Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1935 — 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 President A. R. Holthouse, 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 mail 35 Three months, by mail SI.OO Six months, by mail 1"5 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rate® made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER. inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charier Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. A great corn crop is in store for Adams county farmers. One man brought in an ear of the new crop and its a beauty and he says he has more corn than he has harvested the past five years. If the ‘‘jack-the-peeper’’ is wise he will quit his prowling before he is caught in the net now being spread for him. His is a business that no decent neighborhood will stand for and he ought to know it. Senators and congressmen wil' have the bonus bill to think and worry over the next several months. It has been agreed to take it up and dispose of it in some manner in the first ten days of the January session. Trade in Decatur. You can secure the greatest bargains to be z found any* where, you are sure of courteous treatment and the local merchants will guarantee their goods. You can't do that away from home. Yon can enjoy a few days vacaion at the state fair. This years program is the best ever arranged and there is something there for every Hoosier. The event opens Saturday, the 31st and continues until the following Friday. Besides good judgment, Governor McNutt has courage and is preaching the gospel of the New DeaJ in which he believes. Without doubt, (there are many things that could be done to make for fair business dealings and better -conditions. Tlie cool nights are refreshing a.nd a lot of folks are catching up on their sleep and the days are just about perfect if you ask us. The next two or three months will bring many wonderful days, to most folks, the greatest season of the year. The tax levies will be slightly higher over the state next year, due in most cases to the fact that the reserves in the various funds have been used. So long as these who have to pay feel they are getting value received, the objections will probably not be serious. Please remember that every reader of the Daily Democrat will appreciate it if you wil! send in your items. Tell us when you or your friends go away, arrive in town, any entertainment you may know about or give us any item that you think would interest the public. Police are ordering tramps and transients who apparently have no business here to move on, which is wise. Let them plan their robberies and holdups in other places as they* will do if they don’t loaf here. They all have a place ol residence and that's where the problem should be solved. The American Legion City band is a sptoudid muaieal organuwion and another year we should .ave

“'Darnf Qin 11 k e.X, >, *. I I 27 more of their wonderful concerts, : arranging the cost so it will be’ scarcely noticed by any one. Other I cities do it regularly and there is ! no reason why we should not. Every one enjoys band music. 1 ? I The entire country is hoping for the recovery of Senator Couzens,. colorful statesman, manufacturer and citizen in general of the United States who is seriously ill at Mayo hospital. He has been an aggressive and progressive man, 1 who has done much for this coun-i try a,nd to whom thousands look', with the greatest respect. Now that congress is over and! the country still going forward, we should see some rapid strides in business. There will be no stopping the era of prosperity now on the way and those who stop to cry over past losses will be only losing their opportunity to recuperate financially. The long depression is over and its up to you to get yours. They seem to be heading for war over in Europe and this nation is trying to keep entirely out of it, which will meet the approval of every man, woman and child. This nation doesn’t want war, doesn't need it and nothing but an invasion of our country or our rights will change that feeling. The terrible! cost in lives and money forthe 1 World War is still too fresh in our j minds. We doubt if the death of any man, great or near great, in this country has ever caused the general sorrow as has that of Wilt; Rogers. He had no enemies and every one with w-hom he came in contact was a friend. Besides that his general public loved him because of his writings, his lectures ryid his part in the movies. His funeral was one in which thousands present and millions on the ajr, sobbed in unison. o TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY | From the Daily Democrat File i Aug. 24—Monroe schools will open September 13th. Jonas Tritch resigns as teacher I in Decatur schools to accept offer with International Business college at Fort Wayne. W. F. Beery chosen to fill his place here. Mias Gladys Flanders gives party on her birthday. Judge and Mrs. R. K. Erwin and

ed If I remember th •* gh ■ * X (v. aSiz U m 'XT \ i; a ’ son, David, of Indianapolis visit here. C. J. Jones, trustee of Blue Creek ! township, is defendant in suit to mandate hint to establish a towni ship high school. R. L. Sehnepp has leased the sale barn on First street and wl’l operate it Mrs. T. J. Durkin and Mrs. Dyonis Schmitt return from Cincinnati. Extreme cool weather forces many cottagers to leave the lakes., J. T. Merryman attends to business at Warsaw. 0 ♦ * Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Earth Worms Earth worms can be exterminated from the potted plants by pushj ing unburnt sulphur matches into the earth around the plants, heads of the matches down. Two, four, or six matches, according to the s-ize of the pot, are sufficient. Pressing Remove all stains from a garment before pressing. Do not tori'get that a too-hot iron will fade colors. Pies When necessary to cool a pie quickly, invert the wire strainer and place the pie on it, so that the air can reach the bottom. 0

• I Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Months ♦ * Sunday August 25 Harrison Reunion, Sunset paxk, I east of Decatur. Annual Tindall family reunion. Fair Grounds at Van Wert, Ohio. Fry and Yost reunion, Hock- | meyer’s Grove, northwest of Decai tur. Staniford-Fulkner reunion, ~. M. i Standiford home. I Davison reunion. Davison broth- ■ ere home one mile west of Tocsin. Eighth annual Johnson reunion, j Nathan Johnson home, Stryker, O. | Meyer family fifth reunion, Sunset ipark, rain or shine. Sunday, September 1 Slusser-Gause family reunion. J. E. Gause grove, seven miles south .land one mile east of Willshire, ' Ohio. ! Roop family reunion, Lawton i Park, Fort Wayne. Annual Urick reunion, Sunset park, near Decatur. ' Schnepp and Manley reunion, Snset park, rain or shine. Labor Day, September 2 I Baker reunion. Sunset par k, De- ’' catur. Lenhart annual reunion, Sunset I ' park, east of Decatur. Leuhart annual reunion. Sunset *! park, east of Decatur. Sunday. September 8 Johnson reunion. Sunset pajk. ■ rain or shine. Chronister faanily reunion, Hani na-Nuttman park. Decatur. o , Miller’s Honey Flake Bread — made with Honey and Cracked Wheat — at all groi cers. 1

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iis hinr r ‘'l I * ’ xjw ' | Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE Q. What are the appropriate! places for a girl to wear tennis shorts or a bathing suit? A. Only on the tennis court and the bathing beach. G. What are the most popular refreshments for a children's paxty? A. Nothing can take the place in the children's hearts of ice cream, cake, and candies. Q. Is it necessary to make a call after attending a reception? A. No, it is not necessary. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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dispelling the Hv Charles Michelson Director of Publicity. Democratic National Committee

The end of Congressional session furnishes a grand opportunity for the critics of the Roosevelt administration. In analysing the accomplishments of the session, they can take such measures us Congress has adopted at the suggestion of the President and make a perfect ease proving that the National Legislature is a rubber stamp Congress, and that the President has assumed dictatorial powers. On the other hand they can take the incidents where Congress has refused to follow the Presidential recommendations and from that deduce the waning of the President's power and influence, with incidental tribute to the legislators who have shown their independence, courage and statesmanship by refusing to I be dictated to. It might seem difficult to explain how a President might be a despot one day. be turned down by his Congress the next day and resume his dictatorship the day following. But such a little thing is not going to bother my contemporary newspaper co’umnists. They i will even tell you what the Presi* dent thinks about each of the Congressional performances. Really the mind-reading by distinguished writers of the thoughts, impulses and purposes of the President of the United States is an amazing development in political i journalism. No personal contact with the sub-' ject is involved. For example, Mr. Frank Kent of the Baltimore Sun, who could hard l }- be classed as one of the White House intimates, i will tell you any morning that thej President regards a Supreme Court decision as a personal challenge, i and will go on to explain tn-detail ’ just what Franklin. Aooaetet^' 4K . going to do about it. ’’ ’’fc-T igd-'f SnlHi*an'-wil! reveal fro ydtf th£tthel President is requiring Congress to ; pass laws he knows to be uncon- ’ stitutional in order to arraign the people against the Supreme Court. 1 Mr. Sullivan also explains that the holding companies bill represents 'I a feud by Mr. Roosevelt against' ' certain individuals in the holding 1 company business. Now these distinguished column-1 ists do not say they think this, or have been advised that, or have heard the other, but state flatly the inner secrets of the President's, ( mind. j Those of us who have closer con- ! ’ tact with the Chief Executive are ( envious of this capacity to know iso much, and know it so positively.’ Really the matter of thought transference, as exemplified by such . writers, ought to be looked into by |

those societies devoted to paychb cal research. For example. Mind-reader Kent ■ the other day. after looking into a | crystal ball, or perhaps studying the tea leaves in his cup al some; . 5 o’clock, revealed that there was no whispering campaign against ! the President but that the cam-1 paign emanated from the White , House seeking to let up a straw J man to be knocker! down fbr campaigning purposes. True, a little later on. the propaganda artist who . recommended the campaign to the Holding Companies turned up on the witness stand before the Ix>bby Investigating Committee of the Senate. He was confronted with his letter, obtained presumably from the files of the recipient, and was forced to admit that he had proposed a ‘’whispering campaign —using those very words—conveying to the public that the President j of the United Stated was losing his mind. There had showed up ■ chain letters, carrying this idea. One of the numerous crew o£ business letter writers who affect | i, to tell firms and corporations the low down, deep inside, of what is going on in Washington, included the story of the President's mental and physical break-down in one oi his confidential tips to his clients. The tale was so generally cir- . culated that finally one of the reglular press correspondents brought I it up at the semi-weekly conference which President Roosevelt holds with the newspaper men. The President, sitting at his desk , among the men who see him conj stantly, bronzed and hearty, smiled ’back at the newspaper group ■ thjjiVJiad been bombarding him with - quv»|iuU4 ‘lor half an hour, and | .ujJtilti. tfrent tit)ought a ’Mirdrts- ’ v ' I .Then there is the peisL-tent J>ar- ' i a’gv l»y Republican speakers, and ! the spokesmen of their affiliated ’ agencies, like the Liberty League. ■ expressing horror at the President's defiance of the Constitution. Now the President may have in mind a constitutional amendment ! ! extending the Federal power to !.legislate as to what does and what | does not constitute interstate com- ; merce. He has never said so, and , ■l, having neither a crystal ball nor the equipment necessary to read the future In the tea leaves, can- ' not tell whether he purposes such lan amendment or not. I was present at the newspaper conference at which the President analyzed the Supreme Court decision on the ’NRA and explained what its probable- effect would be on the various emergency enactments. ObI viously and naturally, he was dis-

| appointed court’s verdict 'but he merely set about forthwith ;to preserve as much of the New Deal principles 'as the decision appeared to permit. Most of his Ffilice find fault be-, cause he did not guess right on , what the Supreme Court would do. ’ Well, as Senator Lewis of Illinois i ! presented in a Senate speech, the I I Court pronounced unconstitutional seven acta signed by President Harding, seven signed by President Coolidge, and three signed by Pres-1 ident Hoover. Which only means I that Presidents are no more expert at forecasting such things than the 1 rest of us. Then there is the classical incident of the veto by President, afterwards Chief Justice, Taft, of the Webb-Kenvon Act on the ground 1 that he considered it unconstitutional. Congress passed the bill over his veto, and the Supreme Court sustained its constitutionality and 'it remained good law until the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. So when such eminent jurists as Chairman Fletcher of the Republican National Committee, and President Jouett Shouse of the LibertyLeague—neither of whom, so far as 1 know, ever shined in any law I court —deliver positive statements as to the constitutionality of pending legislation, it might be well to keep in mind how often really recognized experts have gone wrong in reading the SupreYne Court's mind in advance. I suppose Messrs. Fletcher and Shouse might say they based their prophecies on opinions furnished by great legal firms. Well, I seem to recall that ; in the instance of Char'ie Dawes' $80,000,000 loan "back in 1932, some great lawyers advised General Dawes that the loan was legal, and that when the Government sought to ollect the loan the lawyers gravely furnished him an opinion thai the Government could not en force collection because the loan did uqt, in the first place, conform to lega' requirouuqua. All of which appeajs to mean that a competent lawyer can give you the opinion you pay for. o ■ — .i w Answers To Test Questions — I Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two. • 4 1. Code Uapoleon. 2. Wilhelmina. 3. Ontario. 4. 1872. 5. Mongolia. 6. France. 7. Secret writing in codes and ciphers. 8. The term cotnpromteeß all persona born about the same time, and i- w generally computed in periods of

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