Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 3 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. R. Holthouse iM'f 4 Bue. Mgr. Dick D. Heller TJce-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies | .02 One week, by carrier .10 Ono 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 mail 3.00 Ono year, at office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rate*: Made known, by Application. Scheerer. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Its just three weeks until Christinas eve. Don't wait too long. Start your" buying now. Shopping time for Christmas and many people took advantage of the fact here today. Select your goods I now while you have the choice and save that last mad rush. x If you think all people are better than they really are its much better [ for you and the other fellow and the community than if you think he is a little worse than he is. After all why is a grand jury? Any • one who has information can file an . affidavit so that any person who feels' that Mr. Gilliom or any one else ought ( to stand trial can go to the proper i authorities and cause their arrest. i We hope the city, couhty, industrial j associations, automobile clubs and the ; railroads all realize the importance | , of better marking and of better guard-i ( ing of railroad crossings. Strangers '. cannot tell they are approachifffc a: , crossing in this vicinity and even , those who reside here and know of | the railroads ate often upon the tracks , before they realize it. Action should be taken and immediately. Suppose that four cities, Portland, Bluffton. Decatur and Hartford City should be wiped out, every man, woman aufl child killed, you would think | that a terrible and awful disaster, I wouldn't you? During the past year 22,995 people met death by accidents through carelessness. Sixty-three men were killed each day and 288 were mained, a human junk heap of our national industry that should shock our people into using every care possible that such things ma ybe and are avoided. The fellow who way back in IS 10 wrote to congress asking that the patent office be abolished as a needless expense because everything had been invented that could possible be devised would probably think if he were to return here now that he "hadn't seen nothin'.” The past ten years have brought more new devices into use than had been invented prior to 1810, the radio, the wireless, the modern printing presses, the new type of automobiles, the tractor and hundreds of other scientific productions. And we are just getting a good start. Governor Jackson, George Coffin and Bob Marsh, indicted for attempted bribery are slick and after the court had overruled their motion to quash because of tbe statute of limitations, they filed a plea in abatement on the grounds that the indictment had not been legally returned. They are evidently afraid to stand tidal and are seeking any loop hole possible to prevent it ever reaching that stage. Stop and think of it just a minute — its the governor of Indiana who is thus dodging issues. Isn't it a terrible state, of affairs and isn't it time to put on a "save Indiana” campaign as proposed by Frank Dailey? ran"" uj.i.'U'The world is getting to be so busy and the people are so impatient that machines for vending goods are being multiplied every day. There is no latest machine for the reason that another takes the place of that one as soon as it is set. "Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!” is the slogan that Is causing

- nervous exhaustion, apoplexy, heart complications, as well as automobile wrecks. "And after all. the very large number of persons who are regular speed fiends, who will grab a sandwich from a slot machine and bound , out are very leisurely, indeed, about going to work in the morning.—Shelbyville Republican. * General Dawes has announced officially that he "does not choose to run" if Mr. Coolidge doesn't and is retiring from the race which he claims he never entered, the vice-president announces that he favors bis friend, Mr. Dowden, former governor of Illinois, who attempted to secure the nomination in 1920 but was tripped when evidence of graft in buying the Missouri delegation was uncovered. He is supposed to be the farmer’s friend, although the evidence offered in the recent Ford trial seemed to indicate that he was their friend . largely for his own gain. Develop-

ments ate expected to com-' thick and fast from now on until spring. Watch them. For many years it hag been the re* publican Imast that ft was the only one capable of governing and that the j democratic party was not to be trust, ed. They have been in complete control in Indiana since 1916 and we I point to the record made during those years in comparison with the record of either Mr. Marshall or Mr. Ralston. Theie has been a constant suspicion of graft under the administrations since 1916, one governor has been sent to the federal prison and another is now under indictment and must stand trial. Other officials have been forced from office in Indiana and there have been constant charges and counter charges, most of them coming from republicans who are on the inside. Even their state chairman is now being forced from office under fire. Its certainly time to clean Indiana so we can really and truly say something good about the Hoosier commonwealth. There is but one real way to do it and that is to elect a democratic ticket and that ticket should be carefully chosen. Its time to be thinking about it. ♦ ¥**¥****♦**♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO * ♦ * * From the Daily Democrat File * * Twenty Years Ago Today ♦ 4: ¥¥¥ ¥******** Dec. 3—President Roosevelt delivers message to congress, recommending in come and inheritance taxes. Coppock Motor Car company, of Decatur has an exhibit at the Chicago Automobile show this week. Five are seriotfsly hurt when a Clover Leaf passenger collides with a freight engine at Kokomo. H. J. Yager elected Grand Knight of K. of C. lodge. R. K. and D. B. Erwin form a law partnership. Son born to Mr. and Mrs. Grover Hoffman. H. Fred Uohnke becomes marshal after a several months contest. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Blew, of San-

HAN FMANC ISOOTHKOUKiICALMMINARY o SAM ANSILMO, CALIFORNIA »»nni OS TUB rBBBIPBXT *« ttammwww Bn an August I7th, 1927. Rev. Leonard W.A.Luckey, Pb.D., 43 W.B4th St., New York, N.Y. My dear Dr. Luckey, Sinee your last letter dated July 7th I have taken | tian to read your book entitled "Whence Comest Thou? Whither Gocet Thou?" I have not gone over it hastily, but have read every paragraph with oaro. Xwish to commend you for your fidelity to the truth. You have treated the subject of the relation of science and religion with great sanity. 1 do not mean to say that I would endcrae every expression of your book. You would hnrdly expect that from anyone. I do believe, however, that your simple and clear treatment will be helpful to many who arc troubled both ao to the Whence and the Whither of man. It would bo well if the book could have a wide reading among what are sometimes called "the common people", who are(generally the backbone of the Church. Yours very sincerely, whu On sale at Enterprise Drug Shop and Callow and Kohne Drug Store.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRATSATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927.

Sent to Prison I # •" Mrs. Genevieve Paddleford, alleged international adventuress and once possessor of huge fortune, is eentenc-l ed to from one to ten years in San* Quentin, Cal., prison on larceny charge. (International Newsreel! I

I dusky, Ohiq visit at the Ben Schrank i home. > | Decatur school board organizes a finance board with D. B. Erwin president and F. V. Mills secretary. Marriage license —William C. Lawson and Miss Edna E. Dudgeon. 0 888X881388888088881 » I ‘ * The PEOPLE’S VOICE s s; 3 This column for the use of our 8 3 readers who wish to make sug- 8 8 gestlons for the general good 8 3 or discuss questions of interest. 8 3 Please sign your name to show 8 8 authenticity. It will not be 8 •5 used if you prefer that it not be. 3 8 8 8888X888888888888 Professional Evangelism (Editor’s Note: A reader of the Daily Democrat submitted the following edi-j torial for publication; It appeared in a recent edition of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel) It is gratifying to know that professional evangelism, which Charles Stelzel, an ordained Presbyterian clergyman aud an authority on religious and social movements says is a cold, calculating trade, is passing. Evangelism is needed, badly needed, but not the professional type. By professional evangelism is meant sensational preaching by men and women with no vision of the real needs of today, men and women who have commercialized religion and are thinking more of the size of the collection on the last day than of the saving of souls. There is no part of the professional evangelist's entire system so thoroughly perfected as the financial appeal. There is a lack ' of real spirituality, a proneuess to exaggerate reports as to the number of ■ converts, and a great extravagence in ; the cost <*f maintaining the meetings. The professional evangelists' greatest stock in trade is criticism and abuse. Indeed, we have heard them almost brutally criticize the local ministers from the platform of the tabernacles, ridiculing them unmercifully before their own members. , Evangelism is needed, but as Mr. j Stelzel pointed out, if the 200.000 l!ro- ' testant ministers in the United States | alone were to persuade one person I per month to become a member of the ! church, there would be an accession . during the year of 2.400,000 members. Notice I will be responsible for no debts other than those made by myself. Os- • car Sprague. 284-3tx

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CHINESE FARMERS NO ABLE TO BORROW AT i 8 PER CENT INTEREST By John Goette international News Service Staff Correspondent t PEKING — "Chinese farmers can now borrow i money from our co-operative societies a* eight percent instead of the thirtyt.lx percent of the local money lenders." Tbe speaker was Y. 8. Djang, a young Chinese who graduated from Cornell University I* 1915. He is 'now the Executive Secretary of the | china International Famine Relief 'Commission, an institution organized

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on the balance of the fund raised in | the United States fbr the great China t famine of 1920-21. Mr. Djang led a patty over their co-operator's training school where farmers, selected from the various areas, are fed and lodged for a six ! i weeks’ course In the organizing of i hural cooperative societies. Upon! completion they return to their homes to lead the growing move- . meat. China is totally lacking In any form of rural credit laws and the i f’oehty is endeavoring to undertake i the functions which more enlighten- > <d governments assume. Funds are ■ advanced to local groups of farmers i after they have organized a co-op* r-

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