Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 21 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 L R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Belli Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 .02 Dne week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mall .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 It’s the Merry Christmas season j and we wish you a million good wishes. Peace on earth, good will toward man. Let's forgive and for-1 get and start over. It begins to look like Christ- J mas and old Santa is getting his reindeers in spick and span condition for his trip all over the world. You will have to hurry if you want to help the Delta Theta Tau young ladies and the Good Fellow club make Christinas a happy event for the poor kiddies of the community. The city is gayly and beautifully decorated for Christmas and it seems to us there are more trees , and lights than ever before. It symbolizes the greatest holiday of , the year and it’s worth your time to drive careful over the city to , see how attractive It all is. Stalo police are after slot machines and punch boards and according to reports are getting a good supply that will save those who can t pass up one of these gambling devices a lot of money and better dispositions for the Christmas season. Only three more shopping days before Christmas and many of us are still trying to complete the list: Local stores can take care of your wants and there will be a lot of buying the next few days. Watch the lists in the Daily Demo- , crat. It will make your work easier. You surely feel the Christmas spirit as the chimes ring out each evening. It’s a glad and happy season if we make it so and after all the real pleasure comes from surprising loved ones and also giving to those who otherwise might not have the pleasures they deserve on Christmas. Chicago is building a subway I that will be second to none when completed, it is claimed. Add this ■ to the elevated, the street car system, the steam lines, the busses, the cabs and the Jitneys and folks in the Windy City ought to be able to “run around the mulberry bush" without getting scratched. You can still join a 1939 Christmas Saving club and assure yourself of .being comfortably ready for shopping the next holidays. Pick out one of the classes —any one you think you can carry easily — and Bee that payments are promptly made. If you don’t happen to need it. for shoplng, you will be sure to have some place to put

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< the savings, perhaps iu something ! that will bring you fine returns. - If any congressman, higher-up or low downer had any thing to ( do with the Costers In their gunrunning. they should be imtnedi lately arrested and tried and if convicted, given the fullest limit 'of the law. We can forgive ordinary crimes to some extent but 1 there is no place in this country, other than prison, for those who would sell us "down the river" and that’s wheat treason amounts to. The Democratic members of the legislature have organized and are well prepared for the general assemldy which will convene January sth. Governor Townsend has named commissions on the liquor I problem. education, proposed I changes in the election laws and ; other matters that the desire of i every cross section of the state | may be obtained. The hearings I being held ure interesting and informative and should be of real help to the law makers. Philip Musics, who unter the name of F. Donald Coster, built . up a huge fortune in the drug business and who was recognized as I one of the greatest business men i of America couldn’t take it after , all. When discovered and uncov- I ered, he shot himself. Most men who commit crime feel the same ' way and cowardly end their i troubles. One canmW help wondering why men with the talent to • thus fool the public for thirty years, could not have made all the money they needed in honest pursuits. Evidently there are many , who prefer the thrills of dishon- , esty to respectability and live a j Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde life. Several members of the legislature. a number having been elect- j ed accidentally in the close elec- j tion. are threatening to investigate , the educational department of In- t diana ami ~to make sweeping I changes in the laws effecting that , department of the state. We hope that doesn't happen for we are j sure there is nothing that war- I rants it. Indiana ranks high edu- j cationally among the states of the I Union. We have excellent schools. . good teachers, the financial situation is unexcelled and under ( Floyd I. McMurray, we have advanced eacn year in every way. There should certainly be nothing done that will interfere with the progress being made. Worth your while will be the dedication of Decatui's new high i school building tomorrow evening, j This handsome, modern and con- j venient school house is not equal- . ed or surpassed in any of the j smaller cities of Indiana and the I community has the right to feel i mighty proud that the dream of many years has finally come true. On the program will appear besides Mr. Fuhrman, chairman of the board. Superintendent Krick and Mayor Holthouse. Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of school, R. Earl Peters of the Federal Housing Association, President Tiery of Indiana State, and others who will celebrate with us the accomplishment of all that is desired in the way of a home college for our junior and senior students. It's a really worth while event in which every citizen is interested. The death of Warren T. McCray, of Kentland, famed as one of the leading farmers and stock men of the middle west, former governor of Indiana, and for years one of the most popular figures of Indiana, has shocked the thousands who knew him. He was a bank clerk, operated a grocery, became the owner of a chain of elevators, added to his farm holdings and became a breeder of fine cattle. His laud holdings when he became ' governor were estimated to be worth three million dollars. He had his good fortunes and bad, but he retained a wide circle of good

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1939 Legislature Expected To Approve Higher State Budget

(Editor’s note: This is the eighth ! story in a series on important isI sues to be considered by Indiana’s I 1939 legislature.- — By Leonard Castle, (VP. Staff Correspondent) , Indianapolis, Dec. 21. —(U.R) —-Anticipated increases for public welfare probably will result in Indi- ■ ana’s 1939 legislature approving a higher biennial budget than two years ago. it was indicated today. The 1937 assembly appropriated $80,784,598 foe operating the state government during the two year ' period. $39,911,822 for 1937-1938 | and $40,872,776 for 1938-1939. The state budget committee al- ; ready has launched its regular job on investigating needs and desires of the various state departments and later will start paring them down to a figure satisfactory to the legislators. Indications were that most expenditures would remain about the same as two years ago with the exception of welfare. And the i budget committee was unable to | estimate what the welfare cost may be because of the many old i age assistance measures sure to ! be introduced, any one of which I Old age assistance costs are ■ would upset budget calculations. J mounting under the present law because of a reduction in the age | limit from 70 to 65 years and will ; be about $3,000,000 more in 1939 than in 1938. One factor tending to reduce exenditures hi the 1939 session will be the lack of any major state building program. The 1937 assembly appropriated $3,000,000 for a construction program but last summer's special session disposed of the necessity of any such allo- ' cation in 1939. It did not appear probable that any important change would be made in the state's tax laws although the Republican state convention last summer adopted a plank calling for a reduction of gross income tax rates to provide funds "actually neded." At that time, there was a suri plus of approximately $25,000,000 in the state treasury but this was reduced considerably by apprropriations of the special session last summer. Retail business men are demanding a reduction in the gross income tax for them, asking that the rate be placed at one-balf of one per cent instead of the present one per cent. In lieu of this reduction, they would like a higher exemption, which now is $3,000. The Republican platform also friends and his sudden and unexpected demise has caused genuine sorrow to the many who never | ceased to believe iu him. He was i seventy-three years old and was born, reared, educated and spent practically his entire life iu the vicinity of Kentland.

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asked for elimination of the state property tax levy for general fund purposes. This rate now is .0285 cents and nets the state about $2,200,000 annually. If Republican members of the assembly try earnestly to bring about a leduviioii of gross income rates and abolition of state property tax it may result in a legislative deadlock. Arch N. Bobitt, state G. O. P. chairman has an- : uouncen that the Republicans are bound to battle for their convention planks iu the legislature. General fund receits. which are used for paying the cost of state government, now average about $35,000,000 annually. The receipts are divided as follows: Gross incometax, >20.700,000; store! icense tax. $500,000; oil Inspection. $500.00O; insurance, $2,000,000; property tax, $2,200,000; motor vehicle fees, $1,900,000; drivers' licenses. $1,000,000; alcoholic beverages, $3,000,000, and miscellaneous fees and refunds, $3,200,000. General fund expenditures are: Local schools. $11,300,000; penal and benevolent institutions. $5,191,000; educational institutions, $3,745,900: other governmental expenditoures, $6.283.0000, and welfare, $5,000,000. These, figures do not include highway commission appropriations which are set up in the legislative budget bill but are not ' carried in the general fund. Biennial appropriations for the highway commission in 1937 amounted to $27,650,000.

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Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE « « Q. Is it ever permissible to inter-

. rupt a person who is speaking? A. It depends entirely upon the reason for interrupting. It is rude to do so merely to 1 reak into the conversation, to introduce a person, ■or because one is bored It the house were afire, one would be justified. ”q. What are tlie customary visit- : ing hours when a woman does not observe a regular "at-home" day? A. Between the hours of three and five P. M. Q. What should be done w ith the napkin when a person leaves the table? A. The napkin should be left unfolded beside the plate. o r TWENTY YEARS ’* AGO TODAY | From the Daily Democrat File | Dec. 21—290 American prisoners are released .by* Germany. Bluffton defeats Decatur at basket ball, 60 to 21, evening up all old scores. The 139th field artillery will reach New York in day or two and the boys will be mustered outsat , Fort Harrison. ! Dr. W. C. Roland of the U. S. health service here to tako charge of the battle against influenza. St. Joseph schools dismissed for the Christmas vacation. Fred King returns from Camp | Tavlor with his honorable dis- : charge. . Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Myers go to Fort Wayne for a Iwliday visit.

NO LIQUOR SALE CHRISTMAS DAY State. Federal Laws Prohibit Sales Sunday Or Monday Indianapolis. Ind.. Dec. 21—Special)—Hugh A. Barnhart, state ex- ; else administrator, today ordered a state wide investigation t f the premises of all taverns, package liquor stores, clubs, and other liquor ' permittee on Christmas Day, DecI ember 26. In the meantime, Mr. Barnhart indicated a “cleanup drive" on unlicensed night spots throughout Indiana will swing forward with ini creased intensity. Last week end j 57 persons were attested in raids in eight cities, netting 200 gallons of moonshine alcohol, 40 quarts of legal whiskey, and 50 cases of beer. In ordering’the state-wide inspection of the premises of liquor permittees. the state excise adminisjtrator said that any permittee found ! violating the commission’s Christmas Day closing order will be cited before the commission “immediate-■ I ly and without question or delay".: “The commission is determined 1 this order shall be observed 100 peri rent so that all criticism on the I part of the general public may lie’ ; avoided” he asserted. The ruling bars sale, solicitation. lor delivery of alcoholic beverages in Indiana from 2:00 A. M. Sunday, December 25. until 6 A. M. Tuesday, December 27. Commission members said the order was adopted after it was ascertained that the general statute on the' subject of holiday provides that I when any holiday comes o.t Sunday the following Monday shall be the legal holiday. The Indiana liquor law bans sale, of beer, wine, and liquor on Christmas Day. j Last week-end’s smashing raids on unlicensed dispensers of alcoholic beverages were conducted in

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