Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1932 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. » Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Pont Office as Second Class Matter. J. 11. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A It. I tollhouse Sec y & Rus. Mgr. Dick 1). Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier .10 Ono year, by carrier .. 6.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 1 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year. I»y mail 3.00 I'ae 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 I eague of Home Dallies. The south is flooded with counterfeit 25 cent piece-- w hich contain more silver than the genuine. Now what can be done about that'.’ The efforts to change the rules in the Democratic convention, is not being taken by hundreds of leadvrs as good sportsmanship and may prove embarrassing. •Cut the weeds. That's the order I from Commissioner Fisher and must be enforced. It's a good thing lor you and your neighbor and it's better citizenship. Don't overlook! that vacant lot you own. It takes fifty cents worth of I stamps for each SSOO of the con ! sideration involved, for the filing of a deed at the county recorder's office. That's a part of the new fed-| eral tax law and must of course be strictly enforced. President Hoover's disarmament | plan, which he advocated would save fifteen billion dollars a year, wept flat inside of forty-eight hours. They just stepped all over it. Guess over in Europe the officials think it would be smarter to buy more guns than to throw any of those 1 they have away. Leo Yager who is in charge of the Old Adams County Bank is asking the earnest support of every litizen and is deserving of it. If a 1 ! who owe the bank will make an effort to reduce their indebtedness and these who have deposits there will be lenient, this matter can be the more speedily adjusted. If tlie special session gets into a real battle on the wet and dry issue, that's about al! we will hear. And that's silly, for repealing the Wright law now couldn't help much _ and this session was called by Governor Leslie for the express purpose of lightening the tax load. • They should not be side tracked. m -—-—-— *■ We can't see where the relief “■ measure now in congress and which « the President says he will veto can a. heliT this country. It would of w course provide a little employment w hut there would also be so much • inconvenience in the adding of new "■ tax burdens that it would more •* than off set the good to be derived. • We will never work out of our • troubles by adding overhead and • new taxes are just that. <*

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David E Smith, former Judge of the Adams circuit court, and for the past ten years a resident of Fort Wayne, has been re-elected a member of the school board of that city. Judge Smith is one of those capable and conseienious men, who does well any task he assumes and we doubt if that city ever had a safer or abler member of the school board. This honor is significant that he has made good and Adams county friends offer congratulations 1 to that city and to the judge. They're off in Chicago, where the big national Democratic convention opened today and for the next several days at least you may look for a fine display of political fireworks. The leaders of the party of Jefferson usually assert themselves in plain language and scrap to the last minute and the preliminaries in this week's contest have been such as to indicate they are still built that way. How I < ver, it is to be hoped that the I event can be ironed out as was the Indiana slate convention last week and that everything will be lovely for a discussion of the issues, so important just now. Not that it repays him for great and unselfish sacrifice, but because it recognizes these qualities, we i glory in the medal awarded Soldier jOtto Gase. veteran of the World war who lost his right arm in the | ghastly battle of Verdun. Other | Decatur and Adams county men I who distinguished themselves for i valor in the great conflict, we are informed, are entitled to the Washington Purple Cross, given for , military merit. " For them the Icounty is also proud. Soldier.Gase ! is an unassuming young man. saw real service in the trenches and the citation awarded him bv the war i department is one that makes his i triends happy, because he earned I The contractor on the Second 'istreet improvement made a state- ( raent today that he would repair the t street as soon as the sprinkling of I the street was stopped. He clainiI f cd that wetting the street prevent j ed him from starting work and t that the Kentucky rock material ' ( would no t harden properly if I, sprinkled. The improvement has I not yet been accepted by the coun- J tv and the citv officials claim that ? - ' i the sprinkling is done through an | arrangement with the merchants ■ and tlie man who operates the ‘ , sprinkling wagon. The repair of the street is important. The en- < I tire improvement cost nearly S2B,- ' . <>oo and it's just as important to , save money as not to spend it when , dealing with public improvements. The contractor should be permitted ,o make repairs before they become worse, entailing more expense and probably placing liability on f other shoulders. Ii _ o _2 II ♦— — ♦ Household Scrapbook -ByROBERTA LEE h ♦— ♦ v Furniture Polish A good furniture polish can (be ' made with two iparts of vinegar to I- one part of olive oil. Pour a small r amount of this solution on a soft cloth and rub it into the wood. The result will be a fresh, bright polish. Eyebrows * The growth of eyebrows will be stimulated by mixing 2 ounces red vaseline, 1-8 ounce tincture of cantharides, 15 drops oil of hvender. 15 drops oil of rosemary. Mix thoroughly and apply with a small _ brush every night until the growth 11 is stimulated; then, not so often. Salad A delicious salad can he made I by cutting a top slice from small I [r oe tomatoes, scraping out the cenI ter-, and filling with shopped celR j ery, chopped olives, and cubes of j veil loaf, mixed with a favorite I salad dressing. Serve on hearts of ■ I lettuce. 41 'X Ability to serve CORRECTLY must be born of practical experience. 1 W. H. Zwick & Son FUNERAL DIRECTORS Mrs. Zwick. Lady Attendant Funeral Home Ambulance Service ’ 514 N. Second Tel. 303 and 61 <

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Why A Constitution By F. DU MONT SMITH. Chairman, Committee on American Citizenship American Bar Association

To understand why we have a, Constitution and why it must be in writing, we must understand the conditions that existed when the Constitution was framed. When the Thirteen Colonies achieved their independence from Great Brit-; lain each became a soverign inde pendent state. Little Delaware, for. instance, had the same power to 1 make War and Peace, send amImssadors to other countries, make, alliances, raise an army or build a navy that any country in the world had and these states were veryi jealous of their sovereignty. The Continental Congress was | not a Congress like that we now have, it was simply a meeting of ambassadors from sovereign states allied for the purpose of-carrying on the War of Independence. It' was very much like the Congress' of Allied Ambassadors which met at Paris during the Great War. I b; could not make any law affecting' the people, it had no Executive, no! Judiciary and no power of tax-1 ation. It could recommend measures to the separate states and ask > for contributions which were sei i dom paid. In 1781, a new govern ment. the Confederation, was adopted and it was little better. It was simply a League of Indepen I dent States dissoluble at the wiU ot any member. The vote in its Congress was by States and it required the vote of nine states to adopt any measure. It had no Executive, no Judiciary or no power of taxation. It existed solely by contributions paid by the different states and was bankrupt and moribund from the beginning. Somehow- we muddled through. By 1787

the condition of the country had. become so deplorable, the weakness of its government so apparent. an object of contempt at home, and derision abroad, that the great men of the country met in the Con i stitutional Convention in May, 1787.1 That Convention was the greatest body of political minded men that ever sat in a single chamber. It contained twenty-five or thirty members who would have taken front rank in any parliamentary body in the world then or since. It contained a half-dozen who were the peers of any statesmen that England has produced in its long parliamentary history. It determined to create a true national government, as Webster expressed it, "an indissoluble union of indestructible states,” with all the powers necessary to a true national government, a Nation and not a mere league or confederacy of states. To accomplish that end. it examined all governmental pvowers. determined what were necessary to form a union, not only of the states but ot the people, a national government, such powers as those to make Peace and War, coin money. to | maintain an army and navy, to ■ handle our relations with foreign countries, and so on. These pow-' era it conferred upon the United I States of America, and it forbade:

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, the several states to exercisi any .! of these powers. But mark this. the powers conferred upon th-: I national government by the Con-I istitution and the first Ten Amend ments and the powers taken from the state governments were purely i governmental powers. No right.; ' privilege or immunity of the citizen j |< r any of these states was infring-! led upon or impaired in any way.'; Every right, privilege ami immun ! i ity of the individual that he had! under his state government re-j mained exactly the same under the. I new government with many added 1 ■safeguards provided by the first | | ten Amendments. The rights of i individual liberty and personal. I freedom that existed under the, jconsitution as it was formed and, these Amendments were left intact. Several encroachments as I have been made upon these rights have been by recent, hasty ill ad- | vised, and improvident amendments ■ that tend to the destruction of the ; whole plan and purpose of our gov--1 eminent as it was formed. i The people who are the fountain of all political power deciding to establish a national government | took from the states, which they Iliad created, certain governmental I powers. It is a kind of a tri-parti-I tee agreement between the people, 1 their state governments, and their •national government and necessarjily it had to be put in writing and ' I that is why we have a written Con- ' stitution. Tomorrow: Kenneth C. Hogate, General Manager, Wall Street Journal. —— o

TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY — From the Daily Democrat File i Joel Gerber, well known French township farmer crushes foot in fall from wagon. Henry Duddleson of Jamestown. O„ is visiting his cousin, Mrs. William Blackburn. Ells wo, th Brown began duties of conductor on the interurban this morning under It. H. Hunsicker. Lewis Fruchte, painfully injured in a runaway, is improving 32 firemen leave for Dunkirk to attend annual convention accompanied by city attorney L. C. De Voss, councilmen Isaac Chronister ; and John Hale. Mrs. Anna Laman buys R. K. Allison business block for $6,250. $1,209 stSbscribed for Old Home Week. Mrs. C. A. Dugan ente tains number of guests at dinner honoring Mrs. Harry Deara ot Chicago. Albert Scheuman entertiins with bain dance. Miss Doris DeVoss has gone to i Portland to visit Miss Lulu Thropp. - -Q The Mormons were the first in ‘ America to employ land irrigation ion a large scale.

Answers To Test Questions Below are the Answers to the : Test Questions Printed on Page Two. 1. N . 2. The Seireta y of State. 3. Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyste: Bay. New York. 4. Andrew Johnson. 5. J Imes Madison. j Nancy Hanks. ! 7. 1»24. 8. Two-Thirds. 9. Princeton. 10. Andrew Jackson. (J. O. I’. PROGRAM ASSAILED BY SEN.BARKLEY I CoNTINCED FROM PAGE ONE ■ lief w hich, if necessary, would in- 1 I elude adjustments to meet condi-1 tions imposed by the “machine! age” and changing economic con , I ditions. Federal economy which would! j wipe out all unnecessary bureaus. | commissions and activities. i ' A long program of changes in | , the hanking and financial laws. The speech, it was understood.' • had been submitted to all leading I I D-n.ocratic candidates and had re-. ; ceived their approval. ,' "It is manifest,” Barkley said.' discussing prohibition, "that a re- ■ expression of tlie will of thei 1 American people on this great | - question is advisable and Justified' in tlie most direct and effective | manner possible under the consti- , tut ion.” He termed the Republican prohibition plank "a promiscuous agglomeration of scrap-limber." Any plan to revise the 18th

amendment so it would remain in I the constitution and yet be applic- , able only to states which might so i elect, he termed destructive “of rhe very nature of the constitution itself." "In order." he said, “to obtain the present will ot the American people on this subject of universal controversy, this convention should in thq platform here to be i adopted recommend the passage by congress of a resolution repealing the 18th amendment and its submission to the people of the states through convention whose delegates shall be chosen upon this issue alone." He denounced the Hoover ad- ' ministration's financial measures I as "governmental pulmotors and outlined a program of changes in the banking laws including: Revision of the federal reserve act to insure "more direct contact with commercial banks and borrowers.” Restriction of the "channels of stock market operations” and expansion of those of commercial ized wheat from $1.25 per bushel I operations. Application to investment bank- ; ing of “the same quality of regni lation now applied to commercial I banking," including the divorce of ; banking institutions from stock

market operations. •'Some reasonalde form of workable and enforclblo assurance against bank failures and against loss when failures occur" Barkley flayed with sarcasm the farm aid policies of tho administration. The farm board, he said, "stablldown to 30 ceuts. corn from 75 cents per bushel down to 20 cents, cotton from 15 cents per pound down to 5 cents, wool from -0; cents per pound down to 7 cents. To aid agriculture he salil he efit "warranted In giving assurance" that the Democrats would! •'attempt to remove from the shoulders of agriculture a portion of the unnatural burden which it bears." Opening channels of trade,! establishment of cooperative agencies, "through which the farmer may work out his own problems," ; relief of a character "so generously granted to other forms of indus try and finance" and reduction of government expenses were some of the means of aiding agriculture which he proposed. '"We shall take the government I of the United States out of the I dubious venture of speculation in the products of the farms,” lie ( said, with the activities of the farm board in mind. Barkley began his speech with a 1 , ... !•

review M' pioent economic < .mili- 1 lie cam us was on. ' .x-- i.-i.-t ei M 'MUROERtheNiGHTCIUBLADyI THE NEWTHATCHERCOLT DETECTIVE MYSTERY I ! by ANTHONY ABBOT <n| & S JY tOPYRKffT.W} Bf COVra-FRIEDE tHO.DISTHIBUrEDSY KlUOFtAnngi SYNDICME,UK.

I J SYNOPSIS i • / Despite the police guard placed in her home by Commissioner Thatcher Colt, Lola Carewe, suspected “higher-up" of a jewel thief ring, is mysteriously murdered. Dr. Hugh Baldwin gives heart failure as the cause of death. Those present at the time, besides Colt and his aides, were Lola's mother, Mrs. Carewe; the butler, maid, and Vincent Howland, an attorney. Colt feels the young man whose photograph adorns Lola's dresser — and whose identity she refused to reveal beyond his first name, “Basil”—is connected with the mystery. At the mention of his name, Mrs. Carewe becomes hysterical, saying Lola was a cruel beast and never loved Basil. Christine Quires. Lola's guest, cannot be located, although the elevator boy claims she returned around midnight with her escort. Guy Everett, and Colt found the bag she carried. Colt phones Everett’s apartment after 3 a. m. and learns Everett has not arrived. A clue in the form of a small wooden box is picked up under Lola's window. Chung, the butler, reveals that Everett had threatened Ix>la and that Rowland, the lawyer, warned her she was playing a dangerous game and would be eaught. Eunice, the maid, is called next. CHAPTER FIFTEEN r’TJAVE you any suspicions of ■ how the parrot and the dog * died?” Colt asked. “I don’t know a thing about it.” “Have you heard any quarrels in this house?” Even frightened as she was, the girl curled her pinched lips at this question. “I didn’t hear much else,” was her reply. “Hear any tonight?” “Sure. I heard them all. I heard Mr. Rowland and Miss Lola having it hot and heavy. And also, this afternoon, I heard Mrs. Carewe and Miss Christine having it, too.” “And what could they be quarreling about?” “I don’t know. I heard Miss Christine say she had to have her I money back. And Mrs. Carewe said it wasn’t any of her business. And Miss Christine said it would have to be somebody’s business. And Mrs. Carewe said to see Lola about it. And Christine said all right—if Lola lived that long. And Mrs. Carewe had hysterics.” “And when did you say this was ? ” ' “Late this afternoon. Miss Lola was out. And Mrs. Carewe had just ■ come home from the show.” Colt looked at the girl with a i long glance of appraisal. Somehow i she gave the impression of not be--1 ing entirely frank. i i “How did Lola and her mother >i get on together?” he next inquired. “Oh, they quarreled and made up all the time Just like all famii lies. Lola said once that she could i easily kill her mother—but she was awful mad, then, and that was a long time ago. Os late they seemed 1 a lot closer—l don’t know why.” “Do you remember ever hearing Lola Carewe express any fear of 'I any particular person?” asked 1 Dougherty. “Did she, for instance, ' ever say she was afraid somebody might try to take her life?” ?' Eunice James wrinkled the freckt : led whiteness of her forehead. Her eyes brightened. “Lola and Miss Christine were f both scared of one man—she told me so,” she disclosed. “He was an 1 actor boy friend of hers—Guy Ev- ! erett—the fellow who took Miss Christine out tonight.” “But why should they be afraid of Mr. Everett?" pursued Dough‘il erty. ; “Miss Christine called him a hypo—hypo—something or other.” I

tloiis, winch lie alii huhh combination of politics and bust ness In politics a combination of ineptitude in government and the cupity of a certain type of bust ness." He paid tribute to Woodrow Wilson, Ironically told »f the Harding administration as th l ' “era of normalcy," and that of Coolidge as the era of “economy and inflation." He blamed the abuses of the Coolidge eta latgely onto "the greatest secretary ol the treasury since Alexander Hamilton and the greatest secretary of | commerce in all history. HOOSIERS AT CHICAGO MEET ■■■■ ■ I CONTINCUD Fi:<>M I'AGB uNt: 'bus pledged the state to Shouse. ! The delegation must uphold him." A moderate reply of "ayea’’ ansvered McHale as he called tor a vote on a motion by Robert Proctor. Elkhart, instructing the committee on permanent organization to support Shouse. There was 1 no calls for "noes.” "To further strengthen our (tartegic position,” McHale said, we will withhold a vote on the two I thirds rule until tomorrow." He indicated the vote may lie taken on the convention floor or at tin- next ' caucus, called for tonight. Tim i iiifiiM wiiH bi it'! Xt) refer

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“A hypochondriac?” ! “He was always down in the | mouth, always tired out, she said; I always holding his hand to his belt and making a face.” “And she actually told you she was ’ afraid of him?” “Sure. She told me how nhe and I Miss Carewe advised him about some investments. On account of ’ J taking her advice, he lost all his ’ money. Miss Christine was always , afraid he would try to get even with her and Miss Lola.” “How long ago did she discuss 3 that with you?” r “Just the other day." j Here was a startling new angle. 1 Lola Carewe and Christine Quires, I ; her bosom friend, had advised Ev- j j (erett about his investments! Where] t could such a trail as that lead us? . f Colt might have followed this up . directly, but he was too shrewd a [ i policeman to make such a blunder, i 5 Instead he boldly switched the i course of his examination. i "Do you know anything about I t the relations between Doctor Baldwin and Miss Carewe?” asked; a Dougherty suddenly. v The maid opened her eyes very , • wide. "Not much," she temporized, r “But I did hear an awful row one' 1- night.” e “Hear anything that was said?" “Well — Doctor Baldwin said d plenty. He told Miss Lola his life s was ruined if she told what they a knew." d “You heard that?” “Oh, yes, air—l heard it!” g “Hear anything else?” f “Not that 1 remember just now, d sir!” !, “When was this quarrel?” y “About two months ago, I guess.” :- A knocking was heard at the r door. It was one of Flynn’s men with the message that Mr. Guy Eve erett had arrived in company with d a detective. n “Show him in at once,” directed ’• Thatcher Colt, dismissing the maid is with a word of thanks. On the threshold she passed the actor who d was to be our next witness—and >- one about w>hom she had just given us startling information. Was I r- mistaken—or did a glance of un- j derstandin- pass between them? I

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I Guy Everett w.i ■ a tall a [handsome mo! i’.i ’ ia slightly gray n of the elevator by. : last person k v; ' ’ • ive * Christine Quires, . r.t-- .l of I murdered I."la. a- : -. -e dui pearanee was air . grave and com; .. ■' '•>' T this mystery. Mr E.-rr-ttsrM to be in a pitiful The man was st ;> ■ tent tremors, h tually seemed ! • and his eyes rd.gear, their m.-C--der control. “Mr. Colt," he I : (ately. “why an. 1 • .happened? Where i—or Miss Quires '.” r "Mr Everett.” ■ | Colt, “how long - - (Lola Carewe.”’ “About three she is an old frie- n “Were you at: ' ” “Well. I don't k- - ’ vou mean by being a- ”' j saw a bit of her Bus (happened?” “Were you fond - ' “Well, I took her ind 8 yes.” , I “There was no love a’, au. "Oh. absolutely a at all, under an, no! Nothing of th ' No, sir, no, no! N-” - •’•«' “Just friends.” “Nothing more!’ “When did you ru( gagement for tonign’ “Oh, about three -'CCKS f say, you couldn't let me ha>« spot, could you , "A five spot?" asket h i* had taken an instar to this sleek and w< i t'ome P former. . , aol “A spot of Scotch. 1 (> lutely frizzled at a “In this country." 1 1>""‘ plained heavily. “lu<u’r is the law.” _ k “What time did >;■'* tonight?” resumed < t“About nine o’clock. “And what time md with Miss Quires?” “About half past nine. (To Be Continued Copyright 1931. tr 1 Distributed by Kins lese-.e