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THE NEWBKgRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C Arkansas Fanners May Grow Drugs New Plants to Produce Narcotics, Digitalis A drug-farming program which may free the United States from reliance on foreign sources for many vital medicinal compounds has been launched in Arkansas by a transplanted Rumanian chemist, reports the magazine "Industrial and Engineering Chemistry." Dr. O. K. Cosla, a biochemist who instituted the first successful cultivation of drug-bearing plants in Rumania, is in charge of the Arkansas program at the College of the Ozarks, Clarksville, where a 20-acre tract has been set aside for his experiments. Dr. Cosla, who has an M. D. de gree as well as a Ph. D. in bio chemistry, used to export to the United States part of its drug sup ply, and during World War II he furnished southeastern Europe with medicinal materials. If Dr. Cosla's plans mature, Ar kansas farmers will soon begin sup plying the nation with such drugs as belladonna, a narcotic; stra monium, a drug processed from dried Jimson weed which gives re lief to asthma sufferers, and ergot, used to control blood hemorrhages and as an anesthetic. Foxglove, the dotted white and purple tubular flower whose leaves bear the pow erful heart stimulant digitalis, will also soon be blooming in Dr. Cos- la's medical garden. Some of the drug-bearing plants which Dr. Cosla is planning to culti vate already grow wild in the Ar kansas backwoods. To determine the best conditions for growing each plant as a domestic crop, the Ru manian chemist will test them in hydroponic installations, in which their roots will be immersed in a watery solution containing mineral nutrients, instead of in soil. Hie active drugs will be extracted from the plants in a four-room laboratory which Dr. Cosla brought with him to this country to aid his research in biochemistry and ex perimental pharmacology. Dr. Cosla believes, according to “Industrial and Engineering Chem istry,” that the South can even tually become one of the nation’s principal drug farming and manu facturing centers, thus diverting to the area millions of dollars now spent annually on imports. J Handy Cart I Elgar Schroeder, Morrison- ville, Wisconsin, believes a handy farm gadget can have an attractive appearance while saving work for its owner. Bis poll-push cart carries a good-size load of tools, suppUes or produce easily. The cart was made from a child’s discarded coaster wagon, using the box and wheels. The original wagon axle was kept, and the cart was built of H inch pipe. Time re quired to build the cart was two and one-half hours at a cost of $1 for materials. Arc weld ing played an important part in the cart’s construction. Com in Silage Form Answer to Extra Crop Com in the form of silage is the solution for the extra crop— and a trench silo is the cheapest and easi est way to provide for making and storing of silage. The trench silo is especially recommended for those who need to provide storage space hurriedly. However, areas having extremely high water tables or soil that Is smdy or loose are not suitable, ac cording to a dairy specialist PERSONS WHO WEAR GLASS SLIPPERS Cinderella Is Wooed by a Devaluated Prince SHOULD NEVER THROW THEIR SHOES By H. I. PHILLIPS O NCE UPON A TIME there was a man who married for his sec ond wife one of the haughtiest wom en in the world. She had two daughters of her own who were a pair of fine meanies. She had a stepdaughter of unparalleled good ness and beauty. She was called Cinderella. Her stepsisters kept her at the meanest work. They mcleen in an old aban doned thirty-room showplace which nobody wanted while they had things easy in a $25,000 four-room ranch house, with no garage. The king gave a great ball to which he invited everybody of prominence, including the two sourpuss sisters. They got themselves up like Mrs. As ter’s pet ponies and paraded before Cinderella, who, after CHRISTLIKE 'HIS is a ChriStlike thing: to bear a grief Unspoken and unshared, yet go one’s way Not feverishly seeking for relief. But day by day Doing the tasks at hand to cheer and bless. That others may find greater happiness. This is a Chriftlike thing: through wearing pain To keep quite Still, that watching, none may see The weariness, the harrowing Stress and Strain, The agony. But wearing always something of Christ’s grace And infinite patience written on one’s face. For the Master bore His agony alone. And bore it well. And the greatest grief a heart has ever known. they flounced off, said, “I wish I could go to a great bail.” Instantly ber fairy godmother appeared. “These great balls are not what they used to be,” she said. "Be fore you get in you will have to take chances on a couple of automobiles and maybe a dream house. And there will be be-bop music. Still, if you wish to go . . “Oh, I do,” said Cinderella. “Fetch me a pumpkin, then,” said the fairy godmother. Pumpkins were pretty high, as the government had under written them, or something, but she got one. “Get me a mousetrap, a rat and six lizards,” said the fairy godmother. “I wanna go to a ball, not an animal show,” warned Cinder ella. The fairy godmother had a wand, a book on economics by Sir Staf ford Cripps and several speeches by government experts, so she was able to convert the pumpkin, mice, etc., into a coach with white horses, a coachman and six attendants. Whisk! And Cinderella was off to the ball before anybody could ar rive to demand that she pay luxury taxes on the whole business. • • • She was the most ravishing dish at the ball. The king’s son went for her in a big way at once, much to Cinderella’s discomfiture. She was a smart cookie. (This could get serious. A prince would have loads of money, and she knew what that meant these days. He would have to spend all his days figuring out how he stood and all his nights checking to see if there had been anything new from Sir Stafford Cripps.) Suddenly the great clock struck. "Twelve," said Cinderella. "Eleven,” said the prince. “Ten,” said the king. “My goodness, one can’t figure anything these days,” said Cinder ella, taking it on the lam. (She had to take a taxi. The coachman, the big rat, had struck for more money and all the lizards had walked out in sympathy.) • • • Well, to make a long story worse, she was not through with the prince and the prob lems of having everything. She had left a glass slipper. • • • The prince searched the whole land until he found that the slipper fitted Cinderella, and was he glad when he discovered she was really a working girl and hadn’t a thin dime! It meant less bookkeeping. He proposed and Cinderella ac cepted, saying, “I suppose I could have done worse. Look at all those girls who win givaway programs!” • • • So she married the prince, who got back to the palace just in time to find the pound had been deval ued again and he wasn’t worth very much which meant, after all, a life of comparative tranquillity. • • • "The outer burlap covering of the Peruvian mummy was swipped away by Dr. Carrion and Dr. Bird while 60 scientists watched."— News item. Carrion and Bird didja say, or is somebody snooting? • • • Gov. Dewey has come out with d letter indorsing vaudeville. “I remember it fondly as a popular form of entertainmeut,” he says. Come, come, Thomas, you can’t top Harry’s vaudeville statement with anything as cool and general as (hat. What knock about acts do you recall? Did you ever usher in a theater? • • • YE GOTHAM BUGLE AND BANNER You can’t tell Ben Whitaker, whose My Request and Mits Request won two big handicaps in succession, that Deis an unlucky number. . . . He bought one of the parents, Requested, for tDOO on the Dth of the month and on Saturday Miss Requestt weight was ID pounds .... He’s gonna name the next colt Thirteen and hope that the unlucky number happens to pay off. The Fiction * THE □ iPTIIRE * By 11 1 W,XIL Richard H. Wilkinson Corner • BE INEZ GERHARD I EANNE CRAIN and her husband, Paul Brinkman, (handsomer than many movie stars,) visited New York to help promote "Pinky,” her new picture, a 20th Century- Fox production. Michael, aged eight months, and Paul, two, stayed home. Darryl Zanuck did a ■' ■ ' - "1 JEANNE CRAIN daring thing in making “Pinky,” thf story of a colored girl who passed for white; equally daring was his choice of Miss Crain for the sort of role usually reserved for actresses like Bette Davis. But Jeanne Crain’s talent has been ob vious ever since she and June Hav er made their debuts in “Back Home in Indiana”; as usual, Zan uck knew exactly what he was do ing. The east of “Pinky” is star- studded. Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan share honors with Miss Crain, and Elia Kazan, one of the best di rectors of stage and screen, di rected this one. Johnny Weismuller weighed 199 pounds when he reported for his new “Jungle Jim” pic ture, thereby saving some $38,- 000. Weighing 238 when the deal was signed, he said he’d pay $1000 for every pound he didn’t lose by starting time. Lauren Bacall made no money by losing the five pounds she gained after Stephen Humphrey Bogart was born, but at 118 she looked bet ter when she went to work in “Young Man with a Horn,” with Kirk Douglas and Doris Day. Nancy Olson, who stepped from undergraduate status at UCLA into the leads of two top pictures, will be Bing Crosby’s romantic interest in Paramount’s “Mr. Music.” In her first film, “Canadian Pacific,” she appeared with Randolph Scott; she recently completed a featured role in “Sunset Boulevard,” with William Holden and Gloria Swan- •on. S HERIFF Sol Rock cautiously ap proached the cabin and knocked three times. A bolt slid back into its socket. The door swung open and a voice came out into the night. “That you, Sol?” Sol sighed in relief. “Hello, Baldy,” he said, stepping inside. “What luck?” “None.” Sol heard Baldy fishing for a match, and he said. “Wait a minute, Baldy. I got a scheme I want to work out.” “They've seen me,” Sol went on. “Joe and Slim. They’ve been trail ing me all day. I just kept far enough to avoid trouble.” “Avoid trouble? You?” Baldy’s voice sounded incredulous. And Sol chuckled. “Lis- I ten, Baldy, we’ve 3 -Minute been chasing these g- »• _ two bad men for Fietien more than a week now. I’m sick of it. And now that we’ve found them, I don’t aim to let ’em get away.” “So that’s why you ran away from them?” sarcastically. “Don’t be a fool. I wanted ’em to follow me. They’ll be along any time now. I made sure they saw me ride down in here by silhouet ting myself against the skyline 15 minutes ago. Now here’s the point: They don’t know about you, yet. They think there’s only me to con tend with. And unless I miss my guess, they aim to get me out of the way tonight.” “Unless I stop ’em,” said Baldy. “Right. Now get this; I’m leaving you here alone, see? Cover the windows and then light up. They’ll think it’s me inside here, aU unsuspecting.” “Fine,” said Baldy. “But what’s wrong with me being on the outside and you on the inside?” Sol laughed shortly. “A lot, you little squirt. Now pipe down and obey orders. I’m going.” Instantly he grew tense. Every muscle and nerve and fibre became alert. He half crouched, half stood in his hiding place. And as he watched the cabin a dim figure took shape and became a man. Another appeared beside the first They lingered only a moment, then began stealthily to approach the door. Sol stepped silently from his hiding place. At the very in stant that one of the figures crouched to thrust his weight against the door, he spoke out of the darkness. “Reach toward the sky, boys! Drop those guns, and turn around. The jig’s up. We got the drop on you!” S OL QUICKENED his footsteps. In the darkness he stumbled, re gained his feet and came on. At the moment he went down an orange lance of flame streamed out of the blackness near the cabin. It was followed by another. But before the two bandits could shoot again, the two six-guns in Sol's hands thundered. Answering shots came from the cabin. Sol felt a searing pain in his left shoulder. His senses began to reel. And sud denly he realized that the rene gades had accomplished what he had been unable to do be cause of his stumble. They had fired at the flash from his guns —high—hoping for a kill. This was Sol’s last thought. When Sol returned to conscious ness he found himself lying on a bunk in the cabin. Baldy, grinning broadly, was standing over him. “What the hell did you blow out that light for?” Sol wanted to know. “It spoiled my aim, made me stum ble and nearly got me killed. "Thought it would,” Baldy grinned. "Wanted it to. You didn’t think I was going to be fool enough to open the door and stand in the light so those birds could take pot shots at me?” “Well what happened, anyway?" For answer Baldy pointed across the room. Sol looked and saw two men lying there, both bound secure ly. “Wing ’em?" Sol asked. “Winged nothing. I whacked ’em over the head from the doorway while they were shooting at you. By the way, you almost hit me with your own wild shooting.” “Wish I had,” Sol grinned. "Say, squirt, you ain’t so dumb as you look!" “And I ain't so much of a squirt, either,” Baldy replied indignantly. “Fact is I blew out that light just so’s I could show you what a big feller I was.” smd mm 1: 5. 9. 10. 11. 12. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 22 24. 25. 26. 28. 31 32 33 34 37. 39 to 41 42 43 44 ACROSS Rodent (So. Am.) Not living Cupid Incite Vanity City (Fla.) Whirlpool Showed mercy Interna tional language Little girl Mulberry Forward, upper part of foot Sand ridge A shade of a color Title of respect A lending Small North Atlantic blenny From Cheat Masurium (sym.) Tenders Spheres Coronet Mature person Malayan dagger Theater seat Ages Streetcar (Eng.) DOWN Forgiveness Among 3. Wyoming city 4. Part of “to be” 5. Low spirits 6. Silkworm 7. Bacteri ologist’s culture 8. Degrade 11. Fairy (Moh. paradise) 13. Not working 15. A small drink 17. Observe 20. Chinese silk 2L Large cask 22. Clamor 23. Receptacle for coffee 25. Total amount 26. Plunder 27. Place for transaction of business 28. Fuel 29. Symbol 30. Final 32. An alloy of copper and zinc 35.A card game LAST WEEK'S ANSWER QCU urji* □ □UD DUDD an uann □□on a aona aac □ana □□□ □□□ 36. Ireland (poet.) 37. Smell 38. Wrinkle (Nat. Hist.) 40. High (Mus.) S/S/ l 2 5 4 % 5 4 7 8 9 IO U IZ >S 14 L i •5 14 ! *7 I 1 It 19 2o Zl zz 25 1 m 24 z* ii z* 27 m za 29 So SI 1 52 m 55 54 5S 54 57 58 59 40 I 41 //// 42 //Y/ I 45 I 44 i PUZZLE NO. 21 p^JIM^HOgJ Would It Help? Agitation is beginning to mount for state laws making it a special offense when one hunter accidental ly wounds or kills another while in field or forest. Supporters of this “special legis lation” idea claim that with the an nual loss of life in hunting acci dents showing little, if any, de crease, something should be done by the states to impress upon all hunters the need for safety and safety practices. Each year the warnings are re peated, each year the death toll is recorded just the same. Under common law, a man kill ing another hunter may be prose cuted under the manslaughter sta tutes in most states; but the record shows that the accidental factor is Be sure before you shoot. usually sufficient for acquittal— and all the careless gunner who has killed a man has to worry about is his own conscience. The problem is a big one and a broad one, and it would be ex tremely difficult to enact special laws to protect hunters from them selves and at the same time con tinue to cloak these same hunters with all the privileges and presump tions of pre-accident innocence now provided generally by the law. However/ there is no denying that a legislative approach to the problem of protecting hunters, with carelessness and the old “I didn’t know it was loaded,” or “I thought it was a deer” excuses banned as exemptions from punishment, might have a salutary effect. There is little doubt, too, if the annual slaughter of humans afield continues, the steps already being talked about will certainly be at tempted. AAA Never shoot at signs no matter what kind. In many cases it is against the law. Its always against the law of common decency. Always restrain the ignorant acts of another. AAA A Word for Reynard The hunter or trapper who oc casionally finds a pheasant wing, fawn remains, or grouse feathers in a fox den, interprets his finding as a sample of widespread preda tion on game, and foresees declin ing game numbers as the result, is not reckoning with the fact that mice and other rodents are Rey nard’s basic diet. Food studies over the past 20 years, by D. F. Switzenberg, Wis consin conservation department game biologist, have shown that food items found in fox dens do not constitute a too reliable index to the animal's feeding habits. Dens do not show all the animal and vegetable matter gathered by the HERO OR VILLA !H fox, especially small items such as mice, insects and fruits which usually are swallowed whole. Neither can the hunter or trapper be positive that the pheasant, for example, was killed by the fox and not by something else, but dragged into the den by Reynard. In a North Dakota survey of fox eating habits last year, Switzen berg points out, an examination of 72 fox stomachs revealed the fol lowing diet: 47 per cent mice. 23 per cent carrion, 14 per cent rab bits, 9 per cent vegetation, 4 per cent game birds, 2 per cent insects and 1 per cent non-game birds. AAA Wasps for Trout This is only for the more courag eous, of course, but the grubs from wasps’ nests makes good trout bait. These nests usually may be found clustered under the eaves of houses, garages or other buildings. The nests can be knocked down with a broom—but the knocker- downer had better run. After the wasps have settled down again, the nests can be picked up and sections carried in pocket or creek ftf!W Sfllff/ For Stuffiness/ Coughs of Colds You know — like millions of others — how wonderfully effective Vicks VapoRub Is when you rub it on. ^ Now...here’s amazing, special relief when there’s much coughing or stuffiness, that “choked-up” feeling. It’s VapoRub in Steam . .. and it brings relief almost instantlyl Put 1 or 2 spoonfuls of VapoRub in a vaporizer or bowl of boiling water. Then—- breathe in the soothing, medicated vapors. Every breath eases coughing spasms, makes breathing easier. And to prolong relief—rub VapoRub on throat, chest and back. Use it in steam... 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