The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 30, 1942, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
Axis Europe Is
More Restless
London Hears Danes Cheer
Red Victories?Sabotage
Spreads in Belgium.
LONDON.? A picture of turmoil In
' Nazi-occupied countries suggesting
growing rebellion is given in reports
from scattered European centers.
The Free Danes, led by Count
Reventlaw, former minister to I .on
don, announced that ?35,000 had
been raised by Danes to be given
to Great Britain to purchase Spit- ,
fires to be Mown by Danish pilots.
Ail a.CCOrhPf?"}''nK statement said I
German persecution of Communists
0 seemed to have effaced Danish resentment
of Communism. 'I he
Danes, it was said, now cheer news
of Russian victories.
Danish Farms Looted.
The Germans, it was stated, have
been systematically depriving the
Danes of the produce of their land
and cattle. Before the war Denmark
produced enough butter, meat:
and milk to feed 1^,000,000 persons j
in addition to her own population.
That production has now been j
halved, it is declared. I
One of Europe's food production '
centers, Denmark has long known
the meaning of strict rationing of j
her own prodin Is. More disturbing j
to the Danes, however, is the habit j
of Germans m visiting Denmark (
from time to time to "eat their (ill
The Belgians, according to M. A. j
Wauters, a former cabinet minister,
are shifting from passive resistance
to active sabotage
"They become more hitter every
day," ho declared. "They are starv-j
ing and have nothing to lose."
"Quislings are being murdered. 1
Three were killed and others j
wounded at one place alone this
week
"Industrial output is dropping I
steadily. There have been 125 railway
accidents this month alone."
Forced Into War Machine.
The British ministry of economic
warfare declared that the Germans
were forcing every unit of European
manpower into their war machine.
It was said they had been taking
men from concentration camps in
occupied France for forced labor in
danger zones as well as occupied
territories. It was said that various
methods had been employed to re- ,
emit "volunlei r" workers.
The ministry's information tallied ;
with M. Wauters". It reported that
a Belgian named Verwilghen had
quit as general secretary of the ministry
of labor and social welfare under
German occupation in protest
against tlx* deportation of Belgian
labor to work la German factories.
The German labor recruiting campaign,
conducted chiefly by radio,
still goes on, however. According
to information available here, the
pressure on Belgium is direct. The
Germans insist that food supplies
for Belgium will depend on the man
power Belgium provides in exchange.
Hubby Talked of Her in
Code, She Gets Divorce
SAN JOSE, CALIF.?Edgar Perry
talked about his wife "behind her
back" on a telegraph hookup and
questioned women neighbors to learn
if she paid exorbitant prices for girdles,
according to testimony in his
divorce suit.
Perry, a telephone company employee.
testified that the neighbors
told him $5 was enough for a girdle,
but that Mrs. Perry had paid $12.50.
Despite the girdle evidence. Superior
Judge R. R Syer granted the
divorce to Mrs. Perry on her crosscomplaint
charging cruelty. She
testified her husband "talked about
me behind my back by using a tele- i
graph code hookup with neighbors." I
She said she didn't understand the
Morse code.
Keeps Cigar 21 Years;
Smokes With Sailor Son
PERU, ILL.?When a son was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Korp,
Peru, 21 years ago, the father carefully
sealed two cigars in a tin box,
these to be smoked when his son
reached his majority.
When the son, Seaman Earl Kerp,
who is stationed at Norfolk, Va.,
arrived home for a furlough and to
celebrate his birthday, the box was
opened and the long-planned ceremony
was conducted.
Office Machines Bring
$150,000,000 Annually
NEW YORK.?Manufacture of ofj;
flee and store machines in the United
States is a $150,000,000 annual in&
dustry. Included in this total is the
BQ00 typewritilculating
and
, -62,000 num40,000
autondchildren
eputy Sheriff
d this puzzler
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children died,
U. S. Saved From Bird,
Animal Pests by Law
A federal law enacted in 1 IKK) has
saved the United States from the
possible establishment of many foreign
animal and bird pests I his
law gives the department of agriculture
full authority to forbid the
importation of any bird or animal
it considers destructive, and permits
are necessary to bring in other
species that have been proved barmless,
such as canaries, parrots and
j the like.
j On the prohibited list ore flying
i foxes, or fruit bats, mongooses,
' meercats, mynahs, bullfinches, Kuropean
yellowhanimers, Kngbsh sparrows
and starlings.
Attempts are made each year to
bring some of these creatures in but
they are immediately destroyed by
customs officials. One smuggler nt!
tempted to bring in four of the prohibited
birds by tying them to his
ankles underprath ^s socks Officials
found the birds had died from
suffocation.
Flying foxes come from India and
as their common name indicates
they are highly destructive to fruit.
The mynah is an Asiatic bird, somewhat
similar to the starling, and is
likewise injurious to fruit. The mongoose
is a bloodthirsty, weasel-like
animal smaller than a cat and lives
on bird eggs and birds. It would
"become one of our worst poultry
killers if ever established here. The
mcercat is almost a counterpart of
our prairie dog and is highly destructive
of field crops. They live?
in colonics and come from Cape
Colony.
It Was Then Called a
Most Ingenious Game
The hope entertained in' some
quarters that billiards will presently
become a ranking college sport is a
pleasant one to contemplate. Kxccpt
perhaps for the demands which
the mastery of the game makes (
upon time it is one that seems to be
pre-eminently fitted to find a prominent
place in extra-curricular activities.
In addition to having retained
the character which led one
Seventeenth century writer to describe
it as a "most gentle, cleanly
and ingenious game," it is one that
ideally, at least, develops just that
combination of beautiful physical
discipline and mental alertness
which have always been the goals
of American education.
To be sure, it docs not constitute
exercise in the same way as a basketball
game or a hockey match
does. Billiards requires a finer and
more delicate kind of muscular precision,
a more subtle obedn nee of
band and eye to the mind, rather
like that which fencing encourages.
Intellectually it may not quite have
parity with chess, but there are aspects
of it which strongly suggest
the strategic intricacies of tho combinational
and positional problems
of that game. Indeed, it might
crudely be compared to chess
played with foils.
Men Gardeners Fascinated
In view of the almost fatal fascination
pruning shears and saws
have for most men gardeners, it is
a matter of wonder why more of
these inveterate pruners do not train
fruit trees against walls. It is a
work of devotion and skill and not
only would save many garden specimens
from enthusiastic operations
but would provide a hobby of perennial
interest.
The art of espalier (the last syllable,
ier, is pronounced yay or yair)
is ancient and honorable. It began
in France where every inch of
space is valued and planted by the
land owner. Because fruit borne
on the clipped spread branches is
so delicious and because the effecy
of the vertical and horizontal
straight lines proves so pleasing. eJs
well as for economy of space, espalier
has survived when other artificial
gardening arts have perished.
A Bullet's 'Fe-ee-ah'
In the heat of battle, men who
have been timid and retiring; men
who have been mild and gentle, may
be transformed in the twinkling of
an eye. Come? the "ee-ee-ah" of a
bullet; a comrade falls, and the erstwhile
coward becomes a raging lion.
During the fighting before Vicksburg
in the Civil war, according to the
Illinois WPA Writers' project, the
chaplain of an Illinois regiment said
of one pitched battle: "Many incidents
of personal bravery occurred,
but to tell them were almost invidious
where all were so brave. The
whole regiment seemed to regret the
close of the battle. Having gotten
into it?it did not last long enough.
We seemed to be transformed into
furies with a passion for war. Certainly
we are veteraps now."
Fun With the Stars
Astronomers as a whole are not
given to tree climbing, but give
them some galaxies to play with and
they often get out on a limb. Present
observation data are just sufficient
to make this sport fun and
the right answers are a good safe
decade away. The investigations
fall into three subdivisions; observation,
determination of absolute
characteristics from the observations
and theoretical work, which
here amounts to scientific guessing,
slon includes work on the apparent
number, magnitudes, sizes, shapes,
writes Katherine Gordon in Sky
and Telescope. The first subdivicolors,
position and radial velocities
of galaxies. ^
Founder of Milwaukee
Couldn't Write Name?
And now they ure picking on Solomon
Juneau. They are Huying that
the founder of Milwaukee, at 24
could not sign his own name, write?
a correspondent to the Milwaukee
Journal That this strapping young
Frenchman from Montreal, so handsome
as to turn the head of every
young woman who saw him, had
to make his mark in signing a receipt
for wages due him on December
31, 1#17, four months after his
24th birthday anniversary.
Naturally, all Juneau's adherents
? and they include almost every
citizen of the greut Milwaukee of
which he was the founder?are
scandalized, "Solomon Juneau illiterate!"
they protest. "Why, lie engaged
in land operations involving
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
He was Milwaukee's first mayor and
the city's first postmasteiT .
There are hundreds of letters written
by Juneau in existence."
Against ull this abundant testimony
stands a yellowed piece of
paper which*4* Uncle Sam recently
dug out of his dusty attic and to
which attention is called by Dr. P.
L. Scanlan, author of a history of
Prairie du Chien, published in 1937.
The receipt was issued ut Prairie
du Chien six months before Juneau
came to the site of the Milwaukee
he was to found.
On this paper our own Solomon
Juneau made his mark, the tradi- I
tional cross placed between the first
and last names and with "his" written
above the name and "mark"
below. This provocative document
is preserved in the Library of Congress,
wiiere it was discovered
among "unarranged" material.
Both Young and Old
Now Bird Study Fans
There apparently was a growing
interest on the part of the American
public i/i tiie study ol bird Jife. Fifty
years ago a man observed gaz\ng *
at birds through a pair Of opera
glasses was considered somewhat of
a lunatic. Today fleldglasses for
bird observations are universally advertised.
There are few schools that
exclude bird study from the curriculum,
and lecturers on the subject
are constantly appearing before every
sort of civic and educational
organization.
It is nothing unusual to see parents,
children and amateur ornithologists
spending the morning afield
identifying the different birds and
studying their habits. Colleges have
bird study courses in connection with
their museums and even the state,
in the conduct of its conservation
affairs', employs expert ornithologists
to advise on how to perpetuate
the different species.
Bird study, which was given
much impetus by President Theodore
Roosevelt, is no longer a hobby
of a few, but has grown beyond
the dreams of those who first
udvocated a better understanding
of bird life.
Proclamation Needed
Thanksgiving day, so far as our
country is concerned, had its origin
in the feast of praise and prayer
which Governor Bradford ordained
for the Pilgrim colonists in 1621 after
their first harvest'. In 1623, a
day of fasting and prayer in the
midst of drouth was changed into
thanksgiving by the coming of rain
during the prayers. The custom of
appointing a day of thanks after the
harvest gradually became fixed in
the New England colonies.
From them it spread to other
states, and during the Revolution a
day of Thanksgiving was annually
recommended by congress. In 1864,
jiX the instance of Mrs. Sarah Josepha
Hale, editor of Godev's
Ladies Book, President Lincoln appointed
the Thanksgiving day. (It
had been the custom, however, to
observe it on the last Thursday of
November.) Since then there has
been an annual presidential proclamation
of Thanksgiving.
Finish for Pine
Because of its surface characteristics,
white pine is a "tricky" wood
to stain. Some areas are pitchy and
repel stain; some are "grainy";
while others are practically devoid of
grain. Oil stains mixed to a fairly
heavy consistency are well suited to
this purpose. A very satisfactory
pine stain is obtained by mixing, in
turpentine, three parts raw sienna,
two parts burnt umber and one part
burnt sienna. Brush the stain on the
wood, allowing it to remain for a
minute or two before rubbing with a
cloth. After the stain dries, apply
two or three coats of shellac. Let
each coat dry thoroughly, then rub
with fine steel wool. Finish with a
coat of furniture wax.
Extract Honey Without Extractor
To extract honey without an extractor
is a real problem, because
heuwiig Vv .11 leave a strong taste
from the wax. A lard press, clean
and thoroughly dry. will do the job.
Be sure no water is on the press,
or it will cause the honey to sour.
The pirforated lower plate is then
put in place, and the drum filled
three-f >urths full of comb honey.
The u.c lal procedure is followed except
that the crank is turned
slowly enough to allow the honey to
dram. Flakes of wax will remain in
the hor.ey, but they may be removed
by strt..lung through cheesecloth. Before
starting this process, it is best
to keep the her.c_ at warm room
temperature for some little t.me.
Small Consumers To
Get Kerosene
Atlanta, (la.. Oct. 2?*"Small consumers
uf kerosene will be dealt with
"iih Kenerously uh possible" for the
present In the fuel oil ratlonliiK program
now In effect In the southeast,
regional OI'A Administrator Oscar It
Strauss, Jr., announced today.
Some of the mechanics of tho program
have not been completed, he
said, such as printing, distribution of
Coupon books, and ruglstratIon, and
for (hat reusou tho small user will
not bo made to Huffor.
Ho urged Kerosene retailors la the
rationed states to boar In mind that
the rationing order in not for tho purpone
of curtailing use of kerosene for
lighting and cooking, but only for
heating.
Trior to the Issuing of coupons later
in the month, dealers have been
authorized to accept coupon notes
coupons 3M|
Tobacco Magnate Die*
Edgar town, Mae*., Sept. e.? q,^
wold Lorillard, 67, of Tuxedo Par^
N. Y., boh of the late Pierre Lorn^
of the tobacco family, died tom^t
at an inn where he had beoii a aum.
mer visitor for many years. ua
been ill only a short time.
lMitub on idle laudu will make them
110 longer Idle and unprovable.
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A Few IV.to M
the Printing Peddler
H When the peddler selling Stationery and Printing Supplies
solicits your business there are a few questions which he
should be willing to answer to your satisfaction. Among
| them being:
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Does he pay taxes in this xontiiiUuity? " 1
Does he donate space in his newspaper to
your local community enterprises?
Does he pay wages to a force of employees
located in this town, county or state?
Does his newspaper devote its entire space
toward the betterment, and upbuilding of
this community?
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Does he grant you every favor that you
would normally as of a local newspaper?
Does the quality of his merchandise stand
inspection ? is it on quality paper stock
and the printed matter attractively arranged?
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Will he submit proof of your work before
printing and mail it to you C. 0. D.?
Does his price include postage and insurance
charges?
Can he supply your order on short notice?
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If he can answer all of these questions in the affirmative,
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