Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 24 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, by 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 1 3ne year, at office 3.00 , Prices quoted are witbin first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Advertising Representative SCHEERER, Inc. I S 5 East Wacker Drive, Chicago sls Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The , Indiana League of Home Dailies ] ARE YOU AFRAID? The Saturday Evening Post in . an editorial headed, “What Are . You Afraid Os?" makes some points that every good citizen ought to consider carefully. Are you afraid . of your country? Other countries 1 regard it the safest place in the , world in which to invest. Are you • afraid of your banks? Many peo- | pie have been and an ugly mess ] that hurts every one is the result. ; Are you afraid to buy normally? ( That's necessary if we are to lick depression. Are you afraid of your government? Its the best in the < world. And the Post concludes: 1 “Courage and common sense will ’ conquer situations that look des- 1 perate to the timid. The New Day 1 that our bright young writers, and 1 some older ones who are not so. 1 bright, talk so glibly and so vaguely about, will in the end come from the same old sun, with some of the mists burned away. But the 1 sun and the moon and the stars change slowly; and the laws that ' govern human nature, human at- 1 tions and human growth will only he changed or modified over fairly long periods of time. Meteorites may blaze up fiercely in the night, but their glory is short-lived and then they fall to earth. Slow and orderly advance alone is tolerated in the scheme of things. But there is nothing to be afraid of in that." Decatur's tax rate compares very favorably with any in this part of the state and the reduction here—--40 cents on the hundred dollars in the city—is the largest reduction made by any of the corporations. That should be appreciated and we believe is. In several nearby cities the rates have been increased but here every official really made an effort to meet the conditions by lowering the rates. Next year there will be a new appraisal of leal estate and the present outlook is that the valuations will be off considerably. If the rates can be held under that appraisal you will find a greatly reduced total of dollars and cents when you go up to the treasurers office to pay your semi-annual bill. That's a proper effort to help get over the depress-

pUbr Qp*f.ad your tax payments out over a period ot several months by Retting the money from us and repaying us in small weekly or monthly payments. Cash loans up to S3OO —for taxes or any other worthy purpose — made on your own signature and security—with no indorsers required. Css//, phone or write for full part u atari—without obligation. FRANKLIN SECURITY CO, a Phone 237 | Decatur, Indiana

ion and deserves your earnest commendation. The Northeastern Indiana Teacher’s Association know a good man when they see him and they do not propose to let Martin F. Worthman of this city go as secretary, which job he has filled most creditably eyer since the organization was completed. Mart always does his best and that means about perfect and he does it with a smile that makes him a favorite with every teacher belonging to the big association. S«H5—— SS» You are requested to cooperate with the contractors on Second street which has just been resurfaced with Kentucky Rock until it is properly cured. This will require about a week and in the meantime they ask that you please do not park thereon, burn leaves or drive horses over it. Its a fine street and we want to keep it that way and we know you will all help. Seven million men are jobless acc'ording to the estimate made by Miss Frances Perkins, industrial commissioner for New York state. That's about one-third more than they guessed it a year ago so that prosperity they said then Was just around the corner must be slipping around the other way. Leaders of the steel industry are optimistic about the future and statements issued are that times will soon be better. We believe it but they must improve for farmers, laborers and rural citizens before there will be a great demand for steel. m Premier Laval and Jiis daughter were thrilled when they got their first view of the United States this week. They landed in New York City and were given a welcome they will never forget, no difference what the outcome of their important visit. The name of West Orange, N. J.. changed to Edison City and will be if they are wise enough to follow the suggestion offered by Frank O'Connor. It would be the least that town could do for the man who made it famous. There was a farm sale held neaY here yesterday with a total of more than $3,500. One team of horses sold for more than S9OO and cattle, hogs, machinery, everything, sold high. This is not such a bad country after all. — O * — —* 1 Lessons In English | « • Words often misused: Do not say, “We emptied out the contents." Omlt out. Often mispronounced; Compass. Pronounce the o as in “come,” not as in '‘comma." Often misspelled: Supervisor; or not er. Synonyms: Precept,, injunction, taw. mandate. Word Study: “Use a word three limes and it is youra.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Diverting; amusing; interesting. “Their gossip was highly diverting." —o—- »• — ♦ Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE • (U.R) ♦ The Baby When the baby Is teething do not let him bite on an old fashioned rubber ring or hard substance. This only hardens the gums. Apply to the gums a solution of one jjart Listerine to twenty parts water. Sait Cellar* To revwnt 3alt from caking in the shakers, put a small quantity of arrow mot, or s few grains of barley in the cellars. Cleaning Brar.o Before cleaning brass with any kind of solution or polish, rub it with a cut lemon. Modern Etiquette 1 By I ROBERTA LEE ♦ <U.R> ♦ Q. Are stMetly formal dances with elaltorate suppers fashionable? A. No; they are passe. Q. In whose name Is an invitation to dinner issued? A. In the names of both the host and the hostess. Q. How the invitations to a I theater party issued? 'A. Usually over the telephene.

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♦ ♦ s ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS | < | < Below are the answers to the i test questions printed \ 1 on page two ♦ « « 1. Two years. ’ 2. Henry Clay. ,3. Brig. General Smedley D. Butler. | 4. Cantons. 5. Medical and surgical care of animals. J 6. Dutch East Indies. i 7. Nevaaa. , 8. An ex-post-faeto law, 9. He had no children and therefore no direct descendants. 10. In 1790. *— TWENTY YEARS I AGO TODAY I F-im the Dally Democrat File 1 ► ♦ October 24, 1911. Beet acreage! this morning was 4,600 for 1912 and 4.370 for 1913. "Raising of the Maine” at the! Crystal tonight— sc. Elgin King and Miss Pearl Prion i er married by Rev. Hessert. Smallpox quarantine on the Joel Maloney home in Blue Creek town- ]

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By HARKISON CARROLL. Copyright. I§3l, Prynler Synatrste llwi. HOLLYWOOD. Cal., Oct. 00.— Those Velez girls are all going

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Into the movies. First L u p e, then Josephine and now Reina, the youngest, ■ nave succumbed to the lure of the talkies. Reina, who is 19 years old. and as nuiet as Lupe is boisterous, plays a native girl m Helen Twelvetree’s picture, ‘The Second Shot.” It is a part originally

intended for Dorothy Burgess. Unfortunately, Reina doesn’t speak English, so her career will be limited for the present. She will get by with a few words and with pantomime in her current role. » LATEST GOSSIP. Mary Nolan opened a gown shop in Hollywood last night. Os course, there was the usual battery of arclight# without which no Hollywood opening of any kind is complote • • Mervyn Leroy was 23 years old yesterday, and threw himself a party at his parents' apartment. Loretta Young was principal guest, as far as Mery was concerned . , . Maurice Chevaiier intrigue* Hollywood Beau Bruns me!* with hi» new 1 gray and blue silk shirts, with bow 1 ties of the same material... Bebe Danigls, much improved, is up and around again. She wiii not make a picture, however, until after the first of the year...On doctor’s orders, Junior Laemmle has gonf away for a two weeks’ rest. HOLLYWOOD LANDMARKS. An interesting spot to visit in Hollywood Is the “Come-On-lnn,” a restaurant run by two girls, Betty • and Hattie Schwartz. Located in a small frame house just off the Boulevard, this restaurant was ah early haunt of motion picture people. The wails are lined witn autographed pictures of the stars of yesterday. Many of the old-timers still patronize the inn, and those who don't find time to write to its proprietor*. Betty and Hattie can tell you what haa * . v

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ship is lifted. Philadelphia Athletics win from Giants. 4 to 2, making it three out of four, so far. Samuel Peoples .returns to South Dakota. Harvey Lammiman buys the Joseph Schilling farm, 40 acres in Washington township for $5,200. Mrs. George Numbers, dies at Austin. Texas. She was a pioneer here. The remains will be brought here for interment. 1.. G. Eliingham, secretary of state, wires congratulations to Decatur sughr factory boosters for the good work done. HOSPITAL NOTES William Baumgartner of Berne underwent a major operation at the Adams County Memorial Hospital Friday. Mrs. Ilelton Passwater, 219 North Ninth street, was admitted to the Adams County Memorial Hospital Friday for treatment. AKKIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tester of 1 ' rue are the parents of a girl baby born at 7:4u o'clock Saturday morning. October 24. 1931. The linby has been named Marjorie Corrine.

“become of almost every star whose picture is on the walls. Their collection extends back 13 years. Another Hollywood landmark is Bill Ring’s barber shop, just outside the gates of the Paramount Studio. One entire wall of this shop is filled with pictures of former film actors who now are dead. j RETURNED WITH INTEREST. In a prankish moment, El Brendel sent a St. LXNuis friend one of those post-cards which have two inches of fish-line pasted on the front, and a legend above: “Just a line from Hollywood.” Yesterday he received by express, $4,10 charges collect, six feet of hemp to which was wired a tag reading: “Just a rope from St. Louis." GABLE’S ESCAPE A little-known fact about Clark Gable is that he almost was killed in that premature dynamite explo-

sion during the filming of “The Painted Desert” a year ago. You wiU recall that director Howard Higgins and several members of the troupe were seriously injured. Gable, then Ia n unknown, I was playing a ! heavy in the I picture. When

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the explosion occurred, he was stand,>.g with Bill Boyd about two hundred yards away. He describes the next few minutes: “All of a sudden, we heard small rocks whistling through the air around and above us. They were going too fast to be seen. I made a dive behind a sand-bank, but Bill shouted to jump up. Just as I did so, 1 got a glimpse of a descending mass of rock. Then came a heavy thud, as it buried itself in the sand bank beside us. After a few more small rocks and a cloud of dust, the whole thing was over.” DID YOU KNOW That, Leatricc Joy owns a Hollywood apartment house?

TEXAS PLANNING TO DRILL UNDER RIVER FOR OIL Rich Deposits Believed Beneath Stream In Southern State Austin, Tex., Oct. 24. <U.R> -On Jan, 1 the State of Texas will join major and minor oil companies in recovering from beneath the piney hills of East Teaxs part of the crude oil wealth discovered there. East Texas operations of the state oil company, with its 6,000,000 citizen-stockholders, will be restricted, however, to the stream bed of the Sabine river under the law enactell by the last special session of the Texas legislature. The Sabine river winds its way between leases of major companies in the large East Texas field for nearly 45 miles. Although the state will not drill on the entire length of the he'd, it expects to recover nearly $10,000,000 believed to lie beneath the Sabine's sluggist waters. A drilling fund of $60,000 will be appropriated from the general revenue fund for the first two wells, should the mineral board created by the new law decide to drill. Three courses are opened to the board, composed of Gov. Ross Sterling, the commissioner of the land office, and the chairman of the railroad commission. The board is authorized to advertise for bids on leasing river betfs in proven oil territory; for actual drilling of the stream beds; or the hoard may accept a purchase of the oil in place. The last avenue is a legal method to allow the state to deal with leaseholders on either side of the stream. They would pay the state for the oil beneath the river bed, then draw it out through wells situated on their own leases bordering the Sabine river. The river bed oil law Allows such developments on all streams in Texas, but restricts the mineral board to pi oven territory. The law forbids the mineral board to drill a well more than two miles away from a paying prodneer.

MONROE NEWS The Woriians Foreign Missionary Society of the Monroe Methodist Episcopal church met at the home of Mrs. Otto Longenberger on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Richard Thompson and sister, Miss Frances Thompson of Bucyrna, Ohio, visited Mr. and Mrs. Janies A. Hendricks and Mrs. L R. Haynes on Monday. Mr. and Mrs R. J. Meyers and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Keller of Decatur visited relatives and friends in Indianapolis on Sunday. Mrs. Harriet Graham spent Tuesday in Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hocker, Mrs. R. J. Meyers and Mrs. Russel Haynes spent Thursday in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Hattie Mills of Decatur visited Mr. and Mrs. Grover Oliver on Wednesday. Miss Mardelle Hocker attended the Teachers Association meeting at Indianapolis. Mr. Ira Wagoner, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wagoner and Lois Huffman spent Thursday In Fort Wayne. Mr. John Andrews of Decatur visited friends in Monroe on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Otho Lobenstein and Mrs. Otis Brandvberry spent Friday afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. T, J. Rayl and grandson. Frank Rayl and Noah Hurst visited Mr. anil Mrs. Ferry Hurst at Wren, Ohio, on Thursday. Mr. Guy Dorwin and Mrs. Maud Dor win of Decatur called on Mrs. J. R. Haynes, who is ill, on Monday evening. Floyd Johnson spent the weekend at Indianapolis and Danville, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. James Hedges of Vera Cruz called on Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Crist on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Grover Oliver spent Thursday in Fort Wayne. - Red Indian ''Referendum*” The Smithsonian institution says that the holding of a referendum tier..re a declaration of war was the accepted method among organized tribes like the Iroquolan and Musk hogenn tribes. This wn* mentioned by I.ntltfiu In his writings, puhllslied Id 1724. *— o ■ Dance tonite Sun Set. BARGAINS — tiargair.s to Ilvlo* room, dining room suite, matpresses and rugs. St”?key and Co. Monroo, our Phene number is 44 | r _- ... «f Coming REXALL’S Greatest of aii ic sales B. J. Smith Drug Co.

Scene At Big Hitch Plowing Contest i ‘ v ' - '' ' ''''' The accompanving photograph shows Cleveland Combs, Clinton county farmer, who won the eight horse team contest In the Multiple Hitch Plowing Contest held last year near Mulberry. The 1932 contest will be held Tuesday. Oct. 27. on the farm of Erwin Pickering, two miles south of Newcastle on State Road No. 3. It 1 egins at 9:30 o'clock. Mr. Combs will be one of the judges at this year's contest which has attracted-12 entries in the four, five and six horse team contests. .

CREEK HAS ONE MAN EXHIBIT Chicago. Oct. 24.—(U.R)--Constan-tine Pougalis, Greek immigrant, who fought his way by manual labor on railroads and in steel mills to further his art school eduesgion, has achieved artistic success, but is practically penniless. With his first one-man show hanging in the Art Institute, Pougalis is uncertain how he will provide for his young wife and baby, or how he will obtain more paint and canvas . . . simply because commissions have not come his way. Pougalis, who is the son of a Byzantine artist, ran away from Cornith, Greece, when he was IS, and with the dream of becoming a great artist, capie to America. A week after landing in New' York. Pougalis climbed off a freight train in Gary. Ind., beat the dust from hts clothes and got a job as a section hand. Swinging a pick and carrying railroad ties in the hot sun proved too much for the slender Greek. Then followed night work in a rolling mill. Then he got a commission to decorate two Greek churches. With that money he started at the Art Institute. In 1924 Pougalis w’on the first of several small prizes aW’arded his canvases in Chicago exhibitions. Soon he would be recognized, he was convinced. But he wasn't and not until 1928 was he commissioned to execute a canvas. Critics say the dozen paintings in Pougalis - show indicate his return to "naturalism.” They find a touch of Renoir, El Greco and Cezanne in his work, but under-

A Good Mixture Your Christmas “TWO cu|>s of sugiir, one-half cup of milk, one Savings tablesjKionful of butter, one tablespoonful of molasses- yes, we,budget all of our expenses a cheeking account makes this entirely possible ami easy, and it helps us to deposit more each month in our savings account. The Old Adams County Bank helps us to budget expenses that’s where we Ijave our account.” Your canceled check is your receipt for all paid hills, and your check stubs help you in budgeting. Save by budgeting. Old Adams County Bank General Banking Service

neath they declare is true artistic feeling and individual expression, j Women’s Federation Head Sees Reno's End San Francisco, Oct. 23.— (U.R) — I Reno's “wickedness” will destroy 1 itself, believes Mrs. John S. Urquhart, law enforcement chairman for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. * Speaking at a meeting here Mrs. Urquhart said: "Reno clubwomen neither aid nor combat abuses of the divorce colony and the wide-open gambling laws. “They ignore them. They feel that these laws will be short-lived because, like sin, they will destroy themselves. It is easy to ignore them because they exist only in one part of the town. The rest of Reno is just as fine as any other American town. “Prominent citizens of Reno are agreed Shat no benefit lias accrued to the city through its law divorce laws," she concluded. o Auto Game Toll In State High Philipsburg, Pa„ Oct. 23. —(U.R) Automobiles took a heavy toll of j game in this vicinity during the j past year. State Game Commission wardens i reported 52 deer, 196 rabbits and i six grouse killed by automobiles. [ In addition 16 deer and a bear were I injured by motor cars in the section. o Beyond Mortal Power To run the- world hack to Its first ; original, and view nature and its cradle, to trace the outgoings of j the ancient days In the first in : l stance of bis creative power, is a | research too great for mortal In I qulry.—Smith.

expert si ANIMUS! INIOIEII ,<als e Val ues Oct. 24--jis are in " r ' unkind, P T : l ierrp Barbie,, JJ scientist, in an Internationa, pjjjl congress. According to Dr. bm, nation has made tbl! setting up fai se val * to the physical esSIS clare<l that many 3 sions are the re Wh Z of nau lral s res. Modesty characterized as | Interfering with ,u " 1 of life. “Man originally * a» animal." he salt 1 |he broke away from % rhythm of life. Tbe^ | lie has complicated -a* | a matter that should : as it is normal and "Animals have no cjJ j chastity, modesty, Neither have they j of voluptuousness. Mai ated this with the W J moral and mental attinw sex. The result, as *eirf in crimes makes it tmj to pronounce upon monjg Turkey Thanked Far# Memphis, Tenn.- sjjj< Bryant, senior turkey (H jail, received a letter fiat er inmate thanking Bryn ing him of the dopebiigj famous cure consists oft j soda in a glass ot *««s ! addict becomes untriaigd think it's a drug and m I down, Bryant says. o —— *m Advocates Old Spisaiql Memphis. Tenn.—dUHj jof the oid time spinning ! the loom, was propaed f ] Bolton Smith, Memphis hi j man and student of seal lems, to help the southi cotton farmer out of | difficulties.

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