Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 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., Post Office as Second Class Matter J. H. Heller President A- R. Holthouse, Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller __ Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adorns and Adjoining Counties: One year, $6; Six months, $3.25; 3 months, $1.75. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining counties: One Year, $7; 6 months, $3.75; 3 months. $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. That hurricane traveled faster than a rocket or jet plane. o— —o The Chamber of Commerce needs 40 more members. Do you belong? o o Citizens appreciate the extension of city mail delivery routes, which Postmaster Kirsch announces become effective October 1. New routes will be extended to Master Drive and Stratton Place additions, along with the extension of mail delivery service on other streets, not heretofore served by the postal department. o o— Political writers take a fling at proposing the Republican presidential ticket with General Eisenhower and former Governor Stassen of Minnesota as running mates. Eisenhower would do credit to either ticket and probably could win, but we can’t see that Stassen will have much strength in the convention. Speaker Martin or GOP leader Halleck seem to be more likely the choice of the ticket makers for second place. o o Civic boosting can become a vice. It has just about reached that point with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. When the city is already filled to bursting, with people sleeping in bath tubs, cars and back yards, the Chamber is campaigning for '‘Jdesiyable potential residents, business men and industrialists.” A better way would be to make Los Angeles a more attractive place to live in. There are better advantages than mere bigness. o o Senator Byrd announces that he will continue his campaign for the reduction of governmental expenses and slicing of the federal payroll. The economy committee chairman claims that 2,074,833 employes are still on the payroll, compared to the 3,650,000 at the war-time peak. During June and

Backache May Result From Many Causes

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. PERHAPS the only ailment with more causes than backache is headache. Thus, if ten patients complaining of pain in the lower part of the back come to the doctor’s office, the chances are that in each case the pain will come from a different source, and that each patient can be relieved only by a different treatment. In one, the backache may be due to strain of the joints in the lower part of the spine brought about because habitual poor posture has bent the spine to one side. In another, the doctor may find a malformation of the spine which has been present since birth. Os course, injuries are a well known cause of back pain. These injuries may affect the vertebrae or small bones in the spine. Arthritis or inflammation of the joints in the spine may develop following injuries. Pressure on the nerves coming from the spine and consequent severe pain may occur from several different causes such as the slipping of bits of cartilage between the vertebrae known as intervertebral disks. ’Disorders of the Spine itself, such as arthritis, changes in the bones, tumor growths and infections all may be responsible for severe backache. Among the infections which may affect the spine, are tuberculosis, gonorrhea, typhoid fever, and unduiant fever or brucellosis. Another common cause of backache is fibrositis, a condition in which there is inflammation of the connected or Supporting tissues around the muscles. It should also be remembered that it is not unusual for backache to be produced by disorders affecting the kidney, the bladder, and the organs of reproduction and in I

July, 33.080 were dropped. The Virginia senator doesn’t want to be too hopeful of reaching his goal, for next year is the election and the campaigners are not going to make speeches on how many .people will lose their jobs. o o The Russian Foreign Minister at the United Nations assembly, hurled the charge of “war-monger” at John Foster Dulles, an American representative and former adviser on international affairs to Governor Dewey in the 1944 presidential campaign. Americans resent the Russian slur. No thoughtful American wants war. None of our representatives to UN thinks in the terms of war and so far have leaned backward in the attempt to keep the world at peace. Russia is the trouble maker, bilt Uncle Sam is not letting go of the reins. o o The first floor of the Decatur j Missionary church, Dayton Avenue and North Tenth street, will be dedicated in formal religious rites Sunday afternoon. This congregation, of which the Rev. H. J. Welty is the new pastor, not only has faith in God, but in the future. The half-basement building will form the foundation for the proposed more beautiful addition that will eventually rise from the present structure. In the meantime, the semi-basement, will serve as the congregation's house of worship. We congratulate the members on their accomplishment and extend every good wish to the congregation toward its goal of a completed edifice in the immediate months ahead. o o Working quietly in various sections of the country are serious men-in-wjiite known as epidemiologists, or experts in epidemic disease. Chief interest of this small band is to crack the mystery of how infantile paralysis spreads and why it suddenly breaks out in certain localities. So far it is not known how the virus of the disease causes infection or how it is carried. Much knowledge about this devastating sickness, however, has been amassed. AU evidence, according to research authorities, points to the gastro-intertinal tract as the portal of entry and exit for the virus, and as its reservoir. But the cause of its start remains an unbroken scientific secret. Yet their findings, little by little, will eventually be one of man's boons, for surely this knotty problem will yield as have other equally puzzling challenges.

men, the prostate gland. In women, during middle life, long continued strain in the lower part of the back is commonly seen. It is usually worse after prolonged standing. Tiredness, as a rule, makes the aching worse. These same symptoms may be produced by flat feet. Abnormal forward bending of the spine called lordosis may be a cause of low backache. The discomfort in such cases is always made worse by standing and walking. As a rule, it is worse at the end of the day. Overweight frequently is associated with this kind of backache and may even be responsible for producing it. Thus, when the patient has backache, the first thing the doctor does is to get a complete story of the symptoms: when they first started, where the pain is located, and how often it occurs. Then a complete physical examination is given and X-rays of the spine are taken.

Many low backaches occur or are made worse by sleeping in a bed that is too soft or that sags in the middle, thus keeping the spine from relaxing in the normal position. In such cases, the patient is usually awakened by the pain early in the morning. On arising the pain Is worse but wears off towards the middle of the day. Those who suffer from pain in the lower part of the back should not delay in having a careful study made to determine the cause. Where low back pain is concerned hit or miss methods will accomplish little. Those who suffer from pain in the loWer part of the back should not expect relief without a carefpl study to determine the cause and since so many of these disorders may have serious consequence if left untreated, there should be no delav in having such a study Made

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I Modern Etiquette i | By ROBERTA LEE | O O Q. What is something which should be avoided while riding on a streetcar or bus? A. Diecussing the affairs of other people. If you must mention names, do so very quietly, as you may be talking ..about the friend of some nearby passenger who can overhear you. Q. Should a handclasp be firm? A. Yes. Some people claim that a weak handclasp is indicative of instability.

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CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN

GERDA SAT behind the tray. She began to talk in her apologetic conversational way. “I’m so sorry that everybody Is out. My sister and the children have all gone for a picnic. I didn’t feel very well, so they left me behind.” Jl . . Poirot said: “I am sorry, Madame.” Gerda lifted a teacup and drank. “It is all so very worrying. Everything is so worrying. . . . You see, John always arranged everything and now John is gone." Her voice tailed off. “Now John is gone.” Her gaze, piteous, bewildered, went from Henrietta to Poirot. “I don’t know what to do without John. John looked after me. He took care of me. Now he is gone, everything is gone. . . . And the children—they ask me questions and I can t answer them properly. I don’t know what to say to Terry. He keeps saying, •Why was Father killed?’ Some day, of course, he will find out why. . . . Terry always has to know. What puzzles me is that he always asks why, not who!” Gerda leaned back in her chair. Her lips were very blue. She said stiffly: “I feel —not very well —if John — John —” Poirot came around the table to her and eased her sideways down in the chair. Her head dropped forward. He bent and lifted her eyelid. Then he straightened up. “An easy and comparatively painless death.” Henrietta stared at him. “Heart? No,” Her mind leaped forward. “Something in the tea. . . . Something she put there herself. She chose that way out?” Poirot shook his head gently. “Oh, no, it was meant for you. It was in your teacup.” “For me?” Henrietta’s voice was incredulous. "But I was trying to help her.” “That did not matter. Have you not seen a dog caught in a trap—it sets its teeth into anyone who touches it. She saw only that you knew her secret and so you, too, must die.” Henrietta said slowly: “And you made me put the cup back on the tray—you* meant — you meant her—” Poirot interrupted her quietly: "No, no, Mademoiselle. I did not know that there was anything in your teacup. I only knew that there might be. And when the cup was on the tray it was an even chance if she drank from that or the other—if you call it chance. I say myself that an end such as this is merciful. For her—and for two innocent children.” He said gently to Henrietta, "You are very tired, are you not?” She nodded. She asked him, “When did you guess?” “I do not know exactly. The scene was set; I felt that from the first. But I did not realize for a long time that it was set by Gerda Christow —that her attitude was stagy because she was, actually, acting a part. I was puzzled by the simplicity and at the same time the complexity. I recognized fairly soon that it was your ingenuity that I was fighting against, and that you were being aided and

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and his wife attended the dinner"? A. No: say, “Mr. and Mrs. Green attended the dinner.” ————o o O I Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE | o n Blue Overalls Blue overalls can be washed so that they will look almost as good as new. Wash in the regular manner and rinse. In the rinse water, use one cup <salt. one-half cup bluing, and one quart cooked starch. Put them trough the wringer and hang up to dry. The bluing renews the color, the salt sets it, and the

anettcd by your relations as soon as they understood what you wanted done!” He paused and added, “Why did you want it done?” “Because John asked me to! That's what he meant when he said ‘Henrietta.’ It was all there in that one word. He was asking me to protect Gerda. You see, he loved Gerda. ... I think he loved Gerda much better than he ever knew he did. Better than Veronica Cray—better than me. Gerda belonged to him, and John liked things that belonged to him. . . . He knew that if anyone could protect Gerda from the consequences of what she’d done, I could. And he knew that I would do anything he wanted, because I loved him.” “And you started at once,” said Poirot grimly. “Yes, the first thing I could think of was ’to get the revolver away from her and drop it in the pooh That would obscure the fingerprint business. When I discovered later that he had been dhot with a different gun, I went out to look for it, and naturally found it at once because I knew just the sort of place Gerda would have put it. I was only a minute or two ahead of Inspector Grange's men.” She paused and then went on: “I kept it with me in that satchel of mine until I could take it up to London. Then I hid it in the studio until I could bring it back, and put it where the police would find it.” “The clay horse,” murmured Poirot “How did you know? Yes, I put It in a sponge bag and wired the armature around it and then slapped up the clay model around it. After all, the police couldn’t very well destroy an artist’s masterpiece, could they? What made you know where it was?” “The fact that you chose to model a horse. The horse of Troy was the unconscious association in your mind. But the fingerprints. How did you manage the fingerprints?” “An old blind man who sells matches in the street. He didn’t know what it was I asked him to hold for a moment while I got some money out!” Poirot looked at her for a moment. “C’est formidable!” he murmured. "You are one of the best antagonists, Mademoiselle, that I have ever had.” "It’s been dreadfully tiring always trying to keep one move ahead of you!” “I know. I began to realize the truth as soon as I saw that the pattern was always designed not to implicate any one person, but to implicate everyone—other than Gerda Christow. Every indication always pointed away from her. You deliberately -planted Ygdrasll to catch my attention and bring yourself under suspicion. Lady Angkatell, who knew perfectlj’ well what you were doing, amused herself by leading poor Inspector Grange in one direction after another. David, Edward, herself. “Yes, there is only one thing to do if you want to clear a person from suspicion who is actually guilty. You must suggest guilt elsewhere, but never localize it. That is why every clew looked promising afid then petered out and ended in nothing.”

starch makes them stay clean longer. Good For Burns It is well to remember that raw potato is a good remedy for burns. Scrape or grate the potato and aPPI it like a poultice to the injured surface. It will be found most soothing. Mending Taffeta You will find adhesive tape a great help in mending breaks in taffeta dresses. If you are careful joining the edges of the break, it will defy detection.

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Sept. 20 — The total tax rate for Decatur for 1928 is fixed by state tax board at $3.48 per SIOO. Cool wave arrives and frost is predicted for tonight, Dr. James B. Ward. 80, of Geneva, found dead in bed at his home. Jack Pershing pleads for world peace in a speech at Paris. The new pavement on Winchester street is accepted by the city. City of Decatur buys Chevrolet and International trucks. The newly remodelled gym at Kirkland high will be dedicated Friday evening. 0 * « The People’s Voice This column for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of interest. Please sign your name to show authenticity. It will not be used if you prefer that it not be.

Decatur Citizens

You have probably noticed the ad in the newspaper in regards to the city ordinance on garbage containers, which calls for a garbage can with a tight lid. The reason that this ad is in the paper is the garbage collectors have made a

Henrietta looked at the figure huddled pathetically in the chair. She said, "Poor Gerda.” “Is that what you have felt all along?” “I think so. . • . Gerda loved John terribly—but she didn’t want to love him for what he was. She built up a pedestal for him and attributed every splendid and noble and unselfish characteristic to him. And if you cast down an idol, there’s nothing left . . ." She paused and then went on. “But John was something much finer than an idol on a pedestal. He was a real, living, vital human being. He was generous and warm and alive, and he was a great doctor—yes, a greabdoctor! And he’s dead, and the world has lost a very great man. And I have lost the only man I shall ever love.” Poirot put his hand gently on her shoulder. He said: "But you are of those who can live with a sword in their hearts—who can go on and smile—” Henrietta looked up at him. Her lips twisted into a bitter amile. “That’s a little melodramatic, isn’t it?” “It is because I am a foreigner and I like to use fine words.” Henrietta said suddenly: “You have been very kind to me. . . .”

“That Is because I have admired you always very much.” “M. Poirot, what are we going to do? About Gerda, I mean.” Poirot drew the raffla workbag toward him. He turned out its contents, scraps of brown suede and other colored leathers. There were three fragments of thick, shiny brown leather, Poirot fitted them together. “The holster. I take this. And poor Madame Christow, she was overwrought, her husband’s death was too much for her. It will be brought in that she took her life while of unsound mind.” Henrietta said slowly: “And no one will ever know what really happened?” “I think one person will know. Dr. Christow’s son. I think that one day he will come to me and ask me for the truth.” "But you won’t tell him,” cried Henrietta. “Yes, I shall tell him.” "Oh, no!” “You do not understand. To you it is unbearable that anyone should be hurt. But to some minds there is something more unbearable still —not to know. You heard that poor woman just a little while ago say, Terry always has to know.' To the scientific mind, truth corries first. Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living." Henrietta got up. > “Do you want me here, or had 1 better go?” "It would be better if you went, I think.” She nodded. Then she said, more to herself than to him: “Where shall I go? What shall I do—without John?” “You are speaking like Gerda Christow. You will know where to go and what to do.” "Shall I? I’m so tired, M. Poirot, so tired. ...” , He said gently: "Go, my child. Your place is with ttie living. I wtH stay here with the dead. " (To Be Concluded)

survey of their own in a certain section of town where there were approximately 250 houses, and found that only 60 of these had garbage cans that were approved by the city ordinance. The rest were all kinds of containers imaginable from lard cans to wash tubs. This is absolutely not sanitary and I would like to see this corrected. The city has improved its conditions with a sanitary truck Mich is washed out every night after being used, and the men who gather the garbage are neat and courteous. The city is trying to do its best tp keep this as sanitary as possible and I think the city has a right to expect every citizen to do likewise. Phi! Sauer, Street Commissioner. Protests Action Gordon G. Egnor, of Preble township, gray haired veteran of World War I and the Moro campaign, which followed the Spanish-Ameri-can war in the Philippines, today addressed a letter to Henry Dehner, chairman of the Adams county council, protesting against the council’s action In refusing to make an appropriation for continuance lof the local county service office next year. Mr. Egnor’s letter is an impassioned plea to the county ’council to reconsider its action of September 3, in which it abolished the service office by refusal to appropriate funds for its existence in 1948. The agdd veteran also cited distinct services rendered by Dwight IR. Arnold, service officer, who has been in charge of the veterans’ assistance headquarters in the court house, since its establishment in the fall of 1945. The letter in full follows: “Mr. Henry Dehner “R. R. No. 5, Decatur. “Dear Sir & Council Chairman: “I am writing protesting against the council action in regards to the serviceman’s center located on the second floor of the court house at Decatur. < . -> , “1$ statement contacted the veterans, is it not true that you contacted the officials of the organizations whose conduct has not always met the approval of decent organized society? “Pensions now being paid due to Mr. Arnold’s agency in Adams county is $822 per month, which is $9,864 per year. Forty-one training programs are in effect with fifty veterans of Adams county. Thirty-

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five veterans receiving S9O per month subsistence of $3050 per year. Total subsistence paid to these veterans by the federal government is $4,125. Total disability pensions and training subsistancb of $58,164 per year. All of this money is paid by the federal government. Mr. Arnold is the onlyaccredited person in Adams county to write up these training programs since none other have the requisite training. To close this service office is to deprive the veteran of his rights under the G. I. bill of rights. “The record that one organiza- 1 tion as well as one other named in the article of September 3rd of the Decatur Democrat is something to hold your breath about, if you care to go into details concerning it. “I am a veteran of the Moro campaign, also of World War I, and have seen much of the doubtful value of decent veterans in my time and I am familiar with the office in question and can vouch for the integrity of Dwight R. Arnold in the conduct of that office of his effort to get for the veteran his just and honest dues. “Mr. Arnold is a disabled veteran, intelligent, well-fitted Hor such a position that should be filled by one of sterling character, such as I have found him to be. “Those other organizations have no one capable to do the valuable work that he has done since he has been in charge. He, in the next few years will save the taxpayers' in Adams county more money than the miserable pittance he asked for to maintain that office by getting disabled veterans their just dues from the national government or does the council want to go on record that a disabled veteran is. or should be classed as a pauper? Remember he fought to make this country a fit place to live, in spite of politicians and those subversive organizations which flood the country with their filthy propaganda. I have seen veterans from the First World War in the home who have not had S2O in twenty years. If these organizations that were named in yojjr article were solicitous of welfare of the veteran, can >'yotf believe til at condition would have been obtained? "Take a little time and think this over, if you really appreciate what the veteran has done for his country and you. “Hoping that you can see how rediculous it would be to place yourself in a position to have It said that you were governed by two organizations, in your action, that in the opinion of any well-read and really Intelligent veteran, that

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those two come so putrid that thk a®l nt to exist and many notchers, if We take went, are but drunkard, h ® and worse. ' “U you care to talk to B . H lam not able to e Ome t because I am not able te ® owing to a heart injure • gladly talk to you if ‘gfc drive out to Dr. YounklnVfi 52S.TS* E R- R. No. 2, D ecjtur l Leaders Honored ■ ’ Clowns, balloons and other 1: propriate novelties to carry o,,®* circus theme at a dinner club leaders were used quet was given by the Adam, Bi ty home economics council this week, honoring m clubjfe ers for their community |i-K The dinner was prepared byß club presidents and served igS« junior-senior high school ®F economics department. ■ The program of the evening sisted of the showing of « slides made of 1947 4-H chit • jEh( ties in Adams county. H K iHI py. county agent of Portland,®! the after dinner speaker. certificates were presented h IE go Boerger, Emma Levy. Mrs.t® is Martin, Mrs. Leonard Wuiß Mrs. Paul Baumgartner. Mrs. X®) Price, Mrs. Clarence M K Charles Backaus. Everett P.:ce,D® more Wechter, Mrs. Russel Mite® Mrs. Arthur Koeneman. Han® Haggard. Rufus Inniger. Alt® Smith, Reinhard Werling and 1® vin Schuller, and Mrs. Gerald wards. Mrs. Lloyd Daniels and U® Paul Rich received 5-year ti® ficatee. Additional seals to put on c«® ficates given in previous yei® were given to: Mary Ann Er® Roy Price, Mrs. Stanley An® Stanley Arnold, Benj. Ge® Charles Burdg, Rowena Mi® Chris Innigfr. Martin Steiner,® Herman Girod. Mrs. Gladys 3® ber, Don Raudenbush. LesterS® Holman Egley, and Mr. and Jay Rauch. Mrs. Holman Egley Mrs. U® Daniels and Mrs. Paul Rich v® awarded silver pins which areg® en to anyone being a 4-H cl® leader for 5 years or mor». 1 o ‘— M It is false to say being goodta® all the charm and color out of!®