Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1939 — Page 4

Page Four

DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening ■xcept Huntlay by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind. Poet Office as tk'coud t'laee Matter J. H. Heller .. ....... President A. R. Holthouao, Sec'y. A Hue Mgr. Dick D Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies .02 One week, by carrier.... ... .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by malt 1 00 81* months, by mai1......... I TS One year, by ma 11......... 3.00 Oue year, at office..... ..... 300 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Else when' |3 So one year. Advertising Ratos made known <>u Application. National Adver. Representative BUHEERER & CO. IS Lexington Avenue. New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of. Home Deities. JUDGE DAVID E. SMITH: The passing of E. Smith, former judge of the Adams circuit court and for years a leader tn this county, brings genuine sorrow tn the many who knew him well and loved him for his worth He belonged to this community and be always considered this as tiome, visiting here frequently and enjoying the continuation of the old friendship* He came to this coun i ty with his parents as a babe, was reared and educated here and jractlced law here from 1892 to 1988. excepting the six years he \ served as judge Judg«- Smith received his law , eduotion tn the Indiana Vniveratty law school and his natural ability soon madd him outstanding in his profession. In ISM. whil< a comparatively young man. h< I was elected prosecuting attorney fur the 39th judicial district, then comprised of Adams and Jay ctmnties and served four years with great credit. Id 1913 he was elec t- > cd circuit judge, serving six years and then moved to Fort Wayne where he has since practiced law. He was the tirst Adams county man to receive the thirty-third degree in Masonry, having devoted much time and effort to this work and his interest continued during all his years. He was also active , In the Knights of I’yihias lodge, took part in public affair* and wax always an adviser and a worker 1 tor the Democratic party. His many loyal friends In this county are deeply grieved and shocked by his death for he was held in highest esteem. His wonderful ability as a speaker, his? knowledge of the law and his years «t experience made him a valuable * citteen. whose services will be missed frequently and by many group* Tn his splendid family, we extend the sympathies of every one in this community, We feel a great personal loss tor Dave Smith had been for half a century the ■ lose friend of the writer and never failed to drop in for a talk over old limes and new affairs. What a strange people we are Remember a few years ago that a word about the solvency of a bank would cause either a run or the continued withdrawal nf funds to J a point where the bank was forced to close More than two weeks ago John M Young, receiver forth” Old First National Rank of Fort Wayne announced a ten per cent distribution of funds io depositors : amounting to Sl.2Sn.omt. ft was ex ported there would boa grand rush and preparations io handle it 1 were made, hut after the first day or two. only stragglers came They still have 1117.000 on hands, await Ing those to whom It b'loiuß' wh|rh means that .about 19.000 people who ran get money by call ing at the bank have failed tn dn so. What's all this talk about so many being hard pressed? It does not seem to work out In that case and it's no different than others have been. U you can't get It you

| want it, but If yon can. you don't care. This seems to be the order of things • I Publishing purported public op | I Inion In America seems to be quite [ ;; a thing these days and a couple at times a week these stories of the I sentiment arc published. How re- ; 1 liable they are Is difficult to estab- I I llsh. but whether they arv able to I I show the cross current of opinion I 1 or not, you can’t depend too mu«h 1 on them, for we change our minds [1 over night It Mem. In January i , 1 19% of the people, according to ! 1 the reports, believed there would 1 1 be war In Europe this year. In Ap- I ' rll 51% thought there would l*e. and thia week that's down to 38%. I And what we think about it does i not make much difference auy | way. The State Highway liepartnivnt . , announces that the U. S Bureau ■ I of Roads has approved a |4.453.<MN> 1 ■construction and improvement pro-' gram for federal-aid roads In the 1 Indiana highway system. The 44.453.000 will come equally from the j I federal government and the state ' gasoline tax The program will in- J i elude the building of twenty bridg-' ea and a number of culverts and ! the paving, grading and surfacing of 107 miles of highway. The work generally will be confined to 211 'counties. The Commission complains that it will be handicapp'd I I In getting the wort under way be-1 cause of a reduction in the engtn- , coring staff, necessitated by a re-1 duction in the appropriation. Dr. Daniel Hommer Robinson has ! been named president of Butler I University to succeed Dr. James 1 W Putnam Dr. Robinson, who baa ' been head of the philosophy department at Indiana University, is a native Hoosier and a graduate lof Butler. He holds degrees from. Yale and Harvard and has studied ' abroad He has taught at Wisconsin and Miami University and bedded the philosophy department at I. U. for ten years. He Is only 1 fifty, has written widely and is one of the nation's better known educators. Both the City and State at large wish Dr. Robinson happiness in his new post. — Indianap- * , oils Tirnc-s. The big Florida project to build , a caual across the state from the gulf to the ocean has gone into 1 .the scrap heap pleasing about every one. It's all right to spend money hut "we ought to get some re- , turns and moat folks who knew a-1 bout thin proposed project. • It it was not worth |300,000.000 under any circumstances and a large part of Florida feared it would prove injuri—j* to the southern part of the •state. At that, thirty-six senators voted for it. so some one must j have put on a selling campaign. The recent legislature, led by I a few who desired to make economy speeches suiceedi'd In getting | I through a measure to reduce the staff t*f the state highway commission. They saved a few dollars Ijut j now we pay for it because we will be delayed on starting the federal highway projects, since the engin- ; •'•'ring department has been so re-1 dneed as to make it impossible to | get plans out properly. Sometimes | what appears to be a saving is [ i ultimately a loss. Mr. Hoover will visit Indiana Sunday to tell the bojtg that he is 1 against Roosevelt and the New Deal There will be nothing snr-! prising about it and we don't un- < dermtand why It was Intended to 1 be a secret, but we neve;' did un- j deist»nd the political aecuincn of I 'he fellows who operate behind the political scenes Any way Indiana , is proud «nd happy to have the j distinguished ox president come to : Indiana. Those who are booming Mr. Hoover for the Republican notnl- I nation for president surely understand that about all he could do' I during the campaigd would be try .

IS THIS WHAT THE DICTATORS MEAN BY "DEMOCRACY WONT WQRff j t~> kp* I T * i'S S/GGE/? ano /B (Miy y 1 Berrce penSiohsß XY/ SCRfWBAiL M for l-'T PENSION R SH'FrceSS f vmdai $ People p 35 — Jr. WSTORf WOSPCFITJ Irr-rzlE B NO BYDOIMO I LET THE. f LVOPK- } nothing ! ’ GOVERNMENT {> anp Support “^e 7 ' wla/u. Z '

|to explain how he permitted the I country to slip into the worst depression the country ever experI lenced. He won't get far with the delegates. Is the guess of most folks who give attention to the I great game of politics. Complaints have been received I betause automobile and truck cou- ! terns are using the highway* at this time of year as lestiug ground The cars, heavily loaded are »ped up and down the highway* to she luconvenft'nce of the public. Under I the law, so far as we know, there is nothing to prevent it. so long ' as they observe the traffic laws . As the week closes it's well to 1 think of the next one. Start now to plan to make It a busier and more profitable one. A little more | advertising, a little more effort, a I little better display of your goods in windows and ou'the shelve*' i will do it. Keep right after business. That's the only way to win. ' The contract for the improvement of th- 87 by-pass will lie let; shortly after July Ist, we are informed from a reliable source. It will Im- a great improvement and i you wt|l like it when it to com-1 pleted and traffic made safer tor the public in general. —— A suit to force the county com-1 inissioncrs to issue Itouds for the i Wabash river dredge ha* been filed here. Seem* a* though the contractor and petitioner* would soon le gin to doubt the advisability of I the project. Hundred* are planning to attend 1 th* great Hoosier sports event on Decoration Ray. the annual Speed I way race. For year* it ha* been i the thrill of the world and many from every part of the globe attend ; New home*, factories and business place* are under construction and more are being planned. The year will be one of progress for the community. ‘‘Lilac C'ty” Considers Reviving Bloom Fete Ixrrain. O„ —(tH’j—This '‘Lll*>‘ t'lty" is planning to revive Its fa mous lilac festival — until three y<ara ago the town's brightest • v<-nt of each spring. During the tost three years, fit*l* v eather has disrupted blooming schedules and forced ciuceliatlon of fetlval plans A rose festival was substituted last year. The Lorain Garden Club, sponsorI ing the event thtuks thv weather | thia year is suitable tor the occa--1 »iou. No date has been, act yet.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MAY 20,1 939.

— ■ ■■ ' ““ “ •»>. - ■'**' l -- - - . -I Weather A Week Ahead As Forecast By PROF. BELBY MAXWELL, Noted Meteorologist M*v tpjg j z uav 22-28, tss9 > ? '-A .s, TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL FOR INDIANA May 22 to 2t Th- greater part of Indiana will l»e normal, with cooler wmither tn I th.- extreme East portion The N cen . cen .8. W. portions will be ; dry Moderately dry over part of the N. TV section The remaining i ' arena of the state will be normal.

BIRDS CONQUERED WEATHER Birds alone, of all the reptiles of the past, have been able to conquer weather. Many yuar* ago tbere was an I | Age of Reptiles on the earth. Our I ' Htiake*. Ilxard* turtles are all I 1 reptiles, hut the creature* of the Age of Reptiles were these and I much more. In those days there) trod dinosaurs who stood as high ias trees. Pterodactyl* a* large as ' small airplane* flew and the Ich- • thiosauru* and the I'lesiosaurua ruled the sea. Among the reptile* I were some little fellow* too. the , ancestor* of bird*. IMnosaur* and I bird* were related. The mighty I Tyrannoaaurus was more like a j gigantic bird than any other creaIture, a bird with a loug tall, huge skull, great teeth, but whose bone* were dtstinclty avian in character. . Ancient blid* were little dinosaur* with feather* for flying In the Age of Reptile* the world had eternal summer It* climate resembled Florida and varied little I from pole to pole. With hot tropical jungle* everywhere, there was no need for big dinosaurs tn , have a mechanism for keeping | their blood warm, and they made no effort to Probably all the reptile*. except the feathered bli*d*. were ••old blooded Hut finally the weather chang'd, the skies cleared and winter appeared upon the eai’h Th' gr'at . naked cold blooded reptiles could I not endure the cold Their bare [ skins were poorly equipped to stand cold weather Birds alone had a mechanism for combating cold air. They were encased In warm feathers and able tn fly away from the worst cold of wfnI ter. The huge dlnoMUHi could carry terror to th» earth, but could J not stand cold winds, and one by one they died | Think of this the next time you ’ see a robin walking on the town.

3,4 ■' ■? ■’v—-^»'sl u*" £ . ' x”’ i i' s7f ii J47C JA. ’ fefT \I (t <&c- ■ * f* * 1 V« *>»m, But maku »inosaum mu

Th* map* show total *ftort of Hot, Cold. Wot, and Dry Air to b« s*p«ct*d n*xt w**k. DAILY FORECAST II MAY 1939 THj | 22 23 29 85 2G 27 28 29 . I 1 L2l‘n Isl L ■ , r Aift of sm wltMi WMINQ Notice that he still wears the gen- ; eral outline of a dinosaur, but by j virtue of Ilia feather* he live* out-1 side in the w.-ath.-r, while all the j other dinosaur* have died. WEATHER QUESTIONS Q Will pasture* be g.sal thia summer? M. I. A. 1939 summer will resemble 1938. but will not be to severely dry. Pasture* will probably not j be quite to good a* lait summer. Q Ice I* lighter I han water and it ha* been melting for centurie* and this water I* distributed all over the earth Will Ihl* not change th' ‘bslance originally > established, and strain the earth : Io keep it* original position? G F. A. No, a* long st the water remain* fluid. It will seek hydro- , stotie balance, affecting our glob* equally In *ll part* Q Is the tehscope mad* after your plan practical for seeing distances on land during the day as I well as celestial object* at night? i J. T. 8. i A. A itronomical power* ar* too - high for use on land, uni*** the : str I* very clear., use a weaker i lens tn th* eye piece for land. SUMMER SKY MAP I The beauty and ths splendor I of the Milky Way to displayed ' before your eye* tonight. Red Anlarles rises; the Northern i Orosa gleam* In the eastern sky The greatest show In the world

Answers To Tent Question* Below are the answers to the Test questions printed on Page Two « 1. Tennessee River t. Interstate Commerce Uomtuission 3. Hongkong. 4 J. Warren Madden. «. Yes 9. Deklur*-a-tlv: not dek-la-ra* llv. 7. A flytng machine whose supl porting surfaces are rotated meebanlcally. 8. Rio (Iratide. 9. France. j 10. Gibraltar. o — T TWENTY YEARS "1 AGO TODAY J May 30-John E. Gaffer returns from the war. The PrealdenUs message Is read , to congress. Approval of the peaeo [treaty is urged. The time for Germany to decldo ’ <>u the peace treaty is extended lo • May 294 b. The women's suffrage amendment to the constitution is being debatia free the starry heavens. The -Sky Map for early summer showing the position of all bright stars is now ready. It will be sent FREE upon request. Address request to Prof, tieltiy Maxwell, care of this newspaper Enclose a stamped (3c I self-addressed envelope for reply.

DOCTOR"*

CHAPTER XLIX Chris was not entirely cut off from past, of course. Now and then there was a letter from Ted. The gratis business was great, but everybody else was away. “You’r* net missing anything " One day Ted wrote that he had joined a private elinie. "Ass the works," he saM. “Our motto to, ’if one of us can’t soak you. another will.’" They had taken a large suite of rooms in th* new medieal building, but there was atm a vacant room or two. and when Chris came bark .. . There were totter* from Katie, too. Cheerful letter* from here and there, for she was making the usual summer round. “I haven't written for a while. There is oo much going on. Everybody seem* gay and proeperou* these day*, which remind* me that 1'1! need a little extra money, Chris. Th* tips at these place* are devastating. And do let me know how your arm la. Everybody ask*, and I don’t know what to say." He sent her money, writing hl* check* with hi* left hand and swearing furiously over his elumsine**; but letter* were too much for him. Now and then he sent her a night letter, dictating it over the telephone. But *he did not reply. Nevertheless he improved during those fir»t few weeks. There was no visible change in hi* arm. He still wore hi* iplint or, when he tired of it, the «!tr.g which supported it; he still took a drink or two at night to enable him to sleep. But hi* walk became sturdier; there was even »ome of the old eagerness in the forward thrust of hi* shoulder*. And he was using his left hand with greater efficiency. He had learned to Ml hi* pipe and to light it, to tie his necktie, and even with great car* to faster, hts shoe*. One day he took a hoe and, going out into Letitia’* garden. vietouaTy attacked th* weed* there. Some of the flower* went, to, in that assault of his; he tweeted profusely, hi* baek ached, the eun beat down on him mercilessly. Rut at the end he felt better. a* if once more he had attacked •nd beaten something, and that -light he slept and did not dream. After that it was a daily chore, and •ometimea Noel helped him. “You don’t dig them out You kill themt" , "That’* because I have a buried desire to murder any number of orople." Noel looked puxxled, but Chris was reading psychiatry now, put•Hng over th* problem of whether a nan aid his life srera th* result if forces he could not control, or he Umserf determined it. He had thought always of the human body. Now he began to wonder whether -here was something else, and if ao, what it wax "Religion call* It God. philosophy calls It th* absolute. MMogy can* it life, psychology call* “Do yon believe in God. Noel?" “Sure. Don't you?" Aa simple a* that to Noel, hoeing wildly, hie fair hair moist and his face red with effort. As aimpie aa that. You got Into trouble and asked God to help you; and H* bent down from His great white throne and did so. It wa* some time before the boy mentioned Chris's hand, and then he did ao delicately. “I don’t suppose Mrs. Miller is mueh good with that bandage." "Sh?a awful," said Clirfa. with an eye on the house. "If you like, I could eome over and help in th* morning*. I'd like t<x I’m going to baa doctor some day." "Then eome along." And ao it was fixed. After that It earn* out Into the open betwadn them. “How to It today?" *Ju4t dto adme." “Funny, «n*t nf H |«*a all right"

[cd in the V. B. senate today. Melvin Gallogly to back from tiw war and says be la gtod of it. The Decatur water jwtet will be revised. Mr and Mrs. Al Hnrdg and ami Charles purchase the Huefliug pr< party «t Third and Adams. Household Scrapbook* By Roberta Lee * —q Remove* Burned Food Rub the oven-heat stained canserotoa and baking dishes with sal*, to remove the burned par'teles of Imai. Then *<«k in a pan of warm water, suds, and btfklng sods. Wash and dry. Ths Clothe* Bag The hag in which the soiled clothes are kept should uot be neglected. It should be laundered very frequently and kept In an odorless and sanitary condition. Dampened Chamois Use a dampened thauiois, iastsnd of a duster, on the furniture about once a month. You will notice a great difference. Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q What to cognac, and bow to n Pronounced? A. Cognac to a superior Freucn l.i audy made from wine produced at c-r near Cognac Loosely usid it is eny French brandy. Pronounce km nyak. o a* In coat, a as in at. accent first syllable. Q. Should a dose fVlend rush In to kiss the bride, at the conclusion

"It’s asleep You look the same when you’re asleep, don't you?" He eonld talk to the boy about his arm. To him there were no connotations of tragedy. “I suppose it will get well sometime." "Maybe. Maybe not Th* thing to do is to be a sport about it old ehap." He was not mueh of a talker, young Noel. Year* with Hiram had made him laeonie But on one »ub jeet he was loquacious enough. This waa the study of medicine, and Chris, delving deep into hi* memory, found himself back in the early day* at medical college, at the ho*pital, starting out on his own. There was a certain release m it; the bey perhaps gravely whittling on the •tep and Chris going back, gving baek. "You didn’t get mueh sleep in those days, did you?" “I wa* young and atrong." "You're not so old now. At least you don't look old." The boy waa good for him. Hi* world waa expanding again, he thought with a faint grin. It included a boy and a dog now. But it waa still very smaii, so «ma!l he could reach out and encompass it. Neverthelse* be wa* better. The tight band around hi* head had relaxed, and it no longer exhausted him to work in th* garden. “Next year we’ll put In some vegetables," said Noel, mature and practical. "That’s a real job." “New that's an idea!" But hi* heart sank. Next year! And the year after that, and so on to the end of Ilf*. Chri* found himeelf staring blankly into th* future. Next year, and the next, and the next. Katie playing through her days, Beverly God knows where, and he himaclf ... One thing, however, happened that summer. He definitely abandoned any idea of suicide. He wa* seeing the thing through. Noel helped him there, too. He was normal and healthy. He would wander over, hi* feet bare, his overall* faded and patched, to look at Chri* seriously from under hi* heavy thatch of hair. "U>ok* a* if the fish are rising In .the creek. If you feel like trying it." "11l try anything ones, eon." And they would go together, the man and the boy. Chri*, looking down at th* indomiteble young figure, would feel himself strangely sUrred. Why hadn't he had a boy like this? Why Indeed hadn't he had this boy? Young Noel would leave him settled somewhere along th* stream and then wander off. and Chri* would cast with hi* left hand, jerking the fish out onto the grass; but sometimes he wa* unable to release the hook himself, and Noel would find him sitting quietly on th* bank, a small dead trout beside him. Chris'* face, turned toward him. would be smiling but bleak. "Couldn't make the grade, son." “Sorry. Have you been waiting long?" "Only a minute or two." But Noel would find the fish very dead Indeed, and know thst Chris had been sitting there, silent and alone, for a long time. It earn* aa a blow when the summer wa* over and the boy had to go baek to school. Chris, seeing him young and forlorn nn th* station platform, felt a sharp contraction of the heart. He wanted almost fiercely to eatch him to him, to hold him elose for on* minute. Instead he shook hands gravely, **ving the boy’* dignity and hl* own self-con-trol. "Good-bye. old pal," he said. "It wnn't be long until you’re back again. Then we'U have somv high old times." “Three months," said Noel in a flat voice. “And maybe you won't be here then." “I'U be here, don't worry " Amy wa* frankly crying a* the

■hill” 4 11 » toons % H Ailson M j,, ’WM sou m. <j.33 dih SJJ J ■t h.- i J"; lOiJ *1 o'h. t . ~it|p , SB by him from n, - B !>• hl -"..satw of ing units. ♦ TODAY’S COM»os|u Im not my. '149 4I wi? PYGMAU®

— - ■, •••’*■ ;- v»... • •-.,, xi rf™ t .... ->... ...... jlf r msfl “H- - » fine bey try ipxjß "VI me day.' ■ -. 'S :>■ 1 4 :..'• whai.’ |H ' N ’ a ■•». Airy, Nvtßfl Lie . . a-—-* gg ch* < • I.- h-i: ".'d ’he ■ ■ ..••«•«•! ts~ : -vtfl and ■ ’ IjfctlW bwß >'■• *MB gr.. . ! res: *’ ~d*B ; s;tf«Wfl ly I'. re win -..-y-tdSjM w ;.!)•'■''>■' -** S "B| the u . • ■ m h.s ■ • ■• rw AMIV . • ■■• a-' -■» h h, • utaidtsnillW mg of • g. hm!s oa tse was Kv:e. Sb theft y a.r. -he ra d. to find' 1 •■<■ . •. itr -J H, .{ there. her. *-y »» eom, h<r. “Vea .« a> hadag r'rjn-mv ••! can't wait Can you I ring tn «y Or h th< ’ « nc!>'dyM»»JJ •Tm an». •’ “ can brmc them. H, went out inW ’"MB for a wommt '/ rK3| When hr rare bark. a quick survey of M andwavwaitlnr She wav an tractive flrtreata"** "Ha amart clothe* b* pnmp" Amarine J tTjl looked, ha th' ur - * t«,, m there aurmanqgj > wav a place for her had something her <alety. aequenee. But aha M »'J there, nor to him. “You muat be tired, can talk mmorro*. | ter ret to bed. ■ She agreed. Th gone out of h»r f** ‘ f <9 silent ss ho l*» «*• J statre. „ ttM Mt 1 -I'm in here, h*" jJ ahowed h-r.tha and le-titia a •«* '“ ( m “You can *** othtrrooma. « ■«" ready for Vl ’ l ’ n 7' But and ho wm aware "-I ,W : .u !. keep e«* 1 “We'd only »w awake,” she said Pfd like to alecp ,n % |||S* can have b L f *, r”’ imagine!” „ 110 rtirfR It took two heavy’ lf nii toaendhlmto»h*%%,.aj shaved, that hh > h .WAS--’* rfta *-2?.MM*