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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 ?
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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.
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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.
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Of printing is an interesting one. Too many people are ;
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matter of fact, printing is an art. j
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ink, poor typography, poor quality paper ? in
fact, just a plain, cheap job. j
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