Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 184, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1931 — Page 4

PAGE FOUR

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Exeept Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller .. Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse. Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single copies . . $ .02 One week, ;>y carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail. 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office...; 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Advertising Representative SCHEERER, Inc. iffb’East Wacker Drive, Chicago *• 415 Lexington Avenue, New York a» Charter Member of The “ Indiana League of Home Dailies <•» «- — ■— 3 BETTER OR WORSE: — A lot of folks have in the past depended largely upon the sugges- „ tions and predictions or Roger Bale • son. Here is a recent statement " by him and one which may be tak- • en in any way we desire it but cer- • tainly looking a little dark for Mr. • Hop ver: • "In the past month I have con- «■ ducted a survey of farm conditions •» in nine states, namely, Wisconsin, Montana, Minnesota, Kansas, Cali—loiffTJi. Idaho, Missouri, lowa and Nebraska. Reports sent me from a wide range of key men, in positions to know the farm situation at first hand, are overwhelmingly of the opinion that the farmer will either be no better off, or worse off, this year than he was last. "Fifty-four per cent say that he is worse off; twenty-three per cent say that he is no better off; and twenty-three per cent say that he is better off. Os all the farm groups, the grain growers seem to be in the worst situation. The dairy farmers are slightly better situated. but are not so well off this year as they were last; and this applies also to the fruit growers. Livestock raisers are in relatively the best position. “The farmers’ chief difficulties as seen by my correspondents are: (1) The low price of farm products compared with the things the farmer must buy. (2) The failure of farm machinery and equipment prices to come down. (3 The burden of mortgage interest payments together with the fact that many farm properties have now approached close to the price of the mortgage on them. (4) Continued high taxes. (5) The high tariff which protects industry but fails to protect agriculture. (6) Labor costs. (7) High freight rates. "Many reports received indicate intense feeling against the present Administration. This is of distinct political significance, because the states thus far reporting are normally Republican states. If the western senators reflect the present sentiment of their districts, there will be strong opposition against President Hoover. The tarmers feel that the moratorium is something that Hoover has done for the industrial east. Hence, they are not shouting for Hoover because of this latest move." What is the real cause of the traffic accidents which last year killed 33,090 people in this country and injured over a million? That is like asking who won the war! The fact is that ’tost accidents have not one but several causes. As a rule, it takes several things going wrong at the same time, to make an accident. One fellow can do a wrong thing, like speeding or cutting in, and generally he gets away with it. But if he happens to meet up with another fe!l6w who also is doing something w tong running through a stop sign for instance—or who is perhaps a clumsy driver, then there’s a smash-up. Take a driver turning the corner in a hurry, a pedestrian whose mind is somewhere else, add

first opplicotion of delightful odorless OVEtMO CREAM brings blessed relief. Soors clears up eczematous eruptions end skin irrltotionsof most stubborn type. Proved successful In over 6 0.000 cases. Use OVEtMO daily Io keep your skin clear, soft, youthful, beautiful. At druggists ond toilet goods counters." Moneyback guarantee. SICK SKIN YEARNS FOR GvelmO EVERY SKIN NEEDS OVELMO

a slippery pavement and you have the ingredients of a typical accident. John P. Frey, economist, tells the depression story briefly: While total volume of wages were nearly stationary, between 1922 and 1929, corporate dividends increased from $930,646,000 to $3,478,000,000 and bank and bondholder profits more than tripled. "The failure of industry and commerce to pay wages in proportion to the wealth being created, resulted in a serious deprtssion. or lack of consuming power, in the very market in which the manufacturing industries were compelled to depend for the purchase of 95 per cent of their products,” Mr. Frey writes. Have you lookt d over one of the fair premium lists? They are interesting to those who wish the fair to be a real success. There is some place where you can enter something and thus help make the shdw bigger and better. The free acts look like thrillers, the whole program is being worked out for your entertainment. Get ready for the big annual street fair and agricultural show next month. The most important problem the next month will be tax making over Indiana. Taxes must be made to conform to values of the present time and until that is done things will not improve very rapidly. We hope every officer to whom has been entrusted the power to fix budgets and rates will seriously consider every step, that the rate here may be held as low ,as possible. A Kansas man paid the judge who married him by giving him ten bushels of wheat which the judge wisely accepted. The man owns a 700-acre wheat farm and has plenty of that commodity but was low on cash. It sounds like the old days when crops and wood and other vegetables were used to barter with. While bank deposits in Indiana show a decrease for the past six months there is an Increased cash reserve and a general improvement in confidence that augers well and causes the banking department officials to express the most optimistif opinion in several years. Warm weather seems generally prevalent again. Perhaps it was too early in the summer to expect relief for long from the sunshine which has worked overtime the past several weeks. Oh well most of us are getting used to it now. Just for a change of the program Chicago is having a race riot and the colored section of the city is not a very safe place to visit these Utt o > — # | Lessons In English | * * Words often misused: Do not say; ’I wish that it was true.” Were is required after wish. Say “I wish that it were trite.” Often mispronounced: Munich (Germany) Pronounce mu-nik u as in “unit," i as in “lick.” Often misspelled: Slaughter. Observe the augh. Synonyms: Fruitless, barren, profitless. abortive. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” *Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Personification A embodiment; incarnation. "He was the personification of goodnatured indolence." o , Modern Etiquette 1 By ROBERTA LEE » (U.R» « Q. Is it ever proper for girls to drop the ptefix “Miss” on their cards? A. Some modern girls use just their names, but the more socially correct never do? Q. Wba’ qualities make up the “perfect traveler"? A. He should have good health, a chqerful disposition, particularly under unpleasant circumstances, and should possess a keen sense of humor. Q. What is the function of the service or place plate? A. it is purely decorative. o Pickles for Sale—See J. G. I Niblick or telephone 191. 185t31

—and the Worst is Yet to Comb?

♦ REUNION ) CALENDAR Sunday August 9 Annual Kitson reunion, Hiers Park Huntington. Fifteenth annual Hutker reunion. Lakeside Park, Fort Wayne. Annual Hower family reunion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Twenty-first Dailey reunion, Lehman Grove, Berne. Annual Snyder reunion, Legion Memorial Park. The twelfth annual Davison reunWashington Park, Bluffton Park. Bluffton. Sixth annual Hitchcock, reunion, Cora D Miller home near Watt. Durbin reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Sunday, August 9 — Tumbleson reunion. Legion Memorial Park. Rillig & Reohm Family reunion. Sun Set Park. Annual Reunion of Beinz Family, Sun Set Park. Saturday August 15 Annual Steiner reunion, Lehman Park at Berne. Sunday, August 16 Stauffer Reunion, College grounds at Bluffton, Ohio. Pleasant Mills Alumni Picnic. Elzey Reunion, Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. Springer-Brandyberry reunion, Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. Seventh annual Brenllinger reunion, Janies Mankey grove Vfa miles north of CurryvilleButler Reunion, Sun Set Park. McGill Family reunion, Sun Set Park. Smith Reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday, August 23 Annual reunion of the Kemmer family Sun Set Park,* Decatur, raiu or shine. Annual reunion of Hakes Family, Sun Set Park, Decatui. Sunday September 6 Urich family reunion, Sun Set Park, rain or shineRichards family runion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Schnepp and Manley reunion, Decatur. Sept. 7—Labor Day Lenhart Reunion, Sun Set Park. Reunion of Millinger Family, Sun Set Park. T TWENTY YEARS " AGO TODAY | Prom the Daily Democrat File ] Aug. s—Court5 —Court house offices closed from 10 to 12, A. M. in respect to Judge Merryman, whose mother was hurried today. Mrs. Elizabeth Waller of Mansfield, Ohio, dies while here on visit with her daughter, Mrs. Daniel Cook Farmers warned not to put green hay in barns because of fire danger. A. L. Colchin of Decatur, appointed a deputy game warden for Adams county.

THE ADAMS THEATRE Delightfully COOL and COMFORTABLE Thursday - Friday - Saturday—lsc-35c DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM “FORBIDDEN “TARNISHED LADY’ ADVENTURE" wlth TalluUh „ ankh ,.., d With Mitzi Green. Edna May ' Urook. Oliver. Louise Fazenda donald ogden and Jackie Searl. Sparkling Drama. From SINCLAIR LEWIS’ Great A New Electrifying Beauty Comes Comedy—"LET'S PLAY KING.” to the Talking Screen . . She gives Long—Loud Laughs—for ' a New Thrill . . . TALLULAH Young and Old! BANKHEAD! THIS THEATRE WILL BE CLOSED TONIGHT (WEDNESDAY)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931.-

Addition planned for St. Jos/ph I hospital at Fort Wayne will cost I I $139,000. Hale family reunion held at the Muncie fair grounds. Potatoes scarce and price is $2.00 per bushel. Kirkland township oats: William Beineke, 1933 bushels from 27 acres William Arnold 1680 bushels from 23 acres; Jacon Barger 2160 bushels from 30 acres and Otto Hildebrand 1147 bushels from 16 acres. H. S. Moses of Canton, Ohio, visits relatives here. » o —. ♦ — * I Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE • qjjy * Washing Dress Shields User m lukewas:t F NN Use lukewarm soapy water and a teaspoonful of baking soda when washing dress shields. Rinse in water the same temperature and dry in a shady, airy place. Grapefruit A russet grapefruit, with a spotted skin, usually has a fine flavor. Most other russet fruits are not of the finest quality. Cheese A decided improvement can be i given to the taste of cauliflower , , by adding a cup of grated cheese j I ! to the white sauce. ♦ ♦! ANSWERS TO TEST I QUESTIONS Below are the answers to the test questions printed on page two | 1. Texas. I 2. Julia Pcterkin. 3. The bjafia. 4. Joan of Arc. 5. Boston, Mass. 6. The Caribbean. 7. A two-thirds vote. 8. Cadet White. 9. Athlone. Ireland 10. An animal. o — Get the Haclt—Trade at Hom.-.

— THE CORT — j TONIGHT - TOMORROW “GIRLS DEMAND EXCITEMENT’’ A Collegiate comedy, with John Wayne, Virginia Cherrill, Marguerite Churchill. The low down on the higher co-education. Also—" Scared Stiff" comedy News. 10c-35c i Frii. 4c Sat. — Ken Maynard in I “THE TWO GUN M4N." ' Sun. Mon. Tues—Richard Barthel- } mess in "THE FINGER POINTS.”

BRITISH ROADS MAKE REPORT London, Aug. 5.—<U.R> —The gross receipts of the four leading British railroad groups for 1930 amounted Ito $953,363,000. as compared with $626,246,250 in 1913. Despite the increase in gross earnings, amounts available for ini terest and dividends leave decreasled 74 cents on each $4.85, or a total 'of $36,389,559. In 1913, $1.68 out of each $4.85 of jgross receipts was available for Interest and dividends. During the [past year 92 cents was paid over ito interest and dividends. | Salaries and wages account for I the major difference in amounts I available tor interest and dividends. I During the year before the war i 78 cents of each $4.85 was the proi portion paid out in salaries and wages. During 1930 the amount was $2.66 per each $4.85. Railroads during the past year spent 8 cents less on each $4.85 of gross receipts for materials than in 1913; 2 cents less on rates, taxes i and national insurance, and 6 cents ibss on sundry items. o—- * MAGLEY NEWS The Reppert reunion was held Sunday in the park at Berne. About 100 were in attendance, the program in the afternoon consisted of songs speeches and instrumental music. The speakers were Rev. Gordon Homes of Hartford City and Rev. Ralph Worthman of Fort Wayne. Ice cream was served in the evening. Those present from around Magiey were: Mr. and Mrs. Milton Scherry and family Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fruchte, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Reppert, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reppert and family Mr. and Mrs. Hosier Eckrote, Mrs. Mina Reppert and son Clarence, Misses Marie and Marcella Scherry. Mrs. Amanda Suttles of Ohio who is spending a few months here visited Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hower of Blufton Friday and Saturday. Mrfind Mrs Ray Foltz visited Mr and Mrs. Otto Hildebrand and fa mily Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fruchte of Fort Wayne are spending two weeks vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Fruchte and family and Edward Scherry. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Scott of Fort

GUIDE. COUNSELOR ... FRIEND WHAT is the best soap for dishes, for woolens, for the toilet? How much is rib roast today? How much for the new shoes Billy needs? Where can I get rompers and sun suits for Mary? Can I afford new linoleum for the kitchen now? What about a new chair or two for the porch? ’An electric fan would be nice, but how much does it cost? In this very newspaper you will probably find the answers to these and many other questions. Questions you must answer if you are to be sure of getting the best value for your money, the most out of your weekly budget. Advertising is a friendly thing, ready to help you plan every purchase, to fit it to your need and your purse. As you sit at home reading the newspaper, study the advertisements, and make your decisions at your leisure, free from the bustle and confusion of the market-place. i Consult the advertisements before you buy. Decatur Daily Democrat

Wayne Mrs. Israel Stoneburner of Decatur visited Mrs. James Hower Mrs. Amanda Suttles and Mr. aud Mrs. Edward Kolter. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jaberg and daughter Donna Ruth motored to Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon ami visited with Mr. aud Mrs. Paul Bieberich and son Dwight, and returned Monday.

Mr -and Mrs. Walter Kruetzman and son Richard spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. aud Mrs. George Lies of Spencerville, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Amstutz and Mrs. Mary Gerber of Berne visited Mr. aud jlrs. George Gerber and Mrs. Caroline Jaberg Sunday afternoon. J. J. Helmrich is on the sick list with a seige of summer “flu" Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Oettinger of Detroit Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. Chaites Dettinger attended the Dettinger reunion held at the Sun set park Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bloemker Mr. and Mrs. William Worthman Mrs. Alma Reppert and daughter and Gundtua Worthman were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Manns and family. Mr. and Mrs. E. J Miller and children Nettie Jean and Ralph called on George Miller and daughters Olive and Emma Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wood and family, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Smith and family visited Mr and Mrs. Charles Myers of Fort Wayne Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bloemker Mrs. Charles Reppert and daughter, Mr. | and Mrs. William Worthman were shoppers in Fort Wayne Monday > afternoon. I Mrs. Charles Reppert and daughter of Canada who has been visiting relatives and friends for a couple months will s’ait for their home Friday. BARGAINS — Bargains In living room, dining room suite, mattresses and rugs. St"ckey and Co. Monroe, our Phone number is 44

RAILWAY POSTAL CLERK-CITY Rural Mail Carrier; men between the age of 18 to we will train you in your spare lime at home for the next examination. Give age, address, for tree particulars. Addiess Box G.W.C., care of Decatur Democrat. 183t3

Holes In Wall Acted As Vaults For Indian Maids Colorado Springs, — (UP) — Indian maidens who lived in New Mexico a thousand or more years ago did uot have safety deposit vaults in which to store their jewel! y so they hid it in the walls of their pueblos instead. W W. Postlewaite, treasurer of Colorado College, recently returned from an expedition during whk h he excavated (he ancient pueblo of Chetro Keti in Chaco canon in the

SEE the I NEW PLYMOUTI the only car in the world Jx ■ of FLOATING POWf FREE WHEELING fl HYDRAULIC BRAKES ■ DOUBLE-DROP FRAME ■ SAFETY-STEEL BODY EASY-SHIFT TRANSMISSIB t t - SMOOTHNESS OF AN EIgK f ECONOMY OF A FOUR .■ . J B* 0 $5 3 5 ■ SOLD BY ALL CHRYSLE® DODGE. AND DeSOTO DEALeK"

New Mexican NawT" 1 «al«l that an ll)(lia|) J , ‘ l “A a small hole I?! wall of a house and t ' 1 <>t 1.945 jet and white'a nearby pocket a small bits of t„ covered. e 1 PosHewaite believe, t J covery of the ornament lt x was the custom to uables in the masonry n H when Chetro Keii Wa St hundreds of years ago " Get the H a bit-T rart> ’