Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1928 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec'y & Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller..:. Vice-Preeldent Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail 1 no S’x months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere, $3.50, one year. Advertising Rates made known by application. ■■■ II I ■ National Advertising Representatives Seheerer, Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Well, heres another week just starting. What will we do for the Old Home Week Club? Wasn’t this a beautiful morning, a touch of spring? If you like the sample perhaps we can induce the weatherman to be generous with this brand the next few weeks. The sectional tournaments for high School basketball this week with over sev .. hundred teams competing and then the regionals and then the cow barns. The Catholic state tournament next week. It will soon be over. We should remember that to let the Old Home Week drag is the surest, way to kill it. We can’t put it over unless we snap in and do it. Don't wait for the other fellow. Perhaps your application will encourage some one else to join. We are not so much interested in whether the fuelless motor is successful for airplanes, but it would help considerably if it could be applied to automobiles, even if it would be tough on the highway commission. which receives a considerable amount from the gasoline tax. The senate has voted $1,500,000 for expenses and $250,000 for a pageant for the George Rogers Clark memorial celebration to be held in 1930 at Vincennes. Looks like something doing in the old Hoosier town tor the state will also help make it a good one and no doubt that, community itself will let out to the very limit. The proposal will come up in congress today or tomorrow with every indication for its adoption favorable. If congress adjourns without giving the people a reduction on income taxes as promised, the democrats should need no further Issue. The dilly-dallying in congress and in state affairs should cease. Surely we have had enough of horse play to last a century. Its time the folks back home became aroused. If the democrats will stop quarreling about petty things and get down to real business, discusr, issues of .moment and declare for a policy of better government, the voters will get back of them quickly and numerously. Dr. Interband of New York City, has just made the important announcement that one out of every ten women is bow legged and one out of wevery twenty-five men, but don't get chesty about it men, for the same authority says bow legs are a sign of brains and health. George Washington, Theodor 1 . Roosevelt, Julius Ceaser and hundreds of the greatest leaders of the world had them, Inlerband recites and he also shows that except in very few cases, this slight deformity is not caused by curvature of the bone but by an over development of muscular tissues. Alter charging off nitre titan live thousand dollars for depreciation, the city water plant shows a net profit of nearly six thousand dollars, which added to the convenience and to the knowledge that we own it and are not subject to increased rates to pay some outsiders big dividends. Is not so bad. The electric plaut showed a

greater profit and the two operated as carefully as they arc will some day be the greatest asset of the city, wiping out taxes and building a reserve of cash with which to improve conditions generally. We congratulate Mr. Mylott and Mr. Harruff upon the showings made and the city administration for their careful conduct of affairs in general. Cities of five or six thousand usually go forward or slip back. Which will ours do? We urge a general getting together of our citizens for a step ahead. Conditions are very good here, better than In the average city, but that is no reason why we should sit still. step out right now and do something. If we could land a good industry, it would stimulate every business and make every one prosperous. We could each afford to go the very limit to do that and we ought to. We have general conditions that should attract good concerns seeking new locations and would if they were known. A few hundred dollars spent in advertising would be a great investment and we would like to see it tried. Now is the time. The supreme court of Illinois has held the two-cent gasoline tax law unconstitutional and according to Chicago papers this will sadly interfere with the success of Governor Small, which may at least to some extent, make up for the loss in dollars and cents. It is claimed that the governor was using this .money to build a groat political machine by appointment of various aides to be paid out of this revenue. It seems somewhat strange that their law should be unconstitutional, though a similar law has been held good in forty-seven states, but perhaps there are as many varieties of gasoline tax laws as there are laws and what prevails in one instance would not be good in another. Any way the car owners will probably be delighted with the year of lower fuel. Fort Wayne is to get a inillion-dol-lar postoffice building from the government. They needed it and we hope that when it is completed the mail service through that city will be improved, especially on second class mail matter. We congratulate that city and we are glad for them, but we haven't changed our mind one bit about Decatur not getting such a building. We feel that Congressman Vestal has fallen down .miserably and that he has done so because he has| not been properly urged by the people who have influence with him in this i city. It is natural we presume for a | congressman to take the course of | least resistance and to let slip thosq I things which he is not urged to do, 1 but if you will elect a democrat to congress we will do our best to get him on the job.

*»»**;;*»♦***♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO ’ * * * From the Dally Democrat File * * Twenty Yeara Ago Today * Feb. 27—George Maddy purchases an orange grove near I’hofenix, Arlz. Anti-saloon league is waging a. stiff fight to make Bluffton dry. George Cromer, of Muncie, is talking politics here. F. A. Cotton, state superintendent, will lecture at the M. E. church here next Thursday night. Mrs. L. N. Grandstaff celebrates her 60th birthday. Weather Is ten above zero today. Real winter now. J. W. Tyndall at Kendallville for a big ditch sale. Peter Gaffer observed his 49th birthday yesterday. The folks surprised Marriage license — W. H. Gilpen and Miss. Bessie May Fisher. Miss Martha Benner and Mr. B. F. Trueblocd married at clerks office. Wheat up to SI.OO, hogs $4.65, corn 62c aud oats 53c 0 ...— Save a Dime on your hair cut every day except Saturday. Hill & Young, new location, Madison st. 192tf o When Your Skin Begins To Age Use this new wonderful Cleansing Cream containing Cocoa But.teir. Keeps the skin firm and plump while it melts into the pores aud takes out all the grime and dirt. It Is so different from any other cream. Will uot grow hair—keeps complexion young. Ask for MELLO-GLO Cleansing Cream —It's marvelous. The Holthouse Company.

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Auto Clubs Undertake Educational • • • Campaign to Safety-ize Indiana SAFETY LESSON NO. 3 i PREPARED BT the ' j HOtm STATE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION I | ■ p £ ■pr . rig ~ H •fimri.'' S MmHlf--- 'r j ra I rl * ■ ?jl| I IjM iVi KfcVj IC jl f 4 "More Recreation, Less Wreck-creation.’’ To keep healthy. Hoosier boys and girls must play outdoors in the winter time. The healthier they are the more likely they are to be successful, both in their studies in school and later years in life. ThoughtSesa "recreation” without due regard for safety often result in “wreck ■creation.’* Recently an Indiana lad doing a “belly-buster," that winter sport of healthy boys, coasting towards a boulevard shot out in front of a passing automebile. The driver swerved to the right in an effort to avoid the catastrophe. The boy swerved to the left, The result, one less healthy bay and a driver with shattered nerves and a blighted life. “My advice to the healthy young boys is taken from a ixipular song several years ago, ‘Stay in Your Own Back Yard,’ says E. R. Baldridge, President of the Hoosier State Autrmobile Association. Snow' hills used for sliding and coasting should always incline away from the street and not toward it. if boys and girls must use their sleds on the ide walks, streets should not be crossed while one child is pulling another. Pick up the sled at the cross w r alk and carry it. And for the adults and growmups. When we are driving on boulevards and busy streets why not hard back to our boyhood days. As we drive along, look out for the fine spots for coasting and remember that each one is a danger zone for the winter months.

* BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * S¥**¥*¥*****S MONDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF -Hcokup 8:30 pm. General Motors hour, with Grace Hayes and Phadle Wells. WEAF, Hookup 7 pm. Mathilde Harding, pianist. WJZ—Hookup 6:30 pm. Roxy theatre program. WEAF—Hookup 7:30 pm. Gypsies. WOR —Hookup 8 pm. Musical Album. 0 — TUESDAY’S FIVE'BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF—Hookup 8 pm. Eveready hour. Gilllpagos Episode. WJZ—Hockup 7 pm. Stromberg-Carl-son hour. WOR—Newark 8 pm. Barbizon recital WCCO —Minneapolis-St. Paul 10:30 pm. Prohibit ion debate. WJZ—New York and WBZ Springfield 10 pm. Slumber music. 0 **¥¥¥*¥*¥¥*♦♦ * THE GREAT WAR * * 10 YEARS AGO * *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Japan amkes inquiries of Entente powers and U. S. regarding possible joint military operations in Siberia to save from Germans large stores of ammunition in Valdivoelck belonging to Japanese.' Serious ■ differences between Germany anp Austria follow a meeting between Charles I anil the Kaiser, attended by Ludendorff —Germany may have to use force against Austria-Hun-gary in waging war against Russia,

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This Newspaper Man Was On The Job When Ruth Elder Hit Town Hartford City, Feb. 27—(U.R)—Here is a newspaper man who,was on the job. Here is a good example of an enterprising modern American journalist. Herbert E. Honey, advertising manager of the Hartford City Times-Gazet-te, was on hand when Ruth Elder made unexpected visit to this city recently. When the r/egular news staff went over to see Ruth and to gather interviews. Harbert went along. He met Ruth, saw that she was pretty as her pictures, s’hock hands with her blushed when she said that she was “pleased to meet’ him—and then got busy. The next day his paper was filled to overflowing with, .advertisements. Each reader learned through tlie ads that Ruth's plane used a certain kind of gasoline. And automobile dealer told the world that Ruth rode from the landing field to the hotel in the make of car that he was selling. The hotel let it be known that she stopped there. The ads told the name of the'brand of milk she drank for breakfast and mentioned the fact that she liked the food in a certain case. Her taste in steaks was advertised and the fact that she ate a certain make of doughnut, hole and all, was duly chronicled in paid advertising Lastly she departed in a plane the motor of which was clanked by a certain mechanic from a. local garage. Het belt is said to have made Ruth’s visit bring in a record breaking number of ads. “It is an ill wind that hlows\nu good”, said Herbert smiling: ——— o USE Llmberlost Washing Powder

I and plunged into the waves while going at a clip 0f'225 miies an hour. (International Newsreel).

Tips For Taxpayers No. Thirteen Taxpayers are advised by the Bureau of Internal Revenue carefully to present their claims with regard to deductions for losses. To be allowed, such claims must coniform closely to the wo;ding of the statute. Losses are deductible if incurred in the taxpayer’s trade or business, in any transaction entered into for profit, though not connected with the taxpayer’s trade or business, or any arising from fires storms, shipwreck, or other eausalty, or by theft, and if not compensated for by insurance or otherwise. Business losses result usually, from the pui chase and sale of merchandise Such losses are usually ascertained by means of inventories, which are required whenever, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, their use is necessary to determine the income of any taxpayer. CLEVELAND DIVORCE RATE DOUBLED IN LAST FIFTEEN YEARS Cleveland. — (INS) —Cleveland's divorce rate has doubled in the past 15 years, it was revealed here recently. The reason, in the opinion of Common Pleas Judge Thomas Kennedy, who has been hearing divorce suits in Cuyahoga county (Cleveland) for 26 years, and who has observed during that time the changing attitude, is because of the trial judge's attitude. "When the judges are strict in requiring fulfillment of the laws governing divorce—full proof of oue of the 10 grounds provided by (Ohio) laws, and full support of testimony offered, —the divorce rate falls,” Judge Kennedy declared. “But," he continued, “when they allow substjttuipn pf one ground for another, admit unsupported testimony, and are otherwise complacent toward divorce, the rates rises. “It rises for two reasons: "1. Greater percentage of those Fights 18 Years To Get Rid of Gas "I had stomach trouble for 18 years. Since taking Adlerika I i’eel better than for years and have not been bothered- with gas.”—L. A. Champion. Even the FIRST spoonful of Adlerika relieves gas and often removes astonishing amount of old waste matter from the system. Makes you enjoy your meals and sleep better. No matter what you have tried for your stomach and bowels, Adlerika will surprise you. Smith, Yager & Falk, druggists

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who ask divorces, areg ranted them. "2. Complacence Increases the number of divorces asked.” Divorce statistics for the county since 1910 support Jadge Kennedys In 1912 the county's divorce rate was 17.777 per cent. Bi 1914 the judges tightened up and the rate was decrease dto 9.67 per cent. In 1927 the rate had increased to 35 per cent. o— . intuition a Big At tat In taking to the brook, how does the fox know tint the hounds nrP trailing him by the scent of his footprints?— Boston Herald.

| THE CORT » fi Last Time Tonight ft fi Estella Taylor and Antonio Moreno Jfj in a First National Attraction | “THE WHIP WOMAN” | B A (lifTerenl kind of a story about a different kind of a 9j girl a modern, young cavewonian who whipped her gj R way into the heart of a man who wanted to forget * about love! 1 > ffi “She’s A Boy” comedy 15c, 35c | K TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY —John Barrymore and UE Dolores Costello in "WHEN A MAN LOVES." 30 ™ anl as1 THE ADAMS Theatre i 5 | Last l ime Tonight $ ? RICHARD DIX in § “SHANGHAI BOUND” “ with Mary Brian. ft | Out of tile Chinese storm center shrieks this mighty melodrama! Imagine DIX as the Captain of a Yangtse § boat who rescues some Americans from river pirates K S and then proceeds to fight his way down stream SHANG- ffi E iIAI BOI'ND toward tlie shelter of a dreadnaught! m e See it and be thrilled! gg R ALSO—“KING HERALD” with Taylor Holmes. S 15c 35c ft 5 TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY—“BARBED WIRE," with Pola Negri, Eg Clive Brook and Einer Hanson. Don't Miss This One. Rr >ni!ffe'nmafi!n^!nbrafferaSfara!fiarafehi!ferafera!fi=i.;Jit'afi? ■ fWJWIS snwi CIOTHES Values like ours need no press Agent. Then, why do we advertise? Simply to keep your eye on the camera so you won’t forget what we are famous for. Eastman keeps quoting his Kodaks —Heinz still billboards his Beans—Gold Medal is eternally at it—and since we own the distinction oi giving the best values in Decatur we are not going to dispense with our ad-man and take a chance on your memory. The New Spring Shoes our Here Joha-T-Myecd & Sort < CtOTNI.VO AND SHOES J FOK DAD ANO lAO INDIANA*

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