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Red Cross Trebles
Workers in Camps
Wide Increase in Service to
r.> Military Forces.
WASHINGTON.?An extensive in- j
crease In American Ked Cross serv- |
ice to the nation's armed forces, including
the trebling during tin* past
year of trained staff workers assigned
to the military establishment,
was reported to the 3,700 Ked
Cross chapters by Chairman Norman
H. Davis in his annual report.
More than 400 Ked Cross field directors
and staff assistants are now
serving in the army camps, nova!
stations and in military hospitals.
Supplementing this force are thousands
of volunteers, such as the
Gray Ladies, who direct the recreational
program for men in the military
hospitals, and motor corps
women.
"The Red Cross," Mr. Davis reported,
"is the only non-military organization
serving withini the military
reservations, under army and
navy regulations.
"To give this service to the greatly
expanded army, navy and marine
corps, with an estimated 1,600,000
men under arms, the Red Cross has
everywhere along the line increased
its trained personnel rind volunteers
and made supplementary appropriations.
For example, in order to
meet an emergency need for recreational
equipment for army posts,
the Red Cross udvanced $1,000,000
pending passage of a congressional
appropriation for this purpose in
the future.
"Thus far the increased expenditures
for the Red Cross service to
the armed forces have been met
from our cash reserves. A general
appeal for contributions to support
this work has not been made to the
public, but such an appeal will be
an important part of the Roll Call
for a greatly increased membership
next November."
Globe Trotting Miner, 95,
Refuses to Live in Past
SALT LAKE CITY.?Most people
Uke to look back ov?r things when
they reach the age of 95, but not so
with Charles C. Shields. While cele- j
brating his ninety-fifth birthday anniversary,
Shields looked into the
future and made the prediction that
"I'll live to be 100."
Mr. Shields is Utah's oldest active
Mason?the proud holder of Shrine
membership card No. 34. The onetime
globetrotter has lived in Utah
for 70 years.
Mining and prospecting have been
the biggest things in his life. At
the ag? of 17 he went to Australia,
later returning to the United States,
where he worked in boom mining
towns of California and Nevada.
In 1874 the Irish-born minerprospector
went to Wyoming to join
his first Masonic lodge. Masonry
had no organization in Utah at the
time. He has since been instrumental
in organizing several lodges
throughout the state.
Life on Yacht la Easy
Approach to Geography
FORT MYERS, FLA.?Gipsy Waters,
17-year-old daughter of Don
Waters, adventure story author, has
spent most of her life aboard a 50foot
sailing schooner.
The family recently purchased a
cabin in the mountains of Tennessee,
but they still spent most of
their time aboard their boat, also
named the Gipsy Waters. And Miss
Waters loves the life on the water.
"It's really fun to get your geography
at first hand," she says. "In
the ports of the eastern seaboard we
find something different. We have
been as far south as the true tropics.
I had lots of fun riding the huge ,
Galapagos turtle."
Gipsy studies as she travels, under
Mrs. Waters' tutoring. It is not
a public school curriculum, but she
studies a wide range of subjects and
knows far more of nature study than j
the average pupil who goes to |
school.
Members of Family Get
News by Chain Letter i
FORT WAYNE, IND.?Speaking
of chain letters:
The various members of the fam- [
ily of the Rev. C. O. Shirey of Fort ,
Wayne have one all their own?but
it is used only for family news.
Mailed in a special pouch, the ;
chair, letter has traveled 33, POO
miles a year. wit!, sumo 89 persons
contributing items of family interest. '
When each of the various members
if the lar tlung fa mil\ receives the
pouch, he takes out the letter he put
in last tune, writes a new one bringing
everything up to date, and mails
it on to the next norm on the list.
Postages costs ab. at v> a year, an
the letter goes to Indiana, Ohio, Illinois,
Michigan. Wisconsin, Florida,
California, and Oregon. It once
made regular trips to Armenia.
Uncle Sam Measures
Clothes to Fit Children
Children, hereafter, will wear
' clothes that fit them, if the U. S.
I government has anything to say
about it. Until now manufacturers
didn't use patterns that were accurate,
aside from skimping on materials.
As a result the outfits they
turned out were either too big or
too small for the boys and girls
they were supposed to fit. Hut Uncle
Sam has corrected all this. With
the aid of manufacturers, state universities
and other agencies, the
government recently completed the
measurements of more than 100,000
children to find out just what a dress
or a pair of pants for a certaii^'age
should be in terms of lengUf and
breadth. These officials nuataurud
the youngsters from all des^Ppible
angles and from all this laborious
work arrived at a set of standards
that should make things easier for
fathers and mothers who have to
buy children's clothes. The survey
was conducted in eight states, with
about 12,000 youngsters scaled in
each of these states. The measurements
have been filed away in the
bureau of economics, a branch of
the department of agriculture and
are now availuble to manufacturers
who are willing to co-operate with
the government in seeing that American
children are dressed with the
right fitting clothes.
Innerspring Maltress
Greatest Improvement
Did you know that we've done
more to improve sleeping equipment
during the last 100 years than
was done in all the many centuries
preceding? Bedding authorities say
that the 100 years since 1841 have
seen the evolution of the mattress
from a bag filled with cornhusks to
the modern innerspring.
The cornhusk mattress was followed
in about 1875 by one filled
with excelsior from the sawmills of
Wisconsin. Ten years later, moss
from the marshes of Georgia and
Alabama was Introduced as the best
possible of mattress fillings.
Cotton mattresses didn't come
into popularity until the turn of thfe
century. The biggest step forward
came during the World war when
the innerspring type was introduced,
although it was not until
the early twenties that they were
marketed generally. Since that
time it has been the comfort Ideal
of most sleepers, though in eastern
states hair mattresses, not popular
elsewhere because of the heat,
are considered very fine.
Airplanes Are Different
Airplanes are opposite from other
things in many respects. An automobile
is supported by the road
underneath it, whereas the airplane
is lifted, or supported, by a reduction
of air pressure on top of its
wings. Most tools and missiles are
pointed at their front or working
edges,- whereas the front or leading
edges of a propeller ds well as of
the wings and other parts of an airplane
are blunt, while the back of
trailing edges are sharp. A landing
is made?by trying your best to
keep the plane from landing! After
you level off, just skimming the
ground, you endeavor to keep the
plane flying, to hold it off the ground
as long as possible?until you have
lost all flying speed and the machine
just gently settles the last
foot or two. Last, when in danger
on the ground the rule is "slow
down"! But the rule for safety in!
an airplane is?when in doubt in- j
crease your speed.
Peacock Still Common
The native home of the peacock '
is the wooded hill-country of India '
and Ceylon< and it is still common
there in a wild state. It was the j
favorite bird of Juno in Roman
mythology, and the white variety is
held sacred by some cpstes in India. !
Although it was domesticated at a
remote period, it is uncertain when ,
this bird was introduced into Eu- j
rope and other continents. A fossil
form was discovered in California in '
1908, showing some kind existed in 1
America. Literature has many allu- {
sions to the peacock. Aristophanes
referred to the Persian peacocks,
and Suidas termed it the Median (
bird. Pliny mentioned it as a table
delicacy. In his Reeve's Tale,
Chaucer said, "As eny pccok he was
proud and gay." Shakespeare had
Thcrsites describe Ajax as "Why,
a' stalks up and down like a peacock
. . " in Act III, Scene 3
of Troilus and Crossida.
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan, the first circumnavigator
of the globe, distinguished
himself in the military serv- 1
ice of his native Portugal and later <
fell into disfavor with his king before
he went to live in Spain. On,
September 20, 1519, under the ,
patronage of the Spanish king,
Charles V, he set out with live vessels
and 270 men to find the western 1
route to the Indies. f
More than a year later, after
crushing a formidable mutiny, he '
sailed through the tortuous strait I
which now bears his name and |
reached the vast ocean lie named
"Pacific." Despite desertion, starvation
and scurvy among the crew
i.r was undeterred and sailed on to . (
the Philippines Here i.e was Killed
in a conflict on April 17. 1521. His 1
lieutenant. Sebastian del Car.o, in (
the sole remaining sh.p and 31 men, (
reached home three years aftei set-,
ting out
COMMENT8 ON MEN AND THIN08
(lly Spectator)
1?
the matter with our m?n?i
That thin country seema to be weakening
Is everybody's observation, but
within the last twenty years we have
piveu so much emphasis to school
athletics that It seems odd that men
over thirty should show up so badly
in physical examination. 64 per. cent
of the men over 30 were rejected/
52 per cent of men from 26 to 30 were
rejected- 41 per cent of these from
18 to 25 years were rejected. It Is
aninzliiK that 4 out of every 10 young
men from 18 to 25 are unfit for military
service, according to present requirements.
?
The early f completion of the great
SahteeCooper development Is very
gratifying to me because the whole
plan of T. C. Williams, the father of
It, had been told me In detail by Mr.
Williams himself. Under the spell of
Mr. Williams I wrote several letters
to the papers In support of the project,
and was active In Its sponsorship
In dally contacts with legislators.
The Santeo-Cooper project, including
both power and the waterway
from Charleston to Columbia, has had j
u history that makes It look like a
I foot ball. When It was first proposed
I understood that it would cost about
$34,000,000. In February 1034 Engineer
J. Monroe Johnson estimated
that the cost would be $60,000,000. In
October 1934 the Santee Authority
asked the Federal Government for a
loan and grant of $35,971,910. On
April 19. 1935 President Roosevelt
was quoted as proposing $25,000,000.
I On April 20, 1935 Mayor Maybank said
I that $29,000,000 would bo enough.
' April 24, Chairman Maybank said $21,000,000
would be necessary. May 1,
Chairman Maybank carried to Washington
an estimate of $22,000,000. May
2. 1935 the estimate was reduced In
Washington to $14,000,000. July 1'),
1935 Washington said that the I'reslden
would ap^*e $37,500,000 by the
P. W. A., If the legal opposition were
settled favorably. July 16, 1935 The
News and Courier carried a statement
that power would he sold to Industry
at 2.2 mills and that demand
for the power ranged even to Savannah.
July 27, 1935 Senator Byrnes
assured a relief fund help of $20,625,000.
the remainder to he a grant.
August 4. 1935 Maximum cost was estimated
at $41,875,000. At that time
Louis C. Hill, an engineer, estimated
the cost at $59,702,000. Somebody
else, tin engineer, put the cost at $69,816.000.
In March 1937 Alexander
Clogher, arfother engineer, said the
project would cost $53,616,000. On
August 6 of this year The Charleston
Evening Post published an estimate
of $47,025,000; and somewhere I have
read of an additional grant which
.carries it beyond $50,000,000.
And these estimates, from $14,000.000
to $69,816,000. were made by engineers!
Most of us are not mathematicians,
nor mathematical in uun
thinking. We go through life on the
hit-or-miss vague and general approximation
of things. But an engineer!
Wo always thought of engineers as
men of meticulous exactitude, in
spite of the denunciation of engineers
hv the intimitable Bob Connor of
Orangeburg during the debate on this
very Santeo-Cooper measure.
Do you wonder that a farmer misjudges
ills acreage or his harvest?
It is being said that the SanteeCooper
can't hope to attract any new
business to this State unless it quotes
a rate. Industry would have to make
a contract based on a certain, definite
rate over a period of years. It is admitted
tha; a rate has been given to
the Pittsburg Metallurgical Company,
but it appears to be a secret, for it lias
not been tiled with the South Carolina
Public Service Commission nor is anyone
informed as to the rate.
I think the critics are wrong in >-xpet
ting rates to he quoted before tli?
cost of the project is definitely known.
Since the Santee Cooper must ;>a>
operating costs, interests on bunds,
and the like, it is necessary to determine.
first, the total expenditure for
construction, then what part of that
is fur the waterway and what part for
the generation of power. Until all
these laetors are cleared up th.e manna
in- nt can't quote a rate except o:i a
cis ,> of guesswork ? which wouldn't be
very businesslike. It would be profoundly
interesting to know that rate
nf two mill or 2.2 or even 3 nulls,
would he quoted to industry.
All our electric utilities should be
under the same regulations as those
which govern our private power companies
The Legislature in s rtting up
<o called authorities without sublection
to State supervision or regulaion
acted unwisely and should estabish
uniform rules for all operating
power enterprises.
With the completion of the Sant';4^,'ooper
th*re comes ^o successful conlusion
the great cooperative effort of
lames F. Byrnes and Burnet R Mayuuik.
in furtherance of the proposal
>f several indefatigable spirits In and
nit of the General Assembly.
I usually visit the "Trjple A" office *
%
on Saturday and there I find niy far
iiier frleads !u full force. All of ua
are signing with ulactrtty and gle?
the applications for the ''i'arable payments",
as oue of my tenants calls
them. Now , thut Uncle Sam laaues
eottonr stamps, why uot let the farmera
have food stamps and rey, atampa
and tickets? Then life would be "sort
of tolable." What aay youf Still,
we ahould need shoe atanipa and tobacco
stamps.
Robert Hums Is loved for his stipple
themes, the homely Joys? and a' that.
We like the things we know about.
1 find that many of my readers are Interested
In the every day affalru at
home ruther than In the war. The
war Is a long way off, so far as fighting
la concerned, but the gasoline restrictions
have brought It to you and
me and all who buy from the big filling
stations, or the little station at
the cross roads.
Perhaps some of the readers have
been shopping with cotton stamps. My
brethren of the soil know about this,
though my town friends may think
of the cotton stamps as being us remote
as the Russian and Chinese battlefields.
I don't know who figured out this
cotton stamp scheme but I'll tell you
how It worked In my case and you
will see Uncle Sam paying off one
man and befng beuqflicient with some
others.
Hack in the Spring the Government
decided to attack the cotton problem
at both ends. We had too much cotton
in storage and we would probably
produce more In the new crop than
the world would buy. thus Increasing
the surplus on hand. So when a fanner
was entitled to plant 10 acheS** In
cotton he would be given a bonus for
reducing his acreage oue acre or two,
and he would be paid about $25 In cotton
stamps. With these stamps he
must buy cotton goods.
I have no complaint?and making
none?for the plan is a generous one,
and those who administer It are
patient and long suffering, as well as
anxlouff"~lO please the farmers, who
are, of course, not only the chief pillars
of society, but who carry the flag
of freedom, If pillars can march.
Sometimes I think Uncle Sam has some
curve pitchers on his staff, beoause
while you stand at the bat looking for
a fast one, a quick breaking curve
makes you feel foolish. Even so, we
farmers practice on fast balls In the
Spring and have to dodge curves in
the fall.
Our Uncle Sam let us bt41eve that If
you should reduce your acres , you
would be paid on your reduction; but
now the reduction Is not on your al-1
lotment, but must be a reduction under
what you actually planted last
year. The trick delivery "fooled" us,
all, whe swung at the bull und got a |
two-bugger when It should have been
good for a home run.
I went up and agreed to take out of
cotton eight or ten acres. Uncle
Sam allows no man more than f$0 In
stamps, even though he reduced his
acreage by ten, twenty or a hundred.
It must be figured out that no family
can wear or use,more than fifty dollars
worth of cotton goods. So when
the smoke cleared away I got Ml
(having been awarded $6 on another
place) and my' tenants (who didn't
even know about It) are buying shirts
and dresses (mostly dresses) for three
times the amount which I
And that's all right. 1 have received
a fair rental value for the land
"taken out" and my tenauts have received
a treat which" will not, come
amiss in view of the crop shortage.
I have enjoyed the courteous attention
of our County Administrator and
his assistants on all occasions. Once
I appealed to the very efTeelent State
Administrator, Mr. R. W. Hamilton,
and found him ready to do his best In
every case.
In the Yery nature of things errors
and misunderstandings creep in, but
I find an honest and constant effort
to serve us acceptably.
"STILL BOLONEY"
For all that Senators Wheeler and
llarkley disagree widely touching the
ethical aspects of the mailing of a
million postcards under Wheeler's
frank, they seem agreed that the free
mailing of partlsanly political matter
sin't an abuse of the franking privilege.
The State thinks It Is an abuse,
and not the less an abuse because it's
a practice of long standing. Argument
is heard that it is justifiable as
being in the public interest, but that
argument is more plausible than
sound. Parties, in The State's opinion,
should be a chargeable with the
transportation of their propaganda as
with Its printing. Perhaps the dispatching
under frank by a senator, or
a representative, of his speeches, into
the territory he represents, can be defended
as a giving account of his
stewardship. Extensive use of the
frank beyond that should in each instance
be matter of careful consideration
and scrutiny.?Columbia State.
NIMRODS ASK DOVE
SEASON BE OHANQED
Washington, D. C. Sept. 5~ As a re- *
milt, of many request* from all ov?r
the Fifth Congressional District for
a change in the dove hunting ?ea?on
in South > Carotin*, Cougreasuiau
James P. Richards had a conference
this morning with Dr.< Ira N. Gab: tel.
son, Director, Fish and Wildlife Service
of the Interior Department. Rowever,
the Congressman was unuble to
get Dr. Gabrielson to change his ru|.
ing, as he says that the different
seasons lu different parts of the
United State were set after au exhaustive
study of the dove as a migratory
bird. He contends that if dove
shooting goes on like it has for the
last several years, soon we will have
practically no doveB iu the Uuited
States.
The season in South Caroliuu was
set after consulatlon with the State
Game, Department qnd has been fixed
December X until January 11. The
North Carolina season is fixed September
16 to October 27. Probably
this difference will work to the advantage
of those in South Carolina
this year, as the Army maneuvers will
be practically over by the time South
Carolina's season comes in.
Congressman Richards told Dr.
Gabrielson that he felt it was foolish
not to allow dove shooting in South
darolina during September. Dr.
Gabrielaon promised him that he
would take the matter under advisement,
but was not very optimistic about
results. ??
Promoted To Staff Sergeant
Bowman Field, Louisville, Ky., Sept.
6?Sergeant Claude E. Hinson, of
Camden, has been promoted to the
rank of Staff Sergeant. He is serving
with the Headquarters and Headquarters
Squadron, 46th Bombardment
Group, Bowman Filed, Ky.
Fort Bragg Soldier is Promoted
Fort Bragg, N. C., Sept. 4?In orders
just issued by the 79th FleJd Artillery J
stationed here, Sergeant Vernon Galloway
of Camden, South Carolina was
appointed Technical Sergeant, on the
recommendation of his battery com* ,'t
mander. Sergeant Galloway has been
in the ara^y since October 27, 1938.
Military authorities at Fort Bragg
stated that his promotion was based
on his attention to duty and soldierly
qualities.
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Cloth-Hungry Women
Eye Long Shirttails
LONDON. ? The long British
shirttail. often marveled at by
Americans, is getting attention.
With clothing rationing up some
wives began to look over the
truncated nightrobes their husbands
wear as shirts. One scid:
"There's a lot of fabric gets
tucked into pants that could serve
a more profitable purpose."
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