Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1946 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publisbed Every Evening Except Sunday By TUX DMC'ATVR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated entered al the Decatur, Ind, Post Office as Necond Clan* Matter. J. 11. Heller PrssMsnt A. R Holthouse, Sec y A Rua Mgr Dick D. Heller .. Vlca-Presldent •übacrlption Rats* By mail, In Adame and adjoin ing counties: One year, Mi month*. |3.25; 3 month*, II 75. By mall, beyond Adame and adjoining count lea: One year. 17, A month*. |371; 3 months, |3 By mall to servicemen, any place In the world: One year, |3 H: sia months, 11.71; three months, |l. Single copies, 4 cents. By carrier, 30 rente per week. The March Lion has only one more day to work up its fury. No accounting for taste our current idea of a lovely lime I* leading a good murder mystery. —o A M-inntlat say's the world was never created. Why, H's created every morning, as anybody can see for himself if he gets up in time —o A prison buys an electric built for ten to twenty cents, little realizing that 27 million dollars have been spent by one of the leading manufacturers in research and development of the product. O OThe I lilted States didn't even join the M-aguw <>f Nations, the fli-t organization aimed at world peace. If Russia balks a little, but stay hitched to I'NO. time will have favored the peace movement. —o Possibly when the canvas* a nioiig factory workers is complet•<J the Red Cross fund will go over the top. The soliciting har. been delayed this spring, so there still is a chance of meeting the It I.Soo quota, which today lucks about 12,S<*<* of that mark. —o— Some of the world's oldest lit eratiirc is encountering lhe new est nielkud of book milking During the war 3.000 of lhe rarest l«M>ks in lhe Peiping National Library were sent for -afekeeplng to lhe Lihisiy of Congress a Washington. Before they are returned, the most important parts arc to Immicrofilmed; so that if there should ever be another war. irreplaceable records will not hr lost More than 2.5011.000 pages of Chinese tests, ome of them over I.Otni year , old. will thus be made available. -0 "Truman Sticks His Neck Out i In Striped Tie” said a headline > on the front page of an American j

Symptoms of Rheumatic Fever

By Herman N. Sundesen, M O. RIIEI'MATIC fever mill remains line of the haff line problems lii medicine. Its cause In not known. ItH symptoms are often obscure and its diagnosis Ik accord Jngly not easy. Furthermore, effoc five treatment for this disorder Is lackins. Many believe that the condition Im due to a virus that is, an organism so small that It can pass through the openings of a porcelain filter. However, it also would appear that prior to an atta< k of rheumatic fever most patients suffer from a ihrout infection produced bf hemolytic streptococcus germs. Pain and Swelling In rheumatic fever there are pain and swelling of the joints, some fever, often damage to the heart, and anemia or lessening of the coloring In the blood. The usual treatment of an attack consists of complete rest in laid and the use of drugs known as salicylates. The sulfonamide drugs such as sulfathiazole and penicillin have Ireeti tried but with no noticeable Iteiiellts. Hrs. Itlchard Gutter and Murlll Ssucs ot 'Brooklyn treated ISO patients with rheumatic fever using different preparations such as sodium salicylate with vitamin C, a preparation known as the calcium double salt <rf benzoh acid and succinic acid beflayl ester with ascorbic add or ffttfffffta C. They found that the snlfonatnlde drags, penicillin and baking soda alone

newspaper the other day II was just a psrl of the good-natured familiarity with which the American press, more than any other In the world, tries to brighten and humanize the day's news. But to many of the foreign guesta now assembled in the national metropolis, on serious business affecting the whole world and the future of mankind, it may have been somewhat of a shtx k, both diplomatic and sartorial. —— (J- 111 Obviously there are going to be troubles with Russia at the big International powwow, and from time to the United Nations Security Council may appear to the world public as neither united nor secure. But allowances most Inmade on both sides, amt also for the onluokmg public. With a new modern world in the making, it would Im- surprising indeed If in the process there were, not fre quant outbursts in the inlernalion al scene, jolting and confusing the new pattein. The first meeting of the Congress of the I’nited Stater was not exactly a love- feast Nor the last But the states manage to get on with one another. Spring Navigation Freighters of the Great Lakes are getting a slow tail this spring Although the ice is breaking up earlier than tfnual, most of the big ships arc passing by their chance to open the navigation season about April first, as they have for years. Many of the ore boats arc not expected to head up lhe lakes until late In lhe month The Beet which marie phenomlti al record* for carrying iron ore. coal, limestone and grain dining the war is still at winter berth liecause this year there is no urgen'cy for lake transportation. They brought so much o-e down from the Superior country last year that the stock piles are still high The demand of steel mills dropped with the end of the war, and the recent strikes further held ba<k consumption, Grain came down so fast last season that the storage bins of the Middle West are nearly empty When the long ships begin to move, they will be far from idle, for the vessels which passed through the Detroit River at the rate of one every 19 minutes during the war have always been essential to the nation's industry. This year It will be good to know that their cargoes arc taw materials destined to be used for ma- | chinery, tools, automobiles, wash- . ing machines -the needs of peace i rather than the armaments of | the past live years.

had no demonstrable effect on the dixease. They noted that the pai tienfs receiving the salicylate with vitamin C were less logic or less HI than those receiving the salicylate with baking soda. Cases Compared On the other hand, when the cases receiving the succinate co* pound were compared with those receiving the salicylate It was found that the former compound lessened the duration of the symptoms such as fever and the number of days of hospitalization required. Signs of heart disturbance developed In 7 out of 19 treated with salicylates ami in only 1 out of 6 of those treated with the sue--1 eluate compound. Fortltermore. uelapse did* not Occur in any of those treated with the succinate while 7 of th- salicylate treated patients had relapses. The exact way in which this compound aids in overcoming the condition Is not as yet known. However, in view ot the good results. which have been obtained ' with If, It would appear worthy of further trial. Questions and Answers W. V. My tongue has a furi rowed edge and sometimes It feels . sore. Wliat could cause this? i Answer: The furrowing on the edge of che tongue may be due to a vitamin deficiency or some other disorder. An examination should be made try your physician In order to determine the cause.

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Red Cross Fund Previously rc|»orted 3*i.slidt3. Dewey Plumley, Sec H Union Twp. tAdditional) 31 Sylvan D llala-KRer. Sec. Hi Monroe 311. Elias Reincck, Sec. I French |2O General Electric Co 3575. Mr- N A Bixler. Zone lit Additional 35 . W S <’ S of Methodist church 130. Edward Him huff. Sec 3 Union 33. Roy Johnson, Sec. 3* 33 limit 924 Dau F<-i< liter. Sei 33 Kirkland 321. Arthur Blakey, Sec. s Union 316 Edgar Krucckebc-rg. Sec. 21 Inlon 335 Howard Bluhm. Sec. 21 French 17. Amos lliiser. Sec. 31 Blue Creek 113. otto Hoffman. Sec. 20 Wash. I*. Total 19.272.N3. 0 Modern Ettiquettc I | By ROBERTA LEE ' Q Dmw II show ill breeding Io “eat and run” after having luncheon with a friend’ A. This would ire permissible for i> business man or woman How over, when luncheon Is nerved in a home, it is proper to remain lor aiiout twenty minutes after finishing <J Would it b<- proper tn write in a letter, "in compliance to your request”? A. No; tlie correct form is, "In compliance with your request". Q Is it proper to invite the minister and III* wife to the wedding reception? A. Yes; it is the courteous thing to do. . 0 _ - • — Household Scrapbook •y ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Cleaning a Comb . A ronA can la- thoroughly and effectively cleaned try soaking it for about a half hour in cool water to whlrh two tableapoonfulA of ammonia have lm»-n added. After the dirt ha* become loosened, clean the teeth by means of a small lerush, and then rinse in clear water and dry.

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Rugs If a' loop appears in a rug. do not pull it out or it will leave a hole, ( so a pair of st-lsaor* and clip it evenly with the IVsl of the bap. A Pressing Cloth One can avoid that shiny look that Is often tin- result of home pressing If a woolen, or partly woolen, pressing cloth is used. ————o—- ♦- — 4 Twenty Years Ago * Today March 3<f A terrlfb- blizzard sweeps aer<v«M this section of country. <•Hieing gnat damages. flood Friday will be observed here. Business will cease from 12 Io three o'clock. James Hurst exhibits a pound and three oun-e lemon grown in the basement of bis home John Edwards, 79. Civil War veteran and well known painting contractor, dire at his home. la-nhart A Heller move their offices to lhe l.amtla building County roads and streets are being repaired. — - o SENATEACTION << wwtlaare rrem Pa** Owe) his intentions. Ami he denied that the action was without precedent, pointing out that many chief executives had done the »sme tiling. After lhe storm had lulled, the senate voted Twenty-one Demo cials, nine Republicans and one Progressive voted against the amendment. The 24 Democrats and Hl Republicans lined up against the president. Actually. Hie exact effect of the amendment was uncertain. Supporters maintained It would have n<> appreciable effect on food costs even though II would require a boost in parity pt Ices to reflect lhe cost of farm labor. The agriculture department said that the farm parity index was at ‘ the highest level in it quarter of a I rentury. It said the index on March i 15 stood at 215 percent of the 1910-1914 average and was 19 , points above the March. 1915, levriel. , Mid March crop prices, It added. I averaged nearly three times as . high as In August, 1939 -the last pre war month.

o -.1, ■ ■ - oj The People’s Voice This relmns for tha us« •» w readers who wish tn make ntgretloas for the gsnsrsl good or discuss questions of Intarest. Please sign your name to . show authenticity. It will not be used If you prefer that it not bo. 0 O Breeds Hatr March 27, 194'1 To Whom II May Concern: This is tin- letter I have wanted to write for quite some time, but didn't until now a* I thought your reporter's song of hate would hunt itself out eventually, but It seems I was wrong. Well, here is my Iwo cciilk worth and I think millions of right think ing people all over the world would add I heir cry to mine for a atop io all there hate breeding tartics your reporter seems so good at using Yes, I think thero are many people in our fair city who detect this typ»» of reporting as murh as I do I wonder if your reporter realizes that many of these uloriM of atrocities were just propaganda to spur the striking war workers and the d<> nothing people back home on to doing their part to win the war. Now I don’t want to leave the impression that w« were let down l*a< k home, but many people did need quite a lot of prodding Sure there were rases of torture and needless cases of killing in this war. hut I am here to state that the Japanese soldiers did not have the Whole field monopolized when it came to that sort of thing. I venture to say there are now many Japanese rotting mi Okinawa and Iwo Jima if all we Americans were as saintly as your reporter seems to lliink we arc. There has been in in li said about the Japanese suicide pilots who were causing usuch a heavy loss in both -hips ami men. Well, I know of many flights twhlch were the same as suicide) made by flic pilot < on our carriers and they arc hailed as heroes by all of it- and rightfully so In one veiwe of your reporter's song of hate lie was thinking ut all the young Americans who had paid with their lives for something they knew was just, fi-ihaps tinsuicide pilot who dove his plane through the cloud of anti-aircraft lire felt that ills was also a just cause. Those brave American soldiers, sailors and marines who made the supreme sacrifice, gave their lives that all hate should b-> banished from the earth and sometimes I wonder If these sacrifices were not made In vain Now to get back to the atrocities your reporter seems to think were an committed by the Japanese. I think the pc qde back home remember the headlines which wore made when our Third FH-et made the surprise visit into the China Sea alamf 4 year ago Well, I do. for our ship was there. The Japanese merchant vessels were • aught fiat-footed and a field day was held by our fliers aa they sank or damaged around sixty ships that Hine. Well, | know for a fact that the sea was littered with Japanese after that raid Yes, dead ones floating in their lifo jackets with American bullets In their guts. Os course that was all right, for the righteous American* were passing out tho liullets then. I have also talked to many former prisoners of the Japanese who were captured early in the war and most of them told me they were treated as well as most of the ( Jap guards. They got bread which . the guards didn't get for their < how Os course they bad no conn- , try butter or Jam to spread on It. , We picked up around 230 of these t prisoners at Naga Kaki and most of them looked like they had been

Sf€rTppled j < CHILDREN I ;L i, '■ 1 • Decatur people who have received toe Easter Heals are asked to send their donation, at least One Dollar, to the Indiana Society for Crippled Children, 621 Lein- , k>- Bldg , Indianapolis. Ind. eating a little. I know this wasn't a lied of roses but neither were the Japanese on the west coast enjoy ing a heaven on earth. Now to get to the part about Japanese being lovely |s-ople Mell I wouldn't -ay they are lovely, bill I do know that while on lllarty in Hiroshima we were treated bet ter titan we were at Pearl Harbor or San Francisco, so I 'liitik I | would Io- safe In saying that all ■ Amerlcane are not Io cly ph , either. In Japan we sere invited into Japanese homes, this never happened in Sun Francisco. Now don't think I am sympathe ti< of tin- Japanese. I .1111 proud to In- an American ami live in the grandret country on earth but I Intend to try to bring my kids up to love all pic. including the lap anese. Yours for less hate and more lov.e, Las:- Grimm. Former EM3c of the cruiser I'SS Biloxi. — o Some of the country’- most modern coal mines arc located nt Kemmerer. Wyo.. where almost • everything Is elec t 1 bally operated, and the coal I- not touched by human hands.

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RYNOPSIS n *ll b*«»* when Jaae Applrbee, lit* c •firj •(•■I, wm week-eadiac »» t paiat, the a*w eaaatry aatato *» bar 8 married »i»ter, Dit* Fearre. Tbelr elder ( •later, Neal Tarraat, tba faaioee ae- ( tree*, had receatly arrited treat ebreed, sad J*a* regretted heriag larlled her te ebar* her New lerb apartawat. Neal alwaga leak what eke wealed, aad la ‘ tbla iaataar* II we* Jaaa'a rlaee frlead J aad elieat, Deaaa Keaaard, rlelag gaaag aarelieL Jeaa la tellleg the Story. . 1 CHAPTER TWO "I know. 1 feel Jcrribly guilty t about it," Dita agtFcd penitently. “Perhaps she wouldn’t have done St t If I hadn't given her all that furniture. But, well, she wan wild 1 about it" She broke off with a « shrug and added after a pause, I “Row'd she get It all into her 1 room?" ' "You mean, how did I get It in," 1 corrected. “Neal hasn’t been near I f Tenth street since the work start- 1 ed. Hammering gives her a head- 1 ache, says she, and the smell of 1 paint turns her stomach." 1 "All right then—how did you get 1 It In?" I > “By much overlapping and I squeezing," 1 informed her. “The walls are all mirrored now, even behind the huge bed-divan that sits up in the rear comer, smothered in monster pillows of all the pastel shades not in the rainbow. The floor is ankle deep tn pink carpet and ermine pouffe, and the whole white- ! and - pink • and - roM - and • crysl tal and-chromium pipe dream looks i as immoral and abandoned as you please," I said, getting my annoyance oft my chest. "In other words: like Neal," Dita grinned. "Bet it’s lovely, though. I was crazy about those rooms myself. They were so sort of lush But —I needed them for the nursery and the modernistic stuff didn’t fit In with the Colonial antiques here anyway." “How did It ever get Into Elmpoint?" 1 wondered. Dita shrugged. "Oh, Dick thinks a spoiled daughter of the house wheedled the rooms out of her parents. And I say, the former owner was a big bad wolf and fixed up that sulle to lure all the lovelies of New York out here." "Don’t you know who the former owner is?" I asked, surprised by Dita's conjectures. She shook her head. "No. I only kmow Daddy Pearce stumbled on | Krnpoint, complete to the last dish towel, and bought it as a bargain." “Odd. To fix up such a perfect home and then walk out and leave it to strangers," 1 thought out loud. "The war, darling,” my young sister said philosophically. "Me, I’m too grateful foe the godsend to worry my head about IL Imagine If Daddy Pearce had decided his grandchild had to be born under his roof! Honestly, I don’t think I could have stood his loving kindness all day." She lay back and stretched herself luxuriously. "As it Is—well —he comes here for dinner every evening, to see 1 oat the right kind of food and am safely tucked away in my little bod at half past nine. And I can take that. After all, his wife loot two babies before she achieved Dick. So, no wonder the I old dear's worried and—" I . Jbe brake off with a happy gup,

I Lenten Medifatjw "THE (’l.osi:i> V ' How often would I have gathered th, even as s hen {pthereth her chuhen, and ye would not." Matthew 23; jy, The unwilling, rebellion* Spirit dosed lhe demr of mercy time, uh,..,,, *“”i best for man. He Opens till- ..,| V>| , < | 7 plain the way of life; so plain in., p,, w'.? err then-in ’■ The Invitation i.> lit. „, h | |y extended to all by the Lied |~r lu . ( h I will lc<- a Father unto you. ,h„i , d| |n ’ t. rs ’ is .1 1110*1 Kiac icius pi<ci:ii,, .. n „. "OmH the Hut men do not enter Hi.- w,, ~1 wjHHS with the sense of guilt illstc a-l .1 sesa tin- “eternal Lift ' whic h < , do not think of God as their Fath. h ,| (] ‘ h * However, nil these failure a )jw to be laid against him. not itgaiii-' '/L. text, are lhe words which cb ncci. t i. * reject ion of t'hriHl. Thai r< b< Ilion . ...t i„ , l( to give them. Refusal to accept Chiist * against the Indy maids ..t c..,i lh ,| ‘ personal Savior from all sin .11.■ ii>. -m any life against the only <>m ?li.n u .

TC V /I J6A*Vi 1 AJ Bv n c 1 I HUp W BRAUN * j rdhe^gftlif‘Man Approximately «very 5 minutes of tlie day or night, someone in America k* killed by an accident If it takes you 30 minutes to read your paper, somewhere 111 America during that time six people will h. ve Im-c-ii killed liy an ac c ident Think that over. As you read Hilo Safetygrani. lliink alaiut it and spend 5 min i iit<- in doing it Somewhere s >m>one has In-eii killed by an accld«ui. Who 9c next? ■ >4 l-— — ■ Tlie worM’s largest n agoing i I crane whic h can lift more- than 125 lons of dead weight from the loc ciin, open ales on anti-friction ' 4>earings.

a— —u—sao—ss—— 111 i “And there’s Dick, with your man- i of-thc-weck-cnd!'' Jumping up, she < streaked off toward her husband t and his guest In complete disregard of her supposedly delicate condi- < tion. 1 must confess I watched my ' sister's joyful reunion with Dick, i and her subsequent approach be- I tween the two tall, rugged-looking 1 “war Invalids" with keen interest 1 Even if 1 hadn't any designs— ’ matrimonial or otherwise—on my 1 fellow guest, I was curious to see I what kind of man my family thought right for me. I had every reason to feel flat- < tered, I decided. Contrary to what Dick had told i Dita, he was definitely the hand- 1 somcr of the two, with his laughing brown eyes, dimpled chin and wavy black hair. But the Berwick man was the more distinguished. Several years older—l Judged him to be 32 or 33 to Dick’s 27— broad-shouldered, sllm-hlpped and a good bit over six feet tall, ho carried himself with the erect ease and self-command the armed forces seem to impart His smooth dark hair was lightly powdered with gray at the temples, and the deep tan of his face, attractive in spite of a too short nose and too long upper lip adorned with a pencilthin moustache, gave his light blue eyes added sparkle and made his white teeth very decorative indeed. He was a New Englander from "way-down-east" I learned after the four of us had settled down with a flock of blghbalto-Dita’s being a highball in name only. He had knocked about the world so much he had lost the last vestige of his Yankee twang. Also, he was a graduate of Harvard with a whole string of letters to his name—which he didn’t use, and he was licensed to practice medicine on practically the whole Atlantic seaboard—which he hadn't done so far and had no Intention of doing. •T only studied medicine because my father had set his heart on it," he told us candidly. “But he died just after my graduation endwell—the only time I’ve practiced was In the war. That was all right, of course. I’d go back to a field hospital today if they'd let me. But in peace time—no, thank you! It really was lucky for me fate arranged for someone to die each time it was a case of practice and eat—or do what 1 wanted and starve." "WHAT someone to diet" I asked, mystified. “Some great uncle or aunt. Hunt’s teeth flashed in an apologetic smile. "It sounds more cold- ; Hooded than it is. You see, the next i older generation of my family was i wiped out by the first world war, ' accidents, epidemics and other acts i of God—and about ten years back i the oldsters began to pass away. I None under 80—" I “And you invariably were their I heir," Dick finished for his guest. I Hunt nodded. - “Right. I neves < 'hdred' much, but they were ail I good, thrifty Yankees and so, each r time. It meant a respite, a chance . to go on studying." i "A medical specialty?” Dita ins qulred. i And then wo aS gaped with surprise. For Hunt said that no, be , wasn't doing anything like It—bo

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1 llive! H -<■)>: . Ir-ntiflc irdpc!M| cal i tv* ex;'.tad Wort: v. i e-db-g-.-now i.i ■■ ■!. ivy in N- v York, let f. w r •' • r puzzling onlM <n)i.“b ar. Iwm work. S» much w, 1 would me !R S*'"? — I’.ut they needed phffdH badly to b t one grt He turned to Dick. 'llfl my chwce now, If I this biased malifli. ?=*!■ new to stiri. nt, yoc Jew® in the rxperimenUl a’AIW offered w.y?clf u » it work.i, tlvy may k. * my wish ns a “But isn't It If the tr< atment isn't Jit j ed?" I asked. And !»*■ sanw time, naivety: had malaria! I wounded, like Dick- ■ Hunt IJerwickfirprc**-® smile of amusement awe red txdh of W .... J “No more darii/row -•‘’JB lets -and I'm » fra '- worse than a wundt* The Dv.-I Os ourtroof»*H be entrusted to a keel over with a w- W J time " Tlteß he tables and t*R« ’» Instead of J Tim I’earce w<*** ed for war work, «g| What were they wasn't a secret ■ J ments for airplay Yes, he’d love to be » the plant. Tomorrow®then on and Dita out of >t But it, Mr. Pearce S* r ; * “T, the scene pre*. started making* | CU in his y**%*£i born gcneratio* most * n‘ l ; ar X el fortunately, the M |j to pick up the hl ß h‘ (nJannounced, as th* English dressbig I would be served In Late that ; Berwick and I and down 0,1 rwW , li i fore the dra*d' I the moon that w I strange oranga g Soun<t „ .ree hri I Old Mr. PearceJ before, ’ her room, «" d • good natured ly. • ■ concent about (W fd BotC, 'Xr • tant author, m 1 dav. a nd W n|d t • «‘ en ’ l y ve n t r d an in her if” J M WMt a 0 | B mb , » ’ jl i Dita ‘ YwhW * ’ fathcr-in- U« * c fully- . r o ”* Dick, ot Hunt of tfH b natural outcom* obvious ’ (To B*