Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1929 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evary Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT Cd I. H. Heller...«.Zpre» enu Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holtbouae.Sec y & Hue. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies——l -02 One week, by carrier.lo One year, by carriers 8 00 One month, by ma 11.35 Three months, by mall — 1.00 Six Months, by mall ——l.7 S One year, by ma 11...— — 800 One year, at office 3-00 Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Elsewhere, 13.00 one year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application National Advertising Representatives Scheerer, Inc., 85 East Wacker Drive. Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana League of Home Dallies. The young men who are making a £reat effort to put on an agricultural street fair here deserve support ano Congratulations for the success they «re meeting with. The next dollar day can he made Jven a greater success if we don t \vait too long to have it. One of the ■best ways to boost is to keep right at it. * Some fellow connected with the JdcCormick foundation. < hicago, lias declared that every time a mother ■kisses her baby, the infant has a series of "emotional somersaults." We admit we don’t know just what these are but a lew million babies have no tloubt had 'em and survived, so we Tlon't think so much of the new disiovery.

• Senator Gould of Maine was elected on a dry platform hut it seems was carrying a little propaganda on the other shoulder. Any way a St. Louis grape manufacturer comes out now with a recommendation from the sen ator who says lie gets "very fair results" from the juice, which comes unfermented tint evidently doesn’t stay that way and there you have it again. Its the hypocrisy of so many people that is making it rather difficult to solve the liquor problem. Gould’s position ought to make sharp division in Maine where he is to be a candidate again next yenjudge Hutchinson of the Clay circuit court down at Brazil has issued an order that here after no divorce suits will proceed until arrangements have been made to pay costs and in old cases decrees will be revoked unless the costs are promptly settled. In almost every county in Indiana the same condition exists as there. Divorces are granted and the parties do no pay any attention to the costs which in softie instances are considerable. A similar correction would help all over the state and there is some probability of the next legislature do ing it. Four hundred miles of highway have been contracted for this year, about the same as last year, when 250 miles «of concrete and 160 miles of blacktop . pavement were laid. Next year, with .the increase ot one cent gasoline tax jthe commission will tie able to build ~6o<l miles, and the entire mileage completed with n lour years. As the com“mission is taking in more roads each year there will be roads to pave for many more years, and long before “that time comes, many of the trunk —lines will have to be widened to accommodate growing traffic. The income of the state highway commis sion at this time is 120,000,000-Hart-' ford City News. - The store license law has been decayed by injunction and there is a chance that it will not be permitted. Most folks are hoping for that result 'for they are sick and tired almost to . lhe breaking point of special taxes of course is just what this is. Designed pres.nmal>|e to worry the chain store," it imposes a tax on every merchant and every one who sells any thing. Back of it was the hunger to raise more money and if it. stands this will eventually become a burden. The recent legislature increased the gasoline .tax one cent per gallon, pre-

TODAY’S CHUCKLE Forest City, N. C. — (UP) — John T. Poole, went fishing with a roti and line, and came back with a 40-lneh water snake He sticks to his story that tip' snake bit on the bait, in the lta.it, in the orthodox fish fashion.

vided for a driver's license fee and enacted the store tax. The result would probably not prevent a single one of the chain stores from operating but would make every storekeeper pay an additional tax. Its time the people awake and make vigorous protest against the continuous and. ever increasing tax monster. It now appears that as a result of the income tax returns the United treasury will have a surplus of S2OO. 000,000, or about twice the anticipated amount. The effect of this will be, as usual, to create a demand for decrease in income tax rates, or some alteration that will prevent the accumulation of the surplus. Already a number of reductions have been made and with the queer result that receipt: from this source continue to increase. Maybe here is a lesson for the tax makers of Indiana. Supposing idle money, for instance, were made to pay a tax of one cent instead of whatever the current tax rate may be, might it not so happen that thousands of persons who perjure their assessment statements by saying they have no money in bank would be willing to pay this oue per cent as a relief to their consciences? And might not the same thing be true with building and loan stock and certain other property whose existence is now habitually | concealed from the assessor? —Muncie I Press.

Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, believes a change in pub-1 lie attitude towards the farm problem would do more good than could be accomplished by all legislation. He refers especially to the need tor a change in taxing methods, holding that intangible property escaping taxation. adds to the burden of the farmer. Mr. Lowden expounded his theories yesterday at the Kiwanis luterntaional convention. What Mr. Lowcen says is true. As long ago as 1921, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace stated in an official report: “In most farming states taxes on farms have more than doubled. On 156 farms in Ohio and Indiana one-third of the farm income, as compared with one-tenth in 1913.” The figures used five years ago are doubtless true today. Solution of the taxation problem as affecting farming is difficult. Mr. Lowden offered one suggestion that is constructive. He pointed .to the depletion of soils and would have states exempt land from taxation while the owners kept them out of cultivation. The farmers would thus be enabled to build up his land without being taxed for non-production. — Newcastle Courier. • BIG FEATURES * • OF RADIO * K V • * <>«******4’ Saturday’s Five Best Radio Features WEAF— NBC Network 6:00 pm. The Calvacade WJC—NBC Network 6:45 pm. Goldman band. WEAF—NBC Network 7:00 nm. Nathaniel Shilkret and Symphonic orchestra. WEAF—NBC Network 8:00 pm B. A. Rolfe's orchestra. WGY—Schenectady 9:00 pm. Antarctic Broadcast by Roxy's gang: Anniversary of Byrd's flight to Europe.

Sunday's Five Best IRadio Features WJZ— XHC Network 12:00 Roxy symphony orchestra. WEAF—NBC Network 7:15 —Alfredo Gandolfi barytone. WJZ — NBC Network 8:15 National light opera company. WJZ—NBC Network t>:!s pm. Liehestraum FOBC—CBS Network 7:00 pm Theater of the air. Monday's Five Best Radio Features WEAF — NBC Network 7:30 pm. Sousa's-band. WOR—CBS Network 7:30 pm. U. S. Navy band WJZ—NBC Network 5:30 pin. Roxy's Gang WEAF —NBC Network 9:00 pm. “H. M. S. Pinafore.” WJZ — NBC' Network 8:00 Moment: musical o Set the Habit —Trade at Home, It Pay*

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Off for tb ■ wes.’ C tone! CTiiTTic.. Lindbergh and his bride, the former Anne Morrow, got ready to hop for Columbus. Ohio. Lindy is on an airport inspection tom for a new tran.-coiitim ntal rente. It just seems as though Mrs. Lindy is going to accompany him wherever he flies.

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

A Thousand Memories Crowding into my thought comes a , thousand memories. Oh the enjoy- • ment people had in going to old “Rovers Hall” on east Main street. L’s- ' stairs in an old wooden building, yet it had a stage and footlights of coal oil lamps and places for folks to sit and fore and aft a huge woodburning stove and reserved seats, by golly. Two bits a head and all the fine actors of the day.gave the interested audi ences the thrills. Melodramas, good ness me. "Ten nights in a liar room . "East Lynne." and we would sob and sob and how we did enjoy it. and it was fun to have a prestidigitator and] he to fry eggs in a silk hat. and take , rabbits from the hat and oh joy. perhaps he was a ventroloquist also and could "throw' his voice into the cellar and up on the roof and have a couple of black mannikins on his knees. And what grand balls we had. One was given in honor of "Jim" Place and his bride in the Knights ot Pyth.a,--. hall and 1 danced with the "varsouvienne" with the bride. Those bail.were tine affairs. The men won? | "soup and fish" and the ladies deed lette gowns, and the mon folks wore very very high collars and 1 always took two extra ones to dames. And the town was Jpll of interesting things "Mots" Colchin's "hard cider" parlor. I Old man Rademacker's cheese sand wiches and beer in a tall stein. Johnnie and Nick Miller's barber shop ami they would not let me look at the police Gazette. And the "parties." of course, we always played “postoffice. Tile day after the "big fire" when eas- ] Second street burned and the eye browless, eyewinkerless populace tin next day. The old "Beerier Hole" ! with fonder recollections that Riley s "Old Swimmiu Hole" can ever- hope to furnish. Skating up to "Elephant Rock’ Teams of oxen on Main street. Crawling under the circus tent. I'P at four bells to see the circus unload. It was a lad with a rich father that got quarter to pay his “way in Cards were anathema so boys still in the short pants stage of development went over across the river and placed cards in the woods with one of the boys as a "lookout.' Rounders jn ball playing and shinning on the ue. Boys tying their pants around tbeir neck and wading out in the rfyer to fish for bass, casting along th9 shady side of a log and never failing to comejhf>py?i»ptl| a mpijs. The fifty' inch Si'ifcli wheel bicycjv that we bought second hand. The million tumbles from said bicycle. Carrying stove -pood to the lawyers and doctors offices on the second floor tor ten cents a wagon load and spending the money on “creampuffs.” How was it possible to carve so much on the top of school desks and when was it done'.’ Overturning out houses on Halloween. Old Jimmy, J who was a ditch digging Irishman, re-

citing Shakespeare by the hour. Mother Schueler with an apron full of stones standing guard over her strawberry patch. Commencement night and the graduates saying "speeches" as "Should Canada be annexed to the I'nited States” and ushers bring up the presents and placing them around the feet of the sweet graduate. Jessie Allison singing so beautifully. Ice skating on the river and Billy Crawford skating so wonderfully without ever taking his feet off the ice. Old man Derkes's funeral with the band out at 20 below zero. Instruments froze up and band simply marched. Big flock of goats under Niblick’s warehouse. Place reminiscent of sewer gas. Dick Townsends new trotting horse. Jack Stultz's race track on his farm east of town. Sports with light < olored derbies and red vests, with heavy watch chain and a horses head as a charm. Hitching posts along Main street and in front of every house. The old well on the court house yard and the rusted tin cup. The big elm tree corner Second and Liberty Way four feet in diameter and Bft feet high. What a pity to 1 cut it down. Dan Donovan's grocery and his St. Patrick day shamrock. Doctor I.’ghthall and his street medicine gang. He would pull teeth for noth ing and did a land office business i Democratic and Republican pole rais- { ing. Hick for the Democrats and ash for the Republicans. Big events lots of hard rider handy. Poles 75 feet high if spliced.

*.»»»»♦**♦»*»•♦** TWENTY YEARS AGO ‘ * From the Daily Democrat File * * Twenty Years Ago Today * *••*••** *»»»»«»»» June 29 —Judge O'Rourke decides in favor of remonstrators on West Monroe street improvement after hard legal battle. Building committee of K. of P. lodge lets contracts for new building on Third street. Hammond and Aurand secure the biick work and Mann and Chris'en the. carpenter work, the total being $9,209. Andrew Fuelling sells pair of sorrel horses to !)■ W. Beet y for $425. Miss Margaret Mills and her Sunday school class tnjoy picnic near Monmouth. Annual St. Joseph picnic at Maple Grove park. Joseph Winteregg, of Berne, is here boosting the 4th of July celebration to be held there-. Will Hammell buys newstand from Lee Stults. 0 _— By Comparison Everything goes by comparison in this old vale of tears and laughter and the eminent dietitians have dis- ] covered valuable vltnmines and mineral salts in so much worse things lately that we have come to regard the stewed prune rather highly.

OREAD LEPROSY STILL WITHOUT DEFINITE CURE Colonies In Hawaii Report Progress. But True Specific Is Needed By Reuel 8. Moore (United Press Staff Correspondent) Honolulu T. H. June 20 —(UP)— T.epiosy is still without a definite and positive cure, according to physicians engaged n> working with leprosy in Hawaiian islands. Despite improvement in treatment the disease continues to manifest it:elf in isolated cases with persistence. At the close of the last fiscal year there were 4f*t> lepers at the Kalaupapa settlement n Molokai, and 164 cases at the Kailihi hospital in Hon olulu or a total of 660 known cases in the islands. Twenty years ago the total number of lepers in the territory was 791. Dir’i’g this time the territory has in"■hly 200,000 to 800,000 ■> 'n the elimination

Op . n During recta.. ..- tn' '-gress has been made in the i. .of the disease with derivaties of Chauhnoogra oil- The opinion of medical men. however, was well expressed by Dr. I J. R. Judd, former president of the Hawaii Territorial Medical associaioti and rut autority on the disease, wl cr he declared: "< ideal improvement is noted in patients tieated by intravenous injections of neorspheuasmiue. General hygiene. physo-therapy and diet are most nportant factors in the treatment of prosy, as in • iberculosis. “A true specific awaits a discoverer. This same o] in >n is on record of:ieially in the i.poit of . legislative committee which investigated the reatmcnt of leprosy in view of i.iakng administrative changes. The committee consulted, among others, with | Dr. G W. McCoy, director of the Hy-| gienic Laboratory of Washington. D C. I one of the recognized highest authorities on the disease. "We are still without any specificcurative agent of proven value in Uief treatment of leprosy" the report sa‘d. Treatment Not Obligatory "That, of course, applies not only to I the territory but wherever leprosy prevails. This may be disputed, but it I represents the views of those best qualified to judge." The practice on the islands is to attend to suspect and treat cases in the! early stages at the Kalihi hospital.! Many c ases are discharged as arrested ’ ind appear to be permanently cured : In othe rs the disease suddenly reap-1 nears. Repeated examinations of discharged patients are made. At the Kalaupapa settlement treat-! meut is not obligatory. Many do not | choose to ohiain treatment which the, government otters. Attendants, however, adminis.er about 250 injections! a month.

the step-up idea in automobile buying has taken America by storm The New Pontiac Big Six has been called the “stepup” car because it enables forward-looking people to step up in motor car quality without leaving the lowpriced field. And since the first of the year, when the new Pontiac was announced, the step-up idea in automobile buying has taken America by storm. Pontiac Pig Six, $745 to $395, f. o. b. Pontiac, Michigan, plus delivery charges. Hunirters, spring rovers und Lovejoy shock a absorbers regular equipment at slight extra cost. General Motors 7 ime Puvmcnt Plan al'oilnblaat minimum rate. 2r- ■ fag ■ fz Consider the delivered prior m« well an the list price when com- dwg—paring automobile ealuea . . . Oakland - Pontiac delivered price* ‘ include ouly reaaouable charnoa for bundling anti iux tiuauciug T* PX rrn wbau tba Tima Farmeul Plan is usedAdams County Auto Co. Madison Street Phone 80 DECATUR INDIANA PONTIAC w ® w--. rnopt’CT of Ht' Sfl 1 W SEVERAL MOTORS 1111 l MJF

MODERN ETIQUETTE By ROBERTA LEE — y What may one take in the way <.f wearing apparel for a simple camping party? A. Sport clothes, woolen stockings, sweaters and a comfortable cap or soft hat and at least two pairs of sensible shoes. • y Should it be necessary to turn one’s back towards another, U an apology necessary?’ A. Yes. always. y. Should cantaloupe be eaten with the fork or spoon? A. With the fork. — o ——— Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE To Keep Off Mosquitoes Rub exposed parts with kerosene. The odor is not noticed after a few minutes, and children especially are much relieved by its use. Japanese Lanterns Put a few pebbles in the bottom of the Japanese lanterns to keep them from swaying and probably igniting. Bread To make the crust of bread a rich, golden biown, wet the top with milk before putting it into the oven.

! , - |f Mr. and Mrs. l.io Gillig, 421 Johns street, are the parents of a boy baby, which was born at 8 o'clock this morning, at the Adams County Memorial hospital. 0 Get the Habit —Trade at Home, ic Pavr

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