Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1937 — Page 4

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*= ———= DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by FME DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Katerad at the Decatur, Ind.. Post' Office us Second Clasa Matter 1 H. Heller President X R- Holthouse, Sec’y. & Bua, Mgr. Dick D. Heller.... Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies ——l .02 One week, by carrier ——— .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by malt .85 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 33.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER & CO. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. | Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. We begin to fear the need of a Palm Beach suit or some other kind of a seersucker and the predictions are for several months of the ninety-in-the-shade brand. Clyde Hendricks is recognized as an excellent teacher and perhaps the fact that he insists upon proper discipline explains his success. The recent charges against him in Fort Wayne are not considered very serious by those who know him best. That there is a corn shortage in this country is proven by the fact that it has been necessary to import cargoes from Africa and the Argentina. Experts advise planting as much corn as is possible this year for the outlook for a very good price is excellent. There is of course nothing wrong about a man knitting but oue hard ly expects it from the duke of Windsor after reading of his many escapades all over the world. They say he is busy with his yarn these days trying to settle his jaggled nerves. Loes does queer things. To many it may not seem like a serious crime to run a red light, but supposing that when doing such a thing a collision occurs cither with another car or a pedestrian, and some one is badly injured or killed. Then it becomes really something to worry about. Don’t take a chance. It might be just as well to wait for details concerning the dispute, reported particularly by a partisan press, over who is to be recognized and in what order in the Philippines. High Commissioner McNutt is usually politically wise and we would like to wager a doughnut or two that he is in the right when the complete story is accurately told. Noah Locke, whose death oc curred Saturday at Fort Wayne j was for many years an active citizen and business man here. He was engaged in the hardware retail business here for a long time and was active in civic and lodge affairs, lie was a hustler and a builder and will be remembered by many of our older people as an excellent citizen and a fine Christian gentleman. Statistics show that the uat population of this country is only half what it was twenty years ago when it was estimated there was a rat for every person. That's still a half too many for the same report shows they caused damage totaling 3189,000,000 last year. Wc ought to be smart enough to get rid of any thing that causes that loss and no benefits that have ever been discovered. A few years ago insurance companies took over many farms on which they held loans. Most of these were improved and held, showing finam ial acumen tor the i same Ivins now can be sold for, all the original loan was, plus cost!

lof improvements and a profit. It's ' a much more pleasant picture than we had in the days of the early i thirties when a farm was a liability, especially if the owner had to pay interest and high taxes. The two months strike of cm- ' ployes of the Indiana traction railroad has been settled but the dami age has probably been done. It will take a lot of time and extra effort to build back confidence in , the line which was just beginning I ! again to break even. Nothing ! seems to have been gained by either side but the loss is quite apparent. The men have lost their wages and the company their i chance to earn a surplus that i might have made better wages I possible next year. A local business man came in this morning to tell us of hearing three ladies, evidently strangers here, conversing on the street. One said, ‘’lsn't this a good look- ; ing town?" and another replied, "Yes. and aren’t the people friendly?" Certainly that’s the kind of 1 a reputation we want and we are glad if that's the impression our visitors receive. Let’s keep it up. It's so easy to be courteous to , strangers as well as to the home ' folks and it pays good dividends. 5 Don't worry, some way or other j we will handle the traffic problem, i Os course it's not easy. It may take time and some money from . some where, but it has to be done. , We want more visitors, rather than less and of course there is just ■ one way to meet it and that's to plan and prepare for them. As the , city grows, as we get more improved roads, as more cars are i purchased, the method of handling traffic becomes more complex, but I never let it be said that Decatur! did not meet the situation. Compare present day prices of real estate to a couple of years ago and they se in high but com- . pare them to ten years ago and they are far below. While it is ; not probable and perhaps not de- i . sired that farm lands will again soar to $250 and S3OO per acre but ' the average improved farm in this i section can be bought at $l5O with ! safety. In this city you can buy j now for less money than you per- . haps ever will lor we are entering upon a growth that is sure to, carry the prices on city real estate | to a much higher plane than at ' present. Better not put off your j real estate investments any longer. Now is the time. Latest treasury estimates show that total money in circulation amounts to $6,426,790,883, or $49.75 for every man, woman and child in the country. This is an increase of more than 500 million dollars during the past year. It is usually taken for granted that prices are influenced by the volume of money in circulation, but prices also are influenced by tariffs, by trade agreements, by monopoly and by competition. At any rate SSO per capita is far from being a danger point in the way of inflation. It is sound money, too, if we reckon its value on the old gold basis. Gold is no longer a circulating medium, it Is true, but ! the Government has something) like 12 billion dollars worth of the! yellow metal locked up in its stor-: age vaults. If Uncle Sam wanted to he could redeem his circulating paper with gold coin and have plenty of the latter to spare.— j Farmers Guide. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Neptune of Lima, Ohio were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. William Bell. 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. K. 1 to Decatur R. R. 2, instruct us to change the paper from route one to route

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Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two i— ♦ | 1. Ship machine for hoisting anchor. 2. Spain. 3. George Bernard Shaw. 4. Trinity Sunday. 5. A lake in the Grampian) Mountains in Scotland. I 6. None. 7. Java. 8. A fermented beverage made i I from mare’s or cow's milk. 9. In an airplane accident. 10. Spain. 1. Isothermal lines. 2. American poet. 3. Minnesota. j 4. Texas. 5. The sen of Chaos and Dark ! ness. 6. New York. j 7. Will Carleton. B’. No. 9. No, they are unable to swal- ! low unless completely submerged 10. In the St. Lawrence river. o — « Modern Etiquette —BY— By ROBERTA LEE O. Is a iperson ever permitted to aek for an invitation for himself, to a dinner, or any other social affair? A. Never. A person with pride will not do eo under any stancesQ. What reply should a young man make, when a toast has been

Divert Niagaras Torrent to Save Falls . <• i: '" , - I ■ jew of Horseshoe falls and weir being constructed ~

An unuaval job of engineering construction is in progress above the Horseshoe falls on the Canadian side of N-agara where a weir is being built to divert the fiver’s torrent and prevent further erosion 1 ' ———

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offered to hie bride-to be and him? A. "It would be very difficult for a man happy ae I am to make a speech, but I wish to thank every \ one of you in Martha’s name and mine.” Q. If a hoet is considerably overcharged on the bill presented in a i restaurant, bow can he adjust the | matter inconepiclous’y, without embarrassment to his guests or to himself? A. By excusing himself and consulting the head-wa’ter. o TODAY * By UNITED PRESS ♦ ♦ Senate: Considers unobjected bills. Committee: Wheeler continues rail finance 10 a. m. House: Considers relief bill and District of Columbia legislation. — — o —— * Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee In Place of a Nail If the kitchen has painted walls and one does not wish to drive a nail or screw into the plaster on which to hang a calendar, or similar article, merely attach a small piece of adhesive tape to the article and the other end to the wall. Window Boxes Bugs and worms can be prevented by heating the earth for window boxes and potted plants in the oven before using. Whitewash the inside of the window boxes before filling

I with earth, and it will keep out in- ■ sects and also prevent the boxes . from decaying. Parsley II Add a little salt to the parsley when chipping it. It will chip better, ■ and the sa't will also freshen it. j o ■ ' TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY .| ■ From the Daily Democrat File j ♦ ♦ i May 24 — Dr. Stewart Niblick • completes medical course at Chi- , cago University. | Also Products Co-, plant is being | remodelled. i No bid filed for the $30,000 bond I issue for building the new lllartford township school house. 413 lives lost when the Brittish . transport Transylvania is sunk. Col. Fre<i Reppert conducts an imaginary auction sale, at the Rotary ; meeting. U. S. steele- plant plans to build a ship a day for the Allies. Fourteen men are ready for exams to Join Co. A. - o ■ ——— ♦ •' Adams County Memorial Hospital ) , * - 11 Admitted Sunday: Mrs. Harry . Young. 915 North Fifth street. | ! Admitted this morning: Richard . Miller, 915 Lierkes street. Dismissed Sunday: Miss Kate j Flickinger, 1103 West Monroe street • Mrs. John McKean; Albert Colchin Rugg st rect; Evelyn Slain, route 4.1 i Fort Wayne. .! o ; Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

"* cf the cataract which has gradually been "creeping” up the river This excellent aerial view shows the site of the weir above the falls which ate seen in thejphoto. — |

SOCIAL HEADS IN CONFERENCE Nation’s Social Leaders In Annual Meeting At Indianapolis Indianapolis. May 24. — |U.R) Leaders ut the nation's social workers took up prison management, welfare administration case work and community organization in sectional and committee meetings today tor the opening of their 64th annual conference. At least a scare of associate and special group meetings were held . throughout the day before a scheduled speech by U. S. Sen. ’ Robert F. Wagner, D., New York, sponsor of the national labor re- ! lations act. The county jail system in the I United States is costly and ineffiI cient and should be abolished, Miss Nina Kinsella, executive as; distant to the director of the federal bureau of prisons, Washing-: ton, told a committee discussing | social treatment of the adult offender. Miss Kinsella said the American ! county jail is a relic of the old ' English goal which long has been I discontinued. I "Over three thousand small coun- | ty units, each jealous of its powers, and with few exceptions indifferent with regard to its responsibilities, are entrusted with the | care and custody of the largest number of offenders taken into custody," she said. "No two county jails are organized under the same plan. There are just as many systems as there are jails, in fact, most of them lack any semblance of a system■" She proposed that the county jail system be replaced with establishment of regional work farms under central control where short- ’ term prisoners could be compelled to work and serve their time in a decent, wholesome atmosphere and detention quarters attached to | county courthouses where persons awaiting trial or -transfer could be confined. Promotion of self-government among prisoners was urged by Maurice N. Winslow, 34-year-old superintendent of the state prison colony at Norfolk. Mass., in anoth- ' er of the sectional meetings. Trained eocia.' workers, psychol- | ogists and psychiatrists should be ■ employed to investigate the prisoner's past activities, social and financial connections, he said. Authority which legislatures and i courts exercise over parole was challenged by Winthrop B. Lane, director of the division of parole, department of institutions and agencies of the state of New Jersey. "Legislatures or courts cannot

I “The following ad appeared in this paper just five years ago. when feeding STUCKEY’S HOG-GLAD to hogs bringing W $1.90; —why not feed it when you get todays Top market of $11.60? $4.90 —is what Top Hogs are worth today. Can you afford NOT to have jo» r hogs thrive and pile up pounds for you? Stuckey’s Hog - Glad Will Help You Here are a few testimonials from various feeders. Read what they have to say. THEN ACT! Bluffton, Ind. Decatur, Ind. June 2, 1932 r. A. Stuckey, R. A. Stuckey, Decatur, Ind. R. A. Stuckey, Decatur, Ind. i am sorry that i Decatur, Ind. write y °“. VhTso In regard to your we tried * I can cheerfully rec- H /L g \ 1 “ 9 / es * 1 ommend Hog-Glad as an hink ia the bcst h °« a e £ * Ido better * appetizer and worm ex- t ”. n,c vou ca " !} uv an \ ” pounds, I poller and know it will where « regardless of a 9 bout as cheap cause hogs to thrive. P r,ce - hoa.X in we'» ht ' hogs gam Se M John I*. Steiner Oswald Nyffler Stuckey’s Hog-Glad comes in 50 lb. sacks and retails for I 75c or $1.50 Per 100 lb* I Cash Coal & SuppW I R. A. STUCKEY I ROUGH HOGS MADE SMOO' I '

perform the function# of parole authority and should have nothing to do with determining when a person ahall come out of prison," Lane said. i He criticized existing procedure for release and supervision of paroled prisoners and added: I ’ "The power to release is lodged in unsuitable agencies, such as the i governor, pardon boards or courts and boards already established with too many duties to perform. Effective parole will not come without effort, intelligence and) planning." Edith Abbot, president of the' national conference of social work, addressed delegates at the opening session last night. "Withdrawal of federal funds has plunged many American families into ‘desperate need’," she said. The federal governments withdrawal from the home assistance program led to the chaos in which we now find ourselves, she asserted. o ■■ — I FRIO W. 6RAUN { ' There is only one important ele-. ment In the matter ot accident prevention and safe driving on our highways. That is "brains.’’ There Is nothing difficult or mysterious about safety. Neither is there anything to be ashamed of. It requires no extraordinary genius, college degree, or special training to be safety minded. The application of a little horse sense will prevent most of the accidents that now occur on our highways. Safety Is 99 per cent common sense; accidents are 99 per cent thoughtless hurry. We cannot blame the automobile for the causes of our accidents, because senseless machines have: I never caused an accident. Let’s apply some brains to our driving and watch the results. It's smart to be caret uj. ——o Crocodiles Sabotage Planes Nati-obi, India (U.R) — 000'diles on Lake Victoria are sabotaging the Empire flying-boat s The Morning After Taking Carters Little Liver Pills

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