Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1933 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller.... Pres. and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Bolthouse.Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies — I .02 One week, by carrier..,- .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall ... .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 33.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER, Inc., 415 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. MANAGER PLAN FOR INDIANA: The administration’s reorganization bill, which gives to the Governor sweeping authority over the s ate's departments and bureaus, went through both houses of the General Assembly yesterday after encountering only feeble opposition. The argument had been made by some that it is so drastic and far-reaching it should have been considered more fully. The full effect of the grouping and of the control of the state agencies should be more generally under-I stood, according to those most active in opposition to tho Governor's program. The bill is revolutionary in wljat it does to the functioning of the .sta e agencies. Its proponents ins st that it will save at least 32.bfto.UOtl through Hie elimination of duplication of effort and waste in the transaction of the people's business. It places great power in the hands of the Governor who. in effect. becomes a real general manager of the business of the conim 'ti wealth. The success or failure of the plan will be up to the chief executive, whoever he may’ be. It is an interesting fact that I s'-mo who were most vehement in urging the city manager plan are the m-.ist apprehensive because the state has undertaken to apply their theory on a wider scale. The reorganization adopted by the legislators yesterday undoubtedly will be a good thing if it is well administered. and offers to an able executive unusual opportunities for efficiency ami also for waste to a bungler. The success of almost any plan depends on those in charge, and the peop’e are euppos <‘d to have the intelligence to put competent servants on the job.— Indianapolis Star. James Elbcraon. hustling and popular business man will serve president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce during the next year, succeeding Theodore Graliker who has piloted the organization the past year with care and ability. Mr. Elberson will bring his enthus-ia-m and splendid business quaiiStations into the organization and the Chamber of Commerce will be retire and helpful. During those ’•«»s of reviving the community nd the nation there is much to be dt.:w that requires conservative but always progressive effort ami, the new president and bis official I cabinet will, if given proper sup-1 IM»rt, make a gfoat showing. A big fuss is being made about the authority to be given the govTHE ADAMS SUN., MON., TUES. “IF I HAD A MILLION” - with • l » of your favorite stars. Added - - • A Charlev Chase Comedy and Oriranlotrue. —TONIGHT—ISLAND OF LOST SULLS’

ernor in the state reorganization bill signed yesterday and now a law’, but it will probably prove the biggest step made in many years in Indiana. Heretofore the executive has been supposed to have power that he really did not have. Under the new law he will and Governor McNutt is willing to assume the great responsibility that goes with this additional authority. He will delegate much of this ; authority of course but will take l action himself when he feels It ! necessary. In those states where . similar changes have been made to fit these unusual times, the results have been pleasing to every one. Thurman Gottschalk's bill, providing that physical education in schools may be optional with trustees of each school, passed the senate without an opposing vote, showing that the opinion that this is a matter to be decided by each community is general In this period when retrenchment is necessary in schools as well as in every thing else, it is probable that in numerous places athletics will be reduced to a minimum so far as expenses are concerned. it won't be long now until activities for the operation of the Decatur sugar factory will begin and the only thing desired here ' w ill be honest to goodness cooperation. We should and will do all we can to assist in securing the acreage within a radius as close to 1 the plant as possible and every i thing else that will make the propo- ; sition profitable for every one concerned. Senator Perkins of South Bend seems to be the Huey Long of the ( Indiana senate. He speaks on every motion and every bill, fights in a melodramatic manner, yelling as the votes are taken and is always in the minority. Embarrassing as his performances are. he probably does some good by making the other members watch and be careful. Governor Comstock of Michigan is urging a three per cent sales tax. the money thus raised to be I used tn take care of state expenses. | winch is alright except for those who have to pay it. The entire real estate tax will be used to pay local cost of government. The groundhog may have known I his stuff but if this is a sample of what he proposes for the next six weeks, who can object? o Household Scrapbook 1 -ByROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Bedbugs Turpentine is one of the best prevents! ives against bedbugs. Measuring If medicine or extract is to be measured by drops from a bottle, try dipping the finger in water and moistening the rim of the bottle in one plate. Use this place from which to drop the contents The drops will come out quiet evenly. Spinach To make j spinach ring, cook the vegetable ten minutes, chop fine, drain, ..nd mold into a ring. Place it in the oven to keep hot and fill the ring with chopped and steamed cucumbers. It can be served either with butter or Hollandaise sauce. TWENfY~YEARS P* AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File |j Ed Christen, school teacher, is I seriously ill at his home north of I city. rvin Butler begins duties as driver for Wells-Fargo. William Adler arrives home after seven weeks tour of west. t.A. H. Sellemeyer purchases D. F. , Ix'onard farm in Preble twp. for ten thousand dollars. I Wets and rys to vote in city and ! twp Mtrch sth. Herman Sellemeyer goes to Fort I Wayne to call on his daughter, ' Agnes. ! Jimmie Smith, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Smith is ill with 1 pneumonia. Mrs. E. G. CoVerdale is hostess at twelve o’clock dinner' in honor of I her brut her Scott's 21sl birthday. Imlay is the first day of lent. j Mrs. Henry Schulte entertains L afternoon club with a lov«*y party. ■ - —— J NOTICE—Mrs. M Moyer moved to -.112# N. 4th Si. across from the CathI 'oiiu High School. 3vtwlm

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FIRST PAYMENT ON ASSESSMENT IS PAID TODAY CONTINUED FltOM PAGE ONE would distribute the receipts from the first assessment as soon • as it was possible to do so. There are about 1,300 depositors and the original amount due depositors was more than 1350,000. On this basis it will require $3,500 for every one per cent distributed to the depositors. Mr. Myers pointed out that the stockholders had nearly a year to make their payments in full, the assessments being stretched out in quarterly payments, the first of which was due today, li is be-

Roosevelt Warned by Senate Against War Debt Imbroglio * * * * “Little White House” Conference With British Envoy Produced Storm in Congress and Drew . Caution Against “Wilson’s Mistake.” ~’’ v \ ~ lni|' ■ ivx.--.-~ Up -1 Lwßbßw <1 L_. wLSwJILILjr? .Sem David A Reed Sen j ftwftfrvi; Leuis Rjes EsectSbossvEW While Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the United States, is i on the bounding main, headed for London to lay the views of Presidentelect Franklin D. Roosevelt on the debt question before his government, considerable agitation Las been stirred up in the U. S. Senate as the colons speculate as to what these views are. Those who appear well I informed aver that at the conference between the British envoy and I Mr. Roosevelt at the “Little White House,*’ in Warm Springe, Ga., on the eve of the envoy's departure for home, the President-elect demanded that Great Britain be prepared to make economic concessions to the United States in exchange for debt revision. Those last two words are i what caused the storm, for Congress has gone on record repeatedly against revision or cancellation in any form. The ball was set rolling in the Senate when Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania appealed to Mr. Roosevelt not to “make the mistake" of President Wilson at th-i Versailles Peace Conference by “making himself his own ambassador." Hr was followed by Senator I Hamilton Lewis, of lUiuou, -U Belly declared that even now preliminary moves were being made for a new mo-atorium on war debts Lewis addressed a warning to the Presidentelect against making any agreements with foreign powers without con- » I suiting Congrats, which alooo boa the final authority.

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| lieved that about $30,000 will be i collected, this amount being equal . to a seven or eight per cent disi tribiition. Since the Peoples Loan and Trust company closed in June. , 1930. 58 per cent lias already been paid depositors. 1 i ORGANIZATION FOR COUNTIES IS ON PROGRAM r I > CO-Yn-NUED FROM FAGE? ONE bill will provide tor county govenit ment by the county council and the > county bojrd of commissioners. > Each township would elect a coml missioner and three councilmen, t the former to act as trustee and • the latter as the township advis-

I ory board. They, with the advisory boards, would be the only governing groups, all the others being abolished. All county offices would ■be abolished except those constijtutional—circuit court clerk, audi-] tor. treasurer, recorder, sheriff. I .coroner and surveyor. County i agent offices would be merged with . ‘county school superintendents. Townships would be reduced in I number. Counties would be divid- i ed into three classes, according to ■ population, each class being limit- • ed as to townships. The limit; . would range from three to seven.l , The optional Grubb bill provides! for placing trustees in a new board I displacing the commissioners. The county council wuld be abolished. Its duties also being transferred to the new board. Powers of the ■ board would be to appoint officers, except those constitutional, and to merge and consolidate departments as it saw fit. o ♦- Answers To Test Questions Below are the Answers to the Test Questions Printed on Page Two. 1. The Miller KI Ranch. ? The war with Mexico 3. Empire Slate Building, New' York City. 4 Mahammedin teacher. 5. California. 6. Theodore Roosevelt. 7. Nickname for tile Bank of Eng- I laud. 8. Montam. 9. Copper. 10. Secretary of the Naiy. 0 MUURDER TRIAL IS IN RECESS CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE I stood in front of him." “My husband said Guy had I asked him for money and when be refused him. Guy grabbed the captain and refused to let him ' either use the telephone or leave < the room My husband said Guv ! had attacked him.” MT. VESUVIUS IS ON RAMPAGE FROM PAGE ONE ' conduit caused by small landslides I in the interior of the volcano. I which reduced the actual opening for the overflow to small proper ‘‘lt is presumable that Vesuvius is threatening a new eruptive phase, which may hapfien in the spring, as often has been the case. It is hoped that the eruption will not be of catastrophic | character, like the one in 192 H when lava poured into the homes of people in Terzigno.’’ —— Banyan’s Peculiarity The branches of the banyan tree ; root* downward which, wnea they have become tooted. become prepi. and !» this manner the tree spreads over a great surface and en dura* for many ages.

]| JI ■■!!■■■■ " at -T I 1 Patriotic Program The Boy Scouts of America hat •> j taken the initiative in a project i which deserves the cooperatiot ; and support of all good citizens. I namely an extension of its activi , ties in a Ten Year Program de-, signed to build a body of genuine-. ly patriotic citizens, thoroughly! devoted to the public welfare and entirely committed to the advance-| ment of the public interest. This Ten Year intensive program was officially launched January 1. It is to run for the decade 1933-1942. By the end of that period the Boy Scouts of America plan to be training enough boys as Scouts so tiwt as they reach 21 years of age not less than one of every four of the new male citizens shall have been a fouryear-Scout-trained man prepared to perforin his new duties upon tho basis of Scout principles and ideals. It is a widely known fact that Boy Scouting has proved an effective agency in the lives of millions of boys. There is ample testimony to the benefits to the ; boyhood of America that followed the promulgation of the Scout plan twenty three years ago!

I < I M I I ><(!>] Xl OF LOVE by WARWICK DEEPING > V- a IB

SYNOPSIS Dr. John Wolfe, old Dr Montague] Threadgold’s assistant, is stunned at the unsanitarv conditions he finds in the smug little town of Navestock. Wolfe realizes his greatest fight in ridding the town of pollution will be in overcoming the resentful attitude of the people themselves who seem perfectly satisfied with their mode of living. He encounters his first obstacle in the person of Jasper Turrell, the brewer, who objects to Wolfe taking a sample of his well water for analysis. Undaunted by opposition. Wolfe continues his researches and prepares a map of the town's un- | sanitary areas. The one bright spot ! in Navestock is the home of Mrs. Mary Mascall where Wolfe is always sure of a welcome. When Mrs. Mascall is too ill to go to Flemyng Court to pay tier dues os three dozen eggs to the Lord of the Manor. Wolfe offers to accompany her young daughter. Jess. Accord- . ing to custom, the farm laborers gather around and ask a blessing on Jess as she appears with her tribute. CHAPTER FOURTEEN They were old world phrases that had passed from generation to geni eration, and had been spoken by I the forebears of the men gathered | before Moor Farm Woife stood and watched Jess Mascall as she came slowly down the path. The girl seemed to have grown taller and older of a sudden. She carried herself with a grave and simple stateliness. looking at each man In turn and saying: “Thank you. Joethank you, Barnaby." She passed under the cypresses, and her eyes met Wolfe's. He was standing bare- ' headed a man touched and charmed by many suggestive memories. He bowed to Jess, and she gave him a grave curtsy, holding her head high, and looking him in the eyes. The moon was ten days old, and the night clear and fine, and as | the Moor Farm company crossed the moor. Wolfe, who was riding beside the gig. saw many other • lanterns moving in the distance ; They glimmered here and there, faint points of yellow light coming and going like the tights of boats m a rolling sea. Flemyng’s Cross lay westwards of Beacon Hill on a I low ridge where the old coach road I topped the moor. An ancient inn stood on the hill-top, with its sign of “The Rising Sun" swinging on a post before the door. It was in a little haddock behind the inn that the Lord of the Manor’* Whtsperi ing Court was held. The lanterns came jogging over the moor, some of them following mere sheep-tracks, others moving along th* roads. As they neared Flemyng’s Cross the Navestock road began to fill with silent, shadowy. striding figures, all moving towards the hill-top. The lanterns that were carried gave rise to curious illusions. In a dark cutting under the shade of a clump of firs Wolfe saw a pair of white-gaitered legs moving as though they had no body belonging to them. Nothing but the white legs and the lantern were visible, and the effect was so jualnt that Wolfe pointed it out to Jess. “Look there, somebody’s legs have walked off on their own—and left the rest behind." She laughed. "Aren't they just sweet) They!) get lonely presently, wander:rg about ail by themselves" A man on a big grey horse blunde red out from somewhere and nearly rod* Wolf* down. Th. geon drew eloser to the gig. "Hallo, sir. look ony - Th* gig lamps gave h-~. a momentary glimpse of a tr serfuily built young man, u> suArtly cut ]

when Scouting was first launched in America. Now with the Scout Ten Year Plan there is equal cer- I taintv that there will be more participating citizens all with Scout training, and it is fair to assume there should be less violation of law and more unselfish service for others. It never hurt any boy to be a Boy Scout. XVitli that thought in mind the Boy Scouts of America have done a wise thing to emphasize the launching of this new program for its twenty-third anniversary celebration which falls February 8-14, 1933. Older Boys Interested To interest older boys from fifteen yeais upward the Boy Scouts of America are developing new plans for older groups along with Sea Scout service which, already, with nearly 20.000 Sea Scouts and ■ Leaders, is recognized as the | largest nautical organization in . the world for boys. The Sea Scout I group is growing rapidly and is one of the most interesting ac- ! tivities of Scouting. Interior cit- ! ies far from the sea coast, or from any big water" are taking to it. Curiously, the plains of Kansas have furnished one of the best sea I scout ships This seems to ueia- j i onstrate beyond doubt that the traditions of the sea and its ! mysterious lures are in the hearts of all boys no matter where they may be. Every year many sailing

I clothes, who glared at Wolfe as though he had no intention of apologizing for having nearly ridden over him. The young man took off his hat to Jess, but she did not seem to notice him They left him behind them somewhere in the darkness. “Y’ou didn’t see your friend." “Oh, yes. I did.” "Who was it?” "Hector Turrell He’s a beast. I don’t like him.” “Turrell the brewer’s son?” “Yes. He’s always riding along the road when 1 come back from Miss Plimley’s at Navestock. He’s an awful bully; always knocking someone about.” “That’s rather a dangerous game." “People are afraid of him, or of his father, I suppose. What do you say, Joe?” This to the driver at her side. Joe Munday was terse and laconic. “The chap teamed of a swell prize fighter in Lunnon, so I’ve heard tell. Besides — he’s Turrell’s son. "Tain’t worth no chap’s while to get old Turrell’s spite on him.” And Wolfe supposed not. The Lord of the Manor’s Court at Flemyng’s Cross proved to be a quaint affair, picturesquely staged. Lawyer Fyson. the steward, stood by the white post in the paddock, a brazier full of burning coal beside him. and a staff of office in his nand. Behind him were ranged his bellman, stave bearers, and foresters. while the tenants of the Court gathered in dead silence about the white post, their heads uncovered, their lanterns glimmering in a great circle. The only bold and blatant voice was the voice of the big hand-belL The steward read the roll in « whisper, his officers proclaimed in whispers, the courttenants swore to their pledges in whispers. When Jess Mascall carried her basket of eggs towards the white post and the red brazier. Wolfe followed her. and thrust the certificate he had written into old Fyson’s hand. The bell gave three sharp clangs, and Wolfo found himself taken by the shoulders and marched back over a furrow cut in the turf 1 The ground about the white post appeared to be privileged ground, ‘ sacred to th*.feet of those who were tenants of the Court In the 1 old days Wolfe would have been ■ whipped with furze branches over ‘ the moor, instead of being marched 1 S'yely beyond the formal furrow. He laughed good • humouredly. •nd. turning to where the Moor ■ .u™. abofir<! ” were grouped with their lanterns, mounted his nag and * alche^. th « Procedure of th* Court. Ihe whispering voices, th* queer solemnity, the glimmering lanterns were part of the mystery of Tarling Moor. It was when Jess had played ‘ b^k P h?,r d " aS beln * Mco >re<l y the two staff-bearers to- • tht?" Bu PPorters and her gig. ! that Wolfe again caught sight of mov, v rT u Urrell - man movng his horse around the circle I of figures as though to meet Jew • » she cams through ih e crowa : imnn l L a \*° methinC mor * tn impulse that made Wolfe forestall ' If h» had made in enemy of the father, hi, enmity I Iw'tTu,"" tb ' ! s « “• . "J ust for half an hour • ’Jkt-\ l * W ‘ nted down « Ne’*‘4 - won t hurt him * | No, I mu S t go—Jess."

ships cruising on and lakes are manned si Scouts. Next (>i . t p bpr ° ■ Siple. the Sea out panied Admiral Bovd lft ~, CW arctic in 1929 and is new 0 ? S around the world, win ~ *■ with Admiral Byrd to tic The Sea Scouts h avetl J“B objectives a s cha la ,.,„ rjZ(> " fl er activities of the Roy s " ■ Atuenea namely, the hn.-J fl character and traininu for fl zenship. There are s« a s ■ al! parts of the rn itP(l g'‘' l ’’fl the ranks are op en lo who loves the sea and ■ can meet the ■ the minimum age ]j mil fl years. Sea Scouting offer.. .. fl derful opportunitv f,, r b() ’fl Sea Scouts, as r epreseM fl of the older group ( ,f boyg fl Scout Movement, will have ■ important place i„ ,i„. of the 23rd Arnuve,-^ 1 ' 1 ?® Boy Scout Movement r . e,,, 1 fl 14th, 1933. Hoover To Speak B —"—- —nn Washington. Feb. 4_ir P) fl White House anima , Ptl t( „ fl President Hoover will s PedKi ;fl I York City Monday p, - quet honoring Abraham efl under tlie auspices of lbc /"fl Republican club of v,... y ’ “fl speech win be "non 1K , ; .. , ..■ said. ■

ride across the padcock. Wolfe felt that the black tu of Tarling Moor was behind hi and he saw the lights of Xavesta shining in the valley. These lig| had a quick and powerful effe upon him. blinking their mess* up out of the darkness, and reci ing grimmer moments of respo sibility and effort. For so nil hours Wolfe had been a creak pit ful child, half-boy, balf-man. Je had called to him with the rm of her youth. Her infinite fresha* and her laughter had made hi laugh with her, and forget. He h felt the sunlight upon the op moor, and those queer moment! solemnity that had turned the ej of a child into the eyes of a worn a a • Both Dr. Threadgold and Ms tri were out when Miss Priscilla !>■ frement’s maid rang the belli Prospect House. John Woife rsl the surgery, and he was calli upon to speak with Miss Perfn ment’s maid, a lean wematt rii haughty eyebrows and a negligtbl > bust. “Dr, Threadgold must come I once." “Dr. Threadgold Is Out." “Then he must be sent for.* “Dr. Threadgold is out on country round. .He will not be bac till dinner-time." The maid looked Wolfe on summed him up after her fashio and decided that he was not a n boy. “You’re the assistant?" “I am." “Miss Perfrement has one of bl heart attacks.” “I’ll come at once." Miss Priscilla Perfrement live i in a narrow, red-brick house thl was squeezed between two of 11 stouter mansions on Mnlbefl Green. No male thing intrude i here. The neat, druggeted hall hi no hat-stand, no cupboard as tl ■ pit of a man’s untidiness, no veaS ■ er glass to be rapped and abuse The lamp was held by a nymph t 1 plaster set tripping upon a pedeatl i of imitation marble. But the njup i had been defrauded of her naked new. She wore s « nr * of whs I night-dress that was chanp monthly and sent to the wash. ; “Doctor, dear doctor. I’m dying! W’here Death had stationed hi* i self in the neat, stuffy, over-fw nished room, was a matter of srm ulation. Wolfe saw a yellow-fw little woman in black alpaca, wit grey side curls and a twitted! face, propped against cushions it plush-covered arm-chair. The bed of her shoes beat the carpri ’fi* l * the edge of her crinoline, and ti crinoline itself had cocked it« forward with unseemly arrogste giving glimpses of ccnvuln white-stockinged legs. “Dr. Threadgold is out, miss." “Oh. oh!” “I’ve brought the assistant* Miss Perfrement jumped, »’ gave Wolfe a shocked stare, nt limbs twitched like the limbs of ehoreie child. “Oh dear, oh dear; Eliza, I* dyingl" Woiie looked at her very grave l ! very judicially, and understoel with what *ort of sentimental ’!« ness he had to do. Here was a C” 1 lady whose troubles had been • many pittfalls tn the elnseted ishn*ss of her little life, and « had been compelled to dra* i tion to herself by means of chiMjl screams and tantrums. When Perfrement felt enimportant » neglected, she had a “heart ,lta “ and her friends and neighbor would ses Dr. Threadgold’s brouj am rattling over th* cobbles. i«e* hysterical outbursts were essayi dissipation, and ms’-hods of sttrsw ing sympathy and notice. Cfo B« Continual! Ccpyrishi, I*!*, by Hebtrt M. Duuibuud b» Kin( leslureu synoica*