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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. THOUGHTS ON MONEY Money has few friends these days. The sticking kind, the sort of people who want to cling to it tenderly. Coin has become almost a synonym for confetti. * Americans are behaving as if they thought it a reflection on their char acter not to be spendthrifts. The old slogans have been revised thusly: 1. Take care of the daily-doubles and the pennies will have to take care of themselves. 2. A fool and his money make a perfect parlay. 3. If money burns a hole in your pocket, remember that it saves the moths a lot of work. 4. Waste not, have not! 5. A good race tip is rather to be had than great riches. • Frugality has become a word out of an old dictionary. The man who used to wince at the idea of paying over 75 cents for an ordinary lunch now pays $2.50 and brings his own butter and sugar. Give a waiter only 10 per cent today and you auto matically become Scrooge II. • Pull that old one about saving something for a rainy day today and you get a snappy, “Phooeyl If it rains I can get an umbrella from the government." • Thousands of people seem to be lieve that money not only grows on trees, but that the trees can be counted on to make deliveries. • If Ben Franklin were around to day delivering epigrams on thrift he would be denounced as a reaction ary, a Tory and an enemy of the people. • The questions of the hour are: Is cash a good thing to have around the house? Should a flve-doUar bill be regarded as something for the long pull or a quick turnover? Can a man be thrifty and maintain the respect of the community? • • • Good News for Light Sleepers We don’t know what we would have done if we hadn’t had a chat today with Albert H. Chandler. We hadn't been getting much sleep and it worried us. Counting sheep hadn’t been of the least help. There had been times when we had been on an eight-hour sheep-counting night. A fellow couldn’t go on like that. • Then it happened. We heard a commotion in the corridors and found office associates congratulat ing Chandler on his 91st birthday. Ninety-one and on the job every day as office receptionist! Sixty-seven years on the paper! • “Ah!” we thought, "Chandler must sleep well. In him there is the secret of repose after hitting the haypile. He can help us.” • “Sleep' ” exclaimed the hardy vet eran. "There’s nothing in it! It’s the bunk!" We assume the celebration had upset him somewhat. • “Forget that sheep staff," he con tinued. "That’s bad. I used to count ’em. Probably counted more sheep in my time thau any living Ameri can. I even numbered ’em front and rear. Put plates on ’em. Things came to a head back in the ’70s, in 1878. I think that was one of the biggest sheep years I ever had. There were so many to be counted that I never slept a wink. So I quit. Haven’t tabulated a sheep since." • "But what do you do about ’em?” “Ignore ’em. All except one. That sheep’s been with me over half a century. I call it Old Two Million Eight Thousand and Ninety-four. I had counted that high when I met it. This sheep and I get about the same amount of sleep. Why? Because we forgot the whole business years ago, and know there’s nothing to it. All the other sheep keep on hopping back and forth all night waiting for me to start counting and they’ve gone nuts. They don’t get any sleep at all]” • • • SUN GOD CUPPED COUPONS Hirohilo, it develops, had a finger in all the financial pies of Japan and is a millionaire many times over. A descend ant of a sun god on his banker’s side. Under tradition, nobody in Japan could ever look down on the emporer. IP ell, if we had all his money, we would not have permitted anybody to look down on us, either. The emperor's horse, informed of lliro- hito’s wealth, exclaimed, “That ain’t hay!’' New automobiles have been freed of rationing. All you will need to get one now will be: 1— About $2,000. 2— The name of a dealer who has a car. 3— A letter from the President. 4— Patience and fortitude. SERVICE EDITOR’S NOTE: This newspaper through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. w., Washing ton, D. C., is able to bring readers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be adddressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which •cill appear in this newspaper regularly. New Veterans’ Hospitals WSonja Henie and Dan Topping have met in Chicago, the papers say, and decided to part after five years of married life, 'Artificial ice is not what it’s cracked up ; to be, we take it. Enlargement of the facilities of the Veterans’ administration for more adequate care of returning disabled war veterans is getting un der way with the announcement re cently that locations had been ap proved for 19 new veterans’ adminis tration hospitals and additions to 15 existing hospitals to provide a total of 15,276 new beds for Veterans’ ad ministration patients. These beds are a part of the 29,100 bed program approved by President Truman on August 4, and funds for the construction program are to be requested for the current (IP^fl) fis cal year. The new hospitals are to be located at or near: New Haven, Conn., Albany, N. Y., Buffalo, N. Y., Newark, N. J., Balti- i lore, Md., Washington, D. C., Gainesville, Fla., Clarksburg, W. Va., Louisville, Ky., Decatur, 111., Duluth, Minn., Southern Minnesota, Iowa City, Iowa, Omaha, Neb., New Orleans, La., El Paso, Texas, Okla homa City, Okla., Phoenix, Ariz., and Cincinnati, Ohio. In the meantime, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Veterans’ administrator, has announced appointment of Dr. Paul B. Magnuson, associate pro fessor of surgery at Northwestern university, to be head of the re search and post-graduate training program in the veterans’ hospitals throughout the country. Dr. Mag nuson is considered one of the coun try’s outstanding surgeons and or thopedic specialists. Oueationa end Answers Q. I was inducted in the army and served seven months when I was discharged on account of age. Four of us asked officers if they wished we would get out and they answered, yes. So we went to an employment office in Tacoma and received a slip say ing we were more vital to the war industry than in the army and on those grounds they gave us a discharge. Now they tell us we are not entitled to mus- tering-out pay. At that time we knew nothing about mustering- out pay. Also am I entitled to a serviceman’s loan.—C. H., Hammond ave., Superior, Wis. A. Probably you are not entitled to mustering-out pay. It may be that you were discharged before mustering-out pay was adopted, and if not, you were discharged for your own convenience to take a job in war industry, and without overseas service, are not entitled to mus- trring-out pay. You are entitled to benefits of the G.I. bill, however. Q. My husband joined the ma rine corps in June, 1942. He spent 18 months overseas, re ceived 3 bronze stars and the presidential unit citation, but because his record book was late in arriving at the islands, he has not been credited with the bronze stars. How can this error be corrected? He has just been sent back to the Pacific with 57 points. I have been told all marines with 40 points wou'd not be sent over again. He should be credited with 72 or 77 points. How can this be cor rected?—Mrs. L. L., Carpenter st., Northville, Mich. A. Any superior officer who knows your husband’s record could cor rect his record insofar as the bronze stars are concerned, the marine corps says. It is true that it is the policy of the marine corps not to re ship men with 40 points overseas. It is also true that your husband has more than enough points to make him eligible for discharge. The ma rine corps, however, says there are many reasons why he may have been shipped back for duty, one be ing, he may have requested over- seas service. Suggest you write di rect to the marine corps headquar ters, Washington, D. C., and ask fox details concerning your husband’s record. Q. Can a serviceman stop his allotment to his wife and child? A. If you mean his family allow, ance, which is made up of equal con tributions from the soldier’s pay and the army, no, he cannot stop that He can stop his allotment, which is | a voluntary contribution of the sol dier to his dependents over an( above his family allowance. Q. When they start discharg ing servicemen with two years of service will they include only those already serving two years or will it be effective for all when their two years are up?— Wife, Chelsea, Kan. A. Under the present ruling, mes in the army must be 35, 36 or 37 with two years service before they are eligible unless they have the necessary number of points. The war department says a new ruling may be in effect by midwinter t« release all men with two years serv« ice, regardless of age. It Pays to Properly Candle and Pack Eggs Protect Quality Eggs And Increase Profits Farmers will profit at least three cents a dozen for candling eggs. The War Food adminis tration set support prices of 27 cents for candled eggs and 24 cents for uncandled eggs. But properly candled eggs will re sult in even greater profits by developing a quality mar ket and increasing consumer de mand. After the eggs have been properly candled, the final value depends upon how they are handled when sent to market. They are largely judged by the action of the yolk. If eggs are packed sharp end up, there is a tendency for the yolk to rise through the white and to appear prominent, thus lowfciing the market value. Home-made Presents Are a Pleasure to Receive (See Recipes Below) Presents From the Kitchen When eggs are packed with sharp end down they maintain their qual ity better. When an egg is fresh and in good condition, it has a normally thick white and the yolk stays fairly well in the center when the egg is twirled in front of the candler. A quality egg will show little, a poor egg will show a large air space, dark yolk and moving yellow. Grindstone Mount Mounting for Grindstone. Saw a felloe of an old wagon wheel in two. Brace with sturdy board to keep right distance apart and to hold rigid. Malaria-Like Disease Found in So. Illinois The presence of anaplasmosis, a malaria-like disease of cattle, has been found in southern Illinois by veterinary specialists of the Illinois university. Fear that it may spread to other states seems to be well founded. A serious disease of cattle and sheep, anaplasmosis, commonly ob served in the South, has seldom been encountered in northern states. It is spread by biting or blood-sucking insects. Prominent symptoms in clude loss of appetite, weakness, rapid pulse and breathing and pale or yellowish skin and mucous mem branes. Laboratory tests should be taken when the presence of anaplas mosis is believed to exist. New in Machinery Dehydrator During the winter months, when the home dehydrator is no longer re quired for fruits cr vegetables, it may be used as a clothes drier, room heater o. food warmer. With some types of home dehydra tors, the heating elements may be removed and used as room heaters and the cabinet utilized for storage Butter Color Defects Mottles result from uneven distri bution of the salt and from insuf ficient working of farm butter. It is the most common color defect. This defect may be overcome by more complete working of the butter, by moiste. ng the salt before adding it to the butter and then working the butter well, or by working the but ter partially, allowing it to stand a few hours, and then completing the working process. A greasy condi tion will result from underworking. Goodies of sugar and gpice, quiv- ery, fruit-sweet jellies and citron and cherry flacked fruit cakes — all these make won derful presents. Wrap them in gay Christmas trap pings and you’ll have a gift that any one will be proud to receive. A few days spent in the kitchen with a well-organized schedule will yield enough cookies, cakes and jel lies to take care of any number of friends. They’ll appreciate the thought and care you have taken in preparing something especially for them. Many homemakers canned fruit juices last summer which they want to make into jelly now that they’ve saved enough sugar. A few jars of these colorful jellies will make ex cellent presents. Grape Jelly. (Makes 11 6-ounce glasses) 4 cups grape' juice 3% cups sugar 3!4 cups light corn syrnp Vs cup liquid pectin Measure out the juice and place it in a large kettle with the sugar and syrup. Mix thoroughly. Bring to the boiling point and boil 3% minutes. Add liquid pectin, stirring constant ly. Then bring again to a full roll ing boil and boil hard % minute. Remove from heat, skim and pour into hot, sterile glasses. Paraffin at once. Apple and Orange Marmalade. (Makes 10 6-ounce glasses) 1 lemon 1 orange 3 pounds tart apples 3>4 cups sugar M cup water 3 cups corn syrup Extract juice from lemon and or ange and strain. Then grind the rinds of both fruits. Peel, core and slice apples Vs inch thick. Weigh out 2 pounds of the sliced apples, or measure out 2 quarts. Place juice and ground rind of lemon and or ange together with sliced apples in a large kettle. Add sugar, water and syrup. Stir well, place over heat and bring to a boil. Simmer for 50 minutes, stirring frequently. Skim, pour into sterilized jars and seal im mediately. A tangy, well-flavored jelly is al ways handy to have with a roast or casserole. You will particularly like this one made with honey: Lemon Honey Jelly. (Makes about 6 glasses) 3 A cup lemon juice 214 cups honey Vi cup liquid fruit pectin Combine lemon juice and honey. Bring to a full rolling boil. Add pec tin, stir vigorous ly and boil about 2 minutes. Pour into hot, sterile glasses. Cover with paraffin to seal. Conserves and fruit butter will give nice variety to the home-packed gift. In both of the following recipes, slow cooking is recommended to allow the mix tures to reach a thickened con sistency: Baked Apple Butter. (Makes 12 6-ounce glasses) 4 quarts quartered apples 3 cups water LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENUS Scalloped Spaghetti with Chicken Peach Nut Salad Brussels Sprouts Orange Bread Beverage Applesauce Cake LYNN SAYS Make Your Own: When you are giving away homemade presents, go all-out on decorations. For fruit jars, make a wrapping of white cardboard and paste cheery Christmas stickers on them. Select three or four jars of pret ty colored jellies. Wrap them in paper and tie the tops all togeth er with one long ribbon. Deco rate with pine cones. Fill a well-scrubbed fruit bas ket with luscious fruits, grapes and nuts. Deck it out with holly and a great big bow. Use plain cardboard boxes for cookies and candies, and paste on colorful holiday paper. Finish off with ribbons, holly and pine cones. Flump popcorn balls can be tied in gay wrappings. Leave a loop in the ribbon so they can be hung on the tree, if desired. 1 cup cider 5 cups sugar Vi teaspoon cinnamon Vi teaspoon allspice Vi teaspoon clones Cook apples in water until soft. Force them through a colander. Add remaining ingredients. Cook in a slow (275-degree) oven for 8 hours, stirring every half hour. Seal in hot, sterilized glasses at once. Pear Conserve. (Makes 9 6-ounce glasses) 12 medium sized pears IVi cups pineapple 1 orange, juice and rind 4 cups sugar 4 cups corn syrup 1 small bottle maraschino cherries Chop pears and pineapple. Add orange juice, rind, sugar and syrup. Let mixture stand overnight. Next morning cook slowly until thick, about 2Vs horn's. Add chopped maraschino cherries and seal in hot, sterilized jars or glasses. No gift to any family is complete unless there is something special tucked in for the youngsters. If you *V uni have used your quota of sugar on other Christmas baking, you will want recipes for sugar-easy sweets, like popcorn balls or peanut brittle that take only a little bit. Special care should be used in wrapping these gifts for the children as they may want to hang them on the tree. Use plenty of ribbon and let them be gay with stickers. Molasses Popcorn Balls. (Makes 12 to 14 balls) 4 quarts popped corn 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup sugar 1 cup molasses Vi teaspoon salt Melt butter, add sugar, molasses and salt. Boil on medium flame or heat until it reaches the crack stage (260 degrees). This is slightly hard er than the hard ball stage. Pour over com. Stir com thoroughlj while pouring syrup. Butter hands immediately and shape com into balls. One cup of hulled peanuts may be added to the corn, if desired. Peanut Brittle. 1V4 cups shelled peanuts Vi teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar Vi cup light corn syrup Vi cup water IVi tablespoons butter Vi teaspoon lemon extract Sprinkle nuts with salt and warm in oven. Put sugar, com syrup and water in a pan, stir until the mixture boils. Wash down sides of pan with wet pastry brush and cook until mix ture is very brittle when tried in cold water. Add flavoring, butter and nuts. Turn into shallow greased pan. As soon as the candy can be handled pull and stretch it out as thin as possible. Break into irreg ular pieces. Released by Western Newspaper Union. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D, Df The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for December 2 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se- 'ected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education: used by permission. THE CHRISTIAN AND KIS ECONOMIC RELATIONS LESSON TEXT: Dent. 8:17. 18; Luke 12:13-21. GOLDEN TEXT: A man's life consisteth not In the abundance of the things which he possessefh.—Luke 12:15. Peace and the postwar period find America, and in fact the entire world, plunged into tremendous eco nomic problems far too deep for any man or group of men to solve. We honor those who are laboring day and night to meet the threat of un employment, the question of recon version and readjustment to civilian production, of feeding a hungry world, etc. But we say again, they cannot find the answers in the wis dom of men; they must have the wisdom of God. We need to turn anew to the eco nomic principles taught in God’s Word. If men will only recognize them, and deal with their fellow- men in the light of their teaching, the many knotty problems will sure ly find solution. There is need, first of all, of a i fundamental philosophy concerning j possessions which will make man deal properly with them. The first , section of our lesson says to us: | I. Think Right About Wealth (Deut. 8:17, 18). | How trenchant and altogether fit ting are the words of Scripture! Nothing could describe our times more succinctly and accurately than verse 17. Men are glorying in their ability to do things. Man has even gone so far as to de velop a weapon of warfare, the atomic bomb, so powerful that he fears it might be used to wipe out all civilization. Even secular lead ers are now saying that we must have a spiritual rebirth if we are to use such things for good and not for evil. Man needs God now more than ever. We honor those who by skillful hand and brilliant brain produce ex cellent and thrilling results. But our question is, How many are there who say, God has done this thing; He gave the strength and the skill; His is the honor? Some there are who thus recognize Him, but they are few indeed. Their name is le gion who say in their heart, "My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth” (v. 17). Joseph Parker points out that a deep conviction of the fact stated in verse 18 “would turn human history into a sacrament.” He says, “What a blow this text strikes at one of the most popular and mischievous fallacies in common life; namely, that man is the maker of his own money!” II. Act Right About Wealth (Luke 12:13-21). Most of us think of money as something we want to get hold of and use for ourselves, but if it be longs to God, and we are only his stewards, we must put away that impulse. “Take heed,” said Jesus, “and beware of covetousness” (v. 15). It is a deadly and deadening sin, ail too common even among Christian people. The teaching of this whole pas sage of Scripture is so directly op posite to all ideas regarding such matters accepted by the world at large, that it may be a total sur prise to some readers and attend ants at Bible school. The yardstick of success in the world for an individual, an organiza tion, or a nation, yes, even for many a church, is the possession of wealth, or property, or other “things.” Write it in large letters on the hearts and minds of our boys and girls, “A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth” (v. 15). The one who was known to his friends (and to himself) as “a rich man” (v. 16), but whom God knew as a “fool” (v. 20), had more than he could use for himself. He had to build new and bigger barns, and could not see the “barns” that were already prepared, for, as Ambrose says, “Thou hast barns — the bosoms of the needy, the houses of widows, the mouths of orphans and infants.” He was a fool who loved money for itself and for himself. One won ders what he had to say for him self when that very night he was called into the presence of God to give an account of his stewardshin (v. 20). If you are similarly situ ated and have the same attitude, what will you say in that day? There is an important point which we must note. Jesus expressly repudiated the connecting of His name with the so-called “social gospel” in His reply (v. 14) to the question of the covetous fellow who regarded his inheritance as of more importance than brotherly love. Those who are ignoring the gospel of redemption and claiming Jesus as a social reformer, or the “judge and divider” of some new economic solution for the world’s ills, need to read and ponder this verse. Every Christian is interested deep ly in social problems, but knows that the first concern of Christ and His followers is the souls of men. Houses Built Without Hauda For Our Souls to Live la To get peace, if you do want R, make for yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet know, for none of us have been taught in early youth what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts —- proof against all adversity—bright fan cies, satisfied memories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of pre cious and restful thoughts which cannot disturb, nor pain, make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us — houses built without hands for our souls to live in.— John Ruskin. THE ATOMIC SOMB STOPPED THE IAPS Chamber*' Anti-Skipper Compound hat stopped or pro* vented skippers and In sects in cured ascot (or SO years. 0100 package protects 600 pounds. Ask your neighbor cr dealer. N. 1. BODDIK THE HAM INSURANCE MAN * — Bex 483 Durham, N •rthCar •Hus fit mm »em in ttm w RHEUMATISM NEURITIS-LUMBAGO MCNEILS MAGIC REMEDY BRINGS BLESSED RELIEF I L»rg. Bottl.b —> m-mI*!”- Sma* Six. 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