Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1928 — Page 5

POINTS OUT benefits of tree planting income that may be realTl “' vste.nalie planting of trees l,p<lfr nmiririlive rost of growing Aether with u table f"’" outlining the rata at ,‘ ls are depleted In the ' ,bl ‘ , Sllttelj are furnished in a letter CBi from Frank 8. Betz., reiete ' ifictuier of Hammond. "K" h- mad. a study of fores- ■ i tree cuuscrvation during the "’.“ veal year., and is reputed to J an authority tn the subject. His letll‘ l ’ l ?*ntoerat, Decatur. Indiana \ s most of my time during the -at three years, has been spent procating different kinds of trees ate nd having personally inspected the at re Indiana tate Nursery. North ~, the OhL> River, where manymttlrees are growing and the Illinois \ursery with over 16 milion evergreen trees. I should like to furnish a few more memorandums. 1 think will interest every farm owner whether he lives on the farm or in a city. In the State of Indiana, there are over WO,OOO acres of "played out” eroded hilly and other idle land, that could be used for growing Pine, Maple Spruce. Tulip and Cottonwood, and Walnut Trees, which in a few years will make feme posts telephone and telegraph poles, and eventually lumber. In faet. mmh of this land will not raise anything but trees and as the state furnishes them to farmers 'at cost, and assesses all land planted with 'trees, at dirty fl per acre every tanner is making money by planting trees, because the saving on taxes on 3 acres cr more will pay for the trees and all eipenses. Gives Tree Costs The cost of hardwood trees, such as Walnut, Tulip. Maple. Cottonwood, White or Red Oak. if set 8 x 8 feet vculd be only $3.50 per acre.* The cost for Norway, or White Spruce, Scotch, Western Yellow, Red Shmtleaf or Corsican Pine Trees, set Bxß feet would be $6.80 per acre. The trees for a 4 row wind brake 8M feet long get “diamond” shape, 8 feet apart v mild cost only $4. in 5 year it would add several hundred dollars to the value of any farm, a windbreak 1200 feet long would cost only 86. No farm or farm land owner, should fail to take adv of this proposition. because it is the tux-payers money that makes it possible for these trees to be sold for only % to 1 cent each, that would cost about sl. each, if bought of s-otne nurseries. Any blight farm boy who would like to have a perpetual income of from SI2OO to SISOO yearly, should invest $27. for 2700 trees for 10 years, set 5 feet apart, there would be 10 acres or 27.000 trees. During December of the 11th year, t'he 2700 trees planted the first year, should be harvested fn.l sold for Christmas trees. The following spring 2700 more trees are purchased at a cost of $27. to take the place of those cut the previous December. If every farm would only make a sty by sett mg out 100 Spruce, 100 "hue Pin,, mo Walttt lreeij at an ex . Mse of only $2.50. they could not P but see that these trees made “w farm worth many times more ““ *“; 60 ’ ai "t with 300 trees to start 1 they would plant more and in en years tire 600.000 acres of worth,s and in the state of Indiana would be turned into parks. and'n'a n'* 1 ""’ - Tulip ' Cotton . White Red Oak Frees would eost a far--61 50 cents per 100. ° r Wl ‘ ite S P ruce - Scotch, tern v o ’ ' ' Wsießn - Shortleaf or Wesn Yellow p llle ccst J)er ]()0 dai|j 0 nle,, c »>‘ wt out 1200 trees bMhe Or iL?V reeS ' Wi “ be acc ®Pted ,r rtmeut a - Government 1876 ,hat the U - Sbout wh t CommetlC6d ta think a Ho for hnni U, ‘ S gPnprattofl s would Frank B h S ° they a M wißte '«l Dr. condhions g t 0 Mulre iato toMst Indians romed this eounlion acres or land, today, we

SKSKSSSSKJKWSSKdSSiS 'JiSStßßiMSffiSiSgi® KJfiHF !!|WHRS!fiKaSMRJ» ® > HALF PRICE SALE OF MENS SUITS: IT. Il I — — m A large number of the finest worsteds and cashmeres in beautiful patterns- light, medium or dark—sizes 32 ? to 48. Al! models to fit your particular build—any price you want to pay. These line suits must go at a sacri- g !fice to enable us to secure funds to meet our obligations. Never before—never again will be offere such suits at S such redicnlons prices. Buy your fall suit now. Sale ends Saturday. Lfj L — g i| This Offer Closes Saturday Buy 2 Suits at Price of 1 I i' -DECATUR.- INDIANA- g

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This ring, said to be the biggest In tlie world, weighs thirteen ponds, is hand carved, set with onyx, and is on exhibition at the jewelers’ convention in Chicago. Miss Amber Arnold is shown comparing sizes of the ring have 138 million and 250 million acres of what is known as “second growth” timber. There are about 81 million acres of land now idle, fit for nothing but growing trees. This land shold be earning money for its owners. , Our forests are being cut down, and destroyed by forest fires, insects diseases. four times faster than they are being planted. In this country we use about 23 billion cubic feet of wood every year. This means about 250 million trees must be cut frotp 18,5<»0 square miles or an area equal to Massachusettes, Connecticut, and New Jersey. About two billion feet more are destroyed by fires and insects yearly. Railroads use about 130 minion new wood ties each year. It takes 3000 ties, which last about 8 years, for each mile of track. Five million trees are cut yearly for telephone and telegraph poles. 500 thousand fence posts are cut yearly. Our miners require 260 million cubic feet of wood annually for props in the mines. It takes 250 million cubic feet to make the boxes and barrels in this country every year. About one billion lead pencils are clothed with wood annually. It takes 16 acres of Spruce Trees to make the paper required to publish one Sunday edition of a Metropolitan newspaper. Can yon realize what it means when one paper alone for its Sunday edition requires the Trees from almost 1000 acres each year. What about the paper required for the other 313 days. This is only one newspaper, what .about the paper required to publish the other thousands of newspapers, magazines etc., made from tree pulp. North America with one-twelth of the people in the world consumes onehalf of all the timber used. 29 million acres of timber were swept away by fires during 1924. costing SIOO,OOO every 24 hours. It would cost over 300 million dollars to reforest this land, and it would take almost 300 years to replenish it, at the rate we are planting today. There are over 200,M0 known kinds of tree attacking worms, insects, etc., destroying the trees all the time. With population increasing and forest decreasing, every man who has land and certainly those who have land bringing In no income, should take an interest in tree planting and especially in the state of Indiana, where you are a tax payer and can buy trees from yourself, through the Department of Forestry, Indianapolis. It makes no difference how a farmer figures, if they plant trees no difference how a farmer figures, it they plant trees they have already paid for, they will cost him nothing, in the long run, because in the State of Indiana, land set' out with trees furnishe« by the Department of Forestry, is assessed at only sl. per acre, which means a tax less than 5 cents. It you have a relative or friend living on a farm in the State of Indiana article atul tell him to plant as many trees as he can, or better still send $2 50 or as much as you choose to Ralph V. Wilcox, acting State Forester, Indianapolis, Indiana and ask him to ship trees covered by the amount to as many farmers as you choose to help whose names and addresses, you will furnish. Will you help push this work along. Yours very truly, FRANK S. BETZ

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928.

OBITUARY Sarah Elizabeth Ritter, daughter of Jessie and Mary Watkins, was born in Adams county Indiana, October 7, 1860, and departed this life August 8, 1928, aged 67 years, lo month, and 1 day. She grew to womanhood in Adams county and was united in mar rings to Thomas J. Ritter in 1880, who has long proceeded her in death. To this union was born two children, a son Jesse Homer, who died when but an infant and a daughter Armlntie Bell, who grew to womanhood, but died at the age of 21. She united with the Christian church when but a girl and later on transferred her membership to Pleasant Mills Baptist ehureh whi re she remained a member till death. She has always been a faithtnl and consistan, member, always encouraging young and old |o live a < hristlan life. During her sickness she bore It all without a murmur, always kind, patient, loving to all and expressing herself as being readv to leave this life* and join the Heavenly forces, where there is no pain and sorrow. She leaves surviving her one 'inter, Ella Case, of Pleasant Mills awl two brothers. Jesse «. Watkins of Fort Wayne, and John W. Watkins o’ Pittsburg, Pa., and numerous nieces and nephews whom she hived dearly. A’«o a hort of other relatives /riends. but s’ e lias gone to meet l:,-»r d-.-ar husband an t etV’oren who have proceeded be- to th- "better lar.cl.’ Yes, we mo.Tu her, but rar mourning it mingled wif i j >y, fe-r we expe-t io meet her in the sweet bye an I bye, a; ver more to part. And now. dear Lord, before Thy throne We mourning people bend ; ‘Tis on Thy pardoning grace alone Our dying dopes depend. Perhaps before the morning dawn He will restore our peace. For He w-ho bade the tempest roar Can bid the tempest cease. Teach us in time of deep distress To own Thy hand, O, God! And in submissive silence learn The lessons of Thy rod. o CARD OF THANKS We wish in this manner to express our thanks for the many acts of kindness shown us by our friends and neighbors during our sorrow caused by the death of our beloved sister, Sarah Elizabeth Ritter; also, the minister for his consoling words and those who sent floral offerings. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Watkins, Mrs. Ella Case.

iiwll InD'ra IITbhL. v .a. YOUR FATHER Kj t Your father’s life contains many KSkJi lessons for you. If he was a success Rl™ he saved - If hc was a faill "’ e y . ou BCmrknow how savings would haxe lte<ped your family when troubles came. , IbMU Has his experience taught you the KWjj value of thrift—the difference bewoffl tween success and failure.’ \\ hy ’ IB~ul not start your SAVINCiS A< < Ni KSSn KnM e °p' es oan rus t BANK ol S ' EUV,CE

Favoed By Al A. George Fleming Jr., of Chicago sent Al Smith as a campaign contribution the first dollar he had ever earned. He is ever so proud of the friendly note and autographed picture he unexpected’y received in return. Paris Calls New York Twenty Times A Day By International News Service Paris — On an average of twenty times a day some one in France Picks up a telephone receiver and says hello to someone in America. Thaf makes a total of 2,500 calls during the four months the J’aris-New York telephone has been in operation. Calls from Paris to and around New Yolk cost aproximately SSO for -three minutes. That would muke a total of $125,000 spent on telephoning across the ocean but it was announced that, the government tax on the calls amounted to only $2,000. The trans-Atlantic telephone is now taken as a matter of course. BOARD and ROOM—Day or week—prices right. I’bone 965. Erie Grocery and Restaurant. 194-3tx

WOMAN LOVELY NO MATTER HOW SHORT SKIRTS By Robert W. ThompHon, INS Staff Correspondent Pjnis. -Woman will find away to appear lovely, be her skirts ever so short! This is tin 1 confidence of Countess Marguerite de Mun, hailed as one of the five best dressed women in France, who whispered it to the International News Service. Fiwtile-niinded creators of style can keep on snipping inches off the already skimp “jupe” — slangily “jupetto’’ and Countess de Mun will neither blush nor fall into despair. "Styles do not make the woman.” she said. "But women set tjie fashnon simply by adapting themselves to each new mode and appearing to advantage in it. “Os course anything really ugly would lie lost because women would refuse to wear it, l»ut ugliness cannot

™ — — s Get Your Home Ready * lr , I For Ola Home Week Visitors 1 HI ® l| • « ' ♦ J LE | . I | js -T Bargains in * ■« 1 * Living Room Suites « tfj For the next 10 days, we will cut prices on all of our S I Living Room Suites. There are many to choose from and the cut in prices will include ail on our floor, “for 10 !fi days.” • g UE This will (‘liable you to add the new suite to your home and get ready to meet the home comers. Cal! jfi now and select the one you want. ft Jfi £ " SB ip Just some of the Cut I’rcic Bargains. Many more yr to pick from at the same cut prices. |Sfi ’ 3-I’iece Living Room Suite—This Sale.. $115.00. Regular Price, $155.00 HR till 3-I’iece Living Room Suite—This Sale.. $117.00. Regular Price, SIBO.OO iff 3-Piece Living Room Suite—This Sale.. $135.00. Regular I*rice. $165.00 Cox well Chair—This Sale $ 47.00. Regular Price. $ 55.00 gr ; !.j~ Occasional Chair-—This Sale $ 16.75. Regular Price, $ 20.00 .{.Piece Fibre Suite—This Sale $ 61.15. Regular Price, $ 78.00 CLi! ifi * ffi , I i Yager Brothers Furniture Store “ I ° I hl OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE DECATUR, INDIANA. S § ii^LEiuqucirr’iEiidiiEPrcu;!ilOE lE?’^iE?“ LCiffWui WJL£ LE[LeiEtUeiEi 1 i; I£.it ,uznitdJE

be interpreted in terms of wider or narrower hips, frills and flounces or In the length of skirts. "New conceptions of designers may make it necessary for a woman to go to much trouble to wear them well, but is there an instance in history where woman has ever failed to conform to fashion's decree? ' “Tlie fact that curves distinguished the woman of other days does not mean that period styles could not come back tomorrow. The other night 1 attended a ball where all guests were in Regence robes. And I may say there were many lovely women, just as lovely in those quaint old gowns as they were earlier in the day in modern garb. "I dislike short skirts tor formal evening affairs, though the freedom they afford is desirable for many other occasions. Perhaps we will be asked to wear shorter shirts, but that is not tlie question. If woman believes shorter skirts give iter the chic the dressmaker intends they Aill be worn.” o Macaroni Evelyn, age five, was watching her mother dress a chicken and, seeing the windpipe for the first time, asked: "Is that the chicken’s macaroni?”

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Old Sol Substitutes For Hen; Hatches Out Nestful Os Baby Chicks Greenfield, lud., Aug. 16. —(U.R) ■— The prize winning hot weather yarn of this season as brought to town here by J. K. P. Martindale, farmer living northeast of here. Martindale averred that the heat hatched out a nestfull of eggs abandoned by a hen immediately after -she had laid the 12tll egg. "I noticed the nest, as untended,” Martindale related, “'and so I threw a sack over it. thinking to clean it out later. I forgot all about it until one day I ran across it again. 1 threw back the sack and 1 found five chickens hatchml and three eggs pipped!” The sun had taken up the job where the faithless hen had left off and it sure was hot, Martindale concluded. —o - Coyote Cunning Followers of the trapllne say that, nithough the fox was once considered the most cunning of all animals, tha coyote has It all over him. He can avoid traps and pit falls that the ordinary fox would step Into. They rate the porcupine ns the dumbest.