Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 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. HolthouseSec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller...Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies ——.l .02 One week, by carrier — .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month? by mail .35 Three months, by mail 1-00 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. National Advertising Representatives Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, Nsw York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Old Home Week would be fine if' it could be given in the right way ' but it can't be given unless every, body helps in every way. "Oil is not always gold that glitters." says the Boston Transcript, "it [ is sometimes Liberty bonds at the j end of a crooked trail.” It won't be much trouble or inconvenience for you to be careful about the roads during the spring season but it will save you and every tax payer a lot of money for repairs. We wonder if the fellow who has to raise money for the campaign this year won't get a rather chilly reception when he approaches Sinclair, Mellon and some of the others who have been criticized as a result of the i investigation in the senate. Mammas who fear that they cannot j legally spank their daughter since that Kansas City decision may be I cheered by the knowledge that the I decision makes it possible but you must know how, when and where —. and follow the regulations strictly. 1 A Hartford City man who was about to be arrested by officers who were trying to gain entrance to his home, shot himself, preferring death to arrest for violation of the liquor laws. He certainly takes it more seriously than most of those thus engaged. We do not believe there is any. thing alarming about the scarlet j fever epidemic but its a mighty good . time lot every one to be careful that it does not become so. You should > obey every warning from your phys-. ician and every rule of the board of[ health and the school officials. To do less is not only foolish but serious. ' The spring rains now on are valuable to the farmers it is claimed by those who should know. It is stfld that an easy shower at this time of the year settles the ground and helps prepare the land for the season. Thats j fine and we feel we are entitled to one year with every thing favorable to the farmer who has certainly had an up hill pull the past seven or! eight seasons. The candidates are getting busy ' and you will soon know all about them. Locally the democratic aspirants, are canvassing and in the state there is much activity on both sides. The most bitter contests will be that of Watson against Hoover for the presidential vote and the republican light for the senatorial nomination, hr each of which there seems to be an inclination to use old fashioned tuctics of abuse and personalities. Tibet, ancient land of mystery, will not be mysterious 'much longer. Dr. McGovern, of the Field Museum of Natural History, wlm> has been through the country in disguise, reports that there are gold, coal and iron there. The white man's duty is obvious. He must assume the burden of going there and uplifting the backward Tibetans by taking out their mineral wealth. In the process, tho Tibetans will learn much., If reports speak truth, the whites might learn much from them, in the way of

j ancient lore. Somehow we had an idea that I Colonel Lindbergh was Just kind of getting along and that he had been ' foolish not to accept some of the I'financial offers he has received since ihis memorable trip to Europe last spring, when along comes the story that bis income tax report shows he has received something near a milI, i' lion dollars. Well, any way .he has 1 1 been his own boss and has received ’ ,the money by making flights hither and yon and by writing interesting stories and the book "We" which has by the way been one of the big sellers of the year. Guess the youngster \ knows his stuff. We have received an invitation from I the Sesqui-Centeuial of American In- | dependence and the Thomas Jefferson i Centeuial Commission of the United States, requesting our presence at a reception to be given for Claude G. Bowers, member and secretary of the commission and author of "Jefferson ■ and Hamilton” to be held at Monti--1 cello, the home of Thomas Jefferson on Friday. April 13th. Following the delivery by Mr. Bowers of the Found- ' er’s Day address at the University of Virginia on the 185th birthday of the author of the Declaration of Independence, the reception will be tendered for Mr. Bowers. It will be a great event at which further honors will be heaped upon a well known Hoosier who Just a few- years ago was editor oi’ the Fort Wayne JournalGazette and who has by his own effort risen to a high place in z\mericau literary and oratorical circles. Instead of periodical "estimates” seriously promulgated by the Bureau of the Census, under the simple system of assuming that each city in the country gained or lost the same percentage, evenly divided over the years, as in the decade between 1910 and 1920, why does not the force make a new census of population I every five years? It is a fast-moving age and the decennial census is a relic of oxcart days. The “estimates" i given out every year are jokes. All 1 cities do not grow in size during this ; decade at the exact rate they grew last decade and the growth of a decade cannot, with any respect for the facts, be equally distributed among the ten individual years comprising the decade. Sometimes a city gains one year and loses the next. I Some cities continue to grow while others barely hold their own. Under i the system used for “estimating" it ‘would be easy to start with the I census of 1790 and prove how much larger Philadelphia is than New- York, for it was the larger city at that [time. If one started early enough he 'could likewise show St. Louis several 'times the size of Chicago. It is a ' waste of time to work out such estimates, which are utterly without value. If the Bureau of the Census has nothing better to do it might be trained in getting out analyses of the last census before the new one is talren.—Kansas City Post. o **¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* ♦ BIG FEATURES * ♦ OF RADIO * S¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥#¥3» TUESDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF— Network 8 pm. Eveready hour WEAF— Network 6 pm. Voter's service. WJZ—Network 7 pm. Stromberg-Carl-son hour. WJZ—Network 8 pm. Program of Braims" chamber music. WPG—Atlantic City (273) 7:15 pm. Hans Kindler, Cellist, Fanette Rezia, soprano. WEDNESDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF—hookup 9:30 pm. Opera. "Lu Gloconda.” WEAF —hookup 7:30 pm. Liszt program. WQll Hookup 9 pm. Columbia hour. WOR— Newark (422) 7:30 pm. 8. and 8. Players. WJZ-Hookup 10 pm. Slumber music hour. ♦ ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥♦ * THE GREAT WAR * • 10 YEARS AGO * *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥*¥¥¥* Germany seizes Odessa and. now > controls the Black Sea. U. 8. troops north of Toul raid the German lines. After 15 minute artillery action Germans flee and no prisoners ’ are taken.

Tips For Taxpayers No. Twenty-Six * Deductions for deprecation form an : Important item in the returns of many , taxpayers. In claiming a deduction for deprecia- ' tion Several fundamental principles ■ must be confined to property actually i used in trade, business, profession, or vocation. In general, It applies to the taxpayer's capital assets—buildings, machinery, etc. —the cost of which can not be deducted as a business expense. A building or machine gradually becomes old and worn out. On account of this depreciation the value of such assets is decreased. A loss is thereby ustained, for which the taxpayer is entitled to recognition, in making his return of income. Depreciation may be claimed on all business property, which includes not only buildings an dmachinery of a permanent character, but automobiles, farm tractors, mine and mill equipment, office furniture, and books. —— l o ******¥¥¥¥¥¥* » TWENTY YEARS AGO * * • * From the Dally Democrat File ¥ ¥ Twenty Year* Ago Today ¥ a¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥rk March 13 —Congressional convention at Marion is in a deadlock after 522 '

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1928.

ballots. Lockwood, Good, Murphy ami Reeves are the candidates. Three cars are under construction at the Copock factory. Oue hundred and forty head of horses were sold at big auction today ■ by Col. Harry Stoner, of Dayton. Ohio Senatorial convention will be held 1 here April 7. S. B. Fleming, of Fort ' Wayne is the only candidate. The Methodists are planning to; ' build an old folks home at Warren ' soon. A. 1). Suttles initiated in the K. of P. lodge. Mrs. D. W. Beery is visiting at Men- ' ton, Indiana. , Elmore J. Cook is another candidate for republican nomination for trustee of Washington township. Number from here attend the Marshall love feast at Fort Wayne. o Card of Thanks We wish to express our sincere and heartfelt thanks to the neighbors, to those who sang at funeral of our dead mother. To the dear pastor Rev. Shipley who sat by her bedside through death, the pall bearers and to the dear ones who furnished the beautiful flowers, to each and all we extend our most sincere thanks. Lucy B. Frye • Mattie Young. 0 — NOTICE—To advertise our hemsistching we will make a special pric* for 10 days only beginning March 12, ending March 22,- of 2 yards for 15 cents and 4 yards for 25 cents. Sing'er Store, 134 W. Monroe. 60-3 t

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