Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1941 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT rbhltahed Every Evmlng Except Bunday by FME DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated. Utotarwd at Ik* Decatur. Ind- Po't Offk* aa Second Class Matter. fl. H Heller — Preaident L H Heltbouae, Rac y. * Hua. Mgr. Wet D Haller Vice-President Subscription Rates tingle Coplea... ——l 01 )na week, by carrier —- .10 One year, by carrier . 1.00 Due month, by nail .36 Throe months, by mail.——— 1.00 |i> months, by mail 1.76 One year, by ma11....1.00 Obe year, at office.—— 304 Prices quoted are within a radius of too miles. Elsewhere 13 SO one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Representative SUHEERER a CO. IS Leilngv>n Avenue, Now York IS Cast Wacker Drive. Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League ot Home Dallies. Send the l»>y* in camp the home paper. It will keep them posted and furnish them many hours of pleasure. O—O The Fill ought to And out who started all the rumors about Memorial Day sabotage and tell them how s< riou* such a threat !e even if there la no intention of carrying It out. O_Q Experts de, late that the only real danger of a shortage of any thing in this country is in electric power and many are in favor ot daylight saving all over the United States to save as much juice as possible. O—O The home building Itoom continues in iM-catur and each week you can notice new ones springing up all over the city. It's a good sign for it proves business activities and better still it shows the right spirit in our people desiring to own their own homes. A community of this kind is sure to continue to grow and prosper. O —o The terrible tire in Jersey City , Saturday night and Sunday was disastrous regardless, ot the cause. So far there has been no evidence of sabotage but it seems there must imve been quite a little carelessliess which can be almost as bad .Million* of dollars worth of supplies of almost every kind w«mt up in flames as flve entire blocks were wiped out. O—O The showers and warm son will make the crops grow rapidly. That's flue but don't forget the same elements will produce more weeds and make them pop up a foot or two. Watch them. See that they are cut frequently and that vacant lots are kept presentable. The entire city has made an effort to beautify and surely we won't let the weeds spoil every thing. o—o Jimmy Dykes and his Chicago White Sos reached the top of the f t season'a ladder Sunday when they went into first place in the American bague. The Yanks beat the Cleveland Indians two While the Sox spilt with the Washington Senators. It's a race with the gamblers still favoring the New York Yankass, but a lot of credit should go to the Dykesmen regardless of results. They are heady and nervy players. O—O Plans for commencement exercises at St. Joseph schools are going forward and friends of the thirty graduates are looking forward to the big event next Friday evening. At the same time a large class will graduate from the grades into high school. A number of special events leading up to the graduation exercises have been heM the past week er two and will continue the next several days.

For the hoys and girls, Il's another milestone along life's pathway. -0 King Jeff Davis, president of the Holmes of the World has sent word to all railroad yards, hobo jungles and other haunts of the more than a million wanderers who belong to his organisation, to get of! the road by June 14th. Recent sabotage in railroad yards and industries slong the tracks have brought suspicion on the homeless travelers and Davis says he doesn't want his boys so accused. Those who fall to comply with his order will lose membership In the league O—O Clifton E Striker will retire aa county superintendent of schools In Adams county August 16th. after serving four terms, sixteen years, longest period served by any officer in th, county. Deeply Interested In school work, well educated and with long experience Mr. Striker ranked aa one of the best superintendents In the state. He has seen th. schools ot the county advance steadily during his years In office and can take much credit for that progress. He has done an excellent service and retires with the good w ishes and appreciation of the public generally. This community wel<om< * the return of Dr. H. W. Graham to serve another year aa pastor of the Flrat Methodist church of this city. During the four years he has served this charge, he has made an excellent record and has proved himself a tireless and efficient and capable leader. Not only in church work but in ail civic affairs. Rev. Graham has given of his time and his ability and always with excellent results. A hearty and sincere reception is extended to the entire Graham family by th< ir many friends both in and out of the church circle. After silty years of wonderful work for the Methodist church, the Rev. G. Hunter .Myers, former Decatur resident, has retired from the active ministry. He will reside in Union City. Indiana, will do some evangelistic work and enjoy a well earned rest. Rev. Myers was reared here, the eon of Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Myers, graduated from the local school and has held numerous charges In the larger cities of the conference, besides doing other special assignments. His many friends here wish him many yearn of happiness and success. Mrs. Myers was formerly Miss Lila Schrock of this city. O—O Much advice is being given 1941 giaduatt* and most of it is general, just like previous years. It remained for Leonard Spangenbcrg. vicepresident of the Babson organization to state specifically to what work young Americans can turn with the best future. He lists aviation, television, air-conditioning, alloys, plastics and automatic machinery as the lint* in which greatest advancement will be made in the next decade and In which Ilea greatest opportunities. He says there is enough sun-rsy energy on each ten feet of the roof of your house to run sll your electrical appliances and furnish all the heat you want. There is oil In sale and airplane wings will be made of plaallc soon and I here are a thousand other new things being developed. If you « an help tn any of them you will make good. It's something to think about, youngsters.

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* TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY J June 3 - Prof. J. J. Davis <ff Purdu- say the maple trees in Dwalur are badly tnfwcted -with cottony scales. T-d Muinby. I. U athlete will go to the Orient as Methodist missionary. Wallace Fcrrlnxton of Honolulu Is wjipointt'd governor general of Hawaiian Islands, the job Dr Buxton was after. Daughter horn to Mr. and Mrs.' Tony Meyer. . Mis« Ruth Hatnniell goes to Ind- j ianapolis to work at the American Enpress couafluiny's offices Wayne Beavers is home from Purdue. Mrs. E H. Christen leaves for l-afayette to attend Purdue commonciunent. A daughter. Miss Kathryn. will graduate. O— — - — f Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LEE * > Q. Should one who is to be a house guest let his host and hostess know the exact time of his arrival? A Yes. unless the ln»st and hostess have <sp<w’tfi<<d the time. Then the guest should arrive at the exact time mentioned Q When on- wishes the window opened or closed on a train, is It necessary to consult the person sitting in the sasn- seat? A. Y«a. and also ask anyone*ln ifront or behind whom the change may affwcL Q. When playing tennis or golf, should one admit drankly that one plays the game ipoorly? A. Yes, but do not continue to apologize throughout the entire game By no means pose as a better player than you are. — — • Household Scrapbook *1 By Roberta < — 4 Prsvsnt Wilting iLllact, and other Tltvweni with woody stems, can be hop’ fresh for many days hy th- following treatment; Take a hammer and pound the stems to a depth off six inches; then place, in a denp vase of fresh water. You can fairly watch them drink. Be sure to change tbe (water moriflng and night, and that It is fresh and cool. All these efforts will be rowarded by the appearance of your flowers. Feather Pillows 'Don't sun feather pillows, as th« heat brings out the oil of the feathers. Instead, hang them on the line on a windy day so the air can penetrate. Fruit Btalns Sprinkle some dry salt Immediately on a Jruit stain, and it -will seldom liecome permanent. AFL UNIONISTS tCONTINUBD FltOM PAGB OWW) contracts worth f1200.M0.000. Another CIO lumber union agreed to a strike truce at Tacoma. Wash., last ntghft and ended a twoweek work stoppage which threatowed the tog supply of mills end camps employing 4.000 men One hundred zaembers of the Boom-

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men's and Rafters' Union accepted a 7H cent hourly wage Increase and agreed to arbitrate on other demands. The federal government was ex peeled to Intervene and attempt to avert a walkout, scheduled for midnight tomorrow, of 4’lo die casters at five plants of the Alum inutn Company ot Amerlra. The union asked a pay raise of fll dally as a substitute for a recent Increase of eight cento an hour. The company haa large contracts for aircraft parte and other light metal material nedr-d in defense produc tfon. Two hundred members of the United Electrics). Radio and Machinery Workers Union struck at the Cleveland plant of the Picker X-Ray Corp., yesterday, halting production of portable X-Ray links for the army. At Detroit, the UAW-CIO extended its strike at the Detroit Steel Products C<g. manufacturers of army truck equipment, lo a second plant. The union railed a strike at the first plant May 7. The Chrysler Corp, and the UAW-CIO announced at Detroit last night that a new wage agree meat had been negoimted granting pay Increases of elgftt cents hourly to AS.MO employes. WARFARE IN SYRIA (CONTINUED FROM PAOR ONB) against Nuaz. Little light on the French attitude came from Vichy where the government's deliberations were cloaked with secrecy. Rome suggested that Hitler and Mussolini cwnvMMMd the possible entry of the United State* Into the war and the relation of France, Portugal. Hpain. Russia Turkey and Japan to the developing war m well as offensive plan* In the Mwilterranean. Grattan P. McGrowrtty. Unttsd Press staff correspondent, reported from Alexandria that possibly 76 percent of the British forces In Crete had been evacuated safely. The evacuees were said 4o number 15,000 of an original force of 20.000. He reported that the evacuation wan carried out hy British destroyers and crnlsero in four days of desperate work under constant attack by the German air force. CHARGES ARMY rr-ONTINUWD FROM PAGE ONB) elflcle:>t army. “And today." he said, "we have not one division fit for combat.” Furthermore, Collins wrote, "a d'rtn<xra<y could not afford both a mass army such as we are building and a mechanised striking fore* such as we must have. It would cost too much money. "■Sujiporse a vlctorione Germany landed troops or stirred up trouble •jn South America." he continued. “Our job would be to get there quickly and stamp out the menace to the security of our hemlßthere We know from every evidence of the war in Europe thad a small, easily transported pauer force supported by an adequate sir arm could save the America*. It* is equally clear that a bugs army of the old-fashioned infawtryaen wouldn't have a change against Nasi tanks <wbea It got there." Collins charged that the war de-

partment repeatedly had blocked modernisation of national defense to stand pat with a "bow and arrow" mass army technique He said it was not the army but congress which forced adtgkion of the modern ruhlier-tlred chassis for field and anti-tank artil’ery. that the army delayed rather than eupedked acquisition of tank*, tha' the army blocked adaption of ths huge flying fortress airplanes for the long range bombing, that the army lacked initiative to propose that tbo«e bombers lie equipf*<'d with gun* In their tails. ». Vernon Ralston Dies Following Operation ■Vernon Ralston. 47. of two miles west of Genova, died a* the BtJoseph howpltal In Fort Wayne Monday afternoon following a mastoid cffieratlon He was born at Now Corydon. November Isl. IffM. the son of Dr. August us and Rosetta Adams-Ral-ston. He was married to Mabel CorA, who survives, with the following children: Hugh of Fort Wayne. Joe of Camp Khelby, Miss.; Mrs. Catherine Tlnkham of Monroe. James of Now Castle, and Jeanette. Ro4»ert. David. William. Patsy. Ntephen and Vernon, Jr., ail at home; two brothers ;ind a sister. Funeral service* will be held at the Weik and Hardy funeral home in Geneva Wednesday. ■ 0 ■ SI 1-H Club Round-Up At Purdue June 9-11 lAfayette, Ind.. June 3 - Final arrangement* have been completed for the annual 4-H club roundup. which mill be held at Purdue University. June I to 11. Approximately 2.000 top-notch 4 H boy* and girl* from all section* of Indiana are expected to tak- part in the many state contests and activities planned for the occasion. The agricultural contests inrmde crop* judging, poultry and egg judging, livestock judging, dairy judging, demonstrations, selection of the healthiest boy. bird identification, weed identification, and Insect identification. Ct interest to the cldb girls particularly will tie the following home ••conomir* contests: baking judg Ing, canning judging, clothing judging, food preparation judging, roam kmpravement judging, demonstrations. and the selection of the healthiest girt. O Rural Leadership School At Purdue Lafbyette, Ind.. June 3 -Timely training for rural leaders, more particularly teachers, club leaders, and minister*, will be offered at the 13th annual rural leadership school to be held at Purdue University, Jane M to 28. The program, which combine* economic* soclotogy. psychology, fl nd philosophy as these subjects apply to Indiana rural life, will bring to the conference more than * score of person* prominent throughout the tniddieweot for their coatritattons to their respective fields No reglttratiou f* e will be charged. • — Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

PORTUGAL STILL KEEPS NEUTRAL Portugal Last Remaining European Country To Stay Neutral (Editor's note: One by one the lights of Europe have been snuffed out until now only In one little state - Portugal — Is the master switch thrown nightly to give the streets normal life. The United Press sent Dan Campbell, staff correspondent, from London to see how this 'last port ' of Europe keeps the lamps trimmed In the whirlwind that ha* left virtually all Its neighbors in darkness. The following la the first of four stories.! Ry Dan Campbell Lisbon. June 3.- <U.R) The flsh wife in the red calico skirt firmly planted her bare feet on the cobbled Man ado Pelxe, swinging along at a graceful hippy gait that balanced securely on her head a basket heaped with seafood. She and scores of chattering companions moved through the narrow streets of Lisbon, deftly avoiding motor trucks, donkey carta, atreet cars and pedestrians. If you are a foreigner you dodge awkwardly In awe. If you are a native you trust the balancing act. For several years now Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has been sn successful in figuratively balancing Portugal's relations with his Jittery neighbors, skillfully threading his way and Portugal's through the traffic jam of war. Dr. Salazar left the chair of economics at the University of Coimbra to assume direction of the country’s finances under the revolutionary government of 19211. Since then be has assumed a good part of the burden of the state as premier, minister of war and finance. Built Good Roads He balanced the budget; gave Portugal fine roads, swung wrecking crews Into the picturesque but slum-infested nsrrow streets, and whipped up the bullock and his equally plodding master to stimulate agricultural production both at home and in the vast Portuguese colonial possessions. He gave the escudo a new meaning in foreign exchange quotations and began teaching his countrymen to read their own language. He raised wages m Portugal's vineyards and Improved all labor conditions. In his own words gave the country an administrative policy "so clear and simple that it could be the work of any good housewife." In the process there was a lot of “dusting out'' from the cellars to the attics of the 800 years old Portuguese bouse. Salazar gave it a new cost of paint of a slightly "corporative" color. He covered over, if he didn't entirely efface. •he scars of 23 abortive attempts in the 21 years previous to 1931. For 10 years how under Salazar Portugal has been peaceful. Approach Is Realistic To attain this, among other things. Salazar found that democracy in Portugal “affords no sure guarantee for the safety of Individuals or of public liberties;" that state socialism "Is the bourgeois regime par excellence;" that Communism is the 'great heresy* of our age." On the other band, be forsaw that parliaments In the future must leave to the executive "far wider l>owers than the controlling power which It at present possesses" (the new parliament building that looks down from Estrela on the harbor is shiny and Imposing but empty, being used only three months a year). He held to the belief that government “should legislate In consultative collaboration with the Corporative Chambers (bodies chosen hy thosyndlcates); that professional syndicates are the- "beat basis for the organisation of labor and support." Under these precepts and others of the professor-dictator the portuguesn, world-minded for centuries had a resurgence of Green-shirted youths, the "Mocf. dade Portuguese" march through the squares giving a stiff salute; civil HervaDtg and office workers wear In tbelr lapels the Crus Avis the green cross emblematic of the Portuguese Legion which takas as Its patron the Portuguese conqueror Avis; and the newspapers, which Ralasar says are “the spiritual food of the people and like food must be controlled" constantly use editorial hammers to drive home the pride In being Portuguese. ..,u,. W ‘ tehU •" While be kept the basket of home problem* properly balanced, Ralasar , d ' d ?.°, t A , \ n ° r 8 ,he in the 1920a by the League of Nations, National Socialism. Fascism. Locarno. Stress and the ISconomic Conference of London. He watched closely all reference to colonies. Portugal, be made clear, meant to keep hers, "refusing any kind of bargain, we do not sell or five or lease or share our colonies." He also made plain that Portuguese sovereignty could not "be.discuss•d st Genovs any more than ft can be discussed in Paris. London. Rome or Berlin.” The foreign policy ot Portugal was "to avoid as far as possible, being embroiled tn European con-

flicts, In maintaining friendship with Jala, la developing the pm«i billtles of our opwer la the Allan tic." Portugal emerged smoothly thresh the dangers that arose from living beside a neighbor involved In civil war. It got by without rals tng any undue enmity over Italy a Ethiopian campaign. And for the first year of the war. at least, still managed to remain aloof and more or less secure in Its isolation far down In the southwestern corner of Europe. With the second year of the war the basket at home began to be dangerously heaped with Internal problems, many of them the result of external developments. Ralasar now found himself doing a double act wUh a tight rope performance added. The tight rope was neutrality. Blockade No. 1 Preb'om Today Portugal la the only more than nominally neutral country left In Europe and lo remain neutral just a few of the more obvious problems Include: 1 -The British blockade Navicert regulations are badly pinching Portugal's supplies for home Indus tries; bandit apping normal trade with colonies and creating a food problem which combined with a bad agricultural freer in 1940 and a devastating cyclone in 1941 may be come extremely serious before the end of the year. 2 The problem of bow to guard the last open coast line In Europe more than simi miles ot sandy beaches and rocky promentories, which at any time might become highly strategically Important to either belligerent -for the British as a stepping stone from which lo re-attempt an offensive on the continent or tor Germany an unprolected flank to be occupied If and when the Nazis attempt to sever Britain's empire jugular at Gibraltar. 3— The last port In Europe where German and British still stp their cocktails or whisky and soda tn the same bar and do nothing more than glare at each other; where you can buy a London Daily Express or a copy of the Berlin Dec Angrlff from the same newsstand. where every loth person you meet may be a spy—"see that fellow over there with the monocle?" 4— A rich colonial empire, no more defendable than the Portuguese mainland, promising vast development in the future. 5 The tolerance with which Portugal haa permitted belligerent and non-belligerent to fly or to sail in and out of Its ports. Until now the average Portu guese haa been Inclined to leave all these questions to Ralasar. goinx about his business of pressing the wine for the all important Port Industry; harvesting his wheat and broad beans, peas and rice tor local consumption; squeezing the olive for oil; garnering the cork crop; tanning the hides; bringing In the flsh catch and looking to the colonies for the coffee for breakfast, sugar for his tea and a wealth of other products. Portugal has been minding Ils own business exclusively. Now with every edition of the press the people are wondering If they have become too exclusive -the last neutral country in Europe. (Tomorrow: The Food Situation ) CHARLES E. HUGHES (CONTINUBD FROM PAOff ONR) office. He Iff generally respected by the by although his opinion <>n which the transfer of 60 destroyers to Britain was based was hotly disputed in some quarters. Hughes’ retirement gives Mr. Roosevelt an opportunity lo name his seventh justice to the court more than any president since George Washington who appointed 11, Including three chief justices. Since Washington's term there have b*«i only eight other chief justices—John ifsrshall, Roger B. Taney. Salmon P. Chase, Morrison R Waite, Melville W. Fuller. White. Taft and Hughes. Mr. Roosevelt his not yet Ailed the vscancy created by the retirement of Justice James C. Mcßeyn olds on Feb. 1. The court, however. haa adjourned for the summer and win not resume business until next October. Mr. Roosevelt, If he desires, can take plenty of time in making his new nominations without hampering the court * work. The opportunity to name the next chief justice will entrench Roosevelt doctrines In the hlghcat places In the three coordinate branches ot the government — Mr. Roosevelt himself at the helm of the executive branch. Vice President Henry A. Wallace and speaker Ram Rayburn In the legislative branch, and the new chief justice heading the judicial branch. With new deal justices expected to dominate the constitutional doctrines perhaps for decades to come, it was noted with Interest that Hughes was Instrumental in defeatIng President Roosevelt's attempt in 1937 to place additional justices on the court to turn the tide ot decisions then running against administration ideas. Hughes wrote a letter which wax read before the senate judiciary committee then saying that an increase in the sue of the court would not improve Its efficiency.

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