Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publsihed Every Evenins Except Sunday by CIE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered al the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. I. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates Single copies I - 0 - One week, by carrier ~~ TO One year, by carrier 15.00 One month, by mail — -35 Three months, by mail——sl.oo Six mouths, by mail 1.75 One year, by mall 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere 13.50 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. Indianapolis hotels will prosper and lobbies will look like convention halls as candidates tor state offices begin opening political headquarters. Many felt foggy enough on New year's morning not to mind the dingy January weather, but with recovery most of us would appreciate a clearing shower or a little sunshine. Cook county, which includes Chicago, started the new year off witli 17 deaths from auto accidents the first two days of '36. That’s keeping up with the stork and along with the desire to make this year "better” than 1935. We don't see that its very important to have a mayor in Cincinnati since that river town is governed by a commission form of government. Someone is playing politics, although the style of Cincy rule is supposed to bar such maneuvers. The people know President Roosevelt is sincere in his endeavor to bring about better living conditions for everyone. They trust him and will demand his return to office for another four years so he can complete his great program and enable him to bring about the new order. Authorities have taken a sane and decent attitude relative to news coverage of the Har.ptman execution. Broadcasting of the morbid event will not be permitted, from within the prison walls, photographers and news reel men will not be allowed. Reporters will be limited to men. The old NRA organization is being closed in Washington and employes still on the force have been notified that their jobs will be vacated by April 1. About one thousand employes were let out January 1 and others have been transferred to different departments to complete their records by next April. The supreme court decision ended it all. Sometimes it’s a long road to justice, but eventually the hand of the law takes its toll. The arrest of "Terrible" Tommy Touhy, former boss of the old Chicago beer gang, brings the last of the hoodlums in court. Tonhy is suffering from an incurable desease and made no resistance when the officers ordered him to surrender. He was a pitiful picture, anoxample of what a lite of crime does to the hardest of criminals. The federal government intends to try hire immediately, hoping to obtain a conviction and have him in prison before death claims him. The primrose path may be rosy for a while, but R does have a nasty, abrupt end. THE OLD FIRE-PLACE There is much to be said, of course, for the modern conveniences with which our present-day

homes are equipped. Electric lights bathrooms, steum heat, electric refrigerators, telephones, radios, all contribute to our comfort, ease and enjoyment of life. They have come ’ to be regarded as necessities and l are to be found in even the most unpretentious of residences. But ( when the old-fashioned fire-place was eliminated something more 1 was abandoned than a mere architectural feature and the physical I use made of it, something which 1 cannot be replaced by any of the I mechanical devices adopted in its I I i J stead. 1 lit the old wintry days, when darkness fell, the fire-place with its blazing, crackling logs was the central feature of the home. In its cheery glow the whole family gathered. Within the radius of its brightness and warmth were combined the library, the living room and the nursery. There father read his paper, mother did her sewing, the children studied their lessons, friends were entertained. There was something homey about it. something that created an . atmosphere of happy domesticity. It seemed to strengthen and sweeten the family ties of affection and loyalty. When alone, one sat in the big chair drawn close to the chimney corner, a pipe between the teeth and a good book in hand, there came a sense of peace and well being to which the old fire-place made its own contribution. And when the book was laid aside one could gaze into the leaping flames, or into the glowing embers, and see again friendly faces dearly remembered. Perhaps one specially beloved looked out with tender smile. Dreams came readily | there to wide-awake eyes. Visions evoked themselves. Problems seemed easier to solve. Thoughts were not only clearer, they were cleaner. The wholesome spirit of the hearthstone insured this. But there is no romance in a radiator. It does not invite the family circle. No domestic spirit hovers over it. There is nothing about it to stir one's-fancies, or to conjure up pleasant memories, otto prompt a real communion with one's inmost soul. It is wholly utilitarian and uninspiring. No sentiment ever attaches to it. Mayhap most of us would be unwilling to forego the convenience of the modern heating equipment to which we have become accustomed. But those who recall the old fire-place will realize that in its passing something went with it which is a distinct loss to home life at its best; something we would gladly reclaim, if we only I could.—Elks Magazine. o ♦ ♦ Answers To Test Questions , Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦— < 1 1918. 2. British educationalist. 3. Greenwich Observatory, 4. Jerboa. 5. A holy day in the Roman Catholic Church, falling on Nov, 2. t>. Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky, : A Russian composer. 7. Pacific Ocean. 8. Aberdeen, Scotland. 9. Thomas Jefferson. 10. Italy. o—— t ~TWENTY~YEARS _ * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File i 4 Jan. 4— I’l'csideiit Wilson issues stiiteinent that situation between Austria and' th~ United States is extremely grave. Decatur had 21 fires during la--15 and the loss was only $4,211. t.ouuty will build three bridges' this year, the William Burk in Wabash, Blue Crees and the Geo. Gates n Wonroe. Sugar company asks Fort Wayne to assisting in clearing the river of ice, to relieve their situation here. 3oii families forced out of their' homes by the flood in Peru. Eli Pelersou becomes a special agent for the Wabash railroad with headquarters in Detroit. Fire destroys barn at the Lafouutainc handle plant. Loss is $4,(WO. Five horses and three mules die in the blaze.

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DISPELLING THE FOG By Charles Michelson Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee

Spokesmen tor the pure and austere Republican party are very much shocked that the Democrats are raising a campaign fund the medium of Jackson Day dinners all over the country. Chairman Henry FleUmer and the American Lilierty League (now more generally qualified as the American Lobbyist League) are horrified at what they proclaim is an effort to compel Democratic office holders to contribute to the party s expenses. They really divide their attack into two not wholly reconcilable branches. On one nauu, tue wcmvcrats are being assailed for ostentation and bad taste in giving a SSO-a-plate banquet, when millions of people are still on relief. Tnat sounds pretty scandalous, when the enlightening circumstance is, omitted that $45 of the price or > every ticket is to go to paying off >] the deficit which the Democratic national committee inherited from, a previous regime. The second attack, taking cognizance of this feature, is presented as an indirect method of blackjackking govern- 1 ment workers into paying a party ' assessment. There are 110,000 government employees in the city of Washington alone. The capacity of the dining hall is limited to 1,500 guests. I believe that reservations for every seat have already been made and that it has become i necessary to take over additional space in the corridors and adjoining dining rooms of the hotel to accommodate the overflow, tt will' be necessary under this arrangement to remove a lot of the tables I and bring the overflow guests in ‘ to listen to President Roosevelt’s Jackson Day address. Incidentally a cursory glance at the invitation lists shows rows and rows of names that have no relation to the government. 4 Jackson Day dinner is a classical observance of a great Democratic anniversary, and has peen I for a hundred years. A good many people see quite a parallel between the Democratic President pf today ' and the Democratic President of i 1829-37. Similarity of the attacks) on these two Presidents is jmpressive. The charges of radicalism and of being an enemy to business—so reminiscent of the Jackson period —naturally have excited a great deal of curiosity as to what President Roosevelt would have to say on this historic occasion. There are to be something like 2,000 dinners in various parts of the cchhtry. Not all of them, of course, on I the scale of the Washington affair, 1 < but from all of them a proportion]; of the receipts is to come to tile ] Democratic national committee to be used in paying off its debt, in-i eluding what it still owes iu one ! of the high sponsors of the American Liberty League. Old Guard Method is Vastly Different This method of raising money 1

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naturally must seem abhorrent to the present minority party. It never had to resort to such expedients to get all the money it required. There was, for example, that memorable campaign fund back in the days of the oil scandal. The SIOO,OOO in the little black bag that Mr.Doheny sent to Secretary Fall could hardly be considered a campaign coi/ribution, but there was t iotoduaneh zJjjJ m y there was the donation by Sinclair testified to by one of Theodore Roosevelt's sons at the investigation headed by the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. The smell of that was so bad that Senator Boran announced if the Republican national committee did not return that tainted money he would ask for contributions of all honest Republicans and go on the lecture platform and donate the proceeds of his letcuree to absolveing his party from tne ooilquy ot such finances. The Republican national commimttee did not pay back the Sinclair contribution and Senator Borah did not go on the lecature platform but, if my memory is correct, Senator Borah returned several thousand dollars to the honest Republicans who had taken his announcent seriously. To a parly accustomed to such contributions as these, tne Democratic move must be considered unprofessional at least. Compare it to the dignified big blocks of money that were chipped in in every election by the chiefs of industry who got it back many times over in tariff favors. The RepubI Beans have discharged their own debt from pretty-Tnuch the same sources and expect to raise some mmillions more for campaign purposes this year, all out of the same pot. It must 'seem the height of wickedness for the Democrats to ask the Jackson Day dinner guests to help pay campaign expenses. Needless to say, had the Roosei vett administration been willing to go into the business of selling privileges, they would have had ] more money than they could use. Moreover, the records of receipts I by the Republican National committees of the past would tell a I grand story of the enthusiasm with which their office-holders came across according to the amouht ot the salary they received, and did not ev?n get a dinner tor it. You will not find anywhere iu our political history where a Re, publican admiinißtration, after nearly three years jn office, had an organization deficit. That wasn't the way they worked from the days of the saintly Marx Hanna | and the idealistic Mutt Quay down) to and including the period of' Daugherty and Walter Brown and' Dr. Work, Will Hays, and Everett Sanders. Arrangements That Precluded Deficits Thusu old administrations had i perfectly definite arrangements by! which so much money was sub-!

scribed in exchange for favors either given or to come. To be sure, there w’SB an occasional case , of somebody going to jail because i campaign contributions stuck to ' his fingers, but those were only sporadic incidents and not, ot course, a patch in turpitude on the wickedness ot the Democrats this year in throwing a fifty dollar dinner and advising everybody who paid for his seat that the bulk of what he paid would go to clearing up the party’s debt. vnairman Fletcher is impressed by the breach of ethics involved in this method ot raising campaign funds. The Liberty League presumably speaking for its altruistic multi-millionaire sponsors—gravely talks of a violation of the intent of the Corrupt Practices Act. Talking of the Corrupt Practices Act, a part of it concerns the tiling With the Clerk of the House of Representatives of reports of receipts and expenditures by every political organization. Hundreds of thousands of pieces of literature dealing with the iniquity of the policies of the Roosevelt administration have been issued by Mr. Shouse's organization. These range from grave decisions for the guidance of the Supreme Court by his Committee of 57 varieties ot lawyers, most, if not all. of whom are on the payrolls of the holding and other corporations that object to recent legislation, down to brochures on such subjects as the potato control law. The' potato control law. incidentally, of course, was not an administration measure. In fact, the Department of Agriculture vigorously opposed it, but the antiadministration organizations always include it in their indictment of the Roosevelt policies. The Lobbyist League furthermore maintains huge headquarters and pays some important salaries ranging downward from Mr. Shouse s fifty or sixty thousand dollars a year of wages and expenses. It has just filed its rport with the Clerk of the Rouse of Representatives since the one at the beginning of Rs activities, before it really got to spending. But then, of course, this league is not a political organization. It is merely a patriotic philosophical educational organization that is doing nothing but politics. Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee ♦— < Button* If necessary to sew a large button on a heavy garment, such as an overcoat use a smul! button on the underside of the cloth. This will hold the large button securely, and prevent it from tearing the materialFolding the Tablecloth When ironing the tablecloth, fold it lengthwise und in thirds, instead of halves. This will give a nice, smooth section in the center when the doth is used again. Dried Fruit An over-supply of dried fruit cau be kept in perfect condition by heating it and then sealing In fruit jars.

COURTHOUSE ; Guardianship Ca»«* A showing was fil.d by the - dian, E. E Zimmerman, for Wt iam D. Zimmerman. An «’*>*«• for letters of adminis ration w s filed by William J. was filed iu the sum of » 2 uOT ' J bond was approved. Letter* »> ordered, reported and confit, < Inventory number one was fße examined and approved. A pet ; tion was filed by the guardian fol authority to sell corn at marset price. It was submitted and »ustamed. , . An application for letters of administrativu was filed by Letta Litterer for Theodore D. Eston Fraker. A request by Theodore 1. Eston Fraker for the appointment of Letta Litterer was filed. The consent of Ferd Litterer, husband of Letta Litterer, was filed. Bond was filed in the sum of $W>. The letters were ordered reported and confirmed. A petition to sell ,|ll? interest of the ward in real estate was tiled. Bond was filed in the sum of SIOO. It was examined and approved. James hioerson and A. R. Ashbaucher were appointed appraisers The appraisement was filed. The real estate was ordered sold. The report of the sale was filed. The real estate was ordered sold. The report of the sale was filed, examined, and approved. The deed was ordered, reported, examwen and approved. The resignation of Joseph Leng erlch as guardian of Frederick Lengerich Tonnellier was filed. An application and bond of Ed. N. Tonnellier for appointment as guar dian was filed. The bon was approved. The letters were ordered, reported and confirmed. Joseph Lengerich was ordered and directed to pay Ed Tonnellier the sum on hand. The payment of the sum on hand to Ed Tonnellier was reported. Joseph Lengerich, guardian was discharged from further liability in the case. Inventory number one was filed by Philip Meihis, guardian of Elizabeth Meicbls and Anna Luicle Spahr. A petition for authority to sell real estate was filed. The appraiser was appointed. The apprais al and bond for sale of real estate was filed. The bond was examined and approved. The real estate was ordered sold at public sale at not less than two-thirds of the appraisementa for cash with 10 days notice by publication. Estate Case The will of William C. Reynolds

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waß offered for probate. Evidence was heard The wiil was PWbeted and ordered plated on record. The will ordered all just debts and .un-| eral expenses paid out of the assets of the estate. The rest of the property was ordered divid.d share and share alike among Alice French, a sister, John Reynolds and Delnta Reynolds, brothers, and Joel Reynolds, a cousin. Case Dismissed The suit to set aside the conveyance of real estate brought by Ezra E. Zimmerman against Charles F. Zimmerman und Grace Zimmerman was dismissed. Estate Cases The report of distribution was tiled in the estate of Emma Neuenschwandcr. It ins examined and approved. The administrator was discharged. The report of the sale of real estate was filed in the estate of Aaron Lautzenheiser. It was examined and approved. The deed was ordered. The proof of the publication of notice was filed in the estate of George Geels. The proof of publication and posting of notice of final settlement was filed. The final report was submitted, examined and approved. The estate was closed and the administrator discharged. The court found the net value of the estate to be $12,498.24 and tax due as follows: Mary Adelaid Geels, $2.57; Mary Gertrude Bute, none, John Henry Geels, $20.57 and John Francis Geels, $17.57. The inheritance tax appraiser was allowed $10.56. which was ordered taxed as costs. The proof of publication of notice of appointment was filed in the estate of James A. Barkley. The proof of publication and posting of notice M tiital settlement was filed. The final report was

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