Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by fBB DBCATL'B DEMOCRAT CO ..WUred M the Docatur, Ind.. Post IXBco as Second Class Matter. H. Heller President A. H. Holthouse, See'y & Bus. Mgr. Mok D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mail .66 Three months, by mall 100 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail — 3.00 Jne year, at office— 3.0 u Prices quoted Sift within a radius of 100 miles Else where $3.50 one year Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver Representative BCHEERER. Inc. |ls Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies Smoke with the boys at the smoker at Democratic headquart-1 I * ers Monday night. You may not favor Governor McNutt, but we are sure you will, ( agree he looks the part. Smoke a cigar at headquarters ' Monday evening and listen to the addresses of Dick Heller, R. C. ' Parrish and others. You will enjoy this conclusion to the campaign ' «f 1936. The governor came and was it ' a speech? The crowd listened to/ every word and remained until he was through answering questions.! It was a splendid climax to the campaign. The football battles today are at ' trading the usual attention but 1 will be the outstnding news a week from now after the campaign is over and the smoke of the election has passed. The loud speaker used at the court house yesterday made it possible for as many outside the court room to hear as were inside and thanks are due Marcellus Miller for the excellent installation. Did you thump with the Callithumpians? Sure you did whether you were in the parade or on the side lines. It’s a great annual event which was started several years ago by Jesse Rice and has been carried on successfully. Every thing was forgotten last evening while thousands laughed and shouted as they enjoyed the big Callithumpian parade. Those in charge did a good job and deserve the congratulations of the: public. These annual events help a lot. To vote for a third party next Tuesday is just throwing it away and taking a half vote from Roose- 1 velt. This county should give Roosevelt and Townsend 3,000 majority if those who vote will just stop to thinK serious.y over the situation. In 1933 wheat was 32c per bushel, corn 31c, hogs $3.11 per hundred, eggs lie per dozen and cotton 6c per pound. Today wheat is $1.04. corn sl, hogs, $9.25, eggs 24c and cotton 12c. Don’t take any chances ou a change that will wreck you; and the country. The smoker at headquarters , Monday night will be one of the best, with • very to iiiti in election day plans. The speak ’ ers will include Attorney Pat Par/ rish of Fort Wayne and Dick Hel l ler, secretary of the Democratic! state committee. Be there. Wc are at the close of one of the hardest fought political battles ini history. There has been some 1 mudslinging and some charges and | counter charges but it will soon be over and every good citizen will be glad to do his best for a coutinuaiiee of the greatest govenitaeut in the world.

Hallowsen is over and the boys i who have been carrying away valuable property or otherwise indulging in what is sport tor them but expense and worry to those whom they molest should make up their ; ! minds to wait another year to conclude any project they may have had in mind. Trespass is a 1 I , violation of law. Governor McNutt refuted the statements of those who claim that President Roosevelt has broken' faith with the Democratic platform by pointing out that every pledge has been kept except that I of balancing the budget and reduc ing the public debt, which because ■of the suffering of the American people, could not be done. The issue is whether or not you want prosperity to continue and improve Yon know that if Mr. Roosevelt is defeated, there will be nothing doing until January and then his successor will have to organize for a year or two and in the, meantime, the gains made up to this time, would be lost. Take no i chances. VOTE THE DEMO | CRATIC TICKET This was the last cay for voting 1 'by absent ballot and if yon have passed it up yoa will be dlsfran chieed for Tuesday s election un less you can get to the county 1 clerk's offiice before closing time. The candidates on the Demo- 1 cratic ticket in Adams county are' trustworthy and will serve'you to your entire satisfaction. Vote for them and you will not need to apologize or even be sorry. The Democrats held three school house meetings in Decatur this week and at each a fair crowd was present. The issues were presented fairly and clearly and we are sure have caused many to see the necessity of working on election day that there will be no slip It I i is to the advantage of every citizen ; of Adams county that the good i work done the past four years will j carry on to better and more prosperous days. The war clouds get darker and darker over in Europe and it is doubtful if the climax is far away. 1 1 It is important that President Roosevelt be permitted to conduct the ship of state in America, that, we may avoid complications that might draw us in. Our people are unanimously opposed to war and I will continue so, but the diplo-. matic relations with the various nations may become strained to the point of bursting unless correctly I handled. THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH: Governor McNutt has spoken in thirty states during the campaign and in every district in Indiana and brought the cheering news to the people of Adams county that President Roosevelt will lie re- i elected next Tuesday and that Cliff I Townsend will be chosen as governor. He praised the work of Senator Thurman Gottschalk and Representative Frank Thompson for • the assistance given by them dur-! ing his administration. The governor’s address was a clear and understandable one that handled every important issue of the cam- , paign and at its conclusion, he opened his public forum and asked any one in the audience to ask' ‘ questions whether they be as to i the conditions in Indiana or personal. He explained the scandal concerning the Benjamin Harrison Life Insurance Company and pointled out the lack of business sagacity ; and he warned laborers not to be i frightened by the last minute scare ’ on the security act. which was j ' voted tor by almost every Repub-1 lican iu the house aud senate and* which win. if carried out, prove to | ibe the greatest step forward ever! taken in America for the common , man. The governor urged constant work until Tuesday night by those who believe in free government of and for the people. He iwa devot-, |ed much time and effort tu the

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campaign because he believes we are at a crisis and that it his duty to aid in the great battle. It was a wonderful address by a gi*at man and the court room was packed by an enthusiastic and militant 1 crowd. He went from here to Richmond where he was the headliner in a big rally last evening. o Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. Pennsylvania. 2. Off the west coast of Scotland. 3 Multiply 3.1416 by the square of the radius of the circle. 4. English author. 5. James River. 6 Forty days. 7. Syria. 8 Nadir. 9. One hundred and sixty. 10 Twenty-first. 1. An instrument for recording earthquakes. 2. General Assembly. 3. South Africa. 4. Neither; it is a federal district. 5. Hawaiian Islands. 6. English painter. 7. Italy. 8. English novelist. 9. Bronze. 10. American Civil War. o — Collector Prizes Handbills New Baltimore, Mich.—(UJD--A bit unusual is the hobby of Frederick C. Schlosser, New Baltimore hardware dealer, who for 30 years has. been collecting handbills. Schlosser, unlike most people welcomes handbills on his porch, lawn or in his mail box. says collecting handbills is a fascinating hobby.

Kills Father to Avenge Mother

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"He mistreated my mother. I couldn t stand it any longer." Such was the explanation Grady Bowden, 15, of Memphis, Tenn., gave police when he surrendered after allegedly shooting his stepfather. Ruben Varker. Police said the youth riddled Barker with 11 bullets. fir*d frm* l the uindov/ of the Barker home ai the stepfather stood on the front Uun Mrs Barker, near collapse from jrief. insisted. "He's t good boy He didn't know what he was doing. /

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1936.

DISPELUNGJ'HE FOG By Charles Michelson Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee

Here we are at the political journey's end. • It has not been a pleasant cam.paign, for the minority party has resorted to every manner of fabrication in its effort to upset the popularity of the President. True this has not all been done openly by the Republican National Committee but, thanks to the duPont Liberty League contributions and similar donations to pretended organizations, it has all been shov- • elled out. The attacks of the President's . wife have come from a Southern : league whose non-existence, except for self-appointed officers, has been repeatedly exposed in Congressional lobby investigations. DuPont money went into that. An obscene attack on the President's health emanated under two aliases—one being signed by a j "Catholic Action Society” in its first issue and the other by the /"Mothers and Children's League.” ■ There is no such league and no such action group. The indecent (sheet is the output of a single ob- . scure individual and it is not disclosed who is paying the bills. Religious intolerance is brought in by half a dozen antisemitic pamphleteers, who attempt to use 1 their propaganda against the President. The Congressional investiI gation has disclosed the money of 1 Liberty League members in the i'iulanting of these organs of prejudt ice. •| There are a lot mote of similar 5 whispering campaigns, none of s | them with any reputable sponsor- . ship, including the highly apoery--1 phal link between the White House 1 and Stalin in Russia. 5' In a category not dissimilar are certain alleged polls. These do not

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perhaps include any of the estab- ■ lished straw-vote agencies, but those that were undertaken purely for a political purpose. However, much must be forgiven a desperate partian<-hip. faced by defeat, and willing to employ any agency—however v.clous—that would accept its money. Just now there is on a drive into which some large firms and corporations have permitted themselves to be enlisted, to scare their employees into voting for Governor Landon. They are including in the payroll envelopes utterly misleading matter in relation to oldage benefits. For example, they solemnly advise the workmen that beginning the first of the year there will be i a deduction of one percent, rising as high as four percent, and it is insinuated that there is no guarantee that the Government will pay this old-age insurance. Despite the fact that in most States there is a law absolutely forbidding such practices. I have before me a payroll envelope carrying on its face under a red letter the heading “Pay Deduction" and stating that the assessment of i employees might go as high as four percent. Actually the law limits the poss ible levy to three percent and this rate would not be levied until after 1949. Most of these inset Iptious and payroll enclosures omit any mention of the fact that the employer must pay an equal amount. The one exception is a leaflet, stating that “we, the company, can be compelled to deduct as much as six per cent from our weekly payrolls.' Os course there is no provision in the Social Security Law compelling the company to take this from its payrolls. It can pay its assessments out of profits or in any manner it pleases. Probably the most mischievous ■falsehood of the let is the information that the Government may not pay the obligation when it falls due. The assessments collected go into a trust fund and the United States Government is legally obligated to use this trust fund for no other purpose than to make payments under the act. As an actual fact, the employee cannot lose a penny of what he put in. If he dies before reaching age of 65, his family gets an annuity. If he loses his job after making one or more payments, that situation likewise is taken care of. In short, pretty nearly every statement that has been shot into the worker's pay-envelop just is not so. Why. I have seen one terrifying injunction to the effect titat “if your wages are twenty dollars, you may be assessed fourteen dollars." It was uot mentioned that fourteen dollars represented a year’s contribution, and that the actual dcditcjtion from the employee’s payroll would be 26 cents. This campaign has only hct*i I launched recently, with the obvious purpose of scarjug the working people when there wa little lime for the inaccuracies and ralssTatemenu to be corrected, before it could be explained that so far Srorn being a burden on the worker’ it

wm providing him with security ( at • rate kr below what ordinary insurance would coat him. Moreover, this is one piece of reckless and untrue propaganda for which the Republican National Committee cannot escape responsibility. for on the stationery of the Republican National Committee, signed by J. E. Humphrey, vicechairman of the Industrial Dlvlsion, there was isned a letter to 1 employers generally, asking them to send the Republican National Committee the names of their employees, and also was included a slip on which they were to order enclosures. That same Republican National Committee Industrial Division also issued a pamphlet in which were embraced the most of the misleading criticisms of the Social Security Act and conveying to them that Governor Landon has a very much better social security plan Well, the campaign is at at: end and a few days after this latter is published the country will learn that neither early dirt nor last-min-ute falsehoods had any effect. !♦— ' ~ . The People’s Voice | !| 1 ■ ■ This colamn for the use of our | readers who wish to make sag- , test lona tor the general good , or discuss questions of later- | eat ."lease sign your name to ; i show authenticity. It will not | I be used it you prefer that It | I not bo. • ' • —« Radio Interrerence Dear Mr. Editor: For the past several weeks local ' citizens have approached me with | complaints about the widespread "local interference” that prevents decent radio reception. I should \ j like to be accorded the privilege I of presenting this problem and suggesting a solution. Radio today is no longer a novel Ity. It has become a vita! part of ■ life. Almost without exception, our people depend upon it for "hot news," education and entertainment. With the advent of radio many problems arose. Not the least of these problems is that of manmade static, now designated as local interference. Local interference arises from many sources. It > may come from leaky power lines,, auity motors, faulty household appliances. electric heating pads, badly constructed electric signs, so-called violet ray machines used in medical practice and believe-it-or-not, the innocent electric light ! bulb. The only scientific method with which to cope with the pest of local interference is for the city government to provide itself with an instrument properly designed to! detinately and quickly locate sources of interference. Such an instrument would cost very little in money. In the hands of a properly trained city trouble couM be instantly located and corrected. Many cities have passed ordinances prohibiting the use of electrical apparatus known to be a disturbing factor in radio reception. None of the cities nave passed such laws have ever regretted it. Without a system of smooth, safe highways modern motor travel would be impossible. We built and ' maintain roads that keep pace with . modern travel needs. Why not see our modern communi <?ion needs . in the same light? Let us in De- , catur keep and maintain our ether- ■ . ways free of man-made obstructions. I Harry W. Thompson. o *~twenty’years _ * AGO TODAY • | From the Daily Democrat File ♦— — + October 31. 1916. — F. H. Hub- - bard is elected general manager of the Ohio Sugar Company at Ot- ; tawa, Ohio, and will move his famr ily there. r Woman's Home Missionary Society of the north Indiana M. E. i conference opens 33rd annua! con- • vention here. t Albert Anker buys Frank Mei Connell's cigar store and the lat- > ter will engage in the wholesale 1 tobacco business. • Abram Simmons, Democratic ) candidate for state senator speaks • at Monroe. Odde are 10 to 8 on Wilson. ■ win Berling of Bluffton is ill t with typhoid fever. j o - i, a Good Town — Decatur - —- != Eczema, Athletic Feet, Pimples, Al! Skin trouble. Try B. B. Ointment 50c Box AT YOUR DRUGGISTS Vote For I HARRY MOORE I Republican Candidate for COMMISSIONER THIRD DISTRICT Adams County. Your Support Is Solicited.

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT The Social Secnrtty act paaaed by ~o n I political issue and is not now a political iIH( * bK ■ Democrats voted for the measure tn the ratio , party platforms adopted this year declare for R n °< rlo The matter is brought into promtnenc, m.,’ 1 i Castle due to the fart that one of the ! that beginning January 1, next. 1 per cenl nf . s " O,i M jq Jw l ducted each week to pay for Old Age Hen»nt, bftW proper notice for the company to give its e mp iov». “ •been done to Influence votes, as some persons would have been against the federal laws for is 10 j there is a heavy penalty. ’'oiztfoi The deduction of 1 per cent is not a tax as W than lite Insurance or Are insurance is a tax Th ? insurance premium and pays for a retirement 1 after he is 65 years old. It Is the same princinu other civil service employes of the government hs *' more than thirty years, excepting that the eovnrn™ a straight 2>4 per cent from start to finish m "" "W®? The 20,000 school teachers in Indiana have a year since 1915. If they teach SO years and pay they will have paid a total of about SI,OOO | (l nn .L a monthly benefit of about $35. um * *M Based on SIOO a Month Income I Under the L’. 8. Social Recttrity law an c m »io wk ■ , part of his wages, running from 1 to X per cent old and continuing for 30 years until he is V es’„ „is "’l® i in a total of S9OO. hut he will draw $42.50 every month at 65 years of age. The average life of a man who r* L?’’® ! years and one month or 133 months, so that he will .of $5,652. He will have been paid back the $»oo it months after he is 65. If he pays the premiums for 20 years or from 45 tn « ■ | will have paid a total of $540 and will draw a monthly hrat*"!® so long as he lives. If he lives the average of 11 yean o' I '® ! he will get back a total of $4,300 and will get back u'r 1 * 1 ® ! months. ws '***>■ If he pays premiums from the time he is 25 year , ■ 65 he will pay a total of $1,260 in premiums, the monthi.'S® will receive after 65 will lie $51.25 and he will receive v >'«' ■ W if he lives as long as the average man after he is s; will get back all his $1,260 in the first 23 months after he|.?9 All these figures are based on the assumption that fftaS woman who pays the premiums draws an average o f TH , during those years. If his average wage is i eM h,« will be smaller, and if his salary or wages average nw itaS per month he will get a larger monthly benefit. ■ Employer Matches Dollars | It would seem impossible to get so much monthly small a payment. But the law provides that the employer j dollars with his employes. For every dollar the employee employer pays a dollar, so if the employee pays in 1900 will have paid in a like amount. H The premiums start at 1 per cent and continue at this wfl ' three years. For the next three years the rate is Ity percent’s 9 third three years it is 2 per cent; for the fourth three yeanthl \is ~'/i per cent and after 1949 the rate is 3 per cent and dong 9 , crease. The money paid is invested in government bonds and st® j else. It is in the hands of the U. S. government, and i interest is compounded annually. These rates were made by ft® ' surance actuaries who know by a half century of experience. I The law does not apply to any person who holds a pnblitjoii any kind, nor to agricultural or casual laborers, nor to railroad ployes who are under a separate law I Insurance companies know that 88 persons of every 1(4 mJ I able to support themselves after they are 65 years old. but m 3 i pend on relatives or public or private charity for at lean Iml ; not ail their living. The law was intended to serve the Hit J pose of caring for these old persons and permitting them to MN at 65, thereby making hundreds of thousands of jobs for youagerM and women.

, — She had beauty and talent ! ...HER RIVAL HAD BEAUT! — AND WEALTH! I A s C pF Sweepstakes on Love by May Christie a truly great romance What chance had Diana Darlington W her love against her wily rival, the hh** wealthy Regina Hyde? Read this stirring novel of ho" a girl courageously fought her via} 10 ' tentment when her movie career had c and poverty faced her. XVatch (or > STAKES ON LOVE by May ChristieBegins Tuesday, Nov. 3 daily in DECATUR DAILY