Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1938 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur. Ind. Post Office as Second Class Matter j. 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 j One year, by carrier - 6 00 One month, by mall — .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.10 One year, by mail 3.00 One 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 1 1 Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. JOIN THE RED CROSS. The Republican boys are certainly a bunch of hard losers. • They boast over victories and sob I I over their defeats. The annual roll call for the Red i Cross is on and you are invited and urged to turn in your dollar membership. It's a great cause. , ; It's the closing period of autumn 1 with cold, gray days and with 1 winter just around the corner. It's 1 time to provide for that season if, ’ you want to be comfortable. 1 ' If It turns out that the house is 1 divided even in the legislature, it 1 is possible that the secretary of 1 state will have to preside until a 1 speaker can be elected. It sounds 1 interesting. Why not hold some special trade t days for the Christinas season? It’s not a bit too soon to plan it and it means much for every merchant and for every one in this, i trading area. New auto license plates for 1939 I will be on sale here and over the I state December luth. They have I dark letters on an orange back- > ground and are now being shipped i to the various bureaus. 1 The Krick-Tyndall campaign is t over and those in charge are jubil-; t ant over its success. It has re-j t quired considerable time but it shows that the community is a I htinired per cent right. i Political leaders are now plan- , ’ ning numerous changes of plans i and personalities for the 1940 elec- t tion, which is probably wise, but | < the danger is they will forget about 1 it by the time the next campaign 1 opens, unless some one really < works at it. 1 < == Those who entered the Christ- < mas Saving club have funds with i which to meet expenses of the i Christinas season and what a re- i lief that is. By the way, it's almost ! i time to start on next year's club i and it’s a safe, sure and easy way to assure funds for a year from i now. ; MM,> **** I The Dr. Gallop poll shows Presi- ; dent Roosevelt is two per cent stronger with the people than his , party, based on the vote for con- • gressional candidates in the recent j, election. The Democratic congressional candidates held 52% of; the popular vote while the express-1 ion for the president is about 55%. Indications for increased farm product prices are excellent according to reports from the various organizations and from govern-, ment deaprtraents. No better way has ever been discovered to assure prosperity than to have the farm-' er prosperous for his needs are so varied and so important that the circulation of money is always apparent when he can get good prices lor his grain and stock.

| It's time to forget politics and i the whys and wherefores of the results of the recent campaign and Ito get down to business. We are ail desirous thut this community 'is the best to be found. It is and \ it will continue so. because every | good citizen will work towards j that end. There are problems to be met and always will be. Let's i solve them to the best advantage ! of Decatur and her people. Statisticians find it difficult to devise any method of calculation by which the election returns can be made to forecast the election of a Republican president in 1940. States carried by the Democrats last Tuesday would give a heavy electoral vote margin to a Democratic presidential candidate. New York, Illinois, California, and the solid south with border states alone would do it. Counting only states where the Democrats won undivided victories for statewide offices, the Democrats would have rolled up 302 electoral* votes, against 266 necessary to elect. It is also significant that not since 1888 has any party won a Presidential election without carrying the House of Representatives two years previously.—Business Week. For ten successive weeks the business indicators have shown steady advances. This is largely due to major improvement shown by the automobile industry whose new models are now coming on the market. In one late week car output jumped 50 percent. Monthly shipment rate, it is expected will soon be at the 250.000 point. Construction figures continue to be another bright spot in the picture with both residential and nonresidential building far above the levels of last year. Still more substantial increases in all kinds of building, including public works, are anticipated for this winter and spring. Retail trade, which hung behind industrial production during most of the summer months, is on the rise now with Christmas prospects in most parts of the country good. It is an interesting fact that the wage-hour law came into effect without causing more 1 than a ripple in business. One | reason is that most large bus- j inesses are unaffected by the law's | minimums inasmuch as they have j long exceeded them. Another is I that most business men believe that moderate reforms of this nature are inevitable and desirable. ELECTIONS: With all deference to the high and mighty dictatorship nations, we venture to suggest that they're missing something. Their wonder- i ful efficiency has overlooked one I of the most valuable devices of ; human civilization. We refer to the type of national ceremony or festial that we call an election. Whether you look at it as a political controversy, a social struggle, a clash of principles, a competition for public jobs, a free-for-all fight, a sacred crusade, or a circus, it's a great thing for public sanity and private satisfaction. And why? Because a free election of the American type is such a wonderful way for a nation to get things out of its system. It is a release of emotions and a cleansing of the soul. Everybody has a chance to say exactly what he ’ pleases about everybody in public office and everybody running for public office. Everyone can come right out and tell everyone else, from the Supreme Court and the President down to the office boy and garbage collector, where to get off and head in. Whoever has a Utopia under his hat can spring it and get an audience, and every cynic can tear that Utopia to shreds and tell the world there is 1 no hope for anybody or anything. Thus for a few weeks we live in a vast madhouse. Then we j quietly go to the polls and cast our ballots, aud count them, and give a cheer or a sigh as the case may be, and go quietly back to our

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Outlook For Indiana Farmer Is Reviewed In Five Articles

i Editor's note: This Is the third of five articles reviewing the “OutI look for Indiana Agriculture in 1939'' prepared by the Purdue Uni- , versity farm management department iu cooperation with the ' school of agriculture, agricultural ■ experiment station, departmnt of . agricultural extension, and U. S. I department of agriculture. This story deals with the Hoosier livei stock situation; tomorrow's article will concern the Indiana crops | situation and outlook.) I.afayette, Ind . Nov. 17. — With relatively large feed supplies on ‘ hand. Indiana livestock fanners are I asking, "what does the coming i year offer me?" Purdue university agricultural ! economists and animal husbandry I secialfsts agree, as out in the “Outlook for Indiana Agriculture for 1939" bulletin, that the Hoosier livestock industry has on the one hand relatively favorable feed ratios and a probable increasing consumer demand for livestock i and livestock products and on the other hand commodity cycle advantages and disadvantages, depending entirely upon the individI ual commodity. Hogs "Market supplies for hogs duri ing the year beginning Oct. 1. 1938 ; are expected to be materially largjobs, with purified souls and a determination to get some practical work done. Thus comes a great and fruitful release of power, which bossed and silenced nations can never experience.—Anderson Bulletin.

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er than for the 1937-38 marketing year, beginning October 1, but will be smaller than the five-year averi age 1928-29 to 1932-33,” the report states, "in view of the substantial increase in hog supplies, prices in 1939 may be expected to average lower than in 1938 even though consumer demand improves somewhat. "Stocks of pork and lard in storage during the 1937-38 year were I very low. due primarily to the uni certain price situation, weak coui Sumer demand and a compe.rative- ; ly small slaughter. “Exports of both pork and lard the first eight months of 1938 have been much larger than at any time since 1934 . . . ", reflecting a larger slaughter in this country and a smaller slaughter in Europe. "The European demand for American hog products will probably be stronger in 1939 than in 1938 . . J depending upon import and export restrictions in certain foreign i countries. I “Imports of pork in 1936 and 1937 resulting from short supplies ' and high prices for hog products ■ in this country have declined con- ' siderably in 1938. Tn 1937, when I imports of pork were large com- ' pared with other years they I amounted to only about one per ' cent of our domestic consumption.'' “Imports of pork in 1936 and i 1937 resulting from short supplies and high prices for hog products ! in this country have declined considerably hi 1938. In 1937, when imports of pork were large compared with other years they amounted to only about one per cent of our domestic consumption.” An iucrease in hog numbers was seen for 1939. and if the next crop

year produces another big crop of corn, an increase in hog numbers would be probably again in 1949. Beef Cattle "The downward trend in cattle numbers precipitated by the drouth of 1984 and continuing into 1938 will likely be reversed this year as a result of improved range conditions.” The report did not expect that any material loss in purchasing pow’er of beef cattle w-ould be felt during the next year o» two. ’ With prospects for the cost of gain to be less than purchase price caused by present low feed prices, it was felt that light weight cattle of quality offer the greatest opportunities for profit in 1939. “ . . . profits from cattle feeding in 1939 may be larger on good grades than on the choice to prime grades. If history repeats itself, the cheap feed situation will likely lead to an over supply of well finished cattle in the 1939 April to June period with attendant rather unsatisfactory prices." “It is to be expected that beef will have more competition from other meats at the retail counter jin 1939. The supply of pork and , poultry apparently will he larger and will no doubt depress prices of beef to some degree.” Sheep and Wool Indications are that there will be some decrease in lamb feeding during the 1938-39 season. The i lamb crop in 1938 was about five ‘ per cent larger than in 1937 and the largest on record. Present wool stocks are large including the 1937 carry-over and the 1938 clip. However, domestic prices may strengthen somewhat before the end of 1938, but no marked rise appears until the foreign situation slfows further improvement. Poultry and Eggs Poultry and egg supplies will be on the increase in 1939 with poul-

< try numbers reaching tne peaa in a generally accepted three-year cycle. In view of probable increased supplies tt would seem reaaon- ! able to expect that poultry operi ations will be less favorable in the latter part of 1939 than the previous year, unless there is more than a moderate increase in business activity. With increased egg production and storage egg holdings In 1939, somewhat lower egg prices were exnected in the fall of 1939 than »e vJstomary for that season. Dairy Products Although there has been a dej crease in milk cow numbers since J 1934, an increase in numbers is now in prospect, with an expect- | ed two per cent increase in 1939. i The production per cow is expected to continue high during 1939, but again, the demand for the products will depend largely upon I business activity. "With prospective domestic and foreign butter prices, no significant imports of butter seem likely," the report reveals. Further and more detailed Information on any of the topics discussed may be obtained from the outlook bulletin copies of which may be supplied by any county agricultural agent or the Agricultural Extension Service, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. o TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the DailyDeinocrat File • 4 Nov. 17. was Sunday. iBELMO VAN ILLA OH LEMON fpc~| Demand TVt I I Economy PKka|« I g iMPiH I ON SALE AT YOUR GROCERS

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