Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1948 — Page 4

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Truman and Barkley: In a lighting speech that follow eu his acceptance of the Democrat nomination lor the presidency President Truman told the delegates in the inferno-like Philadelphia convention hall that be and his running mate, Senator Barkley, would carry their cause to the people, certain of victory in November, Thu country marvels at President Trumans spunk and confidence No one could be more aggressive as a campaigner. His ringing speech on the failure of the 80th Congress to pass needed legislation is a highlight in a career marked by hard fought political battles. Certainly. President Truman has the courage of his qonvidlions and the energy to wage battle for the things in which he believes. President Truman will be ably assisted In the campaign by Sena tor Barkley, nominee for the vicepresidency. There is no doubt that the able Kentucky senator made the greatest spec h of any man in either of the major party political conventions. No man Is better versed in government than Senator Barkley and his opponent, Governor Warren of California becomes a little Boy Scout in com parison. The Democrat nominees were named in a convention bistori* for many episodes. The bolters from the south rallied behind the candidacy of Senator Russell of Georgia. Some of the Alabama delegatee and the entire Mississippi delegation "walked out" of the convention in protest to the Civil Rights plank and President Truman s sponsorship of those precept in defense of humanity. The party was also split by a group of so-called leaders who tried to take the leadership from President Truman and nominate General Eisenhower. The harm has been done dnd it remains to be seen if the gallant spirit of the two nominees can bring the factions together and help roll up a victory next fall. ——o ——-n The inability of Gil Dodds to compete in final tryouts for the Olympic track team means that the United States squad will be minus one of the country s most colorful runners when it goes to London this summer. Dodds, considered the best distance runner in amateur circles, was counted on heavily to help the running squad stand up against the stiff competition expe< ted

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Nation's Hero: Without a slight in the direction of the presidency, it can be said that the country lost its 'First Citizen" in the death of Genera! John J. Pershing. He was the nations venerable hero. "Black Jack" Pershing as he was known In the Army, was a great soldier. In stature he was the finest and although retired from active service in 1924, Congress kept his name on the active fist in tribute to his service to his

country. He remained Genera »• of the Armies. ,l Pershing reached bls pinnacle f- as a soldier in World War I, when *■ he became commander of the AEF. ‘ Hi? advice at that time was to r march the American army to Berr lin and call for an unconditional e surrender. 1 Last September, when General

Pershing observed his Stith birth- ■ day anniversary. President Trumac, who served under him in France, sent him the following message: ' In the name of a grateful people, I send affectionate birthday greetings to a gallant and intrepid defender of American rights Time, which has vindicated your vision and judgment, has increased the debt which the nation owes you." There is no finer tribute for the nation's illtistrous soldier. 0 u The high cost of living is becoming more than a personal matter and Congress has been called to du something about it. o —o_ — The man with a nest-egg of I'. S. Savings bonds does not have to worry about tomorrow. The midway will be lighted dur Ing street fair week, city workmen Being busily engaged in stringing of the wires in the uptown area it’s Decatur’s way of giving the town the festival touch for Fair Week, July 26 to 31.

—o—o President Truman has called Congress into session for July 26, to act on needed housing and cost •of living legislation The Civil Kights bill will also be introduced. Mr. Trujnan charges the Hcpublican Congress evaded these , needed laws during ih<‘ ROth session and then turned around and included them In the GOP platform. No doubt the session will be a political showdown in more ways than one. The President isn't afraid of the outcome. Two and one-half votes were cast for Paul V. McNutt, former governor of Indiana, for president in the Democrat convention. His name was placed before the delegates by a delegate from Florida. Mr. McNutt was not a candidate and in the final tally, he wound up with a one-half vote. Now an attorney in New York City, the gray haired former Hooaier. probably will never realise his amhl • tion to become president of the United States.

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Wo y ALICE ROSS COLVER TMm

dYNOHMB Asne I oresur was elated when her Bsare, UmS. Alee Uersaas cabled be eeeld sees be discharged trass Ibe Nary. 11 was depreaalag news, bewares, ter biadly but ayaleal Den eld Ogdea wba bad long been la lara with bar. Anae's eagagemeai to Alee was the eaimlaatloa at a whirlwind canrtahlp In Hawaii ware lhaa a year age. They had hnawa each other only a week when ho was ordered la Ibe Far Keel I shortly alter, aha b.id eemo to Now York. Aloe's cable laotrncted her to bo ready Io Marry him the fellow lag month al olaae Heaae, bls family's estate in Jersey. Aase weald hare preferred waiting anti) that time to areel bls family, bet Jells, bls mother, apoa learalag the good sews, begged bar to cenw le them immediately. CHAPTER THREE ANNE leared forward and spoke through the open taxicab window to the colored driver as they whirled between gateposts into a tree-lined driveway. “Is this the Doremus place we’re entering?" , “Thia is it. ma'am." “Then let me out, please. Til walk from here.” It was an instinctive procrastination. Ahead of her. waiting, was the family. Julia. Alec's mother, and Henry, his father. Henry's mother. “Gram” Doren.us, and Julia's mother, Madame Kingsley. Also John and his wife, Helen, who had a job in a New York publishing house. Six of them. In the loneliness of Hawaii, it had sounded like a wonderful household. Approaching it now, Anne was not sure that wonderful was quite the word. Terrifying might be better. Julia was ah right Alec had

•aid so and she had already proved it For, of course. Anne should i have come out here when ehe was I tlrat released last spring. She taxi i meant to. and Julia had invited i her several time* but each time it i had been arranged, something had ( arisen to intervene until at last , the matter had been tacitly dropped by both of them. Julia might easily have taken offense ( at thia but her note, following i Alec s cable, gave not the slight- ■ eat suggestion that she had. It ■ was, quite simply, gracious and , welcoming. Over his shoulder, the driver , was saying, “Reckon you don’t , know you got nigh onto a mile to traipse.” "That's ad right My bag is light" He shrugged, put on his brakes and swerved to the edge of the road where he stopped. Anne paid him and got out A moment later abe stood alone In the hot quiet as the September afternoon. •ba moved forward slowly Around her was the stillness of open country. Here 1 am." abe thought "only about Afteen miles from the George Washington Bridge and New Tort yet tt might be a hundred." Stone House Itself •as approximately four miles from the village of Hillsdale. Stone House. She could glimpse tt tar down the lofty tunne. made by the meeting overhead tt gjyq

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20 Y£A£S AGO TODAY o July 16 — Robert Evans, 24. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Evans, dies in hospital at Sturgis. Michigan, result of an automobile accident. Police seize nine slot machines in five i)e< atur business places and arrest proprietors. The Van Grant store In Renssalaer, destroyed by fire this morning with large loss. The G. (). P. plans to spend four million bucks In the campaign. Jim A. Hendricks elected a member of Adams county council to take the place of Henry Eiting. resigned. Mr and Mrs. Harve Kitson and I daughter leave on a three weeks auto tour of the southwest.

oaxs and eima She could see the faded red stone of it, its sloping f Dutch root with its great cium- 1 neys and countless dormer win- i dowa, and the broad wings that had been added at either end. It 1 was exactly as Alec had told her 1 it would be: dignified, hospitable, < spacious. "One of the old land- < marks," he had said. "I’m proud • of it” She would think he would be! Seven generations of his father's > people had lived here. It was ■ more than a landmark. It was a tradition. And with its inviolate * air of strength and stability and ' calm, it stirred her now as she had not expected to be stirred. With her eyes on it, her step ' quickened. I The sound of a station wagon < came to her ears at thia moment I and, turning, she saw it approach- t ing. It drew abreast of her and stopped. Almost at once a big, t loose-limbed man was out of the car and striding around it toward I her with his hand outstretched. I Her first thought was, “Now 1 I remember what Alec looks like!” 1 And the recognition made her | heart leap. Then she saw that John’s tumbled, thick hair was I black, not brown, and his deep-set, searching eyes under heavy brows were gray. And where Alec’s face had always been alive and alight with laughter and fun. the strong, bony oblong of John’s was grave. It was only a family resemblance, after all, she told herself. “You’re Anne, of course,” he was saying, his look on her warm and intent. “My apologies for ■ missing you at the station. I did i an errand and was late. But why are you walking? 1 passed the I taxi ■

"I got out at the gate I wanted to. I—" She felt a trifle breathless before the steadiness of his regard and swiftly reconstructed her reason. ’Alec has told me so much about Stone House. I wanted to come on it gradually. To see if it was all he said It was." -And is it?" She had the impression that her answer mattered and she wanted, for some reason, to make tt right "It’s more," she told him slowly. "Much mote." She glanced again down the avenue toward it and Atting words came to her. "It’s an oasis in ths desert of our times," she said. He gave a slight start "That’s rather an odd thing for you to say." "Is tt? It's tbs way tt affected ma." And her quick, wide smile wrinkled up her nose and crinkled the corners of her eyes. For a moment they stood there in the sunlight together, a slender, long-legged girt in a modish black suit tat-heeled suede pumps and a tiny black hat perched on bronze red hair, and a powerfully built man tn dungarees and a blue cotton shirt that he wore with the collar open and the sleeves rolled to his elbowa Then he took her bag and moved with tt toward the station wagon. He moved easily, with an air of unhurried cahn is If bo ware master not only at hbnasif but of _ _ .

0 • Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE 0 Q Is It proper for a girl to give her fiance an engagement gift? A. Yes. and It la often done. But she should not give him a more expensive gift than she knows he is able to afford to give to her Q Should olives be eaten with the fork? A. Nd. They should be eaten with the fingers. Bite off, but don't nils ble. A very small one may put into the mouth whole. Q Should a letter of introduction be sealed? A. No. Blue Creek The 4-H club of Blue Creek township held its meeting at the home of Ramona Gatshal! Monday night. The meeting was opened with the group singing "America The Beautiful," and the club song. Thirteen members answered roll call with their favorite project In the 4-H club this year. Pledges to the flags were led by Pauline Roe. after which delicious refreshments were served by Ramona Gattshall and Myrna Young. Mrs. Pearl Young and Miss Pat Carpenter were guests. The next meeting will be held at the North Brick school on July 19 at one thirty o'clock. Roll call will be answered with "my favorite way of getting out of the dishes.” Canary Takes Over Clinton. Maas.—(UP)—-A robin’s egg found in the Unitarian church yard was put in a canary cage at the home of Eben Cobb. When the egg hatched, the canary adopted the baby robin and has become a doting mother. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur ■ — — Drew Straw Hats are *'t Price—Peterson Clothing Co.

”1 have your trunk here," he said. “At least I got that.'' And he opened the door for her on her side. To her astonishment she saw on the Door of the car, sitting in a tiny Uay-chair wedged there, a curly-headed child with great, dark, glowing eyes, who looked up and smiled engagingly. -Hi!” she piped. “Hi! Hi! Hi!” “It's one of the few words she knows. Can you squeeze in ail right?" "Oh, surely." Anne stepped up. “Hi. yourself. Who might you be?" “Me Doody.” “Judy." John was In his seat now behind the whael, the child between them. “My daughter. Or did you guess?" And she Heard in his voice and saw on his face a great gentleness and pride. “No. Alec never said a word about your having a little girt.” “Perhaps the news reached him after be left Hawaii. Or perhaps it just didn't register with him.” He started the engine and then let it idle while be reached tn his pocket for pipe and tobacco. Anne was silent Wouldn't such a thing register? She didn't know. She had no idea. She gave a small, surprised laugh. “What is it?” "I was just thinking that I’ve found cut more about vou in two minutes than I did about Alec in a week." Tossing the burned match into the driveway, he puffed on his pipe once or twice before he asked, "What have you found out about me?" “Wen, two things. That you're devoted to your little girl. And to your home." A tiny flame sprang to life deep in his steady gray eyes. “Yes," be said. “Yes. I am. If by the home you include the entire farm." “Is that the way it is?" “That's the way it la.” He leaned on his arms on the wheel and looked off through the trees. “You may not be interested. I don't know why I’m telling you. But I'm proving something here. Or trying to." “What?" "Well, you said it pretty wen yourself. That its an 'oasts in the desert of our timer' That was very good. Really very good. Incidentally. what, exactly, did you mean by it?" “I was thinking of the world,” she answered. “The way it’s been ripped apart and everybody yanked up and moved somewhere else. Millions! It’s good to come on a place that seems fixed. Where people stay “ Ho nodded. “I meant a little more than that though." “Did you? What more?" "That as the land goes, so goes America." “I don’t quite understand “ i He turned his head and looked I at her. "Do you want to?" i “Very much." i He seemed to be considering her i reply, weighing ta his mind Its ’ sincerity.

Show Steps Leading To High Meal Cost Three Cents To $1 Increase On Steak (Editor’s note Food prices are at an a-lltime high and new boosts are expected in meat prices. ‘ The following dispatch shows how the price of a cut of steak jumps from about three cents a pound on the-hoof to $1 a pound in the neighborhood butcher shop. I Omaha. Neb.. July 16 (UPi A 45 bull calf, born on the western | Nebraska range and fed grass and corn for two years as a steer, will bring 36 cents a pound on the Omaha livestock market. And that’s not top price. For a housewife to place on the broiler a thick, juicy steak from that one-time wobbly-legged calf, she must pay her butcher at the rate of 11 a pound That’s average current price for beef loin Here's the trail a specific Aberdeen Angus bull calf traveled before he ended up on the dinner plate: He weighed about 75 pounds at birth, and was worth 15. During the first year of his life he grazed off seven acres of grassland, ate about two tons of hay, licked block salt, and underwent a de-sexlng operation. In the second summer he had grown into a 711 pound steer and was ready to be sold to a feeder, a stockman who specialised in "finishing" cattle into beef-on-the-hoof. The steer brought 16 cents a pound, netting his former owner sll4. Tne feeder paid $1.91 to transport the steer by train to his home town, and 21 cents to truck the animal to his farm. The feeder

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