Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1939 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR PublUhad Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Inoarporated ■ — Entered at the Decatur, Ind. Font Office *a Second Claas Matter I. H HellerJ»roaident V R. Holthouse. Sec y. * Bub. Mgr Dick D. HellerVice-President ■"Subscription Ratos: Single copies 1 -02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier — 5.00 One month, by mail .30 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 aro within a radius ot 100 miles Elsewhere 13.60 one year. Advertising Kates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative BCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago — Charter Member of The Indiana League ot Home Dailies. Don’t put oft any longer getting your 1939 automobile license. Time will positively be up March Ist and the grand rush is on. Another cold wave is on but its mild compared to some of those we had a few years ago when zero was considered comfortable winter weather. The McMillen sale of farm goods was one of the best in this part of the state it is reported. A large crowd attended and the bidding was spirited. Subscribe for the Daily Democrat. Hundreds are doing it each j week and we hope the big job of ■ renewing every one on our list , who gets the paper by mail will be completed the next ten days. > Hundreds have taken advantage I of the magazine offer in connec-; tion with the Daily Democrat. It's the best combination buy we know of. Ask for the circular giving you the various combinations that can be had in connection with the Daily Democrat. If the G. O. P. leaders of the | house succeed in holding up the j appropriation bill because they can ’t do a lot of silly things pro- j posed, thus forcing a special session, they will never be able to explain to the folks at home, the i soundness of that kind of public , service. ■ ■■ While a Gallop poll shows that i at this time Tom Dewey of New j York is the ace candidate for president on the Republican ticket,, with Senator Vandenberg a close , second we are still playing a hunch , it will be Bob Taft of Ohio when the convention gets down to “brass tacks.” Robert Heller, representative from Adams and Wells counties, has introduced a bill in the legis- i lature providing severe penalties , for those tavern keepers who sell liquor to minors and providing that I he must not guess at it, under dan- , ger of losing his license. There , can be no argument against such ! a measure. The average person can drink enough liquor after he | or she is twenty-one and it not so liable to form a habit that will ' stick through life. The house has defeated the wage and hour bill in Indiana and wc can’t help thinking it a wise move. If the statesmen know any way the average small business man can carry any more loud they ought to pass it along for most of them have been paring down overhead to the lowest possible point aud living on less than they pay employes. To add further to their 1 burdens is just out of the question and would probably do far more barm than good. Only twenty per cent of the automobile licenses aud lags for 193 k have been issued, according to Frank Finney, director of inot-

. or vehicles for Indiana. More than I a million licenses were issued last . year and it is expected this will inj crease to 1,100,000 this year but so far only 200,000 have taken care ■ of this duty. Governor Townsend I extended the time until March Ist, which is only ten days away and . is positively the deadline. Those who held off expecting some I change in the law should get busy I for it is well assured this will not occur. It will be a grand rush from uow on in and you should get yours early. The effort of the Indiana Historical Society to preserve the wooden bridges of the state is worthy of serious considerattiun. The old bridges were built by master workmen and their use to this day is sufficient evidence of the engineering skill of the old builders. Some of them are still in use on state highways and many of them I can be found on the county roads, i Originally hnilt for horse and I wagons, the sturdy old spans have been adapted to the heavy traffic of automobiles and trucks. With \ the expansion of the highway program, these structures are gradually being replaced. — Richmond Paladium—ltem. We lost fifty thousand men in the world war and thought that was awful. It was. Now almost that many people are killed and many i times more injured in automobile accidents that are avoidable if sufficient care is used. There is seldom need for driving sixty or seventy miles an hour, but hundreds do. it is wise always to have good I tires, it is necessary if your drive with safety to keep control of your car at all times. J. 8. New- , combe of the state highway de- : part meat, who has made a long I and careful study of the subject ; of the matter talked to the school ‘ children this week, advising them to use the greatest care, both as pedestrians and us car drivers. Every one else should join the effort new. being made by the school children. THREE NEEDED MEASURES. i The house scored three hits at , one session in passing bills essential to the general welfare. The I further progress of this legislation should be expedited in the Senate, that the bill may not be threaten- , ed by the jam of the closing hours. The trio of bills would curb the I rush of relief ehiselers from other I states,' bar "gin" marriages aud , Gretna Greens aud end the "speed : trap" racket operated by justices j of the peace. Indiana has suffered needlessly , from the injustice of supporting , poverty-stricken folk from other states who have taken advantage, of our more generous relief program. Kentucky and Tennessee are said to have been major contributors to the stream of poor folk getting relief aud child aid doles, i Hoosiers may sympathize with the plight of these unfortunates, but , they scarcely can be expected to i assume the responsibilities other j states have ignored in caring for i the needy cases. The desired Ind- ! iaua law will require three years’ I residence in this state before perI sons can be eligible to relief. The House approved the bill, 89 to 0. Marriages resulting from gin i parties, larks aud sudden whims would bo prevented by a proposed law requiring persons intending to marry submit Io blood test examinations for syphillis not more than 30 days before receiving the license to marry. The bill makes certain exceptions where objection is offered on religious grounds. It is unfortunate that expediency seemed to require such exemptions to provisions of needed health leg--1 islatiou. The authorities should be ■ extremely vigilant, if the measure I becomes a law, to prevent abuse of alleged religious scruples. The third bill approved by the : House would halt the holdup and daylight robbery of motorists by ' justices of the peace and coustaI bles operating “speed traps" in

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several parts of the state. Motorists from other sections of the state or country are dragged into these courts without justification. The victim usually pays several dollars to escape further legal action. The House bill will prohibit constables from arresting motorists except when serving warrants which have been issued by the justice of the peace. Since the unscrupulous J. I’, racket scarcely can foresee who will be touring a particular stretch of road, their lucrative abuse of authority should ! be terminated. — Indianapolis | Star. o * Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee * : « Q. When a hotel guest wants information about a train schedule, or the transfer of luggage, what should he or she do? A. Phone the hotel desk and ask for the "Porter's Desk," or Transportation Desk." Q. At a public dinner, where the i speaker's table is long and nar- i row, should the chairman, or toast- ' master sit at the end of the table? ! A. No; he should sit in the cen-1 ter, at the side. Q. Would it be all right for a

Civic Celebration Honors Oldest Cat in U. S. 'i c 3 ■ ■ Ji Ai ■ L 'T 1 ✓ * &• x t t'A-j ‘J ' v fl v v \ I ’ i. ' ***£. •"/' . Tommy Clark among his birthday greeting cards

Well known as th® oldest cat ui the United States, Tommy Clark, 24, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., rests after looking over ilia fan mail and birthday greet-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 18.1939.

* ♦ Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the | Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. No. 2. Vice President of the U. S. 2. Commerce within a state. I. No. 5. Joe Louis, by a technical knockou' in the first round. 6. The Mediterranean. 7. Yes. 8. No. 9. No. | 10. Central Europe. i — 0 Short Waves From Afar Mix Kelso, Wash (U.R) — Radios in police patrol cars picked up strange calls here. The signals were finally traced to the Amarillo, Tex., police short wave system. a 15-watt transmitter about 2.000 miles away. o . ♦ 1111 ’• Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Better Bubbles The next time the children wisli ' to blow soap bubbles, add a drop I or two of glycerine to the soapy . water. This will produce bubbles ' bridegroom to wear a butonuiere I of lilies of the valley? A. Yes.

, that have more color, and that will last longer before breaking. Care of Pans Be sure and start right in scouring the new pans, outside as well as inside, and you will never accumulate that ugly brown stain on the bottoms of the pans. Quicker-Drying Stockings and socks will ttyy i much more quickly if, after washing. rinsing and wringing, the hand is run through each one. all the way to the toe, to thoroughly separate them. o Budapest Police Bilingual Budapest (U.PJ — Policemen stationed at important traffic centers here are required to speak several languages with fluency. Budapest, a cosmopolitan city, hopes to make all visitors feel at home. Silk Landmark Doomed Mt. Pleasant. O. (U.R> A building in which the first American silk was grown has been ordered razed by lhe state fire marshal. Built in 1842 by John W. Gill, the 1 structure served as a place for development of silk worm cocoons. o ♦ • | TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say, “I paid a visit to | j New York City;” say, “made a | | visit.” * «

| mgs received from friends A civic celebration was to be held in his honor, Feb. 17, with the mayor I honorimr. Touunv-

MONROE NEWS Mr. uud Mrs. Jim A. Berry of rural route 2 Decatur, vpent Wednesday afternoon visitlug frlonds and relatives in Monroe. Donna Lou Crist. duuhgter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Cr.st, who underwent an appendicitis operation at the Adams county memorial hospital, is reported improving Joe Sapp, who lives southeast of town, was pleasantly aurpilsed at his home on his birthday anniversary, which fell on Xalentine Day. A large oarry-ln supper was served. Tlie evening was spent in playing Chinese Checkers and visiting. Those who helped Mr. Sapp celebrate his birthday were Mrs. L. F. Sapp and sous, Herman Brunner and family, Mr. ami Mrs. L. A. Bi unner and family, Mr. aud Mrs. Martin Huger and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Laughlin, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Musser, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Strahm and family, Edw. .Musser and daughter, Mary Kathryn, Roselle Haines, Helen Ruth Haines, John Landrum, Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson and the host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sapp and children, Dale. Naomi and Juanita. Rolla Johnson celebattd his birthday anniversary with a party for a group of friends and relatives Sunday at his home. Those present

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SYNOPSIS i In the spring of 1829, Kit Carson, * j then 19, first rode with a party of trappers from Taos, New Mexico, c across the desert and into Califor- ' nia. The men sought beaver fur which * was then to commerce ' | ,what gold was later to become. Fighting the Apache, harried by Mexican authorities, ambushed by the Mojave redskins, adding always ' to their store of thick pelts—the ‘ 'party reached Los Angeles before ’ they returned to Taos. For one brief week Kit knew riches and I revelry. At length, “I’ll never be such a tarnation fool again.” vowed < Kit, nor was he. In the fall of 1830 ■ Kit rode again with a band of trap- 1 pers who followed what would later be the Oregon trail. Snow— i and Blackfeet Indians—halted them t in the region which was later to ; become part of Wyoming. It was j during a brush with the Indians < that Kit first caught sight of the t beautiful maid, Pine Needle, whose < father, the mighty CJtief Red Bear, ■ he was so soon to meet in personal i combat. 1 CHAPTER VIII Kit fired. The chief of the Black- ' feet pitched forward. The arrow j trained upon Kit broke under him. Juan, the Indian boy Kit had brought from Oregon, ran forward with his knife and took the scalplock of Red Bear. Kit was furious. “That’s plain onchristian,” he scolded. . . . But he was thinking of the girl in white doeskin who had ridden beside this chief. And he thought uneasily, “She'll hear of this. Tales travel fast among the Indians. She’ll think I’m to blame.” They waited all day and night before the grove, but the chiefless Indians remained hidden. The trappers made litters of long poles and buffalo hides to swing between horses for the wounded men. Trap-per-fashion they sucked cleati the wounds, bandaging them with the inner bark of sycamore. Jacques, the French Canadian, had been shot in the right leg, evidently with a poison arrow. During the day the limb swelled and discolored. “That leg's coming off,” said Kit grimly. Even Jacques could not protest. Ho pulled a deerskin robe over his face and bit its stiff folds as his friends worked to save him. Kit's hunting knife, an ax to break the bone, a blade heated white by fire to cauterize the wound, and the thing .was ever. When the awful task was [done, Kit was nearly as spent as the '■man whose life he had saved. “I seen that done once on the i Santa Fe trail,” he told the men, “I Iwas a sprout of sixteen and I did the 'cauterizing. Injun arrows can be more pizoueos than a dozen rattlers and Gila monsters put together.” He brought his men safely back to Captain Fitzpatrick’s camp on the Arkansas. Through the remaining months of , that winter, thoughts of the scalped chief troubled Kit. To kill an Indian was white man's work if the Indian deserved killing. But to scalp him later was, as Kit often said, plain “onchristian." Only later when a bounty was put on Indian locks did white men take up the savage practice. It was the Indian girl’s hearing of . this he dreaded. Already his men had given him a new title that would be spread throughout the plains, “The Avenger.” The taking of that scalp would be laid to him. . . . Indian troubles thickened around them. The death of Red Bear would be avenged by the Blackfeet nation. “They’ll get even with us sure,” K’t told Fitzpatrick. “We'd better find a new camp for the spring hunting. Fur will be good after this cold winter and we don’t want to spend our time fighting Blackfect.” So they camped in a spread of sagebrush under a green hill in Wyoming and Kit, not certain the Blackfeet Indians would not follow, ' ied the horses’ forelegs to prevent n Indian stampede. Fitzpatrick set n .extra guard. And one night uner the widening stars es spring, -the *appers wakened to tO crack of i entries’ rifles as a band of Indians

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were Mr. aud Mrs. J. N. Burkhoud, I Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John Jonnson, Air. and Mrs. Walter Mose and daughter of Muncie and the host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Johnston and children. Arveda, Neva and Lavere. Richard Reinhart, son of Air. and Mrs Reuben Reinhart, who has scar- • let fever, is reported improving. The Reiuhart home has been quarantiaed since Wednesday morning.

tore down the hill to stampede the horses. “I thought they’d come,” Kit chuckled, sitting up in his blanket without troubling to lift the long Hawkins rifle*, that was always clutched in his arm as he slept. “They haven’t any of our horses, Cap’n. I hobbled ’em!” And truly, at dawn the horses were found safe in the sagebrush and with them was an extra horse standing over his dead master —a Blackfeet warrior killed by the guard’s rifle. Kit knew Indian trickery and could match them trick for trick. Now he said, “We’d better get at least a hundred miles away.” Moving up Green River they were watched on every side by hidden eyes. But the beaver pelts were rich and full that year and otter plentiful. They set traps defiantly and cursed the Blackfeet who emptied them in the darkness of night By day they saw on the mesas the smoke of Indian signal fires. They did not leave camp except in sets of twelve. Kit led such a band into an ambush of sixty Blackfeet His mind —trained by much danger to work instinctively as an animal’s—saved them. Without halting their pace, he raced with his men the gantlet of savages and only two of the trappers were slightly wounded by arrows. “Saved our scalps, narrer shave!” Kit reported to Fitzpatrick. The memory of the beautiful girl continued to puzzle Carson. The Blackfeet was one of the most brutally savage of tribes. What was she doing among them? Another day he found twenty beavers building a dam. This was a piece of rich good luck, and the trappers waded into the dam killing the furry toilers with clubs. Kit glanced anxiously at the sun. “Must be about four o’clock,” he said, “No time lo skin ’em. We’ll cache the lot and come back tomorrow.” To cache such a large haul required great skill. Kit had learned the art from French Canadian trappers who took it from the Indians. The men dug a pit on the river bank, laid in their beaver, and carefully covered the holo with the sod. Then all was dusted with earth and care--1 fully blown so not a human print 1 should show. Kit surveyed the 1 ground admiringly. “That’s a right smart cache,” he i said. But when they j-eturned next day the cache had been rifled—the rich ’ fur was gone. So Kit Carson swore eternal warfare on the Blackfeet ■ tribe. Then Fitzpatrick gave him s eleven men and wished him God ' speed. Over rolling mesas and green prairies in this spring of 1832 rode > Kit Carson, “The Avenger.” i Between criss-cross of buffalo trail he perceived the “Indian sign.” The twelve trappers reached a 1 great village. 1 “Blackfeet!” said Kit, his eyes i agleam. i From the buffalo hide tepees, > women and children ran wailing. > The tripods before the fires bore no 1 shields. “The warriors are away,” gloated Kit. “We can capture the women and I make the Blackfeet swear to peace.” J Then he once more saw the Indian 1 girl of his dreams, clad in the white ■ doeskin of a great chief’s daughter, 1 wampum in her hair, scorn on her lips. Spokeswoman, this beautiful i girl, for her tribe. i She addressed him in the Black- • feet tongue: “We have heard of you, Kit Carr son. So now you make war upon - women!” Kit’s men wore avid. Here was i such revenge as they had never hoped for. f But a slender girl was defying i Kit Carson, queenly in her dress of 8 fringed white doeskin, with the , white wampum of a chief’s daught ter in her plaited hair. Before her t blazing beauty Kit’s glance grew - shameful. Suddenly he leaned from s his saddle to study her fierce glance, ’ “Gal!” he cried, “Do you know s your eyes are blue?"

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She faltered in hsg fierce ti Her face was suddenly humbk if afraid. • “I am Red Bear’s daughter, said, “You killed my father.” Was she? Kit would never the truth from her. PineNeedl her name among the Blackfcet Kit, who would know many t would swear she was white. Many white women were found among the Indian tribei roved the continent in the pas tury. Some had been kidnappe were held for ransom. Some married or adopted into the t Many a pioneer mother who d the great trek westward left a to be reared by the redsk people. There were famous cases, himself as a boy had seen, crossing the Rio Grande on hii to Chihuahua, a white girl Apache band who hid at hi proach. Many white women ransomed but fled from civilfl back to husbands who were i and babes half-Indian In th ties there would be the faniou: of Cynthia Ann Parker, stol the age of nine by Comanchei massacred her family in Texai decades, Cynthia Ann was a 1< in the Southwest. Citizens an< diets tried in vain to rescue The white girl fled from them. Cynthia Ann became the m of Quanah, the last of the | Comanche chieftains. a And there were more an cases. As early as the year three hundred Welsh men women came to America. They ished. But it is said that V words are to be heard in the K dialects of Oregon. Also, wha came of the colony founded in in Virginia by Sir Walter Rai that vanished leaving behint single word “Roanoak" carved tree ? In red streams crossing our tinent, much white blood mingled. Kit Carson would often wo recalling Pine Needle as she now, like a peeled white w wand before the darker Blac women, defying Kit and avengers. Her lack of fear delighted He knew the trick of it, tig down fear, feeling only conti In this mood she was Indian. “I like your gumption, gal told her with the smile that ha< women’s hearts from Taos to fornia. • Her answer was like » “Scalper!” “Listen here, ma’am,” Kit tested, shocked. “I didn't do to your pa. Scalpin's a dirty I trick.” . Instantly he was horrified, blue eyes in the tanned golden blazed. “Well, I—” he floundered Ul pily, and backed his ha.t-bt horse away. “We’ll be moseyin ma'am. Beggin’ your pardon His men stormed after him. “You can’t back out of this, Cap’n sent us to get even.’ Kit’s answer deepened then dignation. “How was I to know he wai pa!” , . She was beautiful, and she defied him. Riding back to Green River camp, Kit warred his thoughts. Probably she w» dian! Probably he was a fool bergo! Moving up Green River, tne. met the trapper, Antoine Rom of the famous family of we. traders, and his men. Antoine been the first fur trader out o. Taos. (The Fort Robidoux, whu founded in’ 1832 in Colorado, the pioneer American trading beyond the Great Divide. M with Kit Carson. Antoine serve as interpreter with <> Kearny in California in 184 M The two bands joined and roo gether toward the great rendezvous where all the trapi of the Southwest would gstne sell their furs to the traders i St Louis. » (To be contiaueJ) c«ans>*iir—