Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 124, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publiihed Every Evening Except Sunday by CHE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. I. H. Heller.„_„President A- R. Holthouse, Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates: Single copiesl .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by maill.oo Six months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mail3.oo One year, at office3.oo 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 Dallies. If they change the calender, it : might be well to have all legal boll-1 days fall on Monday, thus getting away from closing on Saturday. Park diagonally with the curb on the north side of the court I house on Madison street and the space will accommodate an additional dozen cars. Doc Townsend of the |2OO-a--month pension movement doesn't want to tell all he knows to the I senate about the nation wide plans | of his organization. Yesterday he I flared up and refused to go on with j his story. The senate will more, than likely compel him to fess up. | He stalked from the senate chamb-j er with one of the former lieutenants of the late Huey Long and now is trying to hook up with the remnants of the kinghsh's crowd down south. The local WPA crews are doing good work in this city. The street' and sidewalk improvement north of the court house, the redecorating of the City Hall, the rebuilding and construction of walks at many points throughout the city! are numbered among some of the worth-while projects. Good wort-: manship is evident in every case! and improvements, not otherwise made at this tints, have been completed through the work relief organization. There isn't anything wrong with the WPA in Indiana. After a thorough investigation of charges and spiking of rumors about political activity within the organization, investigators have reported to Harry Hopkins, national director that most of the trouble was mere conversation. You can't keep men in this country from expressing their preference for or against individuals or candidates, even if they are employed by the WPA and that's about all "political activity’’ the men engaged in. Vincennes, this state, has a 10,000 ton cruiser, named in its honor. The craft replaces the first ship bearing that name, when Admiral Perry, about luu years ago tried to open commerce with Japan. The Vincennes is one of the most modern fighting ships afloat, equipped with eight five-inch guns and costing approximately ten million dollars. The cruiser was dedicated yesterday by the young CHANGE OF ADDRESS Subscribers are requested to give old and new address when ordering paper changed front one address to another. For example: If you change your address from Decatur R. R. 1 to Decatur R. R. 2, instruct us to change the paper from route one to route two. When changing address to miother town, always give present ‘ address and new address.

daughter of the mayor of Vincennes a and was quite an event at Quincy, Mass. The Van Wert peony festival is * one of the feature attractions givt en in this part of the country. The city is noted for its famous peony t farms and attendant beauty and the program arranged by our l neighboring city is one of the most elaborate ever planned. It would I be in keeping with the "good 1 neighbor" policy which Decatur be--1 lleves in, to include a float in the i spectacular parade, the opportun-‘ 1 ity being given us to advertise our ' i Centennial celebration to the thousands who will visit the peony city and exposition. Foremen and supervisors of the Fort Wayne General Electric works were guests today of the Decatur organiatzion of the company at a picnic at Sunset park. Gatherings of this kind contribute much to general understanding, good will and fellowship. They provide an ’ opportunity for those engaged in operating the wheels of industry to relax and take on new inspiration which comes from a fewhours in the great out doors. Decatur was happy of the opportunI ity to entertain the visitors and living up to their reputation as real hosts, we know the local boys made everyone feel at home. The congregation of St. Mary's Catholic church is making approI priate plans for the observance of , the Reverend Father Joseph I , Seimetz's twenty-fifth anniversary I of l.is ordination to the priesthood. One of the impressive and i principle events on the program {will be the solemn high mass to Ibe celebrated on Sunday morning. May 31. the honored priest being ■celebrant of the service. Jn the I evening a public reception will be held for Father Seimetz in the auditorium of the Catholic school. The program will not only honor the kindly and sincere spiritual director of St. Mary's, but will also include the well wishes of everyone who hope that he enjoys good health and years of continued serI vice in this community. 0 STAR SIGNALS —BY—--1 OCTAVINE For persons who believe that human destniy is guided by the planet, the daily i-'-loaeupe is outlined byi a noted astrologer. In addition to information of general interest, it outlines information of special interest to persona born on the designated dates. May 25 Those n.-ost likely to be influenced by today's vibrations are born froim July 21 through August 20. General Indications Morning—Bad. Afternoon —Doubtful. Evening—Good The late afternoon and evening are good for clerical w.-,rk or energetic enterprises. Today’s Birthdate You should have great powers of percerption and a pra.ticacl mind. During December, 1936, you should gain through partner’s affairs or perhaps inheritance. Danger Oct. 1 through 4, 1936. Make social calls, buy clothes or seek favors fr»m May 31 through June 3, 1936. Readers desiring additional information regarding their horoscope are invited to communicate with Octavine in care of this newspaper. Enclose a 3-cent stamped, self-ad-dressed envelope. Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ■ « 4 Q. What does bonjour mean, and , how is it pronounced? A. it means good day, or good morning. Pronounce bong zhoor, first o as in or, oo as in boot, principal accent on last syllable. Q. When shrimps are served whole in their shells, how should they be eaten? A. The shrimps should be separated. peeled, and conveyed to the ! mouth with the fingers. Q. How far in advance should one make travelling reservations? A. Reservations should be made , a month in advance if possible. > o Town Police Budget $5 Surry. N. H. -4U.P) —The town's ! budget committee has had to ap- ’ propriate $5 to provide for mainte- > i native of Stirry> police ■ during 1936. The 1935 approprilatton was only sl.

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

There does not seem any way in which President Roosevelt can sat ’ isfy the du Pont Liberty League, i the Republican National Committee or any other of the multitudinous organizations which, under other names, mean the same thing. If Congress passes a measure he has recommended promptly, it is described by such impartial, neutral, and non-partisan observers as Frank Kent- from whose viewpoint the Democratic party has never done anything right in five years or more —as a rubber stamp legislative body, that has resigned its authority, abandoned its Constitutional powers and jettisoned its perogatives, at the nod of a dictator. If Congress, on the other hand, elaborately explores the possibilities and implications of a measure —such as the pending tax bill—it is groping in the dark. Its hearings, debates and efforts to compose the differences in opinion between the Senate and the House ot Representatives mean that the administration is confused; that it does not know what it wanns to uo. anu mat Congress is revolting against dictatorship. We have read a great deal in the I opposition newspapers about I "Must" legislation. The phrase is borrowed from the jargon of technical journalism, where must articles are those that the directing newspaper mind says have to be printed regardless of space limitations or the opinions ot the subeditors. The political implication is that the President has ordered that certain bills should be passed, regardless of the views of the Congressmen. the virtues or demerits of the indicated measures, or of the pressure of other legislative business. The ability to say must involves the ability to enforce such an order. In the bright lexicon of a tri-depgrtniental government, there is no such word as must. The President might as well teii the Supreme Court that it has to decide a case a certain way as to tell Congress that it has to pass designated legislation. The must business was read into the mental processes of the President by the long-range mind-read-

ing of those newspaper columnists who have specialized in beatign the tom-toms in the interest of minority party. As a cold matte r of fact. Congress has, in a number of instances, ignored the President’s recommendations; in a greater number it has modified the to accord with Congressional views. Doubtless some members of the National Legislature have been influenced by party spirit to support the Chief Executive, just Republican members have been actuated by party spirit to oppose him. That is one ot the advantages, or liabilities, ot the system under which our country works A recent article, by my favorite hostile propagandist, takes the President to tgsh {O? ove’-estiiukt-mg the size of the army of the un employed. Mr. Frank Kent arraigns

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the President for blaming on in- ! dustry slackness in doing its part i in putting people to work. He bases this attack on a survey conduct-1 ed by the New York Sun, which estimates the number ot unemployed at about three and a half million—not a great deal more than the average of unemployment in normal times. A month ago this inspired crystal gazer and telephathist advised us that the President was at his wit's end in an effort to reconcile the figures indicating prosperity with the undiminished total of jobless. Mr. Kent in this connection quoted 12,000,000 as the number of unemployed. Evidently there are twelve million out of work for the purpose of demonstrating that the New Deal has failed, but only three and a half million when the object is to prove that the President was as inacurate as he was wicked to intimate that industry was not absorbing idle labor as rapidly as it should do in view of the increased profits of industry. Another of the inspired practitioners of political thought transi mission is Mr. David Lawrence, i who told us the other day, without land IPs or hut's, that the DcmoI cratic platform to be adopted at ■ the Philadelphia convention “will I not differ in several particulars ! from that which the Young Repub- ■ licans (of New York) have just adopted." For a man whose job it is to learn as early as possible what the party, whose press agent he ; is, is going to say in its platform, ' i this is all very discouraging. I. hav- ’ ing no method of mind-reading at , | my command, even if I knew in ad- ', vauce of the event who would com- ! I pose the Platform Committee, am '; in the dark as to the prospective ' declaration of issues and prindTplI es. Here I am, scooped by a colum- ' i nist able, not only to project his ' | astral into close communion with . Presidential sub-conscious, but to ’ I get the proper occult wave length ’, over whifch to communicate with ’ ■ forty-eight delegates, whose ident I ity must remain unknown until ‘ [ they are named and their appoint- ] tnent is confirmed at a convention that does not meet until next

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month. What makes it all the more mysterious is that neither they nor anybody else knows which delegates are going to be selected for the platform job. I presume before this letter is published some of these astonishing soothsayers will be able to tell lus what was in the mind of ExPresident Hoover when he started 1 making campaign speeches and holding conferences with Republican party powers. He announced last Monday that he was not a candidate — though, to be sure, he did not suggest that he would not take the nomination if it came to him. Perhaps like others in the past who have found themselves in similar situations, he was only a candidate when he thought there was a chance, and conceived the role of a power behind the scenes, when it was borne in on him that nomination was not in the cards this time. It is rather entertaining to think of the former President in the roll of a party boss. He js hardly the type that would flower in smokefilled room conferences. He never indicated in the past any overpowering love for politics or politicians or special aptitude for the intricacies of the game. However, be probably realizes that the role of elder statesman and Sage of Palo Alto conveys little ourishment to an ex President. The idea of seclusion ' and meditation might appeal to him, but the trouble about that is that the groundlings ot politics I might take him seriously, ami leave . him forgotten of the political world. J It has been announced that Mr. i Hoover would not appear at Clove- , 1 land. Otherwise we would probably t have seen him about the corridors . of the convention hall a trifle lonei some perhaps, brought in to lend ’| au air of dignity to spectacles—- ( which is the least that could be . clone tor a one-time standard bear- . . er—anil quit, out of it when the j practical fellows are fixing up the = machinery for the nomination and i. the ticklish enterprise of platform !_ making—which are uo jobs for am--8 ateurs. u Fifty Years Doubly Marked li Ij M.Gregor. la. — (UP)-n- Mr. and I-1 Mrs- Henry Miller recently celeillbrated an occasion of double signi-L-1 (loanee. It was their golden wedding n I anniversary and marked the end of ;t their 50th year on the same farm.

* STATE PERSONALITIES Elective And Appointive Officers of Indiana. Public Works Head ll VIRGIL M. SIMMONS Virgil M. Simmons, of Bluffton, has been active in governmental activities for many years, both in state and nation. Mr. Simmons has served in the U. 8. District Attorney's office, as a member of the Indiana General Assembly, and since April 15, 1933, as Administrative Officer of the State Department of Public Works and Commissioner of Conservation, Under the guidance of Mr. Simmons, Conservation in Indiana has gone forward with rapid strides. Through cooperation with the Emergency Conservation Program, the Department has been able to set up a twenty-five year plan in the remarkable time of three years, i Included in this plan has been the development of all state properties belonging to the public estate of the Conservation Department; the creating of a State Conservation Committee that represents the 8000 organized sportsmen throughout the state. A program of education designed to educate men. women and children in the importance of mineral resources and continued existence of wildlife in Indiana has resulted in the organization of over 500 Conservation clubs throughout the' State. The publication “Outdoor 1 Indiana" has also proven a valuable aid in the Educational program. Through the combined efforts of the State Conservation Com-

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mittee and Conservation clubs the most comprehensive legislative program of Conservation ever pretested to the Indiana General Assembly was made into law, assuring the residents of Indiana a new deal in Cuntervatiou. As Administrative Officer of the Department of Public Works, .Mr. Simmons has under his supervision the State Highway Commission, the Division of Buildings and Grounds, the World War Memorial, me Central Purchasing Bureau and the George Rogers Clark Memorial. The State Highway Commission has developed a program that has met with approval throughout the middle West. The Highway system has been modernized to meet the demands of ever increasing traffic problems. Special emphasis has been placed on safety programs and giant strides have beeu taken to eliminate traffic haxards and educate the public in safe driving and elimination of traffic fatalities. Through the pledge of economy •ncreased operating efficiency has <een made in all divisions of the Jepartment of Public Works. o —■■ . — Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two * — -4' 1. Tibet. 2. American poet and philosophJr. 3. A teacher. 4. Centime. 5. Washington, D. C. 6. A volatile oil obtained, by pressure, from lemon peel. 7. The English Channel. 8. George Romney, an English portrait painter.

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