Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1948 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By CHE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter J. H. Heller President A. K. HoHhouse, 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 Ad loining counties: One year, $7.00; j 6 months. $3.75; 3 months, $2.00 By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. The big week is here. May it be filled with happiness for you and your family. o o The Good Fellows club is not a relief agency. Its members just | give so that others may enjoy a Merry Christmas. o o Wonder why we keep complaining about Old Man Winter? He's been showing up this time of year ever since we can remember. -—o o The Christmas Greeting edition of this newspaper will be issued '• Wednesday. We invite you to read the messages of good will extended to you by individual and business firm. 0 o For the convenience of the shoppers local stores will remain open up until nine o'clock each evening this week, with the exception ' of Friday, when they close at six. < A Happy Christmas Eve to all. —— o o 1 The tnai] carriers and postal clerks are getting a work-out these days, but in performing double I ( duty seem to enjoy the thought I that they deliver happiness to many people. It is a wonderful service. ——o o The merry-go-round was enjoyed by the children and even dad. j mother, grandma and grandpa, I found a plausible excuse for taking a ride by accompanying Junior around the track. o o— — The newly published letters of President Roosevelt reveal that in 1916 he had luncheon with Winston Churchill, and that this made so little impression on Churchill that in the '3o’s he imagined that he was meeting the President for the first time. In 1916 Churchill was clearly the more famous of the two. o o i Each year there are 2,500 fatal accidents from guns, says th*Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Half of these are in the home, where the great majority of deaths are of children 10 to 15 years of age. It is a mystery why so many apparently sensible per-

Disorder Infant May Have

By Herman N. Bunde-.en, M. D. THE most common condition requiring surgical treatment in the first few months of life is pyloric stenosis. In this disorder the food cannot pass from the stomach into the bowel as it should because there is a thickening of the circular muscle between the stomach and the first part of the intestine. Just why the majority of such cases occur in male babies we do not know But it is a fact that there are about six males to one female. However, another interesting fact is that the first-born is more likely to have this condition. In most instances, the condition develops shortly after birth, between the ages of three and six weeks. The first symptom of this condition is severe vomiting, in which the food is forcibly expelled ‘from the stomach. If this type of vomiting occurs, the baby should be carefully examined to determine whether it has gained weight satisfactorily. and to note whether the movements of the stomach can be seen through the abdominal wall.* Sometimes the thickened muscle may be felt through the abdomen. Because the X-ray examination is of great Importance in making a diagnosis in this condition is just another reason why the doctor Is so thankful for the X-ray. The enlarged circular muscle may be seen in did X-ray plate, and there is also a narrowing of the opening through this muscle when pyloric stenosis is presen' However, the ao;t irportaat MomxtWß obtain l

i sons, if they must keep deadly wea-1 pons in the house, persist in leav- j ing them where they can be found by prying fingers of young-people untrained in their use. | Governor-elect Schrioker had to back up on his appointment .of Arthur Campbell, printing firm executive and a former school ! principal as superintendent of the state police department. A recent I law specifies that the head of the department must have had at least five years of police experience.; Most of his life Mr. Campbell has J been a school teacher and in his | particular case, a college diploma' was not equivalent to a police beat. . — 0 0 The first pubj.c hearing on the j proposed zoning ordinances as J submitted to the City Plan Com-1 mission, will be held on January 12. at a place to be announced later. Col. Sheridan, the city’s I consultant and nationally knowm i city plan expert, will explain what has been incorporated in the plans and how they will affect local property owners. It will be a meeting of great interest and citizens should attend in large numbers. o —-o 11 The Indiana grain train left In-1 1 dianapolis today for Philadelphia ! J. where the wheat and soybeans 1 will be loaded aboard ship and sent i overseas. Adams county farmers 1 donated approximately SIO,OOO in cash and grains to the Christian i I ] Rural Overseas Program and the ( drive was conducted in every township during the first ten days of , the month. Distribution of the food f will be made 'by the church groups I « comprising CROP, including Catho- " lie, Lutheran and Protestant churches. Again the farmers of this country show the world what is meant by sharing and Christian help. o—n> 0 —n> Before the Jewish-Arab warfare started ’hundreds of thousands of persons made the pilgrimage- to - Bethlehem, there to worship at the Church of the Nativity. This shrine is believed to be on the , exact site of the manger in which the Christ child was cradled. There will be no such pilgrimage this year. Barbed wire and hidden mines block the way. Nearly 2,001' years ago there occurred in Bethlehem an event around which much of the world's progress'since that time has been fashioned. According to Christian teachings Christ /came to redeem the world. At the same time He was the greatest apostle of peace ’ecorded in either sacred or secular history. Had there heen a general acceptance of His teachings by men and nations there would have heen no wars, no barbed wire, no hidden mines.

■ ed by the X-ray is whether or not ■ the contents of the stomach an ' retained, i.e.. do not pass on to the intestine in the usual three or sou: hours. 1 The treatment for pyloric steno ' sis consists of operation. However it is extremely important that thi baby be put in the hest possible condition before ’the operation is carried out. This is done by giving the pa tient plenty of fluid by injection under the skin or into a vein, or by giving an Injection of whole blood into a vein prior to operation The patient is given water one hour after the operation is performed. and the amount of water is increased every two hours. Twc -hours after the operation, the pa tient is given a milk feeding, pre ferably breast milk, though a formula can be used. The baby is not awakened during the night for son of my age’ Thanks to modern medical science, babies with proper treat- , ment now seldom die from pyloric stenosis. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS J. IL: J am 22 years old. Can anything be done for bowlegs in a perfeeding The amount of food is gradually increased until by the fifth day the normal feeding schedule is resumed. Answer: Operation i« the only means of correcting bowlegs in a person of your age. An operation should not be performed unless the atfurmi’.y U utdre.

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o 0 20 YEARS AGO TODAY o 0 Dec. 20 — Wells county real .es- i fate owners are opposed to the dredging of the Wabash river through Adams county, fearing flood waters. The condition of King George V is reported some improved following an operation, hut still serious. The Rev. J. W. Lower, 76, dies at Warsaw. He was iwell known here. Predicted theere iwill be three million cases of flu in eastern United States by Christmas. Miss Helen Kocher, student at University of Mk hig..’.i, is home j i.'or the holidays. Mrs. Ellen Addlesperger of South Sixth street is repotted improving

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V__Z — CHAPTER FORTY-THREE GAIL HADN’T thought she could laugh, but she did, and to his further confusion, tier father grinned after a minute. "It is a note of comedy, after all. 1 meant it, however, as satire," he admitted. She said, "You and Brad's grandmother are somewhat alike." "Heaven forbid," he said piously. “Skip it. What's come over you?” “I don’t know.” For the first time he regarded her as something other than an instrument, a pledge of subsidy, or a possible danger, and she added quickly, "It isn’t duty. Perhaps it's paying a debt. After all, you were responsible for me.” "Involuntarily, 1 assure yon. I did not plan a family. 1 am far from being a family man.” "Nevertheless, here I am. And in my turn, I have some responsibility toward you. Not just financial. I didn’t want it that way. I didn’t care what happened to you as long as it didn’t affect me. I still don't want to care but, somehow or other, I do.” "You’re a curious girl," he said, "and I may add, not my type. Perhaps you are like me, hence incompatible. You aren’t like your mother ... she suffered and worshiped and clung and enjoyed poor health, poor spirits, and being kicked around. Oh, don’t protest. Look back, intelligently, and you’ll see it’s basically true. You’re too self-assured ... or is that just a front? Your emotions aren’t easily discernible. I've seen them exposed just twice . . . when we met for the first time in years and the other night, in Meredith’s apartment, when your weakness had nothing to do with me." She said, "1 was in love with Sam Meredith, and he with me. Sam didn't want to marry me although he finally suggested it I refused. I had then met Brad, through Sam. And 1 wanted what my mother had never lad, freedom from too much loving, and a complete security. Brad knew this when he married me: he knew about Sam, he does now. He knows also that 1 promised my mother I'd manage my life better than she managed hers." “Such candor should be rewarded,” said Rogers. He looked at her somberly. "Never again mortgage your future ... never be trapped intc obligations. Your mother was a good woman and most uncomfortable to live with ... she was smothering, devouring, bent on sacrifice. 1 couldn't take it. You couldn't either." Gail cried, "1 did, 1 loved her!” "How much? 1 wonder. Or was it yourself you loved... plus your sense of guilt, the belief that if she hadn't been burdened with you she might have been happier, lived longer? Don’t deceive yourself. She could inculcate guilt, very subUy. 1 couldn't take that either. 1 was a bad husband, granted, but be-

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from the flu. Ross Stoakes, Jr., is home from DePauw University. 0 o Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE 0 » Q. Is it considered good form to use the letters "R. s. v. p.” on invitations? A. This is still done and is in i good taste. However, it should not be necessary to remind a well-bred person that he should acknowledge the kindness of an invitation. i Q. How should a divorced woman sign her name? A. Supposing her name is Mrs. j Harry Smith (maiden name Anne Wilson), she should sign her name J “Anne Wilson Smith.” Q. Is celery always eaten with the 1

lieve me, she didn’t want a good one; she didn't even want to be happy. She liked the stake and the flames.” Gail was silent, remembering many things, and her father went on: "1 fell in love with her because she was pretty, appealing, and besotted about me. It didn’t last, with me. Many years later 1 fell in love with another woman. No, let me make a distinction. 1 have fallen in love with several but 1 loved only one. She would have nothing to do with me, which was sensible of her. But for a brief time I had a glimpse of what happiness might have been—such a glimpse isn’t conducive to peace of mind unless you’re a far stronger person than L” She said, T'm sorry," inadequately, and he murmured, "You needn’t be.” He closed his eyes a moment, and was old again and growing tired. .And without opening them wide asked, “Well, what about this place in Connecticut?” "You’ll go, then?" “Connecticut, California, Timbuktu? What does it matter? Don’t think 1 haven’t tried reformation before, if not on a luxury scale. At one point 1 voluntarily offered myself as an experiment In a word, 1 asked to be cured; and was." She asked eagerly, "You did ... then you’ll try again, you’ll cooperate?” "That time," he said, “1 co-op-erated fully. Well, nothing came of it A cure won't stick if you don't want it to. 1 had an incentive to be cured but the incentive was removed. She removed it and herself.” “I don’t expect or want promises," she told him. "Just that you'll see me while you’re trying." "1 don't get you," he said wearily. “You owe me nothing. You ■ once believed that, didn't you? ■ Well, believe it again. 1 put myself in the picture with one object in ' mind—blackmail. At the time you I subscribed to this notion. 1 didn't ’ ask to be received with open arms, ’ merely with an open purse. You ' didn't like me then; 1 doubt if ' you do now. So what's in it for ! you?” “We might learn to respect each ■ other," she said. ■ “All right," said Rogers, “make • your plans. I’ll try, although 1 I don’t relish the idea. But the first i thing we have to learn 13 to respect ourselves, and in my case i that's a tough assignment” 1 •• • , i Gail drove her father to the sanitarium in Brad's car. Her own, ordered for her, had not yet i come. Biad did not go with her, ■ nor the nurse. And her father asked as they drove along the i Parkway, green with young sumI mer, and crowded with cars, "Arei you not afraid?” “Na" i He smiled. He looked a good deal better. He bad already met Dr.

fingers? A. Yes, but if the stalks are large, they may be broken into pieces before eating. | Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE 5 , 0 Painting Nothing is better to remove paint or varnish from the hands than kerosene. Pofid a spoonful on a cloth and rub over the hands. Or, pour a spoonful into the palm of one hand, rub over the fingers, then wipe the hands with a piece of newspaper. Scratches If there are scratches on furniture, dissolve some beeswax in turpentine until the consistency of molasses. Apply this to the scratches, using a wollen cloth, and it will remove them. ' Bluing It would not be advisable to use bluing in the water which is used for rinsing green, yellow, or orchid colored garuien's. Homemaking Tips by Anna K. Williams Home Demonstration Agent Something the homemaker shoufd own but probably will not ’ get around to buying herself — that describes a perfect Christmas gift and also a thermometer. The sue- j cess and quality of cooking is most often determined by the temperature at which the food is prepared and yet, many homemakers do with- ' out useful thermometers.’There are 1 many kinds of thermometers, all of which make well-chosen Christmas gifts. One of the most versatile is the 1 dairy thermometer. With this ther-j 1 1 mometer, the homemaker can check I the temperatures for blanching vebetables for. locker storage and be sure the water is the right temperature for scalding chickens to prevent breaking the skin, Directions for both these activities are most i ' generally given in specific degrees ] of temperature which necessitate a 1 j thermometer for the best results. 1 Dairy thermometers are also used i

Manners, in town. He said, "I like Manners. But he won’t like me. I’m too apt to match wits with him." "Must you be difficult?" f ’ "1 dare say. It's a very different j ■ setup from the one 1 experienced," | he told her. "A room of, my own, ‘ ( a good bed, good food, books, the! radio you handsomely provided me | . . . consultations, lectures, and suitable exercise and occupational ’ therapy. I’ll make you a footstool,” ; he said, "and that's a threat” "I’m not to you for a little while," she said, "then I’ll be allowed. to come. 1 won’t be far away. Brad wants me to go to Ridgefield and stay, when it gets warmer." He said, "I think perhaps Brad deserves more than you are willing to give him." “Not willing," she said, low and flushed, as if he'd betrayed her into a confidence, "but—able." He said suddenly, after they had left the Parkway and were taking the winding roads which the map Brad had given her indicated: "It’s pretty here ... 1 don’t know this state very well. Do you know, I’m grateful to you, Gait ’ You’ve given me an interest." ’ She took a corner a little sharp- . ly and asked, "What do you ; mean?” "In you, in your husband ... as . a problem ... impersonal enough, ■ like doing a jigsaw puzzle or a crossword ... looking for the right ■J pieces, the right words to make t the pattern come clear. It’s a long 1 time since I have been interested j > in anyone but myself." The sanitarium was a pleasant • place, not too big, with the main house and cottages set in tumbling - little hills, surrounded with woods, 1 and the garden of tfae early summer. But after they were received • and sat in Dr. Manners’ quiet ofi fice, she could sense some of her ? father’s assurance leaving him and t he became exceptionally silent, i And when, finally, they said goodi bye he had the strangest look, that t of a child going to school for the , first time, faced with the disci--1 plir.e of the group and of stranf gers. Gail held out her hand, he r took it, and held it, and said, quite urgently, “You’ll come to see me?" i and she promised, “I'll come." She drove back to town before Ji evening fell, for she and Brad were 1 going to the Sturms’ for a late t dinner. She had no desire to go, - but Brad askfd very little of her. e *She felt a little ill, and wondered, as she had for some time, whether or not she might be "expecting." • The possibility had never been dis- , tasteful to her, and was not now. t But it frightened her, as if another ■, link had been forged. She told herr self, But if it's so, I’d be glad. Yet e she hardly thought of ncrself in • connection with a child. She • thought of Brad. It would, she believed, make him happy, it was something that she could do for 1 him. ‘.I (To Be Continued) t • I

Buys Health Bond Catholic Ladies of Columbia have voted purchase of a $5 health bond, officials of the Chrtst ’ ISEEImIkIILMAa; mas seal cam 5 Ip I 5 paign in Ad- < ams' c o u n t,y 5 IM iuSHrSMs® s announced today- All pr0 ‘ >1948 ceeds from t h e ahnual FI6HT H chr Ist mas Buy Christmos Serfs sea | gales are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide free clinics and otherwise carry on the fight against the ''white plague.” The sale is conducted by the Adams county tuberculosis association. to test temperatures when making butter and cottage cheese and to check yeast bread and roll dough when It is rising. Rising temperature of yeast dough is the most important factor in good bread. 'Meat thermometers provide the most dccuftße method of judging when the meat is done. They do not tell the tenderness of the meat Since that is determined by age of the animal, cut of meat, and other factors. Other uses for thermometers by the homemakers are candy deep fat, frying, and oven. Candy Thermometers can also be used to test jelly. If an oven does not have, a built in indicator, nothing would be more appreciated by the home-., maker and help make baking less worrisome and more successful than an oven thermometer. j When buying thermometers, get ( one of good quality from a reliable, ( well-known company. Some cheap- f er thermometers are sold without ] any name or information about thA | manufacturer. They are not *good, j buys and often do not register accurately. An inaccurate thermo- < meter may be worse than no ther- j mometer at all. Delphos And Lima Feuding Over Site Os Annual Big Fair | A ripsnorting intercity feud was smouldering today in Lima and Del- j phos, 0., the result of a decision | last Wednesday to* move the annual I county fair to the Bellefontaine | show grounds in Lima, after 28 | years iir Delphos. When the move was decided upon, with only two dissenting Del- 1 phos votes, Delphos boosters I promptly countered with apropos- • al for a fair of their own the same i week to compete with the bounty ; fair. Cc.rnenting on Lima’s coup, the | irate Delphos Daily Herald said in 1 a news story, “Lima literally stole I

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