Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1929 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COk IH. Heller..-. Pres, and Oen. Mgr. A. R. Holtbouse Seo’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies.— 9 .02 One week, by carrier — .10 One year, by carriers 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six Months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office— —3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Elsewhere, 33.50 one year. Advertising Rates mads Known on Application National Advertising Representatives Seheerer, Inc., 36 East Wacker Drive, Chicago too Filth Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana League of Home Dallies. The old town is all dressed up and ready for the big Street Fair. if you like band music and mingling with friends come to the Street Fair next week. The rains were just the thing this week, but if the weather man wants to be a real sport he'll not send many downpours next week. Well, if the stock market breaks, as predicted by Babson, the bears will fake their share and it wont ail be "lost. » Chicago is getting better day by wday. Two more gangsters were

murdered yesterday. Now if the i eatch the guys who did the ■irick, conditions will have been im--proved there. Along with other improvements 1 ■which the citizens of Decatur might ' ■strive for is the resurfacing of Sec- ' •end street, from Adams, north through ' •the business district. Several people ' have suggested this as being a worthy Jmprovement, hut it's a matter for the property owners to decide. Because he pulled her hair and beat her, a young lady in Chicago, who •probably is beautiful but dumb, wants the old boy to give her SIOO,OOO. At —least she filed suit for that amount • and she might have trouble making a jury believe that a hair pulling match "'is worth a cold one hundred thousand grand. Society editors can put their think- ; -ing caps to work now, for the wedding ' of Mr. John Coolidge, only son of former President and Mrs. Coolidge to Miss Florence Trumbull,’ daughter of Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut is to take place September 23. Romance lives on no matter the position of individuals and the world extends its congratulations to the young couple. A fellow out in Denver thought he ' had the formula for making it rain -so he sent a telegram to Mayor Walk- ; ■er of New York, offering to send a rain for a' $200,000 fee. While the messenger was delivering the note New York was visited by a downpour .and thus the city was saved from the experiment. Just when a fellow _ thinks he has something, it seems 1 "that someone is always ready to spoil it. New York politicians want former < • Governor Alfred Smith appointed to < ' the United States senate, the deal be- 1 ’ ing to have Senator Copeland named ** city sanitation commissioner, in order Jto keep Governor Smith before the 1 “ people. As long as the popular New - York executive can get $148,000 for 1 •“ writing a series of articles, he may — further use his good business sense .. and keep on making others pay for . what he has to say. • Why not have markers at certain .« • street crossings reading. “Drive carefully—children on this street.” We have signs near school houses, hos- ■ pitals ami railroad crossings, all for the protection of the driver. As long| as posterity is to continue we are " going to have children and no matter} how much the parents cantion them [ not to run or play in the street, they I ‘ will at times disobey the command.!' I 1

■ — p TODAY’S CHUCKLE Los Angeles, — (UP)— Paul J. Wallace, 21. is walking his way to : a college degree. He spends his summer months with circuses and • on the stage in a wire-walking act j In order to pay his college expenses. Certain streets seem to be the play--2 ground In certain localities and to [( | run the children off would take a 5 policeman or two at either corner. ? Motorists may not be familiar with )' habits and conditions and will drive J |at a moderate rate of speed without | looking for children to dart out from behind or in front of a parked car and then it may be too late to put on j the brakes. This idea may be all wrong, but we are of the opinion that the caution markers might serve to good purpose. Editor Saunders of the Bluffton Banner, has the following to say of the telephone conditions in Decatur: “According to the Decatur Democrat the citizens of the town are proud of | their home-owned telephone plant. The service is excellent and we should appreciate the fact that this requires constant attention by capable officials, further says the Democrat. Decatur is more fortunate than Bluffton. She not only owns her light, power and water plants, but home money owns and controls the telephone plant, and the ‘service is excellent’ and, of course, the rates are much lower than ours. And, at that, the owners, no doubt, are satisfied with their investment. Portland, however, made

the same brag a year ago, but along came the tempter, with a big, fat price, and the home boys sold out, and already the new owners have gone before the public service commission for an increase in rates, with every hope of obtaining just what they ask. Our public service commission generally does things that way, if you have paid any particular attention to its workings.” —• ~o — Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE To Clean a Violin Bow Wet a small piece of flannel in cold water and rub on a little soap. Double the flannel over the bow and gently rub back and forth until clean. Rinse the flannel and rub again. Then wipe with a dry cloth. Water Treatment When water has a milky appearance it can be quickly cleared by dissolving a small piece of rock alum in a pint of boiling water, and using this much to a tub of water. The Baby Do not awaken the baby to show him to admiring friends, unless just before his feeding time; and do not permit anyone to bounce or trot him. o MODERN ETIQUETTE By Roberta lee Q. When entering a theater, if an usher is at the entrance to the aisle, should the man procede the lady he is accompanying? A. No, the lady should follow the usher, then- the man. Q. May one use initials on a visiting card ? A. It is preferable to have the name appear in full. Q. What kind of flowers are appropriate for the dinner table in early autumn? A. Goldenrod, daisies, and asters are all appropriate. o — * TWENTY YEARS AGO * * From the Daily Democrat Fie * * Twenty Years Ago Today * Sept. 7 —Crowds attend the state fair at Indianapolis. Harry nlghlj clerk at the Murray, jumps job and $75.00 is reported missing from the cash register. St. Joseph schools open with enrollment of 263. J. S. Bowers elected president and F. M. Schirmeyer, secretary of the Citizens Telephom company, annual report showing assets of $87,444. Commander Peart found no trace of Dr. Cook in the north pole region. City tax rate fixed at 28c. lowest in history. Henry Kiting expects to beat his record of last year for a corn crop. His 1908 crop averaged btishels per acre. Beil Eire*, agent for the Wells Fargb Express company will wed Miss Lucy [ Krutzman tomorrow. o— Anaconda Fertilizer produces results. Decatur Produce Co-i can supply you. 3-5-71

American Scouts Enjoy Steamboat Ride On Rhine

Jimmie Burk Member Os Party, Tells Os Other Interesting Tours Decatur Daily Democrat, Dear Folks: — Have just arrived at Mayence after a steamer trip up the Rhine from Coblenz and I’ll tell you all almut our trip since London. We arrived in Landon August 15, and spent that day touring. In the morning we went to Stokes Coges where Thomas Grey wrote his “Elegy in a Country Churchyard." It's a gloomy old stone place. In the midst ot a graveyard, which is shaded by two Yew trees 1,000 years old. The church has “leper windows’’ in the side so that the lepers could watch the services from outside, in the 16th century that was, when there were many lepers. •Next we made a steamer trip up the Thames to Windsor Castle. This castle Is the oldest and most famous in England. We visited the various rooms whose walls were covered by priceless portraits by Reubens. Reml»randt. Holheim. Titean and hundreds of rare tapestries and much silver, inlaid furniture. In the St. Georges banqueting - hall there hang 877 shields which belonged to all the knights of the Garter since the order was founded. There are only 25 living knights of this order. There were rooms and rooms full of armor and arms and knights in full regalia, ready to take up their l>anners and go to war if the trumpeteer should step out of his picture and sound the call. There was particularly a large iron kettle used as a punch bow] on coronation night by the king. The last night it was filled three times and each time a mixture of 200 gallons of brandy. 100 gallons of water and 100 pounds ot‘ sugar were put in it! There were also the throne rewms in purple and gold decorations and the towers and gardens. The next day we went touring in London itself. We visited the houses of Parliament, Westminster Cathedral and Abbey where most of the famous men of Europe lie buried, and got up to the front gates of Buckingham Palace where we were gently but none the less firmly ordered out by 50 big guards in bearskin helmet;? a foot high. We rode over the famous old London Bridge which nearly fell through when 200 American boys rode over it. We had two free days in ;. >ndon and 1 managed to fall off a subway going 15 miles an hour, make a visit to “Old Bailey" and Temple Bar. the courthouse and prison at London made famous by Dickens, and also visited Madame Tussand's waxworks which has such lifelike statues that you must actually touch the wax to realize the figures are not alive. There is a statute of nearly every great man in the world there from the presidents of the United States to Charles Lindbergh. We all got lost on the subways. There are a dozen different tracks and if you don't hit the right one you’re sunk. I rode all over London for 2 hours one morning for a cost of 2 cents. Monday morning, the 19th, we made the trip over the channel to Brussels. The passage was rough, and although no one was sick we all had that dizzy feeling which makes you want tn stand near the rail. In Brussels we visited the palace of the king, the hospital where Edith Cavell. the Belgian nurse was executed for aiding the Belgian soldiers to escape and the several triumphal arches and war memorials in that city. Me visited a war museum which contained every souvenir of the great war front full sized airplanes and tanks to the tiny pistols, and decorations and medals. Even war scenes, uniforms of various countries, flame throwers, poison gas shells, howitzers and 75mile cannons were there. We visited Waterloo and the battlefields and house where the Duke of Wellington thought out a plan to defeat Napoleon. That night in Brussels we walked around the town. There are chairs and tables in front of every hotel and on a nice evening these are crowded with people. We visited a lace factory, really a store, and watched the women weave the threads in and out, working and manipulating about 20 small spools of thread with lightning quickness. We had but little difficulty getting what we want over here. We just jump around and wave our hands, talk and wave money, the ever powerful money and pointing out what we want. We bought some pie aria-mode and the waitress refused to put any ice cream on the pie. She brought in the pie and ice cream separately and stared open mouthed at the Americans who dumped the ice cream on top of the pie. She just stared at us. The following morning we went by tail to Cologne and visited the cathedral. It is magnificent. All the cathedrals in Europe are just filled with all sorts of fancy wood carving. This cathedral has more glass in it than any in (he world. The guide told me that during the war the Germans were so hard pressed for iron to make ammunition that they melted a 40 ton statue of Christ which stood in the chapel. However the Germans and Belgians seem veryprosperous and prices are low com, ipared with the English. From Colognd We went to Coblenz

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by motor bus, a trip along the Rhine anil past the most fertile spot In Germany. We left Coblenz immediately for Mayence on a Rhine steamer and that trip was one of the most Interesting I've ever been on. The river curves all around and at nearly every curve there is a big castle on a mountain top looking down over the river. We passed the statue of the “Watch on the Rhine,” commemorating the union of German states, the castle Rheineteln. and the "mouse tower” was especially interesting. At the "riiouse tower” which is really a castle tn the middle of the river, there once lived a fat old bishop. There was a famine in Germany then and the old bishop gathered in a lot of food and then shut up his castle and laughed at the starving people. He feasted and drank and the people grew hungrier and thinner every day Finally even the mice were driven byhunger to the bank of the mainland where they watched the tower and the fat old bishop who they knew had plenty. One day, driven to desperation, they swam to the tower and ate all the food, but forgetting themselves, they also ate the old bishop and then ate most of the castle leaving only a stone tower and some scattered rains. A guide on the boAt swore this was the truth. You can draw your own conclusion. From Mayence we will go to Lucerne. via Basle and Baden-Baden, through the heart of the Swiss Alps and I will write yon from there after out trip to Rigi Kulm, the second highest mountain in the Alps. Yours sincerely, James M. Burk. o *«*•**.,.***«•* • BIG FEATURES • • OF RADIO • g U ***«•*« K Saturday's Five Best Radio Features (Copyright 1929 by United Press) Central Standard time throughout. WEAF, NBC. network, 6 p.m.—Lyric Hour Famous Challenges of History (Premiere). WABC, CBS, network, 7 p.m.—Clare Briggs’ characters “Mr. and Mrs." (Premiere!. WEAF. NBC. network. 7 p. m.—General Electric Symphony. WEAF. NBC. network, 8 p.m.—Lucky Strike orchestra. WABC. CBS, network, 6 p. m.—Nit Wit Hour. — 0 • NEWS FROM PREBLE * Mr. and Mrs. John Kirchner and daughters had as their guests Sunday and Labor Day. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Niggli of Sturgis, Michigan, and Fred Wordilman of Centerville, Michigan. Mr. and Mis. Harry Bauer and (laughter Theo and son Roy were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Sowards of Tocsin. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dilling and family Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Dilling and family of Laketon Mr. and Mrs. David Dilling Susie and Casper Dilling attended the Burkett-Dilling reunion held Sunday at the O. V. Dilling home. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ehlerding and son of Fort Wayne spent Sunday and Labor Day visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Bultemier and daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Leßoy Cable and sons and Otto Helmrich of Maglev motored to the Walbridge Park at Toledo, Ohio Sunday while there they were met by Mr. and Mis. Earl Wood <md son. and Francis Helmrich of Detroit, Michigan, and Berenice and Wahneta Cable who returned home with them. Misses Wahneta and Bernice Cable spent a few weeks visiting Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wood and son of Detroit, Michigan, while there they had the opportunity of witnessing the Graf Zeppelin. Mrs. M. Malloney of Rome City spent Labor Day visiting Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Elzey. The Ladies Aid of the Lutheran Church met with Mrs. Charles Holbrock. Wednesday. Orie Werling of Newcastle is spending a few weeks visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Werling. Glavinia Sulivan spent Wednesday evening visiting Elizabeth Spade. Mrs. Lewis Stetter and Robert Mar-

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