Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 18 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, $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. Those tin-looking pennies can he used in the parking meters, but don’t try slugs. o o The Kirkland Kangaroos upset the dope bucket, and came away ■wjth the county championship l . That's what adds zest to sports. January is more than half gone, which qhoves up the arrival of spring within two months. Will the moderate winter weather hold for another couple weeks? o o—»— Winning the big jack-pots on the j radio musik shows has gotten j down to an easy formula. One need not know the song, but just read a few of the newspaper columnists and get the title. o o— President Truman’s cabinet will remain as it is for the time being. Dean Acheson will be approved as Secretary of State, succeeding Genera) Marshall and the other eight members will carry over. Can you name them? o o—<— President Truman's second biggest day in history is coming up Thursday. As he reviews the his-1 toric parade, we wonder what | thoughts will go through his mind, j He will have the pleasure of glancing at many of the “big shots,” who a few months ago gave him no chance of being elected last November. —o o From private to the top post! is good in any man's army, but i especially so in the caste-ridden British forces. Sir William Slim, who succeeded the war leader Montgomery as chief of staff has just been named a field marshall, the highest British military grade. Slim served as a private in World War I, and has been rising ever since. o o Public business is the private property of the officer in charge, in the opinion of a New Jersey police commissioner. He has stop-; ped the previous practice of letting the reporters on the beat

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By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. CONSTIPATION in babies is, as a rule, more troublesome to the mother than to the young child if parents are given to worrying I about constipation in their baby. It is a good thbiK to know that, in infants so long as the baby is not sick, is contented, and there is no noted swelling of the abdomen.) nothing need be done about infre-i quent bowel action. The use of suppositories and enemas should be avoided unless recommended by the doctor for some special condition. • In babies wlw> are not breastfed (and all babies are better off if they are brest-fedi, constipation may develop because the baby is receiving too much protein in the milk mixture and extra sugar may be required. The gtving of prune pulp does not seem to aid in this condition. Infrequent bowel movements in babies and young children may be due to what is known as an anal fissure, that is, a crack in the lining membrane of the lower bowel. When this condition is present, the Tiild screams and cries when a uowel movement occurs. The child becomes afraid of the pain and so may not make the necessary effort to bare the bowel movement. There may be blood in the bowel move meat. This condition is treated by keeping the movements soft and by using some pain-relieving ointment on the fissure In infants and young children, con-tipatiou, when neglected, may I

see the police blotter for themselves. Instead he will give out what crime news he wishes printed. Needless to say, the official handouts will not dwell on the community’s untraced crimes, a clue to which might be found on the blotter. If these were printed, citizens might get an idea that the police were directed by an inefficient commissioner. o o At first a little hesitant in using the meters, auto owners gradually took the spaces in the shopping district and dropped in their coins for parking rental. A revealing fact on the first day’s use of the meters was that space was available on Second and other up-town streets. The success of the venture will be determined by future developements. o o— — Final tribute will be paid to William G. Hoffer, former mayor and postmaster of Willshire and for many years publisher of the weekly Willshire Herald. Mr. Hoffer was a fine character and public spirited citizen. He w’as active jin th e Willshire community and j was highly respected for his ideals and worthy citizenship. His death occurred last Saturday at his home. o o Taking Stock: What have been the accomplishments of the three-month session of the United Nations General Assembly in Paris? Russian propaganda, consisting almost entirely of misstatement, has been strongly balanced by the American effort to clear the air by reiteration of the truth about given situations. Though its political accomplishments seem to have 'been few or i none, the Assembly has made proI gress along social lines. The first ' international bill of rights has been formulated, and genocide has been made a punishable international crime. The balance of achievement is believed to have been toward j the Western powers. The high hopes of the founders ’ of the United Nations Organization at San Francisco may appear at this moment to have been ill- : founded. Looking at the world I situation from all sides, however, i it can be stated without undue optimism that we are better off with the United Nations than we should have been without it. It i cannot be said too often that I habits dating back to the begining of time are not going to be 1 changed over night. The progress of humanity toward a war-free world is bound to be made plodI ding step by plodding step. The quagmire of greed and selfinterest makes heavy traveling.

. interfere with normal weight gain. The condition can be corrected by revising the diet, overcoming ane mla. if it is present, and improving I the strength of the muscles. One of the most common causes of constipation is improper training. Too strenuous efforts to train the baby often lead to the deveiop- ! ment of an antagonistic or negative attitude on the part of the child. He refuses to have his bowel movements so that he can get attention from those around him. Os course, the more he is cajoled, threatened, or punished, the worse the condition becomes. Parents must therefore learn not to be too greatly concerned about the irregularity of bowel habits that will correct themselves with proper diet. In some older children, a lack of fluids may be one of the chief causes of hard movements. Giving larger amounts of fruits will not, as a rule, relieve the constipation; in fact, sometimes it may make it | worse. Usually, in every mild case of constipation, correction can be brought about with simple treatment. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A. D.: I have rapid heart beats, bloat and a lot of gas and belching. ; 1 ath nervous at times. Could this ■ • be due to change of life? Answer: it is not likely that your symptoms are due to change of life. It might be due to some other cause, such as bowel and nervous disorders You should have a careful study made by yo® phyuuaa. I

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN DONNA, sympathetic by nature, ! sternly repressed the laughter bub- • bling within her as Miriam told her ’ the story of her wealthy brother- I in-law. 1 "So what did his parents do, the 1 dopes?” Miriam went on passion- 1 ately. “They got busy right after ' the funeral and had Jigger! And ! not satisfied with that, they buzzed 1 right along and had two more children! Girls! Did any of them get anything? They did not! Dear precious little Si, got every darned cent!” “Why didn’t their parents take it to court and see that things were equitably adjusted?" “They couldn’t. And don’t think they didn’t try. It seems the old man didn't trust them and I don’t blame him, after the way they did Jigger out of all that money. He appointed bank trustees and executors and told just how the funds should be doled out until Si was thirty-two. Then he was to get the whole caboodle. . . . Now listen, Donna, don’t get the wrong idea. I've never met Si but he is no tightwad. When it was time for Jig and the girls to go to college, Si went to this financial setup and argued that it would be extremely undignified for a rich man to have an illiterate household and they let him finance all their education. And when he came into the money, he sent them each a check for ten thousand dollars It was Si's ten thousand, that Jigger was cheated out of, that bought this house of ours. I don’t want you to get the wrong impression. Si may be quite all right After all, he didn’t pick his own grandfather. But, oh, Donna, can’t you see it's the chance of a lifetime for us?” “Well, maybe. But I still do not sec where I fit into the picture." “I want you to help us show him a good time. To make him like us. To make him want us to go into business with him. That's all I don’t know any attractive girls that aren’t married and honestly, Donna, when I heard about you and Mark Donna, I give you my word, I thought it was an answer to my prayers.” "Odd way to answer prayers," Donna commented dryly. “Odd way to pray, in the first place.” “Oh, 1 didn’t pray that anything would happen between you and Mark. That never entered my head. I just prayed that God would cook up some scheme to ease me out of this ghastly jam. That's all. And you can see how it tied in. Right in the nick of time, too.” She glanced at the clock, remembering the time. “1 have to talk fast, Donna. 1 told Jigger if he brought the Jug home inside of two hours he had to bathe, feed him and put him to bed. He’ll be back on the exact dot of two hours. Well, it’s like this. Si arrives Tuesday afternoon, day before Christmas. That's all right. Christmas Eve they can trim the tree and fill the stockings. Christmas Day will be all right. We ll have the tree and dinner and he can get acquainted with the Jug. 1 hope he likes children. But what can I do with him on Christmas night?” “Put him to bed.” "Oh, no. We have to provide some amusement." Tm beginning to smell the proverbial rat 1 am to be some amusement* That’s right, darling. And we can sort of feel him out He's seven years older than Jig and really we don’t know a thing about him. We can fish around and find out whether he likes shows or bridge or skating or whether he's • a stuffed shirt and wants to talk about art and literature."

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all right to read a book while waiting to be served? / ( A. Yes; there is no"reason why one should not read if alone. How--1 ever, it would be extremely rude to t do so if accompanied by another

"I see. 1 am the feeler-outer. But i you may be all wet on this setup, 1 Miriam. He’s from California and i they say out there they like their i gals young and carefree, giddy and 1 gauzy starlets. If he’s like that, 1 he'll be bored stiff with a solid old i economic unit like me. Now some i of this young set that have just I staggered out of diapers are cute i and good-looking as the dickens, i He’d probably go for them like < nobody’s business." i “But suppose he doesn’t! Sup- 1 pose he’s dignified and formal and 1 stuffed shirt! What would he think 1 of us, lining him up with gadflies? 1 No, we have to sound him out first. And you are so safe, Donna.” : "Hmm! Show me the woman who calls that a compliment!” ' "It is a compliment! You can get along with anybody, Donna, J and make them like it. No, for feeling out, you're just perfect. I j still believe in answer to prayer, | Donna. I’m sorry for Mark. I’d be a lot sorrier if it wasn’t getting 1 me out of such a hole! But you're just perfect for the part.” Donna agreed to rally round. She was rather pleased than otherwise. This interlude, sounding out Si Alison, should provide an amusing break In what promised to be an outstandingly harrowing holiday. She promised to be on hand for Christmas night If, after first preliminaries, they found him to be not entirely allergic to her general type, she would come up for a long week end and rally round with good will If they found themselves gruesomely stuck with him on New Year's Eve, she would think of something. But, she warned her friend.portentously, if they found that she didn't fit the role, it wouldn't hurt her feelings one iota. Miriam literally fell on her neck. “But see here, Mirry," Donna said, cleverly extricating herself i from the embrace, “there are going to be some complications. Don't i think there aren't If he happens , to be a stuffed shirt, what is he i going to think of you, calling your i only immediate child and heir, his nephew, by the quaint but informal cognomen of Jug?" 1 “I didn't do it," Miriam dis- - claimed hotly. “I think it's disgraceful. You started it yourself. , Think back, my friend, and rej member that the first time you came to call on us when we got j home from the hospital, you shouts ed, ’Hi, Jigger, where’s the little I Jug?’ And it has stuck to him like t glue. 1 have an easy out on that , one!" "Have you? You mean you’re ' going to tell the Moneybag 1 did i it? That will get me off to a nice . running start, won't it?" t That's right. We can’t tell him , you did it And we can’t say Jigger ’ did it Can't we blame it on some- . body that has moved away and 3 Si can never possibly meet?” i “Sure. Oh, sure. But suppose l he’s the efficiency-expert type and . goes around checking up. Then j where will you and your business e and settling affiliations wind up? t Can't you tell him the stork had . tattooed it on his little fat tummy before he got dumped off his little pink cloud?" e “Don’t be silly, Donna. Til think of something. Now that you've ■ promised to stand by I’m not got ing to let a little squirt like the Jug get me down." e When Donna reached home she i found her parents sitting alone by e the fireplace. They were not reade ing. They were not playing games, t They were not checking over laste minute shopping Items nor enjoyi mg another gay perusal of early k Christmas cards. Only the brightly blazing fire gave a semblance of

person. Q. Under what circumstances is a man obligated to pay a woman s streetcar or bus fare? A. Only when he is her escort; never otherwise. Q. Where should the clergyman sit at the wedding breakfast table? A. At the table of the bride’s parents, and at the left of the bride’s mother. 20VfARSAGO i TODAY I o —— —0 Jan. IS — A tornado takes four lives and dbes much property damage in southern Indiana. The thermometers here register 50 above zero today. B. F. Briener and Charles iMagley are on the program at the road school at Purdue University. John J. Soldner. 70, of near Berne, former Adams county assessor, dies at his home near Berne. Cols. Guy Pettit and Earl Gartin talk at Rotary. University of Washington is trying to sign Knute Rockne of Notre Dame as athletic director. 0— —— Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE 0 — 0 Powder Stains Powder stains can be removed from most hard finished fabrics with cleaning fluid. If the stains are on silks and woolens, treat the stains by rubbing with cheesecloth dipped

cheer. So Donna launched Into a long and rollicking recital of the woeful estate of the Alisons, Miriam, Jigger and the Jug, laying particular emphasis on the frightful hazards of subjecting innocent children to the vagaries of irresponsible grandparents. They chortled amusedly at the proper moments and clucked sympathetically at otherq. But at the conclusion, although she drew it out as long as she could, they relapsed again into quiet, smiling politely, but quiet The Collwell household sitting in polite and smiling quiet two days before Christmas Eve! Donna was no slacker. She served small glasses of sherry, raided the pantry for treasured cockies and settled herself determinedly on the pouf where she could prod the fire between sentences. She drew a deep breath and plunged into an account of the slick machinations of her fellow hall-bedroomers anent their annual yearly party. Having suffered by former experiences, before her day in their midst, this year they had evolved a system of blended socia! obligation and financial necessity that should make the World Bank blush for shame at its ineptness. According to Donna and, allowing for slight exaggerations, Donna's word could be depended on. On their first Christmas in the pooled apartment each had gone along independently on her Christmas planning. Each had felt obligated to present each of her fellows with a slight remembrance. At that time, without consultation, each for herself had shrewdly figured out that, living together as they did. no favoritism must be shown. The result was that each of the six had been solemnly presented with five identical gifts of identical cost There had been something strained and stilted about it, lacking personality, the personal touch, although none could take umbrage or feel slight. But some of the sets of five were more expensive than others, entailing slight embarrassment tor some, 1 slight superiority tor others. The second year they had held an official conference in honor of Christmas and agreed unanimously to limit expenditure for each household gift to two dollars. This had obviated some difficulties but not 1 all Ten dollars for gifts to the ■ fellow roomers, added to a dollar ’ apiece for the postman, the maid ’ and the janitor made Christmas a ! little more of a luxury than their • modest budgets could balance. Especially when taken into consid- ‘ oration with the fact that all of 1 the girls were already equipped ! with all the small niceties that could be picked up for two dollars • apiece. Just so much junk to lie ■ around collecting dust for their ’ own hands to eliminate, or to be 1 passed on as bridge prizes or favors. : The third Christmas they agreed ■ to eliminate all gifts and put the i money into magazines for the 5 apartment, which all could equally ' enjoy. But there was very little 1 unanimity on favorite magazines f and they were not in the aparts ment long enough to enjoy them anyhow. t On this, their fourth Christmas, • Dona's first among them, they had - held another conference. After long ; but not at all acrimonious discussion they had agreed to waive all s Christmas gifts among themselves ’ and put the money into a kitty • to pay the expenses for their annual party, to which they were • socially obligated anyhow. In es- • sence, this was. virtually present- • ing the group with a sixty-dollar ’ bonus. ! (Tt B» Cotiir.vtd)

Sgt. Herman Gerber Funeral Wednesday Berne, Jan. 18.-The body of Sgt. Herman William Gerber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gerber of near here will be interred Wednesday in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. Relatives from here will go to St. Louis for the service. Sgt. Gerber, a gunner on a B-29. was shot down on a bombing raid over Tokyo April 2, 1945, along with other members of the crew. A year later the war department declared him dead when his body was not found. June 16. 1946, memorial services were held here for him and the case considered closed. Recently the family received word that the body had been found and had been buried wtih other crew members in one grave near Yokahama. The remains could not be identified as to individual bodies and for that reason all the remains are being buried together in the national cemetery. • Sgt. Gerber was 21 years of age and was a native of Wabash township. His parents and several brothers and sisters survive, in warm soap suds and wrung out. Then use the cleaning fluid. Spinach Spinach will be cleaned more readily by using hot water instead of cold. Wash the spinach first in hot water, then rinse it with cold. Health In the home where gas stoves or oil stoves are used, a pan of water should be kept on top or very close to each stove, to purify the air. SOLDIER BONUS (Cont. From I'age One) sales tax, which received a plurality in the referendum. They also suggested use of eigaret tax funds, legalized betting, general tobacco or luxury taxes, personal net income taxes, and a tax on slot machines. Even the Communist party tried to get in on the act. Chairman Joseph Klein of the committee said he refused a Communist spokesman permission to appear at the session. The Communists later distributed mimeographed statements proposing an excess profits tax on corporations. investment of state funds for interest-bearing purposes, or a net income tax. Hanging over the drawn-out session was the threat to the state's financial structure by payment of

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WIDESPREAD - (Cont From Page n :| Havana and mas, reported receiving> signals during the day Another of the British a , f tudor planes was diverted i terday to fly the route fated ship, but discovered to indicate what happen !? “Star Trie!” 411 This was the second BSaa in a year to vanish i n a,’’’ general area. On Jan. 3i * other Tudor IV plane diJl 300 miles northeast of g," with 29 persons aboard i»? British air marshall Sir 7 Cuningham. 4,1 Last month a United State.ter airline DC-4 with so „ ’ aboard vanished on a n J Puerto Rico to Florida. x 0 was found of either plane" ' January Clearance Sale, going on. - The R J shop. Trade In a Goou i wn ., _ .