The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, April 29, 1937, Image 7
Tfc« Barnwell People-Sentinel. Barnwell. R. C, Thormder. April 29, 1937
SUCH IS LIFE— Buried Bones
By CHARLES SUGHROE
Tee Late
Rube—Sally, win you marry
me?
Sally—Sure.
(Silence from Rube.)
Sally—Why don’t you say some-
thing else, Rube?
Rube—1 think I hare said top
nuch already.—Cotton Gkmevr
Journal.
Government’s War on
V *
Farm Pests Spreads
Air and Ground Forces Used
in Great Battle.
Washington, D. C.—The Depart
ment of Agriculture is marshaling
a fleet of airplanes and a large field
force for a $10,000,000 battle this
year on insect pests.
While many insects are beneficial
to farmers, the pests do annual
damage estimated at more than a
billion dollars. Damage has in
creased in recent years.
Pests which the department seeks
to eradicate include boll-weevils,
grasshoppers, gipsy and brown-tail
moths, European corn borers, Jap
anese beetles, pink boll-worms and
fruit flies.
Drive to Be Intensive.
The campaign will be even more
Intensive than that which last year
gave insect pests and plant diseases
a setback of several years, accord
ing to Lee A. Strong, chief of the
bureau of entomology and plant
quarantine.
Using grants from federal emer
gency relief appropriations, the de
partment took recruits from the un
employed, trained them and sent
them out against fores', and crop
pests. At the peak of the season
25,574 men were scouting for and
eradicating insects and plant dis
eases.
Aerial scouting for diseased trees
proved so effective last year that
an additional autogiro has been pro
vided for the air fleet this year,
GAS-PROOF PRAM
The imminent threat of war that
hangs like Damocles’ sword over
the countries of Europe, has its ef
fect on the new perambulators ex
hibited at a public health exhibition
in Horticultural ffall in London, Eng.
A nurse, wearing a gas mask, at
tends a gas-proof pram. The ap
paratus on top of the hood pumps
oxygen into the carriage.
Strong said. Flying observers, he
said, can readily spot diseased
trees or the host plants of destruc
tive insect pests.
Airplanes have been used effec
tively by plant quarantine scouts in
the southern citrus belt and in fight
ing bollworms and bollweevils in
cotton fields. In the north airplanes
are used in scouting for the Dutch
elm disease.
Grasshoppers Are Scourge.
One of the most serious problems
of entomologists is the battle against
grasshoppers. Although 26,997 tons
of poison bait \yas used, this pest
caused damage estimated at more
than $80,000,000 last year.
The battle this year will be on
an even larger scale. Strong esti
mated 81,252 tons of poison bait
would be scattered over infested
fields. Present indications, he said,
point to serious outbreaks in Illinois,
Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas,
North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming,
and Colorado.
Entomologists scouted through
Africa, Asia and South America‘for
the parasites and predatory ene
mies that prey on fruit flies abound
ing in tropical countries. These nat
ural enemies of pests were shipped
to Hawaii and Puerto Rico, where
fruit flies have been especially de
structive. •
My Neighbor
Says :=
A little burnt sugar added to flour
used in making gravy to serve with
roast beef or lamb adds to the flavor
of the gravy.
• • •
If you have used manure for a
winter protection around your rose
bushes, it will not be necessary to
give more fertiliser now. Later on
use sparingly a commercial fertil
iser.
• • •
When washing windows rub over
with a damp cloth rung out of water
to which a little ammonia or vine
gar has been added. Then cover
with whiting and when dry polish
with a piece of chamois.
• • •
Worn silk stockings may be braid
ed into attractive mgs and table
mats. Cut off tope and feet, then
beginning at the top cut round and
round. When you have finished you
will have just one long strip.
• Associated Newspapers — WNU Seretce
Experts Roast Iron Ore
to Make Market Product
Minneapolis. — Hopes of Uni
versity of Minnesota scientists to
convert low-grade iron ore into a
salable product have been raised
by success of an experimental plant.
A roasing process converts hema
tite into a nonmagnetic substance
which allows extraction of the iron
on a commercial basis.
AMAZE A MINUTE
SCIENTIFACTS
BY ARNOLD
Insects*
Blood*
InSE-CTS* BLOOO-si *
MAS BEEN POUND TO
COAGULATE OR CLOT
IN TME SAME MANNER
AS MAN S
EMPLOYMENT
Insurance.-
Because op variable, un-
MtASURABlE FACTORS, ACTUARIES
SEE NO WAY TO DETERMINE A
BASIS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT IN-
SURANCE.
Only luminous biro-
The barn owl Of
western Europe is
luminous at night from
A FUNGUS WHICH STlCaS
TO ITS WINGS
Unintentional
Suicide
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
The Japanese call it hara-kiri; we
call it suicide. The dictionary de
fines suicide as
“the intentional
taking of one’s
own life. Self-in
flicted political,
social or com
mercial ruin.” In
other words, sui
cide is intention
al self-destruc
tion. With malice
aforethought, a
man jumps out
of a nineteenth-
story window of
a prominent ho
tel as announced
in the metropolitan press. The cor
oner investigates the case and gives
the verdict: suicide, a decision ar
rived at, largely, because of the
absence of reasonable explanatory
causes. Suicides are not as nu
merous as they were a few years
HE SELLS HIMSELF
Pictured In action during a work
out at the Sox training camp at
Sarasota, Fla., Is John Peacock,
young catcher, who sold himself to
the Boston Red Sox after Judge
Landis had formally ruled that he
was a free agent. The price—$1,800,
and young Mr. Yawkey thinks he
got a bargain.
ago when men who had lost all hope
willfully took the easier way out.
Whether it was the easier way la
a matter of grave doubt. The pre
ponderance of cool judgment argues
against it even though the income
from insurance may have met an
economic crisis. Suicide is never
morally justifiable. Where a men
tal aberration exists, the suicide
victim is not responsible for his act.
Perhaps it is not too bold a state
ment to affirm that only an insane
person would voluntarily end his
own life. This is very easily con
ceivable.
On the contrary, let us ask, is all
self-destruction intentionally inflict
ed? May there not be another
form of suicide in spite of the dic
tionary’s definition? Is it possible
for a person to unintentionally de
stroy his own life? For answer,
we need to appraise very carefully
life’s values, both from the econom
ic and the spiritual aspect. In spite
of the evidence presented by insur
ance actuaries, the problem is not
that the average span of life is grad
ually being extended through med
ical facilities and hygienic informa
tion, but that the span of life could
be prolonged very definitely in the
absence of self-destructive forces.
Strange as it may seem, these
forces are neither hygienic nor
economic, but moral and spiritual
forces. One of our prominent edu
cators recently remarked to the
writer that he wondered what he
would do and how he would feel if
he possessed all the wealth of a mu
tual acquaintance. His conclusion
was that he was glad that he did
not possess such wealth, for he was
free from the tremendous respon
sibility for the sane and proper dis
tribution of it That man. today,
enjoys the blessings of contentment,
and at the age of eighty-one, re
tains his brilliant intellect, reads
without glasses, eats three meals
daily, and enjoys eight hours of re
freshing sleep tech night. The ex
planation is simple
\\7 HEN a man goes after his
collar button, a lady had bet
ter mind her frills and fripperies.
Or they’ll be scattered all over the
place.
Of course it’s quite the style
among people who take their style
very seriously for a husband and
wife to have separate rooms. Which
is all right if you can spare the
space and want to preserve your
mystery.
But there’s a lot to be said for
the sweet every-dayness of mar
riage. After all, some women look
their best in their tangled moments,
and some men are very debonair
with their lather. So if by choice
or necessity, you share a room with
your spouse, the main recipe is to
make it really joint in mood as
well as fact.
That’s not always so easy—a t
least from the looks of it—as most
rooms of this kind are either too
feminine or else they’ll be positively
clinical in their austerity. But one
couple we know have succeeded in
making their bedroom comfortable
and becoming to both of them. It’s
rather a large room to begin with—
and what’s nicer than a spacious
big bedroom? Sarah selected wall
paper in very pale yellow with
white flowers so that the effect
is rather of an ivory or subtle neu
tral. The furniture is mahogany,
with a massive old poeter bed at
the main piece. This has a firmly
bodied crocheted spread in white,
appropriate, decorative end yet
“sittable,” and the white is repeated
in the curtains which are marquis
ette and made with seven inch ruf
fles that fall very eoftly An easy
chair for him and a chaise longue
for her ere both upholstered in co
coa brown moire. The rug la a
misty patterned design in two
thadee of lightish green, end moat
of the accessories in the room are
white. Sarah's dressing table hat I
a simple white marquisette skirt
with tailored bows of green and
brown velvet ribbon tied together
. . . bows like these also serve
as tie backs for the curtains, and
there aren’t any draperies.
It’s not a dramatic room .
they didn’t want M to be But it has
a substantial charm about it. and
you can see at a glance that It's a
room that both He and She enjoy
living in. Which is what decorating
is all about anyway.
• • •
Sociable Kitchens.
We are all up in arms when
we hear anyone make a shir
ring remark about kitchens, or
kitchen work for that matter. Be
cause kitchens are pleasantly so
ciable if you give them half a
chance. And tf you don’t believe us,
read Dickens or Kathleen Norris
for descriptions of gay kitchens.
It’s fun to have impromptu par
ties in the kitchen—after-the-movie
snacks . . . Sunday night suppers
... old time candy pulls. They’re
very simple if you do a little think
ing ahead. One problem is the mat
ter of places to sit. If the kitchen
is big enough, be sure to have at
least one rocking chair. And
benches that slide under the table
between times are useful every day
as well as for parties. If you need
more table area than you have
room for, have a shelf table on
hinges along the wall that folds
down when not in use.
Have festive ware for kitchen
serving too — a very brilliant pot
tery tea set and cookie jar to match,
or some of that spun aluminum and
It’s fun to hsvs impromptu par
ties in tbe kitchen.
walnut buffet service wars is very
good for kitchen entertaining.
An easy wsy to make the kitchen
look more partifled is to take the
glass or wood doors off your cup
boards, paint the insides as well
as the shelves in some very bright
color, end then repeat this bright
color in oilcloth covers for the tables
and pods for chairs.
Another notion we have is that
a kitchen la more genial looking
when the pots and pane are hang-
them.
WNU Svrvww
TAILORED SUIT
mg up where you can see
CALL IT THAT
Walker—Just back from a joy
ride?
Driver—What do you think?
Caught two fines, had three blow
outs and a busted differential,
owed eight miles to a garage and
lad to borrow this crate to get
lome in.
Cop’s Call
“Wake up quickly,” said the
)urglar’s wife. “I think there’s a
policeman in the house!”
Keep your body free of accumulat
ed waste, take Dr. Pierce’s Pleas
ant Pellets. 60 Pellets 30 cents. Adv.
As Your Company
Tell me thy company and I will
tell thee what thou art.—Cervan
tes.
DoYou Havelhts
OLDER YEARS
The evil that men do Uvea after
them. The good is oft
with their
Miss
REELEEF
says:
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M A I t XX a ' A sc
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HEADACHE
fceker been
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If Anything la Left
When rogues fall out, honest
men get into their own.—Sir
Mathew Hale.
the values of life in proportion to
its opportunities.
While many persons wear out,
prematurely, in the stress and
strain of “getting," this man con
siders that life itself is a sacred
gift to be conserved and inscribed
in the memories of his friends by
means of useful and helpful living.
Many persons are interested in ex
ternal life: this man is interested
in internal truth and experiences.
The softly tailored black suit la
important for spring. This one is
of kasha weave woolen with the
blouse, jacket lining and revers of
black and white silk print. Ver
tical tucks give a slender hip lino
to the jacket. The hat is Suzanne
Talbot’s black milan with a wide
band of black belting ribbon pulled
through the crown to cover the hair.
The gloves are white doeskin, hand-
sewn.
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Besides easing certain pains, Car
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Cardui, with directions for home
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