Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1927 — Page 3

I SEEROOM FOR I BILLION IN 11. S. I IN FIFTY YEARS i Science Now Holds That Coming Generations Will Solve Problems Uy Robert S. Thornburgh INS Staff Correapondont gt Louis, Dec. 16. —If applied ehcnilMl‘ry continues its present sclent Hie advance the area now constituting the Vnlletl States will be capable of supporting a population of one IMlllon within fifty ye“rß. -This startling assertion was made io the International News Service by pr Ralph H. McKee, head of the chemistry department at Columbia Vnlversity. during the semi-annual session of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. McKee’s prediction is a radical departure from the attitude taken hr many scientists, who hold that within 3 f c w generations the food produc Ing qualities of the land will be insufficient to support rapidly increasing population. "If we were using the same methods of agricultural and food production as fifty years ago, the country would not even now be self-sustain-ing,'' McKee explained. "The present production methods would support a population of 160,000.000. in comparison to. our present 117,000,000. Can Feed 500,000,000 ■ls we actually applied scientific principles of production already known the land could be forced to support 50(1,000.000 persons within the conti-

| Give Something Electrical IfiSfor Christmas I ». When selecting your Christmas gift buy something that will last and can be used dur- £ mg the months after Christmas. If you will consider Electric (lifts your shopping j problems can be sohed here. We have as ne stock of everything Electrical. 2> * We want you to feel that this message is a personal invitation to you to visit our F store and let us assist vou in selecting vour <ft. t E553M wosweswcswcecc kj nnnnWri -niiwMjM E,edric(urlins ■ ,r ° n ...$i.75 i ElcJric Toasters $5 to $8 I’e colaiors. different sizes $8 up , Waffle irons. Universal SIO.OO Hr** Electric Irons $3.95 to $7.95 |By\ V: -’ ? Ila Mights $1.50 Give h ct a Mak All Her Days 1 oastmaster * 1 Idyll if Free Her Forever from the ! 11 if]4lll 1 worry of burned toast. You S / f 1 don’t have to watch the Toast Z - X /J ® * CZK-Z' e 1 master. You drop in a slice of f * B 11 bread — press a lever — and i ' when its “done to a turn” up / pops the toast and the current w <tw* shuts off. &. W <z JXU ? iSomething New' —Adjustable Lamps — will stand, . hang, damp anywhere. d»O i Artistically designed * ’ Everything Electrical for Christmas. B X’." Monarch Electric Ranges $1 65 $2 50 Spar ton Electric Radios Let Us Do Your Wiring And Repair Work i Decatur Electric Shop xt a jci Miller’s Bakery Bldg. ’ North Second Street i

1,1 "><• sohttL " n J | Hm, ' n,al f-oblems in th.u ° r " io "Hzers, according , ’’ " f f "rPoint' d hi thi *" " He L oV^JX ae, ;' t,on ,0 the ‘•’’'i- ” r, »l*«*'< a (heap , m <al l "‘ l " M,r y to | ll,lll would ttssis '. 18 ,J . IV " big ,h: " such a ,in i ~red* ot‘•■ouml ‘•■ouml the conX PmHlt ls J H “t I g cm' h °"" for fcrUl ' XorX s'' 0 ' ‘""'"S brainpower Thh"i' U ' S 1 "" 1 ' l,l ‘ nilc 'al duets HOgg/ate? S J; on ® of th” pro. project. I( * Shoals % «tr7X'nic/ Owa,, * t "That ’ ' M,Kee 1 COV. rv 1 ,p,ni uls 'lestined for disTh Cattl * TWICe as R 'O The new tanner probably will raise > ;X an 2r T”-“he i Xh’ r _tl,r, ' e hundred wars' ago the farm animals were about half i ‘he weight of those (lli ve n into the I Htock yards today. Al] the other crops W1 correspond bigger wheat, corn fruit and vegetables, to meet tin. de’ 1 mands of a vast population. 1 ‘ Really intensive fertilization and I therefore better dollar values peri' acre, is being practiced to the great- h est advantage in Georgia. Alabama I and Florida, according to McKee i : ' <■ It Mrs. Jeff Bryson of Portland visited I here this week witli Mr. and Mrs. Will I i Smith who recently returned here! t from Indianapolis. ,

RURAL churches Antioch Church William Hygema, Pastor a ”‘ ,v " planned for v -ver the Lord's Dav. w th pleasure we 100 k forlJi to this '>■ - «heu old friendship will bo rekindled, and Christian fellowship will be appreciated, ’ Indiana ami Rev. Jacob Hygema Wayne. Indiana will be the Makers. Special numbers in songs will be ren--11 .lining School of Fort Wa.'ne •Sunday school ~ ~ Communion service ’5/5. 0.A,, basket dinner " '' Afternoon fellowship service"’ •'•no Evening meeting \ 7;00 As to more fully explain our thought ii regu,d to the dinner, wa have planned to solve the same in cafeteria stvle so ariange thus. < ome and enjoy yourself with us. Pleasant Mills and Salem Sunday school 9 . 30 M n ning Worship, Salem 10’30 Sunday school election, Salem 11:30 Epworth League, Harry Crownover I , l X ( ' r 6:30 Eienlng Worship, pl Mills 7-00 Haxer meeting Salem Wed .. 700 I'l-ivei meeting Pl Mills Thins... 7-mj I’he Salem Sunday School will elect officers for the coming year, Sunday alter preaching service. All members of the beard ate expected to be present. 1 he Salem Sunday School will give a Christmas entertainment, consisting of 3 home talent plays on Saturday evening December 24th. Ihe Pleasant Mills Sunday School fill give a short program Sunday morning December 25th and the Epworth League will give a special in- 1

terpretation of the Christmas spirit through a dramatic worship service, held by candle light, in the evenin’ service. The Christmas spirit means the Christ Spirit. Let us catch ami radiate such a spirit to all with whom we come In contact What a fine preparation for our New Year resolutions. Wo hope that every one who has no Chrtich Home will feel free to reins and worship with us In tile Sunday School, EpwoTth l.eaguo and (’lurch service. Every individual should have 11 place of worship. You are not only invited, but you are urged tn worship with us. Begin the New Year right. 8080 CIRCUIT Bobo Church Sunday Seh joI 9:30 Epworth League G:is Preaching 7.00 Prayer meeting. Thursday 7:00 Clarks Chapel Sunday School 9:30 Epworth League 6:15 i’rayer meeting Wednesday .... 7:00 Mount Hope Sunday School 9-30

ome is Christmas Happiness LastsiS B 11 when you give for the home. And home should come first. MMBIIIIiIM , 8 the P lace where the easy chair, the softly shaded . Wt tamps, the reading table with magazines and books, Jovek I*l fie -SHibw carpets, make a house into a home. For vour home or the 1 MT B home of other loved one .. Beaver and Fry hack s furniture I | A hl suggested as a Christmas remembrance. B -- ; Bak " ■ \‘ VY/ Rcauliful Cedar Chests. F pSwsgE d J’ l \l I walnut and cedar, j \ all sizes v;-.. u .. j J s9'"s4o Select Your Gift From These j Bridge Lamps, a large assortment. .$5 to 526 ® a Junior Lambs, beautiful shades and I ' colors SI 2 to >4" ' Smoking Sets, variety of styles and makes $4 to sl7 5 Kmmm End Tables, every home needs one..s3 to sls , ■ ; Spinet Desks, chairs to match. . ..$22 to $45 Occassional ('hairs, you should see them sl2 to S2O Secretaries, useful & ornamental $35 to $45 Magazine and Book Racks, many styles $4 to sl2 Console and Wall Mirrors $4 to $L> 9 Living Room Suites, overstaffed $125 t> S2OO I ?<(lr Bed Room Suites, in all finishes. .$')() to 5175 BWk I A Store Well Filled With y M. . J Christmas Furniture f 1 H Beavers & Fryback * ft FURNITURE STORE M Open Evenings Delivery when you wish. - — i|- lT| H —r-IWBB zitik P l ' rtSfi —; r«i zirrri IV : I - / .j- f / /> iiiJWyF uli I ; / i i /iI • t i - ifll I 1i \ i - /'.e11., AHf.Cs si A Al

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PiTiiching. ll) ;10 I lu'ie will be election of Sunday School officers and teachers nt the close of Hi,, preaching nervier. — Lafayette Plans To Establish An Airport Lafayette, Ind., Dee. 16— (INS) OptloiiH on several tiacta of laud here have lieon oi will lie taken shortly, for the purpose of establlHlilug an airport here, according to the unuouncvinent of the Qtamlx'i' of (‘onitneree and American Legion are aponaoiing the Lafayette airdrome movement. Plans have laid, it was announced, to have loifayelto named us a landing place c n the new ’’leg" air mail from Cincinnati to Chicago The local field, according to plans, would have an A rating when completed. Sponsors of the plan arc anxloiis to coniplete at least a isirtlon of the field .slniulatnerusly with open Ing of the new air uuul lent,Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fritzinger and daughter Mies Kathtyn and Miss Rose! Center vveie Fort Wayne visitors* Thursday afternoon.

ERIE TRYS OUT GASOLINE ENGINE New Type Ixicomotive Boinjf Tried Out On Hunt-ington-Chicago Run llpntington, Ind.. Dec. 16 -tl.\Si The fhst gasoline fueled loccniotive to be used by the Erie railroad now is in trial service on a pas anger run between Chicago and Huntington. Should the engine be found fiucccn ful in point of economy and reliability, it will lie nd ijited for more general u e in place of the steam engine . officials of the railroad said. A huge gasolhio motor furnishes the i power which drives geonralors and I these In turn supply the electric power I which piopeils the motors In the engines. Tlie engine has a quicker get- | away, it was said, and wil idevelop <lxty or sixty-five miles an hour at the head cf seven steel pascemcer ear-

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Mrs. Charles Harklcss. Mrs. Herman Hollman alm Mis < ua- Vogh-wed," Mr. anil Mis. Dan Sprang, Mrs. Chnfl Ity Hooper, Mrs. Nellie Haney, and ■Miss Mtidce Hite were qumberod £- mong tlie Thursday visitors in i-’on Wayne. iii:i-rr:n hi ti ■ it—i.oxc.kh i.h i' , •' '‘"'»'-<i ugt.iy relieving HriHltl flow, • th<‘ MV .’.trill t.f uawtr that pol Non UH4I impair Imahff k ' ' " ! *' s 1 ,llr ' 1 ' • 1 ’I" 'll’:'., el , a.the, i„-|i<-.f, ai>.«l ipp.-iit.-, round sl.-.-m L.n„i,,ir la.vlor I >.e . H.-hl.i . |..wa, aa>»: ”| <’i ilcooalct Unit any nic-dlrfn,. . ..uto ben. ■ ill me -O out. kb ~,,! .Hili,.ll til.cn 1.4,1 rills cllurell..’’ _M,.„ nill | woiimn ~,v w!,<•!a in. an,| omineiri tlmiii Sallsr.o-tion «miVaute.-,1. S.,w Enuresis (bed-wetting) Mothers, relieve your child of the nuisance of bed-wetting by the timely use of Foley Pills diuretic. Used and , recommended everywhere. Ask for Foley Pills A divratic stimulant for the kiunaya Sold EMrywhin