Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1939 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published (very Evening Except Bunday by TH* DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. ’ ' | L‘*‘ • I •’> Enured at th* Decatur, lad. Pont oa< v aa B*cond Clam M attar I. H HsUar..... — President i. M. Heithuuae. Bae y. A Bua. Mgr. Dick D. Hsllar ___Vke President BuMcription Rata*; •logic eoptea | 03 one wee*. by carrier ,li> □no rear, by carrier ——l.oo Oaa mouth, by mail .36 Three moulha. by mall „ 1.00 •la months. by mall 1.71 One year, by mail 390 One year, at ofßca l.ou Price* Quoted are within a radius of 100 ml lee Llaewhere IS.hO one year. Advertising Rats* made Known oa Application. National Ad ver Representative BCHEEKER A CO. II Lexington Avenue. New York U East Wacher Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Homo Dailies. Buy a poppy Saturday. May 27th < These little token* are made by disabled world war veteraaa and the funds thus raised go to provide these men with a few extras that mean much to them. Almost time for the annual spring cleaning up ut the city. Join with the street force and help make it the heat one ever. It's a great asset to auy city Io have ev- j ery uook and corner (leaned The new cooling tower will further add to the Decatur Light and Power Company's plant, considered one of the best in the country and an institution that is doing much lo help make Decatur a real city. The sun will shine one of these , days, the war scare will be over, business will start booming, there will be building aud highway improvements and every one will be busy. Start smiling now aud be ready tot it. Au hour in church tomorrow will make you forget your worries of the pa-•„ week aud help you over I those to come. After all there is nothing so important as right living aud the teachings you receive from attending church. Yep, it’s a little cool, but it's better thia way than to have spring a mouth or so aud tbeu a ■ old auap. Perhaps when we get good weather now. it will continue a while, permitting the spring work on the farms and helping generally. The coal strike should be settled immediately tn order that many may not suffer for a lock us fuel. It is certainly not right lo punish the people generally for any misunderstandings there tuny be between the miners and the operators. The local stores have lust what you want and ut lower prices tbau J you will find In other cities. If you I ar* looking for spring clothes, lot , new furniture, tor hardware. tor. lumber, for any thing you may nerd for the home, to- sure to try Ihe Decatur stores. Mrs. Lt hr I Kuufman of Toledo ' died in a Battle Creek sanitarium this week and hidden about her clotto-s and the bed she had occu pled three weeks, was found a half million dollars tn cash aud eecurities Bhr must have believed In having plenty ot cash on hauds when she travelled. According to the "merry-go- i round” column from Washington. Brutish statesmen are elay mg a meat game of business back of the war plans, with Chamberlain, the great peace talked. holding large Intervals in German munitlou plants. If these charges can be Kubstaulialed, It would seem more than ever that we should stay v Ur away I ruu. autaugliug allla&css as we can.

Millions ut (teoplv who love lo ( relax via th* detective or mystery I I story route will miss Willard Hunt-. ingtun Wright, whoa* death sc-1 , curred this week. He wrote tfhder I the name us 8. 8. Van Din* and ( ' fur years few knew he was the | former famous critic and editor 1 who bad suffered a uervous break ’! down During bls latter years he I wrote a dosrn or more ot the best , thriller* aud murder mysteries I , that have been produced, includ I Ing "The Benson Case," • Th* Ca- j i nary Murder," and the "Bishop ,> Murder Case." II ——wiam—-smsm—--1 The new railway yards at the I Soya and Buxar factories here will I j be the most modern and among <Tfr | most adequate in the middle west. | with nine tracks and a total of: I nearly two miles, giv Ing . storage \ room for a hundred car*. The Pennsylvania railway will spend a j ' large sum in providing proper fa ! j « ilitits* for the Mi Millen plant*. I which added to the other Indus- ; I tries in Decatur, makes this one I | of the best shippiug point* iu the I country. The future of Decatur is, I assured when corporation* like th* , Pennsylvania are sufficiently sold that they spend mauy thousand 1 dollar* lo meet the requirement* ' of continual growth. When the Republican candidates ’ for Congress were asking (or WPA vote* last tall, they told you your j pay was too low and they would ’ get you more They told you they I believed iu WPA and favored con- 1 ' tinning it until private industry: could provide job* for ail. That | was a queer promise, coming! from a political party which had been against WPA ever since it was created by President Rooiw velt. But Home believed, at leaat enough to elect seven Republican* I I to Congress from this state. These deluded worker* who trusted the 1 Republicans and believed them had a sad awakening last week. i When the proposal to add a luo * million, dollars to WPA fundr 1 <aiiM before Congress, lour Republican Cougressmun from Indiana' voted against it. Thomas jefferson — Recently, for the first time, I h paid my respec ts al the tomb of J Jefferson. When I stood on that ' Virginia mountainside, a few miles ' from Charlottesville, the rays of, early morning were gilding the I I shaft where rest the remains of , the most outstanding humanitar- ■ ten that nineteen centuries have l ■ produced since the great human I God trod the hills ot Nazareth It I is possible that reverence for Jel-i-rson, inculcated iu me by a long train of Democratic ancestors, may ' have swept me off niy moorings ou I that occasion, but I cannot even faintly convey to any hut*n un ' derntandlng the feelings that well-1 ed in my 1 was impressed beyond my feeble- power* of language to describe by the inscrip I tlon which he himself wrote for hl* tombaton* and commanded to • be placed there. "Here.' it read", "was buried . . Thouias Jeffprso... author of th* . Declaration of American Independence. of the statute of Virginia for ' religious freedom, and father of I j the University of Virginia." That Inscription. It »eetnod to■ me. I* more eloquent for what it doc* not say than (or what It say*. There Is not ouc word in it to show I that he had been u Member of the Congress nf the t lilted Htatv*. j Minister to France, and Secretary . <>f State, aud that he had held the I [ highest office; In the gift of his I countrymen — the Presidency of I I the United States. He wanted to - be known not for the positions of distinction he hud held but for the service he had rendered to hum anlty. That was Jeffemon, one of i the most Incomparably grand character* In the world's history; and I believe that If the mnn hurled into the teeth of tyrants the defiant doctrine that "all men ar* created oiinal" were living today. ’ under modern conditions el rapid communication aud Ue gaueral

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diffusion of intelligence. he would be supporting the pru|*ueal fair • , referendum on foreign ware, which would make all men equal when I it comes to the groaiMt and moat tragic of all deeisioM — the decision that means peace or war That. I believe, would be hia twew- | i ti«th century contribution to de I uxM-racy. — From Congregassau i Ludlow ■ speech in congress ou i Jefferson s birthday this week. 1 o ' Answcn To Test Questions Bulow are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. Strait of Magellan. 2. Alpha. 3. Every ten years. 4. Instrument used to tnewsure strength of a magnetic field. 5 Connecticut. (. Al-to-path.-ik; not ai-fop'esih-ik.' 7. Anthens. • 3. Federal Alcohol Administration. > Wyoming. Montwua and Idnhv 10. Arctic Ocean 1. Cotte Rica. I 2. Noah. 3. Shellfish, particularly oysters. clams and lobsters 4. Saturn. , 5 Y *“' 6. No; he voles ou decisional the same as the Associate Justices. 7. Golf. 8. World War. » IJieel rude or wire 10. Quinine. a ... ♦ —— ——— O | I Household Scrapbook * By Roberta Lee Shoe Leather Stains For shoe leather atains ou white I stockings, uno oxalic acid in the I proportion of 1-2 ounce to a pin’ j of water, rinse and repeat until steins are gone, washing very ihomtighly afterwards Borax water will also remove leather stgins from white stockings; souk them, then wash as usual. The Bread Board Rub lemon juice Into the bread board. It will whiten the wood beautifully and will absorb all grease and dirt from the board. Keep Starch In Clothes , A little salt added to the starch Will prevent Its being blown out of the clothes while they are drying on a windy day. " ' Q i Sarawak On New Air Line Singapore (UJ»> The first commercial air service between Singapore and Harswak. the isdnjiendent state In Borneo ruled by the white rajah, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke. Is expected to Ire started shortly. Thieves Take 3173 and Shoes Cleveland. O. <UR) — Thieves I roblied laiuis Aranoff, owner of a I f ruit store, of 31)3. aud then, au .in afterthought. took bls übueu also.

DECATUR DAILY. DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. APRIL 15. 1U39.

Weather A Week Ahead As Ferecast By PROF. SELBY MAXWELL. Nated M«te pro legist <7-23, t>39 | K® '- s \ ’ ftqO . A / * la TEMPERATURE ANO RAINFALL FOR INDIANA. Aped 17 te 23. ; The N. ten E aud cgu portions will be cool Moderately tool te the W, ven aud sgtrenu- N.W puruons The extreme 8 portion will be warm I'srt* us the N E cen 8 can. areas and the extiome N W portion will be moderately wet The remaining area of the N. E sec tlou will be wet. The extreme 8 W portion will In- dry The remaining areas will be normal. Copyright 1939. John F Dilie Company MOON SUPERSTITIONS

Now that the planting sea sou of the year ha* come aud spring ha*» begun It* creeping journey north * ward you will be sure to hear pvo 1 pie talk slant I weather stipe rail- • tlon . Chief of these is belief In I the "w*t moon" aud the "dry BKIOB." Somebody may tell you that when the moon hang* high iu the spring at eunast. sad loafeg like a cup. that it will rate Ou the other haud. you will heart that if the muuu »hould lie on it* side, so that if it were * cup. the water would spill out. it will be dty. This is a I superstUton. in spring if you! should look at the old ntoun tn I the esat you would find that It lie* 1 on its side, so how could the same. itllH.ii be a "wet moon" apd a "dry ■ moon" at the same t(me? Super-, qtltton does not toll us. This is j shat makes It a superstition, it is I superficial. The blunt truth is that the position ot the tnoou ha* j no influence upon weather. The cevening moon run* high : every year in April and the sunrise moon ruu* low This is be <au*e of the Inclination of the moon’s path to the equator of the earth. The thing about the moon that make* weather is Its motion, or more exactly It* gravity pull upon the earth* fluid str env*. lop*. The earth and the moon are balanced te the sky like a groat steel-yard, with the big earth on the short end of the yard and the little rnnnn on -the l<»ng end. and they revolve about the sun, whirling together tn this fashion The earth weighs bl time* aa much aa the moon, aud the muon is gfV.WO mile* away from the d*

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Th* reaps show total effect of Hot, Cold, Wet. and Dry AW te be axpectad neat week. DAILY FORECAST 1 APR. 1939 ®1 VF a 1» to 21 22 2J 24 earth, so Ito- center of balance of the earth moon system I* 3.0U0 I mile* (torn the center of the earth. | a thousand mMea within the bell I of the earth, but by no means st 1 the center ot the globe. .Matty , factor* <aum the mouu lo ruu te iau irregular path. Every irrogular 1 motion which the moon makes in tt* orbit te transmitted lo ito* earth, so the mtsm si teally shahes > the earth. Thia shaking disturbs ; the earth • fluid air envelope and i eats up weather wave* The ' weather tnaklug motions of the 1 moon are small, but a sharp eye can detect some of the laiger of thorn. WEATHER QUESTION* Q. Where cau I obtain tutor- . mation about the people ot the i Stone Age and the weather they lived in? R. T. i A. Th* book "Man of th* Old I Stone Aga" by Henry Fairfield i i Osborn is regarded a* the classic treatise on ancient man. it la I pretty heavy reading in spot*, but . it ha* authority. Q. What season should wa rei ceive ratu iu the horse latitudes' lH E Y )J A. Tt»e "horae latitude*” or the

. ;• The People’* \oice mssw This columa for tb« us* •» our readers who wish u» mak* *«a gratlon* for th* general good or dlscuaa questions ot InterI sat Plvaaa sign rov nam* te •how authenticity. It will not be used If you preter that It j not b*. H*n**t R*l**f V* Ch>**l*r* t'oiigrcaaman George W UillH wants hono*t distribution of relief funds Millions tee reltef. but not one cent ter chlaeter*. ot which wa have planty in Adam* ix’unty. I personally know of on* case where people own two Decatur city properties Th«y ar* receiving rent ter one and living in the other. and at the same time ar* receiving township aid In reltet funds And te WPA pmjetts, supervisors who have ether mean* ot making a good living are receiving lioo * month ter their work when we have plenty of educated engineers who do not have other means of making a living and no political pull te get these government boondoggling project*. Now. Mr Editor, some people nay It's all according to whose os I* getting gored but iu my uwn case I have been disabled sinve dim barge from the World War and receive th* mag n I Arent sum ot 11710 from our government tor such disability and I am here to tell you that the government doe* 30'* in Ist<tod*, get their ram* mainly in the autumn season This <* in September and October te the northern hemisphere, and March *nd April tn th* southern. Q What is the greateot apparent distance of the planet Mercury from the sun? P. N W. A. Tw*nty-«ight degrees when all tectora ar* most favorable, eighteen degree* when least favorable. It i* 90 degrees from sen ith to hortaon. Although most people have never seen Mercury, thia planet ha* been known since very early time*. MAKE VOUR OWN BAROMETER In rv-spouse to a great many letters asking direction* ter a simple and teespeasive barometer. Prof. Selby Maxwell ha* prepared plan* tor making a home-made barometer He has prepared plans ter a very efficient weather glass. The coat to make ft I* trifling You may have plan* for this simple barometer FREK. with the compliments of this newspaper Address your request lo Prof Selby Maxwell, care ot 'hl* newspaper, uucluaiim a stamped tlei aeU-*ddreaaed envelope tor your reply Copyright 1939. John F DHIe Co

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American Hi JIB pF* i r ii! T rl |B I s it —■ United State* national* fled to 'he American rgvw* cap.tai of Albania, for refuge when Mussui ms~g w kingdom and captured the town More than tw. reported in Albania at outbreak f

not put out anything that a vater- , au Is not untitled to. it they took it away from me tomorrow I would not ask ter relief from WPA or township trustee Does until I had exhausted every available piece of property, rewl or personal, that I own in this world. People who work tor the city on part payroll st present have the nerve lo ask and get help from the township. This is the truth and a* a paid up taxpayer of Adam* c-ounty, 1 want to register a protest. Now I guess 1 have said • uougb this time but I do think It is high lime te rs rigid iavestlß*ton I want to add that the poor working man on WPA tat wcleome but if a man owns property let him sell it and live it up or turn same i.ver to county If and when he want* relief Relief can’t last forever with this abuse but Congrassmau Georg* W Oillie will do *ll in hi* power for relief of honest people. Yours truly. Frank Young. ill 8. First Bt Decatur. P. B.—l have been a Dernuv-rat tor go years and still will vote the ticket tor honest politician*.

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