Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1945 — Page 2

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improved 11 SUNDAY International Il SCHOOL ■■■ LESSON By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Os The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for February 25 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts selected* and copyrighted by Inlernation.il Council of Religious Education; used by permission. jest’s, THE S«N OF GOD LESSON TEXT—Matthew 16:13-17; 17: 1-9 r GOBDEN TEXT Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will J confess adso before my Father which Is in heaven.—Matthew 10:32. "What, think ye of Christ?” There is a question that every human being must answer. Jesus naked it (Matt. 22:42), and each of us makes some kind of reply. It is the touchstone that tries men. and ctttmvhes. organizations and movems!fe. The answer to it is of deep in»potlance, for it determines charaett*. condition, and destiny for time and eternity. Jesus.-the Christ, the Son of the : living God. is the center of the entire les'kin. I. Jesns Confessed '16:13 !7>. With His crucifixion now only six months..away, e'.tr Lord in prepara- i tion for it is about to make a more i definite Claim to Messiahship, and I thus to^establish the truth in the minds of His disciples He therefore asks this all - important question ’ about Himself. First,-* it is a general query, i "Whom'do men say that I am?" The answer (v. 11' indicates that the . common opinion concerning Christ I 't s a very high. me. He had made I an impression on 'he people of His ti re, aiijf this has Loen true down through the ages. Even those who d ■ not believe on Him admit that ■ He was "the ideal representative 1 and guide to huiiidnlty," of the per- . son before whom "everyone would I kneel." But beautiful tributes to His : character, and leadership are worse I than meaningless unless they lead | to a personal confession of Him as Lord and Saviour. The question becomes personal as ' He asks,, "Whom do ye say that I mn?” That question no one can esctuei'We cannot refuse to answer. Neutrality is impossible. Whatever we d n or say. or do not do or say, i? a decision. Peter's answer is really the sum and substance of Christian doctrine. He recognized Hirn as the Messiah,

the fulfillment of all Hebrew prophecy, and as the Son of the living God, the Redeemer and Saviour of ’ ir.erfi: the One in whom centers all I faith. JlijJcsus Transfigure# '17:1-3). I A.fciMis amazed disciples looked on. He eternal, divine glory of the Sin its God could no longer be hidcl/cn iby the human body and the Irjirasle garments of our Lord, and HiSface did shine as the sun and H aaiment was white as light." Tlfey saw their beloved Master , nowgor what He really was. the Son of Ghd The testimony of Peter was , no Idnger mere words, although ever so blessed. His speech had been coiifjjimed by sight and they knew thmtlMaster as the Lord of glory. It-Jis essential in both the life and (service of a Christian that he cleanly understand the truth about Chrj&t. His person and His work. Whdn that understanding is tied up persona! vision of His glory, there is assurance and power. Tlfc want of such a vision explains the rack < f zeal for soul-winning, the inc'fictiveness of witness, the unwillHgness to suffer or sacrifice for Christ's sake. “Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29; 1I?> formant of a witness concerning the Saviour. HE Jesus Triumphant (17:4-6). The crowning point nt the transfiguration came when the voice spoke out of the bright cloud and gavfe not only the Father's unqualified approval of Christ, but also His corrtfnand that men should listen to Him and heed His message of redcrrijjtion. Note how this word of the Father cori'pleted the transfiguration. In itself it might have been likened to that which happened tp Moses (Ex. 34:2 k. 30'. We say likened to, because the glory which showed forth in Jbsus was from within, not just a reflected giow. But the words from heaven provide the conclusive and final witness, They so impressed Peter that he talked of them as a cherished merfiory and a transforming power in his life, even when he was an o'ld man HI Pet. 1:16-18). How do they impress you? Are you ready to acknowledge Jesus as the Chrjst. the Son of God, and take Him as your Saviour? IV. Jesits Only (17:7-9). Having seen Him in His glory, they now saw Kim alone. True, the .others had gone, but is there not also the ’thought that He. the blessed God,. now filled the vision of their fours? Surely we find it right at hand to make that application to our own I ves. When, we really see Him as ji e jj. then He fills our vision, and when lie does that, we have reached teal .satisfaction of life. • "Jesus only” is more than a motto or a theme for a song It is the enitiune of a file worth while. It makes obe v. sjrtt tn ,>.k evgrrnne, "t.'o you kr.ow Him?'.' ’'ell. db'ytJH? It mil. will-ybu take Hirn a? jettf shvM*tt••hjfit-irei'.v? Chiistiih. v 41 you tt-t fflft 111! jotif iHt?

f RURAL * t- c • Rivarre Circuit Gilbert A. Eddy, pastor ’ . .tA Mt. Victory : Sunday School. 16 a. in. ('!<>>•« e ‘I Crozier, superintendent. i Worship service, 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Gregg Knittie. leader. Pleasant Grove Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. War- | ren Hardin, .superintendent. i Clara meeting. 10:30 a. m. Fred I Bittner. leader. ; Prayer meeting Wednesday ev.--i ■ ning. Mt. Zion Sunday School. 9:30 a. m. Jimi Beobout. superintendent. Class meeting, 10:30 a. m. Louis I Bunner, leader V. B. C. K. services. 7 p nt. Al- j dine Beobbut. president. Prayer meeting Wednesday eve-1 ning. o Calvary Evangelical F. H. Willard, minister Preaching service. 9 a. in. Sunday Sihool. 10 a. m. Quarterly conference Thursday. 7:30 p. m. Rev. Herman preaching. Conference will be held at Cttlvary church. ———(>. Antioch M. B. C. Church Robert Mi-Brier, pastor I.m ated 3 mill s west on 224 and one mile south of Decatur Sunday School. 9:3b a. tn. Church service. 10:30 a. nt. Evening service. 7:30 p. m. Our guest speaker is Jticob Hbs- j li iiler from the Fort Wayne Bible ' Institute. He will be speaking in [ both services. We welcome all to I these services. "The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home." Union Chapel Church of tile United Brethren in Christ D. IL and Celia I’ellett. ministers ! Sunday School. 9:30 a. in. Thurman I. Drew, superintendent. Morning worship. 16:15 a. tit. Se - i liiiin subject "An A-l Priority." Christian Endeavor. 7 p. hi. Th'' ' young people will study “Grace." | led by Mrs. Pellett. The adults Will ■siddy Romans nine. led by Mis.! Bow ftr.-in. «nml Evwmig warship. 7:30 p. in. Ser-! mon subject. “Plenty For All.” Prayer service Wednesday. 7:30.1

Pleasant Valley Wesleyan Methodist Church Noel H. Winterholter. pastor Sunday Schoo". 9:30 :i. m. Morning worship. 10:30 a. m. Preaching. 7:30 p nt. Prayer meeting Wednesday. 7:45. Revival begin), March sth with : the services through tile week In - ! ginning at 7:45 p. tn. and on Sun-! day evening at 7:30. Rev. Glonn I Appleman of Bluffton, will be the i evangelist. Mrs. Bertha Parrish, j also of Bluffton, will lie singing i each evening. Practice Hebrews 10:25. "Not fir. - ‘ suiting tin* assembling of our selves I together, as the manner of some 1 -: but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Come to church Sunday. o Wiltshire Circuit U. B. Church L. A. Middaugh. Pastor m. Sunday school. 10:30 a. m. Preaching serivce. 7:30 p. m. Revival se/rtce. Rev. Paul Graham preaching. Revival now in progress. St. Paul ' 9:15 a. m. Sunday School. 7:30 p. tit. Tuesday. prayer meet- I ing: and Bible study. Winchester 9:30 a. tit. Sunday school. 10:30 a. tn. Rev. C. E. Clittpp. a | farmer pastor, will preach. 7:30 p m. Thursday. prayer! meeting. n Monroe Methodist Church E. <l. Kegerreis. minister

9;:?o a. in. Morning Worship j Laymen's day with lay speakers, j Theme: The church meeting. Its I responsibility for ministerial supply to the Homeland and to the I world. Speakers. Miss Neva Lott Crownover. “Responsibility for Ministerial Supply;” Mrs. Freeman Walters; “Redporisibtllty for tlie Home-1 ’anti arid tb the World." 10:30 a. in — Church school. Lesson. “Confessing Christ in Dally Living." 1830 p. m.— Methodist Youth Fellowship. Ml.ss Wanda Burkhead will review the second section cf “THb Apostle" by Scholcrii Asch. 7:3fi f>. itt; —Evening service. Sefihbh. “Jesits Teaching upon Siri.” Xllmday evening, 7:30 j>- m. Teachers and leaders retreat. Tuesday evening. 7: 3fi p. in. —Tlte nominating committee will meet at till’ parsonage in preparation r or tin- fourth quarterly confercht-e. <|<y cVeking. i:J*' p. id. ■ Mi4-w»<’k wrvlbe. B:3<i p. m.— '■(•ltriii’ rcitcarsai. I Thursday evchirfg; 7 :?0 it: id. —

Birthday party by W. S. C. S. ini the annex. Beulah Chapel Methodist Homer Studebaker, pastor Grmii union meeting February 25 I | at 7:15 p. m. All churches are invited to take | part. Special music will lie provid- | . ed by the Fort Wayne Bible school . j and Taylor uiliversity. Rev. J. Ori Powell, evangelist. .

Germany Scraping Bottom Os Barrel Repdtrlbted Vets Give Interviews New fork. Feb. 23 — l VP)- -ReI patriated American soldiers, back Home frbitl German prison camps I for treatment of serious wounds, agreed to-day that the German military machine has been scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel for some time. The soldiers, who arrived on th? Swedish exchange ship Gripsholm Wednesday, said that conditions were aboht the same in hll prison camps they saw inside Germany. The guards were usually crippled men or then as old as 75. In sonic cases the American soldiers saw ybttng bbys of 14 guarding the camps. They said there were very few Germans of military fitness to be seen about the tamps. Decorations Vfrere given to 140 of the 463 soldiers yesterday at the Halloran General hospital on Staten island. After the ceremonies the wounded veterans met reporters. Many of them said they were annoyed by the attitude of some of 622 civilians repatriated with them. These civilians, the soldiers said, had no appreciation ot' America.! and continuously talked of when ’ they could return to their European! homes. The civilian repatriates, most of i them technical citizens of the Unit-1 ed States, had spent most of their lives in Europe. They indicated o the soldiers that they didn't want to leave Europe but were moved out by the Germans nevertheless. The civilians were leaving .lie ship slowly, and by late last night fewer than 100 of them had been landed after 30 hours of questioning by the federal bureau of. investigation. the state department, an i customs inspectors. MARINES SEIZE tOritlnu-d Froiii Page One?

were dead. He said 1.222 Japanese dead had beeti counted. The campaign was the most costly for a comparative period in the Pacific war. in the entire 76-hour battle on Tarawa, previously the bloodiest. 3.15) marines were killed br wounded. Front dispatches said 25 per cent of one battalion in the first assault waves ashore oil two was kilted or wounded in the first two hours after H-lidur. Twenty percent of a second battalibn was felled. The latest casualty estimate j revised totals announced yester-j day for the period through 5:45 j p. m. Wednesday. the number of American dead alone was' jumped from 355 to 644. The communique indicated that American casualties had increased from 76 an hour for the first 48 hours of the invasion to 172 an hour —three a minute —during the next 10 hbdrs. but it was more likely that a numliei- of those reported in the late bulletin actually hail been hit diirittg the earlier period arid riot reported. The 28th marine regiment i readied the top of Alt. Suribachi | 16 Hours after surrounding the i Volcano. Frdtii its trbst, the | Americans for the first time can Observe Japanese movements around the central airfield atop ? plateau and pour artillery fire [ into the enemy ranks in support ! of infantry attacks. Many gun emplacements on I Mt. Suribachi remained in Jap- ' anese hands, however, and these i will have to lie stormed one by ! One. Tunnels and caves honeyi comb the peak. dTis plewTeo (Continued From Page One) Stettiriius itt his first major I speech shite bet'Otriitig Sfefcrfitary of state offered five major pdlhts of U. S. foreign polity: 1. Earliest possible defeat of the erierny. 2. Control of the Axis ebnntries so that they never again can marshal tbe riiilitary or ihdiistridl ■ strength to wage war. | 3. beiermtnatlon that people I everywhere can choose their own I fo’rnis of government. 4. Creation of a world orgtltiHlitibn before the war ends thdt will : be able to keep the pedee. by force : if necessary. 5. CJbser collaboration among till nations Idwarii 4 rishi"; stiri- ! dat'd of living dhd wider bfipbrtiiiiitfbs for dll thert find 4-bnieti. - ,e---gardlese of rticb, bheed Hr color.

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Writer War Victims Given Purple Heart

11 Correspondents Killed During War . .. — New York. Fob. 23 (IT) Dry don Taves and Jack Frankish of the I United Press and nine other edrrest nondents who lo»3t their lives coveri Ing the War will receive the Purple 1-ieart. 'Taves *a<s killed in an airplane * I accident in the southwest Pacific: 1 Frankish during a dive liomlbirig on | the western front. Other corresj pondents w.h 0 will receive the a- • ward are: John B. Terry, Chicago Daily News; Frank Print, Acme iieWspiiturtn; Asahe] Bush and Bede Irvin. associated pr-.ss; David Laidj ner. Now- Yorker Magazine. Fredi erick Faust. Harpers Monthly: Stanley Gunn. Fort Worth Star Telegtdm and Houston Chronicle; Tom Treanor, Los Angeles Times; ami Lucien La'ljaudt. Life Magazine. The awards fbloWed i sugjeetioti of editor and pu'blisher to the war depar ment that the 11 men be honor d. as have other cor-espondents. for their deaths in the line of duty while serving With the army. In a letter to Maj. Ge;t. Alexander Surlete. director of army nulblic relations. Rifiiert V. Brotan. editor of Editor and Publisher, pointed out that t.he army had been "liiieral ' with its a‘ward<s t 0 American war ■ correspondents, eitii'f .vottnded or killed.” But that these 11 men had not been cited in any way ■‘lt Is my belief." B own wrote, "that inasmuch as they Were killed : while on the jbh and while under-; going the same hazards ak regular army personnel, that their deaths should be recogniz'd in the same! way as a soldier's." Notification that the awards had ! been made was stent to Editor and Pu.il'-sher by the war department this we k. REPUBLICANS TO (Continu it l-'rom Page One) Demoeratts who set up the system in 1933. Local option forces received two setbacks during the s-ssion. Amendments offered by Reps Thomas Sosbe. !).. Elwood, and M.mrce A. SNtrr. R.. Connersville, were rejected in elaise voting. ■Araertdoicnts were included to require the licensing of bartenders and waitr.isse,3 by the state beverage commission and to allow fraternal t-hrbs to sell drlnkn until 1 A. M. on New Year's day. ——. — o— — The old European custom of rubbing wax on stocking heels and toes is being revived in wartime America, ft makes stockings last longer.

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Florida Officer Is Leading Navy Ace Washington, Feb. 23—(IT)— The j navy said today that its No. I air ace Ih Cmdi. David McCampbell of West Palm Beach. Fla. He has shot | down 34 enemy planes. The top aritiy atee is Maj. Rich-1 aid I. Bong of Poplar, W 18„ with a I big of 46 Jnipanese planes. Trade in a Good Town — Jiei attir [ ATTENTION! ONE DAY REVIVAL February 25th The J; S; Daughter} Family Taknicti Musk-iarts aticl Pingers Mtincie, IHri. SirigiHjy and Plkjiriß al <1:30 - J. > B:l5 — T:3O P. M. tiki’ll HHt fcdHt. Ik HilsS J Hfrarihg aiifi Stfeltifi InMH; l‘r?kcliirig ,l)i J. T. Trtifeat, Pastbr S Ort sfciMcfe. ; W: f; ft S —6:45 11..I 1 .. M. Honor Os our Fighting Meh and Women. N.Y.P.F. President says: “toll'll appreciate the fitly spirit and the blessing of this service. Ydii'H ndt want tb ihiss it." ( HI W II OF ftifc nazarkne i Marshall at fctbrth 7th Sts. Deeatttr, IRd.

CONDON’S FRESH 1915 V CERTIFIED GAItDEb SHEDS J||||aaggS j u st Arrived ' can ' ,u ' ;n3 ' ■ ,r ’” " n, " C! ' ' ■'y j Thfe ttiost complete varieties and assortment in Adams County. We caH Slioft tod a 1043 Purity and Germination Tajr issued by the State Seed Comriiission of evdri- solid we offet - for salt as ybtir guarantee. Ctititlftn’S Seeds ritfetl rib intrbduetion in tHfe (territory as wc have sdld them for the past eighl tears. We especially carty a iferi assortment of Cbrn, Peas. Ifcahs fbr your seltectioh, A few Neiv ittertis ton will find this season for the first lime: “TAMPAEA”—A hew leal similar to spinach. ",H NEBtSRItS plants—Pldnt like tabbatie br tomatoes. “TbtiActO"—Smoke tOtib ritth Ktehtiiteky White Burley and Orbhoka Pennsylvania Leaf; t A nite Variety bf GrasSeS fbi- lawtls aHd feeding purposes, such a.' 01‘feN EAWft—SHAIJY LAWN—KY: BLUE GRASSE-SUDAN (JKASS —SVtiAR tAftfe for fodder—DWAßF iIAI*E—LITTLE DUTCH WHITE ( EOVEit; Speltz, Emmer, Millet; lycpede/a for grass. AV hen the time cotnes we will have a large assortHiehl of Early and Latte Cferilfited arid Grade Potatoes; NatiVte add Sdtiihern plants—Cabbage; Tomatoes. Sweet Potatoes; t’telehv ariti btepiiters, Union Sets; IVHIte; tfcllbw aHd Rted Tetas Bermuda. Small variety BUIbS and SHrliliS,. West Virginia Jti hi (jo All-Anicricari IPeanuts house broom 1 2 L___■ L ■ • ;••• *_ ... • - * , -—— Garden Tools / / CULT!VAtUrtS — tiUfeS — RAKES — SHOVELS; # / / li hardfed Bbste; it ridH fbbt Itehgthß; ff f I U - ! / / .4 Hbrc, Vigcrb; HiigabOH add Blritk Leaf “40:” m BUy >OuF steeds tearly arid bte vteady when ike time comeS. John's Seed Store 134 Mofitoe St. Phont!®

m-ii ■lb dhi ■■■ - _ ft KM ■ ■ 1 | | « Federal Income Tax * (individuals Subject to Withholding) ** There are three methods this year in rm . S' Income Tax Report. " lln ß your ■ peterniina vour lesser tea bfcfori you fit* i LLOYb A. COWENS a.!.*Hfeii'B' 1

February 26, 1945 Will be the 10th ANNIVERSARY Let’s really celebrate this occasion Id netfin^n, out friends and neighbors to cooperate withLj iilsdrfe I Heir cars arid trucks in their own eomp ai |j When policy holders tell their friends and neivhL about the wonderful coverage they can get in r own company we can further reduce (he cost n fT insurance td Indiana farmers. Clt The premiums for your car Insurance in fm., yeat-s will partially depetid on how manv of friends tan be eneburaged to cooperate with mi In unity there is strength. ' 1 A Cilsh Distbunt After 3 Years Geneva, Berne, Monroe and all small towns turn. 2,500 are eligible for this insurance. Farm Bureau Ins. Co. Leland A. RIPLEY; General Agent On March L a. meeting will be held at the Monroe High Sthifol al 7:.w p. m. explaining solicitation ol hospitalization.

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