Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 17 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. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, J 6; Six months, $3.25; 3 months, 31.75. 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. Hail to the county Champs. —o o— — Did you have your penny or nickel ready when you parked your car today? o o—; Only pennies or nickles can be used in the parking meters. You waste money if you insert a dime, for the machines won't work with the smaller size coin. The 1949 auto plates are now 'being issued at the local bureau. The time limit expires February 28, and already it has been announced there rwill not be any extension of the deadline. o o- — Representative Edward Kruse has been given an outstanding appointment for a freshman congressman. He has been named to the Appropriations Committee, the first such assignment given to a newcomer in the past 18 years. Mr. Kruse has real ability and iwill gain leadership with his service in the national congress. O 0— i President Truman’s inauguration takes place next Thursday and one of the largest crowds ever to gather In Washington will witness the colorful parade and inspiring ceremonies. Pennsylvania Avenue will be lined with bleechers arid benches for sightseerers. special reservations being made for members of Congress, government officials and diplomatic representatives. Lavish in detail, the cbst of the Inauguration was appropriated by the 80th Congress and at that time a great part of the country thought that Governor Dewey would head the parade. o o A problem confronting Republican leaders in the state is what to do with the Creighton-for-governor club funds? It seems that Hobart Creighton GOP candidate fdr governor, had a big campaign fund and when the election was over, a surplus of $70,04)0 still remained on hands. One faction contends that the state committee is not entitled to the windfall and since it was donated by friends of the nominee, the defeated candidate should get the money since it was contributed with the idea of furthering his election. After

Ear Infection From Blowing Nose Are Slim

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D., FOR some years the opinion has been held that if yoon blow your nose when yon have a cold it is quite likely that infected material may be forced from the throat into the middle ear through the enstachian tube which connects the throat and the middle ear. It is. of course, possible that this may or cur. However, Dr. W. Wallace Teeo has some evidence that indicates that this does not happen vety often. This evidence was collected doriwj the war at a naval base. The m>»n were exposed to increased air pressure during their training in the use of a device for escaping from a sunken submarine. Because of this increased pressure, it was M cessary to inflate the eustachian f|bes in order to keep the pressure i> the middle ear even. I It was found that out of these 10 - men. only one developed an ear Infection from Inflating the ensta Chian tubes, and this one developed an infection while he had a cold. It Wat eetlmatbd that at least of the .30.000 men had a cold at some time during this period. Thus, a eonclasion was reached that fnfec tioM of the middle ear are not caused by improper blowing of the nose daring a cold. It is true that, if a person holds both sides of the nose and blows, the pressure may force material Into the eustachian tubes, but evidently thr evidence would indicate that tku is not rujotuibk lar the

paying a federal tax on the proceeds, Creighton might inherit the trove. Another thought, would the spending of the money have changed the election results? o —o— ■— Some credence is being given in this country to rumors that Russia is planning a revision of its currency on the basis of gold. It is not generally supposed, however, that this would result in a ruble which could be freely accepted in international trade. The belief is that the Russians probably would aim only at a gold ruble for trade within the Soviet bloc of nations, a paper ruble theoretically redeemable in gold. This would give Russia and the satellites a currency which they could claim to be equivalent in stability to the American dollar. The propaganda value is obvious. If the ruble could be made to circulate only behind the Iron Curtain, no export of gold would be required to support it. The Moscow government has away of maintaining favorable trade balances with the satellites, knowing the tricks of finance. o o Reducing Debt: The public debt has been coming down. The year 1948 saw a reduction of $4,500,04)0,000. This makes the third year in which a substantial reduction has taken place. February 28, 1946, saw the deibt at its highest point in our history, $279,764,364,348. That year large federal surpluses made it possible to pay off no less than 18 billion dollars. While this rate was too swift to keep up indefinitely, each year since has seen a steady reduction. The figure on December 31, 1948, was 3252,237,000,000. At this rate the national indebtedness would be completely wiped out in 30 years. Gloomy forecasters of a few years ago expected the debt to remain at or even above its astronomical height for an indefinite period. While the present rate of reduction cannot b e expected to go on especially if there should be large new military expenditures, the history of the past three years is highly encouraging for substantial further cuts to come. And each slice off the principal of the debt reduces interest payments, increasing the chances of further cuts in the principal. It is still too early to guess whether the past three years will be typical of the next ten. But so far the picture is encouraging. Johnson Funeral Is Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held this morning for Mrs. Orpha A. Johnson, 58, who died Saturday at her home in Wells county. Survivors ■ include her husband. Estel; two daughters. Mrs. Lucille Moser and i Mrs. Eileen Mertx, both of Berne: I a son, a brother and two sisters.

development of ear infections. During a cold the tissues which make up the eustachian tube may become infected and inflamed, thus closing up the tube to some extent. This may lower the air pressure in the middle ear and create a vacuum. Then, the middle ear may fill up with infected serum, during a cold, causing an infection to develop. Middle ear infection causes such symptoms as pain In the ear and fever, with inflammation of the ear drum. When this happens. It may be necessary to ent open the ear drum and allow the infected material to drain out. However, .many cases may be relieved by the sulfonamide drugs or penicillin

QUESTIONS ANO ANSWERS A. R.: For the last three weeks I have had a crack in each corner of my mouth which Is very sore. Will you please tell me what causes this? Answer: It is possible that you have a disorder known as perleche. In this condition. Ulcers form at the comers of the mouth. The exact cause is not known, but it is believed that possibly an infection with a parasite, similar to a yeast or mold, causes the condition. Some cases are known to be due to a deficiency of certain essential vitamins. especially vitamin B 2 or riboflavin Treatment of this condition thbuld be carried out under Ute di rcctioa cl a phj acUn.

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0 0. Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE 0 0 Q. Are two envelopes proper for a wedding invitation, and how are they used? A. Yes; the first, or inner, envelope is used as a protection for the invitation, and remains unsealed ■ and unwritten-upon. The second or outer envelope, is heavier, and ■ large enough to contain the invita- 1 tion and inner envelope. Q. When a man and a girl meet i

CUI ETHEL HUESTON U 1 I IUU

SYNOPSIS lively young Donna Collwell had developed an ulmoet psychotic aversion to marriage. she vowed ene loved Mara Banister, her devoted ewain over the yean and said that because ene did love mm ene could never become his wife. Her parents were particu.ariy distressed by this decision, lor they hoped Mark would lake the place ot their only eon lost in the war. Donna seemed perteetly content to go on being a New fort career girl, circulating socially, keeping occasional dates with Mark. She managed very tactfully to get out from under parental domination by sharing an apartment in New York with a group of business girls. Mrs. Collwell found herself confused by all this strange new way ct life, out when she visited her daughter's dtiarters In New York she was pleased with the arrangement With Christmas just around the comer, Donna spent the weekend at home In New Jersey to make holiday pinna She dropped tn to say "hello" to a neighbor and was amazed to find Mark Fanlster a guest In the house, ms bridge partner a most attractive young woman Mark refused the Collwell Invitation for Christmas dinner but promised to join n th* tree trimming festivities on Christmas Eva. CHAPTER TWELVE WHEN Mrs. Collwcll excused herself to go upstairs, Annette stared after her for a long instant and then slowly followed. She tapped softly on the door of her mother-in-law's room. “May 1 come in?" she whispered. Mrs. Collwell opened the door to her. Annette closed it behind her. She put her arms around Mrs. Collwell and the two women wept together, brokenly, their shoulders heaving, their throats scorched with sorrow, wet faces pressed together. They separated at last, almost by spontaneous movement. They laughed, with wet but smiling lips, their eyes still streaming. Mrs. Collwell patted Annette's face with her handkerchief. "That's enough now.” she said. They went together to the dressing table. Mrs. Collwell opened the powder Jar and the puff box and gestured to Annette tc help herself and together they set to repairing the facial ravages of their brief emotional tempest "We've missed David. Aftnette." Mrs. Collwell said quietly. "It's right we should miss him. But David wasn't our entire life and couldn't be. And shouldn’t be. I still have Alan and Donna. You have Davie, but a little boy is not enough. David would be the first to say so." Annette nodded gravely. "Yes, 1 tell myself that It wasn't easy to decide. Mother Collwelt Nothing has been easy. Things . . . have been ... very ;.. hard." “Yes, I know. You've been grand, Annette. We're very proud of you. Donna was proud of you. too, the night of the party with all the old crowd there.” That wasn't easy, either.* "No. But Donna was proud of you. It wasn't easy bringing him here to us that Sunday either." “Na That was hardest of all" "Well, don’t get the idea that you are rid of me as a mother-in-law," she said, and spoke more lightly. "1 shall horn in on your affairs whenever I feel like it I shall stand on my rights as Davie's grandmother.” Annette nodded, laughing tearfully. "Changing the name is the hardest of ait Just the name, David Collwell, has always meant so much to me—all my life, from the time I wm a kid in pigtails. David was—just wonderful. He was such a grand brother to Donna. Even when we were little, we were jealous of Donna because she bad

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| often, but have never been introduced, is it all right for the girl to I begin speaking to him? A. Yes, if she is interested, and is courageous enough to run the risk of making an undesirable acquaintance. Q. When place cards are not used at an informal dinner, how ‘ should the guests be seated ? j A. The hostess stands at her place at the foot of the table and de- : signates the places. j The Federal Bureau of Invest!igation was created in 3908.

David for her brother. ... 1 ar-! gued a long time about changing ! the name. And yet 1 think he is probably right." "Yes, that’s a little hard for me, too. Just at first But he is right, Annette. Davie is the one we have to think about So we’re Just going to take it aren’t we?” They went downstairs together, talking lightly of other things, of Christmas and toys and the high price of turkey. Sunday was a dull day at the Collwells’. The Sunday before Christmas, it was. A dull Sunday at the Collwells’, with Donna there! There was a little too much cheery chatter, too much to-do over Christmas cards and wrappings. When Miriam Alison telephoned and asked Donna to run down for a while, Donna accepted with guilty pleasure. "Sure, I’ll come! What's cookin'?" “Nothing’s cooking. Dm In a jam. Were al) in a Jam. I made Jigger take the Jug out for a sleigh ride. I want to talk to you, Donna. Alone. Come right away. Hurry!" Miriam's voice was insistent "What do you want to talk to me about?” Donna asked warily. Jigger Alison was one of Mark's best friends and Miriam was a party to their friendship. "About me. About us. About bills and business. I want to ask a favor of you. Hurry up, will you?" Relieved on that score, Donna went willingly but Miriam's first words were not reassuring. “Donna, did you mean what you said? That it’s all off between you and Mark Banister?" ”1 thought you wanted to talk about you." "1 did. 1 do. This is the preamble. Did you mean it? About you and Mark?" “We are not engaged and we are not going to get married. Yes But we are still friends. I hope.” “Oh, Donna, darling, if you'll help me out of this jam. I’ll do anything on earth for you. 1 was half crazy with worry. 1 didn't know which way to turn. But," she added virtuously, "1 certainly wasn’t going to stir up any trouble between you and Mark." "Don’t tell me you're tn love with him yourself!” Donna ejaculated. “Oh. it’s worse than that Much worse. Falling in love with Mark would be a picnic compared to the jam I’m in.” Yet her account of the predicament suggested no serious involvement so far as Donna could discover. Her husband. Jigger Alison, had an older brother, one Si Alison. Jigger was devoted to him. Miriam had never met him. He ’ had been good to them. Now, for • the first time, be was coming from I California to visit them, to spend i the entire Christmas week. Miriam was abject and terrified. “What are you abject and terril fie J about?” Donna asked. "Sounds all right to me. In-laws are al- ) ways popping in on you when you • least want and expect them. Don't ■ you have to swear at the altar to i take on all your in-laws for better . or worse and God nelp you and • them? It sounds all right to me." I “B U all nght if you will help,"

' 20 YEAfIS AGO TODAY

Jan. 17 — Kem Williams, manager of Chevrolet Sales here, escapes serious injury when a Big Four engine demolishes his car near Anderson. Sleet storm causes much damage here and six automobile accidents, none serious, are reported. Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, 86, dies from senility. Seventeen farmers from here go to Purdue to attend agricultural meet. Otho Lobenstein’s Essex car badly damaged when it skids into a ditch just south of Decatur. Mrs. Brice Butler entertains the Historical club. q —■ ——————o Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE 0 Potatoes If potatoes are frozen or get old and wrinkled try soaking them in cold water for about a half hour before using. If they are frozen the water will thaw them and they will swell up if old and wrainkled. Wet Shoes Shoe trees should not be placed in shoes that are very wet, or they are liable to dry stiff. Stuff them with crumpled newspaper. The paper will absorb the moisture and keep the shoes in shape. Ferns Do not water the ferns during the winter with real cold water from the faucet. It is much better to use room temperature water, especially if the house is rather warm. The town of Lancaster, Mass., recently put pasteurizing regulations into effect, bringing to a total of 100 the Massachusetts communities now requiring that all milk be pasteurized or certified.

Mariam explaineo patiently. "I can't swing it alone. Jig's brother is rich and we've got to impress him." “What do you want me to do? Dress up like a maid and shove things at him on silver salvers?" “Don’t be silly. We certainly aren’t going to pretend to be affluent He knows how poor we are. He ought to know. He’s staked us plenty of times. We still haven't paid him off for having the Jug." "1 must be dumber than 1 thought 1 don't get it. 1 don’t get it at all," Donna admitted dolefully. "You aren’t paying attention, that’s all,” Miriam said impatiently. ”1 made it perfectly clear. Si is just out of the service and is going to settle down somewhere and put al) his money in some business. We want him to let us settle down with him and go into his business. Listen, Donna! You don't know the kind of life we lead! You have plenty of money and everything you want Do you know that, in addition to not having squared the Jug with Si. we are going behind In our bills every month? We’re not living within our income and we can’t. I do all my own work, you know that. But Jigger doesn't make enough for us to live on. And. this Is confidential.’Donna. we're going to have another baby too. And 1 sunpose Si will have to nay for that" "Marriage.” Donna said thoughtfully. "You never used to be worried about anvth’n". did you? Not till vou got married." “Oh. Donna, being married and having babies is so-so wonderful. Donna. I mean. It would be wonderful If von weren't alwavs going In debt to pav for things Hon’t you see how imnnrtant ft Is for ns to make a pood imnrcssfon on Si so he will like us and want us to settle do-*-n and go into bus! ness with him?" "How did he get all th's monev if he’s Jigger’s brother? It smells to me. It reeks. Guys as young as Jigger’s brother don't acquire such richness overnight.” ’TH tell you. Donna. Rut don't vou breathe it tn a soul. He didn’t get rich overnight He’s been rich ever since he was six years old He inherited It That just goes to prove that you can’t trust your own grandparents!" she ended bit terly. “Miriam, you dope. talk English What have our grandparents to do with It?" “All right, you dumbbell Here's a map. Here’s a blueprint Words of one syllable. Grandfather Allson. the old devil, died when SI was six years old. He made a will —before he died, you understand —and left everything he had to Si And he had plenty." "What had Jigger done? Stuck a hornet’s nest between his blankets?" "He .hadn't done anything. He wasn't* even born. The old man evidently figured that since six full years had elapsed there weren't going to be any more grandchildren so he left it all to th* one he was sure of. 1 suppose he thought parents should make ths stork an annual event Anyhow, he abandoned hope and left everything to Si." £To Be Continued)

Buys Health Bond Local 2109, Carpenters, ’ has voted purchase of a35 health bond, officials of the ctirist ’ mas seal camrow-® $ p aign in AdLIIJaS i ams county ' |! i announced toj .£-• -- day. All pro51943 ceeds from t p e annual FIGHT TB ch,, j s t m a s Buy Christines Seals se al 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. Gross Income lax Deadline Jan. 31 License Bureau To Assist Taxpayers Facilities of the Decatur auto license branch now are available to all residents of Adams county who must file 1948 Indiana gross income tax reports before the lanuary 31 deadline, Mrs. Charles C. Lose, manager, announced today. All persons who received their tax forms by mail should bring the pre-addressed blanks since they carry the new account number assigned to each taxpayer. Mrs. Lose has a supply of the blanks on hand for the use of new taxpayers.

Mrs. Lose announced that the office will be open daily from 8:30 a. m. to 4:45 p. m. and urged all local residents to complete their tax reports as soon as possible in order to avoid the long line which always forms at the license branch during the last few days of January. The state levy on all gross receipts during the 1948 calendar year became due on January 1 and must be paid within the 30-day grace period allowed by state law. Mrs. Lose pointed out that payments after that date will be subject to penalties and interest. In recent weeks numerous residents of Adams county have called at the license branch to inquire as to whether or not it would be necessary for them to file a tax return this month. Mrs. Lose has explained that the state law provides that all residents of the state who received a taxable income of SI,OOO or more are obligated to file the annual report before-January 31. According to figures compiled by Ray Bethers from reports of the Department of Commerce and published in the Boston Herald, 10.5% of our national income goes for individual income taxes: 4.9% is spent for alcoholic beverages; 3.4% goes for betting on horse races: 1.9% is spent for tobacco and cigarettes; and .85% is given to religious and social welfare.

Beware Coughs From Common Colds That HANG ON Creomirtsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsioo with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or sou are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs,ChcjtColds,Bronchitis

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT Decatur Cab Service WILL HEREAFTER BE MANAGED BY HARRY "BUZZ” DEY We will endeavor to extend to all patrons the most courteous, prompt and reliable service possible. We invite and appreciate time calls and regular trips. It will be our purpose to see that all who depend on ottr taxi for transportation will get to their desired place at the desired time—SAFELY. He personally invite any criticism or suggestion which would improve our service or make it more profitable to you. J E A ATUR CAB SERVICE 128 N ' 3rd ' Phone 426

Enlist Brww fl® St ‘ J. mrJggll v# Bar WL Ji / at v iJI JI ; . A wM z'X'Jr I a ' .-y ****^^3^.......... STANDING IN THE MIDST of scores of unmounted canvases of religiogME subjects, artist Jose Maas is pictured in a San Francisco, Calif,, gallery as he holds up a painting entitled, “Virgin of Guadalupe." paintings, believed part of loot stolen from the Catholic Church I Mexico during the years 1924-28. when property of the church s nationalized, are estimated at more than $1,000,000.

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