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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
PSYCHOLOGY THAT BLAMES BAD DRIVING . . .
Twitchell Scores 'Accident-Prone 1 Theory
... ON CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR IS DEBUNKED
By H. I. PHILLIPS
ON ROAD MENACES
A speaker at a convention of psy
chiatrists declares that accident-
:prone auto drivers are people who,
[at the wheel of a car, behave just
.as they have behaved from child
hood. It is the folks who have been
inconsiderate, intolerant of author-
and generally anti-social from
fancy up who drive carelessly, he
says. “If a man's personal life is
marked by caution and considera
tion, his driving will be marked by
it If his life is marked by contrary
characteristics his driving will be
so marked," the speaker insisted.
•
Elmer Twitchell, the eminent
student of human behavior, disa
grees. And hotly. “The delicatessen
dealers have a name for it.” he
said today. “Any theory that auto-
ists behave the way they do be
cause they threw their rattle at the
nurse in infancy, resented the
—
PROMISES
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HE year will keep its promises to me:
Unfailingly the days will come and go;
Rivers will take their sure course to the sea;
Seedtime and harvest, these will come, I know.
The Stars will go their quiet silver way;
There will be sun and rain and wind and dew;
There will be breathless beauty in each day;
There will be old loved tasks for me to do.
And I have made my promise to the year
(God help me keep it through the hours ahead):
I shall be braver, I shall banish fear;
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I shall not leave a kindly word unsaid;
I shall have faith that this, my ancient grief.
Will yield at laSt to laughter and to song;
I shall have hope that there will be relief
For the old hurts the world has borne so long.
The year will keep its promise. O mylieart.
We muSt not, dare not fail to do our part.
• Grace Moli-CrawetH
schoolteacher’s authority and
robbed birds’ nests is the bunk.
The plain inescapable fact is that
the minute a human being finds
himself at the wheel of an auto he
becomes a different personality.
•
“A fellow who takes off his
hat in elevators, helps old
ladies across streets and writes
books on politeness will chase
his fellow man up an alley, yell
at school children and cnss out
pedestrians for getting in his
way, once he is in a flivver.
The kindliest gentleman in the
community, known for his
warm smile, takes on the in
stincts of a gorilla the minute
he finds himself tooling the
sedan down Main street.
“I will lay you 50 to 1 that the
psychiatrist who made that speech
at the convention is a refined, well-
bred gent whose heart bleeds for,
his fellowman when afoot, but who
leers at red lights, barks at fellow
creatures and snaps at policemen
when hurrying through town in the
old boiler.
•
“It’s one of the mysteries of
life and it has nothing to do
with childhood, generally
speaking. I can stand on any
street in America and point
out college professors, lawyers,
school principals, gardenia
growers, lecturers on good
manners and men of Chester-
fieldian backgrounds roaring
by and snarling at slow-gaited
pedestrians with the ferocity
displayed by gangsters, fugi
tives from chain gangs and all
around heels.
*
“I’m no exception, more’s the
pity. On my feet I am sweet as
they come. I am a model of good
behavior in any company. I opeh
doors for ladies, show the aged
every consideration and try to be
gracious on a broad scale. But it’s
a quick switch from Dr. Jekyll to
Mr. Hyde when I take the wheel
of the old jaloppy. And so do you,
and you and you! There’s some
thing about an automobile that
changes human character.
“Early childhood tendencies m;
eye!”
•
Here are some interesting cas<
histories on “accident-prone”
drivers, offered as subjects for psy
chiatric study:
CASE 1.—Jeptha Finchbutt. 32,
truck driver. Mr. Finchbutt ha
bitually drives a 15-ton trailei
recklessly, ignoring all speed signs,
takes turns at 60 per hour and ha:
never been known to heed a stop
light. Report: As a baby Jeptha
was allowed to pound on highchaii
with bottle; mother had nine chil
dren and was too busy to restrain
his early instinct to spear live gold
fish with fork; early schooling was
under teachers who failed to send
all other pupils home and just con
centrate on Jeptha.
*
CASE 2.—Geoffrey Tuffit, 46, oil
truck operator and chronic weaver
through dense traffic. Geoffrey has
a batting average of one bad acci
dent per month, but always seems
to get out of it through indifference
of authorities. He particularly loves
coasting downhill through school
zones. Report: His inclinations are
all due to a selfish mother who
used to wheel Geoffrey around in
a baby carriage unequipped with
brakes and horn. The father never
read Emily Post.
•
CASE 3.—Twiggsby Cropper, 19,
college freshman. Twiggsby feels
unnecessarily curbed if asked to do
less than 55 per hour in city cen
ters and 70 in suburbs, loves to
drive “no-hands” across city play
grounds. Report: From age of six
months to year and a half he was
allowed to scream at nurse; from
age of 3 to 5 instinct to pour hot
porridge on the cat uncurbed. Fa
ther bought him a velocipede too
early and failed to read him the
laws on rules of road each night
before putting him to bed.
CASE 4.—Mrs. Arabella Prigg-
stone, 29. This woman backs up
without signals, makes U-tums on
impulse, never bothers to have
brakes tightened and frequently
forgets to put on lights at night.
iE‘C$CREEN£RAD)0
By INEZ GERHARD
S HIRLEY TEMPLE’S ability as
a mimic did a lot toward mak
ing her a child star, and she is
•till using it as a help in learning
the various dialects she's had to
master. She has a southern drawl
and a Scandinavian accent down
pat, but had a bit of trouble with
the Irish brogue needed for
garners’ “Always Sweethearts.”
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
More than once she has confused
her mother-in-law by using one of
the three when answering the
phone; even her own mother can’t
tell sometimes whether a new
■outhern maid, a Scandinavian one
or an Irish colleen is on the other
end of the wire when she calls her
daughter.
John Dali and the King
brothers are discussing rights
to Jonathan Latimer's novels
featuring detective Bill Crane.
They would allow Dali to con
tinue his screen life of crime,
but on the side of law and
order.
The
Fiction TERRY, THE FOX
By
Richard H. Wilkinson
Corner
The picnic staged recently by the
American Federation of Radio Art
ists was quite a shindig; raised
$3,000 for its relief fund. Lum and
Abner ran the bingo tables and or
ganized square dances. Frank
Nelson, of “Blondie,” auctioned off
supporting roles on such shows as
'‘‘Sam Spade” and “Philip Mar
lowe” to ambitious newcomers who
|>id high for them.
Jane Wyman reports from Lon
don that she had her first comfort
able voyage; usually gets seasick
even when canoeing on a smooth
lake. This time, on her way to star
In “Stage Fright” for Alfred Hitdv
cock, she had some new anti-
eeasickness pills, developed by
Panada’s medlical corps—evidently
(they were effective in her case at
least
tr^OV CAN’T FOOL an old fox
A like Terry Oakes,” Anse
Aetell was saying. "Not even if
you’re the smartest bank robber
and gangster in the country.” He
chuckled, reflecting on the story he
was about to tell.
“Glenville was pretty well
wrought up that summer. In June
government agents came through,
warning all the small town banks
in the countryside to be on the look
out, and advising what to do. Duke
Insabato and a couple of his hench
men, driven
“I from their
3 'Minute haunts in the
Fiction large ciUe * **
a concentrated
effort of local
and federal agents who were dead
set on bringing an end to the cur
rent wave of crime, were hiding
out in the sticks and whiling the
time away by staging spectacular
daylight hold-ups of small town
banks.
“The trouble was that no one
knew where the varmints would
strike next. Duke Insabato was
smart. He understood small
towns becanse he was brought
np In one and, he chose as the
object of his pilfering banks
that were pretty well Isolated
and unprotected.
“June passed and part of July.
Gradually the fear of Glenville citi
zens began to subside. Only one
other small town bank had been
held up, and that more than 150
miles away. The depositors who
had withdrawn their accounts re
established them.
“Terry Oakes, the trust company
president, didn’t gloat. He was an
old-timer at the game and he un
derstood human nature. Early in
June he’d had some signs printed
and hung around the lobby of the
bank. Such things as ‘Save for
Your Old Age,’ ‘Deposit with Us
and Your Money Will Be Safe.’
The citizens smiled a little. Terry
was trying to reassure them. One
other sign was printed and inserted
behind the glass in the front door.
This, too, amused them, but it
didn’t annoy them any.
“On July 15 the quietude of Glen-
ville’s main street was abruptly and
harshly interrupted. A high-pow
ered black sedan suddenly ap
peared at the town’s south en
trance, roared down on the bank
and came to an abrupt halt. Loung
ers in front of the General Store
jerked erect. Three men had leaped
from the car. Two of them, one
carrying a machine gun, ran to
ward the bank. The third stayed on
the curb, a second machine gun
nestling in his arm.
“The loungers, pop-eyed and
frightened, watched in stupid
fascination. To their ntter as
tonishment they saw the two
bandits turn at the bank door
without entering, rush back to
the car, pile into it and drive
away.
rryT ALL happened within sec-
A onds. For a moment or two the
loungers sat transfixed. Then of
one accord they leaped up, raced
across the street and entered the
bank. Terry Oakes was talking on
the telephone. He hung up and
smiled at them.
“ ‘Two to one,’ he said calmly,
‘Sheriff Irons picks up Duke and
his gang at Jepson Corners. I just
phoned him.’ He looked from one
pop-eyed citizen to another. ‘No
harm done, boys. They didn't even
get in.’
“ ‘But why didn’t they? What
happened?’
“Terry grinned broadly. ‘Duke
Insabato knows small towns. He
was a small-town boy himself.
That’s why he picked this hour to
do his hold-upping. Right after
lunch.
“ That’s where I fooled him.'
Terry paused to chuckle and glance
toward the front door. ‘It’s lucky
Duke knows small towns. Othet
wise he might not have taken any
stock in my sign.’
“The bewildered citizens turned
toward it and read. They were a
little dazed, and not quick to under
stand.
“The sign read: ‘Bank Closed.
Out to Lunch. Return in One
Hour.’ ”
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student
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molding
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mollusk
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of
lodging
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26. Distant
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juice of
apples
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tree
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PUZZLE NO. 4
New Selling System
Aids Hog Producers
Price Agreed Upon
Right in The Pen
Under a new system of selling
hogs, buyers and salesmen at the
markets agree on the price right
in the pen before the hogs are
weighed. Thus the old weight-
schedule is being replaced by a
pen-to-pen system of marketing.
The buyer is given a chance to rec
ognize quality and pay a premium
for good hogs.
The quality of this Chester
White sow and litter is appar
ent even to the casual observ
er; but under the old weight-
schedule of selling hogs, breed
ers who produce such quality
stock would receive nothing
extra for the added time and
care they had expended to
bring their hogs to such a de
gree of excellence.
The reason advanced for in
creased interest in marketing is
that the weight-schedule system
fails to recognize the difference
between hogs. It also fails to pay
for true quality.
Under the old schedule-selling,
salesmen and buyers at a market
would agree in the morning how
many hogs each buyer would get.
A schedule of process was set up
according to weight. •'“Hogs was
bogs” and the scales determined
the price.
But that system is gradually be
ing abandoned. Under the old
method, farmers judged probable
market prices by estimating the
weight of their hogs. A premium of
50 cents per hundredweight was
considered unusual at the market
although the real value of hogs of
the same weight varies as much
as $5 or $6 per animal. Such prem
iums offered poor pay to the ex
pert producer who raises top-
quality hogs worth more money.
Another reason for the new sys
tem is the fear that if a better job
of selling isn’t done, hogs may be
sold on a dressed-carcass basis.
This method of marketing (which
is used in Canada) is being ex
plored by many farmers, coopera
tives, agricultural experiment sta
tions and studies under the federal
research and marketing act. Many
public market operators also are
worried about the decline in vol
ume of hogs arriving for sale at
terminal markets.
Victor P. Rasmussen (left) and
Max J. Rasmussen, of Cache coun
ty Utah, did not know they would
be national wheat champions when
this photo was taken on their 4,000
acre farm, between Cache Junction
and Clarkston, Utah.
The wheat, which Victor Ras
mussen is holding, is a sample of
the crop from the 2,000 acres of
wheat land, which is owned jointly
by these two men and their brother
Reuben, who was too busy farming
that day to get in the picture.
The Rasmussens’ wheat, which
was hard red winter of the Cache
variety with a test weight of 64
pounds per bushel, took first place
in the 8th annual Philip W. Pills-
bury judging for best United States
wheat raised in 1948. The grain
competed with 37 samples from 20
other states when the judging was
held in Minneapolis.
The Rasmussens rotate their
wheat crop on 4,000 acres of un
irrigated land. They are the sons of
Philip H. Rasmussen, who won the
state and national Pillsbury award
in 1946.
Soil Check May Answer
Slow Tile Drain Puzzle
If tile-drained land is slow in
drying, check the organic matter
content of your soHs before blam
ing the tile system. Many tile lines
that worked well when originally
laid are now hampered because the
water can’t get through the soil
to the tile. You open your soil and
improve, drainage when you grow
well-fertilized deep-rooted legumes
in the rotation and put back straw,
cornstalks and manure.
Safety Pin
Inventor Sold
Rights for $1GJ
j NEW YORK. — One hundred
years ago a Brooklyn inventor get a
patent for a remarkable household
gadget, with the result that nobody
today remembers him, but every
body uses his product.
The man was Walter Hunt; the
gadget was the safety pin.
Hunt never knew his invention
may have antedated him at least
4,000 years (some say since the
bronze age, more than 2,000 years
B.C.) But nobody ever tried to
patent it, and he was given patent
No. 6,281.
That should have put him on easy
street—but Hunt needed money and
within the short space of three
hours he had conceived the idea,
made a model and sold his rights
for $100.
Had Good Mind ,
“Hunt had a good mind, but very
little practical sense,” said Joseph
Nathan Kane, a writer who digs up
historical characters and brings
them back to life.
“He gave his inventions away to
pay his debts, and he always owed
money.”
According to Kane, one day in
1848 Hunt went to see his friend
Jonathan Chapin. He slumped into
a chair and buried his face in his
hands.
“What’s the matter, Mr. Hunt?”
Chapin asked.
“I owe you 15 dollars.”
“I can let you have a little more,”
Chapin said.
“What good would that do? I
can’t even buy my wife a meal of
victuals.”
Suddenly Hunt lifted his head.
“I have it. I’ll be by this afternoon
and pay you.”
Hunt hurried to his shop and rum
maged around until he found a
piece of brass wire about eight
inches long. He pointed one end.
Then he bent the wire and made a
loop so that the two sides acted as
a spring. He bent the other end and
brought the point through it. He
made a right twist and looked at
what he had done. It was a shielded
safety pin.
Took the $100
Then he went to see a manufac
turer named Richardson, who
looked the gadget over carefully.
‘Til give you $100 cash,” he said
finally.
“All right,” said Hunt.
“And of course you’ll apply for
a patent and assign the rights to
me.”
“One hundred dollars,” said Hunt.
Richardson peeled off $100 in
small bills. Hunt paid his friend
Chapin, and hurried home.
“Polly,” he cried to his wife,
“here’s 85 dollars. We can eat
again.”
A few months later, on April 10,
1849, the patent was issued.
This was the legal beginning of
a contrivance that has served a
thousand and one purpdses.
British Youth Jubilant
As Candy Now Unrationed
LONDON.—Candy came off the
ration after seven dreary years.
This was big news among the
youngsters of Britain.
Savings banks were being pryed
open so the big burst of the new
freedom may be financed ade
quately.
The confectioners’ windows
looked wonderful.
The conversation of the young
fry, who have been limited to four
ounces a week for as long as they
can remember, was filled with
such technical terms as:
Hundreds and thousands—gob-
stoppers — bull’s-eyes — sherbet
dabs — and, of course, lollipops
and suckers.
Some large candy companies
remembered that, while the ration
ticket is in the discard, quite a
few children haven’t got a savings
bank to raid. So, all around the
country, thousands of pounds of
candy were distributed free. One
firm alone sent big boxes to 120
dependent children’s homes.
A manufacturer estimated there
are seven million British children
of lollipop age who had never
bought an unrationed piece of
candy.
‘Vacuum Cleaner’ Rigs Suck
Oysters from Sea Bottoms
AKRON.—A new method of har
vesting oysters with a giant “vac
uum cleaner” rig that sweeps clean
the bottom of the sea has been de
veloped by a New Haven oyster
grower in co-operation with B. F.
Goodrich engineers.
The suction equipment not only
loads about 1,000 bushels of oys
ters an hour, but catches at the
same time thousands of destruc
tive oyster drills, a boring snail
which is one of the principal
enemies of the shellfish.
The oyster company uses a con
verted army FS, the type of ves
sel that transported supplies to
military installations on isolated
small islands in the Pacific. On
the port side is a 40-foot length
of 10-inch steel pipe to which is
attached 20 feet of flexible suc
tion hose and a six-foot nozzle re
sembling that on a household
vacuum cleaner.
4
Princess Lines Are Flattering
Sundress — Bolero for Matrons
Youthful Style
n YOUTHFUL yoked style for
A* day-long charm—and it’s so
simple to sew! The comfortable
top buttons on each shoulder, slim
princess lines accent a lovely
figure.
* • •
Pattern No. 8451 comes in sizes 12, 14,
16. 18, 20; 40 and 42. Size 14. 4V« yards of
39-inch.
The Spring and Summer FASHION will
prove a dependable guide in planning a
versatile summer wardrobe. Free pattern
printed inside the book. 25 cents.
Summer Twosome
D ESIGNED especially for the
slightly larger figure is this
lovely twosome for summer wear.
The neat sun dress is trimmed
with crisp white which also
finishes the brief jacket.
• • •
Pattern No. 8441 is for sizes 38, 38, 40,
42. 44, 46. 48. 50 and 52. Size 38. dress,
3% yards of 39-inch; bolero, 1% yards;
V* yard contrast.
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i ;
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fire laws permit using outdoor
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If you are permitted to build,
be sure to locate the fireplace
at a point on your property where
the smoke or sparks will not annoy
or destroy your neighbors. Care
should be taken in placing the fire
place away from trees and shrutw
that might be damaged by the ’
heat. The fireplace should face
prevailing winds to keep smoke
out of your eyes.
* • .
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starting coarse of bricks. It also spedfloo
the quantity of bricks and materials
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