Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 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. Hoithouse, Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies-I .02 One week, by carrier— .10 One year, by carrier- 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by malll.oo Six months, by mail.... 1.75 One year, by mail3.oo 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 SCHEERER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Politically speakiug, do you have your mind made up. May day passed without any riots or anti-governmental demonstrations. The storm was the only disturbing element. To Kentuckians and turf fans, the Derby is the greatest race, sometimes as fickle as the whims of the voter in deciding the merits of candidates. No matter how little business ability a num may have there are two things he could run perfectly: The government and any newspaper. Wellington Post. If Representative Zioucheck is up for election this year, the voters of his district shouldn't have much trouble in deciding his future. He should be sent to a circus. A headline reads. "Bryan to hear Taft tonight." That would have been a sensation years ago. In this case it happens to be the son of the former president speaking in Bryan. Ohio. — Without charge to you the win-, tor’s accumulation of tin cans and ' rubbish will be hauled away by' the city trucks next week if you set the containers in the alley or along the street. Make use of the free parking j lots in the city when visiting here or doing your shopping. These places were established for the public, are lighted and arranged for sate and convenient parking of: cars. Safe and careful driving is up to you. A thousand laws can be passed regulating traffic, limiting sp»ed and all that, but if the individual doesn't use common sense and assume an attitude of wanting I to be careful, no law .or stack of laws will bring about safety on the highways. Indianapolis is building its first apartment building since 192 b, the owners investing $250,000 in the venture. The capital city is also suffering from a house shortage, which is something new and encouraging. A few years ago you could have bought a city block for the amount now being expended in the new building. The Huntington fight still goes on. The council failed to impeach Mayor Bangs, then left town so a special meeting couldn't be called and the next day City attorney Calude Cline resigned. We wonder what they have accomplished up to now, aside from publicity. Mr. Cline and Mayor Bangs are now exchanging messages and we wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of things happen over there by the time the ire of the people gets to fever heat. Work has started on the building of the new cement sidewalk on the north side of the court bouse, between Second and Third streets.

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| Plans call for reducing the walk ' to five feet, the additional six ifeet of the former walk being addled to the width of Madison street. The improvement will add to the ■ ■ appearance of the square and jwhen the street is widened will I be the means of accomodating a- ' bout a dozen more cars, diagonally parked. Boys and Girls should take an ’ ■ interest in civic and city govern- .' mental affairs. The years pass i quickly and before you know it, a. I new generation has the picture ■ I and is in control of business and I political affairs. Government can contribute just as much as the citiI zens themselves give, those hold j mg the offices are trust reletting ; ttie thoughts and desires of a ma-, jority of the people. Youthful en-j thusiasm and new thoughts are j needed in community building. One of the differences and priv-' ileges of American citizenship and ; that in many foreign countries is ■ i the right given to every man and I child to vote. .Next Tuesday'it is! up to you to decide who the party candidates shall be. It's important . i that you vole, if a move were I made to disfranchise you or take; from you the right to vote, you, would and should make a great ! storm or protest and refuse to sur-1 render one of the real privileges of free citizenship. Cast your ballot. Having always contributed of his fine talents and enthusiasm to civic movements, local and state, betterments William Kunkel, Jr., publisher, of the Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette and widely known throughout the state, is to be honored Sunday evening by the Sons; of Italy. High honors will be conferred on him by the organization and due recognition given to his leadership and , good citizenship. His fellow' publishers and friends ■ in this section of the state are i happy to note the honors which have come to him. o Youths Take Traffic Risks Sail Francisco —I UP)—Members ■ of the Statewide Junior Traffic Pai trol wil lhave to entorce the laws at their own risk hereafter. The attorney general has ruled the state cannot be held responsible for injuries received .by the nchoolboy t traffic police in the perf-wmance of their dntiee I Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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

Republican appraisal of the prospective outcome of the November election has dwindled down to a! question of how great President Roosevelt s majority is going to I be. It seems, on the authority of the always veracious, and impeccably .dispassionate and impartial Frank I Kent, that the President s closest ] friends are worried lest too com-: plete a victory would be bad for j him and for the country. This intensely neutral commentator, whose nqn-partizanship is indicated by his unfailing condem ' nation of everything Democratic | for the past five years, at least—] tor he was pro-Hoover long before - Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominal ] led in 1932, and auti-Roosevelt ev-] er since—quotes men of “the best I type of the Roosevelt intimates,”] who are regretting the prospect of] 'another overwhelming Democratic] ! victory. No, he does not name any : i of these sympathetic friends of the I President who want him to win.] 'but not 100 emphatically. Apparent-1 ly the strange information was | whispered to Mr. Kent in the dark,] 'with nobody present but the corn ] municator —and he probably wore ] la mask, if he did not remain be-1 I hind a curtain, while he confided ] to tlie chief anti-administration I propagandist his hopes and fears. | Os course, nobody will question l j the authenticity of Mr. Kent's re- ] port, any more than they would jbelieve if I put out such a tale — that I either dreamed or invented r,uch a yarn that people high in I duPont Liberty League, or its subsidiary the Republican organization. confided to me that practically all of them spent their evenings in prayer for the success of President Roosevelt. 1 don't know wiiat we columnists would do if we were debarred from quoting anonymous, if not apoery- ! phal, authorities. There has been Ino source of information so useiful and available since the once well-known White House spokesman quit his ghostly functioning. It seems that what Mr. Roosevelt's "friends" are afraid of is that a big Roosevelt majority would .give the President an idea that he I had a mandate from the people to ,; continue the New Deal direction.

PROCLAMATION Whereas, Major Edward Bowes and his justly famous Nations Amateur Radio Hour has attained great renown as a ranking radii program; and Whereas, Major Bowes, because of his kindly consideration ant intelligent guidance is assisting and making it possible for worth) 'amateurs to get a hearing before the American public; and Whereas. Major Bowes has delighted radio audiences throughou’ I the country and given employment to a great number of amateur per I formers in all sections of the country and through them spread happi '! ness and good cheer to thousands of theatre-goers; and Whereas. Major Bowes Amateurs on Tour. Unit No. Nine, consist >1 ing of a group of nationally acclaimed performers is to appear in per ■! son at the Adams Theater. Monday. May 4. 1. Arthur R. Holthouse ■ i Mayor of Decatur do hereby declare that day. Major Bowes Day in thii i city and environs and urge the people of this community to lend the.li support towards a material welcome to Uese young people. Given under my hand and seal this 2 day of May. A. D. 1936. ARTHUR R. HOLTHDUS, Mayor. |

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A little later in Mr. Kent's column I | it is explained that "in their hearts [they would ratb-;r not have him | for TresidenL” | If there is any contradiction in ( logic in this presentation, I can t ] help it. At least Mr. Kent is as logical las that other exponent of the theory that whatever the President | does is wrong. ex-Senator George I Wharton Pepper, whose undeliver!cd but published speech the other day announced that bis "blood I boiled" al this country's going off I the gold standard, mentioning that ] other nations “justly pointed the . finger of scorn at us" for this act. ] And on the same day that ex-Sena-i tory Pepper's blood boiled. Poland , went off the gold standard. Great i Britain had been off of it for four . and a hah years, and the uew si i>apers carried the tidings that France would take the same course | presently, w hich will make absence I from the gold standard pretty I nearly universal. Just which na- | tioual "finger of scorn" is pointed lin our direction on this count it I would be rather hard to guess. in calling attention to such ' things as this, we Democrats are, [of course, only spitting venom and ] indulging in vituperation. When | the one-time Senator from Pennsyll vania, who was appointed to till a vacancy, and failed of re-eleetion even after the expenditure of the largest campaign fund that the Mellon machine ever disbursed, acjeuses t hePresident of the United States of being dishonorable and adds that he is not fit to occupy that exalted office, he is not being venomous or vituperative l>ut is merely giving an even-tempered exhibition of factual argument for a great and good purpose.' Not only in the estimation of these critics is the President incapable of doing anything right or of having a respectable motive for anything he does, but it also appears that the same sort of appraisal appertains to ail those about him. or who have been about him A year or two ago Coluninisl Kent had occasion to write aboui Raymond Moley. Then he used tc refer to him as the “unfortunate Moley." He pointed out in various

-I- — ————~ 'ii an i ■■ ™ articles that the present editor of the magazine Today was neither impressive nor brillian: that “nobody could think of him us u master mind or regard him as a dominant personality." Mr. Kent referred to Moley's work us u pitiful mess and generally pictured him as an inadequate, stumbling, obscure professor, quite undeserving of fame or eminence. However, that opinion is changed. Mr. .Moley had indicated that there were some of the administra-i lion policies with which he did not agree, coupled, however, witli his faith in the President and his desire tor the President's re-election. In his comment on this, the columnist says of Mr. Moley that be was one of the ablest of the President's advisers and perhaps had more influence with him than uuy other expert. He also made mention of him as a man of real intellectual capacity, fio it is evident that all anybody has to do to have his fine qualities appreciated is to differ from the admiuistratiou ou some of its policies. As a matter of fact, the rift in .the friendship of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Raymond Moley, which | the hostile commentator so gleetulI ly hails, does not exist. They are | still intimate friends and frequent] i consultants. The President does of a brain trust of its own. ’ not insist that everybody should ajgree with him in all things, indeed, j if he did so. he would have had to I dissolve the so-called "Brain Trust" | long ago. tor in the days when the | New Deal program was at the] stage of legislative enactment] there were all manner of differing opinions among the eminent colleg-i ians who were doing the research' work for the President. He discarded many more proposals than he accepted, but he valued the opinion of these experts and drew on their knowledge for the data on j which he based his decisions. Os course, during that period, when it was deemed pom tast or j dangerous policy to assail the President personally, his critics attributed everything of which they disapproved to his technical advisers. But when politics got hot, when the so-called Liberty League began sprawling its campaign fund all over the map. the college professors began to be neglected and ■ it was the President himself who] was made the target for all the i Republican shafts. A little of this indicated change in (1. O. P. strategy may be due to its institution The last figures I saw listed 84 professors, or near professors, in ]

■"■■■ I . "’A-. <)te I<H HOLLING S W 0 R TH FOR COUNTY RECORDER No. 21 on the Democratic Ballot. I will appreciate it very much. Polkieal: Advt. DON’T FORGET! Have Your Cans and Rubbish on the Street and the City » Trucks will haul it away free of charge. City Clean -Up Week Starts MONDAY | City Street Department

’ the ranks of the competing advisory board. Presumably all of these are commit te d to the general theme that the administration must invariably be wrong, no matter what It does. Os one thing we may be sure, and that is that any of Chairman Fletcher's brain trust era who do not go along on that hypothesis will not be heard from, even though they continue to draw their salaries. All of these things are passing phenomena of a political campaign, i When the Republican propagandists themselves begin to discuss the probable size of the President's majority next November and indicate that their ultimate hope is that It will not be another Roosevelt landslide, and when they write mournfully how different it might have been had some-thing else been done instead of what was done, rival brain trusts and calling of unflattering names do not count for very much. ■ o ♦ —— - • ♦ Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ 1. Hydrometer. 2. A game of cards. 3. Thomas Saint, an Englishman. 4. Chile. 5. Charles Dickens. t>. A class of chemical compounds containing only carbon and i hydrogen. 7. German operatic singer. 8. A village on the Mount of .Olives near Jerusalem, on the road ; to Jericho. 9. Eros. 10. Egypt. 0 ♦ — — ♦ Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. What does it indicate when two men are introduced and they do not shake hands? A. Unless l>oth men are ignorant of social customs it w-.aik! indicate only one thing—unfriendliness. Q- Is it proper to close a social letter with the phrase. "With best ] wishes 1 am sincerely”? A. Omit the “I am,” which is unj derstood. and add the word "yours.” | “With bent wishes, (then on the | line be'ow) “Sincerely yours ” IQ Is it ill-bred to diseusc, domestic affairs when in public? A. It is very ill-bred to do so.

P”TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY .i; From the Dally Democrat File •I * 1 . I May 2—Conscription of men ie . | decided upon In England. They now ‘have more than five million men in service. May wheat dropped to slll In Chicago today on account of the : favorable weather. Movement for converting the old cemetery on Winchester street into j 1 a park is gaining headway. 1 Dr. Fred Patterson buys lot on south First street and will (build ‘ | a home next year. •e Irish rebels are court mar-

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