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/ THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Feeding Stimulants To Increase Weight Utilization of Feed Profits From Dosage Evidence that tonics and stimu lants are as effective for livestock and poultry as they rn are for humans is : contained in re- i search conducted ; by Washington ex periment station. A year ago the experiment station started a feed ;| ing trial with four groups of Hereford heifers (six in each group). One group (serving as a con' trol) was fed a basal grain ration consisting of barley, oats, beet pulp, peas and bran. The other three groups had the same grain ration, with these addi tions: Lot 2, Fowler’s solution (18 grams arsenic trioxide per 1,000 pounds of grain); lot 3, 300 grams of nux vomica per 1,000 pounds of grain; lot 4, 2 pounds thiouracil per 1,000 pounds of grain. During the first two weeks of feed ing, the heifers getting nux vomica <lot 3) gained 3.8 pounds per head daily; those getting Fowler’s solu tion, 2.6 pounds; those getting thi ouracil, 2.4 pounds; control animals, only .6 pounds. During the follow ing two-week period, nux vomica steers gained 4.1 pounds; Fowler’s solution, 3.1; thiouracil, 3; con trol. 3. As the weeks went by, the aver age daily gains for all groups came closer together. Here are the rates of gain for the four groups at the end of 14 weeks: Controls (no stimulant), 2.35 pounds; Fowler’s so lution, 2.6 pounds; nux vomica, 2.7 pounds; thiouracil, 2.5 pounds. The cost of feed per pound of weight gain was lowest in the nux vomica group. That is, they made better use of feed than the others. KNOW YOUR BREED British Percheron By W. J. DRYDEN The British Percheron, like the American Percheron, originally was imported from the La Perche prov ince near Normandy, France. First used extensively during World War I, the demand for this type of draft horse was so great Percheron exhibited at British Percheron Horse show, Histon, Cambridge. that by 1918 the British Percheron Horse society had been formed to encourage the breeding of Perche- rons for agricultural work. The color of the British Percheron is gray or black with little white. Stallions are a minimum of 16 hands, 3 inches tall, with mares al lowed 2 inches shorter. Keep Them Healthy Free Information Lifeline of U.N. To reduce lamb and sheep losses from dogs and wolves, use truck flares placed in holders on top of steel posts driven into the ground. Sheep learn to gather near the flares at night. Wolves and dogs are kept away by the flicker of the flame and the odor. • * • If DDT fails to control flies around the bam, it’s probably because there are manure piles or old strawstack bottoms nearby. These breeding places can turn out flies faster than DDT can kill them. * • « Blackhead of turkeys is caused by an organism that is carried by cecal worms. Phenothiazine is ef fective in removing these worms from chickens and turkeys. Many turkey raisers now give phenothia zine in the mash every three or four weeks to prevent outbreaks of black head. Farms Use Six Times As Many Tires as City The typical Midwestern American farm has six times as many rubber tires on its rolling stock as a one- car city-dwelling family, a survey conducted by B. F. Goodrich com pany indicates. The survey cov ered 105 farms in a representative "agricultural” county in Illinois, and disclosed an average of 32 pneu matic rubber tires per farm. From the standpoint of actual rubber vol ume the farmer’s edge is greater. World Council Will Stand Or Fall on Public Opinion By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—Here are some more notes from a re , porter’s notebook (of course, reporters don’t really carry ! notebooks—they write on whatever is handy—this is a menu) ! at the United Nations. Some of the people who are reading this column attended sessions of the United Nations. I think I recognized some of you. It was hard to get in because so many nations felt this session was so important that they brought much larger staffs than ever before. These "extra” workers couldn’t sit in the seats reserved for delegates, nor the news people’s, so they were given seats ordinarily handed out to the public. For those of you who stayed horned— and listened to the radio or read the reports in the paper—well, what im pression did you get? Baukhage Your impression is highly impor tant, as I’ll try to pointout later. There, was, and is, this danger, which Trygve Lie, secretary gen eral of the Unit ed Nations, pointed out in a speech which stirred all the delegates who heard it (and you, too, I imagine, if you were listen ing) when he sum marized it after ward over the ABC network. Lie said: . . . “the peoples of the world, and many govern ments as well, are shocked, frightened and dis couraged to find that those same nations which created the United Nations so openly disagree.” He called for a rebirth of the “San Francisco spirit,” the spirit which we all felt in those hopeful days when the United Nations was bom. A colleague of mine, a most re strained and thoughtful commenta tor (Pauline Frederick, with con siderable experience here and abroad) told me something which is worth repeating. She was interview ing Eleanor Roosevelt at a luncheon at Hyde Park. Whatever you may think of Mrs. Roosevelt’s domestic politics you must know in what high regard she is held as a member of the American delegation to the United Nations. My colleague asked her if her heart weren’t heavy ever the world situation today. I haven’t her exact words here, but Mrs. Roosevelt replied in the nega tive. She said we had expected too much too soon from the Unit ed Nations. And then she went on to point out what so many of the delegates have said, name ly, that faulty and ineffective as the United Nations may be, it is far better than nothing. How many times have I heard that from even the most cynical of the reporters and observers here! As the New York Times re marked in a recent editorial, "it cannot be stressed too often that the struggle brought to a head in this session of the general assembly is not against the Soviet Union but FOR the United Nations.” The most striking thing, the editorial added, is “the determination of the United Nations (that means the member nations) to survive. • • • One strange phenomenon which ap pears to persons not too well acquainted with the ways of such gatherings is the friendly and entirely normal manner in which the delegates to the United Na tions who attack each other on the ros trum, consort in the corridors and lounges provided in the two buildings which now temporarily house the exec utive council and the general assembly, respectively. That’s nothing new to peo ple who have covered congress. mm. Dispensing of News Is Vital to U. N. The longer I serve, covering these meetings, the more I realize that the most important of all the groups, not excluding the delegates themselves, are those which serve to dispense the news and informa tion concerning the United Nations. It would be impossible, of course, for enough people to visit the sessions to affect pub lic opinion greatly. But many of the people who do come go back with a message which stirs great interest in the organiza tion in their communities. Proof of this interest was contained in the report of the secretary general. Lie, when he said that information had been sent out and other steps taken in cooper ation with a thousand meetings in the past year. But more important than any thing else are the actual reports of press and radio direct from one or the other of the two headquarters, or as a result of the many inter views with members of- the perma nent secretariat. Here is what they’ve done with radio alone: Daring the general assembly, , the radio division of the depart ment of public information will broadcast for 12 hours a day, while visiting radio commenta tors, using facilities leased by the United Nations, will cover 16 the debates for listeners in countries. The French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian sections of the radio divi sion also are preparing to broadcast adaptations of one of the U. N. pro grams which will be offered in transcription to stations unable to relay the original broadcast. The two services most widely re layed, because of the high quality of reception, are those in Spanish (to Latin America) and in Chinese. The programs all carry the latest news on work of the assembly and other United Nations bodies, inter views with delegates, background talks, recorded excerpts from speeches in debate and short fea tures. * * * As the bickering and obstruction ism increased at the current session and it became clear that confidence in the United Nations was being undermined, the importance of the work of the agencies distributing in formation concerning the topics dis cussed by the general assembly, be came more and more evident. The reason was this: It became clear TRYGVE LIE . . San Francisco spirit . . that under the present structure of the United Nations, where a unani mous agreement on the part of the major powers before major steps could be taken, is required, the only force behind the whole idea is the force of public opinion. As this is being written, the ques tion of the report of a committee on tele-communications is being dis cussed. The plans envisioned by the men on the United Nations who realize the importance of strength ening the opinion-forming force of the organization, are not too gran diose to be practical but they do in volve expenses which make their completion uncertain. Nations of the world are all feeling the pinch of poverty and there is a strong move to cut expenses. A part of the tele-communica tions plan was a radio network which would dispense objective world news for all the world. To show you how well the meagre efforts along those lines already have succeeded, I was told by the radio liaison division that even the Russian reporters who, as you know, work for news papers which are under a strict censorship, which permit no news which doesn’t suit their needs, have begun to ask for items issued by the United Na tions because they are so fair, so objective that no one could accuse them of containing prop aganda for any one nation. The men on the staff of the United Nations are not all perfect. There are a number of weak sisters. But on the whole, it is surprising to see how the majority of them has been able to develop a world-wide view point, an attitude whose whole pol icy is based on world understanding and the perpetuation of peace. FAST AND PRESENT PRESIDENTS . . . Unusual indeed is a pic ture of the President of the United States chatting with a predecessor in his office. The occasion here was the naming by President Tru man of former President Hoover te the chairmanship of a 12-man commission to study plans for reorganizing the federal government. NEWS REVIEW Urge Food Conservation; New Battle Shakes U.N. DIATETICS: Waste Less Lips that sincerely frame the words "food conservation” will not touch such sturdy edibles as meat, poultry and eggs quite so often hereafter. Charles Luckman, head of Presi dent Truman’s citizens food com mittee, opened the widely heralded “waste less” campaign by calling on the American people to cut their Consumption of those three items, thereby effecting a conservation of grain for Europe. At the same time, it was disclosed that stop-gap aid for Europe this winter may run as much as 800 mil lion dollars—220 million more that Mr. Trurrian had estimated earlier. The appeal fpr Americans to cut down on the amount of foods requir ing grain feeding was couched in a five-point prograiy which, if fol lowed, will eliminate the traditional race for the last chop on the platter —it won’t be there. Those five diatetic command ments were: 1) Buy cheaper meat cuts) 2) Don’t serve too much; 3) Don’t overcook meat; 4) Use leftovers; 5) Save wheat in all other possible ways. In the future was the possibility that a voluntary program of meat less days and a reduction in the size of bread loaves would be put into effect. NEW FIGHT: Recalls Yalta In the U. N. another scarehead of possible failure and collapse of that organization arose as the U. S. and Russia plunged into a new skirm ish. The issue: Which nation shall suc ceed pro-Russian Poland on the se curity council. Poland has represent ed eastern Europe and the Slav bloc for two years. Russia wants the Ukraine, which, although an inte gral part of the Soviet Union, have a separate U. N. delegation. U. S. contention is that the Ukraine is not a sovereign nation, therefore does not rate a separate status. In the background of the affair was the Stalin - Roosevelt Yalta agreement which gave the Soviet Union three votes in the United Na tions. Russia proper, the Ukraine and White Russia each has one. How the U.S.S.R. came to get three votes probably happened something like this: Both the Ukraine and White Russia, intense ly nationalistic, did not like to lose their identities by being merged with greater Russia. The Communist politburo, therefore, as a sop to their nationalism, granted the two territories a sort of nominal inde pendence. At Yalta, then, Stalin told Roose velt that he wanted the Ukraine and White Russia to be repre sented in the U. N. for "internal reasons.” F.D.R., being an old poli tician and sympathetic with "inter nal” difficulties, agreed. Thus, the stage was set for one of the most, serious battles yet to develop within the United Nations. Income Disparities “Real income” of wage and sal ary earners continues to drop, while farmers’ income still is rising, it has been revealed by a monthly In vestors Syndicate survey of purchas ing power. “Real income” is the re lationship of revenue to the cost of living. Wage and salary earners now have only about 96 cents of buying power for each dollar a year ago, while farmers have approximately $1.09. , At the same time, the biggest cause of the wage earners’ problem is the sharp rise in the price of food. The average family now pays more than $1.31 for the same amount of food that a dollar bought a year ago. It also pays $1.06 for each dol lar on rent, $1.18 to the 1946 dollar for clothing and $1.23 for miscellane ous expenses. “This continued divergence be tween farm and city buying power," the survey pointed out, “indicates that a serious unbalance may threaten the stability of our econ omy. A close balance is essential." RECOGNITION: Playing Safe Not as a gesture of approval, but rather as a means of keeping in formed of internal developments did the United States grant full diplo matic recognition to the Commu nist-dominated government of Bui-' garia. Robert A. Lovett, U. S. acting secretary of state, said that the ac tion meant neither that this country approved nor condoned “certain re cent actions of the Bulgarian gov ernment.” Although he did not say so, Lovett obviously referred to Bulgaria’s ex ecution of Nikola Petkov, leader of the opposition to the Communists. Previously, recognition of the Bul garian government was withheld on the grounds that the pro-Soviet re gime had been elected unfairly, but now the U. S. felt that it was more important to have an embassy in the country to protect American in terests there. LITTLE HOPE: Less Coal There is little or no hope spring ing in the collective breast of offi cial Washington that the coal short age this winter can be averted. Current estimates place coal pro duction as running several million tons a month behind exports and domestic consumption, principally because of the coal car shortage. This has resulted in winter stock piles depreciating instead of grow ing, as they normally would. It was hoped at first that some re lief would come when winter weath er stops or curtails road-building and construction, thus permitting di version of sand fnd gravel cars to the coal fields. However, a railroad spokesman said the diversion of such cars would do nothing but off set a normal 10 per cent drop in railroad efficiency in winter. SAME AS IN 500 A.D. Pacific Journey Made on Raft Dr. Thor Heyerdahl, 32-year-old Norwegian enthnologist and zoolo gist, had a theory that the first Poly nesians were blue-eyed blondes who floated over to their Pacific is lands from South America on rafts in about the year 500 A. D. What he did about proving that theory now is history. He and a party of six men built themselves a primitive raft of bamboo and balsa wood, climbed aboard and set them selves adrift at Callao, Peru. Exactly 101 days later the scien tific group drifted ashore on their raft, the Kon-Tiki, at Raroia reef in the Tuamotu archipelago, center of their target. They had used no motors, oars or sails. Their only means of propulsion on the 4,300- mile trip had been the Humboldt and South Equatorial current. That, sai£ Dr. Heyerdahl as he landed in San Francisco en route to Norway, provided “indubitable proof of the veracity of his theory. “The fact that we made the jour ney demonstrates it could have been done around 500 A. D., when the Polynesians were first populated,” he said. “Expert navigators said it couldn’t be done, that the balsa wood would sink, that it was impossible; but it wasn’t.” He related that the current and wind sometimes carried the raft as much as 71 miles a day, sometimes only 9 miles; but that “we always moved westward.” The raft was 45 feet long and 18 feet wide—a vir tually infinitesimal craft on which to cross the vast sweep of the Pacific. With true scientific objectivity, the men ate a little of everything that came their way during the course of the journey—fish, small crabs that walked on the ocean, seaweed and plankton. Plankton was de scribed as a semi-microscopic sea life, both animal and vegetable, which was "like shrimp paste.” Cost of the expedition, estimated at $40,000, was financed by Dr. Hey erdahl through funds of his own and by borrowing money. New Operations in Tuberculosis Told Surgeons Now Remove Small Pieces of Lungs. NEW YORK. — Dr. Richard H. Jverholt of Tufts medical school, Medford, Mass., has described to American College of Surgeons, some new operations for tuberculosis. This surgery not only removes en tire lungs, which is not new, but lobes of lungs and even parts of lobes. This ability to take out smaU pieces of lung is one new develop ment. There are five lobes in lungs, three in the right lung, two in the left. Each is a virtually independ ent section with its own air and ar tery blood supply. Overhclt said the surgery is use ful in cases where aU other forms of tuberculosis treatment fail. He said the risk of removing either a lobe or an entire lung has been so reduced by surgical progress of re cent years that the dangers in the operations for tuberculosis are only a fraction of the perils of the dis ease itself. He said enough cases have been done to show that health can be restored. Entire lungs were removed for the first time a few years ago for cancer. A prediction that the number of surgical operations will- decrease spon in a variety of diseases was made by Dr. Jacob J. Golub of New York. He said those will be the diseases that can be better cured by pre ventive medicine, and by remedies from atomic ovens, from radioac tive rays, hormones and antibiot ics. The latter is a new name in medicine describing remedies such as penicillin and streptomycin that come from germs and molds. Golub, however, said the total number of surgical operations is likely to increase, as there will be more of the accidents and other ills that surgery helps. / Vets Are Best Students, College Survey Indicates EVANSTON, ILL. — Veterans who were freshmen last year at Northwestern university made slightly, though significantly, higher grades than non-veterans in the class, according to a study recently completed. The research was d»ne by E. L. Clark, associate professor of psychology. He selected 562 ex-servicemen and 272 non-veter ans having equal potentialities as students. His work disclosed that veter ans were a little better motivated but worked harder to succeed. Their grades averaged .31 per cent over men who were not in service. Non-veterans were better pre pared to succeed in college. They entered with more academic credits and were 34 months younger. Miners Verify Report Of Arctic Gold Strike FORT ST. JOHN, B. C.—The Ca nadian press said that prospectors of the Far North had a fabulous story of new riches, of solid gold nuggets found on the Firth river in the western arctic, 400 miles north of Dawson City, Yukon. Eskimo hunters brovlght word of the find, due north • of the storied Klondike gold fields, to Aklavik dur ing the summer, and Ernest Max well, a Yellowknife mining engi neer, who made a dangerous plane flight, has returned to verify the re ports. Eskimos told of finding solid gold nuggets, worth more than $100 apiece, along the river banks, and Maxwell said he washed gold along the Firth and its tributaries. The Firth arises in the extreme northeastern part of Alaska, crosses the boundary into Yukon territory and flows into the Arctic ocean. It is in forbidding country where gam# is scarce. Attorney General Clark Aids Entry of G.l. Chinese Kin WASHINGTON.—Atty. Gen. Tom C. Clark ordered the immigration and naturalization service to speed up the processing of Chinese women and children arriving in San Fran cisco to join their G.l. husbands. His action followed complaints that they were being detained for prolonged periods without opportu nity for the husbands and fathers to meet with them. Since the war ended, 1,200 Chinese women and 2,000 children, offspring of the G.L marriages, have arrived in this country. Early Wooing by Seals To Cost Many Fur Coats WASHINGTON.—Because a lot of seals started wooing early this year, a lot of men won’t be able to buy their wives sealskin coats. The interior department said that only 61,447 skins were harvested this season, far less than average. The reason: Young male seals—the ones that get skinned—began “mingling with the young females earlier than usuaL” To keep happy homes intact, the season was abruptly ended several weeks early. Revising Movie Drawn Out Over Period of 9 Years No movie is made in Hollywood until its script has been checked for violations of the Production Code and approved by Joseph I. Breen of the Motion Picture As sociation of America, says Col lier’s. When a script contains scores of prohibited words, actions and scenes, it is sometimes re vised many times before it is sat isfactory to both Breen and the studio. »rnES BOIls A V H la a OR SORENESS Quickly apply soothing and com forting GRAY’S OINTMENT with its wholesome antiseptics and na ture aiding medication. Nothing else like it—nothing so comforting—or pleasant for externally caused skin troubles. 35c. Get a package today. Promptly relieves coughs off* TKHIACHHK CHEST COLDS MUSTEROLE A 1 1 1 X A A X A EXCLUSIVE FEATURE Y T T T T T T T T AC “5-Star Quality” Oil Filter Elements are the valy elements •’ having the acidproof glass cloth Collector Tube Trap. Can’t rot and thus allow pollution of engine oiL Be safe. 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