Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publiahod Every Evening Except Sunday by 781 DBCATDR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Docatur, Ind., Poet Oflce an Second Clara Matter. J. H. Heller Preaident A. R. Holthouae, Sec y A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-Preaident Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 02 One week, by carrier -1° Due year, by carrier — 6 00 One month, by mail — -66 three months, by mail 1-0® Six months, by mail— 1-75 pne year, by mail — 3.00 Due year, at offlce 3 00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere 13.50 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. Now those who painted Al Smith as a wild eyed Indian with horns I and everything bad just a few short years ago will take him to j their bosoms and declare him a great American. Politics makes strange bed fellows? Mr. Landon says a family can live on SI.OB per week. That's his line of reasoning and may become his policy if elected president. Be careful of your vote this year, it's probably a thousand times more important than you think it is. We will decide whether the people are j to continue to have something to say. — The truth is that when Al Smith swapped his brown derby for a silk hat. he left the Democratic I party. He is now employed by a corporation which includes the richest men in America and of course living with them day after; day. he must agree with them as to those principles of government which favor them. Mrs. Olive Belden Lewis, excellent speaker and one of the veterans among the women in Indiana politics, will be the speaker at the banquet of the Democratic Woman's club here en the evening of Thursday, October 15th. The meet-; ing will be one of the most import-, ant of the campaign for the ladies ' and a capacity crowd is expected. 1 October Ist marked a year since a national bank has failed in the United States, this bqliig the first record of this kind in fifty-five years. The great improvement in banking conditions in this country is certain proof of progress made in whipping the depression! anTT that alone should be sufficient to cause the average person to vote I for the reelection of President Roosevelt and the election of M. Clifford Townsend for governor. I The Yanks juSt about ruined the game yesterday in the third inning when they batted in seven runs and wore out all the available pitchers of the Giants. Then to show it was not an accident, put over six in the niptli for a total of eighteen during the game. There's plenty to smile about, so why not do it. After all. we are around the corner, business is near,'/ normal, jobs are plentiful and the goose hangs high. Wei ought, to be smart enough to keep it that way. Speaking before sixty thousand people at the Pittsburgh baseball park Thursday evening. President Roosevelt gave the “box scores" of his administration and showed that the people were winning the game, lie explained the expenditure of money and told why it was done and how he hopes and believes and is sure it can be paid over a period of years by the increase of. business and without any one feeling it greatly. He also predicted the early balancing oi the budget and was cheered madly when he (

naked for support in the great fight i' he lias led and will continue to lead it reelected. After all that first speech of Al Smith's was just a defense of him- ; self, the pronoun “1“ being used so 'much that it reminded us of Mr. Hoover tour years ago. There was no constructive argument, but rather it was an attack on those who have dared to make conditions better for the middle class where Al always was until a few years ago and where at heart, lie ; really belongs. We are sorry he has ’ taken the position he has but it 1 doesn’t change the fact that Mr. Roosevelt is the people's friend , and is making a great fight for them. AS MARYLAND GOES—i Months ago the Baltimore Bun--1 papers began taking a Presidon tial straw vote in Maryland. Bull--1 ots were mailed to the 771.000 reg- , istered voters in the State and no I one else. Interest in the outcome arose chiefly from the fact that 1 Maryland hus voted for the winner in every Presidential election since I 1892. Last week the Sunpapers. having mailed all their ballots, re- , ported over 30% returned. The ' vote: Roosevelt 104.912 Landon 61.239 Unpleasant news was this to the Sun patters which, although Demo-' cratic, have openly proclaimed their opposition to the President. On the basis of these returns. Maryland will not only vote for Roosevelt, but do w hat few States are expected i | to do: give him a bigger majority, 1(1%) than in 1932.—Time Maga-1 | zine. Four years ago wheat was 44c per bushel. Today it is $1.07. You surely realize that if you had to paddle your own way out of this depression, farm produce prices would still be far down the ladder . at less tnan cost of production. MR. SPRINGER, THE MAGICIAN Bedtime stories, nursery rhymes, a revival of the fairy tales of old appear to be finding their place in the political campaign now being conducted in Indiana. The Magician, who swings the magic wand that beautifies the ngly and creates a sublime tinsel of make-be- ; , ITeve land in a world given over i to practical thought, is none other than that roly-poly sprite, Mr. Raymond Springer, candidate for Governor of Indiana on the Republican ticket. Four years ago, as the perennial candidate for governor, Mr. Springer assured the people of Indiana he would do something about the tariff if elected. Now he is getting even more extravagant in his wand waving by promising that he will not onfy abolish one of the chief sources of revenue in the state but he will have no new taxes if I he is elected this time. How is he going to do it? Well, he is going I to reduce the number of persons working for the state and by doing that he will effect a saving that will be greater than the sum being received from the gross income tax. which he plans to abolish. Os course, if Raymond would get down to earth and realized that the operation of government is out of the nursery rhyme class, he would soon discover that salaries of state ■ employes form the smallest part , of all the expenses of government. If the Republican leaders in Indiana will just settle down and decide what they inteud to do about the tax question the people of Indiana w 777 indeed be grateful. Their platform promises scrapping of the gross income tax law. and the enactment of a net income tax law and other laws needed to raise the ; required revenue. Obviously, that means a net income tax and also a J consumers’ sales tax. But, along comes Raymond with something even better —no taxes at all if he is elected. Os course, there will be the property tax which will bear ' the burden if ilia plan succeeds. Raymond should now assure the

r DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1936.

The Seal in the Coon Skin Coat

i people of Indiana that be will also, ‘ abolish property taxes. The people of Indiana are not so stooped in child-like faith that ' they will believe such promises. . Common sense alone tells them ' that Springer's assurance of “no > new taxes" is absurd. If the gross income tax law is abolished, Spring:er knows and the people know some other form, and undoubtedly ' several, will take its place So why try these fairy tales on the people 1 Haymond, unless it is to deceive them? —-o ■ - i The People’s Voice This column for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for ths general good or discuss questions of intesest Please sign your name to show authenticity. It will not be used if you prefer that It not be. The World Has Forever Crucified Its Best Men And Women 1 Our United States is presumed to be a Christian nation. Most every citizen of this country has heard and read of the life of Jesus. They know when Jesus was a young man he found his country governed by the rich the poor oppressed. His country in the same I condition our beloved President found this country in. Jesus put forth an effort to establish a righj teous government. He drove the money changers out of the temple, the rich had no use for him. The I common people heard him gladly The rich crucified him lie was dead forty years before any ore wrote any thing about his life or acknowledged him as the saviour of their country. All should know the history of what happened after the rich nailed bint to the cross Rev. Coughlin said shortly after President Roosevelt was elected that Roosevelt was the savior of i our country. The money changers seem to have changed his mind. • The DuPonts, Morgans and the rest of the gang of Liberty Leaguers, are at his bidding to help to defeat the “savior of our country.” We do not wonder at the rich taking the stand they do for money ' is their god, and al! they can see ■ or enjoy is money. And you know . what the Bible says about the rich entering into the kingdom of Heav- ; en. No. we are not amazed at the i rich, but we cannot understand ! how a little fellow, the common man or woman can turn agaitwt such a ruler as we have had the past ! three years down. • Many who had to give up all they had under the G. O. P. and go hungry, while under the present administration have been able to liave a good living and buy a home. !s It Ignorance or what? it seems to me that any person with any intelligence would know which party stood for the little fellow. I just heard a woman say, "O, the grand old party." 1 want-

ed to know what the party had , ever done that it was entitled to < the term grand. She could not tell i me. Well, I said if you knew the party as it is and what it stands < for you would change that term . grand to damned. The best of the Republicans are leaving it. A Roosevelt Disciple. I ■ —O— — — —4 I STAR SIGNALS —BY— < OCTAVINE For persons who Believe that human destnly is guided by the plauet, the daily horoscope is outlined < a noted astrologer. In addition to information of general interest, it out-' lines information of special interest to persons born on the designates dates. OCTOBER 5 Those who are most likely to be . affected by planetary vibrations to-1 day were born from May 21 through June 20. General Indications Morning—Extravagant. Afternoon—U neon vent lona I. Evening—Adverse. Unconventional situations may arise today if dealing with the opposite sex Avoid changes. Today's Birthdate Always try to be ready to meet

REPUBLICAN PARTY IS BIG BUSINESS

By Walter S. Cahall It seems to me any discerning person can see there is only one issue in the forthcoming election. That issue is as clear as day. It; is: Shall Big Business return to, power, or shall the people rule?, Anyone with an ounce of sense! realizes that Big Business and the i Republican Party are one and the! same. It lias been that way as long as I can remember. Big Business finances the Republican party. . . . Big Business selects the candidates. .. . Big Business dominates the press. . . . Big Business tells the candiuate what to do. Big Business IS the Republican Party. Anyone who understands this easily understood proposition can i readily see why Big Business is agaiust Roosevelt. It could hardly be when it is against human nature to be against yourself. Roosevelt is for the direct antithesis of Big Business. . . . the' common people. Big Business is first, I last and foremost for itself It is ' so much for itself it spends mill- ■ ions to elect men to serve its selfI ish purpose. . . - and it will spend, I billions to defeat Roosevelt because he is the biggest obstacle in the path of Big Business’ efforts to regain control oT the United States. All this seems easily understandable to me. What I can't understand is how Big Business, or the Republican Party, dupes so many lof the common people. You can i find laborers, mechanics, farmers, ■ white collar clerks, who swear by i the Republican Big Business ParI ty, despite the fact that party is .their worst enemy. You might say ! this is due to the ignorance of the j voter. Zet, no matter how little I learned a uerson is you would think 1 he could see that Big Business is I making a fool oi him. Surely, the ; most ignorant man knows ths i Republican Party has never savered the common people. . that it bus always favored Big Business.

unexpected conditions. You are capable but may be inactive in an emergency. Avoid extravagance, particularly concerning home or property, in January, 1937. Danger from accident, fire, instruments, temper or rash actions from Dec. 1 through S, 1936. Socially favorable, cultivate acquaintance of opposite sex from Dec. 20 through 23. 1936. o Household Scrapbook Bv Roberta Lee ♦ ♦ The Medicine Cabinet Fasten a row of tacks, or email nails, on the baek wall of the medicine cabinet, on which to suspend the thermometer, eye dropper, tweezers, and other small articles that are so difficult to find when left on the shelves among the various bottles of medicines. Wash Dresses The sensible and thrifty housewife will wear washable dresses, in which to do her work, particularly in the kitchen. o - .. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

It has promised tor years to help •the farmer and the laborer. Can you think of a single bill the Republicans have ever passed to help , either? No. but you can think of i twenty or thirty bills for the farm- ; er and the laborer that they eith- ’ I er defeated or tried to defeat, j The Republicans didn't fight the i NRA, AAA. TVA and the Guffey Coal Act because they thought those bills unconstitutional. They fought them because they were for the common people instead of being for Big Business. What does the Republican Party care about the Constitution? They didn't even know there, was a Constitution until Roosevelt had some bills pass,ed that took a dime out of the pocket of Big Business to buy a louf of bread for the poor man and his family. Most of them haun t read the Coustitution for more than thirty years. When legal minds hired by Big Business brought up the constitutionality of those bills the Republicans suddenly became Coustitution-minded. The first time a bill is passed tut Big Business which the Supreme Court declares nneonstftaUoaa’ they will immediately about-face . and be against the Constitution. Big Business must come first; constitution, country ;:r.d people at- . terward. If you want to see the actual difference between the Republican , Big Business Party and the Deino- . cratic Peoples Party, take -a sheet ■ of paper and make two columns on it. Under one column put all , the bills passed (or the common . people by Harding. Coolidge and HOovcr. Under the other column put the bills passed for the common i>eople by Roosevelt. Yun will , find that Roosevelt passed more bills for the common people than Harding, Cooiidiee anq Hoover put . together In view of this absolute fact, how cun anyone of the com- , mou people vote Republican?

yeteran Picked For Judge Post ■ - - - is j L : .< ■4' 3 ■ 4 PAUL E. LAYMON ' ' •f Frankfort Paul E. Layinon. of Frankfort, prominent young circuit court judge of the Clinton circuit court, was selected by Indiana Democrats to fill the vacancy on the state ticket, caused by the untimely death of Appelate Judge Fred A. , Weicking, Judge Laymon, who is 37 years old. has been practicing law in Clinton county since his gradua-, tion from the Indiana University' School of Law in 1931. He served as prosecuting attorney of the ju- ■ diclal circuit in 1923-24 and was elected judge of the court four years ago. He became the first Democratic judge in Clinton coun- ' ty in 12 years. His popularity with ' citizens of the county, regardless of political affiliations was attest- 1 ed by the fact that he ran ahead of the national ticket in the 1932 election. Judge Layinon has the endorsements of prominent members of the bar, both Republican and Democratic; leaders in the American Legion, of which he is a member and by those prominent in labor organizations. He is a member of Walter T. Cobee Post of the Le- ■ gion and also belongs to the Forty and Eight. Likeise he is a member of the Masonic Lodge; Frankfort Commandery, No. 29; The Elks Lodge; Delta Tau Delta college fraternity and the Gamma Eta Gamma law fraternity. He is a charter member of the Indiana Judicial Council. In addition to his legal career, Judge Lay mon also is a farmer, owning 122 acres of sand in Jack son township, Clinton county, where each summer he spends hie, vacation from the bench and works with the threshing ring. He is a member of the Indiana Farm Bur- ( eau. Judge Layinon is married and has a 12 year oid sou.

Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ 4 1. Bering Sea. I 2. Foil. 3.. Albuquerque. 4. The Criemau War. 5. October 28, 1886. 6. No. 7. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 8. “One out of many.” 9. Peru. 10. It is generally prepared from the intestines of sheep, rarely from those of the horse, ass, or mule, but never from those of the cat. * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY I From the Daily Democrat File i 4 —» Oct. 3—A. C. Spahr becomes' cashier for the Detroit United railway. William Freitag of Fort Wayne' buys the Jeff Klopfeustine property at Preble. James H. Stoue, 81, veteran hard-1 ware dealer, dies after short illness. Boston wins American league pennant. Philadelphia and Brooklyn are still fighting in the national league. Charles Meibers and Hugh Hite land a 19-pound pike at Adams Lake. ' Decatur business men petition the city council to repeal the halt hour parking ordinance but the petition is refused on the grounds of safety. ————o— Modern Etiquette" By ROBERTA LEE Q Is it proper for a young couple to dance together so often ■ as to be conspicuous? i A. Not unless they are engag-1 ed to be married, and even then , it implies jealousy. Q. How should one cat crack-' I ers. celery, and radishes? A. Each of these should be • iteld with the fingers. Q. When accepting a courtesy! , from a woman, should a man lift 1 tete hat? A. Yes, always; o.nd also when extending a courtesy. o—. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur l

DISPELLING THEW By Charles Michelson ■ Dlrseter of Publicity, Democratic National c ■ T**

The Republican campaign con-, tinuea to run true to form. It began with a platform that ar- j ralgned everything the lloosevelt I Administration has dons, and foil- J owed with a promise to do nearly I everything the present adminlstra- ; tion has undertaken. The only departure from this principle was in I | relation to the reciprocity treat- , 1 les. There Governor Landon ap-1 peared to swing back to the Smoot-1 Hawley Tariff Bill, which was one of the principal counts in the in- ■ diriment of Herbert Hoover, that led to about the most overwhelm-I ing repudiation by the people an j I American Preisdent ever experi ' ; enceti. Even the reciprocal treaty principle was not wholly condemned. Governor Landon thought, in the interest of international comity, such treaties might be arrauged, provided they deal entirely *Tth commodities that were uot produced in this country. As such commodities are naturally on the free list anyhow, coffee for example, as they do not compete with any American Industry, j It might seem difficult for anybody 1 but a Republican candidate to con-j i ceive how these things could be used in trading tariff advantages i with foreign countries. It might be that Governor Landon has in mind to threaten to put a duty on ' such non-competing articles, but 1 that would hardly do. The only effect possible If such a threat were carried out would be to raise i the price of them to American consumers. Even the dußont Liberty Leaguers would hardly advocate that. If the tariff beueficiarlFs who fared so well tinder Mr. Hoover and his Republican predecessors could find some way by which the higher prices to Americans might be shitted to their own profit, it would be another story. Now it is old age and unemployment insurance. Governor Landon . is in favor of both, but he wants the first to provide larger pensions for the aged and the second to be handled by the States and not by the Federal Government. And he thinks that the insurance against the loss of jobs should be taken care of by a general tax rather than by creating a fund from the small percentages of payrolls and wages. But he also wants taxes reduced, for a large part of the Republican campaign consist* in invoking the spectre of unbearable tax burdens, not only for this generation but for our children and our children's children. There might seem to be a contradiction here, but the Governor does not talk taxes at the same time that he talks more benefits for farmers, includjhg a higheit price guarantee with no limitation of acreage, bigger allotments for the old people, and the rest of it. "Frankly," says the Governor of Kansas, referring to the old-age pensions. "1 am not in position to state with finality the total cost of this plan.” That’s all right too. W hat is the use of being bothered with how much anything is going to cost when you are just mak ing campaign promises? The- sum total of his addresses appears to be that the Government should spend more and tax less and doubtless he includes municipal, county and State taxes, because a great element in the G.O.P. campaign points out how large a

Townsend Say*

Human na - ture may be the same the w-orld over, but it is certainly different among automobile drivers and po- ' liti ca 1 campaigners. These latter two swear, damn and accuse like persons insane

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as long as they are on wheels, but let them get their feet upon the ground and they become civilized. • * • It's just as well to forget your troubles, because there will be * lot more of them coming. t The farmer has lately become a business man. He models his program on the plan that has been used by the industries of America for years, namely: He figures his costs; he plans his production; he goes to the markets with only that amount of produce he can sell at a fair profit, and he has the sympathetic co-operation and protection of the government he supports in doing these things. Thst’s the new agricultural program in America. It’s old to industry. It might be well to remember that quite often » frown is a smile ■ turned upside down by misunder- ■ I standing. '‘ - - .i, , . "1 tk I

|percanta ßP th ■ the Federal *"> K I all these m, kMHL.- ■ nothing l 0 ( |„ fl * hUh iust alw , a they were i n lhe Harding nert.qp, Naturally, lh( . ■ 'he minority J .winning th.- ‘ ( Riant I’.rliap s th e ■found in u , ,! ’!l|™ f-rtations „( , ||l#l T ' hailing grei)| Baltimore S„„ has a , " the St Utt,, made snmiar d Bainmor,- Sun | la . , 1 - ■. du Pont Lilwt-V -o active Tl,p S, ; baa tough, f'-r an , pac> o( „’ ing n„ th, ~ w halt dnz..,. , i tats w '!,.d !)|t ~.' erty early haps therof boil, .’■■nirnj Along t -..nn, ..... . H; fort th,' Lil,v,ty <>i Hi" 'ii nunn W ting out of ■ .-rtain ballots, in. ;j „ c lh , by the N.» York It has un.'artln-d a who. ~. d . V ° le ' S "l" i; »NMto ■..„(., W ‘leductio,, ■',,• , !:i . u.wrwE I’l“vm ■< sure ind< x ,„ h ,. w rnten.i-. ■ ■ ■ a Landon victory HK As. ex, .; • f ()r lht . ■ ably s-v. try Amen. iv, s . |P ,. n can for g. n, r.e; ll!!? ihe be obtained l.v th; , hardly l„ tisticiau s . rt>s ,r. K matters as :'"Ui’rrat,n !: pvoting bn- wh< n ti,.. p ,. rpo|( convey a ; . : ■ have got t„ i,. ave oat .'W| things. W As another < \ , up to date Os !h» poll bears 0., -li.- ry . tins so f.e o-.-d .irlargely <>,, ■ 'i'ftcenters Tti. H'll itself. urea «>n h..w 'he . a t er s cat ballots in !■?■;: ihows th e portiunate lei.eir.age men repi ts, r.-.-d th, pc? notable, in. ninitaliv. that g'B the date th:- letter is K:n> s Digest tno-. ,' Maryland 1 . :l, a , Stas thtaS lloosevelt 11.. j al! the rr-gi.-t. led rulers » laud ami the result sbovsmH one for Roosevelt. ■ Chains Ba'k Jaywilkn B Sa”t Lake City -lU.R) ers are to !.• :• n. •■■! here. that parking rap en to get th; :ul, •, ■ ;■, e simH will be run „ 'be pcaufl parking meter, on the Mlfl district strets ■

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