Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1928 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Exeept Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pree. and Gen. Mgr. A. R Holthouse Sec'y A Bus. Mgr. Dick IX Holler -Vice President Entered at the Poetofflce at Decatur, Indiana, an second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies —1 .Q 3 Due week, by carrier——....— .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mall .36 Three months, by mall 1 00 Six months, by mail.———. 1.75 One year, by mail..- 3.00 One year, at office 8.00 and second zones. Elsewhere, 63.60 one year. Advertising Rates made known by application. National Advertising Representatives Scheerer, Inc., (Prices quoted are within first 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, Naw York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Some enterprising gent has purchased the John D. Rockefeller birthplace and moved it to Coney island where he will exhibit it as an object lesson. Why didn't he just start a tilling station? The report of the farm meeting out in Des Moines was so strong for the democratic ticket that Datid Lawrence’s daily letter had to be used on the classified page by a number of the leading republican papers. The action will undoubtedly have a wide influence on farmer voters. A modern youngster and his girl were enjoying a steamer ride a few days ago when the girl told him he could demonstrate his love for her by leaping into the sea which the idiot immediately did. She should now try the same test from tin* top of a skyscraper. The tax rates will go up next year because the valuations have been reduced but in the long run you will probably save considerable money for the less the limit for bonded indebtedness the less mony can be spent and by the same rule of course, the less improvements we can make. Its laigely a question of taste. If every citizen in Decatur is upon some Committee for Old Home Week, it will be that much, greater success. There are many things to be done and volunteers are needed. So far the interest in doing the work has been confined to a few people. If you are asked to serve, roll up your sleeves and get into it. Corruption in the state offices the past eight years will be the text for the democratic campaign in Indiana this year. It ought to interest every voter and the republican who refuses to aid in cleaning out the state house is giving his approval to what has been done. Surely we will not do that nor will we agree that we want any mote of the same brand of government we have been having. Aie you reading the “Old Home" i letters now appearing dally in this paper? Don't they give you a thrill? They come from many former Deaaturites, men and women, who are now located in other fields, but who still call this "home” and whose childhood recollections bring them back. fFhey are coming home the week of September 10th and we are going to give them a royal welcome and a good time. Won't it' be fun? Senator Watson may be for Hoover and thou again he may not be. He recently gave an interview to the Brooklyn Engie, in which he skated "We will have a fight to carry liqdiana for Hoover." which doesn’t imply any; great enthusiasm in the battle. He probably feels that if the secretary wishes to put it over after al] the things that were said about him and his long career, he can go ahead and do it. | Some times serious mistakes are made in trying to check crime. Six years ago Fred C. Smith was sent to prison in Michigan. The "other day it was learned he was innocent and he was given his freedom. ’ How will

TODAY’SCHUCKLE Fort Worth, Tex.. July 18—(U.R) —After a huge crowd had gathered to watch a square dance here it was found the orchestra had dor' parted tn fill an out-of-town enr' gagement. The situation was saved when a spectator performed p on a harmonica. the state make up to this man for tile s six years of his life they have need--9 D lessly and wrougfully taken? He is | forty-seven now and it will be hard > to explain to the critical world that J he acquired his lock-step through an error of justice. Some idea of how flagrant is the violation oi liquor laws these days is possible from the stories now coming i through from Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania. At that place recently was held the annual mid-summer session of tlie Pennsylvania Sheriff’s Association. The county attorney pulled a raid on one of the sessions and arrested forty men who were drunk and fighting. The attorney's squad say it was the worst mess they ever saw and “we were surprised and ashamed.” its such actions perhaps that is causing all the talk from the "Keystone” state that the democrats will carry it in November. Organized agriculture has endorsed the democratic platform ami will urge its million or two members to vote for Smitli, ami why shouldn't they? For eight years they have tried to secure some kind of assistance from the administration and it was refused. In the recent republican national convention the farmers were told to go and attend to their own business, <juit raising so much and wait for the protective tariff and supply and demand to save them. At least they are entitled to some kind of fair treatment. The government ought to try something and the farmer can depend upon it that if the democrats are successful some effort at least will be made to prevent them becoming slaves or bankrupts. Alvaro Obregon, president-elect of Mexico was shot to death as he sat down to a banquet given at San Angel in his honor. The assassin was captured and will be speedily put to death but in the meantime the nation is in a state of near revolution. The murder was committed by a man named "Juan” and who refused to give any other name. He was attending the dinner, presumably as a cartoonist and walked towards Obregon, evidently for the purpose of showing his drawings, when he pulled the gun and tired six shots. He is probably a man whose mind has been turned by political study. Just what will happen in that country now is conjecture. Calles may hold over for another term or a new election may be necessary. President Coolidge, VicePresident Dawes and other officials of the United States have wired sympathy to the southern republic in carefully worded messages. Mr. Hoover announces he will play up two issues — prosperity and integrity in government, in his campaign for tlie presidency. Sufficient if he can prove them but how will he explain the fact that millions of men are out of work, the farmer and merchant up against a tough proposition and prosperity only in the hands of a few? As to jiis integrity plank, there is likewise some question. He will have to overlook the oil investigaHon. the Vale and Smith senatorial contests, the expenditure of large funds in the national campaign and how it was secured and numerous other incidents of the past few years. He cannot dodge these issues because he and President Coolidge have been a "part of the last two administrations. When his opponents get through with him his analysis will look like a solve. Underlying the sense of relief that the Italian Arctic flyers have been found is the fear that selfishness actuated some of the Nobile party. 1 The dispatches coming from Moscow, t to which the Russian ice boat Krassin ’ is reporting, bring stories that Dr. ' Malmgien. tlie Swedish meteorologist i with the party, was abandoned alive 1 and injured by his companions. It is

"T even related that they dug a grave for him in the ice and left him waving them on This is not the way of heroes. Perhaps the full facts will relieve them of blame. At present It seems that the only thing that can be said In their defense is their story that the scientist Insisted that they leave him ami search for help. Then 2 there is the unexplained rescue of e Nobile himself, the captain of a ship. I leaving his comrades while he accepted safety. It does not look well. Per8 haps here, too. full details will place 1 Nobile in a better light. But the * Krassin and its crew have done nobly. 1 Lundborg showed skill and daring in rescuing Nobile and there Is much to relieve the somber incidents in this tragedy of the ice land,- Indianapolis News. ‘ __ o Letters From OLD TIMERS Who're Coming' Home I— ; 1 Indianapolis. Indiana July 16. 1928 Chairman Invitation Committee Dear Sir: This will acknowledge tlie invitation extended of tlie Old Home Coming Week to be held in Decaur from September 10th to the 15th and you can most certainly count on Mrs. Smith and myself being present. 1 hoard sometime ago that you wore figuring on holding an Old Home Week this fall and have been looking forward for some time for the receipt of this invitation. We will certainly agree that the last Home Coming held in 1912 was. In the opinion of the writer, th« greatest thing ever put on by the people of Decatur and we sincerely trust that this will go over 100 per cent. With the very kindly regards to all I. am Very truly yours. Don K. Smith Ottawa. Ohio, July 14. 1928 Dear Roy We read your letter of invitation to tlie home coming with much longing, to return to the pleasant friends and happy years we spent in Decatur, of coutse cur minds went back to the other Home Coming sixteen years ago, when the new sugar factory was the center of interest. We hope We still have friends there, in fact we know we have but we are out of touch, for time obliterates the paths of yesterday. We may be with you Accept our thank . Mr. aird Mrs. F. H. Hubbard Muncie, Indiana July 16, 1928. Dr. Roy Archbold Chairman of Invitation Committee Decatur. Indiana Dear Roy: Received your invitation for tire Home Coming Week which Mrs. Stone and 1 will be very glad »o attend. Can not state at this time if we will be able to remain all week or not. However, we will be there for a few days. Thanking you for the invitation and looking forward to this event, remain Yours sincerely. R. C. Stone #*****•>• * BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * x *********** y, WEDNESDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF—Network 8:30 pm Opera. “The "The Mikado.” WOR—Network 8 pm Opera “Yeomen of the Guard ". WOR—Network 7:30 pm. United Military Baird. WJZ —Network 7 pm. Philco Hour. WOR — Network 8; 30 Tire Buccan eers. THURSDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF —Network 7 pm Goldman band. . WEAF—Network 8 pm Samuel Instill, speaking in the Halsey-Stuart hour WGHP —Detroit 7 pm Detroit Symphony Orchestra. WJZ—Network 7 pm— “In a Persian Garden." WJZ—Network’s pm U. S. Navy Band. , o ************* * TWENTY YEARS AGO * * *« * From the Dally Democrat File * * Twenty Years Ago Today * 1 ************* 1 July 18 —Bruce Patterson, Dick Peterson and Ralph Moser leave for Winona to play in the Boy's band. s Charles Getting operated on for gall i stones at Lutheran hosiptal at Fort Wayne. B. F. Shiveley declines to run for 1 congress in the thirteenth district. 1 Mrs. Thomas Mylott and daughter Miss Genevieve leave for a visit In Chicago. Dr. C. S. Clark purchases a Kiblin--1 ger automobile, made at Auburn. ti Detroit Tigers get 25 hits in a game s against Philadelphia. Ty Cobb got five of them. J. S. McCrory is buying hay. r, School board orders fire escape for _ West ward building. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Terveer go to '• Rome City for a visit. it Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Shamp are at e Rome City. Charles Sether is at Williams on s business.

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