Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by HIE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered al the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. 11. Heller.... President A. R. Holthouse, Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice President Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 One week, hy carrier...... .. .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail .... .35 Three months, by mall 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 $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. Go to church Sunday and attend the services dedicated to mother. The little French girl is cute. I but she can't pose like the Little Kentucky Colonel. A kind word, a little attention; and devot on can be given tv Molli-1 I er all through the year. The fellow who ate 17 steaks, | a platter of rolls and washed it down with beer must nave been I a cousin of Wimpy s. J. Edgar Hoover will have to |ie i furnished a new list of public j enemies or the ace "G" mail w ill j find himself without a job. God bless the mothers, yive them i health, long happy years and chil dren that make their hearts glad. That's about all God s most kindly and lovable creatures expect in' their busy and useful lives. The amusing thing about the Republican presidential situation I is that Governor Al* Landon was ’ trotted out by Editor Hearst and ) it appears that the Chicago Trib , line will have to fall in line. A New York woman wanted lo move. Her husband objected, so she set fire to t’ae House. The blaze was put out without serious damage, but the woman faces arson charges, which is one way that might give her the opportun- • ity to move up river. Increased interest has been shown in the Monroe street shopping center, following the announcement that the new ornamental street lights would be erected there. It's a good time to fix up the buildings, brighten the stores and fronts with signs and lights and step up business along the line. Detffocrats and Republicans will meet this afternoon lo elect their county chairmen. In all probability the present chairmen. Nathan Nelson and Ralph Yager will be reelected as pilots of the party organizations. They are seasoned to the job and do not have any competition from any source, making the election a certaintity. Do you know of a place, removed from the public eye, that could be used as a dumping ground? The one in use by the c'.ty is last filling up and being located close to the residential section meets with objections from nearby residents. Such a place is necessary, because rubbish and debris must be disposed of and should not be

The New Restaurant COLONIAL CAFE 130 Monroe St. WILL OPEN SOON ( hick Aeschliman, Proprietor.

I dumped on the river banks. City i officials would appreciate receiving suggestions on the matter. Young Richard James of Port- ■ land appears to have been defeat cd by Iwo votes in his race for the Fifth district Republican nomination for congress. The opposition candidate is said to have had lite bucking of tile Townsend old age pension group, bin little strength was shown by this organ ization in the state. A one vote switch would have resulted in a tie which seems impossible when considered that thousands of votes are cast in a district. There is a lot of truth in the saying, "your vote may be the deciding one." CONTINUED RECOVERY:— The Bureau of Agricultural Economics, in Washington, isues a most encouraging report on the : monthly cash income of farmers I for the first three months of 11*36. The total of more than a billion and a half dollars shows an increase of 251* million dollars over the similar period in 1935 Thus we have official confirmation of' | the fact that the business of farm-1 ,mg is good and is growing bettei 1 'month by month The report also > ■shows in detail that what some of, . us are in the habit of regarding as ■ minor phases of farming are real!ly more important than the big items. The cash received during! I the quarter from fruits and vege-j | tables, for instance, is almost' .double the amount received from 'the sale of grains. And the money c oming in from dairy and poultry | : products was just about equal to i I that coming from the sales of meat j animals. Leaving the benefit pay-; Intents and some of the odds and ■ ends out of the calculation it I seems the American farmer receiv-1 c d six million dollars more from ; his truck gardens, orchards, dairy, | barns and poultry houses than he i i did from the combined sales of i I cuttle. hogs, sheep ami horses, plus' the production from grain and cot lion fields. This is the national pic1 1tire for the first three months of | I 1936, but the point it illustrates) can be wisely pondered by he in i dividual operator of every Indiana I farm. The Farmer's Guide. o-.- ..." ■ ■ * STAR SIGNALS —BY— OCT A VINE For persons who believe that hull >ll .l. stniy is guided by the planet, t >.- daily i,o! -seep, is outlined by 1 a tinted astrologer. In addition to in- , formation of g. neral interest, it outlines information of special interest - to persons born on the designated I dates. May 11 Prisons most likely to feel to- 1 days influence are those whose birthdates fall b tween Dec. 21 and Jan. 20. General Indications .Morning -Hopeful Afternoon —Very good. Evening Slightly go d Th<- afternc.’ n is the best time to deal with anyone in authority. Today’s Birthdate You should have an analytical mind and be a sound reasoner. Old friends, clubs, associations, or elderly persons should be a good influence in ycur life during May 1936, and February, 1937. You should expand the benefit thr ugh ttaveling. study or in connection with foreigners during March 1937. Religion should be helpful at this period. Readers desiring additional infor- | mation regarding their horoscope are invited to communicate with Octavine in care of this newspaper. Enclose a 3-cent stamped, self-ad-dressed envelope. — (jModern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. When a woman is wearing an | expensive coat, and is dining in a public place, may she retain it instead of checking it? A. Yes: she may slip the coat over the back of her chair, or place it on another chair at the table. Q. What is the best time for a business woman to make a social call? A On any convenient evening during the week, or on Sunday afi lernoon. y. Are formal invitations sent in the first person? A. Formal invitations are sent I in the third person o j Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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

From the "L ibe rt y League". j spokesmen and the Republican) National Committee announcers' i we leant that President Roosevelt )is responsible for the views pro-] pounded by what used to be call-1 led the "Brain Trust." They have) even dug out the early w ritings of I i some of the coiispic iotts figures a ! tuong the President's advisers to show what terrible radicals they are. Nearly every economist, in his early stages, writes a book and makes it as startling as possible. This is an almost invariable elem-l ent in collegiate psychology Now what is saute for the goose i is, or ought to be, sauce for the gander, so there can be no impro-I priety in attributing the views of j the newly concentrated Republi-‘ can Brain Trust to Chairman Fiet-, <-her. or indeed to whichever of the 57 varieti -of candidates may get the nomination at Cleveland. On this hypothesis one might assume that Governor Landon, for example, is in favor of sterilizing the socially upfit. birth control and a limitation of marriage to those rich enough to afford an automobile. These are a few of the principles which Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver, professor emeritus at Harvard University, and high priest of the G. O P. intellectuals, put forth as necessary expedients in his book: "What Must We Do To Save Our Economic Svistem? ' Oh yes, he also presents that all immigration should cease and asks the "relaxation of elimination of Government regulation and restraints in business." He approves of Hitler and Mussolini, and points that population planning is the real panacea for economic distress. "So long." contends the scholar retained to think for the minority party, "as people who lack intelligence continue to spawn others who lack intelliff’m-e, we shall have more of such people than we can possibly employ at good wages." Or suppose not Governor Landon but Senator Vandenberg is the Republican nominee. So, as wc arc in-

bulging in hyperbole and fantasy, let us assume that, the senator is elected and carries into office with him his party's Brain Trust. Will it bo all right to describe the sob-er-sided Michigander as a ‘guild cooperator"—for that is the term applied to himself by Niles Carpenter. Ph. U. Harvard instructor in Social Ethics, and also eminent among those gathered by Chairman Fletcher Io direct the mental processes of the Republican campaign. Prof. Carpenter's book is called ‘‘Guild Socialism." He explains: ‘‘This wide-spread existence of what might *be called “informal .Marxism' has prepared the ground for Guild Socialism. The Guildsmen have not so much tried to prove the Marxian doctrine of la-bor-value and surplus-value as they have assumed * * * It is to be expected. therefore, that the econoinlie basis of Guild Socialism is es-

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.sentially Marxian." So. if Prof. Carpenter advises as 'he writes, the highly hypothetical I Republican administration must ; ) be put down as believing that “the ’wage system is the one great barI t ier against human emancipation. ' I We learn from this book that I “Today the Guildsman claims that I the enslavement of the workers, land the suppression ol all motives but that of profiteering, makes decent workmanship all but impossible." Now what are all the mass -I ed duPonts of the "Liberty Lea-j jgue" going to think when th-y seel what they are getting for their! money? Among tlv> holy tilings appertain | ing to the Republican party is the .Smoot-Hawley tariff. It was Ex -j President Hoover who told us that I lif that benevolent padding of cor-j potation incomes were interfered with, grass would grow in the streets of our great cities. It is i Secretary of State Hull's recipro- > city agreements engaged in by the Roosevelt administration that are, charged with profaning the sacred > tariff But sad to relate, at few- ' est four of Chairman Fletcher's , Brain Trusters signed the econom-1 ists' protest against the Smoot- j Hawley bill and begged President Hoover to veto it. Moreover, another conspicuous member. Prof. Asher Hobson, M. A.. D. P. S., of Wisconsin University, once connected with Secret-' ary Wallace's Department of Agri culture, connived in the framing of the Canadian reciprocity agree? i nient, and is quoted as declaring ' that "For this Nation to attempt to attain a sate of happy isolation is something like a hermit looking for a cave on Broadway." Now just suppose, so long as we are doing all this supposing, that Col. Knox gets the Cleveland nom- : illation and is elected, must V<- ' i take it for granted that he deplorles the Smoot-Hawley iniquity and wants to go full speed ahead in making these trade compacts, to the destruction of the highest tar--1 iff in the history of privilege? This is all nonsense, of course,

MOTHER’S DAY Among Hit days we celebrate tine stands above all others, The day we dedicate to her the dearest of all Mothers. Though nestled in your heart and mine, she lives in many places; In age she’s young and still she's old she wears a million laces. t pon her countenance a smile, her dear love shining through, That makes this world a fairer, latter place for me and you. And would we change her if we could? my answer you have guessed, She stands high up above them all — each knows his own is best! —Fred Winslow Rust

'but is it any more nonsensical titan 'the reiteration from the anti-ad- ! ministration crowd of the clamor that President Roosevelt is a Socialist. a Communist, a Fascist, and is bent on taking the profit motive out of business and plant ing on American soil a composite lot the systems of Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler, with himself in the driver's seat? Are these thing more flagrantly absurd than the passionate utterance of the Director of the duf’ont "Liberty League," who in a recent speech at Baltimore conveyed the impression that Roosevelt was bent on dictatorship? After recitI ing what had happened in Rusia, ; Italy and Germany. Mr. Jouett i Shouse said: "Whether he wants to exercise it or not. Franklin Roosevelt has demanded and Congress has supinely granted an authority as great jas any dictator could ask." And he I added: "That power residing in | the hands of the Executive is an hourly menace to the freedom of I the people" I A Russian would probably see in i ibis statement that the President had appeared at the Capitol wih in regiment of soldiers and at the I bayonet point had extorted from a 'cowering chamber its submission : to his will. What happened, of course, is i that lie sent up a message, in accordance with his Constitutional duty, recommending certain legislation he deemed necessary to care for some millions of destitute people, aud Congress, with many ‘of the Republican members participating. voted him tin- authority. It is hardly of record that any of the Senators and Representatives who vot' d the other way were sent to the bastile. And the President was similarly negligent of the best despotic principles when Congress overruled a veto, or turned down or modified laws he proposed. He indicated that ht was disturbed at a Supreme Court decision, but so far neither Chief Justice Hughes, nor his colleagues on the high tribunal. seem to be withered by the tyrant's frown which certainly suggests very poor despoting. o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

f STATE PERSONALITIES Elective And Appointive Officers of Indiana. • * I P. S. C. Chairman A § /X PERRY McCART Chairman of the Public Service Commission. One of the most alert public servants in Indiana is chairman of, the state hoard w hich sits in Judge-1 nient upon the differences bejween ! the people and the public utility 1 corporations of the state. He is Perry McCart. of Paoli, an okl-tiine Democrat and life-long friends of the late Thomas Taggart whose French Lick Hotel became the national Mecca of the Democratic Party. Chairman McCart, a lawyer, was the first appointment made by Governor Paul V. McNutt when early in 1933 he carried out his campaign promise to change the public service commissi- n "en toto " New policies immediately were adopted and. although the commis- | sion was handicapped by a depieI lion of revenues with which to make investigations, it tackled the house cleaning job with vigor and telling effect. Today, public utility consumers of Indiana are paying over $5,500,000 less annually for the services they use because of the vigorous action by the commission. which resulted in the downward adjustment of utility rates over all the state. One of the most difficult jobs of the public service commission lias been the work of establishing fair and equitable regulation over the operations and rates charged by motor vehicle transportation. This ditty was given to tile commission i>y lite 1933 legislature and was redefined by tile 1935 General Assembly. In practical qffect the commissions administration of the bus and truck laws has eliminated cutthroat practices and preserved a valuable instrument of transportation and commerce. The public service commission today holds a good name in the eyes of the people of the state. The "infamous old back door" has been nailed shut The commission has been conscious for the past three years of its obligations to the public without being destructive of the vast investments made in public utility properties, it has spent large sums of money in appraising the properties of utilities to find the fair value on which the owners are entitled to a fair return. The commission has been a just referee in disputes between the railloads and trucking interests and between the privatelyowned and municipally-owned utilities. It has given encouragement to the extension of rural electrification and other adequate services for the public convenience. 0 Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Shoes and Stockings Sitoes and stockings that are . too short are very often the cause ■ of ingrowing toe nails. It is far bet- . ter to have both the shoe and the stocking a half inch too long. > Kitchen Drawers When placing paper at the bot- . toms of the kitchen drawers, it is

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I just aa easy to make four or five layers for each drawer. When the top layer has become soiled, merely remove it. The Vegetable Garden It is unwise to plant the same vegetable in the same location two • | years in succession. w I TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY j From tile Dally Democrat Filo May 9— Obregon threatens to uk.him troop* to drive A.ncrleau soldiers out of Mexico. Clover Leaf railroad will spend a million dollars on its tracks thh- ' year. Frank R Hi. a n and MI ■■ It. Kintz married by Father Selmetz The slide fund reaches $231. E F. Gass elected president of the Decatur Merchant'slAssociatlon. Di k Butler accepts position with Pet fecti.cn Bicuit Co., of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Dale Mose* entertains the Tri Kappa.

Birch Oil Industry Union lx- „ i 1 -sSk >al ' * i F'.* ■ Grinding chip. One of the most unusual of the thousand- of c-malier ::iul which contribute their bit to keeping the wheel- of ctmttettdi mg is the manufacture of birch oil. In th- historical C 1! n« area of Berks coupty, Pennsylvania, a number of somewlsti dated sheds house the various .-mall mills wh ch carry otl ? 100,000 industry. The oil is distilled from bark tnyprit birch branches and the product sold to druggists who tt»l ointments and liniments. Juice boiled from the branchestsltd in a process similar to that used tn making liquor and aMI substance is Idft. It takes three three-ton truck load: a! Ini to yield four quarts of oil w hich rcpri ents a day s oil I* one mil! and sells for about 5112. “American Mother of 19J6 r- -s. r . >N ’■ * — z >. ' J 1 •* r - '' ,a| Mrs. Jamw Smith «nd D f,v,d F ’* ler yot|( More thrilled by the knowledge she w.U go• to .on living there) than by the honor of b >->k flf a mother of 1936", Mrs. Jamc< • •range grower, is pictured ” tn pk? P art r Fowler. Mrs. Sntfth will E" to Kule Found**

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