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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Bvery Evening Except Bunday by JHI DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. incorporated ■stored at the Daeatur, Ind.. Post O®eo an Bocoad Claaa Matter. L H Bailor President A R Holthouse, Boc'y. A Bus. Mgr. PM D. Heller Vico-Proaidoat •übecrlptlon Ratos •ingle Coplee ——| .04 One week by carrier .>0 By Mall In Adame, Allen, Jay and Wells tountlez, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert countiee, Ohio, 64 .50 per year; 12.50 for six mon the; (1.35 for three months; SO cento for one month. Elsewhere: 15.60 per year; 13.00 lor ate months; 11.65 for three months; 60 cento for one month. Men and women in the armed forces 63.50 per year or 11.00 for firs® months. Advertising Ratoe Made Known eq Application. National Representative fiCHEERER A CO. IS Lexington Avenue. New York ~ 35 £. Wacker Drive. Chicago, 111. w MMMraaMMeMßieiiMwwßniawnaa* ■> The automobile was invented - fifty years ago and some of them are beginning to show the effects of old age. O—O Indiana automobile owners have used 61.U00.0V0 worth more gas the first eight mouths of this year than last. Autumn has arrived and '.he air is filled with the twang of frost in the mid west. The next six weeks should be delightful and millions will enjoy it. —o In the busy whirl of affairs (Ms month, please don’t overlook bond buying. We are near the end of the firs', half of the world war. Don't turn down the boys who are tarrylug the ball. -0 No man may be indispeiisible but certainly some do their work better than others and produce more. And that applies to every one from the lowliest worker up to the Okie.' executive of the nation. —o Do you realise that in another mouth we will be going into the finish of the campaign? The orators will be orating aud the radios radiating as we near the close of one of the most unusual campaigns lu history. The big campaign to raise |4u,000 in Adams county to build a modern airport six miles southeast of Decatur will start next .Monday. It can be accomplished If enough effort and Interest Is shown. It's a part of a great fiostwar program. -0 As the time for burning leaves approaches It will be well tor every one who attends to that annual job to be more careful than usual. Every thing is well dried ou* after the hot summer aud the danger of tire is greater than in years when the ground is damp. — O—Q ""Bowell Thomas quotes a man who has it doped out that the war . tn Europe will blow up next Wednesday. the 27th. He uses Hitler's

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point. We don't know much about that theory but we hope It turn* out to be correct. ■■■■o 0. — There were HSU death* in automobile aecideut* in Indiana the •ret halt ot thl* year which I* an Increase of more than a hundred over last year'* record. Offclah are really worried over what will happen when the ban* on tire* and gasoliur are lifted. —o— It you have no 1 , voted since Uto you must reregister and if you have moved you must have your curd corrected so your name U Mated in the proper precinct. Yon can do thl* at Democratic headquarter* in thl* city any afternoon or eveuiun up io nine o'clock or it-yrna phon* lino a deck wiU' call

There *s a sugar shortage here as well as all over this part of the country but it should not be 100 serious. Shipments are expected soon but It la probable the “street sluff" will have to be rationed tor a wnile, iu order to give every one a chance. —o President Roosevelt has ordered the budget committee *o complete plana for the demobilization of some two million assistants now employed by the government in war activities. That should aid in relieving any labor shortages so far as it applies to clerical help. Dr. J. Raymond Schutz of Indianapolis. who will talk at a joint meeting of the Lions and Rotary this evening, is one of the great Hoosier public aud after-dinner speakers. Former president of Manchester college he gained a reputation as an orator that called him to many parts of the country. His messages are always inspiring. While some of the politicians insist the vote will be lighter than usual litis year, members of the state election commission expect it to be larger thau In 1940. They have oiderd 1.75V.00V ballots printer! of which they expect a million or more will be used. As many more are expected to vote by machines which do not require ballots. In 1940 the vote tor president was 1.760.260. —o When the Nazis dosed lu on an outfit that John E. Cook Is with in France recently he escaped capture but lost all his personal effects including his ballot and he says he wanted to vote, lie to with a rough and ready outfit and loves every one of them. He is another of the home lads that will have a story stranger than fiction to tel) when he gets home.

The city of Decatur now owns the forty-acre tract of land just east of the Monroe street bridge, it has been purchased from the Ray Teeple estate aud will lie used in due time as the site (or a water softener. One well Las been drilled there and found sa'isfactory and others will be put down soon The city plans several improvements for the pos'war period and this action is in line. -O The estimate on the Indiana corn crop this year by Purdue University indicates that while it may not be up to normal it will be better than many expected it to be after the long dry spell. This year's harvest probably will be some 41,ooo.tMHi bushels less than the farmers gathered las' year, but there to some satisfaction in the announcement 'hat the crop will lie about 400.000 bushels greater than the yearly average from 1933 to 1942. This year's estimate la 169,287.000 bushels.

Save The Stogies: Whet with the world situation shaping up to such a place that we are golug to have to take a part In international adjustment*, it might a* well be pointed out now: "People are dlßeren'..'' For instance. Archduchess Fran* Joseph of Austria was caught by a cameraman a* she smoked a stogie —a nice, long stogie, too —in Hollywood's Mocambo Just the other day. Bhe waa very elegant about It, from til report*, and completely calm. Which goes to show what we're up against. We must got along with the rest of the world but we don't have to take their customs and worship same. As a special plea to America's good womanhood: Please. If you can't get your tag*, don't turn to a'oglea There aren't enough for the men. Indianapolis Star. — ■ o— — Its chic to be neat. Iter he hair nets, all tutors; fine nu jt an 4 bO*xl mMi. HolthouM Drue Co.

IDEAS of the Preacher Parmer of Prairie Home by L. Dewey Burham In the election of a president and the- establishment of an administration of the government which will take place this fall, we farmers have as great if not great er stake than any one else. Therefore we must study the consequences of the election of either President Roosevelt and a Demo cratic congress or Gov. Thomas E Dewey and a Republican congress. The election of a congress which will be sympathetic to which ever administration Is placed in power Is a highly essential thing. The sorry way in which congress has often blundered and obstructed any realistic tax program, and has faltered so often on war measures, and Is now procrastinating over reconversion measures, is an indication of the necessity of having a congress that will at least be sympathetic toward the administration. Before the armies of France ever fell before the invading hoards its government was rendered sterile by such three and four way divisions of its chamber of deputies that no government could be effective. There are two ways we can study the consequences of the election of a party to administer I the government. The least effective way is to study the party platforms which many of our farm papers have been publishing for us in opposite columns. When we do this, the Republican platform farm plank reads fine, Upon close scrutiny, one easily cornea to the conclusion It is full of "weasel words." Take point 1. for instance: "Department of Agriculture under practical and experienced administration free from regimentation and confusing government manipulation and control of farm programs " Now just look at that! You would first come to the conclusion that it is customary for the Democrats to /tave grand opera singers or Wall Street millionaires at the head of the department of agriculture. But you know better. Claude Wlckard is a good old Hoosier dirt farmer of which there are none Itetter. Then the Republicans drug in that old red-herring about regimentation. During this war American farmers have produced ever increasing food supplies. The dark predictions we had last summer about people going hun-

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Ordinarily range cattie stop over at feed-totson their way to market. There they arc finished on fofl feed to make the fat-marbled steaks and t roasts that Americans love to eat. * But thatoU, as you know, range-fed cattle are tea riling market in ti— rindous numbers right off the pasture* and meadows of ranches and ( feruw. The beef from there cattie will, of course, be baner than much of the beef w are aocustomsd to sating. HducaUng coosumsro to know the ad vantages of this leaner beef in a problem of the livestock I and meat Industry. We. at Swift A Company, realised thia rittmtion would develop and months ago went to work on it Wo are doing everythingwcaothinkoftopremototheoow* sumptionof "Utility Grade” beet, as it is daaesd by Government inspectors. Here's what ware doing to help merchauitos your range-fed href: &. MMB-Qa IM Blue-network stations, we are using The Breakfast Club hour once a week for six weaksto toilmtllinwof house wivm how to prepare and serve leaner cute of meat. XMOtofeffWOtotomTeMUn-Daihle-page advertisements, in color, tall tbs sama story ta*£Mtoofmadw > MM* lICMMIIW MMAZIMC*—More douhfe*

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gry in America by February Ibis year Just didn't materialise. Yet no tanner in America has been told what he had to raise or what he couldn't raise. This grand job of production, of which every one of us should be rightly proud, has been done on a purely voluntary basis, and America to the only great Allied nation where that Is true. We have had programs of Increased production set up by the government and administered by your locally chosen AAA committee men. but no part of it Is compulsory. We have for years had a program of soil conservation. For conservation practices we have received, if we ask for them, certain payments and rewards. But it has never been compulsory, as you know. Yet how grandly we dirt farmers have buiided for the oncoming generations by good conservation practices. For a number of years before the. war, we farmers, through our own farm organizations, like th'e Farm Bureau and its great leaders. had a program of production restrictions. Thia is, of course, based on the great American industrial practice of only manufacturing the goods it seemed possible to sell. Payments and rewards were set up for those farmers who followed the restrictions, which were, let me say again, proposed and administered by our own locally chosen AAA officials. Never was any farmer in America told how muc h he had to produce or cut down. The whole program was strictly voluntary. "Regimentation". is a "weasel word.” Don't be fooled by it! It is used deliberately to confuse you. Now in the second point of the Republican farm plank we have "weasel words" thrown about in a most eloquent way. "An American market price to the American farmer." How is this to ba attained? Horror of horrors. the Republicans have stolen our New Deal thunder! It's to be done "by means of sup|>ort prices, commodity loans, or a combination thereof." My! my! What is this world coming to. The Republicans advocating Democratic methods. "We oppose subsidies as a substitute for fair markets." And so do we. I guess most all farmers do. But I don't oppose subsidies as a substitute for inflation. Fair markets we all want, but not inflation Being Just a farmer with only two college- degrees that were not in economics, I am going to have to leave others to say whether we should have subsidies or not. I doubt if the Republican party would want an election on the one issue of subsidies or in-

flation. If subsidies will keep down Inflation. 1 prefer subsidies I like the going up with inflation, but aa you know. Its the coming down that gives us the disastrous bumps —o Twenty Years Aao Today ♦ ii. ■ i * i i i ♦ Kept 32-Sixty people killed in wiud storms lu Wisconsin and Minnesota Fred Jickart. fit. of Fort Wayne ditv from a hemorrhage. He wan head of the Eckart Packing panyFuneral services will be held tomorrow morning at St. Mary's Catholic church for Michael Miller, fig. W. J. Myers residence at Fifth and Jackson streets sold at auction to Michael Brickner for >2.600. E. W. Johnson is attending to business in Gary A son is born to Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Porting of Fort Wayne. o~ Junior Red Cross Prepares Christmas Decorations For Vets Thousands of servicemen and women In camps, hospital tents. Red Cross clubs, jungles, deserts, aud on the high seas will have more fun and comfort at Christmas time this year because of the work which has been done by the Junior Red Cross members of the juniorsenior high school and the St. Joseph school. Christmas decorations sufficient for 500 men and women have been made by these members and are ready for shipment *o overseas clubs and hospitals. Some of the decorations are aa follows: 500 folded Christmas cards. 500 Christmas cards, postcard size; 250 tray favors. 500 Ice cream decorations. 50 pieces of bulletin board material such as posters, cut-outs, friezes, or transparencies for windows; 50 three-dimensional cu’-outd? one collapsible paper center-piece for table, one copy of the poem, "The Night Before Christmas." mounted in a handmade booklet. These decorations are to be on exhibit Friday. Saturday, and Sunday, and the public is invited to see the things that will help to make Christmas a better day for those service men and women who will not be home. The articles made by the junior-senior high school will be on display In the window of the Winnes shoe store, and those articles made by the St. Joseph school will be displayed In the window of Lee's hardware More.

page, color advertiosmauto orphan the problem to an important group of womseeieadorau 4.FOM VMM RMMITWIM-AdssrtfemwutO fas 14 of there papsrs tail meat dealers bow to promote the safe and consumption of range* fed beef. X tWIFT MBUtM-Our deaim have received a special bulletin which brings them effective stare-tested sailing suggestions. We have also supplied them with Intensive More display material XBPCCMi. HMWlMNg—Rscipes and informs/ tion have been distributed to women’s editors om is to and to boutewivre. r We have been working <m this problem cow*' stantlyeincwlMt*June.Wewfllco«rtiinietomerchandiee range-fed beef with aU ths "know-how" at our command until the beef marketing ritw- >. tion returns to normal. SWIFT * COMPANY CHICAGO f.ILUMOII

PLANS COMPLETE FOR f Coatiseed irtom rw 1> night. The program for the two days follows: Friday, Oct. • Auditorium open all day — girls 4-H exhibits. 9 a. m. to 12 noon—Judging of calves and pigs. 1 p. m.—Auction sale of 4-H dairy bull calves. 2 p. m.—Lightweight horse pulling contest. 7:30 p. m - Riding horse show on school playground. The Berne school band will furnish music. Saturday, Oct. 7 Auditorium open all day—Judging of 4-H baking and food preparation. 9:30 a. m —Colt judging. 1 p. m.—School band leads colt parade to horse pulling grounds. 2 p. m.—Heavyweight horse pulling contest. Water battle following the pulling contest (approximately 3:45 p. m i. 8 p. m. — 4-H club achievement program in auditorium, including girls dress revue. RIMINI IS CAPTURED 'Ciatlauod >rotn rage 1) went into action. The army, increased by approaching hostilities to a force of 900 men, was helping the Sth army troops round up and capture Germans, and doing rearguard work in towns behind the lines or along the republic's border. The Sth army destroyed 'he greater part of the effective lighting strength of the German 71st and 98th divisions In taking Rimini. Losses heavier than those It suffered a*. Cassino were inflicted on the German Ist parachute division, while four other divisions, including the crack 26th panzer division, were reduced to half strength. i BBC correspondent Reginald Beckwith reported that when he reached Rimini, a town with a prewar population of 20.000. he did to' find any Italians and hardly a

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We’re great home lovers In our town. Family folk-like most Americans. So when war came, and the boys left In uniform, and the girls went into war planta, folks began to shake their heads. Take Bea Ryder’s family, for Instance—all doing something different Young Ben’s in the Kavy, and his sister's In the ateplane plant Ben’s foreman at the tool shop, and Ma spends her day* at the Canteen. • A broken home? Don’t you believe it! When Hen relaxes with bin evening glass of beer, and

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building remained undamaged I Many buildings had been wrecked and looted by the Germans, the correspondent said lu a broadcast recorded by CBS.) o— FDR REELECTION tCentlnuod Fiem rags I) man. who replaced him a# the chief executive's running mate, gt a rally sponsored by the Independent voters' committee of the arts and sciences for Roosevelt. Fredrlc March, stage and screen actor, was chairman of the program which included speeches by motion picture star Orson Welles,

NOW B ltd IS THE IDEAL TIME FOR BiEV ERGKEENS & SHKI BBERY 2 VISIT THE 2 RIVERSIDE NURSERY K' 4 mile* Weat of Borne on State Road 111 and make your selection early. u: Also a complete line of Fruit Tree*. K Third Annual Fall GUERNSEY SALE I' by members of the Van Wert County GUERNSEY BREEDERS ASSOCIATION Mu, to be held at the FAIRGROUNDS, VAN WERT. OHIO K? TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 at 1:00 P. M. 17 Cows, 12 Bred Heifers, 7 Open Heifers, 5 Bulb Lunch served on grounds. ' Roy Johnson, Auctioneer F. S. Barlow, Pedigree t Catalog write Otto Gehres, W ren, <*hioM Pnpare For Winter! I Enjoy winter comfort and make firing |K earlier with a new . CIRCULATING I HEATER I BStoven. like a W of other merclwn- M disc are not pt*" l1 ’ E ful. We are («• B tunate in hating i® |R Block an ÜBtßHb* IB large number and IB advise IB I Various |B Attrneti'* >'»* St) I* !■ Select B YoliTto Tomorrow Stock alno include* Wurm Morning*. K ‘* und s|| Oaks, Kitchen Heatery and Uundr> _ - /I •!*€« sß7* J| s J

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