Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 20 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 H Heller .. President 1. R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Helli Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies —~ —I -02 9ne week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three mouths, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 Due year, al 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 Peace on Earth. Good will to! men. Keep in tune with the spirit of the season. If you don t believe in Santa Claus, just take a look at the mail carriers these days. The most popular change in the election laws would be to fix it so that every candidate won. The light we favor is the light against tuberculosis. Buy your Christmas seals and help win. Will* the $313 federal debt on the shoulders of every individual, how does the fellow feel who sees the Christmas bills rolling in? The public is invited to attend the dedication of the new Junior Senior high school building Thursday evening. The school board ' and Superintendent Krick extend a cordial welcome to all. You can do as you please about the matter, but if you want to save time and keep out of the bunion endurance test, now- is tae time to get your automobile license plates. The rush will be on in another week. Appointments of deputies and assistants have been made by Judge-elect J. Fred Fruchte and County Auditor-elect Victor Eicher, both of whom will assume office January 1. The new appointtees are competent persons and capable of rendering the public service called for in their respective posts. They assume their jobs with the good wishes of the community. We acknowledge the receipt of several subscriptions sent to friends and relatives as Christmas presents. The paper will be a daily visitor throughout the year and a kindly reminder that a thoughtful friend wished to be remembered with a useful gift. I' is not too late to have new names placed on the mailing list for Christmas day. The Good Fellows, fund lacks about SIOO compared with the total a year ago at this time. The Delta Theta Tau girls have made a canvass of the districts and re-; port the need for help about as great as last year. You can help make Christmas happy lor the needy children by making your donation today, the fund being entirely to bring happiness to those who might otherwise be forgotten on Christmas eve. Poor relief costs continue to climb in Washington township, expenditures totaling $2,619.58 for Shopping g-' ife' ( flays 'rift -

i November. The township has a deficit, which however will be wiped out with the distribution of the November taxes this mouth. It will start 1939 with u small balance and is expected to be in the red again before the May taxes are credited to the poor relief account. Handling public relief is a big problem and the cost of caring for the needy, has in the past several years, is growing to be one of the noticeable items in the tax levies. JOBS AFTER FORTY: Not only the American Legion, but all citizens are interested in efforts to find "jobs after 40" for their members. The Legion has arranged to make a national drive for this purpose. The Legion will appeal directly to employers. Other citizens who arrive at the same uncertain age have no such organization to represent them, but are equally interested. Investigation has determined that the age limit for men employed in industries is the fatal 40, and that after that time. ! due to the machine age. a man whose job is abolished or lost, cannot find a new way of life. This is exactly one of the roblems which the New Deal has tried to solve. in times of great unemployment, it is the man over 4o who first feels the effects. His job goes to a younger, and presumable, more vigorous man. But the statistics compiled by the Legion snow that men who reach the age limit are 1 neither worthless or loafers. They demand the right to work as a corollary to the right to life and the pusuit of happiness. They demand work, not as a gift, but as an inalienable right, a modern interpretation of the Constitution. The New Deal solved it in art through the Works Progress Administration. It offered work instead of the inevitable alternative ,of a dole. There is still much work to be done. The country lias not yet been completely finished in all the improvements that it needs or can use. But the solution of this problem of jobs after 4o is a party of the greater problem of buying power and productive capacity. The one cannot be : solved without all others. The Legion is to be congratulated on its start to finding a solution for tin war veterans to obtain their rights, a thing far different from the philosophic possession of such rights. What it finds in its drive may point the way for all men and women who are in the midway- of life. THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL; Construction of the beautiful new Thomas Jefferson Memorial in the national capital officially begins. despite the protest of certain Washington ladies against uprooting a tew Japanese cherry trees. These ladies are partially pacified when President Roosevelt tells them that the uprooted trees will be replanted, and additional trees added nearby. Looking ahead, the President predicts that "in the days to come, the millions of American citizens who each year visit the capital will have a sense ot gratitude that at last an adequate permanent national memorial to Thomas Jes- . ferson has been placed at this - beautiful spot." One wonders why no such memorial was erected years ago. Thomas Jefferson, Americans of all political persuasions admit, was one of the greatest statesmen our nation ever knew. He was not only the third President of the United States, serving with signal ability for eight, years and placing his stamp on the policies pursued for sixteen years atI ter he left the White House. I But he wa*> also the author of the Declaration of Independence, I the purchaser of the vast terrain : then known as Louisiana Terri- ! tory from which many stales have been carved, the father of relig

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Demands For Larger Welfare Payments To Face Legislature

1 Editor's note: This is the sev-1 I enth story in a series of import-! ' ant issues to lie considered by Indiana's 1939 legislature.! . By Leonard Castle, tUP. Ctaff Correspondent) Indianapolis. Dec. 20. —(U.RX— Vigorous demands to increase public 1 welfare payments, particularly for old age assistance, will confront Indiana's 1939 legislature. The state's welfare budget for next year already has been set at approximately $25,000,000 under the present law. an increase of about $4,000,000 over expenditures during 1935. There was little likelihood that the cost would be reduced. In- ' stead, prospects were that the legislators, responding to strong I pressure from old age groups and . other welfare organizations, would provide higher payments to a great-, er number of persons. Virtually every member of the ■ legislature campaigned on a plat- ! form of more assistance to the aged. Few of them, if any. invited the oldsters' wrath by openly 1 advocating decreased pensions. Many Republican candidates, who ; opposed other Democratic legislation. were endorsed by Townsend II old age pension clubs. Several proposals for increasing assistance to the aged will be in- 1 ’ I troduced. ranging from the radi--1 cal "S3O every Thursday" plan re-1 . l ently proposed In California to a reduction of five or 10 years in the : agel imit for pension recipients. I Bills were expected to be intro- ' - duced providing for flat pensions of S3O every month to ail persons . more than 60 or 65 years of age. 1 Another proposal would have a flat pension of S6O every month. All of these proposals would in- ■ crease welfare expenditures a staggering amount. For instance, 3 1 old age assistance ahot up tre1 ; ious liberty in Virginia, the found- I er of the University of Virginia. ' the second vice-presdent of the ; • Unted States, and the first secre- » tary of state. Jefferson was, with Franklin and • Theodore Roosevelt, one of the '■ three most versatile American f statesmen. He was a writer, an . ; authority on farming, the leading • I American architect of his day, a i political philosopher of note, a i-; gifted party leader with an uug: canny sense of sound strategy, s and the war governor ot what was i then the most prominent American L- state. Now he is to be honored in a 'f manner that befits the man—in a '.: monument that expresses the apn prcciation of the nation for all i- that he was and all that he gave c , io tile Lulled btatqs. — Journal--5-1 Gazette.

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mendously when the age limit was reduced from 70 years to 65 years iast July 1. Old age assistance was estimated at $12,000,000 this I year, with payments during the I first six months on the old 70-year . ! age basis, and the cost in 1939 . will be $15,000,000 because of the lower age limit. The public welfare department predicted that if the age limit was ; lowered to 55 years, as proposed by the state federation of labor and other groups, the cost would be more than doubled, or would amount toa.j out S3O,<KJO,OOO. A flat S3O a month pension to persons over 65 years of age probably would run the bill to about $60,000,000 per year and a S6O a month pension would put it around $120,000,000. If the age limit were lowered under the flat payment proposals the cost would rise aci eordingly. Estimated welfare department disbursements during 1938 were: old age assistance, $12,000,000; aid to dependent children. $6,000,000; aid to the blind. $400,000; aid to crippled children. $242,000; assistance to dependent children in in- : stitutions, $373,000: aid to children in custody of individuals. $623,o 00; sick children. $251,000; burial tor destitute children. $50,000, and operation of institutions, $245,000. | Os the total bill, the federal government paid about SBOOO.OOO the state $6,000,000 and the counties I $6,900,000. This ration Is not the same for I old age assistance. The federal government pays 50 per cent of , the cost, the state 30 per cent and I i th<> counties 20 per cent. Farm groups have served warning they will launch a drive to; have the state assume the entire j 20 per cent burden of the counties which would result in a lowering of the county property taxes ; The American Legion has been | studying child welfare with a view ito •'modernizing" the law dealing ; with it. The Legion, however, was ' not expected to ask for more money to increase child welfare payments. Although announcement has been made that a ‘‘s3o every Thursday' proposal will be introduced in the form of a constitutional amendment. it was not expected to be looked upon with any favor by the legislators. Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the | Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ ♦ 1. At the tip of the tail. 2. 480. 3. Rome. 4. Ceferino Garcia. 5. Montaua. I 6. No. • 7. American Civil War. 8. Philip of Macedon. 9. Philadelphia, Pa. 30. No.

TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily-Democrat File ♦ — ♦ Dec. 20—An assembly has been called in Germany December 29th j to form a new government. The 65th brigaid. commanded byBrigadier General Brigham Young grandson of the famous Mormon • leader, returns to New York from • France. Great Brittain is given new credit of $250,000,000 by the V. S treasury. O. L. Vance chosen executive officer of the committee named to battle influenza epidemic has names his assistants. Contract awarded to Christen and Smith for a new heating system at Central school to cost $3,390. Mr. and Mrs. William Mitehell go to Champaign. 111., to attend funeral of brother-in-law. O. S. Hogan. * Household Scrapbook | By Roberta Lee Removing Auto Grease Automobile grease stains can be removed from silks and fabrics, which can not be washed, as follows: Cover them well w f th powdered magnisia and rub thoroughly ■nto the fabric, allowing it to remain for two or three days. Then brush out. Any clinging powder may be removed with a soft cloth. Basting Threads Before pulling the basting threads out of material, cut the i thread every few inches. This will avoid leaving holes in the materI ial. Pie Crust i Don’t forget that too much water , in the pie crust will make it tough IWICK? LAST MINUTE GIFT Suggestions: PRACTICAL AND EASY TO BUY. ' BOUDOIR CHAIRS SMOKERS BOUDOIR LAMPS CEDAR CHESTS LOUNGE CHAIRS CARD TABLES END TABLES WE MAKE DELIVERIES.

* ———e The People’s Voice ' This column for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good i ’ or discuss questions of inter- i i est. Please sign your name to | show authenticity. It will not be used if you prefer that it I not be. Lest We Forget We are approaching the Christ-1 m.is season one more time. Let us ■ do so with Joy and reverence. Lot us remember we are celebrat ' ing the birthday of Jesus who walk led this earth among all classes of people and ministered to the needs of all who called upon him. • Hi b. 13:8 says "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever." Jesus, who shed His blood on the cross of Calvary that we through repentance and faith in His death and resurection might be brought back into real fellowship with God. , Let us hollow this glorious holiday and celebrate in away that will please him. We can all give to God the gift that will please Him most. , the chance to live and reign in our hearts and lives. This alone brings I peace to the heart of man. John 3:16 —“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begot- ; ten Son. that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Rom. 6:23 —“For the wages of ! sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ 1 our Lord.” A Decatur Woman 1 and hard, and that too little flour causes the crust to break too easily. Every woman loves Perfume ... especially these by LUCIEN LELONG R • Impromptu. Lucien Ix-long’s regal new perfume, thrills any feminine heart. In a stately flacon. 116.50 • Plumri. ( rx Mai plumes contain three heavenly per fumes, ’’lmpromptu,” "indis cret” and >pening Night." $5 1 ■’ A H i •• S ** n '1 ; 'i • Tndiirrpt. One of the world’s most favored perfumes. In a flacon of crystal draifrries. $5 —jlli c L Rif» ; M yi—i & I j- . • Mnn Imafie. "A reilc-liou of yourself in fragrance." In a box of flashing mirrors. _ $2.50 [lfts. I • rrnthnuxo. Four lovely perfumes by Lucien Lelong in a novsi Penthouse package. $2.50 B. J. SMITH DRUG CO.

THIS UNIVERSE OF ()(’i {s ‘ The Earth, sot in the midst of h few plwiets like Hns-ir I millions ot Stars similar to the Sun; and many tl»on- , fo , uilll «« like masses of matter callt.d "Nebulae," spread out , ' .’’MB dous distance In a space of incalculable extent, ~ ■ ' re ®«» known Universe. The science which deal* with t' bodies is Astronomy. th<- oldest and most exact of The booklet "Popular Astronomy." tells In simp; I language the story of the Universe, and explain- th, ■' terms. Everybody should know the elementary fa. > ’ ’■l'.tß orny. Send the coupon below (enclosing i dim. t i I your copy CLIP COUPON HERE I F. M. Kerby. Director. Dept. B-170. *] Daily Democrat's Service Bureau, 1 1013 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. C I Enclosed is a dime (for return postage and other ' I for my copy of the 24-page bound booklet, "Popular .v : NA M E STREET and No. I CITY STATE . I I am a reader of the Decatur Daily Democrat. 1)., I

Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. Where should the attendants of the bride assemble to bo to the church? A. They should be at the home of the bride at least an hour bemore the ceremony is to take place. y. Should a boy of twelve or fifteen lift his hat when he meets a man of fifty on the street? A. Yes; a well-trained boy will do so. Q. What would be the proper salutation in a letter to a priest? , A. Dear Reverend Father: o__ — Trade In A Gond 1 nwa — Ilecafnr

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