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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-22
BY ROY GIBBONS


WHITEHALL, Ind, JAM 20. At
last-that average American citizen
you have heard SO much about has
been found.
He lives in this remote village Of
so inhabitants, eight miles from Il
railroad line.
He pays SO month rent Cor his
home. He is married and has four
children He believes in Gcd and
says this country is the best in tEe
world
His name is Cecil Johnson. Be
sides being the closest resid ent TO the
national center of population, john
son qualities closely in all the char
acteristics the U. S. census bureau
says the average American citizen
must have.
The center of population of the
United States is a big tree 10 mics
west of Whitehall. Mathematicians
have figured it out to hairs
breadth. 1t shifts from year 20 year.
Johnson lives little more than a mile
from the exact center.
What He Should Earn
The average American should earn
$2150. Johnson earns $2100.
The average American should be
about &c years old and weigh 148 12
pounds His complexion should be
intermediate" He should be a me-
chanic.
Johnson is % and has four children
instead of the required three, but
the rest of the data fits him like
Ii hot
of his wife fit the census require
ments exactly.
Mrs. Average American is supposed
to be a few months under 25. Mrs.
Johnson is 25. Her height, weight
and complexion are almost Identical
with those arrived at by the census
bureau-statistics that were arrived at
after examination of 1000 subjects
whose forefathers had been Americans
for three generations.
Farming ranks second to mechanical
trades in the bureaus list of gain
full occupations. Johnson has been a
farmer, too, and right now occasion
ally pitches in when neighbor needs
a hand.
The chief aim of Mr.. and Mrs. John
son is to rear their children to use
full citizenship. Neither has any use
for rouge, powder or short skirts.
"The girls ought to rub some of
the paint off SO a fellow can see what
he's getting" says Johnson.
Defends Prohibition
Johnson upholds the dry law and
does not believe in it's modification
in the slightest degree.
"I've taken a drink or two," he
says, "but liquor does no good
guess we can get along without it.
Besides there's too many automobiles
nowadays
Johnson, while he fails to get
kick out of politics, thinks President
Coolidge is making good, although
Johnson is a democrat at heart.
And here is his philosophy of life:
81 only want money enough to get
along on. What's money anyhow?
just want to lay away little for
rainy day.
II want the children to have
chance. That's why I live in this
small town. could make more
money in a city.
Success is not money. Success is
having friends. I'd rather have for
my friends the so people who live in
Whitehall than go to city and slave
for riches or fame.
eff you have friends and they love
you and you love them, why, man,
that's living"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-22

a novel adaptation of the buckle
motif is shown in these little shoes
of suede or kid The tongue is long
and falls over the instep, giving
buckle effect The trimming, too, in
"a harmonizing shade of smooth
leather, is unusual.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-22

DISPATCH WANT ADS FOR
QUICK RESULTS
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MARRIAGE Licenses

yester Cunningham. 27 r. r. O. Box
137 Fl, city, repairman; Mamie Greene. I9
%323 Churchman Ave. nurse.
TS@ deg Kathryn Cook. II. 51$ p. New
Littleton Russell. 55. 1927 Howard.
ieWeler; Maggie Fisher. 90. 1927 Howard,
James Hardy. 70 21O9 MartlndaN@'
t9omdry worker; Mary Brooks. ga. ion
Columbia. sewing.
Robert Phillips 40, Louisville Ky.
porter; Alena Powell, So. 705 n. Senate,
James Price. 90. 1914 Minocque. rail
road employee; Catharine White 20. S25
Joseph shocEiey. 90. ga Richland.
power company employee ITma Mann, 2l.
9l7 Buchanan stenographer.
John PuclSett. is 424 n Walcott car
penter; Marguerite Thompson, 10. 739 S.
State.
sterer; Nina stabner. 10. Il. Irvington
William sutton. 80, 1913 p. Twenty
Firth. fireman: Florence Macdonald. ~.
237 g., Gale h393uuselSeepS55' 1000 u.u.,.s
boCkkeeper;, Evelyn Lynch, 10. Pr s.
Arthur smith. 95. 2315 Hoyt. salesman;
Esther Judkius 90 355 n. Holmes clerk,
Henry Alheidt SO. Latouche. Alaska.
miner; Betty Lee Conrad. 81, III e. Thir-
ty- Seventh.
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TOUND--Articlcs found on indian
apolAe street cars YESTERDAY:
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Legal Notices


Julietta TO Carrollton. Hancock County.
S. sos. Sec. p. state road No SO. Carr
rolt9n =. to Morristown, , Hancock ann
Bids will be received for three types on
pavement on the above projects Brick
bituminous concrete and concrete as
The State will furnish cement for the
Protect number. location. miles follow
+. A. 20. B1. state road No; 81 APP
preach grading for subway under. Penn
syvania railroad one and one-half miles
west of Bunker Hill. Miami County. 0.322
miles,
Hanna TO one and one-half miles west OF
Hamlet. La Porte and Starke Counties.
Bids on the above projects will be re-
ceived for grading and structures only as
shown on plans and described In standard
The contractor will furnish cement on
the above listed projects,
COMPUTATION bids. will DO received on
'"f First iSto Com ia n. Secs. A and B.
Nes send Comb comb@FX 1os. Secs. A and B.
TrRird co@nmS sos. Secs. A B.
Ne Proposa sal blanks and specifications may
be obtained free and all plans upon nav
ment Of $500 per set. except on "a 70
set upon application to the state highway
commission Indianapolis. Ind. There will
be no refund for plans returnsd. Plans
State highway compassion at 16 N. SEN
ate Ave. Indianapolis.
and best bidder but the right TO reiest
shan aie bonds with their proposals as
p'0GIt INDIANA STATE HIGHWAY COM
JOHN d. WILLIAMS. Director
u lLl-A
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WANT ALLEY VACATED
Lincoln Hotel Company Asks Board
Of Works for Order.

The Lincoln Hotel Company has
asked the board of works for an or
der vacating a short alley, if it ever
existed, upon which o part of the
Lincoln now stands.
Hotel interests seek to clear up the
status OF the alley which extended
from Washington St, part way to
Kentucky Ave. a distance Of only
a few yards. Benefits and damages
will be assessed by the board.
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Deaths

Mary y. Lynch 10. st. Vincent's Hos
pital acute bronchitis.
Mary Austin McAninich, 40. city hos
pital accidental, -
Matilda Brinkman. 63, 1926 Cottage
Amanda Camplin. 70, Central Indiana
Hospital chronic myOcarditis,
LUTHER Luther B. Marcum. 10, 333 E. South,
Frank M. Smiley, ~. st. Yincents Hos
pital, cerebral hemorrhage; no
Samuel =, Emerson Elnchpaugh' 3D.
Rachel r. Woolcy. 81 Methodist Hos
pital. broncho pneumoonia; =, 1r.-...,,,.
Henry NJ. Mass, 81. 2l7 Il. wyoming,
" Mary y catherine Tandy, So, OF n, Ritter,
10 Lola B. Perkins, 80, 541 Virginia, To-
bar pneumonia, -, VII,
Samuel c. COhee Us, Methodist hospltaI,
chrOnic mYOCarditis.
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INDIANA STATE HIGHWAY CoMMIs-
SION DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION,
ROAD DEPARTMENT..
NOTICE TO ROAD CONTRACTORS:

Notice is hereby given that scaled bids
for the construction of certain highways
described as follows will be received by
the director of the State highway commits
sion at his office in the StAtehouse. Indi-
annapolis. Ind. until 10 a. m. on the 21st
day of December, 1926. at which time
they will be publicly opened and read.
Project number. location miles follow:
F. A., n; Sec. 4. State Road No. 80
=" F.. 4, ~ Sec. B, State road No, 80
Crooked Creek to Hanna. Porter and La
Porte Counties. 5.479 miles
F. A So Sec A. State road No 80
panviiie to Marion County Line. Hendricks
County. 10563 miles.
r. A. 81. paving contract No. 2, State
road Nos, 20 and 12 Indianapolis Ave,
Indiana line, to .Calument Ave. Lake
+. 4. 102. Sec. 4. State road No. 90.
Mt Vernon to two miles west OF Wander
burg County line. Posey County. S02S
+. A, 1O2. Sec. B. State road No. 60
two miles west OF Posey County line to
Evansville. Vanderburg County. 6.S97
5. Sol. Sec. D., State road No. Al, two
miles north of Schneider to Bolshaw. Lake
= S. Boo. Sec. A, State road No g.
Mooresville TO Friendswood and haywood
TO Indianapolis Morgan. Hendricks and
Marion Counties, 4,792 miles.
s. sos Sec A State road No. 90
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATORS SALE
OLE REAL. ESTATE

The undersigned, administrator OF the
estate of Mary Wallis, deceased. hereby
he rSSe co py of Ma0 on c e
DIANA he will at the, hour OF 1000 q; M,
ono the goth day @ Of December, 1926. At
annapolis, Marion County, Indiana, and from
day to day thereafter, until sold, offer for
sle at py@te ae all the nt o Of said
ing described real estate:
The. undivided one seventh interest in
one hundred five Q05l being fifty-three
dset 9nt "a Dss aat dns street by
of indianapolis Indiana.
teen l17l in Ebenezer Dumonts sub.
HHndPed in Il the S CITY Of n nda9apo ho
according TO the plat Of SAID sgb-diyisi,on
IN the office of the recorder of Marion
The last above, described real estate
Indianapolis, in the sun, Of $1,000.
al, Trustees Subdivision. an addition TO
vision Of part or Lot Number -Four az Of
East, corner OF section Is. township Is,
North; R Ran e East qeGD3;rdiqg to the
corded in Plat Book II, page 1872, Of the
records in the office OF the Recorder Of
The above described Lot 3 will be
offered subject to a mortgage in the sum
of So. $4,000. in favor Of the Home Build
ers Savings &c Loan Association of Indian
apolis.
Said sale viii be made subject to the APP
prevail of said court for not less than
the full appraised value thereof and upon
the following terms and conditions to-
wit:
Not less than one, third 1-3l Of the
purchase money shall be paid in cash and
the balance, II any, in two equal install,
ments,. due in not more than nine 90
TO eighteen (1Sl months from the date
OF sale The balance to be evidenced by
the notes of the purchaser bearing six
per cent t6G4) interest from date, waving
relief, providing attorneys fees and Sc
cured by mortgage on the real estate sold.
OTTO +. RAFERT, Administrators.
ELLIOTT. WEYL & JEWETsT. Attorneys
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Births


leonard ana and d''' beieiaR ''' wooten. aGi5
Paris
Peter and Ruth Brown S37 Fayette
Robert and Annie Carter, 726 s. Mount.
Harry and Laura Sartweu, 1882 Climber.
Roy aud Ada Callahan. 1923 Burton.
Ernest and Audrey Boggs. 679O Ash
Charles and Catherine Long 1906 W.
Morris.
Clarence and Lula Kelso, 172s W. Min
" Walter and Edith zollner, Long Hos.
Harry and Emma Duttcnhaver, Long
Buford and Alberta Goodwin, 2704 But
Earnest and wilma Foust. 2141 Bosart.
George and Jeanette Conley, 30l7 e.
Charles and Adelia Hibner. 2o5 N.
Floyd and Mary steenberger. 1916 Dc
Loss
John and Carrie williamson, 1904 Nor
Lee and Catherine Stalley. s45 Erie
Earl and Mary Forehand. 100 n.
Earl Earl and Nellie Robertson. 11o9 N.
Tysse and Ruth Bryant. 1888 W. Tnir-
James and Louise Parker. 1915 ArsepaM
Albert and Matilda Nahmias. Long HoV
Otto and Gertrude Poehler 1871 Evison
Paris and Ina Slaughter, 1852 Congress.
girls.
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Motorcycles and Bicycles
Automobiles for Sale

WE BUY sell and exchange used motor
cycles Good used parts for sale AL
LENS 500 Mass. Ave. Main 1929.
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Miscellaneous Wanted

HOUSE cleaningS Your surplus clothing.
furniture. magazines. papers will help
us TO help others. Salvation Army INDUS
6622. 127 w Georgia.
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Ruildinn Permits

C. 6. Cliston. dwelling, 1921 N. Denny
G. s. Cliston. dwelling. 1925 N. Denny,
~"A A. 4. Mitchell furnace, 43o-S2 Lime
Indianapolis Water Company, repairs,
81 w, Washington. $3.50
Hotel English, repairs S390ao ..,.,.,5
w. S. Wright. furnace, 6O2O Ashland.
~ J. A. shearer. repairs, $3.50 Ruckle,
W. c. Patterson, garage. 541 W. Thir-
tieth 1925 80
Mary f. Duffy, repairs, $3.50 Kenwood,
Staley. & Crab. bulletin board. 11o20s
r. IA Williams, tire last, 234s Caroline.
Richard Howe. garage, 81 s. Tuxedo,
5000
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DEC. 8, 1926
STORY or ICE TOPIC
Dealers VIII Close Convention With
Dinner Tonight.

AAAtHNA AuiiASut.
1.-The Story OF Ice" an illustrated
lecture by Howard c. Goss and the
election Of officers, followed by the
annual evening dinner, will MAYA,
the close Of the thirty.third anni&
convention of the Indiana Ice Deaf
ers' Association today at the SEVERN.
This morning Floyd Chaffe OF the
Rand-Kardex Service Company and
Prof, E. II. Parfitt Of Purdue Uni
versity, spoke.
The Rev. j. Ambrose Dunkel, pas
tor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian
Church, will speak at the banquet.
Wednesday, Leslie c. Smith OF
Chicago, secretary OF the National
Ice Dealers Association, URGED a
campaign to educate the AEuNranan
housewife in the use Of ice.
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Legal Notices

NOTICE-The annual meeting OF the
stockhold of the Plymouth Saving and
Loan Association for the election OF di-
1926, between the hours of Z and $3.50
p, m. at its office. 139 E. Ohio St. j. II
MIMH1SI0lN, Vice President. E. E. KATTER-
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The Coolidge Potatoes

How many of you would like to pay SO a peck OF
potatoes grown on the farm that reared Calvin
Coolidge? Hands up
You can, if y2u want to. A certain potato cor
ooration is bally hoong this thrill for your dinner
guests"
Each peck box of the glorifed spuds will be ac-
-omparicd by an affidavit swearing that the MUIR
plies were born breathcd, and had their being in no
other habitat than the slopes Of the Plymouth (Ver-
mcnt) farm where Calvin Coolidge was reared to
nanhoods estate.
Garden variety potatoes ungilded by that blessed
soil which raised Coolidge, can be bought for As
.ents peck.
There's flavor, somehow, to this Coolidge potato
publicity akin t. the picture Of the president making
hay in bayfield, all on a summers day.
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To remark that religious news is big news today
is merely a bromide. Anyone who reads the papers
at all knows that. He recalls the long weeks when
the famous evolution trial of Dayton Tenn. held
page one the world over.
The Scopes evolution trial and every news event
Of today which at all Of the religious are
significant because and women are thinking
more than ever before the question: Whats
it all about?
Because it believes that religion is "saable" to-
day, the International Advertising Association has
established a church advertising department It's
purpose is, first Of all, to find out what the world
thinks about religion today, anyway.
It has prepared set of IL "belief questions" to
be sent to men and women the world over. Very
simple, elementary questions they, such as "Dt
you believe in Cod" do you believe in immortal
ity?" do you believe in prayer"
But simple as the questions are, they com
pick as to defeat their purpose Take that ques
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room. And there, in the soft SHOW,
almost filled up, were two sets of
footprints. One set led toward the
window, one away, to the porte CO.
cherc, which begins just beyond
Uncle Ralph's bedroom windows and
extends to the rear Of the house, all
along that west wall. The concrete
driveway near the wall is so protect
ed by the roof of the porte cOchcrc
the footprints were lost. Just below
the terrace and thick all over the
lawn were thousands Of newly made
footprints, which Of course had oblit-
Grated any trace Of this particular
pair Of feet"
Il warned him! begged him to
look everywhere for clues!" Faith
began dcspairingly. "What kind Of
footprints, Bob? A man's?"
Yes, and there was something
funny about them, too. Only the toe
half of the left foot showed, in both
sets of tracks. There we're not more
than three sets of each-going to-
ward the window and away from it.
There's /; big DRAIN pipe there. ex-
tending almost to the surface of the
terraced ground, and just foot away
from the window that was open when
discovered the body. Morehouse
didn't take much interest in the foot
prints. Said his men would have
found them, if they'd been there
when the police arrived, and that
they had undoubtedly been made by
some cop or detective, going thor
oughly over the ground.
ooh, he took the measurements.
but couple Of cops sworc, they'd
seen an officer there by the window,
Only half left print each time. as II
the foot that made them walked on
it's toes. ! couldn't find y cop in the
whole bunch who walked like that
The shrilling of the telephone pen
ctrated to the kitchen.
"Oh!" Faiths hand went to hef
throat. "I'll bet they've found
Cherry"
Ito Be Continucd.)
TOMORROW: More news from
Cherry and another session with re-
pOrters.
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oAlN5kE Anne and ASS,{dI6N N y,

"Oh, it's so vicious! Vicious!"
Faith started at the paper and its
glaring headlines. "Thcy don't give
her a chance! They're tried and con-
victcd her right here in print, with
ont giving her chance to say a
word for herself. ] thought Chief
Morchousc was kind, good. and that
those reporters would be fair"
"Thcy are being fair, in their opin-
ion" Bob Hathaway replied. Don't
you realize, dear, that it does look
ba. for Cherry? There doesn't seem
to bc a shred of evidence to connect
anyone else with the crime, unless
and he frowncd and caught back the
wor is he was about to utter.
"Iio you know something you
haven't told me. Bob Hathaway %
she demanded.
"lrh afraid it won't help much
right tnow," he admitted rucfully, as
he kis sed her by way Of apology
"Morchouse secuted by theory.
could isec he thought / was clutchine
at any straw to help Cherry's case
for your sake
For heavens sake, 20 on" Faith
cried ilnpaticntly.
.'WciA. when ! found Uncle Ralph s
body lying on the floor almost dircct-
~ beneath an open window, 1 was -
stunned that it didn't occur to me ia
look out of the window and see If his
assailant could have entered that
way.
"When went back to Uncle
Ralph's house, after bringing you
home. NOrehousc let me 20 up with
him to hear DIR. Murrhison's oninior
on how long Uncle Ralph had been
dead. went to the window, which
some idiot had taken the liberty OF
closing-I suspect it was Mary, bu,
we won't know until the inquest
and asked Murchison's permission to
open it. He looked pretty chcal
when ! reminded him it had beer
open when discovered the body, &
fact which certainly mentioned te
him. We both looked out the win.
dow and down upon the ground.
"Well, the terrace on that side Of
the house comes up almost to the sec.
ond story, just a few feet below the
west window of Uncle Ralph's bed.
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Editorial Comment
Grcat-grandma knew Santa
youths Companion)


You cant imagine enc man living 1926 years, can
you now? And when you cant imagine that, you
eel certain, then, the laughing, merry man in the
hop window isn't the Santa your great grand
aother and all the mothers knew since the world
gan. Then you say, IF Santa hasn't really and
ally been the same man forever why, maybe my
eat-grandmother didn't have Christmas at all.
ou think that because you're young, dear child
on haven't paused to wonder if there isn't some
tAing more lasting than jolly, jingly laughing man
nave you?
But you do know there's Christ Child don't you
\ Christ-Child who will watch over you throughout
sour life. And you know by now He came upon earth
i926 years ago And you know He is the lover and
protector Of all children whose happiness He desires
more than all else
II one merry, laughing jolly man hasn't lasted
for 1926 years, how can the little Christ-Child be
remembered that long time?
The answer is easy for grCwn-up folk The exper.
fence of living has told them that the only import
mt things in life are beautiful traditions that live
forever and are never forgotten because they arc
beautiful.
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Improving With Are

If you are fifty-onc and onc-haf years old, 70,
have lived the span of life allotted you by the in
surance company statistcians
It may be some consolation to know that AZ pei
cent CT people, however, live beyond 60. Thirty pei
cent live beyond TO- Only in 5000 lives bcyonc
100, and two-thirds of the ccntcEarians are women
The one big job Of medical science today is t.
lengthen the lifeline prolong "thc age Of cxpecta
tion. Some doctors work directly fer this end and
all are working indirectly.
1t might be pertinent to ask if the economic and
social world is keeping pace with the medical world
Fer what shall it profit to live his three
score years and ten if he must struggle mseraby
Just that many years more?
Fortunately, the is that things are i'm.
proving. we think, in ether realms as admirably as
the medical one.
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'ol Idu@ DISpaCcn)
The new McNary- Iaugen bill has now made it's
appearance. The only changes are Of minor import
ance-rice has been added to the list of basic COM
mcd'ties; the method of appointing the farm board
for which it provides is slightly changed cotton is
given exactly the same position as the other COM
modties; the equalization fee is to be levied on the
marketed units of the products instead of the
producer The bill remains as it has been from the
first, ssund and feasible method of giving agricu-
ture the protection ought to have on those staple
crops OF which it raises surplus.
The bill has been drawn in such way as to make
frank overture for the support of Southern mem
bers OF Congress- The leaders Of this movement at
Washington believe that they can get this support
and that with the South, they can win. They have
accordingly omitted the so-callcd tariff yardstck
The yardsck nevertheless remains since the tariff
whether it is mentioned not, must operate as The
automatic governor of the sterilization which the
board would effect.
Although the strategy of the bill is tc attrac,
southern help that need not obscure the fact to
one that it would do what it aims to do and tina,
what 1t aims to do is just and proper. If Congress.
IS genuinely interested in going directly to the hear
81 the farm problem, which is problem of adequat,
price OF closing up the gap between farm costs an,
farm revenue, there is r., reason why it should no
pass this bill at this session.
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Old Masters

When l have borne in memory what
has tanned
Great nations; how cnnobling
thoughts depart
When men change swords for lcdgcrs
and desert
The students bower for gold-somc
fears unnamed
had, my country!-am l to be
blamed?
Now when | think of thee and what
thou art,
Verify, in the bottom of my heart
Of those unfilial fears am ashamed
For dearly must we prize thee; VIC
who find
In thee bulwark for the cause OF
And by my affection was bcguilcd:
What a wonder if a poet now and
then,
Among the many movements Of his
mind,
Felt for thee as lover. or a child!
w. Wordsworth.