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DECATUR HERALD TUESDAY, APRIL 1923. nPTATMP MPPAI 1 fc i I i 1 CITY Y.M. APPROVER SCOUT COUNCIL IS FOUND DEAD IN HOME OF HIS FRIEND Thomas Martin. Life-long Resident of Deeatnr Dies Suddenly while Visiting "LEVEL OF LAKE Level at dam 610 8 Level Sunday 6IO.S0 Height of dam 1" Height with flashboards ..612 CONSOLIDATION PLANS Ratification of Railroad Organization Will Make Merger Complete; Five Depart' ment8 to Care for Work PROMINENT MEN AT FUNERAL OF A. R.

ROBERTSON Nationally Known Rail Executives Follow Body to Cemetery INDIAN LOOMS AS EDUCATOR Dr. C. H. Judd Says Red Man Was Factor in Democratic School System 14 PER CENT. OF GOWS REACT TO DISEASE TEST Ordinance Requiring That Milk Be Made Safe Not Yet Ready TO SHOW ADVANTAGES The need of a tuberculosis test of all cows was emphasized again oil i Monday when O.

Augspurger, govcrn-! ment veterinarian, came to see the result of the test which was made last Friday on 124 cows in the vi-jcinity of Decatur. I About 11 per cent of the cows were found to be infected with the disease in different stages and each was branded on the left jaw with a and the milk declared unfit for human consumption. The veterinarian appraised the valuo of the cows and the government will be notified of the result and will send instructions as to the disposition of the cattle. The state and government reimburses the owner for a portion of the loss. Four of 15 React.

Four of the 13 cows examined at the county farm reacted to the test. Tho five heifers tested at the same place passed. At another place where 46 cows were tested, six reacted; and inanother herd of 20 cows, five were found to be diseased; while in a herd of 27 only two reacted. Tho ordinance for tuberculosis-tested or pasteurized milk was not presented Conday morning as it was not quite ready. It will be up at an early meeting of the council.

Plan Educational Campaign. H. S. Baker, milk inspector, co-op-crating with the government authorities, is arranging for some educational work in connection with the campaign to test all cows. In this he is enlistnig the aid of mothers' and other clubs and civic organizations.

The government has promised to send a film here and there is some discussion of slaughtering infected cow-to bring the matter before the people. The inspection of the herds last Friday and the reading of the results Monday showed again that looks mean nothing. Cows, that from all appearances looked healthy and were among the best producers, reacted to the test, and their milk declared unfit for human use. The real condition of eht cow is disclosed by an examination of a carcass. Deaths and Funerals WARD FLNERAL Funeral services for Mrs.

Margaret Ward were conducted in 'St. Patrick's Catholic church Monday morning by Father Murphy. Burial was in Calvary. FOLEY FCNEHAL Funeral services for David Foley were conducted in St. Isadore church Monday morning by Rev.

J. W. Fanning. Mr. Foley had been a resident of that- part of Moultrie county for half a century and there were many persons present at the service.

Bui. ial was in SJ. Isadore cemetery. MRS. MALINDA WOODINGTON.

Mrs. Malinda J. Woodington, widow of John Woodington, died in her home near Emery Sunday night at o'clock. Mrs. Woodington was born in Mon roe county, Ohio, Jan.

2n, 1851, and was married to John Woodington in Kansas City, May 30. 1S93. She had made her home irear Emery for the last four years. She leaves one sister, Mrs. Lucy Kirby.

northeast of Decatur. The body will be taken to Martin's Ferry, for burial. JOHNS FUNERAL. Funeral services for Andrew Johns in the Monson chapel Monday afternoon were under tiie auspices of Dunham post, G. A.

a large delegation of the veterans being present. The bearers were all American Legion members. WASHBURN FUNERAL. Funeral services for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Fritz Washburn were conducted in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crabb, 1123 North Edward street. Monday afternoon by Rev. Harry L.

Meyer. Burial was in Graceland. ELI L. TOHILL Eli L. Tohill died Monday morn ing in trie nonie ot ins aaugnter, Mrs.

Madge Landacre. near Lake City, following an attack of influenza. While he had failed to rally from that attack as his family desired, until within an hour of the time of his death, there had been no thought that he was critically ill. Eli 1j. Tohill was born in Craw ford county July 14, 1856.

His parents moved to-Moultrie county near Lake City when he was a Jad ot seven years and he made Ins home there until about two years ago, when he moved to Decatur. He leaves his wife and two daughter. Mrs. Madge Landacre. of Ike City, and Mrs.

Myrtle MeDaniel. of De catur: also he leaves hi3 brothers, George Tohill, of Lovington, and Andrew Tohill, of Chaffee, and his sister. Mrs. Mary Booker, of llliopo- lis; Mrs. Sarah Kendal, of Powers, Mrs.

Belle Ascherman. of California, Mrs. Ella Winnings, of Bethany, and his granddaughter. Erlene MeDaniel. of Decatur.

A short service will be conducted in the home this morning at 10 o'clock and at 11 o'clock, services win be conducted in the Mt. Zion Methodist church. WILSOV. INFANT Jimmy Bean Wilson, infant son of Mr. and 'Mrs.

Arthur Wilson, 1209 West William street, died in Decatur and Macon County hospital Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. About six weeks ago the child was accidentally scalded, the burns being severe; From the effects of that injury, apparently, he was making steady progress toward recovery when kidney complications intervened and caused' his He was born in Piatt county May 27, 1921. The body was taken to the rooms of Dawson Wikoff to be prepared for Burial will be in Neoga." THIS BRICK GROWS ITS OWN BOUQUET, A CLOVER PLANT A sweet clover seedling that had sent its tap root through a brick and was still growing, was found by Frank Torrence on the new Nelson park golf course ves-torday. Evidently, the seed "had been blown on to. a.

brick imbed-ed in tho soil, and the moisture that had been absorved by the brick germinated the seed. After getting this start, the small root made its way through the center of the brick, and the root was found protruding: from the other side. A small root, about eight Inches in length had grown from the under side and was firmly established, in the soil taking in food for the plant. On "the top side of the brick was the crown of the clover plant, and a green shoot -had already started growing from the crown. The plant was to Mayor Borchers, who took it home and planted brick, seedling an and will give the riant another chance to grow.

ART DIRECTORS ARE RE-ELECTED Mrs. Robert Mueller Makes Report at Annual Institute Meeting Art appreciation apparently does not have as hard a struggle in Decatur as in some of its sister cities to judge from an item in the report of the American Federation of Arts convention read by Mrs. Robert Mueller at the annual meeting of the Art Institute yesterday. The incident was related by one of the speakers that in Cairo of this state, a prize fight and an art lecture were announced for the same evening. Only the speaker and the mayor showed upf for the lecture.

Directors Itc-elected. Dr. A. R. Taylor, Mrs.

Charles G. Powers and Robert Mueller were reelected to the Jnstltute board of directors. The report of the treasurer showed receipts of $5,751.03 with expenditures of $5,257.04 and a balance of 194.01 on hand at tho beginning of 1523. Mr. Mueller reported that a number of members were desirous that more tennis courts be built north of the present courts.

He explained that the plan of putting dressing rooms and showers for men and women in the remodeled stable seemed feasible and that figures would be secured. The loft of the stable could be fitted up well for studios. Art Making Progrrcss. Mrs. Mueller, who was a delegate from the institute to the American Federation of Art in Washington last spring, gave an optimistic report of the progress which art is making throughout the country.

It is beint promoted largely in the schools and colleges and in traveling exhibitions Mrs. Mueller seconded the suggestion made by some, of the speakers that graduating classes buy pictures for their schools. Such speakers, as Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Jules Jusserand, the French ambassador. Thomas Nelson Page. Richard Bach and Homer Saint Gaudens addressed the delegates.

FORMER DECATUR WOMAN SUICIDE Husband Danced with Other Women; Mrs. Ber-nice Hancock Kills Self The death of Mrs. Bernice Baker Hancock in Peoria Saturday night was an act of self destruction, and tho Tcoria Transcript says: "Prompted br jealousy of her husband's former sweetheart. 19-years-old. six months bride of Elmer Hancock.

209 Sanford street, took her life by taking a quantity of poison in her home Saturday night. Tiled In Ambulance. "The tragedy followed the couple's return from a dance at which, it is Hancock danced with several other girls to the disapproval of his wife. When they arrived at their home. Mrs.

Hancock protested her husbend's inattention to her during the evening. Leaving the room, in the midst of Hancock's protestations of endearment, the hysterical wife seized an empty water pitcher and went down stairs. On her return, she had a bottle of the poison in her band, and told her husband she had decided to end her life. Before Hancock could interfere, she swallowed most of the contents of the bottle. She died in the police ambulance before reaching Proctor hospital.

"The dead girl, formerly Miss Bernice Baker, was married to Hancock last (October. She would have been 20 vears old, April 20." The hodv will be brought to Deca tur this morning and funeral services will be conducted in ine cu.ir, ui Moran Sons Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. BRIEF CITY NEWS tSOO FIRE LOSS. estimated loss of $300 was caused by a roof fire in the residence of J. W.

Simpson, 1305 South Hilton street. Monday afternoon at 3:12 o'clock. The fire is thought to have been started by crossed wires. HOME DIRECTORS MEET. The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Welfare Home' will be held in the Home Wednesday morning at 9:30.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Harry II. Lord, Iesal age, Springfield. Clara Davis, legal age, Springfield. RACKS PLAN FOR MICHIGAN CAMP Boys Must Earn Money for Summer Outing by Ac- tual Work EXPECT 65 FROM HERE Passing unanimously the proposition presented to- organize a Boy Scouts camp in Northern Michigan, the Boy Scout executive council, meeting in the T. M.

C. A. Monday evening, also voted to get back of the move and to support the efforts of all Boy Scouts who care to, and will meet the requirements of spending the month of from August 1 to September 1 in the wilds of Northern Michigan. The camp, however, is not the item of primary importance over which the council Is concerned. The real aim is to instil in the boys of Decatur the habit of thrift, offering, it is true, a month's outing in return.

tut stipulating that it must be through his own efforts that the boy is permitted to accompany the camp ing party. Most Earn Money. Those boys who will be taken must be Boy Scouts, ranking second class or higher, and must earn the money necessary to defray the fees incident to the trip. The council is discouraging the practise of boys receiving their expenses from their parents. and will insist that the boys earn the money themselves.

While in return for their showing in thriftincss this year, the boys will be permitted to go on the trip, the idea back of the requirements is to get the boys in the habit of earning and saving their money. It is thought to make better business men and citizens of them in later years, and to make better and more dependable boys of them now. Will Pick Conneillor. The plans upon which the proposition Is to be worked out provides that each boy will be asked to pick a. business man in tho city to act as his counsellor, who will advise him how to go about earning the money, how to judge his worth on a certain job, how to give an honest day's work for the wage paid, and how to save the money he feels from the work.

The3o business men will help the boy earn the money, but. will not guarantee-his expenses. That part of the plan is entirely up to the boy. Those business men counselling the boys will also take charge of the boys' -money. They will insist that he earn the money, and not have It given him under the pretense of working.

More than 20 business men have agreed to take one boy. and members of various clubs of the city will be approached within the week. All Kinds of Wild Life. The camp is situated in a 75.000 acre tract of land in Northern Mich igan. It is all timberland and full of wild game.

On the tract are two large lakes. Swimming and fishing is said to be "great. Game abounds, there being many deer, coons, porcu pines, foxes and a great variety of birds. Experienced guides will be in charge of all hikes, the guides being thoroughly' familiar' with the country in that section, and other ex perienced campers, men of Decatur who are interested in the camp, in eluding several members of the Boy Scout executive committee, will accompany the party. It is hoped to take J2o boys from Decatur and Springfield.

65 of them to come from Decatur. That number will enable the party to get a spe cial train, in that way doing away with the possibility of spending two nights on a sleeper. Full camp equipment already has been arranged for. Decatur residents who have any work that might be done by boys between the ages of 12 and 16 years, work such- as gardening, raking leaves, mowing' lawns, and running errands, are asked to telephone the Boy Scouts headquarters, Fairview 57. LIBERATI TO GIVE VARIED PROGRAM Noted Cornetlut to Play With Hlgn School Band tn Anoito-rlum Tonight The program for the concert to be given this evening Liberati.

cornetist. and the Decatur High school band, has been made out and consists of the following numbers: Success, march uiaroia Den nett) band. -Scenes of yesterday, uiuiu band. With Swords and Helmets, ian- tasy (L. Panella) band.

Solo "Emblem of Peace," march band. "Stilly Night." serenade band. "Crown of Jewels, uiverusemeni. (L. Panella) band.

Solo Liberati. "Echoes From the South," (Klohr) band. Solo Liberati. "Light Cavalry," overture (Schuppe) band. "Alone the Line." march (Liberati) band, directed by Signor Liberati.

School song. DRILLS IN LIMESTONE AT DEPTH Operator on Okntr-Ilncoln No. 1 Believe They Are ar from Niagara. Drills were churning limestone at a depth of 2.000 feet in Okaw-Lincoln No: 1 Monday night at dusk. The operators have about come to the conclusion that the drills are half way through mississippl limestone.

On that theory there remains between 300 to 400 feet of that forma tion, to be followed by 1B0 feet of chocolate shale. Further the theory is that niagara will be next. It was in the niagara formation that oil was found in Lincoln No. 1 in Decatur. The expectation had been that in the new territory niagara would be near, er the surface and the reverse has proved true.

There is to be no cessation in drilling until thetaiagara formation is reached. Thomas Martin died of acute Indigestion Sunday night in the home of his friend. Thomas Godfrey, Calhoun and Marietta streets. lie was visiting there and his dead body was found Monday morning by Mr. Godfrey.

Thomas Martin was born in Decatur Oct. 20, 1S74, and all of his life had been a resident of this city and for nearly 20 years had been employed in th i tool department of the Mueller factory. leaves three sisters: Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, Mrs. Frank Curran and Mrs.

Mary Fanning, witht whom he made his home; also two brothers, Hugh and John Martin. The body was taken to the rooms of Moran Sons. Funeral services will be conducted in St. Pat ick's Catholic church this afternoon at 4 o'clock. ROTARY ELECTS NEW DIRECTORS Officers to Be Named April 23; Members Asked to Aid Scouts R.

L. Moriis, Dan Tait, Charles J. Stewart, Bert Whitsitt and Will C. Starr, new members of the board of directors, Rotary club, were elected Monday and at the meeting April 23, will submit nominations for club officers, the expectation being that Vice President James M. Allen 'will be named as.

president and Dan Tait, vice president The club voted to invest J23 In tickets for the High school concert tonight, the High school band'havlng given several selections under the leadership of G. Tommasi. Everett Witzeman explained to the club mem bers that the proceeds of the con cert were to swell the fund to buy uniforms for the school band Asks Aid for Scouts. Appearing as the representative of E. P.

Baker, state president, Harry Kramer of East St. Louis suggested that Decatur get in line with other clubs of like membership and convene weekly instead of every two weeks. Guy Lipscomb was elected delegate to the Bloomington conference April 13, called to consider the work being done for crippled children. The state organization is assisting in the work. Scout Executive Leonard Kinister asked members who could do.

so to put boys in the way of earning at least some part of the $75 which will be their expense for a 30 day visit in the woods of Michigan next August. There 1s a possibility that a special train will be necessary for the accommodation, of Springfield and Decatur scouts. Announcement was made that the next children' party will be given in Mueller lodge Friday evening. April 27. TO ASK PERMIT FOR PANA BUS G.

W. Layne Says Service Probably Will Start within 30 Days G. W. Layne operating a bus line between Danville and Crawfordsville. was in Decatur Monday night and today will appear before the state utilities commission in Springfield, asking for permission to operate a bus line between Decatur and Pana.

If permission is granted he say's that he will have two busses in service within 30 days. Also ho says that his Danvllle-Crawfordsvillo line of six busses in service is profitable. The distance between the cities is 44 miles. The railroad fare is $1.47 and the bus fare is $1. DYER DELEGATE TO PRESBYTERIAN MEET E.

IV. Cllppingrr Named Chairman of Important Presbyterian Committee. At the meeting yesterday of the Springfield Presbytery in, the First Presbyterian church, Springfield, C. W. Dyer of Decatur was elected a delegate to the general assembly to be held May 17 in Indianapolis.

Dr. E. W. Clippinger of the First Pres byterian church, Decatur, was made chairman of the committee on bills and overtures, one of the principle committees of the meeting. Decatur delegates to Springfield returned Monday evening.

The next meeting of the Spring field Presbytery will be held in October in North Sangamon church, south of Springfield. CHURCH NOTES Members of the First Presbyterian Christian Endeavor society met in the church parlors Sunday evening, at which time the following officers were installed: President Angeline Saling. Vice-president Kassaelle Swart-hout. Treasurer Willard Hansen. Recording secretary Arthur Murphy.

Corresponding secretary Bernice Belden. Pianist Marian Phillips. Chairman of the Prayer Meeting committee Fannie Powers. Missionary committee Isabelle Robinson. Virginia Holmes.

Lookout committee Lorraine Spiess. Music Harry Miller, Franklin Lan-um. Entertainment Emily Johnson. Miss Jessie Weiler, tstate superintendent of the Intermediate Christian Endeavor society, gave an interesting talk. WELFARE MEETING TO BE HERE FRIDAY Conference Changed to Deentnr from Clinton; Mrs.

Mrrtle Edwards to Speak, Decatur' ill be the city where the 1 1 v. 1 fare organizations will be held on Friday, instead of in Clinton, as was previously announced. This change was made because the public health nurse of Dewitt county was called elsewhere, and will not be in the county on the date of the meeting Til greater number of nurses and welfare workers attending are resi dents of Decatur, moreover. The meeting will be held in the Y. M.

C. and will be a luncheon at noon with a round table discus sion following. Mrs. Myrtle Edwards, assistant police matron, and Mrs Mary Riserman of the state depart ment of public health will bo the speakers. Dr.

S. S. Winner of Spring field will also be present. The meetings are held every two months in the interest of public welfare. FAVORS MOVE TO FEED STARVING Council Endorses Cam paign to Collect Fund for German Children.

not fixing any responsibility for the conditions, but I am certain that these poor children arc not responsible," said Commissioner Mattes Monday morning in endorsing the campaign for Iund3 for the relict of suffering in Germany and Austria which is to be launched in Decatur Wednesday evening with a public mass meeting in the Empress theater. all know that these babies ana mothers are not to blame," he said, as he looked at pictures in a circular. "If all the reports that wo get through the press and otherwise, from over there, the conditions must be pathetic." Seek 5,000 Ilerc The commissioner introduced a resolution, framed by the Decatur committee in charge of the effort, endorsing it and recommending jt to the citizens ot Decatur as a thing worthy of their support and co-opara-tion. The resolution stated that the committee wishes to ralS9 J5.000 in this community toward the five million dollar fund that is being col-letted throughout the United with" the endorsement of President Harding. It was also said that the overhead expenses in connection with tho campaign throughout the nation are not being charged to -the fund, but are raised in another manner.

Mayor Eorchers questioned the wisdom of establishing a precedent by adopting a resolution of this nature, adding however, that; he was cconfi-dent that the people would be found ready and willing to co-operate as they have in other campaigns of a similar character. lie said he had as much German blood, in him as anyone else around the. couucil table and was only opposed to the idea 01 setting a precedent with this resolution. Ttto Preent Resolution Commissioner Van Praag said it was an act of humanity and deserved the support of the city council regardless of any past condition. Theodore Lohrmann and A.

Spaeth addressed the council in behalf of the movement, the first mentioned speaker saying that the feeding of the hungry children of Germany and Austria concerns this country pot only from an economic standpoint by providing an additional market for farm products, but he called attention to the fact that hunger breeds discontent and the different kinds of "isms" that are a menace to this country regardless of where they might originate. Mr. Spaeth stressed the economic value of the campaign to the farmers and others in America. 4, LIONS HEAR TALK ON CHEMISTRY'S WONDERS Dr. E.

It. Darllnie filveji Ineretlng Talk on Ilia Sciences Many to Attend State Convention. Chemistry's possibilities in the in dustrial world are just beginning to be realized. Dr. E.

R. Darling of Millikin told members of the Lions club in an interesting address at the regular noon-day luncheon meeting Monday. The obtaining of silk from cat- tails. leather from wood pulp, wood and dyes from corn-cobs and sugar from ordinary carbonated water were a few of the more recent discoveries which he discussed during his talk. Mayor C.

M. Borchers will be the speaker at the luncheon meeting next Monday noon and President George E. Lyon announced that the April 19 meeting would be "Hammer and Bouquet" session. Decatur Lions are evincing great Interest in the state convention of Lions clubs which will be held in Bloomington April 30 and, according to Alex Campbell, if applications for reservations continue to pour in, he will have the entire membership lined up to attend. BIRTHS Born To Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Rains. Niagara, April 4. a son. Mrs.

Rains was formerly Miss Kuth Six. WITH THE SICK Frank Mahan, 1226 North Union street after an illness of seven weeks, now is able to sit up in bed each day for a short time. He suffered an aggravated attack of influenza and in recent weeks has been in the hospital. Tn conJ.iileration of the belief that M. C.

A. work will be furthered in a more satisfactory manner, that a united effort will, over a period of years, develop a broader and better service wfl' the 'outh of a growing, Decatur, the board of directors of the City V. M. C. A.

approved tlic proposed plan for merging the City and Railroad associations at the meeting held Monday evening. However, that merger is approved by the City Y. M. C. A.

directors on the resolutions drawn up in the report of the joint committee which recently met to plan for the merger. It is now up to the Railroad to ratify the plan. The merger then will be complete. Those resolutions provide that the title to all real estate, equipment. Rases, contracts and agreements shall be held by the board of directors in the name of the Young Men's Christian Asosciation of Decatur; tlut all V.

M. C. A. work shall be under the supervision of a board of directors, which will meet regularly: that the board be composed of lie present boards of the separate associations and that five departments or branches shall be created to take care of the work. Board to ainc Secretary.

The departments will be known as the Central department, the City Y. M. tiic Pines department, the liailread department, the Railroad Annex department and the camp, fcach department is to have a committee of management, the chairman and members to be appointed by the president of the association, with the approval of the directors. The committees are to meet once each month and arc to keep accurate records of all proceedings. The board of directors is to employ a jrcneral secretary and an associate general secretary, who will have charge of all work of the association, the general secretary being directly responsible to the board of directors, and having general and authority.

Executive for. Each Department. An executive secretary will be cm-ployed for each department by its committee of management on the rec ommendation of the general secretary, and will be responsible to bis eonimittee of management. The employe will be approved by the board oi' directors. The executive secretary will maintain a staff sufficient to carry out ttio work aproved by his committee ett-l the general secretary.

The departments ill adopt a carefully prepared budget of receipts and expenses and must within the iiiii.uiit available. board of directors will approve the budegts. secretaries, such as those t'i take charge of bo.s work and the Physical Work will be employed by the board "of directors ori recommendation of the general secretary. 1.11.-. mv In City Tho several departments will de velop, their own nie-mncrsmps aim their own programs and support, as determined by the board of directors.

The meeting convened at 4:30 o'clock, and after the. reports of committees-were heard, Eldon Gcigery reported that in the recent membership campaign a total of 218 members were received, swelling the total of tho association to 1.4!.. He recommended that efforts be made during April to bring the membership to 1.500 and that efforts bo made to add 100 new members rich ramith, until the. goal of 2.000 Is reached. May Add Director.

action was taken upon employes a physical director to take charge ef the work, starting next September. That will be done at the next peering. At a mectine of the members, called for 5 o'clock this evening, a resolution will be made to increase the number of directors to There are now- 15 directors. MAKE CLAIM TODAY FOR DECATUR ARMORY III Jltmhen of A. of C.

Committee to Attend Hearing. tn Springfield. The armor' committee of the Association of Commerce will go to Springfield today to present to the appropriations committee Decatur claim for an armory. Harold Pogue and A twiner will make the re- nuesf fr.r an and with them at hearing will be other mem ker nf i-mtimitlee including Jack Pnw.r Dinnecn. Horace Mc- Eavid and Dr.

R. Morris. don't see how times could be any better. Ever'buddy's makin jnoney, ever'buddy's dolled up. ever' buddy's cot a car, an nobbuddy's orkin' if they can help it.

A hick own is one where we know exactly here t' borrow a croquet set if we '-el one. PENNA. HAS INCREASE Funeral services for Alexander Kob- ertson, vice president of the Missouri Pacific railroad were conducted In Second Presbyterian church. St. Louis, Monday afternoon, by Kev.

John Macivor. More than 300 honorary bearers. many of them coming from distant cities, attended the funeral and formed a procession more than a block long. Included in the list of bearers were many nationally known railroad men. The active bearers -were chosen from the officials of the Missouri Pa cific railroad.

They were: J. 1-. Murphy, general manager; John Can non. asistant general manager: w. Vollmer.

assistant to the presi dent; George Marriot, secretary to Robertson; W. A. Hopkins, general purchasing agent: E. A. Hadlcy, chief engineer: Dr.

Paul asterung. head of the Missouri Pacific hospitals, and Dr. O. B. Zcincrt.

The body was placed in a receiving vault in Bcll'c-fontaine cemetery and later will be taken to East Machias, tho former homo of Mrs. Robertson, and be buried there. D. If. DEFICIT Extraordinarily heavy expenses in cidental to the miners' and shop-mcn's strikes aro blamed by L.

F. Lorec, president of the Delaware Hudson for the relatively poor earnings last year. A deficit of as against a net profit ot the previous year. Because of the mining strike, Mr. Lorec points out, freight receipts from coal for the year w-cro less than in 1921.

Concluding the report, Mr. Loree stales: The unmistakable truth is that the system of political control of railway rates, services and operations as exemplified in tho federal acts of 1SS7. 1906. 1910 and 1920 is on trial. Particularly experimentation provided for in the transports- tion act of 1920 must be tho subject of close scrutiny and those elements which arc.

found not to be conductive to tho general -welfare must promptly rejected: otherwise disaster far wider than the industry directly affected cannot be long delayed." W. H. Williams is first vice-president of the D. fz H. and also he li chairman of the board of directors of the Wabash.

THE DID. Freight traffic in northwestern region of the Pennsylvania system in 1922 shows an increase of 52 percent over the volume of business handled the preceding year. Tho northwestern region includes the greater part ot Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. In that region the Pennsylvania, moved 90 per cent more coal, ore, gravel, sand and clay than was handled the year before.

THE Q. FREIGHT HOUSE. The first unit of the new- Burlington freight house iii Chicago was ccommissioned Monday. It is for less-than-car lots outbound business. Tha site Is east of Canal between Harrison-and Tolk streets.

The ground dimensions arc 70x796 feet, two stories: south of Polk street is an addition, one story building 62x400 feet. The "building is steel and concrcto with "every modern device, for the rapid and easy handling of freight. nAILROAD NOTES. A total of 55 car loads of cement were handled by the Wabash Sunday, the rroduct of the Hannibal Henry F. Augustine has succeeded to, the position of maintenance clerk, made vacant by tho promotion of J.

P. Walsh to the position of division accountant. Al McKec returned to his duties in Woodford street yard office Monday. Ho went to St. Elmo two weeks ago on acocunt of the fatal illness ot his father.

Storing of coal in the Wabash shops ceased when the total was 42,225 tons, or V56'car loads-John Shaughnessey, long section foreman on the C. A. and recently stationedat Dwight, Sunday died unexpectedly in Bloomington. Apoplexy is given as the' cause of his death. Denny Mercer of the Wabash roundhouse has returned home after' a visit of two weeks in Hot Springs, Ark.

Otto Jaeger, machinist in the C. A. Bloomington shops, is St. Joseph hospital with lockjaw, which followed an operation fcr the removal ot his tonsils. DECATUR WOMAN TO NATIONAL CONVENTION Mrs.

F. N. Maneh One of Two Illinois Delegates to V. B. Mission Assembly.

Mrs. F. N. Munch, 1341 West Macon street is one of the two Illinois delegates to the biennial convention of the Woman's Missionary association of the United Mrethren church, which convenes this week in Ann-rills, Pa. Representatives from the entire denomination will attend the conference, including delegates and visitors from both foreign and home mission fields.

Mrs. H. V. Anderson of Westficld is the other Illinois delegate. 1 LOCAL NOTICES CALL A YELLOW CAB Phono Main 63 or CtX.

HARNESS OILED FOR 75e Wo use 'Neets Foot Oil in oiling farm and breeching harness. Per set, 75c. Williams Harness Co. 145 E. Main St.

COAL MAIN 1211 COAL That good coal Yockahomina, J6.25 Del, E. E. Wily Son, Because there were so many Indians outside the stockades in American frontier settlements the United States has today a democratic public school system. Dean Charles H. Judd of the University of Chicago explained to a great audience in the Millikin lecture course last evening why education in America developed along different lines than that in Europe, and why children in this country can pass directly from elementary schools into free High schools while those in England can pass only after taking a test and those in Germany can not pass at all.

Aristocratic Schools Still Survive "Our system," said Dean Judd. "started out modeled on European lines. Uur first schools were for children of the aristocratic class. You find (survivals in New England today. The Boston Latin school which which still exists, was founded to fit young gentlemen for Harvard college, principally for the clerical profession.

The Hopkins Grammar school in New Haven fitted for Yale. The aristocrats the clergy, for in early colonial days we were not educating men for the law or for medicine. "Eut when groups of people moved out into the frontiers a change took place. The pioneers laid out their towns, with a stockade around the dwellings and a common for the graa ing of the cattle and on the commons they erected to buildings, a church and a school. Now the only aristo crats in these liftle settlements were the children of the clergy, and it was not worth while building schools for them alone.

They cast their lot with the other children and so we had one school for the aristrcrats and the common people alike. Two schools would have added to the difficulty or defense against the savages." Schools in Germany and England uean Judd pointed to Germany as a country that maintains a school system far removed from the Ameri can ideas of democracy. The child who enters and completes the volfc-schule. or schools of the common people, has no chance to enter the gymnasia, which prepares for the university. Ho cannot enter the civil service, securo a commission as an officer in tiie army or enter the higher professions.

The gymnasia differs materially from our High schools, in that a child starts in them at tire ago of 6 years and after.three years starts in on languages and other branches that prepare for the learned professions. England, Dr. Judd explained, is somewhat more democratic. The children of the common people attend the so-called board schools, while the children of the upper middle class go to the secondary schools, modeled after the lines of the German gymnasia. A child that shows special aptitude, however, can if he so desires take an examination.

which if passed, admits him to pass over w-hat Mathew Arnold called the "educational ladder' to the secondary schools. Incomprehensible to Europeans "One of the speakers in a working-man's meeting which I once attended in Leeds. England." said Dean Judd. "expressed his gratitude that it was possible for a child to enter the secondary school but said that he hoped that the educational ladder would be made an educational stairway. 'The idea of free secondary school education is almost incomprehensible to a European.

A Bohemian father asked the principal of one of the Chicago est Side schools if it were true that his children after completing the eighth grade could go to High school. On being assured that it was. he asked the principal how much it would cost to put him through. "'it won't cost you anything, was the reply. "'Please repent said the Bohemian.

'T don't understand English very well'." Must Expand Schools to Meet New Demands Readjustment and expansion of the school systems to meet tho increasing demands of students who wish to secure better elementary training that they may prepare for the was the theme of Dr. Charles Hubbard Judd's afternoon address. The new problems of life arc not answered by the training given in the earlier days." he declared, "and. since the demands of life are larger, an internal expansion of education must come to meet the demands of the students who are coming to the public schools asking for increased educational advantages. The change has come because one cannot get on now in this complicated life without more education." "Two hundred and eight days of one's life was passed in school in 1S10.

This has increased until, at the present time, the average scholar spends 120 days of his life at school preparing for his business life. With this growth there had to come an development of the school sys tem and the necessity of adding new. subjects to meet the oemanas oi students who are in school to secure an industrial education. Before, the unhool policy was to give oniy a gen eral education three consisting of the TODAY'S MEETINGS Macon lodge. No.

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