Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1933 — Page 2

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published THE Evary Eve- DECATUR Ding Except jKf, DEMOCRAT Sunday by W.***... CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office aa Second Class Matter. J. 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 Dne year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail .......... .35 Three months, by mail ... 1.00 Six months, by mail „ 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 Vne year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere 53.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER. Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Keep np the good work. If you earn you can spend and that's what General Johnson says money is for. An increase of $4,896 in local weekly payrolls means $Bl6 more for every working day for those who have jobs. That’s something. Hog prices are continuing to go up. That also means more buying power and it will be noticed in business channels in a short time. All the people listed as unemployed in the city total only 237. That’s a small percentage of the number working and proof that we are going to town Don’t you feci encouraged. Just think: Payrolls have been increased $4,896 a week and 172 persons have been given employment in this city since the first of August. I * Today is the last official day of summer and the way we heard some people growl about the hot weather suppose they are glad it’s over. Decatur will be glad to have the bankers of Group One as its guests on October 4. More than 125 northern Indiana bankers will be here and naturally everyone will help to make them feel right at home. ■ The concern that has added employes or increased payrolls is doling more to help conditions and complying with the NR A than all the fine talking one might do in trying to tell the other fellow how “to run his business. Only a few counties got through with the tax adjusting business this week and newspaper reports • state that in most places it is a muddled affair. Taxes have to be paid and until the country devises some other way to lessen governjnent services, institutions and improvements, the matter will wax hot most every year. Postmaster Jim Farley does something besides hand out jobs and make speeches. He has the postoffice department breaking even financially and treasury officials are inclined to decorate him with the Croix de Guerre or something “like that. The deficit up to August ’l. was only $3,000, compared to the usual two or three hundred million

ADAMS THEATRE - SUN., MON., TUE. - 10-20 c MARLENE DIETRICH in “THE SONG OF SONGS” with Brian Ahearne. Alison Skipworth, Lionel Atwill. ADDED—Laurel and Hardy in “The Midnight Patrol.” TONIGHT — Marie Dressier and Wallace Beery in “TUGBOAT ANNIE.” 10-25 C.

dollar set back every year. Maybe Jim la the business manager of the administration. Say a good word about your local » industries and help them when you can. Os course they don’t expect ■ you to fight their battles, but an encouraging word from you helps « lot. These are days when run- ■ nlng a business is some job and the empdbyer. willing and desirious l to do the right thing, has problems of his own and is grateful to those who In a spirit of cooperation and ’ helpful understanding extends a hand. President Roosevelt does not intend to let anyone go hungry in the land of plenty. He has ordered the purchase of $75,000,000 worth of surplus foodstuffs, including beef, dairy and poultry products, cotton and cotton seed, which will be distributed among the needy this winter, in addition | to the federal and state aid already planned. That’s better than dump-1 ing food in the ocean or destroying it. Part of the trouble today is in the distribution system and it seems criminal to destroy foodi when thousands of people are! nearly starving. The President has | the right idea, feed them. It almost sounds too good to be true, but they say figures don’t lie. That’s speaking about the number of people who have been given employment within the last month in | this city and the increased wages paid to new and former employes. . The first report of the NRA com-' mittee shows that 172 persons have ; been given steady work and weekly payrolls have increased $4,896.43, equal to more than $250,000 a year. That means increased buying power. just what President Rooseveltl desires and surely is froof tha’ | Decatur is in a most fortunate' position and has reason to be proud of local industries. Next Saturday beet growers have ] been invited to attend a meeting I and inspect the modern unloading , yards at the Central Sugar factory I in this city. There will be a program, including short talks by the! company officials and the fieldmen. who will tell of plans for operating the mill this year, the time for lifting beets, hauling them 2o the factory and plans for next year. A visit to the factory will show | the wonderful improvements that | have been made in the yards. It’s a great layout, modern and efficient in every way.. Concrete roads have been constructed for the beet trucks and automatic self weighing scales large enough to hold any vehicle that might be driven on them have been erected. Everything possible has been done to make the place convenient for the beet grower and to facilitate the quick unloading of beets and the efficient handling of the crop after it reaches the yards. A conveyor system distributes the beets in the flumes and the improvements made at a great outlay of money, make the place one of the most modern and easily accessible beet plants in the country. —o — * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Dally Democrat File ♦ —4 Licensed to wed: Wm John McCague and Lola Dell Baker. The first day of autumn is ushered in with heavy frosts. Clark J. Lutz is appointed local ' attorney for Toledo. St. Louis and i Western. Ralph Amarine runs two rusty nails into knee. Mrs. George Flanders and Miss Fanny Heller celebrate birthdays with dinner party at former's home followed by theatre party. Miss Margaret Center entertains Bachelor Maids Prizes are won by Misses Anna Clark and Emma Tferveer. Mrs. J. S. Bowers is a Fort Wayne visitor. Roland Conrad returns home after honorable discharge from navy. John Joseph and Ben Lang return to Elwood to take charge of new candy kitchen. F. L. Brown of Berne is a business visitor here. o I. G. Kerr of Berne was a visitor ! here this morning. aj

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t ♦ ■ 1 Test Your Knowledge Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to page Four for the answers. » ♦ 1. Name the (Attorney General of l ! the United States. 2. Where is the Dogger Bank? 3. For whom was the Diesel eni gine named? 4. Name the eleventh letter of . the alphabet. 5. Where is Belleau Woods? 6 Who wrote -Kenilworth?’’ 7. What is the name for a young j codfteh? 8. What caused the death of Na- • po’eon? ! 9. Name the capital of Afghan ii stan. 10. What is caviar? _o Household Scrapbook I —By— ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Rose Bushes Rose bushes may be transplanted any time between October and the middle of November, also in the spring. They should be dug up very carefully and transplanted immediately, before the roots have a chance to dry. Cooking Green Vegetables llf a small bit of soda is added to the boiling water just before putting in the green vegetables cook, they will retain their fresh color. Sharpening Stone The sharpening stone will always give good work if it is washed after each using. ——■ —■ o INCOME BLANKS NOW AVAILABLE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) urged to file a return for the fivemonth period from May through .September, figuring amount of their payment by ’deducting the five-months exemption of $416.67 from total income for the period. If the amount of tax due for the October payment is less than $lO. payment may be deferred under the law until January, when the annual settlement will be made. Persons owing the state more than $lO in taxes for tlie July. August and September period are requires) under the law to file a return by October 15. PENALTIES ON BILLS OPPOSED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to offer an inducement for prompt payment of bills, they should offer a discount. It was reported that an order will be issued next week cancelling penalty authorizations on all utility rates in the state. If so, a fight is expected. Several utilities, headed by John T. Beasley. Terre Haute, president of the Indiana Gas Utilities company, has asked the commission not to | issue such an order until they were given a chance to plead legality of such an action. Penalty rates have been wiped out in recent orders for new rates ij at Aurora and Kokomo. Such

i rates are ‘'illegal and unlawful, ” i the commission said in those ord-1 ers. j The seven towns receiving rei duced rates from the Northern I Indiana Power company yesterday I and annua! reduction in their an- ! nual bills were: Bridgeton, $173; Riley, $477; Rosedale, $791; Carbon, $289; Lyford, $145; Mulberry, $563; and i Twelve Mile, $462. ,' o ALLEGED BANK BANDIT NAMED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) here yesterday in connection with I the Massachusetts Avenue bank, robbery were exonerated after j questioning by police. The hank was robbed by two • men while a third waited outside. ’ Their automobile carried Ohio. license plates. o ADAMS COUNTY QUOTA IS THREE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) , continue to receive the S3O a month cash allowance and new enrollments will be selected from ’ poor relief rolls by county chairmen of the unemployment relief commission. (Slight revisions, prohibiting re-1 enrollment of men discharged ‘ from the corps, men whose allot-1 ments to dependents are to be, ■ paid in foreign countries and men with re ords of mental derangeI ments. have been made in proviI sions for the second period. | Adams county’s quota for the i second period-of the conservation , j corps is three men, according to word received here by Will Linn. I county chairman of enrollment. , o — I Get the Habit — Trade at Home —

I 11 111 " 11 '■ . ■ Decatur [V \ / Telephone "S V. i $ Rates \ ■ I '' are lower than /Z'Tf'R’j those of any /fil j t >1 city of equal i/n 1 sjze in the I P,/ Z' v i| state. VM M (2. f- •. “Why don’t you get a telephone, Mrs. Jones? Papa said if you had a telephone you wouldn’t need to go outdoors dressed like that.” Citizens Sickness, accident, prowlers, or fire make your service priceless.

ffilbwnTalk Miss Eloise Lewton went to Indianapolis today to attend the grand council meeting of the Psi lota Xi I sorority. Tlie meeting will he held | at the Lincoln Hotel and all grand officers and the three province officers will be preseent. Mr. and Hrs. H. B. Macy and Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas are spending the week-end in Chicago at a Century of Progress. R. D. Graber of Fort Wayne atI tended to business in this city today. J. J. Hofer of Monroe visited with ' friends and relatives in Decatur today. Miss Mary Fisher of Indianapolis is spending the week-end in this ; city visiting with relatives and ’ friends. Mrs. Olive Peterson, Mrs. George Flanders. Mrs. Dick Chamberlain, 1 Charles Ehinger and David Kunkle , will motor to Chkago tomorrow morning for a day at the fair. A'l will return Monday night excepting ; Mrs. Peterson, who will remain for I a week or ten days. David Dilling, of Fort Wayne for- : mer county commissioner here, was greeting friends and attending to ; business here today. The house owned by Dan M. Nib- ‘ lick on North Sixth street is beI ing remodeled. Excavation for a , basement has been made, the house raised and a new foundation placed under it. A furnace will be installed and other improvements are ; being made. Work continues at the Central ' Sugar company plant, where the , finishing touches are being made to the yards and new roadways. A , large force of men is at work. , The metal and frame work on I the General Electric building are being repained.

BIGGEST LEGION MEETING SINCE WAR PLANNED Chicago To Be Host To Veterans Beginning October 2 UP Staff Correspondent Chicago, Sept. 22.— (U.R) ~ M»' n who 15 years ago were fighting on are war-torn battle front of France meet in Chicago, Oct. 2, tor what is expected to be the greatest American Legion convention ever held. It marks one of the mightiest assemblages of war veterans the nation 4)as seen. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself. Is the legion's most dtetlnguished guest. More than 150.600 veterans are expected to jam the city, attracted by the central location of the convention and A Century of Progress exposition. Another hundred thousand people will come asi friends, relatives and spectators. September 30th Opening The unofficial opening will come. Sept. 30, when legionnaires gather] to watch the Big Ten football game between lowa and Northwestern jiL

<ThatT My Boy!1 -JL- bu FRANCIS WALLACE I — r AUTHOR. OF HUDDLE" ■

SYNOPSIS Thomas Jefferson Randolph . . . now a great football prospect at famous Thorndyke University . . . was born of humble parents, Mom and Pop, in a little Middle West factory town where he won early renown as a brilliant high school back, so much so that the great eastern college had lured him to its swanky halls. Tommy came home for Christmas, spent much of the time trying to polish household manners, did not return Easter, but during his summer vacation he caused a most profound sensation throughout critical Athens by flashing on that burg the very latest in sport togs, white knickers, flannels, et al. The neighbors are rather caustic but, as Mom explains it, “if you fly with fine birds you must wear fine feathers” referring to her boy's “millionaire college chums” . . . Tommy golfs during first half of his vacation; then makes himself “as hard as nails” laboring as a truck loader in the glassworks where his father and brother, Pete, work. Tommy still goes with Dorothy Whitney, daughter of the big factory owner but he puzzles Mom by simply calling Dot “a good scout”. CHAPTER SIXTEEN The word got around town that Thomdyke was going to play State in two years and it caused a lot of excitement because everybody knew about State and was crazy to see Tommy playing with snooty Thorndyke. So there was a lot of talk about it and people began to save up their money even though it was two years away. Mrs. Farrell mentioned the game at the grocery store and hinted that Tommy would get plenty when he came to play State. Mom just laughed and said that Tommy wasn’t worried. Then Butcher Brown said: “That’s the one game I'm going to see if I have to close up shop.” And Mom answered what she had heard Tommy tell Pop: “Why don’t you go over and see one of Tommy’s big games?” Butcher Brown laughed and looked at Mrs. Farrell and all the other women looked at her and Mrs. Farrell said: “Some people are even getting so important they can high-hat their own state, I see.” It got around town and a lot of I the knockers said Tommy was getting too high-toned altogether, making cracks like that; but Mom thought it was pretty cute. Mom was wiping off the front windows. She had washed them just two days before but a rain had come up and splattered them and the women along the street never missed a thing. The mailman was coming along, poking along as usual, with his black dog, the one that always muddied up a clean porch, trailing back of him. Mom could tell, three or four houses down, whether he had anything for her or not; but with Tommy home it didn’t make much difference anyhow; if he had anything in his hand, like as not it was one of the advertisements Pop was always answering about com cures and How To Care For The Feet—and she didn’t see why he kept on sending I for them because none of them did ' him any good. The mailman handed her a small envelope. “Here’s an invitation for the Country Club dance for Tom,” he said. Mom laughed. “How do you | know, John?” John laughed but didn’t answer j her question. “I wish they’d save them for some day when I haven’t got gas cards—and look at these I hunky, papers.” He showed her a . stack of folded newspapers printed

Soldier Field- Governors Clyde L. Herring of lowa and Henry Horner of Illinois will be present. On Sunday, Oct. 1 memorial services to men slain In war and vetereaus who since have died will be conducted. The convention proper opens Oct. 2 in the Chicago stadium on the west side, where the Democratic and Republican national conventions were held last year. Here, where he was nominated for tlie presidency and where he ended his dramatic fight to make his speech of acceptance. President Roosevelt will address the veterans. For many, the most thrillinsi event comes Oct. when the Legion marches in parade. It will be a mighty event—l3B,ooo men marching 16 abreast. It will take 10ft hours to pass a given point. Business Sessions Principal business sessions occupy Oct. 4 and 5 Questions of veterans legislation, national defense. Internal policies, and resolutions will be discussed Oct. 4. On Oct. 5 the Ix-gion will elect, its new officers and complete the business duties. Miami, Fla. is expected to be chosen for the next encampment, ! and Los Angeles, Cal., also has en- , tered a bid. Hayes, Decatur. 111., national committeeman and vice chairman ]of the national Legion committee

in a foreign tongue. “Say,” he continued, “does the old nun get any ■ good out of all them mail order ads he answers for his feet?” “Not much, I’m afraid.” “Tell him he’s not doing me any favor.” Mom wouldn't tell Pop, of course. Poor John didn't mean anything and it would only get Pop started on dvil service and the government pension jobs and he'd even threaten to write to Washington to get satisfaction. And that would get Uncle Louie started on how nobody could ever get satisfaction from Washington as long as the Republicans were in there and it would end up in another big row with every woman along the street straining her ears. But Mom was glad the invitation had come and she sat looking at it, fingering the quality of the paper. It was a sort of actual proof she could hold in her own hands that her Tommy was really doing all these big things and that it wasn’t just a nice dream and one of these days she would see him going out to the factory to work, year in and year out, as Mom had always watched Pop and as Pete would always do; although Pete was talking about starting a garage of his own now. And Pete had a girl —a plain kind of a girl he called Steve or Monkey or anything he thought of, and she called him Doggy because he always liked to have some kind of a dog around although they hadn’t had any at the house since Tiger was poisoned by some jealous person in the neighborhood; Mom had her idea but she had never mentioned it to Pop because he swore he would take his hunting shotgun and shoot the one that did it if he ever found out. Steve was a new girl in town and her father worked at one of the big garages and Steve seemed to know as much about automobiles as Pete. It was a funny way for a young couple to go courting, with their heads always under the hood • of a car, but still Mom knew it was a lot better for them to do that than run to dances and do a lot I of drinking like she heard some of i the young ones were doing. Mom I didn’t know what the world was ■ coming to, with the girls acting the • way they did nowadays; but she ’ was thankful her boys hadn’t I picked up with any of the fly-by- . night running-gates. , She was a little worried at the i way Mrs. Johnson’s Florrie was throwing herself at Tommy. She ; was a pert thing, all painted up, : and Mom had to admit, she was | pretty in a bold way. She was a | year older than Tommy and should • be ashamed of herself; and it made i Mom boil the way Florrie sat over s on her porch and made eyes at him. ! Once in a while Tommy went 1 over and talked to her; and one i night Mom thought she heard him > tell her goodnight kind of late; but r he was too smart to get mixed up s with a hussy who kept her fellows - as late as two or three in the morns ing with no light in the parlor, s either. She was a disgrace to the - neighborhood and Mrs. Johnson r had better look after her own bea fore she took to minding other peof pie’s children. i Mom hoped Tommy would take Dorothy to this Country Club 1 dance. Something seemed wrong r with them lately. Always before ’’ Tommy had gone over to Johnson’s to use their telephone and Mom i knew he was calling up Dorothy because he would always come back r home and dress, and later Mom e would be apt to see them walking t down to the movies or sometimes e driving to Smithville where there i were bigger shows and parties as i well as the country club. Now he

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■ didn’t seem to be joing r Dorothy. Mom had never had a as they had no use :’>r one Tommy away: she ■ think up a p ■• <: • • pt so Pop wouldn't c rr.plain . wasting monry ' ■ though she knew he * uld be I proud when it w. real/, in. had an idea that ■ wa- when 1 my went over to use the.that Flvr-ie .' i-.-a- • her clutches on . a:.d I she didn't «a: ' M- • knowing all -f :un:.iy 1 because once she g t hold > thing it was a.- g ■<! as ■ over town; a d was ■ go use a per- • -,?ne and talk double .- they would you were try I' ■ , hearing what a a g -g c-.. Mom hoped tt., eviration be the means I ’ g-g and Tommy l a-'-, t-g« - her that night when 1 o opened it, read it and went into a kind otM brown study: a i ;-etcnding she did not know what envelope, Mom said: H “I saw Dorothy down on C:itM Street today.” H He spoke quickly. “Did she anything about me?” ■ “Well, you see I wasn’t 1 to her; she just parsed the titneß day as she went : v: but she srniM real nice and k.. i very prettjO “Was she with anybody?” ■ Mom considered "V». I'.. couldn’t just say as to that." ■ “Do you mean there was a 1 with her?” ■ “Well, there were a lot of yoofl ■ people around.” I “Did you see a skinny guy wil ■ a little mustache?” I “Well, now, maybe there wu Cl like that.” I There hadn't been one like tha 1 but there were ■ res when Mo 1 felt that a little wh: , » lie c.dn'ti 1 any harm. . Tommy's jaw whitened a k under its bum and tightened. Th I he dashed out of the h. use witho 1 saying a word and went over Johnson's; and when he carnet : he was happy and i g’ thearted » I bounding like a puppy aga:n « > said: 1 “Listen, Mom. want to do st® ( thing for me? i'll be working •> : won’t have time and they re 1 t ways closed at night. Tomoffl ■ will you phone Tellings and » them make up a swell corsage : Dot for next Wednesday “ > ing her to the Club dance.” ! Then he went hurrym* up ” , stairs and Mom knew he was J i ing to get dressed and have» aa i with Dorothy. When he went 01 1 whistling a half-hour later she ■ still puzzling about the core** • and ail night it was the same- . Mom wasn’t sure just t corsage was; and she was ash* . to let Tommy know; he had trusa 1 her to get it and she didn’t w t to fail him and she wanted 0 - j a very nice one for s best there was without . Tommy too much money. 0 Mom knew it was a bouquet; « e flowers but she didn t kno . big or how much or what km ’ anything. It was a kind of cust« . in town for the boys to t mothers to order flowers 0 B girls at graduation and a that, which wasnt so hard bw f Telling's just made up ” bu ’ knew just what was w*n‘^a no s a corsage for a Count^ hj! i tv - an , was a great respons.b 1 j Mom didn’t want to do v>fol < mothers did and save . tneir boys so that they bought were too e h«M • the girls cried and it got an . town the next day. 6 Cr»»eContta»ri, 3 CopyrlaM. 19E.”TE’”^„ aJ uu,H< 8 Diatribuiod b/ 1