The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 27, 1949, Image 6
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
CANT BLAME ANYONE FOR HIDING . . .
They're Happy-in Their Hermit Heavens!
... IN CLOTHES CLOSET THESE DAYS
CLOTHES CLOSET REFUGEES
The case of the young New York
man who lived in a clothes closet
for 10 years and, upon his release,
cried, "I want to go back in there. I
don’t like it outside,” is not as un
usual as you might think.
By H. I.
This department has come into
possession of the fact that there
are numerous such cases. Elmer
TwitcheU, for instance, has a neph
ew, Pastrami TwitcheU, who has not
only been in a closet for 10 years,
but has resisted aU efforts to entice
him out. “He went in during
Zhe flew Mouse
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H ERE Christ shall come, and here He shall
abide.
Our table shall be set for our great Gueft;
Our lamp be lit, our hearth be warm and wide;
And here He shall find shelter, food, and reSL
And He will talk with us beside our fire.
And He will walk with us through every task.
We can confide each hope and each desire.
No question be too great or small to ask.
Because He lives with us, is one of us.
We shall take care no evil thing be heard;
Because His ways are kind and courteous.
We shall watch our ways, our every spoken word.
This is our new house. Lord, be Thou its Head;
We gladly share its simple fare with Thee.
Sit at our table, break and bless our bread.
And make us worthy of Thy company.
PHILLIPS
Hitler’s oratorical tirades over the
mike. We nearly got him out this
season, but he heard Vishinsky,”
Elmer explained. "Then he nailed
up the door from the inside.”
*
Other cases reported today,
with statements by each fol
io w: Thaddens Swivelhead:
"Yes, I have been living in the
top drawer of an old dresser
for five years. I crawled in be
cause of the depressing war
news all over the world. After
a little while 1 heard that the
war was over and that peace
had been declared. I came out,
read the newspaper headlines
and leaped back in again. I’m
no fool.”
Asa Z. Boogie, who has been
living on a shelf in a basement
pantry ever since 1943: “I climbed
onto this shelf when the prices of
everything began rising, with gov
ernment controls helping very lit
tle. From time to time I peeked
out and found things getting more
unbearable. I am a fugitive from
75-cent cocktails, beer at 17-cents
a glass, $4.50 steak dinners, 28-
cent gasoline, shrimp cocktails at
$1.10 a throw, 90 cents for watered
soup, the $1.25 raw lambchop de
livered on the butcher’s block and
people who call up to know what
radio program I am listening to.
Come out again? Why?”
H. K. G. Stuffinbox, who has
been residing in a filing cabinet
for ever so long: “If you wish to
talk to me, climb in. I refuse to
come out for anybody. I consider
that I am a sane, wise and highly
judicious fellow. You and all
others who prefer the outside
world in its present shape are
nuts.
“The location of my home and
my place of employment was such
that I had to use the subways for
north and south travel and buses
for east and west. Once in a while
when I went to a theater I had to
get a taxi. I lived in an apartment
where everybody kept the radio
on all night. A room across the
hall was occupied by an opera star
who vocalized all day. Every few
weeks there was an eleveator strike
in the building. And in order to get
to my job I had to cross nine picket
lines. So I got into this filing cabi
net and, mister, it seems paradise.”
Jarvis P. X. Waffle, who has been
living in a abandoned cello case
ever since 1919: “I got in right after
Woodrow Wilson announced Amer
ica would make the world safe for
democracy. I knew what that would
mean. Now and then I get a pretty
good line on what life is like out
side this cello case and, boy, am
I happy to be where I am! No fly
ing saucer mysteries! No video
comedians! No bop music! No
radio jingles! No jackpots! They
can’t even get me interested in
“Stop The Music.”
• • •
Jottings
There are so many daily changes
in President Truman’s cabinet
that it seems to us something
should be done to number the play
ers or abolish the two platoon sys
tem in government.
• • •
“John L. Lewis Hopes to
Avoid Strike.”—Headline . . ,
Wanna bet?
Olympia flew to Churchill Downs
by plane. It was just for practice.
In his recent races the horse had
trouble getting his landing gear
down.
• • •
“Secretary of Commerce Sawyer
administered the oats to his new
chief aide, Cornelius Vanderbilt.”
—Journal of Commerce . . . Come,
come, boys, the setup in Washing
ton isn’t getting that bad!
“The psychiatrist said that the
bank looter was clearly a victim
of unbearable emotional conflicts
coupled with a form of latent im
maturity. The man attempted to '
establish an impression of impor- 1
tance, and in so doing got hopeless- I
ly into debt without the stability to
correct this condition.”—News.
Farm Buying Power
Still Shows Gains
Increase Well Above
Cost of Living Rate
The current drop in living costs
has given the average city wage-
earner approximately the same
buying power today that he enjoyed
in June, 1946, final month of OPA.
Though the farmer’s buying
power has edged off with the drop
in food prices it is bumping against
government price supports, and
still shows a gain that is well over
double the increase in the cost of
living, according to a chart study
of our ten-year-old war boom, made
by the family economics bureau of
Northwestern National Life Insur
ance company.
Ten years ago last winter you
could buy a new four-door sedan
for $825, sirloin steak was 39 cents
i pound, milk averaged 12% cents
a quart, and you could build a
five-room modern house for around
$3,000—but we had 10 million un
employed. Then European rearma
ment orders sparked our recovery
By INEZ GERHARD
S ANDY BECKER, the new
"Young Dr. Malone” in the
CBS daytime serial, started out to
be exactly that, a doctor, to please
his father. But his mother had al
ways been keen about amateur
theatricals; at a tender age he had
appeared in a play with her. When
he was eight he was making puppets
and putting on shows at local
church bazaars. So. when half way
SANDY BECKER
through pre-medical school, he
abandoned the career of his fa
ther’s choice and chose a branch of
his mother’s hobby, radio. He has
hobbies of his own, sculpturing and
sketching in winter, playing tennis
or golf in summer, but baby-sitting
with his son and daughter limits
his free time.
Cathy Downs, who is featured in
Allied Artists’ “Massacre River,”
is knitting like mad, all because
she posed in six knitted dresses for
a fashion layout, liked them, and
decided she could duplicate them
herself.
The success of “Variety Time”
has spurred RKO into speeding up
production on a big-time vaude
ville picture to be called “Make
Mine Laugh.” It will comprise a
batch of new acts and a series of
“Flicker Flashbacks” for old-time
flavor. .
Horace Heidt is planning a musi
cal comedy to feature the youthful
talent discovered on his “Original
Youth Opportunity Program.” It
will be titled “The Kids Break
Through,” is tentatively scheduled
tor this fan on Broadway.
Patric Knowles is going to let his
rusty Spanish get even rustier
from now on. In Mexico on loca
tion for RKO’s “The Big SteaL” he
had a linguistic disaster when he
needed soap, asked a storekeeper
for “Sopa”—and got a can of soup!
The
Fiction MURDER BY TWO
By
Richard H. Wilkinson
Corner
I T SEEMS to be universally pre
supposed,” said Inspector Ben
Odell, “that people who aren’t in
their own element are at a disad
vantage.
“I’m thinking of the time Detec
tive Sergeant Rod Upshur went up
to Round Pond for his summer va
cation. Rod was city bred and city
raised. He worked on the police
force of one of the country’s largest
cities. He didn’t know a great deal
about the country and country
ways. But he knew human nature,
and he was smart.
“Rod was stay-
3 - Minute ing at one of those
Fiction summer cam P s
and was having a
pretty dull time, when Henry
Graves, the owner, came to him
with a request.
“ "There’s been a drowning
op the river a ways,’ he explain
ed. ‘Jed Thomas, the local
officer, isn’t so sure bnt what
there’s font play. I know it’s
out of your Jurisdiction, but
we’d appreciate having you lend
us a hand.’ He smiled flatter
ingly. ‘You see, your fame as
a detector of crime is far reach
ing.’
“Jed Thomas, a farmer by trade,
was congenial and willing to let
Rod assume the entire burden.
“ ‘Fact is, Mr. Upshur, there’s
been a feud hereabouts. Between
the Hallams and the Spencers.
“ ‘Well, sir, couple days back
Herm and Punk Hallam come to
me an’ says they was bait diggin’
in their lower pasture and suddenly
they sees a boat with Pat Spencer
in it come sweepin’ around the
bend. He was clear across the river,
which is about 200 yards wide there,
an’ they claim he hit a submerged
log and stuck. They claim he tried
to push hisself off with an oar an’
the oar slipped an’ it an’ him fell
overboard. Well, sir, Pat can’t
swim an' he just naturally drowned.
“Jed Thomas drove Rod out to
the Hallam farm and introduced
him to Herm and Punk. They were
big strapping fellows, smug,
amused.
“ 1 see,’ Rod remarked to Jed,
‘that you recovered the oar Pat
Spencer lost overboard.’
“ ‘Yep,’ replied Jed, and not too
happily, T found it caught in some
weeds along the bank about 15 yards
downstream. I guess he musta lost
it, just like Punk and Herm said.’
“Punk and Herm laughed.
" ‘Wait a minute,’ Rod said eas
ily. “Not so fast, boys. You two are
smart all right. Too smart. So
smart you made one awful blunder.
Officer Thomas, I think you'll be
safe in arresting these men and
charging them with murder.’
P AT’S AND HERM’S mouths fell
open. In fact, so did Jed’s. Jed
said; *Yuh mean, you know Pat
didn't drown hisself?’
‘“O course be did!’ Punk
Hallam said darkly. ‘Listen,
city Jigger, you ain’t cornin’ up
here an’ gettin’ away with ac
cusin’ us o’ murder. You ain’t
scarin’ us, none. We got each
other for witnesses.’
“ ‘Fine,’ said Rod. That makes
the lie all the worse, because you
both declare you saw Spence fall
out of the boat, first dropping his
oar. No, I must confess I am a
city man and the ways of the coun
try are strange to me. However,
any dumbbell would know after
looking at that river and see
ing that bend above here and know
ing that there’s a fast current, that
an oar dropped overboard near the
opposite bank, could never lodge
in undei brush along the bank on
this side 15 feet from where we’re
standing. It would be two or three
miles down stream by now.’
“For a minute, there was silence.
The three men stared at Rod blank
ly. It took quite awhile for the an
nouncement to penetrate. Officer
Thomas fortunately, recovered first.
He had a gun in his pocket and he
got it out, just as Punk Hallam
jumped at him. He had to shoot
Punk through the shoulder, and
would have done the same to
Herm, apparently, had one more
ounce of grey matter than his
brother. He quit.”
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Single sheet
of a book
5 Valley
(poet.)
9 Donkey
10 Musical
drama
12 Rage
13 Attendant
spirits
(Rom. Rel.)
14 Fuel
15 Water
(French)
17 Thrice
(mus.)
18 Pale
20 An awn
23 Border
27 Pressure
marks
28 Town
« announcer
29 Native of
Denmark
30 Huts
31 Lift
33 Viper
36 Club
37 Distress
signal
40 Mount
42 Open boat
(Eskimo)
44 Conical tent
45 Like malt
46 Covered
with dew
47 God of love
(Gr. myth.)
DOWN
1 Goddess of
the moon
(Rom.
myth.)
2 Units of
work
3 Part of
“to be”
4 Woods
5 Fashion
6 Simian
7 jtanished
Sw.porarily
8 One of the
Great Lakes
9 Paper
container
11 Ventilate
16 Exclama
tion
18 Flower
19 Courage
20 Say further
21 Narrow
inlet
(geol.)
22 Tavern
24 Perish
25 Jelly like
substance
26 Bitter
vetch
28 A period
dress
No. 36
30 Crested
hawk-parrot
32 Monastery
33 Division
of a play
34 Vehicle with
runners
35 Conduit
37 Fodder vat
38 Cereal
grains
39 Firmament
41 Gull (Eur.)
43 Disfigure
Answer to Puizle Number SS
Series K—48
The above chart plots the
course of the 10-year war boom.
In January, 1939, America had 10
million unemployed and 44 mil
lion at work. Annual net in
come per farm was $702. Indus
trial wages averaged $24 a
week, an annual rate of 1,248.
from a nine-year-old depression,
the study recalls.
After an even 10 years of recov
ery, boom, inflation, and tapering
oft, the score stands as follows: Net
annual income per farm 300 per
cent higher—it was $702 in 1939,
reached $2,915 in 1948, and had
sagged to an annual rate of $2,800
by January, 1949. Weekly indus
trial wages up 130 per cent—from
$24 in January of ’39 to approxi
mately $55 in January of ’49. Liv
ing costs 71 per cent higher than
10 years ago, after nearly a four-
point drop in the last few months.
Finally, about three million unem
ployed—a normal “float”, as
economists call it.
Wage rates show a gain of 26
and a half per cent since June,
1946, while the cost of living index
now stands just 28 per cent higher
than in that final month of OPA.
The actual living cost increase has
been somewhat less than 28 per
cent, the study says, since the gov
ernment index naturally makes no
allowance for over-ceiling prices
which were g|peral in the latter
months of OPA; thus the wage-
earner’s paycheck of today buys
him as much or slightly more than
his paycheck of June, 1946, the
study finds.
Percentage increases in worker
paychecks do not reflect sharp ad
ditional gains made in so-called
“fringe” payments during the past
decade, such as more vacations,
holidays, sick-leave, pension pro
grams, etc., the study points out.
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A superior poultry house clean
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ises the dirt and drippings and
blasts them away. Food Ma
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tion developed the sprayer that
Is doing the cleaning. It Is said
to do a better and cheaper clean
ing Job, faster and easier.
Hormones May Limit
Frost Damage in Time
American apple growers, usual
ly hard hit financially by late
spring frosts will soon be able to
avoid that obstacle. A combination
of tracers (radioactive atoms) and
hormones may make it possible to
keep apple buds closed until the
cold season has passed—thus saving
the industry millions of dollars lost
annually through damaged fruit. A
spray would be used to cover fruit
and prevent freezes.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
I ^ U Bad Moods Will
Hurt Digestion
By Lawrence Gould
Do your moods af feet your digestion?
Answer: Yes, writes Dr. R. Bilz
In a German medical journal. “A
mood always occurs simultan
eously on the physical and psy
chological level.” Even the ex
pression on your face may be
“mimicked internally” by what a
doctor discovers with a stomach-
pump and X-rays, so that when
your mood is tense and anxious,
your “ulcers” reveal the facts as
clearly as your eyes do. If you
want to have a good digestion,
you’d better at least avoid the far
too common practice of airing
your grievances and worries at the
dinner table.
b recklessness based on fear?
Answer: Yes. Most frequently the
urge to “flirt with danger” repre
sents an effort to avoid the shame
of being thought a coward, and
still more of being forced to rec
ognize how frightened you’d be if
you “stopped to think about it.”
But again, you may be bolstering
your belief in your “luck”—whita
at bottom means your childish con
fidence in your parents’ power to
protect you from the consequences
of your folly. A truly brave person
never incurs needless risks because
he does not have to prove he can
face danger if he has to.
Is having been “tight” an
excuse for rudeness?
Answer: Only in the degree that
the person you are asking to ex
cuse your bad behavior will ac
cept the fact that you have rude
impulses which you are able to
control when you are sober. For
what you said or did was not "for
eign to your nature”—it was an
expression of a part of yourself
which you did not wish to reveal
or acknowledge under ordinary
circumstances. Indeed, it was prob
ably a wish to give this side of
yourself an airing that uncon
sciously induced you to anesthe
tize your inhibitions by drinking
unwisely.
LOOKING AT RELIGION
By DON MOORE
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ON A MEDICAL
Pf?BSa?IPTION w * tS THE SYMBOL OP
JUPrTEf?. AND MtfS ORIGINALLY
PLACED AT THE TYPE OF A
FORMULA TO PACIFY THE
KING OF GODSL
MASSED PRAYERS OF CHILDREN
PEBUN, JAPAN,SEEMED TO LIFT THE
FOUL LEATHER LAST YEAR— JUST IN
TIME TO ENABLE A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
EXPEDITION TO PHOTOGRAPH AN ECLIPSE
THEY HAD TRAVELLED ?. OOO /HUES
TO SET/
In addition to
REGULAR GODS ancient
GREEKS ADDED ANOTHER-
TO MAKE SURE THEy HADN’T
OFFENDED ANY UNKNOWN
DIETY/
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KEEPING HEALTHY
The Liver, Most Vital to Health
By Dr. James W. Barton
B ECAUSE the liver has so many
different jobs to do and the
liver means so much to our general
health, we should all try to remem
ber that it is the largest organ in
the body and contains about 25
per cent of all the blood.
One of the jobs of the liver is
manufacturing bile which breaks
up fats for digestion. It Is an anti
septic destroying harmful organ
isms and a natural purgative pre
venting constipation. It is, there
fore, a true saying that “life de
pends upon the liver.”
Another important job is the
manufacture by the liver of a sub
stance needed by the blood.
Aside from the bile killing harm
ful organisms, the liver cells them
selves filter out poisons from the
blood, which, if not removed, would
cause tiredness and weakness. In
order to find whether or not the
liver is doing this important job of
filtering wastes and poisons from
the blood, various tests are made,
one of which is giving a dye by
mouth or injections and seeing how
long it takes the liver to remove
all the dye from the blood.
Recently research workers. In
vestigating two common ailments—
gallstones and ulcer of the stomach
and the first part of the small in
testine (peptic ulcer)— took a tiny
piece of the liver from these pa
tients for examination under the
microscope and found that In only
6 to 7 per cent was the liver in a
normal, healthy condition.
As the liver is really the ‘‘chief’
or most important organ In the
body from the health standpoint,
we should all try to keep It active
and healthy by two simple meth
ods: First, cutting down on fat and
rich foods; and, second, keeping
the liver in an “active” condition
by bending exercises, keeping the
knees straight.
At McGill university, Montreal,
some years ago, research werkers
showed that squeezing the liver by
bending exercises or deep breath
ing caused the liver to do its var
ious jobs completely and in less
time.
The economic cost of heart dis
ease is staggering in terms of loss
of life, absenteeism, disability, loss
of gainful employment, and care
and treatment programs.
• • •
It has been found that insulin—
which reduces the sugar in the
blood, brings on sleep and increases
the appetite—is more effective in
restoring the alcoholic patient to
normal than any other method.
While the passing of blood Is but
one symptom of cancer of the gen
erative and urinary parts. It is one
of the early signs and gives the
patient a chance for successful
treatment. Formerly, patients and.
sometimes, physicians were lulled
into false security by thinking that
when the bleeding stopped, the
progress of the underlying cause
also stopped. But such Is not the
case.
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