Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1933 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at tbc Postoffiee at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. * ■ J. 11. Heller - President and General Manager A. R. Holthouse -• Secretary and Business Manager Dick D. Heller Vice-President JI SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single copies I .02 Three months, by mail J.OO One week, by carrier - .10 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by carrier 5.00 One year, by mail 3.00 One month, by mail.. - .35 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 Advertising Representative: SCHEERER. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, 415 Lexington Avenue, New York. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies

Senator J. Ham Lewis, veteran Chicago statesman and politician, has lost his pink whiskers, but it is said still retains his hundred pounds of steam, which is more important. Samuel Insull may remain in Greece longer, reads a headline and he will, if they permit it, as long as he can. Uncle Sam has cancelled his passports and there is a threat of sending him back to New York as an alien. The death of Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre, 45, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, will bring sadness to millions who admired her during the days she was one o’s the ladies of the White House, when her distinguished father, Woodrow Wilson, ■ was President. They are changing the beer bill around each day now and when they get through they may not have much of a statute. When the Wright bill is repealed there should certainly be a regulatory measure ' on the books. That's important for ! every one, wet or dry. The legislature is getting down 1 to business and you will be inter- , ested each day from now on in wh.it transpires there, if you can t visit that important assembly, you can read the details daily in this paper. We have arranged to keep you posted on the importan doings. | — it’s always darkest Just before dawn. Arthur Botderf of Fort Wayne was notified as he concluded a thirty-day sentence for securing merchandise under false pretenses, that he had fallen heir to $6,000 in cash and a garage at Fort Wayne. That ought to make him go straight. Congratulations to Yost Brothers. local contractors who do not intend to sit around and wait for prosperity to knock at their door. They have lauded a contract to build twenty small bridges ami approaches in Franklin county which will keep them busy the next several months. That’s the way to do it, go out and get the business. Indiana has had as their guest the past day or two. James A. Farley, Democratic national chairman, who promises the state her full share of patronage when the time comes. He is also anxious that the Hoosier state meet her share of tlie deficit from the last campaign, the assessment being $20,000. And this state will do that now as they always have. The news of the proposed sale of the Decatur sugar plant has caused every ono here to have hope. It will mean much for this community and we have absolute faith in those who will assume the ownership. It the deal is consumated as seems probable now it will You Rundown?

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years. Read what S. A. D. Jordan of Route 1, Newport, Ind., says: “Last spring I was in a run-down condition, no energy, no appetite, nervous breath bad, generally speaking, out-of-sorts every way. I took Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and the 'Pleasant Pellets’ for two month* and noted great improvement.” bold by druggist* everywhere. Write to Dr. Piercer Chair, Dufiaiv, N. Y., for free medical advice.

i make a vast difference in business , generally and will be of great help t to farmers, merchants and laborl ers. The Democrats in the legislature are evidently so Interested lu mati ters of particular interest to their ‘ own section that they are starting i to skirmish, which is not so good, i Keep your feet on the ground boys , and remember you have a real job !! and one that should have your sincerest and most ceraful attention all the time. When law makers get mad at each other its not ■ good for the people. Prof. Starr, in charge of the business research for Indiana university, recently said: "Since Federal I aid is merely a return to the states I of taxes paid by the citizens of all I states, no one state can gain through Federal aid without some ■ other state losing a like amount.’’ This is true and is a point generally overlooked by proponents of i the Federal aid plan. Sixteen relatively prosperous states provide ■ the bulk of the revenue going into I the so-called Federal aid. New . Mexico, for instance, sends only 15 1 cents to Washington and gets $1 >in return. North Carolina, which pays a huge sum in tobacco taxe». contributes approximately SSO to the Federal government for every dollar returned. Indiana sends to Washington about $5 for every dol- ’ lar coming back in Federal aid. I The idea that we are getting something for nothing under the Federal aid plan for various projects is erroneous and the peop’e are gradually awakening to this fact. We are getting back what we pay to Washington and If Washington ■ did not have to send it back, a huge reduction in government taxes would be possible. — Newcastle Courier-Times. o — ♦ — * Household Scraphook —Bv— ROBERTA LEE Cut Flowers Clipping the steins of cut flower.", to preserve them should be done with a knife instead of scissors. The scissors compress the stem and the water will not be taken up so readily. Sewing Thread If the spool of thread on the sewing machine is loose and tangles, try placing a piece of cloth, cut larger than the spool, on the post under the spool. This will keep it steady. Milk Glasses Rinse glasses that have been used for milk in cold water before washing in hot water. Heat dries the milk into the glass, giving it a cloudy appearance. — o t’~TWENTY~YEARS~T AGO TODAY — From the Daily Democrat File I January 17, 1913. —Fifteen cases keep police court busy today. Mrs. J. J. Helm entertains 28 guests with sewing party for Miss Helen Flory of Bangor. Pa. 40 ladies attend M. E. Mite Society at the home of Mrs. Al Burdge. i Robert and Harmon Hougk purchase IHcckman mill. D. S. Gates of Wren, (J., is a bus- , iness visitor here. John J. Schwartz of Berne looks after business in Decatur. Polly Parent accepts position at Three Rivers. Mrs. T. C. Wilkenson of Van Wert Is the guest of Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer. George Wemhoff returns from Indianapolis where he was re-elected secretary of Indiana Monumental Dealers. People who need a suit or an overcoat are buying them al Teeple & Peterson s halt price sale. •

The People’s Voice Thi» column for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of interest. Please sign your name to show authenticity. It will not be used if you prefer that it not be. I • e Defends Boys of ’9B Editor Daily Democrat’ Admiral Byrd lias been putting his press agent to work again. Now he says that he will torfelt his navy status and pay if the American Legion will back ‘‘his,” (he means the National Economy Loa gue. the United Stakes Chamber of Commerce, and the- International "Bankers) proposition to make over the pension laws to suit him. His whole “proposition," as he is pleased to call it, is just too absurd!

Mr. Byrd reasons like a child when he makes any such suggestions. He cotjld well afford to lose his benefits, if he could make such -a deal, lie never would want for r anything, for his commercial employers would come to his rescue ’ i and he would undoubtedly be made . ! generalissimo of his allied forces. . i But what about the officers and men who did the real services for their ’ country in its various conflicts? I • speak in particular of those now . broken down in health, low if not entirely out of finances, and who did their duty whether on the front line or otherwise, while their commanding general directed operations from a heated office or ear and probably never smelled powder during his whole time in France. . But he is drawing retirement, as a full general of $21,600 a year, and is now one of the officers of the National Economy League. He is one of those who says that an exservice man now in ill health, unless he can prove service disabilI ity, if in need should go to the ■ county hospital and seek charitable institutions for relief, thereby putting the national burden onto the local communities. The history of the Spanish-Amer-ican War runs with tales of privation. The scandal of Embalmed Beef and other poisons fed our boys j in blue (not khaki) is still fresh in the minds of millions of this nation. Our boys were given heavy woolen shirts and trousers and a felt hat to go into the tropics to fight acclimated troops, properly clothed, in foreign lands. We had some officers in the volunteer units that hardly knew a colonel from a private until after their commissions were handed them. A good number of our medical officer* were undergraduates from cqjlnge. and never had a day’s practice until they were sent to the camps and war zones. They’ were brave men, those doctors, doing their duty the best they knew how. Many of I them died like the rest from fever, dysentery, and other tropical ail- • meats. There were few. if any, medical records kept of men that served in the army or navy during the Spanish War or subsequent insurrection in the Philippines. I doubt if there was one man in five thousand during their service period that ever thought of a possible liension in their later years. Men who served their country in its counflicts, never thought of pensions. Had they, there would have been some records kept. Now how can those Coffee Coolers in the N. E. L. dare come out and- demand that we show service disability? I firmly believe that if we had not had the war with Spain, there would have been a different ending to the World War. Thirty-five years ago we had a standing army of about 25,000 men and a navy. Well, that’s another story go I’ll let some naval authority tell of what we lacked there. At any rate, it brought about an awakening in the nation of the necessity of making over a new military and naval establishment. The veterans of the Spanish War paved the way. They were the frontiersmen, and a well-organized army and navy followed a few years later. President Roosevelt realized our shortcomings and did what he could to rectify our faults. Real experts were put to work and later, when the time came, great concentration camps were established without the disastrous results of 1898-1902. Medical officers and their corps knew how to care for the sick and wounded and, furthermore, records were kept in the medical divisions. This awakening of the American people to the weakness of its army and navy, in a few years put us in a high rating as a world power. Our small army of veterans of that earlier war may well claim the distinction of bringing our forces to the front less than twenty years later, making those wonderful records over seas and helping save the world for democracy. But Um greatest joke of all by Byrd is his reference to the preamble of the American Legion which declares Hie Order to be for I God and country, and not for gain. I He claims that patriotism and service is being measured in dollars and cents, according to the read- • Ing of the law and that it is un-Am-I erlcau. I resent this statement particularly from ons that has prostituted all the glory he over

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gained for mercenary reasons. Mr. Byrd started to commercialize his “great discovery of the South'Pole” even before he pulled ilp anchor in the north temperate zone. He had every modern contrivance to boost Byrd and his exploits. He never did any extraordinary service either before, during, or immediately following the Great War. But he did gather up the maps of former explorers of the South Land, was provided with I a ship, planes, men. money and sup!plies, so that he was able to fly tljose last few hundred miles in safety, which his sturdy predecessors. had to abandon through no fault of their own. He came back to glory, was decorated and made a rear admiral. He has done little real service for his country. . He could not even remain in the active navy with his higher rank as his very presence in the navy would tend to disrupt the morale of the personnel, for it is generally considered that he gained an undeserved rating. So he was RETIRED on $4,200 a year and he wants to fool the American people into believing that he earned it. I think that by the time he has drawn this amount yearly for the rest of his life, his country will have paid dearly for that Pole and pleasure I trip. I believe that our officers and j men that have served their country when sick should be cared for by the national government, and not have the burdens placed on the communities in which they may live. What our presidents and law, makers want to do first is to dis-' continue the passing out of Gen-! eralships and Admiralships to pet exploiters as they do in Mexico. A high rating, properly secured by faithful service, will always be cherished. Then there will be no flics in the Navy ointment, it proves there was something wrong about Mr. Byrd. If he did do all these wonders that he claims, then I feci that he is able to continue to do his duty in the navy until he reaches the lawful age of retirement. He should stop hollering “atop thief,'' surrender his unearned title and go back to deck duty as a lieutenant commander. It is dishonest of him to even suggest! such an agreement us stated in the ' paper. He knows that it cannot be accepted. Ho Knows that our officers in the American Legion and other patriotic orders could not enter into any such agreement. Furthermore, wo veterans are not bartering our rights with Mr. Byrd or the National Economy League 01 any other private organization. We recognize ths President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the people as a whole. We look to these for Justice and I believe we are going to have it, regardless of the N. E. L. I do feel that Mr. Byrd and his pet organizations are in retreat, and rather than suffer a sweeping defeat, they are offering to barter with real veterans. Mr. Byrd has gained nothing by his unwarranted attacks. His name will go down into oblivion. The lineup of the personnel of the advisory board. N. E. L . shows tlMtt it was picked for publicity purposes only. Look it over: a full fledged general, retired, draw.

|ing $21,500 a year; two retired rear .■admirals, one drawing $6,000 and , the other $4,200; the son of an exI president whose mother has been . drawing a pension of $5,000 for the . past thirteen years; an ex-presi . dent now deceased, and whose wid- . ow 1 will watch to know’ if another huge sum will be granted yearly, . and millionaire “would be presii dent ’ that was so “sore'' at Chi [ cago last summer that he would i ‘ not even remain to congratulate J his competitor in the nomination. ■ i’riiey are all enormously rich. ’’J i The army and naw neonfe cfrfss - their pay as retirements and not • pensions and are protected, and : aix> the least qualified to preach i,economy as they are on the receiv- ■ ing end of government expendi- ‘ tures. All of these national figures were drawn for publicity purposes 1 and there now. in the National I! Theater occupying a box seat, is Read Admiral Byrd. U. S. N., re1 tired, in his gold braid. A. K. Weir, Formerly Troop C, Fourth U. S. Cavalry. 4190 Canterbury Drive, San Diego, California. FARM VALUES i Editor Daily Democrat: Believe it or not no doubt the , most of you are acquainted with I the wholesome and nutritious food value of wheat bran. Since it lias reached the low retail price of seventy-five cents per cwt. we may easily convince ourselves that | the quality has been lowered will: I the price. However, this is not! J true, as there is just as much i food value in a sack of wheat bran that can be purchased today for six bits as there was in a bag that used to cost three dollars per hundred. in other words a sack of bran today will produce just as many pounds of milk when fed to dairy cattle as did the same grade of brand that cost four times as much stm-e the price did not effect! the feeding qualities. 1 will kind I ly ask you to watch closely as 1! make the discrlminaliuii between! value and price so that yon will be able to grasp the full meaning, i of this article. ! Therefore if the low or high price of the product under consideration did not effect its real' value, what does this prove? It merely proves that it is a! staple commodity and that it will seek and find a normal level. The following illustration should convince any one that this state inent is true. Eggs a few years ago that cost! fifty cents a dozen did not con- 1 tain any more food value than the' ’ same grade of eggs that can be ’ bought today tor twenty-five cents. 1 a dozen. Beef steak that sold for fifty! cents a pound didn’t contain any! ■ more real value than the same' I steak that is sold today for sis-l teen cents. ■ Green beef hide? that sold tor' twenty cents a potiiid were of the! i same quality as the hides that urov selling today for one cciß a' f pound. They both in proportion! ! to size and quality made the same! amount and same quality of leath-' 1 er. • she point lam trying to prove

•| is that inflation and deflation lias 1 not changed the quality of these - ■ products. 1 Lets pausH for an instant and ‘ ’ review these statements. i When we bought eggs for ten cents a dozen we were not buying I cheap eggs but were buying good ’! fggs cheap. Farmers were not I selling cheap beef hides but wer< ! ; selling good first class hides j cheap. Millers today are not selling jjchoap doctored up bran but they

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I are selling good first class bran!' cheap, and since these products have retained their good qualities they are bound to find a, future market that will be a true index to their value. Now lets take a little time and. liken farm land into my previous < examples. If you will accept these statements as being true, then inflation and deflation of farm land ( prices do not add to or take any real value out of the land. '1 here is only two ways this can be accomplished, that is by building up or running down the state of pioduction. 1 I have always held to the opinion that the real value of good farm land never was more than one hundred dollars per acre. Now if you are willing to consider my c,stimmo a fail] prica. then we must acknowledge that when this one hundred dollar an acre land found a market for two hundred and fifty dollars the purchaser re-1 ■ ceived one hundred dollars worth p of value and the other hundred | and fifty dollars was spent for the j blue sky. Today when the same high priced land can be bought for ■ fifty dollars an acre the purchas- : er is getting one hundred dollars I worth of value for fifty, since in-, flation and deflation does not take , out or add to laud values as they ; can only take from and add to j land prices. There is a vast dif-' ference between the selling price of land and the value of same. When land is sold during a period of inflation the selling price is always more than its true 1 value. When land is sold during i the time of deflation the selling pi ice is always less than the real, value. Farm land prices have gone through both stages of inflation and deflation and is now swinging back to a normal price level because neither one has taken out any of its real true value. After purchasing a well improved productive farm for a few dol- | lars over fifty an acre, I heard the puichaser make the remark, 1 believe I have bought a cheap farm.’’ This man like thousands: -of others thought the price he g paid represented the real value of e j his purchase. However, this was 1 j not true. He should have said “I ( l have bought a good farm cheap” I instead of saying I have bought a cheap farm, for there was nothu ing cheap about this farm but the purchase price. Robert Sovine, Decatur. Ind. I e' ’ s | BARGAINS — Bargains In Living Room, Dining Room Suites, Mat S, tresses and Rugs. Stuckey and Co y Monroe, our phone number is 44 ct.

Answers To Test Questions Below are the Answers io tv, Test Questions Printed on Page Two. 1. Great Brittan. 2. Abbreviation of the Ulioa | dem, meaning "in the same nu 3. In Egypt ’ 4. Sixteen. 5. Battle of Bull Run. 6. Chicago. 7. One that uses two metah the Ixists of currency. 8. A kind of tan, 9. W. C. Handy, Negro compo, 10. The Secretary of the trea s . — COURT HOUS William Davis etux to p au ; 40 acres of land in Jefferson toi Ishlp for SI.OO. Decatur Cemetery Association ‘James L. Gay, lot 126 in the De i tur cemetery for $212, Ordered To Pay Petition for support money i ' attorney fees filed in divorce s of Anrta Spade vs. Charles C. Sm i Defendant ordered to pay WM | 1 and SSO for attorney fees Final Report Filed In the estate of Samuel M. W ■ final report was filed and appro, Mary Yake. administratrix wasj charged and estate ordered clos File Appearences Carrie May Shaughnessey i Paul Shaughnessey, suit for div« 1 Frank M Hogan filed appeerai for plaintiff. Albert Baumann and Jennie B, mann vs. lantha Huffman and W Him Huffman possession ot r, estate. C. L. Walters filed app« ace for all defendants. 0 ' •jJSkSRgr M .or 1 Master Mason Degree, Tuesd might at 7:30 o’dock. Bob Helm, W. M. O Horace Cutshall and Fred Siu of Huntington were business vis ors in this city today. ftr er .taxed Throat V-'CKS ... Ingredients of »MEDic*Ttc Vicks Vapoßub COUGH DROP in Candy form