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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1939
ADVENTURERS* CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
‘Adventure in a Pickle Factory
H ello, everybody:
Well sir here’s a yarn that’s going to sound a sour note ia
our adventure saga. When I read it I thought of that old song,
“Down by the Winegar Woiks,” and I’d be willing to bet that
place was right next door to the one where John Mains, of Long
Island, had his life’s big adventure. You see, the concern John
works for is one of those outfits that catch juvenile cucumbers
before they get a chance to grow up, soak them in vinegar and
send them out into the world to decorate ham and cheese sand
wiches. John has a job in a pickle factory.
The factory is in East Northport—John’s home town—and I’m
willing to admit they’ve turned out some pretty good pickles
there. But if they keep on making pickles until pickles stop hav
ing warts, they’ll never turn out a tougher one than the pickle
John got in, just from trying to keep the machinery going and
the pickles moving out in a steady, uninterrupted acidulous
stream.
John is a machinist at that East Northport pickle foundry,
and it was on January 18, 1935, that he ran into Old Lady Ad
venture. The machinery in the factory is run by a big 50-foot
shaft suspended just below the ceiling. Belts running from this shaft
furnish the power to the various machines, and on this day one of the
belts had broken.
John was ordered to replace that broken belt, and be went
to work at it. The machinery, of course, was stopped while he
was doing the job. When he had finished he turned the power on
again to see how it worked. Well, it wasn’t working so well, at
that. The new belt was slipping. Now one way to stop a belt
from slipping is to wax it. So John got a can of wax and started
up the ladder toward the shaft. But this time he neglected to
shut off the power.
Ladder Slides Out From Under Him When He Reaches Top.
The machinery was still running, but John thought he could keep
Out of the way of those spinning wheels and pulleys. Besides, waxing
» belt is a lot easier when the motor is turning it for you. John reached
He was dazed—bewildered—gasping—when suddenly
! ! iiSfirn- his clothes started to rip.
the top of the ladder and went to work. But he had hardly started
when he lost his balance. And the ladder wont sliding out from under
him!
Instinctively, John threw his body to one side—and he landed
right up against the whirling shaft. The ladder went tumbling
to the floor, but John didn’t follow. In the few seconds while he
was jammed up against that shaft it had caught his clothing—
began twisting it around and around!
In two turns the shaft had taken up all the slack in those duds of
John’s. Then it began putting on the pressure. John felt his body being
squeezed until he thought his ribs would break. His chest was flattened
until he couldn’t breathe. He was hammered and pounded against
the ceiling until he was bruised and covered with blood. And still that
shaft twisted, and still it tightened the clothing around his body. There
was no one in the room at the time, and John couldn’t get enough
breath in his lungs to call for help. For a minute he thought he was
going to die there, alone, 15 feet from the floor and dangling in mid air.
He was dazed—bewildered—gasping—when suddenly his clothes started
to rip.
Again the shaft began turning, taking up the slack. It tore every
stitch of clothing from his back and arm, and didn’t stop until it reached
bis wrist. There the machinery began twisting the end of his sleeve—
twisting it so tightly that John thought sure it was going to take his
hand off.
^ His chest was free now of that terrible tension. He could
breathe—he could even have called for help. But by that time
John was too far gone to cry out. He hung dangling from the
shaft, the blood streaming down his body—conscious enough to
know what was happening to him, but not conscious enough to
do anything about it.
It was a thought that finally saved the day. All of a sudden
John thought of his wife and child. What would they say when
they learned what had happened to him. How would they get
along when John couldn’t bring home the weekly pay envelope
any more? “That thought roused me,” John says. “And then I
must have let out a scream. I don’t remember crying out, but
my brother, who also worked at the factory, and who was in the
next room, heard a yell and came running in to see what
was the matter/'
After Last Scream, John Loses Consciousness.
John’s brother didn’t come a minute too soon, either. For after that
last thought and that last scream he had lost consciousness. His brother
ran and shut off the power and then ran back and picked up the fallen
ladder. He climbed to the top, cut John loose with a pocket knife,
and carried him down that ladder on his back.
John’s brother rounded up a couple of other fellows in the factory
and they took John to a doctor. John was there quite a while before
he came to again. When the doctor heard what had happened he just
simply couldn’t see how John had managed to live through his experience
And that’s a thing John doesn’t quite understand either. “I
thought that I’d at least lose my arm,” he says, “but the doctor
fixed it up and now it’s in good shape again. When it was all over
I thought I was the luckiest man on earth. And I STILL think so.”
They’re still making pickles out in that factory at East Northport.
But it will be many a long day before they produce another one like
that one John got into. At least, I hope it will.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
few Process Produces Soft Coal From Sugar Cane
NEW YORK.—In an emergency,
American farmers may grow the
country’s soft coal in their fields.
The fact that fairly good soft coal
is now being made from sugars, the
carbohydrates of farm crops, was
reported to the American Institute
of Mining and Metallurgical Engi
neers by E. Berl, of the Carnegie
Institute of Technology.
The sugar coal is too expensive to
be practical, but was made to settle
an old controversy about the origin
of coal and oil.
In the Carnegie laboratories,
whose experts include some of the
leading scientists of the coal fields,
the artificial coal is made in two
ways. Sugar heated in water at
high temperature produces a sandy
form of coal.
When weak alkali is added to the
water, Berl said, “excellent coking
coals” are the result. Auding pres
sure to the hot sugar water in
creases the amount of carbon in the
man-made coal.
These farm-product coals, Berl
said, can be" treated with hydrogen
to make the same products which
the Germans and English obtain
from “hydrogenated” coal. Yhese
products include gasoline and oil for
motor cars.
The old idea, said Berl, that coal
came from the woody, or lignin,
part of plants is as dead as the idea
that petroleum is from dead fish.
He said that the Carnegie experi
ments show that coal, oil and bi
tumen all come from carbohydrates
in plants.
Sneaking of Sports
Bicycle Bob to
Race Champ in
20 Round Meet
By ROBERT McSHANE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
'T'HE present breathing spell in
heavyweight circles will end any
day now when the publicity tom
toms start thundering out their bal
lyhoo for the Pastor-Louis heavy
weight championship fight in Detroit
September 20.
Bicycle Bob is going to get one
more chance with the Brown Bomb
er. His first opportunity came on
January 27, 1937, in New York, when
Louis won the decision after 10
rounds in which Pastor’s sole strate
gy was well-planned retreat. It was
an awesome spectacle, to say the
least. Bob managed to keep well
out of striking distance, leaving
both dignity and his opponent as
far back of him as the ring ropes
would allow.
The Detroit bout is scheduled to
go 20 rounds. Jimmy Johnston, Pas
tor’s canny manager, insisted on it
for reasons best known to himself.
His insistence indicates that he
plans another footrace, and wants
as much time as possible in which
his fighter will have a chance to
wear Joe down and tire him out.
Other fighters have tried to keep
out of Joe’s range, but have been
singularly unsuccessful. The brown
boy from down Alabama way has
overtaken and tagged each one of
them. Joe is popularly supposed to
have picked up a few pointers from
Henry Armstrong. Pointers which
will help him overtake the fleetest.
Pastor’s Alibi
Of course, Pastor has an alibi for
the 1937 shambles. Or at least the
voluble Johnston has one for him.
At the time of the fight Pastor was
more or less a stooge because of the
rivalry that existed between John
ston and Mike Jacobs, both of whom
were seeking to control boxing in
BOB PASTOR
New York. Jacobs’ future plans
were built around Louis, and John
ston knew that if Louis looked bad
in the fight it would be a direct blow
at Jacobs. The plan, if such .here
was, worked out in pretty fair fash
ion.
Louis muffed every opportunity to
catch Pastor and knock him out.The
fight demonstrated that he didn’t
know how to carry the attack to an
opponent. Though Pastor was a
laughingstock, Louis dropped a few
points in the public’s estimation.
Too, there is the chance of a re
verse strategy. In view of the pre
vious fight, and taking the 20 rounds
into consideration as merely a bluff,
Johnston might send Pastor out
lunging at the sound of the opening
bell. In that case the spectators
would be sure of getting home early.
Louis will merely refuse to co-op
erate with the Johnston-Pastor cam
paign.
It wasn’t long ago that Gene Tun-
ney sang Bob’s praises. Albeit with
reservations. The former champion
gave Pastor credit for being able to
think, and called him the only one
of today’s heavyweights with even
an outside chance of beating Louis.
Lacks a Punch
Other experts blow hot and cold
over the young New York battler—
mostly cold. He is fast, shifty and
ring-wise. But he hasn’t a danger
ous punch. And to step into the
ring against Louis minus a lethal
wallop is tantamount to roping a
wild bull with a daisy chain.
Manager Jimmy was as happy as
a diplomat with a new umbrella
when his man went the route with
Louis. That’s one reason why the
next fight is likely to pursue the
same lines. Bob hasn’t the punch
ing power to trade with the champ,
and unless he back-pedals away
from Joe he seems doomed to end up
on the canvas in an early round.
Promoter Jacobs says the fight
will draw 5800,000 at the gate, and
early in August claimed to have
orders for more than 1,000 seats at
527.50 per copy. Professor Jacobs
is undoubtedly optimistic, but the
fight will have a good box office.
Detroit is one of the best sport towns
of the nation, and the event will
draw heavily from Chicago, St. Lou
is, Milwaukee, Cleveland and other
large cities of the surrounding area.
Even the loser’s end of the purse
will be big money, and that is very
fortunate for Bicycle Bob. It may
be his last chance to cut into the
heavy swag.
Do You Know?
Test your knowledge of sports. Allow
20 points for each correct answer. A
score of 60 is fair; 80, good; and 100,
excellent.
1— This California fighter, a dis
ciple of Yoga, ancient science of
exercises, will meet Tony Galen-
to in a 15-round heavyweight bout
in Philadelphia September 7. Who
is he?
2— What was the score of the
1939 Rose Bowl football game?
3— The National league record
for pitching consecutive hitless
innings is 21%. Who holds it?
4— What American tennis dou
bles team ranked No. 1 last sea
son?
5— What heavyweight cham
pionship fight drew gate receipts
of more than $2,000,000?
Answers at bottom of column.
Sport Shorts
"THE highest number of stolen
bases in any world series was 18
in 1907 . . . Mickey Cochrane, con
sidered by many the greatest catch
er of all time, was fired for losing
his first game by poor catching . . .
Max Schmeling is
no longer so enthusi
astic about his come
back. He must de
feat Galento, Pastor
and Nova before he
gets another chance
at Champion Joe
Louis . . . Last fall,
more than 2,000 high
schools, too small to
support 11-man foot
ball teams, played
six-man football . . .
“I will not permit 30
men to travel 400
miles merely to agitate a bag of
wind,” said President White of Cor
nell university in 1873, when the
University of Michigan challenged
Cornell to a football game to be
played at Cleveland with 30 men on
a side . . . The three men who have
driven cars faster than 300 miles
per hour are British subjects. They
are Sir Malcolm Campbell, Capt.
George Eyston and John Cobb . . .
The oldest sports contest at the pres
ent time is the Cambridge-Oxford
boat race. Starting in 1829, the two
British universities have met 90
times . . . National hockey league
owners would like to add St. Louis
to their circuit ... If the 1939
Notre Dame football team maintains
the 10-year cycle established 30
years ago, Elmer Layden will have
an undefeated team this fall. Notre
Dame was unbeaten in 1909, 1919
and 1929.
Joe Is Vindicated
LJ EADLINES were made recently
*■ -*■ when Tris Speaker was quoted
as saying he could name 15 better
outfielders than the New York Yan
kees’ Joe DiMaggio.
Peace was partially restored
throughout the nation when the old
“gray eagle” denied
the statement. It
wasn’t so, said Tris.
In fact, he wasn’t
sure he could name
even one better gar
dener. “I’ve always
considered DiMag
gio one of the great
est, and this year
he’s shown the hit
ting power everyone
expected from him
the first two.”
President Ed Bar-
row of the Yankees, when told of
the supposed remark, said:
“That’s a foolish statement for
old Spoke to make. I’ve been watch
ing them come and go longer than
he has, and as a matter of fact, he
can name just one better fielding
outfielder than DiMaggio is today.
That was Speaker, himself.* 1
But Tris recovered promptly, say
ing he thought Joe the best of today’s
outfielders, even though he hasn’t
had much chance to see the National
leaguers in action.
Perhaps Tris made the remark.
Chances are he made some such
statement during an unguarded mo
ment, exaggerating it for the sake of
argument.
Speaker’s chief complaint was
supposed to have been that DiMag
gio doesn’t play in close enough.
With a couple of men like Frankie
Crosetti and Joe Gordon in front of
him, Joe might well take things easy
with a comfortable seat in the
bleachers.
.THE ANSWERS
1—Lon Nova.
2 — Southern California 7,
Duke 3.
3— Johnny Vander Meer.
4— Don Budge and Gene Mako.
5 — Second Dempsey-Tunney
fight in 1927.
Japan’s Girls
Replace Men
In Industry
Women Fill Factory, Farm
Jobs as Army Claims
Manpower.
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
When a Japanese soldier leaves
his native soil to fight an "unde
clared” war what happens to the
job he left behind him? For just
] as important as a battle against
some Chinese war lord is the battle
on the nation’s labor front. Japan,
struggling for national self-sufficien
cy, is finding the answer to this
problem by filling vacant jobs with
its native girls and women.
In the large cities such as Tokyo,
Osaka, and Nagoya, are many west
ern-type factories. Some of these
are thoroughly up to date—cement
buildings, large windows, running
water and modern toilets, clinics,
and lunchrooms.
In a toothpaste factory in Tokyo,
the majority of jobs are filled by
girls-Ljso girls and only 70 men.
The girl workers fill tubes, paste
on labels, and pack the cartons,
on labels and pack the cartons. They
No. 2. MANUFACTURE. Be
cause the army needs men fac
tories of every type have been
forced to replace male workers
with young girls. Here is a Japa
nese maid bringing in wood to be
made into charcoal. Other indus
tries in which these girls find em
ployment include the manufacture
of shoes, clothing, glass, pottery,
toothpaste and a host of others.
stand at long tables from 7 in the
morning until 5 in the afternoon.
Forty minutes for lunch and two rest
periods of ten minutes each are their
only chances to sit down.
The manager who shows you
around points proudly to the rooms
where the employees change from
street to work clothes, and to the
laundry with running water where
the uniforms are washed.
Outnumber Men 4 to 1.
In a stocking and rubber shoe fac
tory near Osaka again the majority
of workers are women and girls—
4,000 girls to 1,000 men. Some work
at sewing machines, others pack the
finished product. The girls wear
white cloths over their hair, but no
masks to protect their lungs.
To questions as to age, hours of
work, and living conditions, the pro-
No. 4. AFTER HOURS. West
ern ideas have made inroads into
the workaday life of the Japanese
girls but with these new ideas of
work has also come a trend to
ward new recreational activity.
These two Japanese girls are walk
ing out on the court for a game of
tennis. The one on the left even
wears shorts like many an aspirant
for court honors among American
women players.
prietor answers that the girls live in
the neighborhood and have lunch in
the factory.
j One of Japan’s largest industries
is the preparing of the raw silk
(skeins of silk thread) to be sent to
Europe and America. This work is
done in factories called silk filatures
which are practically staffed with
girls and young women.
To the onlooker, the job itself
Max
Schmeling
Joe DiMaggio
No. 1. BUSINESS. The commer
cial field in Japan ha.', claimed
many young girls as stenographers
and clerks. Some of these girls are
educated in the United States and
have adopted American office tech
nique. However, the stenographer
pictured here is using a typewriter
with an oriental keyboard. This
keyboard has 2,200 symbols and
as a result is much slower than the
western type machine.
seems most trying, since each girl
has to watch constantly the silk
feeding onto 20 spindles. To do this,
she must stand all day, and her
hands are continually in and out of
basins of hot water, pulling the silk
strands from the cocoons and direct
ing them over the tiny wheels to
the spindle above. The workers of
the silk filature are on a contract
basis and live in one part of the
factory called the dormitory.
To any section suffering from
famine managers of factories go and
make contracts with the families of
girls. The family receives a sum
of cash to help them carry on until
the next good harvest, and the girl
pays for it by serving three or four
years in the filature. After her con
tract is fulfilled, she goes home
and is married to a young man
whom her family has chosen.
By far the greater number of
Japan’s factories are small work
shops manned perhaps by two or
three workers, or at most by 10 to
25. Some of these are family con
cerns, in which the women and girls
of the family help. Others are
neighborhood enterprises, to which
the local girls and women flock.
Tokyo Glass Factory.
In any street may be heard the
soft whir of looms or the clang-
No. 3. FARMING. One of Ja
pan’s chief needs at the present
time is food for its soldiers on
China’s war fronts. Now, as at no
other time in history, Japanese
women have turned to the fields
to provide this food. Pictured here
are young girls picking weeds from
a field of rice.
ing and banging of heavy machin
ery. A few of these illustrate how
vast numbers of Japan’s women are
employed.
In a glass factory in Tokyo,
housed in fragile wooden F ildings,
women sort, wash, and pack the
glassware. Floors are simply well-
packed earth, and the window open
ings small. The furnaces make
the heat insufferable even on a cool
day.
Tokyo also has a concern which
makes metal fixtures, heads for
electric-light bulbs, tops for candy
bottles and vanity cases—heavy ma
chine work. Machinery is placed so
close together that you fear to pass
through a room lest you be caught
by some part of your clothing.
Women and girls with rounded
shoulders squat before machines
crudely made by the concern itself,
fashioning the covers and bulb
ends. Some of the girls are barely
14 or 15; some are middle-aged
or old women. One woman with
bad eyesight bends and squints over
her work.
As you ascend the scale of em
ployment, the Japanese woman is
not missing. Telephone girls, typ
ists, or copyists throng the business
offices. The telephone girls are, on
the whole, older than the clerks.
Many of them are married. The
typists are higher school students,
ranging in age from 18 to 20. Some
use the native instrument; others,
who know English, are trained to
use the modern machine.
The oriental typewriter has a
board containing more than 2,200
symbols, including some 2,000 Chi
nese ideographic characters, two
kana, or syllabary systems of 51
symbols each, the English alphabet
(both small and capital letters),
and the Arabic numerals.
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
AGENTS
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OLD COINS
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Tell me what you have. L. E. ELLISON*
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Comprehensive Report
Such beauty and personality as
a strange girl applying for a job
in a small town store possessed!
The boss could not resist. Even
though she was entirely without
experience he believed that she
would be a good business getter.
Carefully, he instructed her, and
as he showed her how to operate
her cash register, he added:
“Remember now to ring up the
result of every sale.”
He watched her for a while and
was astonished to see her go so
often to the cash register. He
noted that she went there once
for even prospective customers.
He found that she was ringing
up, time after time, “No Sale.”
Common Sense
About Constipation
A doctor would tell you that the
best thing to do with constipation
is get at its cause. That way you
don’t have to endure It first and
try to cure It afterward—you can
avoid having It.
Chances are you won’t have to
look far for the cause If you eat
the super-refined foods most
people do. Most likely you don’t
get enough “bulk”! And “bulk”
doesn’t mean a lot of food. It
means a kind of food that Isn’t
consumed In the body, but
leaves a soft “bulky” mass In the
Intestines.
If this is what you lack, try
crisp crunchy Kellogg's All-Bran
for breakfast. It contains just the
“bulk” you need.
Eat All-Bran every day, drink
plenty of water, and "Join the
Regulars.” Made by Kellogg’s In
Battle Creek. Sold by every grocer.
Valuable Reading
We may read, and read, and
read again, and still find some
thing new, something to please,
and something to instruct.—
Hardis. ^ j
Need of Encouragement
It takes a good deal of encour
agement to counteract the natural
despondency of the artistic tem
perament.—Veronica.
SAVE MONET!
The first time you try Winter-
smith’s Tonic, you’ll probably want
to test it—so you’ll buy the small
size. But after you know Win-
tersmith’s, remember that you get
more for your money when you
use the Mammoth Size. The 50-
cent size contains 10 doses—the
$1.00 size contains 24. That’s prac
tically the same thing as getting
four full doses free.
WINTERSMITH'S
I. TONIC
WNU—7 33—39
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