Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1928 — Page 4

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1) E (' A T U R DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse ...L.Sec’y 4 Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, ludiana, us 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 mall 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zoqps. Elsewhere, $3.50, one year. Advertising Rates made known by application. National Advertising Representatives Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, Naw York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Just one more week in which to file your income tax report and the government, you may remember, takes no excuses. Better get at it now. We are not going to bother you much longer with our pleas to join the Old Home Week club unless more interest is manifested. If you are through, we will be soon. As the auctioneer would say, going, going, gone, what do you say? Japan is having a tough old battle with influenza and more than two thousand deaths have been reported during the past few weeks. We have been spared such an epidemic in this country but as the spring comes on it may be well for every one to be as careful as they can. Business is improving, get ready to do your share towards making the community better. That will help you and every one else. Lets do a little building, get ready for spring, paint up and clean up and snap in for a happy and prosperous summer season. We need about nine hundred members for the Old Home Week club. If the campaign has been slow perhaps its because you haven’t done yojrr share. Have you joined? Then do it and then help get others to do so. Its far too important a project to just let drag along. The Commodores, basketball team representing the Decatur Catholic high school, left yesterday for Indianapolis where they will take part in the state tournament, meeting the Evansville team in their first game tomorrow evening. The commodores know the game, always put up a splendid scrap and may be depended upon to give the best they have to bring home a record that every one can well feel proud of. Hoover has entered the Indiana primary and will try to secure the primary vote which will entitle him to a part of the votes. Thats bad news for the Watsonites who had expected and hoped that they would be permitted to get by on the favorite sou plea. With several of the leading papers in the open for Hoover and with such leaders as Goodrich and Hays backing him, the fight will probably get rather warm. Wo are not surprised at the evidence that the republicans used a lot of money in their campaign for we know a political committee never has enough money to du ail that should be done to carry their message to the voters, but we are surprised at the evident desire of the various oil companies to place a political party under such heavy obligations and we would like to know just what they had in mind. Oscar Foellingtr, manager of the Fort Wayne Ncws-Seutinel is to be Indiana manager for Herbert Hoover, evidently “shooting the whole stack" on Ibe turn of this card. ’l'o light Senator Watson in tile field where- for a third of a century he has been boss or 'near-boss, to oppose the machine as will be necessary to make a showing, to divide his owp territory pulit- »

I Ically us this battle will, requires considerable nerve. If he wins he will be sitting pretty for the present, If he loses they may make life miserable for him. Either way he ought . to get quite a thrill out of the exI perlence. The contractors are getting ready to start work on the three new hard surface approaches to this city which will be built during the next three or 1 four mouths. One of these roads leads past the Decatur Country club? one past St. Joseph cemetery and one past the Decatur cemetery. Two of them will be built of concrete and one of brick, adding more than three miles of hard surface. The improvements will be splendid ones for nothing helps a community so much as good roads and during the next decade you may expect to see many miles of hard surface reads constructed In this county. During the past year Adams county has led in the construction of macadam highways and now has nearly eight hundred miles. The increased traffic, especially on the main roads has made it necessary to build year-around highways that do not require constant maintenance. It will he one of the chief steps of progress in the next few years. Decatur has many things to be proud of, but did you ever stop to think that none of the many paved streets were paved with money sent away for purchases in other cities, that no school teacher or pastor was ever paid with money spent on order or peddler’s goods, that no payroll was ever met with those absentee dollars? Nearly always you will find, if you take time to investigate, that your main street merchant is able to meet your needs. It is his business to be your purchasing agent, to stock the goods you require against the day you need to call for them; to give you honest values and to be right where you can find him if occasion ever arises to make good on any merchandise purchased from him. Your 1 merchant is the man whose enterprise gives value as a tax and rent i producer to the business district of 1 our city—he is the man who is be- ‘ hind every civic movement or enter- , prise for the betterment of our city, i These are only a few reasons why he i is entitled to your patronage, and it ( is unfair to yourself, your city and i your community to withhold your patronage from Decatur. The best ( and surest means of upbuilding the , home town, of increasing property values, of enlarging our opportunities, is to spend your money here in De- , catur and make it work for everyone in the community. o *¥¥¥¥¥*¥¥«¥¥* * BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * ;;**¥¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Z FRIDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WJZ—Hookup 8 pm—Dinnr in Hon- ’ or of Senator Honuorat. f France with addresses by the Senator, , Hon. Charles E. Hughes and oth- ‘ ers. WEAF— Hookup 7 pm.—Cities service ( hour. WCR—Newark (422) 7 pm.—Choir invisible. WEAF—Hookup 8 pm. Palmolive hour. WJZ—Hookup 8 pm. Wrigley review. Saturday's Five Best Radio Features Copyright 1928. by United Press Central Standard Time WJZ, liopkup, 7 p. m. — RCA hour: New York symphony orchestra. WEAF. hookup. 7:15 p. m.—lntercollegiate glee clubs contest. WJZ, hookup, 8 p. m.—Franz Lehar’s Operetta, “Gypsy Love.” WOR. Newark. 422, 8 p. m—Levitow’s Orchestra. WI.S. Chicago, 345, 7:30 p. m. — National Barn dance. o - Linn Grove Man Invents Musical Motor Cylinders Linn Grove, Ind., Mar. 9. — Henry Motive, who has been foreman of the muffler-timing department of the Linn Grove garage, is working on an invention for a new type of auto'cylinder. Each cylinder will have a separate exhaust pipe; each will be of separate and diffeient tone which will enable the driver to know exactly which cylinder is not working. Each make of ear will ‘be tuned in a different cleft or key. such as key of G or A minor, . and some will be flat. A straight eight will be built with an eight octave.

VELMA WEST GETS LIFE SENTENCE '> Ac ' . y r ! ■ . ’ . / ..'4'life' '. ■ When the Ohio state prosecuting authorities agreed to accept a second degree murder guilt plea for Velma West, youthful husband “hammer •layer,” prison for life was the sentence. Under Ohio laws, parole may bo applied for after ten years’ Imprisonment, which would make Velma still a young matron when she may again seek freedom. (International Newsreel)

Tips For Taxpayers No. Twenty-Three A person may receive for his services compensation other titan money that is subject to the income tax. The fail market value of the thing taken in payment Js the amount to be included as income. For example, if a clerk in a grcrprv store receives a* part of his wages groceries or provisions. the market value of the merchandise must be reported by hint as income. Promissory notes received in payment for services and not merely at. security for payment constitute income to the amount of their fair market value. Board and lodging when furnished as compensation for services must be included as income. Thus, a hotel clerk who is give na room and meals as part payment for his services must report the fair value of such in his in-come-tax return. o *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* * TWENTY YEARS AGO * * * ¥ From the Daily Democrat File * I * Twenty Year* Aflo Today ♦ #¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥*¥¥* March 9. 1908;—Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Dibble announce celebration of their 35th wedding anniversary on St. Patrick's day. State board of health is investigating charges from Decatur that the chicken loops are not kept clean. Senator Beveridge makes his famour speech on the child labor bill. Louis Dolch. of Selby, California, visits here. Three dollar trousers for 91.00 at the Myer-Dailey Clean Vp Sale. Clothing is stolen from the Bert Dibble home. Drayman Teeple is sporting a newset of fine harness on his team of horses. "A Diamond Robbery” is the attraction at the opera house. Beginning tonight the stores will remain open until 8 o’clock. C. B. Poling is a candidate for the Republican nonvuatiou for trustee of Washington township. DECATUR H. S. NOTES ....by.... ROBERT HELLER The sophoufore class will hold a party Friday night in the high school gymnasium. Miss Michaud, class guardian, and the clash officers and committees have planned the anmsetaettlo ami eats. A good time is promised to all. Seniors Make S2OO on Play 'file money for the Senior class play. "The Lottery Mau,” has nearly all been checked in. Miss McCrory announced today that approximately *325 was taken in. The pit profit will be about *21)0. Juniors To Give Play The Junior class play will bo held April 27 and 28. A committee composed of Herman Lanketiau, Isabel j Hower and Vivian Acker has been

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FUELLESS MOTOR IDEA AN OLD ONE By Cecil Owen, UP Correspondent Copyright 1928 by UP Washington, Mar. 9. — (U.R) — Eive patents on inventions, believed to embody a principle similar to the socalled “fuel-ices motor” recently credited to Lester J. Hendershot of Pittsburgh, have been grunted by the U. S. patent office. All five of the inventions, two dating back to the last century, depend for their power on electricity extracted from the air on the earth. Each professes to opt rate without fuel or batteries. Experts at the patent office believe the devices to lie commercially valueless and impracticable. Patents could not be obtained on them today as inventors are now required to demonstrate the feasibility as well as the novelty of their brain children. The first apparatus of this type wa‘s patented a year before the Civil War. 1860, by 11. C. Vion a resident of Paris. Vion’s idea was to extract electricity from the clouds and also from the earth by means of a captive balloon and a wire .conductor. His invention was derived from- Benjamin Franklin's electrical experiments with a kite and a key. Philadelphian. William L. Pennock, Il'ilbvXrSiw' Wil i Lesson No. 10 Question: How can our kiddies keep well and strong? Answer: By building up a resistance against sickness, and that’s easy and pleasant if they take SCOTT’S EMULSION f hi

in 1909 patented on R similar device , to capture electricity from the clouds and carry it through wires Io an "energy accumulator. Pennock later took out a second patent covering a modified apparatus based on the same principle. In both patents he proposed to transmit the energy from the rare strata above the cloude ami store il OU tile earths surface for use. An elaborate method of extracting electricity from the air was patented in 1901 by A. Palenscar, of Budapest, Hungary, who proposed to release energy by condensing water droplets in the air. The most complicated scheme was I patented in 1872 bj William H. Ward, I of Auburn, N. Y.. who proposed to project electricity in the air from oue i tall tower to another. Don’t Seem Genuine There is something wrong when a ' lawyer advises you to avoid litigation or a doctor drinks to your good health _ I’wl mice

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