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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. t 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 addressed to the above Bureau and
they will be answered in a subsequent col
umn. No replies can be made direct by
mail, but only in the column which will
appear in this newspaper regularly.
G.t.s Attending Church
Religious services in veterans hos
pitals are not being neglected.
Veterans administration reports
that during March, attendance at
these services reached an all-time
high with 102,024, an increase of
27,000 over the previous month.
Chaplain Crawford W. Brown, di
rector of VA chaplaincy service, said
the 83 hospital chaplains, represent
ing 18 religious denominations, also
made 10,465 ward visits and 103,400
personal contacts during the month.
The chaplains conducted 297
Protestant services and 483 Catho
lic masses, in addition to 1,825 other
religious services such as Sunday
school classes, weekday devotions,
prayer meetings and instructions,
with 30,000 in attendance. The chap
lains also during the month con
ducted 223 funerals, filled 561 out
side speaking engagements in com
munities surrounding the hospitals,
handled 197 welfare cases, cili
ated at 27 baptisms and 22 mar
riages and Catholic chaplains ad
ministered extreme unction to 215
patients, heard 2,160 confessions and
administered Holy Communion to
4,900.
VA is assigning full-time chap
lains to every hospital at the rate
of approximately 1 chaplain to ev
ery 500 patients.
Questions and Answers
Q. My son was a second lieutenant
in the army air corps for two
years. In parachuting from his crip
pled plane over China, he received
a fractured leg and was carried
back 400 miles to the nearest hos
pital without benefit of anesthetic.
S'nce being honorably discharged,
lie has married and the first child
will be born the latter part of this
summer. With our help he man
aged to save up $2,000 after pay
ing his expenses in the service. This
he has used to make a down pay
ment on a farm. Eventually he will
receive government aid, but in the
meantime his only income is from
two cows. We are glad to help them
establish their home, but my point
is that he has been told he owes
$100 income tax. Can this be pos
sible? He was just a school boy when
he was taken for training, a fresh
man in college, and didn’t even fin
ish out the year. He has never had
a trade or business and never
worked a day away from home.—
Mrs. E. R., Spooner, Wis.
A. Income taxes on salaries pf men
in the armed services have not been
waived except for the duration.
Where men serve overseas, a waiv
er is usually issued, but the due date
of income taxes is the 15th day of
the third month after official
termination of the war. Exemptions
include $1,500 of service pay and
mustering out pay. Would suggest
that you consult the nearest office
of the Internal Revenue bureau and
they can tell you the exact status
of your son’s income tax.
Q. My brother died in the serv
ice November 8, 1945, and I thought
his insurance was made to me be
cause he told me it was. But when
he died, I wrote to the Veterans ad
ministration and found that he had
made his insurance to a lady he
only worked for, not a relative at all.
He has a father living, also five
brothers and myself, the only sis
ter. He stayed with me and worked
for this woman and he had given
her and her husband as foster par
ents, although he was in my cus
tody and I had to look after him
until he went into the navy at the
age of 18. This woman got around
him and had him to make his in
surance to her. She is about 38 and
he 18. Is there anything I can do
about this insurance to get it for
us . . . myself, father and brothers?
His National Service Life insurance
amounts to $10,000. Please tell me
what I can do.—A. T. ’eaford, Del.
A. If I were you, I would consult
a lawyer. From your letter, it could
be that your brother may have
misrepresented his beneficiary since
the law limits beneficiaries to a cer
tain range of next of kin, except
where persons have been acting as
foster parents, or in parentis. If the
lady and her husband were not act
ing as foster parents, you may have
a legal case. But consult an attor
ney.
Q. I was wounded and am draw
ing a total disability pension of $115
a month. Now I have a chance to
take a job and as I feel able to
work, will taking a job result in get
ting a cut down on my pension?—
V.-H., Detroit, Mich.
A. Not as long as you are rated
100 per cent disabled.
Q. Is there any chance of the
s.rmy discharging men over 37
years of age soon with only eight
months or little more of service?—
A. N. P., Red Wing, Minn.
A. Men 38 years of age or older
are eligible to apply for discharge.
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LOST COLONY,
drama, presented
on Roanoke Island,
N. C. Above are
scenes of dances,
open air theater,
the stage, an In
dian god, and the
sign that stands on
the site of the first
settlement.
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“LOST COLONY’
Historic Roanoke Island Has
Opened Summer Theater Season
MANTEO, N. C.—With a new and spectacular stage which in
cludes Roanoke Sound, “The Lost Colony,” Paul Green’s great
drama; has been revived for the 1946 summer season and is now
playing to capacity crowds. It is an epic of the first attempted set
tlement of the Carolinas.
First shown in 1937, this symphon- <t> —
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ic drama became nationally famous
and was seen by more than 400,000
people before the war forced its sus
pension in 1941.
The story of Sir Walter Raleigh’s
attempt to plant an English colony
in the New World is presented in a
large amphitheater on the site of the
original settlement itself. Perform
ances will be given each week,
Wednesday through Sunday, during
July and August.
The audiences of the new perform
ances will see the first colonists
row, in small boats, right up to their
feet at the very spot the landing
was made in 1585. The new plans
fulfill the original staging ideas of
Playright Paul Green, who wrote
the opus in 1936 to commemorate
the 350th anniversary of the first
English attempts to settle America.
Will Play Forever.
At first only an “extension” of the
anniversary celebration, the produc
tion of the play is now a North Caro
lina state agency by special act of
the legislature, and “Lost Colony”
will be played forever on this wind
swept island.
“Lost Colony” re-enacts one of the
most poignant tragedies in Ameri
can history, but leaves unanswered
a mystery which has fascinated his
torians for over three centuries. It
is the mystery of “CROATAN,” the
word found carved on a tree in Fort
Raleigh by a relief expedition in
1591, only legacy of the men and
women who had dared the wilds of
America. It was the only clue to the
disappearance of Raleigh’s colo
nists and little Virginia Dare, first
child of English parentage to be
born in the New World.
Hundreds of stories based upon
possible solutions to the mystery
have been written and legends
about it still abound in the region of
the Dare country, but Paul Green
wrote the drama which was so com
pelling that it grew from a one-
season commemorative drama into
an institution. And it was Green who
set the piece to music and dance,
music of the old Elizabethans and
the wild dances of American Indians
with a background of organ and
choir, in a combination which was
described by Dr. Herbert Graf,
stage director of the New York Met
ropolitan Opera house, as the “basic
art form for the new American op
era.”
Over 200 in Company.
As staged by Sam Selden, head of
the University of North Carolina
dramatic school, “Lost Colony” is
sheer spectacle. A company of 200
is employed, and they play on a
stage where scenes are shifted by
strong spotlights which effectually
black-out all but the playing scenes.
A narrator, mounted in a cupola on
the side, keeps the action moving
in the brief interludes, and the West
minster choir and the organ pro
vide a most impressive background.
With the new shifting facilities, the
lights will play upon the waters of
the sound and bring spectacular
realism to the presentation.
Paul Green’s story of the “Lost Col
ony” is an historical rendering of his
version of the fate of the colonists.
But it has within it all the elements
of romance, of strife, of tender pas-
RIGHTLY PROUD . . . This
chubby Tar Heel has just caught
a trout. He used a hook, pole and
worm in the Linville river in North
Carolina.
sion, of final tragedy in a new land.
It starts with the historical landing
of the colonists and their establish
ment of a new homeplace in cabins
around the chapel in which they give
thanks to Providence for a new life.
It proceeds with the little things
which go into the making of homes,
and a nation, and to the birth of
Virginia Dare, first new life in a
new world.
Finale is Tragic.
Mysteriously, the brother of Chief
Wanchese is killed; the Indians be
come hostile, and the tragic finale of
the “Lost Colony” plays itself out
in mystery. But the dramatist’s epi
logue, rampant with stirring lines
and inspiring music, leaves no doubt
that the colony was really the begin
ning of a new nation, of America.
Paul Green wrote “Lost Colony”
as hie contribution to the culture
of his home st^te. He presented it
in toto, to the people of the Virginia
Dare country, and received no roy
alty from its production, nor has he
allowed rights to any dramatic or
cinema companies. The entire per
formance was broadcast by the
Columbia Broadcasting company in
1939, and the author has prepared a
book on the text which is on gen
eral sale.
FDR Saw It.
First presentations were spon-
so”--' and managed by the Roanoke
is .id historical society, a local
group organized to take care of the
multitudinous details of the actual
staging. In five years, almost a half
million spectators, mong them
President and Mrs. Roosevelt and
Lord Halifax, brought an estimated
$3,000,000 in total revenue to
the Island of Roanoke and the Dare
country. As it begins its new, “per
petual” series of seasons, the books
of the organizations are evenly bal
anced.
The new association, headed by
former Gov. J. Melville Broughton
and operating under especially en
acted laws of the North Carolina
state assembly, present the opus
through a five-man committee, all
of whom reside in Manteo, near Fort
Raleigh, scene of the production,
during the season. Melvin R. Dan
iels is chairman of the committee,
which is composed of I. P. Davis,
secretary, C. S. Meekins, treasurer,
Theodore S. Meekins and Dr. Sel
den, the director.
Bait That Looks and Smells Like Shrimp
NEW ORLEANS. — Frank W.
Manning of this city has used his
imagination to the point of genius
in designing an artificial bait or lure
to catch fish. His idea has resulted
in the moulding of natural-looking
shrimp out of plastic. The plastic
shrimp are hollow and in addition
to their outward similarity will carry
with them the perfume and flavor of
real shrimp by having their perfor
ated bodies filled with either shrimp
meat or powdered dried shrimp.
Counterfeit shrimp have been
made and sold before, but Mr. Man
ning’s idea of a hollow shrimp, the
body of which unscrews in the mid
dle and provides for a generous
sized piece of shrimp or a filling of
odorous dried shrimp meal, is some
thing new. This feature and the per
forated body, which allows the fla
vor and effluvium of the real arti
cle to leak out and leave a trail in
the water, was, of course, the fea
ture on which patents were granted
to the inventor.
The new lure, which is not yet
in production but which, we are told,
has been tried and found not want
ing in actual fishing practice, is ex
pected to be placed on the market
before long and with the price of
shrimp what it is at the present time
it would seem, if the fish like them
as it is hoped that they will, that
the new lures will be in the nature
of a real boon to mankind.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
AMAZING IMPROVEMENT IN
AMERICAN LIVING STANDARDS
HOW AMERICAN standards have
grown within one lifetime! Looking
backward to the days of my boy
hood in the village of Ainsworth,
Iowa, I compare earnings there, at
that time, with earnings of today in
a small city of California. The near
est to mass employment in Ains
worth were the two railroad section
crews that worked, one to the east
and the other to the west of
the town. The men of those crews
were paid 90 cents for each 12-hour
or longer, day. They worked when
there was work to do but there was
no overtime.
That 90 cents for a 12-hour day
was in keeping with other
earnings of that time. The town
carpenter asked no more than
$1.25 for a 12-hour day. The
hired man on the farm at $15
a month and keep received
top wages.
The doctor charged, but only par
tially collected, $1 a visit, whether
day or night, and regardless of the
distance. Clerks in the village stores
were paid from $3 to $5 a week.
The printer in the local newspaper
and printing office received $6 for
each week of 12-hour days. The
preacher was promised $300 a
year, payable largely, if at all, in
such food products as the farmer
communicants raised. There were
few, if any, in that town whose in
come would pass the $1,000 a year
figure, including the merchants
and the local banker.
Such earnings were typical
throughout rural America at the
end of the third quarter of the last
century. Compare them with earn
ings in rural America today and
you have much of the story of the
advance of American standards.
In my boyhood days there was
not in Ainsworth a telephone, an
electric light, a washing machine,
a radio, an automobile, an electric
refrigerator, a bathroom or an
indoor toilet, no furnace or hot wa
ter heating plants. None of many
things that are considered necessi
ties in the homes of today.
Despite the com itions that,
compared with today’s stand
ards, seem primitive, we were
happy> children and grownups.
There was no problem of
“keeping up with the Jones fam
ily.” There were no social dis
tinctions.
Just compare the wages, the con
veniences and the way of living of
those days, that fell within the life
time of many now living, with con
ditions in the small cities and the
towns of the present, and you can
measure the growth in the Ameri
can standard of living within that
period of a lifetime.
Such advancement has never be
fore been known by any people in
any nation. Home furnishings, home
conveniences, telephones, radios,
automobiles, movies and a thousand
and one other things for Americans
—all Americans—to enjoy if they
will. These same things are open to
all other people if they can pro
cure them, but they are common to
all only in America. We are the
only people who so generally have
the means with which to buy.
In the face of such an advance
in living standards, within the short
space of a lifetime, there are those
who would throw a monkey wrench
in our American economic ma
chinery to stop our progress. Our
returning soldiers, who have seen
conditions in other lands, will see to
it that the theoretical planners
are stopped. We will go on from
here.
• • • •
CITY-OWNED CARLINE
FOR MANY YEARS in San Fran
cisco, the Market street railway sys
tem, a privately owned utility, had
as a competitor, a municipally-
owned street railway system. The
municipal system paid no taxes, no
interest on investment, nothing for
its use of the streets. The privately-
owned system did pay taxes in
large sums, but no dividends to
stockholders during those competi
tive years. The municipal system
operated at a five cent fare, and
the privately - owned system was
forced to maintain the same fare.
Some few months ago, the privately-
owned lines were sold to the city for
a small price. Then the city raised
the fare on both lines from 5 cents
to 10 cents for a single ride, or three
for 25 cents by buying tickets. The
higher fare was to be used for the
purpose of buying new equipment
to replace the worn-out cars on both
lines. So goes up in smoke another
demonstration of government econ
omy in the operation of business. It
did not work to the advantage of
the people of San Francisco.
•X* •
WHILE WE take for granted
those liberties, privileges and ad
vantages it took a long and hard-
fought war to secure, and other wars
to maintain, we sit idly by while an
internal enemy works surreptiously
to destroy those things we prize. If
we do not awaken we may find we
have lost on the home front what
our armed forces retained for us on
the battlefields of Europe and Asia.
Those who would “make America
over” are fully as dangerous as
were Hitler, Hirohito or Mussolini.
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L OOKING for some unusual de
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warm days? Here’s a charming
embroidered “romance” of two
kittens to be transferred on tea
towels. The six-inch kittens are to
be embroidered in bright colors in
outline and darning stitch. Ideal
gift for the next shower you attend.
• • •
To obtain 6 transfer patterns, color
chart for embroidering the Kitten Ro
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cents in coin, your name, address and
pattern number.
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l A Genera! Quiz
The Questions
V. The sirens of the Queen Mary
can be heard 10 miles, yet do not
disturb the passengers aboard
ship. Why?
2. Lead melts at 620 degrees,
and tin at 446. These two are com
bined to produce solder, which
melts at what degree?
3. Of the 55 highest peaks in the
United States, 42 are in one state.
What state is this?
4. What President of the United
States was wounded in the Revo
lutionary war?
5. How many dials has Big Ben,
the famous clock of London?
6. Upon what is the right of an
accused person to be confronted
by his accusers ultimately based?
7. What great newspaper pub
lisher was once a candidate for
the presidency of the United States
on a major party ticket?
8. What is the number of de
grees around the equator?
9. What fish provides genuine
caviar?
10. What name is given to a Mex
ican herdsman?
The Answers
1. They are .attuned to a lower
bass “A,” which does not disturb
the ear drums.
2. At 356 degrees.
3. Colorado.
4. James Monroe.
5. Four.
6. The Law of Imperial Rome.
7. Horace Greeley.
8. It is 360 degrees.
9. Sturgeon.
10. Ranchero.
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11-Hour Picture
The longest motion picture ever
released in this country was Gone
with the Wind, which ran three
hours and 50 minutes, or over
twice as long as the average fea
ture, says Collier’s. The longest
American picture ever produced
was Greed, made in 1924.
While its running time was cut
down to two hours and 56 minutes
for theaters in the United States,
this film was shown in Latin Amer
ica in its original length, running
11 hours and 40 minutes over two
consecutive nights.
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