Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1931 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. 11. 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 Quementli. by mail .3.’, Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office g.OO ' Prices quoted are within first .and second zones. Elsewhere 13.50 one year. Adv -rtising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative 1 SCHEERER. Inc., '.35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago I 415 Lexington Avenue. New York [ £ Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. | Moses doesn’t seem to be able to harness “the sons of [ Wild jackasses." What that gentletH;in would give to call back those wtirds is something, but its too late He is on the spot politically. [ S Newton D. Baker of Ohio is a wise bird. Asked his position on the liquor question the other day | implied with an astonished look, liy? Bread more titan beer. Will be the great issue next year." And that's true. §The Good Fellows fund is com-1 (Be a little slowly but its coming | and we have confidence that it will reach its avet ;ge during the next [ Wt kor two. We don't want a boy or girl in this community to be tin- ! happy if we can help it, do we? j >*.Just two weeks until Christmas i and’there is a, lot of shopping to tie done. Don’t put it off any long er Read the advertisements of fb local merchants in this paper atid take advantage of the large] an 1 well selected stocks now be- I lug offered at pre-war prices. The Christmas Saving Clubs are | attracting many who have just re- i ceiw.l checks front the local banks 1 and their friends. Its the easiest I in the world to build a fund IOC next Christmas. Both the First and the Ohl Adams County ■ hSr.ts are opening new clubs now 4)4 |ou are invited to join. itl'lte Indiana supreme court has I hyhl [that the two Fort Wayne powho assaulted a man whom they thought was stealing oil and j while giving him the third degree .must suffer the sentence ini \ by a local court. Perhaps 1 Aiilo.4 would like to get in touch | wisii "that judge. governor Leslie wants to be I shown before he calls a special ! session of the legislature and who I will blame him? There are so itUfny theories on this tax question , and so many things that might en-1 tOT into a special session that about j the only thing so far assured is] that it will cost $1(10,000 or more. | They had a big wedding down at Harahan. Ixnisiana. and after the punch had been served a couple j of fellows got into a light upon the balcony. The guests rushed up. overtaxing the floor and it gave way. Forty people were injured. Looks as though things can even be overdone at a wedding. The democrats in congress will I I WAVWILL a loan up to 1300.00 help you? We make confidential loans on your own personal security. No endorsers- lowest terms. We feature prompt service—you get the money the same day you apply. Small monthly or weekly payments—arranged to suit your convenience. Call, write or phone us. Special Straight Time Plan Franklin Security Co. Open daily 8 to 5, Saturday till 9

not support the proposal of Presi-. dent Hoover and Secretary Mellon I to take what little is left in this country in taxes. Instead they will present their ideas of a tax plan which will save the government without destroying every body in l the country. > It might be a little violation of [ law but the court house custodian , or some one else could render a valuable service by using a shot--1 gun on the birds which have been 1 : making headquarters in the trees along the walks the past two or [three weeks. They have certainly ! become a nuisance and ought to be 1 distributed, dead or alive. = He on the lookout for a fellow | 1 who claims to have arrangements [ I with a local Ladies Aid Society to | secure advertisements for a cal-j I endar as no contract or payment' [has been made on same. That is I I the warning given by the society and along that line it may be well to remind the merchants that most i<:f such schemes are more for the 1 fellow working them than for any organization they claim to represent. Louis Ludlow, congressman from the old seventh district of Indiana . has been honored unusually by be- < ing appointed a member of the powerful appropriations committee, lit is customary only to name to I this place congressmen who have served during a long period and ' 4 i Ludlow has only served in one term | j previous to this. He will prove a I | valuable man for he is conservative i and careful and'in many respects [like the distinguished Holman of [lndiana who for many years served on that committee, being known , a.s "the watchdog of the treasury. " Before more taxes are saddled ion the owner of an automobile, I proponents of added motor car | taxes should ponder the contributions which are made under exist-1 'ing laws. Let our own state be an example. Between Dec. 1. 1930.1 land Nov. 30, 1931, Indiana collected ?19.078f<f6.75 in the form of a gasoline tax paid at the rate of 4 cents 1 gallon. This is an increase of -■992.594.05 over the preceding year. Besides a gasoline tax that netted in excess of $19,000,000, the state ; < a property tax from every automobile owner, a fee for license plates and a driver's license fee. I | The state or national government in its search for additional sources of revenue will do well to overlook this form of property. It is pay- ■ ing more than its share of taxes. — I Richmond Paladium. Household Scrapbook —by— ROBERTA LEE ♦ —— - ... — — - + i Woolen Blankets When laundering woolen blank- , ets, rinse and then hang th m with- [ | out wringing. They will be sorter ■ I and will keep their shape much bet- I iter. Select a sunny, windy day and they will soon dry. Sensitive Hands | Hands that are sensitive and I roughen easily should be nibbed j every night with olive oil. After a I week or two the hands will be soft [ | and white. Fish The delicate flavor of salt fish will be brought out if soaked in sour milk before cooking. Modern Etiquette —by— ROBERTA LEE > _ Q. Is th< .e any rule for the word- I ling of an invitation for a visit? A. No. hut the reason for the in- I I . itati n is usually stated. Q. What should the hostess wear , at a formal afternoon tea? A. An afternoon gown. | Q. In tuning one’s place at the table, from which side does one approach the chair? A. There is no rule tor this detail, either side being correct. Board of Charities Members of the Board of Charities are requested to me t at the , Library, Decatur, next Thursday afternoon, December 17th at 2:30 | o’clock This is important. Phase be present if possible. Mr.’ D. D. Heller Dec. 11-14 'Q „ „ BARGAINS — Bargains in Living Room. Dining Room Suites. Mattresses and Rugs. Stuckey ar.d Co [ Monroe, our Phone number is 44. 1 ts |

— and the Worst is Yet to Come NINTH STRIKE IN THREE TIMES AT BAT j Ski c— ►'v ■ ■ - -

* ♦ Answers To Test Questions — Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two. ♦ _ 4 1. "Battle Hymn of the Repub-1 lie." 2. Ohio. 3. "Old Ironsides." 4. That Schmeling won by a t ch- 1 nical knockout. 5. "Green Thursday.’’ 6. Tennyson. 7. Manassa. Colorado. 8. Shakespeare. 9. Three times. 10. The Pope. o TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File Dec. 11 Murray Scherer kills "the goose that lays the golden eggs." at least the bird contained i a number of what ar said t > be I small gold nugg-t:. A labor organization is being formed he e and many are joining. Wells county democrats boom W. A. Kunkle for district chain; an. W. F. Beery el cted c must:! of Pleasant Mills Modern W ■ dmen.

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By HARRISON CARROLL. ♦ t’nnyrtght. 1931, Premier HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 00— ' No matter what you may think of , it, 1 have a story here that will be read with respect in Hollywood. Draconis, a young astrologer who has drawn up charts of Constance Bennett, the Marquis Henry ie la F a l a i s e.

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Mary Astor. Greta Garbo I [ and many other I I film people, has! given me his I predictions fori 1932. i Here are some I of the things he I •ays will Imp- I pen: i 1932 will be I a fairly good I year for motion I pictures, though ’ troubled at the start. March and April should see

things get under way. The latter part of the year will see the film industry’ organized in a more business-like way. Salaries will be reduced and the competitive element among producers will be curtailed. There will be many mergers. Three or four major companies will control the entire industry by the end of the year. Box office receipts will not be much larger, but with the new business set-up a profit will be i realized. One or more high motion picture executives will die during the year. The legitimate stage will offer great competition. The sexy type of star will be I replaced by those with intellectual I appeal • Australia will be a fertile field for picture-making during the coming year. Anyone who goes there will leap a harvest. Draconis urges great caution in films where explosives are used. He says the pinnacle of wages I and production costs in Hol’.yw ;d 1 has been reached for at least five j years 1935, he predicts, will be a boom year for the industry. Apparently, there is no d'epres»'on in the astrologer business. Draconis asks me not to tel) any-;

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ERIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1931.

Boyd Daugherty go- to Indianapolis to serve as a member of tiie frderal Jury. [ Mrs. G. H. Myers ele •ed prerdl lent of Decatur Wt C. T. U. and Mrs. [). G. M. Trout, s-cretuiy. ■l. H. Koenig resigns as general manag of Finn Wayn -an 1 Snring- | field Trac’ion company and W. H ■ Fledderjohann succeeds him. H. L. C nter. deputy secretary of [state vidting here. Miss Catherine Vesey visiting at | the Dug in h m.e. o [♦ —7 -♦ Lessons In English ♦ ♦ Words often misused: Do n.-t say. ! "She gave me a great big orange." I Say, “ large orange.’ Often mispronounced: Vehe- [ mence. Pronounce ve-he-mens. first I ami s eond e’s as in "me," last e ias in “men." accent firs; syllable Often misspelled: Secede. Ob-j serve the three e’s. Synonyms: Sickly, unhealthy, [ weakly, infirm. W rd study: "Use a word the - I times and it is yours.” Let ur, i:i-1 | crease our vocabulary by mast rr-1 ; ing one word each lay. Today’s [ word: Excerpt (verb ; to select, as I :i lite ary passive; to extract. "Sh ' excerpted of the most in* 'tort stin; pass ig s, and read them I to the children."

■ ► one where he can be reached, as j he. has all the work he can handle. LATEST GOSSIP. The other night Lew Cody revived that pleasant institution of . a corned beef and cabbage dinner. [ Only this time the girls had to [ come. too. 1 ate my first boiled turnip. The corned beef was real Southern style;no sugar in it. Lew 1 is the mo-t g nial of hosts, hia house a typical ba, helor establishment—cluttered but interesting. John Decker's caricature portraits I (a la Rembrandt) of Clark Gable, I “Schnozzle” Durante and Roscoe Arbuckle attracted everybody’s attention. Roscoe was there, by the way. with Addie McPhail. Fifi Dorsay showed up without ; Terry Ray. They’ve had another falling out. Fifi now plans to return to vaudeville immediately. I She opens in Brooklyn. Dec. 23. Somebody said Andy Devine’s ; dog howls when he see Andy on the screen. 1 wonder what time the las* guest left? IN THE NEWS. Tampa society has lost Ruth Hall for good. She has a new Warner con-

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i tract and -will Ib e loaned Ito Frank Fay for the picture [ he is to produce it Columbia ; Barbara Stanwyck will be on the lot at the same time, playing the lead in “Zelda Marsh" [—l almost [wrote Zelda i Sears. , Over at Radio, i Edgar Wallace , will team with i Herbert Brenon i in the writing of

a mystery story. DID YOU KNOW That Marguerite Churchill’s father introduced the first English performances of musical comedy n South America? They were at the j Casino Theatre tn Buenos Aires.

NEW GOLD RUSH SEEN IN DECADE FOR BLACK HILLS Scientific And Intelligent Effort Forecast by Mining Expert Rapid City, S. D„ Dec. 11.—<U.R) A new gold rush, but scientific and intelligent as compared to preivious frenzied tights for the yellow' [metal was predicted today for thej • Black Hills within the next decade |by Bancroft Gore, department heal; of tnetalurgical engineering at the | School of Mines. Because the mining of otiier ores is li< ing retarded due to over-pro-1 ductiou, interest in gold mining is becoming more and more concenGore said. He said that less activity is forecast in the mining of copper, lead, zinc and otiier minerals and that this activity will be transferred to tlip mining of gold. Witli the increased interest tn gold mining in this country, the Black Hills will come in for its i share of activity, Gore said. “Everything is now ripe for such | an increase,” lie declared. During the war and right after the war many mines were forced to shut down because of the high price ot labor, but now labor and materials are cheap, and companies will take advantage of mining properties, Gore said. Fifteen years ago there were a number of mining properties in the Black Hills, including the Trojan. Itlie Maitland and others that were [producing several thousands of dollars in gold every year, and now. [these companies and others like [them will take advantage of low | operating costs and improved [equipment and will resume activiity, Gore said. o PREBLE NEWS > • Mr. and Mrs. Fred Linnemier f [ Fort Wayne visited the farmer’s moth and brother Mrs. Kathriue Linnetnier and Rudolph LinneI ntier. Mrs. Robert Sherlock, Mi. s Dor I otliy Hoffman accompanied Mrs. i .Milton Hoffman, who has been ./ending several days at Carunna | home Sunday. Miss Clara Linn mier of Fart [ I Wayne spent the week-end visiting I her mother and brother Mrs. W.n, | Linnemier and Hennau Lituiemi r, Mrs. John Kiichner and daughter : Irene. Erma and Mrs. June Shacki ley motored to Huntington Tuesday. i Mrs. William Eh. man visited Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoffman and | family Sunday afternoon. M’> Jeanette Wilson o. Fort i Wayne visi.ed M . and Mrs. Orville ' I Heller and family and M;. and Mt:,. [ J din Brown Sunday. Mr. David Dilling f Fort Wayn.’ I visited Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dilling and family last week. Englishman Aids Young Fascist Organization — Piombino, Italy. Dec. 10. 4U.R) — I So enthusiastic is the Englishman.; ■ Harold Spillitoe. of London, over | p ile work of the Balilla organization Fascist youth organization) in Italy that he Senates annually to I he Balilla funds. In addition to more than s2llO i yearly. Spiilitoe annually sends six i [footballs and other sporting equip [ inient to the Balilla branch here. Common Sense and The Open W indow “Sleep with y u- window wid [ >pen when weather permits but don’t boast to your friends that j wintry night breeze:; always whirl [ loser you hr speetive of conditions : for this p active does not indicate i I the best of judgment on your part." : ; a bulletin issued today by th- i . Publicity Bureau of the Indiana < [ Stat ■ Medical Association. This bul- > letin entitled ’’Common Sense and I | the Open Window" is prepared in [ cooperation with the health move-1 I ment of the- Indiana Congress of [ Parents and Teachers which this I month Ig stressing the value of good [ . v ntila-ion in h me and schools. ’ Recent discoveries in the science I [of ventilation tend to modify to a[ i considerable ext nt previous opin-1 [ ions and practice concerning venti- I [ lation of sleepin i rooms.” contin- ' [ueu the bulletin. “Invcstigat ,rs in [various countries have shown con-1 , clusively that the bad effects in a I poorly ventilated room, the heart-' 'ache... and general fe ling of dis- [ comfort, are not due to some myth- I ical substance in the air that renders it foul. bu. to an excessive tern- ’ perature, a high humidity, or r erm-' l bination of the two. “Consider this question without prejudice oi* preconceived opinion. Suppose you have a north room provided -with an < rdinasy window sash double-hung window without I weather strips or storm window.. The weather is cold. Jack Frost is flirting with the zero ma:k on the thermometer, and a moderate wind comes from the north. The leak-

I age of air into the room between I the sash and casement and be- • I tween the upper and lower windows [ would be about 60 cubic feet par • : minute with the window clos d. [ i Now, an ordinary adult requires | about one-third of a cubic foot of '■ air per minute for breathing, s > for 1 [ purposes of b:eathing the leakage | [ around a closed window will supply [ , with about 180 times the air r.ece - I sary. “Sleep with the window op n. [ wide open when the weather permits. but do not make a fetish or a fad, open window ventilation. Dir- ;

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I net drafts, particular ly when cne is | sleeping, are productive of colds and tend to increase rather than [decrease influenza and other resI piratory diseases during the win!ter - “Use common sense in opening ! your window. Young adults who are strong and robust may profit by the i practice. This, however, is not nee- | essarily so of children of the aged, [ and of many of all ages who are not particularly rugged or are sus- ! ceptble to colds and drafts. "Be comfortable with the window [ open. Physical comfort invariably

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