Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 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. Mp. A. R. Holthouse Sec’y & Hue. MgT. Dick D. Heller -...Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mall .85 Three months, by mail 1 00 Six months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mall 8.00 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, New York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dailies Friday, the thirteenth. Any bad luck you have today can be charged to that and by the same token, you might credit any good fortune to the same cause. Now this is carrying revenge too far. The treasury department has placed the picture of Woodrow Wilson on the new thousand dollar bills, knowing that he is thus hidden from the common folks as completely as though he hadn't been recognized at all. If we are really in earnest about the daylight saving proposition, why not- arrange to take a vote on it in connection with the primary election on May Sth? It could then be decided definitely just what proportion of the citizens wish such a change. After ' all its the peoples business and the \ majority ought to rule. According to a biographer of the , late Chauncey M. Depew, that gentle-• man who lived to be ninety-three i years old, quit drinking liquor at the , age of eighty except for an occasional glass of port wine. He was a wise | man and probably at the same time also quit eating things that didn't agree with him. Italy cannot longer boast of her good government any more than can I Chicago. A bomb which was intend-' ed to finish King Victor Emanuel, took the lives of thirty people. It was timed to go off just as the king reached that point but the plans were I changed and the parade turned at a ' t orner and missed the fire works. Whither is the world drifting? -•— Fort Wayne did it. The city coun-. cil there, tired of fooling with the. proposition each year, has adopted an ordinance, providing for daylight saving time, five months each year, beginning the last Saturday in April at midnight and continuing until the last Saturday in September. There was much objection but the vote stood ten I to six in favor and it went over. Congress is in glee. They can pass ' the flood prevention bill and the farm relief measure, winking at the enemies , as they smile at the friends for it has I become known that the president will I veto them. Silent Cal is not a candi- i date and can do as he pleases so the I ever careful congressmen and sen-1 ators will vote not as they desire but I as they feel will bring them the most votes for re-election. Really they are not fooling any one very much. The administration is unfavorable to flood and farm relief laws and there are more ways than one to kill a cat. Rev. Shumaker sent Tom Adams, the fighting editor who is a candidate for the republican nomination for governor, one of his famous questionnaires. immediately Tom comes back with his answer in which he asks the Rev. Shumaker to explain why he and his aids have not helped him to get the truth about the Squibbs and Daniels liquor, this being the whiskey \ which mysteriously disappeared from the hauemeiil of the statehouse and which was so completely hushed up. When the trustees of the New Al-1 bauy high school refused to contract j

with five of the teachers because of tenure law which would give them life jobs, the students went on strike. They are foolish. In the first place | they are Injuring themselves only and in the second place they should have t struck when the saw was enacted. We are not in sympathy with this ’ business of students striking every time something comes up they don't , like. If they don't care to educate j themselves or if their parents don't ( give a hang, thats up to them. They 1 have no business to disturb and disorganize a school or a community. Anyway thats the way we see it. Perhaps we are old and out of date. The daylight saving proposition is up again and a petition is being circulated and receiving quite a number of signers. We understand it will be presented to the city council next Tuesday evening. We do not believe i it wise to thus disturb the routine nor dd we feel that in a rural community such as this, business should cease an hour earlier than it does. However we do not choose to take an arbitrarj’ stand and to further confuse every one by keeping up a fight over the matter. The city council should not be asked to do so either and in turn they should put the ques i tion up to the people of the city. Last year we took a vote through this paper, the result being overwhelming-| ly against the change. If it is so de- | sired we will take a similar vote this year but better still, the city can with but small expense conduct a referendum election. We believe the I proposition is well understood and we agree that if such an election is held, we will not take part except to offer our columns for the expression of those who wish to express an opinion. A change of time is a real inconvenience to many and should not be adopted unless there is same evidence that a majority wish it. The result of the primary election I in Illinois Tuesday is likely to be sari reaching. No one dreamed that the I ’ Small-Thompson crowd would be over- ' .‘whelmed—it seemed doubtful whether jit could be beaten eVen by the narrowest of majorities. Big Bill Thompson had acquired the reputation of being unbeatable. Yet Small, his candidate for governor, was defeated I by a majority of almost 4011.000. and in Chicago his candidate for state's attorney, Robert E. Crowe, ran 125,- ; 000 votes behind the successful can- ■ didate. Smith, twice rejected by the senate, who sought ''vindication,'' lost his race tar the senatorship by more than 200.000 votes, though he seems 1 to have been chosen as a delegate to Ito national convention. Thompson himself was beaten for ward com--1 mitteeman by a majority of 1.000. It ' can mean but one thing, and that is that Illinois is roused and deeply ' stirred. Conditions were ripe for the revolution which we have just witnessed —for such it is. Nothing has happened for a long time so full of cheer and hope, and it reminds us — and imany have forgotten it —that the I people in this country are still a power, that they do care for clean land decent government, and that they are capable of being shocked and 1 shamed when political disgrace touches them. It may be that we are on j the eve of better things, and that, as t the people realize their power and | undei stand that unworthy public officials are never unbeatable, the dawn I of a brighter day may be confidently | I expected. Illinois and Chicago did a good job Tuesday.— Indianapolis j News. O— , -j *****»*•♦♦♦*«•* * BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * K«»¥¥*¥¥**¥*S FRIDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF —Hookup 7 pm. Cities Service Hour. VVJZ—Hookup 8 pm. Wrigley review. WEAF’—Hookup-H pm. Palmolive hour WOR —Hookup 8 pm. Columbia chain program. WOO —Philadelphia 8 pm.—Operatic tabloid.. o . — ■ Bloomington—(U.R)—Albert Stevens diiving a truck for Harry Welch, of Bloomington, smashed into one of the cabs in a funeral procession here. II ■ I was taken to police headquarters I where be was freed after promising that be would have his brakes repaired.

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GREAT OPERA STAR GIVES HOME II 1 > I • \ W Wk £<TMAKE this gift to the disabled American veterans of the iJL World War because they called me ‘mother.’ And it is the duty of a ‘mother’ to provide her sons with a home.” So Mine. Ernestine Schumaa-Heink addressed the Minneapolis Chapter of the D. A. V.’s in presenting her $250,000 estate at Grossmont, Cal., to disabled war veterans as a “rest home." Six years ago in Minneapolis the veterans drank a silent toast to two sons the famous singer lost in the war—one on the American side and one on the German. » (International Newsreel)

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