The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 26, 1948, Image 2
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C
Aid for Tooth Decay
AT A C0S1 of 80 cents per child
“Congressman Frank Keefe (Rep.,
WU.) discovered, children’s teeth
can be treated with sodium fluoride,
thereby preventing dental decay in
about 50 per cent of the cases.
Public health officials testifying
before Keefe’s committee told him
that sodium fluoride could be mixed
io a solution and painted on chil
dren's teeth four times in their
lives between the ages of 3 and 13—
after which most of them could vir
tually forget about going to the den
tist
The congressman was flabber
gasted. He wanted to know why
the treatment had not been
given to the public.
“The number of dentists is too
few,” replied U. S. Public Health
Director Dr. Thomas Parran.
“It looks to me,” said Con-
gresman Keefe, "as though an
advertising program would dis
seminate this information to the
people of the country until
there would be an overwhelm
ing demand upon the public-
health services to make this
available to the children.
The public health officials were
not able to give a definite answer,
but they did explain how simple
the sodium fluoride treatment was.
“Our schedule requires applica
tion four times during a child’s life
—at the ages of 3, 7, 10 and 13
years,” explained Dr. J. W. Moun-
tin. “The whole thing does not take
more than a minute except the
cleaning of the teeth and many of
the teeth need not be cleaned.”
“What does the sodium fluoride
solution cost?” asked Congressman
Keefe. “Is it very expensive?”
“A gallon of solution can be made
for a cost of approximately five
cents.”
Keefe went on to point out
that if the new revolutionary
dental program were left mere
ly to dentists, its progress
would be much too slow. There
fore he urged that a nation
wide educational program be
undertaken. Public health offi
cials said they would consider
the matter.
• • •
Pacifying the Arabs
HANDLING ARAB CHIEF
TAINS is something at which the
British have long been adept. We
ourselves haven’t done badly in re
cent years. The system is a combi
nation of browbeat and baksheesh.
All during World War I, Arab
chieftains were kept in line by a
constant stream of British silver
During World War II their bak
sheesh went under a different name
—oil royalties.
Today, the kings of Arabia
are just as dependent on us as
we are on their oil—only more
so. They don’t want francs,
pounds, or even rubles in pay
ment for oil—only dollars. With
out dollars their desert monar
chies would go up in dust.
This leads to a Palestine remed,.
Some years ago Herbert Hoover
proposed that the Tigris and Eu
phrates valleys be developed by irri
gation and water power, making
them—as in the days of the Garden
of Eden—one of the garden spots of
the world.
Hoover’s proposal now could be
carried out for the benefit of the
Arabs and as a means of counter
balancing Arab claims in Palestine.
The projects could be financed from
the vast profits of the Arabian-
American Oil Company.
In other words, we pay off the
Arabs for their equity in Palestine
by setting up a new irrigated home
land for them in the Tigris and
Euphartes valleys.
The “Do Nothing” Boys
WHEN THE LAST SESSION of
Congress adjourned in July with one
of the worst “do-nothing” records
In history. Republican apologists
freely predicted that the next ses-
•ion, beginning in January, would
be one of the busiest and most pro
ductive. G. O. P. leaders, it was ex
plained, wanted to chalk up a good
legislative record to show the vot
ers in November.
Here is the Merry-Go-Round fore
cast on what congress will do about
major legislation:
' PRICE CONTROLS—No action.
RENT CONTROLS—The present
inadequate system of rent control
will be extended for another year.
MILITARY TRAINING — No
action.
HOUSING—Despite the con
tinuing shortage of adequate
low-cost housing, the Taft-
Ellender-Wagner housing bill
will be kept in a deep freeze by
congressional leaders. So will
national health insurance legis
lation to provide low-cost medi
cal care for the general public.
TAXES—The Republican 6,800
million dollar tax-reduction bill,
which has passed the house, will
be reduced to 4 billion dollars in the
senate. Despite senate changes Presi
dent Truman will veto the tax bill
and unless Republican leaders write
an excess-profits tax into the meas
ure to make it more attractive to
Democrats and G. O. P. liberals,
senate leaders will not be able to
muster the two-thirds majority
needed to override the President’s
veto.
TELEVISION WEATHER
It is now possible to get weather
reports by television. What fun to
sit in front of the screen and watch
what the elements are doing play
by play!
•
“Tune in,” we said to the wife
the other day, “and see if you can
get a couple of pre-April showers.”
“Who are they playing today?”
she asked absent-mindedly.
“It’s the weather I’m after,” we
explained. “It might be very inter
esting.”
“Are you kidding?” she asked.
“Not at all. The U. S. weather
bureau is broadcasting by television
the complete weather formations,
showing the cold and warm fronts,
the dry and .ret areas and every
thing.”
“I don’t think I would care for it
greatly,” said the missus. “There
must be other things more exciting.”
*
“What could be more excit
ing?” we demanded. “Picture
the warm front all lined up (
waiting for the cold front to
kick off . .. the opening whistle!
. . . the clash of weather front
against weather front! . . . sun
shine out to beat rain! . . . the
light southerly breezes taking
on the heavy nor-easter!”
“Who’s sponsoring today’s
weather. Ford, General Motors
or somebody’s beer?” asked the
wife.
“It hasn’t a sponsor yet,” we
explained.
“It will get one if it is bad
enough,” she sighed.
“Tune in and get it, will ya?”
we pleaded.
“Not unless I can win prizes
through it,” she said flatly.
•
It was useless to argue, so we
tuned, in without her. It started off
fast enough. A low pressure area
from the South came swooping
across the screen at a great clip. A
high pressure area, off late, came
tearing out of the northeast comer
full of pep and swinging in all di
rections. Presently a snow front
leaped into the fight but something
went wrong with our television set
and on the screen we beheld a light
weight boxer, two hockey teams and
something that looked half tenor
and half hot wave. All we could
make of it was that tomorrow’s
weather would be somewhat cooler,
with westerly rabbit punches, con
siderable rough ice work followed
by heavy rains and light opera.
«
We are through with television
weather until it perfects a suitable
jingle.
PUERTO RICO’S POWER CONVERSION . . . The 10-million-dollar
Caonillas hydro-electric and. irrigation project, located between
San Juan and Ponce is the first step in Puerto Rico’s move to
change her principal source of power from steam to hydro-electric
power. This 230-foot high “junior TVA” is nearing completion.
FREEDOM OF EXHIBITION . . . This Russian exhibit of Soviet
culture being displayed in New York’s Museum of Science and In
dustry also serves as a practical demonstration of the vast differ
ence between communism behind the iron curtain and democracy
in the U.S. No law prevents Americans from getting information
on Russia.
VANISHING AMERICANISMS
“Hurry! My oil tank is down
to 300 gallons.”
#
“Coal is okay but it’s too much
trouble.”
*
“Phew! This house is suffo
cating.”
Who Wants To Be Cheap?
The break in commodity and
stock prices, in forcing down prices
generally, is going to be hard for
the long-soaked public to take. Get
ting accustomed to being handed
change from a ten-dollar bill is
going to require a lot of stamina.
*
And what a strain it is going to be
on us all when we find a salesman
and saleslady acting as if the cus
tomer rated a little higher than in
sect life!
*
Can Mr. and Mrs. Public be per
mitted to buy things at sharply re
duced rates all of a sudden, or does
good judgment require that they get
the blessing gradually, by a tapering
off system? How will a housewife
act when she can get a quart of
milk, a custard pie or a frosted
layer cake for less than a day’s
pay?
*
Hornswoggled, gypped, blitz
ed, gouged and run ragged for
some five years, are we going to
be fit to take it standing up
when we can buy a $2,500 house
for less than ten grand; when
an auto can be had at the list
price by merely phoning the
agent; when a schoolboy will
shovel the snow off our walk
for less than $2 an hour and
when we find a little courtesy
on the phone when we call up
to give somebody some busi
ness?
*
We think not. After you have
been going through a concrete
mixer for years, life outside of -it
seems unreal and unsatisfactory.
* * *
“Joe Davis Making Bust of Eisen
hower.”—^headline.
*
Careful, Joe. Hitler tried it.
* * *
Somebody asked Elmer Twit-
chell at a dog show why the
bloodhound looked so depressed
and he replied, “A fellow just
told him that he looked almost
human.”
• • •
Columbia has jacked up the tui
tion fees and room rates. Well, any
show costs more starring “Ike.”
HIS EYES SPELL OUT HIS FAITH . . . Victim of a Nazi sniper,
Jimmy Wallace now lies with arms outstretched on a cross of pain
in VA hospital at Hines, 111. He is unable to hold the beads of
his favorite devotion, the Rosary, so he prays it with his eyes,
using this huge Rosary hung above his bed and made just for him.
NEW EARS . . : Words of eheer
pass between Gary Lang, 6, of
Manchester, Conn., and his mo
ther as he tries out the new ears
doctors are grafting on his head.
He was born without any.
FORCED ... At a press confer
ence in London, ex-King Michael
of Romania declared that hii
abdication was null and void
since it had been .forced on him
“by a foreign country.”
NICEST SMILE . . . Piquant
Edith Mrandmarte was judged
to have nicest smile in all France
in a contest held in Paris. This
is how she looks when she ar
ranges her face for that nice
smile.
Washington Di&est;
W/iy Spurn the Poor Fish?
They Can't Be Beat to Eat
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator,
WASHINGTON. — Today one of the politicians’ biggest
worries is the housewife and HER worries, the biggest of
which is meeting her budget and the increased appetites
which we worked up during the war. We were able to satisfy
them then because we had our pockets full of money.
Our pockets aren’t so full now, but our stomachs are. We’ve been edu
cated up to eating a lot more meat, particularly. But a large part of th*
country has not been educated up to eating fish. Fish is good to eat.
It is also good to catch, and before<»
Baukhage
DENIAL ... Dr. Edward U. Con
don, director of national bureau
of standards, hotly denies ac
cusation by house Un-American
activities sub-committee that he
consorted with Red spies.
I get into its nutritive value (since
I have you where
you can’t get
away). I’m going
| to tell you about
I my recent fishing
adventure (which
inspired this col
umn) and about
some of the fish
that didn’t get
away from me.
What did 1 catch?
Well—
First class bass,
good stout trout,
(some call them
weakfish, but
they aren’t meek-
fish), sheephead, pigfish, porkfish,—
look! snook, — snappers and porgy,
Mexican bull-fish (not a tough pull-
fish), whitefish, blue fish, jew-fish,
other tried and true fish, hark! a
nasty little shark! Here’s an old
trouper, of course it’s a grouper.
Just a little urgin’, then I’ll claim
a sturgeon, never caught a whale-
fish, but what about a sail fish?
I could go orf indefinitely, sitting
back here in the city dreaming, with
scales over my eyes, where about all
the people know of piscatorial mat
ters is confined to the use of a
mickey-fin.
I recently had 48 hours on the
bounding main and in the "cuts” as
they call the peaceful, mangrove-
bordered crane and pelican-peopled
indentations of Florida’s Indian riv
er. There, the waters are almost
"stiff with fish” as an Irish friend
once said to me of his home river,
and I am disposed to talk about the
joys of angling.
It was suggested to me by my
editorial assistant that I ap
proach the subject from the
political angle. However, as a
hook-and-line, and sometimes a
rod-and-reel amateur, I might
say that we deal in lines and
also curves (when you consider
that piece of lacquered bamboo
from Burma when a big one
takes it and goes) but angles are
not in the vocabulary of an
glers.
I remember an ancient motto im
printed upon a circular pad fre
quently placed beneath a beverage
glass to preserve the table’s patina,
which said: “Follow the straight line
of duty; if you do, the curved line
of beauty will ever follow you.”
There is nothing more beautiful
than that arc of rod and line with
the exploding flash of white water
at its terminus where a vibrant cap
tive shakes the hook. There is no
sound more pregnant with hope and
enthusiasm than the scream of the
reel when it pays out to match its
power against a game and finny
fighter.
Now, having gotten that rhapsody
out of my system, what about the
practical side? This is still Lent
And a lot of people eat more fish
during this season than they would
otherwise. So fish prices have gone
up a little. But not too far, and they
are down as compared to last year.
For these trout I ■ was. talking
about, the speckled variety (not the
weakfish which officially are gray
more diversion for the fishermen be
fore I continue on the more impor
tant matter of how to fish for a low
er cost of living, which is what I am
really supposed to be talking about.
Ever do surf fishing for blues? Great
stuff. You stand out there on the
shore, with the waves breaking
around you, and cast. The last time
I tried it, I went right down into the
undertow. Well, you use a pretty
stout rod for that ordinarily, but a
gentleman who has a story in the
forthcoming issue of Field and
Stream is going to tell a regular
Ripley. He was surf-fishing here at
Ocean City, Md., and neither he
nor the rest of the group was get
ting much. So he shifted to a light
casting rod and line, and pulled them
in three to one.
Well, back to my filets—we ought
to eat more fish. The department of
agriculture and the fish and wild
life service of the department of
the interior are trying to do some
thing about it. As you know, there
is a federally - subsidized school-
lunch program which provides a
fund for food for school children.
The departments are sending
folks out to show the school
cooks how to prepare fish, and
they are doing a very sensible
thing: They are trying to get
the schools to teach the pupils
something about the fish they
are eating—their life, habits and
general characteristics.
You know, out in the Middlewest
where I was brought up nobody knew
much about fish. When they bought
fish, they just bought fish. They
didn’t know the difference between
. . Gen. Douglas MacArthur has an
nounced that he would accept presidential nomination if the peo
ple chose him. This is fine with Warren Wright (above), Chicago
banker and leader of MacArthur-for-President movement in Ill
inois, who points to sign and says: “That’s my man.”'
CATCH... Spring baseball train
ing brings myriad of pictures
like this. Tony Lupien, back
with Chicago White Spx, hopes
to stay there as regular first
baseman this season.
Baked fish creole. You don’t
have to go to New Orleans for
this if you have the recipe.
trout) we got 25 cents a pound down
In Florida. Speckled trout is selling
at this writing for 40 cents in the
New York market, and bluefish
(large) at 40 to 45 cents per pound
(that’s wholesale of course).
A lot of sea bass, and trout,
and porgies have been coming
in from Norfolk lately. And
please let me digress one mo
ment to tell you about Potomac
striped bass. In Maryland, you
have to throw them back if they
are over 18 pounds, and in Vir
ginia waters, if they are over 25
pounds. And (this is for fisher
men) we have a record of a 42-
pound bass caught in our north
ern waters.
Also (Bill Turner take notice)
they’ve started a new stunt off Mon-
tauk Point, New York, where they
run out just beyond the breakers in
fast little boats, and catch these
big ones. A lot are caught up around
Cape Cod in the fall. ... Just one
A broiled filet, spicy sauce,
Something different.
a pompano and a jellyfish. Along
the Great Lakes where I lived later,
we knew more. Whitefish were good.
So are whitings, an ocean fish, no
relation.
Another thing that the department
of agriculture is trying to do through
its home economics branch is to
teach people how to cook fish. Most
people think all fish ought to be
fried. They don’t know how good a
sauteed or baked fish is. The French
can cook fish with sauce so that it is
a delicacy. The fish and wildlife peo
ple are doing a similar job.
Meat is going up. We have a
lot of commercial fishermen
whose living depends on how
well you like fish, and how well
the fish bite or get netted. You
can benefit and so can they, if
you learn to appreciate this kind
of healthy, nourishing, and if
properly prepared, delicious
food.
I’ll be glad to help you: National
Fisheries institute, an association
which is interested in all phases of
the fishing industry — its members
include everybody from the fisher
man to the dealer has a pamphlet
entitled “Fish and Shellfish Cook
ery,” which I’ll be glad to send you
if you’ll write me, care of this news
paper.
• • •
Although valentine sales this year
hit a record high, the marriage rate
which usually follows the rate of
purchase of hearts-and-flowers mis
sives has fallen off, say greeting
card publishers. Which seems to in
dicate that youth is penny-postage
wise and not pound-foolish. In other
words, this leap year, they take a
new look before they take the old
leap.
• • •
Now you can get a heat-free bulb
that glows through ivory or brown
switches that saves fumbling in the
dark. Now if they’ll get illuminated
chairs for the stumblers until they
can get to the switches.
• • •
Clothespins soaked in soapsuds
and dried out thoroughly without
rinsing will never freeze, says the
Hagerstown Almanack. I wonder if
that treatment would work on fin
gers that use the clothespins.
• * •
Microscopic traces of arsenic lurk
ing in food can be detected by a new
laboratory technique according to
American Chemical society. It takes
a microscope to find the food in
some of the portions served by the
restaurants today.
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Retarding Potato Sprouts
A problem commonly encountered
by farmers and homemakers is
that potatoes sprout and shrivel
when stored in warm temperatures.
Another problem is that when stored
at temperatures below 40 degrees
potatoes will become sweet, and
warming them for a week or two
at temperatures of 70 to 75 degrees
will diminish this sweetness. Th*
chemical with a long involved name,
methyl ester of alphanaphthalene
acetic acid, is the most effective
substance for retarding potato
sprouts.
Pullorum clean N. H. Rc^-
Barred Cross and Sex-Lank
Cockerels $6.00 per 100.
Pullets $15.00 per 100.
Straight run $10.00 per 100.
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The juice of a lemon in a glass of
water, when taken first thing on aris
ing, is all that most people need to
insure prompt, normal elimination.
No more harsh laxatives that irritate
the digestive tract and impair nutri
tion! Lemon in water is good for you!
Generations of Americcms have taken
lemons for health—and generations
of doctors have recommended them.
They are rich in vitamin C; supply
valuable amounts of Bi and P. They
alkalinize; aid digestion.
Net toe sharp or sous, lemon in water
has a refreshing tang —clears the
mouth, wakes you up. It’s not a
purgative — simply helps your sys
tem regulate itself. Try it 10 days.
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Gramma
SPEAKIH’...
DON’T GIT DISCOURAGED.
Remember as how it’s sometime*
the last key on the bunch that
opens the lock.
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KERIN’ IS BELIEVIN’ ... Yes
sir! And when you see those two
words “Table-Grade" on a pack
age of margarine, ye’re sure get-
tin’ as fine a spread as money kin
buy, cuz, ye’re gettin’ Nu-Maid
Margarine ... made ’specially fer
the table.
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is you want, ’cause chances are.
you’ll git it*
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we’d soon have the "spite tax”
taken off colored margarine. Why
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