Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 13 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. k R. Holthouae * Bus- Mgr. Dick D. Heller ...Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mail ——— .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail —_ 300 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. We think more of President Coolidge because he refused to permit them to work a chain letter campaign for him. Those pesky chain letters ( always did appeal to us as the biggest nuisance ever set in motion. . —.z ... — A Good Fellow is one who wants to enjoy Christmas, surrounded by his loved ones and who knows he can do it with more sincerity if he has given his bit towards making every poor boy and girl happy. The time is getting short for the Good Fellow’s .lub and there is much to be done. Don't overlook this. Drop, some money in one of the boxes at the Old Adams County bank, at the' Eats restaurant or at this office. The Huntertown bank bandits won't bandit again for a while and unless some others get on the job they may not be bothered. They drew fifteen and twenty years in prison, which isn’t one bit too long and we hope they have to serve every minute of it. D. C. Steph'-nson is not exciting i any one very much with his offers to, tell everything he knows if aided to] liberty. lie has had two or three, chances at that and always decided' not to do it and now his cries do not startle anybody. N.-ws is only news when its new. The radio commission is going to cut off three hundred sending stations which they say ar - not necessary and are only in the way. Since that will leave about four hundred, the averfan will be able to spend all tly? time at station hunting lie cares to. A Chicago woman awoke a couple of mornings ago to find a burglar in* her room and became so frightened' that she died. The burglar was caught anti now faces a charge of manslaughter which should qiake very interesting r ading for those who enJ3y mysteries and deep, dark trials. With the weather mild and the roads unusually soft for this time of year you are again urged to use every care to save the highways. Overloads just now may cause damage* that will cost thousands of dollars to l repair. The roads belong to you. Save them. S. S. Kresge, of Detroit, who owns a string of several thousand five and ten cent stores has subscribed a half million dollars to the anti-saloon! league and some one has discovered that he sells annually about that amount of cocktail shakers, beer bottle caps and other accessories which makes it all about as clear as' tnud. Fifteen Indiana people met death over last week-end as a result of automobile accidents. Its a frightful toll from day to day and it seems we grow more careless instead of more careful. These misty, foggy nights are dangerous fo' those on the road but its said that even at that more accidents occur in the day time than at night. Be more careful is the only suggestion to be made. Old Home Week will .be just as good as we make it and by "we” everybody is included. After all its just a big holiday week when the folks come home and we have a little special entertainment and most of the good times will be in meetin- he

folks you haven't seen for quite some p time and entertaining them. We must get ready for Ciis occasion, put on I our best fronts and make it a big event. Frank Lowden, former governor of Illinois is seriously considering throw- > Ing his hat into the presidential race I and has intimated that as many have guessed he would not offer serious ob- > ■ jections it ordered by the voters of > the United States to pack up bag and j baggage and move into the White ; House, but Mr. Lowden had one terI rible experience in 1920 and he hesi--1 tates -about getting into a race in which the cards have been stacked against him as he fears they are. The last of a series of twelve advertisements boosting Decatur was run in this paper last evening. Every message given out was worth committing and every citizen should support these live wire business men who do much for their community. The final chapter of the series was on the ' subject, "Decatur's Civic Creed," and stated that the sixty business men who signed it believed Decatur the best town in America because its th< ir home town, that every good citizen should give his moral and financial support to every civic enterprise or public institution that makes for the physical advancement of our community, that every loyal inhabitant should patronize local merchants and that Decatur should be kept clean and attractive and that Decatur can and I will grow if everyone boosts it as it is—the best place in the land. Thats a great thought, several of them linked as one, and we should all start doing it right now. A fund of ten million is to be raised to educate people to prohibition. Education is helping more than anything else. Tiie old prohibition party by its yeai.s of education prepared the country for its fight against the saloon,' and prohibition would have never ] come, had not the old party kept on[tinually fighting old King Alcohol. If ' prohibition is to be successful, it must ' b > through education of the people. If it were possible to take the Amer- 1 ' ican people to cities like Sydney. Australia, and see there the old time saloon in all its phases, they would come home stronger in their truth against the saloon than ever. Some day there will be a successful administration of this great social problem, but it will not be along the pres nt i lines. 'lt must be more reasonable in its application and enforcement toeemmand respect and obedience. As I long as human life exists there will be violations and extreme cases, but these do not condemn or recommend any law. —Hartford City News. o *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ * * BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * x¥¥¥¥¥¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ X / TUESDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF —Hookup 8:00 pm. Eveready : Hour. I WEAF —Hc( |up Sofiberling Singers. WCCO — Minneapolis-St. Paul (405) 9:30 Gilbert ami Sullivan Opera WJZ — Hookup 7:00 pm. Stromberg Carlson Hour. p—_ *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ * i* TWENTY YEARS AGO * ¥ ¥ ! ¥ From the Daily Democrat File ¥ ¥ Twenty Years Ago Today ¥ *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ ( Dec. 13 —Squire Stone refuses to be outdone by Squire Smith an dannoun- | ces ofer to marry “loving couplets free : and add a handsome certificate. The democratic national convention will be hold in Denver July 7th. Pocohontas I dge 'entertained the Huntington Chapter. Team belonging to Solomon Sheets dashes through town causing excitement and demolishing wagon. Bruce Christen home from a visit in , Chicago. i J. E. Boser and Company have openi ed new and attuactive premium store J next t > gallery. 'j Harty Daniels of Chicago is visiting 1 his patents here. r Forty hours devotion will begin at St. Mary's church next Sunday. 0 . *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* ]i* THE GREAT WAR * * 10 YEARS AGO * \*¥¥¥ ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ * 3 Opposition of Senator R. M. LaFcle lette to U. S. war policy causes demand a ‘in Wisconsin that he quit the Senate. I ('. S. Engineers in France are killed B by bombs dropped in German air raid. »

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1927.

• xxx k xx xx x xxxexxxk t » X > » The PEOPLE’S VOICE « x " x ' X This column for the use of our &< ! X readers who wish to make sug- X i X gestions for the general good X X or discuss questions of interest. X X Please sign your name to show X . X authenticity. it will not be X X used if you prefer that it not be. X X X XXXXXXXXX X X X X X X X X Save The Roads Highway protection requires eduI I cation rather than prosecution. Take your choice. Adams county like other counties , has a complex and constantly growing traffic. Tiie only way to regulate this traffic during the wet season is the constructive publicity directed toward ■ the behavior of said users of all classes. Education is always more effective than prosecution for the following reason. Fear cf punishment and the fearing of disgrace for violation of laws are often largely lacking with respect to 1 said regulations. Laws and customs of| the road are not yet everywhere stan-1 dardized and the stranger is given opportunity to learn the local law and rules. This is being done by posting notices. Human beings continue to be the same old human beings. Even behind the wheels of overload trucks and speed vehicles. The hii.t.an mind is I fallible, forgeful, lapseful, distractable and confusable. It cannot be reminded too often to be watchful and careful. There is a class of road users, who, sorry to say need constant reminders. If you don't want ta help in keeping up roads, you must suffer prosecution. Here is the language of a truck driv-l er who lives in Decatur. “Magley tells us what to do when ■ the roads are soft, but we give his' roads hell just the same" My friend it is the law that tells you what to do. The roads belong to the public and are made to use and not to abuse. B. Careful'. o Get the Habit —Tradcat Home, it Pays

777183/ ‘•lf Its Done With HeaU-You can Do It BETTER WITH GAS.” Free Cooking Lessons by a Domestic Science Expert | December 14-15 Two to Four P. M. Christian Church Basement (Corner Jefferson and Second St.) t % You are cordially invited to attend these entertaining and instructive sessions in modern cookery on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Mrs. Florence Quigley of the Home Service department of (he Tappan Stove company—and a nationally-known authority—will have an interesting message for every housewife. The lessons are of high character—practical and educational. Actual cooking and baking demonstrations during classes. Copies of recipes and netv menu ideas w ill be given to every guest. Come, bring a friend, and learn the con- | venicnccs of this quickest, most dependlablc and economical of all domestic fuels. Northern Indiana Public Service Company I

■ Newcastle To Have Natural Gas Soon > Newcastle, Ind., Dec. 13 -(INS)—Na- , tural gas Service :<> Newcastle in ths , near future, thicugh the Eastern lj> ; (liana Gas Company, of Cambridge Citv > is contemplated by A. It. Ayers, flnan- . cier of the company. ' A huge holder tank, to store the gas ’ and keep it under pressure, now Is tinder construction at Cambridge ('it us one es the fit st steps. (J Looks Arc Sometimes Deceiving, Teacher Learns From A Pupil Greencastle. Ind., Dee. 13 (INS) A very dirty little boy was sent home to take a hath by Miss Carol Schoultz county health nurse. An hour or so later he returned, brightly shined ami weal Ing clean clothing. “There, that's much better," said Miss Schoultz, approvingly. “But mother didn't give me a bath, Miss." tiie little boy interrupted. She ' just washed me where it would show." New Buildings Being Built At Orphans’ Home Knightstown. Ind. Dec. 13—(INS) — C nstruction of two new buildings at the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Ar phans Home here is making rapid progiess. , The Oliver I’. Morton Memorial School will house the high school and i grade school. It is costing $125,000 apI piopriated by the last session of the • legislature. The Home <■ ttage for girls I will house about 00 girls, wh> will do their own cooking and housekeeping, it is costing approximately SOO,OOO. o Confidence Men Working New Style "Envelope Game’ Indianapolis, Ind., Ike. 13 HNS)— Confidence men here are working another variation of the "envelope game" to get money for their Christmas shopping. Mrs. Mary Orr, negro, was accosted

by another negress. While the two ( weie talking a negro stepped near 1 them and picked up a pocket book. 1 “I can't cash that. 1 tell you, get me ' what cash you have in the bank and you women can have the bill '' he said . Mis. Ort got $5Bl and gave it to him, taking the pocket book us he dlsappeuied with the other negress followI lag. | The pocket book was filled with paper. ——o -— Mrs. A. .1. Beveridge Gives .$25,000 To DePauw Greencastle, Ind., Dec. 13 -(INS— DePauw University today received a Christmas present of $25,000 from Mrs. Catherine Beveridge, widow of tile late U. S. Senator Albert J. Beveridge, who died in Indianapolis last summer. In a letter from Beverly Farms, Mass v.heie sho is visiting Mrs. Beveridge expressed tiie hope the money might be used to found a fellowship in Ameri-j

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