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$ THE SUN. NEWBERRY, S. G, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940 Money Sent Overseas Increases From Low Depression Point In 1935 Bureau Reports Steady Recovery. WASHINGTON. — More than $1,270,000,000 was remitted to for eign countries by American institu tions, mostly religious, during the period from 1919 to 1939, according to a study made by August Maffry of the finance division of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Protestant organizations sent $599,- 800,000, Catholics $89,600,000, Jews $149,000,000 and non-sectarians $431,400,000. "Data on remittances abroad in individual years since 1919 indicate that the period of reconstruction and rehabilitation following the World war of 1914-18 called forth an out pouring of institutional gifts to for eign countries not equalled either before or since,” Mr. Maffry said. "In 1919 the amount of these con tributions was approximately $140,- 000,000 and, in the following two years $118,000,000 and $106,000,000, respectively. "The total decreased steadily from 1919 through 1935 and then in creased during the next four years. In 1924 the figure had fallen to $71,- 000,000, or to half of the 1919 esti mate, whereas during the succeed ing five years the amount fell slow ly, at the rate of $3,000,000 annually, to $55,000,000 in 1929. Gifts at Lowest Ebb in 1935. "Remittances abroad in 1935 were $27,000,000. At this level, they were only half as large as in 1929 and less than a fifth of the 1919 aggregate. "During very recent years, 1936- 39, the amount of institutional gifts increased considerably. This devel opment, which will become pro nounced in 1940 as a result of large contributions for European war re lief, is traceable both to the general improvement in the resources of in dividual donors and to widespread distress and suffering in Europe and Asia. Including collections for war relief, contributions to foreign cause through religious and other groups in 1939 reached $43,000,000, the high est figure since 1931.” Looking at the geographical dis tribution of the American remit- Farmers Take to Anvil When ‘Smithy’ Fades Out HARRISBURG, PA—The Penn sylvania department of agriculture records one instance where progress has bounced back. Years ago farmers were their own blacksmiths. The demand became great enough to support blacksmith shops as rural population grew and before long the “smithy” was as much a part of the country commu nity as the general store. Then the horse was hard pressed by development of the automobile and tractor. The blacksmiths let the fires grow cold in their forges and one by one the familiar shops closed. But the horse did not give way so completely, especially on the small farms that comprise most of Pennsylvania’s agricultural dis tricts. And now the farmers have found it necessary to do their own black- smithing once more and have re quested the agriculture depart ment’s county farm agents for prac tical instruction in the nearly ex tinct trade. tances, Mr. Maffry had the follow ing to report: “The bulk of Protestant remit tances—70 per cent on the average— go to Asiatic countries. The prin cipal recipients are India, China, and Japan, in the order named. Substantial amounts are used also for missions work in Latin America and in Africa. “About two-thirds of Catholic con tributions are sent to Europe. Vir tually all of the remainder goes to Asia, notably to China. Palestine Remittances Rise. "Germany and Poland in Europe and Palestine'in Asia each received about half of all Jewish remittances to foreign countries in the years 1937-39, although the proportion de voted to European undertakings was previously considerably higher. Small remittances to Latin Amer ica in very recent years were pre sumably made in connection with the emigration of European Jews to certain South American countries. "Contributions through nonsectari an organizations for educational, sci entific and philanthropic purposes go chiefly to Europe and Asia, with the large share destined generally for Europe. The countries border ing the eastern Mediterranean, on the one hand, and China, on the other, receive substantial sums each year, whereas relatively small amounts are sent to countries in Latin America and other areas.” Old Dobbin Takes a Dip Maybe it was the heat—but whatever caused it, this horse just couldn’t resist the waters of New York’s East river so over he went, from one of the city’s piers. Police, firemen, department of sanitation men, men from the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and numerous volunteers had to co-oper ate before Dobbin was brought to shore. THE CUNNING OF OLD MAN COYOTE TN ONE thing Old Man Coyote is * very like Granny and Reudy Fox —he has no real friends. There are plenty who think him very smart, and in a way look up to him be cause of his cunning, but he hasn’t any real friends. People who live by their wits seldom do have. If the truth be known they do not want He didn’t touch so much as a feather of that foolish duck. them. At least Old Man Coyote does not seem to want them. Per haps he thinks that friends might give away his secrets if they found them out, and you know friends have a way of finding out things. If some friend had known that Old Man Coyote had dined on one of Farmer Brown’s ducks Old Man Coyote wouldn’t have rested for a minute. But no friend, or enemy either, did know of it, and he didn’t mean that any should. It is not his way to go about bragging of what he has done. No, indeed! Old Man Coyote is far too cunning for that. The very next day after he had dined on that duck he went up to the duck pond to see how things looked and while he lay hidden in the tall grass a fat duck sat down right in front of his nose and quacked loudly in the foolish way ducks have. What do you think Old Man Coyote did to that foolish and heedless duck? No, you guessed wrong that time. He didn’t seize it and take it away for another good dinner, although he wanted it so much that the water trickled from the corners of his mouth. He didn’t touch so much as a feather of that foolish duck, and that shows how cunning he is. “If Farmer Brown’s boy misses another duck tonight he will be sure that some one is stealing them, and then there will be no end of trouble. If I don’t steal another for a week he will forget all about the one he has lost and will stop counting the ducks every night. Then it will be safe to take another,” said he. So he waited a week, and, sure enough, Farmer Brown’s boy had stopped counting his ducks. Then Old Man Coyote dined again royal ly. But the next one he took Farm er Brown’s boy did miss, and when he counted his flock of course he found out that this was the third to disappear, and right away he made up his mind that the thief must be caught and punished. But who was the thief? There was a question, in deed. He strongly suspected Reddy Fox. He felt sure that it must be Reddy Fox. But if it was, when did Reddy do it? The ducks were shut up at night, and Farmer Brown’s Irish Coast Guard Sows Death in Dublin Bay Members of Eire’s coast guard are shown in three stages of mine-laying operations as they speeded de fense measures for the protection of the Irish coast against the possibility of attack by invading naval forces. The mines are of a remote control type which can be set bff from shore stations by throwing an elec tric switch. Premier Eamon de Valera has rallied his countrymen in a program to protect Eire’s neutrality and be ready to defend the Emerald Isle in case of attack. boy was certam that Reddy could not get at them then. It must be that he lay in wait for them very early in the morning, when they we re let out to swim in the pond. So every morning for a week Farm er Brown’s boy hid where he could wttch the ducks after they were let ou*. There he lay until the break- taut bell called him in, and after breakfast he went cut and counted the ducks. None were missing. Yet some time during the week one was takert. The truth is. Old Man Coyote was so cunning that he stole those ducks right in broad daylight, in the very middle of the day. He knew that no. one would expect anything to hap pen to them then, and so no one would be on the watch. And no one was. And as he always took the greatest care that the other ducks should not be frightened and that the one caught should not have a chance to quack or make a sound, no one suspected him. Oh, he was very sly and cunning, was Old Man Coyote, and, as Farmer Brown’s boy said, it seemed as if those ducks just melted away. Finally he tried shut ting the ducks up all day as well as all night, and then it was the chick- er s that began to disappear. Farm er Brown’s boy was in despair. He couldn’t watch them all day be cause there was too much work to be done. “It’s that fox! It must be that fox!” said he. "I guess I’ve got to go hunting after all. I had about made up my mind that I would put my gun away and never get it out again, but I can’t, afford to lose all my ducks and chickens.” e T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service. “t lips By V.V, DE SURE, oh, so sure, that you never let lipstick get on your teeth so that it gives them a pink tinge. Don’t turn so hurriedly from your mirror that you haven’t time to take facial tissue and rub your teeth so that they are clear white! (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Elderly Couple Scramble Relationship in Marriage WEED PATCH, CALIF.—Here is one to bring up at puzzle parties: When Dillie Ann Darden, 61, and Thomas E. Dunn, 77, exchanged “I do’s” at the altar, the bride’s daugh ter found herself married to her brother—by marriage. For the new Mrs. Dunn’s daughter previously had married Dunn’s son —which made Mrs. Dunn’s son-in- law her stepson as well, and Mrs. Dunn’s daughter’s husband a step brother of his own wife. LEARN CRAFTS WITH HONEYSUCKLE VINES, ASHEVILLE, N. C.—Miss Minnie Reese has not yet started teaching her pupils to make silk purses out of sows’ ears, but they are waiting to hear the word. She is director of a welfare crafts shop located in the basement of Asheville’s city hall. Impoverished men and women who come to her have learned to: Carve ashtrays and miscellaneous artie’e* from scrap wood. Make other ashtrays and letter openers from discarded pieces of metal. Turn honeysuckle vines into bas kets. Extract dyes from ordinary red clay. Hook rugs from worn-out silk hose. Make doormats and straw hats from corn shucks. Fashion gourds into dolls Miss Reese conducts her classes five days each week, with special days devoted to each of the varied arts. Some of the students, she said, merely want to learn some useful hobby, but the majority are in need of a job that can support them. The shop itself is furnished with the students’ handiwork, including the curtains. They are dyed with ber red clay dye, which also has CORN STALKS been used on cloth sent out of the state to former North Carolinians. She said they “simply like to have some North Carolina mud near them.” Canyon View is the Care YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK.- Leo Hollan of Keokuk, Iowa, dislo cated his neck looking up at the tear- ering Yosemite fall*. THOUGHTS AT THE CLOSE OF SUMMER The summer season is closing, and the great American public has only a few weeks more in which to: 1— Get its dis comforts away from home. 2— Sleep on a mattress stuffed with anthracite coal in a bed that is a souvenir of the metal industry at its worst. 3— Become accustomed to mos quitoes in bedrooms, crickets in the closets, hornets in the sun porch, ants in the table linen and spiders all over the premises. 4—Drive from an overloaded over what the i to 500 mues m flivver with poor brakes, no sun- shield, one de fective headlight and a constant aroma of some thing burning. 5—Spend days at a time in heat ed arguments ad signs mean. • • 6— Tour through endless miles of hot-dog, gasoline, tourist camp and souvenir doggie-and-doll zones in the insane belief that it all comes under the head of enjoying scenery. 7— Waste hours in country bams displaying "Antiques” signs so the little woman can look at spinning wheels she doesn’t want, ox yoke." she can’t possibly use and early American shaving mugs that don’t mean a thing to her. 8— Learn what America’s doctors are prescribing for belly-ache this summer. 9— Spend two or three terrible nights in those piano boxes known as tourist camp cottages. 10— Determine how much the hu man system can endure in the mat ter of steamed clams, fried clams, clam fritters and clam chowder, not to mention lobsters, crabs, cucum ber salads and the strange fish na tive to stranger communities. • * • 11—Pursue the search for a hotel, lunchroom, drug store or drink foun tain that doesn’t cut its <orange juice down to a point where it might more prop erly be labeled “Hydrant Juice.” 12 — Sample some of the world’s worst coffee. 13—Find out where the worst chefs go in summer. 14',—Make the annual discovery that there is no sense in trying to gat any salt from a salt cellar at a shore resort. 15—Discover that a change in courses makes no difference in your golf game. • • * 16— Find out that 97 per cent of the instantaneous hot-water systems in the rural districts are out of or der. 17— Observe once again that not one cook in a thousand can fry an egg without burning the bottom un til the whole thing tastes like some thing cut from a hot brake band. 18— Experience incredible difficul ty getting a room that is not located directly over the hotel garage, a new federal proj ect involving steam shovels on a night shift, or one flight over the ballroom where the worst orchestra in North America has been engaged for the summer sea son. • • • THE MAIN CONCERN With problems high and mighty. To seize this world and shake it, The question day and nighty Is, “Will the Yankees make it?” • » • Night harness racing is to be held for 30 nights on the track built for auto speed racing on Long Island. A million dollars was sunk at this track to make it a motor speedway, and if the horses don’t do so well you can attribute it to a major out break of what is known as the horse laugh. • • • Thumbnail description by R. Roe- lofs Jr.—"She loved beauty . . . and was never without a mirror.” • • • Overheard by Seymour: "She must be a telephone girl; I said ‘Hello’ to her twice and got no an swer.” • • • TO LI HUNG GILES Me no care what Confucius say, But still . i. . me lissen, anyway! —Marjorie Lederer. • • • Elmer Twitchell would like to see a Gallup Poll taken to see whether there should be any more Gallop Polls. IaTTERN|\| EPARTHENT XTOTHING is more important •I’I during the summer—and ev ery season for that matter—than this type of casual frock, softly tailored and classically simple. This version (Design No. 1962-B) is ideal for women’s figures, be cause it has a high-busted, nar row-hipped line. And that perfec tion of line is achieved so simply— merely by means of long darts that narrow the waistline and break into soft fullness above and below. Gathers on the shoulders are the only other detailing. The rest is just long, straight seams. You can judge, therefore, how easy this dress is to make. But you can’t really tell what a distinctive, comfortable, charm ing fashion it is until you have it on. Then you’ll repeat it many times, in silk print, rayon sheers, and street cottons like linen and batiste. Barbara BeU Pattern No. 1962-B is de signed for sizes 32, 34, 36, 38. 40. 42. 44 and 46. Size 34 requires, with long sleeves. S'/a yards of 39-inch material; with short, 4*4 yards. 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