The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 01, 1941, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
Leather Gloves Easy to
Wash; Directions Given
Most gloves today, even the fine
leather ones, are washable, and it
Is easy to give them a tubbing. Do
not attempt to wash gloves that have
already been to the dry cleaner or
that have been treated at home with
a cleaning fluid or powder.
Don't wait until gloves look dirty
before washing them. If they have
been worn a few times, they are dirty,
whether they appear to be or
not. Repeated tubbings won't hurt
the leather, but rubbing away at
accumulated grime will cause holes
or will injure the finish and dye.
Use mild, pure soap flakes or powder,
and lukewarm but never hot
water. Wash dark leather gloves
quickly, light ones may be safely
soaked, if so desired. Use a very
soft brush and rich suds on any
badly soiled or grimy spots.
When finished with sudsing, roll
gloves from wrist. Never strain
seams by pulling finger tips. Wash
inside to remove hand soil. Rinse
in clear, luke-warm water. Vinegar
or lemon juice in the rinse water
will help to overcome fading and
streaking of color.
Squeeze as dry as possible, but
do not wring. Remove excess moisture
by rolling in towel. Blow into
gloves to puff them ,into shape. Lay
flat to dry, away from radiators and
all excessive heat, but in an air
current.
If cuffs or stitching is of another
color, put tissue paper in gloves.
Phonograph Records Are
Mess of Contradictions
Tha record you buy is, actually,
the great-great grandchild of the recording
made by, we'll say, the New
York philharmonic-symphony under
John Barbiplli, or perhaps Bruno
Walter. This was probably played
in Liederkranz hall on iiast Fiftysixth
street In New York, but actually
put on the lacquer disk on
Seventh avenue, two miles away.
You use all mechanical aid possible?bufc-yCftTwork
mostly by handpower.
Then the disk was shipped (with
every care) to Bridgeport. A quiet,
dark-haired young man takes it after
inspection, and immerses it in a plating
bath. The silver film deposited
_-is very thin; it has to be thickened,
after a few complicated monkey-shines,
in a 16-hour copper plating
bath. There are hundreds of
these, and the disks are swung to
and fro by a set of wooden walking
arms which work in unison like
stolid ranks of unattractive rockettes.
Finished, the grooves are the reverse
of the ones on the recording.
Once again the process is reversed to
.produce the "mother" record. From
the "mother," which now corresponds
exactly to the original record,
the sampers are made. These
are again in reverse, and go into m
gigantic library from which, with
the labels to match, they are issued
to the ranks of men who work the
waffle-irons.
$250 Saved Hawthorne
Such immortal classics as The
House of the Seven Gables and The
Scarlet Letter?so beloved by generations
of Americans?might never
have been written by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, had not a friend come
to his aid. It seems that Hawthorne's
hopes for a literary career
were being crushed to the ground
because of the repeated refusals of
a publisher to accept his work. Being
close to despair, he was about
ready to give up when a friend,
Horatio Bridge, came to his rescue.
Bridge secretly advanced $250 as a
guarantee toward the publication
of Twice Told Tales, a collection of
Hawthorne's stories. But for the
immediate success of that volume
and its heartening effect on him,
Hawthorne may never have written
his other immortal classics. His
spark of genius burst- into flame
after the friend staked $250 on his.
future at a critical time.
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Comet of IMS
Few are living who can remember
the great comet of 1858?Donati'a
Comet?but the following is a description
by one who watched it, and
wrote about it to the Rural Raw
Yorker: "I never saw the comet
rise, but I have watched it evening
after evening, as it would set in the
northwestern horizon. I have stood
with my back toward the nucleus of
the comet as it approached the horizon,
and watched the spread of that
magnificent tail from north to sduth,
and but little above the horizon in
the east." Previous to 1858, Donati's
Comet appeared to 1556, when i\
frightened Charles V of Germany
into giving away his crowns and retiring
to a monastery. , And more
than 200 years will pass before mortal
eyes will see it again.
Brings His Own Bed
Making freshmen happy and satr
isfled with their surroundings is one
of the first duties of the collegiate
year at the University of Kansas.
But Valories Harlan, a freshman
from Eureka, just couldn't seem to
get comfortable. He was assigned
to live at Templin hall, one of the
new self-governing men's dormitories,
too. Valories had a hankering
for his bed back home. He didn't
care for the nice, new double-deckera.
When his owd bed arrived,
Valories settled down for his first
comfortable-night away from hams.
He's 6 feefT and those new beds
just weren't long enough for him.
Leaky Faucet IP iris
Fame for Engineer
Research Into Waste Turns
Up Mass of Figures.
WAUKESHA, WIS.?A leuky faucet
brought fame to Arthur P. Kuranz,
superintendent of the Waukesha
water department.
Kuranz was attracted one day by
the trickle of water from a worn
faucet. Scientifically minded, he
brought out his slide rule and a stop
watch and did some calculating with
the result that he became a pioneer
in the field of counting drops of
water.
flis study of the subject with a
view to preventing waste has resulted
in state and national recognition*
Winner of the national Fuller
award, presented for achievement in
the water industry in the state last
year.
Some amazing v figures on the
amount of water lost through a leaky
faucet were turned up by Kuranz's
calculations. For instance, a tap
leaking at the rate of 120 drops a
minute adds up to 172,000 drops lost
daily. Taking Kuranz's estimate of
63,000 drops to a gallon, that means
a waste of almost three gallons from
the single faucet,
Add to this total from other warn
faucets in the building and, in the
case of a hot water tap, the cost of
heating the water (about 85 cents
a month in Waukesha for one tap)
and Kuranz's seemingly insignificant
job of counting water drops becomes
something significant. Th6' problem
grows in importance when a community
has a limited water supply.
One of the difficulties encountered
by Kuranz has been to determine
the number of drops of water in a
gallon. The National Water Meter
institute at Washington admitted
that the problem has not yet been
studied "in anything approaching a
scientific way"' and solicited its
members for suggestions.
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Tifghway of Silver' Runs
Through Utah Community
PARK CITY, UTAH.?There is no
record of any one ever having seen
the mythical "street of gold," but in
northern Utah there is a "highway
of silver."
It also contains deposits of lead
and zinc.
The highway, which runs through
Park City's main business section,
has been surfaced with talings from
the nearby Consolidated Mining
company containing silver, lead and
zinc.
Although the material is not valur*
* b enough to ship to smelters, it
s contain metals from small fissures
crossed by miners in running
exploration drifts, raises or crosscuts.
The ores, although rich, wera
found in too small a quantity to be
saved.
The white piles of debris have
provided a new and interesting
pastime for Park City youngsters.
Many small boys are equipped
with toy outfits for melting and
molding metal soldiers. They search
the waste piles, removing chunks of
ore containing lead, silver and zinc.
The pieces are then cleaned, melted,
and cast into toy soldiers.
Tommies Avoid Girls in
Khaki?and Give Reason
LONDON.?Complaints that their
uniform is a hindrance to romance
and scares soldiers away are made
by some of the auxiliary territorial
service in a big northern command
training center.
"Soldiers seem to think that the
A. T. S. is either the old maid's last
hope or else that to be seen out with
one of us indicates that a soldier
has been unable to get a girl outside
the barracks," said one of the
girls.
What do the soldiers say 7
"We want girls who are not in
khaki," said one of them. "We see
too much uniform. The A. T. S. is
a part of the army just as much as
the officers and clerical staff are
part of it, and we treat thfcm accordingly.
"Just as few men fall in love with
the girl who works in the same ofHce
as themselves, so the soldier
wants to get his girl friends from a
different atmosphere from that in
which he spends his working day."
U. S. Army Gets the Most
For Its Clothing Dollar
WASHINGTON. ? The army is
making sure Uncle Sam gets full
value for his soldiers-uniform dollar.
The quartermaster depot at Philadelphia
has established a "house of
magic" which tests all army clothing
materials for strength, wear,
warmth and water repeHency. Machines
there can detect the tiniest
hole in s raincoat, crush buttons to
see how much stress they can stand,
and create artificial rainstorms and
windstorms to test waterproof qualities
of the cloth.
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Snake Plays Trick on '
Experienced Trapper
PRESCOTT, ARIZ.?A rattlesnake
played a mean trick on Al?
bert Rhodes. . :
An experienced trapper, Rhodes
had heard in case of snakebite if
one should clamp the- teeth '
round the wound and suck ouj the
P*Bhodee was bitten the d^y after
he'd had all hie teeth pulled.
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Million Added I
For Food Campaign
Three quartern of a million dollars
has been added In less than three
months to the Income of families on
the Farm Security Administration
program in llegion V (Alabama, Georgia.
South Carolina. Florida) as a
result of the Department of Agriculture
s "Food for Defense" campaign,
i eports 11, P, DeLoache, FSA Supervisor
for Kershaw couuty.
This comes from marketing 1,800,000
broilers and fryers that have been
raised ffom the Ave million baby
chicks that were bought by these
families in May in response to the
national appeal to raise more food
for defense.
In Kershaw county, 16,000 baby
chicks were bought, and of these 7,000
cockerels are ready to be sold in culling
the new flocks to save the pullets
for egg production.
"But the additional 1^56,000 Income
from sources which the small farmer
never tapped before is part of the
story, "said Supervisor DeLoache,)
"That he was inspired to do tho Job,
that he has been taught that it can
be done over and over, and that his)
outlook and capacity have been
doubled?these are the big things. |
"Nothing else in the long effort to
Improve the outlook and productivity
of the Southern small farm has ever
matched In a similar length of time
the record of the last two months and
a half in stimulating more food for
defense."., _
Mr. DeLoache pointed out that valuable
lessons have been learned. For
instance, it has been found out that
with proper care and feeding chickens
may be raised even when they are
hatched in May and June.' In this
county 86 per cent of the May chicks
are being raised. In the entire region,
at least ninety percent have lived
and done well.
Cotton Credit
Slips Explained
Because merchants . cannot give
cash in Cotton Stamp transactions,
and since all Cotton Stamps are printed
in 25-cent denominations, how will
retailers handle sales normally involving
change?
A. C. McKaip, chairman of the
Kershaw county Cotton Industry
Committee said that this situation
was very effectively and simply
handled by means of "Cotton Credit
| Slips." '
To clarify the situation, he cited
several examples. "Suppose", he
said "a cotton stamp customer purchases
60 cents worth of cotton merchandise.
An alert merchant would
probably suggest 15 cents worth of
additional cotton items that the customer
could use to advantage. The
customer did not wish to get more
than his 60 cent purchase at the
time, the merchant would accept
either two 26 cent stamps and 10
cents in cash, or three 26 cent
stamps?giving the customer 15 cent
credit slip for the difference due him."
"These Cotton Credit Slips" he
added "are issued by the Individual
stores and are good for the purchase
of one hundred per cent cotton goods
at the same store In the future. From
the merchant's standpoint the use of
these credit slips tends to bring the
customer back to the stores from
which the previous Cotton Stamp purchases
were made. Accordingly,
those merchants who, through aggressive
merchandising and advertising,
attract both Stamp customers
and the general public, have an additional
opportunity of gaining repeat
business through the credit slips of
their stamp customers. Wide-awake
retailers will take advantage of this
opportunity for Increased business
while at the same time helping ourj
country to solve a serious national
problem Involving our number onp.
crop?cotton.
Hoisery Mills May 8hut Down
Charlotte.?The crisis with Japan
came close home Saturday with the
freezing pf Japanese assets In this
country by President Roosevelt and
the later freezing of all stocks of raw
silk by E. R. Stettinlus, Jr., defense
director of priorities, bringing danger
of an early shutdown of silk hosiery
mills in the Carolina* and all over
the nation. In Charlotte, such a step
would mean from 3,000 to 4,000 persons
engaged in making women's fullfashioned
silk hose would be out of
Jobs. In the South, the number
would jump to many thousands, and
iq the entire country, It would reach
more than 100,000 men. and women.
When President Roosevelt froze the
assets of Japanese Interests, tedr developed
that the mills would able
to run only from 60 to 90 days hiQre
unless something should happen to
enable the manufacturers to continue
to get raw silk from Japan. Saturday
afternoon when qews came that
Settlnfus' had clamped down on the
silk stocks, the 10 to 90 dsys dwindled
to.maybe two or three weeks, depending
upon tho silk the mills have In
their warehouses.
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Have
YOU
Done Anything
For Defense
On Sale at Your Post Office or Banks
What About Those
Old
Discarded Pieces
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A-L-U-M-l-N-U-M?
Bring It In?Uncle Sam
NEEDS ALL HE CAN GET
This Ad contributed to the cause of National Defense
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