Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1936 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Entered 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 _ _..s .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 mall 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. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York, 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Read the ads in this paper tor timely Christmas gift suggestions. There are a lot of Good Fellows in Decatur and now is the time they come to the aid of their cause. England at least is enjoying a harmless civil or social war as long as the Wally Simpson case continues to hold principal interest among Britons. Slip a few dollars in an envelope for the Good Fellows fund and on Christmas morning you’ll know that you brought cheer to a less fortunate person. Roosevelt lives up to the "Man of the Hour” expectations. His visit to the Argentine republic resuited in the greatest ovation ever given to a human being and when he spoke for the cause of peace he again proved his great leadership. The world admires him. Otto Hoile of Union township again carried away the blue ribbons at the Interntaional Livestock show for his entries of Chester White hogs. Otto is one of the best known farmers in the county and his hogs are as good as they raise in the country. His friends are happy over the recognition which has come to Adams County. The First State Bank of this city will distribute Christmas Savings cheeks to several hundred club members this week. It is a good plan to save a few dollars each week during the year and have it available at Christmas time, when expenses pile up and the needs are greater. If you are not a member of the 1936 club, plan to join the one for next year. Taxpayers in Adams County will pay less on real estate and personal property assessments in 1937 than they did in 1936. The tax bill for next year is $463,251.70. or approximately $25,500,000 less than the current bill. With other forms of taxation and a great part of local school expense reduced because of the gross income distribution. property tax levies can and are being reduced. Persons who own vacant lots should contact prospective home owners and if possible make a deal for the property so that a newhouse can be built. There are many desirable places in the city and several persons have expressed the desire to build a house. At 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.

moderate prices the vacant lots cun be sold and new houses will rise on the ground, increasing the value of real estate. ). The advantages of the old age it pension plan under the Federal Social Security Act is becoming; t . very popular and about everywhere t you hear the statement made, “1 wish they had started It 20 years 2 ago.” Persons employed and com--0 Ing under the provisions of the Act “ will build up a savings or insurance i 5 I) account, which will bo paid back 5 to them, together with interest 'J when they retire at 65 or later. It Is one of the foremost pieces of legislation ever passed in this country and its benefits will be great. I New York Is starting early on I plans for a world's fair in that , great city in 1939. More than 1,200 acres of laud in the Flushing district is being acquired for the biggest show eves given out. doors. \ The state and city of New York are joining in the plans and already a $135,000,000 exposition is . being advertised. The ambition is , to entertain fifty million visitors. i who it is hoped will spend a billion dollars in the Empire state, i The fair grounds are being con- , structed with the idea of making a permanent park of the area fol- . lowing the show. Sorrow was brought to a wide , circle of friends with the death of , Mrs. Fred Linn, prominent citizen.] active civic and church worker of i this city. A resident of Decatur all her life, Mrs. Linn was endeared to many in this community, i Her idealism was reflected in the i ] civic life of Decatur and her devoutness and sincerity was dem- i • onstrated frequently in her chuAh. i She served for 26 years as presi- ■ dent of the Ladies Aid Society of . the First Evangelical church and one of her last activities was the service she rendered the society 1 in giving the last New England dinner at the church. She was a - true wife and wonderful mother and-her -guiding hand and inspiration will be missed greatly within her family circle. - | The annual call for the Good i Fellows has gone out and from . now until Christmas a fund will be raised which will be expended ’ to bring cheer and happiness to I the needy on Christmas eve. For 1 many years the Good Fellows club 1 has been sponsored by the Delta ’ Theta Tau sorority of this city I and these young women have done i an excellent and thorough job I every year. A city-wide canvass of the homes where Santa Claus ■ might fail to visit, is made eacn year and a roster made of the j number of children and of their needs. The sorority has started the current fund with a SSO donation and appeals to the warm heart and charitable nature of those able to help to do so. It's the season when one receives the most pleasure and happiness through giving and a few dollars donated to the Good Fellows club will bring to you the real joy of Christmas. I . • a I STAR SIGNALS -BY- —- — OCTA VINE 1 Fvr person* wSo neiieve that human destniy is guided by the placet, ♦.he daily baroscope Is outlined by a noted astrologer. In addition to information of general interest, it outlines information special interest co iH»*soQs born on the designated dates. 1 » December 3 Ass eted by the vibrations today • are thou? born from July 21 through August 22. and all others in more o - less degree. General Indications Morning—Very active. Afternoon—Good. ' Evening—Cierica’. ; The day is very favo'-able for I work which requires energy and activity. Birthdate I If Dec- 3is your birthday, you i should be honorable, courageous and • fearleiss. ] Guard your health, employment j ‘ end relations with inferiors during j May and June, 1937. Changes may > I occur. ! Plan financial advancement for , your self during January, 1937. Danger—August 26 through Sep:, j 13. 1937. .... i

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Series Os Stories Reviewing Gov. McNutt’s Administration

(Editor's note: This is the second of a series of five stories reviewing the administration of Gov.! Paul V. McNutt.) By Allen Dibble U. P. Staff Correspond nt Indianapolis. Dec. -. —"JJV —The general assembly enacted record volumes of legislation during the administration of Gov. Paul V. McNutt to meet an existing emerg-' ! ency, to co-ordinate the state s legislative program with that of the new deal, and to fulfill platform promises. The opposition party charged the legislature was a “rubber stamp" for McNutt. Several members of the Democratic majority rebelled under the party whip. One Democrat; Sen. Chester A.) Perkins, South Bend, resigned his post, declaring the state “is being* crucified" and contending McNutt had created a "dictatorship." But strong party lines led to en-[ actment of virtually every meas-' ure that received administration approval. None of the state laws,' although some were rushed to meet, an emergency, was voided by a court of last resort. Chief criticism against the McNutt legislative program has fal' len to the state reorganization,' gross income and liquor control acts. The governor defended each J vigorously in campaigns priefr to> the senatorial election and the gen-1 eral election last Nov. 3. The reorganization act was the keystone of the McNutt administration. as it centered control with the governor. The number of departments was reduced from 169 to 8. Advocates of the bill claimed a 12.000.000 annual saving in state expense as result of its pass-' age. * Departments under the act were executive, commerce and industry, I audit and control, education, pub- ! lie works, state, law, and treasury. The attorney general was made an appointive officer, serving at the pleasure of the governor. The act also gave McNutt authority to appoint the staffs of all departments, except private secretaries to elective officials. This created the wide source of patronage which led to criticism both within and outside the party. The gross income tax was the i chief fiscal issue of the last campaign in which the Republicans pledged themselves to repeal the controversial measure. The Democrats pledged Townsend to retain the tax, but promised a conference at which alleged inequalities in the bill would be considered. Chief opposition to the tax came ■ from small retailers, who contendied it bore heavily on them and doomed their business. They arguied they were unable to pass the j tax ou. as larger merchants were > able to do, and also that they were forced to pay a gross income tax 'on their businesses regardless of whether they shoved an annual j profit. Chief criticism against the liq- - .

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uor control act came as result of its alleged monopolistic features. ! Under the original act, passed in 11933 in anticipation of the return ' of 3.2 beer, an excise director was ■ named. This brought references ,to the “beer baron" or “czar" of I the state setup. Another section of the law which was opposed strongly was that which provided that out-of-state brewers must distribute their beer through ten importers licensed by the state. 1 In an attempt to fulfill his campaign pledge to prohibit the return of the "open saloon," McNutt made no mention in the first beer law of draught sales and only j bottled beer was sold. 1 Northern Indiana dealers found. 1 however, they were forced to com- ' pete with Illinois taverns which sold draught beer, and they de- 1 . manded provision for such sales in 1 [ Indiana. The state escaped a special session of the legislature when Attorney General Philip Lutz ■Jr., ruled that draught beer was , legal under the existing law. When liquor became legal in [lndiana Dec. 6, 1933, Hoosiers j found that by-the-drink sales were I prohibited. This situation was ! remedied by the 1935 legislature' after much lobbying by propon-' ’ ents and opponents of such sales. The 1935 legislature also provid!ed for a non-partisan board to ad--1 minister the liquor business in the state. Paul P. Fry was retained as director. In an attempt to answer critics charging a “monopoly’’ it was provided that no less than ten nor more than 100 importers be permitted to hold licenses J which were termed “port of entry" permits, with no restrictions l as io sales territories. Despite the . change, there never were more than 13 “port of entry" permits .ever issued. “Model" law’s were enacted to fulfill McNutt's promises to provide legislation governing oper- ; ation of banks, building and loan ' associations, credit sales, and ini surance companies in the state. 'The 1933 banking law. improved in 1935 after operating tests, is ■ considered one of the best in the nation. McNutt also had pledged hitn--1 self to furnish adequate financial • aid to the aged, and Indiana was J among the first to enact such a [[program financed entirely by the • state. ■ V il This year when the federal so•lcial security program was outlini.ed. McNutt called a special sessj ion of the general assembly to en:‘aet legislation to make the state i program conform. Bills providing i unemployment compensation and ■ pensions for the blind, aged aud i dependent were hurried through > the legislature, which had pledg- ■ ed itself to consider only social . security problems, in 14 days. Democrats held near-record maI jorities in the senate aud house of representatives during both the • 1933 and 1935 sessions, lu 1933,

the Democratic house majority was 91 to 9 and in the senate the majority was 43 to 7. The Democrats held a 65 to 35 majority in the house in 1935 and in the senate the majority was 33 to 12. Perkins’ resignation came in the midst of heated debate in the 73rd session. He led a group of insurgents who contended the governor and legislative leaders were “crucifying" the state. Another of the controversial laws passed by the Democratic majority in 1933 was one "skipping" municipal elections that fall. Proponents of the bill said it saved the state $300,000 at a time when budget-balancing was a chief issue. Opponents contended the Democrats were afraid' to face local elections on the record they had made during the first fewmonths of the administration. (Next —The fiscal record) o—- * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY j From the Daily Democrat bile | ♦ ♦ December 2. 1916. — Villa men club 80 Chinamen to death at Chihuahua City. Homer H. Knodle is elected ’ Chief Patriarch by Odd Fellows. I Joseph & Lang purchase the Robinson confectionery. | Dr. D. D, Clark is at his office again after a serious attack of pneumonia. Herman Reiter sells four hogs ’ weighing 2,370 pounds at B%c. Attorney Elmer Brothers returns to Chicago after a visit here with his sister, Mrs. Dr. Burns. ° ' j Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the | Test Questions printed .! i on Pago Two 1. Hybrid animals resulting from the cross-breeding of busi falos and domestic cattle. 2. By act of Congress approved , March 3. 1931. 3. Grass mown and dried in the . sun and used as fodder for cattle. 4. South America. 5. Italian sculptor. 6. Twice married. i 7. A condition of vision in i which the number of colors which i can be differentiated is markedly less than normal. 8. The Orange river, i 9. 'jrdnande. i 10. German philosopher. L 1•— »| ’ ♦ II Modern Etiquette | . By ROBERTA LEE 1 . ♦ q. What should a girl use as a - guide in the choice of becoming s colors? ; a. One well-known authority I says that the color of the skin, inI stead of the hair, should be used i as a guide. A pink skin calls for - black, very dark green, or purplish I blue. One with a golden cast to the skin looks better in dark green. ■ yellow green, or brown. ■ Q. How should a womau intro- > duce her husband? ,| A. As "my husband’ or ‘‘John’’

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