Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1939 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evsnlng Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT co. incorporated ffistarod at the Decatur. Ind. Poet OSes aa Rewind Class Mattar J. H HaUar President A H Hoilbuuao. Racy. A Bus Mgr. IMck D. HaUar_ VkaPraaldant Bohoovtpt.oo Rates: Slagle eopisa .03 One weak. by carrier _____ .19 Ona rear, by carrier —l«v One montb by mail .36 Pbraa months. by mail .... 1.00 gu montba. by mall _____ I.U Due year, by maU ■— S.OO one year, at office 3.99 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles Elsewhere 33.50 one year. Advertising Rataa made known on Application. National Ad ver. Representative BCH MERER A CO. U Lexington Avenue. Now York M Eaat Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dal ilea

Business 1s tine and going to get f better. Get your coat ott and go after it. Let s make this commuu-' ity the best there ia anywhere. Trade m Decatur boost (or De- i ratitf. wort for uecstur and Adame county. A little effort on the part of eacb person in the county will make a world of difference. The boys and girls week pro gram was carried out as planned and there to a new interest now in those things that means so much j to the children. WPA workers have an eye out! for a permanent job with private industry The trend tn Washington and generally to against thia I form of job uiakina except when absolutely necessary. Get a job: you can depend ou and work at j Advertising in your local news- 1 paper is a good barometer of bust-1 ness We are pleased boa use last week's volume was the best since Christ mas week If we go after! business hard enough we will get ' it and that takes the combined est- , orta of the merchants of a city. One of the most encouraging I signs of the times is the fact that j 5151 persona were gtven private' employment In hidtana during the i month of April That to the largest ‘ number since the state employ-, mentburvau was organ tied some[ several years ago In March the number employed was 6.9 M. Plans to make Poppy Iley. Hat- j urday, May 37th. the most successful ever < ondnct rd here are going i forward. Remember that the mon ey thus raised will be used to bring a little happiness to .>e vet-! erans who arc in hospitals and who when well and yonng offered their services to the flag and the nation they loved. We hope some one keeps urging the construction of fire proof buildings for the keeping ot important records of the county. It . need not be an expensive building and fnrty-ftve per cent ot tbc money rould be secured by a federal grstp. so the coat would not be noticeable but the loss of many of the records could endanger the title of every property in the county. Charts published by some one who claims to know show this territory at a low business ebb. We don't think H to and it his figures arc correct, it's due only to j a lack of effort Wc have cxcoll-, ent pay rolls, our people are thrlf ty and more prosperous than the average, banka of the county arc ' In a high peak position, so It busl ' ness to off. It’s because we don t' go after It hard enough Congress to planning on a bit lion dollar tax reduction which would assuredly have a good dff-| act on business generally. Vader ,

present conditions it Is necessary to show what to be a good I earning before a profit can be ' made due to the taxes which now . inn about six per cent Rome way | there must be a correction that J permits business to make a profiit for the stockholders it wc exI'pact them to expand. i We record the passing of an1 other splendid pioneer etttoen of 1 ['the community. Martin Miller, for ) years one of the sound men who ’ loved to work, who believed In his J home town and county, whose perI sotiality was pleasing and who was H happiest when serving, lie was ' prominent in lodge and church circles. Born In Preble township. Mr. Miller was a cltixen of Adams I I county during his entire seventy- 1 ' five years Illness during the past ' two or three years prevented him I from being active tu affairs but | the end came suddenly and uuex- i ' pectcdly. causing a great shock to I j relatives and I From now on to the 1940 Con-j 1 vention. you will read all sorts of j stories, buttressed with quotations . from unnamed insiders, setting torth the President's attitude toj ward this or that candidate. These will be little more thau dreams of the writers, generated by their I environment or employment. It to ■ naturally the Republican props'* sands and polity to convey to the ■ public that all the big Democrats I are at each other s throats, just as M will be their endeavor to con- ‘ 'p* that the Hoover school of ; thought on their own side and I that of the more liberal Republi- j cane represent merely a trifling, I ripple on the political sea. This phenomenon on both sides of the I political fence ia characteristic of pre-conveutiou comment and campaigning Speculation, which ev'cry columnist is bound to under- [ take in the absence of fact, ia little I I more than wishtul thinking, It ' will be six months at least betore - the political situation clarifies suificlently even for a good guess. Ro ! many things arc likely to happen I between now and 1949 to upset all calculations that what ia writI ten and said now has no more in- , terest thau any other good word I jof fiction. — Charles Michaelson. I WHOM The American people will be ■ pleased by the aaauiance from I London that nothing short of the i most serious event, such aa a de< ■ i larathm of war. will prevent King I | George VI and Queen Elizabeth from starting their trip across the - Atlantic on .May C Their battle cruiser Repulse hss been caught lup In the present < .inscription movement, hut a substitute ship i will be ready The fact that wc don't have kings and tfaeen* of nur own doesn't mean that we do I not like to sec them in the flesh , from time to time. The British need not expect us to be too calm and restrained about the comings and goings of their majesties. But ft wonld be a great mistake to assume for a moment that the , painstaking preparations being made by th*- British and our owu . authorities to guard the safety of i our guests have their origin tn any slightest hostility anywhere among our own people. Against the drmen'ed crank proper precautions must be taken in every land Rut Americans havr only the friendliest feeltng for the King and Queen, and indeed a sense of aftactionable kinship. Wc expect them to be relatives conrteonsly easy to please, enthusiastic about seeing the sights wc arc proud of. and in general good company who will i mak<- 'hcmselvcs at home. —New York Times. Labor Ims been told that bust- , ueas gets confidence. Farmers have j * ness got confidence Farmers have been told that only when business gets this confidence tan they sell . their products. The story is rel posted to all professions and services. But what more contldcucc does business want than the specI taele ot the Increase in building

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i which is now going on in every ■ -section* of the country. The iu- < reuse tn Indiana this past year shows more permit* issued than I had been granted for the past ten ‘ year* There are new farm homes, too. where permits are not rvqutr- j ••d. and the report of the building industry as a whole shows a most , remarkable increase. This is a real for house* arc | built by those who expect thia na-> ; tion to last and thia state to con-1 tinue prosperously The new home* | and stores are butlt for use They will be permanent for at least two generations to come. Who gave 1 the people this confidence? The answer is to be found tn the fact . that the government also has faith to the point where It will , guarantee a portion of home loans from 15 to 25 years, a guarantee | - to the hanks, the- very group which asked for confidence. For most buildings are erected <m borrowed money, and the people are now us-1 Ing tbeir own credit and their own government backing to obtain the 1 necessary funds Household Scrapbook* * By Roberta Ix?e Pink Materials Hoak pink material in a solution: rs one tablesixxm of vinegar to one I quart of water, and hang by the' selvage to dry. before cutting out the dress. This will eliminate any danger of your material either fading or shrinking. Sour Stomach Much will be done to sweeten the | rour stomach, and n-mov. indiges ' tfon If a half tn*spoonful of haling soda la placed on the tongue and then wash down with a drink of cold water. Grilled Cheese In grilling cheese sa'idwtcbul tiithrr in the oven or on a grill, but'er the outside of Um breau. o — — . — TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY * —. 4 May A Murray Hrhercr soils his undertaking business to Black and (Jetting. Bueinoss I* Improving and th" federal reserve lets rd says America has recovered from the slnx.it of the > oar. Joe Colchln lands la New York City after service "over there." Peace terms are given Germany on Ute 4th anniversary of the al liking of the Lusitania. Vic tory fund now |474.k<rt>. Thia is last week of drive. Rec eption given for Rev. and Mrs. Charles Tlnkhem st the M fc i < burch parlor*. ——■ —o- — Superintendent Walter Krick looked after business tn indfauap ' oils Friday.

DECATUR DAILX DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1939.

Weather A Week Ahead Aa Forecaat By PROF. EELBY MAXWELL. Noted Meteorologist e-is. 1»y? | X WXV A-14 *959 | ■ E&-- T® 1 l£z HOT $ COLD UJET 4 DRV TEMPERATURE ANO RAINFALL FOR INDIANA. May 8 to 14 The N W.. extreme W. cen and H E portions will be cool The iR W portion wHI he warm The remaining areas of the slate will be normal The K part of the N. tan. and W cen area will be wet Part of the N W, area will be moderately wet. bnt moderately dry in .the extreme N. W. portion l‘art of the N cen . con., and S. cen areas will be dry The S W pnrtlnu will be normal Copyright 1989, John F Dille Company.

WEATHER IS PREDESTINED TO OCCUR Weather was bewildering to a* lenttsta until they realised that I its cause lies not in the earth It-1 | self but in the apace, time and aaergy surrounding the earth.' Weather In a tide of the air caused by the gravitstlonal pull of - moon and sun. but aa long as 1 sclenttora were thinking of tides' in ferraa of th*- comparatively |oc-| ,al tides nf the ocean, they did not. get a complete mental picture of what weather tides are like Hottie weather tides pass over tn a few < hours, others take days, some ' weeks, and some years to in*as Where to weather before it reachea the earth, and where does ,It go? Recent mathematical discoveries have found an answer. Now. folks, if I were a mathematician I would say what follows In , the moat inconiprehenaahle terms i that I could think of. but In jnat | plain everyday language, tt aceois i like thia: .Mathematics regard the earth and all Ita surroundings as consisting of tour things. Rpbce, Time. Matter and Energy Then*: four things are closely related If we look at the earth aa made of .Matter aioue we arc not seeing the I whole picture because we must I also consider the earths Energy and tbc Hpace surrounding the earth and the Time through which I the earth • udures When the [earth and moon began revolving I together, perhaps to t billioa years ago. a pot tern was created in Spe«-e, Time. Matter and Ent rgy. which was to be tbc destiny of the j earth's weather through alt the time that the earth and moon . xliould have together. This pat- | tern was fixed at the ni<>m<-nt of 'creation and nothing that has hat*-

TEMPERATURE FORECAST FOR SUMMER OF 1939 frhß’lg 7 i ’“TTiI r L ■ U**-**"■ Kz23-*y<\lljff.Xw. | 1 PATHS OF LAR&L COOL KIR MQVU*PATHS OF LARGC WARM AIR MQVU

The maps show total effect of Hot, Cold, Wot, and Ory Ale to be oapectod next wook. DAILY FORECAST | MAY 193? 5“ j 8 9 10 to 41 13 14 IS b H M Q , INDIANA

peti.-d alnce has chanxed it tat'er-l laity. Each day as the >arth moves along through this patti .u I it meets the approptfate weather I for that time Mathematicians de-| plct anmethina of the appeara.ice of this patterns of Bpace. Tttne, I Matter and Energy. It looks llkej a land of hills snd valleys As the earth passes each "hill" it re-1 cords the tact by causing a storm in the destined loeslity. Some of the larger temperaturn moves tor this coining sunt-, mer arc given here Watch the weather in your locality and you l will aec these temperatures come' true much as they are predicted i here. WEATHER QUESTIONS Q Why do some plants need more water than others! A. II A. All plants have breathing "pores" In stems and. leaves, but these are mors numerous in some kinds than In others. Q What accounts for the cold. 1 frm-Xtng. high barometer we have ’ had so much of the time this I spring? C. H. II A. The air from the frigid tone has spilled down over us, st. though the earth’s polar cap were tilted over one eye. Q . Does a late spring mean a

t gucal year! O 8 A. Not ntceaeariiy When there is alee s tats tall seme of the dan* ag« will be made up. 1939 *»••• rank as a fair year, but not the best. Temperature Dotaits of ths Summer of 1999 Uck ot Space makes it Im- . poMiblc to prim ail the details I of th*- weather fnr the coming 1 Summer here, but Prof Rclhy Maxwell has prepared a For" ; caat of t'omlng Tcmiw-ratureti ; You can have yours FMKE, with the compliments ot this newspaper Address Prof. He* by i Maxwell, care of this newspap* >. enclosing stamped tScl, arlf-ai-I dressed envelope tot reply. Ask tor "This Coming Hummer’s : Temperatures" (Copyright 1939. John F Dtlk* Co.) I * f _ # Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE I Q When the conversation among , juoate to conterrd about one who >• present, so ccunplimeuttry that j u is really embarrassing, what >bouid thia one do! A. Turn Ute conversation towards | oc.me one alee, or some other subl Jcct. Q. When a woman to giving a f ridge party, and has no servant, j who should greet each guest of tbc duor, as she arrives! A. The hostess ueaalb asks a

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v - CHARTER XXXIX And so th* war was over. It was •ver for Pick Walters, lying In a veterans' hospital with a medal for bravery and an eye alive to pretty nurses. “All right Gimme a kiss, and I’ll go to sleep.” It was over for Ted Lawrence, now in Coblens and teaching pretty German girls a song which began, "Sing, oh, sing of Lydia Pinkham, and her work for the hu-u-man race." It was over for Jerry Ames, now grounded and feeling like a fallen angel. It was over for Chri« Arden, still working and learning in a great base hospital in France, plowing through seas of winter mud, his step a little heavier, but otherwise unchanged. It was over for Katie, somewhat bored now with Rob Barrett. It was over for Beverly. And it was over forever for Ms* Nettie Stmpson, with only a bronxe tablet being prepared for the main corridor of the hospital to remind any one of her I long years of service there. | Ain: >*t the last thing Mis* Netti* had done was take Beverly into the training school a* a temporary helper; for the flu had come by that time It was mowing down the men in France like ripe grain, and in America it took a toll like the Black Plague. The hospital was jammed with rase* and depleted as to staff, and in late November Beverly walked into Miss Nettie's room and asked to be taken on. Miss Nettie, hiding her swollen feet and legs under her desk, eyed her somberly. ‘I am not afraid of work." "What do you know about work? And what does your fat her say ?“ "Does that matter. Mis* Nettie? And I ean learn. 1 must do something. To ait idle while people are dying—” Two days later Beverly entered the hospital. She lay in her small room on her hard bed and listened to the sound* about her, to the procession of nurses to and from th* bathroom across the hall, to the sound of th* ambulane* driving in, to the faraway wail of a crying ehild. In her closet were hanging her plain blue uniforms, her flatheeled sho*i, and her laundry hag. The room itself contained the bed she lay in, a bureau, a table, and two chairs. She did not sleep, but rhe felt more calm than she had felt for years. Here Anally were sanctuary and work. She got up at last, and, sitting at the table in her nightgown. she wrote Jerry her daily letter, numbering it a* usual on the corner so that he might know what he had mbmed, ts any But she was shivering when sh* finished. With each letter she knew bailed him once more. Oieerfu! and affectionate she could make them, but never really loving; •nd because she knew thia, before she slept that night she knelt down on the hard floor beside her bed and prayed that, sine* th* war was over, he would not drink any mor* and would com« back to her a man. She went to work the next day, quietly and efficiently, in the emergency th* hospital accepted hsr without comment. She scrubbed h«r first bathrooms cheerfully, walked Incredible miles of hard floors in h*r flat shoes, carried heavy tray*. At night her hand* were sore and her feet swollen. Sh* would go to sleep, to be called at some hour or other to clean up an operating room, and for the first time sh* saw the trage die* of th* mill*. Thcs<> were the | things that Chris had seen «nd known, and when he had tried to help thes* people, *he had failed him. No wonder he had let her go. 1 Rhe grew to full stature duritw those weeks, going quit* simply I about her work, finding no task too menial, and making friends everywhere. I One day she met Kat I* in a hall. ' Kstia had been elected a member of I th* Women's Board that flail, as a tribute to Chris, and now she was gmng to a meeting Rhe smiled and held out her hand. "Oh. It’s you. Mrs. A me*! How •re you liking the work?" "Very much. Os course I haw always worltad her* hi * sen**. It’s i ! not entirely new to me ” Thar* was no cou4*scea»ion taJ

I — — .. t Answen To Tent Question* 111 Below are tba answers to tbs Toot Questions printed ;|* on Pago Two I. A mixture of two or mote metals. 3 Hamlet 3 Jerusalem. 4. Greece. 5. The President of the Renatsand the speaker of the House of Representatives. « I,l*. T. Ko-a joo-ter, not koaj-ootcr. j M National Rrnmploymcni Service. 9 Minnesota. 10. Co make tx-rfumes. —- ■ 1 o Cat Wa<to Over Missing gn,p Alameda. Cal. — (UPj— Pster, a > i big cat that has made its boms aboard the freighter Santa Crate Pcmetu for many yearn, had the I mlefbrtune while wandering about 1 the docks to miss the sailing Wb"c 1 the pet discovered the ship had Beir * cd it net up such a caterwauling Hthat officials ot the company plac-\-d it In charge of a kennel keeper 1 until tbs ship gets back tn three • ( weeks. ('friend to pet form this duty , I Q Should one introduce a doctor i by his tills! . A. Yes. Thia is Doctor Marlin, I Mtoa Young."

Beverly's voice, but Kati* passed on with an angry flush. "Sh* has, and I haven't—l suppea* that’s tV she thought "That was to put mo in my place She and th* Simpson woman!" Later on Katie went with the other* to th* usual tea in Miss Netti*'a room. Sb* went with a fafnt air of bravado, but no one appeared to notie* It. Only Mis* Nettie, her tea poured, sat back and watched her, carefully dressed, slightly rouged. It was the next day that Mis* Nettle was found on th* floor of her room. Rhe was conscious, but she could not walk, and they put her to bed in her small adjacent bedroom to die. Not at one*. That would have been too easy, and life had never been easy for Mias Netti*. But in du* time and with Beverly beside her bed. Toward the end sh* roused from her stupor and looked at Beverly. "Look after Chris,” sh* said very clearly. "Re need* it" She was asleep before Beverly could answer, and sh* never wakened again. The flu went as suddenly a* it had come, and Beverly went back to her empty life. Save for Mrs Nettie's death the hospital became norma! once more. Nurses and staff were drifting back, oddly inarticulate about what they had seen and done. The poker game tn the internes' room was resumed, there was a house surgeon now, and upstairs in the X-ray room Scott was still talking the jargon of hie trade: watercooled tubes, aluminum filters, and general X-ray therapy. “Pretty noon we’ll do away with you surgeons," ho would say boastfully. “Watch radium, watch us, and sec." But Scott himself was going to need a surgeon, and soon. He was going to lose his right arm, and knew it. He carried it In a sling now, but be refused to have the operation until <!hris came back. Chris returned in February. Katie was at the dock in ■ new fur coat, a Katie somewhat plumper. Once shut off together in the taxicab, there was a marked constraint between them. They were stranger* meeting after a long separation. It was as If all the year* of Intimate living had been wiped away, and Chris, searching desperately for words to bridge the gulf, found himself talking inanities. When at last he reached out and took her hand, she submitted, but her eyes were on the streets, the people, the shop windows. She was excited, he saw, but not with his return. When he released her, sh* hardly knew it The feeling of strangeness per visted in the hotel, and it wa» not lessened when he found her smoking one cigarette after another. The next few days did not bring them any closer. Chris tried, coming in from his camp when he eould to take her out, admiring the clothe* she bought, forcing himself to theatre* and Ist* suppers, trying to bridge the gulf between them, even trying man fashion to catch and hold her wandering attention. But it was useless. Sh* was bored by the wsr, which »he frankly regarded a* water over the dam Rut she was proud of him in hi* uniform, aware that other women followed him with their eye*. One night, however, she suggested that he take the eaduceu* off hl* collar. “Take it off? Why?" "You needn't let everybody knn* I you were only a doctor over there. I need you?" After that he never mentioned the. war to her. Indeed, he began to be, alarmed ss the days want on, to look out for some anchor tn hold their marriage. Katie was slipping. She would ll* in her hotel bed all morning reading romantic drivel, her clothe* scattered over the room, the air elose, and the bathroom littered with towels, with bath salts and fare creams. He would com* In from the soldierly neatness of bis quarters to find hsr there, the bed sprinkled with ashes, and to remember Lily with a shiver of distaste. But when 1 on* dav out of sheer desperation he i suggested that she have * child, sh* 1 «as a* stubbornly rssistaat a* *v*r.

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