Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1962 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DAILY iSfcMOCIUtCO., DfC. Entered at the Decatur. lad., Port Office «s Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr. President John G. Heller Vice President Chas, ■sttooose Secretary-Treasurer SebeertDtfM RatM .-.-v—. By Mall to Adame and Adjoining Counties: One year, 18.00; Six months, 84-25; 3 mottos, *L3S. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 39.00; 8 months, 14.75; 3 mantos. 33.50. By Carrier. 35 cents per week. Single copies. 7 cents.

Jeffersonian Democracy During the past few weeks the editor has received several letters that intimated the editor was wrong in believing that truth, being a conception of the human mind, is what the individual himself believes. This allows each man to believe what he pleases, as long as it does not materially interfere with the beliefs of his brother man. Thomas Jefferson put it this way: “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Now, this doesn’t mean that an individual, within the bounds of reason, cannot try to “convert” others to believe as he does. It merely means that he cannot logically expect another to believe his beliefs, if he will not permit the free exchange of ideas himself. Naturally every religion, or political party, or social group, feels that it is “right” and has the “true way” and “true belief.” But most religions are willing to practice their own religion, explain it to others, and then let the individual make the choice between one and the other. For any religion that has been “founded” in the last few years to pretend to have a monopoly on truth, Christian action, and the Kingdom of Cod is rather pretentious, to say the least. Mankind has grasped for an understanding on the non-understandable since the dim, distant past recorded only in stones 10,000 years old. Each religion has claimed direct revelation from its god or gods, the true book of scriptures, and the right way of living. , It is certainly true that too many of us accept the outward and visable signs of our parents’ faith, or lack of it, without trying to grasp its full meaning. But to claim that one group is absolutely, 100% right, and all others wrong, is to ask for trouble. To force one’s beliefs on another is considered tyranny, and has been resisted by humans from time immemorial. Yet those who claim that they, and they only, should be believed, are only asking for trouble. This isn’t martyrdom — it’s just stubborn nonsense. Those of us who accept what we can understand and believe, and practice as faithfully as we can, in our own Way, are like the six blind men of Hindustan, each of whom grasped a different part -of an elephant, and variously described what he _ could feel as “like a wall,” “like a snake,” “like “a rope,” “like a tree,” etc. Each was partly in the right, and all were in the wrong. At least they were trying! Are you? Is# ” , ~ -•-- Editorial Writer Today Dick D. Heller, Jr.

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Early Adams County History Is Related

The October - December, 1961 "Old Fort News," published by the Allen county-Fort Wayne Historical society, contains a translation of an autobiographical sketch of John Frederic William Meyer. Fort Wayne businessman, who spent his early years in America in Adams county. The account mentions the Wehmeyers, Dorwins, Fred Christianer, Herman Geftes, and other > well-known Adams county families. The book includes a picture of the Fort Wayne druggist, and the first pages recount, in his own words, his early life. Meyer was 23, his younger brother Friedrick, 17, when they came to America, making it to Bremen. 0., by canal boat from Cincinnati, December 1, 1847. Walk To Monmouth “As it turned very cold, with snow and ice, there was no other way to get to Fort Wayne than to walk. So we walked. The way from Bremen to Monmouth, Adams county, Indiana, was through a dense woods, and the trees were blazed to mark the way. For sixty miles we saw only six houses. After walking 30 miles, we arrived at a tavern, where we spent the night. “We borrowed four dollars from a man by the name of Henry Wehmeyer so we could pay for our night’s lodging and meals. “When we were ready to leave in the morning we laid our money on the table. We could not understand English, so could not understand the keeper of the tavern. He took just a little of the money, and gave most of it back. “Since we could not get anything for the next 30 miles, we made our ship’s hardtack do. and drank out of the rivers. At times brother Fred was so worn out he wanted to lie down and die, but at last we arrived at Monmouth at dusk so tired that it is not to be described. Dorwin’s Tavern “We went to a tavern there to inquire our way to the Herman Gerke home. Die keeper of the tavern was named Dorwin. (Diis was probably Zeba Dorwin, brother of Calvin T. Dorwin, and father of a former early photographer in Decatur, Corneleous T. Dorwin.) "We had four more miles to go, through a dense forest, to get to our destination, and needed something to strengthen us. So brother Friedrich, who had picked up a little English, asked, “Have you whiskey?” “Mr. Dorwin set a bottle of whisky and two glasses before us. We drank a good glass full, then laid our money on the table, from which Mr. Dorwin took a very little. Then he showed us the way. By that time we were so anxious to get there we almost went on a trot, .... ...

Stop At Christianers’ “In about one and a half hours we arrived at Fred Christianer’s, where we found the mother of Mr. Christianer at home and she spoke to us in Low German <Plattdeutsch) and said, Sund ji jungens von Stemshorn? Wi dachten ji, kamet nich mehr do et all so lathe in winter is. <Are you boys from Stemshorn. We thought you would not come any more, as it is so far into the winter.) “The dear old mother told us we must eat with them before we went on further. As the house they lived in was just a small log cabin, we thought they could not have so very much to eat there, and asked whether Gerke's had the same kind of house. They told us they had a covered log house. “Then they began to serve the meal, and such a meal! Spare ribs, pork sausage, wonderful bread and coffee, and how good it tasted! After supper Mr. Christianer made a torch of hickory

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bark and took us to our sister Agnes and brother-in-law Herman Gerke. where we were well received. That was December 3, 1847. Help Clear Farm "The next morning I was able to help my two nephews begin to clear 25 acres of land, to get it ready to plant wheat between the stumps and trees that could not be removed. Brother Fred was so worn out that he had to rest for several days; but after that we both felled trees every day, until he was able to find work in Fort Wayne, where he worked for room and board and could go to school at the same time. "I stayed at Gerke's and worked clearing land until March 28, 1848. That day I began to drive horses for a canalboat, which I did until the Fourth of July. As it was then harvest time, our boat was anchored tor several weeks. I went to Gerke’s and worked with cradle and scythe. One day, while I was working hard with the cradle I was overcome by the heat and was unconscious for several hours. I was very ill, so that they thought I would die. When Rev. Husmann heard that I was so ill, he rode nine miles to visit me. He found me with a goodly portion of selfrighteousness, so he gave me a severe lesson of the law of the

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Bible and left ms. The next morning at four o’clock he was back. “I had bad a miserable night and was almost desperate. When he saw bow I felt, be preached the Gospel and made me so happy, telling me I should only believe and I would be saved. He made it so sweet that I have never forgotten it.” Buys 80 Acres Meyer went back to the canal* boat, and worked, but took malaria, and in the fall went back to the Gerkes to'help clear land. In December he bought 80 acres of woodland for $205, borrowing SIOO. He stayed at Gerkes until Feb. 7, 1849. and then took a job with Hugh B. Reed, a Fort Wayne druggist, for sls a month. The story continues, and tells how he raised a family, lost a wife and children through illness, and how he made his fortune. More Information Those interested in securing a copy of the publication should write to Richard Haupt, Fort Wayne-Allen County Historical society, 1424 West Jefferson street, Fort Wayne. The story erf the Christianer family in Root township is told on page 731 of Tyndall’s Adams & Wells counties. They are related to the Boergers and Whietfeldts. On page 534 of the 1885 history of Adams county, the story of the Gerke family in early Adams county is told. Both books can be found at the Decatur public library. Undoubtedly many present-day Adams county people are descended from these early pioneers who carved farms out of a wilderness.

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seems to be that they have the career people and they are not going to pull up and leave,’’ he said. Wyatt said the formula by which state funds are distributed to school corporations must be brought up to date. He said the career teacher T must be given more recognition. “In addition,” he said, “the updating should involve a more realistic division between property owners, who now bear the main burden of total school costs, and non-property sources.” Safely Measures To Go To Legislature INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana traffic safety experts are considering several safety measures which they may recommend to the 1963 General Assembly. Traffic Safety Director Floyd A.

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Kline Sr., Anderson, said Wednesday among the bills probably will be those making automobile seat belts and motor vehicle safety inspections mandatory. Kline made the prediction following a meeting of the Governor’s Traffic Safety Study Commission. Kline said the bill making seat belts mandatory equipment on new cars “will come up again.” A similar bill died during the 1961 session. He said a bill calling" for motor vehicle inspection “probably will be introduced again. I think this is something we are going to have to do eventually.” Other possibilities discussed by the committee were strengthening of traffic courts, misuse of parking lights as driving lights, drag racing and speed contests, overloading of school buses and the “implied consent” bill by which a driver agrees, as a condition for obtaining a license, to take a chemical test if accused of driving while Intoxicated.