Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 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 I. 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, $3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. The only thing better than a dollar saved for a rainy day is money in Savings Bonds for a sunny day of vacation. •—o —o — During the current house cleaning period, many are reminded of the cryptic saying, "Any fool can buy new things, but only a strong man can throw out old things.” t .— 0 o The idea behind the clamor for a new Republican state chairman seems to be linked with the plan to get hold of the $15,000 that remains in the Creighton-for-governor club. The job is to pick a man whom Creighton can name, but also agreeable to Senator Jenner. —o—o — The next big sporting event will be the 500-mile auto race at Indianapolis on Memorial Day. Falling on Monday and being a holiday in most states of the Union, it will attract more than 125,000 spectators from all parts of the country. For those who like the smell of burning oil and the flash of a racing auto, the Indiana r'a-'ic is tops in entertainment. —f.—o—1c get good government, follow the same formula as that employed in getting more business: Go out after it. The Hoover Commission has pointed the way to better the federal government. All that remains is to get Congress to take action on it. This is a pretty big “all". The pressure of selfish interests will defeat any change for the better unless neutralized by a corresponding pressure from citizens interested in the welfare of the nation. —o —o — The Indianapolis man who can become a baronet and also inherit a valuable estate, isn’t interested ip the matter, if it means that he must lost his American citizenship in order to accept the family bequest. To live in Scotland ipight have its advantages for those who like old castles and family prestige, but to one born in the United States, the joy of living as free men has a greater inducement. The Hoosier has Indiana and its beauties, so declines the royal title in favor of residence in Indianapolis.

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By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.' ORDINARY pneumonia—such a threat to life and health a few years ago—has, to a great extent, lost its terror since the advent of penicillin and the sulfonamide drugs. Unfortunately, during the same period, another type of this disease, known as stypical or virus pneumonia: has been appearing with greater and greater frequency 1 Against this, neither penicillin nor the sulfonamide drugs have proved effective. . Very recently, a trial of a newly j discovered antibiotic, called aureo ■ mycin, gives excellent hope that it Will do for virus pneumonia what pencillin has accomplished against the kind caused by germs. Virus pneumonia starts grad ually. with cough, slight fever headache, chilling sensations and. often, a pain under the breastbone ', X-ray usually shows some conges tlon in the lung tissues. The num her of white cells in the blood is ■ormal or slightly less than normal. Sirdiaar, pneumonia come} <ad-. e'nly wfln chills, the presence of blood in the sputum and high fever in most cases. Eighteen patients with virus pneumonia, severe enough to make hospital care necessary, were treated with aureomycin. given by, mouth. • Patient. tsegted during the first ;

Ponder carried on the fame of the Calumet stables by winning the 75th derby and paid his backers $34 for a two dollar mutuel ticket. The general prosperity of the nation still was reflected in the 110,000 attendance at the big race, plus untold thousands of wagers placed on the three-year olds. The Kentucky derby is one of the most colorful events in the country. , 0 o The Clean-Up drive shoult have a wholesome effect in every corner of town. Debris, rubbish and rubble will be hauled away by the city truckers and as a result the alleys should be cleared of winter’s accumulation of tin cans and unsightly containers. Decatur is too beautiful a city to be cluttered with boxes and barrels and cans and every civic-minded-person should lend an arm in the war against dirt and smear. o o One form of nationalization which will have few opponents is the project for the British government to take over the copyright of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas when it expires next year. The British are afraid that the practitioners of so-called modern music will perform experiments on the familiar Sullivan tunes, and torture them out of all recognition. Gilbert and Sullivan, while they were British, really belong to the whole world of lovers of light music, and their songs have been a source of pleasure to tens of millions. o o— Interest in Government Over a period of many years a large and attractive pedestal has been built for the disinterested citizen. He is the arbiter of disputes, the judge of contests. As “special interest" has become the bogey-man of government, the “disinterested citizen” has come to be the symbol of sincerity and integrity, the man who some day will oust the bogey-man. So it is something of an honor to be regarded as a disinterested citizen. But there is more than one meaning for the term. “Disinterested" may mean free from the influence of selfish motives, or it may mean just not interested. If it were possible to place a finger on any one thing and say, “That is the trouble with government today," that one thing probably would be a superabundance of disinterested citizens, not the kind free from selfish motive but the kind just not interested, except in a vague, detached way, in what goes on. It is time to reduce the responsibilities of the disinterested citizens. And it is time for them to abandon disinterest, as far as government is concerned, and join a special interest group — the now remarkably small group of people who are frankly interested in better government.

1 21 days of their illness, became free from fever within 12 to 72 hours, and 9 patients were free from fever within a day. Improvement in the other symptoms occurred at the same time as the fever dropped. The cough, however, persisted and improved only gradually. There was weakness of varying degree during the recovery period. This weakness was most noticeable 1 in patients in whom the treatment 1 was not started until later in the : digease. Recurrence of the symp- ' toms did not take place in any of the patients after treatment with 1 the aureomycin was stopped. The drug caused no noticeable reactions. Large doses, however, in some cases may cause sickness at the stomach and loss of appetite. I Several of the patients complained I of mild drowsiness These studies would seem to in- ' dicate that aureomycin is of great i value in the treatment of virus pneumonia. QUESTIONS ANO ANSWERS M. F.: What causes continued Answer: llie trouble may come from such causes as constipation, bowel inflammation, or nervousness. ' A thorough and careful study should be made tv find the source of the difficulty; then the most effective treatment for overcoming the trouble ean be suggested.

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0 20 YEARS AGO TODAY o May Id — A new law in Indiana eliminates the 40-mile per hour speed limitation. The state tax board is holding a hearing here on the proposed Hartford township school improvement. Funeral services held for Mrs. Frank Hower, 40. Mrs. Mary Artman elected scribe of the State Ben Hur lodge at annual convention in Fort Wayne. Ed Vancil of Van Wert is calli ing on Decatur friends today. M. F. Worthman is ill with a i throat infection. A potato has only one-third as many calories as a piece of twocrust berry pie.

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I SYNOPSIS Marriage for the Parishes had begun frugally and happily. After ten years Beatrice Parish and her successful husband. Psrtsr, find themselves at an impasse. Porter nas become morose, disgruntled as cantankerous old Mr. Ramey, the rich Industrialist who employs him. Beatrice fears that their marriage is headed for the rocks. At breakfast Porter creates an ugly scene with Marianne, their little school-girl daughter. Angrily he slams out of me house. Beatrice determines that there shall be no divorce. She herself had been a child of divorce and bitterly remembers her misery. Their Ilves together, their home must, at all costs, oe preserved tor Marianne. Os all Bee’s acquaintances, Hilde, the beauty shop girl who does her hair, seems happy. She does not expect too much from Ute. She Is content working to help her maladjusted war-vet husband and their Infant son. Then there is Libby, Bee's lifelong friend, a rich, handsome "gay" divorcee who baa everything but love. Libby seems blind to the anguisn caused Jane, her teen-age daughter, pathetically confused In their broken borne. Late one afternoon Beatrice calls on Libby and finds her entertaining a new swain, one David Jordan, a charming South African engineer. He Is so attentive to Bee that, sensing "danger," she cuts her visit short. CHAPTER SIX FRANCES had gone and Marianne was in bed. The sea-blue curtains were drawn and the fire burned low upon the hearth. The music of Debussy seemed to come from far away. It came only from [ the phonograph at the far end of the long living room. Porter sat behind a copy of a business weekly. Beatrice sat with her hands idle upon her lap. And once more she was aware of a room's becoming dynamic, though this time not with the high flight of inexpressible feelings but rather with hostility. Porter had scarcely spoken during dinner, and since then he had hidden his face from her. Was he really reading? e If only she could think of some--2 thing to say that would make him e lower the paper and speak to her and smile at her. What's wrong . with us, she cried silently? What has happened to us? What have r I done? It would be better if we ’ lived in drowsy tolerance. Anything would be better than this ► cold wall between us. Perhaps if she suggested asking e Martha and Bart West and Rhoda 1 ■ and George Dalton for cocktails e. tomorrow before going to the club ■' ...Perhaps she should say that* f Jane was coming to spend the 1 night. Should she tell him that Libby had a new I)eau'? She P i could suggest calling Libby and asking her and David to join them ’ tomorrow night She decided against that Libby would probably want David Jordan all to herself. You can t blame her for that, i can you? a voice whispered in her • ! ear. Perhaps if she tried she could ’ put some enthusiasm in her voice s and tell him she had a new dmi ner dress and that it was lovely. She would ask him if he were 1 thirsty or hungry. Pleasant things. Amiable things. Appeasement Ap,t pctaement... Porter, tell me. tell me. please, where la our togetherness? "Porter?" “Yes." “1 can't very well talk to you through the paper." He lowered the paper and looked i at her without expression. 1 "What do you want, Bee?"

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t 0 -0 Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE 0 o Patent Leather A patent leather bag or similar article can easily be cleaned of fingerprints by wiping with a rag dampened with milk. When the leather has dried, rub with a soft dry cloth to bring out the shine. Puddings The flour can be prevented from lumping when making pudding, if the sugar and flour are mixed well together before adding the milk. Window Shades To paint window shades successfully give them a chat of flat paint that is thinned to a cream-like consistency. Soybeans have been the leading oil crop in the United States since' 11943.

— " " ‘ «'.V •> if You, she thought 1 want you. And I want us the way we used t to be when I saved pennies so we i could go to a movie on Saturday : night Remember? We always ■ stopped in at a small place for shrimps and a glass of beer and then walked home. Those were ■ wonderful moments, Porter, won--1 derful nights. Do only women rei member? "I wondered,” she began quietly, "if anything is wrong, Porter. If there is, I’d like to know what it is. I'd... well, I’d like to be in on it” Horrible, she thought I ! sound like one of those morning : radio serials. "It’s so apparent 1 that something is disturbing you,” she added. He looked at her not coldly but pityingly. “We’re not living in exactly cheerful times," he said. "I have many problems, and the old man is on the warpath." “I appreciate that. But it touch- , es us, too—Marianne and me—- , more than you know.” “You have everything you want, , haven’t you, Bee?” "Materially, yes. More than I i ever dreamed of having." He rattled the paper. “Then there's nothing more to say.” . “Only this. Have you everything you want, Porter?” His look of surprise briefly 1 warmed his eyes. Wearily he said, 1 "I don’t ever expect to get what 1 I want,” and then hid his face ■ from her behind the paper again. The telephone seemed to scream J through the house. Automatically ’ Beatrice arose and went into the library to answer it. When she had sat down in the red leather 1 chair, her heart was heavy with living. There was no doubt as to ■ the identity of the caller. It was ■ Mrs. Ramey of course. “Beatrice?” the old, querulous, : aristocratic voice inquired. "Yes, Mrs. Ramey. How are 1 you?” "Only fair, my dear. When you I get to be as old as I am, you ali ways know when we're going to i have bad weather. My shoulder i hurts terribly. I haven't heard . from you in a week, and 1 did i very much want to see my chirop--1 odist You're not forgetting me, i are you?” I "Certainly not,” Beatrice said, i “1 phoned you on Tuesday but I there was no answer and I have had a full week." "You phoned on Tuesday?” The , thin voice was petulant now. ■ “That's very odd. I haven't been I out of the house all week. I don't ' understand it” You don't believe me, Beatrice thought Why don't you go ahead I and say it? “I did phone on Tuesday." Bea- ■. trice said. Don’t be angry. Pacify I her. Appeasement "But I'll be glad to take you to the chiropodist next week." "Very well I'll let you know. I'll call you and let you know, i You know I like to be definite. Os course, 1 don't want to interI sere with your plans. Young people today are not the same as they wus ui my day. Is my precious

— V 1 Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE 0 - Q. When a woman enters an eleI vator and four or five men remove | their hats, should she nod in act knowledgment of the courtesy? ■ A. No, it is not necessary. The ‘ gesture is not at all personal. Q. How long before the appoint- ‘ ed date of a wedding should the ( invitations be mailed? L A. From twp to three weeks in I advance. b Q. What is the minimum numI her of courses one should serve at ' a luncheon? i A. Three courses.

Found Not Guilty The court Monday found George. Kahn not guilty in the contempt citation asked by his wife, Myrtle, who is suing for divorce. She had charged Kahn had violated a court restraining order by molesting her. Estate Insolvent The estate of Norman Parr, de- ■ ceased, was declared insolvent in 0 the inheritance tax appraisement filed Monday. C. H. Muselman is attorney for the estate. Real Estate Transfers & Charley F. Adams etux to Janice Oliver, 200 acres in Jefferson twp. I r Janice Oliver to Charley F. Ads ams etux, 200 acres in Jefferson I J Twp. ’ Dorothy L. DeVore Bowman etj vir to Robert S. Anderson, lot in Decatur. Robert S. Anderson etux to Dor-! ( [ othy Bowman, lot in Decatur, pl Lawrence E. Morrison etux to ! I Jesse F. Morrison elux, inlots 11 i and 12 in Decatur. | Rosa A. Harmon to Coy E. Martz, ■ inlot 54 in Monroe. Emanuel Neuenschwander etux Ito Homer W. Habegger etux, land I in Monroe Twp. John H. Smith to Edwin Neuhauser etux, inlots 464 and 465 in Berne. I Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

darling coming to spend the mgnt j with me tomorrow? Her room is all ready for her.” Oh, dear, Beatrice thought Now ' get yourself out of this. “I’m awfully sorry but Mari- I anne can’t come tomorrow night. ' She’ll be so disappointed, too." I Liar! "But Libby is going out and j Jane is coming here.” “I don't believe my darling likes , me any more.” "Oh, she does,” Beatrice assured | her. "She reads and reads the ; last book you gave her. Maybe ' we can stop by on Sunday afternoon. Porter will be golfing, but Marianne hnd I could stop in.” The old, complaining voice seemed to crack. "Well, if nothing more interesting comes up for y0u..." “There won’t be. We’ll see you then.” "All right. Good-bye, my dear. Take care of yourself." Beatrice returned to the living room. The last few minutes had put weariness in her face. "Who was it?” Porter asked. “Mrs. Ramey." "What did she want?” I can’t bear it, Beatrice thought I can’t bear my fieceit with’her, my lies. "What does she always want?" she cried. “She wants to remind me that I’m her chauffeur, and that she owns Marianne and me body and soul!" She did not wait for his reply j because she was afraid she was | going to cry. She went upstairs to their room and began to undress. | And then she began to wonder how it had all happened with the Rameys. She and Porter had been married two years and they had been living in a tiny apartment of the wrong side of town on thirty dollars a week. Those had been the days when to buy a ten ninety-five dress had been an event of monumental importance. Beatrice had bought envelopes at the five and dime store, and into them she had put the money that Porter had given her each week—so much for rent in one, so much for food in another, so much for insurance in still another, and so on. There must have been half a dozen of those envelopes, and she would never forget them. Then one day Porter had been invited as a guest to the country club by George Dalton. Beatrice had not been there but she had heard the story many times of how Porter and Bill had found old man Ramey on the first tee, and since nobody would ask him to join them, they had asked him. Despite his blusterings they had known he was grateful and after the eighteenth . hole he had asked to buy them a drink. A drink. Only one. Ramey’s niggardliness was well known. Obviously they had made the drink last quite a long time, because by the time it was finished Mr. Ramey said to Porter, “I could use you, boy. Come down to my office Monday morning. Nine sharp." That was how it had happened. (To Be Coatiasedl I

Confesses Slabbing His Estranged Wife Young Man Admits Illinois Stabbing Rockford, 111., May 10 —(UP>— A young husband confessed today that he stabbed his estranged wife ss he kissed her passionately after she spurned his plea for a reconciliation. Thomas Gates, 25, was captured after he knifed his wife, Wanda, 18, in her room here and then leaped from a second story window. Mrs. Gates was “near death" at I Swedish American hospital. Gates was held in city jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. , He dislocated his wrist in his jump from his wife’s room. Gates told police Capt. Ralph Johnson that he came here from his home in Beloit, Wis., to ask his wife to return to him. They separated last Tuesday after repeated quarrels over his family in Beloit. They were married nine months ago. He said he brought 17 roses and promised his wife that they would move to Texas, where her family lives, to get away from his family. "I gave her the roses and tried to convince her that she should j come back to me.” he said. "She j answered: “it’s too late. • Anyway, I I’ve got a date for tonight.” That [ made me mad. I "I asked her to kiss me. She did. While we were kissing I stabbed | her in the back. She fell on her i back on the bed and I stabbed her [again in the breast. The knife I broke. I might have slashed her more times but I don’t remember.” BENDIX PLANT (Cont. From Page One) an alleged production line speedup and the discharge of 47 employes in the brake shoe department. The union also asked dismissal of a federal court suit asking $1,180,000 damages for production losses suffered during a wildcat walkout earlier in April. “The company stands ready to reconvene conferences with the union and members of the mediation board at any time,” said Millard E. Stone, industrial relations director at Bendix. But Stone said Bendix could not accept the union’s “position of refusing to follow contract procedure" in the discharge of the workers, who were fired for an alleged slowdown.

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Dean Bechtol Named District Chairman Indianapolis, May 10— Dean Bechtol, Garrett, has volunteered to act as chairman of the fourth district for the Riley centennial research fund, it was announced today by Anton J. Hulman, Jr., Terre Haute, state chairman. Mr. Bechtol will head research fund activities in Adams, Allen. DeKalb, Huntington, LaGrange[ Noble. Steuben, Wells and Whitley counties, The state-wide fund organization seeks to establish support (or a sustained program of scientific research in children’s diseases in connection with Indiana’s James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children.

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