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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Danger of Fires Worse on Farms Suggestions Advanced For Preventing Blaze Oi an estimated fire loss of 11 600 lives and nearly 700 million dollars in property and resources Indicated for the year 1949, a great percentage of these losses will be made up of fires on the farm. Because of lack of fire protection or adequate fire-fighting facilities, farm fires in almost every case are the most disastrous, because of the almost inevitable complete loss which results. Already the national board of fire underwriters has reported property destruction from fire in the amount of 398 million dollars, 8.9 per cent below the same period for 1948 But even if a downward trend should continue for the remainder — CHIMNEY TOP FLUE LININS FLUE RING STOVE PIPE of 1949, this year’s losses would ap proach the 1948 all-time high of more than 711 million dollars. These figures mark 1948-49 as the most disastrous period in a decade that has recorded five billion dol lars In fire destruction. Between 1940 and 1948, fire loss soared 132 per cent. As the “prime cause” of most of the 800,000 fires annually, the Board lists "plain carelessness and mis use of heating and lighting equip ment” The leading single cause of fire is careless smoking and use of matches, accounting for 16.68 per cent of the total destruction. How ever, over the past ten years, the combination of defective chimneys and flues, stoves, furnaces, boilers and their pipes, and sparks on roofs * has been responsible for 20.47 per cent of all fires reported. Proper safeguards in installation and maintenance of heating equip ment chimneys and flues, safety officials say, will prevent fires of this type. Many communities al ready protect their citizens with ordinances requiring the installa tion of flue linings in all new chimneys. One effective means of fireproofing chimneys involves the use of clay flue lining which forms a single, continuous noninflamma ble unit inside chimneys of all types. The indestructible clay lin ing prevents weather, heat and corrosive smoke and gases from eating away the mortar between the bricks of the chimney. This elimi nates the danger of flames reach ing combustible materials through cracks between the bricks. Authorities urge homeowners to make a careful inspection of chimneys and heating equipment. New Bench Grinder This new bench grinder for farm, home and shop incorporates sever al outstanding features not usually found in a low-priced grinder. Manufactured by Electro Machines, Inc., Cederburg, Wis., this grinder is designed to provide ample work ing areas in front of the motor frame and in the space between the frame and the inside of the grinder wheels. Wheel guards are removable for easy attachment of buffing wheels and other grinder accessories. It is equipped with lifetime lubricated ball bearing for long, trouble-free service. Ail hardware is cadmium plated. U.S. Agricultural Unit Helped Penicillin Use Although the U.S. department of agriculture did not make the dis covery of penicillin, its work made it practical to produce the antibio tic commercially. They discovered a new and more productive strain of the penicillin mould. Also as a part of their war research work they developed methods of feeding the mold and separating and purify ing the product, a major contribu- **on In itself. ! MIRROR Of Your MIND I ^ ^ Can't Base Love On Deception By Lawrence Gould Can you really love a person whom you deceive? Answer: The wish to have some one love you may almost compel you to deceive him if you feel the truth would alienate him from you or destroy his good opinion of you. Again, you may deceive someone you love with the (frequently mis taken) idea that you are protect ing him from knowledge which would only hurt him. But love that is worn or retained by deceit won’t make you happy because no one can be happy who does not feel secure, and the knowledge that the loved one may at any moment un mask your pretensions must keep »nu uncertain and uneasy. Does mental illness families”? Answer: Not as used to be be lieved, writes Dr. M. Bleuler in the Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. No specific men tal ailment is directly inherited (in the way that blue eyes or brown hair are) or is often found in many members of a given fam ily group. But various features of some type of mental illness may be noted in various relatives of the patient, suggesting a trend or tendency which will take an acute form in a given person only if the circumstances of his life are such as to encourage its development. Can we explain dreams of being strangled? Answer: No one explanation would fit every such dream, but in general a nightmare expresses the conflict between a desire which the dreamer has been taught to feel is dangerous or wicked and the fear of being punished if he dares to gratify it. The fear makes the desired satisfaction appear in the guise of something terrifying or destructive which the dreamer finally avoids by waking. Stran gling might be the distorted sym bol of a wish to be embraced or “overwhelmed” under conditions which the dreamer’s conscience forbids. LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE 1AXICA& IN COLVMTTR, MICHIGAN, Gue W0l?SHiPPfR5 PKEPKIPJfJTO ' CHURCH ON SUNOAVS! AMtCUmiKAL MIMNAP& Afte GOING our INTO the WOTLP TO PREACH ANP TO CULTIVATE THE SOIL - -THEY ATE PROM THE ILfAKANSAS f KEEPING HEALTHY \ Acquiring Emotional Stability By Dr. James W. Barton I HAVE WRITTEN BEFORE of our experience as medical offi cers in World War I, when we found so many young men unable to pass the low requirements as to size of chest When a boy in his late teens or early twenties does not have a measurement of 34 in ches with chest expanded there is something wrong. The outstanding cause of chests considered too small for service was that these boys had not always played much as youngsters, often because their mothers were afraid they would get hurt. Unfortunately unless a recruit was definitely a mental case, we made no tests as to his mental or emotional condition. The result was that many men were sent home or to hospital because of their emo tional instability. That is why in World War U, a careful examination of the recruit’s emotional stability was made. The value of this screening for emotion al disturbances is shown by the fact that 25 per cent of the eighteen- year-olds not accepted for service in the armed forces, were rejected on the ground of emotional im maturity. Drs. Thomas A. C. Rennie and Luther E. Woodward in “Mental Health in Modern Society,” the Commonwealth Fund, 1948, atata that “Immaturity stands out as number one mental, emotional, and social ills. It accounts for practical ly all neuroses, is a major factor in mental illness, aitt seems to be at the root of many social problems. On the other hand, emotional and mental maturity (being grown up and acting our age) is the only hope of maximal personal satisfaction, physical and mental health, social progress and enduring peace.” How can our children and we, ourselves, achieve emotional matur ity? Just as the chests of boys and girls will mature if they play, so also will the boys and girls mature emotionally if they play games where they have to give and take. Also, for children and adults, mix ing with others, by rubbing off shyness and other odd behavior, will make them grow mentally and emotionally and “act our age.” Sighting Rule This rule should always be re membered when rifle sights * are being adjusted: Always move the rear sight in the direction in which you desire the rifle to shoot. Move the front sight in the OPPOSITE di rection. The front or rear sight can be moved in its notch by placing a short rod of brass or copper against it and tapping the rod with a ham mer, while the barrel itself is sup ported against a hard block of wood. Set the rifle sights to hit where you aim at the average distance of most of your shots in your hunting territory. Carefully check the ex act position of your sights as soon as you have "sighted in” so that they may be returned to proper alignment if accidentally jarred out of alignment. The sights on all rifles are care fully adjusted before the guns leave the factory. If your eyes are exactly normal and you hold the gun in the proper manner, your rifle should shoot true. However, there is considerable variation in the eyes of hunters and all shooters do not hold in just the same man ner. Consequently, one man may get bulls-eyes consistently while another, using the same rifle, might find his bullets going wide of the mark. The sights then may be adjusted to make the necessary shooting corrections. AAA “Lady Size” Belching, often repeated, la due to swallowed air caused by nervous ness of emotional disturbances, especially in those who worry about this gas and about digestion gen erally. • • « In the healthy person, gas formed in the bowel is rapidly picked up by the blood, carried to the lungs and thrown out ia the breath. Breathing into a paper bag la a way of finding if gas is from swal lowed air or digestive disturbances. Swallowed air has no odor. • • • Overweight is dangerous in cases of high blood pressure. • • • Specialists in rheumatic dis eases say there is a family history of gout Three-pound Spanish mack erel, like the one displayed here, are “lady - sise” and “ladylike - got” according to Miss Pauline Dixon, Morehead City, N. C., who holds this specimen. She explains that they are easily caught by trolling lure on surface of the water. AAA Free Booklet The Remington Arms company has issued a “Handbook on Gun Club Cashiering” to assist gun club members in the many tasks falling to those who are called upon to act as cashier at a shoot. All any interested sportsman has to do to get a copy of the book is write to W. H. Foster, Jr., mana ger trap and skeet section. Rem ington Arms, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. The handbook thoroughly covers every problem that might come before the gun club cashier, and lists mrny systems of money division. Tbeie is no charge for the booklet. AAA According to experiments con ducted by a Columbia university professor, the ten top-ranking ani mals, in the order of their respec tive intelligence are: chimpanzee, orangutan, gorilla, monkey, dog, cat, raccoon, elephant, pig and horse. AAA Bluegill Popular Even though fall is advanced and the tang of winter is in the air over a great section of the United States, there is still some consolation left for the angler who has learned just how much sport the bluegill—or bream—can provide. These fish may be taken, even on flies, until the waters of his habitat freeze over—certainly that is the case—in Kentucky, at least. While small worms and minnows are the usually accepted diet of the bluegill, the fly rod is becoming in creasingly popular in taking these small, but gamey fish. Some ang lers, referring to the bluegill’a fighting propensities, assert that if the bluegill ever got to weigh tour or five pounds, he'd pull the angler in the pond! AAA Swan on Rampage A rampaging swan that attacked automobiles was reported in the vicinity of Grande Prairie, Alberta. Many complaints were received from motorists, and one told the Mounted Police that he had to de fend himself from the bird with his skis. The bird was -one of two that had been making their home in the vi cinity for several years and its mate had been killed by an auto mobile. SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 40-41; 42:5-8; 94; 81; 63:741; Luke 4:14-31. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm 46: 1-11. God Our Comfort Lesson for November 6, 1949 Dr. Foreman MS THE ENGLISH language ** keeps on changing, words do not always keep on meaning what they once did. “Comfort” is one of these. When our Bible was trans lated into English in 1611, the trans lation most Eng lish-speaking peo ple use, the word “comfort” had a bigger meaning than most people put into it nowa days. We think of it as meaning soothing; but it is a bigger idea than that. God is not merely a soothing God. We think of “comfort” as meaning to make comfortable; but it is a stouter word than that. God does not al ways make his people comfortable. The word means to strengthen, to steel against fear and despair, to put backbone into people. • • • “Fear Not, O Worm!” A T THE TIME of the prophecies we study this week, the Israel ites had been kicked around a good deal. They had felt the conqueror’s boots, they were discouraged, as all good people are when somehow God seems to be letting evil forces triumph. Their little world had split wide apart, their little nation had been blown to the winds. To those people, torn by ter rors and bowed down by wretchedness, people who were In serious danger of developing a once-for-all "inferiority com plex,” people who were about to lose all their backbone, the great prophet brings his mes sages: “Comfort ye my people, saith your God.” Hie whole idea is in this one sentence (Is. 41:14): “Fear not, O worm Jacob! ... I am your helper, saith the Lord.” God does not indulge his people in foolish pride. Beside the Al mighty they are worms, insects. Nevertheless, worm though he may be, the man who trusts in God will not be afraid. He will not trust in his own powers, he will trust in luck, he will trust in God. A worm by itself is nothing; but with God on his side, the weakest of men can say with Paul, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” God’s men do not get their cour ages up by flexing their muscles or admiring themselves. They grow in courage as they grow in the know ledge of God. • • • Goodness And Power A NY ONE who saw "Edward, My Son” will remember the trage dy of that family. A boy’s charac ter went slowly to pieces, because his father was determined that nothing should be too good for him. To gain his purpose the father ran rough-shod over everyone wfto stood in his way, and eventually ruined the lives of all around him, including his son’s and his own. The mother, on the other hand, could see, as the father could not, what his indulgence was doing to the boy, making him a weakling and a rat But she was too weak to stand up against her husband, and her life too was ruined. That story is a kind of parable. The prophet reveals a God who is both powerful and good; but suppose God were only good but not powerful, or only powerful but not good? Then the world would be In a mess, as that boy Edward was In a mess. But these three are all in the same God. A God who is power only, might do as Edward’s father did, destroy his children without even intending to do so. A God who is goodness only, might want to do right by his world yet not be able to do so, like Edward’s moth er. A God who knew what was right but neither wanted nor was able to do much about it, would not be a God at all. • • • God Is Not Weary S UPPOSE GOD were Indeed pow erful, good and wise, and yet grew tired from time to time? Sup pose all God's good qualities came and went, unpredictably, like the wind on a spring day? No; God is the Maker and Keeper of Promises, the Cove nant God. He does not grow faint or weary; that is our anchor of comfort. The earth changes, and men with it; but the Word of the Lord abides forever. His “convenant of peace” does not waver. We do not need to lean gingerly on the Almighty. Ha will bear all our weight. (Copyright by the International Conn- ;il of Religious Education on behalf of 10 Protestant denocrdiiatioifb. Released WNU Features. Variety Gives Lunch Boxes Interest (Set Recipes Below) Sandwich Tricks H OMEMAKERS who put together lunch boxes daily are apt to fall into just as much of a rut about them as the school children or husbands who eat them. Yet, since lunch is such an impor tant meal of the day, rules for variety must be observed c o n- sistently. Explore your ingenuity for sandwich combina tions. These, after all, are the main stay of almost every lunch box. Think of other ways to make packed lunches interesting. See what inter esting salad and fruit combinations can be tucked in small .glass jars or cartons to add zest to the meal. Hot beverages and soups are par ticularly interesting in cold weather. A few unexpected surprises in the way of candied dried fruits, confec tions and new cookies or some rel ishes for the sandwiches will make • constant delight for the person opening the packed lunch. Plan for lunch boxes at least a week at a time, so that the same breads and fillings are not re peated too often. Add special and appetizing seasonings to the sand- wich fillings; prepare foods care- fully and neatly and see how much fun this task can become! Make quick work of the lunch box by aettlng a tray of necessary materials in an easy-to-reach cup board. This should contain a knife for spreading as well as one for cutting the bread. Waxed paper and baga, cartons or covered glass cups, rubber bands, tin foil, candies, fruits, etc., should be on the tray. In the refrigerator, keep another section or tray with the fillings or spreads, salads and fruits, vege tables, and relishes, so that you need get out only the two trays to get together the lunch. */ * * H ERE ARE SOME different fill ings and spreads which will add zest and appeal to any worked-over collections: Egg Salad-Olive Sandwich Filling (Makes 1 cup) C hard-cooked egga, chopped 1 tablespoons sliced, stuffed olives M cup mayonnaise H teaspoon onion salt Dash of pepper % teaspoon dry mustard K teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Combine all ingredients and re frigerate until ready for use. Horseradish Butter Spread (Makes 14 cup) 14 cup soft butter 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish H teaspoon rail Combine ingredients, but do not refrigerate before using. LYNN SAYS: Here are Special Tricks For Special Occasions Baked potatoes can get over worked. too, with the butter, salt and pepper treatment. Try baking, then scoop out the mealy potato, season with rich cream, salt and pepper and add some sausage meat or bacon, crisply fried and crum bled before returning to shells. Slivers of ham in the spaghetti will bring compliments to you. A dash of basil will add the gourmet flavor touch. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Braised Short Ribs of Beef Carrots Lima Beans Potatoes Chefs Salad Rolls Beverage Pear Pie Sliced Tongue Sandwiches (Makes 6) 14 cup horseradish butter spread 30 slices cooked tongue 12 slices enriched bread Spread bread with horseradish butter. Arrange five slices tongue on each of six slices of bread and top with remaining bread. Salami-Egg Salad Filling (Makes 14 cup) 14 cup chopped salami sausage 14 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing 1 tablespoon chopped green pepper 14 teaspoon salt Combine all ingredients in order given. • • • txrHEN THE LUNCH BOX con- * * sists of two sandwiches, it often makes tor variety to make one of meat, fish or cheese, and the other one a vegetable combination. The crispness as well as a good choice of flavors will make the latter interesting sandwich mate rial. Try some of these ideas: Mix grated carrots and cabbage. In amounts desired with mayonnaise. Top with two slices of crisp bacon. Slice cucumbers thin, dust with salt, then cover with thinly sliced radishes. Spread with mayonnaise. Grated cabbage and carrots mixed with chopped celery, mayon naise and enough chili sauce tor fla voring gives a crisp, colorful sand wich. • Lettuce, watercress or young, ten der spinach leaves, or other greens, topped with thinly sliced tomatoes and mayonnaise gives a salad sandwich. Leftover peas may be mashed and mixed with mayonnaise and peanuts for interesting variety. Fruit Sandwiches Grind % cup dates with % cup figs; add some chopped nuts and moisten with pineapple and lemon juice. Slice bananas thin, dip them in orange juice. Place on buttered bread, covered with lettuce, then sprinkle with a few chopped nuts. Thinly sliced apples, spread with mayonnaise mixed with chopped celery and nuts, gives a salad type sandwich. Egg Sandwiches Mix hard-cooked, chopped eggs with mustard and mayonnaise. Add catsup to taste and enough chopped cucumber or cucumber pickles to make the spread crisp. Chopped hard-cooked eggs com bine well with chopped watercress or finely shredded lettuce and sal ad dressing to moisten. Baking-powder biscuits take on novel interest when made with orange juice replacing milk. Add some of the grated rind, too, if you want to sharpen the flavor. Finely chopped pecans, two table spoons to a cup of rice, will do much more than you expect to that delicacy which is already such a favorite. Fillets of fish take on festive airs when they’re served with chopped almonds cooked until just slightly browned in salad oiL Ain’t It So • * * Be pleasant until 10 o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. • • • It is the well-rounded man who usually has difficulty in wearing a belt. • • • The celebrity who wishes peo ple would forget his birthday should have been a wife. Accidents Cost $14,000 Each Minute in America CHICAGO.—America is spend ing $14,000 a minute —accidental ly! Two persons are accidentally killed and 200 injured somewhero in the United States on the aver age of every 10 minutes. The costs of those accidents total $140,000—or $14,000 a minute. fl SAVE A LOT OF STEPS BY ^KEEPING AN EXTRA CAN OF |3HN-ONE, mommy... 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