Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1937 — Page 4

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f 1 ■ —■ DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THS DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. — Entered at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office as Second Class Matter I. H Hein i A R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr Mck D. Heller Vice Presiuer., Subscrlpties Rates: Single copies $ .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 maH ................ 1.75 One year, by mall ...... 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles- Elsewhere 33.50 oue year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. ilonal Adver. Representative SCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago j Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Bids for the new school house , will be received the 30th and here's hoping that the best bidder gets it and does a good job. Get your 1938 automobile licenses and plates any time between today and the last day of the month and if wise, get them as soon as you can and avoid the big rush. Join the Christmas Savings Club at the First State Bank and assure yourself of funds for next year's shopping. It's a splendid idea with a high class institution back of it. Every good citizen will aid in the state campaign to make driv- I ing safer. Don't complain about the laws. They are being tried with the hope that they will help reduce the casualties which have become so alarming the past few years. The Good Fellows are beginningj to contribute more liberally to the I fund for providing Christmas cheer to the poor boys and girls of Decatur. Get yours in at once so those in charge can plan to make this the most delightful Christmas the youngsters have ever had. The National Association of Manufacturers are optimistic and show a tendency to cooperate for a new and greater prosperity that is deserving of commendation They will do all they can, they de dare, to restore confidence in the buying public and return men to work. That's a splendid attitude and we hope they keep working at it. L . 1 The letters of appreciation for the new water well at the homesteads from F. L. Litterer, local manager and L. G. Whitney, regional director, were timely and well put. There is nothing more im-i portant to any community than good water and it is a wonderful asset, perhaps more so than estimated by the average person, to have an unlimited supply of pure, fresh and fine lasting water. flashers at the Monroe and Adams- street crossings of the G. 11. & I. railroad will aid materially in reducing hazards at these import ant. and largely traveled points. While the installation of these lights are expensive, this cannot prevent it when the safety of our citizens is at stake. The company, which has always been more than fair in their dealings with this: community, will, we do not doubt, be happy to again cooperate. The efforts of the Krick-Tyndall Company to abate the dust nuls * ance, about which there has been considerable complaint from people residing in the southwest section of the city, is highly commendable.

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I At great expense they are install-1 ing a rust settling chamber which they and experts who have assist-, ed them believe will completely eradicate the trouble. The cooperi ation of the company and the city officials is indicative of the efforts i of the community to do the best thing always for the citizens of the i community. — Jim Dathover. killer, of the brady gang, who confessed shortly after being captured and who expressed a wish that he had died with his , comrades, was not nearly so keen to do that when arraigned before i Judge Slick and a jury this week, jln his testimony, he swore he ! didn't do any shooting and was just led off by bad company, i Strange talk for a fearless bank robber who with Brady declared a ■ couple of years ago, they would make John Dillinger look like a piker before they got through raid | ing the middle west. . . x One of the coldest waves sver' recorded for this time of year has gripped the entire nation and death 1 ride# the cold blasts as reports i from various sections come in In the northwest where the low temperatures reached 26 below aero, in ' the east and in sections of th« middle west the losses have been I large and the suffering keen. In 1 the south hundreds of thousands iof dollars wars lost when ths, tomato crop ton blackensd ana the fruit ruined. It's winter >it« ( all it's discomforts, but it's hers and we have to meet it as well as we can. """ " ■'

R al progress is lessening tr»t---i Sc accidents next y«u*r is expected to be shown as a result at at tention to be given this important matter by state police and bnal officials here and over the state. ( The drivers license law effective today J? provide more safety than heretofore when any one who could grasp a wheel was permitted to i drive. Attention to speed at dang--1 erous points, observance of th* yellow line rales, prosecution ta the limit of those who drive while intoxicated and other measures will or at least should improve conditions. However it jnust be remembered that driving high powered and high speed automobiles is always a job or a pleasure that should he considered serious. The more careful every one is, tin? better it is going to be. Any way you may expect some stern insistence of law observation that ought to very soon cause those inclined to be reckless to settle down to business. A FIGHT AGAINST CRIME: One of the imperative problems' of the age is the effort to reduce crime, and, more particularly, the i cause of crime. The cost of this ! nation for the past year is estimatied at $12.000.000.000—a fifth of national income. In forms, the toll was taken by racketeers, rob- ' bers, embezzlers, vice barons, co 1 - : cupt politics linked with race track touts, the whole range of evil and illegal practices. All of this money represented ; earnings of the people. It came from those who labor and toil. It ! came from the savings of the in- 1 dustrious. It is a levy laid upon all business and all industry. There seems to be no connection between the fixing of a sticker for violation of traffic rules and the protection of a racket. But the | two spring from the same source. They begin at the same place. I They end differently. For when enforcement officers I see that some citizens arc exempt from the rules and that their auth-’ ority is mocked by some secretj pull, they are likely to be less! vigilant when it comes to more important laws and violations. They will begin to ask whether the man they may arrest for selling the new number games has secret alliances with powerful men. They will hesitate before they raid people who can easily get them sent to the sticks. Crime, say the men who have

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Mudiwd th. problem, runs tack to the special privileges granted to criminals. In the larger cities, it 1 gives open protection. I When Governor Townsend served notice that no state employe should violate the traffic laws iu{ the state, that he should receive no ’ special consideration from courts ' or officers, he struck a blow at all 1 criß - .'- and the sources of crime. J ' Not that any state employes would engage in the more gross forms, 1 but if state employes can get no exemption in traffic cases, they will receive none in others. A man St to serve the state must furnish ' au example in law obedience. I f - Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. Turkey. 2. A color or pennon carried by troops of cavalry and other mount- > ed unite of an army. 3. Draft. 4. Genera! Motors. , 1 5. Paresis. 6 Wine. 7. Approximately 4W,t)o*i. 8. Spain. , I 9. Too’-son (as in sonnet) 10. Homer W. Martin. 1 -O . * -« . I Household Scrapbook | By Roberta Lee | Patent Leather Patent leather shoes will not col- ; lect dust if they are rubbed with a little vaseline before taking them off. The vaseline should be left on until ready to wear again, ’hen the excess wiped off with a cloth. Poppyseed If you have trouble in making the , poppyseed stick to the rolls, try brushing the rolls with water before sprinkling on the poppyseed. Jars and Crocks Before using stoneware jars and crocks, place cold water and a little soap in them, and boil for a few I minutes. o TW ENT YYEA RS * AGO TODAY 1 From the Daily Democrat File I* 4 I Dec. 10—Gen. Allenby’s Brittlsh I expeditionary forces capture Jeri usalem the Holy City from the II Turks. , i Herman Haugk and Miss Lavina hilirschy married at Hillsdale Mich. ■ i Tuesday. Solomon Billman, 73, veteran shoemaker, dies after a two weeks < illness. " Traction offices are moved from. ~ the Morrison building to the new ( .depot at Second and Jackson streets. 1 Old Adamd County Bank sends out $15,000 of Christmas savings. o - Trade la A Good Town — Decatur

I --0 ' Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ' < i Q. Who should order the table ’ d'hote meal in a restaurant, when there are five or six persons in ' the party? t A. Each person usually gives his I 'individual order to the waiter. I Q. Is it correct to t-ay, "Mrs. I Jones sent invitations to Mary and ‘ 1 myself"? A. No. One should say, "to Mary

OUT THEY GO! ENTIRE STOCK of the SEASON’S FINEST A- NOW AT REDUCED Coats """V We want to reduce our present stock. Misses and Eadies Lovely ■» A /OTk Coats, I ntrinimeu anti Fur Trimmed, colors of Rust, Wine, Green, Brown. Black. Ail wool materials. Sizes 14 to 20 and 38 to 16. »®’ s 121,5 ni 14-95 19-95 Kffl' Tweed Sport Coats Wonderful Selection. 12-95 1 4-95 .Millinery Clearance Entire stock of new Hats placed in two groups and \ \ I selling for ' ’ sl-50 a „ d sl-9« ONE EOT LADIES FEET HATS ___ 75c CHILDREN’S COATS Sizes 3 to 6 Sizes 10 to 16 $4.95 - $5.95 $8.95 to $12.95 GIRLS DRESSES Good selection Girls I’rint €I.OO i f Dresses, sizes 2 to b * Girls Silk and Wool Dresses ft 1 Qg to 2.0 S sizes 7 to 14 and 12 to 16— *r Niblick & Co

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FARM LABORER EARNS LOWEST WORKER'S PAT Agriculture Department Estimates S3OO As Yearly Average Washington. Dec. 10 <U.R> -Farm laborers are the lowest-paid class of workers in America, a Department of Agriculture survey revealed today. Annual earnings range from 362 to $748 a year among groups surveyed and average approximately >3OO. Average farm wages in many localities were found to be less i than 50 cents a day. The department estimated there are 2.500.000 persons engaged as farm laborers. Au intensive personal canvass was made of laborers in 11 counties in ss many states in representative sections of the county. Investigators went into the heart of the corn belt, the wheat belt, the cattle and sheep country, into tobacco, cotton, fruit and dairy regions. The survey included parttime as well as permanent employes. Lag in Farm Wages Farm wages, although they have increased 50 per cent since 1932. ' have not risen as rapidly as farm income and city wage earnings, • the survey said. Compared with other wage-earning groups farm 1 laborers receive 20 per cent less than they did in the five years before 1929. "In 1936, income from farm production, including benefit payments. averaged 130 per cent of pre-war. non-farin income averaged 148 per cent, but farm wages instead of rising to a comparable level rose only to 107 per cent,” I the survey said. The average age of farm labor-1 1 ers is increasing, the report concluded. Whereas young men previously dominated, the average age I • of farm “hired help" now is about 35 years. One-third were past 40 and In some areas men past 60 I were found working in fields at 50 cents a day. Female southern cotton pickers 1

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| wers the lowest paid class, earn 1 ing an average of |62 a year. Male' cotton pickers in Louisiana earned an average of $l7B a year. Orlen tai workers in California reported the highest average Income. s74s n year. South Far Below North Average earnings of southeri, i workers Interviewed were only I slightly more than half the earn Ings of northern workers. In no ; southern county was the annn-I earning as much as 3100 per per j son. which included all members j of the family. Sharp sectional differences wen found in educational attainment of the laborers, ranging from illiter acy to high school education. North ern workers generally were better' educated. A negligible percentage of south ern workers had more than an elementary education, but 25 pci cent or more of the northern workers had completed at least one year of high school work The survey showed farm labor ers took only a limited part in or ganised activities of their commun ities. belonging so few formal ot ganizalions, unions or farm groups Southerners went to church mor> often than northerners. Northern ers went more often to the movies

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