The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 20, 1941, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
Saves on Candy
To Buy U. S. Sub
Girl Mails $1 to President;
Donations Are Pouring
, Into Treasury.
WASHINGTON.?There are a lot
of Americana who are dqing something
besides worrying over the high
cost of defense and us a result there
Is an unprecedented flow of cash
donations into the treasury,
Brooklyn scrubwomen, Texas cowpunchers
and serious little children
all contributed.
A small girl in Los Angeles sent
President Roosevelt $1 she saved
from her weekly candy allowances.
With the money was a note scrawled
in pencil on a school tablet:
"I have saved one dollar from
candy and I have started another
for a submarine. And as soon as I
get another I shall send it immediately.
For dear president I hope
you will get enough men and ships
to wipe out a certain Nazi leader
named Hitler. Well sir that's all I
wanted to say."
Prescribes Licking.
As the government deficit for the
curre1 k. fiscal year tarried at the
$4,000,000,000 mark, the growing volume
of mail and voluntary cash indicated
that America is becoming
increasingly aware of the critical
international situation.
Among the letters pouring into the
White House .and the treasury was
one from a retired railroad worker
in Alliance, Ohio. He told Secretary
of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau:
"Herewith $25 to be used
for the best purpose to lick Hitler
and Mussolini."
A letter to the President from a
New Jersey town said:
"I am an American of Italian
descent and have been in the Democratic
party since I am a citizen of
the United States. Small earner
don't pay no tax. I am enclose
twenty dollars money order. Contribution
for American defense.
God blessed America.1'
'Old Cook' Sends $10.
A woman describing herself as an
"ordinary old cook" in New York
mailed $10 "to help be prepared
against war." She explained to the
treasury that because she only
worked six months last year, she
was not subject to income taxation.
A little New York girl sent in 25
cents "to build up your army," a
former Italian army officer sent in ,
$5 and suggested that other people
follow his example every month.
From Pennsylvania came a telegraphic
money order for $150 with
the message "for defense" and an
Arizona cowboy mailed iiT a dollar
with the promise to send more.
Looking at them from a cold financial
viewpoint, the contributions did
not add up to very much?less than
$13,000 to date. But government officials
regarded the letters and their
small cash gifts as an indication
that the new defense savings campaign
would succeed.
HrcHicka Suggests New
Proboscis for Uncle Sam
WASHINGTON-?For 150 years
Uncle Sam has had the wrong kind
of nose according to Dr. Alex
Hrdlicka, eminent anthropologist of
the Smithsonian institution.
The old gentleman in striped
trousers, and a star-spangled coat,
who represents the composite American,
should have a straight nose
wbf^re )ie traditionally is pictured
with a decidedly convex "Roman"
one, according to Dr. Hrdlicka.
In most respects, says Dr.
Hrdlicka, the symbolic figure is all
right, but he has almost never encountered
an "Uncle Sam Nose" in
his wide studies of the physical characteristics
of Americans.
Some years ago he made extensive
measurements of a large group of
Old Americans. Recently he lias
made similar measurements of 150
members of the National Academy ;
of Sciences. Among the Old Americans.
Dr. Hrdlicka says. 22 per cent
have straight' noses and 42 pgr cent
have moderately convex ones.
Among the scholars the proportion
is about the same.
Pilots Sent to Britain
To Learn Air War Lesson
WASHINGTON - Both the army
a:.,! navy have sent an undisclosed
number of uncer pilots to Gii at i
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Br.tain to act as observers in the
B..'.tie of Britain and learn tin* les- '
Si \s taught by a> rial fighting there. |
Knar, authoritative army sources'
C?:ne word that many pilots of the j
g;..ae of l.cuti r.ant had been as- i
signed to this study, having been |
selected on the Las.s of youth and ;
apt it udo.
Secretary Knox said that the navy
was following the same procedure
and had sent "quite a bunch."
The observers are expected to act
es observers only and not indulge
in risks incident to combat.
Day-Long Radio Blare
Makes Hens Lay Better j
RAMONA, CALIF?Listening to j
the radio 24 hours a day makes hens
lay 10 jx'r cent more eggs, C. H. Lee
has discovered. ,
It's not the soothing effect of tbe
music, Lee says. After a steady
diet of radio programs, the hens refuse
to be bothered by any noisy i
diversion. Lven a roaring tractor
doesn't cause a ruffled feather.
The hens take opera, swing or
political speeches in stride.
Disease Check Shows
> British Very Healthy
In the face of prediction? that air
raids and crowded shelters would
produce the specter of contagiousdisease
epidemics ^talking this land,
the most recent public health statistics
show that Great Britain in 1940
was appreciably healthier than it
was the year before the war started.
Particularly is this true in relation
to contagious diseases.
In 1938 there were almost 100,000
cases of scarlet fever in Br,itain; in
1940 there were only 83,000. In 1938,
more than 4,000 cases of dysentery
were reported. In 1940 there were
less than 3,000. In the year before
the war there were 1,300 cases of
enteric fever reported, and although
the figure for 1940 rose to 2,800,
most of these were in mild, paratyphoid
groups and were not the oldfashioned,
severe type.
Pneumonia also showed a slight
increase, rising, from 45,000 cases
in 1938 to 40,000 in 1940, and this
might be described indirectly to the
air raids, which have shattered
many windows and subjected a
large part of the population to increased
exposure in winter. Yet the
increase in the number of cases is
almost negligible.
However, figures on cerebrospinal
fever might be the basis for measured
concern. These rose from a
negligible 1,200 in 1938 to more than
12,000 in 1940; but there is a qualifying
factor in this increase in cases.
Until recently this disease was
mortal in about 60 per cent of the
cases, but new drugs and methods
of treatment have reduced the mortality
in hospitals to as low as 5 per
cent, and nervous complications,
which frequently followed this disease,
now are conspicuous by their
absence.
Famous Twin Tortoises
First Ever Hatched Here
Miami's famous twin babies worth
$1,000 apiece are growing daily both
in weight and value. The twins are
two tiny Galapagos tortoises?the
. only babies of their kind ever
hatched in America.
The tiny Galapagos tortoises have
an interesting history. When they
were hatched from two eggs that
looked exactly like billiard balls,
they weighed two ounces. They
were started out at first on a strict
diet of choice red hibiscus blossoms,
and now they eat daily, one half
their own weight in lettuce leaves
picked from the heart.
They have the dubious honor of
belonging to a family of prehistoric
age creatures that have never
changed their size or shape from the
beginning of time until today. In
addition they are the longest-living
creatures on earth, outliving the
whale, elephant, parrot and all reptiles.
The twins are expected to double
their weight annually for the first
five years and then slow down their
growth. When they become a year
old, they will reach a weight of
slightly over two pound?.
Town Hall Talks
No doubt, most radio listeners
have at some time or other listened
to or heard of "Town Meeting of the
Air," radio's most controversial program.
Here is a glimpse of the "behind
the curtain scenes," according
to George V. Denny, president and
moderator of Town Hall in New
York city. The audience is assembled
an hour before the broadcast,
with the principal radio talks gone
over ahead of time. Before the mike
is turned on, the noisy and argumentative
listeners are weeded out.
The meetings arc held for those
American citizens who vote and
think independently. Denny says. He
thinks that this 20 per cent controls
all elections and constitutes the
intellectual leadership of the nation.
The Town Hail moderator believes
democracy can work ? if this leucibj^
ship potential is developed and made
clleclivo.
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Ant Control
Ant control under present conditions
is a continual nuisance brought
about largely from the fact that unuer
pit sent methods containers of
ant poison have to be placed around
the outside of buddings in order for j
the ants to feed. This is dangerous. ;
as faT as children and pt Is are c? n- j
ecrned, and when the hiuri is sprinkled
or it rains, the poisons become
diluted and their eiTect destroyed
To solve tins problem, an
:rt: eetit .tie vault has he. n perfeet,
,.h It is built int . t'ae foi datum >>1 [
t: e house. with a vault ev. ry 17 feet j
or less. I he ui.-.cetic.de r. la.i.HS ill
the vaults in its original state, always
on hand at i's fu'l i '1 mmvy,
and out of sight ai.d reucn ?>; children
and pets.
Operation of Magnetic Mines
Many pimple believe that magnetic
mines float to the surface at the
approach of a ship and blow it to
hits. How ev et. t! \ are not that j
tricky, nor do buy t'oat The needle j
of the magnetic compass which is
attached to the mine normally points |
North. When a rtccl ship passes ;
eh so above it the needle swerves j
makes an electrical contact and !(.
nites the mine 1\ .ng on the bottorr
setting On an explosion which
wrecks the ship Because the mng
netic fielJ is effective only at fairly
close range, the mines arevsuccessfill
only in shallow w .ters. have
been dropped by daring Gorman aviators
in the Thames estuary and
very elose to shore.
A Llewellin Setter Ii
Traced to Recent Origin
A Llewellin setter Is not a distinct j
breed but merely a strain of the
English setter. In England Llewellin
setters ure termed "English"
setters. All Llewellin setters are
English setters but not all English
setters are Llewellin setters.
The existence of the English setter
can be traced for hundreds of
years, whereas the Llewellin strain
of English setter is of comparatively
recent origin, it having resulted
from breeding experiments by various
Englishmen in the 1800s. H.
Purcell-Llewellin, whose name was
conferred upon this strain, was not
its originator,* but, after its worth
as a hunting dog had been demonstrated
by other Englishmen, Llewellin,
recognizing its superiority
as a bird dog, engaged in extensive
breeding operations which assisted
in the development of the strain,
and he was the first to export dogs
of this strain to Canada and the
United States, beginning in the
1870s. The strain originated by
breeding the offspring of two dogs,
Duke and Rhoebe, with bitches of
the purebred strain that had been
developed by Edward Laverak.
A setter, the pedigree of which
traces back on both sides without
an outcross to these foundational
dogs, is called a "100 per cent
Llewellin" or "straight-bred."
When there exists the slightest outcross,
even to the extent of 1 per
cent, the dog in the strict sense
is no longer considered a Llewellin
setter, but is what is 'termed a
"grade" setter. The fact that a dog
is a "grade," rather than a "100 per
cent Llewellin," or a "straightbred,"
does not militate against its
ability as a bird dog.
The Llewellin setter is characterized
by its small size, averaging
about 40 to 45 pounds; its great
speed, intensive nervous energy and
beautiful style. _
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Ancient Pewterers Had
Guild to Protect Trade
Pewter is composed largely of tin,
lead, copper and antimony. By custom
the kind of object governed the
amount of lead used; but it was
found that all pewterers did not
abide by this rule. Lead was used
in quantities larger than was practical
and the articles soon became
misshapen. The Worshipful Company
of Pewterers was formed in
England fot the same purpose as
the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths?to
act as guardian of the
quality of the metals used in the
composition of the products turned
out. We find mention of the guild as
early as 1348. Definite standards
were established and were expected
to be rigidly upheld. The guild mark
was required on each piece and often
individual marks were added.
Thus we have the crowned rose, the
thistle, the fleur-de-lis, various
forms of angels, St. Michael and the
dragon, an arm and hand and many
others. Old English pewter is always
marked with the maker's
mark or "touch," registered officially
with the Pewterers' Guild.
There are no compulsory standards
in America but that of high
tradition and honor for the work
turned out. However, they followed
the English custom of impressing a
trade-mark on their pewter, that of
the eagle with the maker's name or
initials being much used.
Ultra-Violet Aids Potato
Invisible ultra-violet light, already
used L? n running down foreign
espionage agents and public
enemies, acts as a detective in finding
potatoes guilty of spreading one
of the worst diseases of the important
crop.
Prof. R. B. Harvey of the University
of Minnesota told the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science of his experiences with a
method for using this radiation in
Xcding and eliminating carriers of
bacterial ring rot.
Appealing only a few years a ;o.
ring rot has a I reach* struck in <7
states, in some regions destroying
half or more of the crop. Plant
pathologists, co-operating in many
states, discovered that the g< : m
does not live in the soil, hut eoii.es
in with the seed.
Bunkers Go to School
Bankets in Bucyrus. Ohio, are going
to sehool again not exactly to
learn anything, but to tench tne
youngsters a few things nl out
money matters?that is. it when me
youngsters Iviomr adults they w ill
have enough money at one time to
interest a hanker. The officers of
the banking institutions in the O io
town invite the sehool children to
come in and inspect the bank in
addition to conducting school
classes through the bank. Pre.
quently the bankers go to the
schools and give talks in simple
terms concerning banking, believing,
as one ofMcer sr.\s, tii .t t"ese
talks, coming from bankers themselves.
would create n fnvornhh impression
for the, banking profession
fits Easily Poisoned
A few points to remember ob ut
your cat Don't fail to keep f;(<sb
water for your cat at all times; milk
la not a substitute for water. Don't
forget that cats are very easily poisoned
by antiseptics, soaps or medicines
that are harmless to human
beings or dogs. Tar. soaps containing
carbolic acid, gasoline, turpentine
or any powders containing these
things may be fatal to a cat.
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