Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published nbrery Hvealng Except Sunday Ry THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Offloa a* Second CJaM Matter. J. H. Heller Preildent A. R. Holthouae, Sec'y. & Bui. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vlce-Praildent Subscription Rates Single Copies - 2 .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adami, Allen, Jay and Wells c unties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, 24.50 per year; $2.50 for six months; 21.35 for three months; 50 cents for one mont'. Elsewhere: 25.50 per year; 23 00 for six months; 21.65 for three months; 80 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces 23.50 per year or 2100 for three months. Advertising Rates Made Known cn Application. National Representative •CHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL. It ie immaterial whether Hiller or Himmler i- in command of ine German armies. Ils iiiieoiiditonul surrender or destruction. ■ o-O liven those who did not agree with Mr. Roosevelt now proclaim him the greatest leader of his time. History will go proclaim him. O—O the man who devoted his matured life fighting for the "underdog." the forgotten man. What a great man he was will be realized more and |UOI\ US tilllC &OCS uii. O—Q According to Dr. Fabali). Germany killed live million Jews in one extermination camp at Oswitcon. There is no way to punish those who ordered or permitted uch acts. o—o Don’t gel the idea that now when the Wai in Europe must be nearly over, we can speed. Cars and tires are old and won't stand much punishment. Take care of them another year or so and you can get a new one and go places in a hurry. O—o If the German generals are smart hey will disregard the high sounding advice of Himmler and other Nazi leaders and surrender. They know they cannot win and that to fight on means only mure destruction and further loss of life fur each side. O—o Don’t get. the idea, that because the war nears the end that the Seventh War Loan is not necessary. More than ever before Uncle Sam needs the funds to conclude the conflicts and Io aid this country in gelling a new start, to prevent inflation and to otherwise serve u:. Buy all you can. O—o A coal strike seems to have been averted and it its hoped there will be no repetition of the 1913 expelience when the miners walked out four timers and the operators were just as militant. The public 13 sick and tired of the altercations and welcome the settlement wi ll the hope that it is permanent. O—o Millions of pamphlets have been distributed over Japan by our fliers warning the people of what is to come. They probably don’t do any good but there is always the chance that some aroused citizen will organize a revolt. Similar tactics in Germany did not produce any results so far as known but perhaps many people there do have the idea For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopback on sale each evening 4*

we are human and uoi as bad at pictured by their own propaganda O—o The Yanks hardly stopped to ge their breath when they reached tin , Elba river but swung across it in i few hours. That was probably t< be expected. When the Rhine, will ;'U Its fortifications, failed to hoh ’ the Allied forces, most any othei ; truant is play for the now exper ieuced engineers and other experts at bridge building. O—o The slogan ot the National Cloth ing Collection Committee is: "Whai can you spare that they can wear. The need for clothing, bedding ami shoes its urgent. There is a great need for children's clothing. Mil I lions of people in the overrun countries of Europe are destitute and will suffer greatly unless we help them. Its our duty to do every thing we can for this campaign. O—o This was a sad day in America. The last rites are being paid Io a beloved leader, who as president and commander-in-chief, has performed the greatest feats in government. He has taught the world that a democracy can do things that cannot be performed by nations otherwise governed. He has laid the foundation for a happier world and has charted a course that should be closely followed for the good of generations yet unborn O—<J We regret that several boys and young men in this locality who thought they could profit by engaging in crime have met up with severe punishment but society can not and will not tolerate burglaries, hold-ups and other acts ot that kind. Youths who so violate the laws will find justice stern during the days to come and the punishment meeted out should tend to help those found guilty and those who contemplate any indulgence in crime. It doesn't pay. O—O Tiie War Production Board has made available enough gabardine for the production of al leatsl 000.000 pair of iion-ratioued civilitn shoes this year. Most of the footwear will be for men. growing girls, and children. About 19.000,000 pair of the nation-free gabardine shoes will be on the market by July and August, according to WI'B. From July to December, as many as 13,500.000 pair will be available monthly. WPB is releasing 10,000,boo yards of gabardine for this program. It estimates that another 75,000,000 pair of non rationed shoes also will be produced this year, largely from heavy cotton duck. O—O Six years before. Pearl Harbor Baron Kanlaro Suzuki, one of Japan’s elder statesmen, had wnat might be called a private and painful preview of that event. Some members of the Tojo-Koiso military clique walked in on him without warning and shot and very nearly killed him. Now the aged Suzuki has replaced Koiso as top dog in the Japanese government. It may uot mean that the Japs are any doser to giving up. Bui it might indicate that the enthusiasm in high places for Jap militarism is going to be of a slightly more temperate nature— Huntington HeraldPress. O—O President Truman: During these days of sorrow over the death of Mr. Roosevelt, it is fit and proper that we look to ilia successor, Harry S. Truman who assumed office at 6:09. central time. Thursday evening, less than three hours after the passing of the President. Mr. Truman is a typical American, a native of Missouri - , where he was born and reared on a farm, engaged in business, was elected a county judge only a decade ago and became a member of the United States senate by appointment. He was reelected and haa an excellent

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record. He became vice-president I last January 20th and was popular I among the officials of the capitol.! He is sixty years old. The new president should not be | underestimated. He is modest, -e-j tiring, a hard worker, who thinks well and completes his tasks. He realizes the importance of the duties he has now assumed and has declared his deeire and intention I to carry out the plans charted by! his famous predecessor, to tile best of his ability. If supported by tlm people of this country and aided by the high officials, he will steer ’he ship of state through to the port of happier times. These are difficult days and no one man can long stand the strain of chief executive of this nation, with all its vexing problems, unless given encouragement and aid. We have faith in this man of excellent judgment and I believe the nation is safe in his hands. His tea great task and the fate of the world depends largely on his ability and effort. Harry Truman will make good. 0 — ♦ ♦ I Modern Etiquette | 3y ROBERTA LEE | Q, What type of young man would you call the one who. upon every date with a girl, uses her cigarettes instead of having some of this own? A. The most forceful name for him would be the slang expression, "tightwad". Q For an out-of-doors wedding, what would be the most appropriate kind of dress for a bride to wear? A. The material should be of organdy. chiffon, or some light fluf- , fly material. Q. Is it necessary to send an acknowledgement when one receives P. P. C. card? A. No. o— I Household Scrapbook I I Sy ROBERTA LEE | Umbrella Stand If a towel bar is screwed against 1 the kitchen wall, or on the back i porch, with a shallow pan beneath, it makes an excellent umbrella ' stand. When Canning ■When canning if one will paint the ends of the first finger and thuni'b with collodion and let it dry there will be no stained fingers. Corks i ; . ■To keep corks from sticking to the necks of bottles, apply a little glycerine to the surface of the corks. Q — The 2,609-acre Poiute Moulee shooting chib property on Lake Erie has been used by club members .since 1879, making the club one of ‘the oldest in the nation.

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Twenty Years Aqc Today » * April 14—'Madge Oberholzer, 28. dies at Indianapolis and D. C. Stephenson ie aeeueed of causing her death. The Burkhead oil well is producing ten barrels a day. Elwood Haynes. 68 father of the automobile industry, dies a Kokomo. The city council approves recommendation by Decatur Industrial Association and will add fwo policemen. ißay Harris is awarded contract for improvement of the Decatur to i

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NEW YORK—I 944-45 theatrical season, nearing its hectic end, has run true to Broadway form. Not long before the shew houses shutter for the Summer it has produced its best play, “The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams, and without a doubt the best acting, with Miss Laurette Taylor playing the noble, ambii tious, querulous and tragic wreck of what once was a Southern ■ belle. 'The play tells the slim story of a mother, her son, and her crippled daughter in the most moving and simplest terms, interspersed with some of the artiest , artifice and some of the least : welcome music we’ve heard in many a month. Had Mr. Williams chosen to tell his story without recourse to devices which he i couldn’t quite control, the play would doubtless have been one of the great products of the American stage. As it is, he misses greatness by overreaching himself, confuses the mood of the play which lies so well in his i hand, and dulls the sharpness of ■ his characters. The home of this little family is in an alley’ in St. Louis, its pathetic little porch facing the rear jof a dance hall. The time is 1931. Mother and daughter live on the money earned by the discontented, wanderlust • tortured brother, who works in a shoe warehouse. One of the important pieces of furniture in the shabby little home is the grinning picture of the father, a telephone lineman, who married the rural belle, then, after the children were born, “fell in love with long distance” and left without saying good-bye. His lone communication was one postcard from Mexico, on which he had written “hello—good-bye.” The mother’s mind goes constantly back to her youth and to the inordinate number of gentleman callers that crowded her father’s house to the extent that chairs had to be borrowed for them. The girl, pathologically shy, has withdrawn herself completely from the World, living in a private world she creates with little animals of glass, her glass menagerie. The unhappy brother, constantly the butt of his mother’s bitter nagging, tries to write his longings into poetry. He yields to his importunate mother and invites one of the men from the warehouse , home-for dinner. This gentleman

Allen county line by state highway eommieeiou for $149,764. President Lincoln was shot by Wilkes Booth tit) years ago today. 0 — ♦ ♦ j COUNTY AGENT’S ) | COLUMN | ♦ ♦ Rural Youtf The rural youth of Adams county enjoyed a “Puddle Huddle Party ” at the Lincoln school in Decatur Thursday evening. The members and guests got <o the meeting room through a game arranged after the manner of Sir Water Raleigh. Another of the pet I acquainted games was in the form

caller turns out to be the crippled girl’s high school idol. The young man calls and stays through as much of a trying and uncomfortable evening as any man can be expected to endure. In a surge of sympathy for the girl he tries to dance with her, and in dancing, the horn of a glass unicorn is broken off. It would probably be safe to leave the significance of this bit of symbolism to Freud. But in time he leaves, and the girl retroats deeper into her glass world, the mother into her bitter despair of the present, and the brother runs away to the merchant marine. Eddie Dowling as the brother gave a characteristically sensitive performance. Mr. Williams kept him busy ducking from the set to the side of the stage, from the adventure-hungry boy to the somewhat -pitifully cynical and flashily urbane commentator, a completely disturbing process in which he brings the curtain down with the statement that “Here my memory ends, and your imagination begins.” But Mr. Williams gives little for the imagination to work on. What can happen? The support of the family gone, the mother and daughterbecome subjects of a degrading and stultifying charity. Miss Taylor draws a -truly magnificent picture of the mother, but she has long ago fixed her place as the stage’s greatest character actress. Miss Julie Haydon is ethereal and somewhat unreal as the daughter, and Mr. Anthony Ross does a fine and touching job as the gentleman caller. The Playhouse, which this season has offered nothing of consequence, has finally got a permanent tenant in “The Glass Menagerie.” There isn’t much we can tell you at this late date about “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” exI cept that Miss Katharine Cornell, ■ who for 3o many years has been merely a great lady of the the- : atre, can also be a great actress. ! Mr. Bryan Aheme is a somewhat • rambunctious Robert Browning, and Mr. McKay Morris an incred- • ibly shortsighted father, but the , blame for this must rest on the • author of the play rather than , on the actors. It’s good to see ' Miss Cornell back in something ! she enjoys doing, so if you come • to New York there are two shows i you should by all means see. ■ “The Glass Menagerie” without ’ fail, and if’ you haven't seen it ■ | before, “The Barretts of Wimpole U Street’ . - /

of an umbrella huddle. Bill Arnold, vice president, conducted the business session. Three recommendations of the executive I committee were discussed and passed by the group. These actions in eluded setting the meeting date lor the second Thursday of each month, limiting membership to junior 4-H club leaders and those Hi years old and over, and fixing the dues at 25 cents per member s per meeting. The executive committee and the officers presented a pantiel discuss-1 ion on the various activities of oth-1 er rural youth clubs. The meeting was concluded with recreation and refreshments. The next meeting will be a skating] party on May 10, at Sunset park. Jeanette Fuhrman, who contrib-] uted 77 buckles, was awarded the: prize for bringing the most buckles I for Wakeman hospital. The prize

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 1 The dining room was directly be- 1 low the meditative tapping of her toe. Daphne could see it in her mind’s eye: The big cherry wood table covered with her spidery Milanese lace cloth. The center piece of red camellias and white carnations. The white tapers in silver candelabra. Her exquisite Orrefors crystal gleaming in the light, the stacks of Royal Worcester plates, her grandmother’s thin silver. All day long the aroma of cooking foods had mingled with the sharper smells of pine and spruce, and burning logs, making an enticing thing with which to fill a house. There would be a pale pink ham in a fruit glaze, and smoked turkey, and delectable things bubbling in the chafing dishes, fresh lobster in white wine, and creamed oysters. Tiny potatoes were in cream and dusted with chives, and there was cucumber and pineapple in a shimmering emerald green jelly, and pots of cheese-in-wine, and silver shells filled with buttered nuts and bonbons. Later there would be tiny cakes crusted with crystallized rose and violet petals, and pistachio icecream in raspberry ice, and tiny cups of hot, black coffee. It was all “really very simple,” as she had told Steve. As unpretentious as though she were expecting the Secretary of State and all the South American ambassadors to drop in for dinner. Downstairs there was slight pandemonium; the younger Chocolate Drop let out a practice scale on his concertina, the clock struck halfpast five, the telephone and doorbell rang simultaneously. Daphne managed to answer the telephone and get to the door before the maid and opened it to let in Steve who, she said gaily, was “just the right person to arrive first.” Egg-nog called for expert making. Could he oblige? She le'd the way to her study, chatting about people who were coming; and when he remarked, “Thought you planned this long ago,” she said no, blandly; that she had decided only when she heard ■ Alan Pembroke was able to come, i And that was how she found herself doing the one thing she hoped j she wouldn’t do, deliberately setting out to make him conscious of Alan’s interest in her. Steve checked eggs, cream, milk, sugar and brandy and said he’d get right to work. “Not until you have an apron. You look handsome today, Dr. Fenwick.” (Extra handsome, she thought, in his dark blue suit and maroon tie.) “I’ll only be a minute.” He was standing on the door sill, spoon in hand, when she came back. “Put your head down, Steve. I’ll have to slip this over your head.” But Steve did not bend his head. His eyes were fixed above him. Daphne looked up and observed, “Aren’t those little white berries pretty? I found them in the lower

was two ducklings. I Merry Maids The Monmouth Merry Maids 1-H chib held its reorganization meeting April 10, in the home economies department of the Monmouth | school. The meeting was opened I with singing, after which the business meeting was held. Members were given their project record books and bulletins by Anna K. Williams, county club leader. The ■ following officers were elected: I president, Dorothy Crosly; vice president. Carol Kirsch: secretary. | Waneta Rauch; treasurer, Joun i Fuelling: .song leader. Mardelhi Schueler; news reporter. Arlene Fuelling: health leader. Phyllis ' Gerke and Thelma Daniels and game leaders. Gwendolyn Rice and . Mae Belle Sheets. i The meeting was closed with the i 1 il pledge after which Thelma an I ] ~— ■ ma———» m

field.” She knew her eyes were dancing and she knew that, if he i looked into them, he’d see that she knew the little white berries were mistletoe. But the admiration in his eyes was for the millwork of the old door frame, the handsome carving of another day. “You don’t find things like that in new houses,” he declared. “Like mistletoe,” she said, “I thought it was an ageless custom." “Mistletoe?” Steve cocked an eyebrow at it, then dropped his glance to hers. “So you knew it was there.” Was he laughing at her? Daphne felt guilty, and knew he knew it. So she confessed: “Yes.” He looked up again, stared about the ceiling for some time, and said nothing. . . . Suddenly the doorbell rang furiously. Three or four people arrived, and ' then three or four more, and soon i Daphne was too busy introducing people, seeing that wraps were put away, etc., to let herself explode over Steve’s stoical indifference to the mistletoe tradition. Anyway, Daphne decided, about ten minutes later, that she would | not allow herself to be angry with ■ Dr. Fenwick. It wasn’t his fault i that he didn’t feel that way abouti mistletoe. She’d go on working I with him, continuing to offer him ; the friendship of which he was so | rightly suspicious, and from this I moment on she’d try to forget her tender feelings. But right now, she felt it would be easier if he were not in the same room with her. That wish was a pale replica of itself when Alan—nothing less than breath-taking in his uniform arrived at half-past six and, unmindful of all the others, took her in his ■ arms, gave her a squeeze, a big-g-g kiss, broadcasting “Darling!” in a detonating tone. Daphne had hoped for a little mild ardor, but when she released herself and saw Steve’s eyes on her, she was truly appalled. “You must be starved!” she exclaimed, pulling Alan into the dining room. “Starved for a sight of you!” he boomed, loud enough to be heard throughout the county. Daphne’s face was flaming, but she was cool enough about seeing that everyone was served. Corinne had annexed Steve and it wasn’t until Alan led the way that Daphne saw they were about to make a foursome in the corner of the stairs. “I’ve been hearing much about Washington of late,” Steve remarked to Corinne. “Yes, my dear. I’ve just come back from there. People seem to have pots of money in Washington these days. And that’s where you [ come in, Daphne,” Corinne chat-1 tered. “I?” Daphne queried. “Yes. I’ve just been telling Dr. Fenwick that, if I open a shop j there. I want you to take over for me. I told him I thought you’d be i tired of your own home-making ex | perimentby now. Didn’t I, Doctor?”

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