Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1937 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by PIS DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Altered at the Decatur. Ind., Post Otto- as Second Claus Matter I. H. Heller—Pre;)dent H. Holtliouae, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. U*Jt D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier .10 Due year, by carrier —5.0 U One month, by mail .30 Three months, by maIILOU Rix mouths, by ma 111.75 ”ae year, by mail 3.00 )ne year, at etiice 3.0 U Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere *3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made -known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER & CO. ,5 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chisago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. This is the week to pay your fall installment of taxes. Don't get in the big push next Monday. —-- - » The Garr brothers have avenged their sister's death, have been regularly tried and acquitted and are now the heroes of central Kentucky. John White, a CIO organizer was shot and killed by another organizer of the same group in Chicago. When it gets that serious its time to ask them to “sit down.” If you like a circus you will enjoy the one at the high school auditorium today. Take the children, get a bag of peanuts or popcorn and forget your cares and worriesThursday night is the date for the big Callittiumpian parade and the plans arc to make it one of the best ever given here. Dress up and get in. You will enjoy it and so will those who prefer to watch from the side lines. The prizes are numerous and the fun is genuine. The stock exchange is still a busy place as the buyers and sellers try to find a point where the prices will stablize. About the time they do this, a lot of holders . seem to think it's time to get out of the uncertain business and flood the market, causing another tumble. A number of local merchants have sent in contracts for advertising and we appreciate this cooperation. We will be glad to serve every citizen of the com„munity the best we can and ask “your support. Advertising pays and there is no reason under the sun why you shouldn't use the Daily Democrat. Ned O'Brien, a character at Peru,' Jndiana, died Sunday, aged 85. Hei was rich but he lived in poverty' to accumulate a fortune that never did him any good. He worked on a railroad for forty-five years, lived -in a shack, wore old clothes, did without luxuries, of any kind and -died leaving a large estate. He soems never to have realized that -he couldn't take it -with him. • One wonders how a bootlegger can do business these days when -it's easy to get most any kind of .liquor at reasonable prices, but it .seems there arc still some engag*cd in that line and it. seems that having it in one's possession, liquor *on which no federal or state tax has been paid, is punishable with -pretty stiff fines. Always some- . thing new in the world. The 1938 models of the various makes of automobiles are on the' market and they look good. Stream lined and with every modern con ’ vcniencc, they are wonderful and; .make even those with the cars of the past year or two want them. Look 'em over and sec how good they are. When oue thinks back ' a few years he can hardly imagine, that such perfect transportation

vehicles are possible but they are and the cost is comparatively low. Identical bidding seems to be regarded in Adams county as purely accidental and fortuitous. When 1 two grocers made the same bid on t supplies for the county infirmary • the rival bidders were required 1 ' merely to toss a coin for the contract. Which method, if generally ! persisted in might cause the torJ minted taxpayer to toss a lot more , coins than usual into the treasury • jackpot. — Lafayette Journal-Cour-I ier. i — „ — Harry Miesse, fifty years ago. deputy treasurer of Adams county, has resigned as general agent for the New York Central Railway company, headquarters at Indianapolis and will devote his time to boosting his tax research organization and looking after his two ; farms. Harry has made a record in his long service and estimates he has saved the taxpayers of Indiana seventy million dollars by his | activities in that direction. The death of Edward H. Harris, J 57. publisher of the Richmond Paladium, after a several weeks illness with a toxic glandular ailment, marks the passing of one of the state's leading journalists. He served as president of the Inland Daily Press and at the time of his death was secretary of the American Newspapers Publishers Association. He has been editor of the Paladium since 1910 and was recognized, state and nation ally, as a man of unusual force and organizing ability. F. W. Lough of the Clean Life League of Indiana, has started a campaign to have the next legists- i ture enact legal option laws, his argument being that liquor is now being legally sold in dry territory and that the promise had been given that this would not occur. He is advocating organizations in each county to aid in the nomination and oIpi&HN vs representatives to the legislature who will vote for such laws. It may be the start of another prolonged temperance fight j which mixed in politics is never a : pleasant thing. The only thing we have to fear 1 is fear itself, ‘said Franklin D.' Roosevelt five years ago and it still goes. There are those who think I they are making headway when they create a feeling of fear throughout the country. They do, it to effect stocks, they do it to control labor, they do it to curtail activities of a competitor and it spreads like a disease. At this; time there is no cause for a de-’ pression and there will be none other than that caused by the stock gamblers. Don't let them fool you. l The nation and her people are I anxious to go forward and we will do it in spite of those who think, ' only in terms of quick and easy. i profits. Governor Townsend had the time , of his life one day last week. Was ' he dolled up in full dress attending a formal social function; Just to the contrary. Dressed in old clothes, he attended the fifth annual Grant county corn husking, contest on his farm in Franklin t township of that county. He acted as official starter, firing the shotgun that sent the huskers into action. Meeting old friends—talking about farm problems —it was a happy day for the Hoosier execu-, I five. He was keenly interested in the contest which lasted for an ' hour and 20 minutes, knowing all the men participating. One of the Governor's outstanding attributes is his simplicity. He's just the I same old Cliff Townsend to all his Grant county friends. o— Dancing Class To Present Program Miss Patsy Fullenkamp and her ; dancing class will appear on the. ; program at the meeting of the, Decatur Lions club tonight at 6:16 o'clock in tlto Rice hotel, in a series of novelty dance routines. Clyde ‘ Butler m uuairiuau of the cuter- I tainment.

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* Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ” — i 1. It is an independent republic under Soviet protection, northwest of Mongolia. 2. Plantain. 3. Japan. 4. September. , '5. Sicilian musical composer. i 6. The Mediterranean. 7. To rhyme with lake. 8. No. 9. Sir Walter Scott. 10. Sing Sing. * TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File October 26. 1917. - Indiana supreme court holds woman’s suffrage law unconstitutional. D. D. Coffee presides at a Demo- . cratic meeting with speeches by 11. B. Heller and D. B. Erwin. At two o'clock this afternoon the Liberty Loan total for Adams ■ county had reached $240,750. The food director says, "Eat ' plenty of food but conserve on | wheat, fats and sugar." Corporation papers for the Sunflower Land Co, E. W. Lehman of Berne, president, is recorded. I Mrs. John Coffee, Mrs. M. Shaf-

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"Pleas* tell the truth. I have two children. Some day they have to know the truth. Please, I beg you!” This pathetic appeal was made by Mrs. Mira Reeves, left, widow of Faul Rseves, who was iUto at home w laelin. N J. by Margaret Drennan. 20. cm trial for Im murder.. Collapsing after.

fer and two nieces. Mary and Frances Braun, visit in Fort Wayne. o Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE j Q Is it necessary for a bride to write a note of thanks to someone who has given her a check as a gift? A. Yes. by all means do so. There are many brides who would, if the check is large enough, make this letter of thanks her most effusive. ! Q. May a first call be ignored, if one knows positively that the acquaintance is undesirable? A. Never. The first call should be returned, but the acquaintance need not be indulgedQ. What should the hostess wear at a formal afternoon tea? A. An afternoon gown. o ' « Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Velvet To restore the nap of velvet, i heat a flat iron, turn it upside ! down, place a wet cloth over it. and lay the wrong side of the vel- , i vet over the cloth. Rub up the nap rapidly if necessary, but usually the steam will do this. Sauce for Pudding A delicious sauce that may be • served with cottage pudding can

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her dramatic plea from the stand. Mrs. Reeves burst into tears, left the courtroom at New Bruns» wick, and fainted. Miss Drennan, shown on the witness stand, testified that she had been forced to shoot Reeves to repulse him and said that he «u the father of her unborn child.

be made with leftover fruit juices, thickened with cornstarch that has been dissolved in cold water and 1 cooked. Floors A stain for floors can be made , with one can of linseed oil and a little burnt umber. Apply the mixture iu the same manner as paint. o , ... ■ -■ — PLAN SUNDAY (CONTINUED Fl(OM T-AOM ONB) ■ will be the chief speakers. Special features of the convention will be the group conferences in charge of competent leaders, a : panel discussion of “The place of Christian education in the life and I program of the church.” and a J good display of Sunday School literature and materials. > A banquet will be held in the church basement at 6 o’clock. Tickets for the banquet may be secured from Miss Frances Burk- , halter, county secretary, or from local Sunday School officers for 35 cents. — o Berne Resumes School Classes This Week . 1 Classes at the Berne school have -| been resumed this week after a ;week's dismissal, while a new heat- - ing plant was being installed. While the work has not been en-i tirely completed, the boilers have , - been fired and ample heating has t been afforded. ,

COURT UPHOLDS HEARTBALM LAW However, Supreme Court Rules Penalty Provisions Invalid Indianapolis. Oct. 26. —<U.RE~The| Indiana supreme court upheld the state's "heart balm” law late yesterday but invalidated penalty proi visions of the act. On the basis of this ruling, "heart balm" suits may be filed but It will be impossible to collect damages. The invalidated penalty section provided a prison sentence and fine for the mere filing of a civil action for the collection of damages in breach of promise to marry, alienation of affection, criminal conversation of seduction. The prison term imaged from one to five years and the fine from SIOO to SI,OOO. These penalties applied to the lawyers actually filing the suit as well as to their clients. The court said that to uphold the penalty section would be to deny a citizen the right to test the act's constitutionality. "If this is a lawful exercise of the legislative power, then the con- j I stitutionality of all acts of the I legislature could be prevented 1 from being tested by a similar pen- ' alty provision being enacted in such act," the court said. "The legislature cannot enact a law and at the same time pass upon its constitutionality. It is for the The court pointed out that the courts to pass upon this question." litigants involved "are asking their day in court” and then asked: "can it possibly be said that they are not entitled to this right without being branded as felons, subject to an excessive fine, and deprived of their liberty?” “We do not think so,” the judges declared. The ruling was made in a case brought by Clarence Pennington, Indianapolis, against his father and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stewart, for alienation of his wife's affections. Jnlian Bamberger, Indianapolis attorney, filed the appeal. The court upheld the provision that “all civil causes of action for breach of promise to marry, for alienation of affections, for criminal conversation and for the seduction of any female person of 1 the age of 21 or more are hereby 1 abolished, provided that this section shall not affect any such cause I or action heretofore accrued." Bamberger had attacked this section on the theory it violates sections of the state and federal ' constitution proviffing that” . . • and every man, for injury done to him iff his person, property ok reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law. The court disagreed with this contention by saying. "In other ’words, it is the contention of the appellant (Pennington) that he has a property right to the affections of his wife which cannot be taken away from him without due course of law. “We cannot assent to such con--1 tention and do not believe that the makers of our constitution intended that the word 'property' in said section should be construed to ' have such meaning.” The “heart balm” law was enacted by the 1935 legislature. It was introduced by Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson, daughter-in-law of ; Meredith Nicholson, United States i minister to Venezuela. She was a ; representative from Marion counI ty. , SOUTH BEND TO CONTINUE FIGHT City Officials To Continue Fight Against Paying Taxes South Bend, Ind., Oct. 26. —(IM 3 .) —Despite refusal of the United States supreme court to hear South Bend's protest case, city officials today began legal maneuvers seeking to avoid paying taxes on its municipal water plant. "We don't propose to pay that ' tax.' Edwin W. Hunter, South Bend city attorney, asserted. Hunter said a suit already is on file in northern Indiana federal district court contesting constitu- . ' PUBLIC SALE PURE BRED DUROC HOGS 50 - Head - 50 Spring Boars and Gilts. GENEVA, IND. in the Sale Barn Thursday, Oct. 28th commencing at 12 noon Leeßoy Boehm I Roy 8. Johnson—-Auctioneer.

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