Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 8

Tuesday, February 8, 1944. DECATUR HERALD ATTENTION! INTERPRETATION 8 Founder of Fiat Works man of Decatur will preside at the service which is held by the Piatt -v T2 ccnria inn Editorials COLD SUFFERERS! Ar, you the wj'hlrr "Vt.ml Im -W irMtful slw. Insist on State Banks Fewer, i Stronger, Study Shows Springfield AP I State Auditor Arthur C. Lueder reported Monday the changes that taken nlace in the condition Arrested in Italy Bern. Switzerland AP) A Swiss-Italian frontier dispatch to the Swiss newspaper Der Bund reported yesterday the arrest of Senator Giovanni Agnelli, founder of the Fiat automobile works and owner of Turin's news- Since eligible girls are plentiful, the careful bachelor will wait another few months before committing himself, at least until he has seen her in a bathing suit.

Doctor's Formula point of military science there may be times and occasions for dying to the last man. There are times when such a stand serves to steel the folks back home, to stir the comrades of the doomed men to unusual effort. But the situation on the Eastern front is beyond hope so far as the Nazis are concerned and Hitler's decision may damage morale not only in the Nazi army but in the Fatherland. Hitler seems to share some of the philosophy of his oriental partner in the Axis. Hitler feels that he.

too, must save face. He may be successful in saving his face but in the effort he may lose his neck. Spring's return will be a weather phenomenon and not a cause for rejoicing in the furniture manufacturing bers of the Kastel family and friends of the deceased attorney have been invited to attend the ser-: vice. Judse Kastel, who served both las Piatt county state's attorney and county judge, was attorney for the Illinois Department of Public Welfare at the time of his death. Shipyard Worker I Effingham Dan W.

Havickhorst. Effingham, local journeyman electrician, has passed all requirements and will leave Feb. 11th for work in the shipyards at Bremerton, according to U. S. Navy Civilian Recruiter David S.

Hall. paper, Stampa. Others reported arrested by the puppet Italian government included General Ambrogio Clerici. for- jmer aide de camp of King Vit-torio Emanuele. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE An outfit which has been making a succession of successful appearances in the islands of the Pacific might be tagged General So-and-So and his Doom Sealers.

of state banks between the close of business in 1933 and in 1943. Illinois, he said had 615 state banks 10 years ago at the end of the bank moratorium compared with 484 at present. Ten years ago the banks had cash means "of 181 million dollars against cash means today of 565 million dollars. Deposits ten years ago were 627 million dollars. Today they are in excess of two billion dollars.

Based on cash and bonds at book value, the 484 banks had 90 per cent of their deposits in liquid form? against only 79 per cent at the end of 1933. "Do Business The Modern Way" New York City and Los Angeles are waging a terrific battle for precedence as arbiter of women's fashions and here in the usually neutral and conservative Mid-West, we suppose anything will go, as in other years. Piatt Bar to Honor Late Judge Kastel Monticello (Staff) I Memorial service for the late Judge Thomas J. Kastel, Monticel lo attorney, who died December, will be held at a session of the Piatt county circuit court at 10:30 Second Thoughts By David V. Felts COMIC BOOKS came in for expert discussion in New York City one day last week when 100 educators, librarians, parents, professional child guidance workers and publishers gathered to wonder if anything could cr should be done about children and comic books.

It is estimated that 20 million copies of 135 different titles of comic books are sold every month in this country. Seventy per cent of that volume goes to children, with adults that is. persons of legal voting age-accounting for the other 30 per cent. The concensus was that the comics, in general, are not the menace they were believed to be a couple of years or so ago. There are.

of course, good comics and bad but there the question of taste enters the picture. Miss Josette Frank of the Child Study Association of America declared that conflicts between parents and children over the subject of comic bocks might be far more harmful than the poorest comic book ever would be. Dr. S. Harcourt Peppard, assistant director of the bureau of child guidance in the Department of Education, approached the subject from the psychological point of view.

Said Doctor Peppard: "The comics fill a basic emotional need in children's lives for adventure and escape from relatives. "Even adults day-dream. The child's position in a world dominated by adults is a helpless one. Through the comics he can satisfy his frustrations and express his aggressiveness and hostility toward the world. "I sometimes wish that parents would spend as much time selecting their children's candy as they do their literature.

If they would spend the time they use in 'crabbing' in improving their basic relationship with their children, there would be far less of a problem." A librarian ventured the succestion that "folklore can fill the needs in a child's life far better than comics can," but the idea was not convincing. Besides, the publishers of comic books have adapted most of the classic folklore. Finally, a critic asked from the floor: "Must comics be so ugly? Or are they part of a new Art of Ugliness like Boogie-woogie?" That, alas, as a most pertinent question. We greatly fear the answer is "Yes." But the new- Art of Ugliness, manifest tn teen age dress as well as in music and dancing, is a fad. It will pass and wilf be followed by something worse.

a. m. rriday. judge o. doq- Challenge to Tojo The war in the Pacific has been carried to Japan, not merely to islands occupied by the Japanese since December 7, 1941, but to the mandated islands and, more recently, to the northern islands which are geographically a part of the Japanese homeland.

Last Friday a United States navy task force sailed five miies of the shore of the island of Paramushiro and shelled the coast defense installations and left 'fires on the island which is south of Kamchatka and the furthermost of the Kuriles. Our ships let the Japs have it for 20 minutes and then retired without loss. The significance of the Paramushiro raid, apart from the fact that the island is a part of what is called Japan Proper, is the fact that our naval strength in the Pacific is such that we can attack simultaneously in the South Pacific, the North Pacific and the Central Pacific. The Japs cannot defend all those areas at once. now they do not seem eager to defend any area.

Meanwhile American naval strength grows in the Pacific and the big battle-wagons go forth under the protection of a mighty aerial umbrella. The Jap fleet was challenged to a show-down battle, but it chose not to appear. The Federal government turned back the railroads to private management just when various communities were beginning to hope they might get union stations out of the deal, and at government expense. Paying Your Bills By "hether you are a girl war worker, a housewife or an executive, you can enjoy the satisfaction of paying your bills by check, and having your own receipt for every bill you pay! Start a checking account today. OlTIZENS NATIONAL BANK DEaCATUR, ill Membtr Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Member Federal Reserve System A Three Days' Cough is Your Danger Signal Creomulsion 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.

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It's an Individual Problem The War Bond campaign is lagging in this city or that county. The campaign directors feel that the residents of the laggard area should have a shot in the arm. So an insurance company, a building and loan firm or a public official with tax funds to invest is persuaded to buy a substantial order of War Bonds in the area to be encouraged. The sale is made and duly credited. The area reaches its quota.

Residents who might have bought another bond or so decide to wait until the next campaign. The incentive of a quota, an artificial stimulant tested in the world of business and industry, is all very well, provided that the quota is individual, rather than geographical. Those insurance and mortgage company funds are going to be invested in bonds; the Government is going to get the use of the money. The purpose of the War Bond drives is to sell bonds to people who might spend their money for other things. Don't be fooled by a quota.

You and only you know when your own individual quota has been reached. The reduction in size of War Bonds enabled the Treasury department to save $5,000,000 in paper and printing bills and anytime Uncle Sam needs another five millions dollars, he can cut the bonds down to the size of a dollar bill. Wendell Willkie. the amazingly unorthodox politician, has been making some astonishing statements lately but so far as is known, he is still against sin. speaking generally.

Herald 25 Years Ago Today Major General Leonard Wood of the U. S. army has written W. J. Ellis that he will come to Decatur Feb.

19 to speak before the City club. Brown Landone of Cleveland was speaker for the club yesterday, his talk dealing with the spread of Bolshevism. It Was Defeat Temporary Units of the U. S. Fifth army defending the invasion bridgehead below Rome suffered a sharp reverse over the weekend.

The latest news is that lost ground has been regained in counter-attacks but that the battle continues. The Germans are using their best troops and materiel in the fighting for possession of the central sections of the ancient Appinn Wav. The Fifth Army, according to the official ciiMimiini(ue from Allied headquarters in Algiers, shortened its line below Rome. Our troops also "adjusted and consolidated" their positions. We know what is meant by such We learned by reading Nazi high command communiques from the Russian front when the Nazis were compelled to fall back "to previously prepared positions." It is only human for an army commander to avoid the use of words which admit a defeat, even if minor and temporary.

Therefore the "weasel words" of official communiques. But the army complains of complacency and overconfidcnce on the home front. So why shouldn't the army make a frank and honest report? After all, the enemy is aware of his own succ ess. Furthermore, he is going to report that success and the report must be confirmed, eventually, by our commanders. John G.

Imboden will be on the program at the meeting of the Illinois Live Stock Breeders association in Springfield Feb. C. L. Holman of LaPlace had a farm sale yesterday which brought in $5,800. He expects to move to Decatur.

Y. W. C. A. workers have been discouraged by the result of their drive for $7,000, having reached less than one-half that goal.

OF THIS -Oh Yes AND THAT: Three cheers for colder weather. Let's have that winter now and save the balmy atmosphere for official spring Is Ray Sinatra's orchestra a new outfit? But. after all. Bob Crosby has an orchestra Journalism students should note that while the late columnist Raymond Clapper enjoyed an income of $100,000 per annum, he didn't make it writing movie reviews Automobiles were dashing about the downtown district, horns blowing, and we strode to the window in righteous indignation that so much gasoline was being wasted and then we saw the occasion was a wedding and the groom was a soldier in uniform. The Heiress to the Felts Millions has been reading "Gone With the Wind" and insists she likes it, but she chucks the book away when a contemporary wants to roller-skate The late Raymond Clapper called himself a conservative and when he built a modernistic home in Washington he explained he had no respect "for traditions that seem no longer to serve a useful purpose" and said that philosophy supported his viewpoint about public affiiirs Well, why not? Valentines this year Leap Year are remarkably frank In a dissent from the majority opinion of the U.

S. Supreme court in the latest case involving the practises cf Jehovah's Witnesses, Associate Justice Frank Murphy wrote: "The sidewalk, no less than the cathedral or the evangelist's tent, is a proper place under the Constitution for the orderly worship of God." In some homes, we understand, the children bid for the privilege of recovering pocket change from the davenport after' the old man has been taking forty winks after a hearty evening meal. For years the loyal little wife and mother had been salvaging and pocketing the loot without comment Since we use the Australian system of voting, why not supply our soldiers and sailors in the Southwest Pacific directly from Canberra or Melbourne? Indicative of the low estate of the drama in Chicago is the fact that all "longest runs" records for Chicago theatres have been broken by "Good Night Ladies," the silliest and frothiest sort of farce. Television, they say, is just around the corner and that explains the frantic energy of reigning radio stars who realize they are distinctly non-photogenic. When Union Leaders Lead Detroit News R.

J. Thomas. UAW-CIO president, and Walter P. Reuther. vice-president of that union, deserve a hand for their prompt and energetic intervention in the strike at the Holbronk avenue Chevrolet plant, an important war producer.

They ordered the men back to work, using vigorous language, and withdrew the union's protection from any persons penalized for failing to comply. The News continues to believe that a firm attitude on the part of the international union would prevent many of these almost daily strikes in war plants. Such an attitude ought to include a readiness to punish ringleaders. Strikes on the considerable scale of this one at the Chevrolet can not be wholly "spontaneous." Although they are commonly called by the union "unauthorized." somebody organizes and leads them and. if that somebody in each case were exposed and dealt with vigorously, there would be fewer increase in the prevalence of bigotry, as evidenced by occurrences in many parts of the strikes.

ei? mm egr tat LOm 'DISTANCE CALL TH30U6H TONIGHT Too Radical Harry H. Woodring, former secretary of war, raised the banner of revolt against the Democratic party organization in Chicago last week but few crusaders gathered around. Woodring, a Kansas governor before he was appointed assistant secretarv of war and. later, promoted to cabinet rank upon the death of Secretarv George W. Dern, has been out of sympathy with President Roosevelt since he was ousted from the cabinet and he is violently opposed to a fourth term for the President.

But Woodring doomed and damned his crusade at the very outset with a speech, delivered before the Executives' Club in Chicago, in which he used intemperate language and made charges ridiculous in the extreme. He might have attracted a following of conservative Democrats had he pointed to some of the obvious shortcomings of the present administration or its departures from traditional party policy. But when Woodring raved and ranted of "the palace guard" and "a wirepulling Rasputin" now on the U. S. Supreme court bench, he lost his audience.

Perhaps it should be noted for the record that in most instances those wedding cakes so clealy cut by military sabers were baked by professionals, not by the brides. LORD DECIES. 77 years old warrior and sportsman, died last week at his home in Ascot and his eldest son. Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer-Beresford. 28, succeeds to the century-old barony.

The new Lord Decies inherits, also, an Irish castle inhabited by a banshee. He inherits, also, a chunk of the Gould railroad fortune, because his mother was Vivien Gould before she married Lord Decies in 1911. The wedding was the social event of the year. The noble Duke of Marlborough is the son of an American nr ther. the former Con-suelo Vanderbilt.

Then there is Winston Churchill whose mother was Jenny Jerome, daughter of a New York banker. Bishop Decries Bigotry Since the war began there has been an increase in the prevalence of bigotry, as evidenced by occurrences in many parts of the country. Archbishop Francis J. Spellman declares in an article entitled "Bigotry Un-American." in the current issue of the American Magazine. "Race riots, assaults on groups and individuals because of racial and religious differences, desecration of synagogues and churches, attacks on our foreign-born, are all symptoms of this disease." he writes.

Speaking as one who yearns to promote a better spirit of mutual understanding and forbearance among his fellow-countrymen. Archbishop Spellman declares in the article that "with all my heart. I deplore the growth of the cancer of bigotry penetrating American life, shriveling America's heart, retarding America's victory and peace. You can do it by not using Long Distance between 7 and 10 P. M.

except for an urgent call. Those are the night-time hours when many service men are off duty and it's their best chance to caU home. 'Give 7 tO ILLINOIS. BELL TELEPHONE A COLLEGE DEAN in Philadelphia says he has been using that "Mairzy Doats" rhyme for years in psychology classes "to illustrate the meaning of the meaningless." Says he, "it's an old nursery That should explain the popularity of the novelty song which is a qualified successor to "I Faw Down and Go Boom." "The Music Goes 'Round and Around," "Three Little Fishes." "Horses. and "Yes.

We Have No Bananas." Then there was "A Tisket. A Tasket." a song lifted practically without change from the book of nursery rhymes. Incidentally, it's about time for "Mairzy Doats" to make a series of court appearances. The song is making money. Hopeless Stand When it became perfectly clear that a Nazi army had been trapped in the Dnieper bend the commander.

Genera Woeh-ler, flew to Hitler's headquarters and asked permission to surrender. Hitler refused to see his general. The trapped Nazi army is being annihilated by triumphant Soviet divisions. The story comes from neutral sources hut it can be believed. Hitler ordered General Woehler's army to fight to the death.

He declines to rescind that order. From the cold, unsentimental stand TO THE SERVICE MEN" COMPANY What Price Silence? Des Moines Register Silence, we have heard, is golden. A treasury representative was all primed to deliver a half-hour speech at Winnetka. 111. Tained at the prospect, bidders for war bonds got together and bought $50,000 worth of bonds.

The prepared speech was replaced by a simple bow. IET 'W HAVE ITI BUT tXTKA BONDS I.