Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, May 01, 1919, Image 6
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Pigments Use I
Fa infers Are
IN'DiC ATI ON OF THRIFT
Concern Abv.i ;c#s go- P<*r Cent.
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M*>re if Repair.iin'y Is Ccmj e _
Every Five Years.
preservation ofvj?.va
Crude but Effective Prcc'iSscr, F.mp!oy
t. '»
ed by'the Egyptians and Creeks of
JF*Iiny/’s Day—Noah Prudently
Waterproofed the Ark.
I It pay Id.p ahit carefully farm
bio dings? farV^s it urM to tin* soiling
.':rliip r>f a farm when buildings hi**
properly kept lift om! regularly paint
ed? A careful inquiry of a number of
loading bankers In ffle Mississippi yj/l-
Thy,. including such states-as Iywn* llti-
.Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Mis
souri, reveals tho fart that In nearly
every rase the bankers did not hesl-
tat- to say that tli**y would haul all tin*
wav froni f> to f.o per o**nt. more on
land where farm buildings were, wefl
painted and kept in good condition.
They maintain that well kept-up ami
well painted bjilhhngs .and- fences are
an indication of thrift and that the
thrifty farmer Is u good client, and to
him money can be safely loaned. An
average of the returns from these
bankers shows that the Increased loan
value because of painted building* ia
• round 22 per cent.
Some of these bankers make Inter-
osHng comment. A Michigan concern
says that, while not especially pre
pared to advise definitely In response
to this Inquiry, the officers would loan
more money on farms wiiere buildings
were painted thun where they were
not so treated. This bank also finds
that where houses, barns and fences
are well taken rare of the farm Is a
profitable proposition, and blinkers In
general consider the farmer a good
client. Another Michigan^ bank says
“farm buildings out of repair and
needing paint Indicate that the owner
Is slow pay." Such farms nre rated at
about one-third of the assessed vain*
for loans'
.Mirks or war to tire ways of pence.
Km’ploymeiit hiu-t be found, in lite
(.icaiiwhite,, for “those wliieV* occupy-
ionilias been, inter rupted. There is no
eal surplus of labor in the L’nifed
states. Hather There is a shortage,
vlileli would be acute If normal /•ondi-
litlons Were already restored, and one
>f»qi towards restoring Ihein will come
vlth resumption of repair work.
Government restrictions, imposed tiy
tin* neeesijltjrs yf_ tbe war program,
oa.ve for*many months' past retarded
»r altogether prevented, construction,,
improvement and repairs. These re
strictions ure now off, and there Is
scarcely a town, a city, n factory, a
.Jueiling or a farm that does not reveal
a crying need for prompt attention.
Nothing delays sueh instant action ex
cept the feeling that, prices ara high
for the time being and may be lowfcr.
That Is not'loglcai. No matter what
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Whether paint was Invented In aw®
aw or to a heed for a preservative or to
meet a desire for beauty is a question
fully us knotty as the ancient one aboqt
the relative time of arrival of the
■•chicken, or the egg. It was invented,
though, and it serves both- purposes
equally; so whether it is an offspring
of mother necessity or an adopted soil
j of beauty remains forever u disputed
Question. ‘
The first men, cowering under thi
iflerce and glaring suns of the biblical
countries, constructed rude huts of
•wood to sliefler them. The fierlshab!*
nature of these structures caused rapid
Ldecay. and It Is probable that the oc-
;cupants, seeding some artificial mean*
Jof presorvution, hit upon the pigment*
lof tiie earth in their search. It Is par-
thapi-natural to suppose that It vu
the Instinct of preservation that led
linen to the search, although the glories
of the sunsets and fhe_beautles of the
■"jrainlftiw may have created a desire to
j Imitate those wonders in their, own
• dwellings
't he earliest record of the applica
tion of a preservative to a wooden
iBtructure dates from the ark, which
,wn«, according to the Bible, “pitched
within and without." The pitch was p
triumph of preservation whatever It
lacked ns a thing of beauty.
lH*coratlon applied to buildings Aral
iconics to light witli anefent Babylon,
whose walls were covered with repre
•eolations of hunting scenes and ol
combat. Those wen* done iu red «n<
the method followed was to paint th<
seem* on the brick* nt the time ot
manufacture, assuring permanence hj
talking. Strictly speaking, this wui
not painting so much ns it was tits
earliest manifestation of our own fa’
nnlinr kalnoiniiiltig.
The first Hebrew to mention paint
Ing Is Moses. In the thirty-third chap
ter. of the book of Numbers lie In
struct* the Israelites. “When ye hav*
passed over the Jordan Into the land
of (’ananii. then shall ye drive out all
the Inhahlluiils of the land from be
fore you and destroy all their pic
tores. ...”
At later periods the Jews adopted
many customs of the people* who sue
cesnlvely obtained [tower over then
snd In the apocryphal book of the
Maccabees Is found this allusion tt
i the *rt of decorating, “For as the mss
ter builder of a new house must car*
for the whole building, but he that
undertaker)! to set It out and paint It
must s**ek out thlugs for the adornlni
thereof."
Although Homer gives credit ta •
Greek for the discovery of pnlnt, the
allusion* to It in the hooks of Moses
the painted mummy cases of the Kgyp
flans and the decorated walls of Baby
Ion and Thebes fix Its origin' at I
period long antecedent to the Groclas
era The walls of Thebes were paint
ed 1,000 years before the coming o
f'hrist and 900 years before “ T)mei
smote his bloomin’ lyTe."
The Greeks recognized the value o1
pnlnt ns a preservative und made usi
of something akin to It on their ships
Pliny writes of the u)ode of boiling
wax and painting ships with It, aftei
which, he continues, “neither the sea
nor the wind, nor the sun can destroy
the wood thus protected.”
The Homans, being essentially •
.warlike people, never brought the dec
• oration of buildings to the high .plan*
it had reached with tlie Greeks Foi
hII that the ruins of Pompeii show
many structures whoge mural decora
tions' art! In fair shape today. The.
colors used were glaring. A black
background was the usual one and th«
combinations worked thereon red, yel
low and blue.
In the early Christian era the use ot
mosaics for churches somewhat sup-
planted m;y;i! painting. Still, during
the reign off Justinian tho Church o:
Suint K-q-dda was budCat Con^ttn 1 titirr-
ple and its walls were, adorned will
paintings. / >
In modern times the uses of pain -
have come to he as uumerous as it! .
♦ myriad' shades and tints. I'adnt |<
*■ * •
unique du that its mime .ins fio syno
in in and for It there is no su’ostituti
l-Vnatcrlal. Bread Is the stall of life, bu
paint is the life of tin- staff, t
No one thinks of the oxt'eriur of i
o< den building now e\< op* in it-mf:
•Nature-
not by Moth
There is nothing h
in Nature’s methods
stunts, no “hurry-up
Tt coats to repair, the cost Is leas than
the cost of neglect No matter what
the cost of paint, the wlud and the
weather will collect a higher bill lp
leterloratlon oud decay.
Her quiet
patient way with
VELVET during its two years age
ing in wooden hogsheads, Brings out
all the kindly comfort of fine K
tucky Burley leaf. /
Qu»ry —What do you think of paint an
an Investment, aside from tho appearance
It lends? Goes tt really PAY to paint a
house regularly. Bay. every three or four
yearoT
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Answer.—Good paint properly ap
plied when needed Is the main thing in
making a house last long und well. A
touse worth $2,500 can be painted at a
•oat of about $ 125. In GO years that
house will need about 15 paintings,
the tolul cost of which will he
I .eft without paint, such a house would
lull Into complete ruin in 30 years. So
'-iking GO years us a basis for our fig
ures we find that with paint a home
will last that time In good condition
and will cost, plus paint, $4,373. With*
»ut paint the house would have to he
rebuilt at tlq» end of 30 years and
w*»uld be ready for another complete
renovation when the sixtieth year ar
rived. Cost, without [taint, $5,000 for
* home reudy to fall to pieces. Doe*
regular painting pay? As the old
Dutch iduge says:
“PAINT PAYS FOR ITSELF"
me quicker, less expen
sive methods cannot possi
bly produce the fragrance,
coolness and downright
pipe qualities of VELVET,
cured in Nature’s way.
Where the farm building!
are In good shape the rating Is one
half. The president of a middle west !
ern hank says that when real estut*
loans.are considered, painted building!
are always taken Into consideration Ic
making an estimate. The general ap
pen ranee of the property surrounding |
the house and ham snd also the fleldi
and fences would he carefully 'observ
ed. He further say* that he has nc!
hesitancy |n saying that he would sb
solutely refuse a loan on farms where
the buildings were not kept up ano {
w.jll [tainted. In Ids Judgment, uu
painted farm buildings-would redact
the loan \alue at least 25 percent
A Minnesota banker says that he li
much more willing to loan ntonej
where the buildings are well paluted
Iu’hls particular case be believe* rha
lie would loan 20 per cent more thai
If the buildings were not proper!)
taken care of. A farmer who wll
keep his buildings painted takes' i
much deeper Interest .n bis work thaa
one who does nob Another Mlnoe
Today it is- your privilege
to enjoy, with hundreds of
thousands of other smok
ers, this mild and friendly
VELVET tobacco.
Query.—I have a quantity of old paint
on hand. Can I uao It for the first coat la
repainting my barat
Roll a VEL VET
Cigorotto
Answer.—Ob no ficcoant should old
pnlnt which has become fat be used
for priming either old or new work.
Old paiut 4n that eouijltlon Is best used
on a fence, brickwork or Unwork. If
j^ou vhIuo your barn sufficiently to
[taint It, do It the Justice of a good Job.
VKLVEra
U. 8. Invents Anti-Rust "Dope."
Inrldtsit to the war, the government
has faced the problem that has so long
proved baffling to commercial, con
cerns of protecting Iron and steel from
rust. In un attempt to solve this fed
eral sjteclulists have perfected various
forms of protective coalings. Iu this
connection It may be pertinent to ask
whether commercial .uses will not be
found also for the so-called “dopes”
which the government has Invented to
lie applied to airplane wings und which
ure possessed of valuable weather-re
sisting and fireproof qualities.
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EFFECT OF COLOR UPON THE
DURABILITY OF PAINT.
Property owners who may have un
dor ' consideration tlie painting of
dwellings and other structures should
remember, that more ,durable result-
are obtained when tinted paints nr*
used. Permanent coloring material?
which have been ground by machine
into a high grade white paint bast
have the effect of preventing “chalk
ur£" and ‘"checking,^ two -defect?
v bi-. lt are often observed when white
paints ure used.
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