Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1949 — 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 Dick D. Heller President A. R. Holthouse — Editor C. E. Holthouse Treasurer J. H. HellerVice-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, $7.00; 6 months, $3.7a; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. Up the Lane and over the Hill, is the way the Chamber of Commerce is marching these days. o—o Twelve minutes of /parking for a , penny. American inventive genius has at last found a place for the copper coin. o o Congress is going to increase the President's salary to $150,000 a year, which will include $50,000 for expenses. Out of the sloo,oo<o, taxes will tak e a nfcej slice, which will leave the Chief! Executive less than movie actors and many athletes earn. —c— —o The world should quit its fighting and go to work on projects that benefit the people and contribute to better living. Every community needs improvements. Churches and schools should be built and more attention given to public health and educational programs. We all seem too busy I fighting th c other person and forget the real objectives of life. More consideration should be placed on the views and enthusi-! assn of high school youths, a noted, world traveler and public speaker' stated in a talk here the other i evening. "No civic program should | be planned without naming high school youths, ministers or priests; to your committee,” he said. "You need their help in getting done what you set out to do.” We fully' agree with the suggestion. o o— — Maybe Decatur, speaking of it as a family of 7,200 members, needs a good challenge? Can we help in the employment situation and create more jobs for our people? In our economic system that is alt important. We can. It we will, build a more adequate youth center and at the same time provide a place tor employe grouipes and civic bodies to meet. Each individual can further his spiritual life in the community. These and other worthy aspects could be accomplished if we all just set our minds to do it and rather than wait for "George,” give individual leadership to those causes which we all want to see brought to fruition.

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by Herman N. Eundesen, M 0.. ii IN children under two years of s ag?. a condition known as intussusception, in which there is a tele- f scoping of the bowel, may occur. A h delay in the diagnosis and treat- t ment of this disease has a great in- f fluence on the outcome a for example, of S 3 patients stud- a led 66 were seen within the first 24 t hours after they developed this dis- t order and the outcome was good, f If a period of 48 hours elapses from <i the start of the condition until a i diagnosis is made and treatment I started .the mortality or number of, deaths from the condition rapidly < increases s The disorder begins suddenly. < with vomiting, pain and. sometimes, t collapse. Refusal to take food oe- c cuts in some instances and. tn a t number of cases, blood la found in I the bowel movements. i The pain comes on in spasms. < The child appears pale in between i these spasms of pain. He usually lies quietly and exhausted, and of ten falls asleep. As the condition becomes worse, the attacks ot pain : become more frequent. fever Is usually present. Often, a swelling within the abdomen can be-felt !s those Instances in -'meh iataasusception in suspected, the ductor makes an examination through the rectum, which is quite helpful in diaamvsitr the disorder. An X ray examination is also of value in many eases in determining when in tussusceptivn h present

A very commendable jesture in neighborly friendliness and hospitality will be the opening of a lounge for parents of players and rural friends who will attend the sectional basketball tourney next month. As a place to .rest between games, or the afternoon and evening sessions, the Chamber of Commerce will provide chairs and lounges at the Knights of Pythias home for guests who visit GoodWill House. The idea is good and we believe {he guests will like it. o o “There is no starvation in those countries which use the Americanmade binder and other modern machinery produced here to relieve man of back-breaking drudgery,” De Loss Walker, former magazine editor and industrialist keynoted iu a stimulating address before the Chamber of Commerce the other evening. Mr. Walker’s theme highlighted the capitalistic system and gave examples of the benefits derived from it in the United States. “We don't enjoy England's Socialism, or Russia's Communism," but we do have more food, bath tubs, automobiles and other improvements that these other countries don't have” emphasized the speaker. o o Television and Books: Book publishers are said to be nervous about the competition of television, as it becomes a new medium of entertainment for the home and family. Families with television sets are reading fewer books than they used to, it is said, and the suggestion is made that culture will suffer. Probably every advancement in the physical means of entertainment or activity reduces the amount of reading done by the individual, to some extent. The radio, the motion pictures, the automobile and other creations of the mechanical age have all had an effect on reading habits. It does not necessarily follow that culture suffers. Culture may be spread by radio, or the movies, or by an automobile trip, as well as through good reading. Every new method of entertainment takes the center of attention for a while. Then it subsides into its place as one of many—and readi ing goes on. Television, which bids fair to become common within a few more years, is a new medium for entertainment and for the growth of culture. It might even help the bookreading public, if it really injects a new element of competition into the field of publishing. Colossal Cave, oue of Arizona's many wonders, is 28 miles east of Tucson. The cave was formed by i underground waters into forma . tions resembling animals, buildings I and people

is an operation to relieve the telescoping of the bowel. Before the operation. it is helpful to give the child blood or fluids by injection Into a vein or under the skin. Following operation fluids again are given by injection as before opera ion. About 12 hours after the operation is performed the baby can be given food by mouth, in some cases without com plications, the baby often can 'be discharged from the hospital within thrre days after the operation has been performed. Os course, if there is delay in carrying out the operation, some de struction of the tissues in the bowel, or rupture of the liowel may take place. Such complications are exceedingly dangerous and may re suit fatally; hence, it is important that the mother be aware of signs of intussusception so that if they develop, the physician may be con suited quickly. QUESTIONS ANO ANSWERS C. C.: Is there anything that can be done for hardening cf the arteries. and is there some special diet that should be used? Answer: There is nothing, as far as is known at the present time, that will bring about a cure of this condition. Treatment consists of rest in btd. correct diet, daily bowel movements. and regulated exercise. A well-balanced diet usual I r la cm ployed. This should include such ood* as meat, milk. eggs, vegetables. traits and whole grain ter-

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Jan. 14 — Harry Leslie inaugurated as governor of Indiana. Mrs. Babe ’Ruth is burned to death while visiting at the home of Dr. Kinder in Watertown. 'Mass. Miss Bernice Nelson is appointed county clerk to succeed her father, he late John E. Nelson. The Hoagland State bank closed its doors today. Yellow Jackets defeat Mishawaka, 25 to 20. Sectional basketball tournament will be held in Decatur March 1 and 2. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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SYNOPSIS Level; young Donna Collwell nad developed an almoet peyciiouc aversion to marriage. She vowed one loved Mara Banister, tier devoted swain over toe years and said that Because *ne did love mm one cou.d never oecome ale wife. Her parents were particularly distressed by Uns decision, tor they noped Mars would lake the place or their only eon lost in the war. Donna seemed perfectly content to go on being e New York career girl, circulating socially, keeping occasional dates with Marg. She managed very tactfully to get out from under parental domination by snaring an apartment tn New York with a group of business girls Mrs. Col I well found nerselt confused by all this strange new way of life, but when one visited her daughter's quarters in New York she was pleased with the arrangement. With Christmas fust around the comer, Donna spent the weekend at home io New Jersey to make holiday plana, CHAPTER TEN DONNA returned from her frolic In the snow, rosy-bright and starryeyed, and switched hurriedly from snow clothes into skirt and sweater, the soft collar of a gold-col-ored blouse showing effectively at her throat line, and set to work on the lobsters. The dinner talk was cheerful. Talk was always cheerful when Donna was there. She told amusing little stories of her associates on the radio staff and about her fellow hall-bedroomers, as she persistently called the girls with whom she shared the apartment. When dinner was over she said it they didn't mind she would das* down to Erna's for a while. "Toodles is going to have a birthday before long," she explained. “I don't remember Just when, everybody keeps having babies so fast these days, but 1 brought him a present to be on the safe side. They'll know I didn’t forget nim. even if I did forget the date, It’s one of those cute little musical gadgets where you press a button and everybody begins dancing and doing things. He'll love it I shan't be gone long.** She slipped into her coat, pulled on her gloves and ran out bareheaded, her silvery hair shining palely in the dim light She had pressed the bell at Erna's house before she realized that rna had guests. Quite suddenly occurred to her that too many lights were on and that the faint murmur of talk and laughter was too pronounced for a routine family gathering. But she did not think Os withdrawing. Erna's friends were her friends, too. The bridge table was set up in the living room with end tables conveniently placed for glasses and Cigarets. After a hushed silence, so brie! as to be almost imperceptible, she was greeted gaily by three of the players at the bridge table. Eras and Ed and Mark Banister. The fourth was a stranger, a Him, dark. genUe-looking gtrL Donna had never seen her before. “Come and cut in. darling," Ema cried effusively. "Ed needs a respite to go and freshen up our drinks. Oh, Donna, you've never met my cousin, have you’ Lois Terrell. This Is Donna CoUwell, Loo. Lois lives in Cleveland. Ohio, and this is the first time the blessed, benighted lamb has ever been East. Lois, you've heard plenty

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Q. Is it all right to have a wedding take place in the new home o of the bride and bridegroom? f A. Yes, if desired, although it is more customary to have the cere- . niony in a church and then have ' the receptiori in the new-home. Q. When four men, accompanied I by four women, enter a restaurant, should they enter by couples? A. No; the four women should follow the head waiter, the four men t following last. I Q. Is it necessary for a woman to remove her glove in order to shake hands? A. No.

tavorite topic of conversation." Donna and Lois exchanged the usual polite greetings, pleasant and perfunctory. “Go ahead and finish out the hand," Donna said firmly. “1 see Mark is playing IL We all know how Mark is. It anybody so much as mentions the weather, he blames that when he forgets what has been played. I’ll hold my breath till you turn the last trick.” They turned back to the table, laughing. "May 1 see the last trick?” Mark asked. “You see ?’’ Donna demanded Indignantly. “He's blaming me already and 1 haven't said a word." While Mark was refreshing his memory on the last trick. Ema winked slyly at Donna, offside, and said frankly, "You see I took you at your word, Donna." "Why not? My word Is better than my bond because my vocabulary is inexhaustible but I haven't a bond to my name." When the hand was finished, Ed went to the Kitchen tor fresheners and a glass for Donna, and they shoved slightly away from the table to talk. Donna would not cut in. She said cutting in constituted the dull demise of good bridge. She had only dashed down to leave the small package for Toodles. Her evening was al) marked out for her. She was going to take on her father at acey-deucy; she was short of cash right now and needed some extra Christmas picking. They chatted cordially a few minutes and when Donna rose to go and Ed was holding her coat for her she said pleasantly, “Are you doing anything tomorrow? Can't you all pop up to the house sot whatever kind of a supper we can Squeeze out of the icebox and our imaginations?" “Oh, Donna!" Ema said tragically. “1 wish we could. How 1 wish we could! You could never guess what we have on tap for tomorrow. I know, but 1 still don't believe it I don't know how I ever got talked Into it We're going slumming. New York, Chinatown. Bowery Island in its winter coma Why don’t you come along, darling? Agony divided isn't half as agonizing!" “Not me. thank you. 1 Just came from there. How about you, Mark?" He shook his head. “Sorry but the slumming is my party. Tm throwing it Tm the self-elected guide and chauffeur. 1 bad sound reason for that If Tm running the show, 1 think 1 can see that we concentrate on churches from without and bars from within." Donna gasped admiringly. “Aren’t you all brave? The war must have bucked up your morale! Is there a plural to morale? There should be." She refused Mark's offer to drive tier home. “How silly." she said 1 tramp the sin-ridden streets of New York alone all week. 1 can certainly manage my two pure tittle country blocks from here home." She extended her hand to Lois Iriewlly MnUlity. ."Isiajt m

Buys Health Bond The Decatur Rotary club has voted purchase of a $lO health bond, officials ■ of the Christmas seal campaign in Adams county announced today. All proceeds from xiruTT# 1b e annual HUHI IB Christ mas Buy Christinas Seals gea i sales 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. Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE 0 - -0 Oranges Oranges will give more juice if they are at room temperature or warmer and it is not true that they lose their vitamin content by warming. If kept in the refrigerator warm them before squeezing by holding under the hot water faucet or putting them in a warm oven for a few minutes. Rust Stairs To remove rust stains from a garment soak them in boiling rhubarb juice. It is said that the worst spots will yield to this treatment without injuring the material. Jar Tops If the top of the fruit jar sticks and will not turn, set the jar upside down in hot water for a few minutes and the top will come off without difficulty. Expect Cancer Fund Drive To Reach Goal Indianapolis, Jan. 14—(UP) — The statewide cancer fund drive sponsored by Hoosier Lions clubs probably will reach its goal of SSJ,COO by June, the drive’s chairman, Walter Shirley, said today. Shirley said some $15,000 already had been collected. The funds are to be used to equip a new hospital now under construction by Indiana University, Shirley said.

town all week," she said. "Wage earning and all that tripe. But I’ll be up next week end. I’d love to have some kind of party for you then, if Ema hasn’t got you all tied up in knots." Lois said she had to go home on Friday; she had rushed off rather hurriedly on this trip and could not stay longer. But she was appreciative of the offer. "She’s coming back for the Easter vacation," Erna elaborated. “Two weeks of it We’ll have time to plan things up properly then." “Oh, 1 almost forgot!" Donna cried. "Toodles!” Erna started uneasily and her eyes turned quickly toward tile stairs. “What about him?” she asked sharply. "Tomorrow. When you are slumming. Don’t you want me to baby sit for you? You’d be surprised how good 1 am with babies.” "Babies! You: What do you know about babies?” “1 know everything about them. 1 ought to. Tve heard nothing but babies since you girls began getting them. They have to be dunked and gorged and napped and weighed after each function. Then call your doctor. Do I know about babies?" Ema thanked her but they had already nade arrangements. Her parents, two of them, were coming to spend the day. They were bringing their maid with them, as ad-. ditionai insurance against emergency. , Donna did not run homeward through the still night but immediately on her arrival challenged her father to a game, any game of his choice. “But for money!" she warned him. “Christmas is coming and I am short." “Weren’t they at home?" asked her mother. “You didn't stay long." “Sure they were at home. They were playing bridge. They wanteo me to cut in but that’s such a bore. Mark was there, and a cousin of Ema's. Lois somebody. 1 didn’t catch the last name. She's from Cleveland Very pretty, a brunette She's coming again for Easter. I offered to give a party for her but she has to go home on Friday." Donna was busily setting up the table. A faint flush stained her mother’s face. “Well,'' she remarked crisply, “Erna certainly isn’t wasting any time lining up relatives for Mark." Donna laughed. "She'd be a fool to. Nice guys like Mark aren't left running around loose very long ’’ "It seems to me she might have given you a few days to—to change your mind, If you want to." “1 don’t want to, sweetie pie. And I’ve had plenty of Ums. It certainly is hot flattering for my parents to be in such a rush to shuffle me off to the first parking place that shows up. Heaven knows I stay out from underfoot as much as possible. Ready. Dad? How about boosting the ante? Clirutmaa u closer and closer." (To Bo ConiinseO

Record Arrests In Hafioti Last Year FBI Records Show Arrests Increased Washington, Jan. 14 — (UP) — FBI director J. Edgar Hoover said today his records show that more Americans were arrested last year than ever before. ' He also said one out of every 20 persons in the U. S. has been arrested and fingerprinted sometime during his life. Hoover based his statements on a study of arrest records received from police- agencies throughout the nation. Last year, Hoover said, 759,698 fingerprint records were sent to FBI headquarters here — the largest total on record. The FBI pointed out that probably even more persons were arrested, since not every person charged with a crime is fingerprinted. In some cities, police fingerprint everyone arrested, no matter how minor the violation. In others io fingerprints are taken, even of murderers. In 1947, 734,041 fingerprints were sent to the bureau. Os the 1948 arrests, 15 percent involved persons under. 21 years of age. Minors accounted tor 44 percent of all theft arrests. 38 percent of suspected burglars.' aiid 31 percent ot all accused tapists. Last year, the number of minors arrested on such charges as murder, assault and rape was 43 per--tnt higher than in the last prewar year of 1941. The Increase among delinquent young girls was nuch higher than among boys. 'Cooks' Corner' BY MARY R. SMITH

>5 Cent Meals For You and Yours About a month ago, Cooks' Corner carried an article about low cost meals. The article stated that home economics seniors in tlie home management houses here at Purdue were given 65 cents a day per peron for food while they cooked rhe article also mentioned that 'how it can be done" would be the subject of a series of articles in January, because the writer of "ooks' Corner would be in home management house, and would, durng that time, have a chance to prepare meals on the limited budge*. Yesterday the writer finished moking, aud she is very happy to report that it can be done, betause she did it — and, not for 65 ’ents, but for 61. The cost of the meals is figured wcurately by keeping account of ill purchases and taking an invenory at the close of each cook's period as cook. Perhaps you are thinking the ■ervings couldn't have been large, or the quality nAist have heen poor o stay within a small money allottment. This was not the case, however. The servings were not large, but were average. By careful selec‘ion, the food was of good quality, vet relatively inexpensive. There were no T-bone steaks, broiled ham dices for breakfast, or prime ribs of beef for dinner, but the food was wholesome, and met the standard wtrition requirements. Preparing low cost meals begins wen before the homemaker buys her 'food if the problem is handled "orrectly. All meals must be plan led carefully, keeping in mind the torrent "best buys" on the market. Certainly, it wasn’t easy cooktug on 61 cents a day per person. Menus were planned in advance, a ■omnlete market order was made out before going shopping food servings were deejded upon ahead of time, and all leftovers were utiliz'd. If food had any use at all. It was used. For example, old bread, rolls, and biscuits were dried out in the oven and then rolled into fine crumbs. These were stored in a glass jar. labltd, and used sot meat filler and breading purposes. !n writing of current “best buys" onsidcred. fish ean lie used as an excellent example. Here in Lafay?tte. frozen haddock sold at thirtynine cents per pound at one large market. Serving seven people heces ittated buying one-and-one half HlWf ||ALLMABK BOLLS Children will love them and /earn from them, too. Aho a beautiful new album to ltdep them in. See them nowl Smith Drug Co.

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pounds of the fish. This made the required number of servings plus having enough to serve everyone a second time. It was the cheapest protein food served, and the only one in this class from which second servings could be offered. Next week the sixty-one cent a day per person menus will appeal in Cooks’ Corner. Just as an experiment, you might like to try preparing meals at a cost almost difficult to believe possible. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur ——- A H’I’OINTMEST OF administratrix ESTATE no. 44SS Nolii-e Ik hereby given, That the undersigned has been appointed Administratrix of the estate of William Weber late of Adams County, deceased. The estate is probaoly solvent. . , Sophia Weber Administratrix December 30, IMS. Ferd L. Utierer Attorney Dee. 31 Jan 7-14

FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE TOWJN CLERK FOR 1W TOWS OF MONROE: ADAMS COUNTY GENE K. HIKE, Clerk-Treasurer, of Munroe, i M | # GENERAL FIND Receipts J’isburiemm Balance (General Fund) January 1. 1948 4280.03 General Property Taxes (include Bank Bldg, and Loan Taxes -—* 965.01 Disbuneiuenta Salaries of Town Officials (Clerk-Treasurer, Trustees , ((| Office Supplies and Expenses (Printing, Legal Adv., Stationery, Telephone, Etc.) i|tj Legal Expenses (Town Attorney—Salary and Expense Town Jiall (a) Operation (Custodian, Supplies, Repairs, Equipment «. Rent of Property and Equipment (Receipts Payments) Premiums on Officials Bonds Insurance —All Kinds jj. Police (Marshal Salary and Expenses) 1M Fire Protection (Salaries and Expenses, Equipment, etc. Include payments on notes given for equipment purchases) Total General tunil Receipts and Disbursements .. $1230.07 ! Balance (General Fund) December 31, 1948 j a Special Ele«i Street Fund ija (Gas Tax) pjJJ Balance January 1, 1948 3137.63 f Gasoline Tax «• 867,10 Earnings and Collections 14,530 total $1004.73 |S Disbursements Operating Expense $14,3M1 Streets (Maintenance, Construction) 733.02 Total 733.02 iub? Balance December 31, 1948 I 271.71 | jjq

fFrom where 1 sit... /p Joe Marsh f We Both Won This Ont

Blew my top the other morning when I discovered a shirt I’d put on had two buttons missing. "Joe,” the missus says, "do you ever read what you write) For a man who writes newspaper pieces all about tolerance, you sometimes show a lot of race prejudice.’* “Race prejudice!" I hollers. “No one can accuse me of that.” "I mean prejudice against the entire human race,” she interrupts with a smile. “Why get mad at the world over two little buttons?” That took the wind out of me.

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List Examinations For Civil Service The United States civil Se commission has announced e nations for cartographic surv? highway engineer and bridge engineer, and bacterio"’ (antibiotics). Written tests a re , requited for any of these exam tiotis. Salaries range from $2.152 1,, 432 per year. No deadline ed upon the first two but applications for the bacte legist examination must be re t( ed not later than February jj formation and application f 0) may be secured from Robert fr, ger at the Decatur post office.* " . 'J } ■ I Trade In a Good Town - g...

_ Prom where I sit (as I toUi missus that evening), a lot d 1 sometimes get top worked ip m little things... little difference! 1 opinion or taste. One person pn fen beer or ale, another prefee cider or lemonade. But why trS cize the other fellow just heap his tastes aren’t the same as o«i' “that sounds more like yon,Jot’ she Isughs, snipping off 1 thia (It so happens she wss sewing a buttons.)