Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 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. IL Holthouse. Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Helli Vice-President Subscription Ratos: Single 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 mail 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 4 CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies The Costers or Musicas pulled ' the biggest brother-act of the age. A house divided cannot succeed it's true in government or political organization.This is the week when Decatur stores are the most popular places to visit. Yon can’t put it off any longer ! if you want to do your 1938 Christmas shopping. If Coster had kept his hands clean his fingerprints would not have exposed him. The best kind of letter to send to Santa Claus is one of Uncle Sam's notes for the Good Fellows fuud. The colored lights and decorations in the yards and around the doorways add cheer to the Christmas season. It's a great time of year. Some of the newly elected officials are wondering if Christmas is really a merry occasion, after listening to disappointed office seekers. We heard a Girl Scout say. "I ll get the sweeper and do my good deed for mother." That's the spirit that makes good scouts of Girl Scouts. We hope the town continues to grow and progress with such leaps and bounds that it won't be another fifty years before more new schools are needed. Judge DeVoss has v evoked the license of a drunk driver, the law making such susension mandatory The public approves the verdict and upholds the law. Drunk drivers are a menace to the public and must be kept off the highways. Indianapolis is filling the Christmas stockings of the needy. The ' Star fund exceeds 33.500 and donations continue to pour in. If I you can help the Good Fellows fund, youil bring joy and happiness to the needy children, and give yourself a thrill. The children are taking serious chances by playing in the old schools buildings. The walls are not safe and warning has been given by school and police authorities that the boys and girls should ■ not use the old structures as places to play hide and seek. Wl’A workers became strikebreakers on an Ohio canal job near Cleveland. The trouble started with truck drivers’ pickets who wanted to prevent the men from

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( using their picks and shovels. | They used them on the pickets and in a short time the trucks and men were moving right along. Decatur will be glad to welcome ' the students to the Reppert Auction School which opeils its 34th semi-annual term next week. Men from more than half the states 1 and Canada are expected and Colonel Reppert expects one of the largest attendances in the history of the school. We not only welcome them, but wish them great success as auctioneers. Money, influence, social position, or commercial success doesn't mean much if you are a crook. ! The head of the New York drug store firm rode the waves for j twenty years, but finally the law caught up with his unlawful acts and he went the way of the buli let. His career and those of his brothers will make a dozen novels and to the reader will seem inI credible. Truth is stranger than fiction. Congressman-elect Gillie has announced that he will work for the Anthony Wayne memorial, proposed by Congressan Farley and to ; i be built in or around Fort Wayne. The nature of the memorial has not yet been decided. We haven’t | ' anything against it, but suggest ' that a wonderful memorial to old I Commodore Decatur could be built | I here in the way of a river drive i I along the west bank of the St. . Mary’s river. Our new congressman might take note of the suggestion. An appreciative audience will witness the second presentation of the Christmas pageant, "The Way," which will be presented this evening at the Zion Reformed ’ church by the music section of the Woman's club. The play was given last week and was so highly pleasing and appreciated that a request was made to have the cast repeat it. If you want a sip of the real Christmas spirit, attend the pageant this evening. No hometalent production was ever better presented or more worthy of the hearty appoval of the community. Twenty per cent of the youngsters of America between the ages of 16 and 24 are unemployed, yells an alarmist. What he doesn't tell is that 20 per cent of all ages in , this country are unemployed. That's a horse of another color. It isn't fair nor wise to single out youth by misstatements. The youngsters have been called “the ’ forgotten generation" by so many agitators that many of the boys have come to believe it and are pitying themselves. If 20 per cent of the youth are jobless, then 80 per cent must be gainfully employed. That's seeing the doughnut instead of the hole, and it's . encouraging rather than the conj trary. When the soap-box orator | cries that there are no idle youngs<es in Germany and Italy, he ; should add that, the army grabs | them at the cradle. Young men i and women still have the biggest chance right here in America. They are free to land their own jobs, work in their own way and marry in their own choices. College men prepared for something worth-while get it. A false alarm draws a bigger crowd than a! i church bell, but there's a law against It. —Los Angeles Times. Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two • ♦ 1. Canton. 2. Yellowstone National Park. 3. Myron C. Taylor. 4. “Halfmoon.” 5. Deuterium oxide. 6. Lima. Peru. 7. Manioc. 8. No. 9. Gay'-lah. 10. Mistletoe. 1. Bay of 'Bengal. 2. Yes. 3. Football.

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Labor Will Seek Passage Os Wage-Hour Measure In State

(Editor's note: This is the sixth; story in a series on important issues to be considered by Indiana's 1939 legislature.By Leonard Castle (UP Staff Correspondent) Indianapolis, Dec. 19. —(U.K) —Labor's 1939 legislative program will beb uilt upon a drive for a state wage-hour law similar to the federal act which recently became I effective. Although specific details of the measure have not been decided upon. Thomas R. Hutson, state labor department actively will urge its commissioner, announced that his enactment. The state wage-hour law will nt- ‘ tempt to place a floor on wages and a ceiling on working hours for employes of those firms not engaged in inter-state commerce and therefore not affected by the federal legislation. Hutson indicated that the proposed scale of wages and hours would be approxiamtely the same as established by the federal act. Indiana's law would be designed to tie-in with the federal statute and the state department would be authorized to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing the act. Indications were that labor 1 forces may encounter considerable more difficulty in obtaining their. aims than in the 1937 session, when more labor legislation was passed than Tn any previous Indi- f ana legislative session. It appeared likly that the Ke- ■ publican house of representatives' would try to block any wage-hour legislation, claiming that Indiana should wait to determine whether the federal law proves satisfactory, j If the G. O. P. votes as a unit in , the house, the wage-hour law would be defeated. Labor forces will not hold the i advantageous position next year ’ that prevailed in 1937 for most of | the Republicans were elected on ; a platform attacking new deal' legislation. The 1937 general assembly passed such important labor legislatio nas creation of the state labor division, abolition of employe contributions to the unemployment compensation fund, the full crew bill, occupational disease act and mine safety measures. • In addition to the proposed wag e , hour law, the state federation of labor has approved a 231 point legislative program but observers believed that the legislature would reject most, of the proposals. The federation asked for a direct primary law for nominating all state candidates, abolition of the beer importer system and a merit system for state employes. All of these measures have received sdp4. Grover Cleveland, who succeeded Chester A. ArtTiur. 5. Poetry (or poesy). 6. Hanging. 7. 1922. 9. Monotheism. 10. Film actress.

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port in varying degrees from oth-1 er sources and the assembly pob-' ably will take action on them, especially the first two. Other important proposals were: Creation of a state fund to pay ' workmen's compensation benefits. ; Industries now insure their em-1 ployes against injury with private insurance companies or elect to stand the risk of making payments to the employes themselves. Liberalize the social welfare laws by reducing the age limit for old age pensions from 65 to 551 years and raising the limit for aid to dependent children from 16 to 18 years. Amend the unemployment compensation law to make it applicable to persons employing one or more workers. At present the law applies only to persons hiring eight or more. Enact a wage collection measure, under which the state labor department would be empowered to make collections for workers. A special committee has been ' studying the workmen’s compen-

Testify in Smuggling Probe

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Sophie Tucker

Two of several well-known radio and rcreen players to testify before a federal grand jury in New York, investigating alleged International smuggling activities, Sally Eilers, of the screen, anc Sophie Tucker of the stage and radio, are pictured after testifying Both Miss Eilers end Miss Tucker said they did not know Albert N. Chaperau, one of the accused, who allegedly smuggled good? through diplomatic immunity tendered him as an attache of tin * Nicaraguan government.

sation proposal and is expected to report to the legislature. If a measure establishing a state fund was created, it would put the state in the insurance business. Republicans were expected to block the move. The proposals for liberalization of social welfare laws were expected to meet with sturdy opposition. particularly from legislators committed to a program of tax reduction. It was claimed that the cost of social welfare would be doubled if the age limit of old age pensions is lowered and the limit on dependent children raised. 0 I FRED W BRAUN X €) Sajetif Home for the Holidays! What a happy thought and what happy expectations! Do not mar this vacation by thoughtless driving. Visiting friends and relatives always brings happiness and pleasure to all, but one thoughtless act of ours on the highway might bring suffering and grief. Roads might be slippery. Weather conditions might not be ideal for

Sally Eilers

Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee « _ ♦ Steaming Eyeglasses Eyeglasses steam easily when entering a warm room in cold weather. This may be avoided bv applying a thin layer of vaaelino or soap on the glasses; then wipe them dry. The treatment will last at least a day or two. New Pan By holding a new pan in the flame of a match for a few seconds, the oil finish that prevents the flow of ink is burned off, and the pen will write without the least difficulty. Coffee Drip Bag The drip bag used in making coffee should never be allowed to dry. Always keep it submerged in clean cold water when not in use. Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE I * ♦ Q Is It good manners for a host ; or hostess to discuss the "high cost | of foodstuff.” while at the table? A. It would be very tactless to discuss such a subject with guests at any time. A supersensitive guest might pull out his wallet and offer a contribution. Q. Is it good taste for one to use neavily scented body powder? A. No. With many people it has he significance of one’s attempt to conceal other obpectionable odors. Q. When introducing a man to a woman, should the woman’s name driving. Therefor, it behoove® every i one of us to drive safely during the I liolidays. Safety preserves Happiness!

Bride of Curtis D.dl

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Mrs. Curtis B. Dall In a ceremony performed at the 1 home of her parents at Haver- ( ford, Pa., Katherine Miller Leas. above, becomes the bride of Curtis B. Dall, ex-lnisband of Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettigir, daughter of the president. In Buckner Probe?

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Cary Grant

Screen Player Cary Grant checks out of the federal building in New York after he had been questioned in connection with the federal investigation of the William P. Buckner, Jr., Philippine’ bond case. Several other Hollywood film players have been subpenaed in the case. The government charges Buckner lobbied through legislation favorable to Philippine railroad bondholders.

always be mentioned first? A. Vffli., "Misp Lincoln, this is Mr. Allen." — —O— —■ * TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File Dec. 19 —Sport lovers start campaign "to raise SI,OOO to Improve the gymnasium. Decatur high school defeats Kirkland at basketball. 26 to 19. Lieut M. F. Parrish Is at home at ! Monroe, having been honorably discharged from the army. 3,000 employes of the Fort Wayne plant of the General Electric go out on strike. Governor Goodrich Is attending the governor's conference in Washington. Miss Anna Winans Is teaching again after a severe illness. o SEVERE STORM (CONTINUED FROM FAGS ONE) they ar° wearing, have been existing in barren barracks with little j food. In the German-Czech no man’s' land, groups of Jews who were; driven by the Nazis from that, part of Czechoslovak Sudetenland ( are camping along the frontier, j Czechoslovakia will not have them. They have been camping in' groups as best they could — one I group along a new cement highway, with strips of canvas, sewn! together, serving as a communal

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