Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1927 — Page 9

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GREETINGS FROM PUBLIC LIBRARY Vs Christmas Day approaches wo v jsh to extend to you as a friend and patron of the Library, a word if urreting, and to express the hope that during thy coming year, we may continue to serve you as in the past. The year Just endinc has been one of great activity for the Library. We have welcomed many new friends and patrons. But we hope to welcome r,my more in the year to come. You probably have a friend or neighbor who does not use the LiIn ary, or know of its advantages. Will you not as a Christmas act, bring at least one such friend to the Library? Or, if more convenient, give us his or her name. We will then send an invitation to come to the Library and enjoy its privileges. It is the right and privilege of every resident of Decatur and Washington township to make free use of the Library. With the hope that during the coming year we may continue to serve you, and that we may welcome many new patrons, we extend cordial good wishes. The Decatur Public Library, Annette L. Moses. Librarian. O Says Slow Pupils Not Always Best Berkeley. —(UP) —‘Slow but sure twin adjectives, should no longer be used together, according to George A Rice, Lecturer in Education at the University of California. After 6,000 students in California were tested, it was tiiuiid that the “slow" student Is not ai all the “sure" cue, and the quick student is the accurate one. "Some of the tests were repeated, giving students twice as much time as had been allowed for the first trial, and the order in which their grades stood did not change at all. The slow students Improved a little, but the speedy ones improved a lot," Rice said. Rice found that the more intelligent students put in much less time on study than do the dull ones. Wh|le the dull ones were burning the mid-night '■6ll. the intelligent ones were slipping along without any trouble, going to dances and parties, and still maintaining a higher standard of scholarship than the duller ones. Refuting the charge that the wealthy student gets all the "breaks" in student life. Rice said, “In San Francisco for exa'mple, the girl who obtained the highest score in the tests was the daughter of a street-sweeper, anil the second highest was a Chinese girl." URGES GREATER STUDY OF ORIENT LANGUAGES Honolulu, T. H.—(UP)— Anglo-Sax-on students should be encouraged to study Oriental languages, Francis E. Stafford, instructor in the Chinese I

onguage and history at MeKlnkv ,hlg|| school, believes . **‘ racll <>“ in our schools was one of l I the factors which created a demand I ' uteri?. SU t bJeCtß but a “ * ncr6a *lng - ‘ , lo gt 1,1 lheße l anguages Is notice- ■ is* Btudents or , It is a self evident proposition that . Japanese and Chinese students will 1 Mud? of”?” Pnlett;al beneflt trotn , study of Japanese and Chinese langfXic ey W ‘“ f,om stUllv ut . French and Spanish but ft is u new ’ W “. h S ° me ,hat An «lO‘Saxon s udents should be encouraged to study Oriental languages ’ "By-linguistg will solve the world's problem." Stafford declared. He quoted Senator Hiram Bingham who, ati ter his recent strip to China, said that America should intervene there, ' "not with arms but with trained Chin-1 ese-speaking Americans, ready to act ■ as friends and counsellors." ' | G. 0. P. CONVENTION CITY RECALLS 1900 I Kansas City, Mo—(UP)- Announce- ' meat of another national political convention for Kansas City brought forth pessimistic comment from some lof the "old timers" of the city who recalled the days of 1900 when Democrats brought their meeting here. July 1 had been the date set for the gathering and politicians and businessmen were working feverishly to prepare for the meeing when, 90 days before the schedu'ed arrival of delegates, the convention hall mysteriously burned. The building was a new one and had been considered the finest in the country. While the blazing hall illuminated one section of the city, news of the disaster was sent Democratic leaders who wired the question, “can you handle the convention?" Simultaneously, with an affirmative answer, Kansas City wired orders for material for a new hall. Firemen fought the flames and Democrats of Kansas City batt'ed their way through the crowd—turned out to watch Kansas City lose the convention —to secure more than $20,-1 000 in contributions for a new building. Nearly ever citizen in Kansas City contributed to the fund that was used to keep workmen on the Job day night and Sundays, that delegates might find in Kansas City an idea) place for second nomination of William Jennings Bryan for president. Co-operative efforts of Kansas City’s I political workers were successful and; on July 4 more than 20,000 people j assembled in the convention hall., that hadn't had the "new" worn off , The convention was handled without | a heat prostration or accident of any description. o Lots of men are failures because they never attempt anything.

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Christmas Eve Lasts 30 Hours In Madrid lor tonight's 'Nochebuena", the Spanish word for Christmas Eve, which piomlses this year to continue for 30hours, tomorrow being Sunday and a holiday. Today's feature wus the Christmas toy fair extending along the streets near the Foreign Office, and even on the little square In front, Jammed with stands and bands of scared live turkeys Which were for sale. At ten o'clock, "Nochebuena" will start officially, everything closing up, everybody going home. In all homes, dinner wll Imean supper, with almond soup, turkey, nougat, wines and hdliday songs as essential parts of any menu, preceding or succeeding the midnight mass typically called here the Rooster's mass. Town Boosters Used Whiskey Well In ’54 Neilsvllle, Wis. —(UP) —They tell a story here of how this little hamlet came into its own as the county seat back in 1854 through a barrel of whiskey. Two factions, the O'Neills and the Westons, dominated the district at that time, the story goes, the O'Neil settlement being at the site of the present city and that of the Westons about two miles north on the Black river. Tile O'Neills started a movement to have their settlement named the county stat. This was strongly objected to by the Westons who thought it should be at thdir settlement. An election was arranged to decide the issue. Voting was done at the O'Neill settlement. Those who came from Weston had to cross the Black river on foot to get to the polls. There were no bridges at that time and the O’Neill supporters had to cross the creek on a narrow foot bridge con sisting of boom logs. Neillsville supporters placed a keg of whisky at the north end of the

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| boom, history relates. Weston settlers coming to the polls stopped to Imbibe of the tambor fluid after their two mile walk. It wasn't long before many of the Weston constituents, Imbibing too freely of the contents of the keg. It Is said, became unable to make the hazardous trip across the creek. As a result Neillsville was selected as the county seat by a majority of 23 of the total of 163 votes. The Weston district is no longer a settlement. ——o • —_ Says Rules Os Health Seldom Fail To Work New Orleans.—(UP)—Tips on howto live longer — instead of on the races, were said by physicians here to be nearly free from a gambling chance. "In other words, ninety nine times out of one hundred these tips if followed will work," one physician declared during lamger Life week here. , | It) brief—prominent doctors of New Orleans believe the following advice . is a pretty good surety for longevity: 1 -Watch your arteries. You’re as : old as they are. They need to be in- ■ apected often. When you have bad arteries, live plainly, quietly and avoid ■ worry and fear. 2 Don't exercise abundantly if your I heart has a tendency to be weak. Old ■ people should only exercise in tnoderi ation. ; 3—Don't abuse your stomach. Avoid excess of condiments or rich foods. > Let the doctor look it over now and ■ them. 4— If you want your child to grow ’ into healthy manhood watch him duri ing the period of adolescence. That > is the dangerous age in human existence. 5— Bear in mind that minor oper- . at ions sometimes correct or prevent i disaster to your body. Science and > wisdom walk hand in hand today. > Instead of regretting yesterday get busy and prepare for tomorrow. Some men will stand up for the fair ; sex everywhere—except in a street s car.

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CHRISTMAS “CHEER” MADE IN AMERICA Washington, — (UP) America's j Christmas "cheer" this season will be J a strictly bootleg product "made in America," with no pure smuggled on pre-Volstead rurtf on the mancet, federal prohibition officials claimed to- i day. The 1927 holiday liquor Is mostly “moonshine" or mixtures with a pure or rectified Industrial alcohol base. Such smuggled Hquor as has come into the country has been “cut" until It is liardly recognizable, it wus stated. Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lowman told the United Press that dry administrators had not been given special orders to tighten up enforcement work during the holidays. He said the prohibition organization would continue its activities Just as If there were no special season. One official said dry law enforcement work caunct be speeded up more as the government is now operating right to the margin of Its $13,000,000 prohibition appropriation. Government chemists claimed that most Christmas liquor Is bad or dangerous, though little is deadly poisonous. Prohibition Commissioner Doran said there would undoubtedly be some deaths from liquor this Christmas but that It would not be caused by poisonous denaturants in commercial alcohol. The government has virtually removed all poison from inductrial alcohol, and that which the bootleggers use most contains alcohol which can be detected by taste and smell," he said. Christmas liquor deaths are general ly due to alcoholism from overdrink-

i L ~xf I*l*l Greetings With grateful acknowledgment of your courtesies and the evidences of Hf/ your good will that have made service §§; W a pleasure to us, we wish you W A MERRY CHRISTMAS — and — A HAPPY NEW YEAR of much happiness and prosperity. Old Adams County Bank

You can't convince a self-made man that he gave himself the worst of It. One way to put money Into circulation la to take it to the racetrack. Even It u man’s good deeds live after him. he Isn't in a position to cure. it's difficult for a man to lose his bad reputation or a Christmas necktie. | , 9 Occasionally a man climbs so high that be roosts above everybody else

Al! the Joys of the season are extended to you for A MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR Decatur Auto Top & Paint Shop

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—then he begins to get lonesome. It's surprising how many things n girl can learn at a boarding school that will never be any use to h«r. Blessed is he who tuaketh Christmas presents and expecteth nothing in return, for he shall not he dlsap pointed. When a man keeps his wife In tha dark, he shouldn't expect her to make Halit of it.