Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 30 May 1947 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur. Ind., Poet Office aa Second Class Matter. /. H. Heller President A R. Holthouse, Sec’y A Bue. Mgr. Dick D. Heller ... Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoin inc Counties: Ona year, |<J; six months, 33.25; 3 months, 31.75. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining counties: One year. 37; I months, 33.75; 3 months, 32.00 Single copies, 4 cents. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Another 500-mile auto nuce Is history, with the Bellmont horse race coming up this afternoon. 0 o The state will pick-up many mil lions of dollars yearly from the cigarette tax. but is losing on the excise taxes. which on present estimates will decline about two millions during this year. Economists and bankers do not look for so many headaches from a sag In farm land prices as that experienced In the period following World War 1. The observation was made, that “Generally farmers have not borrowed money to buy land as they did during the first war period. Instead they have paid off old mortgages. A great deal of the land that was sold at high prices went to well-to-do city men. who Invested as a hedge against possible wild Inflation. — 0 o Governor Gates has proclaimed the first Sunday in June as Shutin’s day. In typical Hoosier hospitality. the Governor draws attention to the different ways of remembering the disabled. He outlines that visits can be made to the sick, or a letter or gfit sent to them. Further, as a psychological approach, the shut-in should be invited for a drive, a visit to church or as a gnest to dinner. As the proclamation states. “All this helps to show them that life is still exciting and filled with pleasant things, even for them." o— —o There’s no finer investment than U. S Savings Bonds! Every three dollars invested brings back four on maturity . . . every three hundred, four hundred! So friends . . . buy Bonds . . . buy them regularly! An easy automatic way of buying Bonds is through the Payroll Savings Plan where you work! Another is the Bond of the Month Plan where you bank! Just tell the teller that yon want to join the Bond of the Month Plan! The

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By Herman N. Bundeseo, M. 0. WHILE varicose veins are not usually serious, they do cause much discomfort and disability and. hence, the patient bothered In this way should receive the beat possible treatment A varicose vein is one which has become permanently enlarged and engorged with stagnent blood. We do not know the exact cause of varicose veins but undue pressure is thought to have something to do with their development. Thus, the wearing of tight garters may cause them to appear In the legs Some disturbance of the glands of internal secretion, such as the thyroid gland in the neck, may possibly be a contributing factor. Treating Varicose Veins A number of forms of treatment for varicose veins are employed. For example, in some cases, veins may be tied off and cut out. In other casea, they may be injected with certain subsances which cause scar tissue to form. For temporary relief of varicose veins. Dr. R. Rowden Foote, of England. advises bandaging of the legs in various ways. The type of bandage to be employed will de pend upon the nature of the varicose veins and their extent. In those conditions in which there is edema, an abnormal amount of fluid in the tissues, and a rash-like ecsema. what is known ha a Vona’s paste bandage may be applied. Such a bandage, according to Dr. Foote, if properly put on. may last up to a year. In applying this type of bandage, game rolls six inches wide are ♦ill touted in the paste and are applied to the log while warm- The entire leg is first covered with the

bank will buy Bonds for yon. charge your personal checking account! Two easy, automatic ways to save! . . . join the Payroll Savings Pish where you work or the Bonda-Month Plan where you bank. o 0 The exact value of surplus war property, including army and navy supplies, is probably unknown, but the job of liquidating goes on. Each month millions of dollars’ worth of material Is sold and eventually the stock pile Is being reduced One of the latest offerings of the War Assets Administration is the 40 million dollar plant at South Bend, operated during the war by the Studabaker Corporation. Thia modern building lay-out contains 1.500.000 square feet of floor space. Such valuable property will no doubt be acquired by the auto manufacturing concern or some other great industry and used as a factory producing automobiles, washing ma chines or a hundred and see items for which the people want to buy. The Shades, scenic wooded area near Crawfordsville, has been saved from the woodman's ax. through a deal made by Governor Gates and Arthur Baxter. Indianapolis industrialist and philanthropist. The latter will put up 3250,000 to acquire the 1400 acres of virgin timber, and then lease the parklike grounds to the Indiana Conservation Department, until the state can rake up the money to purchase the property. Several attempts were made to get the money by popular subscription, but so far the campaigns failed. The orgiual owners bad a higher offer from a stave making concern that wanted the valuable oak trees to make whisky barrels. Indiana should own the tract. o—o In ' this and other counties throughout the state, the subject of corn planting is an ever present topic. Wet weather has prevented plowing and getting out the crop. Agricultural authorities, however, point to the progress made in the growing of corn, emphasising that four acres of hybrid will now produce as much as formerly grown on five. Production of greater farm wealth with less effort is shown by an official government report. It discloses that during the last two years more corn was produced on the corn belt on one-fifth fewer acres than the average yield in the 1919-23 period. Most farmers hope to get their corn, planted by the middle of June.

paste by rubbing the bandage all over it Then the gauze, which has been soaked in the paste, is put on. not too tightly. Ijist, the ordinary bandage Is put over the Unna’a paste bandage. This outer bandage may be changed whenever It becomes necessary. The end result of this type of bandage is to produce a firm, but somewhat elastic boot which gives support to the tissues and at the same time does not put excessive pressure on it. However. It Is best employed for patients who are in a hospital. It would appear for cases not in the hospital, that a two-way stretch bandage is easily applied and can be removed at night, or when bathing, by the patient himself. When putting such a bandage on. It is started over the foot and gradually wound over the lower third of the leg. It is usually advisable to have some overlapping of the layers of the bandage so as to provide extra pressure. This overlapping is gradually les sened until the bandage is finished just below the knee. This type of bandaging is also helpful in the treatment of edema or when ulcers of the skin are present or when the varicose veins have become inflamed. One-way stretch bandages also may be used. These are of lighter weight and shorter length than the two-way stretch type. This type of bandage has the advantage that the pressure, which is applied by its use. Is adjustable. Elastic bandages should be removed at night. They can be cleaned *itb soap and water, and. with proper care «1U last for more than

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I Modern Etiquette i By ROBERTA LEI | O O Q. When autographing a photograph. should a girl add a few words of sentiment to the signature? A. Not unless her fiance, or some very Intimate friend, has asked her to do so. Just the name ’’.Mary" is far better than to inscribe some sentiment, and then regret it in later years. Q Should a woman who is smoking observe the same courtesies as a man? A. Yes; she should be careful not to d op ashes all over the rug or blow smoke in another's face. Q How are guests invited to a christening? A. By telephone or an informal note. o o o I Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE | O n Candle Wax Stains To remove candle wax stains

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CHAPTER FORTT-THREE I WHEN SHERRY was gone, It 1 was aa though an emptiness closed ' around Lex, a vacuum of loneliness for her. He struggled with himself In an effort to dismiss it. Why should he miss her more now, 1 knowing the was hundreds of miles distant, than be had when she was tn Chicago 7 They had often been apart, weeks had usually elapsed between their meetings. Now she had been gone only i a few days. Yet desolation gripped him and the need to see her, to : speak with h*r, wa-> a hunger nothing could assuage. His first conscious realisation of how much he was going to miss her had come that Sunday when they sat together on the bank of the little stream. But his conscious mind had been the last part of him to grasp the implications of Sherry’s departure. All the rest of him. his blood, his bones and sinews, the very core of his being, must have been aware of what she had come to mean to him, of what * loss he faced. This need of her must have been growing within him, unacknowledged, unrealized, for a long time. The hours they spent together, his knowledge that she came often to the farm, must have fed his growing hunger sufficiently to keep its edge from developing into this empty, unbearable ache that gripped him now, against which he could not fight He had thought her a friend. Now he knew he loved her. It was as simple as that How could a man be so blind, so lacking in understanding of his own self, his inner feelings. Lex wondered. He loved Sherry and he was engaged to Kay; their wedding day was only a scant few weeks off. A sense of nightmare wrapped him about, a feeling of being trapped. Yet it was a trap he had fashioned with Ms own stupidity, into which he had gone of his own accord. Lex tried to think things through, to dig into the past in an honest effort to uncover the roots of this dilemma in which he found himself. When he first met Kay, he had been Instantly and strongly attracted. Her smouldering dark beauty, the ardor that broke through like a flame, these things were not easy to resist. Nor had Lex tried to resist them. He had thought he loved Kay. All the time he was away from her, the feeling he had accepted as love had burned tn him. making the hideousness Os war bearable, turning his thoughts from the horror of the present to a future he and Kay would share Any man might have made a simjMsMtkt in avntatttag Mb MMinga. It was afterward, when the rhenge ia himself, his M* dreams aad aaoixaUona had tended to

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May 31 — George Sanderg of I-a-fayette won the 500-mile race at Indianapolis speedway. The Rev. Simeon Schmitt will say his first mass at St. Mary's church here Juue 14. .More than 200 families are home-

alienate Kay and him, that ho should have had the Judgment to i examine his love more closely, to 1 be sure of its reality. But he had 1 lacked that judgment He had tak- I en too much for granted the i strength of his feeling for Kay, < even after he had met Sherry and | had her for his friend. That was 1 the blindness for which Lex could i not forgive himself. I And yet, in away, it was under- 1 standable. He thought: It’s like when you stare at a candle flame ; in the darkness. It seems big and bright Then, when daylight comes you scarcely notice, if you're staring at the candle hard enough. That's what I did, not realizing that my love for Sherry, my real love, was all around me, like sunshine, lighting and warming my whole life. Now, When he had let her go away from him, when it might be forever too late, he knew. Knew that she was everything to him, the air he breathed and the blood in his veins and the beat of his heart All the things that were so much a part of him that he scarcely realized they were there. And Sherry was a part of him. too, a part of his heart Only he hadn’t realized It He should have known on so many occasions. All the times when his laek of response to Kay had filled him with a sense of confusion and futility. The winter night on the bridge, when Sherry's kiss had stirred him so deeply. The awful time of her sister’s attempted suicide, when he had stood by on the chance that he could help her in some way, when he had taken her into his arms tenderly to comfort her. Countless other moments flooded into Lex’s mind now, moments of closeness and understanding, of emotional disturbance, that should have made clear to Mm, even in hie blindness, the fact that he loved her, that she meant more to him than anyone else in the world. And Sherry, Lex wondered. What of her? Was her feeling for him only friendship? Or did it go deeper? It seemed to him that there was a chance she might love him, that love might have driven her away. Steve would know. Steve, who understood so many things without being told. But he had right to ask Steve. Npt yet Not until be had done what must ** <lone ’ . fa- 1 i How did a man go about telling > the girt he had planned to marry , that he was deeply in tove with . someone else? Lex didn’t know. > And dread of the task ahead rode > him. yet he knew Kky must be i told. No other course was even > I conceivable. ..

less at Vincennes, as a result of the floods. Dogs kill 11 sheep on the R «. Heller farm in Kirkland township. Work has started on filming "The Harvester,’’ popular story written by the late Gene StrattonPorter. The actors have arrived at Rome City from Hollywood. The Rev Ambrose A Kohne will be ordained to the priesthood at Fort Wayne on June 11. . Q New Books Placed On Library Shelves Many Volumes Added During Past Month New books added to the shelves of the Decatur public library during the month of May are as follows: Adult The Tin Flute—Roy. The Magnlglcent Barb—Faralla. Sons—Smirnov. The Old Lady -Green. Gentlemen's Agreement— Hobson. The Scarlet Patch-Lancaster. The Vixen—Yerhy. The Left Hand is The Dreamer —Ross. There was a Time—Caldwell. The Woman In Black- Ford. The Ix>st Land -Freitag. The Good Crop—Emerson. The Clean-Up-Barry. Trail Dust —Drago. How to Choose. Plan and Build Your Own House —Kones Mink. Mary and Me—Ferguson. Writing. Illuminating & Lettering—Johnston. Logbook for Grace—Murphy. Os True Experience—Campbell. How to Build a Better HomeMorris. General Horticulture—Talbert. Three Came Home—Kieth. The Old Mandarin—Morley. Land of Plenty—Teague. How Green Was My FatherDodge. So You’re Collecting StampsHahn. Make Selling Your CareerWard This is My Story— Budenz. Why They Behave Like Russians—Fischer. Human Destiny—DuNuoy. Our Fair City—Allen. You Must go to Mexico—Carnes. The Greek Dilemma-McNeill. Ths Music of Schubert—Gerald

And so on a June night Lex stood with her on the terrace of her apartment, his heart heavy within him. From this great height the stars seemed almost as near as did the brilliant lights of the city, spread like a gigantic display of Jewels tn aU directions. Kay leaned beside him on the wide stone parapet, her shoulder touching his, the heady scent she used cloying in his nostrils. Curious, but Lex hadn’t realized until this moment how he disliked that scent. Kay was wearing a white jersey dinner dress, classic In Its simplicity, with accents of dull gold. Her slippers were gold, too. She was dressed, she had explained to Lex upon his unexpected arrival, for a ball to which she needn’t go for another hour at least “Such a shame you didn’t think of dressing, darling," she complained now. “You could have gone along just aa well. Alicia and Mike Mayes and his brother, Jere, are stopping by for me. If you’d only thought to aril, I could have told you. But everyone’s given up hope of inveigling you in town to parties in the middle of the week like this. They don’t even try any more. That’s why—“ "Kay"—he had to stem the tide of her casual prattle—“l came in town tonight because I had to see you. There's something Fve got to tell you.’’ His tone was husky suddenly and moisture formed In the palms of Ms clenched hands. “God, you can’t know how awful thia makes me feel! I should have known months ago—we shouldn’t have made all these plans." She straightened, standing back from the parapet as Lex shifted his position, and stared up at him, her eyes dark pools In the moonlit pallor of her face. He stumbled on. "I can’t marry you. KSv. I’m in love with Sherry Kent I didn’t know until she’d gone—but now I do. I—made a mistake about my feelings for you. God knows I’m sorry." “Sorry?" Kay repeated. Her voice sounded chill and small “But > —you can’t mean what you’re saying, Lex. You can’t love her—" “I do,” he said miserably. “That's i how it is." "I knew she was up to some- ’ thing like this!" There was rage i In Kay's tone now. "The little cheat—running out to the farm all the tinqe, working on you J? “Kay. please! You have every ■ right to hate me for treating you 1 like this—but Sherry’s not to i blame. I don’t even know whether . she cares 'or me—we’ve never . spoken of leva. But—l couldn’t i marry you. feeling to I to about > her, It wouldn’t bo fair." (To Bo Continued)

i M ' ' wIRI * H gw? IN lAPIIB, MICH., county jail Oliver Terpening. Jr. (seated), held M slayer of the four children of William Smith, Imlay City. Mich., is visited by his father, Oliver Terpening, Sr. (right), and brother, Donald of Lucerne. Mich. (International Soundphoto)

The Evergreen Land—Nard. Four Fares to Juneau-Small. Explaining the Atom—Heckt. The Hooeier Health OfficerRice. Juvenile >. The Golden Stallion -Waldeck. Spurs for Suzanna—Cavanna. Lncky Orphan—Moore. For a Child—McFarland. Living with Others -Goodrich. Persona) and Public HealthBurkha rd. Junior Party Book -Carlson. The Silver Rohin- Marshall. Mountain Pony Larom. Strawberry Girl—l-enski. Round the Afternoon—Jackson. Mary Allan, Publicity Girl—Paul. Dot for Short-Friedman. Joey A Patches-Johnson. The Copper Toed Boots —DeAngelo. Toads and Frogs—Parker. The Broad Road—Hefferman.

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR I KAY'S EYES blazed with rage. “And you thin’ thia is fair to me?" she demanded furiously. •Breaking our engagement when the wedding invitations are out? Making a complete fool of me? What will people think?" "What would you have me do?’’ Lex asked. "Is the opinion of your friends more important than all the rest of our lives? We couldn’t make each other happy —not when 1 love someone else.” "But—how can I explain? What shall I tell people?" "Tell them whatever you please," Lex said. “Put all the blame on me, as I deserve, or, if you prefer, say that you changed your mind. I don’t care, Kay. Do whatever makes things easier tor you." “I hate you!" Kay stormed at him. “I hate that girt, too!" Lex was silent and his silence only served to infuriate her further. She cried, “And to think I actually let you have the satisfaction of believing I’d given in and intended to live on your horrible old farm!” Her laugh was sheer scorn. ”1 wouldn’t have stayed there six months —and neither would you! Pd have gotten ’round you so easily, you’d never have known what was happening till we were back in the city again, living in a civilized way." Lex’s jaw was grim but he said quietly, “So that was how you had it planned.” “Yes, It was! And I’d have done it, too. Everyone thinks you're a fool—my mother and father, all our friends—" He scarcely heard her. AH the pity he had felt for her, the shame over his own course of conduct, were gone now, leaving his spirit free and unhampered. Why should he feel pity and shame when Kay had been deceiving him all along, when she had had no slightest intention of fulfilling her part of their bargain? Even if he had never known Sherry, marriage with Kay wouldn’t have worked out The inevitable conflict and bitterness that would have developed between them would have destroyed all hope of happiness. Lex said, as Kay’s harangue ceased, “Then isn’t ft just as well I saved you from the trouble of trying to bring me around to a sensible point of view?" She tore his ring from her finger and flung it into his palm. “Go away!” she cried. “And don’t come back—don’t ever come back! Everyone will think I've been wise to jilt you!" A faint smile twisted Lex’s mouth as he turned from her. Within a short time she would have managed to convince herself that she had jilted him. Her arrogant pride would see to that And it was just aa well Certainly Lwx didn't care. He left the Winninger apartment for the last time, strode out into the hall. With every step, Kay receded from his thoughts. The final breaking of the frayed bond between them had given him the right to look ahead. And the future beckoned. If he could only hope that Sherrv wouldn’t hold hia blind stupidity against him. that there was some small chance.

Union Pals The 4-H Union Pals held their third meeting at the Immanuel Lutheran school recently. Roll call was snswered with a health rule. A poem was given by Olga Thieme, and a demonstration on baking butterscotch cookies was given by Legora Markle. Pledge was led by Evelyn Gerke. Delicious refresh ments were served by Mrs. Lillie Mitchell and Irene Krueckeberg. 0 XOTtt'K OF FIX XI. SF.Tri.FMEXT OF EWTXTK xn. tars Noth ,- Ik hereby given to the < redItorH, heirs and legatees of Joshua Yoder, d<-<ea-ed to appear In the Adams Circuit Court, held at !»<-- • alur, Indiana. »n the 14th day of June, 1917, and show <au*. it any.

As he stepped out into thei street. Lex encountered three young people in evening clothes just entering the building. A girt and two men. Kay’s escort for the dance, perhaps? Already Lex had forgotten the name of the man who was to accompany her. But it didn’t matter. Whatever his name, he would doubtless make Kay a much more suitable companion than he, Lex, had ever done. An episode ended, Lex thought. And he felt a sense of anticipation, such as he had never experienced before, rise in him. e e e Oakridge resembled Brundage only insofar as all small towns seem to resemble one another. A central square, with a gray stone courthouse. A street called Main. Tall old trees shading the sidewalks. A couple of movie theaters and the usual number of stores and other business enterprises. A somewhat ramshackle railway station and a bus depot. But, as Sherry had hoped, you could walk down any street a Uttle way and reach the country. You could climb a hill and look out across the restful checkerboard of fields of grain, see cattle graving and big, comfortable farmhouses with red barns clustered behind. It was like pressing your fingers to the pulse of America to live in a town like Oakridge. Sherry loved it. She rented a pleasant room with a Miss Spence, who had a large, portioned house convenient to the Ledger office. She walked to work each morning and home again at night She made acquaintances who might some day be friends. Os course, ft was too soon to expect happiness, or even some small measure of forgetfulness. A few weeks, such • short time. Only it hadn’t seemed short to Sherry Even though she worked hard at her job with the Ledger even though she made friends with the two young school teachers who were Miss Spence’s other boarders, there were times each day. each night, when a kind of panic rose tn her, an ache of loneliness for Lex which she eould scarcely bear. But the panic would recede Sherry told herself. The ac*»e loneliness would grow less. It must! She would make it She thought she knew now how Vai had felt when the loss <* had been so new. so agonizing. Vai had been driven to a mad pursuit of pleasure, of ceaseless gay activity, which had finally brought her dangerously close to the brink of disaster. Sherry was determined to develop a reserve of self-suffi-ciency, an inner strength that would make her capable of facing each new day as it dawned, without dread. Every day is just another way of saying forever. And if she shut her eyes to the fact that each day without Lex was an empty day, maybe time would AH their emptiness with some substitute happiness. And the pain in her heart would lessen. The Oakridge Ledger was housed ta the same red-brick building oc Main Street in which ft had horn some seventy-five years sarU--1 er. Sometimes it seemed to Sherry

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| that it must be ete. to that for such as voanM files and parapherads k been stacked and haphazardly SMcmked at roof. But Sherry enjoyri Mr' no matter how dutttnUl roun lines. And fromteSl liked her new emptorer ri got on well together. Aaiß was a good-hearted sa I droll, dry wit and aces** the future frontier of Aasl in her farms. Re and to Ilk getic young wife, Uun." dial and pleasant toward I They invited her to tteir Introduced her to their t tried to see to it thit ste i lonely. Laura Holmes to woman you felt on M esa] with when you’d hour. Within a fortfflff*’ ry’s arrival, they were to intimate for Mun to ™" evening as they sat ***• Holmes’ big front ports, not very happy, are r* ■ so it because you dont ridge” “Oh. no." She ll ? there hearing the and smelling lyiura's honeysucklehere. And it’s £•»« Alan. I-I ness with me. I m trymj! to lose it. but it will tab’ She found hertrtf on while Laura lato" thetically. Sherry W » old life. «• >°* •*, Tjh She told her. haltirg.y. and Kay. -gut i Laura objected. & you have fought - Jtead of running g the mere fact that first -- ’’ cur “But he low ~, iected. “If there d b"® • in his mind. I for him. But " L outfdef’ always- I t re; things, never nro * ly, that wt her gave to others the things she wo tehed? « eould M Laura said. “1 nature tak« e< But the” pretty eflcW^toesJ] moments.* y*j I’d resent tsl el have got J, i st"], have had pg draggad pa*“ aecM*