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iPfeft Two > i.- n Penicillin Hits Fever Menace Experiments at May Clinic ' Show Good Results in • Relapsing Type. r> p ' f4.m-z . i S' "• '°V •»- ( % f *' ** TJ Kc i t h l e e n Norris £ kvs: • The Parasitic Mother Bell Syndicate.--WNU Featurn, j ,: rrH; McHBntY FLAIMDBALIB SPRING GROVE u. g ^ jiu;' iii^iiwujim,., ijiiuiiiMw^iiipijii % '•'•f <*- "i-ri •Thursday, ^ttfogt 31, m| r NEW YORK --The Mayo clinic reports evidence that penicillin is good for relapsing fever. This fever eis one of the serious War diseases, and a menace in some parts of the world, but has appeared in the United States only in mild form. It is caused by spiro- : C h e t e s . which were d e s c r i b e d as} Snake-like by the first scientist to 'See them under the microscope in .1868. He was the <5erman, Otto H. , F. Obermeier. At the Mayo clinic fatal inoculations of thes£ fever organisms " H'ere given to mice recently. Of the • rhice untreated, 75 per cent died. "• ©f those treated with penicillin only {trie died, and that one did not,die ivyifith symptoms of relapsing fever, /$ut the .'cause of its death was jiot learned. ' • 1 •' Better Remedy Sought. 3' The Mayo report says that aski Result of these mice, experiments it ' -fe hoped that peniciliin will be a .more effective treatment than the medicines heretofore used. The main remedy has been arsenic, • which attacks' these fever, spirochetes much as it does those of syphilis. The bad forms of relapsing fever •re transmitted by lice and have been sometimes 80 per cent fatal. In the United States the fever is transmitted by ticks and its presence has been reported in 13 western states. The ticks are carried by rats, mice, chipmunks, squirrels, opossums, rabbits, porcupines, monkeys, - foxes, hedgehogs and dogs. The fe- Ver in its first attack usually lasts from three to five days, and relapses occur at irregular intervals Of two to nine days apart. The Mayo experiments were reported by F. R. Heilman, M. D., and W. E. Herrell. M. D. Constance Carter and Nellie Greenburg assisted in the work. Cares Infection. The clinic also reports that penicfl- Ife cured cases of infection of the ' frontal, or forehead bone, after sulfa treatments had failed. This type of infection is often an aftermath of sinus troubles and is usually dangerous. The report was made by H. L. Williams, M. D., and D. R. Nichols, M. D. • ; Rabbit, squirrel and mountain fe- Vfer are local names and, except the mountain variety, are unlikely to be applied to relapsing fever. The latter's other names are recurrent •lever, spirillum fever, famine fever and seven-day fever. Rabbit fever usually means tularemia. Squirrels are not commonly associated with fever. Ground SQuirrels in the West sometimes car- . bubonic plague, which is not primarily a fever. V *7 told her that I felt uncomfortable in such smatt quarters . . . and wanted to live permanently with my father." M Jerks Liberator Out of Spin Like Training Plane . A LIBERATOR BOMBER BASE, JENGLAND. -- The big Liberator bomber got cantankerous when it feached 17,000 feet. She flipped her tail into' the air and went into a S|>in like a giddy training plane. Aboard her were Lieut. Homer Boles •nd his nine man crew and three tons of bombs, all on their way to $omb the French invasion coast. "The controls shook out of my land like some giant fighting me for them," Boles said. "I'd never heard jBf anybody spinning a Liberator, particularly with a full bomb load, S» I decided to tell the crew to bail out. "Our rate of descent mtter was as far over as it could go, and that's •,000 feet a minute. Our air speed : Indicator showed we were diving at '850 miles an hour. "I started pulling controls and kicking the rudder, just like I did with a light training plane in flying schoql, and sure enough the plane came out of the spin." ; The plane leveled out at about 11.000 feet and Boles took a roll cajl, 'found everybody at his post and set lull speed ahead to regain the formation and complete the mission. . Name of the Liberator? Heaven Can Wait. Spends 50 Years on Stage And Never Got One Bow BOSTON.--Fifty years on the American stage without & ,single bow or curtain speech is aaistinction earned by William ("Shakespeare") Gallagher. A stagehand, whose familiarity with the world of the Bard of Avon earned him his nickname. Gallagher Kpent most of his hclf-century backstage in the shadows of the Boston theater. Here he met and hobnobbed with some of the greatest names on the American stage. Court Rules Wife Can Glance at Other Men LOS ANGELES.--Patti Doak, 20- year-old shipyard worker, testified that her husband, Edward C. Doak. 25, objected to her smoking, derided her clothes, ridiculed her friends, disapproved of her generally and insisted she keep her eyes cast down as she walked along the street so she couldn't look at other men That ruled Judge Ruben S. Schmidt constituted cruelty. The divorce was granted. *9uop aq jqgiui aSeuiep amos pint pauieS st 2u]iflou 'XbaXub ooi «jb sjios isoiu uaqM 'Suuds ui inq *uoijbutuij38 pwds o% sjnoq Z\ uem •Joui jou paas jsoui jjbos oi a3ei fUBApB UB sauiljauios SI J! P UI 'n°neAjBjs uaSiCxo tuoji feiidxd 4aip 'sjnoq , treqj jagUOr a9iB|& apun ajg spaas it Soiifcos P»as „ V Need Rubber Stamps ? Older at The Plaindealer. ^ By KATHLEEN NORRIS Y MOTHER is 38, goodlooking, socially active, and married to a man of 28," writes Mary Lou, from Seattle. "She divorced my father when I was 12, 8 years ago, and on the day when the divorce became valid was married to Tony. He is an American citizen, but foreign born, and incapacitated bv lameness from war service. Two years ago my father also married. His wife is a fine sweet girl of 23; they have a babv boy. "SinceUhe day my mother left my father he has never failed to avail himself of the arrangement by which he was to have me for every Saturday night," the letter goes on, "and happy times those were for me: We always went to the park, beach, or a kid movie. I always kad ice-cream and cones, and was wken late in the afternoon to the farm of my father's aunt, where I was queen. As I grew older Dad shopped with me, kept me in town for dinner, showed me, in a word, that he loved me. When he married Pat they both were mt friends, no artificiality, no flattery, but just genuine pleasure in being together; I adore little David and he does me. "My great-aunt died last year and mother, Tony and I moved out to the farm, now mine, but mother hated it and we only stayed a few months. Then it was rented, and last month dad took it over, working on it in what spare time he has--he is a captain stationed near here--getting vegetable beds and fruit trees into working condition. We expect heavy crops this year. Pat loves the farm, little David flourishes there, and I am never so happy anywhere else. Mother's Second Divorce. "Now, this is my problem. My mother had a handsome money settlement at the time she divorced my father, because she wanted it that way. He gave her practically everything he, had, and started out from scratch. Two or three months ago I told her that I felt uncomfortable in such small quarters--she and Tony and I have a five-room apartment--and wanted to live permanently with my father. This made he# furious, and she then told me that she had decided to divorce Tony, in spite of the fact that through his management she has lost practically all her money, and he can never contribute to her support. She represents to me that it is my duty to stay with her, help her solve the problem of maintenance, and build a life for ourselves together. This prospect drives me simply frantic. "I know I am young to decide such a question, and I do want to do what is right, but my visits to the farm are sheer happiness; Pat and I cook together, gossip together, share the care of kitchen and baby so happily, and my life with my mother is one continual compromise. I am a school-teacher and love my first little class; myr work seems to me as important as any just now, and I don't know that I could stand factory or assembly line- hours. "Mother says that unless 1 help her through the wretchedness and in Uappy on the farm. Work Accidents IiOgt time from work accidents totals 450,000,000 man days, enough to build 7,500 average sized merchant ships. "•"' B*** VM ' Krrnf e6oks throughout the country are instructed to save every single drop of used fat. A mess hall poster calls wasting fat actual "sabotage." Munitions and medicine for their buddies come from the usfd lat they saye. A DAUGHTER S DUTY Just how much does a girl otve her mother? Should she tivist her life about, endanger her career, court a nervous breakdown, to take care of her self-indulgent parent? Mary Lous mother received a large money settlement when she divorced Mary's father. She then married a foreign-born man, 10 years her junior, named Tony. Now, after she and Tony have lost the money, she wants to divorce him, and live in a small apartment with Mary Lou. Mary Lou prefers to li've 6H a small farm she owns, with her father and his young wife and little boy. It is close to the school where she teaches, and Mary Lop think * that she is assisting the war effort as much By teaching and raising fruit and vegetables on her farm as she could by working in a factory in town. (By Mrs. Charles Freund) Charles Freund, William Shotliff, Joseph P. Freund and Daniel Miller attended the game between the Cubs and New York Giants at Wrigley Fiipld, Chicago, on Tuesday. Rev. John Daleiden and the ushers iof St. Peter's parish met at the home Of Anton Meyer on Tuesday night for their regular meeting. Cards Were played throughout the evening and refreshments were served. Mrs. George W. May was hostess to the members of her club at her home on Thursday afternoon. Five hundred was the afternoon's diversion and prizes were won by Mrs. Arthur Klein, Mrs. Ray May, Mrs. <Jharles Freund and Mrs. Paul Lewis. A delicious lunch , was served by the hostess after cards. Members of the choir of St. Peter's church pleasantly surprised Merilyn May at a party held for her in St. Peter's Parish hall on Thursday night. Among those present besides the choir were Rev. John Daleiden, Sisters of St. Peter's school and Marilyn's mother, Mrs. George A. May. Bunco was played and prizes were won by Sr. M. Pancratia, Marilyn May and Elaine Smith. Refreshments were served to complete the party. Approximately seventy relatives and friends gathered at the George A. May home on Sunday for a farewell party held for Miss Marilyn May, who enters St. Francis convent on Friday, Sept. 1. The afternoon was spent at cards, bunco and visiting. A deilcious supper was served and everything was done for the pleasure of the guests. Marilyn is a graduate of McHenry high school this year and will continue her education at St. Clare College in Milwaukee. In honor of Karen McGrath's birthday on Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McGrath took several of his friends ; to Brookfield zoo. Those who en- ! joyed the trip were Paul May, David j Sullivan, Dan O'Brien, Tommy | Freund and George and Karen Mci Grath. j Among those from here who atj tended the card party at St. Bede's ! Parish hall, Fox Lake, on Wednes- I day afternoon were Mrs. Frank May, Mrs. Albert. Britz and Mrs. Arthur i Kattn^r. ! Misses Marilyn arid Clarice May • spent several days last week in the I Anton Meyer home. On Wednesday ! night they accompanied Mr. Meyer and Miss Gladys Meyer to Twin ! Lakes,to enjoy an evening of bowling. ' T'"' rHMMN WAR WORKERS] RED CROSS NOTES change of this second divorce that she will kill herself. My school, by the way, is eight miles from the city but only two * from the farm, so that would present no difficulty. Please advise a troubled-and crying girl." . Poor little troubled and trying Mary Lou, you really are faicing .a most difficult decision, and I'm afraid my advice won't dry those tears. It is that you stay with your mother for the present, spending every single week-end in the entire year at the farm with your father. Not that your mother deserves this consideration and sacrifice -- she doesn't. Not that it isn't extremely selfish of her to ask this of you-- it most certainly is. Not that these divorcing mothers are worthy of their children's love and companionship-- they aren't. Girl Must Stand by Mother. But because, if she really intends to divorce Tony, she needs you as truly as any poor white-faced' little evacuee on a European highway might need you. She must have company, someone to talk to, someone to listen to her eternal self-justification, her abuse of Tony. No matter how hardened, how self-centered a woman is, divorce is a painful experience. Friends won't stand by her as she hopes they will. She'll be criticised; she'll come home from disagreeable sessions in the lawyer's office to utter loneliness and depression. If ever a woman thinks of suicide, it is at such a moment. You must be her comfort and stay for awhile. But make it very clear that you have your night each week with your father. Don't ever be cried or coaxed into giving that up. In this way your life, will be gentle consid eration and help to her from Mon day to Saturday, and escape to the environment you love--to your own farm and your own people, every Saturday afternoon. Your mother will have to find work, of course. You can't be expected to carry the whole financial load. The day will probably come when she, not you, will suggest breaking up your establishment-- she is still young enough to be attractive. < Leave all that to time. TOWN AUDITORS MEETING -The Town Auditors of the Township of McHenry will meet on Tuesday, September 5, 1944, at 2 o'clock p. m. in the Town Clerk's office for the purpose of auditing all accounts against said Township. All persons having bills against said Township are requested to present them to the undersigned or to the. Supervisor. WAiLTER ANDERSON, 14-2 Town Clerk. NOTICE OF PUIBUJC HEARING Notice is hereby given that a tentative budget and appropriation ordinance for Road and Bridge Purposes of McHenry, Township in the County of McHenry, State of Illinois, for the fiscal year beginning September 5, 1944, and ending September 4, 1945, will be on file and conveniently available to public inspection at the McHenry Postoffice from and after 1 p. m. Monday, August 28, 1944. Notice is further hereby given that a public hearing on said budget and appropriation ordinance will be held at 1:30 p. m., Tuesday, September 5, 1944, at the Town Clerk's office in this Township, and that final action on this ordinance will be taken by the Highway Commissioner at a meeting held at the Town Clerk's office fit 2 o'clock p. m., t Tuesday, September &, 1944. JOS. J. FREUND, Highway Commissioner. WALTER ANDERSON, Town Clerk. 14-2 McHenry county residents respond- ; ed so generously to the call for blood I donors for the Red Cross mobile I blood bank at Woodstock last week ; and for the mobile unit to be at Crystal Lake, Sept. 6 and 7, that a call came from Chicago this week to "close the registration list." What satisfaction you, who were able to donate, must feel in" knowing that you had a part in this life giving miracle «f modern science. To you, who stood silently by and waited humbly your turn to so freely give to an unknown serviceman on the field of battle your own life blood, the McHenry county Red Cross chapter can sincerely say "Thank yoo again for lightening a burden that could not have been carried alone." The following figures have been made available so thatyou may know how the program functioned. There were 900 appointments listed; of this number 842 kept their appointments, including 312 men and 530 women; 549 pints of blood were collected; of this number 266 were given by men and 283 by women; 2391 were rejected including 46 men and 247 women. 26 were repeats (had given previously); of thip number 8 were men and 18 women. Space will not permit listing all of the registrants but the folloiwng 15. are included among these who had previously giVen more than twice: Mrs. Vera Burton, Richmond, 7 times; Lowell Nye, Harvard, 6 times; Hazel Lockinger, Woodstock; Marion Hamilton, Ringwood; Myrtle M. Behrens, Harvard; Mrs. Ida A. Koberstein, Spring Grove; George Unwin, Chicago;Mrs. Merle Sandeen* Woodstock; each four times; Alvin Phannenstill, Round Lake; Mrs. Beatrice Shepp, Harvard; Mrs. Lettie Mallstrom, Ringwood; Mrs. Sophia Sieburg, Cary; Leon Mitten, Ei»* gleside, Merle North, Johnsburg; Mrs. Mabel Taylor, El P'aso, 111.; each three times. At Crystal Lake the schedule calli) for 646 appointments which will en* able 21 persons to be taken every 20 minutes; 382 of this number are from Crystal Lake and the rest from over the county. Any cancellation received in advance of the arrival of the blood unit may be replaced. Each person should understand that he may be asked at the last minute to fill in. Limitations are necessary due to laboratory facilities for processing the blood. Wednesday, Sept. 6 donors will be received from 1 t© 5 p. m. and on Wednesday from 9 a. m. to 2:40 p. m. The Oaks social club building will house the project You will be mailed the time of your appointment. A medical unit is leaving Camp .Grant soon for overseas service including doctors, nurses and Red Cross workers, many of these workers are accomplished musicians. They have asked the McHenry County Red Cross chapter for musical instruments, harmonicas, gruitars, ban-: jos, etc. Look around, you must have one somewhere not in use. If you do, just call County Red Cross headquarters> at Woodstock 688, and it will be picked u!p. Ringwood School Noter Ringwood Grade school will open tfcesday, Sept. 5. Mrs. Andrew Hawley and W6lden Andreas are tlfe full time -teachers again this year. Mr. Andreas will teach the upper grades and act as principal of the school. Mrs. Hawley will teach the lower grades. The outside of th,e school house has been redecorated during summer vacation. Three part-time teachers will be employed this year. Miss Thompson will have charge of the music, Miss Walkington will teach art and Mrs. Merchant will have charge of physical education. Any child who will be six years old before December l-^is eligible to start first grade. r* ' VOLO Lard Sold as a Liquid Lard is said by the bottle in *om« sections of Central and South Amer-. ica. The weather is so hot that the ^ lard liquifies. *:• Hoine Accidents Home accidental deaths totaled about 33,000 in 1943----5 per cent over 1942. Disabling ihjuries were about 4,950,000--with 130,000 resUltinjg fa some permanent disability. Curbs Plut Lice Nkfotine is used principally to control plant lice or aphids and other sucking insects. For sprays it is available as nicotine sulfate liquid. (Black Leaf 40 is a well-known brand.) Nicotine sulfate in concentrated form is a violent poison but most of it quickly disappears from plants to which it is applied as dust or spray. * - (By Mrs. Lloyd Fisher) Misses Shirley and Frances Ritts i of Mundelein spent a few days hers I at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A Li - Ritta and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wirtz. L Mrs. Florence Grabbe* and sons of | Crystal Lake were Sunday visitors, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter i Vasey. : Judy Marie Vedders of Waukegaft-V spent the weekend here with heir I grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank | King. i Mrs. Joseph Wagner has been apj Pointed Junior Red Cross Chairman of Wauconda Township. Mr. and Mrs. (Frank Mitauk and son of Barrington were Sunday dint ner guests at the home of Mr. and. 1 Mrs. Walter Vasey. " V - j Misses Mary Case and Arvilla-,* (Fisher spent a few days the past? week at the home of Mrs. Mary Stanton at Long Lake. ; Miss Marion Wirtz and* Arnold Wirtz spent the past week with -' j their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. " j Horace Grabbe at Ivanhoe. .; TV Volo public school will ope*>;; Wednesday, Sept. 6. Mrs. Paul Winaffti low as instructor. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and-" daughter Mary Lou visited Mr. and ' Mrs. Ellwood DoWell at Libertyville Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Eddy and Henry Passfield of- Grayslake visited Mr. and Mrs. John Passfield Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parson, Jr.? and son Donald, Mrs. Harry Parson,_ Sr., and daughter Arduth of Chicago spent the weekend here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bacon. 3* $ a i Buy Lean Mests Even though most meats are now unrationea, there is still a need for wise purchasing. Remember, it is the lean meat that provides the proteins, vitamins and minerals you need. Usually the solid cuts without much bone are better buys even at high point values. Take home the bones and triiiimings you pay for. Simmer the bones for soup stock. Use the trim mings to flavor dressing, vegetable# apd other food*. Render the lat fo> cooking Cultivate Cleaning "Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of cultivation, and you must cut • NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by 1 the Board of Education of McHenry j Public Grade School of School Dis- I trict No. 15 in the County of Mci Henry and State of Illinois that a j tentative budget and appropriation I ordinance for said school district for the fiscal year beginning on the ! first day of July, 1944, and ending on i the thirtieth day of June, 1945, is j now on file in the office of the Sec- ; retary of said Public Grade School and is conveniently available to public inspection. NOTICE IS (FURTHER GIVEN that a public hearing on said tentative budget and appropriation ordinance will be held at Public Grade School in McHenry, Illinois, in Baid school district, on the 6th day of September, 1944, at 8:30 o'clock, p. m. Dated thia 24th day of August, 1944. BOARD OF EDUCATION OP PUBLIC GRADE SCHOOL, DISTRICT NO. 15, IN THE COUNTY OF McHENRY, AND : STATE OF ILLINOIS. By E. H. Nickels, Secretary. Radio Hams On December 8, 1941, there ^vere approximately 60,000 amateur radio operators in the United States, men and women, of all ages from 9 to 9b. Coddle EleeCrk Cord Put electric cords away free from Jdnks or knots. Turn the switch to °®. beXe connecting or disconnecting. The best idea is to han* cords over two or more metal J - Fire Losses . The preliminary estimate Of fire losses in 1943, made by the National ttoarH of Fir® Underwriters, is $380,- 000,000, or 21 per cent more than ute comparable prelimio^cy astitnata for 1942. ' . . , ' "' Z ' V:"- • / . . . . -W ' ' Vitamins Saved by Steam The wet cutting ie followed by other new methods which conserve vitamins formerly lost when th« hulls were ground off sun-dried; grain. In the new process steam drives the vitamins from the hulls into the kernels. Grains are theflk dried by vacuum; husks removed by milling. A Texas plant, using the new system, is producing 900 barrels of rice a day. ^ Need Rubber Stamps? Order at The Plaindealer. .7^ „ r.nlffl tOKn 6 CLINTON MARTIN WEST McHENRY THE OLD JUDGE SAYS... "Tk* more I r*ad about it, Judft, tkt mart I realize tk* tactics and requirements •} this war are as different jrom the one I fought w 25 years ago as night is from day." "Yes, and I can give you an example of bow true that is. Fred. In World War 1 the chief uses of alcohol produced for war purposes were found in smokeless powder, medical supplies and chemical warfare materials. In this war the need for this product is far more vital because it is also used as a fuel to propel torpedoes, to make shatterproof glass lor airplane windshields and instrument oortrs. to make lacquers used in camouflaging Equipment and as a base for synthetic rubber f^peeded fot tires, gas masks, para troop equipment and doeens ol other things. "Every time I think of it Fred. 1 realize bow fortunate we were in having a beverage distilling industry in existence when war broke out... ready and eager to convert " 100% to the production of this critically needed war product I'm mighty sure bootleggers wouldn't have been of much help." ti.