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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1939 TIPS to Lrardeners Helping Seeds Along T'HE first step toward insuring germination of seeds is proper planting. In exceptionally dry weather, however, even properly planted seeds may not germinate. It is advisable in such a case to pre pare the dry soil for the seed. Wa ter freely, as though you had a crop growing. Allow the water to soak in and when the soil has good moisture content, begin your planting. You must be careful, of course, not to plant in wet, muddy soil. Excessive rainfall, on the other hand, may make the soil so moist as to cause rotting. K seeds have not germinated within a reason able length of time after planting, a few of them should be dug up and examined. If rotting is indi cated, another planting must be made. While few vegetable seeds re quire special treatment to assist germination, numerous flower seeds can successfully be treated, according to Harry A. Joy, flower expert. He advises as follows: Nick the seed coat of lupin, moonflower and morning glory; remove the tough outer coating of nasturtium, mo- mordica, castor bean and sand verbena; soak canna lily, job’s tear and sweet pea seeds in water tor 12 hours before planting. Man’s Effort Art is the effort of man to ex press the ideas which nature sug gests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own be ing, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.—Bulwer-Lytton. HOW TO RELIEVE COLDS Stapiy Follow These Easy Directions te Ease the Pain and Discomfort and Sore Throat Accompanying Colds THE SIMPLE WAY pictured above often brings amazingly fast relief from discomfort and sore throat accompanying colds. Try it. Then — see your doctor. He probably will tell you to con tinue with the Bayer Aspirin be cause it acts so fast to relieve dis comforts of a cold. And to reduce fever. 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FDR Still Grips Public Fancy After 6 Years in Limelight Unpredictable Now as in 1933, President May Run for Third Term If Success Seems Likely By JOSEPH W, La BINE Six years ago come March 4 Franklin Roosevelt kissed the Holy Bible and promised to defend the United States constitu tion. Those six years have been the most unpredictable, topsy turvy years in modem American history, because an unpredict able man has been President. Once surrounded by an aura of quiet dignity, the White House has emerged a nerve center of the nation, the local point of more eyes and ears than ever before watched a chief executive in his house of glass. Six years of Roosevelt have jarred America from its inertia—whatever else you may say about the New Deal— and made people think about <S> their government in terms of economics instead of politics. They have made the most conservative Republican re alize that a growing democ racy must be a changing democ racy, though not necessarily with so many changes as Mr. Roosevelt has offered. That’s a matter for debate. But the most amazing feature is that six years have not dulled America’s interest in this toy called the New Deal. Whether pro or con, arguments are stiff as heated, still filled with as much fresh fighting fodder as in the days of “alphabet soup” and the blue eagle. The an swer lies not in the people but in the man, a President whose impul siveness, whose quicksilver mind and aptness at sensing the public trend has kept foe and friend in a six-year dither. Still a Mystery Man. Franklin Roosevelt has shattered more precedents than all his prede cessors put together, and in some cases it was a fine idea. Since the day he flew dramatically from Al bany to Chicago and accepted the presidential nomination, he has been administering constant psy chological rabbit punches to the na tional vertebrae. Yet, after six years of the most withering pub licity any man ever experienced, he remains an enigma whose per sonal habits and mental processes are misunderstood by the millions who follow him. There have been sample suspi cions, as when the Supreme court enlargement plan fell like a stench 0"' r-J’F'''*"; "I- jf ^ MOST TRAVELED—Surpass- ing all other Presidents—even Taft—Mr. Roosevelt watches the public pulse on his jaunts across the country. Here is his special train at Pueblo, Colo., last summer. bomb, or when the White House tried to “purge” undesirable Dem ocrats in last year's election. More recent has been the series of judi cial appointments in direct defiance of a frowning, independent seventy- sixth congress. At the time it seemed impossible that these unpopular moves should have originated with a master psy chologist, if such the President is. But they did, and still the average Roosevelt devotee does not know what Gen. Hugh S. Johnson has dis covered about the President. He is, says the outspoken “Irpnpants,” a strict opportunist who will try any thing if he thinks he can get away with it. Loves the Spectacular. This impulsiveness goes with Mr. Roosevelt’s flair for showmanship and the spectacular. He is prob ably the most convincing orator ever to occupy the White House, and if he sees an audience is with him anjithing might happen. As witness the Maryland “purge” speech last autumn when he de parted from carefully worded man uscript to make public endorsement of Rep. David J. Lewis for the sena torial post then—as now—held by Millard Tydings. There is evidence, however, that the Supreme court reorganization fiasco may not have been an im pulsive, stubborn gesture. Though congress balked like an unbroken horse over this unheard-of proposal, it was stirred to passage of a meas ure permitting retirement of jus tices at full pay. Subsequently, via deaths and retirement, Mr. Roose velt has been able to fill four vacan cies with “liberal” justices. Generally speaking, the White House of Mr. Roosevelt’s day knows what it’s doing, thanks to new methods of gauging public senti ment. He isn’t America’s most widely traveled President for noth ing; these excursions provide a choice method of getting reactions. MOST PERSONABLE — The quick-witted President shares a joke with Vice President Garner at the Jackson day dinner in Washington shortly after con. gress convened. Nor is Mr. Roosevelt’s unprecedent ed use of the radio to no avail; from sheaves of telegraphic re sponses he learns how the wind is blowing. Questions Visitors. Each day he reads 10 to 15 news papers from scattered sections of the country. His incoming mail to tals 4,000 letters a day compared with President Hoover’s 400. A steady stream of callers files daily through the white doorway that has become the No. 1 interview and picture spot in Washington. If six years have changed the nature of the Presidency, they have also changed domestic life in the White House itself. No- less ener getic and unpredictable than her husband is Mrs. Roosevelt, who has done considerable precedent shat- .tering in her own right. Often away from home (she was recently found to be more popular than her husband), Mrs. Roosevelt leaves many ordinary duties in the hands MOST ‘SPEECHABLE’—Pre*- ident Roosevelt’s radio voice, among the best in the land, is not heard so frequently as during the first term. Here he addresses the Mobilisation for Human Needs over a nation-wide radio hook-up. of Miss Margaret LeHand, the “Missy” who doubles in brass as the President’s secretary, guardian and sometimes hostess. Although the 1939 version executive mansion stiff has its rigidly formal diplo matic banquets, a sample evening guest list is more apt to include a cabinet member, a novelist, a la bor leader and two or three mis cellaneous visitors. Then, too, the President is a hob byist. It takes a heap of shelf space to hold his ship models, and his stamp collection provides a fra ternal tie with another group. Popularity Stiff Stands. The essence of this discussion is that President Roosevelt still main tains his peisonal popularity even though most people think his New Deal has gone through the wringer via court rebuffs and congressional perverseness. Whether this has happened is debatable; most of his advocated principles have actually been adopted. Still to come, pro vided congress is willing, are more measures along these liberal lines, plus amendments and corrections to existing legislation. The President maintains we were something like 30 years behind when he took office in 1933. Most of that time has been caught up but we’ve still a few years to go. Answering critics who maintain he has forced reforms too abruptly, Mr. Roosevelt points out that Lloyd George did an even more radical job in England 25 years ago. Halfway through his second term, the President has yet to settle the issue of a third term, but keen ob servers think he really wants it. / s before he will probably jump if the chances look good, and another precedent will go smash. The core of this problem is that he wants the New Deal program preserved above all else; if another man can dc it, fine. If not it must be Roosevelt. For obvious reasons this points to a third term. First, New Deal a(nd Roosevelt are inseparable in me public mind. Second, last autumii’s “purge” failure showed what the President’s magnetic personality can do for himself, it cannot ido for others. But you can’t make predictions-- F. D. R. is unpredictable! © Western Newspaper Union. 7 New Subway Car Has 3 Parts; Or Is It Three Cars in On^ NEW YORK. — This month a weird looking 80-foot car will pop through Manhattan’s subway tun nels, inaugurating a new era in rapid transit. Streamlined, noise less and comfortable, it will attract even more attention because it’s actually three cars in one! The new unit was perfected after five years of research by scientists purposely chosen from outside the transportation field so they would not be hampered by traditional de signs. It has three segments to reduce the weight on each axle of the four underlying trucks. Specially lighted for reading and general illumination (two kinds), featuring thermostatically con trolled temperature and air condi tioning, the new cars will sit 84 people. It will stand 200. Working in automatic sequence are three types of brakes, the first utilizing the car’s generators, the second a magnetic principle and third a mechanical process. Light construction was emptha- sized in the car, built at Baltic Creek, Mich., by the Clark Equip ment company in co-operation wtith engineers of the Aluminum Corni- pany of America and the B. Pi’. Goodrich company. A new typ e rubber spring was developed to sui - port the body, resembling a round ed pyramid or a horizontally ridged cone whose ridges descend one bj one when the body strikes a bump Wheels also use rubber to advan tage in absorbing shock. Bounc ing will be further reduced sinc« the body is made of light-weight aluminum. Total weight on the rails is one-third less than that of( conventional cars. With twice the power, they start and stop as fast as a large automobile. Proven suc cessful in lowering operating and maintenance costs, the new rubber- protected trucks also increase speed and safety. Complete Network of Markers Guide U.S. Coast, Inland Boats Symboliccd of the new and the old in light houses, these two mariners’ guides stand at the entrance of Chesapeake bay. The masonry tower at the left was the first lighthouse built by the United States government from an appropriation made in 1790. Its suc cessor, brightly colored, was built several years ago. Prepared by National Geographic Society# Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. Most people, thinking of lighthouses as standing by the sea, do not realize to what extent inland waterways are also marked. The navigable waterways of no other continent can com pare in extent and importance with those of North America, which comprise the St. Law rence and the Great Lakes; the Mississippi river system; the Atlantic and Gulf intra coastal waterways; the Alaska in side channels, and such long river and bay approaches to great sea ports as Delaware bay, Chesapeake bay, the Mississippi river passes, and the Columbia. Many of these are marked for seagoing vessels, others for shallow-draft boats. The Atlantic coast inland water way, from Cape Cod to Key West, is about 1,900 miles in length, and is marked by 3,200 aids to naviga tion. The lower portion.of this route, south from Norfolk, is a combina tion of natural channels and arti ficial cuts, and is a winding, pic turesque passage. The special type of beacon best adapted to the Florida waterway is a simple palmetto pile, sunk by wa ter jet into the mud. The top of the pile carries a finger board pointing toward the channel. Markers Break Loose. With many vessels and tows going through the passages, which are often narrow and crooked, it is a busy job for a lighthouse tender to keep these markers in place. This interesting channel lures scores of private yachts to balmier climates in winter, and much commercial traffic moves over some sections of it. The Mississippi river system in cludes about 4,500 miles of naviga ble waterways, and is marked by nearly 5,000 small lights and buoys. Its once heavy traffic developed and Lighthouse without sea! This North Carolina brick and wooden lighthouse, 140 years old, now stands embarrassedly in a bog, far from water. But once Fort Caswell was an island and the old light with its gingerbread scroll work was a guide through the channel. The channel has long since been filled up but the dur able old light still remains. reached its zenith before the days of marking the channels. In 1874, when the first navigational lights were placed on the Mississippi, the river already carried 1,100 steam boats, besides other craft. Mark Twain describes graphical ly the job of a young pilot “learn ing the river,” and memorizing “the shape of the river in all the different ways that could be thought of.” He refers to piloting on “vast streams like the Mississippi and Missouri, whose alluvial banks cave and change constantly, whose cnags are always hunting up new quarters, whose sand bars are never at rest, iwhose channels are forever dodging land shirking, and whose obstruc- tions must be confronted in all nights and all weathers without the aid of a single lighthouse or a single buoy, for there is neither light nor buoy to be found anywhere in all these thousands of miles of villain, ous river.” Floods Imperil Buoys. Lights on the lower Mississippi were maintained during the period of the great flood of 1927 under the most trying circumstances. Near Natchez a keeper was driven from his house, which was flooded to the eaves; yet no matter how high the water got, he kept his light going. As the river rose, the lantern was raised several times by adding to its support. Homes in the vicinity were flooded to their roofs, and it is a mystery where the keepers found shelter. The keeper of Windy Point light, on Grand Lake, La., reported: “I am yet on the job, but the water has run me out of my house. I have the oil on some logs. I will stay out here. All is well.” When an incoming steamer reaches Ambrose lightship, picks up the pilot and heads for New York, it soon passes between two large lighted buoys marking the actual entrance to Ambrose channel. On the right side is a quick-flashing red light and bell, on the left a quick flashing white light and whistle. The ship then follows six miles of a dredged channel. 2,000 feet wide and 40 feet deep, lighted with fre quent buoys on either side and spe cial markings at turns. Large lin ers, which formerly waited for the tide, now pass in and out of New York harbor under all conditions but that of dense fog. U. S. Has 10,900 Buoys. Along other coasts and at harbor entrances, buoys mark the sides of the channels as well as shoals, rocks, or wrecks. Their upkeep is an endless task for the fleet of light house tenders, which constantly pick up and set out the buoys, restore them to their proper stations, bring them in for their annual overhaul, and supply the lighted buoys with tanks of compressed acetylene gas. This country now has over 1,640 lighted buoys, and a total of over 10,900 buoys of all types and sizes, not including the number of reliefs. Despite unceasing care, buoys sometimes break away in storms, are tom loose by passing vessels, or sink. Some have had strange ad ventures and to them poets have often ascribed human attributes. There is Kipling’s poem, “The Bell Buoy,” find Southey’s “Inchcape Rock.” A strange story is that of the Frying-Pan Shoals Buoy 2A FP, which a few years ago broke from its moorings off the North Carolina coast and set out for the open sea. It was 40 feet long, weighed 12 tons, with light and whistle, and cost $8,000. Recovered In Ireland. This runaway buoy drifted over into the Gulf Stream and sailed for Europe. Though sighted and report ed many times, no vessel recovered it. Finally a French steamer saw it approaching the Irish coast and lighthouse authorities there were notified. After 13 months at sea and a voy age of about 4,000 miles, 2A FP (the “FP” stands for “Frying-Pan”) was washed ashore off Skibbereen, County Cork. Sounding its whistle day and night, another buoy broke away from near Nantucket shoals light ship, drifting 3,300 miles in 19 months, circling between Bermuda and the Atlantic coast. In some waters around New York, traffic is rough on buoys. Wooden spar buoys, formerly used, were sometimes cut down more than once in a single day. Now wooden spars hive been replaced by light steel buoys, which can better resist colli sions and the slashing of ships’ pro pellers. In areas below the Narrows, where tow barges pass out to sea, it became necessary to protect the lighted buoys from the towlines by putting teeth or cutting-knives into the upper structure /at the buoy. Strong was the language of irate tug- men when they discovered the pur pose of this contraption, which one of them termed • “cussed porcu pine buoyI” Angora is all the rage and you, too, can be right in style with the help of your knitting needles. If it’s glamor you are after, make the bclero, so lovely for evening wear at any season; use white, black or a pastel shade. The blouse, with its smart ribbed ef fect, is just the thing for wear under a suit. Pattern 6285 con tains directions, for making blouse and bolero in sizes 12 to 14 and 16 to 18; illustrations of it and of stitches; materials needed. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Cir cle, Household Arts Dept., 259 West 14th Street, New York, N. Y. Please write your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. KICK U0TES AMERICAN CREED I /~\UR nation was founded upon the principles of responsible citizen ship and baa grown great upon that foundation. Personal freedom and equality of opportunity under the pro- tectioi of the law have been—and, I fervently hope, always will be—an abid ing treed and a zealously guarded way •f life of the American people.”— Cordell HuU, V. S. Secretary of State. Why do yon use Luden’s for your cold, Mary? MSWER They offer relief—plus an alkaline factor! LUDEN'S 5< MINTHOL COUGH DROPS Seeking Pleasure v Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought.—Johnson. Head colds do make you feel miserable. Do this for relief: Put 2 drops Penetro Nose Drops in each nostril The astringent like action of the ephedrine and other medication relieves congestion, permits freer nasal breath ing. Soothing; cool ing, quick-acting to relieve Irritation. PENETRO drop! 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