Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1938 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur. Ind. Post Office as Second Class Matter i. H- Heller .. President R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies — I One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier —.......... 5.00 One month, by mall ——— .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mall — ——.... 1-75 Dne year, by mail .................... 3.00 Due 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. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Only seventy-seven days until spring and that is whizzing by Easter comes April 17th this year. ", i — Renew your subscription to the Daily Democrat NOW It ydi take ""’it by mail. The price is $3 per 1 year in the 100-mile zone. Obey the parking ordinance, not because of fear of arrest but be-' " cause you really wisli to cooperate in the movement to make traffic safer. Don't postpone taking out your; 1938 automobile license. Remem-1 her you must have it by.March Ist and if you are driving out of the state, you may need it before that timeIt’s the season when colds, flu . and other ailments are prevalent and a good time to remember that ‘ “an ounce of prevention is worth • a pound of cure.'’ In other words be careful. The school and city bonds issued for the building of the new school house are going rapidly for every one realizes that this is about as gilt edged security as can be bought any where in the world. Merchants of Decatur have large stocks of goods that you will find just the thing for the winter and spring season. You can buy here at a bargain and know you are getting what you think you are. More than three hundred deaths| occurred over the New Year's holi-1 day, which while many times more j than it should be if greater care had been used, was less than predicted. so the warnings no doubt did some good. Tile world liked President Roosevelt's message and his report on tlie condition of the nation. They liked it, because It was fair to every class and to every citizen and because his logic was good enough to be used as a master . thought in war torn and war threatened Europe and Asia. r.- w« mib Judge McNabb, well known Fort Wayne jurist and attorney, impressed those who heard him here Monday evening on “Crime Control." . Six years as judge in Fort Wayne and years of experience in the courts has given him the opportunity to study this grave problem and bis address is one from jvhlch every one can profit. Be a booster and the big thing right now is to help hi enforcing the new traffic ordinance. Once . established and recognized, it will , be easy. The officials and the police and the citizen's committee are doing every thing possible to improve condlions here. They need and want and should have your sincere assistance. - After all, walking a few hundred .. feet after parking your car isn't So bad. Not so long ago we didn't think any thing of walking a mile or two. to attend some meeting or meet some one. The exercise is “ good for the average person and

iho necessity for traffic safetj makes it the thing to do. It's probj ably best for us all around. The gentlemen who damaged I the men's rest room in the courl t house basement should be made Ito pay for it, one way or another. J About us low down crime us we '. can think of is to destroy property. 1 Always it represents the lubors of | some one who earned the money - and in this ease of course the J damage falls upon all who pay 5 taxes. »l I The Daily Democrat by mall ji within a 100-mile zone for three dollars a yeur is the best buy we know of in lullianu along that line. Most pajiers have increased their rates and others plan to, but we have decided to stand by those who have been our supporters so many years and will continue at the old prices, regardless of increased cost. Tell your neighbors. “It's really a satisfaction to trade iiin Decatur now," a well known farmer remarked this morning. '"For the first time in many years. II drove up to a grocery, did my ' i trading and was out and away in ' ten minutes. I don't know what others think about the restricted parking, but I'm one hundred per cent for it." We believe every one will like it when they find it bene- • fits. Even the most partisan Republican papers tiud it difficult to say any thing but good about President , Roosevelt's speech. Os course I there are a few so partisan they, had written the editorials before | the speech was made and would have been "agin" any thing that: the chief executive could have said. Don't be fooled. They are not in-1 terested in what is best for you. | It’s just that the “outs" want in. | Mr. Shiimerer, one of the contractors for the new school house here called this morning and ex- j pressed his appreciation for the I opportunity to construct the new building. He said Decatur had the reputation of being a wonderful town, with fine citizens and he had been impressed since coming here that this is true for he declared he had never been treated finer and he feels his work here will be a pleasure. Martin T. Krueger of Michigan City, lite 83-year-old state lefcislat-1 or, has introduced a bill against; pitch-hiking in several sessions of I | the General Assembly, but it has j never won much favor. Protests have come from college boys who save their dollars by begging rides to and from school from motorists. A number of states forbid hitchhiking. The Cincinnati Automobile | Association, one of the largest and , most active organizations of its i kind in the country, is waging a campaign against picking up hitchI hikers. The C. A. C. says that any driver who invites a stranger into I his auto is little less than a silly; chump. City dwellers are less likely to pick up hitch-hikers than their country cousins, a survey lias shown. A driver gets some selfglorifications out of stopping for a person thumbing by a roadside. He immediately becomes a Go o d Samar.-an in his own eyes. But he may do this good turn once too often and be robbed, mistreated, his car stolen or even murdered, warns the C. A. C. — o I * TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY | From the DailyDeinocrat File Jan. 5 -C. E. Be'l, fuel distributor 1 for Adams county, calls farmers to meet at the court house January 9th for a conference on how they can ' aid in the fuel famine. Jay Teeple writes from France] that he Is "safe and well, but very busy.” Rev. Englemann of Magley is badly injured when a carvite tank ex-' plodes. England announces the only peace terms acceptable to her. Ambrose Kohne returns to school at Rensselaer. Charles Baxter, Floyd Enos, Raymond Kohne and Hugh Hitchcock | return to military camps after a visjit here. i

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o — - + | The People’s Voice This column for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general goed or discuss questions of inter- ; est. Please sign your name to show authenticity. It will not ■ be used if you prefer that it i not be. >♦ ♦ A Trip to Haiti A trip to Haiti and a glfmp**' of its lolling native life, its colorful scenery and primitive living conditions was given .Miss Hertha Vogle- | wede of this city recently, without leaving the city. Miss Voglewede made the imaginary visit through the writing ability of Charles L. Archbold, former resident of this city, “the home town boy who made good." by penn- | ing the ‘"smart sayings” stationed throughout the country on a blackboard held in the hands of a frecki ted little urchin, who supposedly ; mutters the sayings. Mr. Archbold, who some years ' ago used to manage the grocery store here of his father, the late George Archbold, now works for a large refining company, writing i the sayings. Incidentally, the now successful writer, made his start in the adver•ising world on the staff of the Decatur Daily Democrat. It was he who first originated the idea of ' "boxing” advertisements. So that others might .make the visit to Haiti, Miss Voglewede loaned the letter for publication The letter follows, as he wrote it to her: Over the Bounding Waves Sailing from New York, October 16th, Steamer Rotterdam, SOU passengers, 600 of whom were women, I crew of 630, 100 waiters in dining 1 room. Before sailing, it was said that 5,(K0 people visited the beat, and were on the pier cheering as the boat sailed away. Second night out, the Captain gave an Assembly Dinner. Dining room was decorated like New Year's Eve, everyone given funny ‘hats, noise makers, souveniis, and the Captain served champaign free. : | It was a grand sight to see GOO women in evening dresses. Afterward, : night club entertainers put on a good show. After this, dancing and a grand buffet lunch. Anything you wanted to eat you I could have, including watermelon and corn o nthe' cob. Wonderful 1 meals. with pastry made to resem- , hie dutch shoes, windmills, etc. The Dutch cannot make good oil American pie. Arriving in Haiti, was awakened by a loud chattering, which turned out to be about. 200 native boys in (the water, all yelling, "Mister, Mister. throw me a dime". The boys ! would dive for money. Later, as we were leaving Haiti, these same boys ' climbed up the ropes of the ship, diving from the decks of the ship. One little fellow, about eight or I nine years of age dived from the seventh deck. Haiti is a very primitive country. Drove in an automobile thirty miles ■in the mountains, and thirty miles hank. All along the way were woI inch carrying 'baskets of fruit and otter things on their heads. Those ’• hp owned a mule were considered rich. Mules were loaded down with ‘ hoiueiuade baskets, salabash, i

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gourds, grass and palm for making J baskets, hats etc. The people in the | mountains wore very few clothes,' and the children absolutely nothing. 1 They live in grass huts and live on | fish and fruit. In the mountains I got out of the , car and walked up a path where al woman, practically naked, was 1 nursing a nude baby. I gave the I baby five cents, and then a naked I boy came running out of the grass | hut. so I gave him five cents. Tho woman took both nlckles, nnd call-1 ed her husband from the hut. giving him the money. They all bowed and, smi'ing. thanked me. We later visited a large market 1 in Haiti, where possibly 1,600 women were squatted in front of little piles of curious fruit, beans, broken ■ up pieces of squash, sugar cane, raw sugar, and crude candy, made from sugar cane sap. As we walked ( down a narrow cobblestone street, ! we saw a woman wash her baby, j and then her own face, in the dirty water running down the gutter. At the Traders Market, men had little piles of trash, such as, one would have a pile of rusty nails, another a pile of broken glass, another a pile of pieces of string, another a pile of rusty bottle caps, and i things of this kind, which they; trade with one another. One might need a rusty nail to hold his grass hut together, another might need a piece of glass to scrape down | pahn leaves for baskets. A very dainty perfume is made . from the weed called Khtts-Khus, which is sold in Haiti at a ’-ery low price They also make fine baskets, hats, fans, and bocketbooks. turusty We were told not to eat or drink anything on the Isle of Haiti, because of unsanitary conditions, unless approved by the driver of our ear, an employee of American Express Company. Bought rhumba rattles, carved by native children, which cost five i cents each. Bought a basket woven | ; of various colored grass, with a lid on each side of the handle, like old style picnic baskets. This was filled with curious fruits that I never did find out what they were. This cost ! ten cents. Very fine folding ma- 1 hongany tables with trays sell for a dollar and fifty cents, and lea- 1 ther moccasins for twenty-five cents I a pair, 'but the moccasins stunlk to high heaven. After an over-night ride, we sailed into the harbor of Kingston. Jamaica, going ashore on the ship’s' lifeboats. Drove a total of 120 miles through j the country, past plantations of bananas, coffee, pineapple, sugar I cane, and spices. An average of four to six beggars were around you all the time, in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Jamaica Rum sei’s for a dollar a bottle. Perfume, doeskin and and pigskin gloves, fine iaces, are all very cheap here. Had lunch al Myrtjebaul:, a beautiful hotel, with a blue tile roof. The j hotel is surrounded by a beautiful I garden. As we sailed away from Jamaica some rafts of canoes, loaded with fruits, homemade pottery, etc., were coming into the market at Jamaica. At sea Thursday night, Friday and Saturday, arriving at Havana, Cuba, Saturday night. Immigration officers came aboard. and every-1 . one had to pass before them and

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Jget a police card before they could ' Igo ashore. The outer harbo-- here ' was lit up with electric lamps, (which represent the “Queen’s Neck- ■ i lace", and so called. Went to see Jai-Alai game. From .there to Sans-tSoucl night club, I I which is fourteen miles out of HaIvana. This Club in a very beautiful i place, under the patm trees. The cheapest drink, is seventy-five cents. | From there to the Casino, a very fashionable gamblng place in a very I I beautiful building. Everyone is in I evening clothes. Beautiful girls at the gambling tables throw around twenty dollar bills like they were 1 I pennies. Back to the ship, about I 3:00 A. . Sunday morning drove to the I Christopher Colombo Catholic church, arriving while they were holding mass. Drove from there to a place to get Planters Punch cock--1 tails, then to Val-Dez Orphanage where girle who have father-less I children may take the child, if it is , a boy, and place it in a blue barrel. If a girl, in a pink barrel. The girl rings a bell and the barrel revolves. A sister takes the child. The child I I is then given the last name of Vai--1 Dez. Most of the boys are taught to 1 ! be priests. I saw about 100 of them I in the courtyard of the Christophe-1 iColumbo church. Boys from s:x year I up, all dressed like little priests. I most of the girls become nuns. From there, we drove to a ceme-1 tery, where graves are practically' I above ground. Anyone dying in | Havanna is hurried within 24 hours. ‘ They are not embalmed. No women attend funerals. Men follow behind the hearse on foot, in a gang, not in orderly fashion. The coffin is placed in the family grave, and covered with quidklime. After three years the bones are placed in a tin box, and deposited in another hole, in the same plot of the grave. Visited National Hotel, which in the boom days, up to 1929, a room | cost up to fifty dollars per day, but now a room can be had for five (dollars. Visited the Workman's Club only workmen can belong. They pay one dollar a month dues. The club is one of the finest clubs in Havana, , Visited the National Caipitol, I which cost $18,000,000'. The Amerl- j can contractor probably made a I couple million profit. To show his i generosity he donated a 21 carat diamond, which is set in a circular 1 niece of glass, right in tho center of the building, under a circular dome which extends 325 feet high. The inner part of this dome is covI ered with a solid gold-leaf. Standing j opposite the place whore the diamond is imbedded in the floor is a | huge statue, 42 feet high covered with gold-leaf. il hired an open Cadillac automobile for the whole afternoon for three dollars. Drove to the French Doll Shop, where we bought genuine alligator belts very cheap. This shop displayed hundreds of curious novelties. It is right next door to, '"Sloppy Joes", world famous bar, j which is patronized mostly by tourlists. ! At an English store, .bought some very fine brands of cigars and cigar-i ettes, also boxes of tapers, which I formerly -were decorated with pictures of Spanish girls, but which are now decorated with movie stars, such as Ginger liogers. -Sunday nlgirt we sat at a Side- | walk Case, and watched the world go by, Chinese boys were yelling,

I “Monl. Monl". offering cone shaped I inackuges made of browa paper, which 1 discovered contained pea- , nuts latter, walked down the Prado., |“ U martle street, set In the cen er; ( 'of a double boulevard. Hado ex Tends front the Central Pari: down 7 to the ocean. People walked up and , i down past a continuous Mne o! ma de benches, which lined both I sides, under the trees. Hero love.s , sl - an I "neck." Quite frequently ( lv< U see a native pollmeman I>nd his ■ girl sitting together, holding hands. , There are probably 10,000 police n | Havana. They wear either a white i duck unifo.iu with a white holme . ■ or a gray uniform, or a khaki uniform. The different uniforms denote j their rank. All of them are natives. -Saw the real Rhumba dance at a native night club in Havana Sailed from Havana, Monday morning, arriving in Nassau, Bahama Islands, Tuesday morning. Sailing vessels of the smaller type ; I were in the hanbor. We again went ; ashore, as at each place, ,n small < lioats. We were greeted by hunt!i reds of basket sellers. Drove in; horse-driven carriage through the town, and out into the poor section, where people live in toumbled-down shadks. Each had signs about their place, such as "Mrs. Miller's Million Dollar Mansion", “The Gateway To Life", "Sal'y Smith's Dressmaking Emporium ", The schools were under the trees. School happened to j ire out when we went by, and one of the children approached us and said “Would you like to have us do some fancy truckin’ for you?" As we went driving along we ap-' I proached a group of women who : had baskets on their heads, and I took a package which 1 tried to bal- ; ance on my head, which gave them all a laugh. At a place where they sold has- | kets, -pocketbooks, and thing made from palm leaves, five or six women would all say, "Have a look my Lady and Lord, have a look". At one place none of the women spoke, so :

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a little girl up and »«M,|i -Have a look. Uuly" She her ( name was Florence. Uttar, » stopped at the wrong place and «•»',, for Florence. They kn.-w her and said Florence was at a basket pla( -e a couple of blocks down. This time Florence was sleeping in a Sh ofhaHko lS .nudllaldeeveta , native coins along side of her, and , "m native women said "Florence sure will be surprised. Florencei will never forget you - U,er ' tnrough a 'basket market and into a ( fruit and vegetable ,ponge market. We halted at the | edge of a fish market, and a woman come running up to me with a fish , two feet long, wanting me to buy It. j Life on the shp was one continuous round of pleasure, with continuous entertainment. Humorous games were played such at "Where I are you Mike", "Going to Jerusal- ' cm", man and woman crawl under ! a pole which is set so low that the ' man's shoulder would knock pole off, or the woman's “tokus ’ would 'knock It off. Anyone on shipboard, iia'. ins a i birthday, was given a huge birth-. day cake. They found out about I your birthday because you had to give the date of your birth on your . sailing card. Usually there were half a dozen birthdays each night, | and at dinner, each time, the orett-; estra would play "Happy Birthday.' • o * Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE ♦ *| Q. When shou'd the announce-1 ment of an engagement be made? A. On the day that the b’ide-elect 'chooses to wear her engagement ring publicly. Q. What are the fundamental rules for servants in a household? A. A well-trained servant will speak in a low tone, walk as silently , as possible, and make a minimum

amount of noise while at w Q. At what uffan 8 served? B *l A. At luncheons, and picnics. '*l 0 Answers To Teif Questions Below are the answsr.,.. Test Questions on Page Two 1 Montgomery. 2. Yes; because the t J slightly flattened at th- D „;J 3. Ellison D. (C<>tt on j, (D) and James F. Hy rlle , lh ’ 4. Brass. 5 Twenty-eight. 6. No. 7. Schnieling w ->n on auu knockout in the P |gi lth ’ 8. The Dead Sea i n a,? Great Salt Lake. I'tah. 9. Green Mountain State. 1 10. Nineteenth. — __ — _— Household Scrapboo Ry Roberta L« e * ’ - Chapped Handi An effective cure for cd hands can be attained by-J into the hands, after washingmeal or oatmea’. The meslx® sorb all the moisture and ted heal th" cracks and i n the com a weak will leave the hatifci land in good condition. The Rug The color of the ru-> will be jb ily improved If a half pint ofg gar is added to half a pint of q then a large dean cloth of this solution and rubbedow rug with wide st Hikes. Grated Egg Grated egg may be used | garnish for mixed green g jGrate the whites first, thend® yolks over the top.