Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1939 — 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 A- R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies —.I .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier — 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail _.—1.00 Six months, by mall .... 1.75 Oue year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office...—. 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere 53.50 one year. Advertising Kates 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. Half our mail subscribers have renewed and we hope to make it complete in another mouth. Help us do that. Your dime will still be accepted if you send it to President Roose- ■ velt at the White House. Help light infantile paralysis. The Indianapolis News says: I ‘•lt's about time some members of I the general assembly played over , a few of their campaign speech 1 records and recalled the solemn pledges they made to reduce the ' cost of government.'' •■Wk W-id The legislature has been in session a month now and about all that has occurred has been to let Mr. Evans and others get a heavy load off their chests by cussing the Democrats for being in power six years. It's time to go to work for the people. A! Feeney, sheriff of Marion i county is enforcing the half hour ' parking ordinance. When he over- : stepped a policeman gave him a ticket which cost him two dollars. ' Feeney complimented the officer for doing his duty. Os course laws and ordinances should be obeyed by every one including those officers whose duties are to enforce them. Feeney is that kind of an [ officer. — ! 111. The President's Ball was a big 1 success here and in thousands of i other cities over the country, rais-: iug a huge fund with which to battle one of the most dreaded diseases, infantile paralysis. Few I people have suffered more than ! the President from this ailment I and it is fine that he devotes so i much effort to the battle that may j save millions of children during i the years to come from a similar ■ fate. ■(■■NMwnnMr it is difficult to even imagine, the suffering and despair of the people of Chilo, where an earthquake, one of the worst ever recorded, took the lives of more than 30,000, injured hundreds of thousands and damaged property worth millions of dollars. Survivors face starvation and it is predicted that the loss of life by illness and privation will exceed those actually killed by the quake. It is one of the severest catastrophes in all history. The propaganda that is being put out just now over the fact that a French official was in a plane that crashed in California doesn’t indicate any thing very wrong. The French want to buy six hundred American made planes. Manufacturers here want to sell them. President Roosevelt and other officials gave their permission to test the planes. What's wrong about it. It American planes can be sold abroad for cash thus employing more men, looks like the thing to do. The Decatur Chamber of Commerce has chosen Pete Reynolds,

city editor of the Daily Democrat us president and Herman Kruckeberg, assistant cashier of the First , State Bank us secretary-treasurer. )t These well known and capable j young men will continue the excelI lent record that has been made by , this organization for twenty years t' past. They will confer with the ' I directors soon to work out a pro- [ gram and plan for the year and ' they hope for and deserve the • loyal and 100% support of the D people of this community. a—- — Nepotism sounds like something j terrible when really it is a word ) coined when some official employed a nephew to work for him. The modern definition is the employ- ! merit of relatives because of rela- ■ tlonship rather than merit. Os I course when that is true some I complaint is due but if the only ' objection to some clerk in the I state house is that he is a fortyI second cousin to some one else I employed by the government, it ' would appear to be rather far I fetched. The present scrap is just I an alibi so the assembly members so desiring can malign the goverI nor. . . For many years the requirements for attorneys in Indiana was a • national joke. Then a few years ; ago it was provided thaf those ad- ' mitted to the bar must pass an I examination before a committee from the state supreme court and those who have had experience dc--1 clare them tough. As a result oue has to really know his Blackstone to be admitted. Now for some 1 reasons unknown several members :of the legislature are trying to i hange the law so that any one ( who decides to hang out a shingle, | can do so. It would appear that j the qualifications so r Indiana I should compare with those of oth- | er states of the middle we”*. ’ THOSE TWO MEN AGAIN: The optimist und tht» pessimist, : for ail their anonymity, get togeth'er frequently in anecdotes. The managing editor of the stock exi change of Stockholm, Sweden, put | 1 them side by side recently in a story he credits to the English. I "The optimist,'' he said, “sees a light where there isn't any, and the pessimist comes along and blows it out.'' William Yyon Phelps, dis- • tinguished book critic, knows the I strange pair. too. The pessimist, 1 ' he explains, looks at a bottle of; whatever you please and wails, , : “O, woe, it's half gone.” The opti- < mist, eying the same container, ex- ■ suits, “Great, it's still half full!'' Humorist Billy Van has been the "sparkplug at many a sales meet--1 ing. Sometimes, in such groups. I he holds up a large map of the I United States. On it, somewhere, i is a biack patch, small as a thumb- . nail. “Now, gentlemen,” he asks, I “what do you see on the map?” Almost to a man the answer is, i "A black spot." But he counts the day saved when one or two of the salesmen reply instead, “A lot of clean white territory which is wide open for our product.” Currently popular and worth a wide audience is the story, its origin unknown, about two little girls who were frisking about in a strange garden. Soon one of them ran to her mother and said, “This garden’s a bad place, mother. I've been all around and every rosebush has sharp, long thorns on It.” Presently her small sister camo skipping up the path and cried, "Mother, 1 love this place. I've been all around and every thorn tree has such pretty roses growing on it.” To try to add anything Io these parable would be to risk seeming pompous ... so these lines shall leave the reader perhaps where they found him picking as pleasant a path as possible between indefensible optimism and debilitating pessimism.-Rotarian Magazine. o 50U Sheets S'/iXll, White Paragon Bond typewriting paper 55c. The Dei catur Democrat Co, ts

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, in May, 1939, makes it a legal holi1 1 day. i 9. Red. white and blue. i 10. St. Lawrence. I'* » Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE Q Should a hostess add cbinpliimer.tary reuweks as she greets , each one of her callers? s A. No; exaggerated greelings are not good taste. A cordial greeting I :r all necessary, such as. "How do you do. Mrs. Jordan? 1 am glad to see you.” Q. Wliat are the only invitations . ’ a man may accept when they do ’ I net include his wife? i A. Only invitations of a business I nature. Q. Are there any certain guests ' I who should be the first to leave ja dinner party? A. Yes; the guests of honor should be the first to depart. —q — — ■ | Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee j A High Gloss Oftentimes a high polish is desired on linens. >f so, use luke.

• ! warm water instead of cold when ! mixing the starch. Mix tc the de- ' sired thickness with boiling water, add Otte-half teaspoon salt and stir with a white wax candle. Proceed with the starching as usual. This ■ will impart to cheaper linens a j n-nch finer appearance. , Removing Glass Stopper . i If a glass bottle stopper sticks, . revolve the neck of the fcottte slowly in the heat of a burning match. , The heat from this will cause the neck to expand, thereby releasing .' the stopper. Raisin Cake | Raisins can be prevented from going to the bottom of a cake if they are. rolled in butter before being ; placed in the batter. —o * “TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File < • Jan. 30—Price of hogs steady at $17.50. The Wright bill prohibiting the manufacture of wine and having , liquor on the premises is reported in the legislature and report accept--ed 25 to 21. The No them Indiana Traction [Company will tear up their tracks

12-YEAR-OLO I GIRL MOTHER Child Bride And Daughter Reported Satisfactory Chicago, Jan. 30.— (U.R) -Jennie Rcnello Rota. 12, and a daughter born to her Saturday, were reported to be “doing nicely” by attend- ( ants at Loretto hospital today. The young nTother was placed in an oxygen tent after the birth when she experienced difficulty in breathing. Nurses said she re-, sponded satisfactorily. The child, which weighed four pounds and 11 ounces at birth, was placed In an incubator. Jennie became known as Chicago's child bride after her elopement last August to Valparaiso, Ind., with Frank Rota, 24. a board-, er in the Renello home. Her parents approved The marriage Bbt juvenile court Judge Frank Bicek ordered her separated because the marriage of a girl under 16 years of age is illegal in Illinois even Efth parental consent. He ruled that she conld not remarry Rota until she becomes 16 and held that , she and her baby must be wards of the state until that time. She was in the seventh grade when sha eloped and will be 13 in May. Rota visited the hospital several times during the weekend. He i and Jennie both expressed hope Bicek would permit them to live together as soon as Jennie is dismissed from the hospital. “That's all we want,” Rota said. > —— | iJ i ev n* ? I fare w. braun ik vJUetyety! A Here are some suggestions for driving that should help to prevent j accidents and bring you safely to, your destination: 1. Before starting on a trip, check | from Packsoa street to tae Clov-! < rleaf railroad. The Holland-St. Louis Sugar com I p..ny closes campaign. They sliced , 51.000 tons of beets and made 13- j LSO.OOO pounds of sugar, r>aid far- 1 mers $49,348. freight, 596,170 and labor $115.9990. The record has only been excelled once, 1915, when thev made 15,100,000 pounds of sugar from 73.000 tons of beets. L. A. Holthouse is attending the show in Chicago. '

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Hie condition of tires, mirror, brakes, horn, lights, and wtndj shield wiper. Make this a habit. 2. Have any mechanical trouble fixed. Do not drive with makeshirt i repairs. 3. Abide iby all signs and signals. 4. Never pass another vehicle on ,a blind curve or when approaching the crest of a hill and especially | not at an intersection. i 5. Even if you have the r’ght of way. give the other driver plenty of rooms at intersections. He may i need it! j 6. When there Is a choice beI tween speed and safety, choose ‘ safety every time. Oklahoma Shaken Up Norman Okla.—(U.R) — Only the seismograph experts are aware of it. Prof. William Schriever of the University of Oklahoma said to- ' day. but Oklahoma is having earthquakes. Schriever said he had determined that recurring quakes have cracked the foundations of a public building in one state city. o Elks Urge Uniform Motor Vehicle Laws — New York. Jan. 30 — Fourteen I hundreds Elks lodges were today : requested to give their full snp- . port to the enactment of motor | vehicle legislation in their respec- ' I tive states in conformity with the i , uniform vehicle code, of the national conference on street and highway safety, it was today announced by Charles Spencer Hart. | chairman of the Gianu Lodge , 1 traffic safety committee and past i ' grand exalted ruler of the Elks. I Dr. Edward J McCormick, grand 1 ' exalted ruler, joined wiili the

heads of 14 Wheruutfoiii» zations in signing M 1 to all the members of « legislatures now in w ,,|’ Ing for the utmost dope,, formity in traffic l hW! — I Bullet Scarred Buck Fa Chico. Cal. (U.R) and Frank Swayer finally g down what is believe! tt been the most battle in this neighboi-hooi. was about 12 years nW. I points on each side, but * broken nose due to else's bullet in years past part of a horn shot off H previous encounter with h Pitot Carries Cycle-In £ Melbourne ((j.R) — be the last of its lype in the an old Maurice Farnam M was reconditioned here forii storming tour of the eonthJ New Zealand The pla«J here In 1914. is equipped« bicycle so that in the em forced lauding in remote jw the continent, the pilot cad his way to civilization. LUMBAGO Rheumatism, Neuritis. A ritis. Periodic Pams, Ntjrs and all other aches and v are quickly relieved with Alf's Compound Wintergreen tablets. Guaranteed. AT ALL DRUG STORE! or send SI.OO to Union Pharmacal Cs Bluffton. Ind.