Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 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, ny carrier .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at offica .-. 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 115 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The _rndiana League of Home Dailies Take a ride out in the country where the air is pure and the colors are as beautiful as you ever looked at. The annual drive for canned fruit tor the Adams County Memorial hospital is on. Give a can or two for this important cause. It means so much during the year. • Congressmen are busy preparing plans to solve the depression but the difficulty is that each will __ have a different one and won't give an inch to the other fellow. Don't wait for congress to solve this problem. Each one must do it for himself. Capone is planning a vacation while the sentence of seventeen years is contested in the higher courts and it is estimated that will require about two years. If thats true, the federal court is more of a joke than most people think it. There ought to be some way to take the arogance out of this pirate. Mr. Merchant —get an advertisement in the Daily Democrat. This is the buying season and don't you believe that the people of this splendid community and this trading radius are not going to purchase what they need for autirtnn and winter? If they don’t buy from you they will from some one else and if you go after the business you will get your share. Adams county is asked to subscribe $250 to the National Democratic committee as part of the fund for the purpose of paying the <lebt_ which hangs over from the last-campaign and leave a balance to start next years. Its called a Victory fund and every one who cares to invest five or ten dollars in this popular subscription is invited to do so. That ought to be ea's/ in this old Jeffersonian county. The improvement work on Decatur streets is being pushed rapidly now, the contractor realizing that every day counts and that if bad weather should set in, it would mean a tie up that might continue all winter. A few more days of this Indian summer ought to enable

••••••••••< Kryl and his 35-Piece Band at the Berne Auditorium Saturday, Oct. 24 Three 1:30 p. m. Great 3:30 p. m. Concerts 8:00 p. m. In Kryl and his band we present a world famous band leader and a world famous land at the lowest prices in history. Evening Reserved Seats 75c Grab Seats 50c Afternoon All Seats .... -25 c Tickets on sale at CALLOW & KOHNE DRUGGISTS • ” Ors East Side of Street DECATUR INDIANA •••••••••••

them to complete the important job. The north end of Second street has been opened as far south as Marshall and it is a real improvement. Jack Kramein, secretary of the , Huntington Y. M. C. A. embezzled funds of that organization amountI ing to $2,700, stole from the Min--1 isterial fund, the Hi-Y and other i , organizations and after being ac--1 eused, gave a signed confession. That’s a serious thing for it causes 1 people to lose confidence in their fellowmen. For fifteen years he had held the esteem of all who knew him and the affair is almost a tragedy, it is said. “Why do you print so much about the business depression?" asks a reader. “Why not let us forget about it. instead of filling people's minds with gloom and puzzling them with problems they can't solve?" The answer is that a newspaper's function is to print the truth about important things, and that the business situation is at present the most importan thing in the world. Our industrial civilization is sick, and something has to be done about it. The time to tackle a problem and try to work out a solution is when the problem is urgent and practical and people’s attention is already centered on it. We don't get anywhere, individually or collectively, by shutting our eyes to facts or shutting prob-* lems up in our minds and not talking about them. Together, with frankness and courage, people can work things out. Great men die as do all others. This nation and the world has mourned for presidents and kings, for talented musicians and artists, for men in evey walk of life, but only a few times has the whole world mourned more sincerely than they now do the death of the great Thomas A. Edison, the inventor who brought to civilization the incadescent lamp and systems for the transmission of electric light, heat and power. Four score years and four were slotted this wondertui laau and he used them to help his fellow men. He was not interested in piling up the great fortune he could have had, he did not -are for the honors usually sought after by men, he loved his workshop and his work. Every child knows the story of his life and its successes and his career will always be pointed out as proof that wealth and power are not necessary to complete a worth while career. o | Lessons In English * ♦ ♦ Words often misused: Do not say The President and Vice Press-r dent of the United States were there." Say. "The President and the Vice President" (two different persons.) Often mispronounced: Com.par-l able. Accent first syllable, not the second. Often misspelled: Profess; only one f. Synonyms: Representation, description, delineation, portraiture. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's woid: Mediator; one who interposes for reconciliation. “The greatest mediator is he who prevents the light.” o • — ; Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE * (u .pj * Shoes Shoes will hold their shape nicely ii stuffed with old newspapers when not being used. Wet shoes will dry quickly if stuffed with newspapers and placed near the fire but not close enough to burn them. Grass Spots Grass stains will disappear if dipped in molasses Allow it to remain on the stains for a short time then wash the article in the usual ; way. Stile Cake Stale cake will be freshened by ; dipping it in cold milk, then rebeking in the oven. —o NOTICE—There will be a Pie Social at tbo Magley school one mile north of Magley, Thursday eve. Oct--22 a Fiddling Quartette will furI nigh the entertainment. The public! | is invited to attend. Magley G. M. G 247-3tx I

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I ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS Below are the answers to the teat questions printed on page two I 1. Africa. 2. Mississippi. 3. Pilipinos. 4. Secretary of the Treasury. 5. Chicago, 111., 6. A fish. 7. Twelve. 8. Simon Bolivar. 9. 'A great artist. 10. Mexico. o ♦ * Modem Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (U.R) ♦ Q. What is passed during the soup course of a dinner? A. Olives and celery. Q. What is the correct spelling of the word “honor" when using it on a wedding invitation? A. It should be spelled in the old fashioned way, with a u. honour. Q. Is a christening usually a very elaborate affair? A. No; very seldom. — o r TWENTY YEARS~I AGO TODAY F"»m the Daily Democrat File Oct. 20—-Beet acreage total is 3,600. Funeral services for Manassa Gilson who died suddenly at Paragould, Ark. Hugh .Miller of Muncie leaves for England to study automobile appliances for the Warner Gear Works C. S. Niblick entertains officers and clerks of the Old Adams County bank and the First National bank with dinner at the Murray. Mrs. Jessie Burdg elected Great Keeper of Wampum at state council of Pocohontas at Indianapolis. Miss Kate Mylatt and Mr. Harry Thompson were married in Chicago last Monday, it is announced. Will Shraluka has arm broken while working at the heading factory. Bluffton refuses to give up the sugar factory’ proposition and a committee is soliciting acreage for the Continental company. Fellow Street Car Men Honor Builder 'SAN JOSE, Calif.—(U.R) Fellow railroad men this month officiated pt the funeral of Thomas B. Eagen 77, credited with building more miles of street car line than any other man west of the Rocky Mountains. Builder of the early San Francisco cable lines, and lines in Portland. Spokane, Seattle, Fresno and Stockton, Eagen came here in 1904 to build the San Jose-Camp-bell short line and remained to lie superintendent of construction for the Peninsula railroads ever since. o— - Prisoner Writes Warning To Son Before Suicide DETROIT — (U.R)— Preparing to end his life in a cell, Roy Bonathan desired his child should learn that he had erred. So before he drank poison, preferring death to iff years' imprisonment. Bonathan wrote a note to his wife. It was found pinned to his shirt. “If our child be a boy, please name him “Roy and tell him of his Daddy's mistake. ' Bonathan wrote. He died before jailers got him to a hospital.

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> Old-Time Horse Traders Have Rival ' HARRISBURG, Pa—(U.R) Oldtime horse traders and Connectij cut nutmeg salesmen have a coun- | | terpart in the Pennsylvania DeI partment of Property and Supplies. , An attache of the department reported a trade in which he swapped three pianos with "broken wires and harps" for a new piano for use at the Cheyney ' Teachers' Training School. Memorial Association Restores Poe’s Garden Philadelphia. Oct. 20. — (U.R) — Those who have visited the home > of Edgar Allen Poe on North SevI j enth street have complained that I the garden where he wrote the [ ■ Gold Bug has been allowed to de- > cay. > But things are different now. Under the direction of a recently formed Poe Memorial Association . the house was officially opened . j several days ago with the garden restored to the same condition as I i when Poe lived and worked in it. I o Wars on Crooked Gambling RENO —<U,R) —Boards of county commissioners may revoke licenses of gambling casinos where > there is any suspicion of crookedness. the Attorney General has ■ ruled. “Not only that,” said Mayor E. E. Roberts of Reno, , "we ll throw them in jail besides." o Quaker Meeting House Ready Philadelphia.— (U.R) — The first Quaker meeting house to be erected in Philadelphia within a hun- ' dred years was recently opened tor services in Chestnut Hill. A t group of Friends, living in the , Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy sections of the city, organized the meeting seven years ago and have just finished construction of their new building. Benches, borrowed from the old Arch street meeting house and said to be more than 200 years • old. were placed in’the new edifice. , —.—o College Gets Latin Copybook i Williamsburg. Va.—(U.R)—An old Latin composition book, published , in 1550. has come into possession of William and Mary College, a • gift from Justice Robert F. Thompson of the New York Supreme Court. Across the title page is the inscription penned in ink: "From the library of Chief Justice Mar- . shall, obtained at Richmond.—J. K. P.” J. K. P. was James Kirk Paulsing. a famous American author ’ (1779-1860).

■ ' BARGAIN f I EXCURSIONS to 1 ST. LOUIS 1 Q/? Or Round Trip Friday and Saturday TOLEDO ’ 7X Round , 4 M Trip Every Sunday LOW WEEK-END FARES ; Leave Saturdays. Return Mon--1 day following date of sale, e sOc Bluffton $2.40 Frankfort ti SI.BO Kokomo sl.lO Marion ' Correspondingly low rates to many other points. For full information consult ticket agent, a NICKEL PLATE RAILROAD

ADMINISTRATION AGAINST PLANS FOR U. S. JOB AID Hoover Influence Against Them to Be Felt In Congress . By Thomas L. Stokes, UP Staff Correspondent Washington, Oct. 20.—(U.R) —The Hoover administration looks as coldly upon various employment stabilization “plans" that involve any government participation as it does upon proposals for direct federal appropriations for unemployment relief. It will use its influence in Congress against plans of such character, which are expected to be offered at the coming session, symbolized for the moment in the elaborate and comprehensive measure drafted by Senator Couzens, millionaire Michigan Republican. This would require an outright contribution by the federal government to be lumped with contributions from states, employers and employes to form an unemployment reserve fund. Official Position This is the official position of administration leaders at present as gathered in private conversations with them. The administration is sitting very tight and making no commitments on the various suggestions which are being offered so freely to meet the problems which the depression has intensified. The administration goes farther by withholding any open endorsement of stabilization plans in which private industry alone would participate. The most discussed one at the moment is that sponsored by Gerald Swope, president of General Electric. The President's unemployment organization set up here is a clearing house for such propositions, and charged with considering all such proposals. This committee is expected to go slow, just as the administration is going slow. Swope Plan Later One high administration official gave expression to this waiting and watching policy by saying that such a plan as that offered by Swope might come later, but nothing of the sort appeared necessary at

| The I Great Open Spaces * I % U E AKE headed for the open ... Open spaces where itesh ail’ and sunshine put roses in our cheeks. Open S diplomacy that substitutes frankness for secret |g scheming and negotiation. Open opportunities, open doors in business... And modern business in S general conducted in an honest and open manner. No force has been as powerful as advertising, in S bringing American business into the open. A manufacturer who advertises, issues an open challenge to g every competitor to produce better goods if he can. Ce He invites the public to compare his article with all S others. He makes definite claims for his product £ over his own signature. And he knows the vital img portance of keeping his promises. H Advertising tells you where you can get the a- greatest value for your money. When you buy an J 2 advertised article, you know it is dependable. An * i unknown product means nothing. Advertising proj j hibits the worthless, and promotes the good. Mg The advertisements in this newspaper are the jg daily record of business progress, the report to you of the manufacturers and merchants who serve you. HR It will pay you to read them. | Decatur Daily Democrat

this time. All the influence that President Hoover could bring to bear upon industry was ineffectual in preventing wage reductions, though it is generally credited with holding them off for a longer period than in any other depression. The administration now has taken a position of silent opposition to wage cuts, but with official generally conceding that with the cost of living way down there is no further use of agitating the subject. A. F. of L. Battles Cuts The Federation of Labor is continuing its open war against wage cuts. High wages is one part of its program, which also embraces the five-day week, stabilization of industry, and guarantee of at least six months work a year by employers to their minimum work force. But the federation has not endorsed unemployment insurance, or old-age pensions as a governmental measure, thus refusing to take a position as advanced by some members of Congress. Under the Couzens plan, a reserve fund equal to one and threequarters per cent of the annual in-

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dustrial pay-roll of the country would be established through a 30 per cent contribution by the government. 30 per cent by the states based on their pay-roll totals, 25 per cent by the employer and 15 per cent by the employe. This fund would amount to $2,039,750,000 in 10 years. It would be handled jointly by the federal reserve system and local banks. The Swope Plan The Swope plan sets up an elaborate system within industry for workers’ compensation, old age pensions, life and disability insurance and unemployment insurance. Industries would be organized in trade associations which would have power to regulate production through agreement on trade practices and ethies. The government would supervise the plan through one of its agencies. The difference of views on methods of employment stabilization plans was manifest when American i Federation of Labor officials ati tacked the Swope plan on the ground that it would, in effect, set

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