Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1927 — Page 4

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, === DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pre*. and Gen Mgr. V R HolthouM * But. Mgr Dick D. Heller Vice-Pretldent Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. . Subscription Rstes: Single copies 1 02 One week, by carrier — .10 One year, by cnrrlet —.............. 5.00 One month, by mall —.35 Three months, by mall 100 Six months, by mail — 1.76 One year, by mall 3 00 One year, at office— 3.00 tPrices quoted sre within first i and second zones. Additional postage added outside those cones 1 Advertising Rate*: Made known by Application Scheerer, Inc. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 2i»<> Fifth Avenue. New York Mistletoe is not so popular any more. Perhaps its not needed in this age of companiate marriages. Come on folks, you are passing up the fund for buying Christmas gifts and food and clothing for the poor , little boys and girls of this cominun- : ity and the time is nearly up. Give i something to the Good Fellows club : and do it today. i If those Quebec fires are of in- . cendiary origin as there seems to be , some indications, they should never , stop until they have landed the guilty , persons and placed them where they , will burn through eternity. Two or- t phan schools were burned there with- j in twenty-four hours and in one of ( them two scores lost their lives. t The mild weather held back the | early Christmas shopping so that this 1 will be a busy week for everybody, for j of course there will be the usual giving of gifts. Decatur shops are filled > with the newest goods at the best prices you will find any where. Don't ’ miss it, trade here. '■ Mrs. Lindbergh is showing the world where her son gets some of his , nerve. It certainly takes a good supply of it to rttawl into an airplane a ' cold winter day like this and her order to the chauffuer was, “Mexico 1 City, please." She will join her sau there for an over the Christmas visit. { There has been much talk since the I war because Jack Dempsey, the world (hampion failed to do his bit. Now congress will see that he fights for Uncle Sam if he indulges any more ring shows. The house tax LJII provides for a tax of twenty-five per cert when tickets are more than five d >'- lars. ————— 5 Indiana politics is enjoying an armistice until after the holidays but * will break out then in several places. 5 The republicans have many snarls to - unravel and the democrats will probably indulge in some contests. While , Frank Dailey seems to stand alone in A his race, indications are for a battle 4 for the senatorial nomination with 1 Albert Stump who made the race two ' years ago and Walter Meyers who was a candidate for mayor of Indianapolis in 1925, opposing each other. 1 i Either William Randolph Hearct ■ has been beautifully faked or the four senators he almost charges with treas- 1 on arc in for some bad innings. if the president of Mexico was willing to pay them $1,215,000 as Hearst claims he can prove, "he of course expected something in return. The. senators however deny it and until some further evidence is offered will perhaps be immune from prosecution or being kicked from the capitol as they would deserve if they have so conspired. In this country where -we arc accustomed to hearing of the most horrible crimes its takes an unusual one to cause a national interest, but in all >thc annals there are few to compare with that of the Marion Parker case in Los Angedes. There a twelve-year-old girl was kidnapped, her body terribly mutilated and then thrown at the feet t>f her father who had met a car at an appointed spot and given the driver J 1,500 in cash. Rewards totalling mere than $25,000 are offer-* < d for the arrest and convict ion of

' the brute and his accomplices and the 1 officials should never cease hunting until they find them. ■ 1 11 Crime Is more Uhe result of tolerance by the public than any other factor. Then comes the fact that friends do not want the criminals to suffer too much. It is only a step from tolerating crime to community ' crime. It is only a step from the “appearance of evil" to commission of crime. It is only a step from “shutting our eyes" to wrong, to being defenders of the criminal. It is only a step from defending righteous 1 things, to placing yourself above temptation. It is only a step from Thinking Right to Doing Rigid. Our thoughts and actions make our city worth living in—when we think and act right.—Wabash Citizen. The troubles of Otis J. Briggs, former teacher here, \ave been numerous the past few months. He is under indictment by a Marion county grand jury for having conducted a diploma mill at Indianapolis after Walter Shedd, a news reporter had purchased a diploma from him for fifty dollars and by spending but an hour at the so called school. Now the federal grand Jury at Washington, D. C., has indicted a number of men scattered all over the country for conspiracy to use the mails to defraud and Briggs is one of them. The supreme court of the United States recently decided that accusations of conspiracy can be made either when letters were mailed or received for the purpose of defrauding. It looks like a dismal Christmas for Otis. The crime Is serious, not only because of the fraud but because men are willing for a few paltry dollars to turn loose on the public a bunch of men who are not prepared to serve them professionally. o- ************* * BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * MONDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright 1927 by United Press) WEAF, hook-up, 8 30—Emilo DeGogorza, baritone: Goldman band, Symphonic orchestra. WEAF, hook-up, 7 p. m. —Schumann program, with Hans Barth. WJZ, New York, (454) 2 p.m.—Com. cert of the American Orchestral Society. • KTHS, Hot Springs (384) 7 p.m. - Anniversary program. WJZ, hook-up, 6.3o—Roxy and his Gang. TUESDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright 1927 by United Press) NAA. Arlington (435 ) 7:15 p. m. — Pan-American concert, with United Service Orchestra, Sofia Dalcampo. Dyla Josetti. WEAF, hook-up (20 stations) 7 p.m.— Stromberg Carlson Hour. WEAF. hook-up (28 stations) 7 p.m —Seiberling Singers. KTHS, Hot Springs (384) 8:30 p.m.— Handel's “Messiah.” WEBM, Indiasapolis (275 ) 8.30 p.m. Bridge; 9 p.m.—American Legion boxing match. o *¥¥*♦**♦«*#*» * TWENTY YEARS AGO * * * ¥ From the Daily Democrat File * * Twenty Years Ago Today * + *¥¥¥¥*¥**♦*♦ Dec. 19 —Elks announce first distribution of Christmas baskets for the poor. True Fristoe opens music school at Troy, Ohio, with Prof. DeVai. Sut prise for Grandma Gunsett on her 69th birthday. Chalmer Porter is very ill influenza and catairhal fever. Suit to (•c.lare fertilizer plant a nuisance on in circuit court. A. J. Smith cliose.n as lay delegate to the Methodist conference which convenes in Anderson April 1. W. L. Ross appointed traffic manager of the Cloverleaf and Chicago and Alton railroads. Nineteen- men and seven women committed suicide in Indiana during month of November:. Coppock Motor Car company ship first completed truck to Markle and Company of Cincinnati. Mrs. O. O. Miljs, Mrs. H. E. Steele and Mrs. G. W. Exerett visit at Craigville. —- —0 «¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥** * THE GREAT WAR * * 10 YEARS AGO * *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥♦¥«* Petrograd is in a state of Beige and frequent lootingo f wince cllars and shops is reported. I’livate manufacturers tell of long delays in the award of contracts for guns by the War Department. I Italian force* are pushed back alons the northern mountain front and tin lower I’iave section.

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J. G. HOFFMAN IS APPOINTED Adams County Commissioner Made Representative Os Road Builders Ass’n. Mr. John G. Hoffman of'Preble, comtnisaloner of the first District of Adams county, has been appointed by the American Road Builders' Association as contact representative in this section. Mr. Hoffman will report the p; ogress of road construction in this county at the Annual convention and Road Show to be held in Cleveland, January 9.

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County officials from all sections of the United States will attend the Road Congress which will convene at Cleveland. More than 25,000 road builders are expected to be in attendance at this meeting which will be one of the most important in the history of highway construction. Mr. Hoffman has served as County Highway Official for one year and had been road supervisor under the old law some years ago. He is very much interested in the construction of good roads and well-known by many road builders in this section. All road officials and engineers of Adams county have been extended an open invitation to attend the meeting at Cleveland. A special session of County Highway Officials will be held t>n Thursday.' January 12, for the purpose of discussing the best methods of building local highways efficiently and economically. A general meeting will be held on January 9th. Both of these meetings are expected to give impetus ’ to the construction of county highways throughout the nation. Mr. Hoffman may attend the Cleve 1 land sessions accompanied by a large number of road builders from I’rebk ' and surrounding territory. They will ' Inspect a machinery exposition whirl will cost nearly 15,000,000. > o ■ , * 4 ’ * CONGRESS TODAY * ¥ * ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* (By United Press) Senate ( Considered Walsh resolution for in , vestigation of socalled “power com bines." f Finance committee meets on ta: k reduction bill. House d Considers alien property bill, d Admiral Magruder continues test! mony before naval affairs committer g O — A car of Old Dominioi Chestnut Anthracite at Haugk' g Coal yard, at $12.50 per ton. so e your hard coal burner.. Phon 660. 29712;

seriously wounded his father and a farmhand because , he was reprimanded for not going to school. Upper right: Mabel Marmont Hart of Bureka, Kansas, who was killed by her husband, Ivan Hltrt (right lower). Hart claims.his wife was insane nnd communicated that abnormal state of mind to him. He also assert* she pleaded with him to end her lite. (International Newiteei*

I New Dollar Bills To Be Released In Indiana In January Indianapolis. Inn., Dec. 19 —(INS) — New dollar bills, smaller in dimensions than those now in circulation, are due to be released in Indianapolis and several other Indiana cities shortly after the new year, according to bankers. The bills, now being run off the government presses in Washington, are six and five-sixteenths inches long and two and eleven sixteenths inches wide, as compared to seven and one fourth by three and one eighth, inches, the present currency sixe. Twelve of the new bills can be produced from a sheet that now will make only eight, it was understood. Since a bill wears only eight months, a great saving is expected tt> be made by the government. HANOVER —President William A. M of Hanover college is making a world tour of his first vacation in 20 years at Hanover. He is accompanied by his wife. O Save a Dime on your hair cut every day except Saturday. I Hill & Young, new location, Madison st. 192tf o Butter fat 53c pound. Attend Schmitt’s sale Wednesday for some real dairy cows. , 1 o HOW IS YOUR COAL SUPPLY? Let’s talk it over. Located at the corner of 7th & Jefferson street*. EMERSON BENNETT. Phone 299. 272tf eod

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Church Going Topic Subject Os Debate New York, —(UP) —A unique debate on the subject of “why I Do Not Go to Church” and “Why I Do Go to Church between Edgar A. Guest of De troit and W. O. Sanders of Elizabeth City, N. C, hae just been completed at the long range of 1,500 miles. Neither debater will know the arguments of his opponent until the American Magazine appears tomorrow. The arguments will appear side by side in the publication. Saunders, one of the best known country editors in America, took the negative side of the question and preSafe and 'U- F° r coughs and all ages—no opiates. ygv .J) A pure cough meditirt A IC ALB>rn

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seuted a ease which is designed to cover all phases of the age old dUcusslcn. Guet. noted poet* and philosopher, champion* the church-going aide I from *ll angles. "I would not )vunt to live in a state or nation where there are no churches nor church-goers," he declares in opening. Saunders, on-the other hand, holds that he has repeatedly tiled to feel the “call" of religion as defined in the churches but that ' he has experienced no such appeal.

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