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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
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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
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America On Guard!
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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