Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1930 — Page 4

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DECATUR JAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. ■*. H. Heller Pres. and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse.Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller -....Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter Subscription Rates Single copies 9 .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mall .36 Three months, by mall I.OC Six months, by mail 1.76 One year, by mall 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.60 one year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Advertising Representative* SCHEERRE, INC. 36 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 416 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana League of Home Dailies Patting the fellow who is in trouble on the back doesn't hurt you and may encourage him. Talking and acting foolish is expensive for every one. Adams county lost 544 in population the past ten years, which is not so good but better than a good many counties. Jay county lost 2,479 and Wells 2,127. And in the meantime the crops in this section are growing nicely and indications are for a crop that will quickly dispel all signs of hard Unit's. Won t that be fine? You remember tli a t old one which goes, “the man worth while is tlie one who can smile when every tiling goes dead wrong.” Well its still a fine thing to remember. The Junior baseball league started off yesterday with a parade which included the Legion drum corps and the G. E. band and they helped cheer every body along the line. Tlie ten largest cities in America show a total net gain of over three million population the past decade which accounts for the fact that a good many rural counties showed rather extensive losses. Well, any way most folks will be tickled pink when the "noble experiments’’ of the present administiation have been fully tested and decided upon one way or the other.

The Pennsylvania railroad is out with the announcement that they w ill soon have fourteen-hour train service between Chicago and New York. Evidently they are trying to beat the motorcycles. Th" weather man has been a little stingy with his showers this spring but from what we hear he has been as liberal here as in any section of the state. If lie don’t care be might let his hand slip a little on the faucet. ‘JReach for a sweet" seems to hav been a slogan that brought returns from the advertisements used. Any way last years candy business is said to have been the largest ever known in this country. Friday, the 13th, the only one for the year 1930 lias come and gone and the superstitious are blaming whatever bad luck they had on the date. Os course there isn’t a thing to it but if its any consolation Its nobody's business but your own, if you want to believe it. Just the same the fellow who slips out and buys a farm at prestnt prices is assured of a good living and an ultimate profit on his investment. If it isn't safe nothing is and you had far better take that gamble than one on .Wall street. -Max Schmeling may wear the belt as the champion fighter of the world but no one who witnessed

It v TODAY’S CHUCKLE ♦ <u.® ♦ Ambleslde, England.—Golden eagles have been sighted in the latkeland district, in a wild belt of uplumls between Lake Windemere and Luke ConliI ton, fur the first time in almost 100 years, * ♦ ■■■■■■ — ♦ his four-round battle or heard the radio reports, feel he is. He was awarded the decision on a foul just when he was ready to take the count. The tariff bill had a tough squeeze but got through the senate by a margin of two votes. The house will finish the job and then if the president places bis signature to it, we will soon know whether those who claim it will help conditions are right or those who contend it will be worse generally. Gosh, how we hope that however it goes will be best for the country. The Chicago News has completed a survey of Chicago gangland and among other facts finds that the Capone beer gang and allied and enemy racketeers have an annual income of $6,000,000. As long as they can rake in the coin in thta volumn you can gamble they keep right on dodging bullets and killing those who get in their way if they can. The Supreme Court has held that property owners are entitled to full damages without a cent deduction's for benefits, which will again cause considerable discussion. The fellow on whose property a road is being routed over will probably feel he is entitled to every cent he can get while the others will consider him lucky to just get the road. The state highway commission wants a rehearing and says if the ruling sticks it will cost the state a cool million a year.

BIG FEATURES OF RADIO I I ♦ ♦ Saturday's 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1930 by UP. WABC (CBS network) 4:30 p.m. cst. —Ted Husing. WEAF (NBC network) 6:30 p.m. cst. —Del Monte Program. WEAF (NBC network) 7:30 p.m cst. —General Electric Hour. WJS (NBC network) 8 p.m. cst. —Strings and Bows. WEAF (NBC network) 10 p. m. cst.— Rudy Vallee. o Sunday’s 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1933 by UP. WJZ (NP.C network) 615 p. m. .cst.—Collier’s Hour. WABC (CBS network) 7 p. m. cst.—Majestic Air Theater. WEAF (NBC network) 7:15 p.m. cst. —Atwater Kent Hour. WJZ (NBC network) 8:45 p. m. cst.—South Sea Islanders. WABC (CBS network) 10 p. m. cst. —Coral Islanders. Monday’s 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1930 by UP WJZ (NBC network) 4 p.m. cst. —Mormon Choir. WJZ (NBC network) 5:35 p. m. cst.— Roxy’s Gang. WEAF (NBC network) 6:30 p.m. cst. —A. & P. Gypsies. WEAF (NBC network) 7:30 p.m. cst. —General Motors Hour. WABC (CBS network) 8:30 pin. cst. —Jesse Crawford. o f Twenty years AGO TODAY j | From the Daily Democrat File i ♦ ♦ June 14 Flag day is appropriately observed here. The first gang of gipsies of the season arrive jtere, filthy and brazen. ' John L. Ferry, former manager ol the Preble oil station, dies at Akron Indiana. Superintendent E. E. Rice goes to Chicago to take a six weeks special conrse at the Chicago University. The Y. P. A. of the Fort Wayne district is holding its annual convention at the Decatur Evangelical church. The county commissioners allow $12,500, one half of the subsidy due the B. G. and C Traction company from Wabash and Hartford townships. Balance will be paid next year. Page Blackburn buys the A. R Pierce building in which his drug store is located. E. W. Johnson has opened a new ice cream store at Monroe.

BIRTHDAY OF OLD GLORY RECALLS , STIRRING HISTORY OF 153 YEARS , - - ___ ■ — W U. S. Marines salute tlie National Flag at a tropical outpost in the West Indies. Insert: Soldiers of tlie Sea at San Diego, Calif., during a formal presentation of tlie Stars and Stripes and their regimental colons. Tlie National Flag is carried to the right in tills and all similar parades or formations. Highest honors are always accorded “Old Glory” by all of our naval or military forces eifher at home or abroad.

THE BIRTHDAY of Old Glory, June 14, should bring a responsive thrill to every patriotic American. It is the most beautiful of all national colors. Our flag has pointed the way to freedom to countless thousands; its stars and stripes have been in inspiring symbol for more than a century ana a Half. It stands for patriotism, loyalty and fidelity to the ideals of America. “Old Glory’s" Ancestors This attractive emblem of our nation that has come down to us through the years has been evolved from those earlier banners that once cheered the hearts of the colonists. In the early days of the Revolution there were many striking flag designs. Some bore ratlesnakes with the ominous words of warning. “Don't tread on me.” emblazoned on their folds. Others showed the pine tree symbol with the words, “An appeal to heaven." Some showed both the pine tree’ and rattlesnake, or beavers, anch-i ors, and State mottoes. Delvers sinto the flag lore of our country will find scores of such: types, each emblematic of the I hopes, visions and aspirations of he people who had not yet found i libet ty and freedom for which they were striving. The first flag in general use by the colonists consisted of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, typifying the thirteen colonies, with a union bearing the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew, where the stars in the blue field now appear. It was called the Grand Union Flag, or First Naval Ensign, and it was the immediate predecessor of the Stars and Stripes, which we so often call Old Glory. Romance has trailed Old Glory from the beginning. It harks back to the days of Betsy Ross, whose nimble fingers wrought with loving care the first sample of the ‘natiou-

» • ( Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE ♦ « Table Covers A beaded fringe on the table; cover will give weight to the edges ol the cover and keep the wind from blowing in when windows or doors are onaned. Cooking Vegetables Experience has taught that steamed vegetables hold their flavop much longer and are more healthful -than cooked in any other way. Cuts If a few drops of paraffin are applied to a cut it often gives instan 1 relief and also hastens healing. o ♦ : ♦ i Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (Li.FJ ♦ Q. What is the proper hour for the Sunday night supper? A. Seven o’clock. Q. When one Is asked some information by a stranger, what should lie do? 1 A. Be as cheerful as possible and give him the information in a courteous manner. Q. Should a man hold his hat in his hand when in a shop witli a woman? O. No.

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, | al flag, which was almost identical t! with the flag as we know it today. Story of Betsy Ross 1 Mrs. Ross was a widow. Late in ■ | the spring of 1776 her little shop i on Arch street. Philadelphia, was ; | visited by some distinguished per- ■ i sons. A committee, headed by . George Washington, called on Mrs. Ross and submitted a rough design of a new type of flag which they asked iter to make. Stars in the blue field had been substituted. for the crossess of St. George and St. Andrew. Descendants of Betsy have vouched for the authenticity of the historic visit, and it is /known that ijot long afterward Congress made I an order on thlie treasury to pay Mrs. Ross a sum amounting to upward of seventy dolars in the British currency then used "for flags for the fleet in the Delaware river" June 14. 1777, more than a year ! after Washington’s visit to the little flag shop, is now recognized as the flag’s official birthday. On 1 that date Congress resolved “That ; the flag of the thirteen United ’ States he thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union j be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new eonstellaj tion.” Thereafter numerous incidents relative to the new flag began to i make their appearance in history. I>*ss than three weekss after Congress had authorized the flag, John Paul Jones was at Portsmouth, N. 1 H., preparing to sail aßroad on the "Ranger.” ‘At Portsmouth,” writes one naval authority, "Paul Jones attracted about him a bevy of ! girls who fprmed a socalled ‘flag bee’, who with much patriotic enthusiasm- and many heart thrills | wrought out of their own and their mothers’ gowns a beautiful Star Spangled Banner, which was * thrown to the breeze in Portsmouth Harbor on July 4, 1777.” ■ i Avery’s history records that on

SHAW PUZZLES BRICK MAKERS IN DINNER TALK Manufacturers Told How To Select Salesmen For Their Business Buxton, Eng., June 14 —(UR) — George Bernard Shaw has given someone some advice and it didn't coot them a cent! As guf-st of honor ,at the Clay Convention dinner, where sat manufacturers of building and engineering bricks and tiles and other heavy clay goods, Shaw was asked to speak. He first revealed that he made his books appealing by seeing that cover was attractive. “if 1 were in the- clay industry and required a salesman I wouldn’t look for him in the day business,” Shaw said. ”1 would attend all variety theaters in the country and when I found a man who was a great artist at patter, making a proper joke at the right moment, raising a laugh, I would say to that man, Go into the clay industry,’ "

August 3, Colonel Gansevoort with a command of 800 men were defending Fort Stanwix. near the present sight of Rome, N.. Y., when word was received of the new flag design. Tit e garrison was searched for material to manufacture the new flag, presumably the Stars and Stripes, which was dispiayed the same afternoon from a flagstaff on a bastion nearest the enemy. There is. however, no authentic record of either the Grand Union Flag or the Stars and Stripes, as national colors, ever having been carried into battle. A Shot For Each Stripe Captain Thomas Thompson of tlie American ship “Raleigh’’ fired on a British sship he was pursuing on September 4. “We up sails, out gunss, hoisted the Continental colors and bid them strike to the Thirteen United States,” wrote the capta'n. “Sudden surprise threw them into confusion and their sails flew al aback, upon which we complimented them with a gun for each State, a whole broadside into their Hull.” This was the new flag's first encounter at sea. The Stars and Stripes first floated over a fortress of the Old World when Lieutenant O'Bamnon of the Marines and Midshipman Mann of tlie Navy raised the flag over the fortress at Derne, Tripoli, where it was flung to the breeze on April 27. 1805. “By the dawn’s early light” on September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key saw the Star-Spangled Banned still waving over Fort McHenry, and composed the song which is now the national anthem. Both the flags raised at Tripoli and at Fort McHenry had fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, a flag design that remained in vogue from 1795 until 1818. Then Congress authorized the return of the flag to its original form of thirteen stripes one star being added for each State entering the Union until today there are 48 stars ill the blue field.

The diners listened and, it is said some wondered afterward what connection there was between a joke and a brick as tar as selling clay was concerned. Unwilling Host Chewclah, Wash., —(UP)—John Hentges, Quartzite Mountain farmer, is an unwilling benefactor to a herd of deer. Last summer the animals ate up a S4OO crop of oats, Hentges declared. He tried to scare h m “by hand” and failed. He fired shots into the air. The deer just listened. Should ho shoot one he would be liable to a fine of $250, and he’s counted 17 in one group eating his crops. Given Professorship Durham, N. C. — (UP) — Dr, Gsore T. Hargitt, profes-ior of zoology in the University of Syracuse, has been appointed a professor in the Duke University department of zoology. He was visiting professor, at Duke during the past fall semester. 0 _ BARGAINS: —Bargains in Living Room, Dining Room suits, mattresses and rugs. We are open every evening in the week. Stuckey 1 and Co. Monroe. Our phone number is 44. 134-ts

CHICAGO PLANS TO ADD GEMAN OPERA SCORES Insull Announces New Attraction lor Next Civic Season Chicago, June 13.— <U.R) -Chicago soon will have the finest German opera repertoire In the country if the plans of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and a committee of interested German-Americans are fulfilled. Fully 25 per rent of tho coming season will be devoted to the woYks of Wagner, Beethoven ami Straus. The standard repertoire, which in' eludes “Lohengrin,”' “Tannliauser,” "Die Ilosenkavalier,’; among others will he Increased by the addition of two novelties, “Die Melstersinger” of Richard Wagner and "The Bartered Bride" of Smetana. In addition to the re-engagement of such artiiAs are Frida Leider, Maria Olsxewska. Theodore ijtrark and Alexander Klpnis, the Civic Opera Company had engaged seven singers who have won favor in Europe. Among these is Sonia Sharnova, contralto, a native of Chir-Bgo. who has spent the last two seasons with the German Grand Opera Company. All this, and more, was announced by Samuel Insull, Chicago, financier and chairman of the board of tlie opera company, at a meeting iu which he announced these plans to 14 German-Americans, headed by Judge Otto Reich and Ernest Kruetgen, who are sponsoring the plan. The increase iu the German repertoire for future seasons will depend on the response given to the coming one, Insull warned. Adding that support also must be given the French and Italiau repertoires. “For a long time people have clung to the idea that the opera is in existence merely because it is fashionable,” Insull said. “We want to make them feel that it is a Chicago institution.” A tribute to Chicago's array of singers was iqade when it was suggested that a number of the leading singers engaged for tlie Paris and German seasons were members of the Chicago Civic Opera, and would he heard here next | season.

Short Skirt OK’d Hyde, Isle of Wight — (UP) — Short skirts and cream colored stockings are useful in that they warn motorists of young couples walking in the shadows, the Bishop of Barking stated at a conference hete. o Recites 10C0 Lines London —(UP) —Canon James M. Wilson, 94, recited 1,000 lines of Thomas Brown’s narrative poem, “Betsy Lee,” during the Manx poet's centenary celebration in London. Smallest Check West Torrington, England—(UP, —The local parish council received a check for five pence marked “not negotiable” for interest on government bonds, with one penny deducted sot income tax. Making It Pay Harrow, England - After his shop had been raided a local shop keeper put a sign hi his window reading," Burglars come here for good cameras; why not you?" Milk Christening London — (UP) — The London Missionary Society boat, John William, will he christened with cocoanut milk instead of champagne. Love Signals Read Atnersham. England —(UP) — A blushing motorist who could read love's messages drove on in silence after he had seen a girl signal from her window w r ith a flash light,” Darling, I love you, do you love me, goodnight,” to which a modern male flashed back, “Os course i do, goodnight end message.” Old Saying Refuted “The old saying, ’Feed a cold and starve n ft" er,’ 13 very pool advice,” remarked n physician as he prepared some cold tablets ffci a patient who had just said be had been "stuffing his cold.” “The orlg 1 n»l and true s»;ing,” the doctor continued, “no doubt was ‘Feed a fold anc starve n fever,’ but It Ims been twisted about to mean exact ly the opposite of what It was In tended to mean." Origin of Superstition According to a writer In the Lor, don Sunday Times the superstition that It Is unlucky to open an umbrella In the bouse has Its origin In Catholic times, when the priest carried the viaticum to the dying person under a small canopy in the form of nn umbrella, as is still i/one in Catholic countries today. Therefore the open umbrella In the House becomes associated with the idea of death. Venetian Canals The average depth-of the Grand canal In Yenlce Is 17 feet. Some of the lesser canals are shab''wer.

Widowed by Gang Bullets ma* ** * Mrs. Alfred Lingle, widow of Chicago newspaper reporter who was slain by gangsters. Car For Station Clear Lake N. D. —(UP)—A chair car for a railroad station was the claim of this town to fame today Recently the Ilock Island railway station burned down and 'he company sent a chair car to be used as the new station. Finds Old Paper Montrose, Colo., —(UP)—Searchin among the drawers of an old sideboard, William Bonnell found an old newspaper giving the account of the death and burial of George Washington. 4 © Rare Fish In U. S. Norwood, 0,, —(UP) —Fred 11. Harwell has in his possession one of the few specimens of the “Fish of the Cruciflxou’ ever brought to America. The specimen was caught in the Caribbean sea off Trinidad, by Durwell's son, Bernard, who is a mate aboard the U. S. S. California. Flagship of the Pacific fleet. I have a lot ot' woik on hand which must lie calle (lfor soon. I need money to pay my expenses. M. E. Kl/.ey, Jeweler. 14l)-6tx

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OFFICER TEU OF SELECTI WNMn ” es tminste r Loudon. j of men walked > n i white crosses that^J They stopped, hi (J.J marked grave Wh|,M " *®r«l. shell-tom bX O > ain’s sons. Spadr■ f 00 ' flew. The rough bo, jj the surface. *'• The same procedure 1,1 Vr “»"'«*• An* 3 anotho. salient farther,J “ix bodies had been a surface. ™ All were placed fc ta fins d taped with a tw let in a hut. A hivbw.ta °f the British army, selected one. ° This is the Unknown <w lies peacefully asleep to ster Abby-to be honor* out the ages by Great Brin The dramatic manner i the Unknown Soldier »-; 4 w;-:> revealed lo year, i ate Rev. G. Kendall, who time senior chaplain ot i Natal Division, and was* with others for the transit body to England. Kendall, who actually charge of exhumation wot his disclosure to silence that the name of the son known to tlie officer whon final selection. "He is absolutely unknow dull said. Sword Falls London — (UP)-The il credible happened at the < of the Btiard in Whitehall officer's sword fell out of bard to the ground and! plunged wildely into then other horses. o - NOTICE—PIace your « Michigan sweet chert Quality guaranteed. Price 16 qt. case delivered in t Palmer Spt unger Berne, ii