Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUB DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Poet □dice aa Second Class Matter. I. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec y & Bus. Mgr. Pick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single copies — I 03 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail .36 Three months, by mall 1.00 Six mouths, 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 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. Bond buyers will wear buttons. Boost— buy Centenjnißl GoodWill bonds. You'll make shopping easier and less hazardous for all if you don't double park in the bsiness district. Drive around the corner and park your car. With spring shopping days at hand, police officers ask the cooperation of auto drivers in not double parking in the business district. It slows down traffic and creates a hazard which might result in serious accident to others. Time to be thinking of the flow er beds. Let's have tfle town look like a beautiful garden throughout the summer. Flowers will transform bleak corners to places of beauty and provide so much enjoyment to everyone at so little cost. Well, Governor Talmadge got 35 votes in 12 precincts in a Georgia presidential preference primary. There should not be any mistake what the people of his state think of him. President Roosevelt received 1387 votes from the same precincts. The spectacular pageant, out door acts, livestock show and outer principle features of the great Centennial celebration will be free to all. Money raised through the sale of Good-Will bonds will provide the most enjoyable program ever staged for public benefit. Spice and ginger might be added to the Illinois political campaign this year, Ruth McNamara, announcing that she will oppose Senator Lewis for re-nomination. The astute political leader and

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veteran of the senate on being informed that a ludy would oppose him, c o m m r u ted that ho "was charmed." The highest note in oratorical ability should be reached during the campaign. The special session of the legislature has about completed the work it was called to perform and adjournment will probably be made early next week. Although sentiment existed for other matters to be taken up, the state as a whole does not favor a prolonged session. It was necessary to convene the assembly to get the social security and public welfare legisla tion out of the way, so that Hoosiers could participate in the federal benefits. The regular session is less than 10 mouths away and then there will be time to pass new laws aud amend those which the majority want changed. SUCCESS DEPENDS ON BOND SALE:— With the blowing of fire aud factory whistles, the ringing of church bells and shrieking of sirens at nine o'clock Monday morning. the campaign will be launched tor the sale of Centennial Goodwill bonds. No movement, since the days of 1918 aud 1919 when the Liberty and Victory loan drives were staged. has been better organized or more generally supported than the present community effort to sell bonds to underwrite the cost of staging the Centennial program. Everybody— Boy and Girl scouts, high school students, employes, merchants, professional men, manufacturers—every type of citizen —has joined in the movement to make the Centennial a success aud the sale of bonds will determine to a great extent the magnitude of the program to be given next August. Good-Will bonds are just that. They are payable in good-will only | and in Decatur's case that amounts to more than mere dollar and cent value. The whole Centennial is a sentimental expression of the people . i for their Home Town, a demon- . stration of civic pride and appreciation. The enthusiasm so far given practically assures that every step will be met and all hurdles made. Carl Pumphrey, general Centennial chairman. Herman Ehinger, chairman of the finance committee and members of the various other groups, men and women aiike. are confident that the sale of Good-Will bonds will be overscribed and that a program of great inspiration and community good will be the outcome the week o f August 2. Although coined years ago, the slogan still holds good— "Decatur Can and Will." — o I I -* Answers To Test Questions ; Below are the answers to the ’ Test Questions printed ■ | on Page Two j 1. The House of Representatives. I 2. Massenet. 3- Montana. i. The science ot education. 5. In the eastern part of Smith county. Kansas. 6. The Pedee River. 7. California. 8. French dramatist. 9. Four white stars on a blue field. 10. Lepidoptera. a—. Modern Etiquette 5 By ROBERTA LEE ♦ — 4 Q. Should the hostess always servo tea on her at-home day, or when a chance caller drops in? A. Tea should be served on the at-home day, but it is not necessary to serve tea to a chance caller. Q. Are the words used in acknowledging an invitation of utmost importance? A. The words should of course ■ be chosen carefully, but the sincerity and cordiality are of more importance than the words. Q. What is the appropriate hour for giving a musicale? A. From four to six in the afterI noon, or in the evening. I o I— Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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

Ex-President Herbert Hoover may not loom very large as a potential candidate at the Republican convention in Cleveland, but he is having some effect on the ! campaign notwithstanding. The duPont League which is paying the bills and, by right of purchase, is running the G. O. P. show, voices the Hoover policies, ' preaches the Hoover philosophy and dreams his dreams of return to the old conditions. They vision the reerudesence of the glamorous time when the munitions dynasty and its affiliates corralled about all the money here was and left the rest of the country broke. They haven’t named their candidate—yet. for obvious reasons, of which Senator Borah and his group is only one. But their frame of mind is that of Shakespeare's Juliet when she exclaimed "Wherefore art thou. Romeo?” Even Liberty League propagandist. on or off the payroll, is sounding off on the same note. It was Mr. Hoover who first announced last December that he had the depression licked in June of 1932. That was nearly four years after the event. At the same time he explained that it was only the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt that had interfered with his keeping the panic under control. The other day Mr. Frank Kent, that steadfast defender of things as they were, took a column of type to elucidate the theory that the New Deal had nothing to "do with our national economic recovery. “It is not true." wrote Mr. Kent, "that the bottom of the depression was marked by the dosing of the banks. On the contrary, there is general agreement that the lowpoint was reached in June, 1932, and all over the world recovery began about that time.” Curiously enough, you cannot find anything in Mr. Kent's writings “about that time” that suggested the depression had run its course. Indeed, the general agreement as to the beginning of recovery seemed to be limited to Mr Hoover himself, who kept advising us that prosperity was just around the corner—a statement which Mr. Jouette Shouse, now of the Liberty League, had a great deal of fun with "about that time." "The bank collapse,” continued lH.r. Kent, "was an incident, one it h.vs been charged that might have ben avoided had there been will ingi<ss on the part of Mr. Roose velt to cooperate to that end with his p.'cdceessor.” The'date announced as marking the bottom of the depression was before .Franklin Roosevelt had even beejt nominated for the Presi deucy. Jn fact, at that time Mr. Shouse and his associates were reasonably sure that the Governor of New York had been stopped and would not achieve the uoraina tion. It was nearly five mouths lat er before Mr. Roosevelt was elect ed During that period, if we can

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accept his speeches- as faithfully representing his thought. President Hoover believed that he and not the Democratic nominee would :by 32nd President of the United iStates. So that the Roosevelt shadow could hardly be accused of blighting the return of prosperity. It was ‘some time after that when Presi- . dent Hoover suggested that he and j the President-elect should cooperate. There is a general impression I that at the first conference between the outgoing and in incoming President the chief topic concerned the international war debts. I But whatever did figure in that conservation, Franklin Roosevelt could have had no m re authority than any other unofficial Ameri lean citizen, j Mr. Hoover had not advocated. ’ nor did he ever suggest, that he : would carry out the Roosevelt policies. Mr. Hoover had still four months to go as President, before the advent of his successor in the White House. If he made any est ort tc- stay the tumbling of the ; banks, which was proceeding at ■ i such a terrific pace, the country never heard of it. To go back a little, we might record that it was when the Democratic convention in Chicago was 1 assembling, aud before the nominaI tion was made, that the big run ;on the Chicago banks was under I way and that the Hoover admin- | istration had to rush $90,000,000 ' from the RFC to Charlie Dawes bank to head off the closing of that great financial structure. Incidentally, the government has not yet . succeeded in recovering all of That $90,000,000. Os course, we cannot expect a< -. ' curacy in the assaults on the i , Roosevelt administration by the Liberty League, whether these as- ■ saults are issued under the name ‘ : of the Republican National Com ■ • mittee or any of the other annex ■ es to the duPontt organization. i For example, just the ofhor day - there was a loud GOP outcry has- ■ ed on the hypothesis that the Pres-; i ident had only been able to spend I -a third of the Congressional relief appropriation by the first of r this year and that therefore then I was something over 53,MH),<)00.000 - which had to be spent by next June. They were only a year out I in their statement, for the act iti self set June 30 1937, as the clos ■ j ing date during which the fund I would be available. The inference ■lot the Republican National ComII mittee’s statement was that the whole appropriation was to be ; poured out in time to affect the i political campaign. Furthermore, the statement was • made that the President's report lof expenditure mad. and obligations incurred, under the. relief act f i had been suppressed. Actually the I report was sent up to Congress ac- - cording to the usual routine and had been studied in detail by a •number of news correspondents. -I It is rather a messy job keeping i; track of the spokesmen for the

Republican organization, each of whom cheerfully denies responsf-' bility tor the utterances of all the | others, though they all join in circulating them. Perhaps one reason for the prevalence of this sort of campaign literature and eloquence is that the opposition party has | not yet the slightest idea where it | means to go when it comes down i to the actual discussion of the issuies of the campaign. They do: not know yet whether their platform will be reactionary or radical. or a mixture of both. They haven't the remotest idea whethet! their candidate will look backwards like Hoover or into the infinity of liberalism like Borah. Theoretically at least the platform

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must fit the candidate. As no P° l! ' tlcal tailor has yet been able to make a suit to measure for an abstraction. th? tom tom heater of the opposition party have only a choice between generalities and such inventions as they can think up from time to time. TOWNSEND FOR PRESENT FORM Candidate For Governor! Would Continue Local Government ' Jndianapolfa March 14 — Lieuteu-| ant Governor M Clifford Townsend : Democratic candidate for governor is in favor of continuing the present form of local government it became known today. "Any interested citizen lias a right to know the attitude of any person aspiring for so high an office as governor concerning his attitude relative to such a fundamental subject as local government”, said Mr. Townsend. "1 served as county superintendent of schools for fourteen and onehalf years, ten years in Blackford county and four and one-half yeans in Grant county and of course, in that work, was very clceely assocfated with township and county officials Recently there has been a . great deal of talk about wastes in I government and more especially wastes in local government- It has been my opinion that there has been a great deal of waste in all units of government in trme cases but that has been mostly due to the individuals who administer the government. This has, ho doubt. | happeiied as much in state and fed- ; era! government as in local govern-; I ment. “I doubt very much whether we | have any uint of government today ' that is more efficient and more eco-' nautical than the county and town- ' '.ship. The county and township of-| ficials work in close contact With ! ■ people they serve and the people in- ' idividually and through their organi , i zations are able to exercise a closer scrutiny on them than are the far! away units. Therefore. 1 am opposed -. to the discontinuance of any local unit of government without the I I consent of those affected." O 11 , * TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY -' i From the Daily Democrat File . ,■ g—— 11 March 14—1.5VU American sol- - idlers march into old Mexico. Petition signed by 342 freehold- - ers of Washington township, for 1 construction of The Elizabeth Eit-

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ing road. Average appraisement on live | stock in Adams county is fiexd at: ' horses $94.00, cattle $34.00. hogs $6.57, sheep $5 51. average for j automobiles $252. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Smith leave for Florida. Senator Benjamin E. Shively di es in Washington after a long illness. This will make it necessary to elect two senators in Indiana i this year. I Father seimetz delivers his first 1 Lenten sermon, for the season. 1 I ■■■ - - —— ♦ Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee : « « Parsley When preparing parsley for gar-, nishing, chop it very fine, place in a cloth, squeeze the cloth tightly, hold under the cold water faucet j for a half miute. squeeze again un;til al! the water is out, and see I how nice is the result. Moths Clothes, blankets, and such articles. if wrapped securely in newspapers. without leaving open places, will not be infested by moTns. Paint Brushes A pain brush can be cleaned by

i washing it thoroughly | water and soft soap. Mi Boys' Dreads Come t- ■ have de. ; . ' date- d i: ir.- ■ : H| th: . Jand from s< Lost Whistle Fount! ; Montreal IP) - U: j 1 4 Plniii . j « ' - hnn lodged m his chest. M| '■ i | Chops Wood at 1»5 M , j Leipzig Tae [ ' i olar button .s . foi -n. - f--i.:-- :ti > an.l Jo..- ■ n the ne< l>-:: exhibit at tn- ipziz fair. M| Shops Wood at 105 - Coldwate’ Me . - . | andi-r Maye - long-vity to hard Wark HtM H chops wood <-' ■ ry day. M