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INFORMATION ON SWEET POTATO GROWING Clemeon, July 18.?That the aweet ut0 (h an important crop In South oirolina la Indicated by tta rank aa fifth among the atate'a crops, accordjut; to K H Hawl, extension horticulturist, who points out that the state's average of 61,800 acres In sweet potatoes produces an annual average of 4 4Cf),"00 bushels with an average vat w 0l *Ub2.1QQi The state's sweet potato crop, how* ever, is now valuable chiefly as local market crop and as a feed aud food crop tor the farms," says Mr. Rawl. 'from the long-time viewpoint, there eeein? to be an opportunity for an ' iroportunt commercial sweet potato Industry in South Carolina. The tenyear average yield of 86.6 bushels per acre compares favbrably with 90.16 bushels for the United States, The ten-year average farm price in South Carolina has been 73.2 cents per bushel, the range being from 40 cents to one dollar." To help promote a commercial sweet potato industry Mr. Rawl has prepared Extension Circular 162, Sweet Potato Production, which dlacusBes good seed stock, growing the plants and ~ vines, soils and fertilizers, and cultural practices. The publication, now ready for free distribution may be bad from county agents or from the Publications Department at Clemson College. ? DO CATS HAVE FUN? The Winston-Salem Journal finds the witless witlclsm: "People hare more fun than anybody" Intriguing, and Alls space wlth'^jvery clever arrangement of argument to refute the wag who authored It, but like the music that goes 'round and 'round, admitted at the end that "after all, probably people do have more fun than anyboddy." But in canvassing the members of the animal kingdom as a factor in his build-up, the editor makes this one mistake: But one animal we feel sure has never had any fun In any of its nine lives, and that is the house cat. You can just be sure that she is not having any fun, not even when she purrs, for behind that purr Is some sinister deception, some deep guile. She wants to make you feel pleased with yourself, so that you will con tinue to treat her kindly." It's fallacious to say that a cat never has any fun! Fun is always pleasing, and what could be more pleasing than to be free to roam around at , night with no one to check up on you? Every motorist sees them traipiing along the highway at night, and knows that they are not out looking for trouble?it can be nothing more than the fun of the thing. And then there's that argument on the back fence at night Indeed, it must tickle the cat's funny bone to .be . able to disturb the slumber 6f humans, in perfect security against old shoes and the human curses that accompany them. Take it back, brother. A cat has fun and plenty of It.? Statesville Landmark. INVENTIONS AND JOBS ' I InvemU'""'" *** 0B# of w??Uat bbl ?. eV?r couc,!lvl'<1 by man wa, ftooty? bP-ratloo the Meraanthaler If th?8>> who Inaht that machines rob mo? of joba are correot. then doa?,'?.,!row,h ,h?re nrln.l .i , a workl,'K 'or the 1?5, l,Kl?"l'y. But What are the a iT8.'"Wn ln compiled by jaua? sta,?? Bureau o( the CmL'"1^ ?.ur Population wae ,round I ' . ' ln 1929, It was not quite Iwkli? (hat 121,000,000. In 1888. which waa before the linotype really made Itaelf felt, there were 50,000 persons employed In the printing Indua?,? kl "bP-'b. therefore. woM Indicate that slightly leaa than 10?,. 000 persons ihould have been employI ^ y the printing industry in 1929 But if we accept the claims of the anti-machine advocates, then there should have been only 20,000 employ, ed in the printing industry in 1929. Actually, while population was growing only loo per cent, employwent in the printing industry was ris<ng,o1?rly 600 per cen*?from 50,000 in 1889 to 281,000 in 1929. i J^he8e figures, of course, do not take into account the thousands at j new jobs created by the increased de-l raand for paper, ink, printing, machinery, and similar supplies. Nor do they allow anything tor the great educational advantages ofTered by less expensive books. W we listened to the anti-machine agitators, we would go back to the days, before the linotype was invented. Should we??Industrial Press Service. | For Men Only 'Alice, I'm going to give a lot of these old clothes to the'Charity organization," Brown announced to his wife. "Here are socks and shirts that ought to do some fellow a lot of gopd." / Alice came over to look into the matter. ' "I guess it will be all right," she agreed. "But, my! I can't send that stuff out like that. Why, there are a lot of buttons off the shirts, and the socks need darning." In a few days Alice had the garments fixed up and announced to hubhy he could send the package off to the charity organisation now.. ,'But Alice," he protested when he looked at the stuff, "you have it in such good shape that I am going to wear them a while longer myself." As Alice went out of the room, hubby smiled contentedly. "It worked! It worked! - he observed under his breath.?-New Outlook. ..j ? * J Almost" 8,000 buyers of Christmas goods, toys included, have been registered in Chicago j^ince July 6th, when the goods were put on display in the furniture mart. New records for buying have been set. You can buy from us a real My For as little as ^A'^ 1 ' World?* greatest low ptiee tire . ft ^B8 . : SPEEDWAY 15 ?a bid, husky, handsome Goodyear 1936 ; Blue Ribbon I*rize Value! " Look what you gtt: the qowm mmm or safety *? 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On the landward coast M the Island Is Cowes, famous city of regattas.' Along its narrow streets quaint, ancient houses alternate with stores that display anchors and steering wheels, nautical caps and field glasses marine photographs and all the burnished brass appurtenances of yachting. Every few doors tearooms offer tempting scones and crumpets; and there are miniature branches of famous shops of Regent street and Piccadilly. Along the water front spreads the spacious Esplanade, with the Royal Squadron headquarters projecting upon it This Is the yachting capital of the world. The sun glistens upon tha plate glass of the protruding gallery, grandstand for royalty and high paval officers,, who largely constitute the membership of the "most exclusive club In the world." There they watch the races of Regatta week, when the Solent waters are flecked by fleecy clouds of canvas, dotted by rainbow bunting and pennants, and, when night comes, aglltter with myriad bobbing lights. Members of this clnb, and none other, may fly the white pennant of St George on their yachts; only members and officers of the Royal navy are privileged to land at its neat jetty. One worldfamous yachtsman, who spent millions upon his hobby, was not admitted to membership until* shortly before bis death. By night or day all the big ships that pot In at Southampton must pass the deeper channel within half a mile of Oowes. The parapet of the Espla- 1 nade seems built as an elbow support j to keep sea-gaxers from tumbling into 1 the water. All the houses on the gallerylike hillside of the town have enormous plate-glass windows turned toward the sea. As a place to watch the world go by in ships, Cowes la an unsurpassed marine grandstand. Bast Cowes la Industrious. Across the leisurely Medina river, East Oowes takes on the industries which Oowes proper, and consciously prim, seems to spurn. There Is a shipbuilding yard which supplies lifeboats for steamers and for beach guards, and there in an aircraft factory #b!ch builds amphibian planes. Every store on fne precarious hillside streets Is a reminder of the Island's Intense preoccupation with the sea, offering paraphernalia ranging from oyster tonga * to hawsers, and there are many shops that make shiny marine engineering parts. It was among the marshlands of East Oowes that Queen Victoria as a girl collected seaweed, and formed an attachment for the island that led to her purchase of Osborne House, w&lch became her favorite place of residence. It is there s today, very mucb as she left It, a gift of King Edward VH to the nation In her memory. The terrace commands the marine view which the good queen loved, vistaa of bine ocean through groves of exotic trees?corks. Hexes, deodars, as well as pines and cedars. i $ . To reach any part of the Isle of Wight entails no longer journey than ^lng a taxi across Greater London; ll la not quite 23 miles long and nowhere wider than 13 miles. Driving due south from Cowes, across its axis, gives a quick picture of Its peculiar geography. At first the countryside Is wooded, and the clearings are fields k and meadows where cabbages, carrots, sad broccoli grow, or sheep and cattle grass. T ~ Forests and Truck Farms, From the thick forests of the aorth era island came the timbers of many an old mansion and cottage of southr ern England, and today their diningroom tables are provided with vegetables by the Wight's truck gardens and rich milk from Its herds of Guernseys. Anyone who has eaten in English inns or on English trains most wonder about the tource of all the cabbage served with potatoes at nearly every meat Wight can account for many tons of 'it. Soon the trees' and fkrml give way slenai low; ' tees* ?5he downs, with as many sectional adhts as a London strict are formed by chy uplanda Wtta strata sMght , 7 .? tt?e? -I" thrusting fraotured fragmenta Into the I aea at the Needles on the west and Culver Cliff on the east. The pedesI trlan who yields to the spell of their I lonely paths gets an Impression of a height much greater than the altitude warrants. One can climb across them In an hour's walk at their widest part The southern half of Wight is a "bowl," sagging between the downs and the seaside cliffs that look ao i bleak to ship passengers as they round the island .for Southampton. Barren i-they are, these corrugated cliffs, but ; the Islanders call them their son trap because they cut off the fogs and temper the ocean winds. The trees are not so many, but the soil Is fertile, the climate is milder, and the crop yield greater in this sheltered saucer. Iv Most of Wight's attraction for visitors and Its wealth of historic associations?ranging from the Boman occupation, through Jutish immigration, Danish assault, French attacks, and pirate raids?cling to Its coast Eastward from sedate Cowes is the up-andcoming resort town of Ryde, with its lamp posts that wear garlands of dowers, its tiny tramcars, and Its spick promenade where, on cloudless days, women knit as they garner sun tan. Its long, spidery pier is landing place for thousands of "trippers" from Portsmouth every summer week-end, and its domed pavilion offers concerts and "snack" counters for their entertainment Second only to Cowes week is the regatta of Ryde's Royal Victoria Yacht club. And a pretty touch Is a children's regatta, held at their large boating lake, where young mariners sail elaborate toy craft and ride about id paddle-wheel boats propelled by handle* Bra ding an Old Town. An hour's easy walk south of Ryd* is "Ye Kynge's Towne of Bradlng,w where beaches and bathing machine* i piers and yachts seem very far away. Yet along Bradtng's high and dry High i street ships once sailed under the eaves ' of the timbered buildings, and one might pick from a score of shipmasters to take a cargo into the most distant port Brading recalls the days when towns were set far up the Island's meager rivers, or well back In some arm of the sea, as a protection against invssion or pirate, raids. Yet the Inhabitant* expert in their knowledge of tides and treacherous channels, could put out . to salt water to fish or trad* Long ago silt blocked Bradtng's harbor, and now dikes have thrust the eee some two miles from Its center. Brading church, the oldest In the island, is mentioned in Domesday Book. In Its chapel is burled Sir John Oglnnder, who was garnering his salty Chronicles of Wight while the Pilgrims were struggling to survive *t Plymouth, and the early Maryland settlers were putting forth from Cowes to St Mary'* East of Brading, sheltered among the cliffs, is the lovely seaside village of Bembridge, which the/world seems to have passed by. The towls.Jles along the embankmenty"the only levtel mile on the Island," w?lch has Bevered Brading Harbor from dts name town/ and this sltuatioivgtvesAlt the aspect of "Little Holland/ > Beauty of the Cliff* I | it! The camera, better thah words, can portray the bold beauty of the Foreland, the majestic curvature of White* cliff bay, and the crumbRpg promontory of Culver Cliff, where the downs bare their chalky face to the sea. Very often the encroaching tides have carved under the steep cliffs until they lean out, like the sagging old houses In Brading and Shanklln. Walking too near their edge Is precarious, for often huge, blocks break off and tumble sev^ hundred feet into the ocean. "Back of the Island," as the southeastern corner is locally known, such subsidence on a large scale has produced the Under cliff, where ages ago the sea and the frost, together with numerous springs, toppled over the cliff top for some sly mile* forming a- benchlike secondary cliff. The island springs have cut deep fissures through tho cliffs; two of the moet famous of these are Blackgang Clilne and Shanklln Chine. Near the entrance to the latter is a graceful fountain with a shield bearing tha English, rand American flags and 11 nee written by Longfellow when he visited "leafy Shanklln." Bot the dlffalde town's principal literary association la with ReaU, who, during many happy months there, wrote "Lamia." WW* 8hank!I? is VOartilbr, Wight's miniature Atlantic City. Long rows ef DtttUX* bathtrig machine* painted (a meny colors tnd odd design* SM chfl?e* Mar posies on the hart and. five Its beach a sprightly asffWh |how===== 1 AMAZON UKADIIUNTKUM CURE AND SI HUNK HUMAN HEADS,? The shrunken heads, known as the II vitro heads, are prepared with spe rial riles by native tribe* inhabiting ' tho A in axon Jungles, They generab ly dre'ilie heads of eneiufea slain In battle. After having been severed from the body the heads are placed in hot sand, and the akin, flesh and muscles peeled off, leaving the skllll clean and naked but for the eyes " and teeth. They are then filled with sand and placed fn apeolally I,prepared pots made of baked ekiy, to which water Is added. The water is allowed to heat and the heads are removed Just before reaching the boiling point. When they are removed the heads have shrunken to about one third their size. More hot sund Is poured Into them and they are Ironed with hot stones, picked up with the aid of palm leaves. This process Is continued for about 48 hours until the outside of the bead Is smooth and hard as leather and has gradually shrunk to the site of an orange. They are hung in the smoke of a fire to preserve them. How Cellulose 1* Made, Discovered by Two Women Two women scientists working at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant liesearch at Tonkers, N. Y., announce the discovery of how plants make their . cellulose. While studying cotton fibers they detected the process, hitherto one of the mysteries of science, In the cytoplasm of the cofton cells. Cellulose Is of vast Importance to the modern in* dustrlal world, it Is'the chief constituent of thousands of products. Paper Is made of it and the cotton In clothes Is 00 per cent cellulose. Wood and plant life in general la the only source of this material now. Therefore, should tho recent discovery lead to the manufacture of cellulose without the aid of plants It would greatly change the world's industrial system. How British, U. S. Tax Compare Reader's Digest quotes Robert Duncan as saying: "The Briton pays $30.60 per capita income tax; our federal tax on personal Incomes figures out $8.88 per capita (both 1034 figures). This Is supposed to prove that we Just don't know what heavy taxes are. But the -discrepancy Is. not so great as appears on the surface. When the Briton has paid his taxes to the Crown, he has paid more than three-fourths of all the taxes he will pay to any one. When the American has paid his federal taxes, he has paid only one-third of all his taxes. Considering everything, the ' total per capita annual tax bill for 1033-84 turned out to be $74.87 for the American and fOo.ll for the Briton? about one-third more." ^ . ii b... C/\ ' C How Far Skins Are Cleaned The National Bureau of Standards says that one method of cleaning furs Is to tumble the sklbi together with fine hardwood sawdust for two to four hours or longer. Occasionally a little asbestos or aoapstone Is added to the sawdust. For white or very light col. ored skins gypsum or white sand Is used, either alone or mixed with sawdust. After cleaning the sawdust must be removed from the fur either by shaking or rotattnf in a cage built like a drum. Hew Phone "Hallo" Started According to biographers of Thomas A. Edison, F. P. Fish, president of th* American Telephone & Telegraph com* pany, gives the credit for the use of "Hello" on the telephone to Thomas A. Edison. When the telephone was first used people were accustomed to say "Are you there?" "Are you ready to talk?" etc. One day Edison took.up the receiver and said "Hello," The word Immediately became popular. Hew Large Pecaa Trees Grew Jumbo, a pecan tree In San Saba, near the Colorado river (Texas) Is claimed to be the largest pecan In the world. At two feet above ground Its girth is 24 feet. It Is 120 feet high, with a clear length of 41 feet to Its first limb. The spread of the main branches Is 100 feet. It is said of this veteran that a thousand years ago it was a hardy sapling. * How Sugar Toys Aro Made .. It Is necessary to have plaster of parls molds to make sugar toys. The sirup Is made of four pounds of sugar, two ounces of corn simp, one pint of water. It should boil c to 240-242 degrees ; stirred until cloudy and poured into the molds, which have soaked In ' cold water for two or three hours, then drained. How" Surf Board Is Made > A surf board should be 6 feet long, 90 inches wide and one inch thick. It should b? made of a light wood such as while. Pipe, white cedar, or spruce A rope for steering should be placed on the sides about 18 Inches from the front. ' VT * How Italics Originated The style of type called Italics Is Mid to have been an imitation of the handwriting of Petrarch. How Raw Purse |? Divided Usually a $1,000 puree Is divided as follows: First, $700; second, $160: third, $100; fourth. $60. How "Fiancee" la Pro*o*a*ad Fiance and fiancee, the feminine form, are pronounced exactly the ata* ?fee-ahn-say. ._ '.jg - * "V/'c ? Dice Seems Loaded Against Wild Ducks New York, July 22.?Drought relief tor wild waterfowl, on a par with action taken to alleviate distress of the farmers and domestic livestock, was urged hero today by John H. Ilaker, executive director of the National Association of Audubon Societies, "By his various activities, man has loaded the dice ^gainst waterfowl," Mr. Baker said, "He has destroyed breeding, feeding and resting places. To correct these conditions will re- ' Quire yoars. The only available means Of quickly restoring the duck supply is to stop killing them, giving them a chance to Increase under natural conditions. ' "The need of prompt action, thru closing the season this fall on tho hunting of wild waterfowl, is dramatized by the drouth and by tho offlclal news Just issued by the Bureau of Biological Survey, that agency of tho Federal Government charged with the responsibility for the conservation of our wildlife resources. The BUivey states, 'Left behind at dried potholes and small lakes are the bodes of many young ducks. Some of them died In their nest*=ruthflr^ perKr^TeUng over,antl with the , adult birds In search of food and wa| er. Much of the natural cover for ducks has been destroyed and under severe drought conditions young ducks commonly die In a few days The drought region includes extensive nesting areas of Pintails, Scaups Spoonbills, Mallards, Teal, CanvanOne f ^dhead8 RDd ?ther doJL r* 8er,?UH aft*r*e"?*ts of tho drought fon ducks In the Great Plalna region wiii' probably be n Tar* u* naturaI aquatic food. I^arge numbers of these food plants have already been dried up by the seeds'*' ^thout bearing fruit or . ''?ne u,d th,n* that duck hunters would he among the first to demand a halt in the kfll when the devastating effect <* such a droulht at ttrtT lUrrent ,n 80106 of prlnclpel duck breeding states In this dAni118 8Uper'mP?8?d on all other depleting agencies which have brought the total continental duck supply to such a pitiful remnant. Vet S in?W? CertR,n Wtsmen are etrongly advocating staggering a 80ly,8er?nihrough a 6<>*day pep|?<j ^ iee zone8 witbin States, and some go so far as to urge ltd hati?n of the U8e of 1,ve dec?y? limits aDd GVen increa?6d *** p,cture you what that' m^gTd~ ,n thr6e 8?n6i would mean to the migatory duck wingln* 8 .way ac~" th* continent from ^btO80uth- That duck would face gunfire from early September, when the season opens in the Canadian prairie provinces, to the end of DeJLP6rl0d of neaply 'our months; During some of these days, to be sure he would be spared, with frh^r he would over his fright and be a surer target on those weekend days which are the easiest for the greatest number of hunters to arrange to spend in the field. That such views are held In this emergency would be ludicrous, if it were not so tragic. "Conservation organisations and Individuals throughout the country are now appealing to President Roosevelt to iesue an executive order closing Ir iQQfl tt1 hunt,ng 8ea8?n this fall of 1936. The time has come," said Mh' u6r; ,,t0 Cal1 a *** on deliberate kill of ducks by man." Three Are Held In Shooting Scrape Columbia, July 21.?Police Chief W H. Rawlinson said today he was holding three persons for questioning in the shooting of R. R Nance, eldest son of State Senator Carroll D. Nance Rawlinson said those held were the man's estranged wife, John H. Nance, Jr., the wounded man's younger brother, and Earl Ashmore, a furniture company employe. Nance was seriously wounded last ri!w hi! Wlfe8 a*WPtoa?nt, where, Chief Rawlin said, he had gone with his brother and Ashmoro. The chief quoted Mrs. Nance as ensued and that \ ,flrM ? SHBpnifco-i returned the fire. her hpshawd was wounded, add also fired jaRhlr Only the elder |S5m* bit. An emergency operetlon wee percondition we. eedd to be erlttceL ... .r- Ira