Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 124, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1942 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Pnbiiebed Every Evening Except Sunday by HUE DMCATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated. Cntarad at the Decatur, Ind., Post Ofice as Sec nd Class Matter I H. Heller President A. R Polthouse, Sec y A Bus. Mgr Pick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Coj. s — I 03 One w*'k by carrier .15 One month, by mall .35 Thr*e months, by mall 1.00 Blx months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mall 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius ot 100 miles. Elsewhere 13.50 one year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 415 Lexington Avenue, New Tors 35 Eact Wacker Drive. Chi.ago Charter Members ot The Indiana League of Home Dallies. Adams county met a bond quota "t 135.000 for the month of May by purchasing 541.353 70 worth by the 16tb. That's the way to do It. Poppy day went over big here and those in charge are grateful to all who assisted them and all wll donated to thin good <au —o When we gel gasoline rationing it will not be necessary to wain ah tit careful driving Wi can't do I much of it on thr* gallon.- a week I -0 * Tie own ot Monro* went over the top tor China Relief. That s another community that i.iii always be * minted on to do the tight thing and do it promptly without "fttsor f< ath< is." O—O Hang on to yom bonds and buy llior*. That's the way to help t n* le Sam wm tile war and regardlt .•.■>» of what may be raid in th*- * inning ■ ainpaign. that . what | is beat for every one. —o Merchants w ill conduct a ep* *dy bond wale July Ist, doing their job in fifteen multi' >« That will take some organization ami some clockIlk* maneiivei ing. but the buMln*** men will do it. with your as-lst-ance. O—O It's vacation tor he h< hoot boyr and girls, a glorious p* riod of the year. You w ill * njoy it in »e if you budget your tim* by working some and playing a lot and studying occasionally Have a good time but lie careful. O—O Th*' bond quota foi Indiana for the month d June is |ltx76 200 or nearly two million mor- than it ».» this month Plan now to assist in making the Mtn- success as we did for May when thia city led in the twelve counties of northeastern Indiana. ♦ ~ Wkai Buy t k/dk Will BUNDS When the night bombers come over, the 60-inch lens searchlight of the anti-aircraft battery goes into action. When it does, however, we know that a good many Americans have chipped in to buy one. for these searchlights cost about 130,000 each. VOclk. _ * igy threw a beam of W» million candlepower more than 40 000 feet. of nearly eight miles. They art the eyes of the anti-aircraft batteries. Wf need plenty of them to buy wir TXdfZery gey day sad top the quota is your county.

The China Relief fund was over--'ib-crib* d m Decatur, significant l th* spirit ot lending a helping hand in time of need That old n.i':oii ;s differing beyond deocrlp- ' Hon and needs the ten million dol its * -"I in the United States the ■ past month. O—O The United Nations have to win th, war and that it was well setup t.i 'ii *• the world is proven by the fai t that aft r three years the Axis forces are still strong. Had they , bi .-ii successful tine would have been a sorry nation. We must do wliatev-. is necessary to preserve our rich's and liberties. O—O Bicycle riders are reminded that ili* i* ar*' certain laws that govern ill- in the nun as those who travel by other means. The most Important ordin nice is that on, which p.ovides that you must obey stop signs and signals the same as motlars Please obey them for you may ivoid a terrible accident. o—o Boy Scouts of Adams county will gather at Lehman's Park in Berne. Jun* 6th and 7th for th-ir annual campore*- They will have a fine 'line and learn many valuable idea* that go with camping Seven troops will attend including three from Decatur, two from Berne and on-' each from G-nevs and Monroe. Yauug tn* n of lb. 19 and 20 y*ars of age. will register June 30th. Those who are 18 and 19 years old will not do military servile under pr- -ent laws hut must I register so tiiat plans may be made iwhen they do reach 2<» Those who have reached the 2fth milestone 'since D*i ember 31st will h» subject tn tall About three million ate - v i ted to register on this call. O—O Th"i* certainly no good realm to believe the war will be over any tliin- eoon. much as we all w ni' i tv be. The enemy is strong and will it«t every thing they have before admitting defeat. Then too. Hi- war must continue until a peace J treaty which will be lasting, is sure to I* -nit. Up to date we have won no victories that would indicate this can be done at this time. It will require mu' h more * ffort than we have put into it before w- can even think ibuut eudiug the terrible conflict. —o—o— Twenty-seven lighting ships were lautK hed In the United States as an observation of Maritime Day. largest launching in the world in a quarter century and the answer to the submarine warfare of the Axis Ships are being turned out at a rapid rate these days, as art* planes, tanks and other things necessary to win the war. There is no longer any doubt but that we will meet the production deotauds and from now <>n will exceed any nation or group of nations in the wot Id. . q ••- The USD is raising 532 000,000 *r trying to. that the rpiendtd work they are doing for the soldiers and sailors may routine. This is to make life a little mon pleasant for thos. who are in the service of this country. One of the hardest things the average youug man has to contend with m> lonliness. He is far away and among stranger*. He needs entertainment that he may relax during the evenings aud on the days when he is not on active duty. Give to this fund when you are called upon. It's really worthy. 0 -O- - A gang of criminals have been arrested in New York for having tu their possession mor e than 5300.000 worth ot counterfeit 11. 8. waving stamps. They were caught when the fence through whom they tried to work turned them in. They admitted to have engaged in other crimen but their poirtotiam was greater than their greed aud they refused to do thia to Lucie ■am. Great country we live la. isn't ft? When we need unity to prove to the dictator* that a democracy caa tiUKUoa. we have it trom rich and

1,500 YEARS DOESN'T SEEM TO HAVE CONVINCED ANYBODY \ iLTHI MOUHTAIM f I \II ' / J COMt TO MOHAMMED, / \ // THE N MOW AMM ED MUST ) I/, \J>CgQ TO twe z ******** S GUESS i’U. STICK AROUND I | / ' A VJHILI LONGER AMD I | / Sit WHAT HAPPENS ’ \ ' */ \ \ - \\ \ r TODAY JV s?

Service Idea » < w<4 | i \ T”" /I V /< J ' Ai/rX' L ■ 1», Brenda Marshall -.. Screen Actress Bread* Marshal! Introduce* something that may find favor throughout the nation —a small silver locket containing the photo of her hueband, Actor William Holden, who la in the service The locket la suspended from an American eagle Uulgnm. poor, the honest meu and the crooks. —o A ware of talk concerning the estimated time the war will end has been sweeping the country re-<.-utly. A spirit o( optimism has become quite pronounced. The fr ellng is widespread that the conflict may be terminated late this fall. Many people still entertain the notion that a military collapse of Germany will mark the beginning ot the end. The initial success ot the Russians in the opening spring campaign may be partly responsible for the optimism. Tbc American public should not be de Ceived. however, by what may be no more than the opening round The Soviet command has seised the in. native. but the fighting around Kharkov is only one detail ot the tar-flung line. The present battle may be imposing severe losses ou Seal mechanised equipment, as well as compelling Hitler to call up reserves scheduled for other areas. To dale, however, the Bussun* have captured comparatively tew prisoners. Il is too early to detouilue boo uiauy shale**: railroad* and highway* have been w o u that may threaten enemy commuul cat ion. —lndisn*p*’lu Star ■ 0 — Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ ■ •~ "■ —.— i i q 1. I*<s pounds. Madagascar3 Sea level I Atlantic. Pacific, Arctic aud Antarctic. 5 All three. 6. “Be prepared " 7. Ermine. 8 Ohio. 9 Doughnut. 10. PatientQ ..._ — _ ♦ — • Modern Etiquette » By ROIIRTA LtE Q What Is something one «hould always avoid saying in a letter? A Avoid writing: “There isn't any news; everything it going along iu just about the usual fanhiou , This is very dull, stupid and unin-i terestlng and b a waste of both the writer’s and the readers' time and energy. There is always something about which to write, and the observant person with an active mind has no trouble in this respect Q Is it the duty of everyone who was invited <o a wedding to call on the bride after she returns (rum her honeymoon? A. Yes. Q When there is some Item on the menu which one does not understand is it all right to ask the waiter whet it isA. Yes. Only a timid person would hesitate to do so.

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— ' “TWENTY YEARS ~ 1 AGO TODAY 0 ■■ I ..!!■■ May 25 Dr. J. E Sonant, < vanl jelbL will deliver the Memorial I day address here. The cut in freight rates will reduce the cost ul Jiving in Ih< Uuiii ed Sta'es over a billion dollars a , >■ ■ • Ed Jackson is nominated by Republicans for secretary of -tate. Decatur city band gives first concert of season. Heavy reins flood tuuiein'-nts of down town business houses here. Kansa- Democrats in state cun-* vention indorse William G MiAdoo tor presidetH iu 1924. William Kcsley of Fort Wayne elected stale commander of the G. A R iu convcutiuu at Connersville. o • — « } Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE To Mske Cold Cream A good cold oream can be made as follows: Mix 2 tablespoons of oatmeal, ’t-’abh'spoon of powdered borax, and of rosewater. Allow thb mixture to stand for 2 or 3 days, then strain aud add %-oune? , ot alcohol Discolored Aluminum A discolored aluminum pan will Im- bnghtinid like magic if a stalk of rhubarfi Is cut into pieces aud boiled in it. Leather Upholstery When leather-covered chain are dull and shaWiy-iooklng. they may be greatly improved in appearance

COURT HOUSE i Maud M Archer et vlr to Edgar N. Wicks et ux. lot 560 and part of 561 in Decatur for >l. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States to Violet P Kunce, HMt acres in Jefferson Twp. for 13.570. Sidney Lautn-nheiser et si to John C. Schem k «t ux. 8*» acres in St. Mary's Twp for 51. Myrtle l-autzenhefs»-r et al to John Schenck et ux. 80 icres in | St. Mary's twp for |l. John H Stults et ux to Je-t>me B. I Johne et ux. lot 530 in Decatur for »1. Faye Shoemaker to I-aura Morningstar. lot 29 in Geneva for 11. Faye Shoemaker. Gdn. to laiura Morningstar, lot 29 in Geneva for 1350, Edward F Oser to Lloyd Smith ot ux. 40 acres in Union township by brushing over with the white of an egg. This treatment may also be used with leather suit cases, bags, -trunks, etc.

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SYNOPSIS During the two minutes* silence on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1937, a conversation developed between two strangers aboard a railroad train speeding through England's midland. One told of a “partial loss of memory" as the result of shellshock in the first World War. The I other (the narrator of this story) ‘ discussed memory and dreams with the prosperous looking veteran who confessed that “sometimes I have a feeling of being somebody •Ise.** He mentioned a mountain that he had seen from the train that morning. Just before reaching i London, the veteran introduced 1 himself as Charles Rainier, a mem- ! ber of Parliament and a business man, after the narrator said his name was Harrison; and they agree to meet at the Swithin's Society dinner, Cambridge University, the following evening. Immediately after that affair. Rainier and others adjourned to Harrison’s room for coffee. About 3 am. when the others had left. Rainier told Harrison certain details of his mysteryshrouded story, stressing his loss of memory for three years from the moment of that shell-burst near Arras in 1917 until “I found myself lying on a park bench in Liverpool.** He said he then returned to the family home at Stourton. He assumed he had been in a prison camp because a dentist had discovered German fillings in his teeth. CHAPTER FOUR We were silent for a moment I eould hegr the first stir of early morning traffic beginning along King's Parade. Rainier heard It too, and as at a signal rose to go. “A strange business, the war. The English told the Germans exactly : where I was, so that the Germans ' eould kill me ... then the Germans 1 did half kill me, patched me up, and saw that my teeth were properly eared for ... after which the English gave me a medal for having displayed what they called ‘conspionous gallantry in the field.*** He fingered it on his lapel, adding: **l wear it at shows like this, along with the Most Noble Order of Someth! ng-or-Oth er which the Greeks gave me for arranging a loan on their currant crop in 1923.** He began putting on his overcoat, heedleu of my assurance that there was no hurry and that I often ut up till dawn myself. "Please don’t bother to see me out—l’ll take a bath at my hotel and be in time for the first train." On his way aeross the room he paused at my shelves of books and uked what tripos I wu taking. "Economies. I took the first part of the History last year." "Really? I did the same when I was here. But where does the psychoanalyaia come in?** "Oh, that’s only a side tine." "I sea. Made any plana for when you go down?" "I'd like to be s journalist.” He nodded, shaking hands at the door. “Well, J’ve got a few contacts in Fleet Street Write to me when you’re ready for a job—l might ba ab»e to do something for you.” • • • Early the following year I took a Ph.D. and began looking around for the poet which, it seemed to me then, ought to drop snugly into the lap of any bright young man who had written a two-hundred-page thesis on "The Influence of Voltaire on the English Laisses-Faire Economists." Cambridge had deemed this worthy of a doctorate; nobody in Fleet Street, however, held ft worth a regular job. I had a very •mall private income and eould therefor* afford to cadge snippets •f highbrow reviewing from some of the more illustrious and penurious weeklies, reckoning myself wellpaid If the books themselves Were expensive and could be sold for more eash to Mr. Reeves of the Strand; but the newspaper world at that time was full of journalists out of work through amalgamations, and the chance of getting on the «tsff« •f any of the big dailies was not encouraging. Os course I be red Rainier's offer, but apart from aiy reiuctaaee to bother him. bo was abroad in South America oa eomo tnaweial business But by the time ho returned 1 had been disappointed often enough to feel I should taka him at his word. Ha replied instantly to my note, aalyng me to lunch the next day. Thus I mads ray first trim to Keg. more "Near the world's End pub,” Rainier used to say, and it waa ua

WPA Estimate Is Cut By President Orqanized Miqration Os Workers Is Seen Washington. May 25 — (UP) - President Roosevelt, cutting his budget estimate for the works project administration from |165,0<m>.ihk> to 0282,767000. advi-ed congress today tiiat "organized migration" may be necessary to meet la bor shortages la war industries. He said In a special message that | the nation's war effort is drawing j workers from “every available I source.” thereby reducing the need , for a work relief program. His revised Wl’A request for thu for »1 Ona Bowen et al to Roy L. Lehman <« ux. lot 776 iu Decatur for 31. Paul Strh klei at ux to Harold J. Hoffman i t ux, lot 9 in Decatur foe »1*

fashion among certain guests tn pretend it waa at some actual world’s and if not beyond it—the world in thia super-sophisticated sense being that part of London within normal taxi range. I went by bus, which puts you down at the comer of the road with only a hundred yards or so to walk. I had no idea how notable, not to say notorious, those Kenmore lunches were; indeed, since the invitation had eome so promptly, 1 had beguiled myself with visions of an intimate foursome composed of host and hostess with perhaps a press magnate summoned especially to meet me. I did not know then that Mrs. Rainier gave lunehes for ten or twelve people two or three times a week, en - ticing every temporary or permanent celebrity to meet other temporary or permanent celebrities at her house, and that these affairs were as frequently joked about as they were infrequently declined. She functioned. In fact, as a kind of liaison officer between Society and Bohemia, with a Maecenas glance at moneyless but personable young men; and though there is no kind of social service I would less willingly undertake myself, there are f* w that I respect more when competently performed by someone else. Searching my memory for Impressions of that first arrival, I find 1 cannot put Mrs. Rainier into the picture at all. She waa there, she must have been; but she was so busy making introductions that she could not have given me more than a few words, and those completely unimportant I eame a little late and found myself ushered Into n drawing room full of initiates, all talking with great gusto, and all—so it seemed to mo (quite baselessly, of course) —resentful of Intrusion by a stranger who had neither written a banned novel nor flown somewhere and back In an Incredibly short time. I say this because one of the guests had written such a novel, and another had made such a flight, and It was my fate to be seated betweea them while they talked either to their outeldc- neighbora or across mo to each other. There was an empty place at the head of the table, and presently I gathered from general conversation that Rainier often arrived late and sometimes not at all, so that he was never on any account waited for. I bad already written off the whole affair as a rather profiUeoa bore when the guests rose, murmured hasty good-byes, and dashed out to waiting cars and taxis. (Mrs. Rainier's lunehes were always like that —one-fifteen sharp to two-flfteen sharp and not too much to drink, so that you did not kill your afternoon.) Just as I was following the crowd, a touch on my arm accompanied the whisper: "Stay a moment if you aren't in a hurry.” Mrs. Rainier led me a few paces back along the hall after the others had gone. "1 didn’t quite catch your nam*' — ” "Harrison.” "Oh yea. .., You’re a friend of Charles'*— it’e too bad be couldn’t get here—he’s so busy nowadays.” I murmured something vague, polite, and intended to be reassuring. "It's a pity people who ean fly halfway round the world haven’t any manners," she went on, and I answered: “Well, I suppose there are quite a number of people who have manners and couldn’t fly halfway round the world." "But having manners is so much more important," she countered. “Tell me... what... er... I mean, are you a.« t ietmeeee... Horriion..." I smiled—suddenly and rather Incomprehensibly at ease with her. “Tou’re trying to recall a Harrison who’s written something, married somebody, or been somewhere," I said. “But it’e a waste of time—Um not that Harrison, even if he exists. I'm just—if I call myself anything —« journalist." "0h... then you must come again when we have really Utorary parties," she replied, with an eagerness I thought charming though probably insincere. 1 promised I would, with equal eagerness, and every intention of avoiding her really Mor. arg parties like the plague. Then I ahoek hands, left the house, and on the bus beck to Fleet Street suddenly realised that it hed been • very good lunJi from one point of view. I had never tasted better eggs The next afternoon Rainier tele* pbored, profuse ir. spolngies rot hie abeeace trom the lunch, and though

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