Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1931 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by TUB DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. f. H. Heller Pres. and Oen. Mgr. A. R. Holthou*e..Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Pbetoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter Snhacrlptlon Bates Single copies 9 .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 mail 1.76 One year, by mall 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within Drat and second zones. Elsewhere 93.60 one year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Advertising Representatives BCHEERRE, INC. 36 East Wacker Drive, Chicago *ls Islington Avenue, Now York Charter Member The Indiana League of Home Dallies The price of gasoline in Chicago lias dropped to fifteen cents, including a three-cent tax and Hoosiers are hoping and rather expecting some word trom John D. along the same line. Well, things aren't so bad, we got a rain that half filled the cisterns and soaked the fields about right and then we got a little win ter just to show' us that we have been lucky the past three weeks. A number of business men tell us that the outlook is brighter than a month ago and they believe conditions will he normal with the arrival of spring. Keep smiling and working and advertising and we will lick this old depression in good shape. I Payment of another fifteen per cent to be made by the old People’s Loan & Trust Company is announced for next Tuesday, making a total of forty-five per cent since the institution closed last June and better still is the announcement that depositors will he paid in fill! W'e maintain there are few communities like old Adams county after all. A Chicago retail store used a twelve-page section in one of the newspapers there a week ago and did the largest business in several years. It was so satisfactory that they did it over again this week with more than expected results. The manager gives newspaper advertising a strong boost and says that the merchant who lias the goods and the price and the courage to advertise aggressively will sell goods. So far but liftle has been done towards a law which will bring hack on the tax duplicate some es the non-taxahle securities and in- 1 crease our valuation so as to per- , niit a lower tax rate. When prop- I erty is reappraised there will have to be a considerable reduction for much of it is on the hooks for more than it could possibly he sold for How will we make that up un- i Jess there is some provisions by law - .’ " i There is still considerable business in this country. During the month of January there were 3,490,512 cars of revenue freight handled in the United States. That’s quite a volume of business and certainly doesn't carry out th < Idea that every thing is lost. Compared of course to January of 1930 or 1929 it shows a twenty to twenty-five per cent shrinkage hut its still sufficient to prove that this is the greatest nation in the world —yet. Our subscription campaign is nearing the close and hundred:* have renewed. Each day now our subscribers are coming in to provide the Dally Democrat for another year, thus assuring the news during 1931 when much of importance and interest is sure to happen. The local markets and court items alone are worth much mote than the cost of the paper and the j

many features aro of interest to every member of the family. Don't put it off longer. Renew now. The new wage scale of county officials seems equitable excepting as to surveyor. We doubt the wisdom of fixing the salary of anv county official at $1,460. If the office Isn’t needed, abolish It, but if necessary, pay the officer enough to entice good men nud provide them a decent living, would seem good policy. However the proposed salaries mean an increase and this is a mighty poor year it seems to us to do any thing which increases taxes. * The Herne Chamber of Commerce is a live association and the members do not propose to lie down because of a little depression over the country. As a reviver they are planning the biggest meeting of its kind ever held there for next Monday. The speakers will include Arthur F. Hall, president of the Lincoln Life Insurance Com-! pany; Charles H. Bueschlng, president of the Lincoln National Hank of Fort Wayne; Senator Gottschali:, Representative Simmons and others. It will be an interesting sess-, ion from which much good ma; I come for that community. The so-called hick town has late- j ly become a source of great inspiration to our professional humorists. A hick town, say the various users of this convenient formula. is a place where a backfire is never mistaken for a pistol shot; where bed time is orthodox; where woodpeckers eat up the railroad station: where central can tell you whether it was a girl or boy; where the neighbors will supply you with a conscience if you lack one; where there is no parking | problem; where a curfew disturbs the residents’ rest; where fine cut tobacco is no handicap socially, , and so on on. With no inten tion of becoming terrible heavy over the matter, we want to add that a hick town is a place where 26 of our 29 Presidents were horn and where seven of our imortals in New York's national hall of fame originated. A hick town that didn't have a name produced Lincoln. Hick towns gave us most of our great literary figures of the past and practically all of those now living. Kick towns produced our Edisons. If we may, then we would like to suggest that a Hick town is j a place where a boy has an excel-1 lent opportunity to lay the founda- j tion of future greatness.—Hunting,' ton Herald-Press. MONROE NEWS Mrs. Otto Longenberger spent Wednesday in Fort Wayne with . relatives. Mrs. Margaret Dulin is spending the week at Van Wert, Ohio, witu friends. A. D. Crist of Winchester, visited ; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. 1 Crist Thursday. Rev and ,xtrs. Vernon Riley and family motored to Fori Wayne Wednesday amj spent the day with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ilosea Ray of Ridgeville, spent Thursday night witn Mr. and Mrs. Fred Foster. Mrs. Norris Conyers and daugh-j ter of Ossian, is visiting Mrs. Con- j vers parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Porrar. Mr. and Mrs. Henry McGown of Mlamiasbnrg, Ohio, spent Thursday witli Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Habnert. Mrs. Forest Andrews, Mrs. Joseph Rich, and Mrs. Martin Huffman spent Wednesday evening in Decatur. Dr. Ernest Kohne of Grover Hill Ohio, called on Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hendricks Thursday afternoon. R. M. Smith of Berne, attended to business in Monroe Thursday. * Troubled Citizen Sends $5 lor “Borrowed Tools” Philadelphia, Feb. 14. —i(U.R)—The citizens of the old Quaker City have always been noted for their conscience. Since the city treasury was started, the.blue side of the ledger has been regularly augmented by little offerings from those who recall having defrauded the municipality. The latest couatribution to the "Conscience Fund" was a brand new $5 hill, which the donor stated was to repay the city for tools he “borrowed" from the Bureau of i Highways seven years ago.

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: * Modem Etiquette i 1 , ROBERTA LEE « HUB • Q. How many pages should a social note occupy?’ A. Not more than one page. Q. Who should be the first to re- 1 eeive news of an engagement? A. The relatives. Q. On which side of the plate are (lie knives laid? A. Always on the right. * TWEKTY YEARS ago today I From ihe Daily Democrat Fite 1 ♦ • ; Feb. 14 Ed Rumschlag moves to the Voglewede farm on route 5. < J. C. Moses moves from route I eight to the Frisinger farm just 1 north of Decatur. Ed Kintz is building a barn«on hi: j route 12 farm. Buildings at Maple Grove park i sold and the lumber is being hauled ; away today. j i Relatives from here attend Golden ji wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob

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By HARRISON CARROLL. Copyright. 1931, Premier Syrldicate. Inc, HOLLYWOOD, .3. — Stage actors should not allow the talkies to keep them too long away

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from Broadway, warns Edward G. Robins on, star of “Little Caesar” and II o 11 yw o od’s newest comet. “We have a dangerous tendency to come out here and live on our own fat,” explains the screen’s foremost gangste r. “Contact with an audi-

ence is the actor’s only sure way of gauging his work, and the wise one 3 among us will return eonstnntjy 1o Broadway to get tipis first-hand reac ion. Also to keep up on the trends. “My own case illustrates howeasy ,t is to get out of touch. Alter a y-ar in Hollywood, 1 went back to the stage this year, and my play wr„ a failure. If I had been in Htw York nil along, I would have known better than to do it. But my hand had been off the public pulse too long.” Movie contract' threaten to keep Robinson from practicing what he preaches. There is small likelihood of his getting back to Broadway for two years, unless Warner Brothers decide to use him in one of their New York stage productions.

HE COULDN’T QUIT. Bill Oliver tells the one about the man who was taken to a Hollywood hospital suffering from a! fixed contraction of facial muscles. | "What’s the matter*’ asked an J attendant, “lock-jawV” "No,” snarled the patient out 1 ' of the warped corner of bis mouth. “I’ve been working in gangster pictures.” JOB FOR THE MUSIC CRITIC, j “Is it true,” inquires a Holly-: : wood reader, “that Buster Keaton ,is s'ightly off-key?” HE KNEW HIM WHEN— Walter C. Kelly, “the Virginia judge” to you, says that many | years ago in Birmingham, Eng-1 land, he was working on a bill with “the eight Lancashire lads.” Be-! tween acts, one of them came up j to him and started asking, ques-; j tions about .Arr.nr.cn. He said he j' was making two pounds ten shill-': ings a week, and wondered if hen

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Barkley at Hoagland. 40,200 White Stag cigars were sold in Decatur during January. Eggs 12c» butter 13c, hogs $7.25 and the trend is downward. Joe Colehin of Conway, Pa., visits Jis mother here'. Valentine box social at the K. ot C. hall. Fred Schtirger calls on Joseph Wetzel at the St. Joseph hospital at I Fort Wayne. o Card of Thanks — We wish to try in our humblest manner to thank alt our friends for the token of love and sympathy extended to us during the sickness and death of our dear wife and mother. We particularly thank the children of Central school for their beautiful floral ottering. J. W. McDonald and family. Card of Thanks We wish in this manner to thank all our friends and neighbors and those who so kindly assisted us during our recent bereavement. Mose Myers and family

■fcould earn that in New York. Kelly replied newsboys earned that - much, and urged the young Engi lish vaudevillian to make the trip. He did and has done right well. His name was Charles Chaplin. j HISTORY DOES IT AGAIN. I With his contract to play a part ' in Cecil B. De Mille’s production ' of “The Squaw Man,” Mitchell i Lewis completes a cycle. , ( On October 11, 1905, Lewis ap- • peared with William Faversham in the first stage presentation of the now famous melodrama. It was ia I Toledo, and Lewis played the role of the heavy, “Cash” Hawkins. Charles Bickford has this part in the talkie. Lewis will be the Indian t chief, Tabywanna. [ LATEST GOSSIP. Howard (Money Doe n’t MatIter i Hughes is reported to have I paid a $12,000 bonus to get Pat

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| O'Brien out of (a New York ; show and into “the front page." The j Irish actor now | is sewed up on j a long-time con:trac t . . . . !Dou g 1 a s ! Mac Lean had 'an experience at Agua Calienta, which \ shows why men 1 go crazy betting on horses.

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carrying the number of the race, ‘ and won every time. .. . Loretta f Young has taken to her bed. . . . Studio upsets are hailed with joy , by Hollywood florists. Charles Rogers, incoming vice-president of ' Bathe, received an ofiiceful of ‘ blossoms on his first day on the new job. . . . Louise Keaton. Buster’s younger sister, is working in ’< Gloria Swanson’s picture. ... i Robert Montgomery’s first starring picture, as forecast in this colutnn, will be “The Man in Possession.’* ... Fox suddenly "has decided to shelve “Merely Mary Ann,” which was to have beep Janet Gaynor’s next picture. For one thing, Charles Farrell has gone to Europe, and, anyway, Janet would rather have a dramatic role. . . . Drat these wags 1 One of them remarks that Harry Carey maybe a star in Hollywood, but he’s suicide in Japap. DO YOU KNOW j That Monty Banks, once well ; known in Hollywood, now is a i comedy star in England ?

PACIFIC FLYING SEASON TO OPEN Toklo, Japan. Feb, 14. —<U.R> —I'' 1 ” 11931 tians-Paetflc flying season will j! start soon, and Japanese observers ’' believe the great ocean may be ‘ | crossed in a single hop during 1931. 1 Lieutenant Harold Bromley, Tacoma longdistance filer, has his big monoplane ill storage near Yokohama, and may arrive in Janan soon for a new attempt to fly to the United States. Bromley and his navigator, Harold Gatty. nVade an unsuccessful attempt last year. Reports have been received here that Eddy Hawk, another American aviator, will attempt a flight from the United States to Japan in his monoplane the “Pacific Era." Ted Lundgren, of Hollywood, Cal., also is reported planning to stop in Japan on an attempted flight around the world. Lundgren hopes to fly from New York to Berlin, thence to Kasumigaura, and from Japan to the United States. The Japan Aviation Bureau already has granted him a landing permit. o r BIG FEATURES OF RADIO I l ♦ Saturday’s 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1931 by UP. WEAF (NBC network) 6 p. m. CST —Rodheaver Sing. WABC (CBS network) 6 p. m. CST—Morton Downey. WEAF (NBC network) 7 p. m. CST—Weber & Fields. WJZ (NBC network) 8 p. m. C ST—The Campus. WABC (CBS network) 9 p. m. CST—Show Boat. Saturday, Feb. 14, 1931 1160-K, WOWO, Ft.' Wayne, 258.5 M. 5:00 P.M.—Ozzie Nelson. 5:15 P.M.—Emmaus Radio Chapel. 6:00 P.M.—Morton Downey. 6:15 P.M. —Harvey iW. Morlpy. 6.30 P.M. —Chevrolet Chronicles. 7:00 P.M. —Literary Digest. 7:15 P.M. —Dixie Echoes. 7:30 P.M. —Fletcher Henderson. 8:00 P.M. —"INDIANA," Sign off, “GOOD NIGHT." Sunday’s 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1931 by UP. WABC (CBS network) 7:45 p.m CST —New World Symphony. WJZ (NBC network) 8:39 p. tn. CST —Floyd Gibbons (Adventure). WABC (CBS network) 9 p. m. CST —Jesse Crawford (Organ). .. WJZ (NBC network) 9:30 p. in. CST—Slumber Music. WEAF (NBC network) 10:30 p m. CST —Russian Cathedral Choir. !*—i « Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE j • Brass Knobs The brass knobs on enameled beds can be cleaned by unscrewing them and boiling in a mixture of 1 tablespoonfull salt to i quart ot vinegar. This removes tarnish and they can be polished with but little effort. Do not use this method for knobs of brass Veds, as after they ire boiled they will not match tile ■est of the bed in color. Breaking Buttons Iron the button strip of a shirt in the wrong side, with a folded towel placed beneath tile bu’tons. It prevents the buttons from breaking. » A Clogged Sink Pour through a clogged sink or drain a heaping tablespoon of copperas. dissolved in a gallon of boiling water. * „ 4 l essons In English I * 7 Words often misused: Do not say, “He threw the paper in tile box." Sav, "into the box," to denote direction. Often mispronounced: Galatea. Pronounce cal-a-te-a, g as in “go", first a as in ‘at,” second and third a’s us in “ask" (unstressed), e as in “tea" accent third syllable. Often misspelled: Pharmacy. Observe the two a’s and the cy, not sy. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let use increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: Labefaction; a Weakening; ruin. “There is in it such a labefaction of ’■all principles as may be injurious to morality." —Johnson. Radio Dancing Class Latest Air Feature New York, Feb. 14.— ftJ.R) —One of the newest ideas on the air is the Dancing Class. Sponsored by a shoe manufacturer, the dancing class with the radio audience for pupils, is being held’ Fridays at 8.45 p. m. EST. over an NBC network. Arthur Murray is the dancingmas ter. o— . Get the Habit—'Trade at Home.

M. E. Church Benjamin H. Franklin Pastor Let us make Sunday a big day in the church, by making a special esP fort to be present at all services. Church School at 9:30. Guy Brown Superintendent ‘ I Morning worship services at 10:30 Special music in charge of Alvie ! Nichols. Sermon by Pastor. Subject 1 "Ap- ' plied Christianity". 1 Junior church at 10:30. 1 Mrs. Cora Downs In charge. i Evening worship service at 7:0*) Evangelistic singing. , Rev. Franklin will preach on i “Choose You this Day Whom \ou 1 Will Serve". i The Pastor will receive new mem- > hers at both worship services. 1 Epworth League at 6:00. Mary Maxine Brown, loader. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:00. Chorus practice at 8:00. o 1 t First Evangelical Church M. W. Sunderman. pastor W’inchester street The Sunday morning program i opens at 9:15 with a special number hv the Sunday school orchestra. The worship program is under the direction oi the Sunday school board. There will be classes in Bible study fi r all ages ' and a hearty welcome to all. Following the lesson study, the pastor • will preach upon: “Testifying for Christ in Hostile Places.” There • will boa special duet by Mrs. Eugene Runyon and Mrs. Henry Adler. The evening service at 7 o’clock ■ will l>e in charge of the Evangelical League of Christian Endeavor, commemorating the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln. The program is as follows, Miss Esther Sunderman, presiding: Miss Dorothy Spuller, pianist Washington Summary of Life Paul Spuller Character: The Story of Valley Forge Helen Becker Disposition: Humor Elva Anspaugh Greatness . Edward Martz • The Sayings of Washington Helen Becker Christian and American Flag Salutes 'The Dear Old Flag” Junior Choir Lincoln Summary of Life Dorothy Spuller Character: . Honesty Vivian Lynch Harlan Jackson Disposition: Humor Esther Sunderman Philosophy ... Marcia Martin Religion Elta Anspaugh Greatness . Martha Erma liutler Fipigrams William Merriman The Gettysburg Address Lawrence Anspaugh The Young People’s League of Van W’ert, Ohio, will present a drama in the First Church on Wednesday night at 7:30 entitled: “Follow Thou Me.” This drama is built around the experience of Pilate and his wife during the Betrayal and Death of Jesus. The public is cordially invited. o United Brethren It. E. Vance, pastor It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.— Ps. 118:8. And sufch trust have we through Clfrist to God-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. II Cor. 3:4,5. Sunday school 9:15. Worship service following. Christian Endeavor, 6 o’clock. Evening service at 7:00. Rev. McNeeley of Indianapolis will bring the message at the evening service. Rev. McNeeley was one time pastor of our First United Brethren Church in Indianapolis and is one of the strong preachers of the White River Conference. He comes with a vital message tn the interest of the Young People. You will w'ant to hear him. The Young People’s choir will sing a \pecial nnrhber, entitled, "Lead Us, O. Father” by Carrie B. Adams The Denton season begins on Wednesday of this week and it is fitting that* it be observed with increased Bible study and more j prayer, Following aro scripture | references to guide In this season i of prayer. Wednesday—Acts 1:1-14. Luke : 5:31. Thursday—Luke 1:46-55. 1:68.79. Friday—Luke 2:1-20. Saturday—Luke 2:41-52. 1 Sunday—Luke 3:1-14, Make use of these scriptures in your family devotions each day. — -o—- --| Zion Reformed Church A. R Fledderjohann, Pastor , Jesus’ career is a record of choices. On the mount ol’ temptation He dei hies between pressing temporary advantage and eternal principles of right. In Oethsemane ’the conllkt between normal human impulses and the ever-righteous will 1 of God tests His character to the | uttermost. What about our choice" | In life? Tomorrow is the Lord’s Day. It should not he difficult tc choose I where you desire to he. • Sunday school at 9:15 Orehestiu

music and good singing together Cl " i with a growing school. Morning Worship at 10:30 o'clock m, ‘ . with a sermon on the subject, ,Pr "Stewards of Our Physical Bodies". *** Junior and SenlorC. E meetings at 6 o’clock. ■ i Evening Service at 7 o’clock witn -a season of meditation on the subject "Stewardship of Good Judgment”. This series of sermons on the general subject of Stewardship have proven helpful and appreciative. The presence and interest on i the iiart of the individual member make these services all the more profitable. We welcome friend and ; stranger. Presbyterian Harry H. Ferntheil pastor The Christ we love is calling us ito a new appreciation of himself. VVe may share his humiUUtiOn his rejection his sorrow as we walk step by step with him in the days of His sorrow. Let us draw night, unto the throne of His Grace. ■ Sunday school at 9:30 A. M. j , Dr. Fred Patterson is the superin-1 tendent. The subject for Sunday is LI •■The Friend of Sinners.” Morning Worship Vat 10:30. The , pastor will preach, the subject A , Perfect Character." The Young Peo- ' pies Choir will assist in the ritual- _ iatic part of the services. There will . be special music led by Mr. Saurer. . Christian Endeavor at 6:00 P. M.j , i Subject "The Great Sermon" Every | i body is welcome to attend this soi l ! | vice of study. Evening Service at 7:00 P. M.j E The pdstor will preach using as hii- j theme The Price of a Fare.” The a- j dult choir will sing at this service, j You are welcome to attend all ot j the services. >; °— —— Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Paul W. Schultz, pastor Services In German, 9:00 a.m. 1 Services in English, 10:45 a.m. Sunday school and Bible class, 10:00 a.m. Services during the season of Lent every Wednesday evening. 1 beginning next Wednesday at 7:30 5 ; o'clock. r, St. Mary's Church First Mass 7:00 ’ | Children's Mass 8:30 i High Mass , , 9:45 J Prayer Hour and Benediction 2:3't !o — m ) First Baptist Church A. R. Brown Pastor 1 1 ; Bible school at 9:30 o’clock. Class ~ ( ! for everybody. Morning worship at 10:30. SerJmon theme: "Knokledge of Him”. „| Young peoples meeting at 6:00. J Evening service at 7:00 Subject j "Soul Thirst” You are welcome to all of our ! services. COURT HOUSE f Real Estate Transfers > Albert Harlow Auditor 17 acres » in Root township to John Bucher. Joel G. Reynolds et ux out lot 111 Decatur to Anna J. Nesswald for 11.00. | Arna J. Nesswald out lot 111 to j Joel G. Reynolds et ux for SI.OO. Decatur Cemetery Asso.. lots 47 48, Decatur Cemetery to Joel G. , Reynolds for $40.00. ? o l Birth Commemorated r j A gateway has been erected nl the site of Sir Walter Raleigh's :i colony In North Carolina In mem ery of Virginia Dare, first white child born in America. Heroca of the Road Heroes are made and not born, j ’ j Nobody willingly ditches his own ! 'j car to save n fool.—San Francisco -j Chronicle. Bismarck’* Statesmanship It whs the astute Bismarck who j 1 stole the thunder of Ida Socialist I opponents am) Inaugurated oompre I J i henslve social Insurance legislation. I ——— - —-— | . O// Broadway l —here and there you catch glimpses I of irresistible beauty. You see, ! I against this background of loveli- I ness, many examples of the allur- 1 ,n K> fascinating appearance Gou- Is raud s Oriental, Cream renders. (a 1 * applied, Gouraud’s Orien- 1 - tal Cream becomes part of the skin. ■ ? 1 cannot rub off, streak or spot § 1 . and is so natural appearing its use I 111 A 1 cannot be detected. > GOURAUtfS °®aEA&** I 3 WWt*. n«Bh. md Oriental Tw I T Yff* 10 ® f° r Trial B A & Son » Ncw y eek City ™