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THE NEWBERRY SUN,
NEWBERRY. S. C.
Old Age Need Hold No Terrors
Finding Useful Work
Is Formula for Happiness
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WASHINGTON.—Latest figures from the census bureau
have revealed that the postwar period has produced a record
baby crop—3,260,000 estimated for 1946, almost a million more
than were born in 1940.
But it will take more than this belated burst of rejuvena
tion to keep the United States from becoming an “old” nation.
Old in the sense that the average age will be high, with a heavy
proportion of oldsters. There are two reasons for this: Nowa
days people live much longer, thanks to medical science. And
the size of the American family has shrunk.
In 1860 when the population was about 31.5 millions, 860,000 persons
were over 65. In 1945 when the population approached 140 millions,
9,920.000 persons were over 65.
By 1970 there will be 16 million over that age, out ot an estimated
population of more than 151 millions!
This situation poses a number of<
problems for the nation, and also
emphasizes the personal problem:
The problem of growing old.
Like many of our troubles, real
or imagined, the best cure is to
bring this one out into the light,
give it a good shaking. The result
in many cases will be that it disap
pears or that it shrinks to unimpor
tance (if that weren’t so, psychia
try wouldn’t be such a highly re
warded profession).
JUST A TUNE-UP CLIMB . . . Members of the Harvard university St.
Elias expediton are shown atop 12,000-foot Haydon peak in Alaska
which they scaled just as a preliminary maneuver before tackling
18,008-foot St. Elias, greatest ice-covered mountain in North America.
The Harvard party was the second expedition to beat the mountain in
61 years.
NEWS REVIEW
Farmers’ Income Zooms;
New Crisis Hits Europe
Avocation* Help
To Retain Youth
Anybody can develop an avoca
tion of some kind. In many cases
these avocations have turned into
paying vocations after retirement.
In any case they are literally life-
savers when it comes to making
life livable.
Various skills permit varying pe
riods of activity.
Wise men have known this for a
long time and lived to a happy old
age. Others (who
didn't know it)
have worried
their friends and
themselves to
early deaths, by
sitting down and
weeping over
their lost youth
instead of getting
up, learning to
take old age in
their stride and
liking it.
Recently I read
a very up-to-date
little pamphlet
called “When
You Grow Older,” written in
straightforward English, based on
modem, scientific ideas. The pam
phlet outlines methods which make
that famous poem by Browning, so
often regarded as wishful thinking
by the skeptical, ring true. “Grow
old along with me,” said Brown
ing’s Rabbi Ben Ezra. “The best
is yet to be."
When 1 grasped the theme of
this pamphlet, it stirred classic
Baukhage
Many farmers are self-sup
porting at 70 or 75. Perhaps
this is partly because of their
environment—mental and phys
ical. Cicero says farmers “are
not hindered to any extent by
old age, and seem to me to ap
proach the ideal wise man’s
life.”
Most jobs are of such a character
that ability to perform them de
clines with the years. “When You
Grow Older” cites as an example
“speed work”—like the assembly
line. Youth excels in this type of
work. But age does almost as well
as youth in the type classified as
“power” work, the kind of job where
skill is important.
There is not space here to develop
the theme of “When You Grow Old
er” as its authors do so compactly
in their 30 pages. They discuss the
questions, personal and political, of
old age security. They offer a host
of other specific examples to illus
trate the statements, some of which
I have quoted here. I have attempt
ed to review rather than a sum
mary, moved to comment partly be
cause of the valuable suggestions
offered, and also, partly because
memories. I remembered that
a gentleman who considerably
predated Browning had said the
same thing in his essay “On
Old Age,” written in the year 44
B. C. I refer to Marcus Tullius
Cicero. He said (among other
pertinent things) “qui autem
omnia a se ipsi petunt, eis ni
hil potest videri, quod naturae
necessitas adferat.” Which, if
you’ll pardon my freedom with
the text, means that those who
seek their happiness from with
in can never regard nature’s in
evitabilities as bad.
Cicero wrote that essay when he
was 63 years old and I have no
doubt he would have lived what he
preached for another decade or
two if his vigorous old age had not
produced the resounding “Phillip-
pics” against Anthony which re
sulted in his being “purged” (Roman
style) while still hale and hearty at
64.
Like Cicero, Messrs. George Law-
ton and Maxwell Stewart, authors
of the pamphlet I mentioned, stress
the psychological problems of old
age. (The pamphlet is issued by
the Public Affairs Committee, Inc.,
a non-profit, educational organiza
tion, 22 East 38th St, New York
City—20 cents.)
these pertinent paragraphs of
“When You Grow Older” offer a per
fect example of how modern sci
ence and experience confirm the
verities expressed by poets and
philosophers of the past.
It is still the habit of many
critics to praise the style of
Cicero’s “De Senectute” but to
toss its message aside as wish
ful thinking. Even Montaigne,
who said frankly that reading
the essay “made one long to
grow old,” pessimistically lim
ited what he considered a useful
lifespan to a mere 50 years and
thought it wrong to contem
plate further existence.
Cicero’s physical world was
bounded by the frontiers conquered
by Rome’s plodding legions but his
view was long in time. Today the
men of our scientific age echo the
request in the last paragraph of the
great statesman’s immortal essay
when he prayed: “ . . . that you
put my words to practical test”
FARM INCOME:
Great Gain
Latest round in a heavy barrage
of statistics apparently destined to
make the American farmer feel
that he is an unbelievably fortunate
man was an agriculture department
report that the nation’s farm own
ers are taking in more money than
ever before.
It was estimated that total farm
cash receipts during the first eight
months of 1947 were 17.4 billion dol
lars, a 21 per cent gain over the
same period of 1946, itself a record
year.
The report said that the average
farm operator realized a net income
of $2,541 from agriculture and gov
ernment payments in 1946, and this
year farm income skyrocketed still
higher as a result of continuing un
precedented demands for produce.
“An increase of 24 per cent In
prices,” was singled out by the re
port as the chief reason for the
booming income.
But the picture has another side
—that of farm expenses. Operating
costs continue to increase and, al
though no estimate was made for
1947, the farmer’s expenses went up
9 per cent in 1946. Nevertheless, if
the agriculture department’s esti
mates are accurate, the increase in
farm income greatly outweighs the
simultaneous rise in expenses.
CRISIS AGAIN:
Transfusion?
Life these days. Secretary ot
State George Marshall has discov
ered, is bounded on all sides by one
crisis after another.
No sooner had he returned to the
U. S. from Brazil with the mutual
American defense treaty tucked
safely under his belt than he was
beset with calls for succor from
debilitated Europe which appar
ently, was sliding swiftly down the
ways toward utter ruin.
Insiders said the European
situation really Was desperate.
Undersecretary of State Robert
Lovett had sounded the first
alarm shortly before Marshall’s
return when he said that Eu
rope’s economic structure was
cracking up faster than anyone
had expected.
The fear blowing in on the winds
from Europe intensified. Precari
ously balanced Britain remained at
the heart of the trouble, but more
grief was added by the news that
bad weather had struck hard at
crops in many European countries
this year. Most nations had been
forced to use their meager produce
for domestic consumption rather
than for export. There was no profit
in that, they said.
In the V. S., it began to appear
more likely that a special session of
congress would be called this fall to
study the situation and perhaps set up
the apparatus for another economic
transfusion to give strength to the
weakening old world.
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BONDED
Vets Cash In
Draft time had rolled around
again for millions of ex-G.I.s, but
this time it was more in the nature
of a bank draft as veterans all over
the nation fell happily into line to
cash their terminal leave pay
bonds.
Virtually every city reported that
hordes of veterans had descended
on banks in an unprecedented rush
to convert their hard-won bonds
into coin of the realm. Millions of
former Joes stuffed millions of dol
lars into their pockets.
What would they do with the
newly acquired money? A few put
it back into savings accounts; oth
ers bought clothes, furniture and
similar necessities; much of it was
squandered immediately. But one
surprising fact developed: A great
many ex-G.I.s—family men now—
were using the store of cash to get
out from under worrisome debts.
For them it was a case of “dire
need.”
ISOTOPES:
U. S. Offer
Radioactive isotopes—products ot
American atomic research—have
been offered in limited amounts to
all foreign nations for use in man
kind’s world-wide and unending
fight against disease.
The gesture, marking the first
sharing of the fruits of U. S. atomic
ovens, loomed more significantly on
the uncertain frontier of global
peace than any loan or economic
aid so far conceived.
Described as the most important
medical research tool sin.ce the
microscope, the isotopes—radioac
tive forms of basic elements—are
utilized in the same manner as ma
chine gun tracer bullets. Introduced
into the body or blood stream, they
can be used to trace life processes
and plot the course of various dis
eases.
They are of paramount impor
tance in current cancer research
and one day may provide the clue
leading to control and cure of that
disease.
$3,000 FOR TRACTORS
Farmers Caught by Black Mart
Old age comes with a shock
because we haven’t prepared for
it. Maybe we are ready for the
“last day at the office” or at
the work bench or when we sell
the farm and move to the vil
lage or city, or in other ways
break a lifetime’s routine. But
we may have failed to recog
nize “the need to feel impor
tant,” a need which we must
satisfy one way or another. Not
“important” in the sense that
we have somebody kow-tow to
us, but necessary to somebody
or some thing, some business,
some undertaking, maybe not a
big cog, but something that
helps the wheels of life go round.
Gradually deteriorating prewar
machines and implements, plus a
shortage of rural labor, are the two
principal factors responsible for de
velopment of a flourishing black
market in farm equipment, accord
ing to manufacturers and dealers
groups who have pronounced the sit
uation fairly widespread.
Secondary circumstances which
support the existence of this partic
ular black market are the unparal
leled height of farm income and
the apparent determination of the
nation’s farm population to advance
to new levels of mechanization.
Thus, the demand for farm equip
ment continues to be almost in
satiable. Even the heavy, uninter
rupted output of the entire farm
equipment industry has failed to still
the clamor of the hungry market.
It has been common practice this
summer for farmers to pay huge
premiums on such pieces of equip
ment as tractors, hay balers and
corn pickers, all of which have cus
tomers on dealers’ waiting lists.
Tractors priced at $1,000 have sold
for as high as $3,000 or $3,500. Hay
balers, which are used on hay three
times a season and have other farm
uses, have been finding buyers at
double or triple the list price.
Pointing up these malpractices on
the part of individuals, one manu
facturer referred to the particularly
bad black market in combines.
“When one wheat farmer, for
example, has his crop harvest
ed, someone will drive up and
ask him how much he paid for
his combine. The farmer might
say $2,000. When the stranger
asks how mnch he would sell it
for, the farmer, picking a num
ber out of the hat, might say
$3,000. Then, to the farmer’s
surprise, the stranger peels off
30 $100 bills and takes the com
bine off his hands.
“The farmer would have got
$3,500 if he had asked it, be
cause the stranger took the
combine north and sold it for
$4,000.”
Flood-Proof Fence
Used in Australia
Lays Hat While Drift
Wood and Water Pass
A fence which bows before the
onrush of flood waters and lies flat
while water and drift-wood pass
over is being used in Australia.
The posts are 33 feet apart and
two wooden droppers are placed be
tween the posts and another along
side each post. The posts are bored
with holes 4 inches from the ground
are ripening near Eureka, 111., pumpkin center of the world, which
will stage its fifth annual Pumpkin Festival September 26 and 27.
IN THESE UNITED STATES
and 1% inches from the edge of the
post, and another 3 inches from the
edge. These posts are 6 feet long,
3 feet 6 inches above ground.
The droppers are bored 4 inches
from the bottom and then 6 inches,
7 inches, 8 inches and 11 inches,
allowing the top barbed wire to rest
on the side of the dropper, to which
it is tied through the hole with tie
wire. The droppers are 3 feet 10
inches long. The bottom wire is
reeved through thV droppers and
then through the posts. Each drop
per near a post has a piece of wire
passed around the top of the post,
then around the dropper so that it
will give way in flood time and
allow the fence of droppers to col
lapse. The bottom wire, 4 inches
from the ground, holds the fence to
the posts.
After the flood has subsided, all
that is necessary is to stand the
fence of droppers upright again and
attach it to the posts as before.
How to Prevent Date
With Big Farm Fire
Thirty-five hundred farmers who
lived happily on their farms a year
ago are dead, largely victims of
their own carelessness. They de
cided to “live” with fire hazards
and lost. With them went almost
100 million dollars in farm prop
erty.
In* one year 18,000 fires started in
newspapers, magazines and other
rubbish. Flammable liquids, im
properly stored or handled, caused
26,000 fires. IJlectric cords and
other defective electrical equip
ment caused 31,000 fires. Dirty
stoves, lamps and lanterns caused
18,000 fires. &>me 39,000 fires start
ed on flammable wood shingle
roofs. Dirty chimneys were respon
sible for 40,000 fires, and 50,000 fires
originated in dirty and defective
heating plants.
The cures suggest themselves. If
the farmers will clean up the out
buildings, farm machinery and the
fields, and be careful with matches
and smoking, there is little reason
for worry about fire.
KNOW YOUR BREED
Silver - Laced
Wyandottes
By W. J. DRYDEN
The Silver-Laced Wyandotte is be
lieved to have come from crosses of
Dark Brahmas, Silver Spangled
Hamburgs and a French fowl
named Brenda.
Standard weights are: Cock. 8%
pounds, hens 6% pounds, cockerels,
7% pounds, pullets, 5% pounds.
The female is round in shape, the
back gently sloping. An ideal mar
ked fowl, this type also can be bred
for high egg production without sac
rifice of standard requirements.
Cutting Protein Loss
Will Slash Feed Cost
Dairymen can reduce the size of
next winter’s protein-feed bill con
siderably by saving a greater per
centage of the protein in their
home-grown forage crops, say dairy
specialists of the USDA. One way
to reduce the protein losses and
thereby actually put more of the
home-grown protein in the cows’
manure next winter, is to make
silage from forage crops instead of
curing in the field for hay.
10,060 Free Pies Lore Visitors
To Enrebo’s Pumpkin Festival
WNU Features.
EUREKA, ILL.—Luscious, golden brown pumpkin pies
“just like mother used to bake”—more than 10,000 of them,
in fact—will be given away to visitors as one of the major
attractions of the fifth annual Eureka Pumpkin Festival,
September 26 and 27.
The free pies and other features of the celebration will be
aimed to assure visitors that Eureka is the pumpkin center
of the world. No city, town or hamlet in the worHhcans as
much fancy pumpkin as Eureka, the3>
town’s canneries proudfully boast,
The canneries packed a sizable por
tion of the 1,324,675 cases which
comprised last year’s commercial
pack of pumpkin in the United
States.
The spirit of a century-old cele
bration pervades the annual Pump
kin Festival, timed to coincide with
the peak of the pumpkin harvest.
During the early 1830s, the small
community of Walnut Grove held an
all-day picnic called “Burgoo.” For
more than a century the affair had
lapsed, but in 1939 the nearly for
gotten picnic was revived in Eu
reka, its modem counterpart being
termed the Pumpkin Festival.
Althongh the 1939 plans called
for only a small local celebra
tion, the affair expanded rapidly
into a two-day program. It has
been maintained annually since
then with exception of the war
years. Revived in 1946, the fes
tival attracted more than 50,000
visitors.
Inaugurating the 1947 festival will
be the first bowl football game ever
held in the state of Illinois. Appro
priately dubbed the “Pumpkin Bowl
Game,” the contest will pit Eureka
college gridders against the Kirks-
ville. Mo., State Teachers under v the
floodlights of Eureka stadium.
Honor guest of the celebration
will be the screen star, Ronald Rea
gan, Eureka’s “home town boy,”
and his wife, Jane Wyman, also of
the films. Illinois state officials also
will participate in the various pro
grams. Reagan, an alumnus of. Eu
reka schools, will take part in dedi
catory ceremonies for a new school
of speech building on the Eureka
campus.
Proving that pumpkins repre
sent the major interest not only
for farmers and canneries,
housewives of Eureka and vicin
ity will show their skill at mak
ing pumpkin pies by competing
in a pie-baking contest while
younger fry will vie In the tra
ditional pie-eating contest.
Selection of the Pumpkin Queen
will be another festival attraction.
Miss Patricia Stevens, modeling
agency head, will be among the
judges.
A parade featuring decorated
floats, band concerts and other mu
sical entertainment will help to
round out a full program of events
for the two-day festival.
Newlyweds Evade
In-Law Difficulties
TULSA, OKLA. — When Jeannie
Madsen became Mrs. Lee Odom,
she could anticipate a minimum of
mother-in-law trouble.
Her marriage made her mother,
Mrs. Charles Madsen Odom, her
mother-in-law. The mother, a
widow, previously had married Lee
Odom’s father, J. T. Odom.
Now, young Odom is the son-in-
law of his stepmother and a step
son-in-law of his father.
The bride is the step-daughter-
in-law of her own mother and her
former stepbrother is her husband.
No 6 Daily Bread’-
Prayer Revised
ROME.—Catholic Eskimos no
longer will have to pray for their
‘'daily bread,” a. form of nourish
ment unknown to them. A re
cent papal bull permits them to
have their own version of the
Lord’s prayer.
Like all other Christians, the
Eskimos hitherto have had to
pray for their “daily bread,”
although, since they raise no
grain, they bake no bread. Ac
cording to the new papal dic
tate, they now can pray: “Give
us this day our daily fish.”
Abandoned School
Serves Community
Club for 25 Years
MANKATO, MINN. — Formed e
quarter century ago because a
schoolhpuse was abandoned, the
Spring Lake Community club re
cently celebrated its 25th anniver
sary.
When four adjacent school dis
tricts were consolidated and a new
schoolhouse was built at Rapidan in
1922, the little old schoolhouse which
had served the Sprin.-' Lake commu
nity was to be discarded. Young
men of the community, deciding thal
the building would make an idea?
community gathering place, led a
movement for formation of the
Spring Lake Community club. The
building has been retained as the
meeting place since then.
The old school bell still hangs
in the belfry of the clubhouse.
Instead of summoning children
to school, it now Is rung only on
occasions of celebration , or
alarm.
As membership of the club is
comprised almost wholly of farm
ers, work of the club is tucked ic
between planting and threshing and
taking care of the livestock.
Club meetings feature speeches
and discussions on pertinent world
and agricultural problems. Potluck
suppers and contests are frequent
attractions.
When club repairing or cleaning
must be done, the project is not con
sidered work but a club gathering,
with everyone who can hold a ham
mer, saw, mop or scrub brush turn
ing out.
Gov. Luther W. Youngdahl ol
Minnesota was honor guest at the
25th anniversary dinner.
Providing a note of levity on the
program was the reading of the
minutes of club meetings for the en
tire 25 years. One entry in early
club minutes read, “It was decided
that the club buy a cord of wood
and the men come and split it.”
In the 1938 minutes this item ap
peared: “Painting of the clubhouse
will soon begin—just as soon as
threshing and other exchange work
is done.”
Historic Iron Mines Are Reopened
RINGWOOD, N. J.—Idle for 16
years, the historic Ringwood iron
mines, which produced the cannon
of “Old Ironsides” and the Hudson
river defense chain in Revolutionary
war days, have been reopened.
The 877-acre property between the
Hope and Whaleback mountains was
purchased by Ringwood Mines, Inc.,
from War Assets administration for
$1,275,000.
When digging was resumed, in
habitants of this 200-year-old mining
community returned happily from
their “exile” in the factories of New
York. Eventually, it is expected,
the mines will employ 600 men.
Most memorable casting from the
old mines was the immense chain
which was hung across the Hudson
river below West Point during the
Revolutionary war to prevent Brit
ish ships from sailing up the rives
to bombard towns and forts.
Gems of Thought
Words are like sunbeams; the
more they are condensed the deeper
they hum.—Brian! Sando.
Poverty does not destroy vir
tue nor wealth bestow it.
The credit got by * lie last*
only till the truth comes oat.
No man can be happy with
out a friend—nor be sure of his
friend until he is unhappy.
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