Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1957 — Page 10

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT P ira DBCATOR 'IWMOCRA? >t C» ia »fc By Entered at the Decatur. Ind., Peat Office as Second Class Matter Dick ft Heller s re^ ent J. H. Heller Vice-President ' Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, M OO; Six months, $4.25: 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $9.00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 months, $2.50. By Carrier: 30 cents per week. Single copies, 6 cents.

Help build juvenile decency and abolish juvenile delinquency, is the theme of National Boys club week starting April 1. 0 0 Hie roster of new officers of the Decatur Elks is filled with gpod solid citizens and all have proved their ability. Oren Schultz, fdnner head of the local Elks is the new trustee, succeeding Wilbur Petrie, who has done an excellent job. Vincent Bormann is the new secretary and Earl Deweese is the exalted ruler. These and the other officers should guarantee the Elks lodge one of its finest years.* o—o Slowly we’re approaching spring and any day now the weather should indicate that winter has had its final fling. Gardeners are sharpening their tools and some of the more ambitious already have planted onion sets and other of the more hardy tasty spring vegetables. Lawn work was slowed down some during the recent cold and. snow but many local people are now doing their spring grass planting and making ready fdr the April rains. In a few weeks, we’ll be wondering, where the summer went. ; o o We congratulate D. Burdette Custer on his notification that he will be admitted next Monday to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Col. Custer is associated here with Robert Smith in the law firm of Custer and Smith. The Decatur man, a Work! War II veteran, also is a. veteran attorney and Adams county native. He is an able and competent lawyer and his many friends join in congratulating him on the high honor he has brought to Decatur and the local bar association. o—o Next summer, when you see an. 'Ambulance going down the street and someone tells you that the Occupant is another polio case, it jnay be too late for you to protect yourself against the bold Crippltr and killer. Right now is the time to get your polio shots, which are the best known insurance against tragedy in • your owa home. Later in the spring ahd summer, the precious vaccine will be channelled to children, which is correct, because they are most susceptible to the disease. If you are wise yoy will

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get your solio shots now. , ———O O——— Soft coal prices are due for a 25 cents a ton increase through most of the nation on April 1. Hie price rise is in line with many other increases, but with a few more like this, next winter it looks like all we can do is pay cur taxes and maybe keep warm. o o April 8 ty 1« nas been designated a$ National Sunday School week. It’s a special week which doesn’t cost you any money. It is set aside to show the world the many fine things our Sunday Schools are sponsoring, especially for the Youth of America. Bible teaching is only a part of our modern Sunday School. Good living, respect for parents, respect for government and respect for other people and their views also are taught. Adult support of bur Sunday Schools is vital to the American way. of life because it guarantees better living and better communities. —o o The local Red Cross Chapter needs your help. This great hu-. < manitarian organization, which never fails, whether you are worthy or not, is in the midst of its annual membership drive. The campaign has bogged down, partly because of the numerous fund drives made locally each year and partly because of the indifference of people too far removed from tragedy and suffering to realize the immense value of the Red Cross in time of fire, storm, or any other tragedy. The Red Cross is your friend and ■youjf neighbor. Won’t _you treat it as such? Join toSiy.*’ ——o o ~ Fort Wayne’s Park View hospital, one of mid-America’s finest and most modern will be remodelled and many facilities will be added, it has been announced. Chief among the improvements will be enlarged X-Ray and therapy departments. X-ray has recently played a most important part in cancer cases and this treatment also is in numerous other ailments. Therapy is one of the greatest aids for crippled limbs and both departments have far outgrown their present accommodations. Park View's management is keeping abreast of the times and demands of the people of the area.

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By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) — World population is growing at the fastest rate in history.” The population "explosion” already has wiped out many of the economic gains painfully achieved in underdeveloped countries since World War 11. If it continues, many scientists believe that the specter of mass starvation soon will begin to stalk large areas of the earth. "The speea-up in world population growth since 1945 is one of the most ominous developments of our time,” said Robert C. Cook, director of the Population Reference Bureau. “It jeopardizes the welfare and even the survival of hundreds of millions of people. It is as great a threat to mankind as the atomic bomb.” Cook said in an interview that “the human race has less time than some people think” to cut the fuse of the “population bomb.”

CHAPTER 20 hat bn his head. “See you In the 'T'HE STORM blew itself out mornin’,” he said, and slammed 1 late in the afternoon of the out of Chad’s cabin.* third day. Colonel Randall had remained in his quarters all three Digging out .began in earnest days, down with a heavy chest the next Trenches becold, his wife said tween each budding were cleared, Chad Endicott, climbing to one making communication within the of the blockhouses, looked out tort nearly normal. Outside the across the snow - smothered parade, snow lay unevenly on prairie. Even the river, silent and e g roun n« High spots were nearmotionless, was as white as the bare, while gullies and low land on both aides of it. P laces were flQed making the — j u ..v c- land seem unnaturally levek Still Chad thought about-the Sioux the gk remained ominously with more respect than he had blacl{ ever given them before. It was a miracle that the Indians could .. . . ... ... Chad was returning to his quarHve through a storm ike this came u * behind* when they had only a skin-cover- .. pi ffl CoU ld deerect ed tepee for protection. me to ” That evening the door to his He was interrupted by a shrill quarters was flung open and Zack y e n from one of the blockhouses. Cubberly came in, stomping snow "Injuns! A million of ’em!” from his feet. He slammed the chad and Zack ran along the door shut, then bowed to Chad trench to the ladder and clamwith mock courtesy. bered up to the sentry’s post. “Sorry, Lootinant, but a man Staring across the frozen terrain, can’t stop to knock, even for one they saw a dozen Sioux braves of you high-toned officers. Not on heading for Colonel Randall’s a night like this.” cherished sawmill. Chad laid down his pen. “Well, Zack leaned forward and spit you’re taking a big chance. For a brown stream through the loopall you know, 1 might not have hole. "Now ain't thet terrible, the been prepared to receive guests.” Cunncl laid up in bed - sick like "You ain’t, now that I get a he . l ®' , . . good loolt at you. WlSskcrs like a Missouri trapper. Dressed like racks, carrying their rifles high a squaw with that bufflcr robe to keep snow out of the muzzles, wrapped round you.” Co,o " eI Randall merged from his Zack wiped his mouth with the as he ran toward the Wockho use. back of his hand. "The Cunnel’s .'What’s this about Indians’” as ornery lately as a grizzly with he snouted as he climbed into the the mumps. small, elevated square. He stared “He has been a little touchy,” accusingly at Chad as if he Chad agreed. “You haven’t helped thought this were some sort of a any, either.” prank. “Me?” Zack slapped his leg and Randall wheeled to the looplaughed. “Well, rnebbe I ain’t, hole and began to curse. The But jest what's stuck in his dozen Indians Chad had first seen craw?” had turned into forty or fifty, afi Chad said, “In the first place, of them romping through the he thinks the men ought to be sawmill like a bunch of boys the inorc military. In the second 'day school was let out. place, he thinks 1 ought to see to “All right, Lieutenant,” Ranit that they are.” Chad winked at dall barked. "Let’s get a little Zack. “The Colonel figures that fire going on some of those Inwhat we really need around here dians. Get ’em out of my sawis something to keep the men mill!” occupied.” Chad ran to the men who were “What docs the fool want, a lined up along a platform fasten-’ riot?” Zack demanded. ed to the palisade, which gave “Randall's scared.” Chad scowl- them sufficient height to rest cd. "When a man who hasn't their rifles in the loopholes of the done anything in the field gets in stockade. a pinch, he falls back on Regu- “Sergeant Anderson, the Collations. It’s all he can do. And one! wants the Indians drtven out the tougher the going gets, the of the sawmill. Have your men harder he runs for the book.” keep a steady Are on It.” “Shore he's scared,” Zack said, As the rifles began to pop, "but he’s scareder than he ought- Anderson came back where Chad er. be!” was standing. “No 'use, LieutenZack got up. “I've gotter git ant. Don’t reckon we’re in range, over to the barracks. Some o’ the All we can do is to make a lot o’ boys Agger they can play poker noise.” and I aim to teach ’em a few o’ "I know it,” Chad said. "I’m the fine points." He slapped his just following orders.” I

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“If present trends continue for 10 more years, some areas of the world will face disaster,” he said. Not all experts agree with Cook about the imminence of the overpopulation danger. Some believe that development of new food resources could prevent widespread famine even if the world’s population doubled. At the present rate of increase, ’it will do just that in less than half a century. Death Rate Drops I But there is general agreement among authorities that uncontrolled human fertility is a luxury which the world cannot much longer afford, particularly in the vast areas qf Asia and Africa where two-thirdk. of the people already suffer from chronic hunger. Hie sharp jump in population growth which now is causing alarm in world capitals is, ironically, a by-product of the postwar effort to raise living standards in underdeveloped areas. It did not result from an increase in birth rates, which have

tended to remain stable or decline slowly in most countries, but from a precipitate drop in the death rate as modern techniques of sanitation and medical care were introduced. The present population of the earth is about 2.7 bullion. It has been increasing since World War II at an average rate of 1.5 per cent a year. This is approximately double the rate of increase which prevailed during the preceding century. “This rate of growth means that the world has 100.000 new mouths to feed each time the sun rises,” said Cook. “And most of them are in the countries least able to take on the added burden.” • Too Many Babies If underdeveloped countries are industrialized, won’t their birth rates tend to drop as their living standards rise? “This is the standard answer of those who think the population problem will go away if we ignore it,” Cook said. “They overlook the time element. It took over a century for this transition to take place in most of the Western countries. During that transition, the population of some countries doubled, that of others tripled. In many underdeveloped countries today, population is already so dense that a doubling or tripling would certainly outrun any conceivable increases in agricultural or industrial production.” Could the problem be solved by a mass migration of people from overcrowded nations to sparsely settled regions of the world? Cook replied by citing a 1954 United Nations study which said: “There are no longer any great 'new worlds’ with vast areas of good farmland to be had for the labor of clearing and plowing it. Some lands are still available to immigrants in certain parts of the world — South America and Australia for example — but they are generally less productive and more costly to develop.” “There is no use looking for bogus solutions,” said Cook. ‘”lhe problem is people having babies. Unless human sex mores can be changed quickly, too-rapid population growth will bring evergrowing misery.” Next: The search for new birth control methods. 0 i — 0 20 Years Ago Today March 28, 1937 was Sunday.

Anderson grunted and joined his men. Chad glanced back at the blockhouse and saw Randall beckoning to him. Randall shoved a pair of field glasses into Chad’s hands with the single word, "Here.” There was a lull in the firing, and Randall demanded, "What in the devil are they up to ?” Chad said, “One of the bucks has a sledge. He’s pounding on the saw." “They’re wrecking the place!" Randall shouted.’"Wrecking it, I tell you. You’ve got to get them out of there! Get that twelvepounder loaded with grape.” A moment later the gun roared and then recoiled sharply. The blockhouse shook and the little room was filled with the acrid smell of burned powder. The snow showered up in a rippling, uneven pattern at least twenty-five yards short of the mill. "Ever run a gun before, Lieutenant ?” Randall sneered. "That's not a snow shovel, you know.” Chad snapped, “Up five and to the left.” The gun roared again and splinters flew from the sawmill. Randall grunted. "That’s better.” The gun crew fired rapidly at the sawmill, ripping at its rough board Sides and sending splinters flying into the air. After the second shot, the Indians took cover. Now the gunners were shooting at nothing more than the long shed which housed Randall’s prized saw. Randall snapped, “Endicott.” Qhad turned to him. “Yes, sir." “I’ll not see my mill chewed up with grape while those Indians lie out of range and watch it. We’re going to try a little attack strategy ourselves.” Randall, ignoring the amazed expression on Chad’s face, hurried on, “We’re only seventy men, and they say a man's a fool to divide an inferior force, but Lee did it at Chancellorsville and beat Hooker. We’ll give it a try. I think I can hold the fort with twenty men. That will give you fifty to work with. I want you to circle that bunch and drive them into range of our twelvepounders.” Chad was silent. "We'll give it a try,’.’ Randall had said. “We.” And you, Lieutenant, will go out and die trying, and when the Indians have taken your scalp, the Colonel will write a report that "we tried.” Chad looked Randall in the eyes. He said, “Yes, sir." *, Tomorrow: Zack does wine scalping too. Rbad Chapter 21 of "Silent River.”

U/mLmam> Cail VeiS WIuOWS rail To Seek Benefits Dependent Benefits Are Now Increased » Thousands of Indiana widows of veterans who died of service-con-nected causes before January 1, 1957, have failed to apply for the new increased dependants’ compensation payments, M. D. Cummins, VA regional manager, announced today. The Servicemen’s and Veterans’ Survivor Benefits Act, which authorizes the new payments, became effective January 1, 1957. Widows of veterans who died of service-connected cause before January 1, 1957, may elect to receive the new payments or to continue under the old death compensation, whichever is higher. Widows of veterans who died after January Ist of service-connected causes automatically come under the new law. Cummins emphasized that widows, now under the old law, who make application for the new benefits, but who would receive more under the old laws, will be advised by VA against the wrong choice of payment. “However, we can’t advise > widow if she doesn’t apply,” said Cummins. “If a widow applies under the new law and our records indicate she would receive more under the old law, we will so advise her.” The VA manager added that if widows fail to apply for the new benefit — and thousands in In- > diana have failed — they will continue to receive death compensation at the same date as in the past, even though they might be eligible for increased payments under the new law. In most cases, Cummins said, the new act provides for higher these widows than were granted under previous laws. Cummins emphasized that any of these widows who wish to receive the higher benefit must apply for the new compensation payments, even though they already are on VA rolls. Due to decentralization of death claims last year, records pertaining Indiana (except. La Porte, and Porter Counties) widows' claims are maintained at the St. Paul; Minnesota, district VA office, or at the Indianapolis VA regional office. The shift was made in June 1958. Hie Indianapolis office handles the cases of verteitans who died after June 6, 1958, .The St. Paul office still maintains cases of veterans who died before that date,, and in which VA already is paying benefits. Inactive cases housed at the St. Paul office will be sent to the Indianapolis office for handling when correspondence develops or the case is re-opened. It is, estimated that the St. Paul office has approximately 13,00014,000 cases of Indiana widows receiving death compensation under the old law. Hie Indianapolis office reports that it now has approximately 700 cases of veterans whose widows are drawing compensation under the old law. Os the 13,000-14,000 cases at the St. Paul office, it is estimated that three of every five widows have failed to apply for the new increased dependents’ compensation payments. If a widow is eligible for an in-

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