Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1939 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THK DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incerporated Itotered at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office as Second Class Matter J. H Heller... President I. R. Holthouse, Sec y. * Bus. Mgr. [Mck D. Hellt Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 02 One week, by carrier 1° One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mall —.65 Three months, by mail 100 Six months, by mail — l-? 5 One year, by mail — 3.00 One year, at office— s.o° 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 Dallies Be sure to write it 1939. It was a big New Years party all over the country and now it's i time to really get down to business. If you happen to forget it's rather simple to make a 1939 out of a 1938 by going over the last figure. If you feel unhappy about general conditions, just compare this , country with any of the other i nations of the world and unless you are too far gone for comfort, you will start smiling. You will find yourself in difficulties if something happens that causes the local or state police to check up on you and you do not have a 1939 driver’s license. It's : rather foolish to take chances. The new 76th session of con-I gress will open tomorrow and the ' next several months, starting off with a report on the WPA system, will probably be warm enough to suit even the boys from Texas,' Florida and other states where I they claim to realy enjoy sunshine. The easy way to avoid arrest for ■ traffic accidents is to not violate the law. If you drive a car you are supposed to know what is legal and what is not and ignor-; anee ia. no excuse. Familiarize yourself with the city ordinance and obey it and you will have nothing to complain about. — Judge Huber M. DeVoss assumes his place on the appellate bench ' and is succeeded here today by Judge J. Fred Fruchte. Each of these men. well prepared and with a complete understanding of their duties, will serve the people of Adams county and the state with credit. The best wishes of every one here accompanies them as they enter their new duties. Dallas Brown retires from the office of sheriff of Adams county, after four years of sevice with a record he may well feei proud of. He has served the people well and j not a single blemish appears on his well performed duties. He is succeeded by Ed Miller, tor years a popular figure in Decatur where he has served on the police : force. Both men deserve con- 1 tinned successes and will no doubt have them. Edward P. Brennan has been appointed chief of the state board of accounts and he is probably the best qualified man in the state for the job. He has served on the department nearly thirty years and the past several years has been director of the alate budget. He will prove squat to the important job and under his guidance the department will regain any prestige lost in the recent scandals in the south part of the state. Phil Sauers completed six years of splendid service, to his county today and retired as a commis-

I stoner, his place being taken by ' Phillip Strahm, one of the best I known farmers of the county. Mr. I Sauers, with his knowledge of con--1 trading, as well as of farm needs and values has proven an excelI lent official and Mr. Strahm, like- ' wise well informed on the needs ,I o f his constituents, will place • them with his efforts to carry out their wishes. Clyde Troutner. elected clerk in the recent election and John Blakey, county treasurer-elect, will not assume office until a year from I now. Prosecuting Attorney Ar- j ' thur E. Voglewede and W. H. Gil-1 ! Horn, surveyor, begin new terms in | their respective offices. Robert Heller, representative from Adams I and Wells counties and Von Eich-1 horn, senator from Adams, Black- j ford and Wells will report to the ■ general assembly this week. The defeated G. O P. candidates I have filed a petition asking a re-' hearing of their case before the i supreme court. Os course there is but one reason for such action and that is to keep the matter be-' for the public. They do not need to prove their asesrtions this way but apparently prefer to continue the claims that the election was ' not fair. Os course it it wasn’t the Republican members of the boards were just as guilty as the Democrats, but they hope to be | able to fool the public with their I squeals and squaks. While there is no doubt some,' good reasons for the agitation con-. cerning changes in election laws ' it should also be kept in mind that if the proposal to have a special' board to count the votes, the costs i in each county will be doubled or more. Reforms are a fine thing if i they actually reform but we should ! not forget that its the additional ■ costs that increase the price of ■ government and that the only way I I these bills can ba met, is by addi-1 , tional taxes. If we wish them bad i enough to spend the money, well i ! and good, but let’s do it with our ' • eyes open. What does the new year holdl i for you? There will be many hap- ' penings and you and your loved; I ones will have part in some, perhaps many. The events as they ! occur w ill be recorded in this paper and we urge you to renew ■ your subscription now. The Daily . Democrat is one of the few papers | , in the state that sells for ten cents i j a week by carrier and three dol-; I lars a year by mail, from one- ' fourth to a half cheaper than any ' other paper that will fill your , needs and which gives you many times more local news than any other. Subscribe now and tell your friends. Victor Eicher became county auditor today, succeeding John W. Tyndall, who has served with ranch credit the past five and a half years. He "has been courteous and with his wide knowledge of county affairs and the fact that he knew every farm and almost every town lot, made it possible for him frequently to advise in such away as to protect titles and to save money. Mr. Eicher, a high school commercial teacher, enters his oftieial duties excellently prepared jto make a record we will all be ! proud of and we believe he will. To both these tine men, we extend congratulations. Americans have learned that real progress is made not through blind uniformity, but through the willing co-operation of people of many minds. This is the great merit of democracy, which keeps its freedom by preserving its sanity and its varied viewpoints. It corrects its own errors. It I laughs at itself, and provides its- ■ self with acontinual supply of new i j ideas and methods, instead of act- ’ iug according to the solemn, stereotyped pattern of one man or i one group. Freedom and self-im- ’ posed control thus accomplish what • arbitrary power cannot accomplish.

Guide Decatur’s Affairs On City Council

? -ffilfe.-, a \ b| Morris Pingrey City Attorney Vincent Kelly

Governor Townsend Points To Signs Os Business Recovery

(By Gov. M. Clifford Townsend) | We close the year 1938 with the happy knowledge that the economic tides are sweeping once more toward prosperity in Indiana. When the year began, state government faced a critical unemployment problem. Thousands of workers in our large industries had been let out. and they looked to their government for help. Agriculture faced the prospects of a huge ■ surplus. Business was sick for lack. of purchasing power. But. as the year ends, the busi-. ness curve is traveling upward.! Employment and payrolls are increasing. Retail sales are booming. New construction is proceeding on every hand. The income of ; Indiana farmers, in spite of large surpluses, will be at least one hun- j dred million dollars greater than it was in 193? and probably will reach the 1936 level. The effort of governments to halt the widening spread of the recession and to put men and women back to work will long be remembered as the significant development of 1938, in my opinion. The first check to an unemployed worker under our state unemployment compensation system was presented on April 25 and from that time until today — through months of economic slump and seasonal lay-offs — more than 200, i 000 Indiana wage-earners have re-' i ceived benefit payments totaling about $17,500,000. By the time the legislature met last summer, it was apparent that many persons were being denied benefits because of the so-called $lO danse.” This clause was re- i moved by the special session, per-1 mitting 47,000 unemployed workers to receive about $3,500,000. Democracy continually renews itsself, while autocracy exhausts its i temporary supply of ideals and' power and disappears.—Evansville , Courier.

Take Over Duties As County Officials

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAT, JANI ART

Russell Owens Kenneth Arnold *

During the time when they received benefit checks, these unemployed men and women, instead of being dumped back on the township trustee oh the WPA, were drawing from their insurance funds. The V. S. congress met early last year and enacted a recovery program, putting men and dollars back to work. i Recognizing that the state gov-; ernment has an equal responsibility for the welfare of its people, l I called a special session of lhe General Assembly last summer and recommended that it pass an Indiana recovery program. Fortunately, the state government had a balance of $24,000,000 in the treasury, and I believed that ; the people should be given the benefit of their thriftiness at a time when they most needed help.

County Auditor And Deputy

T J Victor Eicher

_ - --I - r \ JSL t —- ——— Andrew Appelman Charles Langston

The special session appropriated funds for a needed building program, taking advantage of the revived PWA grants of 45 per cent of the cost of construction. This building program will provide an estimated 15,656,284 man hours of work, when completed. The building program, too, will enable the state to take better care of its sick, its delinquent and its insane. The special session further equalized the tax spread by returning . to taxpayers in local units of government approximately $2,006,000 ! annually in the form of welfare ; tax relief. The special session, as 7 have , said, enabled 47,000 unemployed i workers to receive unemployment . j compensation by removing the so- , called $lO clause. With the exception of the special session, this administration i last year proceeded quietly to perfect and utilize the machinery of i government to serve better the . people. The safety division completed its

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If Household Scrapbook By Roberta 0 B.nish the Wrlnk* # To take the vrlnkM hang it garment when ’ throom , cto* over the rack in n lhe door and the the hot water the room is filled with fOI - gament hanging " and an hour, then open t M » let the article dry In t The appearance of the K be freshened surprising- „ 8 is for about forty-fir. win’"” gW eet milk to cover t• 1(| . will glue together and ' jas much ordinary W j traffic safety program, th* £bor j : division began an appren <)f | ing program, and c ) health continued to extemt I health services, as mW ■ I look forward to 1»3» » s » > . of economic stabllira’tcn. . ' government will be able to adjust : itself to its problems on a pet - | and ”° l t n s I sincerely hope that , government we will be a > e ' , I solidate the progress made > • in the last several years and learn . !, o US e with full effectiveness the , new machinery of government.

"ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY’ by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

CHAPTER I IN her small boudoir, once a consecrated chapel, tow the annex to®a famous suit* of reception rooms, Matilda, Countess of Matresser, sat in a high-backed, luxuriously cushioned chair before a huge fire of cedar and pine logs burning in an open grate. Her hands were folded in front of her. neither book nor any other form of diversion interfering in the steady effort at listening which had absorbed her for the last hour. The spell was suddenly broken. She heard at last the sound for which she had waited. She touched the jade knob of an ornamental bell which stood on the table by her side. “His lordship has arrived," she. told the footman who entered promptly. “Please let him know that am awaiting him here." The man hurried off. In the hall below there was already a Small gathering of servants respectfully greeting the new arrival. The latter a • dark-complexioned, aiim young man, who was being relieved of his motoring attire, nodded and turned towards the broad staircase. With his hand already upon the banisters, however, he lingered to ask just one question. “Any unexpected visitors to-day, Burrows?” he enquired of the butler. “No one unexpected that ! have heard of. your lordship,” the man replied. “Mr. Hennerley is here with Lady Alice, and we are expecting a few people to dinner. Only » very small party.” "I was not thinking so much about guests, ’ Matresser admitted. “Mr. Yates is here, I suppose?” Certainly, milord. He has been very busy m his room all day." The messenger I was expecting would probably have reported to him.” “No one has arrived who has a»ned either for your lordship or for Mr. hates,’.the butler pronounced. Matresser.nodded. If anyone should arrive see that I am informed." he said. “The weather is bad enough to stop anyme if they were coming by road." “I believe, your lordship." Burtows confided, “that Humphreys ! ’ ould !?k » to see you about totnor•ow’s shooting 'or a minute or two, >r he wdl coroe up after dinnef I hat is more convenient." ? will lee him >n tfc . r . :6rWui ' Matr «”" ?rom- • « you need not announce ' t-e. urrows. .am sure her lady, must have heard the car” He mounted the stairs with swift, ! .the movement,, passed through with' try b ” UtlfQl rooms - on* hung rat^hvl^” the ° ther ' per-od of » Frenchman the i °f »*tt*au. In a few mo- ’ Ch»Xr P Xad t °bL heSß,,CtUary m it had been called for generations. With •.r i 1 half foreiim u gMtUrenatural !, T PS ' but entirf| y “Ronrtdl-sh. murmured, blearest." 1 here were no other words a ns he ’ Glared ' ** hndianteX' i tcmpiexioa es M rhlW ‘ 5 s “ th *

, new. „ Winter Window Washing A little salt added to hoi water will permit you to wash windows even in the coldest weather without any danger of their ft eeaing. , ♦ * Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the | Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. John Quincy Adams. 2. No. 3. Police dog. 4. Germany’s leading financial, authority. I 5. Yes. 6. Westen New Yokk. 7. The giraffe. 8. India. I 9. Asia. | 10. 198[ 1. Between France and Switzerland. 2. Green. 3. Capt. Anthony Eden. 4. Two; welterweight and aiidI dieweight. 5. Turkey 6. Buying on a rising market to I avoid a loss after selling short. 7. Tuscon. 8. Gold. 9. The Caspian Sea. i 10. No.

i She laughed softly. “You will never lose your marvelous rift of flattery, dear Ronald,” she said. “Os course, I love you to say so but what do my looks matter now?” * “You have a family tradition to uphold,” he reminded her. “Every Matresser has married not only a beautiful woman but a woman who has remained beautiful.” “When are you prepared to carry on the family record?” she asked. He saw the slight anxiety with which she was regarding him, rose to his feet and touched a bell. "May I?” he begged. “Just one glass of sherry together, mother, before I go to change. Am I more of a skeleton than ever? It was nothing but a touch of fever which left me long before we passed Gibraltar.” She shook her head. “Those lines have bitten a little deeper into your face, my son,” ahe told him. “Isn’t it time you left off these restless bouts of traveling? Are you not weary of shooting rare

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animals and discovering hidden cities’” Sick to death,* he assured her cheerfully. He strolled over to th# gnla ii Chippendale sideboard upon which a servant had set out decanter*. a silver bowl of ice and a cocktail shaker. I will mix you the latest concoction in the way of apiritift straight from Raffles’ Bar at Singapore,” he told her. “I should have hked a lime but lemon must do. . . . There. How’s that’” he asked a moment or two later. Delicious. When were you at Singapore, Ronald’” "A few months ago," he answered carelessly, “and only for a few hours then. I must tell you all about my travels later on.” She set down her glass for a moment. “Do you ever tell anyone in the .°, rl . about your travels, Ronald’” she asked. He looked at her with a faint but discerning smile. There are some things I am sav°f ? our ’ e »” he admitted. * hen I am Lord Lieutenant of the Y* u "ty. bobbing about opening chanty baxaars, blessing ail the Boy Scouts and that sort of thing. bave t 0 ' rribe a boot Th* lsl shall have no more secrets. By-the-oy, that reminds me, may I ask Mrs.

I Modern Etfow . By Rt,BtßT Au! ■ Q. When A verbal tended to a person, lsn for this person to say J , I’ll come if i can"? ’ * A. Yea, this is * way to accept. ut w * and without hesitation 7! delighted to come," or , sorry, but it will lni ' , me to come Friday ev«Z Q. When one is a n>( ™ uer served in a hotel , lra l or a restaurant, should h? tip for the waiter? A. It is not necessity; tu duty of the host. Q. Should a loser fa game give an alibi for A. Never. A good sm> not do so.

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Howard to have a room t-J for a man who is bringing J a letter and some papers’ hj an odd job of surveying ] J the Government while I J Africa and they seem to be J in a hurry to report upcsitl will be here I expect tor.gal morrow." “Os course," his mother J esced. "He can have one e bachelor suites, then he w.B to own sittingroom. Will he;, house party? There will he * or two of us—the Dean and!» and Bemrose and Margantl rose. Stephen and Alice areg here." “He would rather shut ■ up, I expect” Lady Matresser rose to b>| with a sigh. Her maid wus J ing inquiringly by the por I “Would your ladyship prtltl I came a little later?" is J woman suggested. “No* one second later," hr! tres*-. replied, glancing a* the “You must attend me at oh]

tense. This is my son whs» back from abroad. He « • the severest critic of my *P?» so we must take care to sad® tonight.” . u The girl curtsied very «■ “I shall do my best tosatisd sieur,” she said. subject it should not be dwK® Matresser nodded poliw was tapping a cigarette sr»_ ca.se but he continued to to where the girl was » holding the curtain back form tress. Her eyes drooped* fully. Her manner w*’ • £ mixture of respect forth« * the house and interest w " rival. Matresser lit to* and offered his mother his 1 “What a disobedient old are!” he whispered m Hortense fell behind. J” J beg of you—no foreign 1 She indulged in » shfhtF| “But a personal '4 Ronald," she a lish girls are never s s , | terrify n.e.” she eont.n«* 1 may find wo.se to coi.ie- ~. His tone was once m° r ‘ | cheerful. . a-l “So long as you n » i| Italian chauffeur * .rsl Russian gardeners. ‘ | (To »>« cwruu. list. w aiM