Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SUCH IS, LIFE—For Digging Purj in By CHARLES SUGHROE 100,000 Drouth Victims Are Now Nomads in West <$>- 25,000 Farms in Great Plains Are Abandoned. Washington, D. C.-—More than 25,- 000 deserted farm homes dotting the Great Plains are reminders of drouth years which made nomads of more than 100,000 Americans. The Department of Agriculture estimated that at least 100,000 per sons have moved out of the Middle West in the last year. Most of them packed their few personal belong ings and headed westward. Three crop failures had impov erished them. Lands among the most fertile in the world had sud denly become barren because of lack of water. Cattle died of starva tion and thirst. Crops withered un der a burning sun. Most of these families packed their household goods on trucks, old motor cars and a few into covered wagons. Few of them had more than $100 in cash. Many had noth ing. All had hopes of making new homes in the West. Called Last Migration. The resettlement administration described the exodus as 4 4 probably the last great migration of settlers to the far West.” Western high ways, h said, were “choked with cars, trucks and trailers carrying thousands of farm families with all their worldly goods.” The exodus began after the 1834 FOR TORRID DAYS White rickrack braid in a double row trims this attractive adaptation of llolyneux’s ensemble for town wear on hot days. It is a new crepe mixture of rayon and silk and it comes in dark green, navy or brown with a white figure in it. The little skull cap is white straw braid with a perky grosgrain bow. drouth. Many counties lost half of their population. Most of those who moved .were farm owners and ten ants. Despite federal efforts to check the westward drift, the reset tlement administration said ‘‘the end of the migration is not yet in sight.” These families, mostly too poor to buy farm equipment and start anew in the northwestern states of Oregon and Washington and in California, have become a serious problem to relief agencies. They continue to drift, seeking part-time work in har vest fields. ‘‘These new settlers, for the most part thrifty and hard-working farm families from the Middle West, found an altogether different farm west than did the early pioneers,” a resettlement report said. ‘‘Free land was gone with the closing of all public lands to homestead entry. Good, developed farms were scarce. Robbed by Agents. ‘‘Unscrupulous real-estate agents were ready to rob them of their meager savings by selling them worthless farms in the vast cutover areas where firewood and water were their only assets. They found employers of cheap labor ready to exploit their destitution. “Residence requirements made them ineligible to WPA assistance, and state relief laws in at least one state made railroad fare back to their devastated homes the only aid available. “The small percentage of families with capital managed for the most part to locate on productive farms. Those with small savings were forced to locate on once-abandoned farms in the cheap land areas, doomed to failure before they be- gan." Of the problem created by the mi gration of these families the report said: “It is not a state problem but defi nitely a part of the national drouth problem that has migrated to the Pacific Northwest and to California, and should be considered as such. “They cannot be returned to the states of their origin. Yet, they can not become permanent indigents and transient agricultural workers supported most of the year by the state or federal government.” Motorist* to Detour at “Bouncing Bridge" Clinton, Mass. — Motorists have taken the “bumps” for the last time over this town's famous “Bouncing Bridge.” The bridge shudders and humps as machines pass over it and has actually tossed cars into a nearby meadow. Selectmen have closed the over pass until they can find someone to finance a new one. University Trailer Camp Kent, O.—A camp for automobile trailers is being built on the campus of Kent State university for the use of summer session students. The^ 1 rogresrTrf Personality By LEONARD A. BARRETT Our thoughtful observation of plant and animal life convinces us that the secret of all organic devel opment is assimi lation. But in or der that there may be prop er assimilation there must be present in nature elements which have an affinity for the plant or animal. The law that like attracts like proves true even on the low est plane of or ganic life. In other words, plants and animals grow to their best ad vantage in the absence of obstruc tions. “A pebble in a scanty brook may change the course of many a river; a dewdrop in a scanty brook may dwarf a giant forever.” Storms annually lay bare a large acreage of wheat and other grains. They also tear down trees and destroy the produce of the soil. The ab sence of rain may play havoc with summer crops, or its untimely fall ruin many a harvest. The intense heat of the sun, beyond the power of the plant to assimilate, causes it to wither and die. Parasites abound. Every owner of an orchard knows that it is necessary to spray his trees. We must destroy the ene mies of organic life. We must kill the parasites if we would have a beautiful garden. Thus, in the or ganic world, the lew seems to be HE*S A BUSY BEE Lou Fette, brilliant freshman right-hander of the Boston Bees, is the top twirler of the club. that calamities check development and opposing forces destroy even unto death. The human race Is also depend ent -upon affinities from which it as similates elements essential for growth. But in the development of personality, the law works the other way. Opposing forces weaken and perhaps destroy the plant: but they are a valuable and constructive con tribution to the development of per sonality. There is no other way to release the deep reservoirs of spir itual and mental strength than by contact with competition, opposition, and even oppression. The enduring growth of personality depends upon the degree in which each person stores up and uses the reserve pow er that rightly belongs to human life, as oxygen belongs to pure air. With conscious reserve power, no calamity can break down poise, nor destroy human purpose. The prog ress of personality depends not upon an external weapon of resistance but upon internal reason. Contrast the life of one who has never suf fered with that of one who has drunk deeply from its cup. The truth is evident: fighting the good fight against opposing forces has given strength to both character and soul. “Nothing grows, unless it has a central core of identity which does not change.” The cen tral core of personality is its iden tity with the spiritual laws of hu man life. By use of reason, man has found the laws of the cosmic world and has used them in building up the civilixauoo of a great scientific age. By concentration of that same rea son upon the laws of personality. I AMAZE A MINUTE I SCIENT1FACTS — BY ARNOl.n JfiuseRofd Jfints y ' By BETTY WELLS J 1 T ETA M. turned a deaf ear to J-' everybody's ideas about her house ... all her friends and rela tions were advocating white. But that wasn’t what Leta had in mind at all. “I always did want to live ih a brown house,” said she, “ever since I can remember. When I was ten. Father promised to have our gray house done over in brown the next time he painted it. But when that “I Always Did Want to Live in a Brown House.” time came he bought me off for a quarter and had it gray again. I've never gotten over it. So when Theo and I got this old house we decided it would be brown before the deeds were signed. So don’t talk to me about white.” We saw Leta’s point. Though white houses are nice, they’re pretty usual, and so it’s fun to be a little differ ent. Brown has a comfortable air about it, a pleasantly withdrawn satisfied manner that makes a brown house nestle back in its trees complacently, oblivious to the world going by. We don’t really have anything against white. In fact other things being equal, it’s the best color of all, so starched and fresh it looks. And there are ways of giving it dis tinction; white with red shutters, or even red window shades, Venetian blinds or awnings pep up a house. And here’s pink again bobbing up for shutters at a white house. Rob ins's egg blue is another nice shut ter-color for a white house. It's fun to stray a little from the straight and narrow path of con vention when it comes to color if it’s for an informal house, or a house of nondescript design. We can even imagine places and peo ple who could go Bavarian with fancy designs painted on the front of the house. But for the more formal dignified house, better stick to tradition and be very white and austere If that's its traditional color. • • • Smart and Weleemlug “Before” and “after” pictures always fascinate us. We love to see those photographs of moun tainous women suddenly grown smartly sylph-like, those wrinkled worried faces miraculously smooth and untroubled. And particularly, do we like those pictures of dull, drab uninteresting rooms mad* over into pleasant, smart and wel coming interiors. We should have liked a “before” and “after” pic ture of a bedroom we saw recently. Before it had been a typical bed room—a suite of mahogany furni ture, tie-back curtains and roses- and-leaves draperies, a rather non descript paper on the walls and loads of family pictures trying to his own spirit and establishes his Identity with the spiritual laws, so shall come the progress of person ality. So shall come the meaning and the merit of human life. O Western Newspaper Union. decorate the walls and only suc ceeding in giving a cluttered effect An ingenious homemaker, plus the aid of a painter and paper-hanger, changed all that into a room of in finite charm. The walls were repapeted in a plain white satin-striped pattern— the stripes wide and very “new” looking. The ceiling was painted a lovely, watery green. This home maker made her own curtains for the three windows. She u bought yards and yards of white fine French voile and made straight hanging, very full glass curtains which came to the floor. At the top of each window she swag-draped a length of heavy green silk cording with long green silk tassels falling at the high points of the drapery. A white silk bedspread, corded with the green silk rope carried that note to its logical conclusion. Family pictures were reframed in unusual small oval and shadow box frames and grouped in one corner of the room, and several fine French engravings took their places on the more important walls. These were framed uniformly in pale green with a narrow gold mat around each picture. The room was carpeted in a deep blue-green sad Reframtag Old Pictures Ms Ins AB the Difference. a really luxurious white throw-rug was placed in front of the dressing table. A small gilt French chair was bought to replace the old dress ing table bench and a slipper chair was reupholstered in a white striped silk. The entire “after” scene was different, charming and very modern. • By S*tt7 w«as -WKV Sirrte*. my G ^eighbor Says: ^ w Have burners on gas stove regu lated frequently to save fuel. • • • Socking bacon taa water tar a few minutes before frying will prevent the fat from running. • • • When making fruit pies dampen the edge of the pastry with milk instead of water. It holds better and the Juice is not so liable to boil over. e e e A thick cherry sauce makes a delicious topping for mint, lime, or ange, pineapple or lemon sherbet. It is very tasty, too, served with vanilla or fruit ice cream. • • • If a mixture of powdered arsenate of lead or parts green (poison) with ten parts of slaked lime be duste< on the cabbages in the morning while they are covered with dew, you can keep cabbage worms under control. It is perfectly safe to use poison on cabbages when the heads are small. • Associated Newspapers.—WNU Service - It’s No Cat and Dog Life They Lead is a Prize Applique QuQt With Much Variety Here’s simplicity In needlework b» this gay applique quilt. Grand mother’s Prise—they’re such eesy patches to applyl If it's variety you’re looking for. make this your choice. There's the fun of using so many different materials—the pleasure of owning so colorful a quilt that fits into any bedroom. And if it’s just a pillow you want, the 8 inch block makes an effec tive one. Pattern 1458 contains complete, simple instructions for cutting, sewing and finishing, to gether with yardage chart, dia gram of quilt to help arrange the blocks for single and double bed size, and a diagram of block which serves as a guide for placing th+ patches and suggests contrasting materials. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, ad dress, and pattern number plainly. Household Helps Do you know the proper thing te say whan you sit on a wad of chaw ing gum? If your suit Is washable, hare Is the correct command--If you want' to gat rid of the chawing gum and not your garment: J'Bring, me an agg white, soma soap and soma lukewarm water. Then stand back and watch ma soften the gum with the egg white —so! And finally wash it complete ly away with the soapy water.” If your suit Isn't washable, the fabric-raving element is carbon tetra-chloride, which will ramove all traces of stain. The authority for these points of, chewing gum etiquette is a new booklet called “Handy Helps for Homemakers,” which has bean prepared by a group of home economics authorities. This book let is a convenient, compact hand book of practical remedies for the moat common household problems. It la divided Into four sect tons: laundering (which includes not only stain-removal formulae, but alas' detailed advice on the proper way to wash various fabrics); home lighting; hasting, and cooking. conteod the chapter on “Cooking” to aa informative discussion of meat-eelection nates, suggestions for improving actual cooking tech nique and a summary of the merits and problems of home canning. A copy of the “Handy Helps for Homemakers’* book can be secured by sending • cents to cover postage and handling to Mias Boyd. 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, DL—Adv. MAUaiA COLDS UOUID. TASLCtt SALVE. Aik For BLUE STEEL OVERALLS "Big and Strong* WNU—7 A atnete daw of Dr. Pterr'o “Dead Shot** WHateo wn oo., m Oois swat.». r. ntr When Baznplaa ara advartiasd aak for thorn oithor through tha morohozit o# te mrf. and than Ilka it. itoi