Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1930 — Page 4

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DECATUR i)AILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by TUB DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. I. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. 4. R. .IhJMiouse .Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dtck D. Weller. .Vice-President Entered at the Poetoffice at Deca.nr, Indiana, as second class matter Subscription Rates Single copies I .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mall .36 Three months, by mall 1.00 Six months, by mall 1.76 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. 36 East Wacker Drive, Chicago (15 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana League ot Home Dallies The issues are important this —year ami you should post yourself, i The meeting at the court room this evening will be a good starter. The frost is on the pumpkins, hut that’s where it ought to be this time of year if James Whitcomb Riley knew his pumpkins and we guess lie did. Clarence Darrow is going to conclude his long career by defending the Chicago gangsters which ought not add to his fame whether he wins or loses. A 156-year-old Turk was struck by an automobile the other day when lie sauntered or tried to saunter across Broadway. One would think at his age he would have known better. Hazel (Iroves, treasurer of Lake county, missing a week, ought to have (lug up a better excuse than the Old “lapse of memory’’ gag. That'S so worn out that most folks jmrt“Smile or wink when they hear .it. ff'Jjne *-’• Stephenson of South scheduled to be the next pr- nt of the American Rank er's~Association says we are about to turn from depression to a revived prosperity. Hope Rome knows his finances and they say he does. Stock market gamblers knownow what normalcy means, it being explained that the low ebb of prices on about every thing listed on the exchanges is the long talked about but rarely described “back to normalcy.’’ When it gets so low. it just can’t drop any more, thats it. Th world series and the fans are excited as they always are at this particular time of the year, about evenly divided between the Si. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Athletics. Os course they , are both wonderful baseball teams | and w-ill furnish those who attend and millions of radio fans a lot of thrills the next few' days. The New York republicans and democrats seem to have settled the prohibition question so far as it being a political issue by efach party adopting a plank favoring the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Os course there will be a third party favoring the present prohibition laws and its strength will be a feature worth watching. Mrs. Ruth McCormick seems to be getting herself into a position where she will have a hard time - seeming her seat in the senate Now A New Majestic DE LUXE CONSOLE SB6-00 X 8 Tube SUPERHET. SEE AND HEAR IT AT Decatur Electric Shop

If TODAY’S CHUCKLE ♦ — (U.R) < Addlestone, (Surrey), Eng. I —The last words Mrs. Mary ’ Ann Folker, 70, grasped after . eating a portion of melon were a warning to her neighbors not , to touch the melon she had given them. » — -♦ even it she gets more votes than her opponents. The Investigating committee has already called her about every thing else but a "square shooter’’ and she has succeeded in getting both the wets and the drys mad at her. ===== The democrats open their campaign here this evening with a mass meeting in the court room. The ■ speakers will include Walter Meyers, brilliant orator and attorney of Indianapolis; Floyd Williamson. nominee for auditor of state; Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp and others. Dore B. Erwin, nominee for judge will preside and the Legion band ■ will furnish music. It will be a rousing opener of the campaign and you will enjoy it all if you attend. You may think politics a little quiet around here but up in the Calumet district the boys have their war paint on and are making things hum. The democrats really expect to win and a lot of republicans admit it will be the hottest scrap they ever had in old Lake county, iferman Center, the democratic nominee for treasurer, has a very good chance of winning as do the rest of the candidates on the ticket. Keep your eye on the northw st part of the state. They may surprise you. Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated by the New York democrats yesterday for his second term as governor of the Empire state. He s a real, honest-to-goodness executive and the prediction by such political observers as Dav.id Lawrence, is that he will have a walkaway. If he does, he of course becomes the outstanding candidate tor the nomination for president. Mr. Roosevelt has a record that he need not apologize for and will prove a vote getter under any circumstances. Chicago is cleaning up, actually doing it and of course they should. Yes, its a big job because they let I things go on there so long that the gangsters almost had them where they couldn't move, but if they keep after them as they have the past couple of weeks they ought to have the government back in the hands of the people in time for the world fair, for which by the way they are already making great preparations. A number of buildings are now under construction | and it looks as though this live western city will not do like Philadelphia did for their sesquicentenial, complete the structures about | the time the big show closes. o ? TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY [ From the Daily Democrat File October I—l9lo —Two more die as result of Kinksland wreck, bringing total to 41. Between 15 and 25 killed and a score injured when Los Angeles Times is dynamited. Forty are now employed at LaFountaine Handle Co. plant. Herman Miller convicted ot manslaughter at Auburn. Democrats nominate John A. Di:; for governor of New York. Schafer Hardware Co. gives annual buggy auction sale and big crowd attends. Perry Grant in an Alco car wins Vanderbilt cup race at Mineola. L. I. before crowd of 500,000. Three men were killed and a score injured Kern and Shiveley open Democratic campaign at Indianapolis. 0 Modern Etiquette By | ROBERTA LEE • (U.R) ♦ Q. When the carving of meat is not done in the kitchen, should the man or the woman officiate? A. The man should always do the carving, but if there is no man present the woman must do so. Q. What should a very thin person avoid in selecting her clothes? A. Straight vertical lines. II Q. What is essential to every in-

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troduction? A. A courteous acknowlegement. 0 I Household Scrapbook * I By | | ROBERTA LEE • « Black Silk To restore black silk, sponge it with clear, strong cold tea. Iron while the silk is still damp. Measuring Medicine Medicine should not be measured in a spoon, as spoons vary considerably in size. Keep a small, marked measuring-glass on hand for this purpose. Fresh Eggs A fresh egg is indicated by a rough surface and how quickly it dries when it is taken from boil ing water. o Lessons In English not say, “Let’s you and me play cards.” “Let’s” is a contraction of “let us.” Say, “Let’s play cards," or, "Let you and me play cards.” OFTE N MISPRONOUNCED: Fanatic. Pronounce fa-nat-ik. first a as in “ask," second a as in “at,” i as in "it,” accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Dying (expiring); no e. Dyeing (coloring ): observe the e. SYNONYMS; Commerce, traffic, trade, business intercourse. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase cur vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: REVERT; to return; go back. “Her mind reverted to the past.” o • World Travel Slides Offered All Schools Bloomington Ind.. Oct. I—Adams county school superintendents this week are being mailed two bulletins describing in detail the motion pieIture and lantern slide service which I Indiana university extension division provides lor the schools of Indiana. This service which last year provided 250,000 Hoosier citizens with educational films and lantern slide prog.ams. is carried on by the I. U. bureau of visual instruction un der the direction of Hugh W. Norman. Films and lantern slides are turnished at a minimum cost. This service of the university extension division covers the following: motion pictures and lantern slides for school and community purposes, health charts and posters, advisory sei vice on visual education problems, state poster contest, exhibits of art prints, correspondence and residence course in visual education, bulletin service, and il- • lustra ed lectures. Through the new bulletins, Presi- . dent William Lowe Bryan, of the university, takes a strong stand in : favor of visual instruction. “Every child can now be a world ■ traveler and no child should be de- ; nied sight ot the pictures which bring him nearer the experiences ot > civilized man at his best. ’ Dr. Br; . an says. “Growth in living thing- • means tor one thing better and bet 1 ter adaptation to a widening envn - onment. Civilized man at his best nas far-reaching experiences, but millions of individuals cannot’have > experiences so fast. The lack is sup plied in part by schools, books. amJ I teachers. But now the still picture: j and the moving pictures can conn > to cities, towns, and remote coun s try neighborhoods bringing news o j all the earth, of the heavens above and the waters under the earth." B A new feature of the motion pit n ture service this yea,-, according t< 11-lr. Norman, (tribe adition of tin a rixteen millimeter (narrow) filn to the university's visual library These films, owing to their nar rowness, are much cheaper to put

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FIELD MUSEUM IACQUIRES URGE UTAH LODESTONE Natural Magnet Obtained In Wasatch Mountains Weighs 400 Pounds Chicago, Oct. 1. -(U.R)-— A huge natural magnet or lodestone weighing 400 pounds and possessing un-, usually powerful magnetic strength has been secured by the Field Museum ot Natural History in the Yasatch mountains of Utah, The peculiar powers of attraction of lodeslon- were well known in antiquity and it was these properties of the mineral which led to j the development of the magnetic | compass by the Chinese in the 12th ■ I century. Lod-stone is a variety of I the mineral magnttlte. A steel I needle placed in contact witli a lodestone will in a short time be- | come so magnetized that, if free to move, it will point toward the not th pole. It was observance of this phenomenon that suggested the compass. However, the polarity of the mineral was not discovered until hundreds of years after itsj powers ot' attraction from iron and other m< tals were known, according to Dr. Oliver C. Farrington, curator ot geology at the museum.l Thales of Miletus (630-550 8.C.) I mentions the power of lodestone as Ido a number of the later Greek [sages, says Dr. Farrington. "Therel ha a fable that tile disiovery ofjl 'lodestone was made by a Cretan (shepherd who noticed that liis ironpegged sandals ami iron-shod crook' clung to the earth. Digging into the ground, he found lodestone." The properties of magnetite which seemed mysterious to the ancients exercised a powerful hold ion their imaginations and gave rise 'to numerous fabulous stories. These extravagant tales were based upon a misconception of the powti of lodestone. “There were stories of magnetic domes which held statues I of iron and even of brass suspended :n the air. and there were accounts of moT’italns of lod' stones , which dri w all the iron nails from ships which ventured near them, so that vessels sailing in those seas were obliged to uSe wooden pegs for nails.” Historians have differed concerning tile discovery and practical ap- | plication of the compass. It has I I been attributed to many peoples of ' Europe and Asia. Chinese fables .describe various devices for direction finding such as chariots whose figureheads always pointed south, at various times before the Christian era. “Some European authors seem to indicate an occasional use lof th compass as early as the third century, but the first authentic records of its use do not an’edate the 12th century. Shortly after this time compasses came into general use by navigators. The first compasses were magnetized steel ne dies which were fastened to chips and reeds and floated on water." 0 BARGAINS: — Bargains in Living Room, Dining Room suits, mat tresses and rugs. Stuckey; and Co., Monroe. Our phone number is 44 j 168-t’

’ MAGLE) NEWS J Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jaberg and Miss Whelma Jaberg attended the | i street fair in Bluffton Saturday i Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fruchte of Fort Wayne spent the week-end with Edward Scherry and Mr. and I Mrs. Franklin Fruchte ami »on Dale. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Scherry and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Worthman and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Hllgeman and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Worthman and family. Miss Amanda Worthman, and Lewta Worthman, Sr., were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Worthman and family of Decatur Sunday. Rudy and Raymond Kolter were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kolter and son Robert SunI dayRev. Arthur Kruetzman of' I Cheney, Kansas, was a Sunday i night guest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kruetzman. Mr. and Mrs. George Lies of I Spencerville. Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Knatz and daughter Helen of Fort Wayne. Rev. Arthur Kruetzman of Cheney. Kansas, Lewis Bracht of Fort Wayne, Betj er Helmrich, Mr. and Mty. Lewis I Conrad, Mr. and Mrs. William 1 Kruetzman, Mrs. Walter Kruetzman and son Richard, and Otto Kruetzman, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hildebrand and family, Mrs. Mina and Henry Hil- ; debrand. Miss Hazel Helmrich spent | Sunday with Misses Marie and H. Knapp & Son Dectitur’s Authorized Radiola and Radiulron Dealer.

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