Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1928 — Page 4

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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 Dallies. After telling us daily that there is no limit to the stock market Mr. Brisbane is now yelling. “1 told you so. it looks as though about all congress will do during the short session will be to decide what ought to be done in the long one. If the great increases in the price of industrial stocks the past month was prosperity because of Mr. Hoover’s election, pray tell us what this wild slide of the past few days is? Indianapolis police are making a real tight against banditry and will eventually drive most of it out. Two bandits were killed Saturday and several other caught at their game and arrested. The days are slipping by and it will soon be Christmas and then New Yeats day Have you looked after your shopping? This is the week. Have you started a Christmas Savings club? Right now is your time. Otto G. Fitield, secretary of state, will reorganize the state police, which probably means he will replace some of the boys witit his own friends and buy each one of them a nice little motorcycle for Christmas. The richest man in the world, John 1). Rockefeller, says he prefers friends to riches, which is not so difficult to proclaim when you have both and you usually have the former when you have plenty of the latter. If Mr. Rockefeller would donate a hundred million or so to the state of Indiana he would get his money back quicker than he does giving it to universities and save all of us the threatened increase to four cents a gallon tax on gas. The local branch of the General Electric purchased two thousand Christmas Seals, helping out the committee of which Mr. Guy Brown is chairman ami showing that they are public spirited and believe in helping others, its a great movement and deserves the support of every one. The Good Fellows fund grows slowly |but it grows and we are hoping that fit will reach the average of previous lyears, about three hundred dollars. IThe money it? used you know to brighten the corners in those homes where otherwise Christmas day would be a drab and cheerless event, just another day of Hie week, only gloomier.

The concert given by the Junior band a* the high school auditorium yesterday provided as promised a happy surprise for those who attended. Every number was good and every member of the baud showed iallent. Under direction of Mr. Rice the band is becoming a splendid musical organization which is a mighty tine thiug for them aud for the community. In many counties of Indiana the Hu epidemic has reached alarming proportions and a number of deaths luyve been reported. While it has not become prevalent here, there are hundreds of cases of colds which boarder mighty close. Be careful of the cold if you have one, see a doctor and stay away from crowds. Its better for you

TODAY’S CHUCKLE Woodstown, N. J —<U.R>—Thommi C. ('lark’s Rhode Island Red hen Is moth'flng a litter on nine little pigs while the pig mother gunts her apparent approval. The pigs squabble tv see which will be the fortunn’e two to gather under the step-tno'h er's wings at night.

and may save some one else an illness which may be more serious than yours. Joe Unger, started front New York to Chicago, with two trunks containing some two million dollars worth of narcotics, supposed to be some of the stock from the Rothstein warehouse.

Police took the trunks and later arrested Unger and three accomplices. It is expected that the arrests and the trials to follow will unravel some of the mysteries surrounding the life and death of the late Rothstein , James D. Connor of Wabash, Indiana. secretary of the American Association of Breeders of Belgian horses has been made a member of the Order of Knights of the King by King Albert of Belgium. Mr. Connor is known by a number of people because of his interest in routing the Benjamin Franklin highway through this section. What honors and recompense accompany the honor we have not learned but we hope it is plentiful for Mr. Connors is a splendid gentleman. This week should culiminate the efforts to secure the right-of-ways over the Spuller road east of the city. The state highway commission has announced that if this is secured they will concrete it from Decatur to the Ohio state line the coming year. It would be a great outlet and a benefit in many ways, increasing the value, of lands in that direction, prolonging the life of the parralel macadam roads, saving on upkeep of the two other ■ roads and adding to traffic through this section. Every citizen should be deeply interested. James A. Patten, for many years the wheat king of the Chicago pit, died Saturday about the same time the old pit was closed preparatory to erecting a more magnificent structure on its site. Jim Patten was a real market king and it was his proud boast that lie never took chances but always knew what he was doing. He at various times during his long career, cornered the wheat, oats, cotton and other products and then made millions on the “rise’’ of prices. His career was colorful and interesting and perhaps the best thing he did was to give large sums to universities and other places of learning. What goes up must come down is an adage as old as the hills but still good. The stock prices on the New York exchange climbed for weeks, some of them for months, but evidently they finally reached the top for the past two or three days they have been tumbling and without any apparent cause excepting that interest rates on call loans got so high that the gamblers couldn’t make any money. After all folks, thats all It is, plain gambling, just as much so as if you had your feet under a green clothed table with a bob-tailed flush in your hand. The trouble with this game is that the big fellows sit on the inside and know just what is going on, playing a sure thing, while the little follow on the outside is really gambling.

o Size and Efficiency In airplanes, Increase in size decreases relative efficiency. The freight load that a plane can sustain in proportion to its weight is less as the size of the plane increases. The reverse is true of airships. Every increase in the size of the airship means a decrease in the amount of horsepower required for each passenger. 0 , Eats Sauerkraut Now, Feels Years Younger "Now I eat even sauerkraut and sausage and feel fine. Adlerika ended stomach gas and I feel 10 years younger.”—Mrs. M. Davis. Just ONE spoonful Adlerika relieves gas and that, bloated feeling so that you can eat aud sleep well. Acts on BOTH upper and lower bowel and removes old waste matter you never thought was there. No matter what you have tried for- your stomach aud bdwels. Adlerika will surprise you. Smith, Yager and Falk, druggists.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 > 1928 ;

“Wheat King” Succumbs to Pneumonia

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Janies A. Patten, one lime the most spectacular figure of the wheal pit, who diet! from pneumonia at his home in Evanston, 111., aged 7(>. Born on a farm al Freeland Corners, 111., lie rose to international prominence as a capitalist.

¥¥¥¥¥¥*»¥♦♦•♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO * ¥ From the Dally Democrat File * ¥ Twenty Years Ago Today • <¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥»*¥•* Dec. 10-Decatur Furnace Company plans addition and will employ a hundred men. Samuel Kunkle and nephew necrly asphyxiated at Paris, 111., Turned gas too low and it went out, then came on strong. Trial of Charles Dunn for murder of ten-year-old girl opens at Fort Wayne. Judge Plummer, of Wabash, holds the new local option law valid. U. S. Drumond and Elijah Nidlinger buy the C. W. Yager store at Pleasant Mills. Mrs. W. E. Smith elected oracle of, the Royal Neighbors. Blacksmith shops are all busy because of tiic* icy roads. J. S. Bowers back on lite jol) at the packing house at'er several days illness with grippe. Farmeis are selling many cords of wood in town now. Skating parties at the river provide much amusement. o ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ * CONGRESS TODAY * ¥¥,¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ By United Press Senate Continues Boulder Dam Debate. Judiciary committee takes up Cal- , endar bill. House Considers resolution authorizing appointment of a congressional committee to attend the twenty-fifth anniversary of Hie First Airplane flight in North Carolina. Considers Austrian and Greek debt settlements. o—- * ¥¥¥¥¥•>•»♦♦¥•♦ • BIG FEATURES * » OF RADIO * S¥¥¥¥«¥¥¥¥¥¥K Monday’s Five Best Radio Features (Copyright, 1928, by United Press) Central standard time throughout. WEAF, NBC network. 8:30 p. m.— General Motors Hour. WEAF, NBC network, 10 p.m —Opera

Cavalleria Rusticaana. WOR, Columbia network, 8:30 p.m.— Vitaphor.e hour. WEAF, NBC network, 5:30 p. m. — Sport Talk, Babe Ruth. WJZ, NBC network, 6:30 p. in. — Roxy’s gang. o State Budget Committee Continues Tour Os State Indianapolis, Dec. 10, (U.R) Members of the state luidget committee today continued their institutional visits. The schedule for the week, day by day, is as follows: Girls school. Indianapolis, Monday; girls school, Plainfield. Tuesday: Turkey Run, Wednesday; McCornick's Creek, Thursday; Indiana University, Friday, and back to the statehouse Saturday. * The following week's program in- | eludes visits to Pigeon Roost, and | Slate Forest. MeLifty Falls. Madison, Monday; Banter Home aud Ciifty

Falls. Tuesday, Fann (' lony. for tlie feeble-minded, Butlersville, and Massatatukk, # Wednesday: Indiana State reformatory, Pendleton. Thursday and back to the statehouse Friday and Saturday. Institutions visited last week included the village for epileptics, Newcastle: Richmond stale hospital; School for Feeble-minded Youth, Fort Wayne; Indiana Slate prison Michigan City, and the Logansport State hospital. -O—, Losing Game “He who cheats,’’ said Hi Ho, the Mlge of Chinatown, “never gains any thing of sufficient value to compensate for the loss of a trusting friend.’ —Washington "tar.

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NEW BUILDING AT WABASH COLLEGE Crawfordsville, Ind., Dec. 10 she first building to be erected on the proposed new plan of the future Wabash ■ ampui has been completed and will be dedicated December 17. This building is the beautiful Georgian chapel which was completed recently. According lo the plan submitted by the architect, G. A. Robinson of Des M nles, lowa, many new buildings will be added to the group in the next fifty years. There are at present seven structures on the campus; the Administration Building. Peck Scientific Hall South Hall. Library, Chapel, Gymnasium and Armory, and the heating plant. The proposed plan calls for two new science buildtags in front of South and Feck Halls Dormitories will be built to the south of the new chapel in the form of a quadrangle with the Wabash Union in the southeast coiner of the Campus. Before the Administration Building a flag pole will lie erected and a memorial fountain to the rear facing the chape! New walks ami roadways will be constructed to conform with the new plan of the quadrangular campus. President emeritus, George I. Mackintosh and T. H. Ristine started the movement for the new chapel and I. C. Elston Jr.. E. 11. Evans, Will Hays, J. P. Goodrich, and T. H. Ristine were the principal donors. The chapel was designed by J. HLaison of Hanover, New Hampshire, who planned the Dartmouth new library and several other of its buildings, it was built at a cost of $125,000 and 125,000 sot the future upkeep of it. it is Georgian Colonial architecture combining that of the northern and southern colonial style. (J Walther Leaguers of Fort Wayne vs. G. E. Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. Admission 10c and 25c. It

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