its one of those days when their "cup of joy runneth over.” They were sentenced. Sunday is straw hat day and the boys are busy this week selecting the new one for the 1927 season.

! ■ = | Improved and Faster | PASSENGER SERVICE :I |! CLEVELAND —via— ; i Nickel Plate Road !j ‘Leave Decatur (CT) 1:13 P.M. ] 1 j Arrive Rocky River (E l ) 8:34 P.M. J i | i Arrive \V. 25th Street Station 8:50 I’.M. j [ ' | Arrive Broadway Station 8:55 I’.M. i | I [ Arrive Euclid Avenue Station 9:20 P.M. ] ; | i ‘Daily except Sunday—i Daily ] i Note the Four Conveniently Located | ! c Stations at Cleveland ! * EXCELLENT DINING CAR SERVICE. ; < For full information phone No. 21. S. E. SHAMP, Ticket Agent, Decatur, Indiana.

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