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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Medicated Poultry Mash Is Effective Government Trials Show Remedy Deworms Flock Use of a medicated mash contain ing nicotine - phenothiazine has proved effective in deworming poul try, it was shown in trials con ducted by the department of agri culture. In the government trials, two kinds of worms (cecal and round) were checked and kept at a low lev el by using a medicated mash con taining nicotine, bentonite (a clay- Aspirants Hint for G.O.P. Bid in '48 Roundworm parasites from small intestines of a chicken. like substance) and phenothiazine in ordinary poultry mash. Says the government report: “Under experimental conditions the treatment expelled approximate ly 99 per cent of the two kinds of worms. Under field conditions, the feeding of this medicated mash to chickens for three consecutive days, at intervals of three weeks maintained a low level of parasitism in the treated birds. “Fifteen grams of 40 per cent nicotine sulfate solution were com bined with 151 grams of phenothia zine and 287 grams of nicotine ben tonite in 44 pounds of ordinary chick mash.” This combination of nicotine, ben tonite and phenothiazine has been found effective in research carried on by private organizations, and there are products on the market of essentially the same composi tion as that used by the agricul ture department. Ike Reluctant; Taft Works Hard for Party Nomination By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—Back before World War II started, I attended a party given by Mark Woods, (my present boss). One of the guests, with whom I had been associated on the Farm and Home Hour came to me and said: “I want you to meet my brother. He’s a lieutenant colonel in the army, and I think he’s going places.” So we went back and I shook hands with a pink-cheeked, personable soldier, exchanged a few words and drifted on. Shortly afterward (1939), I went to Europe, the war broke and the party was long forgotten. Somewhat later, and often since, $■— I have had occasion to remember the lieutenant colonel vividly. I have Just been looking at a Drawing shows method of instal-. ling section of vitrified clay pipe for use as storage pit for fruit, eggs, milk and vegetables. Note that bell rests on bricks. Spigot end should protrude above ground two inches so dirt fill will slope away from opening. At bottom is layer of coarse drainage ma terial. Top opening covered with gravel screen or with wood or metal lid. New Method Devised For Treating Posts A new method of treating fence posts and freshly sawed green lum ber has been originated at the Lake States forest experiment station, This procedure, the “dry salting” method, consists of applying a mix ture of copper sulphate and sodium dichromate in powder form to the surface of freshly peeled green posts and freshly sawed green lum ber. The mixture of these chemicals dissolves in a humid atmosphere and clings to the surface of moist posts and lumber when applied as a powder. The method results in deep pene tration of the preservative which appears to be firmly fixed in the wood so that it is not readily leached out. A definite advantage of this process over any other now available is that treatment can be concentrated at the ground line and top where more protection against decay is needed. The resulting posts have an attractive blue color which is not readily leached out, and tests Indicate that the preservative is rela tively noncorrosive to staples and wire. the has Small Amount of Salt Needed by All Pigs After several years of tests, Missouri experiment station found that hogs having free access to salt consume an average of only a fraction of an ounce per head daily. However, this small amount of salt caused these hogs to make much faster gains than hogs fed a similar ration without salt. The tests indicated that the best way to feed the salt is free choice in mineral mixture. Baukhage graph drawn in 1945 by that same lieutenant colonel (after he was needled into it by a biographer). It shows his promo tions from the time he was graduated from West Point in 1915. In World War I, he reached a lieutenant colo nelcy but after the armistice re- verted to his "per m a n ent” rank of captain. He soon was promoted to a major (boosts were slow in those days) and remained a major until 1936. From then until the time I met him at that party, he was a lieutenant colonel. Two years passed and then things began to happen: Colonel in ’41; upped to brigadier general the same year; major general in 1942; com manding general of the European theater of operation; then, in '1945, lieutenant general and commanding general. Allied forces in the Euro pean theater—now, president of Co lumbia university (or maybe some thing bigger) to be. Milton Eisenhower was right when he said his brother was “going places.” It is in the vo luminous volume “My Three Years With Eisenhower” by Harry Butcher, his naval aide, that the chart appears. The graph shows at its peak the rank of four - star general. Butcher jokingly plotted the curve (down) after that point, to sero. Eisenhower immedi ately drew a fishing pole at the nadir, thus expressing his hopes. Both were wrong. The govern ment pinned a fifth star on him, and the fishing pole has been transmuted into a cap and gown, as symbol of his new rank when he switches bosses from Mars to Minerva. But if certain boosters have their way, the line on the chart may move upward again. I haven’t heard what the general’s deep-down plans are, but from what I hear, the fishing pole is still the final objective, and he doesn’t neces sarily mean fishing from a presi dential yacht. Meanwhile, brother Milton Eisen hower has “gone places,” too. He’s also a “president” — president of Kansas State college, and very happy there. It was rumored that if he should “choose” to take a post which had been suggested for him— back in the department of agricul ture (as secretary this time), when and if Clinton Anderson moved else where, and thus became a member of the Truman cabinet, it would mean that his brother was not con sidering a new job. • • • Senator Taft Personifies GOP Of course, it is more fun general izing about generals than it is to particularize about the prime con tenders in the candidates' elephant race to come. But, no matter how much political dust some dark or even chestnut roan stirs up later, there are just two people the politi cians have to consider now. They are Senator Taft of Ohio and Gov ernor Dewey of New York. I was standing with a group out side the executive offices of the White House, waiting for the presi dential press and radio conference when a genisl human cloud, much bigger than a man’s hand, in fact almost twice as big as most men’s bodies, appeared on the horizon. It was the politically astute and ardent Taftite, Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio. The boys ragged Brown a little about the Taft trip, but he wasn’t a bit down-hearted. Said he: “We didn’t expect to bring back a bunch of delegates. Taft made votes for the Republican party, and that means votes for Taft.” (Despite Brown's opti mism, some observers have felt that although Taft did make new friends, they weren't new votes, for they were already solid Republicans.) Frankly, I don’t understand Taft very well There is no question about his intellect or his intellectual judgments. Nobody could ask for a greater demonstration of political skill on the legislative side than his record in the last congress reveals. But that isn’t all. One of Taft’s critics, fully cogni zant of the Republican policy lead er’s achievements, said that his in tellectual judgments “ran ahead of his practical application” of them. I suppose the critic meant that for all Taft’s powers of reasoning, scholarship and tremendous ability to acquire knowledge and weigh facts, he sometimes appears to al low his hereditary viewpoint rather than his acquired conclusions to guide his course. Taft is naturally conservative—and sometimes, I am sure, he has been intellectually per suaded as to the validity of certain measures, but has been unable to support those measures fully be cause of this inborn conservatism. To those who know Taft even more than casually, he is cool, rare ly unbending, legalistic. He can prove himself, however, as even the least sympathetic newsmen on his recent trip admit, affable and ap proachable. Also, he has that on many occasions so useful acquisi tion, (especially when chaperoning a bob-tailed flush), the poker face. Even his smile, which if over worked, becomes a bit rubbery, doesn’t always dispel this impres sion. Although he inherited from his father, William Howard Taft, a tre mendous capacity for hard work and a conservative point of view, he lacks the robust geniality conveyed by the Elder Taft’s smile and laugh. Unfortunately, Robert Taft hasn’t that risible faculty to re lieve a certain aloof remoteness of manner and expression. He is by no means a glamour-boy, and he knows it. One time when Re publicans and Democrats were gathered at some clambake in New England, and the raillery became a little personal, Taft challenged the Democrats to a beauty contest. Senator Pepper, who knows he has no claim to pulchritude himself, immediate ly jumped up to say: “I’m paired with the senator from Ohio.” Taft has some sense of humor, even if he isn’t famous for it. Per haps he absorbed it from his witty wife. He stands six feet tall and he isn’t stout, although somehow, or other you seem to think of him that way. He is still young—only 58. (I’m sure that’s young because it’s ex actly my age.) As Representative Brown inti mated, Taft’s speeches on his west ern tour, almost entirely devoted to the glorification of the Republican party’s record in the first session of the 80th congress, helped strengthen the party. In fact, Taft generally is SENATOR TAFT accepted as the personification of the Republican party—and well he might be—considering the manner in which he dominated the last ses sion, maintaining the respect of the Democratic leaders which he al ways has had—if not their love and admiration, which he never has had. SPECIAL SESSION—OF SURGERY ... In case you’ve never seen a surgery amphitheater, either as a patient or a spectator, take a look at this picture. Members of the U. S. chapter of the International College of Surgeons, which held its convention in Chicago, are shown here watching the removal of three-fourths of a man’s stomach. NEWS REVIEW Food Plan Opens Shakily; Comintern Brings Jitters SIX MONTHS How Long No Meat? Amid a certain amount of weeping and wailing and less gnashing of teeth than usual, President Truman’s program involving meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays lum bered tentatively through its first week. Even the most ardent optimist could not call this phase of the food conservation drive to help Europe an instantaneous success; however, it might improve with time. And it was in the handwriting on the wall that there would be con siderable time, for administration experts predicted that the days of voluntary self-denial would last for at least six months. President Truman himself has set the dates for the interim emergency aid to Europe campaign—from De cember 1 to March 31—although that time limit was imposed spe cifically for the raising of 580 mil lion dollars in cash. Regarding the food conservation aspect, Charles Luckman, head of the citizens food committee, said “Our only idea is to do the job until it is done. No time schedule has been set." Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson was a little more definite. He pointed out that conservation to save grain might be necessary until the winter wheat crop, now being planted, begins to come in next June and July. Then he offered a faint hope with a hollow ring: "Meatless days are not in the pic ture indefinitely,” he said. The Eating Public Public opinion, it developed, was far from united on a solid front be hind the food conservation plan. Restaurant operators said their cus tomers were grousing about meatless and eggless days. Millions of Americans resented the suggestion of a voluntary meatless Tuesday since they already are going without meat four or five days a week because they cav/t afford to buy it oftener than that. The poultry industry pointed out that if every one of the 140 million residents of the U. S. were to eat one less egg a week, the government would have to buy 600 million dozen eggs under the law requiring government support of parity prices; and the gov ernment already holds in storage sev eral million cases of surplus eggs pur chased to support farm prices. SECURITY RISKS: TSo Peace of Mind Communism, particularly since the revival of the Comintern in nine European countries, is taking its toll in the U. S. by undermining the American peace of mind. That obvious fact has been given added significance by the state de partment’s disclosure that sum mary dismissal faces state depart ment employes who are “habitual or close” associates of persons even “believed to be” Communists. In plain language, that is a re versal of a fundamental principle of Anglo-American law—that a man is judged innocent until he is proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In fact, the state department, in a “security principles” document re cently made public, says specifi cally that if there is a “reasonable doubt” about^a worker’s loyalty the “department will be given the bene fit of the doubt and the person will be deemed a security risk.” While idealists could quibble at length about abridgment of “con stitutional rights,” few would deny that the state department simply was playing it safe in the face of a manifest danger. SOLD GOLD: Second Time Badly bent economically, al though not yet quite broke. Great Britain, in the latest phase of her desperate quest for dollars, has sold 120 million dollars worth of gold to the U. S. in exchange for an equal amount of ironmen. It was the second such sale from Britain’s now dwindling gold re serve. Early in September 80 mil lion dollars worth of gold was sold to the U. S. The September gold sale came after the 400-million-dollar balance of Britain’s dollar loan from Amer ica was frozen by British-American agreement when Britain declared she no longer could honor the loan's convertibility clause requiring her to provide dollars in exchange for pounds sterling on demand to any nation she traded with. ? ? Current Events ? ? Here are five questions based on recent happenings in the news. Five correct answers and you’re eligible to appear on "Information Please”; four and you’re still plen ty good; three isn’t half bad; two, better luck next time; one, sub scribe to a newspaper, 1. Five nations recently were refused membership in the U. N. Name them. 2. At an international wireless congress, claims by the Soviet Union that a Russian named Popov invented the wireless were disputed. Who usually is credited as the Inventor? 3. General MacArthur has ruled that Emperor Hirohito’s crest shall not appear on postage stamps. After what flower is the crest designed? 4. In delaying a shipment of sugar from Verdun to Germany, one Communist French deputy said: “At Verdun, they shall not pass.” On what occasion was that phrase first used? 5. Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan has advocated that the two civil ian components of the army merge with the army. What are those components? ANSWERS 1. Italy, Finland, Hungary, Ru mania and Bulgaria. 2. Gugllelmo Marconi, an Italian. 3. The chrysanthemum. 4. It was used by Marshal Henri Petain in February, 1916. when the Germans were outside Verdun. 5. The Organized Reserves of the army and National Guard. EDUCATION GOES HIGHER Danger Seen in Rising Fees That great old American institu tion of “working your way through college,” which oftentimes is a criti cal ordeal for the serious student, is showing signs of vanishing com pletely, and many young seekers- after-truth soon may find it impos sible to get through college if they are not blessed with higher-income families to help them out. A director of the office of educa tion has expressed the fear that the rising cost of a college education soon would keep large numbers of able students outside the campus gates. Effects of steadily mounting fees in the country’s institutions of higher learning already would have serious results for prospective en- rollees, were it not for the help the taxpayer is extending students through the G.L bill of rights. Recent surveys have proved that universities are depending more and more on student fees while they are confronted with rising costs. Fees, which used to account for about one-third of a college’s income, now provide more than one-half of the total college educational expendi tures. "The cost of going to college will be too high for many family budgets if student fees continue to go up and if no provision is made for in creased financial support from other sources after the G.I. legis lation expires,” declares Dr. John D. Russell, director of the office of education's higher education divi sion. “More and more this trend will limit college education to children of higher-income families—a coun ter-democratic tendency," he said. The rate of tuition charges to stu dents, not including board and room, has been increasing steadily over a long period, but the rise has been particularly marked since 1939, according to the survey. In publicly controlled colleges and universities, the average tuition fee for residents of the state has in creased 31.4 per cent in the past seven years. {£] TODAY POU iU r" 1 *ri 111Ijjfl International Uniform Hi Sunday School lesion 81 LOUIE~"o'sEWION.TTo SCRIPTURE: James 1—2; Matthew 25 "34-46 DEVOTIONAL READING: Matthegv 7:15-27. ^ Religion in Practice Lesson for October 26, 1947 NEEDLEWORK PATTERNS Dr. Newton S UNDAY'S lesson takes us to one of the practical Christian preachers of the New Testament. Please open your Bible to the Epis tle of James, and read especially the first two chapters. James was a man of great faith, but he realized, as we must realize, that faith is best ex pressed in works. Then read Mat thew 25 : 34-46, and for the devotional lesson, read Mat thew 7: 15-27. When you shall have read these passages, you will then be ready for the consideration of religion in everyday life. A Cup of Cold Water YX/'HAT, someone will be asking, Y' can i do to show my desire to be of actual service, in the name of Jesus. Jesus tells us. He says that whosoever shall give a cup of cold water in His name is doing the will of God. We live in a world that poign antly waits for a cup of cold water. I have just returned from another trip through Europe. I was there in 1946, and I felt then that life in Europe had reached the last possible expression of need. But this past summer I was startled to witness a still greater need. The question that immediately came to mind as I observed condi tions in Germany and England and other countries this past summer was this, What can we do to meet such need? And the answer was ready at hand—give them what you have, in the name of Jesus. Doers of the Word J AMES makes much of practical religion in everyday life. He tells us that we are to be doers of the word and not mere sayers of the word, or hearers of the word. And here he means the Word of God—the will of God. Is there a misunderstood boy In your block? Is there a girl in your class at school who suffers from some bitter criticism? This lesson would suggest to every Christian boy and girl to go in sympathetic understanding to such neighbors and help them to overcome these handicaps. Thus we become doers of the will of God. * * • Living Our Religion W HAT we are determines what people think of our religion, not what we say about our religious life. James tells us in Sunday’s les son that faith withqut works is dead. It is that very truth that our generation so much needs to get hold upon. We have many perplexing situa tions in our world. Racial differ ences, differences regarding capital and labor, and so forth and so on. How are w these problems to be solved? By" resolutions? We know that many very pious resolutions have been adopted concerning these problems, but still the problems remain. One Christian in any given com munity who applies the teaching of James to everyday life will start a train of events that will add up to the solution of any prob lem, social, economic or what not. We must translate our beliefs into action. • • • The More Excellent Way J AMES goes on to assure us that when we undertake faithfully to live our religion, we may confi dently claim the promise of God that if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth liberally unto all men, and upbraideth not. The conclusion of the whole mat ter, therefore, is to face life as we find it, taking into account the actual facts, and boldly and confi dently tackling the job in the assur ance that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is always sufficient for any and every situation. The more excellent way of the Golden Rule is the answer to the whole matter. But the Golden Rule is impotent until it is trans lated into action. And the best of it all is that it actually works. When someone asked Morrison what Christianity was doing for China, he replied: 'Christianity is changing China into _ community of God.” That is pre cisely what this lesson will do for four community, if you apply its teachings to life as you find it. (Copyrilbt by tbe International Council Religious Education on behalf of 40 rotestant denominations. Released by Ever-Popular Pineapple Doily CO EASY to do — so popular ^ the country over—this hand some pineapple doily is crocheted in white or ecru cotton thread. It measures 16 inches across and combines pineapple motifs, palm leaves and a center diamond de sign. To obtain complete crocheting instruc tions for the Pineapple Doily (Pattern No. 51B6) send 20 cents In coin, your name, ad dress and pattern number. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time w required in filling orders for a few of the most popular patterns. 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