Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1932 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publiahud Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. /. 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 mall 1.00 Bix 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 33.50 one year.. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago <ls Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dallies. ADAMS COUNTY WELCOMES YOU: This old democratic bulwark, for four score years one of the greenest spots in the state, is proud today to have as guests, so many of the state and district leaders and so many of the soldiers who support the principles of Thomas Jefferson. We extend the sincerest welcome, with the assurance that this is open territory where you are all invited to state your position on the various questions of moment and to bid for support from the thousands of men and women who each election year march to the polls to cast Xbeir ballots for those who have been nominated. You are in democratic territory. For many years this county has chosen her nominees by the primary system, believing that the voters should decide who was best fitted to serve in places of trust. We have no factions and we play no "smooth" tricks. We are jvist plain, every day democrats, opposed to centralization of i>ower and in favor always of those things which we believe best for all the people. We will be glad to hear the leaders tonight and we assure you that wliiljg we can’t all vote for all of you, in May. we will be on the firing line next November for the winners of the primary and the conventions. (•nr guests today include a num 1 <-r of the notables of the party and w.- deem It a privilege to be your hiss We hope you like Docitnr and Adams county. Among the visitors here for the rally is the Hon. 1!. Earl Peters, -late chairman the past six years. Ti:is is home to Earl for he was born and reared here, educated in the Decatur schools and began his c teer as a reporter-on this newspaper. He will be welcomed enllinsiastit a'ly by hundreds who rentt mix r him and who have watched his con inued rise to prominence during the years he has been away. To Earl, to the state and district candidate:,, to the state officials ..nd to all Hie Democrats, we offer the hand of welcome and in doing so we speak for every one in this community Mayor Krick has turned over to you the keys of Decatur. Help yourself and have a good time and come again and often. Some how or other wo just can’t feel confidence in the underworld l< aders being able to recover the Lindlw-rgh baby if the officials cau l and we doubt that any agreement can be made with the kidnapers which will prevent this nation ex-

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acting the limit of punishment if the criminals are made known and captured. We can understand how the parents of the boy would agree *• to any thing that might restore P him to them but we don’t believe ' r. we as a nation are so far controlled ; * by gangsters that we must turn to them for assistance even when 2 * such a terrible crime as this la refl ported. If we are its certainly y high time to change things gener--5 ally. 0 n - fl We imagine the congressmen who are holding back against giving support to the proposed sales tax bill have heard from home and if they have Its a safe guess they have been told that the very word tax Ls objectionable these days when a lot of splicing has to be done to make ends meet. A better way to do it nationally might be to t educe expenditures a billion. County and state government in Indiana costs $230,000,004 a year or an average of 371.0 S per adult I person. Aud the worst part about f the report la the fact that it in- < -eased over a million dollars last year when it seems we ought to have economized if we ever intend to. 1 A baksetball tournament over at 1 Muncie got so hot that ineii and I women from Muncie aud New Cas-| ’ tie rushed on the floor and a near ’ riot followed. That's the great tronble with we Americans. We become so enthusiastic over our sports and some other matters that we forget to use our good common ■ sense. When Mrs. Ernst Sollbarger of ■ For Wayne asked her husband Xor money with which to buy clothes . tor herself and four children, her t husband tossed ninety cents on the dresser and told her to go to it. * No wonder we have a depression 1 if such extravagances are generali ly practised. Alright Yellow Jackets, you . fought a good fight and but for the . "breaks" would have returned thef winners in the tournament. You i . gave tlie best you had and every . I rooter here gives you due credit. There are signs :h*t winter is ■uaiing an end. We have had it I in concentrated form the past ten: .•days but the weather bureau says , t won't be long now. A nMitheal party that has men j like Byrd. Traylor and Garner as ( ’.dark horses in a presidential con-! vention is surely one to lie reckon-’ i1 led with in 1932. o_2—:— t i Lessons In English ♦ — ; ♦ Words often misused: Do not say | My income wa > materially increased," Say. "was con• iderat/ly in- . | creased.' Often mispronounced: lieman■sttativ, with accent on first aiylabic. i Often misspelled: supersede:} . retie, not treed. Synonyms: Sociable, companion-1 ■ able, communicative, affable. i Word study: "Use a word thr»< , linn s and it is your.-.” Let us . crease otir vocabulary by mastering jone word each day. Today’s word: Imputable; attributable. "These conditions t-V imputable to lack of understanding." — • -41 Household Scrapbook i —oy— ROBERTA LEE Shoe Dressing : One can make a cheap waterproof dressing for shoes by melting tallow and mixing with neatsfoot oil in l ie proportion of 7 parts of the oil to 3 parts of tallow. In cold weather, use less tallow, aiiow 1 part to 3 parts of oil. Hang-nails Hang-nails can be avoided with the right care. Masaugc the cuticle about Hie nail gently with a cottonwrapped orange slick dipped in olive oil. This keeps tlie skin about the nalU soft, preventing the burdened tissues which form hangnails. Mixing Biscuits One need not. wait until the last minute to mix the biscuit dough. It can lx- mixed in the morning and kept iu the roirlgeratof until ready to bake. Hie biscuits will be just as light and delicious as when the dough is mixed immediately before . baking. --—- oGet the Habit — Trade at Home

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TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY — | From the Daily Democrat File | Mrs. Will Butler received word from her daughter in Lansing. Michigan, that the entire Dibble family and their guests, Messrs. Bolinke and Kukelhan of this county, were all made dangerously 111 from eating poisoned dried beef. Miss Lulu Atz is seriously ill. Firm of Lee and Stultz replaces Laman and Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Butler celebrate 10th wedding anniversary. Henry Thomas looked after business at Portland. Decatur has four city carriers

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By HAPRISON CARROLL K:r>< Feature SyMlcit*. !n>* HOLLYWOOD. Cai-. March Ot). —A talkative Ronald Colman, if you can imagine it, has just been

celling me about lis four and a half months’ trip abroad. Ronnie is .ewly returned from Shanghai, where he saw the outskirts of the war and, thanks to his uncle, met a lot o f important reopie. Ronnie’s] uncle, P. C. Col-1 nan, is a veteran of 25 years in the Orient and

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proved to be an admirable guide. “I didn't see any actual fighting," says Ronme "We heard a pretty heavy bombardment one night, but for the most part the weather was bad and they don't fight much over there in bad weather ” It's too bad to spoil a good story, but Ronnie didn’t get arrested for; being out after curfew, as was reported in news dispatches. He was safely in hi* hotel at 10 o’clock Though his trip included Italy, Germany, France and Austria Ronnie found the Orient the mo-t interesting to visit He met Dick and Jessica Barthelmess :n Japan and the three had a few busy days of sight-seeing. During their en tire Stay, they were constantly es corted by the press. Japan is very movie-conscious, Ronnie reports, •nd autograph seekers are even more numerous than in Hollywood Now he's back, the star is try mg to cateh up in his correspondence, arrange his income tax report and straighten up various odds and ends of his affairs. He still has to acknowledge Christmas presents. Abou' his next picture, ”Th» Brothers Karamazov," he ha little to say. "As a matter of fact," he confesses, "I haven't even read the book. Ido hope, however, 1 won’t have to do a run of heavy pictures; just because ‘Arrowsmith’ was a success. What I want is variety." Ronnie’s current agreement with Samuel Goldwyn is for two more pictures. If previous announcements are followed through, they will be the Dostoievsky novel and thg Broadway play, “Cynara." SNAPPY DIALOGUE. Preview audiences shout when Jimmy Durante say« tn "The Wet Parade'': •‘l’d like (• have children if I didn’t think there was too much beauty io the world already.” HERE’S GOSSIP~ Greta Garbo turns platinum blonde in her new picture, "As You Desire Me"...Today I saw a neat racket bainj worked on a Hollywood street A crippled boy. propped on crutches, stood in the gutter before a house aud sang

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who delivered 28.728 pieces of mail last week. Chas. Christen made a business trip to New Castle, today. Dr. I). I). Clark purchased a 1912 Overland Coupe for $909. Dr. Will Kortenber returned to Akron after a visit here. Modern Woodmen entertained with banquet and smoker for their dictrict deputy. —o Card Os Thanks We wish to t.iank the ministers their choir of the Salem Church, the 1. O. O. F. Lodges of Warsaw and Decatur, those who gave floral offering- and a|l who extended their sympathy in our recent bereavement in the death of our husband and father. Mrs. C. W F. Davis and children

♦ ustily through a lurg. megaphone, i When the money cam*- in, or failed ; 1 to. he moved down the street half J a block and started in again. But ! the tip-off was that h" was being i trailed by a woman m a So.OOO I limousine Every time hr moven I she drove up a ways and parked I If Joel McCrea finishes "The ; Bird of Paradise" in time, he w.ll be Connie Bennett’s leading man .in her new RKO picture Warner Baxter is mourning the death of his butler, who had been with h>m a number of years. Ihe servant's car was struck by an oil truck and trailer just as he was i turning into the Malibu Fim colony. . .Some San Francisco audience is slated to see the preview of "Grand Hotel" on Saturday n.ght. Studio officials plan a trip north to evade the usual Holly wood preview crowd... Jim Tully tells ine that Charles Gordon n producing his “Jarnegan” in Pans Donald Ogden Stewart is put 'ting dialogue into that Hollywood I satire .or M.-G.-M .. . Hollywood turned out to Walter Hampden’s first night in "Cyrano de Bcr 'I ge’rac." In the first row there were ! Harpo Marx and a tall blonde, I Ruth and Edgar Selwyn. and Evelyn Brent and Harry Edwards MADGE DENIES IT. Madge Evans

deme.- to nu- she and Tom Gal- ■ levy ate to be narneii. She ad- ! miu she had a diamond ring on tier engagement : finger the other !evening at the theatre, but u> I sists she's had it i since she wa* *l7 Nevertheless tII o 11 yw o o d | "lings to tII e dea that there lis a romance

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• I here. Some say the engagement • j will be announced after Galiery’f •, divorce from Zasu Pitta becomes ; I final. ij > LOOK our, COLUMNISTS. You can look for an "p’dem'c of [ m the new films. ; Warner Brothers now admit that “Blessed Event” cost them more I than any other story ever bought by the company. They’ll use it m a starring vehicle fok James Cagney and production will not be too far in the future. Over at RKO, Arline Judge has just been assigned to play one I of tlie important roles in ‘ls My ( Face Red?”, anotlnw story with a Broadway columnist hero Ricardo Cortez and Robert Armstrong also are in this one i DID YOU KNOW? i That when Stuart Erwin took a i drama course at the University of . California, his inatnietor «as Irv- • mg Pichel, now an actor with him ; at Paramount?

♦ t The People’s Voice j This column for the use of our 1 readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good i ‘ or discuss questions of Inter- ; eat. .**loßßß sign your name to II ‘ show authenticity. It will not I be used if you prefer that it j V ; not be-111 • 11 Tribute to. the Town Tramp of Thirty-Five Years Ago Memory today takes me back to ; ' childhood days, and I think of our > town tramp, Old Frank or Irish ' Frank as we called him. Home, he had none, his food was ' t'ae off scourings from the restaurants. ' He would sit in door ways or on the curt) singing by tlie hour. And if he had a few cents it most | generally found its way to some 1 | chikls out stretched palm for candy. For he was a friend of all the i children, to them he gave his all, a ' nod. a smile, a song and hte pennies. When he passed on. he was lay- * ed at rest in the Pottersfield. Some say his body was stolen. "Who Knows"? but this 1 do know the children all lost a friend at his passing. Mrs. Goldie King Milligan 1703 Clinton Ave. Kalamagoo. Michigan. o Answers To Test : Questions — Below are the answers to the Test Ques'ions printed on Page Two. I. The laitiu word Ibidem, meaning the same place. t 2. Named for Admiral Edward Vernon of the British Navy. 3. California. I| 4. Greek. I 5. 1902. 6. The lat. 7. S. S. Van Dine. 8. By adoption o. other amendment repealing it 9. "Aida.” 10. Because the air is thinner. OBITUARY (’. W. F. Davis, born January 15. 1557, in St. Lawreuce County, NewYork. son of William C. and Eunice j Z. t Edmunds) Davis, departed this life at his home in Warsaw. Indiana, March 2. 1932. at the age of seventy-five years, one month and fifteen days. ? » He came to Adams County, Indiana. when nine years of age. He later lived five years in Mercer County, Ohio. The remainder of' I sis lite was spent in Adams Coun - ty until September, last year, he : and his wife moved to Warsaw, Imfiana. it the age of sixteen he united i wi. i he United Brethren Chiirc’t it Hope* .11. Mercer County, Ohio, and later trans erred his member- > > p to the Salem M. E. Cliureh. He .if I ».i ions otfiees in the church iml Sn.-iday Sell j| and was very devoted to his work. im January 3. 1878, he wa .united n .Mania.e to Sarah E. Claw >n. i o this union five sons were born. f sort services were given by lt<-v. N. P Ba. ton, at the home, and Rev. hank Bari,-, as ,!.<ted by Rev Bari on. conducted the funeral services at. Salem, Indiana. March 4 Music furiii ht?d by the Salem Choir and interment was made in the Tricker Cemetery. He leaves to mourn his 10.-s hi< v, a. Diree -oils, five daughters-in-law. one half sister raised in tiie home as a foster daughter, twenty grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren. three foster grandchildren, iv. oster great grandchildren, tw-o step grandchildren and eight step great grandchildren. Two sons and two grandchildren have preceded > tim In death. EARLY POLITICAL I HISTORY OF COUNTY j IS DEMOCRATIC (CONTINUED tkoM PAGE ONE* and city officials arc iJcinocrats. Besides Mr. Rugg. several men from Adams county have been honored with state offices. L. G. Ellingliam of Fort Wayne, former publisher of the Decatur Daily Democrat, was elected secretary of stale of Indiana in 1911, and again in 1912. He was a resident of Decatur when elected. Herman L. Conl'-r. now treasurer of latke county, (Gary) served as deputy secretary of state under Mr. EUingharn and was trie deputy under Homer L. Cook from 1914 to 1916. Mr. ('outer was the Demis eratic nominee for secretsry of state in 1918. The laic Judge Richard ,K. Erwin,! although being a resident of Allen eouniy when cl<-< fed, served on the 1 Indiana Supreme Court from 1912 to 1918. Judge Erwin was born iu Adams county and was judge of the Adams Circuit Court. J. Frod France, born in Adams comity, was elected < lerk of the Indiatii Supreme Court from Huid-I iugtoit county aud served eight! years in that office! R. Earl Peters, state chairman, I «as born in Adams county and began his career in this city. He was for several years a reporter ou

the Daily Democrat. In 1836 only 49 votes were cast in the first election. In 1850 the; voting population had grown to 2flo and each succeeding year saw an increase in the number of votes; cast at each election. Today the Democrat vote in Ad ams county Is one of the largest ot any county of Its size in the state. In 1930 the total vote re ceived by the Democrat candidatetotaled between 4.000 and 4.500 and the majorities ran from 1.004 to, 2.5(>0. ’ As one of tlie early historian wrote, speaking of the Ik-mm-ratu trend in Adams county, suited. "At each election, tberefifte. the questien as to the result is not what and "who,” but "how much — -— Modern Etiauctte —by— ROBERTA LEE ♦ — * Q. Should one remain or leave when making a call and a second caller arrives? A. Remain for about five minutes and then depart. y. What Is the meainius of tae word "subdeb ”? A. A. “sub-deb" is a young gir. in her last year or two at school, before she is formally introduced t ) society. Q. How should the fork be laid on the plate after finishing a meal ? A. It should lie laid beside the kni.e with the prongs down and the handle resting on the rim of the plate. NOTICE Your private iu:iu - tan be loaned on first mortgages at a good rate of interest through our office. We have a number of applications. Suttles Edwards Up. Decatur. 6223 t

" James D. Ad and —for - I CONGRESS ' J .gsw I MR. ADAMS is publisher of the Columbia City Post. He is a graduate of Wabash College an! he has been active in the affairs of his community for the past twenty years. Long experience in business and n c w s p a p lll work has, brought him in close contact with the needs of pr -pie bi this pari of the state. l“»r the six years he has been Democratic Chairman of the old 12th (’engressional District, and it has been hi pleasure to work for candidates from trustee D president. Mi-. Adams has a wide acquaintance over Northeastern Indiana. He believes in party action and he pledges to the voters of the New Fourth District that he will star' 1 squarely by his party platform. Adams County for Adams PeJitical — — —

* COUNTY \(JENT’S COLUMN » a : Lanascaping Nearly every one has an ambition to plant some particular spec-! Iles of trees not commonly seen In his community. This urge will; in most cases influence his choice of a tree to be planted durtntr the present year as a Washington Meni orlal. Whatever tree is selected tor 'this purpose, the choice should be lestricted to those trees having; large size, good rugged form and long life The following mtive trees of Indiana are suggested a.being well suited: Deciduous —! White or American Elm. White Oak, Scarlet Oak. Sycamore. Bald | ( ypress (contrary to popular belief this tree will thrive in practically al! parts of Indiana), Tulip Popular. Sugar Maple. Sweet or I I Red Gum. Hackberry, Evergreens jWhite Pine. Scotch Pine. Hemlock.' Austrian Pine anti Douglas Fir. This list does not mention somei d' the more popular cutlcaf Weep ling Willows, Birches. Purple Beech es and other unusual types for the {season they do not meet the practical requirements listed above, i.or do they suggest the rugged 'dignity appropriate to the Wash lington Memorial. The wary gardener will not be I tricked by the mild weather into removing ami destroying the winter covering on his beds of tulips land other bulbs. Even when it [seems necessary to remove the covI ering, it slioulil be kept close be'side the lied for hasty replacement tin tlie event of winter's unexpected return. l«ast season’s ravages by web> | worm left many bare spots in lawns which are now pre-empted by chick-

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