Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 290, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1938 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT t DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office as Second Class Matter H Heller President 1. R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: dingle 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 mall —— 1.75 One year, by mail 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. — National Adver. Representative SCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies Join the Red Cross. It's an organization always on the relief job and always at hand when needed. The roll call is on. Put the Good Fellows club fund over the hundred mark and do your part towards providing a Merry Christinas tor every poor boy and girl in Decatur. Only thirten more shopping days and they will be busy ones. The local stores are tilled with the finest gifts, the most useful and you know who you are trading with. A price war among liquor dealers in New York City has brought the prices down to a dollar a quart. Just think how tough that's going to be on the bootlegger right now at the Yuletide. Various organizations are buying the health bonds and thus greatly i aiding the battle against tuberculosis. Those wlio cannot do this can help by using the seals for letters and Christmas packages. Governor Townsend will recommend that state accountants be rotated instead of remaining for years in the larger counties, which seems wise. Th£ system is a good one but like every thing else can be abused. Business is improving every where and the number of WPA workers is declining. Reports show that more than 33,000 on relief secured jobs the last month. We are on the way and you can help speed it up. The season of good will approaches and it's a great season. After all we are not here long enough to tight and scrap when we can all be so much happier by “doing unto others as we would be done by." Let’s put it into prac- , tise. Congress will convene soon and | will face a task of doing things • that will further help the country. We believe they will for notwithstanding the almost boistrous cele-1 bration by the GOP because of a slight gain, the house will be ■ ninety Democrats and the senate will continue with a safe working majority. The president is anx- 1 ious to complete his task and to leave the nation in a splendid position in every way. — The law sems to be that recount contests for state officials cannot be hekl in isolated counties but must be conducted in the entire state. Since it is the law, that ought to settle it and no doubt will. Republicans can of course 13 BN aa/stilrr

, proceed with contests In the legis- ( lature or in congress if they so ; desire because that is regular and legal. There is no good reason why candidates of either party should have any preference in such matters. Al Capone, who made millions out of the beer racket during the | prohibition days and built up the | greatest organization of bandits and law violators the nation ever | knew, will complete his ten-year I sentence January 19th and be re- , leased from Alcatraz prison. flow-1 ever, his troubles are not over. , He still has a year's jail sentence ' in Chicago and his mind is so | effected that he may land in an asylum. He was as tough as they | make ’em but not hard enough to ■ take the punishment he got the past decade. — Depressions are expensive. The labor department in Washington can prove that the one which started in 1929 and has not yet been completely whipped cost this country 133 billion dollars, cost every man, woman and child a thousand | dollars each on the average, cost 1 every family in food, clothing. | shelter, medical care, immeasur-, able losses in comfort. It reduced I the earning power to an average , of $320 as compared to $606 for the ' ten years proceeding. Each time ! we gel too prosperous these things occur and it some congressman is smart enough to work out plans and laws that will prevent them, | he will make a place in history hard to equal. Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn, blond - woman acting as an "Angel of Mercy' caused the death of several old men, each of whom remem- ' bered her in his will, paid her debt ' to society by being the first woman ever to be electrocuted in the ’ state of Ohio. Sobbing her innocence to the last she went to her ‘ death with the Lord's Prayer on her lips and the crys of her twelve-year-old boy in her ears. While the evidence against her was largely circumstantial it piled up so j high that a jury composed of elev- ’ en women and one man, found her | guilty and every court to which ' she appealed, supported the verdict. Crime doesn't pay. Did you ever think of saying a I kind word to the policeman you I meet? Did you ever remember! him on Christmas? Brief mention I of what happened in a police sta-1 tion in New York the other day prompts the observation that both ' the police and citizens interested : in law and order might profit from more like this one: A middle-aged, ‘ gray-haired man stepped briskly into the station and deposited a ■ package. It bore a short legend: I "On this day I am taking an op- i portunity to pay my respects to I : the world's finest, including the I G-men, in the best form I know.” The package contained 11 red j | roses. While Santa Claus is sweating , away at the North Pole with last minute preparations for what may be his busiest Christmas in many I years it is well to consider how the hearty old fellow has kept > ahead of the procession of new I I ideas and new methods of toy maki ing. Probably the best quarter of a billion dollars spent in any country is that $250,000,000 spent annually for toys in the U. S. It is a staggering sum, spent for the highest possible good—the giving of hours of happiness to others. It is spent most judiciously by the I mothers and fathers of the nation. | Toys must be rugged, else they 1 earn the contempt of Junior and his sistdr. They must be colorful, j easy to clean and enduring. An | I old toy that has weathered the , tempests of childhood is treasured | more than a new and more attrac- [ 1 live one. These desirable qualities have kept Santa humping for new [ ideas. He has also kept in mind i I that toys must be smooth-edged to 1 prevent possibility or injury to

NOW THAT SON JIMMY HAS "GONE HOLLYWOOD!" —Co FilpA.? D v •> ■ I g® ? !HI I W i THE GREAT j I MdO I .4, ' third term i BBS H ? drama ; | fyV F (,t's a pvtsTtßY'.) a | | 1 IT WES*/ FFgk W ‘tip v fa C, -s^SSW 1 -',

* Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ ♦ 1. James Madison. 2. Limbs of the t v ee. 3. Rockefeller Center, N. Y. 4. Er’-u-dite. 5. Golf. , 6. MCDXCII 7. The United States Maritime , Commission. 8. Oregon, in 1919. 9. An extinct species of bird, formerly native in New Zealand. 10. Kamal Ataturk. o * Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Cane Seats The cane seats of chairs shpuld i [ be cared for occasionally by spong-' I ing them with salt water. 1 his will ! I lighten them and prevent sagging.; Mustard Stains Mustard sains on linen can be I ■ removed by washing in hot water l |cnd soap, and rinsing in warm wa-1 | ter. Canned Goods Do not allow the canned goods their youthful owners. For these mechanical improvements, father I and mother join the youngsters in j a great big hand for the old fel- | low and a promise of a long rest for him —after Christmas. — Hunt-i Jngton Herald-Press.

Negotiate Mexican Land "Grab’' . ■ '4 T' > z ~ < I* '-* * *' IL i jEF <s®si&s3aK«JSS TT -£L3 * jfgMrafrS /HR —■—j MbH Representing the United States, Lawrence L. Lawson (left) is met in Mexico City by Gustavo P. Serrano. Mexican representative. They will | negotiate on the joint agrarian claims for an indemnity settlement of properties lecefttiv exD«x®riat«i in Mexico.

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to remain in the tins after opening. Remove the contents of th- cans before placing in the icebox, then 1 I cover the dish to prevent odor from I permeating the refrigerator. o * Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE I Q. Is it good form for a girl of cghteen to eall a woman of forty by her first name? A. Not unless the older woman i requests it. I, Q. What does the French phrase cher ami mean? A. Cher ami (masculine) means ‘dear friend.” The feminine is there amie. Q. Where should a hostess receive her guests at a formal afternoon tea? t A. She should stand immediately inside the door of the reception r oom. o * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ; | From the Daily Democrat File I * * Dec. 9—The U. S. War department asks congress for a standing army of half a million. Champ Clark advises America to seek foreign trade with Central and South America. More than a hundred children are out of school here on account of illness and quana'ntines. Allie Nuttman, former Decatur man, visits here for first time in I forty years. E. W. Puckett of Fort Wayne,

talks to Rotary. Miss Fay Hammell. teacher at Central, back to her duties, after a week with the flu. Coaches Get Togerther Bellaire, O. —(UP)—Twenty-five Ohio valley football coaches — enough to comprise two good football teams —attended a stag dinner given in their honor by a local country club. Francis Wallace was master of ceremonies.

w 1 GAY.. Fiesta Ware We're sure you'd be the most popular Santa this year if you gave colorful Fiesta Ware. It’s an inexpensive way to say .... MERRY CHRISTMAS but surely a grand way. Several Dollars will start a set ... . or buy fill-ins for those lucky people who boast a set now. Schafers have a grand big stock to select from — So many odd pieces at very modest prices. ■ jflwpW'lWM

BENEFIT FUND FIGURES GIVEN More Than 15 Millions Paid In State In Unemployment Claims Fort Wayne, Ind,. Dec. 9 — The amount of unemployment compensation benefits paid In Indiana since the job Insurance program was launched in April has topped the $ 15.000,00 mark, the state unemployment compensation division anr.ouned today. This has compensated for 1,075,000 weeks of total unemployment and about 265,000 weeks of total unemployment and about 265,000 weeks of partial unemployment suffered by Indiana : workers since April 1. Payment of benefits in November dropped below 32,000,000 for the first time since June, when $1,500,-, 000 was paid, according to E. F. Kiaiiller. manager of the Fort Wayne district of the division. “November payments totaled $1,934 214 84, with about one sixth ot the 184,057 ! checks going to persons who were working part time. There were 63,000 fewer compensable weeks and SBOO,OOO less benefits titan in Octo-! ! ber. "However, the best comparison is igainst the month of August, when unemployment benefit payments hit a peak of 243.277 checks valued at $2,841,029.89. That was before the legislature repealed the $lO earning requirement. Payments on ‘regular’ claims—those not due to the $lO clause' removal — numbered 101,000 for $1,045,000 in November.] The decrease in expenditure has b<en largely due to re-emt’.oyment

< A FOR A GLEAM! j ; JoswHa C || R | STMAS [; GIVE FOSTORIA “AMERICAN” ■ ; r So Nice to Give — So Nice to Get- H ‘ J Fostoria answers the perplexing gift I problem in a shining way— and you I W® are sure ** w ill appreciated for it's ■ the most admired crystal today— j Vss ' and priced so moderately.... | Prices start at 25c. A number of the uses ul pieces are priced I under 50c and still more sell at less than SI.OO. Fostoria is ex- ■ pensive looking — but inexpensively priced. I C>””' g t osioria fc — if I Dozens and Dozens of Really i Grand Pieces in 1 FOSTORIA AMERICAN , wars j You’ll find Schafers Glassware i stock at its best - many new Eos- . toria pieceS tha< y ° U l! Want JI yourself — Now you can buj com W plete D '” nC r Servi<eS ' n thlS I gleaming American pattern. g Fostoria is truly nice to i give and so nice to get. | Stf aifafomb I * aa g' SM I ■ ? ► 1 1 < 1 1 I W.-i I

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of beneficiaries and sharp decline in filing of new claims. "In spite of the abnorm.il bene-1 fit load last summer and fall, the Indiana unemployment compensation trust fund had a (balance on December 1 of $23,50(8000, which was only $3,500,000 under the figure in April when benefit payments were started. "In this district, covered workers lost 110,107 total or partial work weeks for which they have been compensated to the extent of $1,311,950.81 since April. “November payments in this seej tlon numbered 21,992 for $253,065.31 The high mark previously established was 25.327 checks valued at $294,749.28. in October. “New claims resulting from layoffs from covered employment in the state were below 10,00 V for the second straight month, with 9,455 in November against 9,297 in October and a high of 36.676 tn May. In this j district there were 819 in November 759 in October and a high of 1.899 in June."

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