Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 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. Holthouse Bec'y ft Bub. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies -I .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier —........ 5 00 One month, by mall ——.35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by ma 11.........—.—— 1.75 One year, by mall 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second sones. 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 la-ague of Home Dailies. We can't help but wonder how Senator Curtis squares what he is saying now about Mr. Hoover with what he said at Kapsas City. Surely he can't be right in both eases. . A story in the Boonville Inquirer says that Governor Jackson will prob- » • " ably be one of the judges of saddle " horses at the state fair this week and we don't know whether its a joke or a fact. Either way its good. Did you buy a badge? If you failed to do so, we are sure you will before Monday for at that time we hope • every citizen here will be wearing an emblem as a booster for Old Home • Week. Last call for merchants and local boosters to get their copy in for the • special Old Home Week edition of the Daily Democrat which will be published Saturday of this week. A copy will be sent to each home in the county and you should derive future as well as immediate returns of value. Those who visit Old Home Week here will have an opportunity to see and hear many prominent people, including various candidates. Look them over and hear their mesages. You will want to know a little later what they look like and what they have to say.

The tax rates of the school and civic ctty total $2.14 which is a slight increase but not as large as many have expected since the valuations have been decreased. Both the trustees and the council have done their best and the taxes this year will not raise as large a sum as in previous years. The selection of a queen of Old Home Week, to be crowned Friday evening and to lead the Mardi Gras parade Saturday night is attracting much attention. Already a dozen or more of our fairest daughters have been entered and the voting should be spirited. The winner will receive gifts and honors and have a good time as will the runners up. The decorations are beaJutiful and as the next few days elapse will be even more attractive. Besides the street stands there will be decorations on almost every building, including the court house, lodge homes, city hall and the public speaking stands. Visitors here will see the old town all dressed up for the great event of home coming of loved ones and old friends. A Fort Wayne boy, aged sixteen, evidently a degenerate, arrested yesterday for attacking a four-year-old baby gill and whom within twentyfour hours attacked several other little girls, has been released under a $2,000 bond furnished by his father. If would seem ( better judgment to keep such a fellow locked up for a while at least and f«r several reasons, both his own good and that of the public. Maine will hold an election Monday to choose a governor, Senator and state officers. Always it has been a barometor for the November election. The state Is republican and when the majority is below a certain figure, about 35,000, for that party Its not so

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good. There is au old saying consequently, that as Maine goes, so goes the nation. While In this election old rules will not be of much use, this election will be watched with the keenest interest. Lights on Mercer avenue will be extended next year to the city limits near the Decatur Country Club, which will be fine. By the way this is the best lighted city of its size or any where near it, in the state. A Chicago lady who -visited here recently declared this the most model little city of the middle west and while she may have been prejudiced a little she was not far off if you leave the decision to us. ‘‘l'm tired but happy,’’ was the remark of one of the young ladies last evening, as she stepped from the car. returning with the Junior band and the crowd of boosters who advertised Old Home Week over a radius of 160 miles. Thats the spirit and we arc sure the effort was worth while and that the caravan created much interest anil enthusiasm. We are grateful to these people and to all others who are showing the community spirit in ■one way or another. It -pays big dividends. ■ For thirty years we have had a curfew ordinance and as religiously as eight o'clock in the evening chme the water works whistle has blown and those children who heard it have smiled and winked. In others w-ords it has not been enforced and a number of the folks who live in the north part of the city are now asking the council: “What's the use?” The matter will be decided soon and curfew will be relegated to the past ages where it probably belongs. If youngsters are on the streets late at night, officers can send them home just as well without the whistle blowing as witli it if so instructed.

The sugar factory is ready for another campaign of sixty days or more during which time they will cut up some sixty thousand tons of beets, converting them into tons and tons of the finest sugar in America. To prepare for the run requires months of work at the mill where every thing has to be cleaned and pift In first class repair. This yaar they have added many new pieces of .machinery and equipment and in addition to this/ work, have spent a large sum in further efforts to prevent polution of the river. Mr. Tuttle and others in charge believe that has been accomplished and that there will be no further trouble from that source. Its good news and here’s hoping the plant has a splendid run and shows a handsome profit though Indications are not so favorable for that. Harry G. Leslie ought not to become governor of Indiana because he was nominated by the "old crowd”, is backed by the "old crowd”, and will serve 'the "old crowd” if elected. There can be no cleaning up in Indiana with Mr. Leslie in the gubernatorial seat and in charge of the cleaning. He blocked the “house cleaning” as speaker when the opportunity arose. That is the reason and the only -reason that he was nominated for .governor. .The mass of the Republioan party in Indiana showed no preference for Speaker Leslie in the primary. He received only 46,000 votes in the entire stqte, 9,000 of them In this county alone. Schortemeler was the .high man, but the Republican bosses in the convention did not dare permit him to be nominated. The man who was marching forward in the convention was Fred Landis, an honest man who had been bold enough in the primary campaign to denounce the corruption and crime of which the "old crowd” was guilty. Harry Leslie was given "a ride” and Fred Landis was ditcher.—Tippecanoe County Democrat. 0 — ——r. Get the Habit—l rede at Home, Il Pay*

Comments Made On “LIMBERLOST DAY” By Noted Persons September 1> 1928. Mr. French Quinn, Secretary "Old Home Week” Decatur. Indiana. Dear Mr. Quinn:- 1 wish It were possible for me to be present at the dedication of the 'memorial to Gene Stratton Porter In the court house yard on “Limberlost Day,” It is impossible to over-estimato the wholesome influence exerted by Mrs. Porter through the vast distribution of her literary works. In a period when so many 'best sellers’ have achieved their popularity through pandering to the lower human impulses, ft has been encouraging to have the evidence that the American people still cherish the old fashioned virtues and appreciate beautiful in nature, which has been afforded by the remarkable vogue of Mrs. Porter’s literary output. It is the true genius who can glorify what we come to consider the commonplace, as Mrs. Porter and James Whitcomb Riley did. and teach us that all about us, in our everyday life, are the elements of romance, of beauty and adventure. We become, within our limitations, what we most admire admire. That Indiana has so keenly appreciated and generously honored literary talent, accounts in part for the length of the list of Hoosier names distinguished in literature. In honoring this gifted and eminently useful daughter of Indiana, we honor ourselves and help to fix the tendencies of the children who are participating in this appropriate memorial occasion. Very truly yours. George B. Lock wood Editors Note: Hon. George B. Lockwood. Journalist, Editor and Publisher io an Indiana man long a resident of Washington City.

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Men wore whiskers and boots, chewed tobaceo. spat on the sidewalk, and cussed. You could buy a good whisky or a scooner of beer at Gurleys for five cents and the lunch was free. John Baker and Jerry Cpffee sold Old Virginia Cheroots three for five ceifts. The farmer boys woqld walk three aud a half miles to buy a few nickels worth for over Sunday. They considered them a II- of a good smoke. Jim Haefling wore a red flannel shirt and worked in the ditches for the ■ pipe line edmpanies. Jack Woodruff went around in a cow wagon to <le- ; horn the cattle for, the’ farmers with a buck saw. ’ Laborers worked ten hours a day and never went on a strike. Waiters were never given a tip and the hat 1 grafters were unknown. We polished i our own boots with tallow, and drove , old "shay” twelve miles to a good old barn dance. Automobiles and speed demons were • not known and street cars were proi pelted by horse power. Will Schirmeyer daily drove around ■ in a two wheeled cart and grey mare I and took care of the kerosene street lamps. Kerosene hanging lamps, and a sterescope In the parlor were lux--1 urfes. > No one was ever operated on for , appendicitis. Microbes were unheard of. Folks lived to a good old age, and I every year walked three miles to wish , their friends a Merry Christmas or a Happy New Year. Those were the good old days of real when Jazz and the Charleston were unknown. ’ Today, you know, everybody rides in

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autos or tiles, plays golf, jind poker, shoots craps, plays the piano with his feet, goes to the movies nightly, or listens in on the radio until 4 a. m., smokes cigaretts, drinks “Rukers juice” and "White Mule", blames the high cost of living on his neighbors, nover goes to bed the same day ho gets up, and thinks he's having a Hos a time. These are the days of suffragetting, protittering, excess-taxing, rent-hogg-ing. prohibition and bootlegging. So in these days of fast living and grafting, let us stop and ponder on tho days of yesterday Respectlfully yours Louis T. Kintz Dr. Roy V. Archbold, Decatur, Indiana Dear Sir:I'M COMING HOME The day is coming rapidly When I shall "hit the track" And in the home town 1 will be — They’ve asked me to come back To spend with them at least a day. And join the celebration; I am quite glad they felt that way— Thanks for the invitation. Because, you see, I went away From Decatur years ago; That mem'ry of a friend holds sway Caused joyful tears to flow. And my boss said —ain't he a dear? — I might be gone a day; So if the “old bus" runs but fair, I'll be early on my way. Wife thinks alone I'd better be At least a little while; And says if she should come with me That it might "cramp my style". Methinks that when I start my ride And to Decatur go, To come along, she may decide — Her mind can change, you know. I only spent a few short years In old Decatur town; 1 gamboled much, and without fears, Near St. Mary’s, up and down. I’ve been around some, here and there But I shall ne'er forget The happy days, 'when life was fair. And old friends there I met. A lot of friends I hope to greet. And with them stroll around; But there are some 1 cannot meet— They're in the Great Beyond; WJille for their presence I may grieve, It will not mar my pleasure. Because, in passing, they did leave Fond mem'ries I may treasure. While it appears that Fate's decree Long since took me away, I'll not forget the old home town No matter where I stray. Perchance sme day the tide will turn

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The Sun Shines Brighter Every Day For Folks Who Spend Wisely and Save! — , Al least, it seems that way to the Thrifty. Theirs UI * \ is the happy comfort of knowing they have the ——- means of conquering Adversity and accepting Life’s r a Opportunities as they come! Can you say as much a for yourself? SAVINGS ACCOUN I zxi 1 A I . With Us To-Day. Uld Adams County Bank 4% merest

And carry me back borne. To lovlujc friends for whom 1 yearn, And from them no more roam. —J. F. (Jonny) Cramer Kendallville, Indiana Little Rock. Ark.. Aug.. 16, 1938. Mr. Roy Archbold, Chairman of Invitation Committee, Old Home Week Decatur, Indiana Dear Sir:- I have received your invitation to "Old Home Week in Dearatur.” for the second week in September, and sincerely regret that I shall be unable to attend this reunion. Assuring you that I am indeed sorry that 1 will be unable to be in Decatur on this great occasion, and wishing for a very successful "Old Home

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