Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1942 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT PublWhed Every Evening Except Munday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. | lacorperated. Entered at the Oral ar, Ind. Coat office aa Second Claat Matter I. H. H-llar President A H Holtbous*. Mac y A Hua Mgr I Dick D. Heller Vice-President •übaartptien Rat** Single Coplea I <*3 One week, by carrletw..™—- -!• One month, by mall -31 i Three month*, by maU.—-1 "® | Six mouth*. by mail 175 One year, by mail — 30* ! Price* quoted are within a radlua 1 of iVO mile*. Elsewhere 13 50 one year. Advertising Rate* made Known : on Application. National Representative SCHEERER A CO. <ls Lexington Avenue, New Tork 35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago Charter Member* ot Th* Indiana League of Hume Daille*. Buy bond* on pay day. If*, ne<eaaary and Ifs patriotic. mu — How did yuu like tlu sample of I spiing ? It’s really due this week and the johnny-jump-up* »ill soon , lx smiling at u*. o—o Forty mile* an hour will gel you i there though it may take a tew i minute* longer. Beside* saving tire* and care, it will also eave ' lite*. -0— YOU hate lee* than three Week* ■ In which to register to Vote, if you have moved, changed your uain- or failed to vote in the last two elec-i tion« Don't put off thi* Important A'tterhaii duly See that you an- ( qualified. -0 I'ndei a UeW order from the agri ; cultural department, worker* In th* I Adams county beet Held* will Ih paid forty cents an hour for hoeing' and 45 cent* per hour tor blocking and thinning An Increase was re- > quested some time ago. it ** said, by the beet grower* a**m latum. —o Truck owner* are urged to get < • ir IM3 Ih - use* and tags by the 35th ot thia month Time was ex-. tended (ending a supreme court, ■lncision which ha* now been rendered and the statu* I* returned to the law of 1937. Don't put It off You have just about one week. -0 April 13th will Ire Bond Sunday In Indiana. Plan to help make It I a great sacres* by taking part in | It. Argue a* you will, no one who has given thought to the atrocitl-e i now being dished out by the Yel low bomber* want to meet *u< h a , ■Huairoll a* ha - com* to Java and other purl* of 'he world. -0 < General MacArthur iu c harge of the U. 8. forte* In Australia will assure the Aussie* of complete support and of the very ablest brand Hi* record iu the Philippine* ha* been pbeuominal and be will have the respect and cooperation of - every one on the big bland. It will M be bad MW* for Tokyo. —O 0 « A ten percent sale* tax would * yield ten billion dollars of revenue * That would help the U. K treasury ~ but It would also tend toward* In flatlon for the tan of course would - be added to every thing we bought. it ccrtalny should not be used un * Ims absolutely necessary and after * all other m< an* had been exhaust—o—- »- is the time of year when we may aspect any temperature from below treesing to seventy or eighty degree*. The sudden change* make It a period for cold* and the Au Be na careful aa you can and at the Brat signs, lay up for a day •r two and follow th* doctor'* direction* It m*y save « **v*re r > ™

A tornado that killed approximately two hundred people, Injured many others and destroyed milI Hon* of dollar* worth of property. | swept over five north central states I a* the Ide* of March and spring i came In. The storm hit at various ■pots over Indians but was not as severe here aa In other states, according to reports. It's s screwball war! Nome i thing* have gone Into reverse. For instance Private Eugene Hauud« r* ' of Huntington ha* become chef to I -he ofleens' mesa nt Fort Bragg. N C. His mother nays be couldn't i even hoH water before hla enlistment. but now each week he sends I Ma a big batch of cookies. Just so they don t start knitting sweatI «rs for the home folk*! New Cas- - tie (’out ler-Times. Thirty person* from this county will b> permitted to donate blood ! at the "hank” for U»e by the Red i fro** tor wounded soldier* They will go to Portland. April Sth. Mrs. , i Elva Roth of route two. Decatur. Is m • harge of the work and reports j 'hat four more donor* are all that are needed to make up the thirty. I Those Interested should call her i through Cralgville or write her. I route two. Decatur. —o Another all-time record was I ' broken by the men aud women of i thi- nation Monday when a billion 1 dollar* w.i- paid in federal ln< ome I I tales. The exact figure* are not i i available yet as it will require | I »oine time to compile them but the | estimates are believed to be con-j •e vativc More than 22.00h.0Uu j |M>op|e. besides corporations and partnership* are now required under the law tu aid in fuel- Sam s i expenses. —o The housing question Is one of : i the big problems in every Indus-1 ■ rial center, including Decatur. A* the tire* and ears begin to give lout, hundreds of employe* of far-' tnriwa will have to live within walk ling distance of th.- plant. If you i : call add a loom or two to your 1 houi-e and provide for another family. you will Ih- helping out. If you i can build a new bouse It will be , wonderful If you will join with those who are working out a plan ' tor construction of a hundred new h-msos. you will Im- doing a good . turn for your community and mak-, I ing a good investment. —o

Amen: I I He W4H just a Utile fellow aud | Ilin dad bad given hitu a bath and . ■ put bun to lied. And because he I looked mi tweet and elean and in-1 lioielil. Ih-> anae the wet Id had become nu< h an unhappy and uncer-j : tain placi-. Ilia dad had the nrxe to ; i broaden the iintial iH-dtiine prayer. He departed from the old coußuea and asked for many things for the I little fellow who < hitched his hand so tightly. And then hi- dad aaid: “Ainen." . . . The little fellow suddenly »aid: ‘ lied, what'a Amen aland for?" And the father, think Ing swiftly, said: "Well, son, it's something like signing a letter . . . It indicates we have Mulshed the i prayer. ... (Then becoming tancital* . . . fig somethin* you lot go of like the string of a balloon so the balloon ran ascend to heaven." . . The little fellow said: "If you don't say Amen, maybe the prayer hasn't started for heaven yet and you can still keep it." . . . And the lather nodded hia head. ... “I don't want to say Amen yet.” said the little fellow. "You see. dad. I've been thinking here as you asked all those things from Him. 1 thought how comfortable I was. here In a nice clean bed. with my mother and dad with me. with a good home, with plenty to eat. plenty of clothes to wear. And then I know there are millions of children who are living la countries who aren't happy, who have loot their mothers and their dads, their homes, their friends, who haven't anything to eat. no clothes to wear, no placa to sleep ... I got so much I dad. 1 shouldn't ask anything more

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from Him. He has so many other prayers from other children who I really need Him ,•. Could we scud up another prayer instead?” . . . And 'he father said: ''You’re dead right *on Our prayer at that was a selfish one. We asked when we already hav r everything Instead we are going to ask Him wbat we can do to show our gratitude, to ask Him to show us the opportaafry to serve Him; how we can be worthy of all Hi* bounty.” . . . "Ainrii." said the little fellow. “I 1,-f ge the string, dad That prayer can go to heaven.” — Viuceunea Nun Commercial. , k — « Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE 0 "' — " 1 — q. Wbat would tie an appropriate costume tor a woman who I* going to travel quite a distance? A A «emi-dark tailored suit, with fi.-Hhe blou*e. is appropriate. ’ Q. Is It considered Improper for a young woman to a»k a young man *he admires to call upon her? A No. ihl* i* no longer considered improper aa It was at one time.

Australia, Now Threatened, Much Like U. S. [o UV g H . CA O 1/ IH P I C ? J * ft* s • r/*>o» it» -V J* Ary /\ i 4't "*. / CM/ar I \ « * 4W * J/ 1 !NO tA H jg V'i' '» „ X / cpA * .J* i Ax m ; i — —" | X / —p—Ag.k - ... •<**•* L O « Asawsav ; \ IE - J w_ -- j ,i • , ’& ' ■ ■ i r '*" **? U|"'“ qX |TrRRU'TORYI ./T<wt /-fe*’ zy .X ,* Lmt lo \ WT*“ Vka. /y W X S>T g R JL’' V» AbhsKmm—--1 ‘W \- 3 A atrT»i * t9T “? \ Oo« 4 Z*ww<sasamimwamw \ Sf} X*" — ■ . ~ „ rt! ICOBMO P 3 ***«.»OM* ■ wm. %a assasu ■ «our ■ » -3L. tMicacAos o e.irrwwxtj ’ | ," / - «*—MiirteßVHigWffV' S WNUir .V***! •JB UAW. • cmwnonutv* TAtMANtAY I 4-r ■H «rn« 0 ' "" ' ~ War in the Far Cast now has reached Australia, the eman eenttner.t "down under." which closely resembles the United States In many reopsets. The excellent may above, prepared by E. George Green. Infematienal Illustrated News cartographer, gives a detailed study of the continent, showing naval bases, air bases, natural resources, industries and topography. Australia is an agricultural country and great wool producer. Sheep and cattle are raised tn central and western areas and fanning is carried on in the south. Tbs chief citloa lie aloag the smithes nt coast. Moot of the interior la desert waataiand. A naw defense highway was built in record time to hak the south with Darwin, northern port and site of a naval base which has boon bombed by Japanese planes. Australia, a British commonwealth. io eompeesd of stat states, including the totand of Tasmania, which bos directly south. Bise of Australia la almeet that of the United States, but the population, ?,018,M9. to leas than that of the auto of XUuieta. Ths two principal cftta< Sydney and Melbourne, have populaUoM in excess of 1,000,000 each. The capital to Canberra. -

Lenten Meditations i Dr. Ralph Waldo Graham First Methodist Chunk) I SE YOUR PRIVILEGE ' Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and y* say that in Jerusalem is th* place wh*r* m«n ought t* worship." John 4:20 Argument* and controversies often cloud the issue It our land had entered into a debate a* to a material place where one should worship the real Issue would have been lost In a discussion of material settings and the import of the spiritual experience of worship ignored. Bo today, multitude* are having much to -ay about the "freedom of worship." and are willing to spend billion* of dollar* and millions of live* to preserve ft. yet actually net enough concerned almut It to exercise the privilege. Even though you extinguish all who oppose the principle of freedom of worship. If we fail to use the privilege of worshiping God In spirit and in truth, we will have lorrt our freedom of worship. "The hour cometh and now I*, when the true worshipers shall Worship the Father in spirit and in tratb." W* *hall keep this privilege, this freedom only aa we mak< us* of It. "Our Fathers Worshipped . . . the hour cumeth and now is, when true worshipper* shall worship"

The young woman of today may say, Mr. Carson, mother and I will lie at home next Wednesday evening Mould you like to stop in tor a little while?” Q When diuing in a friend's home.'should a gue*t take a helping of every dish, the first time It is offered? A. It I* the most gracious thing to do. wen If one la not partial to some particular dish.

TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY | •March 111—Otto Kirsch elected to . dty council to succeed F A. PeoI pless. resigned. Mrs. George Dtboit, 74. dies from ; heart attack. • Fbretnen of th* Fort Wayne end Decatur Genera! Electric plant*

School Glee Club To Give Operetta Operetta Will Be Given On March 27 — “Her Roys! Hlghne* Miss Jones ' | Is the title of the fsree-comedy operetta in three *csnes to be pre rented by the Decatur high school glee club In the gymnasium audl torlum at R p m on Friday. March 37. Mias Helen Hattbold. music Inatractresa in the city schools, is directing the operetta. Tickets for the operetta may be purchased from members ot the east. The cast follow*. Miss Jone* Lola Baughman. Tillie Patricia Garard. Latncw Pembroke- Edward Mos er. Douglas Bruce- James Strickler. Mr Finkle-Richard Buckley. The hotel clerk--Robert YuaL Manny <Jtilnn-Jayne Eady. II RD I'rlucess Terra — Alice Roth. The sti anger-Patricia Baughn. Mra. Randolph Mumu - Alyce Brunnegrat. Mrs. Cornehus Crumb — Lola I Frank. Mias Bernadiue Droop - Jauic FeaaeL Mrs. Percival Pennypacker Kathryn Yager. Mrs. de Brltll* —Berniece Barber. Bell-bop* — Jack Graham. Norman Steury. Maida — Jean Bmkley. Thai* Bumgerduer. Walter- LaVerne Kitchen. Service station attendants John Spahr, Ronald Stuckey aud Roger Staley. Gueats at the hotel Vera B.iuer, Juanita Blum. Mildred Blythe. Eina Bultemeier. Mary Borne. Harriet Christen. Florence Hoffuiau, Elva Mae Jackson. Juan Krick. Cloe Llniger, Ardella Miller. Phyllis M> ■ Farland, Bonnie Roeder, Roue Marie Stanley. Jean Tricker, Betty Werst, Helen Worthinan Young couples- Max Heare. Carl Faulting, Robert Foreman, Ja« k Graham. Dick Linn. Dale von Gunten. Don Grite. Bill Lynch, Arline Roop, Joan Cowens. P- ggy Sullivan. Mary Jane Wllsou. Flora Belle Kohls. Ixmna Kraft. Betty Sautter | and laabelie White meet here and banqquet at the I Knight* of Pythias Home Franklin aud Terre Haute win semi-finals in state Imsket-ball tournament and will play final* '.might. High school girl* are selling The Country Gentlunun. the profile to hr used In equipping a reception room at the high school. M Kirsch bruised when m. fall* into a diem ditch near Zion Reformed church. — o. — The Census Bureau estimate* I that probably one person will eventually die from tuberculosis out of every 30 who receive holiday mail brightened by Christmas seals.

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I ■ Will CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE i They had told Brinda at the hospital she might see Dick Malden between flve and eix. She found him propped up in bed. hia head bandaged, hia left arm in a cast, his chest swathed like that of a mummy. He waited until the nurse left ths room. "Brinda, I'vo been doing a lot of thinking. And the upshot of it is —well, dear, it's that I love you and what’s more. I’m going to marry you as soon as I got out of here.** Her eyes opened wide. "Really?** she said, with a queer smila. “How very sweet of you, Diek! And doat 1 have anything to say about it?** “Come here,** he answered. And, as she was slow to comply, "Remember, I'm a sick man and if you provoke mo, I may suffer a relapse. —That’s better. Now, bend over.” His free .-rm went around her shoulders and he pulled her face to Ms. **l love you, Brinda! I adorn you!” Her resistance was =ild. And, whoa their lipa met, it ceased. "Dick!” ska wbuptred, “My dearrnt dear!” “You’re not just humoring a sick man?” he aaid, after a while “I think I’ve always loved you," she said, her voice soft and warm. "Anyway, aincs we were in school. And it ail came back when I aaw you again.” "I understand." His eyae devoured her. "It was that way with me. too. Only I didn't have brains enough to know IL” “When did you find out?" “Lying here, thinking. What a close call I had. You saved ay life, you know." “I? How?" •That bomb was meant for me. You see, I switched off the laborstory lights when I went out for tobecco. The bomb wss rigged up to go off when I switched them on sgsfn. They found the wires.” Brinds’s hand went to bar throat “You TWMit ? H "If I’d gone back when I intended. Pd have been blown up Instead of that poor guard. It was meant for me. But you came along and saved ths day.” Brinda looked bewildered. “You dent mean, by any dunce, you want to marry me out of grati-

WEDNESDAY. MAtCH||l

•— • • .’A**’’ pewuarso by Oally D*mocr*V -B*t'» Ceeeker Hom. I CAPTAINS ON THI HOME ' -Second line of defense." That', whst ollr the American home. And that make* , h ini) mvportant officer on this def.-n*c line A I .SMIP The quMthM b-just how shall we hutm-f-mt forces for victory ’ Thcr* ar* lot* of ways. War need* » r * material* we re accustomed to using m our have broken down so that our country isn tg, tt in . ~ from Bbroa.l That’s why we must remen n. r use we get from our household equlpm.-m *n I , | ... h.mm. help our nation in ■ very import.,,,- ■„ , v \ Uir,ft and conservation and care vnu and ( ami |, shorten the war! That's why Im offerer » f. w ' each week. Su«e»t'on« that Will help you k.. i, y ,,„ r ■' merit in fi-et class condition so that it will * • |,, ' Many of you. I know, will have been I < But you may find wme suggestion that > a 1., .'or. or some suggestion that answer* *■; during about CARE OF EI.EtTRK EQI IPMENT I W Vacuum Cleaners: Follow manufacturer s My the sweeps r well oiled. Sharp bit* of glass. | tiki. the swwper. No it'* well to look for the*, I* for* Ihe swee|M-r'« dust bag should Ih-emptu l ,- , brush cl,an from threads and hair*. Don't . • th, the cord becaus* that injure* th« Insulation. Electric Iron*: Always turn off your it n when r- a wutHaK even for * minute. Never detach the cord fr-rn >, , r i«,.n. Instead, pull the plug from the outlet t. .. :r . . . nncctiona of the iron which in time will r Do not plug iron* into electric light sock.-. Th.-v tr . u carry the loud needed forth.- iron. Dn t ' '.-. f -,.e. , r Other appliances get knotted < r I * •... 1 ring th, in up by one end. or over two u,|j • ■ . , hrsak f they are hung over a single nail or t the cord so sharply. BRUSHES, BROOMS AND MOPS These should be hung, when not in use. and th.j muISH be put away dirty. TO KEEP WOODWORK AND WILLS I <M>hlM. Uy A W R< membs-r that dirt wear* thing* out. wether fabric, plaster, or paints-sl surfne,*. Ruldnng »r.! them out too. So it pays to clean thing' h. for,, o . v , . W all Surface* or Woodwork that's Varni-hed nr Hat Paint, Not Glossy! Ws«h gintly with : -nip ' 1 -mull portion at a time. Then rm** with char wipe that spot dry. Rub up and down to keep th» streaking. l ight Enamel Woodwork or Glossy Paint \ vsr enamel or glossy paint. It will du!l the gi<.-- 'A < water -or with a teaspoon of «,.da add'd n« ' . all, avoid hard rubbing or strong soap or ,l,»n ir take off the surface finish which prevents th, ,i 'r Mallpaper: Some wall pap r* are w*sh*i,i> Hut v> the colors won’t run, try a small inc.-n-p:, . • ■. are going to wash the paper, use a spong. . water Rub very lightly—and use as little w. r u from th* floor upward. Unless the paper is marked “washable,” i« -ufrst of that rubber-like wallpaper rh-ancr. *, i> — If you have any specific cooking problem*, tend • e-tr J 4 tn'ormatlon to Betty Crocker in care cf tn * neAsnar - VwalMlKt a prompt, personal reply P.eate enclose J cent jta-o ts

* Household Scrapbook I I By ROBERTA LEE • 4 Falling Hair A suggested remedy for falling hair is to rub salt into the scalp, then maawage until th-r scalp tingles. Also add salt to the water when washing the hair. New Frying Pan If a few potato peelings ire boiled with a little water in the new frying pau for a few minu'es. food cookeß afterwards in the pat. will not be so apt to stick. Headache* A severe headache can (reqpently lie relieved by drinking a cup of black coffee containing a tesapoou-

■ Dick chuckled. 1 “No, my love. Please understand I ' that 1 suddenly realized ho«r deft- I nitely futile it would have been to I die without having married you! i Why, darling, it would have been like not having lived at all!" I She laid her hand gently against < hia cheek, and he seized and kissed i IL I “You’re so beautiful!” he said I wistfully. “And so different . . . | somehow... like a new chemical, or a towering big invention—Oh, dash i it!—that doesn't sound romantic, docs it?" i “It's romantic enough,” Brinda replied. “It's romance just being here —having you alive—when—” she shivered —you might so easily have been killed." “Yea," he said ruefully. "I thought It was curtains when that ' wall earns down on me." “You shouldn't have taken sueh > a risk!" i “Probably not But I was afraid someone would beat me to my plana. , They're in that dispatch box I gave you. you know.” He frowned aud- ' denly. “That eras a mistake." “A mistake? 1 Ain’t understand." i He read the hurt in her tone. “Not that way. I know they’re ’ safe with you—safer than they . would be with anybody. But they're . a dangerous thing to possess. There I are people who want them badly, and they wouldn't stop at anything I —even murder—to get them." “The enemy, you mean?" i “The enemy—bis agents. Spies. Fifth Columnists. People you'd never suspect. You mustn't bo ead- > died with sueh a responsibility." , "But somebody must take care of it—■or shall I bring it to you?” He shook Ms head. “No chanee of even hiding your • soul in a hospital. Better turn it • over to—" ho hesitated. i Watchiig hie face, she said, i “Thera’s something you’re not telling me, Dick. Why an those plana . so important?" “That's right, you don’t know. . Strange ... it seems you would na- ! tsraliy know everything that eonr earns me." I In brief sentences, he sketched to her the meaning of hie invention. Aa ba talked, bis eyes burned with , a light she had never saw. before, in- ■ tense and almost tngktening. The Z-ray, be explained rapidly,

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was ti.e nmne :'a : « force beta. had not yc. » ■ : ’"■l lit* .. . one wa» ' 11 radio mtwu; ■> !' ™ within aw..' '"TM® them inb> • ■■ Other—ar : '‘‘JSBIII as rm.re in:, : ■ I tended the ra: k- ■■ bryond pre. ■ ’*■ picture* to I • tonces of thive te “But that's tr she exclaimed. "1 ' it means ynu .1 t. r Diek made a « ind 1« “You too!" Then, intensity, "U n: . that's the wnob ,11 want t<> make a ' now. 1 want it'."' it will, if it isn’t which would am ■’■' f ‘’ over to the body else.” I I “But how—" “I know what ymf* jJI say." He was lean: - his cheeks flushed, r; ’• and arm forgotten ’J 1 -Wj of robot planes? bot planes flying o TCf Our robot plant*. Z-ray television Only a camera, a ,r,r -’’ r "" Cetus, a rack of ib release trigger by the Z-wavel "7'. frV blow the daylight* mans in a week-*' 8 of a single pilot. He P* of breath. “You back for the plans H“ His eyes looked p*’’. i> cr ' he said thickly. "T' —bomb the daylights out ot win the war-" he wildly, gasped, fed h«* A nurse enter'd d and she was at Dtcxu fingers on his pu‘ se - “You should said to Brinda. "I 1 " * She whipped out a therm “But I don’t understand- J al! right a moment ago- ■ “Nonsense!" a*" l ,h ' r ,ur-W glanced at the thertrnri must have been de!irio«» *■ quarter hour!" ~ 1 (To b. tenti’jiuj