Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. (sintered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-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 mail 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. |ls Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. It comes only once in a hundred years. See the bright lights Saturday night. It's your towns birthday, so smile, deru you smile. There is such a thing as joviality and sobriety at the same time. Decatur is dressed up for the greatest birthday party ever given in Indiana. Wednesday night's spectacular float parade will be one of the highlights of the week. Welcome home to the happiest place on earth, is the greeting we extend to the home-comers. State recognition to Decatur's Centennial will be given with Governor McNutt's visit here Friday. ‘ May your slice of the birthday cake be as big as you want and tilled with everything your heart desires. Hartford City is going to celebrate its Centennial next year. May we be among the first to offer felicitations. Out here in the country, no one cares much if New York's so-call-ed "460" social register lists the names of dogs or butterflies. More recovery news. The RCA manufacturing company will open its Indianapolis plant and give, employment to 500 people. Among ten thousand other blessings for which we arc thankful, might be included the freedom of not being in jail for tho celebration. It this community can continue to make improvements and keep, those which it has and not increase tax rates, it has done something. The record is that way up to date. The Landon campaign managers predicted a crowd of 100,000 would attend the notification ceremonies and about 50,000 turned out. The Knox managers planned for 50,000 an d 25,000 persons attended. What’s wrong? So much has been said and written about the stupendous ness of CHANGE OF ADDRESS Subscribers are requested to give 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.

Sunday’* great religious program, t that little more can be added. Each service will carry you to the heights, will thrill you and till your heart and soul with fervor and '.endeavor. To appreciate all these, J go to Niblick field and join in the 1 worship to God under Heaven's ■ beautiful dome. The banquet next Thursday for Old Timers and honored guests ; will be u feature of Centennial week. Elaborate plans arc being made to entertain many native De catur sons who have located in other parts of the country and made good. The banquet and pro- , gram will be in charge of W. A. Klepper and Harold McMillen and they guarantee an entertainment. which will honor the home-comers and please the crowd. The town should continue to go forward as a result of the Centen-1 , Dial. A great love of city, civic pride and enthusiasm has been I created in the hearts of young and old. The youth of today is proud of his home town and in a few years will be carrying on in away greater and grander than those | who are active today. United we can build the greatest place on earth, in which to live, rear fam-1 ilies, enjoy life. G. E. INVITED: Under the caption "Decatur’s Centennial Obsrvance," the General Electric Works News, published the following editorial: “Fort Wayne Works employees; will have more than a passing interest in Decatur s Centennial ob-j servance, which will be held durI ing the week of August 2. Not only are a considerable number of' Decatur employees taking an ac-. five part in the observance but the Company is sponsoring an ex-j, hibit showing various types of equipment made and sold by GenI eral Electric. "The active part taken by Decatur employees in the observance is characteristic of General Electric employees everywhere. It is a creditable fact that in eVery community where General Electric plants are located, its employees represent a valuable and progress- , ive influence in the body of substantial citizenry actively engaged . in all matters pertaining to civic progress. Decatur is no exception ! to the rule. “The success of Decatur's obser- i vance is assured, for hundreds of j loyal citizens have given unlimit- . ed time and energy to make it so, and any project given unselfish and loyal support must necessar-. ily succeed, t “Visits to Decatur during Cen-' tennial week will be well worth , while. A special invitation is issued to all General Electric employees to attend the pageant and participate in the' programs to be presented during the week's observance.” o Dick Burrell, of Akron is hero to , run hjs bowling alleys during Ceni tennial week. o Answers To Test ' Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. American Civil War. 2. France. 3. Boston. Mass. 4. English scintisl. 5. California. 6. A dire want of food affecting I ; considerable numbers of people at i i the same time. 7. It is one of the Danish islands ■ in the Baltic. 8. On the eastern slope of the Andes in central Ecuador. i 9. The first Sunday in Lent. 10. it is an abbreviation of the, Latin phase pro tempore, which is - translated “for the time being.” 1. St. Paul. 2. A lively and voluptuous Span-, i ish dance in triple time, said to be dt-rived from the Moors. I 3. American painter. 4. Predappio, near Forli, Italy. 5. New York, Chicago, Phila- ( delphia, Detroit, and Los Angeles. •1. First cousin. 7. Boston. Mass. 8. The decorative tracery on the surface of tan vaulting. 9. Theodore Roosevelt. 10. Edwin Rogers Embree.

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

While the Democrats find no < difficulty iu pointing out flaws, err- < ors and omissions in Governor 1 Landon’s speech of acceptance, the J Republicans are having a hard time countering by calling attention to the ‘'high lights” in their ‘ candidate’s address. Indeed his triends’ ecomiums are as vague and general as the Gov- ! ernor’s own declarations. They ap- 1 plaud his charges of waste and ex- £ travagance in dispensing relief but have no answer to the challenge J that he specify bow he would rem- 1 edy these alleged faults. They echo 1 his complaint that the President ’ has usurped Congressional powers and get as reply quotations from the minority party candidate’s own 1 speeches insisting that the delega- ' tion of these powers to the Chief ' • ( Executive was wise and necessary. Mr. Landon’s difficulty lies in the circumstance that he was running for the Kansas Governorship as an ’ ardent New Dealer when he made ( these approving speeches and no small part of his solicitation of . votes then was his support of and cooperation with President Roose- 1 velt in effectuating the New Deal policies. For that matter, his chief back1 er and most influential adviser. Mr. William Randolph Hearst, recorded in his own newspapers his appreciation of President Roose- ’ velt’s greatness and wisdom. This ; was, of course, before the tax law, raising the levies on huge incom- ■ es, was enacted. Part of the incon- j gruity of the Republican caudidatI es position lies in the fact that the very laws at which he now looks I askance were voted for by many , Republican Senators and Repre- ■ sentatives, some, but by no means all, of whom are now backing Mr. i Landon to the limit. These folks are seeking to explain their apostacy from the measures of relief and reform by saying that conditions have changed. At the same time they refuse to accept the President’s failure to cut Government costs because of i a change in conditions, chief a mong the changed conditions beI ing the result of Congress having ( nullified his economy program by I Congressional enactment, even to the extent of overruling his veto of the Nullification Bill. Some of my fellow columnists, whose newspapers happen to be committeed to the up-buildl'ig of the minority party candidate, have been telling their readers that President Roosevelt’s recent execu- ■ five order placing all postmasters under civil service was timed for anti aimed at taking the wind out. .of Governor Landon’s sails, in the matter of the latter's inference that, politics had wrecked the civil 1 service. They had forgotten, or | (lid not choose to remember, that ( at the very beginning of President 1 Roosevelt's term—when the. Repub-j licau appointees, accumulated dur-| iisjs; twelve G. O. P. years, were | still for the most part, iu office —' the President sought to have Con gresti enact the very same provisions he has now instituted by ex-

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ecutive order. The minority lead- i ers then advised him that they did | not care to so tie the hands of possible future Republican Presidents. But to get back to Mr. Landon's speech. The Republican press in general and the Hearst press in particular naturally hailed it as a great state paper. The independent press caviled at its lack of definiteness, the absence of anything constructive and its general commonplace level. The candidate's friends : made a virtue of the obvious monotony of the utterance, with some sneering reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt's power of oratory and rhetoric. That is all right; it is part of the political set-up to decry eloquence and exalt the homely qualities of simplicity if your opponent has the first, and your own man lacks it; but politics is not always logical. It would be a: strange philosophy to hold that an [ economic or social issue was bad because it was presented pleasingly, or that such an issue was good j because it was inadequately expressed. Similarly, it is hardly a valid argument to advance that a speech 1 of acceptance need not cover the! whole field of campaign controversy; that something must be held in reserve for future campaign speeches. Nobody expected Mr. Landon to recount every detail of his reason why people ought to make him President of the United States. But there is another side to Die question. Here was a gentleman of practically unknown views. He had been built up, to be sure, in the approved political fashion, by much use of printer's ink. Mr. Hearst had given him his O. K., and other an-ti--Rooseveltians had concurred in the verdiet, just as they would have done if John Doe or Richard Roe had been labeled “Republican candidate," but the country had still to size him up and see if he

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[ | justified the flattering portrait pre- ■ I Sented by the processional political picture-makers. So Governor Landon’s speech of acceptance was awaited with great i interest, for in it he was due to re- . veal the wherefore of his being chosen by one of the two great A--1 merican parties for the highest responsibility possible for an Ameri- | can citizen. 'We already knew that ' he had been elected Governor of a , banner agricultural state, that he was a moderately successful bust--1 ■ ness' man, of correct life and simple habits. After he had delivered his acceptance speech we LKew nothing | more. He rehashed the phrases of ; indictment of things as they are; 4 he indicated that he was in favor of health, prosperity and contentment; but never did he indicate, by as much as a word, how he would bring about the millenium, which Democrats and Republicans alike would be delighted to see. ' Had he merely read the Ten Commandments and announced that he was 100 per cent for them, 'he would have enliglftened his i audience as to his governmental 1 principles anti purposes about as much as he did in the Topeka ad- i dress. Possibly it was wise policy at i that. In a nation beset with as many [problems as we are facing; with 1 partisan spirit ranging high; with a candidate seeking to ride the I .horse of privilege, backed by the J j de Pont Liberty League in one dir-, ection and the horse of his own I Democratic section of the country , in a contrary direction, it may i I have been bright to remain veiled.; . as impressively as he could do it. | That is one way of looking at it.' .' Another possibility is that the Re-1 i publican candidate did not really j . have anything to say. J o I Paper Comes Home Toledo.— (U.R), —Clarence Holla-, i day opened a “dud" firecracker t marked "made in China.” inside j he found a piece of a Los Angeles , 1 newspaper describing the Invcr--1; ness club golf tourney of 1935 at = Toledo.

*slany Reunions Scheduled For Summer u Sunday, August 2 Reppert reunion, Milton Seherry p home .near Huntington. ■ Weidler reunion, Jacob Weidler , home north Decatur. Wiedler reunion, aJcob Weidler j home north Decatur, noon. |< Brandyberry family reunion, Leh-I man park. Berne. | Vania reunion, Sun Set park. Dettinger annual reunion, Sunset * Park, east of Decatur. Miller and Snyder reunion, Sun- , Set park, rain or shine. Sunday August 9 I Rettig and Roehm annual reunion, Sun Set park. Niblick and Daily reunion, Bluffton Park. Snyder reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Winchester street. Twenty-second annual reunion of| Tumbleson family, Legion Memorial I Park. Decatur. ' Hitchcock family reunion, Hanna-j Nuttman park, Decatur. Thirteenth annual reunion of) Durbin family, Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. Relltg and Reohm reunion, SunSet park. Annual Hinkle reunion, Sun Set, park. Sunday August 16 Weldy family runion, HannaNuttman park, near Decatur. Annual Roebuck reunion. Memorial Park. Hackman and Kortenber reunion, Sunset park, east of Decatur. Annual reunion of Butler family Sunset 'park. Annual McGill reunion, Sun Set; pank, rain or shine. Dillinger family reunion, Sun Set I park. Smith annual reunion, Sun Set j I park. Walters family reunion, Sunset park. Sunday, August 23 Annua! reunion of Davies family, I Sunset park. Annual Kuntz reunion SunSet' park. Barker family reunion, Sun Set parkSunday, August 30 Riesen Family reunion at Sun Set park. Annual Braun reunion, Sun Set park, rain or ehine. Wesley family reunion, Sun Set i park. Sunday, Sept. 6 Richard reunion, Sun Set Park. | Zink and Kuhn Annual Reunion, | Sun Set Park, Sept. 6. Schafer and Wilson reunion, Sun-|

r A et . u Thousands of visitors will attend the Centennial. Many will visit friends and relatives and of course the" big treat will be ICE CREAM This Week-end Special is Serve it at every meal. The orange- w holesome goodness of this de- „ , hcious ice cream confection will l or sale at your favorite fountain. brin E WOrds <>f PFRiSe from »11 Try some Sunday. who eat it. j‘i Ask your dealer for the Sealtest Limerick Contest Blank. You may share in the monthly $6,000 award.

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