Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1931 — Page 2

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Pnblfshed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holtbouse.Sec’y & Bus. 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 Six months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second tones. Elsewhere J 3.50 one year. Advertising Fates made known on Application. Hational Advertising Representati SCREERER, INC. S 5 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana League of Home Dailies After all Adams County fares mighty well in comparison with the rest of the world when we figure it year in and year out. Help the Legion boys put over the fair and your first duty is to aid in the drive for funds. They can't do it without finances and the more liberal you are the better the fair will be. As competition becomes keener its a good thing to smile for your ’. own appearance and your own per- - sonality will have much to do with your success the next few years, . whether you are in business, poli- . tics or whatnot. " Prohibition enforcement officers • have been ordered to have their • guns ready when making arrests «• of bootleggers as a result of the « shooting of two unarmed officers at Fort Wayne. That’s not a declaration of war exactly but sounds as _ though they mean business. “ Germany's banks are back on ~ their feet, thanks to the assistance given that nation from other coun- - tries including Uncle Sam and every thing now seems to be to a - betlfiT day all over the world. And we hope thats a true prediction that starts immediately and gains momentum rapidly. - Few places in the world can boast of better tasting water than is furnished to patrons of the local plant and the new well just brought in is right in line with the older ones. We can be thankful that we have a good supply of excellent water for - drinking purposes and by the way there is no finer drink on the market. Whatever else we may find to • complain about the fact remains -• that this is a good Saturday night town and that the merchants here . enjoy as liberal a patronage on these occasions as those in any _ place we know of. Business comes from a wide radius, the customers 1 taking advantage of the splendid J • opportunities offered by the up to-f date stores of this city. We approach the month of August when vacations and sales and reunions and races and county fairs - and other events attract our attention. Then will come September and school and the reopening of - court. We whirl from one month “ into another almost too rapidly tor ” most of us to keep up with the 2 procession but we are all doing the best we can. 2 The Portland American Legion junior ball team kicked over the ■■ old dope bucket and won the dis- " trict chrmpionship from Muncie by • a one-sided score notwithstanding the fact that in two former engage- •• ments the score had been against „ the Jay county lads. That's baseball. You never know until the last man is out in the last inning which • team will be victor nor have you I " ■ i. —

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any way of being real sure that the tailenders won't knock off the top notchers, but thats with due respect to the Portland juniors who played good ball throughout the tourna- . ment, showed good form and won [ on their merits. Ira Holmes, Indianapolis lawyer, has filed suit against Walter Shedd, formerly of Blufflon and now ediI tor of a weekly newspaper at In--1 dlanapolis, demanding $50,000 be- ! caused Shedd accused him of being > a “gangster attorney.” Walter prob- ( ably considers that a compliment i and knowing him as we dp we would guess it would only stimulate him to greater efforts in his campaign. I ■■ ■ 1 Courtesy in automobile driving is so easy that we wonder why everyone don't indulge in it. Dimming lights, tooting the horn when you approach crossings or when you go around a car, extending your hand so the other drivers know what you I are going to do and in generally be- 1 ing decent on the road is not only better for every one but almost necessary if you wish to aid the being careful majority of drivers. The corn in this territory is reaching a height!) that shuts off the view as ycu dash along the highway in your car. Toot your horn and , watch carefully that collisions may J be avoided. Every year there are I numerous accidents due to careless-[ ness at highway intersections and I the only way to prevent them is for every one to use judgment. The price of wheat in South Dai kota is reported to be twelve cents a bushel which causes the editor of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette to say: “One bushel of twelve-cent wheat would not buy one package of any standard brand of cigarettes—which, of course, is of no consequence, for a Nebraska or a South Dakota farmer probably absorbs from a cob pipe his daily portion of nicotine if any. Nor would it buy a first-rate pair of cotton socks, which would be a matter of importance to a Nebraska or Dakota farmer, or a good bandana handkerchief to mop the harvest sweat from his browned and seamed face. The entire harvest oT a farmer who tills a quarter section would not pay for the coffin he will be in need of, poor fellow, if his distress do not soon find some alleviation else than the mortal event.” 0 ♦ ♦ I I TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE I I | Can you answer seven of these ; test questions? Turn to page four for the answers ' » 4 1. Who was Tirza? 2. To wha* country does Bessarabia now belong? 3. Is Hollywood. California, an incorporated town? 4. Who wrote "The Tempest?” 5. When did the United States declare war against Germany? 6. What was that part of the KenI tucky country explored by Daniel! I Boone popularly called? 7. Os what country is the Union of I South Africa a Dominion? 8. What precious metal has its value placed by law? 9. Who is chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee? 10. What fuel has taken the place of coal on modern naval vessels and on some locomotives? o ♦—— — « Lessons In English Words often misused Do not say “Where are you going to?” Omit to.” Often mispronounced: Grocery. Pronounce gio-ser-i, three syllables, and not gros-ri. Often misspelled: Cooperate. Observe the 00. Synonyms: Frugal, economical, provident, saving, sparing Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yotns." Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: Sanguine, confident. “We were sanguine of success.” 0 , NOTICE I The Board ot Guardians will meet \ Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock; in 'he Library. All members are! asked to be present. . o I BARGAINS — Bargains in living i room, dining room suite, mat'resses and rugs. St”?key and Co.! Monrpe, our Phone number is 44 -tt;

> | TWENTY YEARS " t AGO TODAY I ?rom the Daily Democrat File June 27 —Decatur library has cir i culated 15.000 books the past year. J. M. Frisinger leaves for Belgium to purchase horses. Orders issued requiring pass to ■ go through Decatur Motor Company , plant. Mrs John Colebin injured when street car strikes auto in which she was riding with her nephew Oliver ■ and wife. Janies K. Niblick family move to farm east of city. Coiner stone for new court house | | at Auburn laid. Governor Marshall I makes the big speech. Corn 84c, wheat 75c, rye 68c barley 60c hay $14.00; hogs $7.30. "Woman in black" hops out in front of-a man named Shaw on north Fifth street. Shaw knocks her over but she glides away. Prof. Shepherd, hyponist is putting 'em to sleep at the Star theater. Miss Caroline Dowling leaves for a visit in Kentland. Ind. o ♦ # I Household Scrapbook I I By j | ROBERTA LEE * (U.PJ ♦ Chiffon Chiffon gai ments will be freshened and made to look like new if hung in the bathroom when filled with steam. Then hang in the open air. Butter One pound of butter, that is sold in brick form, measures exactly two cups. When measuring one cup of ■ butter cut the brick in halves. Poisoning Ants | Sprinkle on the shelves and around all haunts of ants a mixture I I o f half borax and half sugar. This | will poison every ant that finds it. ♦ # Modem Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (U.PJ « Q. Is it ever proper to interrupt a conservation between two persons for the puipose of introducing another erson? A. Never; wait for a lull in the conversation. Q. May a young man include his visiting card, when sending flowers or candy to a young woman? A. Yes, but draw a line through “Mr" Q. Is’it permissible to eat asparagus with the fingers? A. No; the fork should be used. LINDBERGHS START FLIGHT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) night stop, and then launching forth for a journey northwestward across Canada to Alaska. It is a leisurely trip they have scheduled. Though it calls for ' visits to out of the way corners of the earth, on a 7,000-mile route, it has been carefully plotted, and caches of gasoline aw’ait them en roti tel From Ottawa, they fly to Moose Factory and Churchill, and then across the "barren lands" ot north- I western Canada to Lake Baker and ' Aklavik in the delta of the Mac-: kenzie river. The Canadian government has made available caches of gasoline along this route, and Lindbergh has seen to it that other supplies are ready at Point Barrow and Nome, Alaska. From that point they will skirt above the Bering Sea to Karaginsk (Siberia); Pctroplavsk (Kamchatka peinsula); the Kurile Islands; Nemurc, Japan and Tokio. Later they will visit China. Their plans call for a return ' flight but probably not over the | same route for Lindbergh says that I going over the same route horn would be monotonous.” They carry 50 pounds of emergency food far the event of a landing in an out-of-reach spot; about the same poundage of wa'er; 350 gallons of gasoline (average); and two pistols for game hunting or protection in a wilderness. The Washington journey is designed to make last minute consultations as to passports. They have a permit to fly over Russia, and are advised that they will be welcome in Japan and along tho route. o DEATH SUMMANS DECATUR WOMAN 7-7*jjnuep - F ° RM PAGH one) in marriage to Dr. C. V. Connell, who survives together, with three children. Mrs. T. A- Lenahan ot Indianapolis; Mrs. J. R. Burnside, of ! Little Rock. Ark., Fred W. Connell of this city, 4 grandchildren, and 3 brothers, Fred Martin and Ed Martin, Los Angeles, Cal., and Lee Martin, Detroit, Michigan. Two [sisters, Mrs. Anna Maddy and Mrs. I Rose Dennis preceded the deceased [ in death. [ Friends may view the remains at [the home after 7 o'clock tills evening, Tuesday afternoon beginning ; at 2 o'clock, and Tuesday evening iat 7 o'clock. Funeral services will be held [Wednesday morning at 9:30 o’clock I [at the St. Marys Catholic church! I with Father Joseph Hennes official j

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ing. Burial will lie in the St. Joseph cemetery. WICKERSHAM GROUP URGES SYSTEM CHANGE — tCONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | I for the maintenance of each indi-, i vitlual prisoner in our penal insti-i tutions. "The prison has failed as an i educational institution. No one ! claims that men who are released are better equipped to accept an I honest role in the world than I they were before commitment. “The prison has failed as a disciplinary institution. The riots.' the fires, the use of cruel and [ I fatal measures of punishment,' the persistent recurrence of murder within the rison, the frequent I atmosphere of hate and bitterness ; are sufficient evidence.” T lie commission also studied ' 11,00(1 police jails and village lockups in the nation. Most of them it found "literally a public nuisance and “unfit for the purpose for which they Were designated". Thousands of these jails were said to be fire traps. Many are without adequate heating, ventilation or plumbing. “It is common for young and in-1 experienced prisoners and even I children to be thrown into intimate i association for days at a time with ' vicious, depraved and diseased' criminals,” the commission said. More* than a third of the large j state and federal prisons were I built more than 70 years ago, the report* said. Eight are more than ! 100 years old. And nearly all the 3,000 penal institutions follow what 1 tlie commission termed the obso- i lete design hi which most of the! s are confined to cells. I

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i Sixteen per cent of the cells con-1 I tain less than 132 cubic feet of I space. Only a small proportion of prisI oners need actually be kept behind I strong bars ami high walls, it was | said.. “The millions of dollars now em- | ployed to construct elaborate, | maximum-security prisons could.; [with much better advantage, be i used in development and proper; ■financing of adequate systems of[; I probation an ( | parole,” the com- i mission said. Os the nearly 400,000 persons i , who enter prisons each year, only I about 100,000 are long-term in- j ■ mates, the report said in stressing | the need of educating and reform-1 ing those who are to be discharged ! : in a comparatively short time. It said “not a single complete ami well-rounded educational program, adequately financed and | staffed, was encountered in all the prisons in the country.” Most prisons were said to provide no schooling beyond the fifth grade. A three-fold program for prison education was laid down by the commission: 1 Prevent deterioration, “which | , is the almost inevitable by-product ; of confinement. This is to be accomplished by keeping the in-1 mates busy. The day must be filli ed fiom morning u itil night with ; as much interesting activity in the [ form of work, play, education, and conversation as possible. 2. Break down undesirable hab- | its. 3. Inculcate new habits and 1 interests. Considering in detail some of the methods of punishment it criticized, the commission said : men in the Ohio State prison at | Columbus are placed standing in I a semi-circular cage In which they

cannot move; in the'Rhode Islam! prison the strait-jacket is used; in the Washington State reformatory 114 unassigned men ■ were kept locked up in their cells for all but two hours a day; in the old prison at Joliet, 111., "two men and sometimes three or four are shackled to a door.” Federal prisons in 1930 were reported to l»e overcrowded to 66 per cent more than their normal capacity. In the Wisconsin state prison 188 qien were said to be sleeping on cots in the corridors. Plumißing was termed inadequate in 21 per cent of the men’s pris- | ons, including those at Charlesi town. Mass., Auburn and Clinton. | N.Y Joliet. 111.. Folsom prison. Calif., and the Oregon state prison. Reformatories for men were found to be in about the same condition as the prisons but the women's reformatories were better. The report dwelt on the need for segregating prisoners who are, diseased physically or mentally. It said insane prisoners still are kept

Drive Through Safety Lane for Car Inspection Our Brake Testing apparatus, used in the Safety Lane Drive at Fort Wayne last week has been returned to our (Jarage and we are again ready to make your Safety tests. J/Y Tests Made FREE Our Lane is complete and enables us to completely check your entire car. This equipment is permanent at our garage and is at your service any time. DRINEIN! Let us put an “0.K.” sticker on your car before you are warned by the police. XS e carry all sizes of Brake Lining, both woven and x moulded. RUSCO, the kind that stops in rain or shine. MA K E YOUR TEST TOD A Y Riverside Super Service ■— Dependence be of s Servic'Vol!'.' SMILES of assurance. That’s the smile of the child who has fibsolute faith in the protecting arms of her “Daddy.” That’s also the smile of the man who has his family valuables and important papers safely guarded in the Safe Deposit Xuults of this bank. • IT’S COSILY TO BE CARELESS. IT'S ECONOMICAL TO BE SAFE. OCR VAULTS ARE FOR RENT. * « « Old Adams County Bank “A Safe Place to Save”

I within the state prisons in 1111- , nois, Michigan and Maryland. The lease and contract systems of prison labor were condemned. The lease system is still retained in the laws of Louisiana. North I Carolina and Arkansas. The com- ! mission advocated that prisonialjor should lie used tor maintenance and upkeep of the prison itself; for farming and state road work and reforestation projects; and in iudustrfal establishments within the prison. It suggested prisoners lie paid some wages. Emphasis was placed on the desirability of providing work for all prisoners. At present "in some prisons the men are taken to an empty loft during the day and ; made to sit on beneches with nothing to do from breakfast till noon and then from noon till supper." “Parole must be considered the Ipst means yet revises! for releasej ing prisoner.: from confinement,” the commission said, "it affords the safest method of accomplishing tlie ex-prisoner’s readjustment to the community." The parole sys-•

terns in Minnesota, and New York were ‘ COI J The report urged , lla( C 0 «’ establish full time to handle all eases aH|l s prisoners on parole. ’ D-- -J J Survey Reveals Rich Victoria. B. c the Peace river country l){ > Columbia has rev oi,/ ' 9.000,000 tons of high (|lla tuminous coal, h p plies, placer gold, water now, plenty of available |l;lßses low no snowsheds are r» Premier S. F. Tolmi,. () f B rit | lumbia reports in -peaking recent survey conducted by C. government in conjuaetit, tl)e Canadian National Railws the Canadian Paeim- R ailwa ’ O 1 Pro Plays With Either H> OLD ORCHARD M, Old Orchard Com eluw/ an ambidextrous Pilfer, ft Meehan's wood clubs are tion right-handed models, bi ■ irons are lefts.