Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 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 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 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. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago sls Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The tndiana League of Home Dailies A GAME GUY’S PRAYER: Our old friend, J. O. Sellemeyer of Los Angeles has sent us a booklet of songs compiled by W. J. “Billy” Myers, of Glendale, California, and used by various organizations in that section. At the front of the pamphlet appears a prayer which seems appropriate just at this time, so here it is: “Dear God: Help me to be a sport in this game of life. I don't ask for an easy place in the line-up, play me anywhere You need me. I only ask for the stuff to give You 100 per cent of what I've got. If all the hard drives seem to come my way, I thank You for the compliment. Help me to remember that You won't ever let anything come my way that You and I can't handle. And help me to take the bad breaks as part of the game. Help me to understand that the game is full of knocks and knots and trouble and make me thankful for them. Help me to get so the harder they come the better I like them. “And, O God, help me to always play on the square, no matter what the other players do. Help me to come clean. Help me to study the Books so that I’ll know the rules and to study and think a lot about the Greatest Player that ever lived and other great players that are told about in the Book. If they found that the best part of the game was helping the other fellows who were out of luck, help me to find it out too. Help me to be a regular fellow with the other players. “Finally, O God, if fate seems to uppercut me with both hands and I'm laid on the shelf in sickness or old age or something. help me to take that as part of the game too. Help me not to whimper or squeal that the game was a frame-up or that I had a raw deal. "When in the falling dusk I get the final bell. I ask for no lying complimentary stones. I'd only like to know that You feel that I’ve been a good, game guy.” There's a lot to Billy Myer's prayer for only the game fellow can help in these days when it takes courage, determiniation and some quality to beat the game but what an opportunity it gives those fellows to show their stuff. The Chamber of Commerce is cooperating with Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., to make Dairy Day an event of importance for every one. They will add to the program and will assist in welcoming the crowd and in doing every thing they can to make it a day of days in every way. That’s the spirit boys. If there ever was a time when every one ought to forget bygones and put his arm around his competitor's and go down the line for the common good of all, ITS NOW. And Dairy Day is a good time to start. Let’s not sit and tweedle our thumbs, there is a job to do and we can and will do it. The Legion will not presa the cash bonus at present but they

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favor a referendum on the prohibition question, both votes being decisive. It is probable that even without the vote, congress would not have passed the additional bonus this year but it was a very fine spirit for the convention to take the action. On the beer question we shall now see whether congress pays more attention to the soldier's expression than they did to that of the Literary Digest a year ago, which we doubt. Fifty or sixty business men attended the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Thursday evening and it reminded us of the old days when we landed the sugar factory, put on Old Home Week, brought the General Electric and the Decatur Castings Company here and did other jobs well. We can do it again. There is nothing that helps more than a crowd of interested folks getting together occasionally and steaming up. Dairy Day, October 14tb, while sponsored by the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., will interest every one interested in dairying and a number of representatives from other milk and cream companies will be here and to take part In the big event. It is funny that this nation ships in oil by the million barrels tariff free from Venezuela while the oil wells of this country are plugged up. One trouble with the tariff is that it is only used to benefit those who control it, according to charges now frequently heard. The bandits are certainly getting unreasonably hoggish. Over at Peru they robbed a filling station of $35 and then took the attendan t pants off and locked him in the wash room. Pretty soon they w'ill be taking a fellow's necktie and then what will he do?* That hour of sleep you lost last April will be made up tonight when you turn back your clock from daylight saving time to standard time. Daylight saving time goes to the discard tonight and tomorrow we'll all operate on court house time.

o ♦ — I Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (U.R) < Care of Linoleum When washing the linoleum, add a teaspoonful of paraffin to the water. This not only removes the stains, but preserves the linoleum. Lettuce To insure crispness of lettuce after washing, keep it in a cloth bag on the ice. This also removes the w ater which clings to it if used immediately after washing. Setting the Table The spoons should be placed at the right of the plate. The spoon that is used first is placed farthest to the right. The spoon that is used last is placed next to the knife.

Modern Etiquette 1 By ROBERTA LEE • (U.R) « Q. When giving a theater party, witli supper following, need one furnish transportation to the teater? A. No. it is not obligatory. Q. What should a personal calling card bear? A. The name and address, and also the title if there is any. Q. Is the luncheon a feminine or masculine affair in American society? A. Feminin®, as a rule.

Lessons In English * ♦ — <■ Words often misused: Do not say “He touched me for a dollar." Say "He borrowed a dollar from me." Often misprononced: Nobel, founder of the Nobel prizzes. Pronounce no-bel, o as in “no” e as in “bell,” accent last syllable. Often misspelled: Dormant; ant, not ent. Synonyms: Instability, inconstancy, fickleness changeableness unsteadiness. 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: Idiom; form of expression characteristic of an author. Browning’s idiom is often difficult." — " o- — NOTICE—I must have money now Don’t miss getting your work at my shop at once, M. 8. Elzey, jewel* er - 224-6tx

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ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS Below are the answers to the test questions printed on page two ♦ ♦ 1. Approximately 21 miles. 2. Mercury. 3. Yes. 4. Scotland. 5. Bering Strait. 6. Ferdinand Foch. 7. Because it was admitted as a state in 1876. one hundred years after the Declaration of Independence. 8. It is a constitutional monarchy. 9. Durham, North Carolina. 10. Tapioca. 0 r TWENTYYEARS * AGO TODAY I F">m the Daily Democrat File Sept. 26—1,500 men on the Illinois Central railroad go on strike. Bert Green is serving as watchman for the Erie at the Thirteenth street crossing. Claud Gay bruised when he is knocked down by a horse he was leading. 65 members of the Indianapolis Trade Association visit here, led by the News Boys band of 50 pieces. Frank Roop has leg fractured in a fall from the curb while scuffling. Decatur postoffice has handled 56.684 papers and magazines since August 26th. Dr. Berg, former teacher at Monmouth dies at Holden, Mo. Frank Pierce, superintendent at Ward Fence factory is temporarily blinded by a stove explosion when starting a fire with Kerosine oil. J. P. Morgan makes strenous efforts to head off threatened panic on stock market and succeeds. oBARGAINS — Bargains tn living room, dining room suite, mattresses and rugs. St”ckey and Co. Monnn, our Phone number is 44

Aimee’s Gorgeous “Pharaoh” BI ■ fw Rm J ®HT ■ >/ V ■ ■JI uif ar jiOii 'HJe* jWfeSjg-. V « <W — Mantling’ all of you plebeians out in front a frigid stare Davio L Hutton, AJmee Semple McPherson’s new and third husband, is shown in gorgeous array, waited on hand and foot, in his role as Pharaoh in a sacred opera presented by the Los Angeles evangelist to her followers of Angelus Temple Aimee’s "Iron Man” looks ferocious enough here to carry out his threat of "socking" anyone who criticize, the evangelist.

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FRANCE BANS PLANE HUNTING PARIS —(U.R) — The Department of the Seine, suspecting that hunters this season would attempt to take to the air, has forbidden hunting by airplane. Shooting from automobiles also is banned. But this is not ail. The official regulations include the notation that "it is formally forbidden to use bloodhounds for any kind of hunts, even in pursuing pernicious animals. ’’ The Prefecture further takes it upon itself to defend little birds which are beneficial to agriculture; it recalls that ope must not "blinid finches to make them sing better’’ and so lure others from their nests. The new regulations permit the hunter to smoke out foxes and badgers from their lairs, emphasizing that the raven, magpie, jay bittern and wood pigeon are harmful birds, and that the fox, weasel and what have you. are wild animals. The ordinance forbids transport of living game without a permit, even if such animals are being brought in for’their fur and skin Wild rabbits and boars—dead—may be taken to the market and sold without any formality. Before killing a sparrow. special authorization must be obtained. o— Bearded Presidents John Quincy* Adams was the first President who wore any beard, a mere tuft on each side of the fa-e. Beards of some kind or other such as side whiskers, mustaches, etc., were worn by the following: Van Buren. Lincoln. Grant, Hayes. Garfield. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison Roosevelt, Cleveland and Taft.—Exchange. — - - o “Life Span 103 Years” The natural duration of human life is more than one hundred years, according to a famous French doctor, himself ninety-nine years < Id. lie adds that a man who dies at tlie age of eighy-live dies young.

The People’s Voice This column for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of Interest. .Tease sign your name to show authenticity. It will not be used if you prefer that it not be.

Editor Daily Democrat: Please allow me space in your People’s Voice Column to discuss certain matters pertaining to school matters in Root Township, since it has pleased a certain groupe in this township to circulate various falsehoods and make believe comments against me, 1 would like to state my side of the case in question, In the first place I am doing just what i said I would and that is this, I am working for the tax payers of the township, I }\gve spared neither time nor labor,, I will briefly in a few words reply to the various stories circulated; The first is the high school question. We have a state commissioned high school in the township same as any other high school in the county, outside of Decatur, all subjects are taught as outlined within a period of four years, we have an excelent staff of instructors, there are 46 students in this school from Root township and three students from adjoining townships, making a total of 49, with 3 more students expected to move into the township in the near future. There is one student transferred to Decatur being in his graduating year, and there are 4 students going to Decatur because our school is not suitable to them. I took up the high school question with the township advisory board early last summer, They are fully informed of the matters, I have sought their council on all important questions, add they have been valuable assistance to me, now there have always been some that think Decatur has a better school, 1 do not deny that, Fort Wayne has better schools than Decatur has, but we cannot afford to come up to the larger city schools, but we have a first class school available to all within the township and there are, a few who still claim that it is cheaper to send to Decatur, our high school instructors cost us less than four thousand dollars and and tranfering 50 pupils to Decatur at one hundred and seven dollars per capita would cost $5,350.00 for

The World’s At Your Door IMMORTALIZED in story and song, the old “corner store has passed—along with the free potato on the • kei osene can, and the customers’ access to the cracker-box. It was picturesque, but you never quite knew what you would find there. Half the time it was full of people who'didn’t know what they wanted. The other half, it was empty. It was more of a club than a store. Today, when you enter your grocery store — or any store—-you know what you want, how much you want of it and the price you are going to pay. Advertising has rendered you this service. It brings you daily, through the columns of this newspaper, the merchandising opportunities of the whole world. In the quiet of your own home, you are enabled to select everything you want to buy! The modem way to be certain of quality and value is to read the advertisements. Representing almost every field of opportunity, the advertising co.umns of this newspaper bring you the fascinating . story of the whole world’s market-place! Read the advertisements! They are daily messages of opportunity for you. Decatur Daily Democrat

transfers alone, even it we did not haul a single one, we have the equipment in this school that cost several thousand dollars, and as long as we can save that amount in money it is, by far, cheaper and more satisfactory to the majority of the patrons as well as the tax payers, now if our elementary schools in the township are good enough, why is not the high school as long as we can maintain the same cheaper? I informed the Advisory Board that we could not afford to transfer a number out of the township as we havn’t the funds to pay something like fifteen to eighteen hundred dollars in transfers annually, while others do not want to be transfered to Decatur but want the school in the township to keep their children out of town. It is an easy matter to write a lot of transfers but it takes the tax payers money to pay for them. I went and talked to all those that had not patronized our school and agreed to furnish them lawful transportation to our own high school, and since we have a number of elementary pupils west of the river, that must be hauled, we decided to purchase a reasonably priced school bus to take care of all, taking the elementary pupils to the Mt. Pleasant school and bringing the high school pupils to Monmouth, now those that claim there are no pupils to be hauled west of the river, will please look up the acts of the 1917 legislature and see what the law says. This bus saves us better than three dollars per day over last year, and we have one pupil in the north end and one ne’ar Decatur to be hauled to Mt. Pleasant w’hich were not in the township last year, which would cost us an additional dollar a day .1 am not counting those pupils that are picked up along the route for accomodation. Now the false alarm that was started within a stones throw of the Mt. Pleasant school that we were going to close that school and haul the pupils to Monmouth to centralize the township. I would like to know who started it. Everyone around that school house knows that we had been making all necessary repairs to the heating plant, toilet system and all repairs in and outside of that building, and why anyone would start such an abominal falshood is far beyond me, it has been spread from west to east trying to poison the minds of the tax payers, 1 will brand the whole thing as a lie furthermore it has pleased certain tongue-waggers to say that there was crooked work done in selecting

the bus drivers, 1 will answer those in brief. The advisors were present when the bids were opened and personally inspected them, the the school patrons expected us to select safe and responsible drivers and we are to a certain extend held accountable. Route 1 going east and north was let to the second lowest bidder. 1 claim that a driver handl ing nearly 40 children each day in a school bus should be an able bodied man ready to lend assistance in case of emergency. Route 2 west and north was also let to the most reliable driver this route crosses the railroad eight times each day, and is the most perilous route. If patrons of this route prefer a boy driver at a saving of one dollar and twenty-five cents per month they will do me a favor by letting me know. Route 3 west of river was let to the low bidder by fifty-cents per month, either bidder is no doubt a responsible driver, we took to heart the safety of the children and the handling of the buss more than favors, further more a bus driver should be a friend of the school he hauls the children to. Now the Aber school question, the Aber school was closed not for repairs or an epidemic, it was dosed because the attendance had dwindled down to a- , bout eight pupils, now there is a i certain patron that insists on having it reopened. I cannot under the law go and open the school when I please, this power lies in the patrons hands, they must file a peti tion guarranteeing fifteen or more pupils if I am not mistaken, and whenever they do that then the 1 I county superintendent will give his ; decision on the opening of the same ' | and this has started more centra! izjng gossip, Over crowding tlxje Monmouth school, and building a i new one, We do not need a new | school w hat we need is, use the school we have, this centralizing and building school houses bunk is i nothing more than political back wash, no matter who circulated it, I 1 have promised the advisory board I that I would reduce our expenses by two thousand dollars this year, and we do not ask glory nor honor but we are entitled to justice from ! all unbiased minded residents, andj any taxpayers will do me a favo: by giving me the opportunity to defend myself against scandal-mon j gers and misrepresentations. I ata I doing all I can for the taxpayers in j our financial depression, and have! nothing to be ashamed of, and will i try my best to continue to do so. ’’ and will say In regard to the re I monstrance filed against the pro-'

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