Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1939 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Even Inf Except Sunday by fHg DBCATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorparatod altered at tn* Decatur. Ind Pom OBkw a* Secund Claa* Matter I. M HeUer ... rroaidunt A K. Huilbuuae. Sec y a Hui Mgr Died D HeUer. ....Vlce-Prealdsm buhacription Rate*. alUfle routes ...........U2 Dae week. by carrier... 1« Jne year, by 0arrtar......... fi.ou On* month. by mail.... .16 three months. by auU1...... l.Ou Six moatba. by mai1......... 1.78 Dm year, by 8a11..... 3.00 Ono year, al offtoa.... too Price* quoted are within a radius ot 100 muea Else a hero 83 io one year. — AdverUalaa Rat** mad* known on Application National Advar. RepraaMiMiv* SCHEhMEK a CO. Ik Laxtngton Avenue. New York It East Machar Drive. Chlcafo Charter Member ot The Indiana League ot Home Dell lea Try an advertisement in the Dally Democrat It pays good returns The football season start* off with a few upsets but most of th* dope from the sports writers indicates they know whereof they speak and write. ■ "Some Republicans appear to be , in accord with the President, who must feci like Abe Potash when be said of Mawrusa Perlmutter. *1 must be wrong; my partner agree* with me' —Franklin P Adams in New York Poet. Democrats and Republicans at Geneva. Berne and Monroe hast selected candidates tor the various town offices and the campaign is on. It will no doubt gain in inter eat as Novemnber 7th. the date ot election approaches. Frits Kuhn will probably i>* pretty eour on the world tn general and the government of the Vnited Stales particularly alter be gets through with his sessions in court Perhaps be will be so disgusted he will leave permanently < The world has worried about Mussolini and Hitler the past several years and now discover that the real menace is likely to txStalin. lie is smart enough to ail back, let the others do the work ' and then step in and lake what he wants. How about trying an advertising campaign thia wack? It’s autumn and the folks are buying You can sell your wares if you tell th< people about Uu-m Aud the best mediui.i la this paper which is read daily hy 15.000 people of this trading area. We just can't imagine Hitler' permitting Stalin to bring his anny ot Reda into Germany. If he does j his Nagi organisation may discover i something they like about the Com muuiat plan and there seems to be a tense mistrust between the two lewd'-rs any way This is National Letter Writing week when you are snppoM-d to write that letter you meant to send some Ume ago. Write a relative or friend whom you have neglected. The alugaji is "write today to those away". The local post i office la again participating. If you want the news, concisely, yet fully covered, read the Dally ' Democrat. This is one of the few j papers In the country that has not Increased it's price. We give you court news, daily happenings here and every where, the sports, local and national, society events, advertising values and features. The sugar beets continue to come tn by the hundreds of tons aud the big yards at the mills of the Central Huger Company are piled high. Crystal White thia year k finer and more pajkllug than ever. L'se it and know you

have the beat sugar on the market What's made In Indiana makes Indiana * hi 1780 there were only six cities In the Vnited State* with a popu I latum over S.eoo representing but ( three per cent of the population I 1 of the nation. In IMO there were j I 1.3 M with about half the populs i lion It la assured the IS4<> census . ( will show further Increases in the I urban population and a greater, ’ number of cities of over 8,000 i i The state tax will continue at j fifteen cents, the rate effective since the Democrats went Into ofi See In Indiana and which is lower ' ! than most stales. Os this less' | than oue-third la used for general , j purposes, the rest being fur teachar's retirement, slate fair, com-1 ■ mon aahool fund and a tew park i and commission levies as Used by law. The recent session of the Amer-1 ! lean Legion was not aa wild as I ■ former ones mid more attention was given to problems ot the day [ In which this great force of men I I and their auxiliaries can aid so I much. There are no better Americans In the world than the Legion ; nalres and we need them now. lu j sober, sound and unmistakable American language they asserted . themselves in Chicago. Warm up tbe rocking < hair foil the world serie* and see that it is located in front of tbe radio J The opener will be at Yankee Stadium Wednesday afternoon. After two games there, the Yanks I ' and the Reds will return to Cmi' , cinnat* for three games and then back to New York for the finish ? it that is necessary. Whether your | ‘ team wins or loses, you will get; many thrills during the series. •■■iMmmwM «■ “There is much loos*, untouud-1 ••d talk these days about wasteful I public spending Perhaps these . armchair critics are unaware of . the fact that over ttvv hundred million denars. pnurSpal amount of loans made by PWA. were so carefully selected that they have i been sold to pibal* investors at I a profit to the federal government which exceeds 13 million dollars. -John M. Carmody. Federal Work* Administrator The i-ensus to be taken next < year besides furnishing iutorma , turn as to the number of people in this country, color and sex. will include much other information sttcb as education, training. unem-: ploymeiit, wages the past year anu ' other data. There will be twenty 1 questions to be answered and com- j pleted and will give the govern- 1 inent about all the fact* they ued about the 132.000.0tw people who comprise the Vnited Stales of' | America. - It's the fiftieth anniversary of I j the moving picture industry and I | all over the world it is be ing ob- i j served It's a great business every I where and especially in thia country where we seek entertainment ■ and where this has b<-com«- a real part of It. The influence of tbe picture theater is undisputed and 1 during the next decade wiU increase. We pay our respects to one of the greatest, though youngest, industries on this, tbe s«ih birthday. — — I Reports have conic to this office I that one of the Dally Democrat harrier boys has offered to sell the ' paper fl ft cen weeks tot a dollar, a special not authorised and one in whic h the boy is sure to lose. Each carrier is under bond and since he pay* more than that for th< paper, is the sole loser. PaUons I arc urged not to accept any such I offer. This is sue of the few puts era tn the state that soils for ten cents a week and at thb time of lucn-aavd cost of materials, b a bargain at » dime ■ O ' 500 Sheds B'/jxll .Sunrise Canary Second Sheets, neatly wrapped 35c. The Decatur Democrat Lu. I

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GOVERNMENT IN ACTION ‘‘Safe Tvansportation for School Children" W 4^ -» . * * » * - ■ *4. ’» pw ' r . IZ ■ I s - w ’ | j I s3l- w At ths t<,p it shown one of ths modern, all steel body, buses equipped with safety glass and all modern safety features as provided by the statutes for school buses of today. Lower left—Owo of the first motorised school hacks and lower right—the first step iu school transportation, the horsedrawn back-

INDIANA is far ahr»l of most other states in the safe transportation of school children in the rural arras of the state, As a result of laws parsed by recent legislatures, school buses today arc built to safety specifications set up by law and are a far ery from the first horso-drawn hack*, slopping over muddy country roa<l-i. »nd the first crude motqrixed vehicles med tn this moot

Z TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY • October 3—Cinc.nnatl Reds defont White Sox 8 to 1 in firgt game 1 to 2. Odds favor them strongly. King Albert of Belgium lmd» iki j New York, first time iu history a king has trod American soil. Harry Gardner. U.e fam-.Mta "he- ' man fly" climbs the court bouse Decatur has a susar famine. Not i a pound was tor sale here today. "The President is uot at all good, •uday" was the bulletin issued byDr. Grayson. Fiance ratifies the peac. troatyj — — 0 ■ hi Household Scrapbook | | By Roberta Lee Steaming Eyeglass** Tbe annoyaacc of moisture form- 1 I iug on eyeglasses when going from a cold into ■ warm atmospher* can be prevented by moistening the tip* O( the fincers and rubbing them ever a cake of soap. Then rub them o er the len*. and polish a* usual. ' Only one applleatior. every day or

important work of safely transporting 206.246 school children ta and from rural schools dally. Every school day of the year, these hures travel 154.074 miles, or 24.783.110 miles annually, at an approximate cost of 18 cents per mile per day. or 13 rants par pupil per day. This system of transportation places the farm boy and girl on ♦he sama basis as bl* etty eouvm

I iwo la necessary. How to Keep Lemons Lcsnons may be kept nicely for week* and even months, by placing' them In a tight container and covering with coM water, which should <>• changed weekly. Froaen Faint Itoa't permit cans of paint to s-tand where tbe temperature drops to (reusing as this will ruin the paint. o— ■ — Modem Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q How should a maid hoU a dish as she present a it at the table? A. The dish should be held flat on | ti>- ptain of the left h.,nd. aud pr< • I. seated at the left ot tbe gneat. If j the dish Is hot. a napkin cm be us--1 cd as a pad underneath. Q BhouM a man hand his coat to IU woman to bora while he dons it? i A. He might be privi)eg-d to do i m if one arm is paralysed, or he 11 1* suffering severely with rhaumai, -ism. Otherwise it would be a very i |.r< sumptuous guesture. Q. When a young woman Is In- ' troducing herself socially, *houM

with rrferetre to distance from school, giving them several hours additional per day for recreation or farm work, formerly taken up in trudging too and from th* small district school houses. Tho farm boy and girl today do th«ir chores hy daylight instead of the old lantern-light of by-gone day*. bec*u*<- of government *» tlow m th*ir behslf.

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Do IM know how many fevt you travel per second al sixty miles an b»ur? Many aceidents ars caused when the motorist tails to rvalue tbe terrific speed be Is traveling a; sixty aii« aa hoar and bow long It will take him to stop the car An English judge discovtred v >my simple formula by which thl« ould be figured. The answer tq cor reel within 3 per cent Th- formula is to take the speed shewn on tk<speedometer and add one half the -peed to arrive at the number of (eel traveled per second. Try IL I am sure this will convince you bat your brakes must be in good physical coadlttoo. and above all that year judgmeu> as to when speed should be used must be of *be very best Cm you stop your ear within tbe range of vision at night traveling slaty miles an houi aud covering approximately ninety (Mt per second? It's Smart To Drive Carefully. CVBSCOUTS Ki-oiganUa'.luu of tbe De<atui Cub Scout movemeut was effected at a meeting of the Cub Pack com j mittee held at Lincoln school Re ( port* concerning the summer s ac-' tiviUee of the various dens wen given Mr Bryce Thomas gave tbe results of tbe contest held during the summer in whkh all, four of the- deus competed. Den 3. with 1.33 s points, was declared whiner Den 1 with I.MT points. I was second, with Deu I scoring' 5»3 points and Den 1. &5~ point*. Tbe schedule for October was drawn up. it being determined that Tuesday of each week be the regu lar meeting day. Pack meetings are to be held on October 3. 17.; 31. with Den meetings on the In terventng Tuesday*. Regtetration of all boys for tbe new year will sbe say. ■* am Miss Gibson." Or "I aan Edna Glbs-m"? A Sbe should say, ’T am Ed3~ Gibson-

ROMANCq Set to the exciting pace | of thundering horses’ hoofs! If on muit nead iizft K (diIHIT IEKSIISMI h jack McDonald a fflil«-«-fflinvte romance of the race frack ■ mixed with the intrigues of crafty horsemen! STARTING FRIDAY, OCT. 6 IN THE . Decatur Daily Democrat

Garner Flooded by M a 1 K (P 1 * B? tig wl (Vice Prtsident John Nance Gamer also ha. and telegrams concerning the neutrality act (h »r,„ catches Garner in on* of his letter-opccng *. ./

i take place during the coming' ; month. Boys of the ages •,1110 1 ! aud 11 are eligible to become Cub Scout* Rev, C. M Prugh was re-elected \ chairman ot ti\ t Cub Pack committee. and Rev R W Graham wa* elected secretary-treasurer. Bryce | Thomas was re-elected Cubmaster tor tbe year. The choice of an as-. Blatant Cub master was deferred ■ until' a later meeting. Regular I meetings of the committee, whkb consists of the ministers of the 1 churches sponsoring tbe Cub i groups and the Den-mothers of each Den. together with tbe Cubmaster and assistants, will be held on tbe last Thursday of each month at 3:30 P. M Boy’s Death Results In SIO,OOO Complaint Martlusvtlle. Ind.. Oct 3 dU!) ' c|A suit tor 319.N0 had been filed against the Public Service Co. of

I >»«»*<•<• tod.., that thv company •*> J tor the death ()| Tackett, jv Un Tackett S body «a> :. >JM J tree after « ,', tn n Tv.Zs I leged he I broken sleet nc «hv

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