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lit Barm well People-Sentinel. Barnwell. S. C. Thursday, April 8, 1937 SUCH TS T JFK AnntVipr Strilrp ^ F ~ * — By Charles Sughroe May Vote by Air With New Electric Invention v Gadgot.Recorde Reeponte of Jvoa<Jcast ‘ wiU be TC ~ ceived by all sets tuned in on the program. In sets equipped with a Radio Audience. New York.—A tiny electrical gadget, called the Radiovoter, may speed the time when a president of the United States may step before a microphone, ask a question of his radio listeners concerning some question of public policy and re ceive an immediate reply from mil lions. The question may be: “Do you want war?” Or: “Shall we build more battleships?” Or: “Do you fa vor a larger appropriation for re lief?” Whatever the question, every listener by means of the Radiovoler on the receiving set could flash an answer back. Forums on Civic Affairs. The Radiovoter was designed by National Electric Ballots, Inc. Its use in taking public referendums or in conducting forums on civic ques tions is within the realm of possi bility, believes Dr. Nevil Monroe Hopkins, president of the company. The Radiovoter works this way: At the start of a program the announcer presses a button which causes an audible signal to be BLIND BOWLER Bowlers who can see the pins they throw at will hear with envy the record made by Ned Smith of Detroit, who although blind has made a high score of 167 and an average of 110 this season. Com mon Pleas Judge Smith, spends his odd hours off the bench showing his unhandicapped companions a f e w points about the game. Radiovoter, the signal will trip a relay and in so doing impose a “reactance load” upon the substa tion of the power company which supplies electricity for the individual set. “The cumulative load,” Hopkins explained, “is recorded on a re actance meter in the substation and by means of a telemeter in the broadcasting studio.” Obtain Visible Court. Thus, by broadcasting the signal at various intervals during the pro gram, the studio will “obtain an in stantaneous pnd visible count of the Radiovoter-equipped sets tuned to the program.” By means of a knob attached to the Radiovoter the listener will be able to respond when the announcer asks a “yes” or “no” vote on the program’s merits or upon other questions. It will not be necessary to wait until all receiving sets are equipped with Radiovoters, it was explained, to get an accurate gauge of reac tion from the radio public. By know ing what percentage of sets in a given area are so equipped, the stu dio will be able to compute arith metically what the general reaction would be. zMy c ^eighbor w * Says: ▼ Ripe bananas sliced into canned pineapple juice make a delicious first course. A marshmallow rolled in cinna mon makes a delicious addition to a cup of cocoa. • • • Delphinium likes a rich loam, but will thrive even in a sandy soil if it is kept well watered and manured. • • • Granulated sugar sifted over the top of sponge cake before putting it into the oven gives it a rich brown crust when baked. • • • Use a dull knife to scale fish— and scrape toward the head. A sharp knife is likely to cut the flesh without removing scales. • • • Apples will keep their color dur ing cooking if they are put in cold water to which a little lemon juice has been added for a few minutes. • Associated Newspapers —WNU Service Fairy Stones in Virginia Fairy stones are found in abi dance in one section of Virginia, an area of about 50 acres they occ commonly to a depth of 10 feet a are also imbedded within the stc of the mountain. Their physi< formation is that of three types crosses, the Roman, the Malt< and the St. Andrews. AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS ^ BY ARNOLD WNU Service. Our Distasteful Tasks By,. LEONARD A. BARRETT Many persons think of retirement as days of freedom from work and its subsequent worries, freedom tp discard a 11 tasks difficult or undesirable; days in which one may do as fancy di rects. This may be a happy re treat for a few persons, but for the majority o f persons it would prove irksome and doltish. We are all born to work and earn our daily bread. The most unhappy person in the world is the one who has nothing to do. The most use less person in the world is the one who has never completed a hard distasteful task. Such a task is self-* Waiting for the starting gun. Bar ber Karl Seidenbrecher, poises his razor over the jaw of an apprehen sive “subject" ready to zip off the bristles in speed shaving contest conducted at Vienna. Karl set up a new world’s record for speed shav ing, hacking off the beard in 19 sec onds. imposed and furnishes a means for pent-up energies that would have no other source of expression. Self- flagellation is a sacred chore and a sure course of personal develop ment. What reward has the man who does only work beloved by him? Each in his own sphere leads to sure achievement, but each man in many spheres assures progress and adventure. Life requires constant action and challenges us to be “jack of all trades." We must often do the thing that is distasteful, if we would do the thing necessary to de velop character and enlarge our own contacts. A great composer of music is said to have shrunk from the daily task of mechanically creating new harmonies. By a determined will, he compelled himself to sit at his desk daily and wait for the inspiration which would set the tones vibrating within his soul. It was not until after months of such struggles that the inspiration came and gave to us through the genius of the composer, one of the world’s great symphonies. If the incentive to do a great piece of work fails, wait for it: for It will surely come to the^ one who labors as he waits. It is doing the thing we do not want to do that develops strength of character. Courage ” is made secure in a difficult situation. Storms develop faith and crises call for caution and control. When, we make contact with persons whom we do not especially like, it enables us to find our better selves and leave something of that better self with otters. If we share ourselves only with our friends, what reward do we need? If we share ourselves with someone, even undesirable, we dem onstrate the principle of kindness expressed by Wordsworth: “The best portion of a man’s life is his unremembered acts of kindness and love." The best cure for the blues is work, whether we feel like it, or not. We discover a solace for sorrow in hard work. And hard work can be an interesting hobby to those who because of idleness are suffering with ennui. Do the thing that seems ■\X7HEN we’re feeling very de- YV bonairly modern over our game of bridge, it’s quite a jolt to remember that it’s actually very old-fashioned to play cards. Thack eray relates: “Cards in 1730 were the resource of all the world. Every night for hours kings and queens of England sat down and handled their majesties of, spades and dia monds.” But cards are much older than that ... it is generally conceded that they came from Asia, but where or how they originated we don’t know. Maybe they were in vented in China in 1120 A. D. as some people think. Maybe they’ve been known in India from time im memorial, as others believe. O r maybe they came from the Egyp tians instead and had a religious sig nificance. One of the most attractive pieces of furniture for card playing that has ever been thought of is the Queen Anne card table, a walnut tilt top table with a pedestal base terminated by three curved legs, often with paw feet. This type of table sometimes had an eight scal loped top and is the ancestor of the familiar mahogany pie-crust table that we still see so often. The Queen Anne tilt top was first designed in the early Eighteenth century, while the pie-crust tilt top was madf by Chippendale in the middle of the Eighteenth century. It is our opinion that we can go further and Tare worse than a tilt top table for cards to this day. It’s so much more gra cious than the average folding bridge table that doesn’t contribute anything to the design of the room. If you don’t think a round table is the most convenient thing for bridge, you can still have a tilt top as there are any number of perfectly lovely square top models that tilt—some of them are painted and rather French. Others have florals in the Dutch manner. And of course many are of plain polished wood. With one of these tables for bridge, we think four really good chairs of more or less the same design are nice to use here and there about the room “between rubbers,” instead of the usual folding designs. • • • College Co-ed’s Room. “Eighteen, athletic and a college freshman—that’s the young lady whose room is perplexing me right now," writes her mother. "She’s brown eyed and looks well in greens, yellows, orange and rust brown. I am willing to buy new furnishings complete for her room if they’re not too expensive.” What a lot of things you can do with a room starting out with every thing new, even on a budget. No wonder it’s puzzling! If you have several old things that have to be used, they more or less settle the matter. This way there are ever so many different ideas to decide be tween. hardest to do. Tackle the most diffi cult job. Solve an original problem, if you would renew your zest of living. For the greatest victories are those we win over self: and the most praiseworthy works are those we set ourselves to do with a will. Do not pare the mountain to the plain, but climb it, step by step. C Western Newspaper Union. We saw a perfectly stunning room recently in emerald green and white. White walls, emerald green spread and draperies, white and green plaid rug (really a summer rug but appropriate here), white painted furniture and crystal lamps and accessories. This room would be a very good background for ath letic trappings because it isn’t fussy. But maybe you’d like something less austere. Yellow painted wood work and doors . . . pale aquama rine walls, yellow swflss or organdy curtains and bedspread, flowered scatter rugs, very simple modern walnut furniture. Or peach walls and woodwork, a Eighteen, athletie and a college freshman. soft blue rug, flowered chintz dra peries and bedspread, colonial ma hogany furniture. Or dark brown walls with white woodwork, a matting floor, blonde maple modern furniture, beige cor duroy for spread and draperies. A pair of small arm chairs in light yellow-green and a quilted puff of this same shade can provide in teresting color accents. • By Betty Walls -WNU Berries. The hat is of plaited straw in two color tones, with a tucked up brim. The attractive veil is bordered with violet straw. French National Library The French National library Was founded by King Charles V, known as Charles the Wise. He made it a gift of more than a thousand historic manuscripts. Campfire Girls Celebrate Eight-year-old Ann Lowenberg, right, and thirteen-year-old Lois O’Toole, Campfire girls, blow out the candles, with the assistance of Oscar of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, on their silver jubilee wish cake. The cake was made as a model for Campfire Girl organiza tions all over the country, signifying their silver jubilee, or twenty-fifth birthday. The cake was made in the form of a seven-point star, denoting the seven points in the wish to be made by the Campfire girls all over the country. Uncle Sajf6: about. Some men are more about expressing their than they are about facts to support them. Theyre never was an age theft wasn’t the age for young mem with ability. Dr. Pierce’s Faro rite Prescripttou Ian tonic which has been helping woman of all ages for nearly 70 years. AAa. Radiant Sunshine Those who bring sunshine to flto lives of others cannot keep it froas themselves.—J. M. Barrie. FOR EARLY MORNING HEADACHES Demand and Get Genuine BAYER ASPIRIR Dare to Win You have greatly ventured, hril all must do so who would gieal% win.—Byron. CARDUI In this modern time so wonderfully worth while can be for practically every woman t suffers from functional pains menstruation. 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