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B?ng?l Bay Deltas ^ Termed 'Remarkable Naval and air operations in the Huv of Bengal have opened up a Iiew wor theater which covers some H25 000 square miles, or an area more than three times that of. Texas, according to the Natioi al Geographic society. An arm of the Indian oceun, cutting deeply into southern Asja between India and Burma, the Buy of Bengal is formed in the rough outline of a pointed arch. It is about i)00 miles long and 1,300 miles across, as measured at its broadest stretch between the tip of India and the Malay peninsula. ' The Bay of Bengal washes the shores of some of the world's most thickly settled regions. The provinces of Madras, Bengal and Biharand-Orissa hold roughly 150,000,000 people, while the big island Crown Colony of Ceylon adds another 6,000,000. Embattled Burma has a population estimated at close to 16,000,000. _ _ An outstanding feature of the Bay of Bengal geography is its remarkable delta lands, built up by such large rivers as the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Mahanadi, on the Indian side, and the Irrawaddy in j Burma. There are no good natural harbors along India's east coast, and artificial ports have been constructed. Burma's shoreline, on the other hand, presents a number of excellent harbor sites, including those at Tavoy, Moulmeih and Akyab. Dogs Do Sentry Duty At Munitions Plant A German shepherd, a Norwegian elkhound and a greyhound, the first dogs to do sentry duty at a war plant, now are on duty at a munii tions factory in the Hudson river valley. , According to the plant officials, they j-are acquitting themselves beautifully, adding to the effectiveness and the morale of the plant watchmen. They have not as yet had any occasion to give warning of intruders but, the guards are sure, will give prompt notice of any spy or, saboteur who might approach the fences which they are patrolling. Their assignment is regarded as especially important for several reasons. In the first place they represent the fulfillment of the first commission which the organization received. For another thing the dogs are serving as a memorial to the late Herman E. Mellenthin, noted cocker spaniel breeder, since he was the one who brought in the commission for these dogs?one of the last acts befbre his fatal illness. Still another point is that these dogs are the first turned out by amateur trainers. Different Treasury Jobs The secretary of the treasury and the treasurer of the United States are different officers of the government. The secretary of the treasury is the head of the treasury department and as such is a member of the President's cabinet charged by law with the management of the national finances. The treasurer of the United States is not a member of the cabinet; he is an important subordinate in the treasury department charged with the receipt and disbursement of public money deposited in the treasury at Washing| ton and in the qther depositaries I authorized by the secretary of the treasury to receive deposits of government funds for credit in the treasurer's account. The office of treasurer of the United States was j created by the act of September 2, I 1789, and Samuel Meredith of Pennsylvania was the first man to fill I the office. Must Be Over 30 Tears ! Cork of commercial value is not produced by trees less than 30 years of age. Since it is strongly advised that transplanting of saplings and small trees not be attempted and that direct seeding be practiced, it is impossible to bring an acreage into production in less than 30 years. The first stripping bark takes place I when the tree is about 20 years old. This virgin bark or mascalage Is rough and coarse and of little commercial value. Its removal,! however, stimulates the growth of cork so that during the succeeding two or three years a prodigious amount of cork is produced. This growth gradually decreases in rate until aftI er about nine years scarcely any further thickening of the bark is perceptible, l and at the end of that period the second stripping takes pi I The second and all subsequent stripI pings produce a bark of commercial value. Does Jesus Have Sueh Power? Let us not merely chuckle that Jesus was able so effectively to meet criticism. That is something. But i it is not the main thing. The main j thing Is this, Jesus has power on earth to forgive sins, to set alien sinner* right with Oodf "That'ts trig; I news, so to speak. But millions have not heard it or do not believe it, and therefore are without God I and without hope in the world. How I can we escape unless we tell them of this Saviour? And the class?-wt teach - are all the membWf aware that Jaaua can make a-tone-ment for thaw with God? Do wa tabor to make clear each theological or doctrinal point and mtas this, that Jesua alone can sava us from our tta,T I Nearly One-Half U. S. < Nation Hat Eye Trouble Plans for an air force of 2,000,000 men, recently announced by the ermy^call for the greatest mobilization of eye-power of any nation in all history. Pilots must have eyesight far above the average. Not only must they have so-called normal visual acuity, but candidates for pilots must have excellent eye co-ordina* tion and muscle balance. Up until recently about one out of every four applicants for the air service has been rejected because of his eyes. As the program of selection progresses, it is highly probable that there will be even a larger number of rejections because of faulty vision. Good eyes are also needed by the air land forces, the regular military forces, and the millions of airplane and other war workerB throughout the country. Eyesight conservation ?the protection of eyes and the rehabilitation of eyes so as to improve their usefulness?is one of the (major problems in the nation's allout effort for victory. Approximately half of all adults in the United States have visual defects which call for attention and care. Even good eyes heed protection in the way of proper illumination, safeguards against excessive dust and irritants, and ample supplies of vitamins in the diet, according to a Better Vision institute bulletin. Millions of1 men and women are entering upon new jobs in essential industries which involve great visual effort. ' Eyes must be trained and conditioned for their new and difficult tasks, otherwise there will be widespread failures of vision. Vigilance should be exercised to bring eyes up to the necessary efficiency required by the jobs they must perform, and to maintain seeing conditions up to proper standards. In this way will the nation's eye-power be mobilized effectively for victory. Lord Byron's Valet Fearful of Ghosts ? The centennial of the death of William Fletcher, Lord Byron's "perfect valet" during the last ten years of the poet's life, was commemorated by an item reprinted in the London Times. It relates that Fletcher died "in the deepest state of pecuniary distress" and. that "to the last he was a victim of mal de [ mer." But seasickness was only a part of the faithful valet's martyrdom. He was extremely superstitious; whenever he met a hunchback he invariably touched his hump. In Italy his fingers were kept busy making the "horns" to keep off the evil eye. When his master, in his wanderings, had the alternative of occupying a palace that was haunted and one that was not, he invariably chose the former, and kept the valet busy "laying the ghost." In the fragments preserved from his journal, Fletcher complained that he was obliged to move from one bedroom to another "for the sake of peace, and always found the new one more haunted than the old." Poisonns Spray on Truck One of the problems of the federal food inspectors which requires greatest care is the problem of residues of poisonous sprays left on garden truck at the time it is sent to market. Too frequently truck gardeners, either through indifference or failure to appreciate the dan-^ ger, fail to wash off the-^rcgidue left from spraying arsenicals before sending their product to mar" ket. ; It is often vital to the production of a crop that the poison sprays be used to prevent the attacks of insects which might otherwise ruin the plants before they reach maturity and produce their harvest. At the present time arsenicals are found to be best against leaf-eating insects. These poisons, however, if used judiciously and at the proper season xpay well be out of the way through the wash of rain long before the crops are ready to market. However, where late spraying has been resorted to, it is necessary to wash the product going to market or trim away parts of the vegetable being shipped in order to remove the danger. * Amastag Soil Fertility In all the world there is, perhaps, no other countrjtmore favorably endowed by nature than Cuba. The fertility of the soil is amazing. Pineapples produce three and four crops a year, and a planting of sugar cane can be cut for five years. Copper and iron are plentiful, there are asphalt and 'manganese deposits, and every tropical and semi-tropical plant known to man will grow. Orchids and lianas hang in magnificent clusters from mahogany, rosewood and cedar trees. , r Fencing Streams 8avet Wildlife? Farmers who fence streams running through their paa&res can help improve game and fish conditions by fencing the banks, the Missouri conservation commission announces. This permits the growth q? food and coyer for wildlife, keeps water clear and cool and otherwise Improves for fish. In addition, it stabilises stream banks. * Small secSS^^^^coOT^^be kfl open ? / - Tells of Events Leading To War Washington, Jan. 2.?The story of a fateful decade In which Japan, Germany and Italy moved toward and Into total war was told tonight from the Americah diplomat's viewpoint In a white book issued by the state department. The report entitled, "Peace and War?United States Foreign Policy, 1931-1941," reveals how American diplomats and consular officials, reporting from widely separated posts of observation, were impressed and perturbed very early In tbie decade by evidence of an emotional storm brewing In the minds of the German the Japanese, the /talian peoples. In April 1934, Consul General Messerstnith transmitted from Berlin a report on the German situation by Acting Commercial Attache Douglas Miller. In this report Miller expressed thq view that the German people were "suffering from a traditional inferiority complex, smarting from their defeat in the war and the indignities of the post-war period, disillusioned in their hopes of a speedy return of prosperity along traditional lines, and inflamed by irresponsible demogogic slogans and flattered by the statement lhat their German racial inheritance gave them Inherent superior rights over other peoples." The real emotional drive behind the Nazi program he said, was "not eo much love of their own country as dislike of other countries." In December of the same year Ambassador Joseph C. Grew drew attention to the "marked inferiority complex" of the Japanese people and a certain "swashbuckling temper" in the country. He reported that things were constantly being said and written in Japan "to the effect1 that Japan's destiny was ,J.o subjugate and rule the world." Dislike of other countries was manifest, he said. Some nine months later Ambassador Breckenridge Long cabled to the secretary of state from Rome that Mussolini had the emotional support of the entire Italian population; that <ke army and navy were "almost farfktic in their idolatry of and devotion to the duce, an idolatry and devotion which was "worked up to an emotional pitch unique In modern times." This was on the eve of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in defiance of the League of Nations. Later, just before Hitler flaunted the League and shocked Europe by sending his troops into the demilitarized Rhlneland, Secretary of State Hull was moved to remark in a conversation in Washington that: "The most incomprehensible circumstance in the whole iflOdbrn world is the ability of dictators overnight almost, to stand 36,000,000 Italians and 66,000,000 Germans on their heads and so dominate their mental processes that they arise the next morning and insist on being sent to the first line trenches without de lay." I In July, 1937, Japan launched her ^ ruthless attempt to conquer all Chlua. Secretary Hull offered Informally, through Ambassador Joseph C. Grew j In Tokyo, the good offices of the | United States toward settlement of j the conflict. This offer was Ignored. | In October of the same year Pres-; ident Roosevelt delivered his famous "quarantine" address, deploring the | Bpread of the "epidemic of world lawlessness" and suggesting a "quarantine" of aggressors by the peaceloving nations. ; The following year brought Germany's annexation of Austria and the orisls of Czecho-Slovakia, culminating in the peace of Munich after personal appeals by President Roosevelt to the heads of governments in Czecho-Slorakia, France, Germany and Great Britain. In 1938 Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany flared up anew, and President Roosevelt recalled the American ambassador as an expression of this country's condemnation. From that day forward, through three subsequent years of crisis and widening European war, the United States was without an ambassador in Berlin. The false pehee - after Munich chrumbled when Hitler tore up the settlement and took what was left of Cxecho-Slovakia In March, 1989. Vainly President Roosevelt appealed to Hitler and Mussolini for maintenance of the peace of Europe; in vain, after Berlin and Moscow signed a non-aggression pact and Hitler threatened Poland, did the President appeal to the king of Italy and to Hitler. The die was cast; Germany Invaded Poland, and Britain and France, fulfilling their plodges to that country declared war on the Third Reich September 1. Of the porlod following the conquest of Poland the white book says little oxcopt that Undersecretary of State Welles tourod Europe surveying the possibilities of peace. The Russo-Flnnlsh winter war of 1939-40 has no mention in the book. Then came Hitler's invasion of Denmark and Norway, his drive thru the Lowjands, Britain's Dunkirk and the fall of France. It was a feverish period, during which President Roosevelt made repeated appeals to Mussolini to stay out of the war. II Duce snubbed them all and finally from "further pressure," after which he declared war on France and Britain, Just a week before aged Marsha] Petain asked Hitler for an amlstlce. It was then, says the white book, between Mussolini's act and the armistice, that the United StateB government "took immediate steps to send the British and French large quantities of aircraft, rifles, field artillery, machine guns and ammunition." The weapons were too late to help France but they helped to save Britain. Gliders are generally of wood frame construction. Kraft Company Offers Seedlings The Georgetown Mill of the South' ern Kraft Division of the International l'aper Company has offered to give farmers in Kershaw county front 1.000 to 6.000 pine tree seedlings. Any fanner living in Kershaw county who owns his land and lives on It is eligible to receive these pine tree seedlings. Anyone wishing to secure these seedlings should either write or contact \V. (\ McCarley. county agent, at once telling hint the number wanted and also the kind. * These orders have to be in the hands of the county agent by January 23 says Mr. McCarley. Double Holidays Listed This Year Double holidays for tho observance of Memorial duy, Independence day and Christmas. will feature the year 1943. Christmas next year occur* on u Saturday, while Memorial day occurs on a Sunday, aa does Independence day. The two latter holidays will be observed on the following Monday if past practices prevail. Aside from New Year's day, the first national holiday of the new year will be Lincoln's birthduy on Friday, February 12. Washington's birthday anniversary occurs on Monday, February 22. Lent begins on Wednesday, March 10; while St. Patrick's day .is on Wednesday, March 17; Palm Sunday is April IK and Faster on April 26. Labor day occurs on September 6, and Armistice day on Thursday, November 11. Spring will begin at 6:03 a. m. Suudny, March 21; summer at 1:13 a. m., Tuesday, June 22; autumn at 4:12 p. m., September 23; and winter at 11:30 a. m., December 22. There will be four eclipses, but only one, a partial eclipBe of tho moon February 19-20, may bo visible in Camden. The beginning of this partial eclipse will be visible over the greater part of Europe and Africa, the Atlantic ocean, North and South America and tho eastern Paciflo ocean. There also will be a total .eclipse of the sun February 4, but lts ^rlll not be visible in Camden. There will be an annual eclipse of the sun July 81, and a partial eclipse of the moon on August 16, but neither will be visible in this part of tho country. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties indebtbd to the estate of Grover C. Welch are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, If any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. F. EDNA WELCH, Administratrix Camden,- S. C., January 16, 1943, During the first year of the war the OWT analyzed more than 4,500 rumors. They fall Into five classifications: hate, anxiety, escape, super, natural and curiosity. THE TIMID SOUL By Webster m w fHlfiJK ?V.C 1 oo IWWAJ Tc?W#s/ AND IX> S**K5 SMC**'**' BANK BUY^ WAfc BONOS B nm/ujwat- y^s IT I CAMS' OoviM lb ?UV P OH, I kmow/ neeo aone l nss^rsr] zFSzr&J nee . war Bonos ,c> ?S?T\ MfcKffV WOWU. 1 ?-L ** Ql^O 16 CHAK06" Vtv* Aocof'wr JO st>v wowr MAVt' 16 OO 10 <"W'J ?A0? flfMi VtHI VWANT 16 tfwV f-1 SAVfcl 1 0% WAR. BONOS - And Your Strength and Energy Ii Below Par It may be ctmil by dbonUr of kidmmy function that permit* pobonoui wuU to ieoiMuliU. For truly but people fool tired, week end miserable whoa the kidneys fail to remove ncea acid* aad other waete matter from the blood. Yoo may euffer uoiai backache, rKanmt^fl pt lntr diuioMl, ftttinc to r<ghtf? 4ff otiot* iwtliloc. 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