Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 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. 1. R. Holthousevfrfjr « Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller..Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiaua, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 3 .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by maill.oo Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One 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 Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. DEATH STALKS AT CROSSINGS: — Again our community is bowed in grief.

Four lives were snuffed out almost in the twinkling of an eye this morning when an Erie meat train struck a Whippet automobile at the Mercer avenue crossing. Two young men and two young women on their way to their place of employment, the General Electric plant in this city, met death, three being killed outright anjd one dying two hours later at the hospital. Such accidents occur quickly. One momeat the occupants of the car were laughing and talking and the next moment had entered eternity. I Just how or why the terrible accident occurred will never be known. The watchman does not go on duty at that point until seven o'clock and todays accident oc.ured a half hour before that. The meat train dashes through town at a rapid rate of speed, but the crossing is clear and it would seem the train should have been seen or heard. The terrible accident cast a gloom over this community, its appalling toll of death exceeding any accident of this kind which ever occurred here. Shall we profit by this awful sacrifice by being more careful and by insisting that greater precaution be taken by the railroads or shall we go recklessly on, believing that our lucky star will protect us? The principal crossings, those especially where watchmen are on duty half of the twenty-four hours and where travelers expect protection, could be better guarded by wig-wag lights or by twenty-four hour service of watchmen. It would seem to us advantageous to the railroads and to the public that the crossings be better marked than they are. ; But after all whatever precautions are taken by the railroads, every driver should remember that the grim monster death lurks at every crossing and that under any circumstances and always they should use the utmost care. That should be the lesson again learned today.

We were sure winter would come , in due lime. It has been delayed this year and we seem to be jumping from late summer right into the midst of Artic weather. Its the season of the year however when we must expect it, the season for winter shopping, for Christmas, for pep and go. So smile as you sweep the snow off and shovel in the coal. It goes with middlewest climate and those who leave it hunger for this season after a year in those sections where they have the same dish the year around. One of the reasons being advanced why the republican national convention should be held in Detroit is that the delegates will be only a five-min-ute ride from wet territory, across the river in Canada. Since a number of leading republicans are urging a plank promising stricter enforcement of the liquor laws, we w’onder if it takes any stimulating "medicine” to make them vote that way. An automobile [triced at $20,000 is being exhibited in the New York show this week but announcements fail to say how much a fellow has to pay down and how much a month. Surely they don't expect any one to pay that much cash for one car when they can buy forty for that amount, a dol-

lar down and a dollar now and then. ' L. 1 | The State Normal at Terra Haute is conducting a "Sweetest Smile" contest. There is sense to that for when the youngesters are smiling they are helping themselves and every one with who they come in contact. The world needs more smiles. Whats the use of picking All-Amer-ican and All-Western football teams if they never play?» Some wise pro-1 motor can pick off some easy hundred ' thousand-dollar bills next year by | matching up these carefully selected elevens. A Gary jury awarded one dollar toi Ed Ferrence In a suit for alienation of his wife's affections, taking the position that he had her affection but slightly and didn't deserve that.

They might settle the threatened European wars by outfitting every one with boxing gloves and turning them loose at each other. One dollar for the Red Cross is the best investment you can make if you believe in charity, in mercy in the Golden Rule. That walking fish discovered in Montana and named an axolait will probably turn out to be just an ordinary, every day mud turtle. And its even more important that you observe the stop signals during the winter months.

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Heir To DuPost Fortune Is Popular At Brooks Field; Will Live On $75 Salary

San Antonio, Tex. —(UP)—A quiet, unassuming young man climbed out of the orientator at Brooks Field here and staggered dizzily away, bestowing n flashing grin on a group of assembled newspaper correspondents as he passed. "That was Alexis Felix DuPoint. Jr.," a reporter whispered to one of the San Antonio flappers who had assembled at the field to catch a glimpse of the new cadet. The girl’s eyes followed the retreating figure of the heir to one of America's largest fortunes. "Well, I'd never pick him out as a millionaire!" she ejaculated. Me either, Miss." a freckled-faced mechanic who overheard her coincided "I'd figure him for just a darned nice kid” And that is the way Brooks Field has young DuPont sized up. The Brooks Field cadets have looked him

over carefully, studied his tall lank figure, tried to read his blue eyes, approved of the way he combs his hair and voted him just that for all his money—"darned nice chap." The fact is, Brooks Field lias taken in the 22-ycar-old youth from Wilmington. Del., like Paris received IJndberg. DuPont is remindful of Lindbergh. He is apparently the only man at the United States Army's largest aviation training camp who does not realize what a hit he has made. Even the group of Impatient newspaper reporters liked him despite his refusal to answer questions. They failed to convince him that he was "poor copy" and he won his request to be an “ordinary cadet." He djd answer a few questions, however. He told the United Press corresp indent that he intended to live on

his $75 a month salary. "I don’t want to be pointed out as DuPont, the mlllionarie's son." he said "I simply want to be known as DuPont, the cadet, and be treated just like the rest of the fellows out here." He became an aviation enthusiast shortly before Lindbergh hopped off from Now York (or Paris. By the time Lindbergh landed in Paris, DuPont said he had made his choice between a career or business or aviation. He said his cousin H. B. DuPont of Washington, D. C. hus become interested in aviation and he expects him to become a cadet shortly. “No, I don’t know' what branch of aviation 1 will try to specialize in," he said. “Just now 1 am spending all my time and thoughts trying to keep from flunking out before 1 finish the initial training period." t ■ 1 0— — O. F. Gilliom, representative of the Lincoln Life Insurance Company, of Berne, was in this city today and delivered a check for 31,000 to Mrs. Clyde Noble, payment on the policy of the late C. C. Noble.

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