Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1937 — Page 4

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DECATUR • DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THt DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. ■nu*:ed at the Decatur, Ind. Pott Office as Second Class Matter I. H Heller - President E R. Hallhouse, Sec y. A Bus. Mgr. Mck D. H«Uer._ Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies .02 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier — 800 One month, by mall - .35 Three months, by mall 1.00 Six mouths, by mall 1.71 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. fvdonal Adver. Representative SCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Start a Christmas club and have cash ready for the holidays next year Those who did it this year are happy. Zero weather in early December j is a real barometor for usually when that occurs, we get down to j fifteen below in January. Hope that doesn't result this year but all i signs point to it. Only a dozen rnpre shopping days before Christmas and the sooner | you do the job. the netter for you. the clerks and everybody else, j • * Read "this paper from day to day and make up your list. It makes j it easier. The Good Fellows fund is growing, not as fast as it should, but steadily and those in charge have hopes it will be as successful a campaign as it always has been! here. Help make the poor boys and girls believe in Santa Claus. I - — — — Better roads is always important and we know that a good organization here would help in numerous ways. It requires methodical and constant attention to get our share of state funds, to get the farm *to market roads, to get the main highways improved, to look after .Uje town and city streets and we should have an organization doing that. •A drunken driver, William Marklein, drove his car into a crowd that was leaving the Willets taber- j Bade at Dearborn, Michigan, killed one woman, injured twenty others, several critically and is under arrest. There isn’t a lot of difference between this kind of a murd-j qger and any other brand. If you (JJiuk, don’t drive and if you drive, (Jbn't drink. — „• ..Health bonds and Christmas ijals are the rage now and if you tjjveu't invested, you ought to for flfe proceeds go to fight tuberculosis and much of the money raised ir used right here in Adams county. W. Guy Brown as chairman, with a corps of able assistants, is forking hard to make this the’ most successful campaign ever <3}nducted here and they deserve jjur help. -Building apartment houses and U£w homes for th£ slum districts ol the larger cities is a fine ideal bjt according to those in charge Bhs not proven an investmentFact is it has cost the government' for most of those who live in those, sections have little earning capacity- and no sense of thrift. Just! hqw far we should go in such mat-’ ters as these is 4 much mooted question, which after all probably belongs more to the community tßan to the state or nation. TTW 'fl*

Franca and Poland have sent work that they can't pay any part of the half billion dollar debt they owe thia country and which is dufe again the 15th. They do however I say that they hope in the near future to be in a position to talk 1 about a settlement. Weil, we hope ’ so too and it does seem that those ‘ European nations waste a lot of | money preparing tor another war , when it could be applied on a debt 1 they justly owe. You can secure your 1938- automobile plates now and must have them by the 31st. Under a new law you must obtain your plates and license through the bureau or branch in the county in which you reside. Those applying for new ! licenses to drive will be examined at the bureau office, tests to be made by state police on dates fixed ; for the purpose. While.it may seem a lot of red tape, remember these thingp are being done to reduce the traffic casualties which ' have become so alarming the past 1 few years. James Dalhover, last member of the notorious Brady gang which terrorized this state and other : parts of the country for a year, will ! die in the electric chair. The jury ' which heard the evidence at Ham- ; mood, in Judge Slick's court, reI turned the verdict after two hours | and seventeen minutes of deliber- ! ation. Attorneys had made a hard fight for a sentence of life im--1 prisonment but evidently the jur-| ' ors felt that Dalhover had shown ; no sympathy during his career of • crime and deserved the limit now that he bad plead guilty. There is a genuine sorrow here because of the death of Mrs. Min-, uie Niblick of Chicago and the sympathies of the community are extended to the children and close, relatives. For many years she was an outstanding woman here, active in church and civic work, serving j ' for years as a member of the Board of Children's Guardians and al-‘ ways doing more than her part to | make others happy. She spread joy I and happiness w here she went and ■ will ever be remembered here as a lady of fine qualities, a wonder-, . ful wife and mother and a good neighbor. Indiana has lost one of her great- i ' est citiens in the death of the dis- , tinguished Harry G. Leslie, former, Governor and Speaker of the House, outstanding in business as well as politics and a man among ■ men in every section of his beloved state. Honest, fearless, capable, lof the rugged type, he made and held friends. His career as a representative and Governor was 1 typically Hoosier. Without frills ; and with the candor that created j , confidence, he made a worth-while : ! record and since retiring from that office was making strides in bus-1 iness. President of the Standard Life Insurance Company he did I much to start that institution onl its way ‘0 success and was proud : of the unparalleled record made.l We will miss Harry Leslie in Indi- i ana, old "Skillets'' as he was lov- , ingly known from the days when he was a star on the Purdue footj ball team, with his smile and his • ! hearty hand shake and we join his j legion of friends, regardless of' . politics, in extending sympathies , - to the family. YOUR MONEY 18 SAFE I Enemies of the New Deal are 'comparing the present conditions j with those which occured in 1929 , They are saying that men are a- ! gain out of work, that factories are closing, that need again faces I many people. But there is one element which j these forces, largely the people whom Roosevelt saved from disasj ter, are not repeating. They are ! missing the crowds that hung outside closed banks, their money i gone They no longer stay awake 1 nights wondering whether the banks that were open the uight beifofp »oyW be tomorrow I Through embezzlement, a bank

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"""*"■" 1 j ill lowa did close its doors. A crooked cashier and teller had stolen $400,000. Whether he was again lured into the stock market, in the belief that he could gain a larger ; fortune and then repay the bank, is not disclosed. But the money was gone. Immediately the Federal Depos'it Insurance Corporation took j charge. Every depositor who had i less than $5,000 was paid. Above i that amount the bank was loaned enough funds to make good the ■ shortage. The depositors who re-1 j ceived their funds promptly put I them back, perhaps into the same ! ! bank. They had no cause to worry.' ( They knew their money was safe, i not by the use of federal funds, I but by the system of collecting in advance from all banks for just such an emergency. Os course, the present recession will disappear. The country will again prosper. Again people will be employed, perhaps in larger bersIn the meantime, no one worries, For those who have saved still , have their savings. They do not

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face bread lines because a banker went wrong. When you 'near the scandal mongers, the critics, the j die-hards criticise Roosevelt, tell him about this bank. That is a fact, which cannot be denied. o Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ ♦ 1. Col. Francois de la Roque. 2. Ambrosia and nectar. 3. Amherst, Mass. 4. John Oley, Howard Crowley. and Percy Geary. 5. The wall that separates two houses or adjoining properties6. Des Moines. 7. Any object worn as a charm to ward off evil. 8. It was founded in 1694. 9. The operation of drying or removing water from a substance. 10. A provision for a wife after , the death of her husband. 1. California. 2. It was the name given to the Irish revolutionists of 1784. 3. Henry W. Wallace4. A pit or vat for green fodder I to be converted into silage. 5. Pat Harrison. 6. Central Africa. 7. Vermont. 8. James Smithson. 9. The lira. 10. Greenwich Observatory.

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| Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE |! I Q. When a girl has called someone on the phone, should she say, "This is Miss Alice Morgan.” or,; "This is Alice Morgan?" A. “This is Alice Morgan." Q. Who usually holds ‘lopen : house" on New Year's Day? A. The older, well-established families ot the town or community. Q. Should a formal invitation be addressed to "Mr. and Mrs.”? • A. Yes. O a > T TWENTY YEABS AGO TODAY 1 j From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Dec. 11—Germans are using 425,000 soldiers on the Cambrai front. A vigorous campaign for the sale of thrift stamps opens hereThe sixteen Grelton, Ohio men who stole a car of coal belonging ' to Carroll & Son of this city are fined S2OO each and forced to pay $4,000 for the coal by Judge Killets of the United States court in Toledo. Estimated cost of the war for the United States will reach $23,000,000.000 by June. Don L. Quinn appointed a collaborator for the United States war department, as a box expert. Postmaster Bosse goes to Indianapolis to attend meeting of the Indiana war council.

* PLEASANT MILLS * NEWS i — 4 Vernle Edge!) and Lowell B. Nofl wore Fort Wayne visitors Sunday. Quite a number of children from here, and adults as well, visited j "Santa Claus" in Decptur Monday evening. 'eliss Thelma Ray mpeut the weeklend with Miss Esther Barr. Mrs. O. J. Sumau is confined to her bed with a severe cold and complications. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Byers and children were Sunday afternoon ; callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Foor. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Porter and sons Bob and Jack of Decatur were guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Brentlinger for dinner Sunday. Mrs. Mary Cook and son Billy, who for the past week have been visiting at the home of her cousin, Mrs. Ethel Mann and fam’ly. have returned to their home in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. James Everett spent Sunday with Mrs. Everett's mother, Mrs. Death, at 'Bobo. Al Roebuck and Mrs. Lydia McI Barnes spent Sunday at the home jof his son, Char.'ey Roebuck and ! family in Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Seward Ayers of Fort Wayne called on Mrs. Ayer’s mother, Mrs. Frank Jones Monday. Miss Mary Kathryn McMillen, a student nurse at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne, spent Sunday at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Brice McMillen. Mr. and Mrs. George Foor were called to Fort Wayne to be at the bed tide of Mrs. Foor’s half-sister, Mrs. Neomi Hike, who is quite ill in the hospital with appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Fortaey and daughter Christena, delightfully entertained relatives at their home i to a delicious dinner Sunday. Those who enjoyed the day were: Mr. and I Mrs. R. J. Fortney of Sturgis Mich., Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fortney of Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. John Fortney and daughter Darlene Kay of Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Longenberger and sou Jack, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fortney and daughters Rowena Mae and Enna Lou, Haro'd Dolch, Mrs. Susan Fortney. Christena Fortney and Mr. and Mrs. O.’S. Fortney. The young peopled League was delightfully entertained at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Olva Barr, Tuesday evening. When the merry crowd

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- gathered for the evening, games and 3 P contests were greatly enjoyed. Delicious refreshments of ice cream and f cake were served to Geraldine Ray, I Betty Clark, Vivian Noll, Esther j Barr, Thelma Ray. Ruth Clark, Bill g I Ross. Harold Feasel, Max Noll, Bob .. Holloway, GJen Clark, George Ray, Jack Longenberger, larweli Noll, Arthur Auspaugh. Russel Watkins. Bob McMillen. James and Jene s Barr, Mr. aud Mrs. Verlando Clark, , i Rev. aud Mrs. Olva Barr. -I 0 ’ 1 I» A (.oud Twwu — Decatm

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