Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1931 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT PubLUbed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pre*, and Gen. Mgr. A. It. HolthouFe Sec’y & Bua. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter • - * Subscription Rates Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Sjx months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mail 8.00 , One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and 1 second zones. Elsewhere 13.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Advertising Representati 1 SCREERER, INC. 1 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member • The | Indiana League of Home Dailies Join the Chamber of Commerce , and help yourself and every one , else. | Now that the grand jury has re- ( turned nine indictments, those who ( Lave been side-stepping will have , to keep on worrying another week ( or two until arrests of those cliarg- ( ed open the secret. I Congress seems to take a great delight in overriding the vetoes of President Hoover, causing him to feel tired and grouchy and like spanking the children who ought to be listening to him. ___________ < Gin and jazz are responsible for ' the death of Arlene Draves and the serious predicament the four boys charged with her death, are in, according to the girl's father. Maybe, for they have caused a lot ot troubles during the past decade.! Don't be one of those singing 1 the blues, dcn't go around declar- 1 ing that nothing can be done, join 1 the Chamber of Commerce and 1 help make the town move. Just 1 now when other places are giving up and refusing to try, is the best time to step on the gas. ____________ Ernst Gallmeyer is to be postmaster of Fort Wayne, his nomination having been confirmed. His 1 selection settles a stiff fight and ' Mr. Galimeyer’s numerous friends 1 here feel sure he will prsve a con- 1 scientous and in every way an 1 efficient official. 1 __________ < it is said there is over a billion 1 dollars of the old large size paper 1 currency still out. Where do you ! suppose it is? It is stuck away in ! old cans, trunks and boxes and is 1 doing no one any good. Get it out. 1 exchange it for the new smaller bills and start it into circulation and good times will come swing- 1 ing back. 1 It hustles a town like Decatur 1 to maintain one blacksmith shop but hi Manhattan, a section of New York City, there are 123 such shops. The smithies are kept busy shoeing riding horses fc? the elite, that still being one of the I l'avorite_iieorts of the well-to-do of 1 i the largest city in America. Professor Philips, of Purdue University, in an address to Lions in their state meeting at Indianapolis predicted that the next boom in this country will occur in 1935 and j that the present depression will be j all over by the end of this year.

HELPS YOU TO FEEL BETTER IN EVERY WAY -re-, Terre Haute. Ay -a. Ind. —“I am always glad t c speak a word of -T"’ r praise for Dr S- g, Pierce’s Golden ZX Medical Discov- ~ ery. * * lave ta ' <cn it myself more 1 '■t'-J' than once and ceceived most wonder fullienelit each time. The ‘Discovery’ is an old and reliable general all-round tonic and 1 don't think anyone could try it without being benefited. It just simply help-: one to fepl better in every way.” —Mrs. Maggie Spencer. 902 Crawford St. -\ll druggists. Fluid or tablets, i Every paekace of Dr. I’ierce's medi- 1 < ine* roi tains a symptom blank. Fill tt I In an# mull It to Dr. Plrnv'a Clinic, I UnXio, N. X., for free medical advice. I

The truth is these prophets don't know any more about what is going to happen- and what isn't than we do, and we admit it has us guessing. The pessimist's ' state of mind’’ is well illustrated by the following story by Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire: “There used to be," says the senator, “an old farmer up in Coos county in my state. Along in the spring he'd look up at the snow-clad top of Mount Washington and say: ’’ ‘Well, we ain't goln’ to git no good weather till the snow on Mount Washington melts and what's more the snow on Mount Washington ain't a-goin’ to melt till we git some good weather neither'.’’ For the first time in ten years tarm population in this country showed an increase last year and most of that came the last six months. It is safe to predict that this year will show a greater rush from cities to the rural section. This is evident from the demand for farms now and this will increase as those who thought they could strike it rich quickly in the crowded centers realize how much easier and surer it is to earn a liveliehood on the farm. Better buy one now. It's going to be a mighty good investment for some years to come. Just out of curiosity Judge EP. Woods and Roy L. Reid, Belvedere Gardens, Calif., attached a slip of paper to a dollar bill with a note that every person coming into possession of the dollar should write his or her name on it. The bill started out one afternoon at 4 o'clock. At 4 the next afternoon it was back in Judge Woods' hands bearing 182 names, which means that it produced $lB2 worth of business in twenty-four hours. The result of this experiment has been reported to President Hoover with the request that he make a nationwide appeal that every idle dollar possible be put into circulation as a means of bringing better times all around. —Mid-West Review. It's worth five dollars of your money to be listed with the boosters for this community. The Chamber of Commerce which is only the name of an organization of local citizens and business men for the purpose of helping you and every one else here. There's a real task, perhaps the most important one, for through such associations as this has every city which has gone forward, aided. A number of things have been accomplished here in the past and many more will be done in the years to come. Mr. Ashbaucher, Mr. Kirsch and those associated with them are showing enterprise, anxious to step out and do the job assigned to them. Get back of them and let's make things hum in 1931. ♦- —; “ ♦ In The Legislature 50 Years Ago ♦ (U.R) -♦ I Growth of state institutions and departments since the IXBI session of the state legislature is easily visualized in the increased appropriation requests. Lawmakers of 50 years ago weie asked to pass a biennial appropriation bill of $1,148, 410 as compared to approriations totalling more than $76,000,000 recommended to the recent legislature. Tlte appropriation bill passed bj |t'.e 1978 session provided for exIpendituies of $1,495 for the secretary to the governor. During the receding biennium he had received $2,000. The deputy attorney general received S6OO reduced from $1,200 and the solons refused to increase the salary of the clerk to the secretary of the state from S7OO to SI,OOO. o Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (UiR) —♦ Q. How does one get theater tickets to his guests? A. Mail them and then meet in the theater. Q. In w' at color should a baby be dressed? A. Tlte customary colors are blue tor a boy, pink lor a girl. Q. if a guest at dinner is not satisfied with tlte food, may be mention it to the hostess? ' A. Never. 0 i Get the Haott —Trade at Home

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0 Il 111 l), |l 'ill J II ■■ -♦ BIG FEATURES OF RADIO ♦ 4 Friday’s 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1931 by UP. ? All SCT. WABC (CBS network) 4 p. m. — | Light Opera Gems. WEAF (NBC network) 6:15 p in. —Little Things in Life —Trio. WABC (CBS network) 7 p. m. — Mary Chari-to—Soprano. WJZ NBC*network) 8 p. m.— ; Ernie Hare and Billie Jones. WEAF (NBC network) 8:45 p.m. I —Two Troupers. 0 Satui day's 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1931 by UP. All CST. — WEAF I NBC network) 6:30 p.m. —Snoop and Peep. WABC (CBS network) 7 p. in.— Ben Alley, Tenor and Organ. WEAF (NBC network; 7:15 p.m. —Varieties. WJZ (NBC network) 7 15' p. m. —Rin Tin Tin Thriller. WABC (CBS network) 9 p. in. —Show Boat. o ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File ♦ Feb. 27—John Jones, true name unknown, intterant cigar maker, gets bolstrous at a dry meeting at the M. E. church and pays a $9.30 fine. Petition filed for local option election in Root township. Fifty Yoemen go to Fort Wayne to help celebrate 14th anniversary of founding of the order. Dallas Hunsicker buys property on Nuttman avenue from John Brock and begins remodelling ot it. Miss Blanch Dibble goes to Hillsdele. Michigan for a visit while the F. W. Dibble family is moving to Lansing. Ferd Bleeke is slowly recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia.

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The trial has opened at Valparaiso. Ind., of Virgil Kirkland, who is charged with the slaying of 18-year-o!d Arlene Draves. The police allege that after a party, at which gin flowed freely, Kirkland) and four olhet youths criminally attacked Miss Drave#.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOChaT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931.

Mrs. J. D. Meyers gives party for her grandson, Richard Meyers on his 6th birthday. Mrs John Rupright 84, of near Echo, is seriously ill. Eggs 12c. butter 12c, hogs $7.00. Mrs. F. B. Perkins of Ann Arbor I Michigan, her campaign ihere for the drys o ♦— ——; —r. 4 Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (U.R) ♦ Cardboard Strips Use strips of cardhoard boxes, cut jinto convenient sizes, instead of a 'sink brush. They will not scratch I the sink and can be thrown away i or burned after using. They are also I more sanitary than the brush. Layer Cake Flavor When baking a white layer cake, a very delicate flavor may be obtained by placing two or three roseJ geranium leaves in the bottom of I the pam. Remove them when the cake is put together. Hard Oil Powdered pumige -stone is probably the only thing known that will remove hard oil from glass. o \ — # Lessons In English ♦ — - — —♦ '| Words often misused: Do not say "Isn't it a tiny, little ring?" Omit "Tiny" or "little." Often mispronounced: Garage, garazh. lirst a as in "ask” second as in "father,” accent last syllable; or pionounce gar-aj, first a as in "at” second syllable as "age,” and accent first syllable. Often misspelled: Phonograph; no. not na. Synonyms: Recant, recall, retract revoke, abjure, disavow, disown. Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us in- | crease oup-vocabulary by mastering > one word each day. Today’s work: Approbation; act of approving; sanction. “The King was presented to the approbation of the populace.

Being unable to arouse her, they took the girl to a doctor. On discovering she was dead, the doctor notified the polict. Picture shows, left, the late Arelene Draves. Upper, right. Judge Grant Grumpacker who is hearing the trial; lower right, Virgil Kirkland in court.

GYPSYMOTHWAR HAS RUN INTO MANY MILLIONS Ecaped Caterpillars of 69 Years Ago Blamed For Infestation By Gardner L. Bridge ' United Press Stuff Correspondent Albany, N. Y., Feb. 27 —(UP) — When a tew fuzzy little caterpillars escaped from a sceintist at Medford Mass., 62 years ago they started on a march of devastation that has cost New England states $100,000,000. A relentless war is now being waged in the Hudson and Champlain valleys to prevent the ravagers from invading the rest ot the country. The New York Conservation De panment, in announcing the enormous loss suffered by New England in devastated forest, fruit and shade trees, warned that a new infestation of gypsy moths, which grow from the little caterpillars, has just been discovered in the town of Milan Dutchess County, a few miles west of the Connecticut state line. A barrier zone has been set up to block the pest’s advance, with department scouts and exterminates on constant vigilance. This year Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt recommended that the annual appropriation for the insect war be doubled, so as to serve the usual purpose of strengthening the state's forces against the everincreasing horde and to provide extra jobs for unemployed, and it is being done. The appropriation this year will be SB,OOO. Conservation Commissioner Henry Morgenthau, Jr., has asked federal autorities for increased assistance in cleaning up the heavily infested area in New England. It is hoped the federal appropriation also will be doubled.

The invasion began in 1869 when a few of the insects which Leopold Trouvelot was cross-breeding with silkworms in an effort to produce a silkworm immune to certain diseases, accidentally escaped. Al though Trouvelot notified the proper autorities. no attention was paid the matter until 20 years later when ravages of the pests, which Trouvelot had imported from Europe, began to cause general alarm. In 1890 the Massachusetts legislature took official cognizance of tlte’ menace and spent $1,000,000 during the following ten years in a futile effort to halt the advance. Since then the monetary loss has multiplied 100 times according to the New York officials. 0 Cuba Concludes Parcel Post Treaty With Canada Havana, Feb. 27. — (U.R) — Secretary of State EVancisco Fernandez has just announced that the parcel post treaty between Canada and; Cuba is now in effect. Negotiations for the pact were, begun several months ago at the! request of the Canadian postal an-1 thorities, who, according to Secretary Fernandez, took special consideration of Cuba's request for liberal concessions on tobacco exports. Maximum weight ot parcel post packages to any place within the I borders of Canada is set at eleven pounds in the treaty. A tariff of! 48 cents for weights between one ’ and two pbunds is announced.! Ninety-two cents will be charged for parcels weighing between three and five kilograms. o PTjounty'agent’s 1 COLUMN I« « (Purdue News Service) , Certified Minota seed oats were first introduced into Indiana in 1926 and today this variety leads all others in a number of Indiana counties and is giving excellent satisfaction. Benton, Porter, LaPorte, Tippecanoe and Lake were among the first counties in which county agricultural agents brought this variety to the attention of local farmers. County Agent W. G. Smith, of Newcastle, interested three Henry county farmers in obtaining this variety last spring, and from the certified seed stock which they have ferown. a number of local farmers will obtain this variety this year. Two farmers in Elkhart county are introducing the variety in that county this year, and in a number cf other counties quantities of Minota oats are available for seed purposes. Mjnota has made a fovaroble impression on growers because ot its outstanding yielding ability and medium length, stiff straw. In spite of its moderate sized stem it is much less .inclined to lodge tlian the average variety. It is a white seeded variety of medium test weight, and ripens in mid-season in about the same time as Silvermine. It was placed in test at tlte Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station in 1919 and since that time has outyielded consistently such standard varieties as Swedish Select, Vicoty, Siivermine, and Big Four. The variety is well adapted to all levels of fertility according to Purdue tests, and has been a leading variety ou expert-

meat fields In all ports of the state. New varieties that are being tried out and look promising includes Gopher, a white early oats from Minnesota that does especially well ou hlack soil and is very stiff stemmed. The straw is so short on clay soils that this variety should not he tried unless the soil is very fertile, lower is another high yielding, white variety of rather genera) adaptation. It yields well on all soils and stands fairly well. This variety is a few days later than lowa 103. but grows taller, lowar and logren are varieties obtained from lowa, logren is a high yielding mid-season yellow oats. o HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs Erwin Stucky. Monroe, underwent a minor operation at the Adams County Memorial Hospital this morning. Charles Schroeder, Celina. Ohio. Route 5, underwent a major operation this morning at the Adams County Memorial Hospital. - o Virgil Wagoner of Monroe was a business visitor in this city today.

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DOCTOR REVEALS OLD ADE SECRET Paris. Feb. 23,-<U.»—There has been a regnlar epidemic of French centenariana voluntarily instructing the younger generation how to live to a ripe old age, hut Doctor Paul Gtteniot, a young centenarian, has a new method. Dr. Gueniot was 100 the other. 1 day and celebrated by publishing a book entitled "To Live 100 Years" I in which he preached the necess- ’ ity of two daily massages from head to toe, if one wants to light off Father Time's ravages. "Every morning and every night”, he says, "one must massage one's self from top to bottom, without ’ rubbing too hard. This increases ’ the circulation and improves the ' respiratory organs, giving a general delicious suppleness." Tlte doctor claims there are '; many reasons why persons should Ibe able to live 100 years or more. | Most importantly because mamImais, of which family we are, live II five times the age at which their bones harden. For human beings

this is 20. the;< : f tllt ~ lifespan is ioo. ' o _■! ARRIVALS ■hi — —. Mr and Mrs. (; al „ , Fort Wayne are th,. lllt ‘ boy baby, born Wells coun: yhospital lu The mothei is a 5i5,,,,. mond Keller „> t | u , , ilv of Hu O e Coat of Arms p larni ®e < t'hester. Pa.. Fob - largest coat of aims < )( monwealth of I’.m-, | VHI „ ( ", will adorn the bl|i||| ' Chester Tinies. u 1( . on three stones. w -|| pounds. Tlte e. 2.800 pounds with each ouoter pieces ueighlnipoun*s. Get the Habf— Trad, <t sS

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