Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1934 — Page 3

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I 1 r - _ r iji hll 11 LIM "JT_ If .□io ■ THE DELITE I COAL AND WOOD RANGE H Cast Iron Construction. H lull Porcelain Enamel Finish. ■ Heavy Copper Reservoir. H Ground Cooking Top Finely Polished to Mirror Finish. H Extra Large Flue Construction around oven insures H "ood draft even with cheap and inferior grade ol coal. H Sliding Oven Damper, which makes it possible to give ■ your oven any desired baking temperature and many other H modern features. |iil« * B WE ARE MAKING A SPECIAL PRICE ON THIS ■ RANGE FOR THIS SALE ONLY. 852.50 ■ IF “SEEING IS BELIEVING" THEN ■ COME IN AND LET US SHOW YOU.

( Itne to build a bunk? The motive wus to gain a spacial privilege at the expense <>f the taxpayer. We huve the school house and we have the necessary equipment to uccom odute everyone in the township. Whe.. you go to granting transfers where are you going to draw the line? Whenever anyone starts out with u petition he either wants a j special favor or he wants revenge. It I* one of the other. We have an I excellent school, a- excellent staff I i ihi -i 1 la in the same building with our grade • schools. The name heating plant, i the same Janitor and while we are i transporting the elementary pupils! ijwe transport the high school pupils j at about the same expense, it ’ i would be about as logical to try to haul the elementary pupils out ‘of the township at a cost of about I | seven to eight thousand dollars. Perhaps you were not' told that | if we abandoned the high school' I that we are compelled to transport. I them to another high school, they, i knew that we were, so please read I the acts of that law, have you ever | stopped to figure that the cost of! -extra transportation and tuition i would lie year after year, for from 1 40 to 50 pupils, you might thereby 1 • discourage a lew pupils to drop i jOUt, but that would rob them of the ' I chance for an education that the 1 ■law gives them. It is either eduicate them all or none. There is I no public school in this county, that pays u cash dividend in dollars ami cents. The law intends for i every child to have the same opportunity. be they rich or poor, and a . trustee that takes the schools only ■as a secondary play thing is not tit to be trusted with their management. he would violate his oath of office by refusing or neglecting to look after the welfare of the schools in his charge. And as to lite cost to the taxpayer: V> e are saving around two thousand dollars each year, last 1 year the high school teachers received $2,800 for the term, and we collected $360 from other townships. leaving the cost of the teachers $2,440. This year the cost of the teachers is $3,300 and the state . ■ rays us $1,200 and we have seven pupils from other townships which - will be around $l5O. leaving us $1.1150. To pay this amount would - just about buy one school bus which would be required if we i transported them elsewhere. 1 promised the tax payers that I i would work for their interest in all , matters as I am one of them. 1 | i have reduced our taxes from year to year, in spite of all the oppo- j sit ion and discouragement by circu- , ■ lating petitions of various nature i and misrepresentations. I do not hand out special priv- |

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' lieges to build up B political machine ut the expense of the tax payor* I do not practice need, nationality or politics towards unyone. A truslee should have buckhone enough Io figure out his own problems lor the benefit of all mid not be under the Infill nro of the know-alls. Whenever a public official takes everybody's advice he is h’ft in the wilderness and cunnol give the service expected of him. I am open to good advice and would be glud to meet any taxpay<r that has anything to complain about. Hut It tests an offclal's nerves to bo followed around by an enemy and ambushed through , false statements and mlsrepre- , si-ntatfons. I am a Democrat and I a permanent resident of the town- : ship, and I am deeply inti rested In our taxes. The valuation Is sloo,otm less in lour township than it was last year, ■and in spite of that foci my tax I levy is considerably lower than , last years levy. And last yeai your taxes wore about one-third to what they were not many years ago. ' My total levy exclusive of the |M»or levy brings only $7,525 this I year and I will try my best to get ■ along with Him amount. Our poor expenditures were abnormally heavy during the last two years. Every taxing unit in the .state has greatly felt the strain, but we were not as hard hit as many other units. When John the Baptist preached his first penetrating sermon he was immediately asked liy his hearers "what shall we do?" and liis answer was. "He charitable to one another. He that ; hath two coats let him give to him i that hath none and he that hath| meat do likewise," and to further] questions he answered, “Do violence to no man. neither accuse i anyone falsely and be content with I your wages.” Think that over thoroughly and then pass your| judgment. Now in concluson will say this: The Advisory Board has - given me their impartial and friend- ■ ly service and have cooperated with me in all important matters, | and they have used sound judginent. In spite of the fact that they I were often tempted by certain I parties to grant specials. We have} done the tax payers many favors ! in the way of saving their funds ; and 1 hope that my successor, who-1 ever that may be, will take his office with untied hands and an un-i biased mind and not trade the children's school rights to gain votes. Phil L. Schieferstein, Trustee. CORN ANO HOG PLAN Editor Democrat: Some folks might have thought | that I was dead but I’m not, unless

Schafer’s 60th Anniversary Sale

No. S Cast Iron CHICKEN FRYER Extra Deep with se’f basting cover. Sale Price 98c No. 8 Cast Iron DUTCH OVENS With Self Basting Covers. Sale Price 89c No. 8 Cast Iron SKILLETS Sale Price ‘ 49c All the above cast iron ware made in Decatur. 16 oz. bottle POLISHING WAX Sale Price 19c

ft/on Crusade for U. S. Navy ’’Second to None' — L 1 • -3 Iw **■ SB ■< I J Mb w - T F ■ e-.i B Acting Sec. Roosevelt Rep. Vinson g »/?•'<. Admiral cf" “ ' ’’' Thunderous chorus of “ayes” that passed the Vinson Naval Bill through the House was a personal triumph for its sponsor. Representative Carl Vinson, of Georgia, chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs; olonel Henry Roosevelt, Acting Secretary of the Navy; Admiral William Standley. Chief of Naval Operations, and Rear Admiral Ernest J. King. Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics, all of whom long have advocated a navy second to none. The bill calls for construction of 102 lighting ships, which will bring the U. S. Navy up to strength permitted by London Treaty, by 1939. It also authorizes building of I.IKI new planes, scouting craft and super-bombers, for the Navy. The entire program will cost between $475,000,000 and $570,000,000.

] I'm mistaken. So I'm back again. ! 1 This corn-hog proposition that is | going around has the earmarks of] I being* more contagious than the ■ wheat reduction plan was. There are several reasons for this. One is that the wheat plan was a new thi-'g, a precedent in the history] ]of agriculture. It marked the ad , vent of the government into the ' I regulation of farming and many farmers resented this. But now ! i much water has gone over the dam ' since the inception of those plans ■ ! and farmers can see some fine I points in it besides thorns. FarmI ers are beginning to realize that 1 the only way to reduce a surplus , is to reduce it either at one e-:d or | the other if nature does not in between. This writer has been an advocate I of crop reduction for years and am for as many farmers to take advantage of it as can. Now I am not recommending this corn-hog plan as being a panacea for all the farmers ills nor as a perfect plan. Sometimes 1 think someone was sitting up eights just to see how complicated he could make it. Any ,

I gaCFZZZZF cFFt * FENCE; : GOOD THRU _ ■ *' ANDTHRU -Zl. L ' • r l‘» ■* r ' '• - .• <'' : ’ 1 4 - • ;y u '* BECAt SE IT IS MADE FROM HEAVY FULL-GAUGE Wire. which is uniformly coated with Pure Zinc and Copper applied by the most modern process, thoroughly protecting the wire from corrosion and assures long life. The Hinge Joint is the most popular of all types of woven fence. This joint gives the fence a flexibility that cannot be had with any other style of knot and makes it easy to fit our fence to uneven and rolling land. We Also Have A Large Stock of Sterling Hinge Joint Poultry Fence. WE ARE MAKING A SPECIAL PRICE DURING OUR 60th ANNIVERSARY’ SALE ONLY on the Following:— Regular 4 foot 12 inch stay No. 9 Top and Bottom Wires. Intermediate Wires No. 11 Gauge—Sale Price, per rod O I C I Regular Hog Fence 12 inch stay No. 9 Top and Bottom Wires. Intermediate Wires *TA t No. 11 Gauge—Sale Price, per rod O-JC A COMPAR ATIVE REDUCTION ON OUR ENTIRE LINE OF FIELD AND POULTRY FENCES.

I old farmer could have made a bett r one. Hero is a real simple , plan that anyone could understand 1 in one minute without the aid of i lawyers or two thousands questions. Had the Secretary of Agriculture 1 decreed a rmluctlon of 25% on ] cultivated farm lands with a prem- ! I inm for the reduction, who couldn't j ' understand that at once? And : what farmer with a 25% reduction . I of his farm land but would reduce ] ] his livestock accordingly? But per-1 ; haps this plan was too simple and too easily understood, for if he reduces and has less work to do then : he would be idle and the conipli- , cated plan would at least give him something to think about, anyway, j Another reason more farmers are < goi’ g into the corn-hog reduction plan is that iiesides the possible benefits there are the premiums from the government and while the ! ' government is in the notion of passing out good hard money it will i come ie mighty handy for the majority of farmers. Many folks have been severely critizing the CWA for paying labor 150 c per hour, contending that 25

or Sue per hour is sufficient. Now these same folks are getting a break. The CWA is paying for i work done, while the com-hog plae ( pays every farmer who will agree j to spend part of his time In a rock ■ ing i hair. Or in oilier words pays i him lor I lie time lie does not work. ' ! It looks as though every farmer in | : Adams county would take advant-i age of the plan. It looks as though j I a great resourceful natio-i like the | U. S. with untold wealth and pro ] duetion machinery, its educational, institutions, technicians and think — I ers woukl lie capable to produce] i all it reeds, also to distribute to all I in need. And the previous admin ] | istration failed miserably and •wretchedly. But why go into that? So today with the common folks I getting a break, let's cooperate. I What do you say? It seems that more projects are ] wanted in our county for CWA | work. Now 1 am cot a drainage l commissioner, but here is a plan] j that will extend the working hours' ]on one of the projects already ] ■ I granted, and this plan will at the I - same time be giving lasting bene-;

| “MAGIC OAK” IRONING BOARDS Extra Large Tops 14 in. by 56 in. Rigid, Sturdy and Easy Folding. Red Oak Legs and Steel Strussed. Regular Price $2.50 Sale Price $1.97 ELECTRIC SAD IRONS Super - Chromium Plated. Graceful Stream Line Design. Full Size, Weighing 6'. lbs. Complete with heavy asbestos lined cord and detachable plug. Guaranteed. Sells Regular at $4.50. Sale Price $2.47 EMHEfaHBMSMHauaOEOnMM

fits to the commit liy. The trouble with the drainage on Three-Mile ditch, Hartford township, is that the ditch has a neck This neck holds buck the water above it. I Near the cemetery south of Linn Itlrove “egins U rock ledge extendjihg upstream ovei a hall mile. This forma the neck and Three Mile i will ever have good drainage until a channel Is deepened through this rock. Widening the ditch will afford hut Inconsequential benefits becutisc there will still bo the jump at the rock neck and water runs •low , not up hill. If sledges, picks or hand tools curt break this rock for a channel it will give work al) summer. And it channel above should tie cut In the dirt bottom in .tile center (not side ns it is too ] wide now) several feet wide. ThreeMile jogs over i to Wells county ' but returns into South Hartford, ending on the Jim Price farm. , This also should be deepened as it j is in Adams county. John Smith Farmer. I _ 0 Spain Pardons Four Jailed Americans Madrid, Fen/ (U.R) —The supreme military tribunal today approved a pardon for four America s in jail on the Island of Mallorca, | V. S. Ambassador Claude (1. Bowers was Informed. The approval was submitted to the general supreme court, which meets Saturday. Release of the Americans, under sentence after their conviction o:t charges of assaulting a civil guard last summer, was confidently expected over the week-end. I The prisoners are Mr. and Mrs. | l Clinton B. Lockwood of Spr gfield. I Mass.. Roderick F. Mead of New! York and Edmund W. Blodgett of 1 I Stamford. Conn. They have al- ' ready spent considerable time in | jail on the island while their case I was fought through the Spanish ] courts. o Wabash Man Found Fatally Wounded — Indianapolis, Feb. —(U.R) —Shot ] fatally through the head, apparently a victim of robbers, the body of Gaylord V. Saunders, 35. former Wabash pastor, was found here toI day in his parked automobile. Death resulted from a bullet wound inth e head. Deputy Coroner John E. Wyttenbaeh said after an | autopsy. The body was fou-’d by police ] who were summoned by Mrs. Emma ] B. Herd, resident of the northside residential section in which the | car was parked.

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SCHWARTZ HERO HIGH FOR MONTH Peter I). Schwartz Herd Has Highest Butterfat Average Peter D. Schwartz has the highest butterUu. average for his herd fluting January In the Adams County Dairy Herd Improvement Association. The helll averaged 49.5 pounds fat per cow. Henry Anchle man's Ayrshire herd averaged 37.3 pounds, and Sol Mosser's Jersey herd averaged 37.2. John J. Schwartz's Holstelo herd averaged 35.7, and Habegger Brothers herd comes next Wdh 35.6. E. H. Kruetzman averaged 30.3, Jacob J. Schwartz 26.9. Dennis Striker, 26.7, Otto Bleeko 26.1, and Dan D. Schwartz 25,8, reports the supervisor, Merwin Miller. The Adams County Dairy Herd Improvement Association is an Olga fixation formed by dairymen in tile county who wish to have the milk weighed and tested from each individual cow. the feed cost and !the value product from each cow and the herd figured for them. A supervisor is hired from I’urdue University who does tliis\work for them and also gives them advice on feeding and good dairy practices. Owners wli.i have high individual producing cows for the month are i Sol Mosser who has one cow that | produced 65.3 and another which prduced 64.6. E. H. Kruetztnan 64.5, Dan D. Schwartz 62.2, and Dan i Mazelin 60. o Roosevelt Opposed To Further Funds Washington, Feb. .. --(UJI) —President Roosevelt is determined to stay within the limits of the sl,166.000,000 item in the budget for relief, it was stated at the White House today in response to a question as to whether additional funds would be ask"d for continuation of the CWA. At at same time it was said on lielialf of the President that he has not committed himself on the payraise question for federal employes that now is being waged on capitol hill and which if successful would upset his budget figures submitted several weeks ago. Get the Habit — Trade at Home