Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1931 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except 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 Orte week, t>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 Ono 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. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The ■.ndiana League of Home Dailies It seems that the crime wave has not touched bottom. Oklahoma and Texas are not j bothered by overproduction of oil any more. Then after 1931 is over, another 12 months lies ahead, so forget ! about the good old days and look j to the future. i A fashion article says that women are going back to the bustle, but I we would say that the bustle is going back of the woman. Peaches are cheap this year, the crop is good and if you like that ' delicacy with a dash of whipped 1 cream after the Thanksgiving meal now is the time to can ’em. .To be exact, payments of income I tax dropped $611,916,978, this year and the federal government has a i deficit of $903,000,000. which is a lot of money no matter on which shie of the ledger it appears. Those who have read Robert Langsing's accounts of the days , preceding the war appreciate that it was some job to be secretary of ' state and combat wits with the able Count Von Bernstoff. A truck driver is being sued for 1 I causing a train wreck and damag-I ing several coaches. When the i “man bites the dog,” that’s news ' and in this case the truck owner does the reverse English. U. S. Treasury officials predict that 100.000 more men will be put l to work on public construction ] work before winter starts and most! communities would like to see their own local labor employed. Michigan is going after the, “white mule” manufacturers, but when a fellow can get a “bun on” i witli fermented grape juice and i wine, it will have some job trying ' _t<s clean up the traffic all over the state. This would be a good time for! the Near East relief committee to .Ifity wheat and cotton and ship it' to the needy families in China and ; Armenia or some other place where I people go undernourished and half! clothed. in Pennsylvania four men died th tlie electric chair for the murder

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of a farmer and we wonder if the people of Michigan wish that the big negro and two white men had committed their horrible deed . across the state line. Jack Dempsey is faced with ant, other “battle o* me century,” as his wife, Estelle Taylor, throws out > the defiant challenge that she will I contest his suit for divorce in the II , Nevada courts. The former champ- * ion may find it more difficult to i i give the knock-out blow in this case i than with Firpo, Carpentier and some of the boys. - —- -f. A former Chicago aiderman returns from Leavenworth where he served 16 months in the federal prison and although losing 66 pounds of his former weight, says he is feeling fine and thqt he and eight former bankers had a private golf course at the prison. What the government should have done was to sentence them to 72 holes a : day of pee-wee golf. In Biblical times, Joseph found ian excess of grain in Egypt and ] instead of destroying it, stored it away to guard against a day of famine. The famine came and we read that from all countries there jeame men "for to buy." This policy may conflict with present day theories, but with millions of under- , fed and starving people in many parts of the world it looks like governments could get together and at least provide wheat and cot- ! ton to those who need it. Somej how we can’t be reconciled to the Program of waste. —- Mrs. Belle Caso LaFollette, wife iof the former Senator Bob LaFol- ' lette and mother of Senator Bob i LaFollette, Jr., and Governor Phil- ■ lip LaFollette of Wisconsin, is dead. i Credited with being the inspiration 1 of her famous husband when he started on his political career, Mrs. 1 LaFollette held a unique position ( in her state. She was respected, j , was talented and no doubt was a . wonderful mother. Her two fam- 1 ■ ous sons have never lost a political j ; fight but in their mother's death have lost the greatest friend they ■ ■ had. The boys were devoted to her and she more than likely swelled with pride over the political sue- ‘ cess attained by them. Members of the Wickersham I committee could have written a dozen novels with the number of words they used to compile the crime commission’s reports. Ap- , I proximately one million w-ords were I used. The average popular novel 1 ! contains about 75,000 words. The ' 1 commission spent about $500,000 on i , its investigations and compiling its findings and unless Congress acts 1 <>n some of the suggestions it will 1 1>£ another noble experiment. Many of the criticisms made by the commission were already known and : the report on the prohibition ques[tion was so divided that even the members are not agreed as to what should be done, but most of them do contend that some change should be made. ■ I = Business leaders and engineers are looking for a great new industry to lead us out of the slump. An industry. It must be, to supply some new improvement in living conditions in the home —for quite obviously the homes of 29.000,000 American families provide a market bigger than all the factories, all the office buildings, all the municipalities and all the states. Such a new industry as we have seen many times in the past—the telephone, the automobile, the washing machine, electric lights, mechanical t efrigeration, most recently the radio. Likely, it will be an inexpensive system of heating and cooling our homes. By which, automatically, we shall have heat when we need it, and cool air for the hot days of summer. . . . Air conditioning of this sort, for domestic use, is certainly not far off. —Ladies Home Journal. o . — NOTICE I will be away from my office | from Wednesday August 19 until] ■ Tuesday August 25. ( L. E. Somers. 195-2tx

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f REUNION CALENDAR ♦ -—— -—— Sunday, August 23 Annual reunion of the Kemmer family Sun Set Park, Decatur, rain or shine. Annual reunion of Hakes Family, Sun Set Park, Decatur. Stevens reunion, Memorial Park Fort Wayne. Wednesday August 26 Nineteenth annual Weldy-Beery reunion. Mercelina Park, Celina, Ohio. ' Sunday, August 30 Stevens reunion, Memorial Park Fort Wayne. Sunday September 6 Porter family reunion, O. L. Brentlinger home, southeast of Decatur. Brown family reunion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Urich family reunion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Richards family runion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Schnepp and Manley reunion, Sun Set Park, Decatur. Sept. 7—Labor Day Lenhart Reunion, Sun Set Park. Reunion of Millinger Family, Sun Set Park. —— —— — U — « 4 Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE ♦— — oj.R> ♦ Burnt Cork Burnt cork. use<L for minstrels, can be made by one grain of best lampblack, 6 grains cocoa butter, 5 drops oil of neroli Melt the cocoa, add the lampblack while it is cooling, and add the perfume while | stirring. The Food Chopper When fastening the food chopper to the table, place a piece of sandpaper under each clamp, rough side next to the table, and it will not loosen. Peach Patties Make a puff of paste and bake in the patty pans. For use one half a canned peach and sweetened cream or whipped cream for each tart. ♦- — * Lessons In English Words often misused: Do not say, "I know a man whom. I think will go". Say, “who, I think will go,” who being the subject of will go. Often mispronounced: Interment. Accent second syllable, not the first Often misspelled: Creak (to make a noise.) Distinguish from creek. I Synonyms: Transform, transfig-! ure, transmute, convert. Word study: "Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let Us increase our vocabulary by masTering on word each day. Today’s word: Potentially; existing in possibility only; latently. “The apple already lies potentially in the blossom." o — TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Dally Democrat File August 19—Mrs. Guy Johnson] slightly hurt in wreck on Big Four railroad near Columbus, Ohio, Two people were killed and 30 injured. Peter Atnspaugh has ligaments of his back torn while lifting a keg of nails into a wagon at Laman and Lee’s store. Tom Leonard buys the Touhey property on north Ninth street. H. M. DeVoss buys a farm in Kosiusko county from C. C. Clemens. Rev. D. O. Wise returns from missionary convention at Lake Geneva, Wis.

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I Miss Marie Allison will sing at | the morning sei vices of the Methodist church tonn|.row and Miss Katherine Egley of Berne will sing in the evening. Samuel Ralston announcer his candidacy for the democratic nomination for governor of Indiana for the 1912 convention. —o 4 4 Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (U.PJ ♦ Q. What silver is it proper to laybefore announcing dinner? A. Forks for salad, roast and fish knives for roast and fish, spoons for soup and desert. Q. Is it proper to have nicknames of men or women engraved on visiting cards? A. Never. Q. What is the ettiquette of proper business telephoning? A. Briefness, seasoned with courtesy. o _ , 4 4 ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS — Below are the answers to the test questions printed on page two L < 1. Ethiopia. 2. John Jay. 3. Woodrow Wilson. 4. Quentin Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt 5. Five Year Plan. 6. Secretary of the Interior. 7. Because it is situated on a crescent-shaped end in the Mississippi River. 8. The German Fascist or Hitler: ite party. 9. Japan. 10. Constitutional monarchy. o HOSPITAL NOTES Elmer McGill, 715 Indiana street, was admitted to the Adams County Memorial Hospital where he will receive medical treatment. Miss Lorene Jones, Monroeville, underwent a major operation this morning at the Adams County Memorial Hospital. - a 'O BARGAINS — Bargains tn living room, dining room suite, mattresses and rugs. St”"key and Co. Monroe, our Phone number is 44

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j J" 1 he PATH wfeßl to the f l fl | 4 DOOR.. Z/igW . . of thl Better MOUSE - TRAP I BUILDER is II Producing a Crop of | WEEDS! I QUEEN MARY of England herself recently told a char- I ity organization in which she was interested, “Adver- H tise! It pays to advertise.” Indeed times have changed. I When Queen Mary must talk of advertising, what must I the poor mouse-trap builder do? No longer will the I world make a beaten path to his door, however won-f ■ derful his mouse-trap. Because his competitors are out I telling the world about their products in advertising. I The world is listening. And buying! I For Best Values Read the Democrat I There’s the situation, sad as it may be to some. The I most direct, effective, time-tested, economical way of 3 reaching the public is through the medium of a daily I newspaper. In Decatur, the buying public reads the I DAILY DEMOCRAT and uses its advertising columns I as a shopping guide. Therefore, if you are trying to I sell what the public needs and wants, be it a better I mousetrap or a better pound of cheese, let the home I newspaper be your salesman. I / I . I . - ...I I ',™ 1 Decatur Daily