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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1940
16,009 Killed at Work Last Year
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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 !
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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.
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Conscience Tells Justice
A man’s vanity tells him what
is honor; a man’s conscience what
is justice.—Landor.
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