Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by fHE DBCATUR DEMOCRAT CO. (Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office a« Second Claes Matter. J. H. Heller. President A. R. Holthouse, Sec y i Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates: Single copiess .02 One week, by carrier.lo One year, by carrier.. 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by maill.oo 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. 36 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Fine weather if you please and the average house wife is taking advantage of the opportunity to get ■ the spring house cleaning out of the way. Baseball is going big this year and in the league fights the crowds ■ have reached the fever about the] Fourth of July. Looks like the big-1 gest season in years and may set. a new record. Senator Borah may bolt and will if he is in earnest in his conton-j tions. He certainly is nearer the Democratic standard of economics than he is to the stand pat doctrines of the G. O. I’. Decatur is growing and will continue to do so. If you are considering investing in local real estate or have in mind any improvements, you may do so with the asured feeling that you will be safe and wise. If you don't think the tradesmen are well employed here, go out and try to find a painter, paper hanger, carpenter or most any oth-l er workman you may need. You I will be lucky to book one up for several weeks to come. Get ready for the Centennial. It is going to be one whole big week of entertainment and fun, a reunion of those who formerly lived here and still think of Adams county as home. It will be better if every one gets into the spirit of the occasion. The straw hat season is here and for the next four mouths it will be necessary for tlm well dressed man to have a sailor, Panama or some other style of summer bonnet. Might us well get yours now and get that much more good out of it. Due credit to the “G-men". They have been proving their contention that once they start after a man, they keep on the job until they land him. During the past fortnight, they have pulled in several bandits who at one time or another held the title, public enemy No. one. Virgil "Skits" Simmons of Bluffton, veteran member of the Democratic state committee and one of the fellows who believes in fighting tor his district all the time, will continue to serve, much to the satisfaction of those who recognize the difficulties he has met iu such a splendid manner. Mr. Hoover says the country is in peril if Mr. Roosevelt is re-elect-ed, a nerioqo statement that would probably frighten some folks it it were not that it coupes from the same chap who four years ago issued a dramatic prophecy that if Roosevelt was elected, grass would grow on the streets of every city iu the laud. Howard Hughet. Chicago njiHton aire sportsman, bet a friend he

| could eat lunch in Chicago and p dinner In late Angeles and won the fifty sinackarx by driving his silver transport plane through in eight hours and ten minutes to establish a new record. He looks like just t the kind of a youngster to enjoy collecting the fifty and spending it t on a dinner for the gang. t It's difficult to say whether Congressman Zioncheck is more dan- > gerous at home or abroad Wherev- > er he goes he gets Into difficulties ! and be is certainly not a good missI ionary for any nation to have gala--1 vanting about. The best thing to * do with that bird is to get him out of congress by one means or another and that will probably happen the next election. It's interesting to note the difference between the financial pages , and the political pages these days. ! One shows the country going for-1 ward by leaps aud bounds with indications that next year will be the peak in American business and industry. While the other insists the nation has been ruined aud that , | high taxes have slowed capitali down to a mere nothing. Os course I it's politics of the crudest kind and isn't fooling any one. While the Democrats are having two or three district arguments. ■ the G. O. I’, is torn with a state 1 wide fight for control In Allen 'county they have two organizations. each claiming to be the one and only while State Chairman Irwin who grabbed reelection by ■ what many feel was an unfair program. is seriously considering resigning. provided he can find some ; * one to take the place who just I ] suits. It's a tough game and we, confess we can't understand just I what they are working so hard for. ■ o STAR SIGNALS —BY— OCTAVIN E For persons who believe that hu-f man destniy is guided by the planet, the daily horoscope is outlined by a noted astrologer. In addition to in- J , formation of general interest, it out-' . lines information of special interest I to persons born on the designated. i dates. May 18 i The planetary influence*, today I I are most likely to affect str.-.ngly j those persons who were born from j April 10 through 30. General Indications for Today Morning— WorrisomeAfternoon— Doubtful Evening—Good This is an aggravating day. Avoid worry. Make the evening social. Today's Birthdate You should always beware of black magic. Old friends should be of much assistance to you during March and April. 1937. You may profit through inheritance or other manner during November. 1936Make - cial or buy clothes from May 25 through 29, 9136. Readers desiring additional infor-j mation regarding their horoscope are invited to communicate with Octavine in care of this newspaper. Enclose a 3-cent stamped, self-ad-dressed envelope. ♦ « Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. A musical instrument, somewhat resembling a guitar, much used by the Greeks and Romans. 2- “Let the buyer beware.” 3. Rev.. Richard Harris Barham, under the pseudonym of Thomas - Ingoldsby. 4. Arizona. 5. Tanana. 6. Henry Clay. 7. The hawk family 8. “Bertha M. Clay." 9. A Roman noble celebrated as tlie leader of a conspiracy against i the Republic. 10. Pacific. 0 Song Blamed for Suicide ’ Sturgis. Mich.,—(l P)—The seng Gloomy Sunday." has been blamed I for the suicide of Floyd 'Hamilton, * 13. A copy of the song was found 1 in the boy's pocket after his death. 2 Gloomy Sunday” wag banned re- . ontly m Hungary (because it insptr- { cd 25 suicidesj Divorces Gain in Canada Ottawa. Olli -(UP) -Divorces in- ' treased hy more than 24 per cent in Canada last year, (he Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. The , number of divorces gi anted during 11935 totaled 1,376, an increase of 2 270 over 1931.

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

*One of the difficulties the newspapers opitosed to the Roosevelt administration are encountering is that of finding headlines for the straw vote polls they are running. For five successive issues the most conspicioua of these phantom ballot tings have show the Fresideirt gaining in popularity week after week. Last Sunday's totals put the Roosevelt majority only one-half of one per cent below that of the landslide election in 1932. To put il in more tangible figures, if we accept this straw vote Roosevelt would carry the country by a little fewer instead of a little more than seven million votes. Obviously no Republican newspaper would care to carry a headline to this effect, so they came out announcing that a shift of 309, 000 votes might give the Republicans the election if that increase were distributed among the states that promised the smallest Roosevelt majorities. For example, according to the estimate the Republicans .vpuld have only to take nearly 150.4100 votes away from the Democrats aud add them to its own column to give an indication that the Republicans might carry NewYork. To accomplish the result generally the hypothesis involves Democratic defeat iu every one of the so-called border-line states where the Democrats are running from one to three per cent ahead, aud allow the minority party every one of the states where they think they have a preponderance of one to two percent. The figures as they stand give the Democrats 26 states definitely, with 248 votes, and give them the best of it in ten other states, which would bring the total up to 381. or about 115 more electoral votes than Roosevelt needs -even if .the Republicans get all the votes allowed by the poll to them de*iuitely. all their border line states and Ohio, which the poll records us in the balance. It is a popular amusement among

the statisticians of politics lo figure out how a little change here and there would have altered the results of elections. It might be interesting to review a few of these For example, applying this same process of distributing the changes where they would produce the greatest effect, a shift of 153,00 b votes in Kansas. New 1 ork and Ohio would have elected Bryan instead ofMcKinley in 1000. The election of Theodore Roosevelt over Alton B Parker tu 1904 ■»3s always supposed to be very definite but applying this same syrTom of logis it would have taken upshift of only 277.000 votes in five spates to have made Parker President. instead of the Rough Rider. '■ William ' Howard Taft 'prevailed over William Jennings Bryan in Hms by 159 electoral votes. But it would have required a change of fewer than 200,000 votes in Illinois' Indiana, and New ’fork to put Bryan in the White Haque. While in

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1916 Woodrow Wilson might have been defeated by the shift of a! i'trifling 2.000 votes in California. Now in 1924, though Governor I Alfred E. Smith of New York was defeated by Herbert Hoover with ' a majority of more than 6,000.000 'and Hoover had a majority of 246 ' electoral votes, a change of few-. ,' er than 400,000 votes, properly r distributed, of course, would have' ' defeated Mr. Hoover. . The catch iu it is in the distri-j ; button of the hypotueticai ucterm- i Jining ballots. It is only an arith-j I metical abstraction and little more j i than an absurdity to get these re-; suits, but in the 1936 make-believe voting, so far as it has gone, it| does afford a headline. Actually. I .- there is about as much chance of . the candidate to be nominated at’ -' Cleveland next month to carry the ten States involved in the tortuous i calculation as there is for him to ■ gain the White House by acclama-1 ■ tion. Straw votes frequently have - forecast the election returns to a I ■ remarkable degree, but there nev-' ! er yet has been one that was right ' i on all the States. However, the t newspapers must regard the cur r rent polls as worthy of some attent tion or they would not publish it s so gravely to the extent of a page f evry Sunday. s The Democratic estimates, has- 1 ; cd on their own calcuiations and , reports, do not agree with that f poll, because, for example, they i show the States listed as mildly of _■ Democratic leanings as definitely within the Democratic column. Incidentally, taking the figures of , the straw vole, if the Democrats a carry either New York, Illinois, i, Ohio, or Michigan, that is all they a i need and almost any combination 1 of two or three States out of the i 22 that remain after deducting the • State which the estimates gives to '■ Roosevelt unconditionally, gives a s similar result. s It may have been observed that the newspaper columnists who so g eagerly seize on anything howev-

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' er vague to present a falling ott of Democratic strength have been singularly silent about this straw vote. 1 though a while ago. when the early j figures seemed to show a waning iof the Roosevelt popularity, they i dwelt ou them at length. It is also worthy of remark that they have made no comment on the willingness of the dul’ont Lib- ' erty Leaguers to contribute to any iorganization that proclaimed itself 'as against the administration. A recent publication made it clear ' that some of the most conspicuous J figures among the contributors to 1 these funds did not even know ■what they were contributing to. The Day, a prominent Hebraic 1 New York Daily, a few days ago published the reply of Mr. Alfred IP. Sloan. Jr.. President of the Genferal Motors Corporation, to a query [by Rabbi Samuel M. Duck.'of Col--1 umbus. Ohio, concerning Mr. Sloan's contributions to the “Sen[tinels of the Republic,” which was .charged with conducting an anti- , semetic campaign. According to this newspaper, Mr. Sloan wrote: “I am concerned solely, and I am very much interested, and anxious to support, so far as I can. i movements having as their objective a better understanding of the i great economic questions of to i day. and the policies with respect i to same whic h means so much to , the further progress of civilization. 1 have no intention or desire to enter into any question involving religion or political controverI sy. Under no circumstances will I (further knowingly support the Sentinels of the Republic, or any other movement whose objective does not entirely conform to the above.'’ Quite a number of others, ineluding the variety of dul'onts and officials of the dul’ont corporations, made similar contributions not only to the Sentinels but to Lobbyist Kirby's assorted organizations, which, according to the report of the Caraway Committee, had no existence at all except in the persons of Mr. Kfrhy and the selfnamed officials of these collection 'i agencies, who never would or 1 could tell what they did with all the money they gathered. _o > Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

f STATE * PERSONALITIES Elective And Appointive Officers of Indiana. Auto License Chief ■ i. ’ ‘ - FRANK FINNEY Motor Vehicle Licenae Commitxiener When a newspaper man is honored with appointment to a public office, the public usually expects to see a high degree of public service being rendered. That tradition has been kept to the letter by Frank Finney, editor of the Martinsville Democrat, who became' Indiana's Commissioner of motor' vehicle licensee when Paul V. Me-. Nutt also from Martinsville, be-' came Governor. One of the first reforms instituted by Commissioner Finney was to reduce the cost and the waste which formerly attendee the work of compiling auto license records. Soon after, he cut the cost of auto drivers’ licenses, rearranged the system for auto license sales for convenience of motorists all over the state and stopped the old political game of letting license collections drag through half the year. Efficiency and service are now the watch words of the auto license department under Mr. Finney. Aud they are being practiced daily with savings to taxpayers aud motorists. In the meantime, Commissioner Finney has been at work with commissioners of other states in attempting to have reciprocal relations regarding regulation and licensing of motor vehicles observed. He has made real progress, for it is seldom heard that Indiana trucks are having difficulty in other states. Also, along the line of bis official duties, Mr. Finney is throwing all the weight of his office and staff into the campaign to cut down motor accidents and fatalities. He is cooperating with state police, the public service commissions truck department and the state highway commission in the effort to prompt "Safe Driving" on the highways. In his hands is the power to revoke and deny drivers' license to reckless motorists and he does not hesitate to use it. Democrats in the state employment recently honored Mr. Finney by almost unanimously re-electing him president of the Hoosier Democrat Club. In between times. Mr. Finney writes enthusiastic Democratic editorials for his weekly paper in Morgan County. He is a past president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. o — — Horse, 30. Works 26 Years Pasco, Wash —<U,F) —Billie, a 30-year-old dray horse has worked steadily for 26 yeans on the samu job, his owner, L. A. Schuneman declares.

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< » H ' -—■»! —..0 Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee ♦ * ♦ Hot Water Bag Don’t throw away the rubber > hot water bug just because it has sprung a leak. It will prove juut as effective if filled with hot sand. Transplanting I Water evergreens and shrubs 1 thoroughly a few days before transplanting and the results will be I more satisfactory, due to the moisI ture. Eggs Hard-boiled eggs can be cut with I out breaking the yolks if the knife i is dipped in water, y..— TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ May 16— Mexican bandits wreck a train at Ayjiose, carrying 1.000 passengers and 150 burn to death. John McCrory is the Decatur delegate to the stale convention of the I. O. O. F. at Indianapolis. The M. E. parsonage is being redecorated and hardwood floors I laid. Miss Zelma Stevens of Decatur is given Tri Kappa scholarship to I U. Earl K. Shalley recommended for postmaster at Berne by Congressman Adair. Slide fund reaches 1285 and the drive will close tomorrow. Train Reaches 125 M.P.H. Berlin.—(U.R>—The German State Most Perfect Torso K X aS v i MSI I 1f ■ ¥ : srJI I .I: f , Helen R»m»ey Sculptors designing statuary for the Texas Centennial exposition at Dallas selected Miss Helen Ramsey, 16-year-old high school 1 girl, as the possessor of j perfect torso” among the rangert «ttes attached to the exposition | and enlisted her as a model

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