Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1942 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlahed Every Evening Except Sunday by HU DBCATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated. toured at the Decatur, Ind., Poet o®ce aa Second Class Matter I H. Heller President A R. Holt home. Secy A Bus Mgr. Dick D Heller Vice-President — Subscription Rates Single Copies I .03 One week, by carrier — .16 One month, by mall— .35 Thr-e months, by mall 1.00 Blx months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mall 300 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles Elsewhere 13 50 one year Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Representative SCHEERER A CO <l6 Lexington Avenue. New York 35 Eaet Wacker Drive. Chicago ■ 'barter Members of The ndiana League of Home Dallies Maybe yon have some rubber he< la on old die* .ird«d -h*>«-» They will add to the community fund Let's do our part —o Don t neglect to get yi.iir carUser tax stamp at the postoflh <■ before July 1-t They cost flv. dollars and are good fur <»n< year Ot course any landlord who is big hearted and feels he ought to, <an reduce the -ental c harge The new order Is for a ceiling and ! doesn't provide a floor —o The Russians have stopped the Germans but It lookn like it' ■ nly the beginning as Hitler is moving up an army of a half million to keep the tight suing .it Kharkov and Sevastopol -0 The piles of rubber at the filling stations indicate that the people of the community are cooperating to the fullest extent on gathering this •crap It a one of the most import, ant campaigns so far since Pearl Harbor. Time mart hes on. Reports have it that Go* ring and GoehbeD have picked out hiding refuge spots in Turkey, where they expect to chop wood after the war is over. H they meet up with those Yankee bomb-! erw who recently landed there they may decide on a eery brief stay Congressman Oliver of Maine who has been an < ustanding isolationist during the eight years he has served and was a candidate for renomination this week ws< beaten two-to-one by Bob Halt who is for President Roosev. a » foreign policies. As Maim* goes, i so goes the nation. —o The old dreadnaught * passing from the navy program and a new appropriation provides for carriers and fast ships in preference to the battleship which has proven vulnerable during the present war The bombers have changed conditions and 'bis country ia meeting the march of time An offlciai of General Motors ventures the opinion that unless Germany can win the war the next tour months, she will be beaten Ha doesn't guess on bow soon after that the sponge will be tossed in but evidently figures that by that time unless they are beaten, the

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i Allied forces will he ready to • smash through to victory. 0-0— Tin Nazi U-boats have suuk 276 ships along the Atlantic seacoast -inc. mid January. The loss of life . and cargoes) has been terrible and the enemy promises even greater I destruction to Include all ships that travel in our waters. It begins to look like this menace will continue until the bases are destroyed. —o Look around the place. Surely ■ ' you will find some old rubber that you can toss into the pile at the , filling station it s worth a tent a pound That may not be very I* ofitable Ini' that's not the idea it s an effort to help the govern ■ ~ijt for inatvrials necessary for battleships, planes and tanks ' and cars —o A new United States stamp which is to make its appearance July I in Washington will not i make history, but will symbolize a ; significantly historical fact. It will, ,be (ailed th. Win-the War" stamp, with those three words on the face which show an eagle with wings . utstretched in a "V" for victory. I: you contemplate attending the I 1 Democratic state convention to be , held at the Coliseum at the state fair grounds June 30th, you can .*■ (uk admission tickets by apply--Img to G Remy Bierly. county < hairman The event will be of unusual Interest this year because of the war with addresser by Senator: VanNtiys. Judge Slake and Gover- , nor Schricker -0 I’.actually every whiskey distillery In this country has agreed to halt manufacture of 'hat stimulant l>y November Ist and sooner if possible in order that the facilities :f the plants may be diverted sole- ' ly to product alcohol for war purposes The stock on hand will probably make It possible for the average fellow to get his "nip" for several y-.ars to come, however. —o Every once in a while some j Canadian voices the fear that the war may lead to annexation of that country by the United States. While our northern neighbor, arc h*ld In high regard, we are sure there is no disposition on the part ot this country to force them to become a part of larger United States of America unless they so desire it. In other words the request for such a combination will have to come from Canada. —o Harry Miesse of the Indiana Taxpayers A.aoc lation ie urging “rationing of local government activities" this year because of the drain caused by the war. He points out that "poor relief" can be reduced in many counties where they are still spending aa much as they did during th«- depression. He declares the average taxpayer is willing to do with less government so he can use the money to buy war bonds, give to the service organisations, meet federal taxes and otherwise help win the war. ■ ■_O— O Mrs. Harriet L Rose, chief investigator for the Scarsdale. N Y ' welfare department Is an unbelievably bold iconoclast. She has done something that just isn't done, something that staggers the imagination and fires the blood She has asked for a wage cut. because her work has decreased Mrs Rose was getting M»* a year on a part time basis. Whan war re-employ-ment reduced her duties, she ask- ' ed to be cut to I3W a year. “I don’t think it is fair to take taxpayers' money for work i don t do." she said —Goshen News-Democrat. o "■ — Twenty Yocrs Afo , I Today June IS. 1»22. was Sunday | — - ■ o ■ — OR pipeline milaaga has liaen axtended two and one-half 'Dues and tkara naw S times as maay ual ships with IS uasse the local umnaga compared to I*l7.

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MONROE NEWS Floyd Baxter. Wilmer Raudebush, and William Stuckey represented the local volunteer fire department as delegates at the Indiana industrial and volunteer fire- ■ men'- association < onventiun held at New Haven. Saturday. Others attedmg the convention from here i included Mrs Baxter, Mrs. Raudebush. Mrs Stuckey. Mr. and Mrs John Crist. Mr and Mrs Carl Neuenschwander. Mr and Mrs. Miltou Hannle. Mr. and Mrs William Bovine. and Menno Amstutz Among the relatives and friends of the late John Hendrick, who attended his funeral Saturday afternoon from a distance were his nephews. H G Hendricks of Jackson. Michigan. J B. Selle of Grand Rapids. Mich., and Grover Sells of Greenville. Ohio, and their wives; j his granddaughter. Mrs. iiaroid Meyer, of Prospect. Illinolz, her husband and son. Stanley; hl» daughter. Mrs George WJlace of St Petersburg. Florida: his wife. Mrs. John Hendricks ot St. Peters- , burg. Florida, who remained at the home of Mrs. John Hocker for sevevar! weeks visit; and Mrs. Erneet Egly. Mrs. Ola Keller, and Mrs. Pat Hendricks of Fort Wayue. Most of the group stayed in this comuiunity until Sunday afternoon to visit Mrs. Wallace then <.ccompained the Meyers family to their home in Illinois. Mr and Mrs. Win Rupert. Mr ' and Mrs Glen Rupert and daughters spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rupert aud children in Swayzee Mrs. Harvey Laughcry. who visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Laughery. left Tuesday morning for San Diego. Calif., to join her husband, who is stationed there with the U. S Marines. Pearl Ray. who spent the past week at Ossian at the Raymond M< Ahren home, and porotby Ray. who spent Saturday night there, returned to their home here Sunday with Mr and Mrs. McAbren and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hartnott and Miss Druscilla Burhhead left Friday morning for a visit at the Hart- ■

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I nett's home in Oelrichs, S. Dakota, i They were Joined at Chicago by Louis Hartnett. Mr and Mrs Walter E Sommer and sons, of Monroe and her father. Melvin Malonee and daughter. Neva. left early Monday morning for, a visit with relatives in lowa Mr and Mrs. Rufus Sommer and ' daughter who live in one of the K. I I W Busche fann homes, plan to move so the house in the south 1 part of town wbi< h was recently sold to a couple from Pleasant' Mills by Harry Esse. Members of the Builders Class met Monday night at the home of Mr and Mrs. Russel Mitchell forj their June social meeting. Mrs. Everett Rice's book review on <>• ' Winger’s book about Frances Slo cum was an enjoyable pa t of the I* . * 'Wkal f l/ou &U4f, Wdk Will BONOS I w w The power of the greatest Navy h the world, our own two-ocean fleet rests in large measure on Its back bone—the Battleships of the Line They displace approximately 35.00 t tons and cost up to |70.000.000. W< have something like a score of thes< huge ships in the Atlantic and Pa ciflc. Kight huge battleships are unde construction and more are content plated. To finance these moden goliaths of the sea it is neeessar for every American everywhere b buy more and more War Bonds. W<. can do it if everybody does hi share. Invest at least ten percew of yodr income every pay day b help your county go over Ha Bow | Quota. v. $. Trwrary Dfftrt»n

evening's entertainment Mrs. Mitchel served a lunch of sandwiches, pickles cookies, ice cream and cocoa to the gueat;*. Mr and Mrs George BDickler and John Harvey attended the an- , nual camp meeting of the Church I of God at Anderson. Sunday. Members and fi iend* of th': Mon- ' roe Methodist church are invited to attend a reception for the new pastor and wife, Rev. and Mrs Jul- ‘ lux Pfeiffer, in the annex Friday' night at 7:15. I Mr. and Mrs. Cy Johnson ami daughter. Ester, of West Virginia visited at the hom<* of his siMer j and husband, Mr and Mrs. G. A. 1 Hahuer:. during the past week. o * Household Scrapbood By ROBERTA LEE No Scratches A brown or black stair tread to match may lie cut down to the size of a large clock and prevent scratches on the surface ot the article on which the clock is placed Many times one hesitates to place the clock on a treasured piece of furniture for fear of scratches. Flour and Meal Flour and cornmeal can be prevented from becoming wormy dur-1 ing hot weather if the contents are . stirred thoroughly every day to the very bottom of the container. Linen Test Rub a sample of linen hard be-. tween the hands If a fuszy nap ap-n.-sre on the surface, the material ' has cotton in as well as linen thread* o Modern Etiquette •y ROBERTA LEE Q. If a man is euteitsining a I group of friends in a restaurant or 1 a hotel dining room, in what order i do they go to the table? A. If the headwaiter leads the way to the table, the host goes flrat to seat hia guests The worn en follow next, and the men of the 1 party last. Q Isn't it impolite for a person on a streetcar or bus to read a

A- —— ♦ Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Tent Questions printed on Page Two. 1. Northern Ireland. 2- Lew Ayres. 3 Seventeen years 1 Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin. 5 New* York. Pennsylvania and Illinois In that order. 6 The Netherlands. 7. All three. 8. False. 9 Just as cool. 10 Caspian. o Lowly Prune Comes Into Own Colusa. Cal.. —(UP)—Vitamin* A. H. and G. have elevated the erstwhile Jowly boardin; house I prune to a dignity of one cf America's most sought after foods, according to R. P Baker, zone agent for Prune Proration Zone No. 1 in California. He reports a 15 per cent increase in demand during the past four months. newspaper held by a fellow passenger? A. Yes; this is not good form, regardless of where one happens to be. Q. What are the appronriate gifts for the twentieth wedding anniversary? A. Gifts ot china.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “That’s hard to say. Mr Charles, said the family lawyer In reply. "Many a Arm would be bankrupt if ita creditors al! jumped at the same moment, and that's just what often happens when things begin to go wrong. I dare-say the firm’s still ■ making profits, but there are loans I of various kinds and if they're called in just now, as they may be with the sharea down to half a I crown—" “Is that a fair price for what they're worth?" “Well, there again it Is hard to say—always hard to separata price from worth." said Truslovc. “What will happen if the loans are called In?** "The company will have to look for new money—if it can find any.** “And if it can't?” "Then, of course, there'd be nothing for it but a receivership, or at . any rata some sort of arrangement with creditora." “May I ask you, though you needn't answer if you don’t want—did Chet speculate with any of the firm's money?" “Again, it’s hard to draw a lino between speculation and legitimate business practice. Mr. Cfietwynd bought rather large quantities of raw materials, thinking prices would continue to rise. In that he made the same mistake aa a great many very shrewd and reputable people.” "Will he bo forced Into bankruptcy?" fc A good deal depends on what happens to the firm. If it weathers the storm, the bank would probably give them a chance—subject, of course, to mortgaging Stourton and cutting down personal expenses to the bone. That applies to the others also.” "I soe. .. . Now may I ask you one final question? You were saying just now that the firm will need new money. You know how much I have myself. Would sueh a sum be any use in weathering the storm, as you put it?" "That also is hard to say. Mr. Charles. I hardly care to advise you in—"l'm not ssking for sdviee. I want to know how much the firm needs, so that I can judge whether It’s even possible for mo to eave the situation at all." “I—l ean’t say, Mr. Chart*,. The whole matter’s very complicated. We should have to see accountants, and find out certain things from the banks—it’s quite impossible for mo to make an estimate offhand." “Well, thanks for tolling me all you ean. Perhaps we eould return by the side rato-I’d like to escape any more of the family wrangle if it's still in progress. .. He drwvs away from Stourton an hour later, without seeing the family again: but be left a note far Chet with Sheldon, saying be would get in touch within a day or two. After a dash across Landon he was 1 just tn time to eateh the last train from Liverpod Street and be In his rooms st 8t Swithin's by midnight. He had already decided to help if his help could do any vital amount cf good. He couldn't exactly say why he had come to this decision; it certainly wasn’t any sense of the moral obligation that J»U had tried to thrust on bins. And 1s didn’t think it could be any sentimental feeling about the family, whom (except for Chet and Bridget) be didn’t particularly like, and whose decline , to the stataa of those who had to earn their own living would not ' wring from him a tear. If sentiment touched Charles Rainier at alt it was more for Sheldon and other servants whom he knew, aa well as for the thousands of Rainier employees whom he didn’t know, bet Whom he eould imagine In their little bowses, sis effing peacefully without kneertedge that their future wee bring shaped by dodsmw In a jirif’x uJiyi/Tfirtastte’ “t it was true, nevertheless. But perI ape stoeagest of all the argWMtrts was the fact that the money didn’t otter to him: even the Income from it was more than he eeuid

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ever spend; If he could put it to some act, however debatable, at least it would not be useless, at it was and always would be in his possession. For bis own personal future had already begun to mold itself; he would probably stay at Cambridge after obtaining a degree. Werneth had once hinted at a fellowship, and if this should happen, he would be enabled to live frugally but quite comfortably on bis own earnings. End of term eame a couple of days later; he returned to London and took a room at a hotel Having conveyed his conditional decision to Chet and to Trusiove, be had now only to discover if his money had any chance to perform the necessary miracle. This meant interviewa in City offices with bank officials and chartered accountants, tong scrutinies of balance sheets and many wearisome hours in the Rainier Building, demanding documenta and statements that took so long to unearth and were frequently so confusing that he soon realised how far Chet's slackness had percolated downwards into all departments. Ons of the accountants took him aside after an interview. "It’s no business of mine, Mr. Rainier, but 1 know something of the situation and what you're thinking of doing, and my advice to you would be to keep out of it—don’t send good money after bad I” “Thanks for tbs tip,” Charles answered, with no other comment During the next two weeks it became a matter of some absorption to him to discover exactly what Chet bad been up to. So far he hadn’t detected any actual crookedness—only the grossest negligence and the most preposterous—well, expanrivewees was perhaps again the word. Chet had not only bought shares at absurd prices and In absurd quantities; he had done the same with office desks, with electric lamps, even with pen nibs. A small change, apparently fancied by him, in the firm's stylo of notepaper heading bad condemned enormous stacks of the original kind to wastepaper. An ugly marble mantlepiece in Chet’s private office had cost six hundred pounds. And so far as Charles could judge from his somewhat anomalous position of privileged outel'ter, vv«ty departmesit was staffed by well-paid sycophants whose most pressing daily task was to convince their immediate superior that they were Indispensable By Christmas Charles had almost reached the same opinion as the seen unto nt—that it would be folly to vend good money after bad. Even a total repayment of loans would not alone suffice to lift the firm from the trough of depression into which the entire trade of the country wav rapidly sinking; nothing could save an enterprise of such complexity but completely centralized and economical control. Without that a cash loan could only stave off the inevitable for a few months. On one of those oddly unbusinesslike days between Christmas and the New Year he lunched with Chet and Truelove in Chet's office and told them this. "I must bo frank. Chet I’ve spent a fortnight looking into every corner I eould find, and I’m not much of an optimist aa a result It Isn’t oely new money that the firm needs, it's new—well, new other things " Chet nodded with an air of magnanimous comprehension. “You're probably right old chap. Hew about a new bees? Suppose I were to swap round with George on the board?" Charles smiled gently. “I know my faults," Chet ran on. Tm a fair-weather pitot —good when everything's on the up-and-up Nobody ean act and think bigger when times are right for it But these days you want a chap who can set and think euwlt That's what put George in my mind " Charles wae quite witling to Subscribe to a theory that left Chet holding an the laurels, but be felt he had to say more. "Kb afraid It isn’t just a matter of changing the pilot You've got to change a good deal of the ship. And you also may have to change the voyage - SV perhaps even lie up tn harbor foe a Ums and snake no voyages a* aU."

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> "Just a figure of speech, old cha I —don't press it too far." t "All right. 1 won't . . . but Uk 1 this lunch a- an example ■ I'm a guest, you'll perhap* forgiv I me for saying it's a pretty ba I lund 1 And I know where it comes fromthe canteen, as they call it, down 1 stairs. And I've seen the prices o the menu, ao 1 know your cantao 1 is either badly managed or a 1 die or both." , “Well, maybe—but surely it's no so Important—” ' “It’s one thing with another Th ’ whole place wants reorganirin( 1 from top to bottom, and I car ■>l I aclly see George a» the new : roern. 1 , “Well. let's assume you're nght- ! but the more urgent issue still re I mains. The banks don't giv<- a hoc whether the canteen senes g v , food or not. They just won t »afl . for their money. Wl.al d • you I Trusiove?” ■ Trusiove temporized as think we owe Mr. Chari, s a deefl. debt of gratitude for d> v ting twfl weeks of his Christina. vaca‘. r. tfl making this inquiry l'n. sure sv ."ifl i thing he has said is v. ry vj .a; .efl “But some of his cash would more valuable still do: t « old chap?" I “That, I understand, Is why Charles has met u» hire give -fl his decision." Both of them looked to who answered, rather hcsitar.t.yfi "I was hoping you'd sec what I driving at without forcing me to fl direct reply. In my opinion a -"fl or even a gift wouldn't hi Ip you completely reorganize the :-”-fl That’s ail I can say." “You mean your answc t i s fl nite ’no’?’’ “If you Insist on putting it —-‘fl way, but you've beard my r» : “Well, I’msunk now!’’ Ch« t »tarej gloomily at the tablecloth for a r.q ment, while the waitress came fl with coffee. Transferring his to the cup, he suddenly turned <fl her with a vehemence that an-fl made her drop the tray 'Cail ufl eofeef Take it bark and br.ng *'fl thing worth drinking Ard * the cause of the rotten meals ■*' _fl here? Send up the canteen • > to my office afterwards and fl me see your hands! Rhy, th > fl •to/sUf 1 won't have this sort ■ thing—get your week s wages ‘fl don't eome here again fl Throughout all this Trustee »nfl Charles had looked on u • ; _fl ably. As soon as the girl, too tied and upset to make w Wfl had left the room. Char.’S *fl quietly; "I'm not sure tb-st fair of you, Chet. She *»-•’* sponsible." _ . >fl “What more can I do? Her hsrfl —you should have teen them || "Yes, yes ... I daresay ■ There was a long silence. Th fl Chet exploded — fl “Well, have I done anythifl wrong? You talk about reorga fl tion-what do you mean by it '• fl tent just a word. i.U me I ‘ -fl merely that you haven t < ,fl courage to say outright that > U.TX U- •» - "I organisation pl-Jaw. ■ (“Pi-jaw” — that was the fl they used at Netherton for > «*fl views with the headmaster. fl Stirred in him a little instar. P-’fl f<, "fm nJt hiding behind agrt ’ J “You mean you d lend tb« fl if we did reorganize. „.fl Charles was sde«» • . fl Chet went on: "That s a i fa tion. isn't it, Trusiove, fl swer, then well kr Xaigbt )-fl iU nd Let's have a strain | take back any . • fl Now all you ve gut to te fca fl roa’d eall rss>rgantz:r.g. ’ fl nJtodo? Or-has. anybedyefl ta do? And for that m»t ■£, fl gut to be tbs fellow to • 1 (To be eondrueoi m •» »•»» l« >• L -** W