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THE DECATtjR DAILY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, ,1933 PAGE TWO A SON IN COLLEGE COMES IN HANDY SEEKS STREATER TODAY The Decatur Daily IMUhrfWr -mlnntm awrat Sutof fe-Becatar, Ate, fcy rENMSSEK VA1XE1 REV TING CO. Ina. OFFICE GAT MARSHAL'S POST ROOSEVELT MANAGERS CONCEIVE NOVEL IDEA OP SUMMONING ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO CAPITAL FOR INAUGURATION NeVS ITEM" plied to every exiting or proposed inland Any project which fails to answer that test should be abandoned without hesitation as an unwarranted waste of public money. Such statements show the committee believes that every form of subsidy should be withdrawn from carriers both by highway and waterway. The committee urges upon railway managements more general adoption of self-help.

Until the railway recently began getting loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation they were the only large industry that received no help from government, and they were handicapped by almost every form of government interference with A TO ATTEND HIS COLLEGE REUNION WITHOUT A a rVru.J I KACCOON COAT BEHIND THE SCENES IN CI WASUINGTON FELLA GOIN' WITH RQDN EV DUTCHER reversal by fixing up the Volstead Act so it wouldn't apply to beer of less than a given alcoholic content The chances are that this important change will be preserved and that before long we'll be having beer instead of only a court decision. It wasn't until after the House had voted on repeal that adequate consideration was given to the question of ratification by state conventions a method to which both major parties are pledged. The drys have been boasting that they could tie up the conventions by court action indefinitely and recent application of some of the best legal minds to the question of congressional power in arranging for such conventions certainly hasn't been wasted. THE more the country looked at the domestic allotment farm relief bill the more skeptical or scared a lot of people became. This measure undoubtedly will be enact ed In some form, but not as It passed the House with peanuts and rice covered by the plan and one or two new wrinkles in the administration provisions which many students felt would rob the scheme of its chances of success.

When the bill does go through, the crops affected will be restricted to wheat and cotton and provisions tor supervision will be simplified as much as possible. The leaders will be all set to see to that. Sad as the spectacle of this last lame duck session seems, the facts cited may strengthen the general I hope for a beneficial special session BY JUNIUS Tha hnainu man who made suffi cient money last year to pay an In- i i 1 wu.ali:0 come tax in is mon enumn a Congressional Medal instead of tax refund in a year from now. Cause and effect: Local hardware fishing tackle, stores displaying freezing weather. outrageous: Winter's too old for such prank, The lackadaisical old thing I See how the wretch sneaked back to frank Ly linger in the lap of Spring.

Dolly was Just home after her first day at school. Her Mother-Well, Dolly darling, what did they teach you today? Dolly Not much. I ve got to go again. Advice to married women: When you want to slow down your husband's heart action, hire him an elderly stenographer. Pat's wife was suing him for main tenance.

Jury Foreman We have decided to allow your wife $10 a week. Pat Why, that's very generous of you. IH see if I can add a dollar or two every now and then. A correspondent from Pea Ridge writes the following item to The Brushville Bugle: "Walter Clark was married last week. We didn't get the lady's name, but anyway its Clark now." Learn this little truth early in life, eirls.

Only fools throw kisses. The wise man delivers them in person. Loose Nuts, Bolts and Nuts There wasn't much sale for the sofa until some genius christened it the love seat Now it seems to be only three generations from shirt sleeves to shirtless Do not feed a baby every time it cries, and do not believe a lover every time he weeps A snob is anyDoay wno feels ashamed when unexpected guests see hash on the table The wicked bank roll never throws itself on the mercy of the court. Some Decatur people are never sat isfied until they find something that makes them dissatisfied Watches are like husbands, muses a Decatur man, you can tell what they're worth by the hours they keep One of life's blessings Is that the simplest way is usually the best way, THEV MET They met; 'twas in the starry depths Of Summer's cloudless sky; Fair Luna trod her silvery path In matchless majesty: The cricket chirped, the firefly Pursued his fitful dance. Twas in the balmy slumb-rous night That those two met by chance.

With throbbing heart and beating pulse He spoke in accents low, And in her glancing eye there came A deeper, warmer glow: Then up the apple tree she flew And there vindictive spat, For "he" was "Jack" my terrier, And "she" our neighbor's cat. Always ask a policeman. He's the only one who doesn't answer: "Sor ry, friend, I can't tell you. I'm a stranger here myself." "I know a girl. She thinks that a Ford is a shallow place in river, that a Cadillac is a wagon in which they transport cows, and that a Dodge is an old joke, but Screen your open grate fires in winter, swat the flies in summer, stop, look and listen at grade cross ings, don't start the kitchen range fire with the kerosene can, keep your nose out of other folk's business and maybe you'll live to be run over by a drunken joy rider.

The following is from one of the promising young men of Decatur she's Just craaiy about automobiles and motoring. In fact, it's one of her hobbies. She says she thinks there's nothing more heavenly than to go whirling through God's virgin country with the wind lashing against your face. I don't know how she conceived that thought. I asked her if she thought steering was difficult and she said she's never tried it as she had never been on a ranch, but that it looked real easy from the way the cowboys in the movies did it.

The other night we had to take a taxi home because my engine froze and she said it served me right for not remembering to turn on the radiator. She thinks that Chevrolet Is a French game, Packard a new kind iawrence Man Is Asking Place In New Regime MOTJLTON, Ala, Feb. 38. (Spe cial) N. Streater, of Town Creek, will be an applicant for the position of United States marshal for the Northern District of Alabama under the incoming Roosevelt administra tion.

Numerous friends of Mr. Streater over Lawrence county and adjoining counties of the district are preparing letters and petitions to Senators Bankhead and Black in his belief, Mr. Streater is a well known busi ness man of Town Creek. He has been active for a number of years in the political life of Lawrence county. E.

T. Sheppard In VeteraTwHiSsfrital E. T. Sheppard was conveyed Monday in' Brown's ambulance to the U. S.

veterans' hospital in Tus caloosa for treatment. Mr. Sheppard was injured several weeks ago in an accident in The Daily press room, amputation of his left hand being necessary. Poultry Brings Money To Lawrence Farmer MOULTON, Mar. 1.

(Spec ial) The poultry car purchases last Saturday brought to Lawrence county farmers and farm-wives over $1,200.00. Compilation of weights and sales were being made Monday and Tuesday by Walter G. Burch, connected with the tfounty farm bureau, and J. E. Carter, county agent.

Their figures show that 14,254 pounds were delivered to the car at Oourtland. Prices paid rang ed from seven cents the pound to thirteen cents. The average price paid was a little better than eight cents. This sale was the second of the season. Poultry was assembled at Moulton and at Courtland.

Trucks carried the loads from Moulton to the car at Courtland. NSWERS wusf ADOLF HITLER is head ot A the NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY in Germany. Abou Ben Adhem was written by LEIGH HUNT. According to U. S.

statistics, a human body never exceeds 118 MILES AN HOUR is falling from any height of steamer trunk and Marmon a religious cult in Utah. I called her on the phone the other night and told her that if she wanted to go for an automobile ride I'd take out the new Moon. Sh. answered that she's go for ride with me when I was sooer, and hung up. We finally did get that ride, however.

We hadnt gone far when she asked me to explain the machine to her. "Well," I said, "the most important thing is the clutch" She cuddled close to me and whispered. "Go on." "We stopped." I I I I I I I PHONE I a 1 I I Popular Brands at I LOWEST PRICES Quick Delivery I TURN EE I Coal Grain Co. I Mss tumc mm BY RODNEY DUTCHER ISEA Service Writer WASHINGTON. A rather prodi-' gious effort, possible only to one grimly bent ou spreading sweetness and light, is necessary in order to evoke a pleasant thought concerning the work of Congress in the present session.

But it you regard tbe session as a rehearsal it is possible, to perceive some good in it. Congress has done a splendid job of demonstrating to Mr. Roosevelt and the next Congress how easy it is to get all gummed up while trying to produce legislation adequate for current complicated and vital problems. Starving persons and farmers about to be evicted probably won't appreciate this, but the trials and er rors of the short seem to assure quicker and more intelligent action by the special session. Congress has been hearing from the country as it never did before and some important legislation has failed in this session simply because features of it came to seem unwise, unworkable or unpopular.

TJOTH the beer bill and the re-peal resolution are examples. It seems likely that they will now be made bombproof by comparison with the original House bills. There's no sense passing a beer bill if the supreme court is going to declare it unconstitutional and when one was passed as a tax measure plenty of doubt was left as to its constitutionality. The senators mangled the beer proposal otherwise, but they figured out how to avoid supreme court KBtarat aaBa-ctaM setter Pbra ar? M. Uli, Um rst ffhw al DmM Alabama, Jaly t.

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ELLENEN CUTS RATES The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company is taking seriously the recommendations of the National Transportation committee's report regarding self-help for all carriers and a petition now is pending for a substantial reduction In passenger fares, with a view to making use of the rail lines even more attractive. This follows closely upon announcement of the Louisville and Nashville that beginning March 15 it would inaugurate door-to-door service for freight shippers. These two moves, it Is reason able to suppose, constitute part of a well laid plan on the part of this progressive line to get its share of business in the face of keen competition. The Daily commends that attitude and suggests also thai if the Pullman company will follow the example of the Old Reliable, we may expect further increases in railroad travel. The N.

T. committee, of which the late Calvin Ooolidge was chairman, gave several valuable sugges tions regarding the transportation system In its recent report, these being discussed at some length by the Railway Age, which "There has been, as jet, no satis factory determination of the actual cost of commercial highway transport. The public provides a high way for the truck, and the cost of providing that hignway includes in teiest upon the investment, main tenance and taxes in oilier words, every form of cost that would be involved if truck operators had to provide their own highways. 'Automotive transportation', says the committee should bear 'Its fair burden of tax, but only on a basis of compensation for public expenditure on its behalf, plus its share of the general tax load. The automobile itself, its fuel, lubricants and operations are all heavily taxed.

Does the total of these assessments bear its share of the general tax luad and also sufficiently reimburse the public expenditure on the roads it "What does all this mean? The private automobile and the farmer's light txuck make an ordinary public use oi the highway. A commercial truck maites a private use of it for private profit. What, then, has the total amount paid by all users of the highways to do with the amount that is or should be paid by those who operate com vehicles? we will never know the distances over which nignway transport actually is cheaper than rail transport until there has been a determination of the economic principle on which rentals for private commercial use of public highways should be based, and the est-abli-hment of rentals on that basis. "Regaitling ore important point, there can be no question. The committee believed thai Mi classes of competing carriers should pay ant of their o-ati earnings all the cost ir.curred in rendering their services.

This is perhaps best illustrated by whs: it std regarding waterway. We think that the text of self-support should be ap- A Troubled World. Shark and Whale. Imaginary President. Learn To Cut.

Opjnfkt, 1932, by bUoc reatarea By ARTHUR BRISBANE LOS ANGELES, March 1. A troubled world we live in. Assorted financiers indicted in Chicago. Prisoners in a California prison at Folsom try to seize the prison and kidnap the warden, using home-made guns. They fail, the ring leader kills himself.

The war goes on in China, with real killing, real wounds and real agony. China reports occasional "Japanese held in Mountain passes, by Chinese troops," or "Manchukou cities recaptured by Chinese." But a real picture of Japan's war against China is like a picture of the thrasher shark, attacking one of the giant whales in the Arctic ocean. The whale is one hundred times as big as the attacking shark. But the shark is born a fighter, the whale is not, and it is only a question of time. New York's stock exchange had a fainting spell today, a certain number of citizens having reached the conclusion that this is the wise time to throw away securities.

Before long they will be telling their friends, "I had them, but did not know enough to hold them, although I was in shape to do it." Millions throughout the world, those of the Catholic faith especi ally, will be encouraged by the earnest, statement of Pope Pius, addressing 600 clerks of savings banks from the province of The Pope praised thrift, provided always it did not "degenerate into avarice" pointing out that exercise of thrift involves an other thing even more important "exercise of one of the cardinal virtues, temperance of life," which means, "Control of one's self." The Pope expressed his belief that the world-wide crisis of depression will pass this year. A moving picture, finished Hollywood at four o'clock in jjkk morning, in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, will Interest millions of Americans and stir up considerable thought. It will interest es pecially the new president of the United States. "Gabriel Above the White House" is the title of the picture, and story. The story told In the pictures is truly imaginary, but a million Americans will wish for it to come true.

A new presdent has been inaugurated, as many have before, and enters the White House to keep promises made privately, after having made numerous promises publicly that are not supposed to be kept. A professional politician, the new president feeds platitudes to newspaper correspondents, takes nothing seriously except his own career and the deal6 made with friends. Then comes an accident, the practical politician president is knocked on the head, at exactly the right spot. When he recovers his attitude is changed. He becomes a president for the people of the United States, instead of being a president for the bosses.

His secretary thinks the Lord must have sent down the angel Gabriel to work the change. He dismisses instantly one of his cabinet, who suggests calling out the army, to suppress the unemployed. He has previously told reportert "unemployment and crime are loca problems" but now discovers that those are problems of the United States government. Formerly he told reporters "the president must not be quoted." Now he says "the president may be quoted, and I want him to be quoted." He advises his cabinet to read the constitution of the United States, telling them "you will find that the president has a great deal of power and I mean to use that power." He does use it. In fact, he becomes the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES not the president of any particular clique or group, or set of bosses and financiers in the United States, and dies at the right moment.

It may be called a very improbable picture, but people will like it, and you want to see it. At a small side table in the lunch room of a big moving picture "lot" sit two young women, very business like, eating too rapidly, and talking hard. Mrs. Ida R. Koverman, who knows and bosses moving pictures as she used to do in politics, says, "There are the two best 'cutters' in the business." One of the young "cutting" ladies is Margaret Booth, the other Blanche Sewall.

with a straight up and down forehead that reminds you of the high chalk cliffs of England, inese cwo look over the miles of moving picture films, before you i see them, and cut out the imneces- themselves and government aid to their competitors." THAT'S MY BOV Few are the endorsements carrying the strength as that given by the Birmingham News to the nomination of Julian Hall, editor of The Dothan Eagle, who is now a candidate for the state senate, to fill the term of Senator Hubert Farmer, who resigned to accept a aolici-torsbip. Editor Hall has received the endorsement of the state Democratic Executive Committee. Here is what The News has to say regarding Mr. Hall and the the legislature: "The State Democratic Executive Committee's nomination 'of Julian Hall, editor of The Dothan Eagle, as a candidate for the State Senate to succeed Senator Hubert Farmer, who resigned to accept an appointment as solicitor, serves to call attention to the unusual number of Alabama editors in the present legislature. "The nomination is tantamount to election, and when Mr.

Hall takes the oath of office there will be no less than six editors in the legislature. There is already one editor in the senate. Senator R. H. Walker, of Athens, is editor of The Limestone Democrat.

"In the House there are four editors Representatives C. D. Nor man, whose paper is The Union Springs Herald; A. C. Lee, editor of The Monroe Journal, of Monroe- vine; W.

E. W. Verby, of The Greensboro Watchman, and M. S. Hanstorough.

of The Franklin County Times, at Russellville. For good measure, the reading clerk of the House Is Editor Bob Vail, of The Baldwin Times, Bay Minette. "As in the case of Mr. Hall, two of the editor-representatives in the House were elected to fill vacancies created since the present legislature took office. They are Messrs.

Yerby and Hansforough. "Editors have served in the Alabama legislature in the past, of course, but it is not recalled that there have been as many in any other legislature In recent years as there are in the present body. In the 1927 legislature there were only three editors, if memory serves. They were Representative Norman, who was reelected; Gen. J.

B. Stanley, of The Greenville Advocate, who served a term as state senator, and Editor Forney G. Stephens, of The Southern Democrat, of Oneonta, who represented Blount County in the House. Gen. Stanley and Mr.

Stephens did not seek reelection. "Julian Hall will take to the sen ate a keen mind and a vigorous personality. He is the staunchest sort of advocate of economy in government, and an uncompromis ing foe of increased taxation. We may be sure that the same intelli gence, courage and vigor which characterize The Dothan Eagle will mark its editor as a state senator. It is particularly gratifying that the new senator is an unrelenting champion of retrenchment as a remedy for the state's financial difficulties, rather than more taxes.

"Perhaps, in this connection, it would be well if there were even moi-e editors in the legislature than there are. For the great majority of the newspapers of the state, dallies and weeklies, are strongly opposed to more taxes and in favor of retrenchment. The state press, in other words, feels in the main about this question as the majority of the people do." Mr. Hall is well known in Decatur, having visited here. He is perhaps better known here through his editorials, many having appeared in The Daily, what The News has had to of Mr.

Hall's vigorous pen is ent.irely deserved. Per sheer courage nd frankness thr 8-e no other editors in the state- that speak rom the printed uag? with' the same force fulness as Senator" THIS CURIOUS WORLD lie AFRICAN Katydid. COSMODSRUS ESCAPES ITS ENEMIES 6V RESEMBLING THE THORIMV VEGETATION 12 Years Ago (March 1, 1921) Aunt Mary McLuke of west of Brush ville says that probably the greatest optimism is shown by some of the old girls who still have hope chests. Among the hardships of the depression, a Decatur man, lists the fact that it has made it extremely difficult for husbands to get away with the excuse that they are going out Of town on a business trip. Trying to get a check cashed in a strange town ain't no different from being Droice.

February was a busy month for Dan Cupid in Morgan county, the books at the Probate office today revealing 22 marriage licenses were issued to white couples and seven to negroes during the month. Little hope for the recovery of Champ Clark, veteran Democratic leader, was held by his physicians at Washington today. Among the speakers at the inauguration ceremonies for President Spright Dowell, at Auburn, was S. A. Lynne, prominent Decatur attorney.

A. G. Patterson, president of the Alabama Public Service Commission will leave with his family on Wednesday for Montgomery where they will make their home. Wayland McGlathery is spending this week in Hartselle with relatives. German Cabinet In Drastic Step BERLIN, Germany, Mar.

1. (IP) Virtual martial law. under police regime, today was decided on by the German cabinet. The action resulted from a fire which damaged the Reichstag building, and a raid on communist headquarters. The decrees will have the effect of placing Germany in a state of emergency with a sole object of meeting the communist danger.

sary. They cut, cut and cut, like the old Greek lady with the shears. Twelve whole reels they cut from twenty-three reels in a recent picture. And every cut was an im- Provement The great Italian actress, Eiea-nora Duse. just before she died said to Madame Galli Curci, "The secret of art is to eliminate, eliminate and eliminate." Cutting pictures often cut, into the hearts and vanity of stars and little picture people, eliminating what the aertors think are their best lines and best grimaces, and borrowing the title of an old poem, moving picture people talk about "the face on the cutting room floor." Mrs.

Koverman these intelligent remarked that young cutting women whose work is so important "are never mentioned." For that reason they are mentioned now. Fortunate is he who learns to do his own "cutting," eliminating foolishness and waste words from his conversation, listening more, talking less, going over what he writes and taking out everything that seems particularly fine, and as much as possible of that which need not be said. Respect the cutters and learn to apply their methods to your own mental production. IS THE ONLV INSTRUMENT THAT i Iff IS NECESSARY TO DETERMINE 1 liNla WHEN YOU ARE STANDING- EXACTLY AT THE NORTH POLE. 5 TJj IF YOUR.

SHADOW I fti MM MEASURES EXACTLY THE SAME, I IjXI-I WHEN MEASURED AT INTERVALS I I 1 THROUGHOUT ZA- HOURS, THEN 1 17 YOU ARE AT THE POUg IN NOW GUNA, THE NATIVE HUNTERS MAKE ARROW HEADS' FROM THE BONY TOE-NAILS OF THE CASSCWARM Si INSECTS have perfected the art of camouflage to a remarkable degree. Not only do they make use of protective coloration, but their entire bodies have undergone changes in shape which make them indistinguishable from surrounding objects. Some go disguised as leaves, some ss twigg. while some defenseless insects travel unmolested beciuse they imitate species which carry deadly stings. 9 Pianos to Loan FREE TO SAVE STORAGE CHARGES Look them over at Elliott Transfer Company, Decatur, Ala.

We want to avoid paying any further expense and will loan them out to responsible families. There are no strings to this offer and you sign no agreement whatsoever to buy the Pianos we loan you. Simply come in and make your selection. STARR PIANO COMPANY, Owners See at ELLIOTT TRANSFER COMPANY DECATTJR, ALABAMA NEXT: lrttll? Was Sebastian Here On Business In Court Session Among the visitors her; this week, having business in thi present terrh of the circuit court were: M. L.

Robinson, attorney; P. head oi the Bach blind at the time of motor vehicle department of the Alabama Public Service Commission; O. K. Henard, Huntsvllle, general manager of the Cumberland Coach Company; Charles E. Norton, Birmingham, insurance Investigator; D.

M. Carr, Birmingham, court reporter, and D. L. Rosenau, Jr, of A-tiieo, attorney. I.