Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Child Health Day, May 1, Is Dedicated This Year To Campaign for Better Birth Registrations "GAY GADGETS" Aj•Delated Newspapers—WNU Features. By NANCY PEPPER UP IN ARMS k BIRTH Certificate for Every * Baby in the U. S. A.” is the slogan for Child Health Day, cele brated on May 1. Since 1923 May Day has become traditionally the children’s day, and in 1928 congress passed a joint resolution requesting and authorizing the President to is sue an annual proclamation desig nating May 1 as a day on which all groups interested in bettering con ditions for children might unite and rededicate themselves to this cause. The war emergency and selective service has demonstrated the value of complete and accurate birth reg istration at the time of birth. Dur ing the first 18 months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor the U. S. Civil Service commission alone asked the Bureau of the Census to make 500,000 searches of records for proof of citizenship when birth rec ords were unavailable. These and subsequent searches have cost the federal government a million and a half dollars and required the serv ices of 800 clerks and typists. State vital statistics offices and the Bureau of the Census have been flooded with requests for delayed birth registration from great num bers of people who have had to prove citizenship to obtain jobs in war industries. So a birth certificate is your "first citizenship paper.” Most all states have laws governing these birth registrations, but despite these laws the Bureau of the Census estimates the nation has a backlog of almost 55 million persons who were not reg istered at the time of birth. The census in 1940 revealed that in some states birth registration is only about 75 per cent complete and in some of the southern states less than 50 per cent of the current births are registered. In the nation as a whole, the percentage of registra tions was 92.5 per cent. Country Records Less Complete. On the average, rural counties had less complete birth registra tions than urban counties. There are scores of instances in which a proper birth certificate is essential. Evidence of age, citizen ship and family relationships may be required when a person enters school, obtains a work permit, auto driver’s license, pilot’s license, mar riage license, nurse’s license, to car ry firearms, an insurance policy, to qualify for voting, to enlist in the armed services, to enter civil serv ice, to qualify for social security benefits, for federal pensions, to ob tain employment in industry, pass ports, old age assistance, right of inheritance, to establish claims for servicemen’s dependent’s allow ance and a score of other reasons. The children’s bureau of the de partment of labor has played a ma jor role in the development of more complete birth registrations. Other organizations which have helped in this important work include the Gen eral Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Mothers’ Congress, the Associ ation of Collegiate Alumnae and oth er women’s organizations through out the country. The war has brought a bumper crop of babies. Since Pearl Harbor more than 10 million births have been recorded in this country. 1943 set a record of more than 3 million. Proper registration, which includes information on health, is important in the proper treatment and alloca tion of funds under the various fed eral laws, such as maternal and child health cape, etc. For instance, under the Social Se curity act federal funds are avail able to states to promote these wel fare programs on the basis of the number of registered live births in the state. Much of the money ap propriated through the social secu rity act is earmarked for service in rural areas where community health facilities are limited, but it is in the rural areas where birth registration is least complete. Birth records also are essential in determining the accuracy of gains and losses in the infant mortality rate and the causes of these deaths. Based on the records available, from 1915 to 1942 both infant mor tality and maternal mortality have been cut about 60 per cent. In the decade 1933 to 1943 infant mortality has been reduced from 58 to 40 per 1,000 births. For every 3 babies who died in 1933 during the first year of their lives, only 2 died in 1943. In the same period maternal mor tality was pared down 58 per cent. While 62 mothers died for every 10,000 births in 1933 only 26 died in 1943. Depends on Registrar. The key to complete registration of babies is the local registrar. In 1941 there were approximately 30,- 000 of these public servants charged with the responsibility of gathering birth and death certificates. In many states the duties are imposed on civil officials who have other du ties, such as the town clerk. In oth er states the duties fall upon any citizen who is public spirited enough to assume them. The roster of lo cal registrars includes housewives, pharmacists, merchants, physicians’ wives, farmers, undertakers and in dividuals in other callings. Fees paid to the registrars run from 20 cents to $1, but in a survey of six states, 72 per cent of these folks earned $50 or less a year. Less than 2 per cent earned more than $500. Improvement in the records, how ever, is due to the work of these 30,000 local workers who depend upon the assistance of the doctors, nurses, midwives or others attend ant at births. Child Health officials say now is the time to bring mothers into the picture so that if every one else for gets, these mothers will do their part to make sure that there is on file a birth certificate for every baby in the U. S. A. How many sterling silver bangle bracelets can yon load on yonr arm from wrist to elbow? Weil, that’s how many yon’ll wear. Or maybe you prefer those two-inch-wide sil ver bangles with your name en graved on one, your Dream Man’s name on the other. They look like handcuffs, sorta. And don’t forget your silver identification and friend ship link bracelets. How to Be Charming—You just wear silver charm bracelets, of course. Barrettes are back !— But they must be sterling silver and they must have his , name or yours (or ' both) engraved on them. Rings ’n Pins— Yes. the silver fad has spread to la pel and sweater pins, too—and big j bulky silver rings are tremen. Also, that popular friendship ring with two tiny silver hearts dangling from it. ■ Wanna Spoon, Goon?—Then just salvage a sterling silver spoon and bend it to fit your wrist. Time was when you were satisfied with a dime store spoon, covered with nail pol ish. This year, you’ll take sterling— or else! Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE N EXT time Gregory Peck is cast to play opposite a short girl, sympathize with him. He stands six-feet-three, and declares that kissing a short girl, over and over, for the cameras, means keeping his neck craned and his knees bent four or five hours a day, and it’s no fun. Now, kissing Ingrid Bergman for “Spellbound” was fine; she’s 5 feet, 7 inches, just the right height. As a matter of fact, those kissing scenes drew crowds from all parts of the Selznick lot; workers flocked around to watch, till finally the per formers grew self-conscious, and the set had to be closed. Incidentally, since Ingrid won her Oscar, Swedish papers are finally ecstatic about her. When Anne Gillis broke into pic tures Carole Lombard was her idol. Carole had had a run of terrific bad luck, as Carol; a numerologist urged her to add that final “e” to her name, and fame and fortune fol- City Family Finds Living on Two-Acre Farm Much Better Than in New York Apartment By Ed Bobinson In “Better Homes and Gardens.’* Daffynitions BOOMER BOY—Popular Wolf. YOU JAR ME—You make me mad. DIM BULB—A stupid person. GAMBLER—One who makes blind dates. DAPPER—The brand new word for neat, keen, rugged, super or sharp. (What—another!) i MARRIED—Going Steady. 1 GRAVEL GERTIE—A drippy gal (The D. Tracy influence). ARE YOU SERIOUS—Instead of i “Are you kidding?” AN ELEANOR—A gal who really gets around. PASS THE FEATHER—What you say when someone tells a joke that’s not funny. The idea is that you could tickle yourself with a feather and make yourself laugh—see? BROWN SUGARING—Telling fibs. COOKIE DUSTER—Moustache. TAKE IT EASY, BREEZY—In other words, “not so fa-a-ast!” Minut* MaJc.€-Mjas By GABRUELLB Skin looking dull? Skin dry, lines showing up? Do some Quick Work! Spread on a generous layer of vanishing cream. Stroke and pat it well into the lines and furrows of the skin. Relax for a minute. Then remove the cream with tissues, leav ing on a light film as a base for your powder. This Minute Mask will do wonders for your skin—and quick too! LnSser Syndicate.—WNU Features. Two years ago we Robinsons lived in a New York apartment. We dis covered that the unadvertised incon veniences outweigh the much-boast ed conveniences that living in a large city has to offer. When we had to take a long bus ride to let the baby play outdoors, we began to think seriously about living in the country. What we had in mind was a small place near enough to my job for me to go back and forth every day and yet large enough for us to grow a big part of our own food. We knew nothing about farming but began to read books and pamphlets. Then we moved to a small place near Nor walk, Conn., about an hour from my New York office. Our basic idea was to farm for our own use rather than for profit— we called it our Have-More plan. When you produce only a few things, you have to sell the surplus at wholesale and buy other things at retail. When you raise a great many different things and use them yourself you are in effect selling at retail. How near have we come to this goal? Today we are producing all our milk and cream, some but ter, all our eggs, about 120 pounds of chicken a year, over 200 pounds of pork, bacon and ham, plus rab bit, lamb, goose, raspberries, as paragus, and all but a few dollars worth of fresh, canned and frozen vegetables. And we are doing it all in our spare time. We handle it all easily, and I am still able to commute to my New York job five days a week. We get up at six-thirty and I’m home from the office by seven in the eve ning and can work in the garden until nine. Usually we are in bed by ten, but in the canning season we are sometimes busy until mid night. -j Earn Extra $100 a Month. Our figures show that the market value of the food we are producing averages $55 a month above cost. Our expenditures for clothes, doctor bills and other costs have gone down. Instead of our spare time costing money for entertainment, we use it productively. Our payments on the place (which in 20 years will mean ownership) are less than the rent used to be. Add all these sav ings and the total is around $900 a year—the equivalent, considering in come taxes, of earning nearly $100 a month extra. Eggs were our first project. We started with seven pullets at $11. During eight months those seven hens laid 646 eggs; they cost us 25 cents a dozen against 60 cents in the store. We increased our flock to twenty. A better laying breed, these cut our feed costs about 15 per cent. We now eat four dozen eggs a week. When several neighbors use the Have-More plan, variety can go up while both cost and labor are going down. We traded ggese for turkeys, rabbits for pears, broilers and eggs for potatoes. Milk From Goat. In season we had all the fresh vegetables we could eat. In addi tion we canned and froze about 275 quarts for winter use and saved our selves about $150—that’s $150 over the $22.50 we spent for plowing, seeds, fertilizer and spray. A grade Nubian doe and her two- weeks-old kid, shipped 2,000 miles from one of America’s best goat TRIXIE TEEN SAYS- Keep a day-to-day or weekend-to-waek- end diary and you’ll have some standard for comparison when your social life seems to slip. Suppose you don’t have a date this entire weekend and you didn’t have one last weekend either! Look back into your diary. Weren’t there wide open spaces last year, too? Then, suddenly, weren’t you back in the social whirl with more dates than you could handle? Learn to take the good with the bad—and the good will seem better and the bad not so tragic. breeders, cost $49 including ship ping. Our friends are always flab bergasted when we tell them that was goat milk they had for, lunch. Actually, goat milk, properly han dled, has no distinctive taste, is a little richer than cow milk and nat urally homogenized. We bought two inoculated seven- weeks-old pigs in April, slaughtered them in December and had 460 pounds of pork at a cost of 22 cents a pound. From our two does and buck we’ll have 30 to 40 young three or four-pound rabbits in a year. They are easier to dress than chick ens, require less than five minutes care a day and cost only 8 to 10 cents a pound. ANNE GILLIS lowed. Anne, the ingenue of Re public’s “The Magnificent Mr. M.”, has just recovered from an auto mobile accident, as Carole had, and she’s launching a new career—and she’s now Anne instead of Ann. —*— Ona Munson’s tired of living iff a trunk, after two decades in show business. So she’s bought a house in the Hollywood hills not too far from the studio where she’s mak-. ing “The Magnificent Mr. M.”, for the radio studio where she has her own program. Colorado Wheat Takes Prize Third Year For the third successive year wheat grown in Colorado won the Phillip W. Pillsbury prize for the best grain raised in the country. Jesse Powers, Henderson, Colo., farmer, was awarded the trophy for the 1944 crop year with hard red spring wheat. Presentation was made in Denver by R. H. Tucker, left, and Carl Powell, right, two of the judges. $1,400,000,000,000 Set A* Total Cost of War JOHANNESBURG. — Lt. Col. John J. Dobson, president of the Associated Scientific and Tech nical Societies of South Africa, predicted the expenditure on arms for the war against Ger many and Japan would total more than $1,400,000,000,000. He said this was apart from cost of rebuilding ruined areas. TCIEFACT THE U. S. S. R. HAS A BIG POPULATION o o o o o o US. A. U. S. S. R. \l\JW2i 192J9SJ10 M 1940 (ESU 111111 Navy Will Send Health Force to Assist Greeks WASHINGTON. — A navy public health unit will sail for Athens soon at the request of the Greek govern ment. Announcing this, the navy said the 14 man group would seek to curb disease, restore and improve sani tary facilities and “do everything else in its power to ameliorate liv ing conditions among a people crushed by years of enemy occupa tion ” Bill Goodwin, comedian on the Frank Sinatra air show, has turned movie actor; he has an important role in “The Stork Club.” But says he, while he was in New York City he tried to get into the Stork Club and eouidn’t—it was crowded and he had no reservation. —*— Ever since Ethel Barrymore got her Oscar for her performance in “None But the Lonely Heart,” the star of radio’s “Miss Hattie” has been swamped with phone calls from Hollywood producers. Looks as if RKO would sign her for a pic ture called “Miss Hargreaves.” —*— When Sammy Kaye, whose “Vari eties” you hear on the Blue Net work, began reading verse over the air, skeptics told him it was a sure way to lose listeners. But he received so many requests for copies of the poems that he decided to publish them in book form. —*— It’s just 10 years since the first issue of The March of Time ap peared on the sereens of 117 the aters; today it’s shown in more than 12,000. In Voi. H, one subjeet showed a rising polities! figure, Adolph Hitler. It also had a screen seoop, pictures of Sir Basil Zaharoff; a cameraman got those by disguis ing himself as a fruit peddler and hiding his camera under a bunch of bananas. —*— One of the oddest sights at La Guardia airport in New York oc curs whenever James Melton is out ward bound. The "Star Theater” tenor drives up in his 1910 Loco mobile, whose top speed is 25 m.p.h. — to enter an airliner that can do 200 withoi* half trying. —•#. Janet Blair and Marc Platt, seen now in “Tonight and Every Night,” will have the top roles in Colum bia’s “Tars and Spars.” The coast guard musical will be filmed with established screen personalities and with coast guard and SPARs per sonnel. * Joan Davis has signed a five-year contract with the company that will sponsor her in a new air show next season, starting late in September or early in October, on a new net work and at a new time. * ODDS AND ENDS—Cheryl Darlene, four-year-old daughter of cowboy star, Roy Rogers, will have a part in “The Fab ulous Texan,’* starring William Elliott. ... When Kate Snsith made her first recording 14 years ago. Jack Miller’s orchestra ac companied her; today its still Miller’s orchestra on her Sunday night variety pro grams. . . . Charlie McCarthy wore a cow boy costume when broadcasting from New York, but when he stopped in Arizona on his way home he wore tails.... Lisa Golm, who’s specialized in portraying Nazi spies and refugees since her escape from Ger many seven years ago, plays Helmut Dan- tine’s American sister in “Shadow of a Woman.’’ SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLECRAFT Charming Apron in Filet Crochet i^OW that you’ve discovered the ' charm of crocheted party aprons, you’ll want this one done in filet crochet; easy-to-follow chart. Handiwork you’ll enjoy—a diet crochet apron—inexpensive when you make it yourself. Pattern 7438 has directions; chart. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more tlma is required in Ailing orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needleeraft Dept. 584 W. Randolph St. Chicago M, HL Enclose 16 cents for Pattern No Name Address- ASPIRIN 1 WORLD’S LARGEST SELLER AT ’ Carrots with no tops stay crisp longer than those that have the leaves left on. —•— Turn the mattress every week, first from end to end, next from side to side to get maximum wear and comfort from it. —•— After oiling the sewing machine, stitch through a blotter several times. This takes up all surplus oil on the machine, and keeps from getting it on the material. —a— Daddy’s worn-out shirts can be made over into cunning blouses, dresses or suits for the one-year- old, provided a little trimming and imagination are used. —•— Equal parts of salt, flour, and vinegar make an effective paste to clean brass, copper, or pewter. Apply the paste, let stand fop an hour, rub off, wash with water, and then polish. •—•— Dental floss is fine for mqnding elastic, because it wears so long. Take care in mending that tiny rubber threads are not damaged. Sew between them. —•— An easy way to give ferns their weekly watering is to place them in the bathtub, draw shower cur tain and turn on the shower, ad justing spray until it is about room temperature. —•— To remove rust from nickel, grease well with any kind of lubri cant, let stand for a few minutes, then rub with cloth soaked in am monia. Rinse with water and pol ish. —•— You can clean glazed chintz by spreading it on a flat surface and sponging quickly with lukewarm water. Press on the wrong side with a warm iron or on the right side using a slightly dampened pressing cloth. WEB.—TNURS.—ni.—SAT. 7:13 s. m. (CWT): 3:13 e. m. (EWI) SUNDAY S:13a.w.<CWT): S:1Sa.a.(EWT) Your Favorite CBS Station Sponsored by Ballard's /"A. REALLY TtA^ CARmsn ORANGE PEKOE & PEKOE j V T-e A Golden Goodne® 5 * CORN FLAKES u 1hB Crains fin final Faeds” MAfp KeDocg*s Cora Flakra briag you nearly all the protective food ele ment* of the whole grain declared essential to human nutrition. 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