Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1947 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every tvMing Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatnr. Ind . Post Office as Second Class Matter. 1. H. Heller President A R. Holthouse. Sec'y 4 Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller ... Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoin Ing Countlee: One year. 58. six months, 13 25, 3 months, 91.75. By Mall, beyond Adams and Ad joining counties: One year. 37; 0 months. 53 .75; 3 months. 52.00 Single copies, 4 cents. By carrier. Id cents per week

Welcome Miss Spring’ ■O" —o Are you properly registered ao you can vote in the May primary? Q--—O Clean Up Paint Up-Sweep-Up . . let s put everything on the Up this spring -—o — o— — Senator Vanduuberg insists that he won't "connive" at schemer to win the presidency, but there are plenty of other connivent hanging around. - ..O' — State police surveys show that only 10 percent of drivers involved in Indiana's 389 fatal highway accidents last year were women, which should put an end to the oft repeated gibe at the woman driver. —r»——o— — Now that spring Is here, dirt and winter’s accumulation of rubbish must go. The city is planning a drive for the last week of April or, the first of May. and every cltixen is asked to "enlist in the war' against splotches on the face of Decatur. Let's clean up. o- o Work has started in Indianapolis on a 51.800. WOO street repair pro grain, proof that damage during the winter months has been severe. Every city and county high- 1 way department will have a job' resurfacing their streets and road .i

Maurice Early in his column in the Indianapolis Star, remarks that Hoosiers will have to pay an increase for their automobile Insurance. because of the heavy accident rate. One reason for the higlv r rates, the columnist states is the cost of repairs and the higher value placed on cars. Remember Alexander Kerensky? He headed the Russian government before Lenin and the Bolshevists took over. That was 3’l years ago Since then he has been living mostly abroad, though now he ip in New York City. I> s pite his long absence from R'tsaia. be has just given an interview predicting that the Soviet regime will tall within five years. For the second time in a few months. John L. Lewis has found that he is not bigger than the government He has told his miners to remain on the job after March 31 and evidently is going

Penicillin Helpful In Treating Eyes

■y Merman N. Svndesen. M. D. MANY of the germs which cause external eye infection* <*n be stopped by the use of penicillin Thia la fortunate indeed iMaause It gives u« a quick and sure weapon ‘ against many disorders of this important organ The most common external rye infactio a in children are i>l< haritin which is an inflammation of the edge of the eyelids, conjunctivitis or inflammation of the Mata* membrane ov-r the eyeball and infections of th* >ar sac. ft has been shown that the germs most often responsible are staphylococci. pneumococci. and the Moraa-Aaenield bacillus. In most cases staphyiocm < i ire the chief offenders. Treated With Penicillin According to Dr. Joseph Minton of England. these various <<mdl tioas can be auciweefuHy treated with peniciilta drops or ointment ffa has foddi «’•’ M*!»hariti« clears up quickly with peaiciiim oi Sin. ent Howevet. there is a tendency for it to recur when

to try to be a "good boy" as long as the Supreme Court holds that three million dollar fine over his bead. o— —o Young Herman Talmadge has been ousted as governor of Georgia and the state's supreme court has ruled that the lieutenant governor shall take over The matter pro baldy won t lie finally settled until the 1918 election rolls around. Tai-! madge >aylng that he will carry his cause to the people. He might be surprised the good he could do by removing himselL from the scene and thus permit normal functions of government to go ahead.

o—o The employment of additional nurse will make It possible to open all floors at the Adams County Memorial hospital, a fact appreciated by the community. Hospitals throughout the country have been handicaped because of ■ the lack of nurses and the extra ordinary number of patients seeki ing hospital services. Our county hospital suffered with the other institution.-, and it goes without saying that the people would not do without it. In fact it appears that the hospital should be en larged and a nurses home con | strut ted. thus increasing the efficiency and services of the place. o— — o— Idaho is placing a oust of Sena tor William E. Borah In Statuary Hall at Washington. Il is a better ' selection than many there, who have been complete unknowns. ! Borah was often wrung in bis senatorial service from 190* to i 1940. He Hecmed to have a com plex about European nations, think ing them a gang of sharpers intent on fleecing Uncle Sam and opposed the league of Nations. In 1939 he solemnly told the Senate , that his sources of information about Europe were better than the State Department's, and that

there would be no War. When it did start, he was sure that it\was phony. o — u —— To finance a proposed .eddier - ' ' bonus, an Ohio legislator proposed that the state Issue drinkers'! licenses at 8 dollar apiece As the i ISto census showed more than tt.9UO.OOV people in the slate, this, would bring In a good yield, even if children and lion-drinkers were eliminated. Besides the financial, argument, another suggestion Is I that the new provision would i facilitate enforcement of the law forbidding the sale of lohior Io minors. If the plan were to be I adopted, two predictions may be ventured, one Is that attempts* will Im.- made to deny licenses to alcoholic s and c riminals The other > is that if on« e the scheme' should • get on the statute books, the fee would Im raise d Any state with j a sure-fire way of raising money is going to charge ail the traffic will bear.

preventive twice a week for sevoral weeks. * He has also tonnd that conjun< - tivitiex in infants and children dears up within n few days‘when treated with penicillin. He sue Rests that the parent Im given a solution of fmnlcillln In a bottle with a fitti-d dropper The ixnicil lin drops are put into the dye tour times a day. * In tear sac infections penicillin I drops also were used- In mo*' < ases this cleared np th* eye in , flammatton and the discharge from the tear sac within a week's treat j went. In many cases the eye con tinned to waler even after the penicillin treatment If thia continued for three weeks it was m-«-cssary to pass a tiny lust rumen' known as a probe into the tear ««' i This, as a wale, resulted in a car* of the condition. The same sort of treatment was successful for blepharitis and cun , jnnetivitta in adult. It was doted i In some vases that redness and | »welling of the skin of the iris oc-| < urrwd In some of the paiiente who | NMri the penk-ilim eye drops andj

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Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE q - O Q. Should a girl u • a buff' r nail or orange slick in public? A Never; a well-bred girl will not do this. The only make-up rout ine permitted in public is the uu obstru.-lve use of the powder puff or lipstick. Q Ar* till gm-.- H at a • ard party expected to aruve promptly? A Y* . it IS very ln< imridc ate of a , l.iye io li" late, a it pre vent:* tin- game from beginning Q. Should flowers for a funeral lie sent to th" house or to the chu <h? A. Either Is <orr<’ t — o 0 O Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE 0 Slippery Tab's If the white enameled kitchen

tabic- is too siippe y to attac h the| meat urln-ier, pl ice a small wad of paper itelween the grinder and' tin- talite, tightening th • sc a ws on i the paper Instead of the table Jt I will tie -secure anti safe. Fresh Bread l> i not put I’re-n bread into th<box ontainittg stale bread, Thej nice t eslt taste of the bread will I disappear In a short time Keep; the Ihix cleaned out. and there will I be no difficulties of this kind Black Silk To lean and lr< hen black silk.; sponge it well with cold and strong I black tea Then i. tit carefully on the wrong «dde. -o Manh 21 Southern Indiana Is suffering from serious river floods. The St Mary’s and Wabash are out of banks in this county. A dad and lad banquet will be held at the .Methoci st church pallor tomorrow evening More than Moe V. S. Marines land in Shanghai. China, to protect American interests in the Chinese c ivil war. ••Baddy ' Browning is granted a divorce from Tea hen*" The Commodore-.: lose- to Philadelphia 2d to 21. in lite national < atholic tournament. Joliet wine the championship Rev. Ro: oe Wilson t-f Columbia [city will sing at the I'nded Brethren revival tonight.

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son. s'». Central Soya Co. 5335.30 centra! Boy* Co. Employees. 5335.20. Itecaiur Lion Club. 515. Mrs. N. A Bixler. Zone No 10 Decaturt partial!. 585. Total 53,472.39. u — Some of the more than 2,otui dis-! ferc-nt raw materials used in man ufactiire of heating controls Include spaghetti, lophtt. beeswax, blonde human hair and ether

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN t FOR THE next two weeks Cliff ] threw himseU into his work, driv- 1 mg himself and his men with a ' dogged tirelessness that made even 1 Casey wonder. The loss of their supply foreman was a severe blow, and in spite of their best efforts they were falling behind. Already they should -ave twice as many rubber gatherers trained for their task, but some of the camps had not even been completed, and heavy rains had washed out two of their truck bridges. Cliff began ' to dread the sight of a calendar, for the day was fast approaching ■ when the first delivery of rubber 1 was called for under his contract. 1 Meanwhile, in camp, Cliff’s men grew restive over the surveillance of the solitary rider. Almost every ' day someone brought news of him. He never came closer than the op- ■ poaite bank of the river, always 1 sitting his horse perfectly immobile, face turned toward the camp, half hidden hy the fringe of jungle. Several of the more adventurous wanted to lie In wait and bring him into camp for questioning, but Cliff vetoed the plan. Once he thought of going up the river to the little garrison of soldiers and telling them about this mysterious visitor, but quickly dismissed the idea—soldiers would probably be more nuisance than benefit. Then one dawn Cliff saw the man himself—a sliadowy mounted figure cloaked in a poncho, gone before Cliff could get a clear view of him. Giving orders to have hta horse saddled. Cliff hurried to Wade's shack. “I want to ."nd out -vhat that fellow is up to,** he told his new supply foreman. “He’s been watching us for over a month, and it's getting the boys jittery. I'm certain it’s not Vicente—he isn't big enough—but he may i<c one of Vicente's men, and I want to find out what it’s all about If I hunt him alone, there may be trouble, but you know Vicente and he trusts you. I wish you’d come with me '• Wade looked unhappy. “I was hopin' you wouldn'* :n*k me. Mr. Bogard. I jyst can't afford to mix with either side. If I do, I ain’t ever goin’ to feel safe when I'm out huntin'. 1 wish you wouldn't ask me." CliS saw the justice of the hunter's words "Would you mind if Lilli went along with me?" be asked. Doubtfully Wade answered. “1 don't gU'-as so." Ten minutes later they were off. Cliff on his sorrel. Lilli riding Wade's trail-wise mare, almost as old as she. The girt was obviously delighted to be with Cliff again, and excited with the prospect of pursuit. Fording the river below the rapids, they picked up the rider’s tr icks, fresh and wet in the dewy earth—leading straight for the Blacklands. Twice Lilli, with the sense of direction that jungle life had given her. took short-cuU over paths so dim Cliff hardly saw them, and each time returned to the tracks of their quarry.

Divorce Case Is In i Progress In Cour! $2,000 Allowed In Claim On Estate Late today the divorce case of Ann* against Burt Bailer was still In process before Judge J Fred Fruchte In Adams circuit court. The case was started early thia morning. DeVoaa * Smith represented: the plaintiff, while H. R McCletiahan appeared for the defendant. The case was mirked as being a bit unusual. when the court aevoral time- admonished the plain , tiff to slow down her te-.tiir* >r v, ami confine herself Io the qll*tions of counsel. * The divorce case of latmf against Fred V. Foster was dis missed nd the costs paid. Judge Frucht*- awarded Belle Andrews the sum of 52,000. which th* asked in her claim against the e-tite of the late George A. Barnett. She asked that sum as > owing her for care *nd services performed for the decedent. Several other entries wen- made • by the court hi estate cases. _ (f - Reserve Officers Convention Set Lt Col Browning Gent, chairman of the Indiana department reserve| offi.vrs convention co’limiltee. to idly announced April 19-20 as the I nes of the 1947 state convention iat Itidi.itiapolis Lt. Col. Gent also revealed that , Maj Get! M 8. Eddy, deputy : out mtinder. headquarters second mmy. will Ins the principal speaker at the <otiv>niion banquet.

another mile Cliff reined in his horse—it was his turn to be baffled, for stretching endlessly before him lay a trackless waste of yellow, stagnant water, dotted with stunted trees whose roots twisted and looped above the surface, as if to breathe. About him rose the heavy odor of rotting vegetation, and the thin drone of innumerable Insects quavered on the hot. moist air. There was something menacing and mallg- about the place, something that warned of evil and unseen danger, but the thing that struck Cliff as most strangely ominous of all was the fact that the rider's trail had gone directly Into the swamp—and not come out again! Had he waded along the dge to conceal his tracks? For a hundred yards to right and left Cliff searched the benk, but found no sign of hoofprints. Everything pointed to the Incredible fact that the man had ridden Into the swamp itself. Cliff sat in thwarted silence, then he turned. "Is this the place you called Big Swamp?" “Yes. It's miles wide."

He raised his reins. "You stay where you are. I'm going out there." In frantic protest LHII cried, •'lt's ail quicksand! I’obody can go there.” "This fellow did.** Cliff forced his unwilling horse down over the bunk, and for a few feet the animal splashed through water barely reaching its hocks, then without warning they were struggling in blacl, bottomless ooze. Lilli screamed, and the horse, terrorstricken. turned and plunged up the bank, where It stood shivering with fear. Cliff flicked three leathery leeches from its shoulder. “I don't get it," he muttered. That rider went out there and he certainly didn't come back.* Once more he -ode along *hc bank, then sat looking aver the expanse of stagnant water. With a jerk he straightened in his saddle. That’s queer!" He pointed to a tree close beside the bank. 'That's a red mangrove. And there's another one beyond—a line of them leading into the •swamp, and those mangroves only grow tn shallow water." His eyes were glowing—perhaps the thing was beginning to make sense. “Has this swamp always been here?" he asked. “No. They made it when they draineu the Blacklamia " Then why couldn't those mangroves mark an old trail that's under water now? I'm going to try it Again." "If you go—" Ul"'a voice was tremulous —''l'm coming loo.” “Don't keep 100 close to me, then.” This time it took all Cliff's horsemanship to force his sweating animal down over the edge ar. 1 into the swamp. Nervously sniffing every foot, the horse began wading through the green slime. Cliff guiding him along the line of mangroves. Twice the animal blundered from what must have been a submerged and narrow trad, but both Umt3 recovering. | Hoods of inwto hovered, end on

RURAL youth vfWXX// CLUB NEWS To Present Comedy "Aunt Samanlby Rules the Hoosi." a three act comedy, has been ihooMU! by the Adams county I rural youth club for presentation. | This announcement wrs made at I the March meeting held this week lat the Sunset ckatlng rink. Wavelctte Lehman. April «hairman said that tryouts had result* d in a full cast and that Mrs. | Holman Ealy of Jefferson township 1 will !><■ the director- Various committees will be named soon. The Man h committee reported a g<s*d attendance at tn*’ theater party at the Civic theater In Fori Waym Approximately 75 member* .•id nests attended the St. I’at,.l s emit Mr *nd Mrs. Orley Wallers a-sisled the following coinnlttee for the Mar h rural youth a tivifies: Clara Lengerich, Betty Young, Jo*- Braun. Vera Heiman, .rames Cro-by and Mildred Tricker. New rural youth members arc: Mary u»u Ba ger. Joyce Fruechte. i'aul Duff. ' i.tri. • lla!s gg*-r. Bob Baxter. l»ori« Dick ami Helen Biela* riih Initiation Held By K. Os P. Thursday — A large crowd attended the initiatory rites conferred upon a class of andldat.s at the Knights of Pythias lodge in the regular meeting at the lodge home last night. Third ank initiatory work wWI be * (inferred at the April 2 meeting, it was aiiiioiince.l.

Curving ever south, the mangroves led on until Cilff wondered if they were not taking him back to shore again. Then suddenly he felt his horse quicken its pace, and looking up, saw higher land ahead. "We're nearly over," he called, and soon they were climbing on hard, flinty ground that gave no sign of tracks. Tall trees and palms had replaced the stunted swamp vegetation; even the air seemed fresher, and Cliff felt a vast relief to have honest earth beneath their horses' feet. Once, leaving the trail, he made his way out over a ledge of rock to the top of a low bridge. About him, far as i.ia eyes could pierce the haze, stretched the stagnant waters of Big Swamp—they were on an island. And the solitary rider was there too. Cliff stiffened—a faint sound far to the left, as of someone chopping wool—and dismounting, he walked back to where Lilli waited. “Let's do the rest of this afoot," he said. "It will be less noisy." Tethering their horses in a clump of bamboo, they moved up the slope. Steeper now. The sound of chopping seemed to come from directly ahead, and reaching the ridge-top. Cliff parted the undergrowth. then motioned the girl to his side. Below them, at the bottom of a long slope, stood a roughly circular stockade, built of upright logs securely lashed together. Within the enclosure four men were walking about, and Cliff saw that at the narrow entrance stood an armed guard. He put his lips against fJIII'a ear. “Who are those men inside the stockade?” “By their clothes, 1 think they're Ma ’Lion's vaqueroa." Cliff nodded. "So do I. More than that, I think they're the vaquerns who disappeared— the ones who never came back." His voice quickened with excitement. “I have a hunch this may be the hiding place of the Biacklands chief." Keeping behind the dense shelter of the undergrowth, they made their way along the ridge, then once again they stopped. Just ahead lay a clearing, dotted with malmgany trees, and in its center stood a dwelling of much sturdier construction than Cliff had seen in all tic Blacklands While they watched, a barefoot Indian boy came out of the jungle, his arms filled with firewood, and disappeared inside the louse. For a moment the clearing lay empty of life—then with a whispered word of warning. Cliff flattened to the ground and drew Lilli brattle him. A man had emerged from the house and began walking In their direction. He was hatlc.M. dressed in khaki field clothes, and even at that distance Cliff could see be was powerfully built a man perhaps tn middle fifties. Suddenly, with t> choked cry, LilH started to her feet, and CluTs arm : swept about her, pulling her back bcskle him. “Be quiet!" He put bis hand over her mouth. iber heart pounding beneath Ute I ...

.tt.-v- K O. SMarreta. Manne . r|lj , “GOD AND MAN" "Th*- fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wiga. un i* rstandlng have all they thai do His .onim" ’ His praise endureth forever."—Pa. in p* The Bible explains the relation between (;„i asserts that God’s first act was creative, ami n lat |«t inator of man. both physically and spiritually '* t The relationship between God and man wa, perfg,.. disobeyed the command of the (Teator and Is*,-one , llr ' l l account does not Imply that God was n<* longer Inter, or that He sloppel loving man, It does emphatkaf?, « whenever man. because of his wrong thinking. <;i mL, fi,, < mauds of God he b*-comes a sinner. Tin- relation no<,, ,iony ami the burden is on man. 'x Appeasement or cajolement does not change malten Hie love is the same. He loves the sinner, hut hat,., m’” ' love is inanifesfed In the union of th*- divine and th.\ " 11 Jesus Christ. That love endured the cross whlth now mute evidence to the fact that God's love < an not h, the acts *rf man it also means that the redemptive f (f r r T** are stiH working through the humanity of j,. slr We do not es* ap* from sin or its < <ins«-qii|. ni ... » have unp*n with God Jesus Christ ami do in, or we spurn His great love and sow the m «-.|, of (, ur ? and remorse.

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Dom VOV* Office BXTtHS» OM Monmouth Merrymaids The organixathtn meeting of Ihe Monmouth Menymaids was held recently at the home of Mrs. Ralph Hire. Officers elected were: president. Carol Klrs. h: vice president. Selma Daniels; secretary. Gwendolyn Bice; treasure:, Phyllis Gerke: news reporter, Carolyn Owens; song leader. Nancy Kirsch; game leader. Ethel Cook; health reporter. Barbaia Waiters; us.-dstant health reporter. Shirley Butler. Other members attending, other than the above officers, were AH »! Fleming and Donas Fleming, and the leaders. Mt*». Lloyd Daniels. Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Rice. Biton Rouge, state capital of lamisiaiia. was incorporated in 1817. It was one of the earliest settlements in the United States.

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