Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1930 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse..Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Holier Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter Subscription Rates Single copies I .02 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 Ono month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere 13.50 one year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Advertising Representatives SCHEERRE, INC. 35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana League of Home Dailies The dollar you spend with your home merchant eventually pets back to you while those you spend away from home are gone and we don't mean maybe. Up io this time we have never seen a cleaner primary campaign than has been made by the candidates on the democratic ticket this year. They are a fine bunch of gentlemen and each seems to be working for his party as wiell as tor himself as is as it should be. The closing of the campaign that there is great interest in the brings to the attention of many result. The next day or two may be strenous but after all its just a friendly contest to select nominees and will soon be over. Keep your feet on the ground, play the game 'square and smile when its over. Several complaints have come to us that motorcycles are being operated with mufflers and about every thing else open to make them as noisy as possible. It may be fun for the fellow astride but its a nuisance to those who live along those streets where each evening they boom and blow and puff and spit. Election officials are urged to remember that thousands of voters will be anxiously awaiting returns next Tie sd.ty night and any effort on their part will be greatly appreciated by the public as well as by this office. Telephone linos will be open all over the county and we hops every one will cooperate to get the results as early as possible. Tom Marshall said that "what tiiis country needs most is a good five cent cigar”, but that was some' years ago. What we need now as had as any thing is a good coat of paiui. lii country and city this has bwn put off by many from year to y.ar because of other necessities. Npw if a painting up campaign ctjtihl be got going over the country, it would help appearances, pul affot of folks to work and prolong the life of the buildings. Brisbane says that the naw tariff will cost the American People a bilion dollars a year but | will be worth it if it makes five mjllion men now out of work earn a‘dollar a day. The trouble with tlfat argument is that "it" won't nmke any working man earn any more but it. will make him pay more. When Brisbane gets the roar back to this- new tariff law he wjll sing a different tune and so will a lot of other fellows. ——Ofwr-, dThirty-six years ago ecoilpmical I conditions in this country wore so! hail that several men were out of! v ork and soup houses were quite i in style. Now there is a similar [email protected] of affairs. In 1831 General - Cjxey took a gang of "hoboes” and i nfanhed to Washington. Now he' is'-going again but instead of walkittg will ride in an automobile and instead of standing watch as he did- then, will present the presi-

It 1 TODAY’S CHUCKLE | , > (U.R> 4 IJ' London. — Two butehers. ! Frederick Henry Butler and David Henry Butler, were found dying from revolver . | wounds beside their automo- . j biles on the same night in dlfI fcrent parts of England. » —— < r dent with a plan "to solve the tin- | employment problem.” My, how II things have changed. t : ===== j j A special tax commission is hold* ) j ing meetings in Indianapolis each . J two weeks, paying their own exI penses and trying to work out a I plan that will make tax paying easier. Thats a whale of a job now as it has been for a good many centuries and if the committee can solve it they deserve real credit. And we believe they will. When they do there wll not be any need for a new constitution for that's the one and only reason for trying to reconstruct the basic legal document of the state. Thats always a dangerous procecdure. If motorists would keep in mind that an eighteen-foot pavement is not wide enough to accommodate three lines of traffic there would be fewer accidents. Rarely does a week pass without reports of accidents because somebody attempts to pass the car ahead, only to discover that another car is approaching from the opposite direction. It is the disposition of a motorist, when a gap opens in traffic, to close it. Usually the man who attempts io pass finds that he can not swing in behind the car he was following. He is in the center of the highway—a sort of no man's land —where he may meet the oncoming car head-on and frequently averaging forty miles an hour or more, collisions often are missed by inches and deft manipulation of the steering wheels. There is a law against that kind of driving, hut the state does not have enough policemen to patrol all the paved highways and keep motorists in line. The solution of the problem must rest with the drivers themselves. Practically all the state highways are constructed so that l hey provide space for the driver who has lost control of his car or who must dash off the paving for safety. The shoulders, or berms, are tricky and no motorist takes them at high spepd if he can avoid it. If the shoulder is covered with turf it is likely to be slippery, or if base earth forms the berm it may be rutty enough to make the going hazardous. The only safe policy is not to attempt to pass th- car ahead unless certain that the passage can be done safely.— Indianapolis News. o * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY I From the Daily Democrat File | ♦ 4 May '! Adams comity education--1 hoard edopts resolution that no m-r. ied women will lie employed as ca- hers the coming years. I’ocohontas lodge gives reception or state oflicers of the order when they visit Decatur. John Soht’h badly hurt when io is dragged thirty feet by a team >f horses. Licenses granted to 138 saloon eepers at Gary and a celebration follows the reopening of the bars. I. O. O. F. will spend 34,000 re- ‘ modelling their hall. Misses Ella Mu'schier and Florinro Kunkle close s'lccessful terms n school at Monmouth. Halley s comet may now be seen •a l.y each, morning with the naked eye. Reforniod church of Decatur will dtserve s'Mh anniversary last Snnlay in Jtutc. John Good is working in Gas City. George Colchin lias two ribs broken when horse shoves him against he side of the stall. #-* — ♦' Household Scrapbook I By | ] I ROBERTA LEE I To Omit Butter If it Is desired to save butter I when making |astry .mix a witte- ' glass of salad oil with water to each ; pound of floor, ami stir this tlior- ’ (Highly in o the paste. Ants A little quicklime placed In the infested haunts will drive away any kind of ants. Painful Corns The pain from a corn can be re-

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lieved by applying a little oil of pepperment to the corn dally. —o ♦ • Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LEE (U.pj « Q. What time should a Sunday morning breakfast he given? A. At any time up until noon. Q. Should one ever walk through the corridors of a hotel humming i jr singing? A. No; otte should walk through I as noiselessly as possible. <J What is the birth stone for May? A. Emerald. o— — — Mr France ('outer returned last I ■retting from Dayton Ohio where he looked after business.

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4 | The People's Voice | This column for the use of our | readers who wish to make sug- | gestions for the general good ] or discuss questions of interj est. Please sign your name to show authenticity. It will not | be used if you prefer that it ; not be. » ♦ Please publish the following from the Mendon Hetald and thank you: In Defense of Ru-al Communities One of our friends handed us an article covering one whole page of a newspaper, saying read it and icmment upon it. The article was in regard to the so called failure of | prohibition i t our neighboring town i

of Decatur Indiana. A citizen of the! above named town had written a| scorching letter to a certain New , York City newspaper rebuking the ; metropolis tor Its attitude or. the liquor question. It was so effective, that in order to retaliate, that news- ! paper sent out a reporter, of th* | most rabid liquor type, to come to Decatui and investigate. After three days search for the facts he sent his newspaper that page writeup. In ft he claims that Decatur i« as bad as New York City and that conditions In both are worse ; than in the saloon days. Mind you. ' ho took only three days to arrive ! at conclusions that should require ■ any way. months to get at. On the face of it. It looks Tike a fake. Part of it Is a ridiculous caricature of rural life and pitying contempt for dry workers. He uses every argument and weaves in many of the recipes for the manufactifto of the outlawed stuff. In fact, it is a rehash of clever wet sayings which have been answered again and a- ! gain but which he thought he could i put over in what he evidently regards as backwoods sections. If conditions are as bad as he portrays and there is more drinking than ever, the wbts should be satisfied and Im willing to drop the matter. This repo: ter admits that he did I not see much drinking. Now com--1 pare that with one’s arrival in a saloon town of a few years ago. ■ If he stood on the street corner, either fiont or rear, a few hours, he couid see scores upon scores of men enter jhose places and soon he saw drunken men come reeling out. Try as they may they can't get flway from those records of shanfe > and debauchery, so they resort to subterfure and redlcule to obscure the issue. Os course naturally he defamed he character of the young people; that's a favorite pastime of the wets Toe young are much better its that :espect than were their fathers. Not one-tenth of the youth of the lam! are defiling themselves with liquor. It is nothing new to hear the liquor forces talk of revolt, for they ! have never obeyed a single law to I curb their g: cod. When they boast of ntilliflng the laws of the land, they are just putting into practice the training they received for years in ten thousand saloons. Let every patriot take a determined stand against the attempt of the rum power to enslave Ameri--I ca.

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