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PAGE POUR TOT IfHWBgRBT RUM FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1M1 Review of New Books At County Library List of new juvenile books appear ing at library with short synopsis. “The Firelight Fairy Book,” by Beston—The. story of Bobo, a very stupid little boy, is just one of the many fascinating stories in this book. Bobo was sent to look for the “lost half-hour” and was gone for a long, long time. During that time he had many adventures and found many valuable things. Did he really find the “lost half-hour”? You will have to decide that when you read this story and you will love these brand new fairy tales. “Stone Knife Boy,” by Malkus— This story of Stone Knife is filled with the adventures, and also the joys and sorrows, of an Indian boy who lived in a Taos Pueblo of New Mexico. Although Stone Knife had many difficulties, he could take care of himself in the mountains, even when he had nothing with him ex cept his stone knife and a warm blanket. Yop will be amazed at the things he accomplished with this knife. “How they carried the mail”, by McSpadden— Throughout the cen turies, the earyring of the mail has been a task filled with danger. Some of the most thrilling adventures hap pened to the Pony Express riders, to which group Buffalo Bill once be longed. As you read this book you will understand why' this is true. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”. Today the arrival of the postman is just as much a part of your daily life as going to school or eating dinner. This is a thrilling story of “How they carried the mail” from the post-runners of King Sargon to the Air mail of to day. “Stars, their facts and legends”, by Grondal.—Stars by the millions seem to shine in the sky, but only' 25000 can be seen on the clearest, darkest night. Part of the stars in this vol ume are easily found through know ing the location of the Big Dipper in the northern sky. A careful study of the pictorial maps, from page to page of this book, will disclose with what little effort one may find his way about the sky. “The Wonder Clock,” by Pyle— Four and twenty marvelous tales, be ing one for each hour of the day, and H-D COLUMN By ETHEL L. COUNTS Look around the place and gather up all of your scrap aluminum. If some one doesn’t oall for it watch this paper to see what to do. with it. This campaign is part of a nation wide drive to collect old and unneed ed aluminum to supplement the vast supplies needed for the production of defense equipment. All aluminum should be collected by July 26th and will then be gathered to a central place for shipment. Wheat is one of the cheapest yet most wholesome foods that we have. The flavor of whole wheat is delii cious and it may be used in a wide variety of ways. Whole Wheat Muffins 2 cups whole wheat flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 egg 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons sugar 1-4 cup fat. Melt shortening. Put all ingred ients in a bowl and mix lightly. Pour into greased muffin pans and bake in a moderately hot oven (375 degrees Fahrenheit.) Boston Broiwn Bread ,1 cup whole wheat flour (not sifted). 1 1-2 cup yellow com meal, (not sifted) 2 teaspoons salt 4 teaspons Baking powder 1-2 cups pecans Stir all dry ingredients together. 3-4 cup molasses. 1 cup milk (more or less) Consistency, about like corn bread. Bake in well greased baking powder cans about 2-3rds full. Let steam for about one hour or until leaves sides of can. to make them even more interesting, almost every page has a picture. The most amazing people and ani mals step out of this wonder clock that stands in Times Garret and be longs to Time’s Grandmother. And where can this clock be found? In wonderland. You will not want to leave until twenty-four hours have passed and all stories have been acted before your very eyes. There are many, many more of these thrilling and fascinating new juvenile hooks in the library and these books are also being circulated on the Newberry Traveling Library, WPA, which covers the entire coun ty. Mills of State Running At Near Capacity Washington, July 13.—South Caro lina’s textile mills continued opera tion during early July at capacity in the face of the selling slump which followed action by Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson in fix ing price ceilings on certain textiles. The weekly cotton market review of the department of agriculture in dicated that there is no sign of mat erial slackening of the high daily !nate of cotton; eonsnmpftioii main tained during the past several months. Estimates based on activity during the season were that the total cotton consumption by domestic mills during 1940-41 will be more than 9,700,000 bales. This repre sents about 22 per cent more than the pevious high record established in the 1936-37 season. Unfilled Orders Although mills were selling only a fraction of their large output dur ing late June and early July, the lage volume of unfilled orders is am ple to absorb production over a con- sideable period of time. The demand for cotton goods was decribed as strong, but mills gen erally are said to be refusing to sell forward at ceiling prices, and unsold stocks at mills are apparently very small. The maximum prices estab lished by the office of price admini stration cover only a part of the cot ton yam and cloth produced by dom estic mills, but apparently small sales characterized cotton textile markets generally. Consumer de mand continues to strengthen as the high rate of industrial activity con- tinuesi. Commodity and security prices were up for the week. Prices in the 10 markets averaged 15.02 cents for middling 15[16, which was 62 points higher than on Thurs day, July 3, and compared with 10.42 cents a year ago. The 10-market av erage on Friday was 5 3-4 cents, or abput $29 per bale, higher than the season’s low, reached in the middle of October. Futures prices advanced 58 to 66 points for the week. Sales reported' the 10 designated markets totaled 57.000 bales, compared -with 43,000 bales during the previous week, and 31,000 a year ago. Lewis Dorrity of Moncks Comer is visiting his brother, Walter Dorrity and family on Boundary street, When the ball game's over... pause and Guerillas To Win For China, Says Marine Japan never will be able to con quer China even if she fights a mil lion years, according to First Lieu tenant Arthur Henry Weinberger, United States marine corps, who has passed the last three years in the Orient. Lieutenant Weinberger, an honor granduate of the Citadel (Charles ton) in 1936, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Weinberger, of 28 Wagener avenue, Charleston, dur ing a fifteen-day leave. He will be stationed at the marine base at Quantico, Va. After nearly two years at Shang hai and then at Tientsin, "where the American dollar goes an awfully long way” and where a white man can live like a king, Lieutenant Wein berger learned a lot about the minds of the Chinese and the Japa nese. The reasons why Japan never will be able to subdue China are that with the vicious guerilla war fare in progress behind the lines, the Japs are not able to consolidate their positions. It is becoming in creasingly difficult to keep their lines of communication and supply. “The Japanese would give up the whole thing tomorrow as a bad job if they could save face,” Lieutenant Weinberger said. “But saving face is' everything in the Orient, and the Japs couldn’t very well abandon the war now after they’ve gone in it so far.” He granted that the Japanese may win battles against the Chinese, but this means little when they are fighting an increasing horde of Chi nese which now numbers about 450,- 000,000. China’s pestiferous guerillas are not confined to the winldemess, he pointed out. There is a band, operat ing between Peiping and Tientsin, two of the country’s principal cities, and the Japanese never have been able to wipe them out. A large section of China now is under Japanese puppetry, he said. The Japanese are trying to frighten white men out' of China, but they probably never will dare to use arm-' ed force,” he said. “Japan can affort to irk either the United States or Great Britain.” he said, adding that “the Japanese ae the world’s greatest exponents of the art of bluffing.” i Japan is paying dearly for her ill- fated campaign in China. In Tokio last September, hefty, blue-eyed Lieu tenant Weinberger found the Japa nese people “in a bad way.” The strain is telling on the people “and I doubt very seriously if they can last much longer,” he said. He called the Japanese “probably the world’s poorest engineers”. “You’ve probably heard the story about how the Japs tried to get an other country’s naval plans—it’s a story which is being circulated around the Orient, but I won’t vouch for the truth of it. “It seems the Japanese wanted plans for a certain type of ship. They asked a foreign company to submit plans fer approval. After the com pany gave them the plans, the Japs returned them, and said, ‘sorry, we can’t use it’, then proceeded to build the ships according to the plans they borrowed. “On another occasion, when the Japs again wanted plans, another company decided to fix them. They gave the plans. The Japs returned them with the same answer, then went on and built a ship according to the plans. The ship slid beauti fully down the ways, but kept right on going down until it reached the bottom. That’s indicative of the Japanese mind, anyway.” Unmarried, Lieutenant Weinberger believes that “he who travels alone travels fastest.” Our State Needs the Leadership of Men Who Can Think Calmly and Wisely, Says Spectator Behold the blitzkrieg of Bre’r Boll weevil. “And he sufe is a-blitzing something survigorous”, to quote a plowboy. After any exertion, a pause is always welcome. Doubly so if you enjoy ice-cold Coca-Cola with it. Ice-cold Coca-Cola is pure, wholesome. You taste its quality feel its refreshment. So when you pause throughout the day, make it the pause that ^ refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola. YOU TASTE ITS QUALITY tax BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY NEWBERRY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OFFICE NEEDS OF ALL KINDS Ledger Outfits \ Account Books File Guides (Letter & Legal) Thin Papers of All Kinds Manila Folders (Letter & Legal) Rubber Bands All Kinds of Inks Paper Clips—Thumb Tacks Pencils—any kind or color > Pencil Sharpeners Typewriter Ribbons Adding Machine Ribbons Adding Machine paper—any size Clip Boards & Arch Boards Manuscript Covers Stapling Machines Carbon Papers n Library Paste Ludex Cards—any size Clasp Envelopes—any size Expanding Files Mimeograph Paper Columnar Pads Index Tabs Typewriter Erasers, And many other items. We put ribbons on your type writer or adding machine. THE SUN Three young men went from my El Recuerdo farm to join Uncle Sam’s fighting forces, as was mentioned a while back. Now let’s see; an idea comes to mind. We are paid some thing for producing soil conserving crops, aren’t we ? Well, how about nation, liberty, freedom producing crops? Do we get a bonus for pro ducing three volunteer fighters? Well, now; that’s a great problem of state • craft, though my guess is that for producing fighters we won’t receive any more “Guvment aid” than if we had produced sheep-burrs. Too bad, what ■' If Uncle Sam wishes to get the full martial ardor and demoniac fervor from farm boys drawn into the army, he might say “Boys, either “get” the enemy or go home and pull fodder.” Oh, boy! The Germans wouldn’t stand a chance. Not that we pull (or strip) fodder at El Recuerdo. Oh no! Some body told us long ago that the corn would lose 25 per cent if the fodder were pulled. So we throw away the fodder, though horses and mules seem to like it and thrive on it. The point is: is the fodder worth the loss in corn? Some of my tenants still pull fod der and some still pull me. ly, judiciously and firmly; we need leadership in adusting our people to the present economic conditions. Where are our Elder Statesmen, men whose experience prepares them to think calmly and wisely, and whose ability, character and lack of personal ambition command the respect Tu! at tention of the State? We have a score or two of men who like to regard themselves as leaders, but they don’t lead. On occasion they may get together and lubricate a poli tical machine; but they have no popu lar strength. What we need is some one, or several, who enjoy the confi dence of the people. Sometimes I think a few men should be endowed or pensioned for general public service, outside of political of fice. Once a man becomes a candi date or plans to enter a political race he has to watch his p’s and q’s so as not to say anything which might be used against him. Those who live in towns with closed banks on July 5th might have strutted about among their creditors proclaim ing their readiness to pay all bills due. As it was following the bank closings in 1933. Remember? Many men boasted of how they had been caught; and many others turned down creditors because of hank clos ings. When, at length, the clouds appeared, it was found that many of those who had lost so much In the banks—according to their talk in the street—had little or nothing in the banks. The average number of employees in manufacturing plants of the Unit ed States during 1932 was 6,571,000; in 1938 the number had risen to 8,- 827,000; at the end of March, 1941 the number was 11,147,000 and at the end of June was estimated to be more than twelve millions. The total em ployment outside of agriculture was about 40,000,000, or 12 million above the depression low. The military for ces have taken a million two hundred thousand more than in 1932. But wel fare goes merrily on. The national income is today at the rate of $85,000,000,000 a year. It is expected to react ninety billion dollars a year. show that this matter of freight rates is something which can dis turb the sleep of a man in business. Two things stand out: the port of Charleston serves the purpose of holding down freight rates because of water competition, even though we don’t use the port. But if we don’t use the port how long shall we have the benefits which come from Charleston as a point for basing rates? The second point which impresses us is that in all this intricate freight business only an expert can tell what’s what, whether the freight on a given article should be fifty cents a hundred, or forty-five cents. When I look at the rate book I . wonder how the mind of men ever “ contrived so much to mystify men and to make simple things so diffi cult. I wonder if those who prepared the rates really understand the whole matter, or whether they, too, stand appalled at thrir handiwork. Can it be, I wonder, that they are like the French people, who, accord ing to a Dough-boy of the First World War, don’t understand their own language? Said the Dough-boy: “Its no use to study French; these people don’t understand it.” Now listen: two old French women meet in the street. A says something. B says ‘Oui\ Then A repeats it. B says ‘Oui, oui’. Then A says it the third time. B repsonds with gusto, ‘Ah, oui’. They say things three times to be understood. I got no time for all that pollying to get an idea across. Even' a rate expert has to ap- ......... . proach a rate book like a helmeled Most of us thmk of freight rates ^ Wed ^ ^ to the as evils to be endured and about It is interesting to read the figures indicating our purchases of things we could produce here. Here are the figures: Fresh meats 18,561 tons Meats, cured, etc 15,917 tons Grapes 1,384 tons Poultry, dressed 119 tons Butter 452 tons Beans, dried 2,316 tons Cheese 1,600 tons Eggs • • • 1,164 tons Flour (wheat) 56,384 tons The probability is that ten thous and freight cars would be required to haul these articles, all of which could be produced in our State. Our State needs leadership in many matters. That leadership need not be exercised through public office, though an office of sufficient importance is both a good sounding board and a spring board. We need leadership in general business matters, something which Organized Business, incorporat ed, of South Carolina is undertaking; we need leadership in certain social matters which must be handled wise whieh nothing can be done. The av erage citizen does not have to con cern himself about freight rate* re cause he neither riiips goods by rail or water nor receives them directly. When he buys his coal, or clothing, his groceries, automobile, tires, gaso line or fertilizers the freight has been added to the price and is not something brought to his attention. We are inclined to think that a hun dred pounds of freight is a hundred pounds according to the miles it must be hauled. We simple souls are always being jarred and jostled vio- lenltly by learning that the pleasant dreams are far from the hard reali ties. In the first place we have clas sification of goods. 20 tons of crush ed rock will not cost the same for freight as twenty tons of hay. Nor would one ton of com be hauled at the same rate of one ton of steel rails. So you see, for freight rates purposes, weight by itself isn’t all. Well what about distance ? A mile is a mile isn’t it? Well not for freight classification. For example, we can ship a 500 lb. lot of shoes from Columbia to New York for $1.50 but that same lot of shoes can be brought from New York to Colum bia for less. If the freight were less from Asheville to Columbia than from Columbia to Asheville one might think it coat less to run down steep hills than to climb them; but the rates do not seem to be based on that. So up and down hill are the same. But what little I’ve said must depths of the sea,—and, like the div-. er, he hopes for the best. So you see why we need a rate bureau for busi ness. 7 ENSE BUY UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS AND SIAM PS on\ui vnuikiusTomikorhank America On Guard! Above is a reproduction of the Treasury Department’s Defense Savings Poster, showing an exact duplication of the original “Minute Man” statue by famed sculptor Daniel Cheater French. Defense Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your bank or post office, are a vital part of America’s defense preparations. JUST KIDS — Lost Sympathy By Ad Carter Phone No. 1