Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1939 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR PubUebed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office as Second Class Matter J. H- Holler ................President i. R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller...- Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies — 102 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 mail 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. i

■ When your overcoat begins to feel too heavy, spring should not | be far away. Your membership in the Chamber of Commerce is evidence that you believe in helping community undertakings and want to be associated with those who work for | protest in the town. America has at least grown richer in public institutions in tin past six years. The Wl’A has aid- . ed the building of 2.796 new schools. 154 electrical power plants, 481 sewage systems, 28 municipal auditoriums and 235 hospitals. The annual assessing of personal property and improvements on real estate will get underway next month. Real estate itself will not be appraised this year. The many new improvements made in Decatur last year should be reflected in the total valuation. - - The legislature has three weeks i to run and in that time what new laws are necessary can be passed. Governor Townsend has assured the people that no additional taxes ' will bo levied and if politics can be laid aside by both sides for a day or two. some adjustment can be made iu the present tax laws. The past winter was hard on streets and highway improvements. The freezes and thaws played havoc and cities and the state highway commission are I getting ready to repair the damages. Repairs made now will save money later and at the same time keep the streets and roads passable. Chicago's primary election will . be held February 28 and every in- I dication is that the campaign is' wanning up. Mayor Kelly is a candidate for renomination and Be n ms to have the edge over States Attorney Courtney, while Mr. Gteen is out in the lead over former Mayor Bill Thompson JWith two weeks left the fire is expected to fly and the standing , ntay be different on election night Studies conducted by the traffic engineers of the state highway commission show that the dual lane highway has the lowest perceutagc of accidents per million vehicular miles traveled. According to the survey, Indiana lias an average of 1.72 accidents per million vehicular miles on dual-lane highways; 2.56 accidents to the million vehicular miles on fourlune undivided roads; 2.75 accidents per million vehicular miles on three-lane highways, and 2.53 accidents per million vehicular miles of travel on two-lalie highways. Seeking to build the great-1 est possible safety into the state ; highway system, the. slate highway commission is extending the ■ mileage of dual-lane roads in j heavily congested areas as rapidly ■ as fuuds will permit aud is con-j ducting tests iu methods of trans-j

| forming four-lane highway* Into j dual-lane routes. Thinking only of the campaign of 1940. Republicans in the state I legislature are trying at every I turn to embarrass the Townsend administration. More than 700 f. bills had been introduced in the ■ tlrst five weeks of the present I session. They cluttered committees and smothered worthy legisj Union. for most of the bills are i Republican-sponsored for politicali ly purposes only. They increased 1 cost of the legislature because of I the expense in printing them. Practically none of these bills has ! I a ghost of a chance of passage. . The authors never expected they i would pass. They were drawn and I submitted to carry favor from some special groups. The object ! is to go out in 1940 and boast of ■ what the Republican party "tried'’ to do. While the Republican party is assuming a parsimonious role I by demanding cuts in government ■ costs, including salary reductions, we discover from general assembly | records that 95 per cent of the spending bills are being introduced by Republicans. This side of the picture doesn't look so good when held up before the people. The Democrats are pledged not to increase taxes and are defending the treasury against politicallyi minded mauraders. NEW ARMY AIRPLANES: Tests are proceeding satisfactorily, it is reported, with a new type of twin-motored war plane which may give the United States a weapon without a superior in world-aviation. Each nation has I certain military secrets but, barr-. : ing some outstanding discoveries or engineering achievements, knows to a considerable extent the progress of other powers. America may lack the numbers of planes of latest design but it seems likely that our engineering skill i can match that of any potential i foe. The two-engined pursuit plane is capable of making 350 miles an hour or more. Constructed on army specifications in California, the ship has been subjected to a variety of secret tests. The craft is said to be propelled by motors manufactured in an Indianapolis plant, a fact which should be a ■ ; source of pride to Hoosierdom. The ship, which has been ordered 1 to Dayton. 0., for a further series of tests, met with a mishap in landing at Mitchell Field. Long Island, on Saturday at the end of ' a trans-continental flight. Chief features of the monoplane, announced by the head of the army air corps, are stratospheric I operating equipment, tricycle undercarriage, super-high lift devices and a nest of high-power . machine guns. Work was started ion this type of ship 18 months ' ago. High speed, ability to reach high altitudes in minimum time and fighting ability should greatly strengthen our defensive forces. The plane has the speed to reach a threatened point quickly and to ' give a good account of itself in repelling enemy invaders.—lndian- , apolis Star. PRAISES NEWSPAPERS FOR SUPPORT GIVEN: Indiana could not. have attained a position of leadership among the states tn the conservation of natural resources without, the support and the publicity given this program by the newspapers, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said todqy. "Recognizing the need for conservation — whether it be through the operation of stptc parks, protection of wildlife or the control of harmful insects—the newspapers of Indaiua have performed an I important public service by ac- ' quainting their readers with the .natural resources of the. state and | the steps taken for their conseri vation. "Without the columns of pubj licity which have beCu given iudiI ana s conservation program aud

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(the editorial discussion of this proI grain, residents of the state would not have the understanding and I the appreciation of Indiana and I Indiana's natural resources which they have today. The newspapers have been instrumental in building up the state parks to the point where they now serve more than a million visitors each year; in developing a public demand for (lean, unpolluted streams, m protecting the forests against tire and for reforestation of suitable areas; in encouraging greater, year-around enjoyment of the out-of-doors, and in generally making our activities more effective. "In my opinion, this has been an important public service and should be recognized as such by the public and particularly by the more than two hundred thousand Indiana men and women who arc enrolled in conservation clubs and engaged in conservation activities in their local communities. Support of ths program also has a definite economic value to the community. By encouraging travel to a state park, by boosting opportunities for hunting and fishing—the newspaper stimulates business and indirectly benefits.” ♦ ♦ | Answers To Test | Questions I Below are the answers to the | Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ ♦ 1. It is on the White Rivet, which is non-navigable. 2. Oliver Wendell Uolmes. 3. 231. 1. One hundred dollars. 5. Ca.pt. Frank Spurt. 6. New Jersey. 7. Sixty dollars. s. Empire Stata Building. New York' City. 9. Exclusion from religious privileges. 10. New York. ——————o —■■■"——■ ■ * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File ] ♦ —♦ Feb. 11—Text of the covenant of the League of Nations is announced. Its purpose is to secure and hold international peace. Chalmer Mills and Miss Lucile Fleming married at Bobo. The commission of the Ossian hi hgschool is ordered revoked. Leo Welter mustered out of service at Camp Taylor, Ky., and re turns home. Mr. and Mrs J. F. Arnold return from the Rotary convention at IndI laaapois. I Miss Bess Conglcton of Detroit is visiting Miss Eva Acker.

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* ———♦ i Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. Isn't one handicapped, who lives in the country and wishes to entertain? , A. Absolutely not. On the other hand, a country home possesses many advantages that no city home can offer; and perhaps the greatest' ! charm of country ■ utertaiuiug ia . j the informality of it. Should the meat be carried to. tiie mouth with the fork in the left hand? The American custom is io sidft the fork from the left liand to the rght hand when eatirg. ibut either form is correct. Q. Isn't it proper for a man to w.Jk along the street between two girls whom he is accompanying? A. No. The man should always walk on the outside. MONROE NEWS Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Killian aud son John Cloyd, entertained with dinner on Sunday, Mrs. D. E. Murphy and Mr. and Mrs. Borman and family. Robert G. Monnier celebrated his 17th birhday with a supper given in his honor by Mr. and Mrs. Everett 1

Vatican Mourns *'Pope of Peace” 9 1 ? -tejk •_' ! - S u j WaaMMMBI 1 This photograph, telephoned to London then radioed to New York, shows one of the flags flying at half -mast inside Vatican City in mourning for ■ s i Pope Piua XL Ona of the dty’a picturesque Swiss guards is in i , the foreground. •

like. The guests present were Nor-1 is Lehman, Lester Essex and Eu-; gene Gilbert. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mcßride and family moved to 310 North 9th i street. Decatur, Thursday. The congregation of the Wesley ■ M. E. Valley church surprised Mrs.j W. F. McKean at her home, Friday evening with a Urthday party.' Mr. and Mrs. Pat Hendricks of Fort Wayne spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Jim A. lleiid-j i irks. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Strahui and Ed-1 mond DeSutter were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Haggard and, son. Thursday evening. Mrs. (\ illiam Mitchell, who underwent an operation Wednesday, is reported to lie improving. Jim A. Hendricks attended to' business in Indianapolis, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stump and daughter Phyllis, Mr. and Mrs. David Roth spent Sunday dinner at the , home of Andrew Brewster, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Amstutz and ' daughter Janice of Celina, Ohio, spent Sunday evening at the home I of Menno Amstutz, X) 500 Sheets S’/jxll, ZO-Ib., White Automatic Mimeograph Bond, neaiy wrapped $1.05. This paper is free of lint and sized for pen and ink. Decatur Democrat Company. tl

NOTED CHURCH LEADER DEAD Rev. Francis, Episcopal Bishop, Dies At Indianapolis Indianapolis, Feb. 11 <U.R> Funeral services for the Right Re' Marshall Francis. Episcopal bishop of the Indianapolis diocese, will be held tomorrow afternoon, with clergymen from all parts of the nation expected to attend the rites. Bishop Francis died in his residence late yesterday at the age of 76. He celebrated his 52nd year of church service Dec. 19 He was the oldest bishop hi the American branch of the Anglican communion. Bishop Francis had been gravely ill for some time and had asked for a "young man' to carry on the work. Last week the Rev. Richard Ainslie Kirchhoffer was consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Indianapolis diocese. But Bishop Francis was too ill to attend. In a letter he empowered Rev. Kirch-

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SYNOPSIS At 19, Christopher Carson-Kit ; Carson, as he would be known- . found himself, with a price upon I 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 F 6 trail 1 in the spring of 1826. Three years 1 later, he met Ewing Young, a cap- , tain of trappers, who was preparing ; to lead a party westward toward : I California. Ostensibly the men ' | sought vengeance against hostile I Apaches. Actually they sought the i contraband fur of the beaver. Kit, i convincing Young that he would be a valuable addition to the buckskinned cavalcade, distinguishes himself by killing two medicine I men in the first brush with the dread Apache. Through the hot summer the trail breakers toil across the lonely desert toward the Colorado River—and California. CHAPTER IV There were times when Ewing Young looked curiously at Kit Carson across the camp fire. "By the smitten look of you, lad,” he would say, “and were we a htin--1 died miles nearer a woman, I’d i swear your were in love.” Kit would start, try not to red- | den. Then the trappers, lounging, mending tattered buckskin trousers l or scraping pelts around the fire, would laugh at his youthful discomfiture. But when they slept after the long I day's hunting on the Sacramento, Kit stole from camp. Beyond a knoll waited the Maid, whinnying with love for the boy as he came to her. Softly at first, and then hastening, they hurried over the plain to the southwest Six hours he would ride. Then the plain showed a long low dwelling of flat-roofed adobe, like the houses of Taos. Kit sprang from the Maid, leaving the bridle trailing, and hurried into the shadow of the casa. Many dogs around the ranchhouse stirred and were silent, knowing Kit who brought them beaver meat, sharing the conspiracy of romance. “Ai-eee, Christoforo!” Teresita's voice, hushed and mockingl Kit saw her then in the gloom behind the wooden bars of the deep window. In its velvet depths, her tightly-bodiced little figure was to him like an image of a young angel. “Aye, su Christoforo," whispered Kit, and how the men in camp would have roared to see their rough and ready Carson as a gallant, bowing hand on heart before a darkened window! He might tell of this long after, with embarrassment and an amused, wistful regret. They talked. Liquid we.s Kit’s Spanish learned in Taos. Burning the words. They planned with the innocence of the unguided and very young. “I’m not going back to Taos, Teresita. I’m staying here. Maybe some day I’ll have a ranch like your father’s on Mission San Jose land. Maybe we'll live near each other! Maybe . . They sighed over the delicious words which died in sighing. Only their hands met between the heavy redwood bars of the deep window. And because Kit had never seen the girl by day, she was like a dream with outlines blurred in ecstasy. One hour of this, and then to camp again. Unwearied, carrying a small antelope shot on the way as alibi, Kit took his place amongst the other trappers at breakfast. And not even Young dreamed that his youngest follower had left camp during the night, or, in the night, that the Maid had been put to the fierce run of a hundred miles! Sometimes the trappers recalled the fate of the Patties, and Smith, the only white men before them to enter California overland. Pattie had been jailed as a spy from Spain, and died in a Mexican prison. "The further we stay from Mexicans, the better,” said Young. “Funny they haven’t visited us,” remarked Higgins. “Nobody knows we’re here. None of the men have left the Sacramento." Kit liatened guiltily. To atone he worked doubly hard by day. He patrolled the banks watching for “beaver sign,” stumps whittled by

I hoffsr *«»> " ful ’ ecclesiastical, authority." He was born in Eaglesmere. Pa. April 6. 1862 ami attended | Racine college and Oxford univer-1 sity in England. He was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church in 1884. He spent some years in Tokyo, Japan, and WM elected blsliop of the inlaatoiiuiy district there. He was not consecrated there, however. Returning to the United States he became rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church in Evansville, Ind., In 1898 and the following years was consecrated bishop. His service as a bishop was interrupted when he went to France during the World \\ ar as an army chaplain. Mrs. Francis is the only immediate survivor. Red Roae Pays Rent West Grove, Pa., —(UP) —Ceremonies were held at the old Red Rose inn when Albert Myers presented a red rose to Phillip PennGaskell Hall, Jr., a direct descendant of William Penn, to pay for rental on 5,000 acres of land under the provisions of an old deed dated Oct. 3, 1748.

chisel-like teeth, logs laid neatly to form dams, mortised with clay dragged on the trowel-like tails of the hard-working Mttle animals. Standing knee-deep in the river he set traps chained to stakes driven in the banks and baited these traps with the essence prepared in camp of the castor of the beaver mixed with extract of spice-bush root. Old trappers held a beaver could scent this tempting mixture half a mile. Beavers interested Kit. Sometimes , he dug under river banks to study i their oven-shaped lodges with en- | trances hidden under water, where i on bed of moss and twigs the mother beaver bore her three or four furry babes. Green logs were sunk before

I P ij x® I ! I IWmbl I 1 rJßfr I Kit saw her behind the wooden bars of the deep window, ... Teteß was to him like the image of a young angel. I

the door for winter food. And Kit said shaking his tawny head: “Beavers are smarter than lots of Indians—and white folks too. They build better'n lots of people and provide for winter and build dnms. Once on the Mississippi I seen a beaver dam fifteen hundred feet long! Tarnation if it don’t seem a pity to kill the little critters.” But fur was coin. Every gentleman in the United States and Europe must have his beaver hat, ladies their beaver bonnets, travelers their beaver robes So Kit helped set the traps and released and skinned the prey. In camp the pelts were scraped of fat to be stretched on willow frames. Working one afternoon in camp the men heard the crackle of hoofs beyond the oaks. Each trapper sprang to his rifle without word from Young. “The Mex have found us," exploded Yeung, “But how—’’ Kit burst into laughter and dropped his gun. “Here he rides around the knoll,” he said gaily, “No soldiers, Cap'n, but a priest!” Then he sobered. For the priest’s robe was torn and his face streaked with fatigue. Strong hands helped him from his horse. He sank to a bale of pelts in utter weariness. “Renegade Indians!” he gasped. “Attacked and looted Mission San Jose.” Young questioned anxiously. “Why come to us ? Why not to the Presidio at Yerba Buena? And how did you know we were here. Father?” “The soldiers are too far away and the Indians fled eastward in your direction. 1 knew you were here by the boy.” He nodded kindly at Kit and said, “Teresita told." Kit turned a burning red. He avoided his Captain’s glare. “So!” began Young, and was silent. He recalled his own youth. But the other trappers guffawed at Kit’s discomfiture. ‘‘The Indians came down on us whooping and waving torches,” ax-

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looked at Kt acorn coffee for “Since it’-'- y.- ' ' l "' ’ that we're f"'ir'. 1 ’’’ e ' let you handle me you '■ your men.” Kit’s eyes seemed to turn turquoise would write later of < arsen his eyes could be soft as a , and hard as a r.." : ' J” ,|s "B ment Young saw ’>• ’ ''T,,, H 3 “Can I take eleven. < apn- . Kit would ev. r ' ' a twelve for v--..’--- ’ perstitious with /’ from desert b. the number of fuiti ' her of the division ‘ -' par ; he pointed bis finger men his age, saying, "Hi '-ike J nu And you, Higgins.” ■ So he rode from " ■ owed Sacrament n . t.ie nr leader of an avenging band. They crossed the p.Ain Sierra. Kit jumped v ■* an arroyo. Her sma>t w * SM| landed lightly .m ' ” r M exclaimed, pointing: "Indian ' Higgins rode to him Hi was respectful and ho d the boy, "Kit,” a* b-b M “How many tracks, ( arson ■ Kit dismounted t - ■ .dy the turbed soil. , , . ‘‘l’ll say niorn'n a hundred passed here within six hours, many Indians are on e'U knows! But In.tmis dent M small parties. Maybe a h varmints are wa.tmg ' n am "EH over that'ar hill.” , , Kit pointed to a low ' ' ' Sierra. At his hack lay r and two hundred »;:!»' first Mexican habit it unfriendly. They were hemniM g every way by danger. jHK Kit shifted his long nr< m - t iness. His eleven foii" .u -; , V doubtfully at. one another their beardless leader M ■ Higgins muHcred, "r--- ■ only twelve ...” (To be continued' M Coptti«»« b» r-rei.™ HH ouuuwwiw b.-vv f’- 1 -W