Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 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. Hoithouse, Sec y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller „ Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams 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. General De Gaulle stopped the Communists in France and won the municipal elections because he supported the Marshall plan. With a few more leaders of that rank, [Europe can cure some of its own troubles. o o Top rate civic pride and good manners were shown by Saturday's shopping crowd, when following the gift event all the old tickets ■were placed in the waste paper containers. The streets were not littred with paper scraps and good housekeeping was the order of the day. o o Stock market prices are advancing with those for grain and cattle. Food prices may be too high, but trading in stocks indicate that business will be good in the next six months, which is better than looking forward to a depression, an economic crash and unemployment. o o Forest fires are raging through an area near Kennebunk, Maine and valuable stands of timber have been destroyed by the flames. The fire is traveling cityward and volunteers are fighting the blaze before it spreads to the homes and factories. Carelessness no doubt started the fire. o o During these glorious October days, it’s difficult for anyone to follow with interest, the rumors of war, European'troubles and the daily distractions from normal life. At least it’s most difficult to write of anything that does not do with the countryside and one’s desire to close his desk, pack away the typewriter and just drift for a while. Ah, such luxury. ——o o The mayoral candidates are calling on the voters and putting forth their sales argument in their campaign for election. Listen to their talk. They are interested in performing the services of a public office that deals directly with the people, a most important post in each community. The mayor’s office opens the way for public service and in the years ahead, there will be plenty of things to do as citizens and elected officials cooperate in the building of a better place in which to live. Regardless of politics, vote in the city election on November 4.

Rest Is Helpful In Treating Arthritis

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. ARTHRITIS has been called the “great crippier” because it affects so many people. It has been estimated that in the United States alone, more than 9,000,W80 people are afflicted with this disease. While about one hundred types of arthritis have been described, two are responsible for the vast majority of cases — rheumatoid arthritis, which occurs in young and middle-aged people and osteoarthritis, which is more likely to attack the elderly.

Causes. Crippling Rheumatoid arthritis causes crippling, deformity of the joints and painful swelling St the surrounding soft tissues. In ostea-arthritis there is an overgrowth of the bony tissue around the joints. Both forms are truly discouraging. And, yet, though no definite cure for arthritis has been found, there are a number of measures which do seem to give relief. For example, with but few exceptions all such patients are benefited by rest. This rest must be both physical and mental. There should be eight hours of sleep at night and an hour or two at least of rest during the day. and this program should be followed for at least a year. There are many who believe tiya-t a warm, dry climate is beneficial for a patient with arthritis, although, diusfe a change, of clixate will not bring about a cure in it- :

Around this section of the country most homes serve chicken on Sunday. Poultryless Thursday might have a purpose in the plan to save grain at the source of use, but we doubt if reduction in chicken raising will help the food situation. If a substitute for the vital grains can be used, the farmer and poultry industry should be acquainted with the supplement. With Thanksgiving only a few weeks away, and falling on a Thursday, the situation will have to grow a lot worse to take away turkey or chicken from the American table in observance of the holiday. o o —- The Freedom Train, now on tour will stop in Fort Wayne next July. Containing copies and originals of the precious documents which were written in the founding of this country, every American will want to visit the train. Not everybody can go to Fort Wayne and it would be impossible to handle the crowds from all of Northern Indiana in the neighboring city. Inquiry by civic, service, educational or patriotic organizations. might lead to having the train with its valuable and historic cargo to stop in Decatur. Steps toward that objective should be taken now. o—- ‘ —o • I While the world looks to America for millions upon millions of bushels of grain. Chicago is observing the 100th anniversary of the manufacture of the first mechanical grain reaper. Because of this Invention of Cyrus McCormick, -the United States has become the granary of the world. Not only the chaos from a devastating wrar ipakes Europe look to America sor s help in its food problems. Without the war Europe in any comparable area would have been far below the United States in agricultural production, largely due to lack of modern farm machinery. Mechanized farming made possible America’s vast food-rais-ing achievement. o o Dr. Herman B. Wells will be given a six month’s leave from Indiana University, to serve as educational adviser in Germany, at the request of General Lucius Clay. American military governor. The Indiana college president is one of the country’s most ablest educational leaders. His youthful energy and enthusiasm have contributed much to our state university and the state as a whole. General Clay had the choice of any man in this country for the important poet in the revamping of the educational system in the American zone in Germany, and he selected Dr. Wells, which is tribute sufficient to the Hoosier s ability and sincerity when given a difficult assignment to perform.

self. If a person with arthritis remains in a cooler climate, he should dress warmly during the day, and be well covered at night. The great value of rest in arthritis may account to some extent for the improvement these patients get when they go to spas, that is, places where there are mineral springs and where the patients take hot baths. Next to rest, physiotherapy is of a great help to arthritic patients. This means the use of various measures to produce heat in the tissues. Massage, hot baths

and diathermy all are useful. A ' simply apparatus can be employed I at home to produce heat in the I tissues. ' Massage should always be light 1 over the affected joints of they are inflamed. More vigorous massage - may be used if the joints are simply stiffened. , The diet for arthritic patients should, of course, be well balanced, supplying alj the necessary vita- • mins and minerals. Vitamin D in large doses is beneficial to many arthritics. However, it should he employed, only, under the direction of a physician, since reactions may occur. X • The drugs known as salicylates are useful in relieving pain and bringing comfort. In any event, the patient with arthritis should not give up hope, for with the proper treatment great benefits can be brought about in his condition.

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Modern Etiquette i By ROBERTA LEE I O O Q. When a house guest has perission from her hostess to invite a friend to dinner, or some other affair, by whom should the invitation be extended? A. All invitations should come from the hostess. Q. Should a girl announce her own engagement? A. Only to her family and close friends. Public announcement is made by her parents or closest relatives. Q. Should two men always shake hands when being introduced? A. Yes, always, unless of course circumstances make it awkward to do so. o —_ O 0 i Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE | O . n Crockery Cement Here is a good cement for mend-

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE ROOF, of hand-cut shingles, had given away in places, but the logs were sturdy, and inside the floor of the big main room was fairly sound, though that in the bedroom would have to be replaced. The kitchen was in bad repair, but with a newly acquired housewifely knowledge, Gail saw its possibilities. While Greg and Charles estimated the necessary repairs, Gail, Norah and Kate moved about the rooms, planning and discussing. Gail’s color burned and her eyes sparkled with eagerness. “There is some furniture you can have in the attic," Kate told her. “It will need polishing, of course, but it’s quite sound and substantial. We can make new slip covers and curtains, and you can have a nice little place.” Gail barely restrained a little childish skip of excitement and her eyes danced with delight. “I'll feel like Alice in Wonderland,” she crowed. “Imagine—a place of my own!” There was wonder and awe in her voice and Kate and Norah exchanged a swift, compassionate glance. There was something very touching to them in Gail’s delight over the shabby, dilapidated little place. Her simplicity had made them see with a sharp clarity the insecurity of her life before she had come to them. Wfcen they came again into the hot sunshine, Charles and Greg were arguing vigorously, and Greg was saying sternly, “There’s no use in arguing about it any more, Uncle Charles. If Gail thinks she can be happy here and comfortable, then I’ll find away to fix it up. But not with the money in the bank and the return from the crops. I’ve got a few bucks of my own tucked away; I can get more. And I can do the work myself.” Gail’s eager face fell a little, and she all but held her breath as she watched Charles. He was studying Greg with a curious intentness that, somehow, lost all belligerence and suddenly became warm and smiling.

“You win, son,” he said at last. “It’s natural you want to be independent, but I thought a wedding gift to my daugher—” “The furniture you’ve offered, and the other stuff, sir, that’s a very handsome wedding gift and we’d like very much to have it,” said Greg. Gail drew a deep breath and clenched her hands tightly together, and there were tears in her eyes as she beamed at Greg. “For a minute,” she fold him honestly, “I thought yqp were'; trying to wriggle out df marrying me —and I was scared!” The frankness of that " made them all laugh a little and Greg said, easing the tension with attempted flippancy, “Oil, no. I’m hooksd and I know it. It wcuWt do me any good to fight.”

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ing crockery. It takes a long time to dry, but will stand heat and water. Mix a little pure white lead with linseed oil and use it very thick. Let it set for a week. Boiling Jam Jam will not boil over, nor will skimming be necessary, if onefourth teaspoon of butter is added to the jam before boiling begins. Suede Slippers Rain spots will quickly disappear from suede slippers if rubbed with an emery board, such as is used for manicuring. ,—_o Oct. 22 — A Muncie youth confesses to taking part in the Bryant bank holdup on October 14. M. F. Worthman is reelected secretary of the Northeastern Indiana Teacher's Association. The run at the Decatur sugar plant will probably continue until about January 1. Judge Baltzell of the Indiana federal court, Indianapolis, sentences

Gail grinned at him impishly. “I’m so glad you admit that now,” she told him cheerfully. “It’s going to save a lot of battles afterward.” She turned to her father, with Greg’s arm about her, and said gently, “It’s a darling little place, Father, and I love it. And I’d be perfectly willing to move into it just as it stands, without spending a penny, if Greg moved in with me.” Charles kissed her cheek and said, “Then that’s that, chick. After all, it’s your life and Greg’s. We oldsters have no right to try to impose our will upon you. You’ve a right to make your mistakes, if you like, and remedy them in your own way!” Gail drew a long breath and flung up her head, sniffling happily at the summer fragrance of the deep woods and the coolness from the dark river. “We are going to be so terribly happy here,” she said contentedly. “Oh, darling, darling, aren’t we the luckiest two people in the whole wide world?” * • « Gail had had a few hastily scrawled postal cards from her mother, with South American postmarks, and a hasty note or two. There had been no indication that Gail’s first letter, describing the conditions she had found at Twin Oaks, had caught up with Lissa. The Bermuda house party, Gail gathered from the hasty potes, had been a huge success; so much so that some of the guests had gone on to other southern ports. Martin had chartered a yacht and they were having “a too, too marvelous time,” according to Lissa. Their return to the States was very indefinite. There was some talk that they might go on to Rio, or come back through Mexico; but the tone of the brief notes and the cards indicated that Lissa was quite confident and happy. Later, Gail admitted with shame that there were whole days when she forgot all about her mother. Forgot everything that had existed in her life before she had come to Twin Oaks. She was so busy and excited and happy in getting the little house ready for occupancy. It was midsummer by now and the field work had lessened, so that she and Norah and Kate could put in more time getting things straight. Greg worked through the days, reshingling the house, putting down new floors, and painting. The time sped by on silver wings and Gail was happier than she had ever dreamed she could be. There was no thought of a trousseau; she had brought with her so many lovely things that had been hanging untouched in the closet, and her new life as Greg’s wife would call for far more practical garments, which. Kate and Norah helped her maie.

22 persons for violations of prohibition laws. State acountants Schroeder and Hammond are completing the anual check of Adams county officials. E. Burt Lenhart is building a cottage on North Eighth street. Yellow Jackets defeat North Side, 18 to 7. o— CHURCH NEWS ■ — Bethany Church The October fellowship service of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church will be held this evening at the church, opening with a carry-in supper at 6:30 o’clock. A film, "Seeds of Destiny,” depicting the war devastated areas pf Europe, will be shown at 7:15 p.m. ■ l,l — ■ —— O~"' — t " Memorial Sunday For K. Os C. November 2 Memorial Communion Sunday will be observed by tne Knights of Columbus on Sunday, November 2. at St. Mary's Catholic church. The members are asked to meet at the K. of C. hall at 7 o’clock and then march to the church for the 7:30 o'clock mass, during which they will receive Holy Communion in a body. —— o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur o Talents 1. I saw a man with education. More than I by far; Spend a broken life, At a drunkard’s bar. 2. Les his name was on a book, He had shook a preacher's hand. He belonged to a church. Os a worldly band. 3. God gives each one a talent. To multiply as we use: If we fail, to use it. The talent we will lose. 4. You ask, what was the taJent. The good Lord gave to you; Just a chance to be a Christian, And live a life that's true. 5. What have you dona,with the taJent, The good Lord gave to you; Are you being a Christian. And living a life that’s true? —Raymond McAhren

Gail had been astounded when Kate had brought out from a storeroom one morning an armful of printed cotton cloth, and had said, “I’ve been saving feed sacks for a long time, and being very careful to always see that when we bought a sack of chicken or cow feed the patterns matched in at least three sacks.” Gail stared at the little heap of washed and folded squares, and then looked up at Kate. “Feed sacks?” she asked incredulously. Kate laughed richly. “Os course, darling,” she answered lightly. “It’s much better material than you can buy at the stores nowadays. The patterns are nice, and the cloth is soft and durable. Norah and I—and practically all our friends—wear dresses made of feed sacks the year round.” She held up a length of cloth with a white background patterned with small clusters of purple violets with green leaves. “Three matching pieces make a dress,” Kate explained. “And I’ve been careful to see that we had at least three pieces of each pattern. And where we run short—well, we’ll combine with something else.” Gail gave a little delightful yelp of mirth. “Feed sack trousseau! What a lovely idea! Kate, you’re a lamb —■ but we’ll divide them equally so we can all have new frocks and be right in style.” Kate twinkled at her. “Last summer, when Norah rebelled against feed sacks and insisted on a brand new storebought dress, she and I shopped the Atlanta stores, and in half a dozen instances found dresses priced at six to eight dollars made of material exactly like some we had at home!” And so Kate's sewing machine hummed, and Kate and Norah cut and basted and fitted and made buttonholes. Kate proved to have an excellent hand at making slip covers, and there were old trunks in the attic that divulged unexpected largesse in the shape of usable material that Kate’s ingenuity could turn into decorative things for the little house. Gail had written Lissa of her approaching marriage and her plans and had sent her letter on to the bank in New York that handled Lissa’s trust fund and income, to be forwarded to Lissa. And late one afternoon, when she was cramped and tired from sitting so long over; her sewing, she volunteered to-'go for the mail. Norah was downstairs somewhere and Gail left Kate finishing up a last bit of sewing before stopping to cook supper. Gail went down the weed-grown drive to the highway, where the rural route man left the mail in a battered old box. (To Be Continued)

Colchin Property Sold At Auction Waldo Eckrote, of this city, purchased the Colchin home on Rugg street at the auction sale Tuesday night, conducted by the Schwartz Realty Co. and cried by Roy Johnson. The property brought SII,BOO and included the modern home on a lot 50 by 180 feet, and a large building in the rear which will house four automobiles. Mr. Eckrote stated today that he was planning to convert the large home into modern apartments and would make a further announcement later. Bert Colchin is administrator of the Colchin estate and had charge of the sale. Trade in a Good Town — De<*niitr

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX GAIL was whistling as she walked, and her heart was a dancng star. Twt> more weeks and he little house would be ready ind she and Greg were going to ae married in the living room of t. They were not going away on i honeymoon, because it would be lilly; besides, it would be expenlive,. and Gail was learning that •xpensive things were not much :un, anyway. She had reached the mailbox be:ore she saw Norah. She stopped, startled, for Norah was huddled in i little heap, her face hidden igainst her arm, and she was sobering as though her heart would oreak. Clutched in one outflung land was a crumpled letter. Gail rad only time to see that there vas a printed letterhead, and that he letter had a businesslike look; md then Norah, as though sensng Gail’s presence, rolled over, stumbled to her feet, and stared it Gail as though she hated her. “Norah!” Gail gasped, shocked. But Norah brushed past her and vent running, stumbling like one lalf-blind, back toward the house. Gail looked after her, dum'ounded. And then she sighed and rubbed her hand over her foreiead, as though to clear away the puzzle of Norah’s behavior. It was ill a part and parcel of the small, lagging mystery that had hung ibout Norah from the night Gail iad heard her sobbing in her room. There were several letters scat;ered on the grass, where Norah lad evidently dropped them to ipen her own letter. Gail bent and picked them up. A business letter for Charles; a circular; a letter "or Kate—and a plump well-filled envelope addressed to Gail in her mother’s dashing scrawl, and adorned with a Mexican stamp. Gail caught her breath. Had tier letter announcing her engagement, reached her mother? She lucked the other letters into the pocket of her blue jeans and dropped down on the grass to read Lissa’s letter. She could almost lear her mother’s voice, warm and gay, with that characteristic ireathless note that added its own charm. Darling Pet: Are you out of your mind, lamb? Married, indeed—and to one of those weird yokels you've been writing about? Darling, after all, that’s going just a bit too far! I know I sent, you down there to wangle a, decent allowance from your father, and it’s quit® too bad of him to pretend to be so hard up that he can’t do it; but after all, we can force him to, I think, without you.- doing anything so drastic! Heavens, lamb, I can’t believe you would go that far! If you’re drunk with Southern moonlight, and have any such, weird ideas, for heaven’s sake pack up and get away from there, fast! I simply will not hear of your making such a sacrifice. Honestly, lamb, I’m seriously alarmed for your sanity! The DiXUnghasts will have you,

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I’m sure, and I shall be back in New York within another month —perhaps as Mrs. Martin Kincaid. It begins to look that way! Isn’t that marvelous? He’s really quite a pet, and I expect to be very happy! So run along to the Dillinghasts, and I’ll see you there soon. Love, pet LISSA. There was a postscript: These silly bills have been following me around until they’re getting on my nerves. It would be utterly ruinous to all my plans if they dared to sue —as they threaten. So hand them over to Charles and tell him to pay them. He can call it my wedding present if he likes! And I’m sure he can afford them easily! Gail sat very still, the letter in one hand, the little sheaf of bills in the other. She had been so gay and happy, so at peace—and now she had the feeling of being jerked painfully back into that old, insecure world from which she felt she had escaped.

Her hands shook as she unfolded the bills in the dying light of the late afternoon. Fifty dollars for perfume; SBS for a hat; $33 for slippers; $340 for a dinner gown. Her eyes widened as she went through them and roughly totaled the amount —close to a thousand dollars! “These silly bills” her mother had called them! Ar amount that Greg had furiously refused to accept from Charles as a wedding gift because it would wipe out the entire account of the family. Money they had all worked hard to earn, and had denied themselves common comforts to save; money that was to be used to make the big old barn of a house comfortable and snug; money that Lissa would have considered as less than a month's spending allowance. Money that represented years of labor and patient savings. Gail got to her feet and put both shaking hands to her white face. She could not possibly “hand them over to Charles,” as Lissa had said of the bills “and tell him to pay them.” Yet if she didn’t the shop would undoubtedly sue Lissa, and Lissa’s plan to marry Martin Kincaid would go smash. Lissa had always skated on thin ice, but she had managed not to go under; she had managed to avoid anything approaching a scandal. Yet if she were sued for the collection of such bills, that would be, to Lissa, irreparable disgrace! Shame that would wreck her. Lissa was so blithely confident that all Gail had to do was show Charles the bills. She did not — would not —beljeve , the truth of Charles’ circumstances; it was incomprehensible to her that ne could be poor, that he could be living in what would seem to her unbearable squalor. Gail had carefully glossed over some of the hardships; she had not mentioned tha,t there was no electricity, no water works; even more carefully ( she/’ had concealed the fact that 1

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she had gone into th seh help with the farm work. Sickly, she told herself a»j she should have been Ini frank. She should have give mother the unvarnished pit should have made it piis! plain to her that she could:; hope for any more help, fs cially, from Charles. But she! wanted to spare Lissa ay# about herself; she hadn't n Lissa’s happiness maned by easiness about her daughter 1 !! being. And that would ta suited if Lissa had known wi how things were at Twin fe It was growing dusk «ta last Gail got to her feet and i back along the drive to the in She shrank from meeting thei ers, and when she reached house, she slipped up the stai her own room, leaving the mi Charles and Kate on the tail) In her room, she walked m down, beating her hanfc togd helplessly, not eweious d movement. was she tn What could she do? SheW money of her own—perhapi > or stx dollars—and that to !i would scarcely be sufficient i tea check. Lissa needed a • sand dollars, and unless shegsthere would be a scanda-. Lissa’s eyes, it would be a tert scandal that would wrecks 1 hopes and plans. Yet to 0 Charles and show him the w and the bills-Charles might > the bills. Gail believed t» would. But no power on» could make her do it

She put her hand inl®P for the letter, and shocked. For the k there. She had thrust hate Charles' mail into one pock* f she was quite sure she M . her mother's letter an in the other. But, lest she had dropped KJ, table with Kate s and ® ters, she flew down th- - hall. But no; her letter was not there. She stood still for a ing back in frantl . that shocked moment had dropped down onJM to read the letter, every moveme " t l^ a h a( j, of ® s came to her. Sh • dropped the on \ It was still there; A there, for no one e drive. , m With the thought, of the house and r the drive, already h dusk. She reached t^, and looked care alinO Even though it wa. * the white lirnrne f. nul d sho*' tetter, the bills, would She hunted desperate heart hammering She had to find ’‘ e ( before someone eis c)! ) And as the a voice spoke f • I underbrush belu *? I!S ing ® whirled to fitting ** where he had 3