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■5 THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Women Baseball Fans Go All Out With Cheers and Boos "gay gadgets" Ladies’ Day Brings Out Enthusiastic Crowd Who Know Fine Points of Game Because it isn’t in the nature of a woman to resist a bargain, Ladies’ Day in the nation’s ball parks is an event that rivals the World Series in attendance. We can imagine the deep sighs heaved by diamond im- pressarios who survey the packed stands and bleachers and murmur, “If only they were paying.’' For the clubs do not profit from Ladies’ Day. When the distaff side comes out to honor the national pastime with its patronage, the ladies pay only the entertainment tax de manded on such occasions by Uncle Sam and the state, plus a small service charge. As the grand march starts to parade through the turnstiles on Ladies’ Day, toddlers of pre-school age mingle with the bobby socks generation and their grandmothers. There used to be a time when few of the patronesses on this occasion knew much about what was happen ing on the diamond. But nowadays, they are experts, and as unrestrain ed in voicing their opinions of the playing and players as the male fans. There are no more Mesdames DeFarge who calmly count their knits and purls while the diamond goes mad with frenzy and tension. They are as vociferous in urging a violent demise for the umpire as in exhorting the runner to make home plate — if he is running for their favorite team. And the “razz- berries” are equally heartfelt and dinning. The accompanying candid photo graphs reveal the depths to which the national sport has embedded it self in the hearts of the fair fans at a recent game on Ladies’ Day at Yankee stadium. Associated Newspapers—WKU Features. By NANCY PEPPER FUNNY BUSINESS “Come o-o-on!!’’ Nothing phlegmatic about these young fans. A pos sible home run pulls them out of their seats, and a successful slide to home plate practically starts a jive session right in the bleachers. Area in Danger of Drouth Can Be Forewarned by New Forecasting Method Farmers may look forward to keeping “one jump’’ ahead of the weather, if U. S. department of agri culture studies can be given prac tical application. Knowing when drouth would come to a specified area, as well as other weather haz ards, could have an important influ ence on U. S. farm production, it is pointed out, since the possibility of annual crop loss would be greatly lessened. A Complex Method. Government researchers have de veloped a statistical method of gaug ing the probable occurrence of drouth in any locality in the United States at any time of the year. Too com plex for use except by scientists, the method produces information that may be used by agronomists and others for the farmer’s benefit, in adapting soil and water conser vation work, as well as other farm activities, to weather conditions. Charts might even be prepared for individual farmers to show the prob ability of weather hazards in their localities for virtually every day of the year. Because the information obtained shows when sequences of dry or rainy days are most likely to oc cur, it can be valuable in checking day to day weather forecasts and in long range planning as well, it is pointed out. The knowledge can be used, for instance, in planning ter race construction programs for pe riods when rain is least likely to Minut* Malta- Up* By GABRIELLE On Ladies’ Day you’ll find every generation represented, and the mothers are as enthusiastic as their daughters. They are also equally un restrained in exercising the spectators’ privilege of making their voices heard across Yankee stadium. Trying to, anyway. cause erosion of unfinished embank ments; or in extensive seedings of grass, for selecting a planting time when a killing drouth is least apt to occur during the period needed for germination of the seed. Agri cultural workers probably will evolve many other practical uses for the material provided by the study. Probability Tables Used. Applying to drouth the theory of probability used by insurance au thorities in deriving life expectancy tables, climatologists and other sci entists now have a technique that also can be employed to discover probable occurrences of other cli matic hazards such as intensities of rainfall and extremes of tempera ture. Drouth was selected for try ing out this method because drouth data already has been compiled and tabulated, from weather bureau rec ords of 1898 to 1937, for stations rep resenting every climatic area of the continental United States. iV. Africa Offers Chance for Development of Brisk Trade to U. S. Commercial Interests Want to shorten the length of your face? You can do this by a beauty trick! A touch, just a touch of rouge on your chin. Choose a soft rose-red. Blend till there is jflst a faint rosy shadow. This beauty trick will aid you in camouflaging an over-emphatic chin. Thus—you fool your Public! Ledger Syndicate.—WNU Feature*. Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, where American G.I.s began their Victory march in 1942-43, are ex pected for several reasons to loom larger in American post-war foreign trade. Before the present war French North African trade was part and parcel of French economy, and the mother country cornered the lion’s share, says the National Geographic society. Recent studies of French in dustrial production in the light of war damage, however, indicate that the bulk of North African needs for the remainder of 1945, 1946 and probably 1947 will have to come from the United States. In the next six months, North Africa, bled by two years of Axis ex ploitation, will require imports, ex clusive of wheat shipments, esti mated at more than $100,000,000. The “Maghreb,” as the Arabs call French North Africa, normally en joys a substantial wheat surplus, but drouth has produced four suc cessive crop failures. Arrangements are in progress whereby the U. S. farmer will provide North Africa with 2,500,000 tons of wheat during the next 12'months. The French plan to pay cash for the vheat out of their limited foreign exchange re serves, a sacrifice which em phasizes the importance they attach to keeping these restive lands well fed. French North Africa has been called “a museum of minerals,” a fact of importance to the United States because this region contains many subsoil deposits lacking or near exhaustion in this country. The Maghreb yields one-third of the world’s supply of phosphate. There are also important deposits of cop per, lead, zinc, manganese, anti mony, mercury, iron, molybdenum and coal. Vast areas of North Africa, especially Morocco, have not yet been carefully prospected, and expectations are that new deposits of some or all of these metals will add to the “museum’s” store. French North Africa covers an area of over a million square miles —roughly twice the area of Alaska —with a population now estimated at 20,000,000 people, mostly Arabs, native Berbers, and Jews, with a small minority of Europeans. Geo graphically the region is akin to the Mediterranean lands of south ern Europe. The three countries are much alike in physical features, and the north-south boundaries are man made lines unmarked by natural barriers. All are bounded on the south by the wastes of the Sahara and on the north by the Mediter ranean sea. Geography has marked North Africa into three east-west zones. Along the coast, where American marines fought the Barbary pirates 140 years ago, stretches the Tell, a belt of fertile slopes, and occasional alluvial plains, where citrus fruit, grapes, olives and cereals grow in Do you know how many of your own tricks for teens are actually con verted into big business? Too bad you can’t claim royalties on them. Every time you introduce a new fad there’s a smart manufacturer wait ing to turn it into a fashion. Stand up and take a bow for these brain storms that were whacky enough to be put to work. Jabberwocky Fashions — You’ve! been writing Jabberwocky and auto graphs all over your station-wag on coats for years now, haven’t you? Well, you in spired the very successful “Alive with Jive” coat with a lining printed in a de sign of Jabber- wocky and names. Then, you’ve been embroid ering Jabberwocky across your vel- et headbands, haven’t you? Along comes the Jabberwocky Bandlead er—a hair band with assorted slan guage embroidered across the top. Aren’t they the copy cats? S.W.A.K.—You teen-agers started the fad for imprinting lipstick lip- tographs on your envelope flaps. Now you can buy boxes of lip shaped, red paper stickers with gummed backs, all ready to stick on the back of your important letters. Stop and Go—We reported that you were fastening bicycle reflec tors to the backs of your belts and, before you could say “Tom Drake,” there was a ready-made leather belt with red and green reflectors across the back. You’ll find it at your fa vorite Gadgeteria. DAFFYNITIONS Palate Plush—A super-gooey con coction at the Soda Fountain. Dope Fiend—A gossip. Drug Addict—A guy who hangs around the Marble Slab. Hi, Ping—How’s Pong?—That's how you greet a half of any “steady” team. Hi, Candle, Who Blew Ton Out?— A new way of saying “Hello.” Don’t Be Hasty, Pudding—Don’t get angry. PARTY PATTER Here are some teen tricks to maker your next get-together a neat and reet meet. Mother-and-Daughter Teas—It’s a new fad throughout the country. One girl invites her best friends AND their mothers to an afternoon tea. If you’re serving Iced Tea, be sure to read the easy-to-follow instruc tions in the cook book. Clang, Clang, Clang—We can’t guarantee that you’ll meet Tom Drake on the way, but Trolley par ties are going full speed these days. At the End of the Line, there’s a picnic. Fire Alarm—A Fire party is Hot Stuff. You send out your invita tions on brown paper with burned edges, telling guests to come to the party exactly as they were dressed when they received the invitation. Anything can happen from Pajamas to bath towels. All the guests are instructed to bring their most pre cious possessions, which are auc tioned off for war stamps later in the evening. You get some Prize Packages with this gag. abundance. Behind the Tell, ranges of the Atlas mountains, reaching 14,000 feet in some places, roughly parallel the Mediterranean coast. In the southern reaches of the moun tains is a high and somewhat arid tableland, where nomad natives tend large flocks of sheep and goats. Farther south are limitless stretches of desert and wasteland with iso* lated oases, where dates are the principal product. Dry in Summer. The climate of the northernmost belt is not unlike that of southern California. There is fairly abundant rainfall along the coast and on the seaward slopes of the mountains, but little rain in the summer. No rivers of economic importance flow through French North Africa. Normally, prewar trade between France’s North African lands and the United States was comparative ly small. From 1937 to 1939 exports to the Maghreb averaged unde* $8,- 000,000 a year, while imports aver aged under $6,000,000. American ex porters sent chiefly tobacco and cig arettes, lubricating oil and grease, refrigerators and parts, and farm machinery. Americans bought in exchange sausage casings, skins and furs, leather goods from Morocco, olive oil (both edible and for soap), gums and aromatic oils and cork. Manganese imports from North Africa began shortly after the his toric Anglo - American Invasion of the region toward the end of 1942. Ocean Going Airfield Tried Out During War LONDON. — Floating airfields in the middle of the ocean have been “tried out with success” during the war, the Observer said. “Since the first one was built to British and American design by Americans fairly early in the war we have made several more on what is considered an improved pat tern,” the article said. Location of the experiments is still secret. TELEFACT LENGTH OF COAST LINES HAWAII PHILIPPINES UNITED STATES 775 MILES 4170 MILES m ALASKA Bomb Plant Called Absolutely Safe OAK RIDGE, TENN—There is absolutely no danger of an atomic explosion at Clinton Engineer Works, Col. Kenneth D. Nichols, commanding officer, said. “Al though these plants are the main units for production of atomic bombs, adequate safeguards make an atomic explosion impos sible,” he said. PRIVATE PURKEY ON OCCUPYING JAPAN Dear Ed.— Well I am all in a lather on account of I got to be in the occupation force in Japan nnd I wish you would write my congressman, also the Secretary of War, the President and anybody else who might get me out of it: It is pretty tough to come through the European shindig after making the fight for a better world, democracy and the as sorted freedoms and then wind up as a probation officer over them Japanese. • Occupying Japan is not up my alley. It will be like occupying a haunted house full of Charlie Chans. It is bad enough to occupy countries which look, talk and act like me without tak ing on a country where I got to keep looking in the book to find out about fhe customs, habits and sound effects. And anyhow there is something about people who go around all day in ki- monas that gets on my nerves. • I was not at home exactly among the Krauts and Eyeties but they was mem bers of the same league more or less and they understood pinochle, horse shoe pitching, gin rummy, checkers, craps and reddog. They didn’t sit on the floor to eat or wear no socks with a special section for the big toe. • But the Japs is something else. I got nothing no more in common with them than the New York Giants has got with a outfit of circus Esklmoes. It Is the same as putting a lifelong resident of Brooklyn in charge of a Chinese rice plantation. * All I know about Japan is what I see in the movie travelogues, plus what I read in the war news beginning with Pearl Harbor and if they is nice people to be stuck with for a couple of the best years of my life then an Ameri can boy’s place is in Thibet. • ♦ For one thing I do not care for fish- heads, rice and wateriily saiads and they tell me a good beer saloon it harder to find in Japan than a ham burger with onions. Also the fraterni zation situation is very poor. Italian, Kraut and French dolls is not too hard to go for in dull moments, but I never In my life found myself wishing I knew some Japanese dame to call up. • It would not seem natural for me to have snapshots took of me in a affec tionate post with a Nip doll, even if it don’t look so bad in some of them comic operas. • Alto, | don’t like the emperor set-up. If he keeps on insisting he is God it is going to make me pretty sick and I am apt to drop some remarks which will bring on another war. I do not like Japs anyhow. They all look alike and when you have seen them two guys what was house guests in Washington all the time of the Pearl Harbor stab In the back you have seen them all. •_ Hy idea is that the Chinese should occupy Japan and let the others go home where they come from. They would get a bigger kick out of it and after what they have took from the Japs for the last ten years they should be in just the right occupation mood. Me, I would not be a Class A occu- pyer. If I got to occupy some place send me back to Germany which with all its faults wears pants, coat and vest, uses shoelaces and knows what a undershirt is for. Yours, Oscar. • • • PEACE MY EYE1 One of the major problems of peace remains unsolved; how to disarm the kiddies. * The little ones have so far Ignored the peace proclamations and all uncon ditional surrenders. They are clinging to their arme and munitions. • We took it up with Junior today. He has scoffed at all the radio reports of Japanese surrender and all the state ments on war’s end. The rest of the world might be standing on the brink of a peaceful world, but not Junior. We tried to reason with him. “Listen, the war is over,” we said, “Don’t you understand?" “Bam! Bam!” he shouted, leveling a machine gun on us. “This all belongs to yesterday,” we argued. “The world has ceased firing.” “Ack! Ack! Ack!" he replied, switch ing to an anti-aircraft weapon. “Peace has come,” we insisted. “Now you must lay down your arms and re convert to ping-pong or marbles or something. . . .” That settled it. Junior now trained a bazooka on us, and reinforced by all the kids in the neighborhood., wiped us oft the map. *. The FBI has arrested 118 railroad dining car workers for not seeing that the customers got what they paid for. Years of experience eating on railroad trains had caused us to assume this was a matter of fixed policy. “In many instances,” says the ac count of the arrests, “the meat portion was greatly reduced.” Don’t try to tell us that it took the FBI to discover this. • • • Can You Remember — Away back when the Jap* fised to think the height of hard luck wat an earthquaket Japanese leaders concede it must have been something they ate, but they are not ready to admit it was rice. • • • Mr. Andrew Spring has become a neral partner in our firm, “Outwater A Wells”—Newspaper notice. Moving M. E. Van Realte to remark that the outlook is damper and dampen • v • Love on your wedding day I send; Because the war I* at an end. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Scalloped Frock for Daytime Afternoon Frock S OFT scallops outline the neck line of this graceful afternoon frock. The simple gored skirt is very flattering and easy to wear. 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