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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1938 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON YORK.—Reginald Denny, ^ ^ the one-time professional boxei who became a motion picture star, develops his toy airplane hobby into t* w . nt t a business. He Kooot rlanes /* r i ngs up a sale Ex-Pug Denny?a of six robot Hobby-Business planes to Uncle Sam, to be used in army, experiments next summer. They are expected to be curtain- callers for larger and more busi ness-like robots, flying without pi lots, guided by radio beams, dusting TNT on intruders. Reginald Denny will be re membered as the actor extolled a decade or so ago as “the typi cal, wholesome young Ameri can/* Then he turned out to be an Englishman, a flier and ma chine-gunner in the British royal air force in the war. A light comedian, he had two absorbing interests—his screen antics and what seemed at the time a juve nile absorption with miniature airplanes. From the latter, he developed some ideas about ra dio-controlled planes. He estab lished the Reginald Denny In dustries, with James Blackton, an experienced technician, as manager. He ih making a small “flying torpedo/* designed for flying in swarms, with no pilot, and with land-control of the bomb-dropping as well as guid ance. When completed the Unit ed States will get it. He ran away from school at the age of 16 to play for Charles Froh- man at the Duke of York’s theater. His first featured role was in the “Merry Widow.” Then he became a professional boxer, later champion of the Second corps of the royal air force. XTELSON T. JOHNSON, ambassa- ^ dor to China, coming home by a side door as Japan slams the open door, probably will have in his hip pocket a copy of A Scholar and Cagster—T hat’s Envoy Johnson “Analects” Confucius, the of barring possibly “Alice in Won- he also packs it is his favorite derland,” which around with him, reading. Like Henry R. Curran, deputy mayor of New York, he believes that public activities and atti tudes should be infused with hu mor. More than any other American, he has been success ful in translating our best an thology of pullman car gags to the Chinese. Following the labyrinth of Confucius and Lao Tze, he finds a unique approach to the Chinese mind and has been one of our most successful ambassadors. But, back home, he is sharp, exact, statistical and thoroughly occidental, among which attributes is a line of up-and-coming Chamber of Commerce oratory. He lives in two worlds. After his graduation from George Washington university, Mr. Johnson mixed with the Indians of the South west, picked up Indian dialects with remarkable facility, thereby discov ering his linguistic gifts. That sent him to China as a student interpret er in 1906.. In the Far East, he has occupied many important posts and is a former assistant secretary of state. He finds the Chinese have a lot more humor than the Japanese. TT WAS about three years ago that the head of the German National Institute of Physics denounced the “debased Jewish atom,” and prom- . . ised to deliver Group Auns to to the Reich an Keep Scientific untainted “Ar- j inquiry Free yan” atom. Un der the banner of “The Pragmatic and Dogmatic Spirit in Physics,” this scientific revolution has been advanced by the Nazi savants, and at last Amer ican scientists mobilize against it. Dr. Franz Boas, 80-year-old Ger man-born American anthropologist, heads a committee of eight distin guished scientists in publishing a manifesto, signed by 1,284 of their colleagues, leaders in all branches of science throughout America. They “defend the right of scientists to speak the truth as they under stand it.” Dr. Boas spent about 55 years studying long heads and round heads, but was stymied by the square heads. “If the world goes erazy, what can we do?” he said, resigning from Columbia university two years ago. He came to this country to attend the Chicago World’s fair in 1893, after an Arctic expedition which had launched his career as an anthro pologist. He remained to coach vir tually all great American anthro pologists and to become a world au thority in linguistics, primitive men tality, folklore, ethnology and senil ity. The old Germany honored him. The new Germany made an extra special bonfire of his books. C Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Facsimile Newspapers Transmitted by Radio The world’s first regular broadcast of specially prepared facsimile newspaper^ was inaugurated in St. Louis recently by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Latest news events were recorded on 15 receiving sets placed in the homes of members of the station’s staff. The original copy of the facsimile newspaper was placed one page at a time on the cylinder of the sending apparatus, and was transmitted by radio waves to receiving sets similar to the one on the right, where the owners read the transmitted newspaper in their own homes. It’s Back to Nature for Western Reserve Coeds To demonstrate to young college women some of the processes of nature on a farm and to supply uni versity cafeterias with fruit and vegetables, a program of general farming is being carried on by students ol Flora Stone Mather college of Western Reserve univer sity, Cleveland, Ohio. Here the college coeds store farm products which supply the university’s five cafeterias. The girls milk cows, care for horses, pitch hay and perform many other farm chores. Hines Conspiracy Case to Re-Open The retrial of James J. Hines, charged with conspiracy in the New York policy racket, will begin January 9, before Judge Charles C. Nott in General Sessions. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey will resume prosecution of Hines, who is pictured here with his wife. LINCOLN PROFILE Beneath the two men standing on the sculptured chin of Abraham Lin coin in the Mt. Rushmore national memorial near Rapid City, S. D., is a drop of 2,500 feet. Size of the pro file may be estimated by comparing the whole with the men standing on the chin. LIFE BEGINS AT 70 Nazi Officials Aid in Relief Drive Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, like other governmental nota bles, takes street collections in Berlin, Germany, for the annual winter relief fund drive. The occasion was designated as a day of national solidarity. Scores of German officials aided in the drive to raise funds for the country’s needy. Member of the house of commons at Ottawa, Mrs. George Black, 73, was elected to that position three years ago. Though elderly, she is as active as she has ever been. At tending the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers annual banquet in Seattle, she spar klert with jovial humor. Vanity Key to Both Health And Beauty By PATRICIA LINDSAY T HERE are the Grundys, male and female, who complain loud ly about “vanity-case phobia.” Wherever you look, say they, you see a woman powdering her nose, rouging her cheeks or putting on fresh lipstick. These Grundys would like to have all cosmetics banished. But I won der if they realize that in urging a woman to throw away her beauty aids they are urging her to throw away her health and sanity! For vanity is sanity! In nations as well as in individuals. Russia, mass mad for years, made the cost ly experiment of crushing femi nine vanity. Germany is doing it today. One of the first signs of Rus sia’s restored sanity is the success ful cosmetic trade in her larger cit ies! A pride in your personal appear ance is a health barometer. If you lack vanity you are not in normal health. A woman without vanity is Fresh lipstick gives your morale a boost either mentally depressed or whipped—resigned to letting life slip by. Every Woman Should Like to Look Well Take the case of a young girl whom 1 know. She suffered a col lapse of nerves from financial re verses and disappointment in a love affair. She was talented and well educated. During normal health she was fastidious, but once her nerves gave way, she let herself go. Her hair was unkempt, her skin blotchy, her clothes untidy. She became so despondent that she would stand for hours with her face turned toward a wall I Friends, and her physician failed to pull this girl back to health. At last a psychologist succeeded in winning her confidence. He insisted upon regular meals, daily duties, hours of sleep, and (this is where vanity enters) he insisted that each morning and night she sit before her mirror and go through a systematic beauty routine. He convinced her that happiness was in store for her if she would make the most of herself. He told her she possessed both beauty and charm. Gradually he made her live up to these compliments. In about three months that girl was cured. «She is now happily mar ried (to a new beau!) and is suc cessfully coping with a prominent social position! What happened? Her normal pride in her personal appearance had been restored! So don’t let a Grundy deprive you of your vanity case and what it rep resents. Hold on to it tightly and make it serve you! Be assured that a meticulous beauty gets far more out of life than a drab, disheart ened female! ® Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. HINT-OF-THE-DAY Face Powders The shade of your face powder, its texture, and the way you apply it can make or mar your makeup. A good powder should give your skin the flattering illusion of clarity. Your skin must look clean and clear and be suavely filmed with powder in a shade that is compli mentary, yet unobtrusive. It should never be in a tone lighter than the shade of your skin. When you choose your powder, let it be the best. It should be dswny, yet clinging so that it will not break into patches an hour after you put it on. A good powder will also retain its delightful fragrance as long as the powder lasts. Many cheap powders change fragrance after a week or two; the original scent becomes oily and sickening. One of the leading cosmetic mak ers has brought out a fine powder in several exquisite shades. One is called apricot, a lovely, warm shade that does things for your skin un der night lights. For daytime there is a cream shade that is excellent for the average clear complexion, and an ivory that is flattering for the pale brunette. First Kindergarten The first kindergarten was estab lished many years ago in Blanken- burg, Germany, and was called “Small Children Occupation Insti tute” or “Institute for Fostering Lit tle Children.” Farm Topics LUNCH COUNTER TO ENCOURAGE LAYERS Expert Advises Five - Foot Feeders for 100 Hens. By Dr. A. R. Winter, Poultry Departmentr Ohio State University.—WNU Service. Providing free-lunch counters for birds in the laying house is a good way to get eggs and reduce labor in preparing poultry feed. Each 100 hens need three five-foot feeders to avoid overcrowding while eating and each feeder should have a reel to keep the chickens out of the feed. Poultrymen might well consider keeping the best of the two-year-old hens rather than to sell them. Meat prices are low and hens will lay 80 per cent as many eggs during their second year as producers as they did when pullets. Very few birds are worth keeping for layers the third year. Poultrymen will be saved money and trouble if they cull out poorly developed pullets. It costs too much money to feed laying rations to pul lets that will not lay eggs until next spring. Good two-year-old hens will make better use of the feed. Laying houses should be repaired, cleaned, and provisions made for ventilation. Diseases spread rapidly in dirty houses, and colds attack birds which are subjected to drafts or overheating. Vaccinations for fowl pox should be postponed if the pullets are ready to go in the laying house as the treatment is likely to delay production. Pullets which appear healthy and vigorous do not need treatment for internal parasites. Treatments which kill parasites have at least a temporary detrimental effect upon the birds and production will be de layed. It always is a good practice to remove ailing birds from the flock as soon as they are detected. Getting back to feeds for the lay ers, tests show good results when birds are fed mash concentrate and grains in separate self feeders. The concentrate may vary from 24 to 32 per cent of protein; less con centrate is consumed when the protein content is high. Wheat, corn, and oats can be used for grain and they should be separated in the feed ers. ft Advantage Is Found in Having the Same Breeds A dairyman just starting with purebreds may feel that since all his neighbors have one breed of cat tle, he should get another breed so as to have a monopoly in the busi ness of selling breeding stock. There is no question about the monopoly, says the Missouri Farmer, but there would probably be little business to monopolize. It is difficult for an iso lated small breeder to dispose of his surplus stock to advantage, while if there are many breeders with the same breed, buyers are attracted to the locality because of the better chance to get the desired animals from one or more of the several breeders. There are other advantages to a dairyman in having the same breed as his neighbor, such as the possi bility of exchanging bulls, and of owning good purebred bulls co-oper atively. These advantages are ob tained by those having grade herds as well as by those with purebreds. Then there is also the opportunity for taking advantage of special breed sales of surplus stock, and, lastly, the advantage of bringing the community together in other en deavors which usually result where there is but one breed. It might be added that these same thoughts are applicable to other kinds of live stock and poultry. With the Farmers In Vermont, grade A eggs sig nify that they are of the fourth grade. • • * In some states, grade A eggs are the best eggs, while in others they are second grade. * • • Clean straw makes a good mulch for strawberry plantings and helps protect them from winter damage. Many farmers make it a practice to inspect terraces for rodent holes. Filling them helps prevent terrace breaks. • * * Ten per cent of the total of eggs produced in the United States in re cent years is estimated to have gone into cold storage. * * • The United States has about four and one-half million colonies of hon ey bees that make about 160,000,000 pounds of honey a year. * * * Undersized pullets lay undersized eggs. * • • The common goose is the oldest of domesticated birds. * * * A proper fat ration for pullets ia necessary to obtain best egg produc tion, it is reported to the American Chemical society. • • • Dairy herd improvement associa tion members watch the production of their cows and also the quality and the cost of the feed.