Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 15 February 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publslhed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. /. H. Holler President A. R Holthouso, Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates Single copiesl One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier—ss.oo One month, by mall -36 Three months, by mail.—— SI.OO Six months, by mail — 1.75 One year, by mail...——— 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver Representative BCHEERER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Scatter crumbs or grain to the birds. Pshaw! The old weather man wouldn't even play Valentine. Appreciation o£ the past and faith in the future will not dampen j the ardor of anyone. Friends of County Agent Lawrence Archbold are happy over the recognition given him by the Northeastern Indiana county ag ent's association. Mr. Archbold was elected president of the group and his Adams county friends know the organization has obtained an able and efficient leader. Merchant and clerk worked to get the ice off the sidewalks in the business districts and the public appreciates it. With the snow removed from the street along the curl>, ample parking space is provided shoppers and a welcome to all is extended. Make this town your shopping center. The icy streets may be a temptation to the boys to hook sleds on automobTes or make slides in the line of traffic. However, it's not a sate sport. Fatal accidents or broken legs and arms can result from such encounters and in the interest of safety, the police have issued warnings to the boys not to engage in this kind of play. The new police car will improve the efficiency of the department, will make possible a patroling of the lying districts and serve a public need. The officers are desirous of rendering quick and accomodating service and will cooperate in every way in the economical and safe handling of the car. A police department without an automobile is like a fire department without hose. True Fristoe. well known musician and booster for Decatur wherever he goes, sends his mother a clipping from a New Bedford. Mass., newspaper relative to Decatur's Centennial celebration. He was thrilled to read about his home so many miles away and no doubt will be one of the first boys to start hiking this way in order to be here for the big celebration next August. Many communities are now wor-rli-d about the possibility of severe floods and where possible arc taking steps to prevent excessive damage. Over at Bluffton the Municipal plant is located along th< bank of the Wabash river and high water means trouble The rush of water may not be as heavy as feared, because sewers and drains are frozen to some extent and the' water will be held hack, it s just one thing after another, but eventually we'll get use Io it. The Central Sugar company is doubling the size ol its fertilizer plant and expects to have the enlarged factory ruuuiug by March 1. The capacity of the plant will

be increased several fold and farmers in the Decatur territory will be supplied with the product which aids so materially in the growing of sugar beets, corn and other ’ crops. The building of the addition t to the fertilizer pleat follows closely on the heels of the recent improvement to the Central Soya factory and forms another unit in the ■ rapid development of this splendid and progressive industry, i In due time, the Home Owners ' Loan Corporation will be making * money for the government. Its int- , erest earnings already are nearly ' enough to pay all over head costs of administration. Throughout the nation home mortgages refinanced by this home-saving agency number 979,177 and the volume of money is $2,962,810,947 invested in the future of American homes. In Ind iana the number of loans is 46.627 and the aggregate sum loaned to distressed home owners is $106,836,524. These home owners are demonstrating their application demonstrating their appreciation for the faith their government placed in them when no others : would lend them money by now being prompt with their repayments to the government. I BRITISH NEW DEAL Many critical persons in this country like to point to Britain"as a nation which is coming out of the depression without resorting to "artificial" measures. Last week , the House of Commons put some i flaws into this argument. I It passed the second reading of a bill to eliminate superfluous cot- : ton spindles in Great Britain. According to estimates, about 10,000,000 spindles will be stopped. In 1 1935 there were 43.000.000 spindles in Lancashire competing for busi- '■ ness that could keep only 32.000.- ' 000 in operation profitably. The ' acts of Parliament cannot be up- ' set by any court. Parliament a- ’ lone can repeal the laws it creates. 1 The House of Commons also moved last week to extend social security legislation for the benefit of agricultural laborers in Bri1 tain. Industrial laborers have enjoyed unemployment insurance for a generation. Britain has long gone into the supervision of industry. Radio is conducted by the nationally owned British Broadcasting Corporation. The railways are under strict national suitervision. Shipping has been heavily subsidized. The coal mines are worked under statues guaranteeing a minimum wage and regulation of output. Slum clearance and town planning are rapidly proceeding under State supervision. A processing tax is levied on millers and distributed among farmers who grow wheat.—The New York Times. o * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File j • « Feb. 15 —(UP| — Newspapers claim that W. J. Bryan will probably oppose President Wilson in the June convention of Democrats. George Squires is called to Frankfort by the death of his father, Dr. E. A- Squires, 68. Grant Owens buys a Buick car through the Lee Hardware Co. Work tbegins on -the new creamery building near the Cloverleaf Railway. Leo Lengerich and Mkss Mart Heiman are married at St. Marys church. A. D. Suttles is ill with the grippe0 ■ A « Household Scrapbook , By Roberta Lee * White Furs White furs will not turn yellow If ; they are kept in blue tissue paipcr when not being used. Table Linen When giving the worn tablecloths >' and napkins their final rinse, add a I little starch. This will make them last much longer, and also improve the appearance. The Vinegar Cruet The vinegar cruet can be easily , cicani d by filling it with warm water, to which a few drops of household ammonia have been add- ■ ed. Let it stand for an hour, then , riu.s. thoroughly with warm watw. — o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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

A news dispatch from Chicago the other day recounted that Jouett Shouse had announced that Alfred E. Smith would lead two million voters out of the Democratic Party next November. Os course, political propaganda peddlers, like Mr. Shouse and myself, are expxected to make extravagant claims of defection on the other side, etc., but it does not sound like an effective manifestation of the art of press agency to promulgate self-destroying no nsense. Never in the political history of this country has an individual been able to deliver any considerable number of votes from one party to the other. Leaders have retained their personal following for themselves at times as did the elder La Follette, for example, but does anybody suppose that the Great Republican Progressive had he lived, could have turned Wisconsin over to Alfred E Smith in 1928? Voters change their political allegiance for many reasons, but they do not change because somebody else deserts to the other side. Actually, voters refuse to get excited over any individual's particular disappointment or grievance. It always has been so, and just as invariably does the grieved one regard the manifestation as evidence of the public's ingratitude. Perhaps if Governor Smith were leading his own revolt he might muster a respectable group, but those who might follow the brown derby will not march under the banner of the duPout Liberty League. Their admiration for the NewYorker was born of their faith in his championship of their cause against the very same interests that he now finds so admirable. In any event, the one-time HappyWarrior has proclaimed that he is not and will not be a candidate. So speculation on how many will trail after him under other conditions is purely academic. It is curious to note the reaction to Senator Joe Robinson's pulling the record on Alfred E. Smith uud bringing back to memory the latter’s passionate resentment of the charge that he was seeking to bring on a clash of classes—that he was Socialistic, Communistic, and bent on the destruction of business —when he was running against Mr. Hoover and all that Mr. Hoover represented Count of the pages of political history the Aransas Senator, who was Governor Smith's running mate in the bitter campaign of 1928. drew excerpt after excerpt showing the Democratic presidentional candidate of that day declaring for and promising practically everything for which he arraigned President Roosevelt at Xie recent du Pont Billion DdTiar Dinner. There was no escape from the logic nid implication of the Smith political somersault, so the best

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that could be offered in retort and reprisal was that Senator Robinson was not the author of his own speech. Why it should be deemed difficult for a man who has been a [ public speaker tor thirty or forty - years—a member of the House, a governor, his party leader in the Senate both in minority and majority times, to voice his own sentiments. is not clear. Why he should have to get somebody to produce a speech tor him paseeth understanding. As Democratic leader in the Senate, Robinson has to be on his toes all the time —announcing policies, defending the Democratic position, answering assaults from the Republican side. In short, he has to be able to make a speech and an effective speech, a hundred times in a session and make it light off the bat, for. in the fury of Senate debate, tiiere is no lime even if there were desire to summon a ghostwriter. Yet the charge is as familiar as it is incongruous. I remember a few years back when Jouett Shouse was barnstorming from one end of the country to the other portraying the shortcomings of Mr. Hoover aud fiercely demanding justice for the common man against the raids and forays of the privileged interests. That was when he was upholding the banner of Democracy against the Black Flag of larriff lobbyists and monopolists as vigorously as Alfred E. Smith had done a short time before At that time, Mr. Shouses, chairman of a non-existent executive committee of the DbmOcratie National Committee, was under tire liy all the Hoover defendersFrank Kent. Mark Sullivan. David LawrehC'c. and a host of others shrilling at him that John liaskob was financing a < ampa ig n to “Smear Hoover". Now. of course, all these eminent publicists ait'

A TTENDA NCE REPOR T OF COUNTY SCHOOLS (Tifton E. Striker, county school superintendent, announced today the percentage of attendance at the various townsnip schools lor the first semester. The schools in Preble township led the schools in the percentage of attendance in the semester average with Hartford having the highest percentage in any one month with a percentage of 98.80. The percentage of attendance for each of the tour months and the semester averages are: Sept. Oct. Nov. Dee. Seuicst. Average Preble 98.29 98 10 98.18 97.72 98.07 Monroe 97.70 97.58 98 04 97.64 97.74 St. Marys 98.28 97.23 98.19 97.01 97.67 Washihgloti 98.29 97.50 98 07 95.88 97 43 Frcncli . 97.34 97.59 97.21 96.87 97.25 Blue Creek 96.35 97.43 97.45 97.55 97.19 Kirkland 97.17 90.39 " 97.88 97.28 97.1 •» Union «... 96.58 97.51 97.63 96.09 96.95 Root 96.40 95.10 95.83 97.28 96.15 Jefferson 96.84 9,7.75 90.10 96.4 i 96.04 Hartford 98.80 96.44 92.92 95.19 95.83 Wabash 97.52 95.15 95.98 93.42 95.51

chanting the excellences of the “Liberty League" and are vibrant in their admiration of Mr. Shouse's dul’outificial exposition of the high purposes of his outfit. The most frequent charge in that other time was that 1 wrote Mr. Shouse's speeches. There was just as much truth to the accusation then as there is to the story about Senator Robinson's reply to Governor Smith now. ( Here was Mr. Shouse, perhaps the readiest public speaker of his time, so well-equipped that he usually spoke without notes, anil many of his speeches were made a nations length away from Democratic headquarters. Now, why on earth would he have required a ghostwriter to frame his vehement eloquence? During the same period nearly every conspicuous Democrat in and out ot Congress was making himself heard through the newspapers oi over the radio; it did not make any difference if it was Seiiutor Thomas J. Walsh, with his deep philosophy of constitutional law. or Senator Pat Harrison, with his inimitable humor and sarcasm, or Senator Key Pittman revealing what he had learned in a life-time study of the silver question, or Cordell Hull with all ills tariff law— the utterances were all attributed to the publicity department of the Democratic National Committee. That department would have had to be an encyclopedia incarnate. as well as being qualified to act as construction foreman on the Tower of Babel if it did half the things well, it would have had to I*' competent to fill all the faulty chairs of all the colleges. It is the job of the publicity department to gather all the information possible to have a record of what pretty much everybody of importance has said during the permutations and combinations of enrretit politics. In this way, it is a reservoir of data on which speakers frequently draw, but it does not supply all the wit and wisdom and eloquence that crops out dur ing an election struggle. The other theory is a compll-

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