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ARE YOU A STAMP BUG?
Stamp collectors have provided
$11,000,000 in pure profits for Uncle
Sam’s philotelic agency since its in
auguration. The Commentator
Magazine found that that are no less
than 10,000,000 stamp collectors in
the United States—one out of every
13 persons.
The selling of stamps is a vast, in
ternationally related activity, and
one of the major businesses of the
world. In New York city alone,
5,000 people are employed in the in
dustry. The total annual expendi
tures of collectors is above $100,-
000,000.
Some of the prices paid for stamps
are amazing. The one-cent magenta
of British Guiana, for instance,
brought $50,000 when sold at auc
tion in Paris some years ago. If
you’ve got a 1918 American air-mail
stamp with the airplane printed up
side down, it’s worth $4,500. One
1861 unused 12 cent head of George
Washington calls for no less than
$7 ,000 in the market. And if you
have a United States ten-cent, 1846,
stamp printed on bluish paper, you
may close up shop and take a year
off, for such a piece of paper is
worth $15,000.
THE FOOD STAMPS
The food stamp experiment will
be* tried in a half dozen cities. Any
relief family takes $16 of orange-
colored stamps and buys food, and as
a bonus gets $8 in blue stamps also
good for food purchases. Supposedly,
the family receives $8 in extra food
which costs them nothing, and sup
posedly increases consumption. This
supposedly reduces the costs of gov
ernment and justifies giving away
this surplus food. The merchant
gets' the' $8"And-iris —
bank for him. He, at least, is safe in
the food-stamp experiment.
If this scheme works out in a doz
en cities it will be made national If
it is a flop Secretary Wallace may be
depended upon to revise it (maybe
he’ll plow it under!) or give us
something new.
Sounds like a stomach-rpumping!
And it’s simple, too.
OLD AND USELESS, EH?
Between the ages of 70 and 83
Commodore Vanderbilt added about
100 million dollars to his fortune,
Kant at 73 wrote his “Metaphysics
of Ethics”, at 74 his Anthropology,
Tintoretta at 74 completed painting
the vast “Paradise,” a canvass 74 by
30 feet: while Verdi at 73 produced
his -masterpiece. “Otello”; at 79
“Falstaff,” and at 85 the famous
“Ave Maria.”
Cato at 80 began the study of
Greek; Gothe at 80 completed
“Faust.” At the early age of 89 Ten
nyson wrote “Crossing the Bar,”
while Titian topped all the boys by
painting his historic picture of the
“Battle of Lepanto” as a youngster
of 98.
The world is glad that these men
lived and labored to the end; but
let us hope that the big shot new
dealers get no such ideas of politi
cal longevity in their heads!
AS SMUG AS A JITTERBUG
OR WHAT’S GOING ON
You ought to know what the
younger generation in doing these
days. You wouldn’t want to be
classified as corny (old-fashioned),
now would you? Wouldn’t you rath
er be a hep cat (wise guy), good at
muggin’ (makin’ ’em laugh) ?
The Commentator Magazine went
out among the jitterbugs—at risk of
life and limb—and came back (slight
ly aching here and there) with a
translation of those mysterious words
known at “swing stuff,” which will
put you right in the groove (up to
date.) And we’re not jiving (kid
ding)! Here are a few:
Alligator—swing fan.
Beat my socks—broke.
Blowing his top—hot music.
Bunny—coat.
.Crawl into the nest—get some
sleep.
Dog house—bass fiddle.
Early black—evening.
Hipchick—snooty gal.
Killer-diller—thriller.
Licorice stick—clarinet.
Noise factory—piano.
Rug-cutter—good dancer.
Slush pump—trombone.
Tin ears—swing hater.
Togged to the bricks—dressed up.
c/hulo/Sm!
By DOROTHEA BRANDE
We are so accustomed to speak
of failure, frustration, timidity, as
negative things, that it is like being
invited to fight windmills when we
are urged to fight the symptoms of
failure.
In youth we seldom recognize the
symptoms in ourselves. We explain
our reluctance to getting started as
the natural timidity of the tyro; but
the reluctance stays, the years go,
and we wake in dismay to find that
what was once a charming youth
ful diflfidence in us is now something
quite different, sickly and repellent.
Or we find a convenient domestic
situation to • bear the brunt of ex
cusing us for never having got to
work in earnest. We could not leave
this or that relative lonely and de
fenseless.
Or we have the best of all rea
sons for not doing as well as we
might. Most of us are under the
necessity of choosing between work
and starvation, and the employment
we were able to find out when it was
imperative that we should begin
earning is not work for which we
are ideally suited .
When marriage and the raising of
a family have been undertaken, the
necessity is all the more urgent. We
might be willing to wait through a
few thin years if no one but our
selves would suffer, but to ask
others to do so takes more selfish
ness, and more courage, than most
of us can muster.
This necissity to fall upon the
first work we can find is alone
enough to explain why so few of
us ever manage to bring our plans
to fruition.
Often, at first, we have a firm
intention of not losing sight of our
real goal, in spite of the fact that
we must make a living at uncon
genial work.
We plan to keep an eye on our
ambitions, and to work at them by
hook or crook—evenings, week
ends, on vacations. But the nine-to-
five work is tiring and exacting: it
takes superhuman strength of
character to go on working alone
when the rest of the world is at
play, and when we have never had
any evidence that we should be suc-
cesssful if we continued, anyway.
And so without realizing it we
are swept into the current of the
Will to Fail. We are still moving,
and we do not see that our motion
is down-stream.
Most of us disguise our failure in
public; we disguise it most success
fully in ourselves. It is not hard
to ignore the fact that we are do
ing much less than we are able to
do, very little of what we had plan
ned even modestly to accomplish be
fore a certain age, and never, prob
ably, all that we had hoped.
One reason it is so easy to decieve
ourselves is that somewhere along
the way we seem silently to enter
into a sort of gentlemen’s agree
ment with our friends and acquaint
ances. “Don’t mention my failure
to me,” we tacitly plead, “and I
will never let the hint that you are
not doing quite all I should expect
of you cross my lips.”
So we slip through the world
without making our contribution,
without discovering all that there
was in us to do, without using the
most minute fraction of our abilities,
either native or acquired.
Yet we can escape by seeming at
first to go backward; by admitting
that there may be a real Will to
Fail, and next, that we may be its
victims.
HISTORY .... happiness
The only way to understand what
is going on in the world today is to
study what went on in the world in
the past. What we regard as “new”
problems are really very old prob
lems indeed. Human nature has not
changed since the earliest recorded
times, and people acted from the
same motives a hundred, a thousand
or ten thousand years ago as they
do now.
The only things that change are
the material enviroments with
which we are surrounded. What
every generation regards as “pro
gress’ is the effort, not always suc
cessful, to find new answers to
problems which hi ve baffled humani
ty from the beginni.-?? of time.
The main problem which mankind
has always faced is how to live in
comfort and safety with the mini
mum of labor. In our time we have
come nearer to finding the answer
to that problem than any people ever
did in the past.
But it is rather doubtful it seems
to me, that with all our machines
and inventions we have found the
road to the supreme goal of life,
which is happiness. The ideal of
every social organization must be
the great happiness of the greatest
number of its members. We are still
far from that.
DEFENSE repetition
This or any other nation, to pre
serve peace, must be ever ready to
defend its rights and protect its in
terest* and its honor.” That quota
tion sounds like something which,
might have been said in Congress
yesterday. It was said in Congress
—in 1839, just a hundred years ago.
Representative W. C. Johnson of
Maryland, pointed out that the
European situation was far from
satisfactory and the French fleet
was blockading the coast of South
America, pointed out that “the best
way to preserve peace in this age,
and perhaps in ages to come, is to
be formidably prepared for war.”
What Mr. Johnson advocated was
the enlargement of the Navy by
building more steam vessels. He
pointed out that there was only one
steam-powered craft in the whole
Navy, and expressed the belief that
steam had come to stay. The old
admirals of the sailing ships didn’t
agree, just as some old officers of
the Navy today think aircraft is all
nonsense.
NEWS crisis
Anyone who thinks that world con
ditions have changed greatly in
the past century might profit by
scanning the papers of a hundred
years ago, as I have been doing
lately. One noted British journalist
wrote in 1839 that “At a period
when our country is threatened with
hostilities by more than one of the
continental powers it is worth while
to consider the state of our colonial
possessions ”
That might have been written
yesterday. The English people were
as concerned then as they are now,
a hundred years later, over the ever
present danger of war.
Then, as now, the threat to Great
Britian was the loss of her colonial
possessions bordering on the seven
seas. “It is more than probable,”
the English newspaperman wrote,
“that the loss of several colonies
would be the result of those hostili
ties -with which, according to the
warlike preparations of the present
ministry, we are threatened.” That
is the major concern of the British
people in the present European
crisis.
TRANSPORTATION . . retarded
In 1839 the first proposal was
made in the congress of the United
States for a canal across the Isth
mus of Panama. A resolution was
adopted instructing the President to
consult with other nations involved
as to its feasibility.
At that time the United States
extended only to the Rocky Moun
tains, but we had a great shipping
trade with the Orient and ships had
to make the perilious voyage around
the tip of South America.
It was more than sixty years be
fore anything serious was done to
ward digging the Panama Canal,
more than 75 years before the canal
was finished.
Business, as usual was a long way
ahead of government in 1839 in pro
moting the use of new inventions. In
that year, when the Navy had only
one steamship, the legislature of
Louisiana voted to subsidize a cor
poration to build steamships to run
lines to Europe.
I have long thought that the most
serious result of the American Civil
War was that it interrupted our
rapid expansion in foreign trade and
gave Britian a chance to displace
this country as the world’s carriers
of merchandise.
CHANGES security
After studying pretty carefully a
file of old newspapers of a hundred
years ago, I can’t see that there have
been any changes of consequence in
the outlook of the general run of
people. There is still, as there was
in 1839, a considerable number of
SNAKES
The shortest chapter in any book
is chapter 27, of the Natural History
of Iceland and it reads: “There are
no snakes to be met with throughout
the whole island.”
So fearful were men of the slum
bering venom of the coiled snake,
that at one time Iceland was select
ed as a location for a colony for
those who feared serpents, and
many men left otherwise comfort-
tble homes in Europe to be free of
the dread of snakes and settled in
this relatively bleak and desolate
spot.
Since the beginning of time men
have feared snakes, when as a mat
ter of fact there are relatively few
snakes whose bites are lethal, and
the. snakes found about farms and
outhouses are the friends of man
kind for they eat small vermin
which each year would destroy
crops, grain and other food.
Undoubtedly the most dangerous
reptile in the world is the mamba,
a long, thin snake usually found in
Africa and Australia. Few survive
its bite and if we are to believe
those who have had experience with
this slithery thing, it often seeks
out its prey, with the express idea
of inflicting a lethal wound. Ab
origines and modern men dread to
be in the regions where this snake
abounds.
One of the most remarkable
stories about a mamba is the ex
perience of Carl von Hoffman, a
member of The Adventurers Club,
who has spent much of his time in
Africa and encountered this vicious
reptile frequently.
In one of his hikes from Cairo to
the Cape of Africa, he needed a
dark room to develop his photogra
phic plates, and owing to the intense
brightness of the sun, decided to dig
a hole eight by eight feet, in the
earth, into which he could go by
means of a ladder and there do his
work after letting down a trap door
above the opening in the ground.
For weeks he found his dark room
all that could be desired.
One night while working there his
foot touched something, and think
ing it was part of nis photographic
outfit he picked it up and turned his
rays from his red lantern upon it.
To his great surprise he had a mam
ba in his hands and in the corner
were several young ones. Dropping
the thing he made a hasty exit from
that improvised dark room, and
never used it again.
Evidently the coolness of the
night in this deep pit had rendered
these snakes torpid, for they made
no effort to attack him. Carl’s hair
is grey now and he says it was
black before that experience.
T. E. EPTING SPEAKS TO
BOOKSHELF MEMBERS
Professor T. E. Epting spoke to
the members of the Bookshelf club
at the home of Mrs. Theo Albrecht,
Wednesday, March 22. Mr. Epting
dealt with some interesting circum
stances attending the formation of
the constitution of the United States
with special emphasis on the far
sightedness of that document.
A review of Johnothan Daniels’
“A Southener Discovers the South,”
was given by Mrs. Aubrey Harley
and Rupert Hughes’ article on “No
Time to Read” presented by Mrs.
Albrecht completed the afternoon
meeting.
SPECIAL PALM SUNDAY PRO
GRAM AT REDEEMER CHURCH
The chior of the Lutheran church
of the Redeemer assisted by mem
bers from other choirs in the city
will present “The Passion in Music”
a special Palm Sunday program, at
the Redeemer church Sunday after
noon from 5:30 to 6:30. The pro
gram will be directed by Miss Eliza
beth Bischoff, organist and director
at the church.
Soloists include Jack Pruitt, violin
ist; Henry Jones, tenor; and Tom
Patrick, baritone. Music will be
from the “Crucifixion Olivet to Cal
vary’ and other sacred works.
folks who. want the Government to
do something for them or their spe
cial interests.
There is still, I am thankful to
say, a very large number of people
who don’t ask any favors.
The only fear I have for the future
of America is that we may get
so fixed in the habit of expecting
the Government to do everything for
us that we will be willing to give up
our natural liberties in exchange for
what seems, at the time, a greater
measure of economic security.
Going back into history a lot far
ther than a hundred years, I find
the records of many nations who
were sold on the same idea. The
only ones that have survived are
those whose people woke up and
threw out the governments which
undertook to tell everybody where
to head in. People have never got
ten anywhere but by individual hard
work and common honesty.
CARS HAD ODD NAMES
FORTY YEARS AGO
During the forty-odd years of
automobile making in America, about
1000 companies have built cars at
one time or another.
The names of their products con
tributed an interesting nomenclature
to the youthful industry. Among the
names of passenger cars of yester
year were:
Auto-go
Anger
Bugmobile
Club Car
Crouch
Crow
Darling
Dewabout
Farmobile
Gasmobile
Harvard
Imp
Kidder
Mighty Michigan
Pnuemobole
Red Bug
Stalic-Super
Zip
H-D COLUMN
By MISS ETHEL COUNTS
The most important result or pro
ducing vegetables on the farm is the
improvement which may be expected
in the health and food habits of the
family—not the saving of money
spent for these supplies. Medical
authorities and food specialists say
that to be healthy and strong and
active one should eat plenty of fruit
and vegetables.
Do not allow tomato plants to
grow long-legged. Transplant them
to other boxes or frames and give
each plant room to become stout
stemmed and stocky. If well hard
ened they may be set in the open 10
days earlier.
In setting tomato plants do not
follow the old rule of setting only
as deep as they stood in the seed
bed. This is not deep enough. A
good tomato plant is about eight
inches from the ground. Plants set
in this manner will have roots deep
enough to resist drought, besides
roots will come along the part of the
stem that is under the ground.
The following points are important
in raising healthy baby chicks:
FEED—After chicks are put in
the house, the feed largely deter
mines the success you have with
them. A simple, but wholesome and
well-balanced feed is necessary. Mix
the' following mash for the chicks
and give it to them from the time
they are put in the brooder house
until they are sold as broilers at the
end of the 10th to 12th week.
56 lbs. yellow com meal.
24 lbs. wheat middlings.
6 lbs. dried milk.
15 lbs fish meal.
1 lb. salt.
As much of the feed must be pro-
luced at home as possible if the
chicks are to be raised economically.
HOPPERS—Have enough hoppers
and waterers to keep chicks from
crowding. Allow one 4-foot hopper
for every 100 chicks. If small ones
are used allow one hole for every
two chicks. Whatever type hoopper
is used, homemade or bought, it
should have an adjustable reel to
keep the chicks out of the feed and
a lip on the inner edge to keep from
wasting.
WATERERS—Different types can
be used. The screw top one in
which a large ‘jar is screwed is in
expensive and easy to clean. Get
one of this type for every 25 chicks.
Place waterers on a- stand 2 inches
high and covered with 1-2 inch mesh
hardware cloth. Use only clean
fresh water and do not use all
kinds of disinfectants in it.
PERCHES—Eearly roosting is
necessary for best development.
Roost poles of 2” x 4’ material may
be put flat on the floor of the house
as soon as chicks show a tendency to
roost—when they are about 3. weeks
These should be raised each week
as chicks get older. Allow 4” to 6”
roosting space per chick.
RUN—Have house or coops on
clean ground. Provide wire yard or
run and keep it in cultivation. It
may be divided into sections so while
chicks are on one section the other
may be sown. Keep rape, rye, oats,
wheat qr some green growning in
yard or run all the time.
Throughout the brooding period:
SWEEP—SCRUB—SPRAY.
On Your Next
Paint
Job
TRY
Atheys
R. M. LOMINACK
Hardware
TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE
The Tax book* will be open for the
collection of 1938 taxes on and after
November 1, 1938.
The following is the general levy
for all except special purposes:
Mills
Ordinary County i 11
Bonds and Notes 7
Int. on Bonds A Notes 8V&
Roads & Bridges 2
Hospital . .i K
Con. School 8
County School i... 6%
County Board Ed ft
Total i 38
The following are the authorised
special levies for the various school
districts of the county:
No. District Mills
1. Newberry 17
2. Mt. Bethel-Garmany 4
3. Maybinton i 2
4. Long Lane 8
5. McCullough < $
6. Cromer •
8. Reagin ... .i $
9. Deadfall
10. Utopia S
11. Hartford i 0
12. Johnstone 6
13. Stoney Hill 5
14. Prosperity . .i 1$
15. O’Neall
18. Fairview
19. Midway . 4
21. Central
22. St. Philips
23. Rutherford ...
24. Broad River ..
25. New Hope-Zion 4
26. Pomeria . 12
27. Red Knoll > 6
28. Helena i.... 28
29. Mt. Pleasant . 4
30. Little Mountain 16V4
31. Wheeland 3
32. Union 4
33. Jolly Street i $
34. St. Pauls 9
36. Peak 4
37. Mudlic 6
38. Vaughnville i 6
39. Chappells 6
40. Old Town i 8
41. Dominick 8
42. Reedersville ... 16‘4
43 Bush River 10%
44. Smyrna • 10%
45. Trinity 8
46. Burton ' 8
47. Tran wood 10%
48. Jalap* 8
49. Kinards
50. Tabernacle t.... 8
61. Trilby 4
52. Whitmire i 12
63. Mollohon 4
54. Beth-Eden 8
56. Fork 8
67. Belfast i ,9
58. Silverstreet 12
59. Preesley 4
60. 9t Johns 4
There will be a 1 per cent discount
on general County Tax during Nov
ember.
On and after January 1, 1939, the
penalties prescribed by law will be
imposed on unpaid taxes.
Those who had their dog* vaccin
ated for rabies during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1938 by one
authorized by law, and expect to be
exempted from dog tax will please
bring their certificates of vaccination
when appearing to pay taxes.
You are requested to call for your
taxes by school districts in which
property is located. The Treasurer
is not responsible for unpaid taxes
not called for by districts.
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Notice! Cotton Seed For Sale
Mr. M. H. O’Neall won first State prize of $750, Mi.
E. O. Lightsey won first" prize of $200 for lower dis
trict, Mr. R. O. Rickenbaker, won first prize in the
middle district. All these farmers planted Coker’s
4-1 wilt resistant Cotton Seed.
I have these seed first year from Coker culled
and treated with 2 per cent Cresan dust and am only
asking $1.00 per bushel. If you want to make more
cotton on the acre see me.
H. O. LONG, Silverstreet, S. C.
New 1 York
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the Fair, animated with light, color
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