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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.
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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.
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that narrow the waistline and
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below. Gathers on the shoulders
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rest is just long, straight seams.
You can judge, therefore, how
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But you can’t really tell what
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The men whom I have seen suc
ceed best in life have always been
cheerful and hopeful men, who
went about their business with a
smile on their faces, and took the
changes and chances of this mor
tal life like men, facing rough and
smooth alike as it came.—Charier
Kingsley.
Their Nature
A rogue and a pig—you may
wash them white and they’re back
in the mud before it is night.
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