Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1938 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by TMK DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Inoeryerated toured at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office as Second Claes Matter $. H- Heller President k R. Holthouee, Sec y. A Bus. Mgr. Mck D. Helli Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier —— 5.00 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 The weather man predicts another cold wave and we fear he means it. We hope that 1939 is good to you and brings you health, happiness and prosperity. !== History more or less repeats its- | self. The Coster-Muska swindle is just another Ponzi scheme. i Since December 22, the amount I of daylight is increased about one minute every day, giving you more time to save on light bills. Leo Gillig will continue as deputy in the county sheriff’s of- j lice, being appointed by Sheriffelect Ed Miller. He is acquainted with the duties of the office and is a courteous public official. Among the proposals launched ! for the legislature to consider is the one fixing all automobile li-; cense fees at $5.00 per car. That would help some, but why not eliminate the personal property assessments on cars, if they also . pay a license fee? ~ The Civil Service examination for applicants for appointment of postmaster of Decatur will be held in this city January 14. The examination will be conducted by a government representative and one of the 18 applicants will be named to the post. Dent Baltzell and his crew of WPA workers are doing a nice job on the trees. Many of the dead trees are being removed and others are being trimmed correctly, with surgery treatment where neeessay. The work will continue throughout the winter. The Daily Democrat will make every effort to go to press at noon next Monday, in observance of the New Year’s holiday. Advertisers who wish to announce their January sales are invited to use the columns of the paper and to get their copy info the hands of the printer by Friday evening. The houses of Roosevelts, including Republicans and Democrats, gathered at the White House the other evening for the debut of Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of the President. It Was a happy family affair, attracting Washington young folk anti famous people. Regardless of high office, the children still take the show. The city government winds up four years of operation with the general fund in better shape than when the present administration took office. All bills are paid, the credit of the town is the highest and there is money and bonds in the bank. This despite the fact • that taxes were not raised, is a record which few cities have. Governmental activities will be- * gin with the new year. Congress will i-oavene next Tuesday; state legislatures will meet in 44 of the

| 48 states; county and city governments will bo reorganised and j plans made for 1939. It will be a - busy period for public officials and for a couple of months the major news stories will center around legislative action and proposed i programs of public interest We would like to see every boy and girl go to college. It trains them and gives them a touch which they cannot and do not get any where else. If each community could send Its high school graduates to college, the advanced education of youth would soon bring dividends untold. It’s a wonder rich men don’t establish ' more college funds and make it ; possible for boys and girls to contlnue their educations. The News-Times in South Bend has suspended publication, leaving ! that city of 100,000 population with | only one daily newspaper, an evening publication. Heavy financial 1 losses suffered by the paper since 1931 is given as reason for quitting business. The News-Times was 85 years old and for many years was one of the leading papers in the state. Publishing a daily newspaper is one of the i most expensive business enter- ' prises known and many famous papers have folded up, including those in Akron and Toledo, Ohio. | Have you thought of establishr ing a parking lot in Decatur? With increased traffic every day j the demand for more parking space grows. Four years ago the free , I parking lots on First street were established in cooperation with : the city government and the Chamber of Commerce. They serve i their purpose, but are not adequate on busy days. In cities like Fort Wayne old buildings have j been razed and lurking lots established. Such is the case where the old postoffice building stood. If : we can’t have more free parking lots, maybe the solution lies in commercially operated areas in i I the uptown district. ——o_ Answers To Test | Questions Below are the answers to the j: Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. Thomas A. Edison. 2. Lacrosse. 3. Equatorial. 4. Red, white and blue. 5. Dr. Rudolf Beran. 6. South America. 7. Skamship. 8. Ninety. 9. North Atlantic. 10. Denmark. o — * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY | From the Daily Democrat File | Dec. 29. 191 J was Sunday _____ <J- v, ,- f ■■■■* , ■ lhA. f Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q If Frank invites John to drive i out in the country with him for a day, and stops to buy gasoline, should John offer to pay for ft? A. This is not necessary, but John 1 can offer to pay for their luncheon? Q. May one touch the lips with the tips of fingers that hate been dipped in the finger bowl? A. This is often done, but one should learn to eat in such away I that the lips do not become greasy.' The napkin plaited to the lips should really be sufficient. Q. When a bride has no father, ' would it be all right for her mother I to give her away? A. Yes, if she wishes. • -2 | Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee ♦ * 4 Skinning a Fish 1 To skin e fish quickly cut a thin, narrow strip down the backbone, taking off the dorsal fin. Open the lower party halfway down. Then slip the knife under and Up through the bony part of the gills, holding , this bony part between thumb and finger, and stripping the skin off toward the tail. Repeat this pro- ■ cess on the other side. A Good Dentrifice Lemon juice is a good dentrifice. Dilute it with water and use as a mouth wash. It will make the mouth and teeth clean and wholesome. Cut Flowers , Cut flowers will keep quite a bit longer it ths water is which they ! ' are placed is salted. •

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Business Outlook Series Is Prepared By I. U. Experts

(Editor's note: This is the fifth of a series of articles on the various lines of Indiana business prepared by members of the faculty of the Indiana University School of Business Administration.) BUSINESS CLINICS FOR DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION ty INDIANA by (Prof. Harold M. Haas. Assistant Professor of Marketing. Indiana University School ■ of Business Administration.) What is distributive education?' What is the George-Deen act? And . what is a business clinic? The answers to tKese questions are of interest to everyone in this state who is employed in the field of distribution, or who is concerned with problems of marketing and merchandising. The Smith-Hughes act provides vocational education for tlmse engaged in agriculture or in the trades The George-Deen act has extended these provisions to those employed in wholesaling and retailing. The administration of both acts is under the direction of the vocational division of the state department of public instruction. Allen T. Hamilton is the state supervisor of this division. During the past year, classes' have been organized in several urban centers in Indiana where store owners and managers can meet to discuss merchandising) problems, and where employees of wholesaling and retailing estabments can receive training and instruction in their work. The method of organization is as follows: At the request of local

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merchants; and salespeople, the teacher trainer, John H. Dillon, of the school of education at Indiana University, co-operating with the ■ local school system, helps to select a coordinator whose duty it is to interest merchants and their employees in attending these classes, ; and to arrange class schedules, j Mr. Dillon acts as a supervisor for those seiecteu io ‘cad the classes. He helps to train them, supplies them with the necessary printed material, and suggests : methods of procedure. In order that the material used I in these classes be directly appllI cable to local problems, a considerable amount of research is ' often necessary. Store owners and managers must be interviewI ed, and situations suggesting merchandising problems be collected. \ These problems are then discuss-! ed in the meetings of the employ-1 ers, and in the classes for she em-1 ployees; the object being to ar- ! rive at the most satisfactory solutions. Development of scientific ; methods for measuring the results of employee training is also an important function of the research service. It is expected that from the material collected and the methods of evaluation developed through research, certain problems will arise which are of interest to all the merchants in a articular local-, ity. and are important enough to | be presented for discussion at a, ' general conference or institute.. I The term "local business clinic” is ' used to designate such a meeting. . It is also logical to expect that problems will arise in each local- j ity which are so broad that they , are to be found in practically every

part of the state. These will require discussion and action Ity, state organizations, mid perhaps will even call for attention from the national associations. To meet this requirement, it is planned to hold an all-state business clinic i at Indiana University in June, 1939, when merchants from all parts of Indiana will be invited to meet and discuss these questions with men of national reputation | who have done outstanding work in the field of distribution. This ( is distributive education on the broadest scale. Indiana is the first state to un- ? dertake such a program of eombin-1 ed vocational training and research in distribution. Much of the work during the first year will be ex- j perimental and exploratory in its nature. But it is hoped by those engaged in this work that these business clinics will become a permanent and important part of the program for distributive education in Indiana. o________ COURTHOUSE i Estate Cases The final report was filed in the estate of Rebecea E. Muudhenk. It was submitted and sus--1 tained. The estate’ was closed. The administrator was discharged. Inventory number one was filed. { examined and aproved in the esstate of Harry Elston. A petition i to sell personal property was filed, submitted and sustained. The per- ' sonal property was ordered sold , without notice at not les than twothirds of the appraisement. Inventory number one was filed,

Nobel Prize to Him': Ernest Orlando Lawrence * Professor of physics at the Uni--1 versity of California, Ernest Or--1 lando Lawrence, above, has been 1 named by a Stockholm newspaper I as a leading candidate for the ! Nobel prize for physics. Dr. Law-1 I rence has made many valuable | rontributiors td science, notably in the development of X-rayx.

1938 TRAFFIC I TOLL IS LOWER National Safety Council Foresees 7,400 Fewer Deaths Chicago. Dec. 29. — <U.R) — The national safety council estimated today that 1938 traffic deaths would j total 32,000 —at least 7,400 less than last year and the lowest number since 1933. The council said November, with ; 3,110 traffic deaths, was the thir- j teenth straight month to show a comparative decline and that the reduction for the whole year was the greatest for any single year In the nation’s history. "The country entered December 1 with an accumulated saving in 1938 of 7,400 lives, a decline of 21 per cent from the same period last year," the council said. "Unless America is on a holiday spree of carelessness in these closing days of the year and the December total should be as high as last December — 3,730 — the 1938 total ; would be approximately 32,000.” The council said that if the rate of reduction for the first 11 months of the year could be maintained until Jan. 1 the 1938 reduction would be about 8,000, and the year's total about 31,500. Definite figures for the whole year will not i be available until late in January.; D. D. Fennell, council president, ! said there had been no drop in highway travel and that no one factor had brough about the rei ductions. "Rather,” he said, "we attribute ■ them to a general tightening of the entire safety program through: ont the country.'' Traffic deaths for the first 11 I months of 1938 totaled 28,370, compared with 35,770 for the same period of 1937. Rhode Island led the states with a 37 per cent drop and Michigan was second with a ' examined and sustained in the estate of Barbara P. Lehman. Additional bond of SIO,OOO was approved. At the time of the filing of the estate, a SIO,OOO bond had been filed. The renunciation by Daniel D. I Kauffman for appointment as executor in the estate of Rosina Amstutz was filed. An application for i letters of administration was filed by William Kauffman for letters > testamentary. A bond in the sum i of $14,000 was filed, examined and , approved. Letters were ordered, I reported and confirmed. H. B. ' ; H»l|pr anneared for the estate. The report of the sale ot personal property was filed, examined and approved. A deed was ordered, reported, examined and ap- - proved. Guarianship Approved An application for letters of guardianship was filed by Herman Melcher for Emma Melcher. A bond was filed, examined and approved. Letters were ordered, reported and confirmed. *

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1 34 per cent drop. Pennsylvania was third with 32, Delaware fourth with 31, and New Jersey, Kentucky and New Mexico each had a 30 per cent drop. Indiana reported 96 deaths for November, 1938, in comparison to 101 in the same month of 1937, The state had 956 traffic fatalities during the first 11 months of 1938 and 1,251 for the same period of 1937. o Ask U. S. Citizens Exempt From Decree Berlin. Dec. 29—(UP)—The American embassy presented a note to ! the foreign office today, asking assurance that American citizens would be exempt from a law of I Dec. 14 under which Jews are forbidden to be managers of busftiess enterprises, even those which are Jewish owned. It was understood that the note was limited to the request for assurances and did not cite the Ger-man-American friendship treaty which has been invoked in previous instances. 0 ♦- ♦ I “Don’t DnnK Ano Drive,” Is Plea For New Year’s j «| Chicago. Dec. 29 —(U.R) —“Stay' alive — don’t drink and drive!” j was the plea made by the national safety council today in an effort to ent down New Year's Eve traf- ' tic deaths. The council offered five anti-

dotes to traffic accidHiitS'fl Stay away fi„ ln t he W |,K 1 you drink y, < , ven if Vl) |H ' just a couple.’ 1 I "Stay out of a car whole ■ has been drinking. gH Don't forget that on fl Year’s Eve you not only H watch yt.ur own driving, faß douidy cautious m the otheifl ' l er ' fl ■Excitement to! tnatte n) |H 1 just as dangeit is as 1 “Parents —urge your sunH . daughters not r,, ridewitnß ir.g drivers. Anti set them B example!’ ■ Mails And Bees Ada. <>.—(U.R) Herbert although h, <ai rms maii (orß ing. keeps 45 hives of Italtanß bees as a hobby. Last Jamison took more than B pounds of honey from the realizing a sizeable profit. B

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