Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. HellerPree. and Gen. Mgr. A. R. HolthouseSec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copit* 1 -02 One week, by carrier— .10 One year, by carrier...,s.oo One mouth, by mail .35 Three months, by mallloo Six months, by mail 1.75 Due year, by mail3.oo One year, at office 8.00 (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. One week from today is the Fourth of July and already the annual celebration seems to have started. Please be as cartful as you can. The weather man shows tendencies of acting right decent and we are all hoping that the guess of frost between June 28th and the glorious Fourth will fail to materialize. The cigarette output the last year was a hundred billion, another proof that it pays to advertise. During the past decade by the use of newspaper columns, magazines and bill boards the production of what was once termed “coffin nails" has multiplied many times. President Coolidge is making history. It may not be worth much but he’s making it just the same. He has now caught a trout on half a fish worm, addressed the state legislature of North Dakota and issued a statement that whatever the condition of the western farm, its better than that of farmers in some other countries. Pomeroy, Ohio, bankers prefer dead bandits jo live ones it seems. Any way they are offering a reward of $2,500 to any person who kills a person caught robbing a bank and SI,OOO to any one who captures a bank bandit alive. They evidently believe as the old timers did of the Indian that the only good bandit is a dead one. A Chicago judge in deciding a divorce case recently advised women to permit their husbands to have a night out each week and to feed them well. Fine. We believe the average husband if he had to remain out one lilght a week would soon lose the taste for it so you might try locking the door on him. Indianapolis is trying to secure a hundred thousand members to the City Manager League, each of whom will promise to aid in carrying out the ideals which this form of government stands for. They realize that the first important step of making such a government helpful is to secure the right men on the governing board. A city out in Kansas is planning a park for spooners on the theory that tlie roads arc not safe for this ageold favorite practice. What they need worse probably is a safe place to keep the officials who would spend money for such a cause. They don’t need it unless the young people there are different than they are any where else. Just leave it to them. They will find a place for their cooing. Wisconsin is enacting a law which legalizes the manufacture and sale of old-fashioned beer. If they can get by with it of course the means of getting around the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law will be followed elsewhere. It seems like a ridiculous waste of time and money but the legislature up there has devoted weeks to the effort. It will soon be up to the governor, then to the supreme court and then probably to the federal courts. Bob Tucker sees danger for the republican party in the adoption of the commission-manager form of government in Indianapolis. For years, he points out, Marion county has been controlling the politics of Indiana by

Our Dawg Says a You can recognize jCL'c \ i typical American tny where. He is askng somebody for a ~ .. . ~.r --T-T--having the balance of power and the machine there has been maintained largely through the patronage of the city administration and the forces back of it. With that gone, Tucker thinks the state republican headquarters will be removed to Lake county. His guess may be correct but we don’t believe any predictions auy more and will just wait and see how it all comes out. Otis Briggs who formerly taught chemistry in the schools here and who was arrested Saturday on a charge of operating a "diploma mill" from which he graduated Walter Snead, a newsppaer reporter, two hours after he had applied, evidently believed he was too smart to be just an ordinary teacher. He thought he could fool the public and beat the laws by bootlegging worthless diplomas but the usual end for those who practise such illegal methods caught with “the goods on him" and will probably receive a term in prison. Thats what should happen for it is a serious thing to foist upon the public healers who do not know their, business. When Snead asked Briggs about the ethics of his proceedure his reply showed his disregard of the public, “To hell with the ethics." • A statement broadcasted today by John I. Brown, chairman of the state tax board, that Indiana is one of the few states of the Union that is out of debt will be of interest to those Wells county farmers who appeared before a member of the board in this city yesterday to show that many of their holdings were being assessed at more than the market price. Mr. Brown, as a matter of course, takes pride in the state being out of debt, as all good citizens do, but for the state io be out of debt to the deteriment of the thousands of farmers who are being thrown into debt by reason of heavy taxes about offsets the gratitude of the Hon. Mr. Brown. Os course, the old-timer will not forget that Governors Marshall and Ralston put the state out of. debt, and with an income that was only a fair percentage of the fifty-two' million-dollar income of the state now. —Bluffton Banner. ; —__ o — — ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY * ♦ From the Dally Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago Thl» Day. ♦ ♦+♦♦++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ June 27 —Decatur defeats Bluffton, 6 to 0. Small crowd attends professional wrestling match at the opera house. Monrdte will celebiate the Fourth Wheat is up to 99 cents again in Chicago. Al Butdg installs bath in his Monroe street baiber shop. W. H. Stults moves to Lakeville, Indiana, where he has purchased an elevator. Mrs. H. L. Confer and little son leave for a visit in Chicago. The Klopfenstein distillery w'est of here has 400 bairells of corn and rye whiskey, valued at $55,000 on hands. (What would it be worth now?). J. H. Kuebler of Tiffin, Ohio, is guest of his brother, W. A. Kuebler. Mrs, C. W. McKee, of Chicago, is visiting at the Dr. J M. Miller home. ♦♦♦*♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ ++*+++++* + + + *« + «> TUESDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Central Standard Time) WEAF—Hookup —7 pm.— Eveready Hour. WJZ —Hookup 6 pm.—Stromberg Carson Hour. KFAB —Lincoln (309) 8:05 pm Eniversity of Nebraska Edicational Program. WGHP —Detroit —(244) —7 pm. Detroit Symphony. WNYO—New York —(535) —6 pm. Minchini's Baud. w- o Ladies, Gents, Childrens hair cutting, price 30c. every day except Saturday. Hill & Young, first door south of Peoples Loan and Trust Co. 80tf

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¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ * *¥ ¥ * TRYTHE * * NEXT ONE * B *«:¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ , U. S. GEOGRAPHY 1. In what state does the Rio Grande !• rise? 2. Name the capital of South Caro1 Hua. 3. Name the largest body of water within the borders of the United States. 4. What two states are bordered by eight other states? ■1 5. —What river forms the boundarye between South Carolina and s Georgia? r 6.—Names the states having ports on both the Atlantic and the Great Lakes. • 7. —Are there more states east of ! the Mississippi River than there r are west of it? r 8. —Name the three great sounds along the sea coast of the United States. 9. —In what state is Mount San Francisco? ' 10.—Name the largest island included within the borders of the 48 states. ANSWERS 1. —Colorado. 2. —Columbia. 3. Lake Michigan. 4. Tennessee and Missouri. 5. Savannah River. 6. —Pennsylvania and New York. 7. —Yes. 8. —Long Island Sound, Mamlico and | Puget Sound. 9. —Arizona. 10.—Long Island. o —— — THE GREAT WAR 10 YEARS AGO i i| _J > (By Uunited Press) ' Second contingent of American 1 troops lands in France. Harbor of a ’ French Seaport" dotted with convoys and khaki-dad troops fill the streets, j General Pershing expected to make . inspection. President Wilson approves selective . draft exemptions, regulations soon to | be mailed to boards. , British Unemployment Figures Show A Drop < London. June 27 —(United Press) — I Unemployment in Great Britain, has touched the lowest point in siven i years. When the unemployed-persons register on May 23rd dropped down to i 978.000 it passed just below the un- i unemployment figure reached in De- i cember, 1920, in the temporary wave i of post war prosperity. i How unemployment has been stead- 1 ily declining is illustrated graphically i by the unemployment figures .com- ’ { meucing November, 1926 when the coal 1 stoppage came to an end. : November, 1926 1,545,000 December, 1926 1.351,000 March, 1927 1,081.000 Ma-. ? 1927 995.3011 May 23, 1927 . 978.000 it is believed that the improvement will continue through June, hut consideiable increase in the number of unemployed is anticipated during July , and August, decreasing again a t Au- . tuurn advances. Three Indianapolis Fliers Plan To Make Hawaii Hop Indianapolis, Ind., June 27 —(UP) — The three Indianapolis fliers who recently announced they would attempt to negotiate a trans-Pacific ocean flight, still" are planning their hops today, but are encountering difficulties. Maurice L. Boyd, 22, reports that the Hoosier war ace who had prom- . ised to fly with him to Japan now has signed to drive another plane. He refused to divulge the identity of the flier. Boyd will leave for the west coast Thursday, where he ex- 1 pects to find another pilot.

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FEW STATES ARE FREE FROM DEBT I Indiana Holds Unique Position As Being One Os Few Debtless States By Wallace West, (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Indianapolis, June 27—(UP) —Indi- ‘ ana holds the unique position of being one of the few states to be completely free from debt, J. J. Brown, chairman of the state tax board, declared in an interview with the United Press today. Commenting upon a statement of George Lord, chairman of the Michigan tax commission that government expenditures in that state, both state ami municipal, are tending to increase faster than the increase in wealth justifies, Brown admitted that the general trend all over the United States is in that direction. “Even in Indiana, which has no state debt, all subdivisions of government, including cities, counties and towns are piling up bond issues at a rate which is simply appalling,” the chairman pointed out. "At the present time the indebtedness of such subdivisions in Indiana stands at $182,000,000 and is mounting rapidly.” These figures have no connection : with federal expenditures, Brown i explained, being merely the amounts local government s are spending, outside of the billions of United States debts. Citing figures to prove his contentions, the chairman made the following comparisons: In 1903 current requirements for all state and local governments of the United States were $900,000,000; in 1913, this had mounted to $1,500,000,000, and in 1925, the last year for which complete figures are available, the total was $5,100,000,000. he said. As a further evidence of the inclination of people generally to spend faster than they earn, Brown produced statistics to show that in August 1919. total indebtedness of all state and local governments were $6,700,000,000, while latest figures compiled on November 1926, show a $12,200,000,000 total. The Indiana chairman heartily endorsed several of the theories of Lord. "I agree with the Michigan commission," he that instead of making arbitrary guesses, local and state governments should employ men charged with the sole duty of looking after their budgets and of keeping them within the ability of their respective communities to pay the

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. bills." "The whole trouble.” Brown admitted, "is that local governments, just like private citizens, are spending ' faster than their wealth is Increasing. It any private corporation followed that plan for long it would inevitably reach bankruptcy. The citizenry is , demanding greater civic improvements than they really cun afford to finance. "It is true,” he pointed out, "that us long as the present wave of prosperity continues, the increased burden of debts will not be greatly noticed. It will work out like the 'ten day’ plan which is being advocated by merchants, and will be offset in large measure by increased turnover of money—but—if u stringent monetary condition should develop from any cause the results are liable to be very serious, to the people unless something is done soon to stop this piling up of indebtedness.”

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