Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 28 January 1928 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. | J. H HeUer Pres, and Hen. Mgr AR. Holthouee Sec y & Bus. Mgr. Dick I). Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffiee at Decatur,, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Retos: Single copies - I -03 One week, by carrier..— —— -M One year, by carrier 5 00 One month, by mail 85 Three months, by mail 1 00 3x months, by mail - 1-75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere, 33.50, one year. Advertising Rates made known by app ication. National Advertising Representative! Stheerer, Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dailies i You may not have the Old, Home ■ Week spirit just now. The weather ( does not inspire such thoughts, but just the same nor. is the time to begin to plan for it. «. ***** There are thi ty billion stars in the i sky it is now announced and sever, thousand of thun are visible with the na. ed eyes. We don’t guaranter • this, but if you doubt it, count them I some evening. Frank Baker of Indiana, is serious ly considering becoming a candidate for governor on the democratic primary ticket with a platform to repeal the public service commission law. That might be a good way to test out the popularity or unpopularity of this, law which has been cussed and <!■*- c tssed for several years now. Fred Rohrer of Berne, was one of the speakers at the dry convention hdd in Indianapolis ycste.day. Sinc<one of the questions under discussio: vas medicinal liquor it wotfld be in ti resting to kuu- just now Frud ex plained the "wine for iny stomach! sake" charges. A new rule adopted by the board of trustees of the Indiana state pris on is that no recommendation for clemency will be made ia the case of life term prisoners until they bavt served at least fifteen yews of theii term. A young roan of twenty would ’ thus be out at thirty-fivo and then again at fifty and could gpt iu three or four murders in a life time. Why don't a life sentence mean for life? Thomas Adams, Vincennt's editor, is in the republican primary race io r governor and Tom is nothing if no a fighter. He is the man who startec the Indiana ball of investigation twhirling and spun it so fast that they never have been able to stop it. Ol( course the politicians will 1 oppose him but it should be remesmbered that this after all Is a primary fight ; and that the people got a chajnce to vote. It ought to make the event more interesting. 1 We have never believed in ceaitral-1 ized government and every time a new bureau is established wo look upon it as one more step in that direction. The Curtis-Reed bill now before congress is one to centralize the power of controlling schools all over the country. While it appears harm-, less tn its present form, remember that once such a bureau is established it will be ease Io step by step! increase N s power, and prestige. The 1 new bureau would be operated Jiy ‘

i•■»wM. | | . , . . _ YOU WRECK ’EM ■■ WE FIX ’EM Slippery pavemients—car skids—smash! Bang! Fenders are dented in It’s our business to take care of such inh« n « tks« tv * i j —window glass hroken-Car looks almost beyond repair - you start to back into first class condUton-make ilk PUt worry, but that doesn’t ease matters any. . and see us for that body job make them look llkc new - Drive around Let us repaint y our car for Spring. Drive in now and be sure of your job at an early date. Decatur Auto Top & Paint Shon '•

I commissioners, ts those men are chosen from New York etale then I their ideas would be put into effect tn Indian* and -might not fit here at all. The closer home you keep your government, the more you will have to say and the bettor it will be all around. ■■■■■ - The basketball sane around here were extremely happy today tor their favorites took everything in sight in last nights contests. The Yellow Jackets won from the strops Peru aggregation, the Commodores defeated their old enemies, the Fort Wayne Central Catholics and the second high school team here evened up with the Hartford first team, keeping the platter clean. For two month* the interest will continue to increase, the season closing with the spring tournament* in Indianapolis and Chicago. I Michigan’s prison population is the largest in the state's history and i* : trowing. The fact is made known ip a, special report by Arthur D. Wood, commissioner of pardons and paroles, dr. Wood, from statistics gathered >y his office, answers tue interesting luestion, "Who goes to prison?" In urge part, he says, the prisoners art lie poor, the strangers and the friend ess. Fewer than five per cent of thi •onvicts are' tax payers; many oi hem confess to having no home, and , ew can claim human connections i vhich would lie recognized. h:• cent of prison inmates are un ottered and most of them have hau ew advantages for schooling. Most >f them are indolent or for some eason or other have been unable to aaintain themselves in steady entdoyment. Largely they are dissipat'd and many are addicted to the use f drugs. Such is the complicated problem with which the community las to deal. It is a resultant of bad reeding, heredity, environment and □calculable varieties of misfortune.; dr. Wood comments: "Some cog Ipped in the case of every prisoner 'he mass admit it. Many are tpore stupid than wicked." —Goshen Demo--rat. The senate committee on privileges | nd elections yesterday reversed its;elf, and ordered a recount of the balots cast in the Pennsylvania sena.orial election in 1926 in which Wiliam S. Vnre and William B. Wilson -•ere opposing candidates, Wilson beng the contestant before the committee. It is understood that, unless .he committee had reversed itself, he resolution of Senator Reed, of .lissouri, directing the committee to hear the contest, at least to the extent of recounting the ballots cast in six counties, would have been adopt- ' rd by the senate. There appears to be no doubt that a seat in the senate vill be denied Yarn- But the quesion is whether the Democrat, Wilton, shall be seated. And that is the luestion now before the senate committee. What the opened ballot boxes will show the country will learn as a result of the investigation. Wil. son ainquded somewhat his petition, but not in such away as to cloud the issue, or weaken his claim. It is believed that we shall now have a full inquiry into this election in which enormous sums of money were expended.—lndianapolis News. ■ o *¥¥****♦***♦♦ * THE GREAT WAR * * 10 YEARS AGO * *¥¥¥¥¥¥ ¥¥¥¥¥* Secretary of War Baker answers his critics, saying that the U. S. will have 500.000 men in France by spring. i Britain has lost 960,000 inbn tn one 1 year, the Dailv Mail deciares. | !_ USE Limberlost Wnphing Powder

Veteran Politician ~ - ■ // Mr*. Sarah Lee Fain of Norfolk, Va. is serving her third term in the Virginian Legislature. She led her icket in both the primary and gen-, jral election each time. She is the ‘rst woman to head a major comilctoe in the Virginia General Asonibly. ************ * BIG FEATURES * OF RADIO * Saturday’* Five Best ’Radio Features Copyright 1928 by UP WBZ, Springfield, 333, 7:10 p. fit.— Boston Symphony Orchestra. ,VJZ. hookup. 7:00 p. m — New York Symphony Orchestra. WJZ. hookup, 8:00 p. m. — Phllco Hour, “Tho Chocolate Soldier.” SYW, Chicago, 526, 10:00 p. m.— Broadcast for the Arctice. WOR, Newark. 422, 8:00 p. in,—Bamberger Mtuticale. SUNDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF —Hookup 8:15 pm. Atwater Kent Hour, Anna Case soprano. WEAF—Hookup 6:29 pm. — Capitol Theatre. WOR—Hockup 2:00 pm.— Symphony Hour. WJZ—Hookup 7:15 pm. Colliers Hour Karl A. Bickel, speaker. WJZ—Hookup 7:45 pm — Kedroff Russian Quartet. , •—— —o Health Better When Ou-doors Decatur, Ills., Jan. 28—(UP)—Dick Barry, crippled peddler of newspapers here, who was recently given a steam heated electrically lighted newsstand by busineps men who hated to see hint exposed to the inclement weather, . has been ill with pneumonia for several days. After woiking for a quarter of a centrury under open skies in all kinds of weather, he no sooner moved into bis handsome stand, a tiny replica of a colonial mansion, than he contracted the ailment. Bluffton—Joseph Cox of Keystone, telephone lineman, Is having a new top put on his flivver- While tour, ing along the streets last week during a storm a gust of wind came I a.ong and blefr the top off.

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*♦♦♦•**•♦***• * TWENTY YEARS AGO * V From the Dally Democrai PH* » * Twenty Year* Ago Today ♦ <¥ ****»»»»** * January 28—Will and John G*» r F open a cigar factory over th* Home saloon. Miss Katheiine Christen of this city und Mr. F. E- France, of Muskogee, 1. T-. will be married iu Chicago tomorrow. C O. France wins the billiard tournament with Frank Peterson, second,, and Dart France, third. There were ten 1* the contest. Petition filed for relocation of Big Blue Creek ditch. Race pt* for electric current in city of Decatur totalled |l,Boo in D'<'emher, biggest month ever known here. Meyer and Davis given contract for foundation of the Ward Fence building*. Butter is 20c and u«B s remain at 18c. The Krick-Tyndall company is making extensive Improvements. OO VOU WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE A recognized college awarding a Bachelor Science degreo in Electrical Engineering offers four young mon an opportunity to earn while attending. Also offering trade courses in Elecip Refrigeration, Radio and practical electrical tra ning. Earn while you learn. To qualify give age, height, and two references. Write Box R- can weight, education, where employed Democrat 22-3 lx

AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY DETROIT 21st Year Financial Statement as of December 31,1927 ASSETS First Mortgages on Real Estate and Real Estate Bonds (Worth in each instance double the amount loaned) 313(14 J 2 Municipal Bonds kun no Col'ateral Loan 9 901’009Ti Policy Loans and Renewal Premium Notes (Net) Rra’ Estate ($292,851.85 sold on contract) ’•’70882 36 C ash c-jq 00 Tax Certificates \..... lagoTona Interest Due and Accrued J,, Deferred and UncoNected Premiums (Net) j" . Furniture. Underwriting Equipment, Fixtures, Viult, Supplies (All charged oil)-.-Agents’ Debtor Balances None Non-admitted Assets None a Total Net Assets $12,949,025.00 LIABILITIES Reserve for all Policies in Force, including Dieab ’ity Reserve $11,384.899.9$ Reserve for Instalment Trust Benefits Not Yet Due 351,589.20 Reserve for Present Value of Disability Benefits Not Yet Dim 136,333.90 Reserve for Unpaid Claims in Course of Adiust nent 52,638.99 Reserve for Premiums and Interest Paid in Adva ce and Dividends Left on Deposit. 78,348.16 Reserve Funds Apportioned and Set Aside for A nual Dividend Policies 35,067.26 Reserve for Agents’ Credit Balances 13.167.83 Reserve for Taxes 44,987.33 Reserve for all Other Liabilities 40,964.57 Contingency Fund $262,092.41 Capital 200,000.00 Surplus 348,935.37 Surplus to Po’icyholders (Net) , 811,027.78 Total Liabilities .., $12,919,025.00 • » PAID-FOR INSURANCE IN FORCE, $88,811,228.42 Board of Di/ectors D. D. Aitken, Capitalist, C’arence L. Ayres. President Flint, Michigan American Life Insurance Co. Archie A. Anderson, Secy. & Treas. 1 red H - Aldrich, General Counsel Hayes-lonia Co., Grand Rapids F n A "? erif * n Life Insurance CoWilliam c Hull Prmurioni F " Da yf on Dav,s - Educational Director. William I resident American Life Insurance Co. Oval-Wood Dish Co,, Tupper Claude P. Sykes, Life Insurance Lake, New York, George E. Leonard, Auditor Aaron L. Sibley, Supt. of Loans American Life Insurance Co. American Life Insurance Co Harold P. Trosper, Vice-President Charles R. Talbot. President . 'iv'r." Lile ,‘ RbUranc e Co. n i 04 a i . . Jdnws W. Glover, Department of Peoples State Bank, Pontiac Mathematics, University of Mich.

DECATUR H. S. NOTES ....by-. ROBERT HELLER R.d Crow Wo r ke r Sp H“ Mio* Ohrtn. who ha* b,,” the junior Bed Cross organizationJn the county gave an interest g on the purpose and duties ot t e at the high school, Friday- “ The cause of retaining the serve after the war i* to promote of peace between lotions. More 12.000.000 boys and girls of va rol ' . countries are entolled. Junior Bed Cross work is dhlded into four parts: Civic, State, National and luternutknal The Civic duties concern the day things of Hf« ka«P l »8 th ® ‘J clean ami beautiful- Also a worker 1 expected to lighten the butdeiie o bis parents. The state and national deals chiefly with conservation of our natural re sources. Birdlife, flowers and suet things should be protected by the or gan zation. The purpose Internationa la the direct promotion of peace. Cor respondence is held under its auspice l between schools of different nations Miss Oslon exhibited several article' i which were sent from foreign eoun I tr ee to United States. She t.lso show i ed some examples of the thlugs sen . by United States schools to other na ’ ti° ns - The articles were: toys, handiwork i artwork and other similar thingsBrin patrons of th< I Baldwin Heights school have filet ; suit in Gibson circuit court herejisk

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