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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C Thursday, March 12, 1936 0 ft SUCH IS LIFE—The Kiddep Land Problem Is Acute in 4 Areas Resettlement Official Says Misery Will Increase. Berkeley, Calif.—With virtually no pood free land left in the United States for families to settle, the future of the country depends largely on the con servation and conversion to proper use of vast tracts that have been made useless by abuse in the past, be lieves L. C. Gray, assistant admin istrator of the resettlement administra tion. “Less than a century ago,” said Gray, “there were hundreds of thou sands of acres of good land in the public domain available to citizens who wanted to stake out a homestead. Today not only is there scarcely an acre of such land but countless thou sands of acres that once were profit able have been ruined unless they can be converted to other uses or restored to their original productiveness. Gray cited four great districts In the United States where -the misuse of land has not only made it unprofitable but in many eases has reduced the oc BREAKS RECORDS Henry Cieman of Toronto, Canada, won the one-mile walk at the Millrnse games In New York city, and in an doing broke all existing indoor and outdoor records for that event. His time was 0 minutes, ‘.St 7-10 seconds. cupants to economic misery. Poverty in great portions of the southern Appalachian mountains where living conditions are particularly severe, he said, is the direct result of an unscientific use of land. Forest* Rapidly Thinned. Forests, which formerly provided the chief Income, were cut off with out any care for the future reproduc tion of trees. The land as a rule is too steep for farming; Cultivation only aggravates the problem by encouraging soil ero sion, and with both the forests and top soil gone the standard of living of the inhabitants has decreased steadily. The old forest region bordering the Great Lakes, which .presents a similar problem; th»f western plains, where the destruction of forests has elim inated moisture and produced dust- storms In recent years, and finally the old cotton belt of the South, he said, are instances of the misuse of soil that is now causing poverty for great por tions of the people. Problem Grows With Years. The^-situation, he declared. Is even graver for the future than It is for the present. With an Inevitably in creasing population the nation will re quire more land under cultivation In the future than now. Whenever Industrial depressions oc cur hundreds of thousands will go back to the land as they did during the present one. With no virgin land left and with great sections of the country* made profitless by misuse of the land In the past, the problem, he declared, can only l*e solved by a well-defined gov ernmental policy of soil conversion and conservation. Studies made by the resettlement administration. Gray believes, show that unless all |»eople living off the soil can do so profitably a great bur den of taxation is thrown on persons In oilier parts of the country. Stomach “Dredge” U New Surgical Device Philadelphia.—Surgeons may go “fishing" In human stomachs through a new device iierfected by t>.r, Gabriel Tucker, professor of bronchoscopy of the University of Pennsylvania medical school. So If you swallow your false teeth, an o|>en safety pin or some-, thing equally dangerous, Doctor Tucker's new •‘tackle" Is ready to lie lowered Into your stomach and start dredging o|ierations. Declared much simpler than equipment formerly used, the new Invention contains a small pair of pliers at the end of the hollow rubber tube. Air Is pumped In to inflate the organ and an x-ray de vice makes the area visible. Click! Doctor Tucker’s pliers grab the swallowed article and snake It out via the tube. AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS — BY ARNOLD Muscle in a step- MAN USES 54 MUSCLES IN RAISING THE HEEL OF THE FOOT, STEPPING FORWARD AND PLACING HIS FOOT ON THE GROUND AGAIN. Butterflies photograph in dark/ A butterfly’s WINGS CRN BE PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE DARK, THE WINGS AFFECTING A SENSITIZED PLATE. ^ nV A GIANT HOG STANDING HIGHER THAN AN AUTOMOBILE AND HAVING a'wwEH BASE’ OF 140 INCHES HAS BEEN MOUNTED IN A WESTERN UNIVERSITY, A FOSSIL FROM PREHIS TORIC DAYS. >•*») WNil fervlc* By Charles Sughroe A frRdOM, JtH SOM, IS A WHO TAKES - CARE 0P„ DUMB ANIMALS' RUDYARD KIPLING By LEONARD A. BARRETT In the poet’s corner in Westminster abbey rest the ashes of a universally beloved poet, Rud- yard Kipling. Even though we may de light to read the writings of certain authors, we do not always come to know them Inti mately through the literature they cre ate. They impart their thought, but their own personal ities still seem re mote from us. Not so with Kipling. He himself was part and parcel of all he wrote. One learned to know the poet through his poetry, and for this gift of self-reve lation ns well as for the quality of hi« literature, Kipling will be remembered always throughout the English-speak ing world. His career was .brilliant. We think of him primarily as a poet and rightly f>o, although his earlier work In a pe riod through his forty-second year was In prose, mostly novels. Perhaps his first well-known book was“Plaln Tales from the Hills,” written when he was only twenty-two. Kipling wrote an average of one book a year from that time on until he was nearly thirty. At forty he published “Puck of Pook’s Hill,” his last work In prose. About this time the Inspirational poetry of Tennyson had waned temporarily be- READY FOR SPRING Glenda Farrell shows o(T an outfit she bought for spring wear. The gown is of sheer black wool and is made with a diagonal treatment of the fab ric showing a high neckline and fitted raglan sleeves. Her short galynk Jacket lias three-quarter-length bell sleeves. Her peaked turban is of soft angora yarn with a head hand and three hows of black corded ribbon. 'T'HE subject of textiles is of inter- est to every homemaker. It is she who buys the fabrics for linen closets, for furnishings, for frocks, and all the many articles made from textiles that are used by the household or Iff yie home. Quality, styles, durability, inno vations, new developments, etc., are all features with which she wants to be, and should be, acquainted. In the early days of silk wehvlng the texture was not satisfactory largely due to the discrep ancies in size of tiie strands of both warp and weft. The struggle to make these strands free from Irregularities has been a long one, the filaments, espe cially from wild silk, refusing to wind and twist with absolute evenness during the spinning of the threads. Most of us are familiar # with the Irregularities of this sort found in genuine Shantungs. As a matter of fact It Is these very dis crepancies that are an aid in distin guishing oriental Shantungs from do mestic makes—an important matter. Method* in Variety. Sizing, weighting and pressure proc esses have played their part in se- j curing smooth surfaces in silks as well as the present ability to reduce Irregu larities In silk threads. With all these ways and means, and manifold meth ods. and processes, of providing snxHtthness to silken surfaces, today there is a returr to old-time effects. Rough surfaced textiles are In the ascendency, and with this vogue comes the reprndnctioi. of unevenness In weaving strands. These are Imitated In tussards, |N>ngees, and those silks In which purity of silk threads without smoothing and other finishing processes are most desirable. This return to wild silk weave effects and the accenting of what once were blemishes, and now are modish touches, is another evidence of I lie cycle of styles. Non-Cru»h Tmlmrnl. Ope of the latest movements In the making of materials has to do with ! processes that eliminate creases. Non- cmsliabte fabrics range from linens to J velvets. In these s[>eclfic articles men- I tioned the non-crush feature Is espe cially welcome. Linens ordinarily crease and muss very easily and re quire frequent pressing to keep them looking fresh and pleasing. Linen sheets and pillow cases, table linens and frocks, have the disadvantage of losing their crisp quality quickly Just because of their mussing so readily. Frequent ironing is necessary. So It is a fine movement In manufacturing methods that relieves this work, and gets such admirable results. Velvets are more difficult to restore when they get creases and marks of the smoothness of folds, etc. They hftve to be steamed either by hanging up in a room with a steamy atmosphere, or In a sheltered spot out of doors when It is foggy or misty. Or small places can be deftly restored by holding the material taut over a howl of boiling hot water. If very badly creased by pressure or spot marked, they require to go to a clean ers to he restored. So non-crush velvet is a most welcome addition to modern textiles. . Upholstery Fabrics. Upholstery fabrics that do not crush are a decided innovation and are sure to please" homemakers. The non-crush velvets appear at a good time since velvets are among the luxurious up holstery and decorative materials at present. It may he that the fact that velvets can be bad that are not crush- able, has been one element in fostering their return to style. In the realm of clothes, now is the time to wear vel vets. whether erushnble or not. but the latter certainly have advantages. Some mediums react better than oth ers to the non-crush treatments, of course, but all up and down the line of kinds and qualities, the good work of preventing textiles from crushing and mussing easily Is progressing. C Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Winner of the ‘‘Miss Model America of UKMJ" contest sponsored by the Los Angeles Market week was Henrietta Leaver of Pittsburgh, shown above, who also won the title of "Miss Amer ica" In a be.iuty coolest. As Ifoe best model, siie al»o won a screen contract and other prizes. Girls entered by leading department stores throughout the country competed In the contest Commandmcnta Stolen Cincinnati. — The Ten Command ments mean nothing to a Cincinnati thief who entered the home of Henry Miller here and made away with the Rihliml verses. When the Smelt Are Running cause of the infusion of a popularly distorted literature sponsored by Oscar Wilde who became the leader of the so-called esthetic movement in London. During this time. Kipling was engaged vigorously In writing poetry. When the opportune moment arrived, he gave to the English world his own soul in his newly created poetry. The Impact was electric. It changed the current of English thought. Once more the highest and best in literature has been recaptured. In a very brief time Kip ling was proclaimed universally a star of the first magnitude in literature. Modestly he lived, and his last rites were in keejfing with the spirit of his life. Much of his time was spent in the seclusion of his estate in' Sussex. He declined many honors offered him by royalty, and. according to report, refused a prnferred knighthood. Perhaps his environment apart from the mad rush of life with its noise and crass materialism, contributed much to his genius. In the silence he found his own soul. In the silence the “mys tery” spoke to him. Under the in spiration of that divine fire he gave to the world a poetry that will live for- ever. ^ Western Newspaper Union U. S. 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