Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1935 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publsihed Every Evening Except Sunday by IHE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind.. Pout Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Hcltliouse. Sec'y & Bus Mgr. Dk’t D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 45.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail 41.00 Six mouths, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, al 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. Give the coal man a break, didja say? You can t do it early so join the crowd. You can still find plenty of wonderful gifts for the folks in the Decatur stores. Joe Everett will soon know whether this Christmas will be a repetition of the past four years: or similar to those he spent before 1 he got Into difficulties. — Another one of the Capone gang-' sters was shot yesterday and that; clears the record to the approval! of those who favor eliminating such i criminals from American life. Don't overlook joining the Christ-1 mas savings club. It will fix you] up right for next holidays and there will be sure to be some place you will wish to put the money. Drive over the city and notice the brilliant lights both in and out of the houses. It's Christmas time . and the city has done her share to make this the brightest one ever. Your last chance to be a Good Fellow. Remember that every penny paid in will be used to make uome boy or girl happy who otherwise may have a dark and desolate Christmas. In your Christmas rush don't forget that you only have ten days in which to secure your new driver license and your new white and crimson number tugs for your car. I There will be NO extension this year. The press correspondent coined the correct phrase when the wrote. "A school-boy's dream comes true!” Fire destroyed the building in Gary and chances are the boys and girls will enjoy the. added vacation over the’ holidays. CHRISTMAS SEALS. __ IT * 19,5 4-1 * ” The first trons- ■ Atlantic mad by dirigible was j| brought into ifZ jsCanada in <9>9 2 3HOBPIN6 DAYS TO BISWAS The first transatlantic delivery of mail by air took place iu 1919. when the R3l of England dropped ( 11 letters in Nova Scotia after a I flight from England Tasting from 1 July 2 to Julyb. The dirigible also, • arTTSd mail on the return (Tip. I hich was made down the coast, from Canada, over Long Island,! and then home.

In keeping with the Christmas t spirit light porches, evergreen trees or put electric candle lights in the window. The lights convey a spirit of welcome and denote *' | that someone is home to receive t you If you call. Jimmy Adams of the state high 1 way commission is the most polite t employer in all the Indiana state j departments. He never fails to , greet his employes with a cheery ) I "good morning.” And of course it 1 doesn't hurt a thing to be polite. > ; — j Merchants here are pleased with 1 the holiday trade. The advise to 1 shop early was heeded this year and the stores have enjoyed the largest patronage in years. Decatur is a good city in which to trade and the merchants back up their goods. Senator Borah is willing to run for the Republican nomination for president. He feels that both Roosevelt and Hoover are wrong but It probably has not occurred to him that given the opportunity to try out his fancies, b# might have to rank himself along with them With an abundance of fruits and vegetables every year it's a wonder more of the produce is not stored by individuals for winter use. A picture in the current issue of the Moose magazine illustrates I what can be done tn this respect. I An underground storage house has ' been constructed at the City of | Childhood where 5.000 bushels of ' fruits ad vegetables cau be stored. | The modern way it seems is to i have it come in cans and then look! for the opener. — Afflicted with blindness, Senator . Tom Schal , of Minnesota, had ‘ further misfortunes heaped upon ! him while crossing a highway in' ! Washington, D. C. He was struck down by an automobile and slight hope is extended for his recovery. Death by auto is no respecter of person and one shivers to think of the mounting fatalities. Last year I alone more persons were killed in auto accidents than America lost in the World War. When will the nation awaken to the reckless, wastage of human life? ~ : | Every few years some one starts a "racket'’ that brings dollars to professional organizers. A few I years ago, it was the ku klux klan. I Now its the Townsend plan, a wild. dream that a lot of people are I silly enough to believe but which is as far from possible as one of. .-Esop's fables. Yet enough vot-' ers believed it that a candidate] | for congress ou the Republican! ticket won a two to one victory inj Michigan the other day. Looks as 1 though the radicals were not all in one political party. o a Answers To Test Questions | Below are the answers to the I Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ ♦ 1. French landscape painter. 2. "G-Men” is a contraction for ''government men’’ and is a nickname for Special Agents of the Bureau of Investigation in the U. S. Department of Justice. I 3. The artificial application of water Io land. 4. California. 5. Papeete. 6. The German name tor sub-' marine is "unterseeboot” (undersea boat), hence U-boat for short. I 7. David, king of Judah and 1 Israel 8. Thomas Gray. 9. Washington Irving. 10. President Hoover. ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs Carl Stuckey, Berne, are the parent* of a daughter born at the hospital in this city Friday morning at three o’clock The ba-by weighed seven pounds two and one half ounces and lia* been named Sunya Gay. This is the first child iu the family. Mrs. Stuckey was for--1 nierly Lucile Gay of Decatur. | Mi and Mrs. Jerome Deßolt are 1 the parents of a son born at the hospital Friday evening at eightI thirty o’clock- The baby weighed six , (pounds and thirteen and one-half I ounces. He has been named Thoma* 1 Edwin.

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DISPELLINGJTHE FOG By Charles Michelson Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee

I In the summation of the vast re i sources of this country, one par-’: ticular industry has been general-I ly overlooked The super-man business has not had the attention its • importance deserves. ; j Perhaps this is largely due to ■ . the circumstances that It ts ape1 culiarly seasonal business. Its activities’ become manifest oniy dur- ' ing Presidential campaigns and are j' largely confined to those campaigns in which no conspicious figure is ready to the hand of a; political party seeking a candidate : for the highest office in the laud. This deep economic reflectio is I provoked bny the recet discovery, iby one of Mr. Hearst's political commentators, of the amazing quality of Governor Landon of Kansas. There has not been such , a phenomenal comomation of | paragon. Honest Tom Higseu, was | the candidate of Mr. Hearst's Inde- . 1 pendence League a quarter of a’ ' | century ago. This eminent figure, •. that few people will recall as a Presidential candidate, also repre- ‘ | seated the happy union of sincer- ‘ j ity and wisdom, modesty and exej cutive expertness, rugged indepeui dence and deep understanding of national problems It appears that those of us who’ 1 thought of the Kansas statesman , as just ordinary run-of-the-tnine Western Governor, whose whole political philosophy seemed to be his own advancement, and who in- . dicated no particular devotion to . ay policy except prohibition — ( which was good politics in Kansas ( ! —had a wrong idea. i Instead he is, according to the , ; Republican spokesmen, a vivid blend of Abraham Lincoln and Calvin Coolidge. My fellow columnist. Mark Sull-; Ivan, is concerned lest the rivalry ( of the partisans of Governor Lan- . dou and Col. Frank Knox may result in a convention deadlock that would “kill each other off.” It is not that the personal ambitions of 1 either would have any influence in I bringing about this result, which ' Mr. Sullivan was astonished “to observe the way iu which they subordinate personal interest for the The country at large shares the astonishment, and might be inclined to wonder who it was that pinned his candidacy ou the shrinking colonel in the first place? It was probably the same intrusive agency that divorced the Washington correspondent and chief political writer of the Colonel’s own newspaper from his normal functions and set him to press agent ihg the Knox boom —t’ue same out-i fit that «ant about the business ot| ■ tying up delegates for Colonel Knox, without the slightest con sideration for his feelings ■ i Curiously enough it does not appear that either of these victims 1 of public demand has ever thought : of withdrawing in iavor ot the oth I ■ er. That would have - saved one ot i ; them from the pain and distress ot ‘ f. an unwelcome prominence, advan-! ,icing the hope of a nomination that I 1 would fulfill the desire of both— 1 1

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which is the saving of the country from the Dernocra’s. Such an act of self-effacement is not impossible at that, hut it is dollars to doughnuts that if this abnegation ever takes place it will be on the part of the one who thinks his chances have blown up completely. Nobody has ever explained why an aspirant for the Presidency should pretend indifference to a nomination. It is understandable that a man in that position might abstain from opeirly asing for the honor, but this is a differen thing to encourageing publicity folk to represent them as backing away from something everybody knows they want and which they are breaking their necks o get. The denied rivalry of the Governor and the Coloner has a comple-, ment in the conflict between ExPresident Hoover and Senator Borah. That duel is not so deferential as the Landon-Knox relationship appears to be on the surface. For .Mr. Hoover is frankly out to "mi inute the senator as a possibility, and the Senator is just as frankly bent on making things as unhappy as possible for the former President 1 gather all this from the dissertation another antiadministration pressman, who points out that Mr. Hoover is bent on smoking out | Borah; that is. making the Sena- • tor declare himself on such issues I as the silver questions, inflation | with reference to the soldiers bon-1 us. aud the Towuseud plan. The idea is that if he can definitely commit the man from Idaho to these things, it means curtains for the latter in the Conservative East—where most of the delegates come ' from. The Senator is just as keen- > iy undertaking tile elimination of i the Old Guard —typified by Mr. 1

Held for Night Club Slaying

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First degree murder charges weie drawn against Tyree Purks, left, and George McCullough, right, both of Tulea, Okla., following the mysterious claying of a federal agent and private detective ala Tulsa night club and gambling casino. ■ /'.-Vi' >• V. ‘ '

Hoover, and emoracing National Chairman Fletcher, Ogden Mills, and Charles D. Hilles —from con- ; trol ot tne Republican party. Is the idea that Mr. Hoover wishJ. a to eliminate a rival aspirant, who has attained rather unexpected stature as a popular Republican -candidate? Is it possible that the fine old Liberal wants Mr. Hoover out of the way. on the hypothesis that the big money end of the G. O. P. will take even a Lib s eral Republican when the alterna- i tive is the re-election of Franklin ] D. Roosevelt? Naturally Senator ' Borah has a concrete idea as to which Progressive ought to be favored. Perish the thought! Mr. Hoover has no personal ambitions: he only desires the restoration of Hie old Republican ideals, and Senator Borah cares only for the purging of his party of Wall Street domination. This being the condition of the i minority party, the question naturally arises: where do they go from , here? As my Republican colleagues iu the column business refuse to hazard a guess, beyond the general j one that it means a dark horse has I ■1 chance, and they being in a bet | t.;r position to prophesy. 1 will not ■ undertake to be more definite. It might be pertinent, however, to suggest that, as under existing 'circumstances the Republican nom ination will be as valuable as a I 1 last election's campaign poster, j what they may do is to improve , the opportunity to get rid of their i most disturbing element. 1 There is no possibility of healing the breach between East and West. If Mr. Hoover is denied this | time his insistence will plague them indefinitely. As to Borah, for a generation he has been a thorn to i?ie standpatters. To a large extent these two keep each other alive as sources of political irri- ■ tation. It's too bad, from a Repubj lican standpoint, that both cannot !be nominated, and so effect the i killing of two birds with one .stone.

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Ukrit IViu* the soul4 Chnstma* JL lA| <4gnt« liU|4v» 1J ,■ -* g IdLT'S I T WAS Christinas eve and Jam 1 Htirrlsou wits preparing to close the Book and Gift shop after a busy day. The door opened ami an elderly wan wearing s|»ectucle> ■ and a white muffler entered hurriedly. Setting aside his gloves and cane, and hastily scanning the shelves, he said: “I have but a few moments to make a sulfgtlon; perhaps you could assist me. Something for an elderly lady." "Here are some delightful gift books," she remarked. The gentleman raised a pair of surprised eyes and wonderingly sur-

veyed the girl, rather than the books. Drawing a wallet from bis inner coat he replied.” •'My dear young lady, your ; excellent choice : Ims tempted me ! to te k e all' three." Handing Jane a card lie j con t 1 nued. r "please have p them sent over i to Miss Adelaide h

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Perkins, Burton street, number 78.” ! Thanking her he dashed out to : his cab and was gone. "Seventy-eight Burton street!” j gasped Jane, "and the delivery hoy ! gone for the night on bis last ! round!" Locking the store and with Miss i Adelaide Perkins’ gift in the hollow of her arm, the tired girl started off on her errand. Jane and her widowed mother had lived in Edgebrook on a small income. She attended Miss Edmonds' School for Girls as a day student and received a very thorough education. In the evenings Jnne worked In the town library. Her mother passed away and Jane had gone to the city. This was her first Christmas to .be aloue. At the Perkins address the door was opened by an elderly lady. "My goodness, child' A package for me! Do step in.” But before 1 she could close the door a boy , I called out’: "Telegram for Perkins.” “Yes, yes," she said, all liewll dered. "Mercy me, where are my ; glasses!” and she fumbled around ! in her pocket. i ‘•I ll sign for you, if I may,” said ; Jane. "Yes, please do—dear, dear, where ! arc my glasses! Oh, • here they 1 are.” and Miss Perkins’ fine pa tient hands trembled as she opened ■ the envelope. "It is from my nieces, the Bos- ! worth girls. They are di Ivjng down i from Hartland tomorrow afternoon : and will he here for tea with me : around five,” “Your nieces the Bosworth girls!” i ; exclaimed Jane; "not Emllie and ; i Susan' Why, they were my best • ! friends at Miss Edmonds’ school,” !

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i and thoughts of Edgebrook ' dashed through her mind. The , June commencement — Richar d Bosworth, the tall brother, up from the city for the festivities. "And don’t forget, 10 in orro w at live," called Miss Perkins as Jane was departing.

The next afternoon Jane helped i Miss Perkins put the finishing ! • touches to a table set in blue china | of wiilow pattern. There was the j yiund of a motor, then merry voices H iu the hall. Emllie, Susau. Richard, I: Uncle Carroll, the elderly gentleman 1 who had sent tin books, were j greeting Miss Perkins. “Why, Jane Harrison!” gaspet) • the Biisworth girls in one breath. i Then followed such excited ex- |; ' clumations; the bliss of renewed |i friendship, ’ With a rustle ot her silken skirts |i Miss Perkins led the way to the H dining room. Jane sat opposite | ■ Richard, she liked the strength iu 11 his broad shoulders, his well mode- i luted voice aud his clear honest ■ eyes. Richard was beaming across the I table at the young woman in the i blue frock; her quaint charm, rip- ' pling laughter, the glance of her ! brow n and the Utt o." her pret- i ty shoulders. As the happy gathering moved ■ into the sitting room Jatie felt the | warmth of a large hand gripping i her own sllia one. Looking up, she : smiled into Richard's firm and un- ! derstanding face. Lucie Carroll with au approving ! nod. stroked hit beard like a I prophet, and reflected upon the I words of the poet. Chituir strike th* eight But iherft wins tu« soul. ® Wutaru fie'wspaswr Union.

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Household Scrapbook* By Roberta Lee ♦ ♦ Silver Fish Silver fish feed on backs of pictures aud book bindings, but if the backs of me oil paintings and books are rubbed w ith oil of cedar occassionally, they will not attract t

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! Time is Short - I S —and with our large and complete stock of Christmas Merchandise, with sizes, colors and * patterns still complete you’ll have no trouble shopping here. I I* or the last few days of “quick shopping," use these suggestions to fill your needs: 5T- | Mg X-ACT-FIT Holeproof F SHIRTS HOSIERY | sl-50 a.d 1-95 Other Shirts, SI.OO. 35c and )0C I » £ REAL SILK HOSIERY— AA * Fancy patterns 3 pair <Dl»vv | SS T,K ’ 50c, 75c, SI.OO Jg GOOD SELECTION BOYS TIES I ® Silk and Wool PAJAMAS g SCARFS sl-50 I 75c!. sl-95 $1.95 and 2-95 1 ■ SPATS, All Colors ... $l,OOl S BELT SETS AND EA p o*l (|() 9 SUSPENDERS ’Jul and tpl«vv J FANCY TIE AND HANDKERCHIEF SI.OO i I —- Silk or Wool Lined or Unlined | ROBES GLOVES ! $5-9557-95 $1.00 t J3.0« I " | LEATHER JACKETS $4,05 $7.95 1 MENTON JACKETS QQ 75 Boys and Mens to jg With each Gift article you purchase at <" ir store w e will give a Christmas B.ox 1 | SHOP TONIGHT s ? Vance & Linn

insects. ' Children * Coats I of making butioud on the child s coat, set J her cord on in the form cl 'Jj The child can manage these easier than buttonholes. J The Frying Pan Any odor can he removed InJ the frying pan by pouring a |J vinegar in the pan immediatetej ter using it. and then heating il

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