Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT PuMUluxl Shrtrr BrjaUto 6u4ay By THE DKCATUB DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Sintered at the Decatur, Ind, Peat Office aa Second <3aaa Matter. J. H. Haller. Praaldent A. R. Holtbouae, Sec’fc * Boa. MgrDick D. Halter Vtca-Praaldent SubeerlptiM Rate* Single Copies —— l M One week by carrier...———. -M By Mall In Adame, Allen, Jay and Wells counties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, S4.H per year; $2-60 tor six months; $145 ter three months; W cento ter one monf. Elsewhere: $5.50 per year; WOO for six mouths; $165 tor three months; <0 cento for one month. Men and women in the armed forces 11.60 per year or WOO tor three months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Applteatlon. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New Tork 2 B. Wacker Drive, Chicago. Hl. The cold waves now are uot quite

as’severe as they were a month ago and that helps considerably. I o—o Don’t forget that February 28 th is the deadline for your old autcmobile license and tag. o—o • ; €>nly about a month until Spring ■will officially arrive. It's due March 21st. So hang on and keep smiling. —'o—ot—the messages of the merchants in today’s basketball edition. It's tho biggest event of the year for hundreds of boys and girls. Help them enjoy it. O—o I Tnis city will extend a hearty, ■welcome to players and fans who gather here this weekend for the sectional basketball tournament. We hope all have a good time. —o GM your ticket for the basket, ball tournament and enjoy a few bourn watching these young athletes perform. It promises to bt * good. —o Don't forget that federal income tax report# for 1914 must be in by March 15th. Most people have attended to that duty, no doubt, but those who haven't should be getting busy. O—o In line with the present time school euaollment in Indiana is lower than a year ago and is costing considerably more per pupil. Economic conditions affect every line of endeavor it seems. —o weeks more of the legislature and they will be busy ones for the law makers. It’s the period of the pessieu when careful wwteh must be kept to prevent errors and the slipping through of umtesirgd measures. O—o Clinton Uttley, deputy firet assistant postniaster of the United States wants to take over all the jeeps after the war and use them as mail carrying vehicles on the rural routes. It sounds economical but the carriers may not like the back-aches that would follow. -0 According,to word from the office of war information the crooks who have been dealing in counterfeit ration stamps are fighting among themselves and several of the gang have beep killed- Well itfiey t> sed to say that when thieves fall out the just get their dues. Guess it still works. i. ♦ . i. - • i ■ For a copy ot th* Decatur Daily Democrat TteeStopback * sate cadh evenlag v 4® 1 " 1 .hi. .i iw-

Th* school* of AdtSto county will be one hundred percent back of ;ho Red Cross campaign aa they have bc«» tor acme lime. Th* school children have done a marvelous job in Adams county in all branches of the all-out program to assist in t winning the war. j Japan never believed it would ’• would be possible for 1.600 plane# 1 based on carrier boats 300 miles off shore, to blast their citie® with I thousands of tons of explosives but 1 they are now getting that does ali most dally. And if they are wise they are now getting that dose alwili grow lu fury aa time goes on. Goebbels says the Allies are ‘‘bullies’’ and that its unfair to attack with superior forces forgetting that’s what Germany did when they overran Poland, France, Belgium and other countries. He also says they could defeat any one of the nations if they fought alone which may be correct but which won’t change the determination of the world in general to end wars forever If possible. O—o

° Two bills in the general assembly, one in the house and the other in the senate, io provide a “closed J shop” for lawyers by nullifying ’ contracts or wilto or other business ’ papers unless drawn by an attorney, seem to be having a rough : time. Laymen believe the measi ures as proposed to be unconstitu- • Nona! and it seems probably they will never emeg from tho committee rooms. i ■■■O—Q. — A few years ago we were worry- . ing about ithe unemployment probI lem and many were predicting that there would always be from ten to twenty million men not working. i Now they are all on the line and ' 1 ’ million# of women have been added I

I to the force. Os course that situation can't continue always and i’ will be interesting to watch the proceedure of making the change back to normal with the least disturbance. _o—o— According to a recent reliable survey, automobiles are now going off the road at the rate of more than 3.000 a day. Twenty-five percent of the care remaining on the road are 11 years of age or older; 58 percent of the total are seven years of age or older. If greater numbers in 'these groups are taken from the highways in coming months, we may quickly descend to, or below, the 20,000,000 level which has been estimated as the rock bottom figure for essential needs. The situation becomes all the moye compelling because there is no likelihood of getting new car production in the spring of 1945, as was freely predicted a few mouths ago. We shall be lucky if we get production in the latter part of 1945.—»Kendallville News-Sun.

—-O—o—- — to Help: As we enter the 167th week of , the second world war, your government through the office of war in- , formation asks all citizens to help as we approach the most critical period. They ask that we: Help speed production to meet . war's fast pace — fill 6,700 jobs in 175 plants making castings for parts for trucks, tanks, gun car- , riages, and other heavy items. ( If you hold series “A” savings L bonds (the "baby bonds” that went „ on sale in 1935) reinvest the pros ceeds when they begin maturing ] March 1. War bonds offer the , same return —34 for every 33 in- - vested. Place specific orders now ton fertilizers and insecticides for farms and Victory gardens. Transportation and manpower shortages may seriously delay deliveries. Use V-mail anti help save overseas cargo space. Facilities V; mail will save are urgently needed for shipments of whole blood and typhus vaccine by plane. —~ 0- -' Trade ip a Qood Town — Decatur

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Quiet Ple.se Decatur, lud. February 16, 1945 To the Editor. Dear Sir: (Could you print an appeal for people who “share the iide” to refrain from blowing their auto horns early in the morning? There should be an ordinance to force people to be considerate of other workers. I do defense work and also take care of my family, even doing my own laundry work and the million things that go with raising three children. Another member of the family works second trick in defense work and needs his morning sleep. Every morning at 5:15 the person who picks up a man three doors from us darts Wowing his very ehrill horn in front of our house and wakes us causing us to lose an hour of our badly needed rest. I am sure the same thing lia-ppene wherever he stops. Almost everyone

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is working harder and longer than usual and I'm sure these people are just thouglitkee. A very tired woman. <j Twenty Years Aao Today 0 ———♦ Feb. 20 —(UtP)— Fifty-one men trapped in a mine at Sullivan, Indiana are believed lost. The state fund for the proposed Knights of Pythias home ie reported to be over $100,606. Joe Bremerkamp, 79, dies at the Soldier’s home in Danville, 111.. The Indiana federal grand jury returns 184 indictments, of which 142 are for liquor law violations. John Carmody is in Chicago to arrange for labor for the HollandSt. Louis Sugar company. 'Decatur Catholic high defeats Huntington. 36-14. o • -♦ I Modern Etiquette i I By ROBERTA LEE | Q. Should the waiter or a girl’s escort seat her at the table in a public restaurant? A. It is the duty of the waiter to draw back the girl's chair and

assist her with her coat. Q. Is it obligatory to send a gift when one is invited to a church wedding? 'A. Not unless one is also invited to the reception. Q. What effect does a very effusive apology have on people? A. It merely emphasizes the mistake. A quiet, sincere apology is miuch better. —o « « I Household Scrapbook I | By ROBERTA LEE Sour Milk A great convenience and timesaver is a separate card-index for recipes calling for sour milk, sour cream, or buttermilk. In this way one may decide quickly how to utilize them for the day’s menu. Linen Shades | When laundering linen window i shades they can be made to look like ue‘w by adding a little powdered 'borax to the last rinsing water and then ironing them while still damp. Gold Fish df gold fish ibecome ill, the probability is that they have been over-fed or not kept clean. Lack of fresh watt r will soon kill them.

COURT HOUSE Will is Filed The will of Selena Schindler, written April 6. 1943. was probated in Adums circuit court today, me decedent bequeathed all her pro nerty, both real and personal to hei sisters, Elizabeth and Ellen Schindler. John H. Schindler gualified as executor. The court found for the plaintiff in the ejectment suit, of Alva M. Nichol# vs -ten Pollock and Harriet Pollock, ordering possession of real estate returned to plaintiff. Costs were ordered taxed against defendants. ~,- A case has been venued to the Adams circuit court from the Allen , circuit court, entitled, Joseph Kaplan vs George J. .Morton, complaint on lease. The transcript was filed and approved and the cause ordered . entered, op the docket. Estate Cases Final report in the August Elileiding estate was filed by Ghat les Ehlerding and the administrator discharged. The estate of William Auman, with a value of 15,016.29 was referred to the county assessor for ap-| praisemeut for inheritance taxes. On the estate of John ScJieimann. | net value $16,932.15, the inheritance ' payable by Oley Scheimaun, was ; $19.32. Corporations Dissolved Attorney-general James Emmert, lias filed papers requesting an order of court dissolving extinct corporations in the county. The bunch filed today is the last of about 200 that the attorney-general has filed in the Adams circuit court. They are: Petro Oil Co.. The Parks Oil Co., The Progress, Paul Schulte Oil and Gas, Inc., Rapid Remedy Co., Runyon, 'Engeler Co., Republic Stock Food and Medical Co., Reed’s Feed and Supply. Inc., Lake Oil Co., The Sunflower Land Co., Swiss Accordian Co., Uhl and Wheeler Co., United Clothing Buyers, Inc., Wolverine Oil Co., Vigran’s Inc., W. D. Coil Filler Co., Ward Fence Co., Wabash River Oil Co.. Woman's Farm Journal, Inc., Nvw Corydon Oil Co.. New Curryville Coal Co.. State Line Oil Co.. The Waring Glove Co., Inc., Wabash Valley Oil

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR “Aggie, this is going to sound a shade dramatic, and quite silly I To you, I mean. To businessmen —it would seem more commonplace. Their lives are bound up in money. Money means security to them. It also means power. Without power, such men lose their reason for living. Without security, they get panicky.” “A fact,” he said, "that applies too universally, these days! Because security and power, as represented by money, always were, and always will be, illusions.” “If you have any moralizing to do,” Sarah responded tartly, “do it some other time. I feel rotten and I have something to say.” “Sorry!” “And don’t, for heaven’s sake, keep going through life saying, ‘Sorry’. Who gives a rap if you’re sorry! Listen. Thirty-odd years ago, Byron Waite was rich by inheritance, and a very promising Wall Street youngster. Jim Calder had shown enough of the ruthlessness that has made him unbearable to impress a lot of important people. His father, too, was rich, and Jim was coming up. George Davis had his inheritance—we all did, at Indian Stones—and Marilyn’s money—that was his wife—and his skill- We were a clique within this Indian Stones clique. There were a couple of others in our crowd who have long since petered into their graves and I won’t bother you with them.

“Jim and Byron Waite, naturally, did business for George and for me. George and I only put up capital—they ran things. We made money. And then the panic of 1907 came along. You don’t recall that—but you do remember 1929." “I was in Sumatra—mostly—•” Sarah scowled, “I mean—you’ve read newspapers. You’re more or less cognizant of the fact that there was a depression after the crash. You can possibly recall the bank, closings, the bonus marchers, the bread lines, the riots, the strikes and shutouts, the chimneys that were not smoking—all that.” “Vividly." “Well, the 1907 panic wasn’t exactly like that —but similar enough. It raised sin with Indian Stones. Calder was cleaned out. Davis lost most of Marilyn’s money. The Pattons sold their Fifth Avenue mansion. I dropped a handsome chunk of the ancestral Plum fortune. Waite lost less, perhaps, than the rest of us. But he was the worst scared and the most bitter. He was . older—by five years or more —than ' most of us. He’s nearly seventy I now. Anyway—we were very thick lin those days. Entertained for ' each other in New York all winter. Had a whist club up here that met two nights every week — without fail. I mean to say—we’d grown up together—like this present generation here. We were in grooves together ; we established habits — ruts. Wc knew each other as well ■ as if we were in one family. Do you [»»?”

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Co.. The Unversal Oil Co- Ward Mfg. Co. The Ward Fence Company and The Waring Glove Company were among the leading indue trie# in the city 40 years ago. RED CROSS (Continued From Page One) the people of this county for (he fine organization already made for the drive and the interest shown in Red Cross service. Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth, executive secretary in charge of the home service office in the Reppert building, formerly the auto license bureau, is assisting in campaign plans. Chairmen may obtain their supplies from the service office and information on the drive may also be obtained from the secretary's office. Workers expressed confidence in the outcome of the drive, re citing that Adams comity iiad (lever fallen down on a Red Cross

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Aggie nodded. “All right. Think of us. Then think of the people you knew who acted batty after the 1929 crash. People hoarded so much gold, for example, that the government had to call it in. Plenty of people, in 1932, were actually stocking their country- places with supplies—as if for a siege. It was like that in 1907 —exactly. And the worst feature —in 1907—for all of us was a scarcity of cash and liquid assets. A lack of cash wrecked Jim. A lack of cash cost Waite a whole railroad.” Sarah drew a deep breath. “That was where Hank Bogarty came in. He’d been up here in 1905. Distant relative of the Scotts—who have died out. They called him a wild kid and a black sheep—because he’d slammed out of Harvard his first year and gone to the Far West and done as he pleased. I never thought of him as wild. In fact—•” she cocked an eyebrow at her nephew—“if Hank had made a proposal to me—instead of Waite and a few of his ilk—l daresay there would be other Plum heirs and assigns, besides you!” She i grinned reminiscently. “I had too i much tongue for Hank, I presume.

“Hank played whist with us and Hank talked mines. Gold and silver and lead. All summer long. He talked about canoes and portages, maps and lodes, white water, and living off the country. If he had a small capital to fit out an expedition, he said — Oh, you see the point! He was romantic as Satan —and plausible—and we were all flush. Putting up twenty thousand from four of us was a cinch. We dangled Hank all summer because we liked his company—and we sent him west with his ‘grubstake’ in the fall — and practically forgot about it. He didn’t write much. In the 1907 panic, when we were scratching every private till to the bottoni, we did try to get in touch with him. But he was out in the back country somewhere—and we dismissed any hope of collecting the twenty thousand dollars.” “And then — ” Aggie said — “Hank came through.’’ Sarah nodded several times. “He came through like an Oklahoma gusher. He showed up here in 1909. It was gold and plenty of it, and he wouldn’t hear of taking more than the fifth allowed him by his original deal. Nobody—” Sarah snorted—“nobody but me suggested it, in any case! The mine was in Canada. We’d felt the terrible penalty of a lack of cash. We were ambitious — that is, the men were—and imaginative. Rugged individualists. All that. Legality was not ever a chief concern of Waite or Calder —or Davis. We decided to use the proceeds from the mine to establish a joint cash reserve. We arranged to have the gold refined and molded and shipped—but not marked as gold. I don’t know when we decided to keep it here—” Aggie literally jumped. “Keep it here!” She went on impassively. “Here. Calder didn’t trust any bank.

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Waite didn’t. You’ve gut it J us as we were—or them, ntE Scary, suspicious, detemiiei4M possessed of a source of M funds that couldn't be c'nedss® actly, ever. Half the proceeifi the mine went into regular« nels. The other half came ba'l “But why here?” 1 Sarah smiled. “WhenweMj not to use a bank— we talkao talked about what place tn| We’d formed, by then, one of secret societies. Done eveijiffi but signed in blood. SwottM to speak about our hoari !t«| a lot of fun—at the tint’ ij , paused. “Aggie, you kwrii . the club was built on the fa»| i tions of the old Sachem Ho® I i “My stars,” he said softly. M ■ cellar!” J I Sarah’s voice sank. “ToiM ‘ to play in it. Part of it- ‘ old hotel was the cellar 1 heating plant and fore®, one for tools. There was isffi 1 too; for those mauve detaitij B —the married ones-who«i f to hurry away when thatij s appeared suddenly in fine carnj| e accompanied by furious wj 0 Life then wasn’t quite as Wj

this jitterbug generation M think. The Sachem House™! dog’s paradise. Yes, Aggß,®j lar. When the hotel burnelj and your grandfather's ge»J built the club, only pan ot lar was known. I dis<W J other section. I found *“ fl tect’s original drawings ®fl brary— and when we were®! of a proper hiding place— ls! drawings out. The mat R broke through a wall one isl That’s where we started new the gold.” . J Aggie thought for a ionifl silence. “Well?” j “Hank wouldn’t j«» "J scheme, He handled • j through his bankers. J paid off — handsomely"’ J , 3 twenty years. Waite dipped into our J war- Again, in • What we took—we repMJ —a little later-gold ’“H We four held a meeting- : “I was for turning • Calder and Waite’ r ®’’’ e J said we'd be. ,,r f nde^®! royalists. Said the m r J hurt their businesses.jn . any record of it. J l* y ’ an inflation came-oWJ our only cushion, a f j to be more or !•>* I . it occurred to me to ter for platinum- • I made some indirec people I knew, and, ; bought, platinum 111 in our joint cacll “’ Jim, and Byron, as usual, that I ' Platinum wami t -i pected that gold bec# ,y* d kX n : ra.vrw.l. pUtribuLfti by k‘ u4