Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1939 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOOUT DECATUR Published every evening Except Bunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Kntervd at the Decatur, Ind. Poet Office as tfucuud Class Matter I II H.Uer President A K- Dollhouse, Sec y « Bus Mgr. Mick D Holler Vice President ■MMMB Subscription Rates: Single copies ............... I .01 Uno week, by carrier.... ... .10 Dui- year, by carrier SQO Doe month, by mall ........ 35 Three months, by mai1...... 100 du mouths, by mail... 1,70 Oue year, by ma 11........... 300 One year, al office..-. ...... 1.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere 53.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHERRER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 15 East Wacker Drive. Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home 1 rail tea Two laws to be enforced right ] now that effect the general public : are those fixing regulations for bl-[ cyclists and for truck weight taxes. To be safe, find out the exact laws and then obey them. Fair weather for a few days is predicted and is highly appreciat ed The rainfall has oeen more' than sufficient recently and there I is much work to be done in the | fields. Corn will be knee high by ' the Fourth of July and the beets are showing improvement. The G. O. P. partisan press will probably try to belittle the recep ' lion for Commissioner McNutt but they will find the people general ! ly are really for this man who ha* made good every time he has been ' given a trust and has performed in : a manner that convinces every one 1 of his ability. We are proud of the tact that a i number of the older citizens of the county have taken this paper for I more than half a century. Among : these is Jacob E. Henschen. one of . the highly respected < It liens of the | county who has been a consistent reader of the Decatur Democrat since April, ls"» and who is paid in advance the coming year. Even with a 1200 pension plan in operation, we would have our poor people and our ne'er-do-wells for there would still be the thrifty and the spenders. Some folks en joy saving money while others gel | their pleasure from spending it. That s the way the world has always been and always will be because that's the way people are made. Business is improving, according to those in the best position to know snd most tradesmen and most men physically able to work are busy. This should continue during the summer and autumn and well into the winter, they believe. If those who waste time deploring conditions, would devote that time to making greater effort, it might be better. Argue as we may. oppose laws you wish, but remember that whoever Is hi executive office, regardless of party, will have to continue to collect taxes and plenty of them, to meet the demands of those who would have larger pensions, better conditions and please us all with appointments and distribution of patronage. H's just one of those unsolved problems that can't be permanently worked. Few people realise the efforts now being made to control newspapers. That's serious for with a censored press, you lose fire speech next. There arc now seventeen bills in congress aimed at some form of licensing newspapers. We know of nothing that is more dangerous to the republic, founded on the rights of free press and Speech. It is serious that so many members of congress would even be thinking along those lines.

Poalofflce inspectors are checking newspapers now and are charging publishers where subscriptions have not been collected over the '• time fixed by segulations. Oue Missouri publisher had to dig up I I son and another nearly two thousand. the cost being two cents per 1 copy per issue, after the limit pert milled which la fixed on the basis of frequency of publications. HubI acriptloua are expected to be paid 1 in advance uuder government reg- * ulatlons. 1 _ ) > The Democratic Editorial Meet- * ing will be held at French Lick Beptetuber 15th and 16th and Tom Taggart, proprietor of the famous hotel there has announced a rate of six dollars per day. to apply also for those who wish to get there In advance aud stay a few days aflerwrds to enjoy the famous resort. The charge includes meals and those who have enjoyed tbe hostelry will tell you they are real ' meals. The program will be Inter- | esting and you will enjoy it U you attend. Don’t “kid"' yourself that the truck weight tax law docant include every oue wh oowns and operates a truck and deni think that the officers won't find out whether or not you have the license | plates. Hundreds have already been ! arrested over the stale and more i will be listed during the next few | days. You may not think it a fair I distribution of taxes, but it's the law, regardless of Governor Townsend's efforts to have jt changed ' and as long as It is the law, there | is nothing officials can do but euI force It. Other-wise they would be I responsible tor the failure to do so. The tree trimmer who sat on the ' end of a limb and theu sawed off ' the limb has nothing on certain ; automobile drivers, la there auy i difference as far Ac results are |concerned between the man sitting on the end of the limb aud the man who drives an automobile recklessly by passing people on hills and J curves aud at intersections? The man in the tree we would call a "fool." Much stronger language has bees used by drivers who have been tiasscrd on a hill by a reckless driver. Innocent people hecome the victims of such careless acts, and serious accidents result. It's stupid to take a chance — it's smart to drive carefully. — Hart- | ford City Neu No Hoosier ever received a welcome as will be extended to Indiana's man of the hour, Paul V. McNutt, high commissioner to the i’htiliplne Islands, when he comes back home to Indiana next Friday. Fifty bands aud delegations from every county in the state, will form a parade of thousands and there will be no doubt in the mind of the popular ex-governor or any one else as to the enthusiastic earnestness of the people for the candidacy of this great man for the presidency. It will be a gala occasion, closing with a reception at which Mr. and Mrs. McNutt will greet their old friends and neighbors. marking the real get-away of the McNutt for president boom. The- premature sound of exploding firecrackers forcibly calls to mind the new state regulation which prevents the- sale- or use- ofc fireworks previous to July 1. Dealers who permit fireworks to be purchased prior to the first of the month place themselves subject to arrest, and persons who buy the explosives are likewise llshle to punishment. The last General Assembly enacted a law which provides for the display in stores Os fireworks from now until July 1, but prohibits their sale. The Legislature also outlawed the sale of Fourth of July explosions to Indii vlduals allot this year. If is the ■ duty of parents to see to it that I their children do not violate tbe ’ law by purchase or use of explosi ivas before July L It also is the duty of police officials to enforce

PLENTY OF "FIREWORKS" THIS YEAR! • 1 ’n ■' I & 11 Jr ' /) X 1 ’OPLACE / X Fo ” J Vs i m Xu *-

DECATIR MAN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) drink distributor declare*. handle* more of that particular product, than any other person or firm in Decatur When interviewed. Clum estimated that he walked 10 mile* a day, seven day* a week, lie make* one trip a day to the soy bean far tory <o canvas the factory worker*. Ihi ring the sugar factory "run" be also "makes" that factory. Clum is happy and contented. "I ain't making any too much, but I'm getting along When business is alow. I figger this way tßey ain't spend it when they aiu't got it." Thus he accepts the depressions. recessions and fluctuation of the business world. If he "can't do a little business on this corner I move my store down to the next—ll may be better there." I Clum scoff* at the suggestion that 10 miles a day is too much exercise for a mau of nearly W I esja-ctally when his suet are crippled . "I'll do it quite a while yet., young fellow." He is out on the streets at 8I a. m and plods along behind hi*' pushcart until altoqt ». JO or 9 p in ■ ilia "pet peeye' is the autrdst who' honks hi* horn so loudly when he 1 pulls up behind she little white cart. However, he waves a "come on" sign and 'ingles the cow bell that bangs near the handle of the cart. Next to discussing the days when he "was a darn good trainer and driver, if I do say so myself." Clum likes beat the new slogan, which la so often heard but hardly ever deciphered by local cltixen* "Buy some Ice cream —.freeae your teeth and give your tongue a sleigh ride." ■- - | | TWENTY YEARS *| |* AGO TODAY j June 21 — Farmers are fighting the army worm which la causing much damage In the state and has leen near Linn drove tu this county. The stale highway commission will start with 3006 mile*. U H. Wroght la named director. No roads touch Adam* county. C. E. Bell and W. A. Klepper return from a visit in Pittsburg. A now building two stories 30x65 t* started at sugar factory yards to be used a* a pulp room. Illg meeting at Monroe to boost the proposed tuberculosis hospital. Johnny Corbett is home from s*vi eral years army service ii. Mexico . and overseas. O I —■ 11 Figures Strangely Match f Bristow. Okla (U.RI - Amaxed was the word to describe the postoffice staff here. Employee checked and rrcheckcd ftguies but their f first total was correct. Ilecelpta for the Bristow post office for the last quarter of 1938 were exactly—to the penny the same aa tor the I tins) three months of 1931. The , total was 17,922.43. • the regulation both as It applies e to sale and purchase and as It govs eras discharge of firecrackers.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1939.

Weather A Week Ahead As Forecast By PROF. SELBY MAXWELL. Noted Meteorologist r | /I o HOT i COLD L 1 VQLT $ DRY TEMPERATURE ANO RAINFALL FOR INDIANA. June 26 to July 2 The central portion will be cool. .Moderately warm over the West ‘ era portion, with warmer weather in the Southeast area The North ' east and Hnat central portions will be normal Th. North central West [central and Southwest areas will be wet. but moderately wet in the 1 Northwest section. Tbe West portion will be dry. but normal lu tbe ; East central area Protected by John F. Diile Company

BALL LIGHTNING. OR . BALLS OF FIRE . Our recent request askjtig ex-1 ( perietices from those who had seen I ja ball of lightning brought many I Interesting letters. They help .to I | clear up this scientific mystery. We thank our readers for their 1 Interesting contributkms. Nearly all correspondents said that bull lightning ranges In slat from an orange to a basket ball, and that while these fire balls occasionally occur In rain storms they are most apt to occur in dry air and they may actually come into houses Sometimes they are silent, but often they explode, with a uoiue like a large firecracker. We offer the following hypo1 thesis of a possible explanation of ball lighttiing. ’ A lightning discharge Is an al- | lernating current of electricity. It flashes rapidly back and forth be- ' tween a cloud and the earth. ; There may be many alternations > of the current In one flash. The j actual electricity is hardly larger ; than a thread, but highly heated lu a museum we found a piece of L glass that had been punctured by lightning discharge and tbe hole ' through the glass was hardly ‘ larger than a tiny thread. Around this thread for perhaps six Inches, the air la white hot. A lightning discharge is over In the briefest ’ fraction of a second As th" beat- * «*d air coltepaes It sets up viobrnt sound waves, or thunder. 1 Lightning is crooked. Once in a great while a kink In the din- * charging Ldt may actually cornu » bac k upon itself, so that the 'electricity flies in a closed loop. Thu

, BALL LIGHTNING IS L A WHIRLING CHARGE ;i ,j/\yQ3)b> ~/ 6v r?\HS3 ■ -rw' i t ‘'■■.;.“A.t” ,, fOUß RtAOLftS riportedTukl pacts

i The maps show total effect of Hot, Cold, WoL and Dry Air to be expected next week. DAILY FORECABT JJNt 1939 JlkY dh I IG 17 P 29 30 1 13 1 INDIANA * > instant thia happens there la a shorter path via the junction and the remainder of the electricity flies off. leaving this little whirling . loop by Itself. If the air is filled with rain the loop joins the main flash of lightning and Is gone so quickly we don't see it except as a part of the big flash But if the air should be dry the electricity i In the whirling loop apparently 1 cannot escape, and so tbe whirl-. ing ball drifts oft like a spinning I doughnut When the vor.ex of electricity comes close to a con-. d u tor which furnishes an easy path to the ground It breaks down, aud there la a lightning flash between the whirling ball and the conductor which makes the sound of the explosion that ends the ball of fire. WEATHER QUESTIONS Q. What la a comet? M O, A. Carnets ars gaseous and partly solid bodtea of the Solar System. They move in irregular erbita. Comets never reach the earth. Q. Does damptieas cause furni- • -turn to creak? J. M. > A. Dampness causes wood to swell and glue to be sticky, hence I > | It should make joints in furniture

| J AnHwent To Tent Questions Below are the answers to tbe Teat Questions printed on Page Two ♦ * - i,— ■ W 1. Montgomery. 3. Instrument foi the measure-, ment of electric currents in terms of the unit called the ampere. 3. Yes. 4. Richard K Byrd and Floyd! Bennett. 5. Met asnor -fo-ais; not met a ! mor-to'sls. 6. Constantinople, now called Istanbul. ?. Golf. 3. California. *. A flying machine whose supporting surfaces arc rotated mecha-, uically. 10. Floyd Roberts. 1 o —• ■ Modern Etiquette •y ROBKRTA Ltk ♦ Q. Where should one data a social letter? A. It is customary to place the date in the lower lefthand corner of the final page; though some place It at the upper rightinnd cor-, ner of the flrat page. Q. What people should always be Introduced? A. The guests at a bouse party, j a group of persons who are to sit together anywhere, and everyone at a luncheon or a small dmner party. | Q. When a man goes to buy a wedding ring for hla bride, may she go with him? A. Yes; and he may give her tbe privilege of selecting the ring. o + Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee |O I « Suede Shoes The shiny spots on suede shoes ( may be removed by rubbing them with fine sandpaper. Soqkmp Clothes If the doUes are soaked too long th? dirt la distributed through the fabric and imparts an ugly color to ‘ the clothes If you are going Io soak i tbedclothes over night, be sure that the water is cold, otherwise ths ctartbes wIU be a poor color. Boil Slowly A good thing to remember is that I ’ boiling liquids are no hotter when boillug rapidly than when bailing' s’owly. Have just enough tlame to keep the Itqusds at the boiling point, '■ tighten. I suspect squeaky furniture resulted In the beginning from air that was too dry. Once the joints are loose they will creak in any weather. I know. I’m sitting in just such a chair. Q. Do thunder storms cause milk to aour? R. B A. No. The hot weather asso- j Cis ted with the storm aids the growth of the bacteria that court the milk. Milk on ioe will not sour, even if lightning hits the house. THE MAN IN THE MOON I Tbe lugubrious looking face , seen when the moon is full has sometimes been called the “Man In the Moon." These dark spots on the moon are thought to be flows of lava from a time when the moon was red hot. and they , may have been made by tidal ■ attraction from tbe earth Prof Selby Maxwell has written a very interesting moongraph ! about these moon spots It will lie sent to you FREE upon request Address your letter to Prof Selby Maxwell, care of this newspaper, enclosing a stamped (1c), self addreaaed envelope for reply. Just ask for the "Man In I the Moon." Long’s Brother In A x 1V i % Earl K. Long * || ' For a long Ums Earl K Long, i lieutenant governor of Louisiana | and a brother of the Ute HueyP. Long, has sought the guberna-1 . torial chair in hU State Now he | <sta It through the resignation of' i Gov Richard Leoite The retiring i governor gave m health as the i Mason for his resignation 11 U months batora his term expires.

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• By HARRINON < A KROLL Cesyrtskl. tins k»s geatarea Syedlrala, las. HOLLYWOOD.-Seldom la Mlc- ' key Rooney aquulched but Clark Gable did it neatly on the "Babes in Arms" set the other day. Rooney, who is an uncanny mimic In addiI ton to his other W, 2 Ji' 111 ’ picture■FT Gable and LiI wp 4 f,n, ’l Barrymore k Both the older M ' 'jltf stars dropped ■ , s out 10 lhe Set t<> W see themselves taken off. "That's not PUckey Rooney bß<l . Mickey." said Barrymore when the scene was over. "And what did you think of the one on you, Clark?” grinned Rooney. Gable considered for a moment "Well, I’U tell you, Mickey," he finally answered, "one at us is rotten!" A premature baby has been bom to Mrs Herbert Cohen, wife of the R-K-O assistant producer who hung himself at the studio recently. It's a little girt and both mother and child are all right Intimates are still bewildered over Cohen's suicide. Ho killed himself on his birthday. Fellow members tn the shorts department had bought a cake for him and a birth--lay party was waiting at home. Richard Rosson, M-G-M director who was Imprisoned for a month by the Nazis m Austria, has sailed from Liverpool, England, for New York. It's supposed to be a secret ; but he will report to Washington before returning to Hollywood. Universal s baby star. Sandy, a 15-month-old girl who plays boys' parts on the screen. Mas a new standin—also a girt Youngster is named Carol Bodner and she Is the daughter of a North Hollywood physician. She is three months younger than Sandy. Metro needn’t fee] so badly about not being able to persuade Robert ("Goodby, Mr. Chips' ) Donat to make the long trip to Hollywood When Spencer Tracy was in London. he saw Donat and asked him what was the best way to go to Paris. "I don't know." was Donat's re-

and this will add greatly lu lower-! ■ ng that gas bill. < L — Z Those New Dial Phones Lynn. Maas <UPJ — Responding to a signal light and hearing a ' woman pleading. **My God, don t , ( do It," a telephone operator called police and sent them to the homes of four qubsertbers sharing the party line. At a home on Johnson Street the "crime" was solved. Uni able to operate tbe newly-lnstalb-d dMI phone, an agitated man had thrown tbe instrument to the floor despite bis wife's protests. -.. One Shot: 1.000 Crows San Jose. 111. (U.R) — A blast of , dynamite which disturbed tbe citizens of nearby Delavan and caused wonderment over the countryaide killed more than l,oeu crows ' on a farm west of here, according 1

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Ny- "1 have nsvw to Daught. r , V(j »'ir the further M Claud.- Hau., .n,! ’"'wl *•7 "re .rary - When Louise H husband. H„ rßct M ‘urn fmm th, ring a promising from one of th e conipar.hs. whom u , for a year m msk. up u. S the newcomer', would be a moderat, failure at the e nd their protege mu« home. It, success *■ - two per cent of hi, to a fund to h.i„ X’S hopeful, jf, a flne p and Louise and her h«3 take a bow for It. Lewu Stone"7ir nra- J Fathers Day rr-H<Sl admirers of his work‘d %sl senes Zar.uck u

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Joan B. • • j ahue. sister Cor.r.i* v.j ( Rolan !. . R.b Hope sfe for the east in two week* *i ing with pleurisy Hu : strapped up Robert Cas is teachine Ravmond Eu® , «y. ... It a Wallis Been , anniversary in the file* remember the name of to ,' picture. Only recalls tta I Kimball Young was Is & Hollywood irony; Josef S rg favorite with exiting a when they want *<mebodyfcj . a Shake* peart an actor >»( none now m >1 OOOiTosRM ha* neve r plave 1 a S.ittags role. ... Then there * Ke MB i description ot a certaa Mj i beauty: "She* so ;«mM she d hav* the last sox a* ■ echo."

to Harold Balmer, she M charge The bud* sere a* hedge north of hi* hosts' said, and several vxpiosti* e» had been set aiuuag t* tree*. o I Ruhr to Get Rhtna fcw Cologne. Germany W)er will be pumped m>O tk*l a distance of 19 mih* o d |as part of s2s.t*«),«W ah 1 lthenl.il Westphalia to M driM'b'< t ric power and wl industrial purpose* underß year plan. *"tOOAV 8 COMMOk M Do not say "She had a 1 tom of wringing her M