Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by tHB DSCATUR democrat COstaerwd at ths Decatur, Ind.. Post Office as Second Claes Matter. H. Heller President A- R- Holthouae, Sec y * Bus. Mgr. Pick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 .02 Pne week, by carrier .10 Dne year, by carrier 6.00 Due month, by mall — -35 Three months, by mall 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 Pne year, by mail 3.00 Dne year, at office 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. Plan to thump with the Cali-1 thuinpians next Friday night. You 1 will have a good time. This county has received ?17,-i 000 more from gross income ana: excise taxes than they have sent in. Don t you think that's a rather good investment. Chaliner Schlusser who will speak at Geneva next Wednesday evening is one of Indiana’s best orators and you will enjoy his address on issues of the campaign. Don’t swap horses now. It took President Roosevelt three years to

get the old machine started, but! he has it going full steam ahead and we will really go places the' next four years. Frank Thompson, representative; and candidate for reelection, is appreciative of the support, given him from Adams county in the past and assures the voters that he will do his very best to carry out their wishes, when reelected. In January of 1933, hogs were selling for $4.50 per head and milch cows for $29.00. In 1936 hogs were fro* $9.00 to $13.50 and cows from s®o.oo up. That ought to be proof that conditions are far from terrible as some of the orators would ; have you believe. ————— Earl Crawford not only makes i an effective political speech, one of, the best we have heard this year, but he keeps the audience well entertained. His address at Berne made a big hit and you may be i sure he will be welcome back any time he will come.

The high peak of the campaign l ( is next Friday atternoon whenl, Governor Paul V. McNutt, the ace , of Indiana orators will bring you , a iuessage that will close the cam ' | paigu with pep and power. Be at ’ the court house and hear what , this fighting leader "as to say. - - - . c lou missed a good one when you didn't attend the Berne rally, make it up by joining rhe crowd to . G> ueva Wednesday night. Chainlet Schlusser of Indianapolis, president of the Professional Men's' League for Roosevelt in Indiana, will be the speaker and he will thrill you. Each township and each school corporation in Adams county is bencTittiug from the gross income tax and repeal of that law will' mean a heavy tax burden on real estate. Don't let it happen. Wc favor some changes in the law but a study of it reveals that it is by| far the ’best taxing law in America. Building permits in the city of Indianapolis increasod 600 per cent in the first quarter of this year as- < umpared to the same quarter a yeas ago. Yes sir. we are about as far from that blow up the G. O. P. orators predict us we can be ami getting belter. Watch 1937. Il protuises to be the btist year you ever knew.

1 The final report on the liquida i tion of the People’s State Bank of Berue has been approved and the ' remaining assets after payment in . full to depositors, have been turned over to the stockholders. The i job done by R. K. Schug and lat- ! er by Robert Kramer, with N. C. Nelson as attorney, is one that de- ' serves’ the approval of the public. A skit that impressed his audience and will cause them to remember certain points, was that of Earl Crawford's at Berne, when .he appeared as king of the hoboes , and protested that he and his associates of the road had been put out of business. By the way. had i you noticed the scarcity of the I tramps who were so evident a year I or two ago? Mr. Springer seems to have squeezed about everything out of I the Benjamin Harrison Life Insurance Company and then ran out on the boys leaving bis friend Mr. Purnell to be the "goat.” If you I i are interested in his record you, can secure it by an investigation into the report of an official investigation made by the state insur- ■ ance department. The speech by Governor Paul V. McNutt at the court house next Friday afternoon will be a snappy finish to one of the most interest- > ing campaigns ever waged here. I The governor can and will tell you the truth regarding the state ad-1 ministration and will put you right I on national questions, about which he likewise knows much. Don't ■ miss hearing him.

Another record has been set up; , by the City Light & Power Com--1 pany of Decatur, a total of 403,090 KWH was produced "in one twen-ty-four hour day this week, an amount rarely equaled in cities much larger. It s a sign of good times and we expect this amount to be largely increased during the next year. Decatur is breaking a lot of records these days. Every one excepting the Literary Digest feels that the election of President Roosevelt is assured and they probably have their alibis ready for their first edition after November 3rd. Lyle C. Wilson | ;of the United Press, after a com-l { plete survey of Indiana, predicts it will be iu the Roosevelt column i by a majority somewhat less than I that of four years ago. The results iin this state and in this county. I depends greatly upon the vote.. If I a large vote is polled, the major!-! ties for national, state and local ! tickets will be large. Complaints of radio interference

are numerous these days and is due no doubt to a few oid fashioned motors. We wouldn't attempt to tell any one what they should do but you know nearly every one has a radio and every oue of them would appreciate it if something ■ could be done to stop that inter-, ference which sounds like an Erie switch engine had broken loose and was coining right through the machine. Think it over and perhaps with just a little expense and; effort you can stop your part of the interference if you are using ■ a leaky motor. 1 .ja America has lost a great public ' servant in the death of Senator James Couzius of Michigan. Worth many millions of dollars, he was a real statesman who regardless of' his ties to the Republican party, had the courage of his convictions. A candidate for renoiniuatiou in i the recent primaries, he declared ' that he would support President Roosevelt, heedless of the fact that he knew such a declaration Would defeat him with his party. He wasi one of those who though suttees-j . ful in a financial way, behoved in • the rights of men and never lost uff opportunity to cast his wtu ami ! his influence in their favor. To lose such a man is a real loss to America. ——■■ Trade in a Good Town — Decatui

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

By the time this is read the cam paigu of 1936 will be practically over. There remains, of course, the necessity of remaining on guard;, of watching for the last desperate forays of a hemmed-in political foe who. realizing that defeat is at hand, may make a final, forlornhope charge which will be as futile as those that have gone before. There is also to be looked for some pretty rough work on Election Day. Those who have made ' such unscrupulous preparations ■ for controlling the voting are not ‘likely to be less ruthless or un- . principled on November 3rd than they were when they sought to coerce and blackmail their employ .es and the public generally into 'voting their way. There is nothing uew about duress and pressure as political expedients, but it is doubtful if any ; campaign since the a’dvnt of the ian effort as is being made today secret ballot has witnessed such to force workmen to vote the boss--1 es’ way. Indeed it was to curb this, very process that the present ballot system was finally put in force, A corporation is supposed to be nonpartisan in politics in simple 1 justice to the sh’are-holdei's who are variously Democrats. Republicans or wnatever they, please to be. For this reason corporations are forbidden by law 'to make political contributions. It is hardly an effec tive law. for those who control ; the big industries can and do con- . tribute as individuals—which incidentally is not without its bearing on the size of salaries and bonuses to high officials of the companies, that have figured in recent , investigations. It is the same general system i ; that is directed to driving the work j 1 people politically. They would not I daT? say directly to an employe “Vote for Landon or I'll fire you.” But what they do is to stuff the payroll envelopes with Republican propaganda and convey in one way or another that if Franklin RooseI velt is not defeated the plant is likely to close, and more stuff of that sort. I have seen statements along this general line that were delivered by bau k s with their' monthly statements to depositors. ’ I have even heard of oue concern, ■ seeking to instill the fear psychol-' ogy into the population of the town, that was making a practice ‘ of dismissing a certain number of its employes every week—-osten-sibly because of the fear of Roosevelt being re-elected —and roplaci lag them with hands from outside , the town, as the mill was crowded I with orders. It s curious that, men is the- ori dinary course of their lives would ' never dream of terrorizing auy- ' body, have no scrupHis when it 1 comes to trying to make their cm- > ployees vote as they wish and see ( no crime in making their corporation function politically without ; regard to bow any ol their stockholders may feel about it. All this Is not going to make any difference I ou election day, thanks to the sec-

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ret ballot system, but it gives an' index to the sort of campaign that has been waged against the Presi-. dent by the very men and institu- j tions who were saved from bankruptcy by the processes of the New Deal. A good many of you have, no! doubt, listened at times to the Republican National Committee s commentator, Mr. William Hard, who is annouuced as giving his j impressions of the political situa-. non without recompense. I don I know whether Mr. Hard is being paid or not. or by whom, but it is • a strange coincidence that he uev-. er fails to broadcast the iniquities' of the New Deal and that his • guest" spokesmen always talk on the same side. It is a greater coincidence to those who have followed Mr. Hard's career in and out' of liberalism and party and who happen to reup-mber an article of i his in the Forum about four years ago. In tliis effort Mr. Hard outlined what he considered an honest party platform and curiously enough it advocated: “A better control of production for the processes of sale.” Another of his paragraphs said that government "has been a janitor and a jailor. It must now become the architect of the social structure within which private may both profit and serve." Hi- also iar is tod ou "public works on behalf of employment and thereupon on behalf of consumption. If and when private credit cannot provide the spark for the re-ignition of the cycle of consumption, it is | for the public credit to do so. " And he also declared' that "relief i

NO FEDERAL TAXES ON FOOD Housewives are being bombarded with untruthful figures about the amount of "hidden taxes” they are paying on foods and meats. An advertising agency thought up the scheme and the National Republican Committee working undercover with a supposedly ' independent womens council” is encouraging th< distribution of intended to accuse the Roosevelt administration. The fact is: THERE ARE NO FEDERAL TAXES ON FOODS OR MEATS. But the campaign goes on and handbills are passed out which tell the housewife that on each pound of beef she pays hidden taxes in the sum of 1% cents. Some merchants like to display these bills as an explanation of the difference in the price he charges and the price lie pays for beef. But let an/'hoiwewife agk the merchant to display a tax receipt and he is stumped. No one pays taxes who does no* get a receipt for the amount he pays. Tin; truth about "hidden, taxes ’ is this: The Federal Governinent is financed by net incofue taxes, estate and inheritance taxes and certain excise taxes which apply to certain articles of merchandise i such as gasoline, automobiles, tires, oil. furs, candy, cigarettes, tobacco and electricity! These excise taxes constituted about 41% of federal 1 revenues when Hoover went into oltice and were increased by the time he retired from office until they amounted to 58.2% of total federal revenue. Today, these saute excise taxes (hidden taxes, if they wish > it) constitute 38.5% of total Federal revenue. So, if housewives arc. perturbed about the "hidden tax” subject, they can mark it down that I there arc no hidden taxes on tood and meat: there arc no additional . • 'ridden taxaa since Hoover's time, except liquor taxes; and if they care i to, they can comjwre prices ot today on all ucccssitjcs and learn that they are not as high as they were in 1929. One thing is certain—if Republicans carry out their promise. Io laUance the budget without increasing net imonio taxes, then they will be forced to raise and to create new excise or "hidden taxesbetter to be described as a national sales tax—iu order t- get sufficient Federal rev uue. The Federal government cannot levy taxes on real estate, so it simmers ’ down to this: The Republican tax program for Slate and Nation is an attempt to pass the coats of government on to the consumer through ■ sales taxes. That is something for housewives realty to be concerned ■ . about in this 1»36 election. i

I through governmental employment; ' enterprises is vitally reconstrucI tive since it eventuates in new speuuing and in new producing on ■ i a large scale." He insisted that I | production controls, within flex--1 ible limits, and of specified commodities. should be encouraged by governmental auspices.” He also | | expressed the hope that “Ameri- | can business, of its own motion, and through its own collective un-* its," would effect the readjustment * 'desired, and he followed this with i "in so far as this hope is not realized. we pledge the Congress to ceed to a drastic use of the power of taxation.” He demanded a Federal law to . “maintain an unemployment com . pensation fund" and added “the ’ placing of all appropriate social ■ burdens upon capitalism is the hu- * manizing of it and the perpetuating of it,” and in the same article is this paragraph: Purpose—Our design is to escape Socialism by obliging private 1 business to be social in its ambi- ' tions and achievements.” Some people might take this to i be a defense of the New Deal. It is more than that, for it was published in June. 1932, before the New Deal was ever put into operation. Os course, the views or previous' views of any professional propagandist are not of great consequence’ in a Presidential campaign, as is evidenced by the circumstance that the betting in Wall Street is now 4 to 1 that Roosevelt will win the election. Even the frenzied dash of Governor Landon to California hasn't changed those odds—or anything else. — o „ — j . Adolph Hanni, postmaster of Monroe, was a visitors hore last j evening. _____

Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to th« Test Question* printed on Paga Two ♦ — 1. Franco-German tor FrancoPrussian 1 war. Z. Apple-s haired. 3. India. 4. A vessel used for the exposition of the Host at Benediction, and also when curried iu procession. 5. American author. ti. Long Island 7. The force which impels cer- ! tain bodies or their particles to . recede from each other. S. Coke. 9. The common cold. 10. Frankfort. 1. Chattanooga. 2. In 1875 by Edmund Cartwright. 3. Boston, Mass. 4. A substance of indefinite composition. consisting essentially of clay, mixed with sufficient finely divided silieious matter to destroy I its plasticity. 5. Iceland. 6. Polish novelist and poet. I 7. University of California. 8. Panama Canal Zone. 9. English poet and novelist. 10. Instrument used to measure strength of a magnetic field. Q TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File « • October 24, 1916.—Senator John W. Kern speaks to the Democrats at the court house. E. S. Christen and M. F. Worthman go to Indianapolis to attend superintendents convention. The Knights of Pythias installs bowling alleys. Martin Gilson falls from his bicycle and breaks an arm. Many Indianapolis teachers go to Indianapolis to attend annual convention. The Democrats hold a barbecue at Berne. Price of cotton goes to 20c for first time since the Civil War.

Townsend I am a believer in the jg||jj||jjgi4 philoso pl. y of high wages, but BMK yjMt I would have it include all ' groups, includrOPwC'' mg the farmer. 1• • • No gov ernmont ow e s a W man a living M. C. Townsend an - v more ’ than it owes an old maid a loving. But, it does owe both of them the opportunity. • • • Only in the spirit of good neighborliness can society permanently solve any of its problems. Spurning this we revert to the jungles of hate and the darkness of the middle ages. •* ♦ I Excessive taxation on homes ' and farm lands penalizes the very foundations of our government. « • • Back in 1932, Federal Reserve banks were lending money to stock market gamblers for 2M%, while the federal rate on farm loans was 6%. Today the farmers get a 3‘i and 4% federal loan and the gamblers are off the credit list • * * If the lamb followed Mary to school these days it would have to have a trailer.

St. Marys Township VOTERS The total amount your township received this year from the state for SCHOOL PURPOSES ONLY, was ~ $4,572.75. Os this amount, $3,825.00 was from gross income tax. Valuation of your township is $1,316,100.00. Your present school tax rate is 87c. Additional property tax rate needed if state support is withdrawn by repeal of gross income tax law 34c per 8100. VOTE FOR TOWNSEND AND THE DEMOCRATIC TICKI ' Political Advt.

Modern Etiquette i By ROBKRTA LEE ( • • Q. Is It ever proper for a man to take a girl's arm, when in public? A. He may do so when assisting her into an automobile, street-; car, or other public conveyance; I also when crossing a street or| passing through a jostling crowd of people. Q. What is the correct position for the oyster fork when setting the table? A. At the extreme right of the cover. Q. When occupying a box at the theater where should the host sit? A. Directly behind his wife. o ♦ —— ♦ | Household Scrapbook | By Roberta Lee « * Polishing Glass Try polishing the mirrors aud the picture glasses with a chamois wrung out of clear water, and then polishing with another dry chamois. Lumpy Salt Put about thr- e teaspootfuls of cornstarch into each cup of salt and it will prevent lumps forming. , Scorched Cooking If it is suspected that the cooking has been scorched by neglecting it for a minute too long, lift it quickly from the tire and stand it in a pan of water for a few minutes. Q PLEASANT MILLS NEWS Numerous friends went to the home of Mrs. Joe Durbin to surprise her on her birthday anniversary

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