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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every EJveilXX Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Poet Office as Second Claw Matter. J. H Heller President A. R. Halthouse, Sec'y. & Bns. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vlce-Prealdent Subaonlptlon Ratsa Single Copies * .04 One reek by carrier JW By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Welle o unties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, $4.60 per year; $2.50 for six months; $1.35 for three months; 60 cents for one mont'. Elsewhere: $5.60 per year; $3.00 for six months; $1.«5 for throe months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces $8.60 per year or SI.OO for ihree months. Adverting Rates Mads Known on Application. National Representative •CHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Dx. President Truman, bumble and modest, realizing the seriousness of his new position, asks your prayers. That’s a good start. —o It would be interesting to know what Hitler and his aides hope to gajn by their present resistance. German officers, captured, admit they don’t know. —o The very best way to aid President Truman is to buy bontfe and that’s what millions are doing this wpek and will continue to do until the war is over. —o The Japs say they will crush the foe for damaging sacr.ed properly but so far they haven’t displayed the force for any such retribution. They would like to alright but each day finds them growing weaker. —o It is the hope of millions that congress will show the world that the promises of support to the new president were not just exluessions of sentiment. The next few weeks will dieclose how genuine they were. g ...—O—OWtaron Von Papeu. a friend of Hitlers and at * one time Germany’s representative in this country has been captured. He remarked: “I wish this war was over.” and a Yankee soldier standing near replied, “So do eleven million others.” — .o—o Col. James Roosevelt flew ten thousand miles to attend his father's funeral but arrived an hour and a half late. He was in the * Philippines when he received the word and will return there in a week. o—o The Yanks will find Berlin a mere shamble of the great city it was a few years ago. The teriftic air bombings have shattered it from stem to stern. The sad part of it all is that so much could have been saved by admission of the Nazi that they were beaten several mouth® ago. —o Tne recent legislature provided a SIOO per year increase in teachers salaries and it was expected this would come out of the state treasury. Governor Gates has decided the boost must be taken care of locally and expresses the opinion that its best for each corporation or township to bare part of the burden. —o President Truman made his first bid for support of this and other For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopback on sale each evening 4c —

notions when Ito addressed a Joint session of congress yesterday. He is an earnest aud capable soldier, willing to give his best to bring about a better condition and in tills country a hundred aud thirty million people are hoping and believing he will succeed. v o—O President Truman starts his career as president of the United States, the most important job in the world, with an energy that diecloses his great desire to make good. He can only do so if given the sincere cooperation of the loaders of this country. Supported by them and by the public he will give an excellent account of his term in office. O—o Vienna has fallen. The 2,000-year-old city was believed impregnable but the Russians took it in, a fortnight after they got ready. It indicates the strength of the Allied forces and the weakening of the Nazi defenses, it is stated on good authority that the German losses, killed, badly wounded and captured now exceed ten million men. —o President Truman is sincere and honest and will do every thing he can to carry out the purposes and plan® for his predecessor. He has impressed the nation with his capabilities and his intense desire to serve them in the manner that will conclude the war as soon as possible and provide for the people of this nation, lie is speaking plainly to the people and they will support him. O—o Never in history was such respect paid to the memory of a man as that given Mr. Roosevelt. All over the world flags flew at half mast and in hundreds of places special services were held. In this country business was almost at a standstill excepting in the factories where work continued, as silentlipped men and women, carried on the work they knew their great leader would have them do. The sorrow at the passing of a great leader of the world was widespread and genuine. —o Governor Gates will name a committee to study the gross income tax to report their opinion on the need of the law. He calls attention to the fact that when this law went into effect the state needed funds badly and that now with a large surplus on hands, it may not be necessary. It is quite probable that the committee in due time will suggest a reduction in rates but we doubt that they will recommend its complete abolishment. It s a good cash producer. —o The war is not over even in Europe it seems. New divisions are being sent in to prevent the Allies from taking Berlin and apparently to fight, as the Japs did on Iwo Jima, until the last Nazi hue fallen. In the Pacific and on Okinawa, the Japanese are fighting furiously. It behooves us to continue our effort. We must produce

materiels aud foods, we must continue to do our best. Buy bouda, stick to our job. give blood, contribute clothing and as the boys are doing on the battle fronts, keep up the good fight uutil victory Is oure. —oThere was no fun-making over last week end, shows closed, uigut clubs and theaters were dark, the radio programs were without commercials and the time was devoted to tributes to our late president. K was respected not only in America but iu almost every land in the world. Never hue the head of any government received such tribute and the expressions came from many of every position in life, every creed, color and race, from far and near. He will continue to be the idol of millions of people. President Truman has picked up the torch aud will carry on and by

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the death of Mr. Roosevelt we will be drawn into a unity that cannot be broken. —o We are sure that every one has been impressed by the tributes to Franklin D. Roosevelt, unquestionably a leader of the world. He gave his life in his great effort to render lasting service and fell just when the first dim rays of victory lifted over the horizon. Few people realized how universally aud sincerely he was loved and admired. His name will be written in history and the work he planned will go on. The rallying cry in support of Harry S. Truman, now thirty-third president of the fine traditions started —to win the war and the peace. Mr. Roosevelt has been laid to rest in the rose garden of Hyde Park. His great purpose will live. —o In the death of John Everett, 91. the community loses one of her stalwart pioueers who for more than half a century was outstanding in business circles. For years he was a member of the Everett & Hite firm, operating a grocery which they later developed into a large wholesale concern. Even as ter retiring from that he continued in business and kept active until the last year or two.. He was interested iu several farms and kept in touch with their operation, he

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served as a bank director aud held! numerous investments. Always a gentleman, a home lover, interested in public affairs. Mr. Everett was one of Adams county’s excellent citizens. His passing has caused much sincere sorrow and we extend sympathies to the bereaved daughter and other relatives of this good man, Q ♦ — ♦ I Modern Etiquette i J 9y ROBERTA LEE | Q. 'Should the 'tissue paper that comes with engraved invitatioiiß be enclosed in the envelope when mailing the invitaitions? A. No; the tissue paper should be discarded. Q. Does it show good mailers to leave some food on one’s plate., when finished eating? A. No; its is not necessary. This old custom is Obsolete. Q. When a man is introducing his wife t'o a business acquaintance, what phase should he use? A. “Jane, this is Mr. Wilson. My wife, Mr. Wilson”. o Twenty Years Aqo I Today < April 20—Rev. U. S. A. Bridge is appointed superintendent o£ the Fort Wayne M. E. district. •Rev. -Sumner Light is appointed Methodist minister here and Rev. E. M. Foster is assigned to Monroe. D, C. Stephenson is being held in jail at Indianapolis without bail, 'Rev. O. P. Vitz died at Clay City.

George C. Steele. 44, former Decatur (Merchant, dies from pnemo-

nia. John Reynolds catches a 9-pound carp in the St. Mary’s. Yellow Jackets finish third in the district track meet at Fort Wayne. Q I Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ A Cement for Stoves 'A good cement for a cracked stove is made -as follows; Equal parts of wood ashes and salt made into a paste with cold water, and filled into the cracks when the stove is cooil Gold Chains To brighten gold chains, or similar articles, dip them in a solution of one part of ammonia to three parts of water. Putty To remove hard putty, pass a hot iron over it. This softens the putty, which can then 'be removed very easily. o Road To Berlin By United Press The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Eastern front: 31 miles (from Zaeckerick. Germans say 17 miles from northeast of Eberswalde). Western front: 45 miles (from Elbe river). Italian front: 516 miles (from near Comacchio). Tragic Month Keene, N. H. —(UP) — In one month, it'he Conway family lost son James, a paratrooper killed in action in France; his father Simon, killed in a railroad accident at Bellows Falls. Vt„ and life grandfather James, who died of natural causes at Walpole. t o— Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The ringing, the siren scream. She would hear it forever, cutting knifelike, and she thought if she could open her eyes, the pain would be over, but she knew she’d see the cold face of the young French doctor above her, so Daphne kept them closed. “Francis! Francis!” she cried, knowing that Francis was good, that she was there in the ambulance with her—. Francis, who had found her there alone in her agony when she came down to buy her morning rolls. Francis, who thought Paris was fun, saying, “Something happened here in the pension last night. We heard a terrible scream . . . Where is your husband, dear?” Daphne bit her lips to keep back the screams, to keep from telling her new friend and then, faraway, she heard someone screaming and woke suddenly as the surgeon shook her. “Wake up ma’am, you’re having a bad dream,” Mrs. Gates said. Daphne came out of her dream slcftvly and pushed her hair back from her forehead. Her hand came away moist, her body was still trembling. She drank the tea Mrs. Gates had brought and that helped a little. “Must have been the oysters you ate last night.” Oysters ? No, Daphne knew why she had had the old dream—horrid memory of her life in Paris—and she asked at once, “Have you heard from Dr. Fenwick?” “No ma’am, but your car is in the drive. I heard it come in about six this morning.” Daphne got up and dressed hurriedly. “You got a nutrition class at ten, Miss Daphne.” “I know; I’ll be there until noon. I don’t know when I’ll be back. Mrs. Romero was taken seriously ill last night. I’ll go around to see her after class. I hope I’ll not be too late.” But she was. ' Daphne had barely time to get to class, and no time to call Kate unt'il it was over. Kate said, “She died, Daphne ... No, I wasn’t there. I stayed until midnight. Minnie was there when I left. My Tommy has the measles and I was worried about his temperature . . . Minnie called me this morning, said she’d left the doctor with Mrs. Romero. He sent her home about four. The grocery boy told me Mrs. Romero died. He’d seen the undertaker’s wagon there.” “Where is the child?” “Minnie must have taken him home.” But Minnie hadn’t taken him home. “I was so worn out,” she said, “I just forgot all about hup. He was asleep on a couch and I was all in myself. Dr. Fenwick insisted that I . . .” “Oh, Minnie!” Daphne all but groaned into the telephone. “That baby must be somewhere. Who'd take him?”

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NEW YORK—The New York Critics Circle choice of “The Glass Menagerie” as the year’s best play is a good one. Despite its weaknesses, its tendency to become arty, wordy and contrived, it has an emotional integrity and an honesty no other play has achieved this year. If lew or tne critics were aware of the play's shortcomings, let it be said that all saw and cheered the good things in it, and there are many. Tennessee Williams tossed away his bid for greatness by employing devices which weakened his thesis. But he came closer to it than anyone else this season.

Mr. George Jean Nathan says that even after “The Glass Menagerie” had been established as a hit in Chicago, the Theatre Guild refused to have any part of it because it was “too dangerously delicate” for the Guild to handle. If memory serves, the Guild produced, before being struck by the lightning of “Oklahoma,” a series of the juiciest turkeys several poverty-stricken seasons served up to a bored and disgusted theatrical world. Mr. Nathan isn’t given to loose talk. If he draws the conclusion that Miss Theresa Helburn of the Guild made the statement on the theory that her subscription audiences are “crazy about things like ‘Foolish Notion’ ” he’s as near right as anyone writing about the American stage can be. How then can one take to task the independent producer for looking to the boxoffice first, then to the quality of his plays? A producer can’t stay in business unless he makes money. If the Guild refuses to take a chance on an obviously hit play because “it is too delicate,” why should a producer who hasn’t the resources or the audiences the Guild has, do so? You hear a lot about producers sighing for good plays. But what makes a play good? Is “Foolish Notion,” by the widest stretch of the imagination, in that category? Hardly. Or even “Dear Ruth,” which turns the stage into a movie screen? No. The plain truth is that unless a play is slanted at the boxoffice it has little chance of having a curtain lifted on it. What that does to the American theatre is obvious. We have seen, season after sea-

“I don’t know,” Minnie answered I in the tone of a woman pressed too I far, “My Hortense lias the measles. There’s an epidemic.” “I’ll do something about it,” cut in Daphne as she hung up the receiver. No one in the neighborhood where the dead woman had lived could give her any information. The undertaker said that when he went to the house after Dr. Fenwick called him, he had seen no child there. Daphne was conscious of feeling faint. Her heart was heavy indeed when she went up the steps of her house. And tripped over a tiny red fire-engine. She picked it up and the lump rose from her breast to her throat. For a moment she didn’t notice that it was Steve who opened the door. She held the toy out. “Where did this come from?” “He brought it with him, I guess.” “Here?” Daphne went into the living-room, looking for a small figure. “Mrs. Gates has put him to bed. Poor little chap!” “1... I didn’t find out until noon,” said Daphne. “I’ve been looking for him everywhere.” “I knew you would.” She gave him a surprised glance. “That’s why I brought him here. I haven’t much of a home for a youngster. Anyway he needs you. He knows his mother is deacj,” Daphne went to the mantle, fighting for self-control, telling herself there was not reason for her to get sloppily emotional. A sick woman’s suffering had come to an end. Thousands of people were dying daily. After a little while, she turned and said, “You were quite right to bring him here. I would have done it myself. I have a plan for him. The Andersons would be glad to give him a good home, to board him. .I’ll be glad to see to the financial ' end of it — and the funeral, of course. 1t... it won’t be anything.” “Not as much as you’ve been doing for months,” observed Steve. “I saw Mclntosh recently. Your anonymity has not been preserved, Daphne. But he knows, and Mrs. Dennison knows, how generous . you’ve been.” “That’s very nice of you, but i don’t squander credit where it isn’t i due. Giving that small sum weekly - was no sacrifice. I have enough ; money for that.”

“Enough money,” he mutmured thoughtfully. “Os course,” she said airily. “I live simply.” “And you have everything you want?” His tone was more casual than his searching glance. “What more could I want?” she parried. “I can’t tell you, but I can suggest an experiment. Forget about Mrs. Anderson. The boy will be waking up in a little while. Take his supper to him.” Her mind pictured the vast grief of a small boy. “Hl do that,” she agreed. “I'll tell him'a story. But, Steve, tomorrow I’ll send for Mrs. Anderson.

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theatrSism? Jh o jMlJ Plays out of fifty. SB news. sni tttaii|||B nn^ a / 1 ? layafter WW C l tt J b^aSthp aWeek ’Afil because the reason fornJS'l the play is not «,» wright has something to Jul that he wishes to immediacies of the w tries to present i&l va ue, hence it’s a P js| only one or two excepL?| has proved to be faffll The playwright can’t 3| stage into a newsred any more than he can a newspaper, a movie saJ l a substitute for your SI speaker. ’*■ Eddie Dowling, wholsrskl sible for the existence o %| Glass Menagerie," has woo ml praise for his courage uztl conviction that a play Z’J something more than aZI gags or a private newsreel are one or two other and directors who feel‘the ml way about their jobs. ButSl of the people responsible f« J production of plays lack JI his perceptiveness and h3| ity, his devotion to a lomtJ tistic honesty without which J have a stage that wrieJl “School for Brides" and “IfJ Gift.” Integrity in the theiil a gift, too. If you produceiw primarily to make mompj might be able to amuse or J est your audience while it the theatre provided you’re da enough, or perhaps" even m enough. But if you wantw audience to leave the theatres the one supreme gift the st> gives its audiences-the n# disturbing, grateful and hte able warmth that all fine | transmits, you've got to ttti the boxoffice as incidental I the play is good, if it has In esty instead of mere shorn ship, decent emotion insteadi mawkishness and sentiments and integrity instead of b artiness, if it is lived instei > devised, it is the kind of il the Guild ought to prodotel • probably won’t.

“No. Be with him every dayfaßl a little while — just you, Ma ■ else,” he urged. B Daphne had risen and beg* 1 * J walk the floor. Now she turnedUi ■ said, “Perhaps you think that, oW Bi I’ve felt his arms round ny Ml B won't let him go!” She was tt®B bling violently. ■ “No,” he said after a nwna B “Come and sit here beside wfc ‘ B want to talk to you—as your in®. B and as a doctor.” ■ ■ She sat down on the lounge tried to withdraw her eyes B searching glance as Steve WJB “What are you afraid of I WB something in your inner sen ■ hurts you. I know your «M»B lack of sympathy is nothing than a scab to protect a wouM»■ physician knows, and you .■ that a wound isn't nealed ™ »■ scab is gone. 1 want toheP J ■ “Yes,” Daphne admitted. ■ take the child into my hfe. 1- | don’t know anything about cbM" ■ . . about toys.” E “Many a boy and girl has ?’’’ | to fine maturity having C*| woman for a stepmother. ■ Daphne’s eyes filled ■ “You think I’d make a g I mother?” B “I know you will. giii Her eyes fastenedon aJ I wintry sunlight on the I she began to speak think things mat oth er [. I The legend is always th I Daphne Willoughby, ■ brained, selfish, I away and marrie A a j t r 'r lir I ist and led a gay life m E her husband died. I loughby who lived <or-jf I who had a brilliant career, ■ herited a fortune an fe]i I continue her useless, I “That’s a twisted versio •. I ...legend, and it’s not all I commented Steve. I “But that legends largely | declared Daphne. « used to write, and the th you Thanksgiving n biw i imagination and v . Fiction, Steve. ? j jjf e of I® led no gay, abando id all J ury, but I’ve that. I wanted— just „ “I have to-now, V P then went into> detail* “I wanted LTf b ° awa y u to be romantic. J beWU! e broke my fathe T ' that Of'J hoped to find UJE married a man 0 ht I g what I wanted, 1 t»> ou * lor in what I des / rV !f no concert^ 1 * shame! Carlo wa. n B ]l He was •• • 1 can ‘ liquor and drugs. ’ ’ f lty .. . cheating. I« f ■ , oU won® 1 didn’t leave him- uo J why?” . hand” The P re . ssU J®iy f a ns<er.