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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Released by Western Newspaper Union. INFLATION HARMS SAVER, BENEFITS GOVERNMENT A reader, George Treadwell, sec retary of Rotary club No. 1, Chi cago, sends me an authorless clip ping which, he says, sounds like something I had written. The little story was supplied to the Rotarian by Dan D. Clinton of Houston, Tex., who said he had heard or read it. Thanks for the compliment, ‘Tread,” but 1 cannot claim to be the daddy of the waif, although I wish I could. That little piece so aptly describes the conditions of these times—today, tomorrow and next year—that I am swiping it to pass along to other readers. Here it is as printed in the Rotarian under die title, “What's Inflation?’’: “A man who rau a small chicken ranch needed wheat for his chickens, so he went to work for a farmer one day,* week. The farmer paid him $5 a day. He used the $5 to buy wheat from the farmer af $1 a bushel. So, every day he took home five bushels of wheat. “One day he said to the farm er, ‘I’ve got to have more money. I’m going to charge you $G a day for my work.’ ‘I know how it is,’ said the farmer, ‘I’ve got to have more money for my wheat. Starting today, wheat will cost you $1.20 a bushel.’ So the man worked one day a week for the farmer, and at the end of the day took home five bush els of wheat. “A little while later, the man said his wages would have to go up to $7.50 a day — and the farmer put the price of wheat up to $1.50 a bushel. So the man continued to work one day a week with the farmer and at the end of the day he brought home five bushels of wheat. “After a while his wages got up to $10 a day, and he paid $2 a bushel for his wheat. The farmer said to his wife, ‘Isn’t It wonderful? I’m getting twice as much for my wheat as I used to.’ The man with the chicken ranch said to his wife, ‘Isn’t it wonderful? I’m getting twice the wages I used to get.’ “Puzzle — who’s ahead? No body. Who’s behind? The peo ple with savings in the bank. The people with government bonds. The people with insur ance policies.” It is at that $2 a bushel wheat price, and the $10 a day wage scale that Senator Taft suggests we sta bilize our economic standards. To do so means just what this little story so aptly illustrates. It would standardize the dollar at about 30 cents as compared with predepres- sion values. There is one who will win. That one is our Uncle Samuel. He has sold billions of dollars of war bonds to his nieces and nephews. They patriotically invested the savings they made from their predepression 100-cent dollars, but at a 60-cent dollar value. Now it is suggested that Uncle Samuel pay off the nieces and nephews in 30-cent value dollars. That may be a popular procedure for those who have products or la bor to sell, but it will be hard on those who have only the savings of lOO-cent dollars on which to live, whether those savings be Invested m Uncle Sam’s war bonds, in sav- ngs accounts, insurance policies or Dther things from which returns do not increase to compensate for the difference between a lOO-cent and a JO-cent dollar. On that deal Uncle Sam is the one winner, but we, col lectively, are Uncle Sam. • • • 'ARMED INSURRECTION’. An illuminating paragraph from the Communistic textbook. Issued is instructions to party workers by the Third International, with head quarters in Moscow: “The task of the party is to lead the working class to the revolutionary struggle for power. This is done by carrying on propaganda in favor of increas ingly radical slogans, and by organ izing mass action, including strikes and demonstrations, strikes and armed demonstrations, and finally the general strike with armed in- lurrection.” In America the party workers have reached the stage of "strikes and demonstrations,” and are moving towards “armed dem- lustrations. ” • • • MANUFACTURERS, large or small, who unnecessarily increase their prices in order to Increase their earnings beyond a “stay in business” point, are helping to in vite that inflation of which we are so fearful. • • • THE soap box orators of Trafal gar Square, London, had much to do with socializing England. Will we permit the same thing to happen here? • • • TOURING can be enjoyable until • tire goes fiat • • • WE can have freedom for the workers, the right of each in- dividual to work at the Job he wishes, only after congress has outlawed the closed shop and the check off system. HOIST WELCOME SIGN Virginia To Display Showplaces For Garden Week Observance WNU Features. RICHMOND,' VA.—All the traditional charm and gra ciousness of life in the “Cradle of the Nation” will be revived as Virginia once again plays host to the people of the na tion. From April 28 to May 3 the showplaces of the state— including approximately 200 serene and stately homes, love ly gardens restored to their original beauty, historic build ings and other national shrines—will be open to the public in observance of Garden Week. ^ Sponsored by the Garden club of | set foot on the soil of Berkeley their Virginia, Garden Week is being re sumed this year for the first time since 1941. Before it was disbanded during the war years. Garden Week had become a recognized institution, annually drawing thousands of visi tors from all parts of the nation. In Springtime Dress. From the western tips of the Al legheny, the Shenandoah and the Blue Ridge mountains, their slopes ablaze with the blossoms of rho dodendron and mountain laurel, through the lush green valley, up through “George Washington’s coun try” to the outskirts of the nation’s capital city, down through the rolling bluegrass section that is Piedmont, to the yellow sands of Tidewater and the flourishing tobacco area of the south, all Virginia has hoisted the welcome sign. High on a plateau above the Po tomac is the “perfect little house” so dear to the heart of its builder, George Mason, that he declined of fers of fame and fortune so that he might never be far from the sight of the smoke from its tall chimneys or the fragrance of its box-hedged gardens planted by the same hands which so unfalteringly penned the Bill of Rights and the first constitu tion of Virginia. Imposing Mansions. Its lovely formal gardens shaded by century old trees, Westover-on- the-James was termed “the most beautiful place in America” by the Marquis de Chestellux. This planta tion was bought by William Byrd in 1688 and the present house built in 1730 by William Byrd II (the Black Swan) founder of Richmond. In the 18th century “great house” of Carters Grove, near Williams burg, is “the finest Georgian wood work in all America,” the richly carved balustrades of Its stairway still bearing the sabre marks of Tarlton’s men. Not far from busy Washington Is Mount Vernon, shining white and peaceful In its wide expanse of green lawns, while on another arm of the broad Potomac is Wakefield, the sturdy little brick memorial house marking the site where Washington first saw the light of day. At Berkeley-on-the-James, of mel low brick without and rich panel ling within, America’s ninth presi dent, William Henry Harrison, and his famous father, Benjamin Harri son, signer of the Declaration of In dependence, were born in the same upper room. ‘First Thanksgiving.’ Berkeley was built in 1726 by Ben jamin Harrison (father of the sign er) but the plantation was in the news In 1619 as the site of what Vir ginians claim was the first Thanks giving in the New World. The oc casion was the arrival of the ship Margaret from England with sup plies, settlers and servants. The proprietors had given instructions that the day of the ship’s arrival must be “yearly and perpetually kept as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God,” and when on De cember 4, 1619, the weary voyagers first act was a service of thanks giving. Homes of Presidents. In the foothills of the Blue Ridge is Jefferson’s beloved Monticello, reached by a winding roadway lined with golden forsythia and snowy white bridal wreath. The Blue Ridge mountains and the rolling Piedmont provide a picturesque set ting and trees and shrubs planted by the hand of Jefferson nod to one another across the white portals of one of the most beautiful houses In all America. Just over the line in Orange coun ty with a venerable weeping willow at Its gateway is Montpelier, home of James Madison, fourth president of the United States, and his charm ing wife, Dolly. This imposing and gracious mansion, set far back be hind green lawns, is surrounded by breath-taking drifts of color in the springtime. In Westmoreland county, not far from the Potomac, is the great house of Stratford, which in all its simplicity and dignity probably has harbored more men of eminence than any other residence in Virginia. Built by Thomas Lee, acting colonial governor of Virginia more than 200 years ago, Stratford was the birthplace of five patriots of the Revolution, two signers of the Declaration of Independence and Virginia’s own Robert E. Lee, son of “Light Horse Har ry,” who long called Stratford ‘‘home.” Fredericksburg, George Washing ton's first “home town,’’ has all the charm of an old valentine. Here imagination and memory play tag along old brick sidewalks, past half- hidden gardens and mellow brick homes dreaming in the sunshine be hind white doorways with shiny brass knockers. Here Mary Wash ington, mother of George, greeted the Marquis de LaFayette on his way to Yorktown and on the steps of the little cottage she kissed her famous son goodbye. Along these streets, which all called home, walked John Paul Jones, Matthew Fontaine Maury, pathfinder of the seas, and Lewis Littlepage, only American citizen ever to hold office in the cabinet of a king. Next to Mary Washington’s home Is Kenmore, home of her daughter Betty, wife of Col. Fielding Lewis, who gave his fortune and his life to the cause of the Revolution. Fascinating History. Just down the street is a low brick building, complete with quaint colo nial garden, where James Mon ro* first began the practice of law. One of its many treasures, care fully preserved, is the desk on which the Monroe Doctrine was written. Down the river Is the “noble man sion" of Chatham, built before the Revolution by William Fitzhugh, which served as headquarters for General Sumner during the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1805 and for the federal troops under General Burn side during the War Between the States. Her* Clara Barton of Red Cross fame helped to nurse hundreds of wounded. Today its gardens are a riot of bloom and the waters oi the Rappahannock ripple off in the distance. Restored Williamsburg, tourist mecca at all seasons of the year, is like a perfect stage setting, its actors all in character playing their lines with the casualness of long understanding. The feel ing of watching a play contin- nes as the sharp tattoo of horses hoofs soonds along Duke of Gloucester street (described by the late Franklin D. Roosevelt as “the most historic avenue in all America”). An 18th century carriage rolls by —past the Palace of the Royal Gov ernors, the ancient capitol which rang to the voice of Patrick Henry, where met the convention of 1776 and where Mason’s Bill of Rights was adopted; past Bruton parish church and Raleigh tavern (birthplace of Phi Beta Kappa) and William and Mary college, second oldest in Amer ica. History in Review. Just outside of Williamsburg on the Jamestown road an amphithea ter is in process of construction, and during this coming summer the drama that is the whole early his tory of the founding of the nation will sweep across its stage, the parts of the founding fathers played by leading actors of the American stage. Farther down the road is James town—first in importance of all the historic shrines in America, where the three little ships discharged their cargo of adventurous souls on that May day in 1607 to lay the founda tion of the American nation. In this old brick church about which the ivy clings, Pocahontas was baptized and married and here the first legis lative assembly in the new world met. In Richmond, capital of the con federacy and “city of the seven hills,” there are many historic points to visit, beginning with the columned capitol, designed by Thomas Jef ferson, around which teems the life of the cigarette capital of the world. Opened especially for Garden Week are two homes which were ancient when America was first dreamed of and which have been transported, stone by stone, from England. One of these, Virginia House, was once the Priory of the Holy Sepulchre at Warwick, England. Virginia’s eastern shore, sec ond oldest settlement in Amer ica, Is across Chesapeake bay from the rest of Virginia. The eastern shore has the oldest continnons coart records in America, dating from 1632. Lo cated here are some of the love liest homes in the state, 13 of which will be open to visitors daring Garden Week. A ride across the ferry from the eastern shore brings the visitor to Princess Anne county, the haunt of Blackboard and the spot where the first permanent English settlers landed on Amertcan soil. Here are churches built in the early 18th cen tury with their silver communion services, the gift of Queen Anne, and lovely old gardens and homes. In the heart of the Valley of Vir ginia, Staunton, birthplace of Pres. Woodrow Wilson, stands ready to re ceive Garden Week visitors, and Lexington, hallowed with memories of Lee, dons all its spring bloom. Big Labor Savings By Modern Methods Improved Machinery Results in Profit Gain The modern wheat farmer’s la bor is 14 times as productive as that of his great-grandfather. Figures presented in the new En cyclopaedia Britannica reveal that the hand methods of 1830 required 57.7 man-hours' of labor to produce 20 bushels of wheat on one acre of land. By 1896, machine methods had cut the time to a little under nine man hours. In 1940, using tractor pow er, gang plow, tandem disc, harrow, drill, combine and truck, the amount of labor to produce 20 bushels of wheat was only slightly more than four man-hours. We have come a long way since the “good old days.” The more machines are used for farming, the more skilled the work ers become and the higher the wages that can be paid them. A demand for skill and a desire to ac quire it tend to improve the quality of the rural population. Farm machinery also has im proved product quality. Better yield results from precise planting, prop er placing of fertilizer and more thorough harvesting, and in addi tion, there is less waste through weathering and rotting. Adapting plants to machines, breeders have produced hybrid corn bearing ears at a uniform height, wheat with stronger stalks and grain sorghums with upright seed heads to speed harvesting. NOSE-PRINTS, TATTOO The tattoo system of equine iden tification, to prevent substituting ringers in races, is generally advo cated. As early as 1921 it was found that animals could be identified by nose- prints, using a system similar to that used with finger-prints by police au thorities. A combination of the two systems should be fool-proof. First, the horse or cattle would be tat tooed, then nose-print taken to in clude the tattoo. This double pro tection would make an alteration im possible. Cow Mine Detector Metal objects often pierce the cow’s stomach, then enter the heart and cause severe inflammation and sometimes almost instant death. With the bovine “mine detector," the veterinarian passes the instru ment over the cow, and if she has any metal objects inside her, it pro duces a ringing sound in the ear phones. Then by surgery, the nails and other objects can be removed. Hexachloro Cyclohexane Finding Many New Uses A new insecticide now appears containing 50 per cent hexachloro cyclohexane in a wettable powder formulation suitable for application In a water spray and for further di lution for dust application. It shows promise for control of cattle lice, many insects of cotton, including aphids, and for certain in- sects that heretofore have been dif ficult or impossible to control, in cluding locusts and hoppers. AVIATION NOTES ‘GLAMOUR GIRLS’ WIN . . . The first aU-feminine administra tion in the village of Grass Lake, Mich., includes, left to right: Mrs. lone Wright and Miss Marjorie Foster, trustees; Miss Helen McCall, village president; Mrs. Mabel Hagadon, treasurer; Mrs. Mae Rieth- miller, clerk; and Mrs. Thelma Snodgrass, assessor. IN THESE UNITED STATES ‘Petticoat Officials’ To Show ‘How Town Ought To Be Ran’ WNU Features. GRASS LAKE, MICH.—With the avowed purpose of show ing the men “how a town ought to be run,” seven women took office in April as the village of Grass Lake’s first all-feminine administration. Commonly dubbed the “petticoat government,” the wom en are intent on proving that “the " hand that rocks the cradle” can do just as welfholding the reins of local government. Heading the group is Miss Helen McCall, first woman president in history of Grass Lake. Seated with her were six other women, all of whom admit they are over 40—but they won’t say how much. The women, who claim they ran for office as a “joke,” have no special program. “We’ll see what’s wanted and then do our best,” Miss McCall declares. Discounting the suggestion that there was any antagonism between the sexes, Miss McCall insists a man suggested that the women run for office. Even the men, she claims, were pleased with the outcome of the election, at which the all-women slate of candidates badly defeated a "young men’s ticket.” Lulled by their usual success in previous elections, in which the vil lage generally had only one ticket, the men did practically no election eering. The women, on the other hand, got out and solicited votes. A poster pictured their candidates in glamour girl poses, taking a cue from big city political tactics. The election drew an unprece dented number of voters. In stead of the nsnal 30 or fewer voters, 125 cast ballots and 23 others were turned away from the polls because they weren’t registered. Miss McCall defeated her oppo nent, Leon Lockwood, by 84 to 39. Her running mates won by smaller margins. Installed with Miss McCall in the official family of the village were: Mrs. Mae Riethmiller, a housewife, clerk; Mrs. Mabel Hagadon, house wife, treasurer; Mrs. Thelma Snod grass, service station employee, as sessor; Miss Marjorie Foster and Mrs. Iona Wright, trustees. Hand Looms Revived For Weaving Tweeds BROWNSTOWN, PA.—In an an cient grist mill on Conestoga creek, remodeled in a style typical of the period when it was built in 1855, a centuries-old craft—the weaving of woolen fabrics on hand looms— has been revived. The mill, long a favorite subject of .artists, has been remodeled by Walter Desager, native Swiss and former woolen mill operator in Scot land and England. Five looms, all built by a Lan caster carpenter from plans drawn by Desager, are in operation in the new plant. Inexperienced men, em ployed as laborers, were taught the trade by Desager. Weaving of wool on hand looms instead of the usual electric-driven machinery is not for sentimental reasons, Desager Insists. Although the old method is slow, it produces a high quality fabric and allows for quick changes of style, he adds. Fabrics manufactured will be a type tweed used for men’s and women’s wear. The interior of the remodeled mill features a Pennsylvania Dutch room, designed for show purposes and for use of employees. AIRPORT CHATTER Rochelle, HI., airport has been designated and approved by the state as a Class 1 airport. When com pleted, the field will have two gravel runways, 2,200 feet long, and a third of turf, 2,600 feet long. . . . Mon tana’s first airport to be constructed under the CAA program will be lo cated at Shelby. Construction oi the two-runway field, estimated cost of which is $230,000, will start about May 1. . . . Fort Dodge, Iowa, vot ers approved a $200,000 airport bond issue by a margin of 703 to 389 at a special election. . . . Plans for a “country club type” airport are be ing advanced in Council Bluffs, Iowa. J. A. Fergus of Wichita, Kas., is promoting the 360-acre airport plan, which would be closer to down town Omaha than the Omaha air port. Estimated cost of the project is $180,000. . . . The latest thing in wolf hunting was staged at Verona, Mo., by C. E. Atterberry and Glen Calhoun. They have bagged 18 wolves from an airplane since the first of the year. . . . The “Flying Ices,” pioneer South Dakota aviator family, lost their first lives to avia tion recently when Jess Randall Ice, Inland - Western Airlines co - pilot since 1943, and his wife crashed to their deaths near the Rapid City air base as they returned from a mail flight to the northern Black Hills. Jess Ice was a son of Clyde Ice, veteran private pilot. • • • When state game wardens ap prehend a violator of game laws, the nsual procedure is to con fiscate his gun. But they were almost baffled when a man near Scottsbluff, Neb., was charged with hazing birds in an airplane, illegal in that state. He had no gun. Solution: They took his airplane. • * • FLYING PRIEST Known as the “flying priest of the Rockies” is the Rev. Father Blase Schumaker, pastor of the Vernal, Colo., Catholic church. The priest, whose parish includes six churches in rugged, isolated terrain, found transportation facilities inadequate. Intent on serving his people, he learned to fly and now uses a plane regularly in carrying out his regular parish duties as well as for sick calls, death calls or other emergent cies. ‘Weak Heart* CHATTANOOGA, TENN. — Mat- tie Barrett has had to watch that “weak heart” of hers for a long time. The aged Negro woman says ihe is 108 years old. Her father died at 129 and her mother at 119, she lays. Oklahoma Now Grants Jury Service to Women OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.—Wom an suffrage is to be extended in Oklahoma. Although women have had the privilege of voting for many years, they were deprived of the right to serve on juries. A bill ap proved by the state legislature will rectify that error. Provision is made, however, that women with children under 12 years of age can be exempt from aervlng on juries. NEW FIGHTER . . . The new jet- propelled P-80-B Shooting Star fighter plane is believed to have the greatest firepower of any jet fighter in the world. A very high speed craft. It also has more re sistance to battle damage. Lock heed Aircraft corporation devel oped the craft. • • • IN THE CARDS By experimenting with a deck of cards, a Civil Aeronautics adminis tration engineer has worked out a new and inexpensive method oi marking small airports. The "seg mented circle” system utilizes pan els of metal or any weather-proof composition. The plan is to put such markers in unused portions of air fields. The windsock, ordinarily hard to find from the air, would be spotted easily in the center of the circle, together with an L-shaped fig ure showing the traffic pattern. How to Take Care Of the New Baby After-Bath Care M ANY new mothers wonder whether to put oil or powder on baby’s skin after a bath. Which you use isn’t so important. What kind you use is vital, however. Some baby powders contain stearate of zinc. If this chemical is inhaled, a serious and often fatal form of pneumonia de velops. You can safely use talcum pow- der ... Taking care of a new baby Is a full- time job. Our new booklet No. 203 can help you In counUess ways. Send 25 cents (coin) for "Baby Care” to Weekly News paper Service, 243 West 17th 8t.. New York 11, N. Y. Print name, address, booklet title and No. 203. cv.o-c'-o-c^-c^-cv-fv.o-c^-c^-c^-o-o-o-c^o-o- Or ? ASK ME ANOTHER A General Quiz The Questione ? 1. What are the four cities re ferred to in the railroad nickname “The Big Four”? 2. When Caesar crossed the Ru bicon, which man did he declare war upon? 3. What is a digamist? 4. The favorite daughter of Mo hammed was called what? 5. Which city is rated the wind iest city in the United States? 6. How many traveling carnivals are there in the United States? 7. How many Englishmen have occupied the papal throne? 8. There’s one street car or auto bus for every how many persona in the United States? The Answers 1. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chica go and St. Louis. 2. Pompey. 3. If you have married for a sec ond time after decease or divorce of your spouse, you are a digamist. 4. Fatima. 5. Buffalo, N. Y. 6. About 300. 7. One (Adrian IV, 1100-1159). 8. Every 1,500 persons. Columbus Brought Cattle The first cattle brought to the United States came from Spain. Columbus brought them to the West Indies on his second voyage. From there, Spanish colonists, in their exploring expeditions along the Gulf of Mexico, introduced the cattle to the mainland of America. 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