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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1940
American Scientists Prepared
To Meet Many Wartime Needs
Can Supply Substitutes for
Vital Necessities
When Needed.
NEW YORK. — Chemists and
Chemical engineers of America are
ready to provide the country with
synthetic substitutes for vital neces
sities if sources of supply are
stopped by further spread of the Eu
ropean war, according to Dr. A. W
Hixson, executive officer of the
school of chemical engineering of
Columbia university.
“America is on the threshold of
a great development in synthetic
rubber," he said. “Manufacturers
are prepared to produce a synthetic
rubber, for some purposes superior
to that made from natural rubber.
“When the country needs synthet
ic rubber,” he declared confidently,
“we will have it.”
Referring to Nylon, a synthetic
silk successfully used for the manu
facture of women’s hosiery, he said
that its use and that of similar
synthetics would spread to a much
wider field.
Synthetic Textiles.
“It is not impossible, he contin
ued, “that men will be wearing syn
thetic neckties, shirts, underclothing
and suits. And this is true of an
other synthetic textile, being made
from glass.”
Regarding manganese, the ele
ment imported largely from Russia,
he said that a considerable source
of supply had been uncovered and
was under process of development
in Cuba. Manganese is used large
ly in the steel industry to toughen
and harden metals.
“Closing of the tungsten mines of
China has turned the attention of
American chemical engineers to our
own deposits,” he said. “They are
of lower grade and produced at
higher cost. But developments are
expected.”
He said that he was impressed
with German chemical research in
1938 when he visited that country.
He heard that laboratory tests of
some synthetic German rubber tires
attained mileages up to 200,000
miles.
“I took those figures with a grain
of salt,” he said, “but the Germans
have accomplished things through
necessity. American chemists, how
ever, are as competent as any in
the world and the administration of
our chemical research is as pro
gressive as any in the world. I
would say that this country leads in
all fields of chemical research.”
Dr. Hixson, widely considered an
authority in his field, inferred that
a tin can was not a tin can.
“A tin can is made of iron of low
carbon content with a very thin
coating of tin plate,” he stated.
“Chemical research has developed
Light Old Delhi Tomb
As Warning to Flyers
NEW DELPHI, INDIA.—The an
cient tomb of Safdar Jung near here
is flooded with red light every night
whenever an airplane is in the vi
cinity.
The tomb, which adjoins New Del
hi airport, is lit up as a warning to
aviators not to get spiked on its deli
cate minarets.
The floodlighting is by cunningly
concealed neon lights, so arranged
that they show off the charms of
the beautiful domed structure.
Safdar Jung was grand vizier to
Ahmed Shar, emperor of Delhi from
1748 to 1754.
a successful plastic which can be
used for plating purposes.”
Pointing out that not only is the
United States supply of tin threat
ened but that of quinine also,he said:
Quinine and Tin.
“Quinine is one of our most im
portant drugs. I believe malaria
would take charge of the country if
it were not for quinine. We have
developed compounds with similar
medicinal properties. American
chemists have been working on
these compounds for years.”
He said that chemical research
took plentiful and simple substances,
such as coal, air, water and petro
leum and constructed them into con
sumer requirements in a wide va
riety of products.
“Our profession has raised the
standard of living more than any
other in the world,” he explained.
Dr. Hixson was reluctant to speak
extensively on war gas develop
ments. He said that chemists how
ever, have kept abreast of all Euro
pean developments in this field, and
indicated that new and far more tox
ic gases—one that stops the heart
instantly—had been developed.
Dr. Hixson developed high explo
sives for the United States war
department in the last war.
Bankhead Signs Highway Bill
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for October 20
. Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
William B. Bankhead, late speaker of the U. S. House of Repre
sentatives, asr-ured continuation of a national highway program when he
signed the 1940 Federal Highway Act a few days before his death. With
Speaker Bankhead are Charles M. Upham, engineer-director,of the Amer
ican Road Builders’ Association of Washington, D. C., and Senator John
H. Bankhead, brother of the speaker. Their father, John H. Bankhead,
was responsible for the first federal aid for highways. The Highway
Act authorizes the expenditure of $327,000,000 for highway construction
during 1942 and 1943.
FARMER BROWN’S BOY
SETS TRAPS
D AD news travels fast. Nothing
travels any faster. No, sir, noth
ing travels any faster than bad
news. It was so now. Everybody
on the Green Meadows, in the Green
Forest, around the Smiling Pool and
along die Laughing Brook knew that
Farmer Brown’s Boy was once more
setting traps. It was a long time
since he had put those traps away
“Did you see him setting those
traps, Br’er Jay?” he inquired.
and the little people had really be
gun to like him. At least some of
them had. They believed that he
really was their friend and were be
ginning to trust him. And now here
he was setting vraps! It was a splen
did chance for those who had doubt
ed him all along to say, “We told
you so!” They did, too.
As usual, it was Sammy Jay who
had first spread the news. It just
happened that Sammy had been sit
ting in the big maple tree in Farm
er Brown’s dooryard when Farmer
Brown’s Boy came out of the house
with a lot of steel traps clanking in
one hand and an ax in the other.
Sammy knew what that meant. He
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had seen traps set before. He could
hardly sit still long enough to see
in which direction Farmer Brown’s
Boy was going he was so anxious
to spread the news. You see, Sam
my is one of those who has all along
doubted the good intention of Farm
er Brown’s Boy. Because he never
is quite honest himself, he cannot
believe in the honesty of others.
So now when Farmer Brown’s Boy
started in the direction of the Green
Meadows, Sammy hurried ahead
straight to the Smiling Pool to give
warning. You see, he felt sure that
there was where those traps were
to be set—there and along the
Laughing Brook, for that is where
Farmer Brown’s Boy used to set
traps long ago when he tried to
catch Jerry Muskrat and Billy Mink
and Little Joe Otter.
There was great excitement and
indignation when Sammy told the
news, just as he was sure there
would be. He left everybody talk
ing as fast as their tongues could
go and hurried over to the Green
Forest to spread the news there.
Some believed it and some didn’t.
You see, Sammy has told so many
untruths in his life that a few of
those who know him best are very
slow to believe anything he says.
Unc’ Billy ’Possum was one of
these.
“Did yo’ see him setting those
traps, Br’er Jay?” he inquired.
“No,” replied Sammy, truthfully
enough. “I didn’t wait for that, I
thought I ought to hurry ahead and
warn everybody.”
“Very thoughtful of you, Ah’m
sure, Br’er Jay,” agreed Unc’ Billy.
“But just because yo’ happened to
see Farmer Brown’s Boy with some
traps in his hand yo’ don’t know
that he means to set them. ’Pears
to me like yo’ all am in a mighty
hurry to scare eve’body befo’ yo’
know there’s any danger. Why didn’t
yo’ watch to see where he done
done set those traps, Br’er Jay?”
Sammy tossed his head indignant
ly. “If that’s all the thanks I get
for my warning I hope you get
caught,” he snapped. Then off he
flew to carry the news farther. Unc’
Billy grinned. Nevertheless he took
pains to warn old Mrs. 'Possum to
warn the children to watch out
sharply lest they get in trouble. At
the Smiling Pool and along the
Laughing Brook everybody was on
the watch. Everything else was for
gotten. Even Grandfather Frog was
excited, too excited to catch fool
ish green flies when they skimmed
past his very nose. But in spite of
all their watching they saw nothing
of Farmer Brown’s Boy and his
traps. You see, he had gone straight
over to the far corner of the Green
Meadows to the home of Old Man
Coyote. There he did set the traps
—set them for Old Man Coyote. OT
Mistah Buzzard, sailing high in the
blue, blue sky, looked down and saw
him do it.
“Ol’ Man Coyote better watch
out,” muttered Ol’ Mistah Buzzard.
“There sho’ly seems to be a lot o’
trouble fixin’ fo’ him.”
® T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service.
Football Fans of London
At Matches During Raid
LONDON. — Several football
matches attended by crowds vary
ing from 2,000 to 5,000 persons
were played during an air raid
on London. The matches went on
without interruption and news
tickers sandwiched scores be
tween accounts of the raid. Occa
sionally the fans broke into cheers
for the British fighters overhead.
IF YOUR fingers are broad, you
4 should proportion the length of
the nail accordingly. Longer nails
will give your hand beauty. If you
use a dark-colored nail polish to the
nail tip, it will help in creating an
illusion of length.
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Check for Three Million
Is Old, but Worthless
STROUDSBURG, PA.—Workmen,
razing the old Washington house
here discovered a $3,000,000 check
in an old cigar box hidden away in
a wall, but they’re not happy about
it.
Signed by the former hotel owner,
payable to bearer and dated 1895,
a note on the back said:
“If this check is found to be no
good, present it to me in purgatory,
and I will pay it.”
Lucky Miss
Supplies for anti-aircraft defense posts buried deep in the jungle
about the entrance to the Panama canal are landed at this tree-grown
landing base. Dozens of new strongly armed anti-aircraft posts are
being set up in the almost impenetrable jungles here to render the canal
safe from attack. Brig. Gen. Sanderford Jarmin is in charge of the work.
Prize Cans, Bottles
Abyssinian natives greatly prize
empty soup cans and catsup bottles.
They will give as much as a dozen
eggs and a chicken for such an
empty can or bottle.
The owner of this house is thank
ful the bomb didn’t come closer. The
huge bomb dropped by a Nazi raid
er blew a big crater in the lawn of
a home near London, broke a few
windows, but left the nearby house
otherwise unharmed.
WORST ‘CRIME WAVE’ RESULTS FROM SPYING FOREIGN AGENTS
WASHINGTON.—Ferreting out of
foreign agents bent on espionage or
sabotage in the United States has
assumed the proportions of the coun
try’s greatest crime problem since
the start of the second world war.
Whereas in the five-year period
preceding 1938 the Federal Bureau
of Investigation investigated an
average of 35 espionage matters
each year, during the fiscal year
1940 the G-men reported they were
asked to investigate 16,885 national
defense matters.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
FBI, stated:
“A nation faces a desperate mo
ment when its men and guns are
called into action. It is the period
before this time, while the enemy
is making every possible inroad
upon our moral defenses, that the
true battle takes place.
“That battle is now in progress
thoughout the United States.
During this fiscal year the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation was
confronted with a greater volume of
work and more responsibilities than
during any other time of its history.
Director Hoover announced.
He then added:
“I am pleased to report that all
law enforcement presents a united
front against treasonous activity in
every state, county and municipal
ity throughout our land.
“There is more unity today among
the forces charged with the respon
sibility of maintaining our internal
security than ever before. This is
a happy contrast with the confusion
that existed in the first World war
when over a score of federal agen
cies were investigating spies and
saboteurs, with a resultant lack of
co-ordination and co-operation with
the various state municipal groups.”
THE MESSAGE OF JOHN
THE BAPTIST
LESSON TEXT—Luke 3:3. •17. 31. 22.
GOLDEN TEXT—Bring forth, therefore,
fruit* worthy of repentence.—Luke 3:8.
Four centuries of silence! God
made a loving appeal to His people
through Malachi, the prophet (see
lesson of June 23), but they failed
to respond, and for about 400 years
no prophet had appeared with an
authoritative message from God.
But now “God, who at sundry times
and in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the proph
ets” was ready in the “last days”
to speak by “his Son” (Heb. 1:12).
Before the Lord should come,
however, the prophet Isaiah (40:3-
5) had declared that a voice was to
come out of the wilderness to cry,
“Prepare ye the way of the Lord.”
The great honor of that ministry
did not fall upon the religious or
political leaders mentioned in Luke
3:1, but “the word of God came unto
John ... in the wilderness.” When
God calls a preacher, something
vital and interesting is about to hap
pen.
I. The Preacher—His Call and
Character.
It is significant that the call of
God for this ministry passed by the
mighty of Rome, which was polit
ically powerful, holding sway over
the world of its day. It is doubly
significant that it passed by Jeru
salem, the religious center of the
Jewish nation. God was not looking
for influence, prestige, or position.
He was looking for a man, and He
found him, though He had to seek
him in the wilderness. Where is
God’s man for our day?
The character of John is revealed
to us by Scripture as unique and
rugged. He was a striking figure as
he came suddenly out of the wilder
ness, but the outstanding qualifica
tion of John was that he was humble
and obedient to God’s will. Upon
such a man the power of God may
fall in all its fullness.
II. His Message—Its Nature and
the Reaction (vv. 3, 8-14).
Repentance, as evidenced by bap
tism, this was John’s word to his
day. He did not grant them absolu
tion from their sins, but in repent
ance they were to look forward to
the cleansing from sin by the wash
ing of the blood of Christ who was
to come. John was the forerunner
of Christ. His message of repent
ance was a preparation for the com
ing message of redemption.
The reaction of the people is ex
pressed in the question, “What must
we do?” Much more would be ac
complished for Christ in our day if
that were the response of people to
the preaching of the truth. Instead
of criticizing or commending the
preacher, or the sermon, let us ask,
“What shall I do about it?” and
then let us do it.
The answer of John was that each
one should, by his works, show the
reality of his repentance in the de
tails of his daily work and life. Of
course, the all-important thing is
that a man should believe in Christ,
and by faith receive Him as Saviour,
but that faith must show itself in
daily living or it is meaningless,
and, in fact, nonexistent. The
world is full of those who need to
answer our Lord’s own question,
“Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and
do not the things which I say?”
(Luke 6:46).
III. His Ministry to Jesus—the
Baptism and Heavenly Response
(vv. 15-17, 21, 22).
The forthright honesty and the hu
mility of John appeared in his im
mediate con ction of the people’s
mistaken idea that he was the
Christ. He made clear that his bap
tism with water, indicating their
change of mind concerning sin,
would only have real meaning as
the coming One—his Lord and ours
—would change their natures by the
baptism of fire and of the Spirit.
Jesus, who knew no sin of which
to repent, took the place of a peni
tent sinner and was baptized by
John. Thus He, the sinless One,
entered upon His public ministry
and His work of redemption by tak
ing the place of fallen humanity.
What infinite grace and condescen
sion!
As He prayed, after John had bap
tized Him, the heavens opened and
the Holy Spirit, taking the form of
the gentle dove, rested upon Him.
God the Father spoke forth heaven’s
estimate of our Saviour; He was
declared to be the “beloved Son”
of God, in whom the Father was
“well pleased.”
This attestation of His divinity and
recognition of Kis spotless life and
character was for Him, but not for
Him alone. It speaks to us, even
as it has spoken to all men through
the centuries, of the One who is
Saviour and Lord. “He is able also
to save them to the uttermost that
come unto God by him, seeing he
ever liveth to make intercession for
them. For such an high priest be
came us, who is holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners,
and made higher than the heavens”
(Heb. 7:25, 26).
AROUND
THE HOUSE
Apples that are to be baked
should be pricked with a fork be
fore being placed in the oven. If
you do this you will find they will
not break while cooking.
• • •
Any flaked ready-to-serve cereal
may be used instead of bread
crumbs in a recipe that calls for
bread crumbs.
• • •
A piece of chamois that has been
dampened makes an excellent
duster. It makes furniture look
like new.
* • •
When making baked costard,
pour boiling milk onto the beaten
eggs. It will then bake very firm.
• • •
Do not move bread dough after
it begins to rise, or it is likely to
fall. Select a spot, out of a draft,
for the bowl. Cover with a cloth
and then let the dough alone.
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Feast-for-the - Least
Moderate Praise
Always to give praise moderate
ly, is a strong proof of mediocrity^
Little Learning
“A little learning is a dangerous
thing;” but the danger is not in
the learning, but in the littleness.
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