Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Point Rationing Is Fair Proposition The point rationing plan which is to he placed in effect In the near future wan termed "the fairest way" to provide equal distribution to the clvllluu public of commodities made scarce by the war in an announcement by the Ol'A and rationing board today. The announcement said that the plan "assures rich and poor alike of a fair share of the available supply' The rationing board urged people to acquaint themselves with the provisions of the plan so that they may he familiar with Its workings when it becomes effective. The date the program will be placed In effect depends i^pon how soon the government. can distribute War Itatlon Hook 2 aild other supplies to local boards. It was said Under no circumstances will th*\ plan be put into effect until all Is in readiness for Its effective lita ugvt at ion. Pointing out the highlights of the program, the announcement said that every eligible man, woman and child in the United Stares will bo given War Ration Hook 2. provided they are! registered for War Ration Hook 1. the one now being used for coffee and sugar. Among the commodities to be rationed are canned, bottled or packaged processed foods such as fruits, vegetables, either canned, dried or frozen. Soups, juices, catsup, chili sauce and baby foods are also included In the rationed Items. These food I Reins will he obtained by the use of the blue stumps, while the red stumps will ho used later when meat Is rat loned. The stamps in War Ration Hook 2i lire both numbered and lettered. The numbers (8, f>. 2 and 1) designate the point value of each stamp, while the letters (A through U) designate the periods when the stamps are valid. < The yeur will he divided into ration Rig periods with A, H. and (' valid I only In the llrst period Hlue stamps will he used when purchasing any of the rationed items whose iHilut values provided by the government. The government will! keep a close watch on the supply of j processed foods and make changes J In point values when warranted by! the available supplies. Changes in ! point values will be announced audi the official table of jHiint values will be changed to conform with the newvalues Regardless of variations In prlcea j of individual items point values will ! be the same in all stores and in all ! parts of tho country. t Typhoid Inoculation ()in>1 hundred seventy-three persons were Inoculated at the typhoid clinic held at Huron DeKalh School during tl?e past three weeks. Tho clinic was under the sponsorship of. the school and was provided by the couu'y healtli department, Mrs. Sanders administering the service. Kach per son paid tiie cost of tlie vaccine? twenty-live cents. During a recent month, sufficient passenger miles of organized military business wero rolled off on the Seaboard railway to take 250 soldiers on a round-trip to tho moon, or 2,250 sailors for a trip around the earth at the equator, or to have taken 1,| :ioo marines for a one-mile ride durjlng every minute of the month. MISS DeLOACHE NOW TRAINING AT FORT Dea MOINES, IOWA Fort DesMoInes Iowa, Jau. 27?Auxiliary Mary M DeRoaehe. of 1707 N. Mill Street. Camden, S. C., has begun training In the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. She was Immediately assigned to a Receiving Center company for a week's elementary military training. Here she Is issued clothing and equipment, instructed in rudiments of drill, and given Army classification tests. These tests will help determine the job she will fill in the WAAC. For the following four weeks, she will be assigned to a basic company for more detailed training preparing her to replace a man In a non-combat army Job. She Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin I'. DeRouche of Camden. By anodizing and painting the plates used on airplane wings before they are curved into shape, 75 per cent of the time previously used In this operation is saved. Entomologist* Coippar* War* of Insect*, Men Entomologists at the Pennsylvania State college are taking a leading part in the fight to control insect pests which annually cost apple growers $30,000,000. "Wur against insects," according to Dr. Stuart W. Frost, professor of economic entomology, "are similar to wars between men. They are alwuys expensive, and the winner sometimes loses." Dr. Frost pointed out that 400 different insects attack apple trees, and despite all that is done to combat them, the pests damage trees and fruit to the extent of $13,000,000 annually. In addition, he said, cost of control ranges at least $17,000,-., 000. Losses May Run Higher. Average loss in commercial orchards is around 12 per cent of tho fruit crop, but when nothing is done to attack the insects, losses may run as high as 100 per cent. Penn State entomologists point out that other fruits are attacked in a manner similar to apples, but growers are offen unable to recognize the insect causing the damage. If a spraying schedule is somewhat ineffective, injuries made by insects to fruits early in the season may be pretty well healed by picking time although the fruit is likely to be deformed. In an effort to aid fruit growers in recognizing the causes of insect damage, Dr. Frost has prepared keys for the identification of the injuries caused by Pennsylvania fruit insect pests. Show How We Can Hear Through Bones of Head A method of hearing by the conduction of sound through the bone structure of the head instead of > through the outer ear was successfully demonstrated recently at the Engineers club, New York, to a group of widely known men and women, many of whom are deafened, r when Dr. Hugo Lieber announced the perfection of a new device, known as the bone conduction oscillator. The demonstration was held under the auspices of the Sanzoray club, an organization of society women who have defective hearing. The principle of bone conduction of sound vibrations, Dr. Lieber explained, has been known to science for decades. Most hearing aids, up to the present time, he said, have been based on forcing intensified sound waves through the impaired outer ear, usually resulting in distortion of sound and imposing a strain on the hearer. The bone conduction oscillator, on the contrary, when held firmly behind the ear, detours the sound around the outer ear directly to the internal hearing organs. Sound heard through bone conduction, he said, is without distortion, is clear and distinct, and causes no strain. Sensitive 'Mike' Contrary to the general impression, a microphone is not just a little tin gadget shoved in front of a speaker so he'll have something to talk or sing to. It's a very sensitive and very temperamental piece of mechanism. So much so that it shows up vocal defects that your own mother wouldn't recognize. Put a silver-tongued orator before a mike and he's just as apt as not to sound like a bronchial billy-goat; and a stellar soprano may give as perfect an imitation of the Europn backing into midstream as you ever hoard. It's all very confusing; but still, it is a fact that a microphone can do strange things to presumably first class vocal cords. Some persons are naturals for radio. Others have defects which can be corrected with a few lessons in microphone technique. But the great majority of those hopefuls who seek auditions are doomed to disappointment. They forget that that little mechanical box in front of them picks up every sound, however slight. Natives of Guiana The great tropical region between the Orinoco and the Amazon is known as Guiana. In little forest clearings beside the rivers, or higher up on the wide savannahs, dwell the native Indians, leading lives as simple and uncivilized as those of their ancestors. They wear little clothing; pieces of cloth, feathers and bead ornaments suffice. The men are the hunters. The women cook, cultivate the cassava patch, and gather firewood. Cassava roots, from which ' we get tapioca, are grated and crushed to extract the poison they contain, and are then made into flat cakes, cooked on a griddle and eaten as bread. It is their staff of life. Appalling Loss of Life The terrible hurricane of 1928 devastated Marie Galante, Guadeloupe, Montserrat. St. Croix, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas and large areas in Florida. The loss of life was appalling and the damage ran into many millions of dollars. Hurricanes seldom arrive without due warning, for the United States maintains a highly efficient weather bureau in the West Indian area, which signals the movements of approaching storms to the different islands. Women Now Dominate Our Intellectual Life In the intellectual life of the United States man has completely apatcated. The French have always accused the English of lacking 1,1 cr est in the life of the intellect und in the pursuit of ideas, but it is eve" the Englishman himself who is struck by the total absence of ideas among the average college educated American. The visiting novelist or philosopher or scientist has an audience 80 per cent feminine. The lecturer on foreign affairs discovers that men are not interested in anything he might say. The editors of the quality magazines know that their readers are mostly feminine, while publishers of highbrow books have long ago discovered that appealing to men is a waste of time. The impresarios and musicians take it for granted that in America they will face an audience of women, while their masculine auditors come because of the harmony of the family, rather than the harmony of the music. There is no parallel to the American in the history of any knotvn people. Ironically enough, it ife a country most enamored of the idea of progrtss in which the mental faculties of its sons, who have gone through the highest educational institutions, have deteriorated, so that the guardianship of ideas must be banded over to the women. Swiss Court Says That Glacier Is Hermann's After years of hearing the evidence, the Swiss courts have finally held that the great Rhone glacier, one of the shrines of the world, is the private property of Dr. Hermann Seiler, hotel-keeper at Zermatt. The nature of the title goes far back into Swiss h-istory. In the beginning of the Nineteenth century, Goethe was attracted to ihe glacier and his glowing accounts of it began 1 to draw climbers and naturalists. Gradually the peasantry, that had I regarded the perpetual river of ice as a menace, began to realize that the Rhone was a blessing in disguise. In 1830 they erected a small inn near its base, and cut several beautiful grottoes into the ice. The revenues received therefrom were, divided among members of .an Alpine syndicate according to their pasture rights. The inn was purchased by Alexander Seiler in 1857, and developed into a fine hotel. Being anxious to assure a supply of milk, cheese and butter for his gue'sts, while keeping competitors away, Seiler began to buy out the pasture rights of syndicate members, and the practice was continued by his son, Josef. By 1900 the Seilers were sole owners of 215 pasture rights. Eskimo Dogs Adoption The famous Eskimo dogs of the Arctic are adopted into the Eskimo family when puppies by a sort of ceremonial message, each having his legs pulled and stretched so that he may run well, his back kneaded, so that he may be strong to carry a burden. They pull his ears, and I whisper into them, to make his hearing keen; blow their breath into his nostrils to make him keen-scented and able to follow a trail, and to discover seal holes under the snow. Then a name is given to the puppy, a small harness put on him, and he is tied to a post or some heavy article so that probably the first thing he learns is how to pull. Pulling will be his main work all his life. If it is winter, the puppy and his mother will have a small snowhouse, with dry grass, or an old skin with fur on it. to keep them warm. If it is very cold, they may be taken into the house for a time. If the family needs to travel, the woman may put a puppy in her bootleg, which is quite wide, or in the hood of her coat, beside her own baby, to keep it warm. And always they talk to it as though it were a child. Great Trade Route Since the days when trains of pack mules carried Peruvian silver from Panama City to Porto Bello, the Isthmus of Panama has been one of the world's great trade routes. After the discovery of gold in California many adventurers sailed from New York to Panama and made their way across the isthmus, instead of going by the overland route in the United States, or sailing around Cape Horn. The Panama railroad, first coast to coast line in America, was built soon after 1850 to carry these travelers quickly through the dense jungles to the Pacific coast, where they took ship up the West coast, to the gold fields of California. Michigan Plans for Hunting Areas Wartime transportation difficul-, ties and lack of time available for visiting distant hunting grounds have raised new problems for the sportsmen employed in war industries. Recognizing this, the Michi gan department of conservation is mapping and classifying wastelands in three counties near Detroit witl a view to developing good hunting areas near home. Such develop ment work will be financed by Pitt man-Robertson funds?raised by th? federal excise tax on sporting armi and ammunition?after approval b} both state and federal agencies. English Pol Hole end Cave District Discovery Although the pot hole and cave district around Cheddar and Priddy had been sensationally advertised to the foreign delegations which recently attended the conference of the British Speleological association's international conference at Bristol England, a special show was stuged for the visitore by W. F. Rankine a schoolmaster of Aldershot, who had guarded his secret until the eleventh hour. Five thousand years ago, when the British cave man emerged from his cavern into the open air?just preceding the age of tents of pelts and huts?he dug holes in the earth of basin shape and covered them with the boughs of trees. Last spring Mr. Rankine discovered a number of these holes in a field at Farnham. Dr. Graham Clark of Cambridge university was called in and excavations were quietly begun. The doctor soon laid bare what appeared to be the abode of the headman of the colony.i The earliest type of artificial dwelling in the world, he told the conference at Bristol ? an announcement' which started a rush for Farnham. At the same time it was revealed to the News Chronicle of London, that in one of the pits had been found a fire-blackened hearth and many flints which the ancient Britons used in heating water-afcd cooking. They obtained water from a nearby spring, which is still in existence, and heated it in skins by dropping hot flints into them. Hundreds of delicately fashioned flint implements used for catching fish and for making spearheads were al$o found. Land Yield Has Elastic Returns, Says Economist Dr. R. T. Bye in his "Principles of Economics," gives the law of diminishing returns as follows: "In a given state of the arts, after a certain point has been reached in the utilization of land, increasing applications of other productive agents to land will yield progressively smaller increases in product." The amount of yield from any given amount of land is limited, but that limit is an elastic one. Land offers a certain amount of resistance to man, in that labor and such instruments as fertilizer, tools, etc., must be applied. Up to a certain point, as more and more labor and instruments are employed, there is a corresponding increase in product. In this state of increasing returns, such progress cannot go on indefinitely, for if a certain quantity of producing agents is applied to a given amount of land, additional applicai tions of such agents will yield a progressively smaller increment of product. This is a condition of diminishing returns, and the point where this tendency sets in is known as the 1 point of diminishing returns; beyond this, nature opposes increasing resistance to man's efforts. Bronze Aging Secret The process developed by C. Walter Clewell, Canton craftsman, duplicating nature by aging bronze with a beautiful incrustation of blue salts will not be lost with his death. The American Federation of Arts has asked to be made trustees of the processes and formulae, of which Clewell is believed to be the sole possessor, so they can perpetuate his work of reproducing the blue effect which nature sometimes gives to bronze exposed under the right conditions for a long period. Clewell has been interested in the palination of bronze for 35 years and in his home workshop has produced many art objects which have been purchased for museum display. Others have been bought for the homes of some of the country's wealthiest men, several pieces having been selected for the home of Edsel Ford in Detroit. The Canton craftsman saw a copper vessel which had been cleaned <* with a chemical solution with a green cloud covering the surface. He at once began experiments to obtain color effects which would show interesting variations and found that shades of green were comparatively easy to obtain. Xegacy of Romance' Through the channels of the West Indies have passed many renowned men. Sir Walter Raleigh on his search for treasure, stopped to caulk his ships with pitch of Trinidad. In many fights among their bays and creeks, Sir Francis Drake acquired skill and seamanship which, later, defeated the Spanish Armada. The Island of Tortuga, off the coast of j Haiti, was the first base of the buccaneers, and at Port Royal, in Jamaica, they spent their plundered wealth. There is scarcely an island in the Archipelago which does not recall their adventures. They have left to the Caribbean a "legacy of "J romance." y Q Paint Reduces Fire Hazards Paint has been recognized by in- ~ surance underwriters as being effective in reducing fire hazards for some woods by as much af 400 per cent. Two coats are more effective than one. The paint tends to seal the surface where ignition a starts. The species of wood, the I wood grain exposed, llil" IMP tent, and the rate of heating of the I wood ail affect the ffame resistance. HOW YOUR SALVAGE HELPS HIM O SCRAP METAL mil hiimii conia .1 a \> V k o * i m a t ( i v iamj amount Of mltal at a 4 uni ikon m i 111 G WASTE RUBBER ru00ih ii umd i oa padoinc not 11(11 hiimit ano Alio U Cai maim O STRING V it hhpi to maki matihial! 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If you are not able to pay the || whole amount due, come in and let's talk it || over. I ' We are hoping not to have to drop a single lj name from our list, but we will have no |j i choice in the matter. || The Camden Chronicle I !