Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1939 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated gtotered at the Decatur, Ind. Poet Office a* Second Class Matter |. H- Heller President L K. Holthouse, Sec y. & Hus. Mgr. IMck £>. Helli Vice-President Subscription Rates: Slagle copies -1 -®3 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 5-00 One month, by mall -35 Three months, by mall 100 glx months, by mall 1.761 One year, by mail — 300 Due 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 ■ i — Sign up tor the Daily Democrat another year. We will give you the news and at a cost so low you ■ can’t afford to miss is. ' ( | , Get a driver’s license right now 1_ if you haven’t one for ’39. The , extension granted by Governor | Townsend referred only to your J license plates and by the way its 1 < easier to get those now than it will i be in a month or six weeks. _ 1 i i The campaign to raise funds for ! fighting tuberculosis continues with , j W. Guy Brown, chairman of the t Christmas Seal drive still report- . ( ing the purchase by various organ- • s izations of the bonds. Its a wond- ■ , erfully important part of the com- , miuiity organization. . I t The average daily newspaper | prints many columns of news that | it would prefer not to but the public wants to know what is going ‘ f on and that's a part of the con- , tract. We don’t make the news,!, we publish it and that’s what the i ( reader desires, we are sure. t Senator Minton has been reliant- | cd assistant whip and in charge ( of the steering committee of the . ( United States senate, honors ( worthy any man’s greatest effort I ( and a job that "Shay,” now a vet- ' ( eran law- maker, will handle with 1 ( diplomacy and excellent results. | j j i The destruction of the beautiful | | County Club building here is aj ( genuine loss to the community un- ( less it can be rebuilt or unless a '■ suitable club building can be con- j p strutted from the section of the : commodious structure left intact. > j Every good city needs a club of ! p this kind. I. A wage and hour law in Indiana j would be so expensive forthe 1 state that it may not be enacted. ( In the first place few of the smal- ; ler business firms can stand any * more overhead and in the second place the new law would cost the state, two million dollars annually by making three shifts necessary i in all institutions instead of two . . 1 as is now used. i ’ i Congressman Gillie doesn't agree 1 with President Roosevelt's defense preparation program and the NowsI, Sentinel gives three cheers and a I • couple of hurrahs, which is about I as expected. Looks like the new representative was looking for an ' opening to show what a good Republican he is and was all prepared with a “saber rattling statement. Hut why complain'.' Guess that's what the people of the district voted for. We would think that every farmer in Adams county would be interested and alarmed by the report that 56% of all corn stocks are infested with the corn borer and that’s twice as many as any county in the state excepting Allen. which is only two-thirds as bad as Adams. If a real tight, is not | made, if would not be long until some decisive action will be nee-1

essary unless we want to lose the most valuable crop we have altogether. A demand for a city manager form of government from Indianapolis has brought about another discussion of this form of city administration und one of the first hilts presented to the legislate, • I calls for a general law on the sub--1 ject so that all cities down to the fourth class, that desire it, can employ a manager. Properly done as it has been in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, it is undoubtedly a wonderful thing for after all there is nothing more important than to , have the affairs of cities, especialI ly the larger ones, operated economically and to the best advantI age of every citizen, regardless of ■ politics. It should bring out some interesting expressions. We have no objections to a state wide primary to include senator, governor and even the other officials if a majority of the people want it but we doubt that it will bring about better government. It we slop to think of the great cost that would be necessary to make a primary campaign over the slate, we will realize that only a very rich man who wanted honor or some one backed by special interests could afford it. At the rate of SSOO per county, it will cost about $50,000 and that’s too much for the ordinary man to invest in a job that doesn’t even return it | in the entire term salary. The primaty in the counties is probably the best means of selecting candi- : dates but w hen it comes to the state, we doubt its advisability or tiiat it will long continue. Indiana has tried it several times and after a trial or two, goes back to the convention to name candidates. HIS TURN NEXT: If there is any one class of per- j sons who have been neglected in the matter of legislation, in all the ! years gone by, it is the small met- I chant and individual businessman. Beneficial legislation in the way I of bonuses and other cash favors | have been enacted for farmers, for l laboring men and even those without business or jobs. Farmers I have been given $1,000,000 cash in J Henry county alone, besides a reduction in taxes of a third or more i on their real estate, all in the last five years. Laboring men, espec-1 iaiiy those employes in places that | have eight or more, have received over $350,000 unemployment compensation in Henry county the last year. All over the country they have laws permitting them to organize and deal collectively, which has increased wages immensely. Railroads have been given higher _ rates. Big business in general has j received the benefit of low inter- | est rates and other considerations. \ But the little merchant has had none of those. On the other hand, he has higher taxes. He does not employ enough persons to stagger his work so as to observe very short hours. To enforce a 40-hour week on him, especially in places where extra and experienced help is not available, would be an unnecessary hardship. On the contrary, unless something is done to relieve the situation, it will not be many years until the little merchant almost disappears. There are 63,000 retail stores in Indiana, and it is safe to say that 30,000 to 40,000 of them make less than sl,- \ 500 a year for his investment, his i labor and his risk, or about the same as the average employe who has neither investment nor risk. We do not begrudge any of the beneficial laws in behalf of the farmers, the laboring people or any other class of business, but it is about, time that the 30,000 to 10.000 more persons, were given lhe same consideration that has been shown other lutes of endeavor.—Newcastle Courier-Times. o 500 Sheets &’/ 2 xn, 20-Ib., White Automatic Mimeograph Bond, nealy wjrapped $1.05. This paper is free of lint and .sized for pen and ink. Decatur Democrat Company. if

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♦— —0 Answers To Test Questions [ Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ « 1. Four. 2. Lou Nova. 3. New York. 4. Mr. 5. I-de’-a; not i-deer'. ! 6. Two. 7. St. Lawrence. 8. John Adams. 9. Henry Picard. ' 10. Rhode Island, Delaware and Cinnecticut. Q * « Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee ♦ + Protecting Wall Paper Very otter the wall paper becomes wet and soiled by contact with cloth employed when washing or polishing woodwork. To eli-, initiate this, procure a sheet of tin a foot or more in length, and hold it against the wall close to the baseboard or wood casing, moving it along as the work progresses. Shoe-Stained Stockings When washing light-colored stockings, that have become stain-| td from shoes, add a tablespoon of' borax to the water and see how, quickly the stains wash cut. Whipped Cream Substitute Grate one apple, add two or three | tablespoons of sugar and one egg white; then beat until light, and. you will have an excellent substi-1 tjte for whipped cream. o * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File * * Jan. 9—lndiana legislature convenes. Jesse Eschbach of Warsaw is elected speaker of the bouse and Harry Negley of Indianapolis is | president of the senate. B. J. Terveer and Miss Frances | Deininger were married this morning by Father J. A. Seimetz. Delegation from here goes to Fort Harrison to greet the boys of Batjtery A. i More than 6,000 Hoosiers have i died from flu the past three months. S. E. Holtholuse of Lafayette Is visiting here. Miss Lucile Smith is ill with Tonsllltis at Valparaiso where she has been in school. o Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. When an invitation has been extended over the phone, is it all 1 right for a wife to say, “May I ask J.John if he has any other plans for ! 1 uetda-y evening, and then call you back”? ! A. Yes; this is really the only J thing she can do to avoid embarI j rrwsment, in case John cannot aceept the invitation. | Q. Would It be all right, when in- ■ j troducjng two persons- to tay, "Mr- [ I Smith, let me make you acquainted

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with Mr. Brown”? A. One should avoid the phrase, “let me make you acquainted with ” Merely say, “Mr. Smith, this is Mr. Brown.” Q. Is it proper when eating to stack two or three dishes, ill order to make more room on the table? A. No; one should not do this. o CAPONE PRISON (CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE) day from Alcatraz, “The Rock,” in San Francisco Bay. Federal prisoners. in sound health, ordinarily are released in the county where they were convicted. Under this procedure, Capone would have been I taken by Jan. 19, at the end of his 10-year felony term, to Cook county, Illinois, jail to serve a oneyear misdemeanor sentence. ■JHrsi © v Jlie i Here is another question in line i with some of our safe driving habj its? tn approaching a “stop” sign posted at a boulevard or through street, may the driver just slow up instead j of actually stopping his car? Here is the correct answer: No. 1 I A driver must stop and make cer- ) tain that there are no cars ap--1 itroaching the intersection before ho proceeds again. Drivers on a’ through street expect cars to stop

Jap-Sponsored Mongol Chiefs M 1] ft -r O lltaJllißl ' k -**? w r wF^ ; '■r4k rF k As & sentry presents anna, the ehairman of the newly-formed Japanesesponsored Mongolian government, Prince Teh Wang (right) and General L> fehou-Hain, commander-m-cnief of the Jap-trained army, pose for I their official photograph# before the capital at Hou Ho Go To. Mongolia.

’at “stop sign interesctions. No doubt you will say “Why everyone knows that!” But how many persons follow it? That’s the rule. That is the courteous thing to do. Many drivers approach these “stop”signs at at fast rate of speed to give the drivers o:i through streets a thrill. This is not only very discourteous, it is very dangerous, because sometimes they overstep the line and cause the driver on the through street to lose control of his car, and an acident results. Approach through streets slowly and “stop.” o FORI) COMPAN Y (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) negotiations which President Mar- ! tin has kept a complete secret from the board, and witli which other matters as may be brought before the %oard." 0 CLUB LEADERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) attending allntr part of the conference are; Lawrence Beckmeyer, Ben Mazelin, P. B. Lehman, Otto Bieberich, Otto Hoile, Homer Arnold. Le"U Neuenschwander, Sanford Frazee and Henry Aschlemau. o * TODAY’S COMMON ERROR * Do not say. “He rims a hard- : ware store;" saj. "conducts,” . “manages," or “operates.” « «

LOYAL FORCES keep up DRIVE Spanish Loyalists (.on tinue Offensive On Southern Front Hendaye, French-Spanish frontier, Jan. 9. <U.P> Geiteralissnno Francisco Franco may rcl ’‘J Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de Llano from commander of the Spanish insurgent forces in lhe south because he has failed to Stop a vigorous loyalist offensive, it was reported It was reported persistently that Franco had been forced to withdraw troops from his own Catalonian drive to strengthen the nationalist army in the southwest. Loyalists said that despite some nationalist gains on the Catalonian front yesterday, the drive as a whole had lost momentum. This they attributed to withdrawal of reserves to reinforce the southern army. . Reports ergrading Queipo de Llano, the famous “radio" general whose tire-eating broadcasts made him internationally famous in the earlier periods of the civil war, were unconfirmed. However, the reports said that Fanco blamed queipo de Llano for the success of the loyalist drive and intended to replace him with one Gen Vignon. Queipo de Llano has been one of the leading figures of the civil

war. though little iu the news in past months. He has been in supreme command of the south apd lias refused several times to leave his post to enter the nationalist government. Dispatches indicated that the loyalist drive in Queipo de Llano s country was continuing unchecked. However, the nationalists also made important progress on the Catalauian front. There they struck northeastward and southeastward toward the Lerida-Cerera-Barceiona highway, pesumably intending to pinch off a big triangle of loyalist territory. One the southern side they toox the villages of Floresta. Omellons. Fuelleda, Tares and Masblanch among others. On the northern side they took the villages of Fuliola. Belmunt. Fenellas, Castellsera, Linola. Bellvis and others. It was indicated that the natjopalists might soon threaten the important city of Servera. only 50 air line miles from Barcelona. In the southwest the loyalist of-1 tensive was progressing steadily. Under Gen. Jose Miaja, the hero of the defense of Madrid, the loyalists had thrust deep into nationalist territory and were making a bid

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