Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1939 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR 11 Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Enured at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office aa Second Class Matter J. H. Heller President 1. R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies — ——l One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mall .— -36 Three months, by mall _—— 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mall — 3.00 One year, at office— 3.00 Prices quoted arc within a radius of 100 miles- Elsewhere 33.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charier Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. In the eyes of the world, to make ■ good and be a son of the President' is an impossible job. Others could be included, but the movie fans didn’t miss it far when they voted Tyrone Power and Jeanette McDonald, king and queen of actors. In some towns you can't turn the dice box to see who pays for the cigars. It won't be long tmtil giving one a handicap in a golf I game will be unlawful. When the 51 Republican mem-! bers of the house of represent-' atives vote it straight on every party measure introduced, do they call It rubber stamping? American tourists might be attracted to Europe if they wind up the Spanish war and get rid of the purges and hate campaigns in Germany, Italy and a few other places. When the Republicans tried to advance a bill to cut the salaries of state employes, they did not include their stipend.of $lO a day or mileage, to and from the Capitol. Most towns will approve the earlier closing hours for bars and beer parlors, the bill regulating these places of business being among the few which seem certain of passing. Membership in the Chamber of Commerce costs only $2.50 a year. You’ll want to carry your card for 1939, so don’t turn down the boys when they solicit your membership next week. Governor Townsend was having his hair cut when a deputy sheriff came walking into the barber shop and arrested the tonsorial artist who was working on him. It didn't both the Governor much, tor he crawled into another chair and said finish it up this time. It begins to look like several bills will be passed n the house,, because the Republican majority knows they will not get. by the j senate. It's a game of polities. The annual Chamber of Commerce membership campaign opens Monday. Come on boys and join Decatur should have at least 300 member s. Governor A. B. "Happy” Chandler of Kentucky is a dynamic personality and has all the color which makes a man popular in public life. Also, he is an able and forceful and the address tonight before the Democratic editors and their guests will be, a highlight which his audience will not forget. Selling airplanes to France and England is just taking business of- i sered American manufacturers. These nations are not in war. j They have a perfect right to buy American planes and workmen iu j thia country will not object to the i

I business. Italy and Germany have not sent any orders over here and | probably do not wunt American j planes. | State recognition has been given i "Uncle” Joe Cravens, who last I Thursday celebrated his 80th birthday anniversary. Mr. Cravens Ilves at Madison along the Ohio I river and for more than 50 years 1 was active in the business and political affairs of Indiana. He served 25 years tn the legislature and was floor leader in 1925 when he headed the Democratic senators into retreat In Ohio, breaking the deadlock which existed then. He . is loved and admired by Hoosiers j and tributes to his life and service . were paid by the present veterans 1 in the state assembly this week. Yon wouldn't live in a community without churches or schools. Likewise a good town should have ] an active Chamber of Commerce. The officers and directors of this 1 civic organizations can’t make it any better than the membership desires it to be. In other words i if you and about 300 other men 1 join the local organization, it can i and will be one of the best Chamber of Commerces in the state. Much can be done through this agency in the way of community I building and if you are in business, i enjoy the benefits of living here, you should join the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Pope Pius XI was not only the greatest and most influential churchman of the world, being the spiritual head of four hundred million Catholics, located on every ! part of the globe, but he was a foremost advocate for peace. His messages and encyclicals dealt with social justice, peace and the brotherhood of man. Recently he came to the defense of the Jews and upbraided Hitler tor his perseI cution of the race in Germany. | He loved peace, preached the doci trine of Christ and was a leader ,' for good. Born of poor parents 81 years ago last .May, he became a great scholar, philosopher and spiritual leader. REAL PREPAREDNESS: I With attention centered upon other countries, with their wars and threats of wars, organizations are being formed in many cities to protect this land from invasions of foreign policies and customs. The best protection of this country, they believe, is the protection of Americanism for Americans. Attorney General Murphy started the movement when he began an investigation as to how far civil liberties are denied or invad--led in this country. He will see ' how far free speech, free press, free assembly, free religion is limited by local officials or denied by , law. In short, liberty is to be preserved against the attacks of communism and naziism and fascism by preserving it against the propa- | ganda being spread in this counI try to destroy confidence in these institutions. The best preparedness is the preservation of alove iof liberty. Men who have lived under it can easily lose their confidence iu a government which gives only lip service to its fundamental doctrines. Working to the same end is the policy of the President to raise the ■ standards of living in this country, the giving of a job to every man, a place to live and food for his family. This goes far beyond the building of airplanes. Love of country means a country worth loving. Workless men would find this rather difficult. They could easily be led away by the propaganda of those who would destroy /and change ottr form of government. I So would those who are refused ; the right to talk and to think l The government does well when I it encourages every movement to I keep not only America safe, but j Americanism safer. | Trade In A Good Tuwn — Oecatst

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Weather A Week Ahead As Forecast By PROF. SELBY MAXWELL, Noted Meteorologist 13-19,1939 /FEB. 13-19,1939 N VU ® c R . my - JIHQT COLD! WET DR/ TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL FOR INDIANA. February 13 to 19 The E.. parts of the W. ceil, and S. W. areas will be warm. Colder, in parts of the. N. \V . cen.. and S. cen. sections. The remaining areas will be normal. The N. cen.. S. W. and parts of the cen. sections will be wet. Moderately wet in the N. W. and S. cen. areas. The E. cen. and S. E. sections will he dry. The N. E. portions will he normal Copyright 1939, John F. Dille Company

LATE SPRING AND COuD BATHROOMS Spring is going to be cold and late over the greater portion of the United States. The only warm places will be relatively small areas . over the Western Plains. 1 New England, and Texas. Cold I winds will blow when we would normally expect flowers. A cold spring can be a deceitful time. The sun looks warm, but it isn't. If there are any of you who let the fire go out by the calendar, | ■ whether the house needs it or not just wait a little while this spring before you dose up the furnace. There is one place where the coming cold spring is going to be a real hardship and that is tho I bathroom. When the house is! cold, the bathroom is generally I colder. Certain modern builders seem to like to put (he bath tub I directly under a window. In ad-1 dition the window usually leaks | The idea is probably to have cold 1 air from the window pour down i on the bather. Older houses often! hav- the bath tub on an inner wall! and th* i.- r- a radiator under the I window when- i..-i -. a are stlp-| posed to be. If your bathroom has its window over the tub there isn't much you can do about it, but here is a little trick of air conditioning that will make bathing more pleasant. You are cold in the bathroom becaus* of evaporation from your skin. When water evaporates it. has to get heat from somewhere and it takes it from your body You can avoid most of] this chill if you will charge the

WATER VAPOR GIVES QUICK HEAT ON CUILLY DAYS I SPRING WLATHGR USE A RUBBER HOSE AHDBATU SPAA/ '«o xz /# r | Jk Uh fe > ■ j<? / -r.'■<■-.j-'-.fc’--; MAR APRIL >/<%.■ -Tj K /M 7 m>Y.1939 . //. SPRING Will BE LAIE AND GOLD. IF YOUH BfitufiOOM 1$ COLD. TRY .-. HOMES MAY BE CHILLY. RAISING THE HUMIDITY TO WARM IT

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The maps show total effect of Hot, Cold, Wet, and Dry Air to be expected next week. DAILY FORECAST 13 14 15 I 6 17 18 19 20 | IND AN ’ OWOfWCLOUmOC-t OF STORM wIWiILDU>SWY»SIORM W-WIND air in your bathroom with steam before bathing. When the air of the bathroom is saturated with steam it will not chill you. Some homes have bathroom heaters or i oil stoves. Flame heaters normal- i ly turn much more steam into the ' air that a radiator or hot air fur- j 1 nace does, because a part of the I product of the flame is water j. vapor. A small tea kettle send-' ing steam into the air will do much toward taking the chill out of the air while you are bathing R-member this when you give the, baby, small children or an old person a bath. By putting the proper amount of steam into the air you can considerably modify the effects of cold weather in a | cold bathroom. WEATHER QUESTIONS Q. We received a humidity! card from you last week and the I tab has remained blue since we' have had it in our house. We have ! an electric stove and an electric water heater, but very little water ;is boiled on the stove. We are wondering how humidity could be.

’ increased without increasing the electric bill. G. Y. A. You use more electricity to heat dry air than you would to heat moist air. You should humidify by boiling the water. Q. Is there a magnetic pole in Europe similar to the one in northern Canada’ F. If. A. No. Q I have read two theories of 1 how life began. Is it correct that ' the germ which creates life exist* I everywhere in space and will settle and grow on any globe where ' conditions die right, or is the ; germ a part of all stardust and so develops under proper conditions? I. D. B. A. The exact cause of life is unknown, but it is perhaps significant that chemical substances are everywhere alike throughout the universe. COULD MARS ATTACK THE EARTH? What are the Martians like? Are there any Martians? What de we know about the inhabitants of Mars? Well frankly folks, we don’t know, bnt we do know some facts about the weather on Mars and from a study of this weather, life may not be impossible on the red planet. Prof. Selby Maxwell has written a most interesting account of probable living conditions on the planet Maas, and something about what its inhabitants — if any — might be. You can have yours free, with the compliments of this newspaper. Address Prof. Selby Maxwell, care of this newspaper. Address Prof. Selby Max well, care of this newspaper, enclosing a stamped (3c) selfaddressed envelope for your reply. Copyright 1939, John F. Dilie Co. ROY S. JOHNSON AUCTIONEER Book your sale early. Trust Co. Bldg. Phone 104 Phone 1022 Feb 14 — Cliff Shoemaker, % mile North and 1 mile West of Bryant, Ind. Feb 15 —Central Sugar Co, 1 mile North of Decatur on State I Road No. 27. Feb. IS -N. E. Dunifon, 3 miles North and 2 miles West of Rockford. Ohio. Feb. 17- Mrs Clayton Blanchard. south of Milford. Ind Feb. 18—Frank Bentz. 2 miles East and 1 mile North of Decatur. Feb. 22 - Rupert L. Brandt, 3 miles north -and 2 miles west of Rockford, Ohio. Registered Guernsey cattle sale. I Feb. 24— Chester Grubb, 5’6 mi East and % mile South of Willshire. Mar. 2— Sam Dellinger. 2 miles South of Willshire. Mar. 3—Steve Sibert. 2 miles North of Wabash. Ohio. - Mar. 4 — Mrs. John Meyer. % mile South and 1 mile West of Decatur on Peterson Road Mar. 7 Chas. Mlltenberger. 4 miles South and 1 mile East of Convoy Mar. B—John Belna. 1% miles Southeast of Rockford, Ohio.

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SYNOPSIS At 19, Christopher Carson-Kit Carson, ns he would be known—founu hi nself, with a price upon his head, in Taos, New Mexico, to which he had fled from Madison County, Kentucky, his birthplace. Apprenticed by his mother to a saddler, Kit had run away, drifting into Taos over the Santa Fe trail in the spring of 1826. Three years later, he met Ewing Young, a captain of trappers, who was preparing to lead a party westward toward California- Ostensibly the men sought vengeance against hostile Apaches. Actvally they sought the contraband fur of the beaver. Kit convinces Young that he would be a valuable addition to the buckskinned cavalcade. CHAPTER II Kit Carson ran for his rifle to display it proudly Io the older trapper. Young looked down its shining bore with a frontierman’s appreciation for well kept steel. “It’s a tine gun,” admitted the captain, hefting a small bag of brass rivets slung to tho bullet pouch. “But what these be for?” “Indians," said Kit. “1 notch my score with them: A rivet in the stock for every dead Indian!” His fingers drew over two rivets In of his rifle. Young knew then he had chosen well this lad to ride with his mountain men. Forty odd they prepared to ride next morning out of Taos. Kit saddled a leather colored mare from Young's corral. “Maid of Taos” he called her with boyish romanticism. Little dyd Kit know then of a true maid of Taos, born that very week in this ancient Pueblo, who would grow to womanhood and clutch at his heart with her soft hands! Be fore that babe became woman there would be much adventure for Kit Carson. Romance was waiting ahead for him on the California trail. Romance faced him now, a mantilla over hair sleek as onyx, red lips curled wishfully. “You ride from us, Chreestoforo 7 Leave Taos?” He cinched the saddle girth with Hands suddenly unsteady. “Sure, little one. Injun vengeance!” “You come back, Chrecs?” The need of response tore him. Kit dared not look at this girl wrapped in her gay shawl, bright as » cactus flower against the gray walls of Taos. Seeing her, could he leave Taos with its ancient dances znd throbbing songs, its festivals ind pony races, its aguardiente (fire water) that stung a young man’s senses, its warm Latin lips that taunted? Taos—“sky city of the plains,” half Mexican and half Indian—was the Paris of primeval North America. (Jive up its joys for the unknown trail to fight savage tribes and savage beasts, hunger and wilderness and death? For one second the slender iad in buckskins turned to the girl. His whole being turned to her. But he was Kit Carson. The urge that had carried him West drove him on. He did not touch her. He muttered a swift farewell in a voice grown suddenly mature. "Adios, corazon.” And he was gone beyond the hardbeaten square, one with the mountain men, long haired, long rifled buckskin clad, riding with short stirrups ready for danger. With a gesture born long ago in Spain the girl drew her bright shawl across her face in resignation. Kit might turn back to Taos—never to her. She sensed that, turning her head away. But other women smiled for Kit riding out of Taos. Other girls of Mexican blood waved from deep adobe windows. Pure blooded Indian maids, supple as willows, did not wave their farewells from the flat gray rooms ... for farewells every Indian' knows, are bad medicine It was a disgrace, too, to show emotion. Hearts might blacken with hatred or grow white with love but the face must remain impassive Yet a warm love shown in many eyes for the “Muchacho Americano” since young Kit had become the darling of gay Taos in three year? The trappers rode out of Taos,

lard to fight to Toledo. Ohio, July i 4th for world championship Dr. and Mrs. Frank Mann of Rochester, Minn., visiting tolativea i l,er ®’ Harold G. Harvey writes from Rhineland. Germany. - . *• 1 ——O'" ' ' ... . - A * Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Q. Is it necessary to write a note of thanks when one receives a gift by mail? A. Certainly; it is just as import1 ant to do so as if the donor presented the gift personally. t). Where should a hostess stand when receiving her guests at a muI .-icale? A. The hostess receives guests ! inside the door of the music room or drawing room. Q. Is it correct, w hen setting the table, to lay two y three spoons' t crosswise above each plate? A. No; this custom is obsolete. Q. After serving cocktails in the. living i oom, should all the glasses , c removed before the guests return from the dining room? A. Yes. Q. When should the clergyman ii t consulted about a wedding? A. He should be consulted as soon as the plans for the wedding are!

California bound. In Young’s company were Frtnch and American and Canadian trappers. Foremost among them were James Higgins, Franjois 1 Turcote, Jean Valliant, Anastase Courier and James Lawrence. They traveled northward toward Raton Pass, to allay the suspicions of the Mexican authorities, then turned in their tracks and hurried over deserts scarcely touched before by white feet. Priests and soldiers penetrated this land in 1851 for Spain but the Indian had conquered again. This great barren country slept beneath the sun. Young’s men camped on the edge of the Grand Canyon, the second white men to look into its multi-tinted chasm. They hurried through the land of the Navajo. Navajos, startled from their spring hogans (huts) by the white band, could not dream that the darkskinned blue-eyed lad riding by his.

K x Vi! . IttVV WHhWMhIiI I A W / I I M ' I You ride from us, Creestoforo? Leave Taos?** she asked. “Sure,ffiH one. Indian vengeance!** explained Kit. ■

captain would be hailed in history as their conqueror! The Taos men left the Navajo country and crossed the land of the peaceful Zuni Indians, and entered that part of the vast lonely region that would be known as Arizona. They followed dark brackish rivers where beaver toiled . . . adobe and stone ruins of long dead civilizations . . . tall rocks that bore messages written in a language forgotten thousands of years before. In that arid region of yucca and sage brush they burned the spines from Jan el cact us and fed their wearynig horses. Unseen Indians stole the traps they set, and by night the o.ack wolves howled around their camps. Uown the wide drying channel of tlie Salido River, tributory of the Gila, they picked their way warily, tor this was the region of the Apache, bloodthirsty Arab of the western Plains. The Apache knew no friendship and no law. For centuries thia barbarian tribe had stormed down from J, hc *'°rth to harry the peaceful * ueblo Indians. They spread terror trom the Yellowstone to the Rio Grande. They fought the Spaniards who first came to the great dssert and the Mexicans. The few Ar*erfcans who had penetrated West k*»w their fury. Kit Carson was first to sight the enemy, one May dawn. His quick eyes saw them rounding p low mesa against a blood-red sky. Two hundred small men on small fleet horses, they were naked and befeathered, their painted facc.3 shining like demons in the blinding light. . A M ac «a e ’’,’ Kit cried, reining up tne MaM beside Young’s horse. *P; ac , ! ?,”» ’’’dine the war trail, Cap’n!” The Apaches had seen the whites.

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They halted, twir feat herd ' ' c azairn From their r ay. • in the pa-t centurj—long locks, black a: : , of recent slaughter. ? V| Kit thought swiftly, from heads of their eneniH Navajo.” H Young pulled hia beiwH lower. He sai-1 wi’hout head, "Shall we attack?” It was both question and mand. The boy kit was firttiM "Aye.” He knew Indians ambush and not m the paH tiiey evui 1 v . -heGdsliM striking first. The white teen were outiroaiß five to one Yn ~-g p .ngecMslH forward. The trappers tween yucca and giant cactuH the mesa. ■ As they rode, a shout cue fl

the hill—hideo'i.-ly from dred savage throat- The mad wolves was in it. the of torture, the howl of hatred. Instantly, Kit recognized a shatter,! g n ’is” m 1 a 1 never before. Inhuman, terrible, like w ' sound on earth, it was of the Apache! ■ The fury of that stung Kit Carson. It sent hi® heels spurring the Maia °P B slanting sand. 13 The Indians charged downß mesa, painted devils on hones as they. Sand flew under horses’ hoove* in waves. B Twenty yards lay betwe” B and white. Kit saw ths pa-JB death-lines on the grinning ’*“JB two hundred warriors. H* tM ’sß "Torture—if they get us I B But he dared not feel fear. *B Kit had been taught by Taos, threw out a sharp ac-nt PB ceptible to Indian noat rils 11 ’’ JB brewed cruelty in savage hea Kit rode on with jaw set, tawny B flying under the wide beaver -Now — back!” shouted i’B suddenly. ~. . The trappers jerked their B around as if fleeing Youngs B herso between the forty ric B led them racing along the , studded mesa. A long arm oijb -the ambush they needed ,B forward to receive them. J the trappers flung the 9 their horses’ feet to hold them. B flung themselves to the I B dune. They lay hidden, rifles while the storm of Apache V rounded the mesa. .|B "Fire!” shouted Young. ■ me the Chief!” S (To be continued) I Catoriaat to r.<r **“* w ■ DUUISUU4 W Sias f * s ® l H