Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1938 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by <MK DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporate Entered at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office as Second Class Matter I. H- Heller. President A. R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 02 One week, by carrier .10 Ono year, by carrier —.— 5.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months, by mail 100 Six months, by mail ——— 1.75 One year, by mail — 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius ot 100 miles. Elsewhere $3.50 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. Through newspaper advertising you can reach everyone, everywhere, at any and all times. A delightful August day. with ai cooling breeze and warm sunshine, is about all one could ask for even if you have money enough to sail 1 a yacht or go to the mountains. Republican papers, it seems are I easy to please. New Deal candidates in Tuesday's election won all the nominations, except in Idaho and they seem to herald Senator Pope’s defeat with guffaws. Solace is a sweet 'thing, no matter how small the portions. The grounds around the city water works and electric plant grow in beauty. Although the rose blooming season is past, the lawn and shrubbery is growing nicely. Further improvements at this site are planned as time goes on, every effort being made to have the place reflect civic pride and progress. State Welare Director Thurman Gottschalk has outlined a sevenpoint program for the operation of the state hospitals and benevolent institutions, including the establishing of a merit system for employes and training courses of attendants. Mr. Gottschalk, who is making an enviable record as the state's first welfare director, not only demonstrates his sincerity, but displays keen vision in attempting to arrive at a prograu meaning for better and more management of the state’s institntions. With fewer people traveling on them, it is no wonder the assessed value of railroads and interurban lines dropped in the state. The loss for the past year in values is placed at $11,379,661, or a drop of 3.69 per cent. Even at that the net value of the railroads still remains nearly three hundred million dollars in Indiana, while the electric lines are valued at a little more than five million. The present generation has almost seen the complete passing of the Interurban lines. What will another generation witness with the railroads? Persons who have traveled from Detroit over to Windsor over the new bridge and through the tunnel appreciate the convenience. Soon an eight and one-half mile stretch of new bridge from Collins Landing. N. Y„ to Watertown, Ontario, linking the Thousand Island Vacation country with the United States will be dedicated. It is one of the largest bridges in the country and includes five separate spans. In this country we continually think of travel and places to go in our automobile and building of hew bridges and roads is part of our every day life. Everyone is interested in his chances of living the proverbial three score and ten years. A magazine writer has it figured out. You have one chance in 100,000 of living to be 100 years old, better if you are a woman because

two out of three centenarians are women. You have a fifty-fifty chance of living to be 64. The odds are four to one that you will reach the age ot 50 as 75,000 or 100,000 attain that age. But is is [ exactly the reverse one chance in four- that you will live to 77. ■ The same writer said, to got one’s J hereditary life expet fancy, roughly, add the number of years lived by , one’s father and mother and both i grandfathers and both grandmothI era and divide the total years by J six. Os course you can discount I , this formula a little, in view of the , 1 pedestrian’s chance with the auto--1 un mobile. Sometimes you hear the state- i meat that all the property in Adams county is mortgaged. Such | is not the case, as the figures prove. This county has an assess-; ed valuation of $25,368,726. The ‘ mortgage exemptions on file total, | $1,379,620, leaving a net ot $23,989.106. We admit that the total of the mortgages are more than the exemptions, the law exempt-j Ing only SI,OOO on each parcel, but I you can multiply the amount sev-, eral times and still have a large credit reserve. There is nothing i wrong with putting a mortgage on 1 your home. Few people have suf- • : ticient funds to pay for a property . iin full. By borrowing part of the i capital, it can be paid off over a period of years. Most people own their homes in that way and it I amounts to a partial payment plan. I call it mortgage or whatever you ; will. ACCUSING THE PRESIDENT’S SON “My trouble seems to be a mix-1 ture of being the son of the Presi-I d nt and not failing in business.” I That’s Jimmy Roosevelt, eldest son of President Roosevelt and now i secretary to the country’s chief I executive speaking. Jlis statement was made in reply to the insidious , article published in the Saturday! Evening Post recently that the | president s son had an estimated income of front $250,000 to $2.000.-1 000 a year as a result of his insurance and broker's business. ; At the request of President Roosevelt, the U. S. Treasury De-I partment, has turned over certi-; tied photostatic copies of the tax | returns made by James Roosevelt to the editor of Collier’s magazine I and they show that from 1933 to 1937, inclusively, that the latter's' income never reached $50,000 a i year. For the record. James Roosevelt’s income for the five years is given: 1933, $21,714.31; 1934, $49.-' 167.37; 1935, $33,593.37; 1936, $44.668.60; 1937, $23,834.38. The article in this week's Collier's is interesting. It is written j by Walter Davenport, associate 1 editor of the magazine. Referring to statements that he had continued his insurance operations since assuming his post in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt said: “Since I have been my father's secretary, since I have been in Washington, I have not solicited nor attempted to solicit —no, and I haven't accepted--a single dollar of insurance from anyone, any time, anywhere. Anything to the contrary is a miserable lie." Mr. Roosevelt described his start 1 in theflinsurance business in Boston, and proceeds to answer one after another the various charges of impropriety which have been made against him. “1 got into places I never would have if I wasn't the son of the President," Mr. Roosevelt stated frankly. "But son or no son. I got I tossed out a lot too. Prospects don't wilt just because you're the son of the President.” To back up this statement, he lists a number of large industrial and utility accounts> which he tried to sell without success, because other insurance agents were able to underbid him. These included the North American Corporation. Paramount Pictures, Stone & Webster and the Ford Motor Company. "Being the son ot the President.

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they'd have been calling me a crook no matter what business I had entered,” Mr. Roosevelt stated, "provided of course that I had been successful. If I had graduated from Boston University LawSchool (which I attended for a time) and had practiced law privately or in me government service—well, use your imagination. If I had opened a neat little corner grocery store and was making anything above the rent they'd have been saying that relief money would have had to be spent in my store, or else. "My trouble seems to be a mixture of being the son of the President and not failing in business." o ♦ ♦ Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦— ♦ Q. Is it proper to introduce guesta a: the table at a large dinner? A. No; they should be introduced before entering the dining room. Q. Should the social secretary wear a uniform? A. No; the social secretary dresses as she likes, if she is sensi-

Inaugurate Seattle-Alaska Air Service __—.— u JIn i , . ■■FT).. | >. X W M V ' ■' 4 * ’’ - • Pan-American’s “baby Clipper” rr.Jeh flies Seattle-Juneau route s la-ft to right, E. E. Martin, John D. Donley, J. N. Gentry and Capt. John M. Mattis

Regular air service between Seattle, Wash., and Juneau, Alaska, is inaugurated with this PanAmerican "baby Clipper" transport plane Crew members are shown below, left to right, Radio Ot-

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' 4 Answers To Test Questions | Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ ♦ 1. Hygrometer. ' 1 2. Davis Strait. I 3. Franz. 4. 1930. 5. John H. Fahey. 6. Those which have a spinal col- | umn. 7. Klondike gold rush. , i 8. The Volga. 9. Six feet. i 10. Spain remained neutral. 0 twentFye AGO TODAY I From the Dally Democrat File I Aug. 12—Picardy offensive slows up as new forces are brought up by . Allies. At request of the Mite Society of the Methodist church Mayor Yager ’ issues a request that every one of- ' fer one-minute prayers for the soll ble her choice will be simple, well- . i cut, tailored clothe®. Q. What kind of mourning should a girl wear for her fiance? A. The same that she would wear ■ for a brother.

diers and the cause for which they are fighting, each day at 12 o’clock. County board of education fail to approve recommendation of a successor to M. H. Overton, county agent who has resigned. Food Administrator Hite takes ever all ice production in city. Leo Scoles, contractor is fined SI.OO and costs for operating his truck without a license Herbert Reinking is home from : Camp Sherman on a sixty day furl lough, to assist on the farm. o , • ♦ | Household Scrapbook | By Roberta Lee I 4 < Inner Tube 11 Cut an old inner tube into strips i' and nail to the bottom of the garage I j door to keep rivulets or rain from running under the door. It i® diffi- ! cult to dry some garages, and the . wisest plan is to keep them dry. Ink Stains , Ink stains on the fingers can be . removed with tomato juice. It on a J garment, soak it in sour milk before _j trying to remove the stains with an .1 acid. Serving Salad Whenever it is possible to do so, II serve a salad dressing separately and let the guests help themselves. •■Not only does the lettuce wilt after ' the dressing has been on it for any

i | fleer E. E. Martin. Flight Engineer John D. Don- • ' ley, First Officer J. N. Gentry and Commander John M. MatJtis The Seattle-Juneau run completes ■ | the last link in the Clule-to-Alaska aerial routes.

POLICE GUARD GERMAN PLANE Trans-Atlantic Plane To Start Return Flight Saturday New York. Aug. 12 —i<U.R> A constant police guard was kept today on the German trans-Atlan-tic airplane Brandenburg, which , landed yesterday after a non-stop flight fro mßerlin and will take off tomorrow on the return trip. As a precaution aguhist antiNazi demonstrations the plane had been surrounded with policemen and sailors from the instant it , touched the ground at Floyd Bennett field at 140 P. M. CST yest-1 erday, 24 hours and 58 minutes after having taken off from Ber-1 Hn — the fastest westward Atlantic flight ever made. The newest air heroes were Capt. Alfred Henke and his crew, of three, whose flight was kept secret until it was almost completed. They averaged 153 miles an hour for 3,985 miles against pre-. vailing ocean headwinds in theii sleek. 26-passenger land monoplan which has a black swastika | on the tail. Sailors from the United States naval base stood shoulder-to-should-er and formed a lane tor the black and silver plane to taxi to a hangar. and 300 policemen took up the guard in relays, although the crowd ot 2,000 which watched the , landing had cheered and waved warmly, and there had been no I untoward incidents. Capt.. Henke is 35, blond, erect ’ and efficient. His face has a dueling scar that would be the joy of a Heidelburg student. He was flown the Atlantic several times in the catapult plane Nordwind of the German Lufthansa service which plans to start regular Atlantic flights byway of the Azores Islands next year.

The Brandenburg s take-off from the military airdome at Staaken. outside Berlin, had been kept secret for 18 hours, until it was over Newfoundland and was ready to receive coast guard weather reports for the remainder of the route. The crowd at the field saw Capt. Henke pop out of the cabin freshly shaMed, wearing a well pressed blue coat and gray trousers, followed by a crew equally well groomed. Henke said the flight hadn't been announced in advance "because he wanted to do the job first and talk about it later.” Amid the crowd the fliers quickly spied the crew of the Norwind, which arrived from the Azores last Monday, and the two crews Immediately united for a beer drinking celebration in the hangar. Capt. Henke’s flight companions were Rudolph Von Moreau, second captain; Paul Dierberg, flight engineer, and Walter Kober. radio operator. The plane had only enough gasoline for two hours flying left when it landed. It was spurting oil and an engine cowling was split when it reached the hangar. Henke said the damage was slight, and probably was caused by a stone hurled up by a wheel in the landing. Re said the flight was made without incident and that it was "a private flight,” for the sole purpose of “flying from Berlin to New York. o F. D. R. MAKES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) for the new deal, was waiting too. but he was less quick and. delayed by attaches, got no farther than the drawing room. His speech was brief "As you people probably know.'' length of time, but people have so many different ideas in regard to salad dressing.

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he said. “I have made two speeches today and there was not time or opportunity to prepare a third speech. Some of you msy have heard what 1 said down in Georgia, at Barnesville. Those of you who did not hear me, 1 hope will read in the newspapers what 1 said of some of the economic and social problems of the south, of the necessity of meeting those problems by a consolidation of the interests of all southern states and then by consolidating those interests with the interests of the whole nation. “That, my friends, cannot be done without legislation. As president, I cannot do it alone. The congress of the U nited States must pass the laws. "That is why. in any selection of candidates for members of the senate or members of the house of representatives—if you believe in the principles for which we are striving; a wider distribution of national income, better conservation of our natural resources, establishment of a floor under wages and bringing of a larger buying power to the farmers of the nation —then I hope you will send representatives to the national legislature who will woik toward those ends. "We need not just team work but more team work in the nation-

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al capital—and 1 believe « . going to get it. "Before I stop—and 1 b ' the train Is pulling out in al '| or two—l want to suggJ ■ things to you: the first is | ’' long time ago I promised [ Johuston that I would eo ra , some time this year to vi( 1 1 capital of the state ot South lina. I have never l>een 1 but lam coming The other 1 is that I don't believe any or man can live on 50 cents t 1 As Mr. Roosevelt spoke h | words, the train began mov|| Gov. Johnston and Sen. Smiti ’ haste to jump off. This wat ' vice, it was said, to preved ; . possibility of Sen. Smith < supporters staging a dem( tion. J I _______ 0 I i Opening Penny Dani “ Sunday — Sun Set,

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