The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, June 25, 1936, Image 7
The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C„ Thursday, June 25, 1936
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SUCH IS LIFE—Not Really
By Charles Sughroe
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M Ace M Prognosticator Knows
All About Storms.
Chicago.—On the day that the United
States declares war against any other
nation, Dr. Selby Maxwell will Join the
navy for the duration of hostilities.
The United States navy says little
about anything in which it Is deeply
Interested. But there’s something about
storm movements and battle fleet ma
neuvers that interests the navy greatly.
And while Doctor Maxwell, a Chicago
scientist, doesn’t know much about
fleet maneuvers, he does know some
thing about storms. In fact, he is
known throughout the Middle West as
the nation's ace weather prognosti
cator.
The navy will back up that state
ment. Every weather prediction that
Doctor Maxwell makes is checked by
navy officials at the Great Lakes Train
ing station, Great Lakes. Very con
servatively, these ofticials state, Doc
tor Maxwell Is GO per cent accurate
in calling his shots. But, for the past
three months, they also admit, very
quietly, that he lias been 9-1.6 per cent
right.
It was only a year ago that a sliab
by farmer hitch hiked 060 fuiles- to To
peka, Kan., where Doctor Maxwell was
TWO-PIECE FROCK
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Black and \Nliite with red patent
leather. This two-piece print frock has
a white gilet of tucked net and pique.
The belt ami bag are red; and the
otV-the-face hat is black and white
pique.
addressing a grain merchants’ meeting.
The farmer asked the question:
“Doctor Maxwell, I read last year
that you predicted a dry spell for this
farm land again. I’ve lost everything
I had in the drouths. I have one plant
ing of wheat left. Shall I plant it
now?”
“No,” Doctor Maxwell advised. “Save
It until next year. Plant It then. If
you get a reasonably good crop, plant
again for seven years. If the soil goes
bad again in drouths—move out."
Facing the ridicule of his neighbors,
the farmer refused to plant his wheat.
Ills neighbors lost their crops; he
still has his one planting.
Doctor Maxwell deals In nothing
more occult than simple mathematics.
He has a formula by which he can
foretell the weather for any city or
country on any date.
He Is now a man of forty-two, slight,
getting bald, a little vague as astron
omers always are, and finding things
extremely simple.
Served In War.
As a young man he did research at
Northwestern university seeking the
secrets of clouds and weather, oply In
terrupting tills work for the war,
which, curiously, he participated In on
the staf^ of the Italian government's
propaganda division.
In 1918 he hustled back to North
western and studied there until 19.‘«.
seeking one thing—the formula for
forecasting storms.
Three years ago he found his an
swer.
Is it right?
Preparing to settle down to some
pretty serious storm forecasting three
years ago. Doctor Maxwell called at
the United States hydrographies of
fice in Chicago one day to borrow some
data and instruments.
People there talked to rtim about his
research, what lie sought, what he
found, and quite unexpectedly the
United States navy displayed the most
amazing interest in his work.
There were tloods in the East a few
months ago. Doctor Maxwell said
there would have to he floods. Ten
days and eleven hours before the water
started rising lie broadcast a warning.
He knew that from watching his pre
diction maps. He makes these tip a
month In advance for farmers and in
each square of the calendar there Is
a simple weather map to give farmers
a clear picture of what's coming for
that month.
CLIMBING .
MOUNTAINS
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
The reason so many persons achieve
only a modicum of success is that they
are satisfied with
mediocrity. Any
thing to get by. Let
well enough alone.
Why worry. Do not
permit the spirit of
ambition to inter
fere with content
ment, Endeavor to
be satisfied. Best
easy in mind and
heart, and let the
world go by. How
frequently we hear
it. We are satis
fied to perform or
dinary, very ordi
nary tasks. We feel quite satisfied
to do many things in the same way
as our fathers did them. Any at-
• tempt to think in grooves other
than they thought, seems to us dis
loyal and decidedly radical. This at
titude of mind—doing only what is
expected of us with the least possi
ble expenditure of energy—is wit
nessed all the way from a certain type
of man who works in the factory to
the one who tries to earn a living by
his wits. Under no clrcnmstances
would this factory man strike his ham-
HEAD OF WELLESLEY
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Btj Ltjdia. Le Baron Walker
Hindus Unite Apes
at Ritual Marriage
Bombay, British India.—The cere
monial ‘•marriage” of a pair of
monkeys, with all the ritual of a
Hindu wedding, was conducted at
Surat by a Sadhu (Hindu ascetic)
"in response to inspiration.”
The male monkey is supposed to
he a descendant of the monkey-god
Hanupian. Thousands lined the
streets to watch the marriage pro
cession.
Miss Mildred Helen McAfee, thirty-
six, dean of women at Oberlin college,
in Oberlin, Ohio, was elected presi
dent of Wellesley college. She suc
ceeds Or. Ellen J-'itzpendleton. whose
retirement takes effect in June. Miss
McAfee will take over In the fall. S1m'
graduated from Vassar in lir.Mi. and
received the degree of master of arts
in 19'js from the University of Chi
cago. Miss McAfee is the daughter of
: Rev. l>r. Cleiand Boyd McAfee of New
Y'ork city, secretary of the Presby
terian board of foreign missions, and
former moderator of the general as
sembly of the i’resbyterfan church.
AMAZE AMIN UTE
SCIENTIFACTS ~ BY ARNOLD
Heartbeat
sensitive-
A NEW POCKET
SIZE EARTHQUAKE
DETECTOR USED TO
RECORD BUILDING VI
BRATIONS IS SO SEN
SITIVE THAT IT REGIS
TERS HEARTBEATS
ANYONE LEANING
against THE
TABLE.
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Water at low cost/
The cost op collect
ing. puripying and conveying
THE DAILY PER PERSON CON
SUMPTION OP 130 GALLONS
in New York City is only
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The homicidal
DEATH RATE IN THE
U.S. HAS MORE
THAN DOUBLED
SINCE 1900.
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mer after the whistle blew. Many
times we have seen him lower his arm
and with satisfaction lay aside his
fool rather than do n stroke of work
after the noon siren. The man in the
store who cautiously watches the
clock seldom rises above the common
place. No person who occupies a place
of executive or administrative respon
sibility makes himself Indispensable,
until his task challenges his best tal
ent and enduring strength, even at
the point of sacrifice.
Many persons do not rise above the
ordinary because they are too well sat
isfied with the commonplace. Perhaps
it is the path of least resistance, but
certainly not one to release the best
that is in us.
It is easier to climb a hill than a
mountain, but the view from the moun
tain top Is far more inspiring than
that from the top of a small hill. We
hesitate to attempt to scale the moun
tain because it is very steep, per
chance, rough, and marked with dan
gerous pitfalls. We choose the hill and
try to he content.. All the while the
mountain offers a more glorious chal
lenge, a more gigantic achievement.
At a distance, the mountain appears
very steep. We shrink from ascent.
We forget that all real success is not
as much the result of genius as of
strenuous toll, sweat, and self sacri
fice. We struggle to avoid the moun
tains and wonder why we are not
farther advanced along life’s highway.
We are content with the small oppor
tunity, while the larger one may he
just around the corner. We are satis
fied to aim at a house top rather than
at the stars.
Mountains do not come to us. We
must go to them. When we find them
rising majestically above us, they seem
cold and remote. Not so! If they could
speak, they would say something like
this: The pathway to my summit is
pERSONS who dislike to telephone,
* probably have one reason, unsus
pected, that gives this feeling. This is
that their telephone desk is not prop
erly equipped. How often do all of us
hear:
“Just wait a minute, please, until I
get gH»enell «nd paper, t.o Jot down
what you say,” whenever we wish to
leave a message, or when the person
talked to wants to
help her memory
about a date, or
anything that re
quires definite re
membrance.
So let us start
Our telephone desk
furnishings with a
pad and a pencil,
not a loose pencil
that can be taken
away absent mind-
edly, but one that
is secured either
to the desk or to
the pad. Strange
as it may seem, it
is difficult to get
an ordinary pencil
with a ring at the
end or attached to
it In any way.
And pads seldom
come provided with
pencils fastened to
them.
Once I became
so discouraged In
my search that finally. In despair, I
drilled a hole through the metal of an
eraser tip on a pencil (first removing
the eraser), ran a fine cord through it,
leaving a long end of cord, and this
I tied to the desk. Ever since then,
taking down notes has been a simple
matter, for a pad, too large to he
thoughtlessly removed, is by the phone,
By the way if you want a snuill fancy
pencil, there are some kitnls that can be
had with ring-ends. Personally I want a
regular pencil, not a fancy one that
is liable to get out of order. But what
ever kind you choose be sure to secure
it to pad or desk, and have plenty
of leeway in length of fastening.
Let me suggest that pad-sheets have
message transferred to their proper
places quickly, lest they be lost. But
any telephone numbers in the tele
phone address book or file on the desk
This brings up the subject of theste
books. They are essential unless we
prefer a tile. Many persons do. An
excellent tile can he made from any
small alphabetically arranged hex file.
The advantage of this filing system. Is
that cards can he eliminated when not
needed. Consulting the tiles is easy.
Calendar.
Don't omit a calendar. It can he
attached to the pad. Such combina
tions of calendar and pud are among
tiie desk accessories on the murker
If preferred the calendar can hang
above the desk.
Keep the desk clear of extraneous
articles. Slips of paper on which mes
sages have been written will get lost
at times, and someone in the household
will be puzzled and annoyed. Each
person should look out for her own
messages, and when she gets these for
others not present, she should deliver
them promptly, or put the written note
in some place where a message will
be found soon after the absent one re
turns. Co-operation, order, and cor
rect desk equipments, make telephon
ing more pleasurable.
Sustained Effort.
There Is nothing like sustained ef
fort to win out In whatever you at
tempt to do. Working “by Inspiration,”
as the saying goes, is a fine Idea dur
ing periods of Inspiration; but unless
these periods are ve/y frequent, ac
complishment Is little. It Is when you
continue to plod along in the Interims
between these Inspirational times, that
the total of what you do sums up well.
This is no plea for plodding. There
Is a vast difference between plodding
and sustained effort The plodder
gets Into a routine of work that be
comes mechanical In its monotonous
repetition of tasks In sequence.
The persons who work only when
they feel like It, and It is amazing the
number of such workers, often work
with an ardor when they do, that Is
devastating to their constitutions. When
the zeal is spent, so are their phy
siques. Such persons scarcely know
the meaning of moderation. They In
termittently work furiously and col
lapse In rest. Nerves get on edge and
spirits fluctuate.
© Hell SyndicaU.—WNU Service.
not easy. It Is rugged and dangerous;
hut 1 off or you a true challenge, an
appeal to your strength and your cour
age. a spirit of adventure, an oppor
tunity which will test In the limit the
•'best” that is in you. Come, climb to
the heights sublime. Although you may
not reach the top. you will have the
lasting Joy of having tried.
Not what we do, hut what we strive
to do, gives life its real zest and its en
during peace. Kind your mountain and
ever remember that
“Not failure hut low aim is crime."
© Western Newspaper fnion.
EQUALS THE RECORD
This Mako shark, caught off tha
shores of Bimini, English isle, 4f» miles
off Miami beach, by Norton Conway
New York stock broker, equals the
world’s record for this type of fish. It
weighs 798 pounds. Conway spent
more than one hour in boating his
catch.
M Aoimd
ihe House
Mushrooms added to brown gravy
served with a roast give it a de
licious flavor.
• • •
A strong solution of borax and wa
ter boiled In the coffee pot occasion
ally will keep It sweet
• • •
When mulching perennials avoid
using too heavy a mulch. The pur
pose of the mulch Is to keep the
plants cool, not warm.
• • •
The color of spinach will be pre
served If a pinch of soda is added to
the water in which It is boiled.
• • •
Goldenrod when cultivated makes
a beautiful garden flotfer. It blooms
from late July to October.
• « •
Wash out chamois skins on a
windy day. Hang up to dry on the
clothesline and the wind will blow
the skins so they will be very soft
when dry.
• • •
A sirup made by boiling sugar and
water makes an excellent sweetening
for chilled beverages.
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CARDUI
Cardui is a purely vegetable medi
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perjodic pain, nervousness and weak
ness due to poor nourishment.
*'1 have used Cardui and had good
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No Need to Suffer
“Morning Sickness”
“Morning sickness” — is caused by aa
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Took Her Hair but Not Her Head
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Mrs. Hubert S. Hiatt, wife of Professor Platt of the Geography department
of the University of Chicago, submits with a laugh to demands of Aguarana In
dians for a lock of hair. The Indians are natives of Peru, Inhabiting the eastern
foothills of the Andes near the headwaters of the Amazon. In days ugone they
took the heads of visitors to their lands.
Why Physicians Recommend
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Milnesia Wafers come in bottles of 20 and
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convenient tins for your handbag contain
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one adult dose of milk of magnesia. All
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