Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1931 — Page 10

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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 Adver. Representative SCHEERER. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Santa Claus. Indiana, has only sixty population and they must all work in the postoffice these days for that town is doing more business than most large cities just now. That home building project that has been talked about so much as part of the Hoover plan would be great under ordinary conditions but I so many won't be able to dig up one fourth of the amount in cash and that's the first requirement. If you are between twenty-one and fifty years of age and a male, I get your poll tax receipt ready to show to Lem Ehler when you go after your automobile license. That's the law now and you can't get the plates otherwise. Well Monday you ask. “is there any thing for me?" at the new post: office building. Third and Liberty; Way. The boys are moving over the week-end and will be all ready j to greet you with smiles and your postals and letters. So far. that hard winter so generally predicted and feared has not developed and we are hoping it won't. We don't remember a nicer autumn than this one has been and we are hoping that the present flurry will be of short duration. The Red Cross has collected five hundred dollars in round numbers as a result of the recent drive for | membership. That's not as large' as it has been or should be but its , doing fairly good for the conditions and shows the right spirit on the part of hundreds. The public is invited to attend the Elk's Memorial at the home tomorrow afternoon. This is always a solemn event and more so than usual this year because six members have been called to their reward the past twelve months. An appropriate program has been arranged. Old Santa is here today and the jolly old fellow has been havitrg a great time with the youngsters. They led him into town this morn-

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ing and have tagged him around 1 throughout the day. Many folks have enjoyed his visit here again and the business houses enjoyed a dandy trade. If you pay rent for a business place you ought to plan to spend some money for advertising for one is as important as the other. In these days when you are trying to cut overhead a lot of business men make the serious mistake of cutting their advertising appropriation. That's the worst thing you can do. It's more important now than when trade comes easily. Senator Moses is probably learning that words like arrows, once shot are sure to bound back and hit a fellow on the nose. A year or so ago he thought, he was getting off something smart when he referred publicly to some of the western law makers as "sons of wild jack asses.” Now they are about to kick him out of the saddle. It won’t be long now until your subscription has expired and we hope you will all want to renew. There is a big “break" of news these days, notwithstanding the depression, and you can not afford to Ibe without the home paper when | you can get it at a cost of less than 1 a penny a day by mail. Be sure to include the paper in your budget for next year. The fund for the Good Fellows! club is starting just a little slow I but we are sure that every one will want to give something to this cause. It's to be used to make a lot of boys and girls happy who i otherwise might be sadly disap- j pointed Christmas morning and no one wants that to happen at any lime. Drop a contribution in one of the boxes. You will find them at the Old Adams County Bank. Lose's Restaurant or this office. We can't imagine any thing much lower or degraded than a grave robber, a man who would dig down to steal from a casket in a cemetery. Years ago there was some of this but it has been a long time since any one has stooped to this low method of stealing. We hope the officials will be able to secure such a clue as will lead to the arrest of the culprit, who made such jan attempt here this week, whatever his purpose. Roger Babson advises that government officials drawing salaries of less than $5,000 a year be reduced ten per cent and those over that amount be cut twenty per cent. Well they will be lucky if that's all the reduction they get before this thing is worked out. Sal-1 aries were in line with profits dur-1 ing those years when millionaires ! were being turned out about as fast as dollar bills but that day is over for a while and we will have to all get down to “brass tacks.” At least it begins to Idok that way. o Modern Etiquette —by— ROBERTA LEE ♦ * Q Does an invitation to a wedding call for a gift? A. Those who are invited to both church and reception send gifts, but if invited to the church only, they are not obligated to send gifts. Q. is there any household em- ' ployee who is not considered a ser--Ivant? A. A companion, secretary-com-I panion. and social secretary are not | considered servants. [ Q. Do hostess and guests shake [hands at a tea? j A. Yes, always. o . Lessons In English Words often misused: Do not say ■ "She was not conscious that I was there." Say. “She was not aware.” Often mispronounced: Roseate. [ Pronounce ro-ze-at, o as in “no.” e as in “me" a as in "ate” accent first syllable. Often misspelled: Suburb; two i u's, not suherb. Synonyms: Conclusive, decisive final, convincing, ultimate. 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: Susceptibility; impressibility sensitiveness. "It was a poet's susceptibility to impressions."

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OLD BIBLE HOLDS DEATH MESSAGE Pittsbi/gh, —qUP>—<A strange) ■ message almost 70 years old is in I possession of Harry C. Wood. Wood found a small, handcarv- } ed Bible containing the message packed away in a trunk in the attic. I It belonged to William McCutcheon a cousin, who enlisted in the Civil, War. With it were a diary of 1863 : a penknife, a picture of the youth, ; and letters to his mother. It was a last message to his moth-' er, in eVent he never returned. A letter, found with it, told of its existence, and told the mother that , it was not to be opened unless he 1 were killed. McCutcheon cat ved the Bible and hollowed it out before he went away. The message was placed in-; side and opening sealed. But he returned within a year. Five years later in 1868 he died, i His mother, who was ill at the time ’ never opened the Bible. She died 1 soon afterward. The Bible was put | away and forgotten until Wood found it. Now he is undecided whether he should open it. o Household Scrapbook —by— ROBERTA LEE Cabbage Odor Cook cabbage in an uncovered | vessel, be sure that the kitchen I windows are open several Inches. 1 both top and bottom, and the odor will be very slight. Soot To remove all soot from the wood 1 work, use a soft cream cloth satu- : rated with kerosene. The Bath The bath can be made more re-1 freshing by adding a small quantity I of salerat us to the water.

Knol Boj Near Death WH| ■■MMH MV 4 • - •;■ ; U'.m» fl * jA ' A ® 4kj w "’ 4 \__ <**" - * r ** ■* A*"— * x _ ■ -• . "• •—%,’ «M> .. '' , -j_j - ; ~~ In a Chicago hospital Herman Knol smiled as Nurse Monica Ruzgin read to him many messages of sympathy and hope for his recovery. Then, to the despair of doctors, the boy, who was shot by Daniel L. trllday. professional reformer!).. thought intoxicated and tried to help, took a turn for the worse. Pferitcntitis has set in, and death, it is feared, is very near.

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Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the ■ Test Questions printed on Page Two. ♦ * 1. San Marino. 2. Fam >us Greek philosopher and geometer. 3. Dermatology. 4. "Steel.” 5. Three times. 6. The first flight by man in hea vier than air craft, made by the Wright brothers. 7. Richard Wagner. 8. A slip or error in etiquette. 9. France. 10. Springfield. MONROE NEWS The Ladies Aid society of the i Monroe Methodist Epicopal church met at the home of Mrs. John Crist I on Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hendricks I and Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bnsclie vis- | ited Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Thomas living near Union City on Tuesday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas has just recently returned from Texas Mr. J. F. Hocker sp.-nt Thursday in Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. William McKean ■ spent Monday in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Norris Conyers and daughter i Barbara of Portland is spending the ' week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Farror. Mr. and Mrs. John Floyd spent : Wednesday in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Safar a Souders and daughter , Kathryn and son Bobby of Decatur ; called on friends in Monroe on WedI nesday evening. Mrs. Forest Andrews and Mrs. ' Martin Huffman returned to their I homes on Friday afternoon from the St. Joseph Hospital at Fort | Wayne where they have been reI ceiving medical attention since an ■ automobile accident on Wednesday afternoon.

MANY SHIPPING BATTLES LOOM FOR CONGRESS Railroads Now Preparing To Open War On New Competitors — By Herbert Little, UP Staff Correspondent Washington, Dec. ’. —<U.R)-Fierce battles among rival forms of transportation are scheduled for the session of congress which meets December 7. Those new giants, busses, trucks, pipe-lines and inland waterways confront the railroads in nearly every shipping region. Their rivalry will be reflected in congress. The railways already have indicated they will renew their agitation for federal supervision over their competitors to even things up. The National Rivers and Harbors Congress, composed of advocates of inland waterways and barge-lines, is meeting here Dec. 8 and 9 to plan a campaign against the railroads’ move. Panama Canal Act Proposal of railway executives that the Panama Canal Act, which prohibits railroads from operating steamship lines between the coasts, has drawn the particular fire of the waterways men, who contend this would open the way to elimination of water competition. ♦ The railroad consolidation proposals will provide an even more heated discussion. Senator James Couzens. Repn.. Mich., who is chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee with jurisdiction over ’railroad legislation, has announced he will renew his attempt to block such mergers as the foursystem eastern plan now before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The commission will reopen the question in January. Couzens’ Resolution The senate last year adopted Couzens' resolution to stop all consolidations until congress determines upon what policy is demanded by the public interest, but it died in the house. Couzens last year led a fight to provide for regulation of interstate busses, but after the bill passed

i I “I Never Read | The Advertisements” OU know this person. He thinks he is telling the truth. But quiz him and he will recite the make of yg his motor-car, his hat. his shirt, his suit, his shoes, rr- his tooth-paste, his towels, ad infinitum ... with the accent on the “ad.” In other words, they are all Jfi advertised products'. Why, he could no more escape the presence and the power of the printed word than he could evade eating or sleeping. The advertisements are a defiJj nite part of contemporary American life. Their jr messages are vital to daily existence. They have a definite association with the pocketbook, than which S there is nothing more intimate and personal. The important thing is not merely to “read the tfj advertisements,” but to read all of them. The one ij advertisement you “didn’t see” may contain information you would have given a great deal to possess, j i Certainly, it is as important to you to know that S- Smiths are having a sale of sheets or shirts, as to read that Congress will hold a special session! | j “Friend, guide and counselor”—the advertisements i j in this paper. !s | Decatur Daily Democrat

Movie “Princess” Weds Noble Constance Bennett, one of America's loveliest screen stars, with : her new husband, 'he Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye, of. France, after their wedding ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calit. It was ' Miss Bennett s third mrrriage. the license giving her age as 26. The , Marquis, only recenely aivorced from Gloria Swanson, film luminary, stated he was 33.

the house it died in the senate. Former Senator Joseph E. Ransdell. of Louisiana, president of the Rivers and Harbors Congress, said ‘ in sending out the call for its meeting here that the questions to be taken up will include proposals for ' a new rivers and harbors bill, or a $500,000,000 federal bond issue to ' • insure the completion of all thel projects authorized so far. Major-General Lytle Brown, chief [ j of army engineers and head of the. ; government s river and harbor ac-' . tivities. is one of the speakers at ' the session, Ransdell announced. 1 i A score of sectional leaders will discuss waterway developments ' 1 and possibilities in their home communities. o > ; Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hendricks “ ■ spent Thursday evening in Fort' I Wayne.

HOSPITAL NOTES Helen Braun, Berne, underwent 1 a major emergency operation at the 1 Adams County Memorial Hospital Friday afternoon. Mrs. Ethel Grandstaff, Preble, was admitted to the Adams County Memorial Hospital for medical : treatment. Ed Frauhiger, 507 Locust street,' Fort Wayne, submitted to a major | operation this morning at the Ad-| i ams County Memorial Hospita'. j Irene Aumilier, 933 High street, I underwent a tonsillectomy operation this morning at the local hospital. o BARGAINS — Bargains in Living Room, Dining Room Suites, Mattresses and Rugs. Stuckey and Co. Monroe, our Phone number is 44. ts

AHRON JOW SHOW IM Akron, q„ -TTp? II depression is » v WiU havp “PPm unemployed this ™ lj3 ’, eca of a muni( . I,eve ‘he 81tuation » M provement project, The number of suhi . I en upon charity, “ ated at ent' r wiir b a e rly ea!eT f Th d $i 7 0.00 0 clt rx welfare fund. K The “Rubber City - ’ , J 000 'n bonds to renov a t?J Prove its parks and ' ,r » Projected w ate Hundreds of men arelH the program. Official, crease the forces so can work on each shift J Estimating that the unemployed has dpci £l municipal employment*! ports that applicants W J from 6,000 to 5,000 tn £! year. Some of this shrijj lieved due to a back-tTaJ movement. ' fifes ♦• ■ Quickly Bleacliei Muddy Skim Dull, ordinary appearancami as blemishes and defectiveiata are forgotten under the lm«t bewitching beauty instantly ■» dered. Beneficial in coraek tan, flabbiness, freckles, vtakli GOWUUW ORIENT4I CREAM 1 ’ WhK«. Hwh and RmMSMi "■ "■ "" 1