Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1934 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published JfflA THE Evary Eve- DECATUR uing Except jKf DEMOCRAT Sunday by CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Peat Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R, Holt house, Sec'y &. Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller ..Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copiess .02 1 One week, by carrierlo ) One year, by carrier 15.00 i One month, by mall .35 ' Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 1 One year, by ma 113.00 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 Adver. Representative SCHEERER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Regardless of the blessed events scheduled in the Lindbergh and Tunney families, the Ontario couple will hold the spotlight this year. With the adjournment of con-' gross many a printer engaged in, getting out the Congressional ’tec- | ord will join the list of unemploy-j ed. If young Astor keeps on trying to give a million or two to every 1 girl to whom he becomes engaged ! there will not be an Astor fortune j for the grandchildren. Maxie Baer, who since the Car-; nera fight, believes the world is a bed of roses, is trying to spend his money as fast as lie can. He ord-, ered 35 suits the other day and I proposes to be one of the boys ( about town. Will they take him? j Papa Dionne of the quintuples! will not accept the |JOO a week as I provided in his world's fair contract and announces that he will' not go through with the deal. The j grandfather of the children declar-i ed the father was “not thinking! dear" when he signed up. We ■ agree he might have been a little | excited. Out in .Minnesota there v ere 14 candidates for the diCarent party nominations for governor, including the farmer-labor, republican and > democrat. There were two on the. farmer-labor ticket, four on the re-! publican and eight on the democrat.! The democrats must feel they have* a good chance to carry this old republican state next fall. We don’t know much about the President’s home-building and slum clearance bill, which congress passed before adjournment last night, lint believe in the principle. Everyone who has been to a city knows the deplorable conditions in the! slum districts. If the government' can eliminate such places and instill a higher regard for home life | it will be effort and money well I spent. Strange or weird things never stop it seems, the suicide of the 16-yearold Kort Wayne youth be ing an example difficult to understand. The boy was supposed to have belonged to a “suicide club”, whose members were embarked in "testing the powers of the human to resist strangulation by hang ing.” It doesn’t seem reasonable that a youth of his age, good family and training should commit | suicide, nor does it seem possible that a bunch of young f ellows would band together to test out the hanging theory. ir such a club exists someone better break it up or get hold of the boys and put them in a nursery. Many Delicious Flavors. icecream'**** Approved by Good Housekeeping

Twenty-one years ago this month the Daily Democrat installed a modern Gos-t Comet newspaper press. With the exception of Sunj days and holidays, the paper has ' been printed every day since on I this press. The anniversary was recalled today by the annual visit of a press expert from the Goss factory, who replaced worn parts, installed new bushings, gears and completed a general overhauling of the “iron horse.” It has been a faithful piece of machinery and if kept in repair will probably see many more’ years of service. The 1 web newspaper press made it possible for small town publishers to 1 print a paper every afternoon, from ! four to eight pages, folded, counted and ready for the mails or carrier boys wit tin a few minutes after starting the motor. An exact figure as to the number of papers printed in the last 31 years is not available, but it is estimated that at least 19 million papers have come through the press since 1913. THE SWEET TOOTH: Regardless of wnat the steak and spinach consumers of the nation are doing, figures have been compiled to show that America’s sweet tooth is busier than it has been for some time. The manufacturers believe that little change has tak I I en place in the craving for various ■ confections a *d that any upturn in I receipts must reflect an improve- ' ment in purchasing power of the ■ masses. A marked increase in - candy consumption has been reported from all parts of the United ■ States. This cheerful information 1 was conveyed to 3.000 delegates atI tending the fifty-first annual con-1 vention of the National Confection-1 ers' Association at New York. Candy sales increased 28.2 per: ! cent for the first four months of I the current year over the corres-1 | ponding period for 1933. The con j fectionery survey of the Bureau of , ! Foreign and Domestic Commerce ■ was authority for the information. Even more »stiiking than the vol-1 ! time of carfdv consumed was the | increased money value of the na- j . tion's sales. The total value of all j ! confectionery and chocolate pro-1 ! ducts sold in the first four months' jof 1933 was $52,609,008. For the ! same period this year the total had 1 increased to $67,464,064, a gain of ■ nearly $15,000,000. This showing would indicate that I Americans not only have resumed 1 1 their candy eating habits, hut that I they have more money to satisfy 1 a craving for sweets. A general i decline in prices was reported, so j that the public may be buying a j better quality in addition to larger I amounts. The American sweet tooth has attained greater development than that of almost any other country. Sales of penny goods reach an amazing total in the course of a year. — Indianapolis Star. te csAsitr 6Y CUAgLEV , Folks with th’ dottgit all like t’ | loaf. Many a platinum blonde has a heart of gold. Too dern often th’ overhead is underrated. Takes a BUD t’ make a gals life rosey. Even when a feller's a brick he sometimes gits on th’ rocks. Th' feller who gits a diamond fer his precious is a jewell. 0 Answers To Test Questions Below are the Answers to the Test Questions Printed on “age Two. 1. Niagara. 1 2. The Maid of Orleans. 3. The art of writing correctly •spelled words. 1 4. Proverbs. 5. The founder of stenography in i Germany. 6. Ireland. 7. Pennsylva.,nia. 8. Greek muse of History. 9. Thomas Mott Osborne. IP. Anosmia.

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I —— - !l TWENTY YEARS ' AGO TODAY I From the Dally Democrat File June 20 June 20 General Angels j i.s made provisional president of j i Mexico but there is no sign of mediation between that country and this. Mrs. P. J. Hyland returns from I Fort Wayne where she attended the funeral for her com- in. Morris Morriarity. Miss Bessie Boyers leaves for a (visit in Morgantown. W. Va. Berne will observe the 4th of I.luly with a county Sunday school picnic. Fred and Ed Kolter purchase the Liby store at Magley. William Shoaf has his shoulder broken in a runaway. Mrs. Emma Daniels entertains for Mrs. DeVilbiss and Mrs. NewI ton. Edison Brock visits here after fifteen months at El Paso. Texas. Clarence Baughman is helping out at the Morris store. E. H. Shoemaker returns from a trip to ilowa for the Ward Manufacturing Co. G«t the Haoit — Trade at Home

Administrator Lauds PWA on First Anniversary JHFS' - - J? ' »-. *- j: < u hi! f |i I A* • IFM- ! • ■■ - • t-r-T"'/ ij \ ' “TL ' -if Rkes scans map showing location of I’WA projects in U rs ]jl

Observing the first anniversary of the inauguration of the Public Works administration. Administrator ddarold L. Ickes asserts that the PWA program has provided approximately one and one-half billion hours of work for otherwise idle men on

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I --—4 Household Scrapbook —BY—ROBERTA LEE Washing Brushes After washing a brush, do not: 'dry it with the bristles pointed up ! wards; this allows water to soak; into the back of the brush and loosen the bristles. Always point the bristles downwards. Cough Remedy i That irritating cough can be re-1 lieved by taking a mixture of the, juice of two lemon-. ou<- teaspoon water, and one tab!, .-poor, grant!-1 ’ lated sugar. Take a teaspoon every I half hour. Sweet Potatoes ’ To give summer sweet potatoes; j more flavor, add a tablespoon of; ' I sugar to the water in which they are boiled. > — Cripple Averted Two Wrecks for Railroads ! LOGANSPORT. Ind. (U.R) — ’ . I Twice within two years, A. O. | ’ I Nethercutt, 60, crippled Jefferson II township farmer, has averted a . * wreck on the Pensylvania rail-! j road. I Awakened one night recently by | i an unusual noise made by a

13,266 federal and 2,407 nonfederal projects, with its fund of $3,300,000,000. Ickes is pictured in the above layout, scanning a map showing locations of the PWA projects, together with scenes of several

! freight train as it passed his 1 home. Nethercutt. who suffers partial paralysis of his right side, investigated and found a 100-inch ■ trip of rail broken away. I He telephoned the dispatcher, • j who routed the next train, a fast ' ; passenger, over another track while repairs were made. In 1932 Nethercutt was credited > .with avoiding a wreck when he found an obstruction that had been placed on the track. o ■— Funds Halted Oil Celebrations Tomball. Tex., — (UP) Discovery of oil a year a o brought riches to it his section of the state. Citizens I of Tomball and vicinity planned on , anniversary celebration this month. 1 Announcement was made that the ! celebration had been called off in- | * definitely because the citizens' com ■ mittee was unable to raise money I —o— I Texans Have Oleander Fete I Galveston. Tex. — (U.R) — Oleand-! ‘ ers have taken a piSce alongside i tomatoes, turkeys, onions, the Alamo and other subjects for special celebration by Texans. Galveston I citizens recently held their first I three-day oleander fete, which they hope will become one of the nation's outstanding flower shows.

TELL STORY OF KOREAN FEATS Printing, First Iron-Clad And Suspension Bridge Came From Korea By Chas. A. Sauer (Note: Mr. Sauer is a brother-in-law of A. D. Suttles of this city) We Westerners readily assume that if anything worth while has ever been done we did it. We have been told that Gutenburg invented the process ct printing from movable type. But that is merely an illustration of Hie way that we take credit for ideas that were tried out in the Orient long before we ever heard of them. As a matter of fact printing from movable type was actually practiced by the printing department of the Korean government about 100 years before Gutenburg perfected his process in Europe. A study of Korean history, reveals the tact that as far back as 125 i) A. D. printing from movable type was practiced in Korea. According to the annals of King Lee Kyobo twenty-eight sets of the Book of Ceremony were printed by movable type in 1232. In 1390 we find one of Korea's scholars. Shyung Do Jan by name, lamenting the general ignorance of the people and proposing "a publishing house supplied with movable type in order that the sacred classics, histories, books on medicine and military science may be printed and distributed to all. thus eliminating our sighs over our lost opportunities.’’ Just what became of this proposal for a private publishing company is not known, but we do know definitely that about the year 1402 a government printing office was established using movable type cast from copper. Between the years 1402 aud 1407 a total of over 100.000 characters was east This first east of type seems not to have been very satisfactory, as we find a later record as follows: “The printers grumbled so much about the type that in 1420 a new font was cast. This was completed in about seven monhs and the cast was so successful that the printers were now happy and were

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I - « able to set up as many as 20 pages a day.” Iron-Clad in 16th Century Thus we see that printing from : movable type was in actual use by j the Korean government some forty : I years before Gutenburg began his experiments in 1440 and that the I idea was not unknown some 2W i years earlier. Indeed it is prob- | able that Gutenburg was indebted 1 to Korea for bis original idea. Students of American history are ; ■ told that the battle of the MerriI mac and he Monitor during the 1 Civil war marked the first use of iron-elad battleships. That would be true if the phrase “in the West- ! eru world” were added. For a j study of Korean history shows us an account of the use of an Ironclad in the sixteenth century. Korea was being invaded by the Japanese. An Admiral Lee fitted out a ship, known as the Tortoise , because in representated that ani-, mal in appearance. The head was ' used as a ram. In this turtle head a combination of sulphur and saltpetre was burn-1 ed giving off great clouds of smoke. ■ This not only inspired terror in . rhe minds of the superstitious but cloaked the movements yf the ship! from the enemy. Cannons and fire arrows were used in those days, and when a! vessel was rendered helpless she

| was boarded for hand tn I fighting. To prevent being buzS ' ed Admiral Yi covered the i top of his vessel with knives a3 ' spikes. Port holes for firing I non and fire arrows were made 3 I the sides of the “Turtle " tim 6 tecting his own men troni dant3 | Admiral Lee put out with 3 I Tortoise-ship and by rammiJ 1 some and setting fire to othert i soon put the entire Japanese j to rout. Still a third witness to the tn. ! ventive genins of the Korean mtaj !is the historical account of the first suspension bridge. In ijjj | the Japanese were invading Korn with an ultimate goal in China Ths ! combined Chinese and Korean ar®. I ies retreated to the im-Jin rivet ' just north of Seoul. The Korea ! general was ordered to build i bridge as the river wss partly fro» , en. Preparations began at once. Ths ! Koreans gathered great quantities |of “chick’’ a long rope-like vi» ’ which grows on the Korean hills I and twisted this into fifteen i® mense coils which they swung from bank to bank just deartig the water. To these coils wer» ! lashed bundles of willow twigs, i Over this foundation a roaa of dirt i was laid aud the Korean and Chis- ! ese armies walked across to the other side in safety.