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MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1950.

Divorcees Anonymous" Prevents Marriage Breaks

In Chicago, there’s a unique organization of 100 women who are trying to prevent marriage break-ups. Strangely enough, they are NOT mothers of model wives, and they call themselves families. In fact, they’re all ex“Divorcees Anonymous.” “All the women in this group,” says an article in the February issue of Good Housekeeping magazine, “regret that they were divorced from their husbands. They realize now that their marital differences were trivial, could have been erased with a little patience, understanding, and affection. They want to keep married women from making similar blunders.” According to the author, the Chicago group has saved scores of marriages from going on the rocks, and similar organizations are in the making in other cities. Members of this strange sisterhood guard their identities as sworn secrets known only among themselves. But they are on call at any hour to talk to one or both members of a couple contemplating divorce. The group was organized recently by Attorney Samuel M. Starr, veteran divorce lawyer who, in fifteen years of practice, has handled 3,000 divorce cases. ^Looking back,” says Attorney Starr, “I could not recall a single divorcee who was completely happy over being single again. On the other hand, there were hundreds who told me afterward that they wished they had not taken the step.” Contending that the chief impetus for most divorces results from minor irritations and continuing disputes over trivialities,

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HAY FEVER

A UGUST

IS is a date remem-

bered by many Hoosiers without haying to mark their calendar. It is a day feared by one out of •very 10 persons in Indiana. In ancient Rome it was “Beware the Ides of March fifteenth,” but in •ur state it is “Beware the ragweed of August fifteenth.” On this date most persons susceptible to the pollen of ragweed will be afflicted with bay fever and will suffer With it until the first frost. Most of them develop characteristic symptoms of hay fever ex-

actly on this day.

Ragweed is an ugly plant and insects are not attraeted te it Vilike the rose and tuoh alluring blooms that attract insects to carry their polls® about, ragweed must depend upon the winds that blow. And with success, for ragweed pollen is carried by the air for hundreds of miles. Ragweed grows all over Indiana, making it difficult for people allergic to its pollen to get away from it unless they go into northern Minnesota, Wisconsin or Michigan. Immunisation to ragweed pollen gives some relief in about 90 per cent of cases. Even so, there arc five hay fever sufferers out of a hundred for whom the only relief is to leave the area where the

weed grows.

Asthma is another manifestation of sensitivity to ragweed

pollen.

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the veteran attorney believes that “there’s always a spark of love left, and possibly it can be rekindled. But if the trouble goes into litigation, the heat of a divorce hearing often fans that spark into the wrong kind of flame, which consumes everything except bitterness, and a stubborn pride.” Attorney Starr smile over the possibility that his creation may ultimately destroy his divorce business. “I’d be happy if it did,” he says. “The world would be a happier place for everyone if needless divorces could be prevented.” Accomodations At State Park Hotels Limited So you would like to spend some time, say a night or two or maybe a weekend or two at one of Indiana’s beautiful State Park Hotels. Who wouldn’t? In 1949 more than 1,500,000 persons paid admissions to these state operated recreational spots. The State Park Hotels and cabins are capable of accomodating about 1,200 persons daily or 33,600 in a month. Thus during the summer season which ran about 31 weeks, 268,800 persons were housed. Two split hairs should all of the 1,500,000 visitors to the parks have attempted to secure sleeping accomodations, approximately 18 per-cent of each visitor would have had a good night. Maybe we should say he or she would just about have gotten a foot in the door. As many persons failed to obtain reservations as did those who were fortunate enough to secure them. Requests for reservations are filled according to the order of their reception. Each is stamped with a dating machine. No partiality is tolerated by the Department. Kenneth M. Kunkel, Director of the Department of Conservation suggests that those seeking reservations satisfy themselves with a mid-week stay in the event they cannot geet week-end rooms The parks all are equally beautiful. Try others should you fail at one . For longer stops get reservations in at least six weeks in advance. The Department of Conservation and the State of Indiana wishes to be good hosts to the visitors to the parks—those who are seeking respite from the daily grind, but the hotels have their space limitations.

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Start a new tradition—why not

month! Holidays days with these

one lazy day a can be “fun”

simple “day-before” suggestions. Salad oil with its ease of measurement and convenience lends itself so very well to lazy day recipes.

Hermits

3% cups sifted all-purpose flour *4 teaspoon baking soda 3 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon % teaspoon nutmeg % teaspoon cloves 1 cup seedless raisins % cup Mazola Salad Oil 1% cups brown sugar 2 eggs, well-beaien 6 tablespoons milk Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and spices. Add raisins. .Combine salad oil and sugar; mix until well blended. Add well-beaten eggs. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk. Drop by tablespoonfuls on oiled baking sheet. Bake in hot oven (400° F.) 12 minutes. Makes 50-60. Savory Potato Cakes 1 teaspoon onion juice 2 teaspoons chopped parsley 2 cups cold, well-seasoned mashed potatoes S tablespoons salad oil Mix onion juice and parsley with mashed potatoes, and shape into flat round cakes. Heat salad oil in large skillet and fry about 3 minutes. Place potato cakes in skillet I and fry about 3 minutes or until golden brown and crisp on one side, turn a*d fry 3 minutes longer to brown other side. Serve immediately. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

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HOME STICKERS. Troy, N. Y.—Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has never been beaten in lacrosse at home during the six years Coach Ned Harkness has guided the stickmen.

World Bank Is Broadening Lending Plans

W A SHINGT ON -The lending program of the World Bank, which already has played a major role in the post-war economic revival of the Western World, is being broadened under the direction of Eugene R. Black, the bank’s president. Since starting operations June 25, 1946, the bank has made 20 loans to member countries totaling $803,645,000 and ranging from $2,300,000 to Finland to $250,000,000 to France. Until recently, World Bank loans predominantly have been in dollars simply because borrowers had to rely on U. S. manufaturers —who had to be paid in dollars— for most of the things they needed. Now producers in other countries are able to offer many heretofore scare items. Borrowers often ask that loans be made in Swiss francs. Dutch guilders or some currency other than dollars. In response to the growing demand, Black has recommended to member countries that they authorize the bank to use for loan purposes currencies, other than dollars, now deposited with the bank. Under the articles of agreement of the World Bank, signed at Bretton Woods, N. H., in July, 1944, each participating country contributed a designed sum, of which 18 per cent was in the currency of the participant. Two per cent was in gold or U. S. dollars. The remaining 80 per cent of each subscription is subject to call by the bank “only when required to meet obligations of the bank.” Thirteen countries now have authorized the bank to use their 18 per cent in the making of loans, subject to approval by the country whose currency is to be used. These countries include the United States, which authorized the bank to use its entire subscription of $3,175,000,000, and the United Kingdom. Others are Belgium, Costa Rica, Canada, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlans, and Paraguay. The ability of bank member countries to borrow currencies other than dollars and to buy the goods they need with currencies other than dollars makes possible the saving of scarce U. S. dollars. It has been the world-wide scracity of dollars in the post-war period that has made it so difficult to make the necessary economic adjustments, This shortage, plus foreign exchange restrictions In virtually every country, and the development of the cold war has kept the World Bank from realizing the actual goals set for it at Bretton Woods. Instead of being a guarantor of loans by private agencies, such as banks, the bank has become itself one of the biggest lenders in the world, since it is able and willing in a time of uncertainty to face risks avoided by private lenders. This change in the bank’s role was cited by the National Advisory Council in a recent report to President Truman and to Congress. •< Noting the provision of the articles of agreement that authorizes the bank to guarantee loans made through private investment channels, the NAC said: “The original expectation that a considerable part of the bank’s business would take the form of guaranties of privately floated loans has not been realized in practice, under the conditions prevailing in the world.” But neverthless the bank’s loans have played a major postwar role, NAC asserted, because they financed immediate reconstruction when the war ended and are now financing economic development. As an example, $28,600,000 in bank funds has been used in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg to repuvenate and broaden the production of steel. While steel still must be imported into Europe from the United States, nevethless the investment of $28,600,000 in steelmaking facilites has beneficial effects on employment and national income in those countries. Similarly, India is using $72,500,000 for the developpient oi electric power, a rail system and the improvement of her agricuture.

“SWEATS OUT 1 ” MISSION—Pictured under the nose of a P-51 Mustang fighter plane, Lance Corp. Bob Bell squints into the sky, hoping to see Royal Australian Air Force Mustangs returning safely from mission over South Korea. Bell is the crew chief responsible for keeping the planes^in A-l mechanical condition.

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Science Builds New Face For Disfigured Tot

TULSA, Okla. —Medical science is building a new face for 11-year-old Wanda Lee Horton. Her doctors say that three years and some 100 operations from now she should have the appearance of a normal teen-ager. Last November doctors didn’t think she would live. Two members of her family were burned to death and three were critically injured in the family home near Sand Springs, Okla. t Wanda was carried out of the flaming house with burns covering 40 per cent of her body. Two of her fingers were burned off and her face was marred beyond recognition. At first doctors fought to save her life. Her strong will to live finally turned the tide. Then they turned to functional surgery to help heal her wounds. Skin was grafted over her worst burns and her eyelids were sewn together to insure sufficient flesh to cover her eyes. For seven months .she could see only a pinpoint of light. While her sears healed, doctors worked to restore the use of her lips and neck to bring normal movement back to her twisted hands. That work is still going on, Last month a surgeon re-open-ed her eyes and lengthened the skin on her neck with several operations. Another operation pulled her lower lip back into place and Wanda is finding life a little easier. But there’s a long road ahead. Surgeons must remove scar tissue, section by section, and replace it with new skin. New hair will be grated on parts of her head, her eyes must be widened and other parts of her face rebulit. Each operation is painful and each must be followed by days of recuperation in bed before the

next one can be attempted. But Wanda has developed a goal that steels her against the pain. She keeps a picture of herself taken before the fire and tells visitors that her doctor is working to make her look like that again. She’s one of the favorite patients at St. John’s hospital and nurses say they’ve never seen her when she wasn’t cheerful. She’ll be starting back to school this fall.

Say It With Sauce |

By BETTY BARCLAY Tempting sauces add relish to almost any dish you can mention. The housewife who takes pride in her culinary skill, sees to it that her recipe file contains enough sauce recipes to take care of any demand made upon her. Many of these recipes call for Lea & Perrins Sauce — the additien of which gives a tang that thrills. Below you will find a mushroom sauce recipe. Try it and you will see what I mean. Incidentally, if you are looking for taste treats, keep a bottle of Worcestershire Sauce on the table With your salt and pepper — to use in stuffings, soups, sauces, vegetables and meat disnes of all kinds. Mushroom Sauce Vi. lb. mushrooms

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2% tablespooifs

Yz cup milk Salt to taste

2 teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce Peel mushrooms and cut off stems. Cover stems apd peelings with water in a saucepan and simmer 15 minutes. Meanwhile, slice caps and sautd in butter 5 minutes. Mix in flour till smooth. Gradually add milk and stock to mushrooms. Salt to taste. Stir while bringing to boiling point. When sauce thickens, adtf Worcestershire Sjuica

1% cups muslyoom stock

flour

Plenty Of Soap For Long Time —There’ll be plenty of soap for everybody for a long time, Agriculture Department officials said today. Tallow and grease, the raw materials for soap, are about as plentiful as anything you can think of, they said. “And prices are way down to pre-war levels. Furthermore, Americans used less soap last year than in any of the 19 years on record. Some 30 per cent of the market has been diverted to synthetic detergents.

can’t help but win complix ments if you serve this cool summer salad for your next luncheon. Combining the shimmering appearance and tart tang of Florida grapefruit juice, with tunaflsh, it’s sure to make a hit. Canned grapefruit juice and canned grapefruit sections are both high on the list of plentiful, economical foods this season. Surrounded by greens, garnished with Florida grapefruit sections and topped with sliced stuffed olives arid, pimiento strips in whatever order you choose, you couldn’t set a prettier platter on your summer luncheon table. Florida Tic Tac Toe Salad Grapefruit layer 1 envelope t \y z cups hot k unflavored V canned Florida ^ gelatine - grapefruit juice Vi cup cold canned x Florida grape- \ fruit Juice.—•- ,

Soften gelatine in cold grapefruit juice. Add hot grapefruit juice and stir until gelatine is dissolved. Pour into 8-inch square pan and chill until almost firm.

Tuna Salad layer: 1 envelope unflavored gelatine V2 cup cold water 2 tablespoons Florida lime juice \ % cup mayon-j naise Vs teaspoon Tabasco

IVi teaspoons grated onion V> cup finely diced celery Vi cup finely diced green pepper 2 7-ounce cans tuna, drained well

Soften gelatine in cold water. Place over boiling water and stir until gelatine is dissolved. Add lime juice. Cool. Add mayonnaise; mix in remaining ingredients. Spoon on top of first layer and chill until film. Unmold on crisp greens. To serve, cut into 9 squares and separate the squares slightly. Garnish with pimiento strips and sliced olives. YIELD: .9 servings. /" ^

SCRIPTURE: Erra 7; 8:15-385 Neh®miah 8-9. DEVOTIONAL READING: Paalm 118: 87-112.

He Loved Teaching

Lesson for August 13, 1950 tirHAT WOULD you do if you had I a million dollars? Several' thousand school teachers were asked that question a few years ago. Seventy-five per cent of them gave the same answer: “I’d resign.” They weren’t real teachers, they were only aRsgsMiaitissfflwafr 1 hired help. The other twenty - five per cent were the real teachers. A great university teacher, Palmer of Harvard, wrote that he had the perfect job. Believe it or not, he said, Har- Foreman! vard actually pays i me for doing what—if I could afford: it—I would gladly pay Harvard to let me do.” * • • No Finished Product •nHE REAL thing about teaching * is that you are dealing with people, young people, growing people. In every other line of business, whatever you turn out begins to depreciate almost as soon as it leaves the factory. It doesn’t take long for butter to get rancid, or bread stale. A coldstorage egg is a feeble imitation of a fresh one. A car that has changed hands once, even if it has run less than 1,000 miles, is already, a “used” car on its way to the junk-pile^’ But the products of the teacher’s classroom are by no means “finished” products when they leave it, even if it is a finishing school. If the teacher’s work has been done well, the product will go on improving for year®, instead of running down. • • * Three Aims pROFESSOR EZRA, of Babylon * and Jerusalem, was one of history’s most famous teachers. We note (Ezra 7:10) the same three aims in Ezra’s life that you would expect to find in all good teachers. First of all, he “prepared his heart” to da what he did. The “heart” Is the Bible eatprsssion fot character, for U/e as a whole. No one nan be a truly good teacher who has a bad character. Now Ezra prepared his heart to do three things. The first was to “seek the law of the Lord.” What a teacher teaches may be as important as who his pupils are; and Ezra’s “subject” was the law which God had given his people—part of what we now call the Old Testament. Nowadays this is called research, but a simple word for it is just study. A lazy teacher is a poor one. A good teacher will spend more time studying than any of the pupils do—and will learn more, too. In fact, the best way to learn anything, including the Bible, is to try to teach it for a while. Second, Ezra prepared his heart to do the law. The old sneer, “He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches,” is true of poor teachers, not of the good ones. Particularly not true of Bible teachers. The aim of Bible teaching, from Moses* time till now. Is always practical. “Truth is in order to goodness,” as the Presbyterians say. One who has not tried out the Bible ideals in daily living will never do for, a Bible teacher. And third, Ezra set out to “teach in Israel.” Your research scholar may or may not make a good teacher. The good teacher is not bored by teaching as some researchers are He loves it. He is happiest

at it.

Take Yourself, for Example l^row LET US see how this comes out in your own home Sunday school. If yours is like most Sunday schools, the main trouble with it is that they can’t find enough good teachers, enough people who really want to know about God’s word themselves, who live and love to help others know it. Tha Rev. H. M. Lewis of Texas has said in his essay. The Dividends of Teaching: “When you begin to teach you will realize that at last you have found a purpose for your religion . . . Teaching gives a motive, the highest motive, for all acts of religion and for all pursuit of knowledge—‘For their sakes.’ Every Christian has the missionary obligation and is by virtue of his profession of faith, a missionary,— ‘Go, teach all nations.’ Make your particular nation young America and your special opportunity systematic work in the Church school. Once you believe that you must be a teacher because you are a Christian ... you will have heard your

life's caH.”

(Copyright by the International Council of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released

by WNU Features.)

In France, during the 18th century, before bridal veils became common, a bride wore an apron as part of her wedding attire. The apron is a trademark of domesticity.

False Reports Of Robberies Irk Ohio Cops COLUMBUS, O. -Fear of what the little woman will say or do when she learns her husband has squandered his pay check is leading many men to report false robberies, detectives say. Local police have been plagued with a flood of false robbery reports. Most of them result from the husband’s fear of having to tell his wife he lost his money shooting dice or buying too many drinks for the boys. The easy way out, many husbands figure, is to call police and report a robbery. As a result, the taxpayers have to foot the expense involved in assigning detectives to the case. About one out of every 15 robbery reports here eventually turns out to be false, Detective Sgts. Paul K. Fulton and Wade Knight said. They, along with Detectives Carl D. Smith and Glade Reeder, make up Columbus’ robbery squad. Fulton recalled a recent case of one man who reported he was robbed of $165. After detectives had spent several days investigating, the man admitted it was a hoax. He hadn’t lost or spent the money. He just didn’t want his wife to have it. Most of the cases, however, involve husbands who are afraid to admit to their wives that the money has gone down the drain without anything to show for it. Men don’t hold a monopoly on false reports, Sgt. Fulton finds. He said grocery money spent on the “numbers” game or lost betting on the horses has led many women to dream up wild stories of holdups rather than tell their husbands the truth. Those who fall/ sucker to confidence men also create headaches for the robbery squad. Victims many times are ashamed to admit they have been made a sucker, so off they go to police headquarters to report a robbery. Then there is the fellow who figures he can collect burglary insurance. One man who re-

Jerry Byrd bought a mail order steel guitar 18 years ago, and today the same instrument brings him fame on WLW’s “Midwestern Hayride” program Saturdays at 1:30 p.m., EST. His steel guitar flaying is hailed as some of the Sanest in the country.

The southern pine stump and the troublesome fuzz remaining on cotton seed after ginning today are yielding scores of useful chemicals that are being used to kill the boll weevil and other cotton insects, to . make flameresistant plastics, and in the production of cold rubber, lacquer, paints and paper. cently reported that his filling station had been burglarized ended up paying a $50 fine instead of collecting from the insurance company. “We usually can spot a false report quickly, but not always-,” Sgt. Fulton said. “The detective is at a disadvantage. Even when the robbery report doesn’t ring true, detectives must proceed caution and tact.

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You frequently hear talk of the private power industry, meaning people like us. But the word ''private” gives a rather wrong idea. It suggests a few individual owners —and all of them undoubtedly rich. Actually Indiana & Michigan Electric Company is built on the savings of the people of the whole United States. To begin with, we have 30,458 direct owners —or stockholders— and they come from alt walks of life. 1 Our indirect owners make a group that's even larger. They're the people who have insurance policies and saving accounts—and that probably includes you. These investments, in their way, can make you a part owner of Indiana & Michigan just as certainly as if you owned Indiana & Michigan stock. When banks and insurance companies accept your money, they must invest it wisely. Because Indiana & Michigan has a long record of efficient management and operation, its securities are safe and sound, sought after by the bank and insurance people to whom you entrust your savings. So whatever concerns this business-managed, taxpaying electric company affects millions of insurance policy holders and bank depositors, large and small. Since you're among them, you can see that whatever affects a "private" utility is very much private busirt^r of your own.

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