Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, lud., Post Office as Second Clues Matter. I. H. Heller .. President A. R. Holthouse, See’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice President Subscription Rates dingle copies — I -02 One week, by carrier...... .10 Ono year, by carrier ™_™ 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail — 1.00 Bix months, by mail - 1.75 One year, by mai1...... 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 SCHERRER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Get your Easter shopping done. King Edward VIII might become so Democratic he will many a commoner. It must be leap year, or is it just old fashioned spring. A Chicago man and woman met. said "hello," kissed each other and were married. all in two minutes tune. It all depends how good looking that Portland, Oregon woman is. in estimating her chances of being elected mayor. A kiss for a vote, might drive a lot of guys to the other side. Come up town Saturday night. The stores will be open, your friends will be here and after the shopping tour, enjoy a visit with those whom you haven't seen for a week or two. Fort Wayne will probably find that it is easier to pass a curfew ordinance, than to enforce it. Modern youth, to our way of thinking, has to a large extent outgrown the eight o'clock bell. A squadron of police would be kept busy and the court would have to have the wisdom of a Solomon in deciding all the cases. Don't park your cur all day in the business district. Between Mon roe and Madison streets, about 40 c ars call be parked and when these spaces are taken by all day park ers, it adds to the inconvenience of others and causes unnecessary congestion on busy days. View the matter from the other person's side and give him a chance. It looks foolish to spend the money necessary to hold the Germany election Sunday. Press reports state that Hitler's candidates will be elected by a great majority and every induration is that less than five per cent ot the total vote will be cast against the dictator. The voters don't have much choice in the matter, no effective opposition being prevalent in the election. Present property values and demand for rentable houses would not be injured, if new houses constructed in Decatur. Have you tried renting an apartment or modem house lately? Chances are you bad a hard job and took what you could get. Decatur is growing, employment is increasing and more families want to move here. The only way to help the growth of the city is to build more houses. Several of the head men tn the Doc Townsend 5200-a month old age pension organization knocked down commissions as high as $2,100 a month. That is not surprising, when considered that the organization boasted of eight million members. Al a dollar a head, someone got in on the money The senate. committee is continuing its investigation and before you know it,

I the Townsend plan will go on the rocks. Will Smith, collector of Internal Revenue in Indiana, releases some interesting figures from his office, which dearly indicate better bust ness conditions hi 1935. On 1934. a total of 74.V00 returns were filed, compared with M.OOO up to March 15 and it is expected the number will reach IUO.OOO when those who report, on a fiscal year basis file. With individuals, returns need not be made unless the person has a net income and the increased number is proof that, earnings went up last year. The state and federal government might have saved all the money spent to prosecute and convict Hauptman and turned it over to Governor Hoffman, who seems to dispute all former evidence in the case. The New Jersey executive is conducting his own investigation and his latest opinion is that the lumber used ill making the ladder which the kidnaper climbed to the Lindberg baby s room did not come from Haupt man's attic. It's unusual for a government to be both the prosecution and judge in a case aud it appears that Hoffman is taking that role. ’ 0 Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two -1 * ' 1. The Ladies’ Home Journal. 2 Fairfield, Illinois. i 3. William Knox. 4. Bohemiau musical composer. 5. Bowdoin College. j t>. The art of springing over an ' obstacle with the aid of a pole. 7. Contempt of court. . b. Alaska. 9. Perihelion. 1 10. Shellfish. o TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File ; I ~ * ■ Mar. 11 2S United States asks Germany to explain her position I regarding the sinking of the Sussex and Englishman. A crisis may ■ , be at hand. . 1 Members of Frank Down's class of Methodist church plan organiza ' tion of men's chorus. ' Dr. J. M Miller goes to New ; York City for six weeks study on . ear. eye. nose and tboat. Mrs. Miller is enjoying the big city with : him. Campaign to raise total fund of I $17,000 to build new church is started by committee H. A. Fuhrman. L. L. Baumgartner, Orval Harruff and E. B. Macy. They have sS.ooo of the amount now The famous Faylor will ease, fought in courts for 14 years, in I Wells and Adams counties, is I settled out of court and dismissed. o * Household Scrapbook | By Roberta Lee The New Carpet Weal a pair of rubber overshoes when laying the new carpet, as this enables one to stretch the carpet with the feet from center to edges. And do not tack down the carpet for two or three days, until it has settled into place. ’ Fresh Meat Ix> not take the fresh meat from the refrigerators until the very minute it is to be cooked, as the change in temperature is not beneficial. Dustless Mop One good way to make a dustless mop is to cut old stocking legs into string and then saturate with cedar oil. - Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦ 4 Q. When invited to any affair, would it be permissible for one to bring a guest, without asking per- - mission of the hostess? A. Never. If a guest is visiting you. ask permission of the hostess 1 tin advance, if you care to do so. Q. Should charlotte russe be eaten with the fork or spoon? A. The cream or filling may be eaten with a spoon, hut the cake 1 foundation should be. eaten with I the fork. Q. Is it cort’ct for a woman to wear her rings after the death of • her husband? / . A. Yes. o Party Musicians Plastered Findlay. 0.. —(UP) — "Plastered" . but not intoxicated—musicians at i parly, showered with piaster wi.en the ceiling cracked, continued • their song to the end.

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

It appears pretty evident that the Republican party is about to turn its back on ex-President Hoov- ' er aud take a chance on somebody | 'less identified with the policies advocated by the Liberty League and ' Republican Chairman Fletcher. At the present time the political straws all point to Governor Landon of Kansas, but the candidate who is out in front in April is not always the one who wins the. ' vterdict in the June convention Landons advocates generally asjsume that he is as conservative as Mr. Hoover and as radical as Sen-, lator Borah That might seem a difficult combination but the min j ority party this year has to perform impossibilities, if not miracles. if it is going to get anywhere So the program may go through this time. Perhaps the most positive evidence of the throwing overboard of the ex-President was furnished by Patrick J. Hurley. Secretary Os War iu the Hoover administration, at the recent session of the Republican State Convention in Oklahoma. where he declined to be a delegate at large instructed for the Governor of Kansas. The exSecretary of War put it this way: "I am a sincere adtnirier of this outstanding Kansan but I can't accept instructions against my former chief When this fight is over, count me in your ranks. ' He might just as well have said "I know my former chief is a dead cock in the isilitical pit. but 1 have I got to go through tho motions of being still for him. aud my heart is with the other fellow." The marooning of the ex President is a curious manifestation of

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.the illogical mutations of politics, i The Republicans fought Franklin • D. Roosevelt in 1932 with Hoover ' as their standard bearer and the whole effort of their camimign I then was to convince the people of the United States that the then incumbent in the White House had been a great President and that only his continuance in office and the sequence of his program could save the country from disaster. The present guerilla campaign 'directed against President Roose velt maintains the theory that wherever Roosevelt departed from the Hoover policies he is dead wrong, and that only the system that the former President pursued I can save this country from chaos j aud disaster. That's what they 'mean when they say that the present administration has departed, from the methods that have made ' . this country great, etc., etc. But of I course they do not dare to go the limit aud give the country another . chance to tell what they think of i Mr. Hoover as a Chief Executive ; ■' So for the present at least, they II are going along with the Landon boom. Well, they have to have a candidate and it might as well be the i ‘ Kansas Governor as another, even - if it appears improbable that he -•can carry his own State because . of such things as his closing down a lot of schools and so crippling 1 the hospitals that Kansas is ohlig--1 ed to keep some hundreds of her ■ unfortunate insane in jails, the f asylums being so overcrowded. 1 They are wiling to take him in the ' primary even though he won his Governorship by expressing undyf ing faith in prohibition and imply

ing that Kansas should be the | spearhead of the crusade to re-est- | ablish national prohibition. How j that will endear this candidate to the wot East, and such States as i Illinois may be imagined — and they look to the East and the pop-1 ulous States generally to accept I Governor Landon as a conserva- | tive. The question of any Republican candidate's hope of election is merely academic. Anybody reading the political columns of even the staunchest of the G. O. P. news papers may sense the practical ad mission of defeat eight months be fore election day. There is a de | spairing note even in the stiid ent column of Mr. Frank Kent. ; who has been the foremost prog | nasticator of Democratic disaster 1 for five years at least. Mr. Kent ap- ; patently believes that President | Roosevelt might be defeated if it , were not for the federal office hold ers who will support him. the reci- I pients of relief, and the skill of I the Democratic organization. Os I course, he does not narrate these i elements in these terms. What he speaks about in referring to them is the "potency of the federal or;ganization." the “political persuasiveness of the federal funds.” ; "ruthless and partisan spoilsmen" aud "publicity directors, press agents and ballyhoo artists on the I payroll." I Making due allowance for the ; vehemence of a propagandist on the other side, it sounds a good deal as if what Mr. Kent was try- • ing to say was that if President i Roosevelt did not have certain ele- ; 'ments of strength, his defeat might be possible, but as things are, there ■is nothing for the Republican par- . jty to do but to put on some antem- . lortem mourning. And Mark, Sullivan, in the Her- , I ald-Tribune of New York, runs a- - j long in the same indirect way. He .points out that if the Democrats

who disapprove of the Now Deal could be prevailed upon to vote. Republican, nil * l, ula be well on, his aide of the fence, or branch of the DmuoeraU could have organized a convention of their own and emloraed the Repub li.an nominee that might have ac . complished the purpose. But unfortunately there were difficulties : in the way and now it s too late He finally concludes that the only , hope of the Republicans would be | to come out In favor of some of i the New Deul policies and against . others, ami thus attract some Dem i ocratic votes Then he winds up I with the sorrowful conclusion that ‘ • the Republicans c<> u 1 d probably ! get nowhere even if they won the I Presidency and the House of RepI resentative. because "no matter ' | who wins the Presidential election, | I the Senate is going to be Demo i cratic " His conclusion is a little I bit opaque but probably what he. seeks to convey is that the Repub- 1 licans should convert enough of the certain Democratic majority, so that a Democratic Senate might be induced to act Republican. Now all of this Is quite signifi- ! cant ami points directly to the conduaion that the only thing that keeps the campaign alive is the willingness of the Liberty Leaguers and those affiliated with them to continue to put up huge sums of I money to finance any Ttort of an anti Roosevelt organization, even that directed by John Henry Kirby.

Her violin music signalled the approach of—DEATH ihH I • KI I 7 T few > «<.( THERE’S ®Hi F MURDER W I IN THE AiR 1/ by ROY CHANSLOR 'F' aniaz i )l g vi y sicr y I' girl whose mind mirrored— ML Were the waves of hate generated in die of criminals in the act of commitd"* '■ transmitted to the mind of this beautiful g * she played her violin, just like radi > " Bscjins picked up by a rctcivingsct/ ! H re is could visualize murder being done?. • • Monday, Mar. 30 mystery within mystery... a Story that _ , _ e intrigues... originality that is refi idling daily in be fascinated by the psychic angle of this serial and thrilled by each instalment. Be read THERE’S MURDER IN THE AIK The Daily Democrat

The Lindbergh Kidnaping our Service Bureau at Washington has readv K I thousand word bulletin Rh ine the complete M nr L . olr Plai< of little Charier Lindbergh and ajl the dcielo llln( ; n .' ,‘ h » thv d.n of the execution of Bruno Rwl. u , ( | lu a copy <>f tins bulletin, fill out the coupon CLIP COUPON heiu s ""'i f-- W} Dept. 5P363. Daily Democrat a Service Bureau jw 1013 Thirteenth Street, Washington d r H I want the bulletin HISTORY OF THE l.lNluiyuc,’, H ' CASE, and encluso five cents it, ,-oin, or return posta.n and handling cost,.; to !NA M E [ STREET and No. | l ’l't'V STATE I am a leader of the Decatur Dully Democrat, l)e tilur

who. tn the name of the "Southern i Committee to Uphold the Consti tutiou." is publishing page ads in i Republican newspapers with a cou 1 putt attached inviting people to Icontribute whatever they can afford to his committee. This is the same John Henry Kirby who through the’ years has solicited contributions in the names of organizations which, according to tho report of Chairman Caraway who conducted the Lobby Investigation some years ago. had no existence, no members, and nothing but a corps of officers to gather in the money The Caraway Committee ■ never was able to find how auy coni sideruble amount of tho Kirby . I funds had been spent except iu

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