Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1928 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published (vary Evening txoapt Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO J. H Heller Preu, and Gen Mgr V R Holthoine.. > * Bus Mgr Dick D Hailer Vice-President Rote red at the Postofftce at Decatur. Indiana, as second class matter Subscription Rates: Single copies — 1 02 One wdek, by carrier— .10 One year, by currier—— — 6.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months, by mall —. 1.00 Six months, by mall 1.75 Ont- year, by mull — 300 One year, at office 3.00 < Prices quoteO are wt’hln first and second tones Additional post age added outside tbnae tones • Advertising Rate* Made known by Application —— dcbeeror. Inc 36 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Soo irifth Avenue New fork Don’t put off getting your autoraobile license too long. Remember January 31st is the last of grace extended by the Indianapolis depart- 1 , merit and that orders have gone forth 1 that arrests be made beginning j February Ist. A Chicago man who bought ten barrels of three-month-old hootch and found it half water is suing for damages and is willing lo pay for possession if he can make the grafters who stug him suffer also. to understand some of the business tactics these days. We have noticed several people running the stop signs and even the red lights the past few days. Os course it has been chilly and its ! tedious to wait but its safer every ! way. The police will be checking up again soon and those who violate the law may have to explain with some alibi other than the weather. Tin ift Week is over, that is the one week of the year when the Benjamin Franklin idea is observed and advertised, but ft should never be over for you if you intend to profit by the advice given. Wise people start saving when they are young and never 10l up. Don’t wait for a bigger income,'; save something now, if its only a dollar a week. In a few years even with i that amount you will have a satisfy-. lug nest egg. The death of Major-General George i W. Goethals, the man who built the : Panama canal after many others had failed, removes from life one of the greatest engineers the world has ever bad. No achievement in centuries j matches the building of the great canal after seven years of constant labor against all kinds of odds. At that time he was a colonel and if a man ever earned a major-generalship it was Goelthals. His name will live in history and should. One of the largest banks in New York City is trying out tho plan of treating money in the same manner as other commodities and have done away with their steel cages and j armourexl array of safes and vaults.' They claim that these things never prevented robberies and have only made tho customer feel like a suspicionwi person. We presumed that most <r: the furniture, and fixtures in a batik were more for convenience' than Cor bluff and it will be interesting to watch how the new plan works.

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assoiiation anpomp-nK that plane have been made in seventeen hundred communities tor .1 drive this year for modern residences. They ■ advocate ih<- building of homes to from $3,000 to SIO,OOO including tluji lost and furnish attractive piling for these. Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce is president of the organisation which has its headquurtos at 1653 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. <' The city of Houston is showing tb<nation what she can do. They lauded the big democratic convention with a check for $200,000 and a promise to provide a suitable hall. When they got Io sizing II all up they found the latter was not at hand so they havo already started t-o linllil one wlil.h will cover two city blocks and accommodate 25,000 or more visitors and delegates ami ullertiuU's. They plan

ito spend a half million dollar* to p i show the world they can do it and do jit right. It will he a great convention tn every way. ■. The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, al- ’ ways hunting something to make those of democratic faith antagon- ■ iatie, now claims that Houston was the only city which would have the democratic national convention. And j this in face of the fact that San Frau- ; i Cisco offered fifty thousand dollars | • I more than Houston and that Clevej! land, Detroit and Miami each offered I; more for the meeting than they did I 1 for the republican convention. Any city of course would welcome such a convention! representing millions of people, always attended by thousands of respectablo citizens who pay their own way. The News-Benteinel often devotes Its space to the discussion of bunk rather than issues. The arrest of five young men from this community Saturday night on the very serious charge of stealing and the fact that during the past week ’ several others from this and nearby counties have been "caught with the goods upon them," so to speak, should make those who feel they can thus preform and go free, reconstruct themselves. Its a foolish and wrong course for any young man to pursue for sooner or later he is sure to get a term in prison, ruining his life and his opportunity to serve his fellowmen and to make something of himself. in this great country where every man has a chance to rise, no difference how humble his beginning, no youngster should thus throw away dis opportunities. Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliam has mled that the state board bail no authority to demand tho resignation j of Mrs. Ella Peoples as county truant officer of Adams county which is what many people, have felt should be the law whether it is or not. Too much power in the hands of a board at Indianapolis is always dangerous for it can work many hardships and Is frequently unfair. Whether or not this decision settles the controversy which has been' on several months remains to be seen, but at least it is a | most favorable decision for Mrs. ' Peoples who was regularly elected by i j the county board of education. According to the decision of the attorney general such matters are entirely in the hands of the local authorities. • i The crime question and the crim- j inal are causing many arguments these days and along with it comes a discussion of the death penalty for murder. Were it not for the fact that pardons aro so general it is probable # capital punishment could be done away with, but so long as prisoners j are not compelled to serve out their i sentences it will be difficult to secure the consent of the people generally for the abolishment of the “tooth for a tooth and life for a life” old Mosaic law. In this state this week tho parjdou board will consider requests for I pardons from forty men convicted of serious crimes, sixteen of them being murderers. Except in very rare cases it would seem wise at this time to mark them refused. The only way we. arc going to stop or check crime ' in this country is to catch the criminal. try him quickly and force him to serve out. the full term of bls sentence whether that be thirty days or,.

**¥*iF¥«ee*«** * TWENTY YEARS AGO * * * * From the Daily Democrat File * ; * Twenty Years Ago Today * *»*»***♦♦*•*** Jan 23—Cloverleaf appropriates the money for a new depot in bccatur. There arc eight candidates for the republican nomination for president, Taft, Hughes, Fairbanks, Knox, Cannon, Foraker, LaFollotte and Cortedyou. "My wife’s family’’ at the opera house.. 'Young ladies of the St. Mary’s church enjoy the first leap year dance of the season. 11 S. Moses is attending the farmei's institute at Berne. Frank Cotton, of Bluffton, is a hostler at tho Fashion stables. . Abe Bogley of Berne, is taking orders for his new map of Adams county Eggs uro 18c. butter 18c. Coldest weather of the winter ami the lee men are smiling. •*” •*■*•' ■ I I (J— ---. »■ , USE Limberlost Washing Powder I i

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Bcwl Used in East for Measuring Time It appears that in certain sections of Algeria a copper bowl with a hole in it takes the place of a timepiece. Au American with business interests In that colony tells of the peasants of Beni Ferah, for example, who use the bowl for timing the flow of water Into their gardens from the only nearby river. Bo precious Is the waler among the hill people in that part of the world that a few moments more or less in the period of flow Is of great importance. A natch, therefore, is not to be depended on. | The bowl is part of a eyatem of measuring time that must be of great antiquity and probably has prevailed in Algeria for countless generations j When gardens are to be irrigated a member of the village council accompanies the landowners and brings with him a large earthen bowl, or a metal pall of water and a small copper bowl In the bottom of which is a minute hole. At the moment when the mud wall of the irrigation canal ia cut through, and the water la allowed to flow Into the first garden, the councilor carefully places the perforated bowl, which is the property of the village council, and which, therefore, Is the legal measure, upon the water in the pall und watches carefully for it to sink, which it will do, perhaps, in 15 minutes. Thus each landowner is entitled, as the case may be, to three, four, six or eight sinkings of the copper bowl. As the time approaches when the flow of water into a garden le to cease* a neighbor In the little group of landowners will shout to an assistant in his garden to be ready lo cut an inlet into liis land as soon as the bowl has sunk for Hie lust time. Just as the, bowl sinks the last time the peasant, cries out to a man in his garden to Stem Hie flow of the water by filling with mud the hole through which It Ims been running. Since landowners are present in persou, and Since an elder with the official bowl does the measuring, it appears that the quaint method is almost as good as any.

Gave Impulse to Move for Better Education Apiericiin Educutfbu week undoubtedly developed from the movement forwarded by Dr. I'. I'. Clnston iu 1920, thou eomniiesloner of education. School Life of October V', 1920, carried what was apparently the first suggestion for a nation-wide campaign for the improvement of schools and other agencies for education. In this article Doctor Claxton designated the week of December 5 to 11 us “School week” and urged governors und chief state school officers to lake proper action to cause the lo use this week in such away as would most effectively disseminate among the peo pie accurate information iu regard to the condition aud needs of the schools, enhance appreciation of the value of education, and create such interest as would result in better opportunities for education and larger appropriations for schools of all kinds. Boy Who “Made Good” Haqs Christian Andersen, who be came famous as a writer of fairy tales, wps a poor boy. He was not attractive or popular and he did not do well in school. He was considered queer and about town was known as the “ugly duckling.” He was born at Odense, the oldest town in Denmark. When die king of Denmark heard about Haus’ genius he took an interest in the boy and sent him to a special school. Then Hnus went traveling. He had au ambition to write great dramas and novels, but nt this be was not a success, says Pathfinder Magazine, But in Inventing simple little stories lie was Hie world's master, lie considered these little tales almost worthless, but his fame spread all over the world.

Tempted Observers from foreign countries say Americap husbands, as a rule, spoil their wives by praising them overmuch. However correctly the criticism unay apply generally, it does net apply to the old Maine farmer who is on record as having said: "Yes, I reckon I've got the best wife that ever lived. For nlgii on to fifty years, through sunshine and shadow, riches and poverty, sickness und health, she's been as true as steel and as sweet as an angel. Yes, sir, I don't believe a better wife ever lived atop of the earth, and sometimes ft’s all I can do to keep from telling her so.”—Boston Globe. Something in Luck Says >ovalis in one of his question able aphorisms, "Character is destiny." But not the whole of our destiny. Hamlet, prluc of Denmark, was spectacular and irresolute, and we have a great tragedy in consequence. But If his father Imd lived to a good old ugo, and his uncle bad died an earty death, we can conceive Hamlet’s having married Ophelia, ami got through life with a reputation of sanity, nothwlthstanding many soliloquies, and some moody sarcasms toward the fair daughter of Folonius, to say nothing of the frankest incivility to his fa (her In law.—George Eliot. Look Forward Tin- mnn'.wlio continuously look buekv.urd doesn't make much progress. As the su.viug goes, “lie Ilves in the limit,” not, even In the present. So fur as the future is concerned ‘ lie's a dead one. —Grit.

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Mrs. Evelyn Rosencrantz, secretary at the Holy City in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Cal., has ordered a plane similar in design to "The Spirit of St. Ixmls," and will attempt a flight from the United States to Rome next spring. *¥¥¥¥*•¥♦¥*¥** * THE GREAT WAR *, * 10 YEARS AGO * ***¥¥*¥¥¥#¥* *' The war cabinet demanded by enemies of Woodrow Wilson is defeated by Congress. Belief that a gerat Get man off ensive now three days overdue, according to promises of High Command, is about; to start, grows; artillery and air fighting increases on western front.

JEFFERSONVILLE — A hackberry tree more than a hundred years old which sheltered soldiers during civil war days, has just been cut down on the Clark county courthouse lawn here. The tree had been ruined by time and disease. During the ‘6l ‘65 cons ict, a barracks was located on part of what is now the courthouse site, aud soldiers were went to make uso of the tree's shade. o I Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pays

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Kokomo— (UP) — Loris Newman, city councilman here, has applied for a patent on a heating stove, the principal feature of which is a mixing chamber for air drawn into the stove. A great saving in fuel is claimed by | Newman for his invention. Danville —(UP-)—Twelve men want I the job of town marshall here. The town board is considering 12 bids for the place, different bidders offering I to take payment on an hourly, daily | or monthly basis. The hour bid was 45 cents; the day $3. and the monthly tango from $75 to $l4O. o Stomach Trouble Gone Bakes 40 Pies

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