Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copit® 1 03 One week, by carrier — .10 One year, by carrier — 5.00 One month, by mall— .35 Three months, by mall——— 1.00 Six months, by mall 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. Sunday was col and fair as was predicted. Clean the vacant lots. We notice that most folks have done this but there are still several which should be taken care of. Charles Jewett, former mayor of Indianapolis is being groomed as a candidate for United States senator. Charley may be a little light for such a job but ought to weigh up with the present incumbent, Arthur Robinson. New York City has raised fifty thousand to spend on the reception of “Lindy" when he flies there the 14th. We are surprised at their modesty. Decatur would have spent that much for jhe honor. One of the best ways we know of to make the city look attractive is to cooperate with the street commissioner and his force. Remember to keep the weeds cut and remember that the streets are not places in which to dump the grass and rubbish. Travelers from a far south state stopping here a few hours inquired how long our rainy season lasts and were surprised to hear that during , the past two or three years it has ex- , tended largely from January to De- 1 cember. A week of good weather now would , be worth a million or two to old Adams county. Some corn has been planted and most of the farmers are already to finish up that important • part of the job as soon as the fields •get dry enough. •There is much interest just now in •the progress of the Decatur Country •Club as there should be. Its a fine • asset to any community and few • places can boast of one Which will ( .compare with that in the making here , ’now. You should lend this movement i ’your earnest support. 1 • We imagine Colonel Mitchell is -getting a tine “kick” out of the trips .the boys are making to Europe over I the sky routes for these men are adJmirers and disciples of his who be'lieve that this nation "can lead the • world in the airplane field and #we •can if the government would back ip • such men as Mitchell, Lindbergh and • Chamberlin as they deserve. Three thousand Rotarians from the • United States and as many more from ’ other countries are having a fine old *■ time at Ostend, Belgium, this week, • the occasion being the annual inter- • national convention of that great or- • ganization. That city seems to be , fairly outdoing uerself to show every ’ body the best time they ever had and r from all reports are succeeding. Even such a startling feat as flying! across the Atlantic ocean does not , seem to attract nearly so much attent ion after the first successful voyage. When Lindbergh did the sen- , sational feat two weeks ago, everybody was interested'but there seemed to be only a slight interest over the flight of Chamberlin and Levine in comparison. Captain Lindbergh is pleased with the opportunity to relax after the most strenuous social two weeks any one has spent in some time. He is tired of it and would like to return for

a few days to his old natural self j which he will probably never be permitted to do. Once a man becomes famous he is likely to continue an idol some time. Another good sign is the fact that the prize fighters are unable just now to arouse any great Interest. The publicity men are having a hard time getting uny thing in the papers and a harder time to get any one to read their dope when they do put it oVer. Most folks don't care whether Dempsey rounds in to condition or don't and the next scrap is likely to be a financial flop instead of a million-dol-lar gate unless they can do something. There is a lot of bunk and cheap bluster to the publicity given to the fact that Governor Jackson and Attorney General Gilliom used some hard liquor as medicine. Now there is talk of a special session to change the law to legalize such acts but don’t get excited for there will be no such session. R would be interesting but unsafe and you know or should know by now that politicians do not take such chances. It would be "hair” if they did and "hair" if they didn't and they never bring on these things unless they can't help it. Another wonderful achievement — that of Chamberlin and Levine—flying to Germany in the monoplane, Columbia, traveling several hundred miles farther than did the plucky Lindbergh and without taking any glory from that young man, likewise deserve and will receive much credit. It is quite possible that their flight will mean more scientifically than did that of the Lindy's for it tested out a monoplane, which Mr. Levine, owner of the company manufacturing it, claims can do the job and do it easily. The ship had previously remained in the air fifty-one hours and the millionaire Levine had ho much confidence in it being able to fly across the ocean that he accompanied Chamberlin. America is again demonstrating skill and courage in this great enterprise.

++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ Tuesday's Five Best Radios Copyright 1927 by United Press Central Standard Time WEAF, hookup. 16 stations, 7 p. nt. — Eveready Hour. WJZ, hookup, WdZ, WBAL, KDKA, KYW, 7 ’ m —Grand Opera concert. WTIC, Hartford, ■ m: V.TIC Symphonic WEBH, Chicago. 370, 8 p. m.—Theater program. KFAB, Lincoln, 341, 8:05 p. m. —Univeristy of Nebraska program. o ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ From the Dally Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Yeare Ago Thl« Day. ♦ *¥■»*¥**♦♦*♦«**♦♦ June 6 —Miss Mary Kelly, of Butler and Kennith Kimball, of Jackson. Michigan, matried by Dr. Wilcox here last evening at the close of prayer meeting. Ladies of the Presbyterian cliurcj are gathering waste paper which they will sell to a big paper mill. Sons of Veterans hold annual state convention at Bluffton. Decatur Furnace Company gets cor tract to furnish eight tons of casting ■> a day to a Chicago concern. Prover Brothers by the Fred Eichenberger restaurant. Decatur defeats Frankfort ball team, 5 to 3. Jesse Steele, of St. Louis, is visiting here. The liver is out of banks again. “Peck" Cramer has resigned his position at Eichenberger's restaurant.

, THE GREAT WAR 10 YEARS AGO I J | Estimate that lll.OOO.OOi) registered for iaft yesterday while only 239 ar-* rests for resistance were reported throughout country. o New Chemistry Building Is Authorized For I. U. Bloomington, June 6—(UP) —A new chemistry building for Indiana University was authorized last ween at a meeting of the board of trustees. I The structure is to be erected next year and will remedy crowded conditions in tile chemistry department, it is said.

Living ‘Dead Man’ Puzzles Doctors; May Recover If He Lives Six Y ears

Camden. N. J. June 6—(INS)—In the county hospital for the Insane at Lakeland near here is a patient termed by physicians, a living dead man. or '"a human oyster." The victim is suffering from what is probably the rarest malady known to medical science —dementia praecox oatatatonlc —Hospital records list Ills idenity as Joseph Kade. 28, but physicians refuse to divulge his address or admit what his name really is. Sufferers from this mysterious ailment which has puzzled medical men throughout the world have been very few—so few that physicians have had very little opportunity to delve into the cause and cure of the disease. Famous physicians from all over the worl 1 have visited Kade to study his case but returned home more puzzled than wain they first viewed the patient. All cf them, however, have come to agree that if the patient can be kept alive for six years he will recover. Kade was taken to the Cooper hospital here last November—literally a living corpse. He was deaf, blind, paralyzed. All his nerves and muscles were numb, his jaws were so tightly locked that he had to be fed with liquids by

SSSSSSSSKSSSBSSBS K 8 « The PEOPLE’S VOICE « H K This column for the use of our K K readers who wish to make sug- K S gestions for the general good K 14 or discuss questions of interest. K S Please sign your name to show i: S authenticity. It will not be K 54 used if you prefer that it not be. S S » SSSSSSSKSSSSSSSSK “Little Red School House” Just east of Salem about one-half mile stands a quaint old structure we will name “The little old red school house", It was built in 18S0. It is not however, the oldest in Old Blue Creek township but the last one left standing. the rest having been torn down and built greater and also situated on pikes, but its on the same mud road and in the same old place, “this little old red school house”. It hardly seems possible that we went to this school house forty and forty-five years ago and today, have children going to the very same place, but what great changes have taken place in all these years. The different rules and wayof conducting the school. We went through woods and swails and mud, it was get there the best way.we could which was pretty tough sometimes, but we always got there and in time to have a game of “old round town" or “Anti Over" this little old school house." Then when the bell rang we all rushed in and when the teacher said, Everyone to your books- we knew enough to get quiet and also busy. Then we would go after the old arithmetic, perhaps to work out partial payments which took almost one space of the board and almost made one sweet. And when we were through and looked for the answer, and found it wrot g. we drew a long breath for we knew we had it all to go over, but we helped each other and the teacher helped us and we got along all right. The teacheis were such as John Tyndall J W. Pierce, J. H. Bryan, R. M. Campbell, A. J. Porter, C. C. Calderwood and Cai sou Mann. Some of these are 'still living while some have passed to the Great Beyond.

It just seems as though we must tell a little joke on one of our old school mates that went to this “old red school house ever so many years ago and that is Q. L. Vance, one day while we were reciting Geography the teacher asked Lee to tell the products of a certain state. And he, not knowing what else to say, (because he didn’t have his lesson) answered, Ginseng, of course. He has grown older and wiser, but still remembers part of his boy hood days spent in this "littli old red school house”. Also Mr. Lem Merijinan of Decatur got his “lamin ’ at this old school house and then there is Flank Lynch, also owes his k nwledge to this school house or rather tlie teachey, who made him stand in tlie corner so much. We could mention others but space will not permit. There years ago in the same school | house was a big box stove and big long sticks of wqod piled aroupd it 1 and say! We had some heat, but now its an old coal stove with the pipe getting tilled up and even sometimes freezing ont and have to go home smoked almost as black as niggers . Hut there is one change we will call an improvement and that is a well close by the house, forty years ago it was carry water from the nearest house in a two gallon bucket and sev- | eral would yell. Please may I pass the water? And the one granted the request would pass around the room and we all drank from the same “sanitary tin”, (red with rust). And then

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a tube through his nostrilr Since that time, doctors say. he has not even twitched an eyelash. His heart action, pulse and breathing. however are normal. Experiments of all kinds have been resorted to lu cu effort to rouse his numbed faculties but without result. Physicians now agree that the only thing that can be done is to keeo him alive by use of liquid nourishment fur six years when he will recover the use of his nerves and muscles. Dr. Grant Barry, chief of th-j department of mental diseases of tho Philadelphia General Hospital bus carefully diagnosed the case and predicts the man will recover if fed for six years as he is apparently in nor<nan physical condition. Dr. Barry, however, carefully explains that if Kade lives six yeans he will become possessed of super-human strength and will have to be strapped securely until he recovery Needles stuck in the victim's body have no effect. Guns discharged close to his ears also failed to awaken the man. Doctors have crossed Kade's fingeis, his legs and tilted his head, to return a week later and find them in the same position they left them.

in those days we didu't take our dinners in separate buckets and boxes, but a family of five or six would eat from the same big basket, and It was not oranges, bananas and frosted cookies, but such as mush, bread and meat and once in a while a molasses cake, it wasn't eat what we wanted but what we could get. and then another change from those days, the girls wore calico dresses with big long braids of hair hanging down their backs and rubber boots or shoes called Stoggies, while the boys wore leather boots with brass tibs on the toes of which they were very proud. Then when at last the •term of five or six mouths would draw to a close we got to leave our baskets at home and the parents would come and have a big dinner. Boards brought in for tables and good things to eat, and last of all an old time spelling school at night, and there were some good spellers to w ho knew the old McGuffeys and Shelden almost by heart but with all these changes, its on the same mud road road and in the same old place, "this little old red school house". The same old brick are in the wall, The bell swings to and fro. But soon 'twill all be crumbling dowi£ 'Tis going sure but slow. And then seme day as we pass by. We ll pause and look it o'er. And let a tear drop here and there On the place that is no more." “This little old red school house." ■ So many schoolmates dead and goue Since forty years ago But we'll always love to think of them ■■■ As own life's path we go. But quite a number still are left Tho scattered here and there. Oh: how we'd love to meet them all And talk of old times—Where? Why, at “this little ol red school house.” C. R.

Coolidge Reviews U. S. Navy Aboard the Presidential Yacht Mayflower of Cape Henry, Va. June 6— (UP)—lu these same waters where the first iron clad war vessel, Merrimac, yielded in struggle to the first armored tprrent ship, Monitor, President Coolidge today reviewed the descendants of the Civil war craft, a vast array of modern steel giants and smaller auxiliary, knowing no distinction of north and south. The long line of 98 vessels comprising the combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets moved slowly past the Mayflower, the saluting guns booming out before they reached the Presidential yacht. The hollow echo reverberated across the waters of the bay. It took over 3 hours for the 98 vessels to file by at It) miles an hour.

Vincennes Man Gets Life Term For Murder Washington, June 6 —(L'P) — Ora Hatfield, of Vincennes, was sentenced to life imprisonment last night for the murder of Nell Anderson. The defense has announced that no appeal would be taken. The jury was out five hours. New Thing In Face Powder A new youth shade that is exclusive to MELLO-GLO. Stays on longer, less affected by perspiration, dobs not clog the pores. This new wonderful Beauty Powder is made by a new French Process and you wijl be delighted with it. Absolutely pure. Just try MELLO-GLO and note its rare qualities. Only one dollar. Th# Hoitbouse Drug Co.

¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ ** * * * T R Y T II E * NEXT ONE ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ SPORTS ia I ■l. How many runs did Wa | Johnson aljow In the first game be pitched this season after being laid up since early spring will a broken ankle.’ 2. Who won the Indianapolis speedway auto race this year? , 3. What horse won this year s Metropolitan Handicap? 4. What foreign soccer team completed its American tour last week? 5. What university won Jhe team championship at the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet this year? 6. What new world's record was set at the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet? ?. What university won this year's Big Ten track and field meet? 8. Who won the British amateur golf championship this year? 9. Who won the Methopolitan open (hampionship? 10. What crew won the Child's Cup this year? ANSWERS 1. None. 2. George Souders. 3. Black Maria. 4. The Uruguayans. 5. Stanford. 6. Fourteen feet in the pole vault by Sabin Carr of Yale. > 7. Illinois. 8. Dr. William Tweddell. I ft. Johnny Farrell. 10. Princeton.

Gov. Jackson To Speak At Taylor University Among the opening events of the commencement season at Taylor University will be a visit by Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, who will speak in the chapel of the institution. June 7. at 11 o'clock a m. The institution has made provision for large attendance of citizens from this section of the state. An efficient system of amplifiers has been installed so that any who may fail tp be seated in the chapel can hear the governor on the campus or in Society Hall. HARD COAL Excellent quality, very low summer prices. Leave us your order now before advance in price. C ARROLL COAL & COKE CO. MOOSE NOTICE GOOD TIME TUESDAY NIGHT So be there and have a big time. Plenty to eat. Committee.

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