Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 100, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by HIE 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 —I .02 One week, by carrier — .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mail - .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mai1..... 3.00 One year, at office «... 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere 33.60 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 time is here when every good man should come to the aid of his party. Candidates are busy these days, realizing that every minute from now on until they cross the wire, will count. Spring finally seems to be here and the air is filled with the spirit. It's the happy season when life returns and we all feel young again. More than $20,000 of delinquent taxes have been paid in this county since the first of the year, showing that when the folks can get the money, they look after this necessity. Just a week to look after your local taxes. The limit is Monday. May 4th and after that the penalty for being delinquent. It s easier to arrange now to take care of this matter than to add the extra cost. "Doc'’ Robertson, one of the two men who emerged from the Canadian gold mine after being trapped ten days, must be blessed with a good constitution. Though sixtyfive years old, he stood the ordeal better than his younger comrades. Please don't ask us to hold court items out of the paper. You expect to read these news facts about others and you have no right to ask that preference be shown you. Court records are public and the newspaper must print them to be fair to subscribers. Mary Johnson. 22, and good looking, got mad when her lover quit her and shot him. Now she must serve fifteen years in prison. She says she won't stand tor any quitting and wants the boys to know it. but by the time she is out, she will probably be mellowed considerably. Manufacturers are now more concerned with getting good workmen than in getting orders,” said Congressman Farley in a recent address in congress and that’s the truth. They can talk about the unemployed but the fact remains that business is gaining daily and that the man who wants to work and can, has a better opportunity now than he has had in years.

I CORT SUN. MON. TUES. George Arliss “MISTER HOBO” l*luH”Joe Cook Comedy and News. loc-25c Continuous from 1:15. - Today - Jack Perrin "The’wOLF RIDERS" Plus—Comedy and Cartoon. Chap. 4 "Rex and Rinty". ICc-15c Continuous show from 2 p. m. Coming—The Dionne Quints “The Country Doctor."

What's the use of a national -t election? Even the G. O. P. press 1 admits that Roosevelt and Garner will bo re-elected and the enthusiasm grows with each now poll '' they take. Any other course at t this time of returning prosperity would be foolish and those who re- ( member the days '29 to '33 will . take no chances, regardless of silly 1 chatter by the outs. • Attacks upon Wayne Coy, state > head of the WPA, are without ? rhyme or reason. No official in the ) United States has worked more • sincerely, with better results or J with as little partisanship. Ope speaker accuses him of being Republican while another insists he has used his office to aid the Democratic party. It just doesn't seem to make sense, does it? Marion Zioncheck, the "clown" . congressman from the state of ' Washington, who thought a congressman could do no wrong and if he did, couldn't be punished. . has been fined $45.00 and costs for [ driving his car seventy miles an hour and creating a disturbance when arrested. If this doesn't tame . him. they ought to give him the limit and a dozen charges and keep him busy defending himself. Open house at the new Legion home Monday night when the dedication will be held. The boys are proud of their new meeting place and it will in the years to come ' provide many happy occasions for the members, their families and friends. We are glad indeed that they can have this modern home and we offer our sincerest congratulations. Adams Post of the American Legion is a great organ- ' i ization. National boys and girls week opened today and will continue with ' varied programs from day to day during the next week. What's as [• important? We give much atten- ’ tion to other things but surely we ' can devote one week to the special attention of the youngsters. i Read today s feature in this paper. Sunday will be church day, Mon-' I day youth day. Tuesday is for school and health, Wednesday is election, Friday the officials will preside. It's a wonderful idea! and oue in which every parent should participate. Give the boys and girls a break. o Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ 4 1. A painting or other wall decoration. 2. As the originator -.if the process for making steel, known by his name. 3. Henry Hudson. 4. Washington. 5 Dutch mathematician, iphysiciat and astronomer 6 Amtorg Trading Corporation. 7. Yes. 8. Chewing gum. 9. Munich. 10. Valladolid, Spain o TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File April 23 —Irish patriots have taken over the city of Bubiin. T. J. Rayl and James Niblick win prizes in a fiddlers contest at the Bosse theater. The children’s slide fund is now an even hundred dollars, one third • of the amount desired. Odd Fellows celebrate 96th birthI day of order. W. A. Kunkle. Bluffton and J. li. Heller, Decatur, arc elected delI egates to the Democratic national I convention to be held in St. Louis in June. Misses Margaret and Nellie Danils an ( ] Mary Patton graduate as nurses at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne. o Mins Ruth Porter and Mie* Madeline Crider arc upending the weekend with Miss Vera Porter at. Ball State teachers’ college, Muncie. They will attend the Sigma Beta Tuu sorority dance which will be held there this evening. : Miss Ann Elizabeth Winnes will arrive home Sunday from Helmsburg. Indiana, where tshe lias completed a year's teaching- Miss WlH- ■ tics was the Latin and English in ■ structor in the high scluxn

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

Hark to the song of the duPont Liberty League which has jupt proclaimed its unflinching political neutrality! It is so pure that its members are not only financing the Repub-, lican National Committee but pretty much every organization that has seen the opportunity to catch a portion of the gentle rain of checks that is falling so steadily land impartially on every futile effort to disturb the confidence the people have in the Roosevelt ad ministration. The Liberty Leaguers in their non-partisan fervor have not even made an exception of such movements as that sponsored by John Henry Kirby, whom William Randolph Hearst thought ought to be jailed when a Senate . investigation years ago. during a Republican administration, heard its chairman report that the Kirby outfitts were non existent, and only functioned to collect money from credulous tariff lobby innocents. That money, so far as the committee was able to learn, went to pay salaries, expenses, and bounties to its self-named officers and some ladies and gentlemen related to them, either by' family or political affiliation. The Liberty League spokesman denied any political feeling what ever —and its members demonstrated their independence by chipping in tor every political organization that was willing to declare itself ■ against the Democratic administration. Not only is the Liberty League a ! misunderstood- altruistic agency.; but is being martyred by an un | scrupulous Democracy, which ac-; cording to the veracious and whol-1 ly unprejudiced President of the League—who gets something ovei $50,000 a year for directing the affairs of the fair and virtuous and public spirited off shoot of the war | munitions trust —can make no reply to the disinterested presentations it offers. Not being able to controvert such mild and specific charges as that the Democratic administration is a corrupt, wasteful, communist-minded dicta t o rship bent upon and moving for the destruction of everything worth while in America, the majority party — still according to Mr. Jouett Shouse —has restored to “vituperation, persecution and abuse.” The sympathy of the entire electorate must go out to the duPont family, its kin and affiliatets. who have spent a million or two of their handily-won dollars in their demonstration of love,- affection and charity toward the American people in the League's combat of ev cry Governmental measure flirectcd to making things better and easier for the ordinary citizen and perhaps less comfortable for sonic trust magnates. Anybody who sees anything invidiiouH in the protest against the persecution oi this self-sacrificing politically impartial and open-hand-ed group by the wicked Democrats thereby shows liiumcii' incapable of understanding that the Liberty Leaguers know what is best for

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the plain people—much more (hand do the people themselves. Who is there so unjust as to criticise an organization willing to pay for certain activities ot the ■ RepuJjJicttn campaign that the Republican National Committee itself is ashamed to father? We can question the logic of a league that considers itself abused because there was made public the fees paid some of its lawyers, and the slush funds supplied by some of its members, striving to save the country from the enactment of the laws curbing various forms of corporate trickery anti exploitation? Who is there so cynical as to look askance at protestations of political non-partizanship. by a body that can find nothing to approve tin all the acts of an administration under which the nation has risen from almost complete financial and economic collapse into a state where business men are again making money, where the banks are safe and solvent, where

G-Men Capture Two Gangsters I $| 1 *■ 1 j I Sr ■ W- 1 • r I <»'■ f IB ® Clarence Sparger j J°hn Langan j i - - ' z wife ■ ' IWt W : Gangsters* Ii ideo u t i Last two important members of the Irish O’Malley gang of bank robbers and kidnapers, Clarence Sparger, 32, left, and John Langan,, 35, right, were captured by G-men when the federal operatives raided their hide-out near Kansas City, below. Cbc of the fcderals ia shown examining the v all of the bullet-nddlrd hideout which wai Uw sssae of a §>itciied gun battle in which more than a peck of bulieU wart fired.

I hope and confidence have succeed7led despair and fear? A further evtsdence of the sincerity of the Leai gue's absence of partiality is that i all that was required to cause it to emit an arraignment of any mea- ‘ sure was the circumstance that it was proposed or supported by the I President. The League has been as consist- » enTln this great principle of nonpartizanship as that other exeiup- . I lar of freedom from prejudice, I Frank Kent, the leading columnist [Of the antißoosevelt campaign. Like a few others, some of them -1 connected with the duPont organ- , | ization. he insists that he is a Detn- - ' octal. The proof of this is that he ■ has opposed National Democratic activities of every kind for five . i years, at least. He was just as surely against the party when Jou- . ett Shouse and John Raskob were , .working to rebuild the party, after ; the slaughter of 1928. as he is now. jTheu President Herbert oover had his favor, and the work of the Democratic National Committee, in his II estimation was subversive, doonv ■ ed to failure and redolent of every . political crime and misdemeanor. - This was long before Franklin D. - ’ Roosevelt came into the picture, e so it is rather hard to believe that

it is he President who is to blame for Mr. Kent's rather curious way of showing how Democralis he really i»i It seems probable that this talented commentator on political news will, after the Republican convention, iscover some as yet tin disclosed excellence in Governor I Landon, or whatever other unfor- ' tunate has to take the Presidential nomination from the G. O. P. <>r it may be that he will improve on the technique of a former Presidential candidate and take a walk out of both parties, instead of turn ing his back on only one In any event, he is bound next November to lament the fatuousness of the American electorate in choosing ai gain the incumbent of the White , House, for no better reason than j that he did the job he was electI ed to do, and did it handsomely, despite the croakings of his adversaries. economic or political. Then Mr. Kent and the Liberty League may join in mourning, and we may expect to find bo htenjoying for four more years the luxury of proving their respective nonpartizanship and Democracy, by de- ! crying everything done in Roose--1 velt's second term, and gazing ec- ; statically toward 1940 in another ' dream of the realization of their ■ mutual hope.

PERSONALS | Mr. and Mrs T D. Kern have returned from Elkhart, where they I were the guests the i; ast week of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Armstrong and s children. | Miss Helen HauhcM, Mrs Bryce Thomae, Miss Madge Hite and Miss Mary Jo Hoffman will visit in Fort Wayne today. Mr. and Mi's. R C, Hosterman and daughter Sylvia, of Charleston West Va., arrived in the city last night to be the guests of Rev. M W. Sondermann and family. Mrs. I Hosterman is the daughter of Rev. Sundermann. W. W. Briggs of Geneva was a cajler here, , Attorney Malcolm Skinner of I Portland attended to business here. J. H. Korrs of south of town was looking after business here this morning. o LITTLE EVANGELS ENJOY MEETING The Little Evangels class of the United Brethren Sunday school met recently with Miss Betty Foughty and eni-.yed a "backyard party”. A p t luck sui; per was served. A butsiness meeting was held during the evening. Those present were Mary Heed, Edith Baker. Marjorie Butler, Gyneeth Hill. Esther Smith. Betty Krugh. Joan Bollinger, Carolyn North, Kathleen Foreman, BettyGarner. Annis Mae Merriman, Bonnie Fryback. Maxine Millieor, Betty Foughty and Mrs. Paul Wietfeldt. The Woman's K .reign Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church will meet with Mrs. Frank Crist Thursday afternoon at two o'clock. Mrs. George Raiding will have charge of the devotionals and Mrs. John Doan the program. Assisting Mrs Crist will be Mrs. Dan Tyndall. Mrs. 41'. R. Carson and Mrs. E. W. Johnson. St. Rita's study club will meet at the K. of C. hall Tuesday evening at seven-thirty o'clock. o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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MISS HELEN RUPERY HOSTESS TO HERALDS The Senior King's Heralds of Monroe met recently with Miss Helen Rupert for their April meeting with nine members present. After the opening ttonir, “Love, Wonderful Love," Mies Portia Burkhead read the ecrlture lesson. Prayers were given by Ireta Longenberger, Dortha Ray and L-ren Burkhead. Response to roll call was made with Bible verse. The following Interesting -program was then enjoyed : Piano solo, Helen Rupert; story “Gospel among the thieves," Loren Burkhead; poem “Scimefbody,” Fern Stucky; story "A gift of God.” Mr*. Homer WintereggThe Mystery Box questions were then answered and Mrs- Winteregg closed the meeting with prayer. Mrs. Harvey Rupert, assisted by her daughter Helen, served a delightful luncheon of -Mother's yellow cake tapped with peaches and whipped cream and assofced fudgeThe following menu will be offered at the cafeteria supper to be served by the ladies of the Metho- | dist Episcopal church in the dining | rooms this evening from five to sevI en o'clock: Smothered chicken. creamed i chicken and hot biscuits chicken pie with gravy, meat loaf, sweet potaj toes, mashed potatoes, noodles, dressing, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, cottage .pudding, .potato I. salad, pi kled beets and eggs, bakled apples, pickles- cream slaw. I.spring salad, fruit jello, cake, pie, 1 rolls and i.-ffee. The Kiikland home economics ' club will meet Thursday, April 30, I instead of Tuesday. April 28. as pre- ' viousiy announced. Mrs Dorthea i Muehl Potte, the home economist i and nutrition specialist from the Ball Brothers company, will give a canning demonstration. NORTH WARD TEACHERS ARE GUESTS AT DINNER Mr. and Mrs. .Ivan Stucky and sons of 227 North Third stree' had i as their dinner guests Friday evenI ing. the teacheiw of the North Ward I school. A delicious dinner was served after which Mrs. Stucky and son Ronald ; laved accordian solos | Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. John Parrish. Miss Elizabeth Peterspn. Miss Della Sellemeyfcr and iss Fl-wence Haney. The memberki of the Phoebe Bible I class of the Zion Reformed Sunday i school will meet at the home of

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