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■U THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1940 16,009 Killed at Work Last Year ♦- 106,000 Suffered Permanent Injury and 1,407,000 Brief Disability. WASHINGTON.—At least 16,000 persons were killed, 106,000 suffered permanent impairment of working functions and 1,407,000 sustained temporary disabilities while at wori: in 1939, according to a survey of occupational accidents made in that year by the bureau of labor statis tics. Among workers paid by employers 14,600 were killed, 91,500 sustained permanent impairment and 1,250,- 000 were temporarily disabled. Vic tims of the other deaths and acci dents were self-employed. Record by Industries. Agriculture had the highest cas ualty record with deaths estimat ed at 4,300 and 13,000 permanent and 240,000 temporary disabilities. The construction industry was next with 2,800 employed and 400 self- employed persons killed. The whole sale and retail trade followed with 1,400 deaths of employed persons and 400 of self-employed. Manufac turing and mining each accounted for 1,600 deaths, service and miscel laneous industries for 1,400, rail roads for 800, miscellaneous trans portation for another 800 and public utilities for 500. Reports from 19,423 manufactur ing establishments showed that dis abling injuries increased from 15.07 for every 1,000,000 employee hours worked in 1938 to 15.43 in 1939. The logging and sawmill industries showed the highest percentage in the manufacturing field. The log ging rate was 112.36 and that of the sawmills 51.48. In the non-manufacturing field the construction industry stood out as the most hazardous, with an injury frequency rate of 61.84 per 1,000,000 employee hours worked. Worth While to Answer Other People’s Phones LONGMEADOW, MASS—Answer ing other people’s telephone calls can be turned into a profitable busi ness. Mrs. Helen S. Usher got the idea about two years ago, and with a battery of extension telephones at her home she handles after-hours calls for several Springfield fuel oil companies, acts as liaison agent for a Boston manufacturing concern and routs repair men in the middle of the night, for emergency repair jobs. This service, operated on a 24-hour basis, is growing rapidly, and Mrs. Usher plans to expand operations to incorporate the functions of waking tired business men by telephone and reminding forgetful patrons in ad vance of birthdays, wedding anniver saries and important business ap pointments. Most Venomous Snake The bushmaster, a member of the rattlesnake family found in the jungle, is the largest and most ven omous snake known, sometimes reaching a length of nine feet. It is the only snake known to pursue human beings, following its attack with a series of vicious lunges of its long fangs. While it has no rat tle, the tail terminates in a horny spur which when struck against the ground produces a rattling noise. Public utilities had a low injury rate, with only 8.24 disabling in juries per million employee-hours worked. Street car and bus trans portation had the highest frequency rates of that industry grou^, 17.58 and 15.50 respectively. The lowest rate in that group was 2.36 for the telephone industry. For the first time the department reported injury statistics for whole sale and retail trade establishments and for hotels and restaurants. For wholesale establishments only the frequency rate was 11.26. Retail stores, excluding restaurants, had a rate of 8.77. Business embodying wholesale and retail operations had a frequen cy rate of 25.62, as high as those in some of the more hazardous manu facturing industries. Restaurants had a rate of 12.34. The experience of hotels was somewhat more ad verse than that of restaurants, as indicated by the rate of 14.65. Dry cleaning and laundry establishments had a combined rate of only 6.77. King George Quite a ‘Shot’ During a recent inspection tour of a gun factory that is operating night and day under war pressure, King George tried out a Bren machine gun. He put 60 bullets in or close to the bulls-eye at 20 yards, and re marked: “I had no idea the gun was so steady.’' The king has made a number of personal inspections in factories lately. Thornton Burgess ! * * * * * * # < « • • * A* m *0 m C M MM m ** * * a ^7 X * JENNY WREN HAS AN IDEA JENNY WREN had been gossiping ** with Drummer the Woodpecker. You know, Jenny is one of the great est gossips in ffie Old Orchard. Of course the thing they gossiped about mostly was the unpleasant state of affairs in the Old Orchard since Bully the English Sparrow had come out from the city to make his home there. “Something ought to be done “Something onght to be done about it,” sputtered Jenny Wren. about it,” sputtered Jenny Wren. “Did you ever see such quarrel some, unpleasant people?” Drummer slowly shook his head. “No,” said he, “I never did. While I don’t wish them any harm, I do wish that they could be made to leave the Old Orchard. Why, if things keep up this way next year we’ll all have to look somewhere else for homes. No one will want to come back here. I suppose you heard how Bully was whipped yes terday by Scrapper the Kingbird.” “Heard about it!” exclaimed Jen ny. “Why, I saw it, and I never was so tickled in all my life. It served him just right. I wonder if we can’t get Scrapper to drive Bully out of the Old Orchard altogether.” Drummer thought this over for a few minutes. •Then he shook his head. “I don’t believe it’s the least bit of use to ask him,” said he. “Scrapper is always ready to fight when he sees any real danger or someone comes poking around his home as Bully did yesterday. But Bully isn’t likely to bother him again, and as he lives down in the far corner of the Old Orchard he isn’t likely to come up here looking for trouble. You know, he never goes far from home. You might ask him, but I don’t believe it will be of the least bit of use.” “Nothing gained in this world without trying,” replied Jenny. “I’ll go ask him right away.” In almost no time at all she was back. “It was just as you said it would be,” said she. “He says that this is a free country, and that Bully has just as much right here as we have. As long as Bully doesn’t both er him he has no quarrel with him. We’ve got to think of some other way of getting rid of him.” “Qf course,” said Drummer, after they had thought and thought, “we don’t want any real harm to come to Bully or Mrs. Bully, but if some thing could happen to their home perhaps they would go away. Now, if Sammy Jay should take it into his head that their eggs would make him a good breakfast they might, they just might, get discouraged and move away.” “Nothing doing,” replied Jen ny, promptly. “That hole where their nest is in is too deep for Sam my to reach the eggs, as you ought to very well know, for you made it. But the idea is a good one. Now, I wonder if Chatterer the Red Squir rel wouldn’t be interested if he knew that there are eggs there. I be lieve I’ll just put a flea in his ear, as the saying is. Of course, it doesn’t seem right, but we have got to do something. We can’t go on this way. Of course I wouldn’t even suggest such a thing to Chatterer The Roman Phalanx of 1940 A. D. Julius Caesar’s “phalanx” of close-packed Roman legions who formed an armored roof with shields cov ering their advance, is improved upon by the modern “Caesar.” Here are today’s Roman “phalanx” armored legions that comprise part of Italy’s war machine. These tanks are ultra-modern, many being equipped with flame projectors. World War Letters Catch Up With a Vet BEVERLY, MASS. — Gregory P. Connolly has received four let ters which were mailed to him while he was serving with the American army in France dur ing the World war. They were forwarded to him by a French officer who found the letters in the bureau of a house where he now is billeted near the Maginot line. Accom panying the letters was a note: “I am fulfilling a duty and also a pleasure to send you this cor respondence which will bring back to you, perhaps, pleasant memories.” as stealing those eggs. That would be too dreadful. But if he should hear that there are eggs there he might, he just might, take a notion that he wanted them. There he is now over on the Old Stone Wall. I believe I’ll just fly over and pass the tijne of day with him.” With a jerk of her funny little tail off flew Jenny Wren in the di rection of the Old Stone Wall. €> T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service. Ups By V.V. IF YOU have little broken ten * purple veins around your nose or chin, you can camouflage them by using a specially shaded foundation and then patting matching talcum powder over the area. This tech nique is used for pimples and scars, too. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Deer Menace Orchards In ‘Land of Evangeline’ KENTVILLE, N. S.—Western No va Scotia may be a game hunter’s paradise,' but Annapolis valley or- chardists take no comfort in the fact. Unless immediate action is taken in the country, known as the “Land of Evangeline” because of Longfel low’s epic poem, orchards will be wiped out, according to a warning by A. D. Pickett, dominion entomolo gist. The Nova Scotia Fruit Growers association followed Pickett’s warn ing with a request to the provincial government that they be allowed to kill deer at all times, with no sea son or bag restrictions, to keep them from nibbling the trees. Glass Blocks Ancient Many indications have been found that glass blocks first were manu factured many centuries ago, pos sibly as long ago as 2,000 years. Recently a panel of glass blocks was found in an ancient wall in Germany which apparently had been p-i there by the Romans dur ing their occupation of that part of Europe. The blocks were evident ly handblown. OLD PUERTO RICAN FORTIFICATIONS BEING MODERNIZED SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.—San Juan’s famous Spanish fortifications are undergoing extensive alterations as part of a program conducted by the United States to bring them up to the standards of modern military requirements. Built in the Sixteenth century, El Morro, San Cristobal and San Geronimo are regarded as miracles of military architecture, but wholly inadequate as defense bastions against modern methods of military and naval attacks. Recently constructed as part of the program is Fort Miles, a modem military fort complete with anti-air craft and coast defense batteries for the protection of San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico. “Fort Miles is designed to defend the city of San Juan from a land, sea or air attack,” said an army of ficial. “It is also the first independ ent fort to have been built in Puerto Rico at any time in the last three centuries.” The new fort will be one of the most complete under the American flag, according to army officials. More than 4,000 men will be sta tioned there within a year. Fort Miles is about seven miles south of. San Juan’s old forts—El Morro, built in 1539; San Cristobal, built in 1631, and San Geronimo, built at the beginning of the Eight eenth century. El Morro, built by the great Span ish military engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, was in the days of the Spanish Main the most formidable fortress erected in the New world. Today it is the home of a crack regi ment of U. S. infantry. Fort San Cristobal protects the land entrance to San Juan, as El Morro protects the sea entrance. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—Some people don’t know when they are well off. Karl Ulmanis was a milk man at Lincoln, Neb., for five years, and a . .. . doingall Anyone in Need ri ht before Of Good Milk he went back Wagon Driver? *> Latvia to be president of the country and sit on a hot seat for 25 years thereafter. It was er roneously reported that he had fled, as the Russians moved in, but the news today is that he is still around, and has broadcast a message to his people to be nice to the invaders. Nobody knows the trouble he’s seen. Considering that steady job he had, it looks like a score for the isola tionists. In Lincoln, in 1909, he was Karl Uliman, not Ulmanis, for mer dirt farmer and country ed itor in Latvia. The dean of the state college of agriculture got him the milk route, so he could work his way through college. He was graduated in the allot ted time. He was steady and dependable, and might have been mistaken for a Nebraska farmer. One day, he discarded his bib overalls, appeared in a store suit and was seen no more in those parts. Everybody liked him and they were especially shocked by the fact that he owed about $1,000, which he had borrowed to start a cheese factory in Texas. Six years passed when A. L. Haecker, one of his creditors, had a letter from him, enclosing full payment of his debt. He explained that he had a nice job as president of Latvia and was glad to be able to pay what he owed. Other bank drafts followed. The $1,000 was paid in full. As president and foreign min ister of Latvia, he lived in an ancient, turreted castle and killed in a medieval throne room. On the wail behind his desk, the medieval heraldic em blem of Latvia was crossed with Hie green pennant of the Ne braska State College of Agricul ture. But he wasn’t having a wonderful time. The country was under czarist Russia when young Mr. Ullman ran his newspaper. An indiscreet edi torial brought about his departure for Lincoln by devious routes. To stave off Nazi aggression, he made himself dictator in 1934. 'T'HE possibility of South and Cen- -*■ tral American countries picking up empire salvage before the U. S. A. works out its hemisphere de fense plans seems to have been but lightly re garded. How ever, here’s little Guatemala reach ing out for British Honduras, and Sir Samuel Hoare’s mahogany for ests and mills therein, according to news reports. Gen. Jorge Ubico, dictator of Guatemala for the last nine years, brings forward in the files the tale of a British pirate who snatched British Honduras from his country 60 years ago. “Los ers weepers, finders keepers.” Whether that applies to the wreckage of empires seems not to have been covered in interna tional law. General Ubico is the only living ruler who looks like Napoleon. He often is called the “ ‘Little Napo leon’ of the Tropics.” He was elect ed for his first one-year term as president. He survived two revolu tions during this term, and then set aside the constitutional limitation against more than one term—and has had eight repeats, so far. The general received a tech nical and military education in the United States and Europe, and rose to political power through various provincial and national offices. He entered the national assembly in 1918. He concentrates on road-building, sanitation, agriculture and voca tional training for young people He has been strongly pro-U S. A., and reports from Wash ington are that our state depart ment probably wouldn’t make much of a fuss over his grabbing British Honduras—as long as Hitler doesn’t get it. Brilliantly educated, hard-boiled and diligent, he has worked out in his small laboratory his own idea of an authoritarian state. Monopoly is the central idea. He grants ex clusive concessions in basic goods and industries. To restrain grab bing and grafting, he establishes a probity department in his cabinet. Anyone working for the government or doing important business with it, has to file a complete inventory of his own and his family’s possessions. If these goods and chattels increase too rapidly, the general’s busy little gestapo is on the job. Gen. Ubico Out To Beat Hitler to British Honduras HCW» SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears cur down A TOP- HEAVY BACK CHAIR PAINTED DARK GREEN WITH GREEN AND WHITE CUSHIONS ^ IF THE - *1 SEAT OF AN OLD CHAIR SEEMS HIGH, SHORTEN THE LEGS LJERE comes the Bride again! Many of you have met her in Sewing Book 5. She is the same resourceful young lady whose ad ventures with an old dresser, a fish bowl and a piano stool are described in that book; and who remodeled one of the old rockers in Book 5. Today’s sketch shows another of her slight 6’ hand tricks with a chair. There it was in a junk shop win dow. “Did you ever see anything so impossible?” I said, “It looks like a. pompous old dowager with a pompadour.” And the little bride said, “Yes, but I think its personality could be changed; I can see it as a jolly little old lady sitting in the comer with a ging ham apron.” Sure enough, the next time I went to see the Bride, there was the chair sitting in a corner painted a cheerful green and with white gingham cushions. The le’gs had been shortened, as shown here, and the pompous top- heavy back had been cut down. That was all, but the change was complete. If you are interested in adventures in homemaking be sure to send for Book 5. It has 32 pages of money saving ideas that you can put to use at once. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 * Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for Book 5. Name Address AROUND •h. HOUSE Items of Interest to the Housewife To make cut glass sparkle, dip a small brush in lemon juice and scrub the glass with it. • • • Excellent pads for the stair- carpet can be made by covering a fairly thick pad of newspaper with hessian, felt or cloth. » • • If bread has gone stale, hold the loaf over steam from the kettle for a few moments, then place in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Dry on a wire tray. • • • Lime marks on bath tub, caused by hard water, can be removed by rubbing with peroxide of hy drogen. • • • For Summer Comfort. — Use awnings on all windows exposed directly to the sun for they re duce, by as much as one-third, the amount of heat entering. Awn ings are far superior to blinds in this respect unless the latter are outside the windows. * * * Keeping Cool.—If your home is heated by warm air ducts, get the furnace man to install a prop er fan in the basement which will drive the cool cellar air up into the house through the ducts. Save left-over toast for use as bread crumbs. Run it once through the food chopper or roll it out with the rolling pin. Store in a covered glass jar. • * • Brass will need less cleaning if, after being polished in the usual way, it is rubbed with a cloth slightly moistened with furniture polish or cream. Happy State A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.—Locke. KENT BLADES ? 7 Singto Ed s * to Packag* 10c Conscience Tells Justice A man’s vanity tells him what is honor; a man’s conscience what is justice.—Landor. The perfect for lil corn SWITCH TO SOMETHING YOU’LL LIKE! *<« i, "■•in r»( e ".v'vSir- •"III •"•••it Copr. 1940 by Kellogg Company MADE BY KELLOGG’S IN BATTLE CREEK THE ADVERTISER INVITES YOUR f* 1 D A U T Q W The advertiser assures ns that his good* ** Av are good. He invites us to compare them with others. We do. Should he relax for a minute and let his standards drop, we discern it We tell others. Wo cease buying his product. Therefore he keeps up the high standard oi his wares, and the prices as low as possible.