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lit Barm well People-Sentinel. Barnwell. S. C. Thursday, April 8, 1937
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— By Charles Sughroe
May Vote by Air With
New Electric Invention
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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. Certain cases
relieved by taking Cardnl.
may need a physician's trea
Cardnl has two widely
atrated uses: (1) To ease tha
mediate pain and nervous nasi
the monthly period; and 42).to
in building np the whole s;
helping women to get more
from their food.
Boomerang
His own misdeeds often »
to the author of them.—Seoocm
Stomach Gao
So Bad Seems
To Hurt HeaH
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I oould not oat or tUop. Bvoa am
haart aoamod to hurt. A frioaO asm-
S oitod Adlerika. Tho flrot dooo I SMB
rought mo rollof. Now I oat as
with, sloop tlno and navar fait
—Mrs. Jas. Fillar.
Adlerika acta on BOTH u|
lowor bowels whila ordinary
act on tho lowor bowel only.
R ivoo your system a thorough domm-
ig, bringing out old, poisonous aMtiar
that you would not befiovo was la yaar
echos foe
Dr. M. t,
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Olva your bowels a RIAL
with Adisrika and oos how _
fool. Just ons spoonful relieves
and stubborn constipation.
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Persistence Wins
Stubborn labor conquers seery-
thing.—Vergil.
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