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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1938 f • i Star Dust ^ Seal Steals Show ★ Tyrone Power Leads! * Infant Publishers By Virginia Vale TT BEGINS to look as if the various actresses who re fused to play the heroine in “Spawn of the North” were smart girls. They probably re membered that it's dangerous to work in a picture with a clever animal, because nine times out of ten the animal steals the picture. I Mention “Spawn of the North” to someone who has seen it, and he —or she—won’t reply: “Wasn’t the battle between the salmon fishers and the pirates exciting?” or ex claim over the icebergs or the salmon run or the excellent per formances of John Barrymore and Lynne Overman. Not if he—or she —runs true to form. The exclama tion points will all be for the trained seal. Slicker. ^ Slicker deserves the enthusiasm, and his owner and trainer deserves the good break that he gets through Slicker’s performance. He is H. W. Winston, a veteran of vaude ville; he and his trained seals, on one of their tours of the Continent, played a command performance for British* royalty. * Another animal who became a star overnight is the terrier who played “Asta” in “The Thin Man.” He'll appear with Constanee Ben nett in “Topper Takes a Trip,” a sort of sequel to “Topper.” In fact, he’ll replace Cary Grant, in a way. Grant is too busy and too expensive for the new “Topper” picture, so the dog will be Miss Bennett’s com panion in this one. —*— 0 Tyrone Power is gathering bou quets from those who know about r band leaders for his performance in TYRONE POWER “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” A little group of musicians was dis cussing it recently, and they said that he wasn’t merely standing up there and waving a baton, as movie stars whose roles require them to turn band leader usually do. They maintained that he was actually leading the band. —*— Incidentally, Paul Wing, whose “Spelling Bee,” impressively spon sored, goes out on a nation-wide hook-up at 5:45 Sunday afternoons, has an effective way of taking radio acting apart and putting it together again for those who want to act in broadcasts. Mr. Wing takes & play—one that he wrote some years ago, when he was well known as a playwright— and rehearses the aspiring actors in it as it would be done on the stage; then he coaches them in it as it would be done in a broadcast ing studio, bringing out the many differences in technique. —*— . Elaine Carrington was put gently but firmly in her place reflfcntly by her son and daughter (Robert, aged ten, and Patricia, aged fourteen). Mrs. Carrington, in case you don’t know, is one of radio’s most suc cessful writers; for years she has done the script for “Pepper Young’s Family,” which is broadcast on two nation-wide hook-ups, on Monday and Friday mornings and after noons. She made her name as a brilliant short story writer before she took to radio, selling to the big gest magazines. But—Patricia and Robert are now publishing a magazine, “The Jolly Roger,” (at their mother’s expense), and getting contributions from friends and family. The only stories that they’ve insisted on having re written, (and they didn’t like even the re-written versions too well,) are those by the famous Elaine Carrington! —* ODDS AND ENDS—Two of radio’t most promising young singers, Mario- Louise Quevli and Felix Young, have just recorded an album of Jerome Kern's music . . . The “Alice in Wonderland” skating sequence in Sonja Henie's new picture, “My Lucky Star,” makes the pic ture worth seeing; the rest of it isn’t quite up to her usual standard . . . Don’t miss “You Cln’t Take It With You”; in some respects ifs better than the stage version that New York raved overl . • W««t*rn Newspaper Union- “Does the Widow Jones live here?” That was the way he put it, this bungling fellow who broke the news of a husband’s acci dental death. In a way, it's a joke. But it’s one of those jokes when we laugh out of sympathy be cause the joke grows out of a bitter reality. Telling a wo man her husband has just been killed in an accident is a heart-breaking job, as anybody knows who’s ever had the assign ment. Twenty-five years ago, in the fac tory and on the farm, it was a com mon story— “He was caught between the and safety equipment will reduce costs and increase operating effi ciency, just as it has been proves* in larger, industries. This, too, will be a-puzzler for delegates. Other jobs for occupational safe ty: More research into the causes of occupational accidents and diseases; education of manufacturers to in sistence that safety be built into ev ery piece of machinery before it is used; and more safety courses in engineering colleges and vocational schools. Death at the Wheel Traffic, of course, has become our principal national accident problem. Last year, 39,500 lives were lost in traffic, and an estimated 1,400,000 other citizens of the United States were injured. Council statisticians have estimated that motor vehicle SAFETY’S BIRTHDAY crane and the wall ... He was pil ing sheets of steel when they fell over . . . The horse bolted when he was cleaning the mower . . . No body saw, but he must of been oiling it when the ram come down . . .” In something like 35,000 homes during 1913, there came a knock on the door, a man with his hat in hand, not knowing how to break the news. Aroftsed by the horrible tragedy of these accidents, and, on the other side of the picture, by their waste ful cost to industry, a small group of men met that year and determined tojdo something about it. Their de termination gave birth to the Na tional Safety council. With two men, a stenographer and a battered type writer, the council started out like David against a towering Goliath— Accidents. ^ Working on the fundamental as sumption that for every accident there is a cause—and a cure—they fought inch by inch against the hope less pessimism of men who thought that wherever there was industry there would be accidents. That was 25 years ago. This year the largest safety as sembly in the history of the world is celebrating the silver anniversary of that founding. Ten thousand men and women from London to Los An geles are meeting in Chicago for five days beginning October 10 .at the National Safety council’s silver jubilee congress. The Accomplishment Before them will rise a 13-foot birthday cake, but behind them will stand a greater monument—a rec ord of 285,000 lives saved in those 25 years—a cityful of human beings who would not have been alive to day had accidents continued at the 1913 level. Considering industry’s tremendous growth since 1913 and the probability that increased tech nology would otherwise have brought an even greater accident rate, this figure of 285,000 seems very modest indeed. And this campaign against acci dents has not been confined to in dustry. Gradually the work has spread into every department of hu man life. Once it was understood that accidents could be prevented by a common-sense safety program, people realized that what was being done in industry could be done in the home, on the streets and high ways and in other public places. This development was hastened by business men’s realization that quite as many of their men were losing time from injuries at home and go ing to and from work as from acci dents in the plant. Traffic deaths — around 4,000 in 1913 — doubled the following year, tripled the next, and reached a peak 10 times as great before preventive work could pull the curve down ward. Farm accidents mounted by leaps and bounds to the point where near ly one-fourth of all occupational deaths happened on the farm. The home—which we think of as a haven of safety—became one of the worst accident locations of all, threatening even to surpass traffic accidents in annual fatalities. And so the safety movement grew into one of the vital forces of Amer ica, entrusted with the responsibility of conserving human life. But still it has only begun. Mem bers of the council hre quick to say their work has only scratched the surface. Last year alone, they point out, accidents took 106,000 lives in America—one in each 300 families, on the average. The cost of these accidents aver aged $115 for each family in the nation—a grand total of $3,500,000,- 000! And the pain and suffering in volved in 106,000 deaths cannot be expressed in any mathematical fig ure. While accidents continue to dis- Money wasted in 1937 traffic accidents would have built 35 Empire State buildings, or 250 ocean liners like the Normandie, It was equivalent to destruction of a city like Waltham, Mass., or Santa Monica, Calif. able one member-of every fourth family in the country in one year, there’s still a big job for safety. Planning the Future Thus, though in a jubilant mood over the reductions achieved during the past year in traffic, public and occupational accidents, delegates will turn aside from their celebra tion of the council’s twenty-fifth birthday to chart a future course. What will safety bring in the next quarter century? How far can it go toward cutting still further our an nual sacrifice of lives to accidents? What n6w things will it bring into our work and our daily habits? Farms and small businesses will receive more attention in the future, the council believes. If accident pre vention had been given the same at tention in agriculture and in all small businesses as it was given by the railroads, public utilities and larger manufacturing plants, the to tal of lives saved would have been very much greater. Last year, 4,500 farmers were killed in accidents. Machinery was responsible for more than a quarter of these—tractors, circular saws, combines, discs, etc. Almost as many were killed by animals. No other industrial group except the trade and service industries ac counted for so many fatalities; in all manufacturing there were only 2,600 deaths. The accident record for farmers, in relation to exposure, is ncrtso good as that of workers in manufacturing industries. Farmers work about half again as many man-hours dur ing the year but they have three- fourths again as many deaths. Al though exact calculations are out of the question, it is estimated that the occupational death rate is about 15 per cent higher for agriculture than for manufacturing. The geographical spread of farm ers and their comparative isolation makes slow work of safety educa tion in agriculture. How to reach farmers with safety information, with reminders on the safe use of rugchinery and the safe handling of animals, will be one of a big prob lem for the congress. Similarly with small business men. It is harder to convince small operators that safety pays — that money invested in safety instruction Illustrated here are two com mon accident causes, one agri cultural, one industrial. Left: stooping in front of a mowing machine, hoping the horses don’t run away and cut off your legs. Right: A rasor-sharp paper cutting machine, which would nip off a worker’s fingers in a split-second. accidents cost us $1,700,000,000 last year. These are the highest figures ever reached. The death toll is four-fifths as great as American losses in the World war. It is equivalent to the destruction of a city like Waltham, Mass., or Santa Monica, Calif. The money wasted in 1937 traffic accidents would have built 35 Em pire State buildings, or 250 ocean liners like the Normandie. More and more cities and states, however, are keeping good accident records and thus learning more about how and why accidents occur. But the traffic problem still is a challenge. The council has proved that accidents can be reduced wher ever a state or community is willing to apply a well-rounded, scientific program. And for the first eight and one-half months of 1938 the na tion as a whole has experienced a 20 per cent reduction in traffic deaths below the same months fot the preceding year, without any de crease in travel as measured by gasoline consumption. That this reduction is but a small part of what might have been achieved had we been able to apply what we have even thus far learned about traffic accidents, is shown by the experience of cities and states which have, through the application of balanced programs, effected sav ings of upwards of 50 per cent in their traffic fatalities within the short space of a year. Thus the lag between what we know about acci dents and what we are doing about them is costing us something like 13,000 lives this year. Therefore, one of the principal problems facing the delegates as they look into the future will be get ting across to the public information already developed about traffic ac cidents, and enlisting the public^ more than ever before in the wai against accidents. But research — statistical, engi neering and psychological—into the cause and cure of accidents must go forward. New developments, like the chemical tests to show when drivers have been drinking, better cars and safer highways, scientific methods of eliminating night haz ards, will be one phase of the at tack. Another will be a continua tion of the campaign for uniform traffic laws, including standard driv ers’ license laws, accident report ing, road rules, signs and signals; for regular inspection of all motor vehicles; and for more safety train ing in schools, with driving instruc tions for every high school student. In home accidents, safety workers face a problem similar to that in volved in agriculture. The fact that most home accidents do not come to official notice unless hospitalized makes it difficult to collect accurate data. And like the farmer, the housewife is isolated in her house hold and cannot easily be reached by broadcast methods of safety edu cation. But in recent years, through women’s clubs, through home mag azines, women’s pages in newspa pers and housekeeping broadcasts, an increasing attempt has been made to familiarize housewives with the principal hazards of their own homes. Looking into the future, the delegates must plan how to intensify this campaign, and how to carry the safety idea to contractors and ar chitects so that homes of the future will be built with safety in mind. Does it sound like a Herculean task? Perhaps it is, but to men and women who have been responsible for an almost continuous drop in ac cidents in the face of America’s tremendous growth during the past quarter century, the accomplish ments of the past stand as a chal lenge for the future. © Western Newspaper Union. WEAK EGG SHELLS LACK VITAMIN D Requirements of Birds Are Of Great Importance. By Prof. C. S. Platt,' Associate Poultry Husbandman, Rutgers University. WNU Service. A lack of sufficient vitamin D in rations for laying flocks can be de termined far more readily by egg shell quality than in the number of eggs produced. Egg shells become weak before production is in any way impaired when vitamin D is deficient. With an adequate supply of the vitamin, the number of cracked and weak-shelled eggs pro duced in a day should not exceed 3 per cent. This means that with a collection of 400 eggs daily, there should not be more than about one dozen cracked or weak-shelled eggs. If the number exceeds this, the in dications are that the vitamin D re quirements of the birds are not be ing properly met. To correct this condition, the cod liver oil content of the ration should be increased. Normally, the use of 2 per cent of a high grade, natural cod liver oil in the mash will pro vide a sufficient amount of the vita min for good results. If this amount is being used and the number of cracked eggs still exceeds 3 per cent, it is possible that the quality of the oil is not up to standard. Egg production alone is not a very good criterion of the needs of the birds for vitamin D, because under most conditions the birds obtain a sufficient amount through the ordi nary open windows of a poultry house to meet their requirements for egg production. Most Fires on Farms From Common Causes Farm fires in the United States take about 3,500 lives and destroy $100,000,000 worth of property each year, says a recent United States department of agriculture publica tion, “Fires on Farms.” Eighty-five per cent of this loss is from such commonplace causes as defective chimneys and flues; sparks on combustible roofs; light ning; spontaneous combustion; careless use of matches, smoking; careless use of gasoline and kero sene; defective and improperly in stalled stoves and furnaces; faulty wiring; and misuse of electric ap pliances. Four simple precautions that the author, Harry E. Roethe, of the bu reau of chemistry and soils, gives to reduce needless waste caused by farm fires are: Use fire-resistant roofing, dispose of waste aqd rub bish, never use gasoline or kero sene to start or revive a fire, and, guard against overheating of stoves and furnaces and clean smoke pipes at least once a year. He also sug gests that major buildings be equipped with lightning rods. In addition to removing the fire hazards, Roethe suggests prepara tions to fight a fire should one oc cur, that is, fire-fighting equipment on every farm, kept in a handy place ready for instant use. Many Eggs Do Not Hatch About 300,000,000 good eggs a year, which would be enough to feed thousands of persons, are wasted every year because they will not hatch. Most of these can be saved in edible condition, according to the claims, by a device recently patent ed which will detect whether an in cubated egg will produce a chicken or not before it has a chance to spoil. It is claimed that from 15 to 20 per cent of all the eggs set an nually in the United States never hatch. Breezy Farm Briefs Thousands of cattle die of licking fresh paint off farm buildings every year. • * • Vermont is first r New York second in maple syrup and maple sugar production. • • • Quantities of grain waste, from the whisky and alcohol industries, are sold as feed for stock. • * • Scottish shepherds say that sheep respond to a dark colored collie dog better than to a white collie. • • • The type of pasture required for turkeys does not differ greatly from that required by dairy cows. * * * • Waste products of cocoa and co coa butter factories are being used in the Netherlands in making fer tilizer. • • • The original training school of the horse was in the Orient. * • • So-called sheep ticks are really flies and not ticks at all. * * * Mowing the pasture when there is an appreciable amount of uneaten grass or weeds ungrazed is good farm practice. • • • Practical and Pretty At-Home Wearables V’OU’LL be indoors more from 1 now on—busy at your own fire side. So it’s time to make your self some pretty new work clothes. Here are some that combine com fort and practicality, and they are so easy to make that even if this is your first sewing Venture, you’ll succeed beautifully. The dress, you’ll notice, is a diagram design that even the inexperienced can finish in a few hours. Slenderizing House Dress. Everything about this dress is designed for working comfort. The waistline, although it looks slim because it’s drawn in by darts, is unhampering and easy. The skirt gives enough leeway to stoop and climb and stretch. The armholes are ample, the sleeves short and loose. This dress is easy to do up, too, because it fastens in the front, and can be laid out fiat on the board. Its utter simplicity, long lines and deep v-neck make you look slimmer than you are. Make it of calico, percale, linen or ging ham. Three Pretty Aprons. Any of the three of them will be mighty handy to have all fresh and ready, when you want to pre pare afternoon tea or a hasty pick-up supper for unexpected guests. Each of them protects the front of you efficiently, and looks so crisp, feminine and at tractive. Make several sets— you’ll want some for yourself, and also to put away for gifts. They’re so pretty for bridge prizes, and engagement remembrances. Any woman who ever so much as makes a cup of tea will love them. Choose batiste, dotted Swiss, lawn or dimity. ' The Patterns. 1615 is designed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 36 requires 4% yards of 35-inch material. Contrasting cuffs would take % yard. 1595 is designed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 requires, for apron No. 1, 1% yards of 35-inch material and 6 yards of ricrac braid; for apron No. 2, 1% yards of 35-inch mate rial with SYs yards braid; for apron No. 3, 1% yards of 35-inch material, with 11 yards of braid. Fall and Winter Fashion Book. The new 32-page Fall and Win ter Pattern Book which shows photographs of the dresses being worn is now out. (One pattern and the Fall and Winter Pattern Book—25 cents.) You can order the book separately for 15 cents. Send your order to The Sewing Cfrcle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. • BlacM Leaf 40 i"C«p- jUST A DASH IN FEATHERS.. owu Brush"Applicator ,1 tot "BUCK! 60 MUCH FARTHSI OR SPREAD ON ROOSTS A Shortcoming It is a great evil not to be able to bear an evil.—Bion. PILE RELIEF GUARANTEED In 24 Hours or Money Refunded Thousands of users have found this new, easy to use preparation works almost like magic after having suffered for years. SPECIAL — CKp this ad and print your name plainly on sheet of paper and send together with $1.00 in Cash, P. O. Money Order, Check or Stamps to Jetta’s Pile Relief, Box 1254, Wilmington. 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