Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1927 — Page 4

PAGE FOUR

DECATUK DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Exoapt Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. jr. H. Heller Free. and Oen. Mur. A. R. Holtbouae Sec’y ft Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller - Vice-President Entered at the Poetoffiee at Decatur. Indiana, as secoud class mattei. Subscription Rates; Single copies 1 02 One week, by carrier—. .10 One year, by carrier—_____—— 6.00 One month, by mall..—— -H5 Three months, by mall.— 1.00 Six months, by mall 1-75 , One year, by mall 3.00 One year, at office— 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those cones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 85 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Averfue. New Tork. The Columbia City Post faVors the nomination of Ed Jackson for president on a platform that he will Increase the selling price of horses. He ought to run well if he wHI promise to take charge of the sales end. The average duration of married life in this country is but seven years, ae-' cording to the latest figures. In Chi-' cago alone the past year over 11,000! divorces have been granted, it’s a rapid age in which we seem to act and then think it ovir, Now officers are hunting bandits and law breakers with airplanes and It is figured that bank robbers can thus be overtaken with ease, which 1 is alright until the progressive ones' get hold of a fast plane for their own 1 use. The movement to have the weeds cut along Hie country roads and the 1 fences of farm lands w a splendid J one which we hope will be one hundred percent, successful. Weeds increase bugs and worms of various kinds which are destructive and aside from' that certainly ruin appearances. The' effort is being made solely by tike 1 farmers and those who are cleaning 1 out fence corners and roadside are urging their neighbors to do likewise. The harvest may not be as prolific as in years past but it’s harvest time, the season when the farmer be-1 gins to cash ir» for his months of labor and effort. It ought to be a happy time and would be were it not for the fact that prices of trteir com-' modifies are driven downward just at this time of marketing. After a few months the prices will rise again. Surely a relief measure which would make it possible for the farmer to sc-: cure that higher price after a while' would not and could not be a very great harm to the nation. We don't know a corn borer from any other kind of a bug and we are not trying to tell the farmers of Adams county what they should or should not do but we feel we should call attention to the fact that in those sections of the country where the corn borer has been at work for five or six years, the land is absolutely valueless for corn raising. In those sections where the'land can be turned tb other products, the values have not dropped to any extent but through here where corn Is the principal crop, the lose we fear would he very great. County Agent Busehe has a letter 1 from an agent in the province of Ontario, Canada, where the' borer was J discovered six years ago. At that tfino there was 100,000 acres of corn' land which has now been reduced to 40,0*0 acres, if the pest actually exists in this coun-'y ag the scouts claim, we should fight it and fight it hard. To do anything else will prove disastrous in the long run. The future becomes the present with a speed at times that is bewildering. Artists’ conceptions of cities-to-be with landing places for airplanes oh the roofs of tall buildings, have not' yet lost their fantastic look, and here we are reading about plans for the new Chicago postoffice which include' a place for mail planes to stop and start. Repent progress in the median-] leal development of planes makes it appear that the use of such landing places will shortly be leasable without our having to wait for the helli

• j copter. One of New York’s great ' new postul buildings 1b also expected to have such a landing place, and thero Is u suggestion that new structures to be erected in several other large cities be similarly equipped. Air mall ] has become as much a part of our j t daily lives as the use of any other con-' violence for speeding up commuulca-J lions, and there Is no reason to doubt that the planes which must now hop I off and laud at long distances from * postoffices will be able to pick up I und deliver letters and packages dirl ect. A recent German motion picture l ] gave us a vision of a dream city in i which the air was as full of traffic us 1 the several levels of streets. We ure nearer to this strange and wonderful j vision than we realize. New York takes on incredibly day by day.—j New York Evening Post. Members of the Legislature will now draw their $lO a day for their services last winter. Their right to increase their own salaries is affirmed by the Supreme Court. Attorney General UUliom fought bravely and to the finish for what he believed was a constitutional protection against just such an expenditure of money. He lost. He insisted that the method , by which the Legislature raised its I own pay was an evasion of the con|S'itution and that it opens the way for future assemblies to dip iuto the public treasury as they may please. The Supreme Court overlooked the 1 most important and most daring sen- , fence in his pleading. It might seem j that judges who are over-sensitive as to their dignity and the good repute t • of the court would have easily found | it and at least referred to it. In his final futile effort to save what he declared was the constitution he boldly declared that the brief filed by the ! attorney for the legislators who wantI ed the money served no other purpose j than to call attention of The Supreme ! Court judges to the fact that fTte same I law makers had raised ’the wages of I those same judges. It worn! be rather ( difficult for any one who was deliberI ately seeking some way to get into ( contempt of court to find a more sig-, I nificant phrase. If Gilliom’s com- ■ I ment was correct, the lowyer who made such a suggestion . showed j little reverence for judges. If not ’ I true, what should have been the i I prompt reaction of self-respecting judges to the Gilliom suggestion? But the lawmakers have the money. The j people pay. Every one seems happy. t There is no action for contempt on j this startling phrase. Indianapolis ’ Times. o ************* * BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO *] *******-*-***^** TUESDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES’ WEAP— Hookup 7 pm. Eveready hour. WEAK—Hookup 8:30 pm. Cavalcade. WJZ—Hookup 6 pm.—Strom be rg-Carl-son hour. WBRM— Chicago 9 pm. Minstrel show. WGHP—Detroit 7 pm.—Detroit Symphony. WEDNESDAYS FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES Copyright 1927 by United Press 1 Central Standard time throughout. WJZ —Hook-up (12 stations)—7 p.m. Maxwell Hour. j WEAF, Hook-up (15 statons) —7:30 i p.m.—Goodrich Hour. WGY, Schenectady—(7:3o p. m.) — Brazilmun Manoficrs. kWNYC, New York —(535) —0:30 p.m. Goldman Band. WJJD, Chicago — (3G«) —7 p. in.— | Tivoli theatre Hour. Methodist Protestant I Church Holds Conference ' Marion, Ind., Aug. 9.—(United Press J The eighty-eighth annual conference of the Methodist Protestant church of Indiana will open at the camp * grounds of the church near here [Wednesday morning with more than j2OO ministers and laymen attending.' Sessions will continue for the remainder of the week, closing at noon next Monday. . | Candidates for the ministry wore ( examined today preliminary to the I opening of the conference. Ejection of state officers and of delegates to 'the general conference will take 1 place Wednesday. The stationing committee will report assignments next Monday. j •| Special services were held In the camp grounds Monday night and a ■ song service will he held tonight. > ; | o i Free Frisinger wajt here today looking alter business matters. , i

’PHONE CENSUS ! SHOWS AMERICA ! HAS 18,000,000' I _ ■ Germany Ranks Second In Number Os Instruments With 3,000,000 By International News Service i Boston, Aug. 9.- Figures have been ■recently compiled showing the In- ) crease In number of telephones in ,the Culled States and in various foreign countries since 1895. In that year this country had only 255.400 telephones. By 1906 the num- ! her had grown 3,353,200 —which was j much more than any other country iu I the world has ever yet attained. In 11915 there were 10,046,40(1 telephones ,in the United States, and by 1926 the , total reached 16,936,000. Today the American people are served by over 18,000,000 telephones. World Record No country comes anywhere near this record. The closest competitor is Germany, which has not even approached the point passed 22 years 'ago by the United States. In 1595 Germany had 115,007 telephones; In 1905 she had 444,954. Another decade saw her reach 1.242.612; and in 1926 she boasted 2,588.000 telephones—more than any other country except the United States, but less than onesixth of the American total. 1 Great Britain advanced from 73,333 telephones in 1895 to 365,198 in 1905 and 815,206 in 1915. Her 1926 total amounted 1,380.000 telephones—fewer than three are in the single city of New York. France has consistently lugged in the matter of telephones, the figures show. Her system numbered but 30,962 telephones in 1595, 122,911 in 1905, 329,100 in 1915 and 737,000 in 1926. France was harder hit by the interruption in development of the telephone by the World War than any other country. Belgium's Phones Another war sufferer was Belgium. But Belgium rose from ' 8,667 telephones in 1895 to 24.875 in 1905, reached an estimated total of 60,000 in 1915 and attained 159,000 telephones by , 1926. | For a small country Denmark has always done well in telephones. In 1595 the Danish system numbered: 10,325 telephones. By 1905 it amounted to 42,256 and by 1915 to 136,092 ! telephones. There 316,000 telephones in Denmark In 1926. | ’ o 1 j; *********** s' '* NEWS FROM PREBLE *j * By * * Miss Lorine Kirchner * U***********L Mr. and Mrs. August Werling and| daughter Mildred are enjoying a vacation motor trip through Northern j Michigan. | Mr. Clarence Smith spent the wdekl end visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Monroe. I Mr. Henry Shielding was a shopper in Decatur, Saturday afternoon. Miss Helena Fritag, who has been visiting friends in Fort Wayne, has returned home. Thurman Furhman, ol' ort Wayne, spent the week-end with his parents Mr. and* Mrs. Charles Fuhrman. Mr. and Mrs. Otto I'eck and family of Pveble township, were shoppers in Decatur Saturday. Juanita and Glarivina Sullivan are visiting their grand-parents Mr. and Mis. Heury Decker, of Geneva, for sev- : eral days. ' Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Goldner were shoppers in Decatur Saturday evening. Mr. Rumsier, of Fort Wayne, spent Sunday visiting Miss Fay Shimp. Miss Kathrine Lcimenstall, of Fort Wayne, spent the week-end visiting Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoffman and fa-, mily. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eiclwif and sons Lawrence and Robert, were callers in I Preble Saturday. Lawrence Smith, of Fort Wayne, is spending the week-end visiting his parents Ml. and Mrs. John Smith. j i Air. Oscar Hoffman, of Preble township, was a Caller in Preble Saturday. | Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kirchner and daughters, Paula and Mildred, were shoppers in Decatur Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert and family, of Monroe, were Sunday dinner guests’ of Mrs. Oilbeits parents Mr. and Mrs. I A. Shady and family. I Mr. and Mfs. George Butlemeier and daughters, Louise. Margaret, Aldinej and Helen, attended the Bultemeier | reunion held at Oscar Butlemeiers ' Sunday. ] Mrs. John Kirchner and daughters Irene, Lorine Erman and Mrs Lloyd j Shackley and son Darrel Eugene, Mr.! and Mrs. August Werling and riaugb- , ter, Mildred, Mr. and Alls. Otto Dilling

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, AUGUST 9,182 <

and family, and Mr. uud Mrs. OtlO| aud family, and Mrs. Frank Spade and daughter. Elizabeth, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Pierce uud grandson. Pistes David Flanders, und Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Craig, at SunsetVue Uottugo at Humlllou lake, last Thursday and Friday. Mr. and Mis. Irvin Foley and Mrs. William Krietag and daughter. Helena, j wore shoppers in Decutur Saturday afternoon. Mr. aud Mrs. Walter Shady, or Fort Wayne, visited the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shady and family Sunday. Mr. Clyde Klzey, of Fort Wayne, visited Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Elzey Sunday. Alton Crosou was a caller iu Preble Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Sable and family who have been visiting Mrsfl Cable’s sister at Detroit, Michigan, have returned home. Mr. Charles Sulivau is confined to Ills home ou account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Orie Newhard and fa- , mily weie shoppers in Decatur Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Orval Snarr und family of Poe. visited Mr. and Mrs. AI-j. lirrt Werling and family Sunday evening. Mr. Milo Hilyanl, of Fort Wayne.t visited Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoffman and family Sunday evening. Air. and Mrs. Martin Rcppert and son. Milton, were shoppers iu Decatur Saturday. ************* * TRY THE *; * NEXT ONE * ************* GENERAL 1. Who wrote “Will You Love Me i n December as You Do in' May?’’ j 2. What governors now in office have been elected for more than three terms? | 3. What prominent American avia-' tor was formerly a member of the New York Giants? 4. Has any president been elected for more than two terms. 5. Who is the only left handed polo play*pr on an international I team? 6. Did Jack Dempsey foul Sharkey? I 7. Name tile president of the United | States Steel Corporation. J 8. Name the manager of the New York Giants. 9. Under what name is the wife of Jack Dempsey best known? | 10.,What two sisters have made a prolonged hit in “Topsy and Eva?’’ ANSWERS | 1. Mayor James Walker of New York. 2. Governors Donahey of Ohio and Smith of New York. 3. Lieut. Alford J. Williams. 4. No. 5. Watson Webb. 6. Despite continued argument the referee’s decision, that he did 1 not foul Sharkey, is official. , 7. Elbert H. Gary. 8. John J. McGraw. 9. Estelle Taylor. 0. The Duncan Sisters. o ************* ,* TWENTY YEARS AGO * * * * From the Daily Democrat File * * Twenty Years Ago Today * ********* * * * *[ August 9—Judge and Mrs. R. K. Erwin return from western trip after traveling 9.000 miles. Evansville girl dies after dancing ail night. i Seven hundred and ten townships In Indiana have been remonstrated dry. High school class of 1895 holds a reunion. Kokomo defeats Decatur, 10 to 8. We drop to second place. I)r. Biggar, John I). Rockefeller’s physician, predicts he will live to be 94 years old. He is 68 now. | “Cy” Alberts is now on the Decatur' pitching staff. Charles Merryman, of Cardwell, Mo is here on a visit. , Miss Florence Sprunger, of Berne. 1 is here for a two weeks visit. Dr. Fred Patterson of Terre Haute visits here. | —— o Plans Made To Receive Ex-Foe Os U. S. When He Flies Across Atlantic New York. Aug 9.— (United Press) —Announcement that Captain Udet, second ranking German aviation ace, 1 would shortly attempt a flight from Berlin to New York has aroused interest as to how he would be received by those who ten years ago went into the air to meet him as a most I dreaded foe. I The American Society for Promotion of Aviation has selected a com(mittee of accredited aces from ■ among its members who will serve as la reception committee to meet the German ace when, he arrives, j due of the committee selected is ,Kenneth L. Porter formerly of the 147th Pursuit Squadron who had the [distinction of meeting with Captain Udet on his first flight over the lines and engaging him in an aerial battle I which lasted for over half an hour and was discontinued when both men ran out of ammunition.

Held for Murder , 'z v - % - J * V1 , __■> ottkisa. ... 1 * jgHi ’f] If K.JR 1 |Wi ™m \

A September grand j u ry nit Salem. Mass., will pass on the I ease of George C. 'I ay lor, who j is being lick! on the ol (inurtlerintf pretty Stella Kale [at Salisbury Beach, Mass, lie .denies the crime. Police are endeavoring to link him with 'other murders, including one in Buffalo, N. V. NEWS FROM GENEVA j —by— Miss Catherine Anderson W. D. Cross made a business trip to Indianapolis Friday. Mr. aud Mrs. Nathan Shepherd returned to their home Thursday as er several weeks vacation spent in Michigan and Minusota. | Joseph Anderson aud Roscoe Bradford motored to St. Marys, Ohio, Thursday evening where they visited ! lie Misses Margaret Houston and Estber Hutton, who ure spending their vacation there. Mr. and Mrs. “Babe" Houser and son. Jay. of Gary, are the guests of 'C. N. Brown and family. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Odle visited with 'old friends and neighbors at Spenter- [ ville Sunday. The girls who have been spending week at Villa Nova were surprised Sunday by thir parents dropping in n 'them with well filled baskets. After the big eats ail returned home. Some of the girls have a case of sun burn 'to remind them of their good times. | Gerald Horriek, of Warsaw, spent the week-end as the guest of Mae Barton. William Sutton and wife, of Detroit, are the guests of Charley Shepherd and family. Mrs. Fred Pyle visited in Willshire over the week-end. Mrs. Ralph Snyder and family attended the home-comiug at Wiltshire Sunday. Miss Catherine Anderson attended the home-coming celebration at Willl shire Sunday. | Rev. and Mrs. Barton attended the honte-comiug at Union Chapel Sunday, j i 0 1 Russ Population Is Put At 146,200,000 By International News Service I Moscow, Aug. 9. — An appalling growth of population iu some parts of Russia is revealed in the final reports of the census commission j which says there are 146,200,000 j people in the Soviet Union, an area t throe times the size of the United States. j In' 30 years the population of the [Asiatic provinces increased 164 perceßt. Siberia 140 percent, the North' [Caucasus 58 percent and White Russia. 40 percent, despite hugh loss of j life during the World War and revolution. I j Effects of the terrible 1921 famine which wiped out several millions are I noticeable especially in Samara, the German Voga district and the Tartar i republic where since 1920 the populations have decreased from 14 to 18 percent. 'j industrial development is attracting thousands of villagers to the cities which increased on an average •of 32 per cent. Moscow doubled in - population Since the beginning of the 1 century, Churkov increased 139 per- ' cent and Baku in the oil fields dould- ’ ed in size. ' The statistical analysis of the first ' census in 30 years is published in 53 volumes of 500 pages each. j 0 j ************* * THE GREAT WAR * * 10 YEARS AGO * I************* s 3 1 Armed guard commanding Mer* 3 chantman reports to navy that his i 1 crew sank a U-boat as its torpedo miss fired. e! Peace propagandandists aud coni' scientions objectors in room of Senate u Committee on Military Afftalrs openly advocate impeachment of President.

Invents “No-Parkin* Sign Motorists Can’t Destroy Portland. Oer., Aug. 9. — (United ' press).— Annoyance over the acts of careless motorists in breaking "N<> Parking’ signs, caused the inveuUvo genius of Vincent Bpath. .Portland electrician, to flume and he designed an unbreakable post to be used for such signs. The post has a heavy spring at its base and if u sharp blow from a| speeding car knocks it tbit it will

r* .. /> c r r - v / • ** * ' .»P FPUGI DAIRJE |l , by all standards I « of measurement I Costs Less I - than anij other I ; electric refriger- I ator, nationally- I ] distributed-♦ I - -This is made § possible by the ■ fact that there- I a re more Frig idaires ■ built than all other I electric refriger- I ators combined. I C F RIG UFA. IR E) I • - T!’' ► E. I*. SHEERAN, Dealer | Van Wert, Ohio | R. J. HARTING, Sales Agt. j 1 Decatur, Indiana i „ v I —aicni ||i frmijf CASH l Phones 3,4, 5 Free City Delivery j Quality Service with Low Prides. j Sugar, Fine Granulated, 10 pounds 64c | Watermelons, Large, Red Ripe 49c j Transparent Apples, 3 pounds 25c j Cake Flour, large box 30c 1 Hulk Macaroni, pound . 10c Pearl Tapioca, pound 10c J Fine Granulated Yellow Corn Meal, 6 tbs 25c j 3 Large Cans Pork and Beans 25c 3 Large Cans Kidhey Beans 25c j j Jell-O, All Flavors, 3 packages 25c Special Brooms 38c and 48c Corn Sugar, 5 pounds 31c t Pretzels, pound 25c ; Tiffany, the Quality Oleo, pound ... *........ 20c j Nuco Oleo, pound ? 25c Celery, No Waste, Thoroughly Bleached, i ■ Large Bunch 15c (Hour, Pride of Decatur, 12 pounds 50c f 1 24 pounds 85c (. Goochs Whole Wheat Flour, 5 pounds 34c fitter, Cloverleaf, the Taste i'l I ells, pound 47c H aa,ity * >eanu t Butter, pound 20c ilferschy Cocoa, 1 pound can 29c pound can ... 19c ; Bulk Cocoa, 2 pounds ..... 25c ■

spring to nu upright po»lti 0 u unharmed. Spath invented the post «(t er had been forced to labor long aai[ hard in replacing broken “N u p >|K i»g" signs at the place where he employed. It has attracted the atten tlon of city officials, however, a m! (btplain Frank Irvin, head of the ] traffic department, is testing r with a view of insulting B j mi i #r : signs on M downtown streets t» eliminate heavy replacement costs