Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1928 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller— Free, and Gen. Mgr A. R Holthouse Sec'y & Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller. Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice sk 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 mail .35 Three months, by mail.—— 100 Six montus, by ma 11....— 1-75 One year, by mall 3.00 One year, at office——- 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zor«s. Elsewhere, $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known by application. National Advertising Representatives Schccrer, Inc., $5 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dailies A Merry Christmas and plenty of turkey to each of you. Os course we all hope you all will have a fine, big Christmas and we are sure you will. Use your cash Christmas money to start a membership in one of the Christmas Savings clubs. It will give you a good start by next year. Congress has adjourned until January 3rd and most of its members will work harder than they do when on the job. . 11! It cost a Pittsburgh man $12,000 to kiss a girl once. She sued him for damages and thats what the court decided. We knew about every thing else had advanced but we had no idea that such a price had been established for this commodity as old as Eve. Automobile accidents cost a billion a year it is claimed, but as in most things we keep increasing the number with each passing year. iWe believe in breaking bad records as well as good ones it seems. The president has signed the Uotiltler Dam bill but as it has to be ratified in six states before the $165,000.00*0 is made aval.able, there will probably continue to be plenty of discussion about it. Coast guard officials have confiscated $400,000 worth of liquor during the past few days and the one who figures out how much that was gets a prize. Anyway, it is quite certain that they have prevented a good many headaches. Farm relief is to be taken up by congress immediately after the holidays, maybe. Its boosters would like to see it passed at the present session but its enemies and those who prefer to fight for other measures will very likely prevent that. Just what Miss Ruth McConnell of Indianapolis is trying to do in her airplane trips across the continent and back again Tor Christmas dinner, we don’t know and really don't care but she has proven that one doesn’t have to fly across the Atlantic to get on the front pages. ' The rest of the congressional session will be devoted to the ship bill and the Kellogg peace pact, neither •of which entered in the recent campaign. Wouldn't it be better if they first carried out platform pledges and then decided whether to build a lot .of big battle ships that wouldn’t ire used if we get into war? A surprising number of 1929 license plates for automobiles are already tc , be seen, due perhaps to the fact that ,if you expect to drive your car it Ohio or Michigan you must have then: ,or be liable to arrest. In those state! no leniency is shown regarding tIM date of enforcing the law. it start! on New Years day. It may be wel to keep tile fact in mind. The black handers of Chicago wii carry out their threats so far that om of these days a regiment of U. 8 - soldiers will take things over up then and probably thats about the onl; way they will ever make it safe b live in the second city of America. It

TODAY’S CHUCKLE Beloit. Wta. — The men on Mars—if there are any—are deep chested and can go a long time between drinks, Prof It C Huffer, Bale It college astronomer, declared in a lectine here. "Mars freezes over night and thaws during the day," he said. a terrible state of affairs but its a condition and one that must eventually be met and met squarely. Don't forget over Christmas to be careful about doing those things which will lessen your resistence and thereby make you more likely to contract the fin. It Is needless to tell you perhaps that the cases are much more serious now than they were at first. Every thing should be done to combat the epidemic now so widespread that it extends to almost every section of the country. We learned with sincere sorrow of the death of our old friend. Judge Joseph Shea, former judge of the Indiana appellate court and for five years ambassador to Chile. For many years he has been prominent in Democratic politics in Indiana and he had thousands of friends in every section of Indiana. Uncle Joe had a wonderful personality and his smile was so genuine as to be contagious. His counsel and advice will be missed at numeious meetings. ——J .. Efforts will be made in the coming legislature to secure whatever law is necessary to make the National highway through Indiana one hundred feet wide. Thats what we are coming to quite rapidly and thats why the state commission is askiug sixty-foot easements. Its cheaper and easier to arrange when the roads are taken over and when the first pavement is built than later, and its the only way we will ever take care of the constantly increasing traffic. Good roads are absolutely necessary tor those communities which do not expect to die from inertia. There is a question as to whether we prevent accidents by limiting the speed of automobiles, if we can judge by the resu.ts in Michigan where for two or three years they have had no speed limit but where the driver of a car iS subject to arrest for driving any vehicle at a speed great than will permit him to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead. ’ You are alright there until you have an accident and then its up "to you to I explain. A survey made by a tire company and just published shows that as a result of this law there has T been a 22% reduction in the number of people injured in that state. It is at least worth thinking about seriously, for every one desires those trafr sic regulations which best protect the f public. . o W*»**»*»s»»*** ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO * ♦ From the Dally Democrat File • t * Twenty Yeara Ago Today • , «**¥*?¥«**•*■* B Oec. 24 —Announcement of wedding of Mrs. Jennie Studabaker to Mr. t Chauncey Furman, of Marion, Ohio, t which occurred the 22nd, made today. Case of J. H. Sulivah vs G. R. and I demand $1,650, is being tried at Portland »• Contract let to Julius Hougk for II three story building at First and Mad! 1 - son streets, by the Schafer Company. I Vaughn Mui ray, moving picture i- operator, goes to Delphos to take job. y Charles Addlesperger, editor of El Reno, Oklahoma, Daily American, visII its here. it Elks distribute forty four baskets e of food to poor families of the city. John Wemhoff is home from college at Renssalear. Roy Mumma is visiting at Linton, Ine diana. Miss Matilda Sellemeyer leaves for 0 Defiance. Ohio, for an over Christmas d visit. n Tomot row is Christmas. o 11 *••*¥¥*♦♦♦*•♦ 8 • BIG FEATURES * 0 * OF RADIO * SJs*»*** •*»*•*♦« H Wednesday's Five Best Radio Features (Copyright 1928 by United Press) WEAK and network, 6:30 CST—Laton--11 raine Symphony orchestra, le WEAF and network, 7 CST— American Magazine Hour. WEAF and network. 9:30 CST—Palmrc olive Hour. ly WJZ and network, 9 CST —Chicago t 0 Civic Opera, portion oil Offenbach's opera. "Tales of Hott Is man.” ~ ■

Early Bells Not All Like Those cf Today ' Some of (he earliest bells were made four-sided und others looked more like j funnels but ull were small, the present j accepted shape und the larger sizes not being made until Hie 1200‘s, some : CAO years after their Introduction to j llunqie. In Scotland some of the most ancient ones were mude by riveting ' thin Iron plates together, but the innjmity of the early bells were cast. About the latter part of the Seven- ' teenth century Iron works seemed to enter, into a competition to see who could east the largest bell. Apparently a foundry in Russia won, or nearly so, for its entry eracked in casting j and would not ring. It was 19 feet and some Indies high, more than 00 feet In circumference, Its sides were two feet thick and It weighed about 189 tons. It lay buried In the earth! for more than 109 years, then it was'j raised and now Is being used as u chapel. Nuremberg. Germany, has an old bell that gives a curious note to one of the oldest restaurants In Europe. It Is called the Brutwurstglockleln. . and for as long us anybody can remember has been rung every time a new batch of sausage Is ready.—Detroit News. Original Necktie Was More Than Ornament The neckties qieu wear today were evolved from Ince thingumabobs that were worn, back in tl.e days when men's Imagination let them in for rainbow iiued silk and velvet clothes, to keep the neckband of the shirt together. What men wore in those days lu ; lieu of a tie was called a Jabot or kerchief. It was not all lace, foV ll ■ was a sneeze catcher ns well. After the neckerchief had done double duty In the names of decora | tion a -d utility, a few of the more I sensitive of the young bloods whose hay fever was particularly bad re- | veiled. They began carrying these ker- | choo-ke -chiefs in their bands. The I custom became popular and in no time at all the cambric and lace what’s-lt became a hand kerchief. When the hand kerchief was tinai.y transferred permanently from the hand to the pocket, the tie around th? neck, with a single mission—to bind decoratively—had become a fixed mode. I too. Starting life as a cravat, and a I broad en c , it has thinned down to a ' slim four-in hand and sometimes it ex- I presses itself in a bow. —Irene Kuhn j in Liberty Magazine. Manx People The Manx people form a smalt di vision of the Celtic race, to which the Irish, Welsh. Highland Scottish and ancient Britons belonged. Their place origin is the Isle of Man, which is almost equid.stunt from Ireland, Eng land and Scotland in the Irish sea The chief industries ure fanning, and the Island is a great summer resort. The Isle of Man lias a constitution and government of its own ami makes its own laws. Its chief executive officer Is the lieutenant governor, appointed by the king. The native language Is Manx, which is sf nilar to the j Irish ami Gaelic languages, but English is ulso spoken. Calve and the Miners Once when Mme. Einars Calve was singing “Cavalleria Rusticana" in Pittsburgh, after the performance she received a magnificent bouquet to which was attached a document bearing over a hundred signatures of tier fellow-countrymen—coal miners from •Decazville who had attended the performance en bloc, followed by the coal miners, in person. “They came, erery one of them, and we embraced in true Latin style," relates Calve. “When it wan over, ray face was as black us theirs. I looked like a chimney sweep!"—Kansas City Times. Their Partnership Charles and John had been given a ■ kitten, but they did not agree on the ownership. Finally the mother per- [ suaded them that Charles should own • the kitten’s head and fore feet, and John should own the hind feet and the tail. Then each could stroke his ' own cat. All went well until John • accidently stepped on the cat’s tail -‘ and it cried. Charles demanded, • “Who stepped on my cat?’ John 1 quickly answered. "No one stepped on ' your cat. I stepped on my cat, and your cat went'meow.'" —Youths Com. 3 panion. a Who’s to Blame? Jane had been unusually naughty one day and her mother found it necr essary to scold her before putting her 5 to bed. Afler she had put out the lights and left the room she heard Jane saying her prayer, and as she Ils tened she heard her say: “Dear Jesus, if you make me 4 naughty tomorrow as you did today, $ I'm never going to ask you to make g me good again."—lndianapolis News Tribute to Plain People 1 painfully reflect that In almost l ' every political controversy of the last fifty years the leisure classes, the ed *' ucated classes, the wealthy classes, the tilled classes, have been in the *' wrong. The common people—Hie toil ers, the men of uncommon sense—--0 these have been responsible for nearly b all of the social reform measures which tlie world accepts today.—W. E. Glad stone. -- —

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1928.

Does a “Carrie Nation” to Save Daughter

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Here is soft drink parlor in Kansas City, Mo., after being “devonited' with an ax [’>' W ilson, pictured at left, who says that she had warned he proprietor not to st llk u< rto lu t ve- t-old (laimhiit. The ]>< ice interceded, hut not until Mrs. Wilson had completed lu i l«»l>-_

ELEVEN TONS OF PORK FROM ELEVEN SOWS SETS NEW RECORD IN INDIANA

Lafayette, Ind., Dec 22—Eleven tons of spring pigs from eleven sows in the new Ton Litter Club record hung up by Claude L. Mangas, of Union City, and in the Mangas record the practical farmer glimpses the real Ton Lit-

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ter Club in its working clothes as it attains f:r the first time since its beginning seven years ago its ideal of a “Ton Litter Herd”. The eleven sows on the Mangas farm last spring farrowed 107 pigs, or an average of 9.7 pigs each,

and the whole herd was nominated in the ILosier Ton Litter Club, which is conducted by the Purdue University agricultural extension department in co-operation with the Indiana Livestock Breeders' Association. These .same sows weaned 102 pigs, making an average of 9.3 pigs per ter. Nine cf these litters made individual litter weights of more than a

ton each at 180 days of ago, thus quaMl tying ter goki medal awards In 9 Hoosier Ton Litter Club, while litter weighed 1703 pounds at the age and qualified for a bronze Figures show that the combln«K weight of these eleven litters at iVH days cf age was 22,372 tons and 372 pounds to spare. The iB tern averaged 2033.8 pounds <-aoB while the average weight per pig urea out at 219.3 pounds. A summary of those litters the number of pigs per litter anil cfficial weights per litter at 180 <l., to.be as follows: y 11 Pte” 2288 poumfl 10 pigs 2240 pouniS 10 pigs 2170 9 Pigs 2144 poundß 9 pigs 2131 ponmS 9 pigs 2089 pounqß 9 Piss 2080 pountfl 9 Pigs 2034 pomulH 9 Pig 3 v 2024 poundH 8 pigs 1703 ponndM 9 pigs 1469 poundß Fish Can Ce “Drowned" The bureau of fisheries says th.tH fish can be asphyxiated, particularly! If the water contains chemicals or If! heavily polluted, which would cuusgH a lack of oxygen sufficient to the Osh suffocate. ■■ ■■■— -■■' i o—" 9 Yale’s Beginning On October 9. 1701, Yale college . I velvet! its charter and opened ItsdooS I at Saylirmtk. In 1710 a plot of lamll in New Haven was purchased for the I purpose of erecting a permanent uni- ■ versify ’