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i THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. ONLY BUREAUCRATS NOW BEAT PATH ... Unhappy Designer May Convert to Rat Traps ... TO DOOR OF THIS MOUSETRAP MAKER By H. I. PHILLIPS A BETTER MOUSETRAP MTJOW ARE THINGS as of early ** September?” we asked the man who built a better mousetrap, this being our regular seasonal in quiry into business conditions. “I can't quite make out,” he re plied, with a glance at the paths made to his door. “The paths *eem fairly active but the activity could hardly be called path-beating «t this moment.” “Would you say there was a slump?" "I might think so, but Harry Tru man says no." “Does he think much about mousetraps?” “You know Washington. There are experts in everything available. The President has aides who claim to be specialists in mouse habits and mousetrap trends in our eco nomic system. There is a federal mousetrap commission at work now.” GRACE NOLL CROWELL OD loved you much to trust so great a grief To you. ' He was quite certain of you. O my dear, He knew How silver-bright your fire-tried spirit would Come through. He stood above you, watching, waiting there To shield you from a hurt too great to bear. And he who waited by the furnace saw You rise From agony to move about with still. Calm eyes. To go your tranquil way more beautiful. More wise, The silver of your spirit shining through. God knew that he could trust this grief to you. “Has it been here?” “I think so. There has been a group here which acted like a fed eral committee. It came up the paths backward, asked where it was, and immediately wanted to know where there was a good place to eat” ... “What did it do after eat ing?” “It showed up every day at 11 and quit at 3, announcing after a week that it had studied my business thoroughly and would have an early report with a complete solution to all prob lems in the mousetrap field.” “You think It will find that you are prospering and that there is no cause for concern?" we asked. “I am sure of It,” said the man who built a better mouse trap. “The commission left In a very happy mood and an nounced nothing was worrying me.” ... “Strictly on your own,” we asked, “what is the real situation in the mousetrap industry?” “I am optomistic. It can’t be that the country has caught all the mice. Hence the drop in demand for traps must be due to something else. People may be making old traps last longer. I had a fellow come in with some holes and ask that we build a trap around 'em.” “Are you operating in the red at the moment?” “Yes, but don’t let the President hear it. He would hold I am sab otaging public confidence. He may even say I want depression for my own selfish ends.” “So what?” “Well I guess I should do some deficit-financing and expand. After all I don’t want federal control of mousetraps.” The man who built a better mousetrap paused a moment and reflected. “I shall have te style my mousetraps,” he resumed. “I must bring out smarter models with startling new innovations. Streamlining might help and possibly some mechanical de vices that will make it possible to bait a trap by pressing a but ton. This will cost a lot of money, but I can borrow it or something.” “Have you thought of turning out a trap with fewer holes?” we asked. “Wouldn’t half as many holes mean that people with mice would need twice as many traps?” “Aha!” exclaimed the M.W.B.A. B.M., showing us the door. “I knew it. You are one of those eco nomic experts direct from the cap< ital. Scram!” We scrammed. ... VANISHING AMERICANISMS No, I never go away for the sum mer. Not with a climate like New York. ... » You can have either the meat or the fish course—the price is about the same. ... I give the kid a quarter allow ance—and he saves 15 cents a week out of it. ... Forty necklaces, bracelets, rings and brooches, one worth $90,000, were in the loot taken by the bandits who stuck up the Aga Khan and the Begum. This leaves them down to their last five tons of ice. ... After relieving them of their dia-' monds, do you suppose the bandits said, “Now drive carefully, as you are operating with dimmers.” ... President Truman received 100 boys at the White House recently and showed them around. He ex plained to them how it feels to grow up and have to live in hot water. ... C^n you remember—Away back' when they turned around to look at a daring bathing suit? ... “I’d like to see a return of blood, sweat and tears to economics.”— BERNARD BARUCH. Instead of bunk, debt and leers? By INEZ GERHARD A RNOLD MOSS has succeeded in so many fields that it is hard to know where to begin der scribing him. He entered college at 15, has a master’s degree. He has been a success on the stage, radio and screen, as actor, writer and producer. As narrator for “Duel in the Sun” he was so good that he was engaged for the same stint for “Arch of Triumph.” His latest ARNOLD MOSS picture is “Reign of Terror,” for Eagle-Lion. During the war he did broadcasts in four foreign lan guages, narrated six pictures for the navy. The coming season will see him on the stage in “Twelfth Night,” and on television as well. He is married, has two young children—and makes interviews a pleasure. Daytime serials may be broad cast in Korea, if Miss Ok Yul Kim, an announcer, and Mr. Young Ho Song, a director, both with the Korean radio network, have their way. Here to tour New York’s radio studios and study American technique, they visited “The Road of Life” and “Young Dr. Malone” broadcasts, said they’d recommend them to their government-operated radio system. George Burns and Grade Al len cut their European visit abort by two weeks, came rush ing borne to Hollywood early this month. Could be that they had last-minute preparations to make for their new comedy show, starting September 21 on CBS. Lon McCallister has made only two pictures for Warners’, but they represent the high and low of his career. In 1941, in “Gentleman Jim,” he did a bit role; in “The Story of Seabiscuit” he's co-starred with Shirley Temple and Barry Fltagerald. Fiction h MISUNDERSTANDING «r Richard H. Wilkinson Corner I 'LL NEVER FORGET the spec tacle of Joe Abbott and Count Obeid fighting. Thinking of it, I am more apt to shudder than smile. Though it certainly had amusing aspects. You see, Joe is an American. And he wasn’t used to the way they did things in Luandia. Anyway, when Joe and I stopped off at Cabindas on our world cruise, we were much pleased with the place. That night we had dinner at the Plaza and it was there that we first saw Kandace. She was sitting alone In a booth, and when she caught Joe staring at her boldly, she nodded and smiled at him. Instinctively I knew, when I saw the tall dark man come through the door, that Joe was in for trou ble. And I was right. The tall dark man strode toward the booth and there was something about him that caused my blood to creep. I stood up, but was by no means quick enough. The stranger had grasped Joe by the coat front, jerked him to his feet and slapped his face. After a while a messenger came in and handed me a note. I read it and looked sourly at Joe. “Now you’ve done it. That was Count Obeid and that was his girl you in sulted.” “Insulted?" said Joe. “And he wants to fight a duel with yon. He realizes our boat sails first thing in the morning, so in order to accommodate us he’ll await our pleasure at dawn. He will do yon the honor of permitting yon to choose your own weapons.” Joe shook his head and tried to grasp it. “That punk—the dope who smacked my jaw—wants to fight a duel? You mean like they do in Sabatini’s books?” “And I can choose my own weapons,” Joe went on. He stood up. “Come on.” I followed him, not quite daring to use force in stopping him again, yet ready for any emergency. We went back to the Plaza. The count and his girl were, of course, gone. Joe made inquiries, wrote down an address and beckoned me to fol low. A taxi deposited us before a pretentious looking house of white adobe. A servant admitted us and presently Count Obeid appeared. "You’re giving me the honor of choosing my own weapons,” said Joe. “I’ll take these,” and he knot ted up his fists and held them under the count’s nose. “Those!" said the amazed count. “Yeah,” said Joe, “and on your honor as a gentleman you can’t re fuse. Also, why wait till dawn?” W HAT followed was pitiful. We trooped into the back yard. Joe and the count took off their coats and squared off. Grinning, Joe stepped in and delivered a quick one-two on the nobleman’s chin. Blood appeared on his mouth. He swung wildly. Joe set him back on his heels. The count came in again and Joe knocked him down. He got up and came back for more. “Listen, old horse,” he said, “you’re as dumb about the customs back in America as I am about them over here. Only I didn’t have the guts to fight you your own way —and you, well, by gosh, there are danged few Americans can take it the way you have. And right here and now I rise to remark you have my apology, and Til tell that dame so, too, if you’ll tell me where she lives.” Well, the count only caught on to about one-third of what Joe meant and grinned and of fered his hand. Ten minutes later the three of us were sitting around a fire in Kandace's living room, laughing and talking and drinking punch and telling each other that it was too bad there wasn’t a perfect un derstanding about customs of dif ferent countries, and agreed that if such were the case every one would be happier. rd mm LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ^ ACROSS 1. Type measures 4. Play on words 7. Whip handle 8. On top 10. Stocking 11. Absolute 12. Armed forces with legal authority 14. Insane 16. Roman pound 17. Flit 20. Measure (Chin.) 21. Meadows 24. Gloomy 26. Division of a book 28. A small part 30. Diplomacy 33. Jewish month 34. Flourished 36. Music note 37. Marsh 39. Cleaning rod for small arms 42. Builder of the ark (Bib.) 45. Nourish ment 46. River (Orient) 47. Trees 48. Loiter 49. Twilled fabric DOWN L God of love 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. 12. 13. 15. 18. 19. 22. A bryophy- tic plant Celerity Knave of clubs Shoshonean Indian Standard Selected Rings, as bells Buddy Piece of needlework Perish Decay Allowance for waste Perform 23. Coarse, matted wool 25. Openings (anat.) 27. Breeze 28. Peck 29. Hard black wood 31. Lumps of earth 32. Small boy 35. A thin, brittle cookie 38. Thing aimed at Answer to pnzsle No. 14 40. Burrowing animal 41. Play boisterously 43. Wing 44. Squeeze yy/, 1 2 3 + & 6 I 1 7 1 8 9 p m yy/. to IS It 12 13 I 14 is v* f/SS 17 *8 •9 vW/ 20 21 22 23 ?Z/< 24 zs I 1 26 21 I 28 Z9 1 50 5» 37 3? y/a 54 35 i b 56 37 58 I P S9 40 41 % v//, 42 43 '/// V/Y/ 45 I m At* 47 m 48 1 44 i Delicious Fruits Still Available for Housewife In Canning, Preserving I F YOU’VE suddenly decided to embark cm canning, there’s still time to put up jellies, pickles and jams for your favorite winter meals. Then, too, some of you may still have space on your canuing cupboard shelves for some of the late arrivals. Peaches, pears, grapes, plums and apples are now reaching markets to be available for preserving. All these fruits have a definite canning appeal whether you’re past master at the art of preserv ing or a new bride about to em bark on her first jelly-making ad venture. • • • H ERE ARE SOME colorful and delicious jam combinations which are guaranteed to please because the flavors of fruits used compliment each other: Peach-Plum Jam (Makes 12 6-ounce glasses) 4)4 cups prepared fruit 7)4 cups sugar 1 bottle fruit pectin Prepare fruit by peeling and pit ting 1)4 pounds soft ripe peaches; chop or grind fine. Pit but do not peel 1 pound fully ripe plums. Cut in small pieces or chop. Combine fruits and measure 4)4 cups into a large saucepan. Add sugar to fruit and mix well. Using high heat, bring to a full boil and boil hard 1 minute, stir ring constantly. Remove from heat and add pectin, stirring. Stir and skim by turns for 5 minutes, ladle quickly into glasses and paraffin at once. Pear-Peach Jam (Makes 6 8-ounce glasses) 2 cups finely chopped pears 1)4 cups finely chopped peaches 1 box powdered fruit pectin 4)4 cups sugar Add powdered fruit pectin and sugar to fruits which have been mixed together. Mix well and heat to the boil ing point, stir ring constantly. When a full, rolling boil is reached, boil for 1 minute. Re move from heat and skim. Seal in hot sterilized glasses. Pear-Plum Jam (Makes 8 6-ounce glasses) 1)4 pounds peeled, ripe pears, chopped 1)4 pounds ripe plums, chopped 4)4 cups sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin Mix fruits, stir in pectin and sugar and heat to a fuU rolling boil. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from heat and skim. Ladle into sterile glasses and seal at once with paraffin. Crabapple-Grape Jelly 44 peck crabapples 4 pounds Concord grapes PUZZLE NO. U Many delicious combinations of jam may be made from two favorite fruits In plaee of one. A good example of colorful and appetizing jam is the use of peaches and plums, as Illus trated here. LYNN SAYS: Quickly Prepared Snacks Are Always Popular Children will cheer when you serve them bananas which have been speared with wooden skewers, then dipped in melted semi-sweet or milk chocolate and placed in the cube compartment of the re frigerator to freeze until chocolate is firm. Make a man-sized snack by placing corned beef hash slice on a piece of Mead and spread with barbecue sauce. Broil until hot. y*? 'i :gp * m # Make certain your canning v cupboard has shelves well laden with pickles, jams and jellies for good winter eating. There’s still time to make the pickles and jellies from late- ripening fruits, berries and vegetables. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Cold Sliced Tongue Potato Salad Apple Relish Carrot Sticks Celery Curls Toasted Buns Beverage Fudge Cake with Chocolate Frosting Water barely to cover Sugar Select under-ripe apples and grapes. Wash and pick over. Add just enough water barely to cover the fruit and boil until soft. Masb and pour into a jelly bag to drip. Do not squeeze. Measure juice and let boil for 5 minutes. Add sugar (% cup sugar for 1 cup of juice) and cook until a drop jells on a cold plate, or until two drops come off spoon at the same time. Pour into sterile glasses and seal with paraffin at once. Delicious Cucumber Pickles 6 quarts of cucumber slices 1 quart sliced onions 4 large green peppers, cut fine 6 cups vinegar 6 cups sugar 3 teaspoons turmeric )4 teaspoon white mustard seed Few whole cloves Place layers of cucumber slices, onions and green pepper in a crock or large vessel and cover with salt water, made by using y< cup salt to 1 quart water. Let stand for 3 hours. Drain. Mix together vinegar, sugar and spices; heat thoroughly but do not boil. Pour over the vegetables and seal in sterile jars. Raw Tomato Relish (Makes 6 pints) 1 peck ripe tomatoes 2 cups chopped celery 6 large onions, chopped fine 2 cups sugar H cup salt 2 ounces white mustard seed 1 quart vinegar Peel tomatoes and chop fine. Drain in a bag overnight. Add celery and onions and remaining ingredients to tomatoes. M i x thoroughly and seal in sterile jars. This may be served just as it comes from the jar with sand wiches, or it may be warmed slight ly to serve with leftover meats. Sweet Pear Pickles 1 peck ripe pears 6 large onions 2 red peppers 2 green peppers 1 cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon mustard seed 3 cups vinegar 1 teaspoon salt Pare and quarter the pears. Slice onions thin and mince the peppers. Combine all ingredients and cook until the pears are tender. Seal in sterilized jars. Hungry men will appreciate a sandwich from the pork roast when it is made by placing slices of the meat on buttered bread, then topped with thin slices of unpeeled, cored apples. Top with a slice of buttered bread and serve with cheese-stuffed celery stalks and potato chips. Combine canned fruit juices for interesting beverages to serve with sandwiches and cookies. Half and half combination of apricot whole fruit nectar and sweetened grapefruit juice is most refreshing. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS 11 Two-Piecer Has Yoke Interest & 1801 Year ’Round Wear A TWO-PIECE style you can wear the year ’round. Buttons down the back, has pretty yoke treatment and front pleats, and a choice of cemfortable sleevea. • • • Pattern No. 1801 comes to sizes 11, 1* 16, 18 and 20. Size 14, short sleeve. 4Vi yards of 39-toch. You’ll be delighted with the FeU Winter FASHION—64 pages o* easy to make styles; special 1 free pattern printed inside md 25 cents today. 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