Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by CHE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. titered 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 carrierlo Pne year, by carriers.oo One month, by mail .— .35 Three months, by malll.oo Six months, by mai11.75 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 Dailies. Congressman Zioncheck has a right to his own opinion, but he is about the only person who isn't I convinced of his insanity. The only objection that Borah and his supporters have against Governor Landon is that he is a "new dealer” at heart. Most men are that way. Everybody wishes to save expenses, but it does look like the state law should be changed permitting counties to pay election board members more than three dollars for 18 to 24 hours work. James Day. the young boy who murdered Richard Loeb with a razor in the Illinois prison last January. was not only found not guilty of the crime, but may win a parole as a result of his trial. He may believe that one way to get out of the penitentiary is to cut your way out. Tlie public hopes the appropriation will be made to buy the drinking fountains proposed for court house corner. The cost of the fixtures will be small, compared to "ie amount of good they will contribute. The city water depart-1 meat will install them free of charge and also furnish the water. The Democratic state convention June 1G may prove one of the biggest attractions and most interesting meetings ever held by the party. Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the president is planning to “drop in" and say hello to the delegates and visitors and her presence will add to the importance of the occasion. The Hankhead Brothers of Alabama have a remarkable political career. Representative William B. Bankhead, the new speaker of the ] House, who succeeded Speaker Byrns has been a member of con ! gross for about twenty years. His brother is a United States senator, who succeeded his father to the high office. The speaker is 62 aud the senator 64 years old. Feel free to call the Daily Democrat and turn in your news items. We want items about visits, guests, the going and coining of fiends, weddings, parties and everyday happenings, which to you might not seem important, but are appreciated by those who read the CHANGE OF ADDRESS Subscribers are requested to {jive old and new address when ordering paper changed from 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 another town, always give present address and new address.

Home Paper. If you have a weddi ing, a birth, or a party in your family contribute the Item to the paper. Just ONE THOUSAND. t Impressive and inspiring were the commencement exercises of t Decatur Catholic high school last evening. Diplomas were awarded I to 27 high school and 27 eigTith grade graduates by Father SeimI etz, pastor of St. Mary's church * and directing head of the school. ' Father Curt Suelzer of Fort Wayne i delivered an eloquent address and 1 graduates and friends were in- [ spired with his remarks. The exercises marked the fourteenth annual commencement of the high school and the graduation of the largest class in the history of the school. It's expensive to run for congress. Statements made by contesting candidates in the recent ( primary, show that it cost them i about $4,500 each. The fact that I headquarters must be maintained, workers employed, literature print■ed and mailed accounts for most 1 of the expenditure. The public demands a lot now a-days, in the I way of salesmanship and running for congress is no exception. The I office pays SIO,OOO a year, a term being for two years and after one lives in Washington and pays primary and general election expenses, his savings probably wouldn't amount to a fair sized Christmas savings fund. Tlie Daily Democrat joins with j the congregation and his host ofj outside friends in extending felicitations to the Reverend H. R. CarI . son, pastor of the First Methodist I church, who on Sunday will ob- ■ serve the twentieth anniversary of i his ordination in the ministry. DeII catur is happy to have in its midst | . | a minister of the Gospel who celeibrates such an important amtiverr sary. The congregation has planned an appropriate program and we realize that the occasion is an , important one. Reverend Carson . was ordained in 1916, following his ■ graduation from Asbury college, in j Kentucky and has devoted his life Ito the service of the Master and I the spiritual welfare of those iu- ■ eluded in his congregation. He has been a zealous worker, extending his leadership and ability to I things of a civic and community nature. On his twentieth anniversary he has cause for joy and his friends wish for him many more useful years in the ministry. o ♦ ~ # Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed I on Page Twc 1. Cape Henry and Cai>c Charles. i 2. Gems cut in relieu i 3. Andrew Jackson. 4. A poisoned condition of the blood. 5. Tower Hill, an elevation northwest of the Tower of London. 6. California. 7. Irrigation. 8. American publisher. 9. Charles Reade. 10. St. Bruno. 1. Andrew Carnegie. 2- Meat preserved by drying iu the sun. 3. New York. 4. Spain. 5. American poet. 6- Seventeen years. T. Mra. Lily Adame- Beck. 8. Commander. 9. Buenos 'Airee, Argentina. 10. Isothermal lines. ! o ; * « Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦ — *1 Q. Should the master or mietrdss of a household reprove a servin’. ' severely In the presence of guests? ! A Never. Any such ctitieieai should be given privately. Q. What are the most popular . forms of entertaining for young ( people, when giving a horse party ( A. Motoring, swimming, golf, aud , tenniu are a'ways popular. ’ Q. What is the proper thing to do with the napkin at the dinner - table? ' A. Unfold the napkin aud lay it > j across the lap. If the napkiu’ Is of ■ large dinner size, it may be half I hopeued and laid across) the knees.

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DISPELUNGJTHE FOG By Charles Michelson Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee

As if they did not have troubles, enough in prospect at Cleveland, the Republican press agents have taken to speculating on the Democratic platform to be adopted at Philadelphia. A short time ago, one of tlie specialists in mind-reading gravely announced that the Democratic 1 declaration of principles would closely approximate the views set forth by the Young Republican organization of New York, loiter on Mr. Mark Sullivan made his theme I the terrific embarrassment he foresaw for the Democrats in writing their platform. According to Mr. Sullivan, this embarrassment is intensifying as time goes on. I hate to differ from so positive an exponent of the principles of the Republican Old Guard, but sff far as I am aware, the Democrats are having no difficulty in framing a creed that would be accept-1 able to the Convention at Philadel-, phia. The various leaders, according to custom, are drafting the individual planks and when the Resolutions Committee is selected at Philadelphia it will take the whole output, just as resolutions committees always do under such circumstances, 1 vote on it plank by plank, and submit the finished product, with the practical certafnity that it will be adopted promptly. If 1 would ven- 1 ture to guess, a one day's session 1 of this committee will suffice to reduce the party creed to words. According to Mr. Sullivan's solemn conclusions, the members of the Democratic party who are members of Congress, or who occupy other offices under the Government, will not be free to ex- i press themselves in the declara tion of poHeies when it comes to i approving the acts of the administration. It would seem that there is an incongruity here, because the commentator recites that certain Democrats in office have net approved all the President's policies. Obviously, if certain phases of the New Deal on the floor of Congress, they certainly would not feel shackled against do|ng the same thing in the National Con vention. There are always certain matters that come before the Resolutions Committee that are debatable. It is not unusual, in fact, for some of these matters to come before the Convention itself in minority reports. In such cases, the Convention registers its deeiI sion, aud that is all there is to it. W.lfen a party renominates a sittiwp President it is bound to give him'A platform rfn which he cah statrtf without stultifying himself. We have seen that exemplified in Republican national conventions when Mr. Hoover was nominated, for example, despite the iVict that there were numerous representatives of the Progressive element of the Republican Party in convention who disagreed with tire Hoover policies and combatted his nomination. Nevertheless their convention turned out a creed that was acceptable to the nominee.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1936.

The situation is different when the convention gets together at, Cleveland next week. The mem- 1 bers of the minority party convention will have to reconcile views as far apart as those of their reactionary President and those of that faction of their party who would insist that the Republicans’ only hope is to turn liberal. It would seein that the outcome could not Ibe otherwise than a straddle on i nearly every plank. In that convention there will be numerous legislators who voted for all or nearly all of the New Deal enactments. For example, the NRA and the AAA. which a minority convention will naturally be expected to denounce and cite an examples of President’s Roosevelt's ignoring the Constitution of the United States. were enacted into law with the help of many Republican Senators and Republican Congressmen. I In some cases a majority of tlie , Republican delegations voted for New Deal measures. How are these gentlemen going to feel at having 1 to stand for re-election off a platform that implies that only rubber stamp Congressmen would have put over these acts which the Stt- i preme Court found unconstitutionlai—and which the duPont Liberty! League, which will in fact, though ' not in name, be represented in the ! Convention —hail as examples of a | 1 Democratic despotism and the first steps in a movement to make this i a socialistic, communistic or fascist country? Then there is the money plank for another source of Republican woe. The money question has been tlie favorite target of young Mr.! ' Warburg, whose book the Liberty I i League and the Republican Nation!al Committee circulated by the ; hundreds of thousands. Now Mr. Warburg is not regarded as highly in the Wall Street circles in which he was born as he is in the high . Republican organization. It is a little diffleufl to ascertain just • what this financial authority's view i is on the gold standard, but as he ' is the apostle of those who insist that the President is always wrong, i it is to be assumed that he objects to the present system. In fact, it. is one of the counts in the indict- • inent that the President abandon- - ed the platform on which he was , elected. ■ What the Democratic platform of i 1932 said was: “We advocate a sound, currency to be preserved at . nil hazards.” Well, our currency is . so sound today that the dollar is . the most stable monetary unit of ■ Value in world and every United i States bond is at a premium. The question before the Republican 1 committee on resolutions will be - whether to go hack to the original r gold standard, which would tiring . shrieks of pain from every bus!- . nessman in the United States, or . to still further depress the gold . content. The alternative for these . two propositions is obviously to j keep it where it is. But if they ad- ■- vocate that, they are endorsing 1 the Roosevelt policy which has worked so well, incidentally, it has worked a whole lot better than

young Mr. Warburgs desire manifested agreement on British lines would have worked. It was the refusal by the administration to accept this propo-' sitinn that satisfied-’young Mr. 1 Warburg that the President was wrong on all things. No, the embarrassment >n mak-j ing a platform will not be visible' iin Philadelphia, however marked it will lie in Cleveland. I am no more able to read the minds of 4S delegates not yet selected to compose the resolutions committee than are my fellow columnists on the other side, but as long as they are guessing, let me guess also — that the 1936 platform will not be j very different from the 1932 plat- j form except for the inclusion of plan dskealing with matters that have arisen since that brief and historic document broke the pre-1 cedent of a recital of whereases I and becauses that consumed columns in tlie newspapers and that nobody read. 0 * twentFyears * AGO TODAY I From the Daily Democrat File June 6 —Ear' Kitchner, England's ’ secretary of war and his entire staff lose their lives when the cruiser Ha.noshire is sunk by a mine or tor- ■ pedo off Orkney felantfe. The Moose in Fort Wayne dediI cate their new $60,000 home. Sugar fa now selling at 25 pounds 'for $2.15. highest price in history, lon account of the demand from ! abroad. Daughter born to Mr. and Mrt. E. B. Newton of DetroitD. B. Erwin elected as school trustee to succeed O. L. Vance. ■A voting machine is being exjiibi ited at the court housePLEASANT MILLS NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Win Noll went to Marion, Ohio, for the week-end to .see Mrs. Noll's father, Mr. Roop, who has been ill for some time, and her brother Carl, who ie also Hi. Miss Bernice Masters of Fort Wa.vne visited friends here over the holiday week-end. Harold Masters and family of Puru visited Mrs. Laura Davis Memorial Day and went on to Fort Wayne where they visited his mother, Mrs. Masters and his sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davis of Michigan City were holiday visitors at the Davis and Steele homea. Mrs. >\. W. Gulick’s sister, Miss Morgan of Van Wert County, Ohio, visited here recently. Thomas Halberstadt is recovering from a broken ankle. Leland R»y and family spent Sunday with his brother northwest of Fort Wayne. Geeorge Foor and wife visited relatives In Ohio Sunday afternoon. ! Mr. Smith of Macy. Indiana, visited . his daughter, Mrs. Richard Evans ! recently and then ethe Evans family . and Mrsl Smith accompanied him , home. Rev. Adolph Bergmann of Latvia - addressed an interested audience at , the Jietbodist Church Tuesday II night. He gave much light upou the i Russian condition.

* STATE PERSONALITIES Elective And Appointive Officers of Indiana. * i! Attorney-General SB rXJH PHILIP LUTZ, Jr. Whenever the State of Indiana gets tangled up in a law-suit or any state officer wants to know the ; meaning of the law, Philip Lutz, I Jr., attorney general, is the man • who is called upon. He is the legal ' counsellor for every state official ' and department and with the aid , of his staff of deputies is the trial conrt lawyer. Whether it's pleadings in the latest D. C. Stephenson case or defense of orders of the various state board and commissions, Mr. Lutz must be prepared to serve without prospect of a handsome fee. Sometimes it is the liquor law, again the banking laws, then public service commission orders or industrial board rules. Before a law is passed, the Governor I checks with the Attorney general to see whether the proposal is constitutional. There's no end to the jobs this state officer is given | to perform. But Mr. Lutz is equal to the task. He is a native of Boonville and a graduate of the Indiana , University School of Law. Through i a pleasant personality and activities of the Boonville Press Club, of which he is president, he is, known to a host of Indiana citizens. As a lawyer in his home community his activities were not confined to the legal practice alone. 1

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He was instrumental in organiz-1 ing the Press Club and the Boon-' ville Chamber of Commerce. He is an active figure In Kiwauis, the Elks and Woodman. He is a member of the Scottish Rhe and of the German Evangelical church where he taught a young men's class continuously for 20 years. In 1914 he served in the Indiana leglature. He was attorney us Warrick County in 1931 and has served the Democratic party as county and city secretary, treasurer and chairman of the First Congressional District from 1928 to 1932. He is married and lias a son, John Philip Lutz who is a college student. o Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Porch Chairs ( Why not sew a strip of cretonne, i or any heavy material, across th”

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