Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec y & Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies — $ .02 One week, by carrier ............ .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 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 33.50 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. The Ohio five and ten cent store girl clerk has obtained a divorce from James Lin, adopted son of the president of China. The marriage was the result of a few hours j romance, its ending not being anything but what the country believed would happen between such widely different people. Bluffton is starting the construei tion of its sewage disposal plant . An issue of $74,000 worth of bonds ! to finance the city's share of the I cost has been made and engineers . are staking off the ground for the j building. The construction of the I interceptor sewer will employ a j number of men. The operation of j the plant will be watched with int-’ erest from nearby towns. It is pleasing to a host of friends ' in this city to note the recognition , given former judge C. L. Walters at the Methodist conference in session at Kokomo. Judge Walters was elected president of the lay delegation, an honor appreciated by him and his friends and one ofj which he is worthy. The confer eace will close Monday, with the assignment of pastors at noon. Residents of Demotte, Indiana, should not become discouraged because part of the town was destroyed by fire. True, the loss falls heavy on some, but in most cases stronger and better communities j rise from the ashes of a disastrous ; fire. If the business district was made up of frame buildings, it's ’ better that they are gone, making I it possible to replace them with ' modern brick structures. Decatur began to make headway following | the fire of ISB2. when the east side of Second street was destroyed by flames. Haile Selassie admits defeat and the war in Ethiopia conies to an end. Italy will take new territory and no doubt control the entire Ethiopian country. From the time Mussolini's army started the East african invasion, there never was a doubt but that. Italy would win. With primalive weapons the Ethiopians did not have a chance against the machine guns and airplane bombs of their foes. Whatever the peace treaty may be, like all other treaties, it will be the foundation for another war. When countries go out and acquire territory, with armies, peace never is permanent.

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Farmers still have the opportun i ity to contract for growing of sugar beets. The tieidinen are busy signing up acreage in the Decatur territory and will be glad to confer with those who wish to conl tract. By contracting for a few acres of beets, the growers not only assure themselves of a ready . cash crop, but are helping a local industry to provide employment for hundreds of men. Acreage, suf- : flcient to assure a normal run of the refinery in this city can be contracted this year and addition to the price paid for the beets, the crop comes under the benefit payments of the soil conservation act. COMMUNITY SERVICE: — The formation of a Community Bureau consisting of representatives of the Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and Exchange Clubs, for the purpose of serving as a clearing house for ideas and projects that will benefit the entire community, is a ' step in the right direction. Every community is in need of a body of this kind to organize information about the city to promote its varied interests, to pre-j sent municipal officers the wants ■ and needs of the people, to develop the commercial and industrial I spheres of the community life. ■ The Community Service Bureau ’ is the result of careful study by groups and represents the results of an intensive investigation made , |by the men who have interested ! themselves in its formulation. The operation of the CommunI ity Service Bureau should be of great value to the city. The need ' I for a central clearing house has! j been keenly felt for a number of 1 , years, and the proposed setup' (should provide the agency.—Rich-1 I mond Palladium. o Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the ! | Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ l ( 1. Azores. | 2. A title of honor bestowed up-' 'on sultans, princesses, and other women ot' high rank. 3. Eland. 4. Hay Robson. ' "*l, 5. A strip of territory on the eastern coast of Central America. 6. Horticulture. 7. German philosopher. 8. Robert Burns. 9. A feast often lasting several I days, given to a tribe by one of its j i members who aspires to the posi-1 i tion of chief. , 10. St. Thomas. ■ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat April 18. 1916 — General Bell of the U. S. army reports that Villa is not dead as reported. House on Schirmeyer farm in Wabash township, burns with $2.600 loss. Job (.'hamper, teacher at Pleasant Mills, has the measules and hie pupils are on vacaUcn. Mrs. Earl Sult, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred France, dies at Indianapolis. The U. S. government notifies Germany to abandon warfare against freight ships or diplomatic relations will be severed. H. A. Fristoe of Rochester calls on his many Decatur friends. o Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. When a man is calling on a girl and another man arrives, which one should be first to leave? A. The. man who called first should be the first to leave. Q. It a person catches the eye so a friend in church, is it permissible to greet the friend? A. Merely smile; to speak or bow is unnecessary. Q. Are “Dear Sir” and “Dear Madam” ever used in social correspondence? A. No; these terms are used only in business corrcspondeuicc. — o— TO CLEAN UP in our Closing Out Sale, we are giving real bargains in S-piece Dining Room suites. Spring Beds and Mattresses, a few very good grade rockers, other articles in furniture all going at sacrifice prices. Come in, look them over. — ' Yager Brothers. It .Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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

Publication of the roster of con-| tributor* to the Liberty League and a multitude of other organizations which are issuing, or preteudI ing to issue. Republican literature ; brings back to mind a famous collokuy which occurred during the lobby investigation some years a ( go. John Henry Kirby. President of (the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution. American Tax payers League, Southern Tariff Ases for money-raising schemes, was soeiation, and various other alias-; on the witness stand. Senator Blaine was cross-examining him and asked Mr. Kirby about his contributors. “You say you have no sucker i lists? " asked Senator Blaine. Mr. Kirby: “Only—well, I wob't; say that.” i In his report Senator Caraway, i Chairman of the investigating committee, recited that: "There is in truth no such thing as a Southern Tariff Association nor. for that matter, an American : Taxpayers League." And he added that the institution, "has no con-: etitution or by-laws; it lias nc ! members.” Yet these same organization* are I Mill getting contributions from the i duPonts and their satelitca in sums I ranging from ten dollars to three ' thousand dollars, according to the > records of the Senate lobby committee made public ou April 9th. Every day a new organization is born to fish for contributions. The latest one is the “League for Constitutional Government.” It is selling a book devoted apparently to the theft of the national party organizations by the Socialists. Here is a sample parag aph from the circular offering the book for sale: “The statements is made and proved: The Democratic party was stolen in 1932 by a group following the socialist theory who moved their forces en masse into the Democratic primary.” This brings up an alluring picture of James A, Farley, with Karl Marx's “Das Kapital” under his arm, slyly and subtly touring the country in the Spring of 1932 gar- j Upring delegates to the then pros pei tive convention in Chicago for , Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of I New York. Then, when we came to the Con i ventinn, those two arch-socialists,! Cordell Hull, now Secretary of: State, and Senator Carter Glass of! Virginia, collaborated In the preparation of the platform. Moreover. 1 the darkly plotting group must have, succeeded in planting Senator Albcu Barkley in the Temporary Chairman's place and that terrific radical Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana in the seat of Permanent Chairman. Naturally, if we accept this latest Republican propaganda, these men took care that none but socialist delegations were seated and so compassed the nomination and election of President Roosevelt. This is only a sample- of the absurdities of the political campaign of 1936 to far. Any outfit that is

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willing to put its name to an attack on President Roosevelt, on political, social, religious, or any other ground, can apparently get the money from some of those on John Henry Kirby's sucker list to finance whatever weird hypothesis it may invent. This is the harvest season for racketeers. There is even one outfit that is making money by furnishing credulous executives of large corporations with fly sheets to be enclosed in the pay envelopes ot employes. indicating to them the terrible consequences of a Democratic victory next November. Nobody has yet been able to approximate the aggregate of tbe money being spent in this fashion. And perhaps the most amusing part of it is that the only beneficiaries of this snow storm of contributions are the gentlemen who get the money. The developments from day to day as chronicled in the newspapers show a constant rise in the President's popularity. His election is practically conceded even by those publicists who regret it most. For example, the California primaries just closed show an increase of nearly fifty per cent in the Democratic registration, and Roosevelt carried California by half a million majority in 1932. Pennsylvania, so far as it has gone, shows that the Democrats have doubled their registered strength in the Western counties, while Republican registration is twenty-five per cent off. In Wisconsin fewer than 60,000 represented the aggregate of all the Republican votes for delegates, while the Roosevelt delegates polled nearly 130,000. The last straw vote published in

Granddaughters of Famous Men ' WK Eirrji a x ■ ji • - -‘-’j This trio of Bryn Mawr co-cds, rehearsing for the annua) May Day program of the Pennsylvania college, arc all granddaughters of lar mous men. Left to right, Eleanor Taft of Cincinnati, 0., granddaughter of former President Taft; Elizabeth Bryan, whose grandfather wm William Jennings Bryan, and Eleanor Sayre of Washington, D. C.» granddaughter of former President Wilson.

the ultra Republican Herald-Trib-une of New York credits 35 States for Roosevelt and 12 to the Republicans, leaving New Jersey doubtful against any Republican candidate of 9 per cent. Now nine per cent may not seem impressive fig-j ures. but translated into terms of popular votes it means that if this straw vote correctly reports the political complexion of the United States of today, Roosevelt would be re-elected by about 4,000,000 votes. Os course, straw votes do not always accurately forecast an election but, on the other hand, they have in recent years shown an uncanny approach to correctness. The straw vote harvesters, even if they have to do some guessing, would hardly be likely to take so long a chance as last Sunday's publication would indicate, unless they felt that their guess had a pretty definite foundation. Perhaps the multiplicity ot racketeer political organizations is itself the best evidence that the Rejubli an High Ctunmand, which of course includes the duPont Liberty League, realizes that only a basis of forlorn hope remains (o their party. It would be hard to explain in any other way how all these fly-by-night organizations , could be so generously and generally financed, except on the hypo- . thesis that some of them might . get some votes for the G. O. P. can- , didate, whoever that unfortunate I turns out to be, and so are willing to risk their money on any desperate cast of the political dice. It i suggests a very old story of the , storm-driven fishermen in bottomI I less mid-ocean who, just before their boat foundered, threw over ; the anchor as a Ist resort on the proposition that they had tried I everything else. II o Cafeteria supper. Reformed church, Saturday. 5 to 7 p.m. o— 11 Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

The People’s Voice This column for the u»e of our reader* who wish to make aug geetlon* for the general good or diecues question* of tnteeest. Mease sign your name to ■how authenticity. It will not be used if you prefer that |t not be. » — — Tell* Os Trip Editors note:— Following is a, letter received by Mr. and Mrs. I I Earl Butler of this city, from their daughter. Martha Erma, student at Stephens college, Columbia, M 0.,. telling ot a recent trip taken to the west coast.) , Dearest Mother and Daddy: We left Columbia on u special 'train at 11:30 P. M. Thursday t March 18th and arrived in Kanj sas City the next morning at 7:00 A. M. We saw the Million Dollar j Liberty Memorial, an impressive sight to be viewed from the stution's plaza. We left Kansas City at 9:15 A. I M. and traveled on through Kansas, past Lawrence, home of the State University, to Topeka, the State Capitol, and into Emporia where we arrived at 11:45 A. M.' for lunch at the Fred Harvey Dining Station. We left there about 12:45 P. M. We traveled over the Old Santa Fe Trail and reached Dodge City I Kansas around 5:45 P. M. Since I we changed to Mountain Time, we left at 5:35 P. M seemingly ten minutes before we arrived. A few miles past Dodge ('ity we passed through Cimarron, and just a short distance west was the Cimarron Crosing. a ford on the Old Santa Fe Trail short cut to Fort Union, in early days headquarters for buffalo hunters. Cimarron you ■ will remember, gave the title to' that movie which starred Richard Dix and told so dramatically the story of the early days in this romantic territory. Saturday morning we arrived in Santa Fe, Capitol of New Mexico, a town which certainly surprised me to say nothing of how thrilled ■ and excited I was with seeing nar-1 row, winding streets, alleys I call- I ed them, running past adorable | pueblo houses and they are just | ; exactly like that all over Santa i 1 Fe. Spanish architecture is used I throughout the buildings. After breakfast at our hotel, LaFonda we visited the laboratory of Anthropology. On our way out to the laboratory we saw the most enorI mous mountains. We ware retnarkI ing to each other how close we really were to them, but being a little curious I asked the driver and he replied, “No closer than eight miles, ladies." Gosh, were we shock ed. ‘cause everyone thought we were only about one-half mile away. I Just to give you an idea of how large they really are.) They are really beautiful— pine trees of every kind growing up the sides j and covered with snow on top. We I visited at the laboratory for about , an hour and then left for a short sight seeing trip and back to the hotel for lunch. The governor of ! New Mexico dined with us. We were entertained with Mexican music during lunch, which cer-i ! tainly fitted in with the atmosphere of it all. We visited the Indian Pueblos in the afternoon. The I Indians were giving their religious ceremonial dance, a dance they I give but once a year, and we were fortunate enough to be there. I got so thrilled in watching them. We left Santa Fe at 3:30 P. M. and arrived in Albuquerque at 6:115 P. M. Where we visited the soriority and fraternity houses, which were built in Spanish style and made of adobe piaster Dances were held at each sorority and fraternity house for us. We kids made it our point to visit each house before the train left. We certainly had a marvelous time. We left around 12:00 P. M. and! reached Winslow Arizona Sunday morning. The scenery was gorgeous! After leaving Winslow we passed through the edge of the desert, a barren, dry, forsaken land -mile after mile of nothing but rust colored sand with clumps of sage brush growing on it. We left Winslow at 8:00 A. M for the Grand Canyon. We saw a lot of different country some very mountainous, and in other places all we could see would be the. desert. The towns were small, and had cowboys standing around with their horses. One small, town, as we went pass the station, was de-1 sorted except for au elderly woman i standing by her car, anil waving a Stephens Banner, there was some thing very touching about this that made you feel very much like crying. We learned later that this | woman had a daughter who formerly went to Stephens. We arrived at the Grand Canyon at 12:30 P. M. and had luncheon in the Bright Angel Lodge, located on the very rim of the Canyon. Immediately after lunch Betty, Helena and I rushed to the rim for our first view of the Canyon. It. was so enormous and magnificent that it was really breath taking — one could look and utter “Oil!" Words can not do this miraculous scene justice. Lecturers accompanied us for a l rip along the rim of tlio Canyon to the Hop! House, where the Navajo Indians entertained us

their ancient ceremonial*. ! very inte re *t In g! We obtained | striking views of the Canyon on I this trip After dinner at the latdgc wo were entertained with slide*, and moving picture* of tho Grand, Canyon and music by three cow-' boys. Where we were the Canyon; (was t;n miles across and four mil I ! es in depth. The rock layers were' ot different colors and especially: ut twilight did it look gorgeous. We were at an altitude of 8,500 ft. Monday March 16th we arrived I at Barstow, Ga. at 8:00 A. M. —a ' typical summer day — the grass! ( was a very pretty shade of green. < and the roses and other flowers' were in full bloont. At Barstow we! saw our first palm trees. I wish j we had them in Decatur, We crossed the San Bernardina' and San Gabriel ranges — then' down into the great orange district ’ —at one small town, we got off the train and they gave everyone oranges, as many as you could carry, and could I curry tnem? They were the Sunkist oranges. I We ate luncheon ut the beauti-1 ful Glenwood Mission Inn at Rlv-: lerside. The Inn. while a hotel, is J also a veritable museum filled with! Spanish Treasures of California's heritage and history. I was very impressed with the beauty ot its interior. | We left Riverside in the after-' noon, to continue to Los Angeles.' via Pasadena. In Los Angeles we | transferred to the fashionable Bilt- | more Hoteel, our headqquarters for j our stay in the city. That evening : we went to El Captain to sde “The I j Night of January 16th.” We had just got seated when i,yle Talbot was seen in the audience and ev- j ery one (Stephens) stood up and stared and really acted" terrible. Charles Boyer was then spied a little farther down —but alas thoughts went out and the curtain went up. The play was in form of I a court trial, and the jury was I chosen from the audience. Chas Boyer and Lyle Talbot were both chosen and also two Stephens girls. Tuesday March 17th— we were called at 6:00 A. M. and at 8:00 we were on our way to Catalina Island. It took quite a lot of time in getting out of the harbor but finally we were on the Pacific OceI an and in about two hours we could ’see Catilinu Island. As we sailed | along the island it looked very | wild, indeed—though we didn't get I to see any mountain goats, we did j see some flying fish. We docked al Avalon, the largest town on the island and drove to St. Catherine Hotel, where we had a buffetluncheon, and during the lunch one of the waitresses told us that they were expecting a patty of 200. and they heard that It was 200 priests touring the country before entering the monastery and were they surprised when they saw us! We went on the glass bottom boat and saw the famous submarine gardens Myriad of fish, and colorful under-sea vegetation gave us a nev-er-to-be-forgetten picture of life at the bottom of the ocean. At 8:30 P. M. we returned to Los Angeles for one of the highlights of our trip—a diner dance at the famous Biltmore Bowl, frequented by stars of stage and screen. At 9:30 P. M. Betty, Helena ami 1 went down to the lobby and Mrs. Durand introduced us to three fellows from the University of Southern California, who were to be our dates. We then proceeded to the Biltmore Bowl where we danced and ate to the music of Jimmy Greer. There was an elaborate floorshow. The “Rhythm Rascals” played and sang and did they have rhythm and cute songs. It was all so perfect. Wed. Mar. 18th. We went for a short tour of Los Angeles. We ate lunch at Bullock's Willshire, a wonderful store. A darling style

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show was After ima h W 8 W Rl- ami attained fc,. Deiot »W She certainly lg i, ' Westlake shu- District, “f ‘ho movie * U r*, Jes ( ountry Club Vniveratty „ t , Sl '« Los Angeles, Soldiers k"*’ 1 ® “ nu Munk. Ko through the F ()X Joyed that. We had «ood at th,. fumoug IWe returned to the “>'-l then WPin t?® 1,1 Ihsen's “('.hosts' ,slon I na Merkle. '.and Hugh Herbert »■ J,® jin the lobby so w J® graphs . After the play We the •( oc<>an-.it Grovehassador Hotel Veloz aod ,® were there and c hp( r -Htra. It certainly .!M having them ou thp f , seeing movie stars sitC® 'tables. We saw J |Lupe Velez. Johnny w e< ® and Buster Crabbe at Jean Hallow was with V® I’ow-ll M >lha |.„ v i; H „ i ,,J Guy Kibbee and Robert Ta® quite a few less known ar J t actresses were there. "’W Thurs. Mar. 19th. Angeles enroute to .San At Berkley we ferried atml .bay to San Franciwo We|J at the St. Francis Hotel I® ening we had dinner at J hat Inn. We ate our with chop sticks. More Fu! 1 Friday March 20th. After fast at the St. Francis Hot<l left for a motor trip to hh■ and a visit to Leland , versity We were taken all the campus and saw th e 1J I Chapel with its famous 3 depicting the Sermon Mount. We got to go tbnJ 1 Pres. Hoover s home, an a i privilege. We ate dinner at the Stj ci* and was entertained mtlj Coakley s orchestra. After a i we went out to the "BalTik ; and saw a g ..sl floor show. ■ Saturday March 21st. We] left San Francisco and ovl followed the Feather Rivet tin , i the steep sloped Featta I j Canyon. All around tis loomed I stately snow-capped peaks st Sierra Nevada. We had bmi lunch and dinner on our , we traveled out ot Cal. intel da. towards Salt Lake City. Sunday March :’2nd. This* ing as we approached great , Lake, for miles in all dn • great Halt beds of pure cryti tend in a level, unbroke* | When we arrived at Salt laitl we had lunch at the Hotel 1 We visited the Mornwe Ta Grounds and the Tabenudtl heard the organ recitai. The ■ nacle has a seating capacity ■ ’ 000. Monday MarcH 23rd. We II been passing through the is 1 Mountains and the scenery uh ’ tlful. We saw that colossal tai ’ the Royal Gorge. An the mil reflected along its mica fond ! the whole canyon sparkled 1 sunshine. We are on our nd ' Denver. Mother and Daddy 1 iutej to describe to you some things that 1 have seen Altl* I don't think that I could ertfi ' scribe the real beauty of the ■ tains —you. too, must see th®! fore you can realize how vtd ful they really are. J Tomorrow we shall be tad ' Stephens after two of the > perfect weeks. 1 Lots of love, 3 Martie. I I —i Trade in a Good Town-JW