Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1942 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening ICsrent Sunday by HU DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated. Catered al Ue Decatur, Ind., Post Oflka as Second Class Matter f. H. HsllflT. President A. R Holt bouse, Sec'y * Bum. Mgr. pick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies —-I .03 One week, by carrier .15 Due month, by mat! .35 Three months, by maU — 100 Big months, by mail 1.75 Dne year, by mall 300 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere 53 50 one year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 415 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago OyJ Charter Members of Ths Indiana League of Home Dailies. Buy all the bonds you tan and hang on to them. Some day they will come In mighty handy. It'* the world s best investment. —O—D ■ Rev Brandyberry, chairman of the China Relief fund drive -ays he needs only about sixty dollars to go over the top. Let’s raise It the next day or two. Political platforms this year could be written in a few words: Lets win the war. After all we have to do that or it doesn't make much difference what happens. —o End Bays will continue to lead the Hoosier Democrats, it Is predicted and that means a victory for Fred knows how to organise The meeting of the state commltle, Is being held at Indianapolis today. O—O There are indication* that the Democrats in Adams county will have unity this year and will work together for a splendid victory next November. (1. R- my Bierly. county chairman, reports a decided trend in that direction. ■ Q— If the Morgenthau plan goes through, every adult citlxen of the United States will pay income tax. a. He proposes a bead tax of five dollars on each person to raise an additional hundred million dollars. O—O This is war. Absence of long pointed collars, no pockets and an inch off the tails of men's shirts, will convince those who have doubts that real sacrifices must lie made. Sounds trivial but It isn't for t-very inch of goods that can be saved, is needed in these days. O—O Traffic deaths in Indiana have dropped twenty percent for the first three months of the year The improvement is due no doubt to Wkal y** A tty With WAH BONUS * *1 Barrage balloons art an important factor in the air defense of the nation, particularly aiemg the coast. They are silent ssotries at the air and m enemy pilot will drive his ship tote an area where these monsters loot Each Barrage BaUoea uoeto about gW.fIOB. but purchases of War Bonds every pey day will buy the thousands at balloons we tieed tot aur ggvtectta. B win take a dime out < every dollar you earn to help supply these for the aatww's safety Do your part Bey V B War loads ever* pey day and help meet your county > War load quota. - .

the slower speed, now generally practiced, since the miles of travel in the state Is but two percent lose than last year. O— C Next Saturday will be Poppy Day and the American Legion and Auxiliary will be on the job here and all over the country. The fuoda thus raised will be used to give aid to disabled veterans, a worthy cause that should draw a dime or a quarter from your pocket. O—O— With submatinee plying off both coasts and In the St. Lawrence river, the blackouts being practiced are not mere play affairs but should be taken seriously. Bombing of American cities might not do much to win the war for the axis but they would arouse enthusiasm In Berlin and Tokyo and help the morale over there. Os coiuwe they will do It, if they can. The Florida people along the coast know there is wsr on. One day this week they heard the explosion when a L'-hoat Itombed a freighter and watched the big boat limp off In flames. The crew leaped overboard, thirteen of the fortyfive crew members lost their lives. Thousands of people rushed to the beat h or climbed on top of houses to watch the distressed craft lake the count. O—O Schoolhouses onto were us<'d exclueivoly as schools. Now they have assumed new importance as places in which to issue ration cards and hold elections. Nowadays a teacher must know a lot more than her "three R's" and how to Inculcate the same knowledge into pupils' minde. She must And out the color of a sugar applicant's • yes. bis weight and height, and should b> reasonably familiar with the election laws in case she should be asked to double as a member of an election board. She may know that A plus B equals X. but does she know that .Mr. W is telling an untruth when he says that he has six in his family who use sugar, and know he is counting in the cat and dog? Pretty soou, too. sh* may have to know how to repair a voting machine and look at an old tire and be able to determine whether it needs recapping. Her public duti«M are just beginning— Muncie Press. Sugar Beets Needed: Every time there is a war, there is a sugar shortage, and every time this happens, there are many poopin who wonder why the two things go together. The fact la that war often makes sugar shipment* from the tropics undependable and even as In the case of our Philippine supply- impossible. At the same time, war creates a vital demand for sugar production because mo Iffaaoa is us*d to make alcohol, a war essential. Ethyl alcotol Is used extensively during peacetime in various products. It Im needed for cosmetics, plastics, paints, vsrntohes. medicines, lotions, antl-freese solutions, embalming fluids and ethylene gas lor anaesthetic purpose*. But when the guns atari firing and the munition* start rolling out of the fac•ories. It suddenly becomes • powerful military force. There can be no reckoning bow often America's 15-lnch guns are fired According to the I'al ted Statu* Beet bugar Assoctauoo, however, every lime owe of these gun* to fired it consumes the Wivwlowt of 2TM pounds of sugar in the form of ethyl aleoboL That * enough sugar to toed eight or ten families for a year. Ethyl alcohol's u»e(ulMM in munition* does not end there. U turnisheu the motive power for torpedoes. It is used as a solvent in making gelatm dynamites end smoketes* powder It is a deb ydssting agent tn makinx nltrocell* lone. It to used as a wetting agent in preparing nitrooctton for thou MA nd* of rhpniirgig !• U uMd M a raw manorial ter a greet saaar other ibeuucato And. finally, it

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goes into airplane "dope." Obviously ethyl alcohol is a neeeasary ally In any war As a rule, industrial alcohol is produced mainly from off-shore molasses, but difficulties of securing these Kupplies have Increased efforta to secure such alcohol from fain. Meanwhile the American beet . sugar industry is stepping into the I breach. Sugar from beets, grown on 1.001>.09ff acres in this country last year, to safe from shipping haxards. and growers are planning to step up their beet planting considerably, according to a survey conducted by the Department of Agriculture.—Anderson Bulletin. p ■ —- ■ 1 + Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE O Terraced Lawn It one is planning a norns with a terraced lawn that must needs be fairly sUKP, U is wiser U> fflau l*o

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lower terraces rather than fust ono ’• bigb one These will be much eas*' ier to mow and the grase will grow more luxuriantly. Cleaning a Oarmsnt Often, when the garment bai been cleaned improperly, a ring is I *le*: >ii place of the spot. In this ‘ event, try steaming the mark over the spout of the tea kettle. This ! ’ will frequently remove the ring. Buttering Bandwichss If the knife is dipped Into hot. water frequently, when buttering sandwiches. It will be much easier to spread the butter. - - -o ■— -— ’ “twenty years” * AGO TODAY ♦ • May 18. 1922- -The United States refuses to enter the Hague confereace. Children of school age in Adams county total f 1.453. a loss of 12 over last year’s census. County Assessor William Frasier has appraised the school properties in Adams county at 8?42,000. Andrew Pyle. 83, of Geneva, oldest man io county, dies of inflrmi-

• tiesJohn T. la>se. 84. popular cltltea, died iaat evening after long illness. J. R Fleming of Portland elected eighth district Democratic chairman. The postoffke at Kingsland Is abandoned. i. ■ —. Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA Lit B — • Q. la it all right to give a reason for not accepting a formal invitation? A. Yes. If one wishes to do so. though It is not obligatory. Q. Should a man remove his cigar or cigarette from his mouth when he lifts bis bat? A. Yes. always. Q. What does crutee mean, and bow Is it pronooaced? A. It Is a small piece of bread. toasted or fried crisp, used in soups, in garnishing, etc. Pronounce kroo-tong. ee as tn tea, o as io ar, accent last syllable. 0 — The most expensive indulgence is hate.

f Abswms To Test Questions Below are the answers to ths Test QneoUons printed on Png* ♦- — • 1. Murmansk and Archangel. 2. One cent on each 10 cents or fraction thereof. S. Tchalkowsky. 4. Lieutenant General. 5. PhWP'nes. fl. Dead. (Died in 1041). 7. Spring. Summer. Autumn and Winter. 8. lfl.B pounds. ». New Moon, First Quarter. Full Moon, Last Quarter. 10. Bagdad. a. Natives of Ceylon. B True. 3. No. 4. To find If H is genuine or counterfeit5. Repel. •. Thidbe. S 7. Thornton Wilder. 8. True9. Boston Red Sox. Iff. Thirty-three. i ■ " o —— PREBLE NEWS p . ■-< | Mr and Mrs. Victor Biebericb t and son Kenneth Gene of Ibrngland called on Mr. and Mrs. Goorge Bui | temeier and daughter Helen. Fred Linnermeier of Fort Wayne I called on Mrs. Catherine Linnsr meler Saturday. Mr and Mrs. Henry Schuller of near Fort Wayne and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hoile of Fort Wayns call-! ed on Mr. and Mrs. George Bultemeter and daughter Helen. Helen BuHomeh r spent the week and with Mr. and Mre Henry Scbul-, ler of Bear Fort Wayne. Mr and Mre. Rudolph Stolff calk ed on Mr. and Mrs. Otto Koene- ’ mann and daughter Anita Sunday . Oust Yoke spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Orville Heller and daughter Vera. Evening guests were Mr. and Mrs. Milton Brown. Mrs. Ernest Bash and Dorothy Hoffman of Portland. Mre. I>na . Sherlock of Peterson and Mrs. Rosa Llemenstall of Magley spent , Munday with Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoffman and family (Mr. and Mrs. (ksble and family had as their Sunday dinner I guests. Rev. and Mrs. Charles Psugh and daughters. [ Iverna Werling of Gary spent , the weekend with her father, AI-*

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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR I The men from the powerhouse came Mt—Mly one stayed at hi* ’ sort as Lanes explained what he 1 had eome for. We crossed the dam, " raa down ths sides of the ebat- » ments, Lance scrutinizing everything he saw. “Nothing will show ep If the cenr erete is a weak mixture," he said. “That is, nothing tn sure to show up. But one of these days the whole thing will just go Mt swooping down the valley,** Ho waved toward ths eaayon below us. It was merely a matter of form that wo west over the face of the great structure along its base. There'd be nothing to ess, Lanes insisted. Going over the dam was just an empty gesture. Ho felt he must look -as expected to see nothing Neither did Ms men. But at the base of the mammoth wall of sonerote, beyond the spillway, near the wing es the abstinent, he panned. “Good lordI" Lance said. “Look up there!** Above us, seeping frees the messster wall in two tiny streams, the water was easing. Meh a aatoll trace »• could hardly be euro it was there. “It’s begun." Lance said. “It's rrombliag frees the iaeide. ft will no just a matter of toast new—" bo looked swiftly arasad him. “Call the city ofSces," ho said. “Call Allen at the sberMTs oAce. Thon get yourself and the rest of the boys oat and Up on the high greaad above the dam." They started back for the power hOBMo * "Y.s g» to tbo top of tbs hills above the dam." be tamed to me. “Stick with tbo engineer*—l'm going to rids down the valley and warn the people in the low lands." "I'm sticking with you, Lance," I said. . o*o*o o Bowisttmas mw I wake up at night Witha start... 1 hear the fed X ttob rs &TStinden ... the moM bursts through the clouds sod I hear Lanes say ... 'Theis s a Mexican family lives over there in the wfllowe . ..“ and agsdn wo are off M Mr ride down the valley es the GaOtaa. U sanes bad aot kaoww the vollay. every tach es it, from boyhood, bo esafld ssssr have done it; If he bs4 Mt wratd tbs vood £m* GblUns to the dam on many tisnos that ■wry feotof it was familiar to him. bo smM newer hove known, on our deopeante ride, where 4be sottieee jlvod. where to warn the atoep*Wt ba dM knewt **t' U niebody Mvwb within tits test ••hree miles," Lance bit off the words ciMpiy. “That's oompaay tend... wo atop till wo Hoch tbe "ftsro wore lights In thw drat Uttlo howoo-a iMgh

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ibsrt Werllng. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kirkendall and daughter Maureen and »on Jack of Portland and Mr. and Mrs Thurman Fuhrman and daughter Kaye of Fort Wayne spent Sunday with Mr. and Mis. Charles I Fuhrman and daughter Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Goldner called on Mr. and Mrs. William Meyer 1 Sunday. i Arnold Conrad of Terre Haute spent the weekend with Mrs. Frieda Conrad and son Ralph and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Conrad Minor Borden of Peru ca'ilad on Mr. and Mrs. Hansel Foley Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George TJu’temehr called on .Mr. and Mrs, Henry Schuller and Helen Bultemeier of near Fort Wayn»- Monday evening O’dell Foley is spending reveral weeks with his grandparent*. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coppess of Monroe. The Beulah Chapel ladies' ahi 1 met at the home of .Mrs. Orville

ing with young fruit trees planted hopefully about it. Lance swung his roadster into the dooryard, leaned on the horn and a man came to the doorway. 1 could see his outline. a dark sP.heuctts In the yellow of the lamplight. "The dam's going. Mikel Get your things together I Make for the hills as fast as you san J" Mike stood daaed. "Where that you sayt" Two children, little tow-heads, eame and thrust their small bodies between their father and the frame of the door. "He says the dam is going .j . he says the dam is gobegan to cry and I saw a woman gather them into her arms. Lance swung his car around. “Step on it. Mikel Tho water's coming out from the east end now I” We were off. Wo watched every intersecting rood. Sometemss it was only a rough trail through the sandy floor of the valley. But no matter how eligbt ths roadway, Lance turned In nnd swept like tbs night wind to ths little bouse at its end. Every shack and cabin. Sometimes it was only a canvas tent—the same warning sounded as he blasted on his horn and yelled t “Hello, there, inside! The dam le going out I Get to high ground as fast as you eon!" Sometimes a light flashed inside tho bouse before ho finished his I waning; sometimes we hoard a I rerambto in tho darkness and the i barking of dogs followed as we sped valley was narrow for the | first Sve or six miles, more like a canyon between the hills. i If tbe canyon had been wide, If It . bad been thickly settled, no night ■ would have been long enough for I Lance to have ridden its full length. ’ Every datear from tbo stain road I took time SMSb time. Imw Unco leek at Ms wriet wateh and Wto his lipa. I knew ho was wondering ; whether we could keep abend of the > flood that was m tho way. Ones he spoke of Walter Gregg. . sadaeee and bittameoa mingted: i "If Unde Walter had lived until i tide night bo weald have died of a broken heart." He set Iris square i ehja. "This was his work, this dam. He waa as proud of It Ho watched it Hke a asother watches a child as iMg as he was m tbe job. It was , noir after be was hurt that this i MVd have happened to ft. IT befld . aaetber one." He said, after a few I mteutes as wu sped throagh tbe eeel > darkness: “111 build a dam—with i no CravM around to destroy my ■ weekl" ’ "T"* ** poU tt,< " •“ a liftte eettiement. “There’s a tetaptame hero." Unco t said. “We eaa eaU flor help aad see 1 if tho warning oaass through from ; dSto twtokted to the little bouses of the Mttiemeet—o gniM* I a taaah eeuster. a fvw caMne. Men » were pCHag bedding aad bc«es on

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