Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAI PuDUthad Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO m—— J. H. Heller... Pres, and Gen Mgr V R Holthouse* Bus Mgr Dick D. HellerVlce-Preaidenl Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies| .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carriers.oo One month, by mail .35 Three months, by maill.oo Six months, by ma 111.75 One year, by mail3.oo One year, al office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within flrst and second sones. Additional post- < age added outside those cones.) Advertising Ratee* Made known by Application Scheerer, Inc. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 300 Fifth Avenue. New York We insist that whatever good can come from trans-oceanic airplane flights can be just as well demonstrated next summer if necessary at all. Robinson doesn't seem to be very strong for Watson's program which is not nearly so important as whether or not Watson is for Robinson's. Well, did you have it and was it as merry as you expected ? We hope so and hope you were careful enough that you are feeling no bad after effects. This week would be the very best time for you to start a saving account at one of the banks, so that by next holidays you will have plenty of cash ; to take care of your needs and desires. Now all we have to do is to finish paying for the Christmas bills and get ready for the New Year. Os course we want to start 1928 off with a clean sheet. Those Los Angeles bank clerks who stole $25,000 a piece in order to keep their families never should have accepted their jobs tor less than about $1,900 a month instead of the S9O they undertook the contract for. They won't have, any great trouble convincing us that young Hickman is | of unsound mind for we doubt if any body could do the cruel things he did with a normal mind, but that doesn't | change our mind any that he ought to be so punished that the world will feel safe from any more crazy acts in the future. Among other things of importance during 1928 we will elect new state officials and new national executive*;. These events should be of sufficient interest to every citizen to investigate the merits of candidates and to work and vote for what they believe is for their greatest good. And its almost time to begin thinking about jt. If the guards and police wouldn’t watch Hickman so close, perhaps he wonld take care of himself in such a manner as to save the state a lot of expense and the people a lot of worrying. If he is so anxious to tie himself up to a cell, why not furnish him with a strap and a chair and let him go to it? All Senator Jim Watson has to do this week is to decide whether he will seek the presidency or who he will throw his strength to, pick a man to take Clyde Walb's place, select a successor to the late Joseph Kealing as national committeeman, decide on a candidate for governor and whether he can successfuly turn down Thurman and Schortemeier or not, which ought, to be sufficient to keep him hustling through the vacation period. More than a hundred local b’nsinesi men sent their Christmas messages to you through these columns and they meant them too. Thats on" advantage of dealing with the home stores—the proprietors are interested in you not merely for business sake but because they are neighbors and because they are interested in. the same schools and churches and enterprises that you arc. Texas banks won't pay a cent for the capture of a live bank robber, but. they will pay $5,000 for his dead caituss. They decTUre It is too diffi-

cult to convict and after you do, too r uncertain as to how long they will remain in prison until some softhearted governor gives them a pardon. They go on the theory that the only J? good bank bandit is a dead one belt cause he may prevent some one else f from trying it. Not such bad logic at that, is it? J The New Year starts next Sunday, 0 are you all ready for it? What will 0 you resolve to do with it? We make q much fun of those who resolute but 5 after all did you ever accomplish, any ® thing worth while without first determining to do it. You make your mind up to do certain things'and you hang on to them like a dog to a bone Why not as a community work out a program and' then every one fight for it? If we could we would do some things that would benefit everybody, individually and collectively. A business expert over the radio last evening advised the buying of Indiana farms as a safe investment | and-one sure to make you money. He told about Purdue professors and experts who are buying them and of eastern syndicates that are investing in middle western dirt. Os course he 'is right. The land in this section is real soil and is as sure to advance in prices as it is the world will stand. A I hundred and fifty million people must be fed and the burden of that job depends largely on this section. Right now is the time to buy for land is at the lowest price it will be. — 0 *¥¥¥¥¥¥♦¥¥¥¥♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO * ¥ * ¥ From the Daily Democrat File ¥ ¥ Twenty Years Ago Today ¥ *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* Interurban planning for one-hcur ' schedule. i Miss Katie Teeple, niece of J. L. Gay 1 drowned near Bucyrus, Ohio, on Christmas day Body brought here today and funeral will be held tomorrow from the Gay home. S. E. Shamp eletted Chancellor-- I commander of the K. of P. Jury in the fertilizer case fails c agree, stood six to six. Congressman anti Mrs. Adair are both ill with the grippe in Washing- | ton. I family celebrates 60th birthday of W. H. Graham at Monroe. I Nine local billiard fans are entered 1 in a tournament at the DeWit parlors. | County Treasurer Lachot is at Indianapolis to make annual tax settlement ! I » *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥♦ * THE GREAT WAR * ' * 10 YEARS AGO * *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* Count Czernin, Austro-Hungariar Foreign Minister, tells Russia that Germany is ready to make a general peace on the basis of no annexation and no indemnities, but tint she wi" Russia and Russia’s allies fulfill such conditions. . William Gibbs McAdoo assumes chaige-of the railways and appeuis ui the help of all American citizens. o— Padded Cell for Machines A padded cell for machinery Is be Ing used at Manchester Fuglnnd. to test high speed electrical devices to the breaking point. Cushioned walls of reinforced concrete nine feet thick protect observers who with telescopes and fast camera lenses peer through holes in the wall to watch the tests. — o “Greenhorn” Old Slang The slmig expression "greenhorn’ was originally used in reference to u cow. deer or other horned animals when Its horns are immature. In Its applied sense we have traced tbe ex nresslon as far back as 1682. Money and Trouble If It was only as easy to borrow. money as it is tn borrow trouble, a lot of us would borrow a grent deal more trouble.—Los Angeles Times. I ° I Conceit of the Damned Even old Satan can't please 'em all. Some will want a private fire with a gridiron fence around It,—Arkansaw Thomas Cat. SORE THROAT Sure, Quick Relief No Gargle No longer is it necessary to gargle or to choke with nasty tasting patent medicines or gurgles to relieve sore I throat. One swallow of a famous physician's prescription called Thoxiue is guaranteed to relieve within 15 minutes. It goes direct to the cause; ,1s far superior to gargles.. | Tltoxitie does not contain Iron, cblorofm m or dope. It is pleasant 1 tasting; is harmless ami safe for the . whole family. Sold under money buck I of quick relief. 35c. 60c. ami sl,llO. Sold by Holthouse Drug . Co., and all good drug stores,

: I DEATH IS WARDED OFF FOR 36 DAYS Friends Keep Girl Alive 36 Days By Artificial Respiration Oconto, Neb., Dec. 27 —(UP) —Alma ' Overgard, 16, died here today after a corps of volunteer workers had kept her alive for 36 days by artificial respiration. Physicians had expected her death almost momentarily for several days. Infantile paralysis caused Mias Over guards lungs to cease working. Her parents, two uucles and several neighbors worked in relays until the moment of her death, keeping her a.ive by raising her arme above her head and lowering them to her side. John French, last of the volunteers, was slowly lowering her arms when physicians pronounced the girl dead at 9A. M. ✓ Physicians said it was the longest case on record of prolongation of life by artificial respiration. The girl was conscious to the end appeared to be trying to thauk the persons who had labored trying to save her life. Up until Christmas she had been able to carry on conversation. The case had attracted National interest. A complete report cf the case is being compiled for the American medical association by Dr. J. C. Wade. o —. MRS. LINDBERGH IS COMING BACK Flier’s Mother Expected To Fly Over Decatur Again Next Friday The tri-motored monoplane in which Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh will return from Mexico City o Detroit, is expected to pass over Tecatur sometime Friday. The plane flew over Decatur on its trip to Mexico City last week, crossing di•ectly over the Adams county court louse. Mexico City, Dec. 27 —(UP) —Mrs. Evangeline Lodge lindberge intends o leave for the United States a few minutes after her sou, Col. Charles A. Lindberg, hops off in the Spirit of St. Louis for is Central American tour, omorrow. Col. Lindbergh hoped to take off is soon as it was light. Mrs. Lindbergh will return in the Ford plane that brought her here. The Ford plane party planned to top at Tampico San Antonio, Indianapolis, and to arrive at its destination, Detroit, Friday. They will carry i basket of fruit for Mrs. Henry Ford. Yesterday Lindbergh spent most of his time at the Valbuena field He took Mrs. Dwight Morrow, wife of he American ambassador, and other members of the embassy staff and their wives and Mexican officials on tir trips. Nearly 2,000 members of the Amercan colony attended a garden party at the embassy yesterday, with the Lindberghs as guests of honor. Col. Lindbergh was presented with a silver tray and his mother with a 1 ver bowl. Few aviators have ever flown from Mexico to Guatemala but aerial pathfinding is nothing new to Lindbergh. “I am taking the shortest air line" he said. "I'll carry 150 gallons of xasoline which will give me a margin ?f several hundred miles in the air if necessary.” O Santa Leaves Baby Girl On Doorsten At Plymouth Plymouth, Ind., Dec. 27. — (UP) — Santa Claus' gift to Mr. and Mrs. James C. Crabb, of Culver, was a girl baby left iu a basket on their doorHep Christmas morn. Adoption steps to make the child their own by law were planned today by Mr. and Mrs. Crabb. Middle aged and childless, they declared tbe girl was “the best Christmas present we ever received.” • Santa Claus was late iu his call at the Crabb home. It was not until 5 a. m., Sunday that the doorbell rang sharply several times. Mr. Crabb answered the door and found only a basket containing the baby. No one was in sight. Crabb took the basket inside and lifted the cover to find a sleeping baby wrapped in warm blankets. Again Crabb went to the door and peered up and down the street without success. There was a tag on the baby, but it did not give the name ot the hospital. Physicians said the girl was not more than five days old and in good health. The baby received a warm welcome from tbe Crabbs. It was named Caro Lee after the way it came to them. —o — Miss Agnes Courtney of Akron Olai< • visited over the week end with the A! va Nichols family on Mercer avenue Herbert Fullenkamp has returned t . his home in Chicago after speudin; Christmas with his mother and sistei 1 Mrs. Mary Fullenkamp and Miss Ros i Fullenkamp in this city. Big Square Dance at SunSe I Wednesday night. t

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LETTER WRITTEN ; BY REV. SEIMETZ I & Pastor, On Leave Os Absence Sends Letter To Congregation i The Rev. Father J. A. Scinietz. past tor ot St. Mary's Catholic church in .. this city, who, on account of ill | health, was forced to take a leave of j absence, greeted his congregation with a Christmas letter which was p read at the 5 o’clock mass, Christmas ; morning-. Father Seimetz is residing ,' north of Fort Wayne and reports 1 from him are very encouraging and his many friends here hope that he ’ | will continue to improve. r l The pastor's letter follows: j "Christmas.)—No word to which the ’ human tongue can give utterance is 1 so provocative of thought, so sugges 1 five of reflection, so pregnant with reminiscence. It brings back to con- ■ sciousness thoughts, words and deeds ' forgotten, perhaps, for a time, but not completely effaced from memory; it 1 recalls to memory past associations, ' former companionship with all their ' admitted privileges; it conjures up words and deeds that have both healed and injured and lauds or chides ■the conscience respectively. No one can withstand its influence, it impels recognition, conquers apathy, contains a magic that mellows the hardest heart. It possesses a I power coercing the thoughts of man to a better recognition, to a more charitable interpretation, a more frank avowal of the integrity of his, fe low man. It softens the sentence: of hasty judgment, restores to friendship the innocent victim of unwaranted prejudice, revives the good fellowship too often injured in the selfish pursuit of gain, it diciplines all our emotions into loyal affections. Unhappy the man who cannot enter wholeheartedly into the spirit of Christmas! He who cannot attune his mental attitude to the spirit of Christmas is dead to all emotions Christmas breathes the spirit of love, humility and good will to all men; it brings back to the heart of man the orlorn flame of hope, fills his soul with the sweet consolation that there s stilt One in the midst of tbe wicked I vorld whom he can trust, One ini whom he can confide, One whom he :an look to for tender mercy in the evils that beset him. Filled with this overwhelming sentiment I feel constrained to recognize the intimacy that binds me •>o closely to your temporal and spiritual interests. By the eternal deiree of Providence I am separated from you on this hallowed day—but only physically—in spirit I am with mu uniting with your prayer the petition that the Babe of Bethlehem may ascribe on the fleshy surface of our hearts the joyful message proclaimed m this day to all men of good will. May the Infant Child, so tolerant of luman frailities, so forbearing with uinau mistakes, crowd out of our •jarU all selfish motives and bitteress and implant in them a greater >ve for God and man. May the peace -f Beth'ehem find an abiding repose n our hearts and minds and ever susain and promote the best interests if shepherd and flock. The festivities of this day center on the Divine Child, the Virgin Mother and the humble scenes of the itable. They recall the drama enacted amid the bills of Judea over nineeen hundred years ago. The stable ; •>£ Bethlehem that gave shelter to the retted souls of Mary and Joseph and offered itself the asylum for the birth , of the King of kings how it awakens n us a reverence or the place we call 1 Tome. Unconsciously our thoughts •evert to the scenes of our childhood, he memories of home, for are not the scenes of home mor vividly depicted in the stable of Bethlehem? A Child [ 's the center of interest, a mother the heroine of her divinely assigned task, . t home, though only a temporary expedient in the case of the Holy FamI 'y, the sanctuary of virtue, love and obedience. How different is the world today! I Child, mother, home, what a dispar- , aging relation distorts this holy tri- , pie alliance in our day. The cradle, . which once identified the sacred , charge of motherhood, is now jeeringly consigned to the curios of social mpediments. The mother’s lullaby . is hushed wih the chatter of piuk 1 teas aud extravagant parties. Home ’ uo longer conveys the sense of its original meaning. The home which was once held G most sacred is now lamentably shattered and carries on the wings of its B ruin the shocking evils of the day. * Eliminate the Christian home and the forces of evil immediately invade it* T abandoned precincts; the spirit ol •• the world is enthroned where once e Christ held sway; the morbid emo f tic ns of the child are no longer ar 'I rested by the influence of family d prayer nor held in abeyance to th< command of parental discipline. e The world is a composition of unih >1 ot' which the family is an Integra component. Exclude the decalogtw from family life and you have struct io a fatal blow to the moral security o J. the state; its standards ot la*’ am e. order suffer hi proportion to the de to gree of deviation from the establish ig ed rules of family discipline. , r, Modern refoijuers are racking thei: ic brains in quest of a solution for tin wave of crime that is sweeping ove the world today. Why this waste o d professioual energy wdieu the solu tiou is .ill too apparent? Euthrom

Christ in the family niche, bring back to practice the family prayers and the i ecognition of parental duties und f with them you restore all that will Injure peace, happiness aud contentment. | lam not making an excursion into the past to revive the bleached bones " of those who would hang a man for the theft ot a shilling, or deport a young girl tor using cosmetics to embe'.ish her appearance; 1 am not finding fault with the progress of the world, do not mean to forge manacles 1 to fetter the hand of art, do not wish 1 to Inoculate the virus of insomnia to c check the progress of science. I 1 realize the folly of trying to check ’ human activity, the mistake of curb- ’ lug legitimate expansion. Progress • is, and always should be, the world’s 1 slogan. To slow -ip material devel--1 opment is to invite stagnation which ’ inevitably breeds mental and physiI cal disease. But we must not allow the worldly ' progress to retire our spiritual du- ' ties, in rite conflict between God and the w 'rid we should not be partial to the latter. Science and art art in perfect! harmony with Christianity there is not a conflicting note in the consonance unless you strike the wrong key. Let us then, as Christians, resolve on this day to foster that which brings to humanity the magnificent simplicity of the Babe of Bethlehem. Let us restore to the Christian home I the wholesome atmosphere of virtue, love and obedience. Consigning you, i r .-.M ’ ww 1 Awn " I Lesson No. 5 Question: Why should school children receive emulsified cod-liver oil? Answer: Because the strain of the study-period and playground uses up energy, > and emulsified cod-liver oil not only provides energy but also protects with its vitamins. e Mothers know the value of SCOTT’S EMULSION tlliiuu: Jl!idill<lUUaul!UUUUUiiUlUa!!*U.”llUUtlUUUHUMflnilimmU

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