Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1929 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evsey Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. t. H. Heller ...*_Prea. and Gan. Mgr. A. R. HolthouM-...—Sec'y & Bus Mgr. Dick D. Heller.-....Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies .02 One week, by carrier—.lo One year, by carriers—6.oo One month, by mail - .35 Three months, by mall 1.00 Six Months, by mail -■ , 1.75 One year, by mail- 6.00 One year, at office— 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere, |3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application National Advertising Representatives Schecrer, Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago -200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana League of Home Dallies. It begins to look as though a farm relief measure, so-called, will be passed but experts among those in favor and those against, fail to find very much relief. About all that can be ,>aid is that its a start. The future Jtlone can tell whether It ever finishes. .. A government blockade against JCanadiau whiskey which doesn't jnean you won't be able to get your tegular supply from your bootlegger. Surely you haven't believed it really came from Canada because the bottle bore the label? The democratic editors enjoyed a delightful 'two-day session at Pattowanami inn near Angola and the pep and interest manifested was gratifying to those who believe that the only relief from many governmental burdens lie in the principles advocated by the democratic party. A city that cannot afford to spend a few hundred dollars a year to provide rest rooms for visitors is in hard straits and will not get far in this age of competition. Decatur is far too good a town to put off this improvement longer and we liopt* it is taken care of in the right wajff ; You have no more right to permit your dog to roam around over your neighbors garden and flower beds than you have to turn a cow or horse loose. Complaints are being made and we hope every one takes the hint and keeps the pup at home before official action becomes necessary. Decatur is going to have an Agricultural Fair in September and plans are being made toward that end. ' Remember that it will be just as good as we make it and that you and each of you can do a part to make it a great success in every way. Take ..your coat oft and help put it over. All the laws that can be enacted “and all the commissions that can be — named and all the efforts the officials put forth will be useless if we don’t try to mold our own lives so they are useful. Legisla ing folks to be good is one of the modern jokes tried centuries ago and is working about the same way. We need more old fashioned religion. •» —. . It is admitted hat prohibition enforcement is less now- than a year jpftgo. in fact less than any time since 4he Volstead law became a part of -the I’. S. statute. In other words the Jonger enforcement is delayed the jniore difficult it becomes. And changing the machinery from the treasury department to the attorney general will not accomplish much unless there is a desire to do so. The Decatur Industrial Association ‘ls growing and thats fine. Two hundred people interested in the progress and success of the community can accomplish much in the next six months. We believe there is a splendid opportunity right now to try out p|id .secretary plan at a slight iJcoHt and .we aretjsure if we do so that we will never be satisfied to do without one for there are so many duties for such an official. Still if the Hoover crowd could stand for the intolerance of Mabel Willebrandt's campaign speeches it would seem they ought to get along

TODAY’S CHUCKLE Popular Bluff, Mo., — (UP)— Playing "hunt ths pea'* cost five-year-old Maxine Webb an operation. The girl hid the pea in her ear. Efforts to remove the pea were unsuccessful and an operation was nowssary.

with her In office. No doubt she secured many votes and had a right to expect recognition after victory. The trouble seems to be, says one writer, that Mabie wanted to be a prim* donna while the bosses insisted that she remain in the chorus. We have heard Fred Van Nuys make numerous speeches and always they have been great addresses but the one delivered to the editors in the recent session at Pokagon park on Lake James was his master piece. We wish every democrat could have heard it and we hope thoso who didn’t will read it for it contains just the sound sense and good advice needed. He handles the various problems without gloves and he predicts a stronger party in the future than in the past. America boasts of no greater citizen that Owen D. Young nor of one who in recent years has accomplished such important things. When a few months ago his plan for the settlement of Germany’s World war debts was submitted it was promptly turned down by that nation but recently it was unanimously adopted by Germany and by the representatives of other nations. It was a job that could only have been handled by a man of great intelligence, willing to compromise and willing to cooperate. He has performed another great service for his country. Congressman Greenwood, who came from Washington to attend the editorial meeting made one of the interesting talks of the session. He proclaimed the tariff bill now being slowly but surely pounfled through congress as the worst for the people over proposed and predicted that in due time that fact will be discovered. The schedules as now arranged include almost everything the farmer and the laborer uses and will tend to immediately increase his cost of living with but little actual relief. Mr. Greenwood is a hard worker, an earnest and sincere democrat and a Hoosier who you may hear much from in the near future. o MODERN ETIQUETTE By ROBERTA LEE Q. When a hostess observes a special "at-home" day, at what time should she be ready to receive her first caller? A. by a few minutes before 3 p. m. Q Is it all right to date a letter merely with the figures such as, 6-10-29? A. No. This implies haste. It should be written. “June 10, 1929.” y Is it proper to cut lettuce with the knife? A. No. Lettuce should be cut with the fork. Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE - , Flower Boxes Whitewash the inside of the window boxes before putting earth into them. This keeps away the insects, and also preserves the boxes. Cleaning Silver Common lump starch will give gratifying results if used for cleaning silver. It should be rubbed on with tt damp cloth, left to stand for a few minutes, and then rubbed dry with cheesecloth. Cracked Eggs An egg cracked at one end can't '»■ boiled successfully, but if cracked al both ends it will prevent waste. The egg will boil as well as if it had been whole. — o —- *»******'*««9* • BIG FEATURES • • OF RADIO • Monday's Five Best Radio Features WEAF, NBC network, 6:30 p. m.— The Gypsies. \ WOR, CBS network, 7:30 p. m.— Daguerreotypes. WJZ, NBC, network, 5:30 p. m.— Roxy and liis gang. WEAF, NBC network, 8 p. m — Sousa's Band. WJZ, NBC network, 8 p. m.—Winners of Federation of Music Clubs contest.

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Mrs Violet Fiel Saul Roberts, who is suing her third husband, Henry T. Roberts of I'bicxgo, president of the United States Radio & Television Corporation of Chicago, lor divorce, charging cruelty. Mr. Roberts was co respondent in 1624 when Mrs. Roberts was divorced by her second husband, Heniy G. Saal. wealth.' phonograph manufacturer of Chicago.

Adams County, Way Back When— Before 1890 “Story” Made Up Os a Group Os Stories About Pioneer Life And Events W hich. Collectively, Go To Make Up The Interesting History Os The County. By French Quinn.

Decatur Fifty Years Ago Fifty years ago a bird's eye view of Decatur would be quite a different view from one of this day. The court house was built, praisebe, but the jail was of log aud stood on the southwest corner of the court house yard and usually "Shinnyhonus" was incararated there, a victim of the flowing bowl, and he be singing “Shoo fix don't bother me.'’ Across the street east was a row of frame buildings of unliaippy artictecture and 1 can remember no store but Lepold Yager’s furniture store wherein lie made coffins by hand, those kind that bulged out near the top and slanted toward the bottom, crude copies of those the ancient Egyptians used, and they always struck terror to my heart. Now 1 remember that Sammy Flagg did have a store there abutting on the alley, but 1 forget what he sold except that we could buy chewing gum that was, just one degree removed from the vileness of shoemaker's wax. that many a lad of that day snitched from a shoemaker's bench and went into concealment to chew. However, the fire god came along one day and wiped the whole half block out. On north on the same side of the street was another block of the same kind of artitecture and the fire god played havoc - there. Every street in town was mud, except Main street where for several blocks boulders had been laid and while wagons were kept from sinking tn the mud yet you ctin bet it was “a rocky road to Dublin." The Methodist folks had a little frame church on North First street and the Presbyterian folks one. tu Mercer avenue where their present church is now. It was like losing a friend when they tore that old church down. The church was of brick mellowed by time long and narrow with clinging vines covering it and the inside somehow had a great peacefulness although the bell in tht church tower had the weak inefii Cient notes of a common dinner bell, but if the faithful stood for It why should I have worried. The Catholic church with its tall steeple tower ing so high heavenward was majestic to our country eyes. Tlie shade trees had commenced tc grow and folks were forced to protect them .with wooden frames around them for cows and pigs and an occa sional horse roamed the streets. All yards had fences and oh you lovers of beauty\how you would ed in contemplation of those fences Board fences and picket fences, iron and even rain fences (worm fences y-pu know). Big fences and little ones, high and low onee, new ones and broken down disgusted ones painted ones and naked ones. Gate* that busted you on dark nights which might be forgiven them for did thev not for many years of length

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the lover to swing on them and caress them as loving hearts bid their fond good nights? Sidewalks of board, some two inch planks placed lengthwise but mostly cross wise smaller ones, and nails came out and boards warped and you niigt step on one end and the other end hit you in the nose and they became busted and so often in bad repair. If the night was dark and you bad no lantern and the mud in the street was deep you were completely oiit of luck. Cow pastures at the edges of the town and in grass time little boys drove the cows from the •stables which ware at the back of every lot, to them each morning and evening, and golly, what a chore that was when a baseball game of rounders was on. Most all the folks had a horse in their back yard stable and a one-seated buggy and some sported carriages that were pretty ‘'tony.” Piled up in the back yard were yards and yards of cord wood, for sewers were simply not ami cellars out of the question and no furnaces, "box" stoves were the rule, and a cross ent saw and a buck saw were necessary implements of warfare as many a one now living can furnish testimony. o

♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO • * From th» Dzlly Domoerat Filo • ♦ Twenty Year* Ago Today • • «*«**•*«•••* June 10— County commencement held at Central school yard Prof. Tony of Wabash college, gives addres. Henry B. Heller, well known attorney, and Miss Pearl Alma Butcher, united in marriage by Rev. Powell. Marriage license-John F. Haggard and Miss Nola M. Cook. Thomas HaeLling and Miss Mary E. Voglewede married at St. Mary's chut ch. Clark county votes wet by 1,004. Solomon Schnepp seriously ill from nose bleed. George Ade elected member of the board of trustees of Purdue university. Heavy rains continue to fall in this locality. Miss Edna Lower, of Frankfort, is visiting at the J. W. Lower home east of the city. Mr. and Mrs Charles Elzey and Mrs. Sarah Elzey leave for visit in Porttaediprqgpq. fcggs drfe r 18c, fend butter 15c. , ' ——-t — j -.4 -h ' CONGRESS TODAY By United Frees Senate Meets to start consideration of all measures before it but tariff bill witli view to summer recess by Saturday. House Meets to take up conference report on ceusui-reapportioumeut bill.

MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1929

BATTLEFIELDS STILL TAKING MANI VICTIMS Discarded Shells Have In-1 jured Or Killed TotAl Os 2,545 Persons By Ralph Helnzen (United Press Staff Correapoude’it) [ Paris June W—The French battle i fields, particularly the scarred "-ed, zone" are still taking a heavy toll Os! lives 10 years after the Armistice end ! od fighting. Statistics gathered by the Ministry of Liberated Regions for the. United Press show that 2.515 persons! have been injured or killed by shells left on the battlefields. The cleaning up of the battlefields i took a heavy toll among farmers, many of whom are blown to bits with' their animals when a plow-point strikes a buried shell or an unexploded mine or grenade. The government estimates that 320 such deaths resulted. and injury to 600 more. There wore 525 deaths and 1,100 in- .■ -n o f cleaning up the • 'hey were turned ”ers for farming ..ga,... — i nd>. victims of the delicate oi>v ■> t”( I U ’''S the| she shells apart to rc._>. < steel they contain. Many children were among the victims, also tourists, who disregarded the signs posted all over the battlefields warning trespassers against pulling wires or picking up grenades | or Shells. Helmets Wired The cleaning up process was especially dangerous, for there was no chart showing the location of many mines and once the troops were withdrawn from the front no one was left to point out the spots where death lay buried under the surface. The Germans, in withdrawing, fixed up many hasty mines under bJdges in the middle of roads, in houses and places where the Allied troops could be expected to seek shelter. Offer a mine would be connected by unseen wire with an attractive helmet. The | man who picked up the helmet as a souvenir would be blown to pieces. Doors weie wired so that a turn of the knob would set off dynamite. it took several years for thousands of men to walk over the battlefields picking up unexploded shells and weapons. Seven million acres of land were mined by the war, torn up by shells, littered with barbed wire and concrete construction and filled with unexploded engines. Three hundred and thirty-three million cubic metres of trenches had to be filled, and 14,000 tniles of barbed wire Iyad to be unstrung and roiled up. The reconstruction effort has been retnai kable and six and a half million acres hove been resowed. Permanent Damage There are certain regions where nothing can be done. The ground was so badly cut up by shells and trenches that the soil is worthless, even for tree culture. So these areas will be formed into “red zone parks" and kept as permanent memorial to teach future generations the waste of war. Except for those parks, the whole of the list tiefields will be cleaned up this year. The work of Hie French government has been highly successful, and the battle ground departments have regained the population they enjoyed in 1914. Os the 17,616 public buildings destroyed by war, 14.600 have la-en rebuilt; all of the 7,000 schools have been reconstructed and a half million children have resumed classwork. The government has built 56.000 kilomet res of roads and 5,200 kilometres of railroads. In another year's time it will be bat'd to find traces of the war, except .in the “red zone" and the healing of France's war wounds will be complete. —o— Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

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Play Golf The Decatur Country Chib Golf Course in open to everybody in Decatur during the month of June—except Sundays. Pay Green Fees and play as often as you like. This special privilege is arranged in order to jive vou an opportunity to learn the same and to further de trrniine if you arc desirous of becoming a member The Chib now offers easy membership payments. Decatur Country Club

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