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<9 THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. 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 servicemen and his family. Questions may be addressed 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 'vill appear in this newspaper regularly. New Veterans’ Hospitals Men Were Tilling Soil 8,000 Years Ago Gen. Omar N. Bradley has an nounced authorization and approval by the President of 29 new veterans administration hospitals. At 12 of these, a school of medicine is ad jacent to the new hospital. The new hospitals authorized are Birmingham, 500 beds; Little Rock, 500 beds; Tallahassee, Fla., 200 beds; Saginaw, Mich., 200 beds; Tu pelo, Miss., 200 beds; St. Louis, Mo., 500 beds; Southern Missouri, 1,000 beds; Poplar Bluff, Mo., 200 beds; Gr nd Island, Neb., 200 beds; Met ropolitan New York, 1,000 beds; Syracuse, N. Y., 1,000 beds; Dur ham, N. C., 500 beds; Charlotte, N. C., 500 beds; Toledo, Ohio, 1,000 beds; Kalamath Falls, Ore., 200 beds; Philadelphia, Pa., 1,000 beds; Altoona, Pa., 200 beds; Erie, Pa., 200 beds; Harrisburg, Pa., 200 beds; Chattanooga, Tenn., 500 beds; Bon ham, Texas, 50 beds; Houston, Tex as, 1,000 beds; Salt Lake City, 500 beds; Spokane, Wash., 200 beds; Madicon, Wis., 500 beds and Beck- ley, W. Va., 200 beds. Questions and Answers Q.—Are requirements for dis charge in the seabees the same as in the navy? And can a seabee be eligible for state-side duty be fore he has achieved enough dis ci arge points? Mrs. W. C. G., Diggs, Va. A.—Yes, point ratings in the sea- bees are the same as in other branches of the navy and they can be assigned for duty anywhere in continental U. S. at any time. Q.—How many points are re quired for a dischargee from the coast guard? Also does a man in the coast guard get points when he gets married? A reader, Coleridge, Neb. A.—As of December 11, 1945, en listed men in the coast guard are required to have 40 points to be come eligible for discharge. To ob tain the dependency points, he must have been married on or before August 15, 1945, and must have made a financial allotment to his wife. Q.—My grandson was drowned in Germany after serving over two years in the army. His insurance was made out to me, as his parents are dead and I raised him from the day he was born. However, after sending in his insurance papers, the government wrote they didn’t give it to grandmothers. Is there any thing I can do or anyone I could write to so I can get it? Mrs. C. E. H., Hinsdale, 111. A.—The veterans administration informs us that legally, grandpar ents are not included in the range of kinship to whom insurance is pay able, but in your case suggest that you legally establish your local parental, or that you have acted as parent to this boy and contact your nearest regional veterans adminis tration office. Your local selective service board. Red Cross, or other service organization can aid you with your case. Q.—My boy has been in the South Pacific 18 months. He is on Titian Island, U. S. Naval base hospital No. 19, Navy No. 3247. When will he be home on a furlough?—Mrs. T. H. G., Vernonia, Oregon. A.—You do not give sufficient in formation concerning your son’s time in service to venture an an swer. You should give his age and complete service record. Q.—Does the period a serviceman enlists for mean anything or not? Our son became 18 yeats of age last January 29. He enlisted in the navy for the duration of the war and six months after, now he has been sent to Japan and that surely does not look as if he is to be re leased soon. I am particularly con cerned because he has another year in high school. Some boys in his class who entered service last year are back in school now. How can that be for one and not for all? Isn’t the war over since August? Mother, Sunbury, Pa. A.—You are right; it does not look as though yoi.r son will be home soon. The war is not over, and will pot be over until so declared by the President or congress. No peace treaty has been signed. Only the surrender of Japan and Germany has been concluded. Unless he is released on points before, your son is eligible for service for six months after formal declaration of end of the war is made. Q.—Will a veteran who draws the $20 a week until he draws ten weeks ever get a bonus? If a veteran who is 100 per cent disabled should get a light job would it cut his pen sion down? Mrs. M. K., Carrolton, Ga. A.—Benefits received under the G.I. bill of rights will be deducted from any future bonus received by the veteran. This does not apply, however, to disability payments. If a 100 per cent disabled veteran is able to hold a light job, it will not cut his pension, since it does not al ter his disability rating. A relic of the first known farming community is this 7,400-year-old bnrial urn. It was dug up in northern Iraq, amid the foundations of ancient farm houses. A sickle made of flint was also found, and other artifacts indicating that people have been raising crops for at least 8,000 years. The excavations were made by Seton Lloyd and Fuad Sa- far, leaders of an expedition to discover when the transition from a no madic to an agricultural way of life took place. GAY GADGETS Associated Newspapers—WNU Peatures. // Party Wise JABBERWOCKY AND JIVE DUCKY DOIN’S What would you have if you put six ducks into a box? A box of Quackers. * What did one duck say to another duck? No Wise Quacks! • • • DAFFYMTIONS Goose Eggs—Zeros (did you lay one on your last math test?) Boast Toastie—Conceited Girl. Rocket Bomb—Fast Girl. Bugs Bunny—Anyone with buck teeth. Sausage—A gal who necks indis criminately (anybody’s meat—get it?). Mona Lizard—A Prude. They’re Fenced In—They’re Go ing Steady. W.F.C.—Wolf First Class. He Has Bwang—He’s on the Beam. * • • TRIXIE TEEN SAYS— Does Your Leading Man give forth with long, low whistles at the mention of Lauren Bacall? Does he cry, “Geronimo" every time he sees a picture of Lana Turner in front of a movie theater? Is the thought of Betty Grable enough to make him yell “Charge!” Well, don’t let those wolf calls send you home to experiment with new make-ups and find fault with your hair dos. He may like to watch those gals on the screen, but it’s your hand he’ll be hold ing while he looks at them! Your big moment has arrived when the doorbell starts to ring and the guests start trailing in. Any thing can happen from there on. For instance, the boys can all gath er in one corner to snicker and stare while the girls all huddle in another corner to giggle and gush. That’s ba i! Or, the party can shoot right off with a bang and keep on hitting the target un til train time. But—very few par ties are self starters. It’s up to the hostess to push the right buttons. Designing Dames—Pair off your guests in couples and equip every girl with sheets of newspaper and a paper of pins. She must whip up a smart news paper dress for her partner with in a stipulated time. No fair jabbing him in the ribs, even if he is a Droon (that’s a cross between a Drip and a Goon and twice as bad as either!) Then there’s a fashion parade with the newspaper c’.-id boys acting as models. The best outfit wins prizes for the designing girl and the boy who models her creation. Love Letters—Off they go into couples again, each one with a mag azine and a pair of scissors, some glue and a big sheet of plain white paper. The idea is to compose a love letter from words cut out of the magazine. At the stipulated time, all the letters are read and the best wins prizes for their compos ers. Reading the letters out loud is even more fun than assembling them. Sweet Serenade—Wait until you hear the wolves howling on this one. Every boy receives a piece of paper with a popular song title writ ten on it. Somewhere in the room waits a gal with the same song title. He must go around singing his song until he finds the girl he’s serenading. Then, of course, they pair off for a dance. Just imagine 10 or 12 boys all yodeling different songs at the same time. Multiplication Mixer — Two cou ples are selected by the hostess to start dancing. When the music breaks, each girl must choose an other partner and each boy starts dancing with another girl. At the next break the four couples do dit to. It keeps up until everybody is on the floor. From then on, you’re on your own. Progressive Games—Set up sev eral tables for different games. Couples play each game in rotation, keeping their scores as they go along from table to table. Winners take the prize. Atomic Energy Could Be Employed in Electric Power Plants Within Five Years, Says Oppenheimer Five Prosperous Years Ahead For Agriculture, Claim Experts By AL JEDLICKA W ITH a postwar boom in pros pect, agriculture faces at least a five-year period of relative pros perity, a leading economist told del egates to the annual convention of the American Society of Farm Man agers and Rural Appraisers at the La Salle hotel in Chicago, 111. At the same time, another expert economist warned that though heavy employment would result in continued high farm income, steady advancement of technological and productive processes in agriculture would pose an increasingly critical problem of readjustment. In a paper read to the convention by Prof. Walter W. Wilcox of the University of Wisconsin, Walter B. Garver, agricultural economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, pointed to the prospects of large government spending, pent- up demand and continued high ac tivity of heavy industry as indica tive of a developing boom. More Purchasing Power. While government spending prom ises to be considerably above the prewar level because of large de fense and vet outlays and pressure for substantial public works and housing subsidies, taxes will be re duced, leaving substantial purchas ing power in consumer hands, Gar ver said. Adding to the inflationary tenden cy is the record proposition of bonds, deposits and currency in public hands, Garver said. With this huge reserve of funds, consum ers may well look to satisfying their pent-up demand for goods, while big enterprises may invest heavily in rehabilitating their equipment. In relation to the probability of business remodeling its plant, Gar ver pointed to the findings that the prosperity of heavy industries pro ducing equipment, etc., resulted in high employment with its attend ant effect on the whole economic system. Following the pattern of economic history, however, Garver looked to a drop in the boom after five years, with a speculative accumulation of inventories and an over-expanded industrial plant. Because of the pressure on government for increas ing regulation of the nation’s econ omy to protect the public interest, Garver predicted administrative ef forts might be made to check a sharp depression. Higher Prices Possible. With industry the raal base for na tional prosperity, Garver said, high business activity would be of re sultant benefit to agriculture. Differ ing with other economists at the convention, Garver even predicted a possible rise in farm prices within two years after the boom got under way. Looking into the postwar prob lems of agriculture, D. Gale John son, research associate at the Uni versity of Chicago, stated that al though immediate production prom ises to be about 18 per cent above prewar levels and purchasing pow er about 50 per cent above the 1935-’39 mark, studies showed tech nological and other progress result ed in an annual increase of from l*/i to 2 per cent per year in farm out put. At the same time, Johnson said, studies also showed that where purchasing power increased, addi tional expenditures on food repre sented a small part of the total. Career of Wily Old Cattle - Killer Closes “Old Back Track” finally comes to a bad end. The big and crafty cougar had been preying on ranch cattle in northern Idaho for a decade. He was killed by Pat Reed, a hunter employed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife service. Reed had been on the big cat’s trail for five years be fore he caught up with him near Bald mountain. The cougar got his name because of his trick of back-tracking when pursued. He measured nine feet from nose to the tip of his tail. In noting the effects of increased mechanization on manual farm la bor, Johnson cited statistics show ing that whereas farmers comprised 35 per cent of the population in 1910 and 23 per cent in 1940, they made up only 18 per cent of the total in 1945. During the war, it was esti mated that some 4,000,000 persons, including over 1,000,000 conscripts, left rural areas. Envisaging the steady drift of the population from agricultural sec tions, Johnson pointed to the possi bility of having a smaller but more prosperous working farm force, with production concentrated on more mechanized tracts. Future Looks Bright. For the immediate future, howev er, Johnson predicted relative farm prosperity, though he asserted that an additional 25 per cent increase in purchasing power over prospec tive levels would be necessary to maintain wartime commodity prices. He did not foresee a rise in farm prices within the prospec tive boom period. With comparatively high employ ment assuring continued high pur chasing power and strengthening of farm prices, Johnson looked to the maintenance of present agricultural land values, estimated at 50 billion dollars. So long as farm income remains satisfactory and interest rates approximate current levels, realty investment will promise fa vorable returns, he said. Interesting features of the conven tion discussion was the participation of two so-called “barnyard econo mists,” W. D. Davis, vice president of the Suiter Farm company, Kan sas City, Mo., and Karl F. Adams, owner of the Bloomington Farm Management service, Bloomington, 111. Since no pent-up demand exists for food products and a more effi cient postwar working force will be able to boost mechanized production above consumer demands, Davis said farmers can look to a price depression. Less pessimistic, Ad ams asserted that farmers can be expected to slash output and hold up prices when big markets begin to taper off. Atinuta Mai* - Ujai By CABRIELLE Brush your hair UP and OUT ev ery night and every morning! Use a clean hairbrush. To clean brushes and combs, use warm water and powdered borax. Lay the brush on its back in a sunny window. It will dry slowly and thoroughly. If you have a too-dry scalp, use an oint ment to stimulate circulation. If your skin is too oily, use a hair lotion. I\ r eiv Mineral May B-3 Used for Gems A new mineral, brazilianite, which has possibilities as a gem stone, has just been announced jointly by two mineralogists, representing the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural His tory. It was discovered in Brazil by Edward P. Henderson and Frederick H. Pough. The first specimen was brought in by a native who thought it might be gold ore. Brazilianite is a hydrous soldium- aluminurn phosphate, differing from all other chemical compounds thus far identified in nature. It is a yel lowish-green, glasslike mineral suf ficiently good in color and physical perfection to make it suitable for cutting into gem stones, although the discoverers believe that it is not likely to become a popular gem because of its scarcity and lack of sufficient hardness to enable it to withstand much wear. Brazilianite is the first new min eral with gem-stone possibilities to be discovered since 1919, when the mineral benitoite was found in Cal ifornia. In less than five years it is quite feasible that atomic energy may be used for the production of heat or of electric power for whole commu nities and for tremendous industrial installations, claims Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer who was in charge of the atomic bomb research. Atomic energy will not supplant present home equipment, it will merely change the source of power. “It is a mistake to speak of hav ing atomic energy run your car, power your airplane, or send your motorboat across a lake,” says Dr. Oppenheimer in Liberty magazine, “for atomic energy, as we know it now, is not practical for such pur poses.” It can be employed only on a large scale since the amount of energy which can be concentrat ed in a pea-sized pellet requires at least a 50-ton unit. This unit must be encased in walls of concrete many feet thick as shields against the radiation generated in the proc ess of releasing atomic energy. The uses of atomic energy are in finite, but with our restricted imagi nations we cannot even guess at them today, asserts Dr. Oppenheim er. No one nation, including our own, is responsible for what we know today of atomic energy for the background of our present knowledge was supplied by scien tists from every country of Europe and many elsewhere. It should re sult in new conceptions of national and international welfare for no na tion can hope to hold a monopoly on a form of energy. “Our hope for the future,” says Dr. Oppenheimer, “is to see this new form of energy as the peril, the challenge, and the hope that it really is. Here, if we are wise, is a force we can apply to forge the peoples of the earth into closer unity for in it they will see a new common danger, a new common in terest, a new commonwealth. I hope we shall have the wisdom and the courage to use this new power.” IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UN DAY J chool Lesson By HAPOLD L LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for January 6 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by InternaTional Coincil of Religious Education; used by permission. A PEOPLE OPPRESSED LESSON TEXT—Exodus 1:8-14; 2:23-25. GOLDEN TEXT—And He said. Certainly I will be with thee.—Exodus 3:12. God never forgets His people. We can be assured of that even though at times we must wait for His com ing to bring us deliverance. The history of Israel repeatedly demonstrates the faithfulness of God; hence the lessons of this next quarter concerning them will be a source of real belssing to all who need and seek God’s help. The family of Jacob—or, as the Bible calls them, the children of Is rael—prospered in Egypt particular ly as long as Joseph and the rulers who remembered him were alive. But they soon learned one of life’s bitter lessons, namely, that: I. Prosperity Is Not Always a Blessing (1:8-11). The Hebrews were a peaceful, law-abiding people. They were God’s chosen people, and as He blessed them they prospered, and thus in nocently they brought upon them selves the hatred of the suspicious Egyptians. Prosperity is never an unmixed blessing. We as a nation know that to be true. Not only does it lead to a certain softening of the sinews, but all too often it results in a weak ening of the moral fiber, which makes man easy prey to the attack of the enemy of our souls. We have just passed through a great war which has demonstrated to the world that in a time of crisis America can be strong, but now that it is over we are ready to fight one another to gain advantage. Many who have profited by war are not content to have less gold in peace time, and so the old delusion, the love of riches, is about to ruin many lives. It should be said that the Egyp tians had reason, humanly speaking, to fear this great nation which was growing up in their midst. The new rulers did not know Joseph and had forgotten the spirit in which he had brought his family into the land. The leaders of the Egyptians there fore made plans which appealed to their brilliant leaders as politic and wise. But they reckoned without God, and the burdens and the afflic tions they placed on the Israelites only served to bring further bless ing. So Israel learned a lesson which our present sorry world can profit by, that: II. Persecution Is Not Always a Burden (vv. 12-14). The people of Israel did not appre ciate it, but the bitterness of their bondage was a blessing in disguise. 1. It Kept Them Separate as a People. Affliction often serves to keep God’s people separated from the world. It is doing so today. 2. It Disciplined Them and Pre pared Them for the Hardships of Their Wilderness Journey. We, too, do well to remember that “whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,” and that if we are properly “exercised” thereby, our sorrows may yield rich fruit in our lives. 3. It Threw Them Back upon God. Many are the saints of God who have found that the fiery trial, the burden so hard to understand, or some affliction of body, has caused them to bring their burdens to the Lord. We have traveled far on the road of faith when we have reached the place where we learn that “man’s extremity if God’s opportu nity.” They had only one place to turn. They were hemmed in on every side, but, as ever, they found that no man can close the way up. They called on their God. III. Prayer Always Brings Deliv erance (2:23-25). Does God really know when His people suffer? Does He really care? Yes, I5e does. “They cried,” and “God heard” and “remembered.” That’s all we need to know. The groaning of His people had already stirred God’s gracious and tender heart. But He waited to hear their cry before He answered. Such is the law of prayer. May we not forget it. Far too often we turn to everyone and everything else, and finally, in desperation, to God. Why not turn to him first? Does God hear and answer pray er? Yes, but remember that real prayer is the cry of faith coming from the heart of an obedient child. God may answer other prayers, but He always answers the prayer of faith. His answer may not be in accord with our opinion of what it should be, for His wisdom is infinite. He knows better than we what the an swer should be. Let us trust the Judge of all the earth to do right (Gen. 18:25). A world thrown into unspeakable fear by the development of the atomic bomb is now recognizing that the only hope for the future is a spiritual revival. Many who scoffed at the idea of prayer to God are ready now to hear the witness of a church that really knows how to pray and to bring deliverance from the hand of God. Chest Colds SNAPSHOT ENLARGEMENTS Lustrous, over-size Chrome-Tone prints. Develop and enlarge 6 & 8. exposure rolls 35c; 12 exp. 50c; 16 exp. 60c. Quality work. No “extras.** FLORIDA SNAPSHOP SERVICE Box 371 - Fort Myors. Fla. Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! OLDER PEOPLE! Many Doctors Advise MffHftaienmC Older people! It you haven’t the stamina you should—beeanso your diet lacks the natural A AD Vitamins and energy-building, natural oils you need—you’ll find good-tasting Scott’s Emulsion . helps build stamina, energy and resistance to eolds. See this wonderful difference—buy Scott’s at your druggist’s todyyl SCOn'S EMULSION YkARROUND TONIC > DRY ITCHY SCALP Get relief.from itching of dry scalp and help remove loose dandruff flakes with MOWOLIWS HAIW TOMI& i-j K Act promptly. 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Takes the sting and itch out of burns, scalds, insect bites, oak and ivy poison ing, wind and sun burn, chafing and chapped skin. Its antiseptic action less ens the danger of infection whenever the •kin is cut or broken. Keep a bottle handy for the minor casualties of kitchen and nursery. At your druggist ■ trial size bottle 351; household size 65<; economy size $1-25. a C. HANFORD MFCL CO, Syracuse. ILV. Solo makers oi [3alsart, o/ N|^rrh I ■i*. ■.* 54 :?!■ ’■'ti HP »