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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
An Old St. Christopher Medal
And a Bashed-in Pullman Car
By BILLY ROSE-
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Ordinarily, knowing what editors expect of me, I don’t devote
much space in this column to stories of faith, devotion and other
such unhep subjects. However, I bumped into a yarn the other night
that did nice things to my spine, and here ‘tis, even though it’s as
corny as a chorus of “Hearts and Flowers. . .
Some years ago, a dancer named Jean Armstrong (note to Ed.-— that’s
her square monicker and she’s given me permission to use it) came down
with a ruptured appendix, and by the time they got her to the hospital,
peritonitis had set in and the doctors didn’t give her much chance.
The following day, the
of
nurse
rosary
Billy Bose
handed her' a string
beads. “A little
girl tried to get
in to see you this
morning,’’ she
said. “Her name
was Sylvia, and
she said her moth
er was a friend of
yours. When I told
her you couldn’t
be disturbed, she
asked me to give
you this. It has a
St. Christopher medal on it, and the
kid thought it might bring you
luck.”
The dancer wasn’t a Catholic,
but she was touched by the present
anyhow. And six weeks later,
thanks to faith or the new sulfa
drugs, she was out of the hospitaL
• • •
FROM THEN ON, she kept the
rosary in her make-up box, but a
couple of years later, after a suc
cession of cheap variety houses
and even cheaper hotels, the beads
no longer seemed very important.
And one day, when one of the girls
in her vaudeville unit asked about
the St. Christopher medal, Jean
said, “It’s nothing at all. Just a
piece of old junk. I don’t know
why I keep on carrying it.”
That Sunday, when the troupe
checked into a Baltimore hotel,
Jean put the make-up case on top
of her valise and signed the regis
ter, but when she reached for her
luggage the case was gone. She
notified the desk and, when that
didn’t produce results, reported
the loss to the police. But when
the unit pulled out of Baltimore
on Saturday night, neither case
nor beads had been found.
In Pittsburgh the next week, the
show got bad notices and folded,
and as if that weren’t enough, the
manager skipped with the salaries.
A few days later, down to her last
three bucks, Jean considered her
self plenty lucky when a local agent
offered her a job in a Miami night
club. She was given a ticket—car
16, berth No. 1—on the 7.22 out of
Pittsburgh.
• At 7 o’clock the dancer left the
hotel, but a couple of blocks from
the depot she noticed something on
the sidewalk and picked it up. It
was a string of rosary beads and,
attached to it, a medallion of St.
Christopher.
• • •
JEAN DIDN’T KNOW then, and
she doesn’t know now, whether it
was the same rosary. She did
know, however, that it looked
exactly like the one the little girl
had sent her, except for one thing
—the chain had been broken. As
she continued on to the station, she
got to thinking of the beads—how
sick she had been when she first
got them, and how her troupe had
been stranded when she had re
ferred to the medallion as a piece
of old junk. And suddenly it seemed
I
F Jesus had not walked the earth.
Footsore and weary, long ago.
Oh, I might be so very tired.
And even He could scarcely know
The depths of my discouragement.
Or just how tired I might grow.
GRACE NOLL
CROWELL
If Jesus had not suffered much.
And borne the greater agony,
I might have more than I could bear
Of pain, and He could scarcely see
How great would be my suffering
Or what that pain would mean to me.
But oh, my Jesus understands.
And looks in loving sympathy;
"Like as a father pitieth
His child,” 'tis thus He pities me.
And I am glad that Jesus knows
When I am walking wearily.
important to get the chain fixed.
Up the street there was a com
bination hock shop-jewelry store
and, forgetting the 7:22, she
walked in. The jeweler worked
as fast as he could, but when he
handed the rosary back to her the
clock said 7:30, and the dancer
knew she was out of a job again.
With less than a dollar in her
purse, she went back to the hotel,
and a few minutes later the phone
The
Fiction FIVE HOU
RS DEAD Richard H. Wilkinson
Corner
O BADIAH LITTLE was dead.
There were plenty who would
be glad to hear that news. There
were a great majority of others
who didn’t care a rap.
Obadiah was a mean old man
who lived alone on a farm 10 miles
west of Fairview. Everyone hated
_________ him because he
3 --. . drove a sharp
-Minute bargain and fore-
Flction closed mortgages
Ion the minute.
That was the
situation that confronted Owen and
me when we drove up to investi
gate.
Preliminary investigation re
vealed the following facts: Obad-
tah had been killed by a rock
thrown through a window near
which he was sitting, reading. We
knew he had been sitting there
reading because Moses Morris, a
neighbor had passed by in the early
evening and noticed the light in
Obadiah’s window, and noticed
Obadiah sitting beside it. Moses
had gone up the road looking for
a cow that had strayed. He found
the cow and started back and no
ticed that Obadiah had shifted his
position.
Something about the way the
eld man looked aroused Moses’
curiosity, and he went up close
and saw blood on Obadiah’s
temple. Moses went on home
and called the police.
We corrobrated this by talking to
.neighbors who had heard Moses
calling the cow, and by discovering
footprints and hoofprints outside
the window, and by the fact that
Obadiah was a mean old
man . « . everybody hated him.
Oscar Jones, another neighbor, had
come by while Moses was looking
in the window.
So we discounted Moses as a
possible suspect, and went to work
on the others who had hated Oba
diah. There was, for example,
Roscoe Norbert, who lived a mile
away, and who had been helping
Obadiah with his haying. A neigh
bor had heard Obadiah and Roscoe
qpiarreling over wages that very
day.
S O WE. CALLED at Roscoe’s
house, and struck a snag.
Roicoe hadn’t been home all night.
That looked bad, or good, depend
ing on what side of the fence you
were on. I sent Owen to hunt up
Roscoe, and returned to Obadiah’s
farm.
Quite a crowd had gathererd out
side. Lights from automobiles illu
minated the house and grounds.
Among the cars I noticed Doc
Orion’s little coupe.
He was inside, and had already
begun his investigation.
“How’s it look?” I asked him.
“Let you know in about an
hour.” He glanced up and returned
to his work. I scowled. Doc was
usually more confident.
I went back into the bedroom.
Doc was stuffing things back into
his bag.
“Been dead about five hours,”
he said.
“How?”
“Some blunt instrument.”
“The rock, eh?”
“Could have been.”
Just then Owen came in. He
had a tall, rawboned individual
with him. “This is Roscoe,” he
said.
Owen came in again with Moses.
Moses looked importaht.
“Moses,” I said, “you’re a first
class liar. You murdered Obadiah!”
Moses’ jaw went slack. “How do
you figure that, Shurruf?”
“Easy as pie,” I said, “you
started out after your cow and
stopped by to talk to Obadiah—
about renewing a mortgage, per
haps, or something else. Anyway,
you got mad and slugged him with
the stove poker. Then you propped
him up by the window, lighted the
lamp and put the book in his hand.
“Then you went outside and
heaved a rock through the window.
Later, when you came back with
your cow you saw, that Obadiah
had slumped, and you went up to
look, which is when Oscar Jones
came by.”
There was, of course, blood on
the poker to prove that part of it,
but it was what the doc said that
gave me the real lead. Dead five
hours. Well, five hours ago the sun
was shining, and a mean old man
like Obadiah wouldn’t burn oil
when the sun was out.
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rang. It was the stage manager of
“The Student Prince” which, for
the umpteenth time, was playing
the Nixon theater. “Heard your
troupe was stranded,” he said.
“One of our dancers is getting
married tomorrow, and if you want
to fill in for a few weeks—”
And now for as corny a finish as
ever found its way into a so-called
hep column. When Jean picked up
a newspaper the next morning, she
read that the 7:22 out of Pittsburgh
had been side-swiped by a freight
car. It wasn’t much of a wreck—
nobody had been hurt because the
two berths which were bashed in
happened to be empty. One of
them, of course, was berth No. 1,
car 16.
By INEZ GERHARD
B ERRY KROEGER, typed on a
recent Hollywood trip as a young
Charles Laughton, is currently
heard as “Sam Williams” on
“Young Dr. Malone”. He got his
first radio contract when th£ nar
rator of Louella 1 Parsons’ show col
lapsed in the middle of his imper
sonation of Ronald Colman, b*ck
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BERRY KROEGER
in 1940. Berry picked up the script
and carried on. He had broken into
radio in 1930, when versatility was
a “must”; in one local half-hour
show he had carried 11 parts, for
which he received $2.50!
When Charles Laughton was be
ing interviewed at luncheon in New
York’s Algonquin the other day,
complete silence reigned fit neigh-'
boring tables; his voice was so
beautiful that everybody within
range wanted to listen to it.
“Stromboli”, which quickly
leaped from first to* second-run
movie houses, is getting bad word-
of-mouth publicity. People report
that it just seemed so dull and tire
some that they walked out before
the picture was half over.
Walt Disney discovered while
doing research for his “Cinder
ella” that the famous glass
slipper wasn’t glass at all, but
far. Charles Perrault, when he
wrote the famous story more
than 300 years ago, said the
slipper was “pantouffle en
vair” (fur slipper). The trans
lator mistook the last two
words for “en verre”, or glass.
So there goes another legend!
Debbie Reynolds made hex
screen - debut in Warners’ “The
Daughter of Rosie O’Grady” re
cently, did “Three Little Words”
at M-G-M with Fred Astaire and
Vera - Ellen, and now has been
signed by that studio to a term
contract. Next she’ll do “The Ten
der Hours”. Debby is top Girl
Scout of her district, has 42 merit
badges, including one for cooking
and one for baking.
U. S. Milk Industry
Vastly Transformed
Cost of Product Rises
. Less Than Other Foods
Since the turn of the century the
milk industry has undergone a
transformation rivaling that of the
airplane, according to dairy scien
tist and historian Dr. J. Lloyd Hen
derson.
Dr. Henderson, co-author of "The
Market Milk Industry,” a standard
textbook whose latest edition will
be released this spring said “Our
research since the war’s end points
up the fact that although labor and
equipment costs have kept pace
with rising scales in other indus
tries, the cost of milk and its pro
ducts has risen less than that of
any other food. In fact, milk, from
a nutritive point of view, is far and
away the housewife’s best food
buy.”
Cost-saving scientific advances in
milk processing and startling econ
omies due to improved distribution
practices have been responsible lor
this, Henderson points out.
The industry shed no tears as it
buried the familiar 10-gallon milk
This excellent herd of cattle,
grazing quietly and contented
ly is symbolic of vast milk in
dustry which has undergone
such a transformation in the
past two decades.
can and converted to huge insu
lated tank trucks for bringing milk
from the larger farms to the pro
cessing plant. Savings in handling
due to this change have only been
matched by the improvement in
sanitation and quality of the pro
duct, Henderson said. Every-other-
day delivery, now practically stan
dard practice in major cities, plus
the use of retail trucks of almost
double capacity, also helped keep
the housewife’s milk budget in line.
The flash pasteurized, once out
lawed by health authorities, has
been so improved that today every
milk company of any size uses it to
save expensive man-hours and pro
duction space.
Cheek Cows’ Feet
Although one would hardly
gather the impression from the
Holstein cow (above), cows
are like people in more ways
than one—one sure one being
that when their feet hurt, their
production lags. Farmers can
help prevent loss of produc
tion from this source by period
ic attention to the feet of their
eattle to check for foot infec
tion or other ills.
New Dairy Element Seen
Rs Aid in More Output
The animal protein factor—mir
aculous dairy element which speeds
up the growth of farm animals and
poultry at less cost to the farmer—
Is now in tonnage production and
should be readily available to con
sumers within a short time.
Officials of the chemical com
pany producing the element which
Is accomplished by bacterial fer
mentation, promise feed efficiency
that will represent a significant
new advance in animal nutrition.
The fermentation APF, as the
feed com*' ..ent is known, has a
Vitamin Bl2 content approximately
40 times that of good fish meal, the
outstanding natural source of APF
which has been widely used hereto
fore in feed mixtures. This vitamin
compound is one of the most effec
tive known for supplementing chick
en and hog feeds.
Superphosphate Will Help
Add to Manure Properties
Adding superphosphate to man
ure not only increases its plant
food balance, but helps it hold val
uable nitrogen that otherwise might
be lost, according to Prof. C. J.
Chapman, University of Wisconsin
agronomist. He says it should be
added before the manure is spread
on the field.
The superphosphate can be put
in the spfeader at the rate of 20
to 25 pounds per load.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
m Primary Grades
Need Kindness
By Lawrence Gould
Do small children need picked teachers?
Answer: Yes. Teachers of pre
school and primary grades should
be chosen more carefully than
any others, not so much for formal
training as for kindly attitudes
and well-adjusted personalities. To
be separated from his mother for
the first time is a real emotional
shock for the small child, and if
along with this he finds himself
faced with an exacting, unsympa
thetic teacher, he may be too
frightened to learn or make friends
with other children and become
what the uncomprehending teacher
will call mischevious and lazy.
Does strict discipline help
soldiers* morale?
Answer: No, says Dr. Joost A.
M. Meerloo, Dutch psychiatrist
with wide war experience, in his
fascinating “Patterns of Panic.”
“Too strong discipline weakens
morale,” as witness the collapse
of German resistance in the Tu
nisian campaign. “Rigid saluting,
a too rigid drill, lack of humor.
lack of understanding from com
manders do NOT prepare the sol
diers for their fearful future
task.” Discipline based on fear
masks mutual hostility between
leaders and men, and tensions re
sulting from this tend to produce
mutiny or panic.
Is shock treatment useful in
depression?
Answer: Yes, writes Dr. Wil
liam P. Beckman, Director of
Mental Hygiene at the South
Carolina State HospitaL The type
pf severe mental depression once
called “melancholia” — especially
when associated with the meno
pause in women or with involution
in men—responds better to this
treatment than to any other. It
should be used in all such cases,
with the patient staying in the
hospitaL unless there are compli-
catipns like delusions or arterio
sclerosis. Perhaps the shock satis
fies the “need to suffer” that i«
characteristic of this illness.
LOOKING AT RELIGION
By DON MOORE
fJ*. WOm.P'4 LARGEST
CARRYING THE WORPG OF
THE LORPS PRAYBR & IN CHICAGO.
THE PAGE* ARE 14 FEET ACROSS
ANt? <7 FEET HIGH. THE BIBLE,
CARVEP OF STONE, WEIGHS 3T TONS.
ABOUT ‘A THE PEOPLE **
OF RHODE ISLAND NOW
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KEEPING HEALTHY
Movements Assist Body Processes
By Dr. James W. Barton
J^-OW THAT PATIENTS who have
Lv undergone operation are al
lowed up on their feet the same day
or a few days afterwards, we are
all getting used to the idea of early
rising after operation or illness.
The idea behind early rising and
moving about the room within such
a short time is to keep all the
organs of the body—heart, lungs,
organs of digestion and movement of
wastes from the body—active. Not
only do all the organs and body
processes work better when we are
up and around but we feel better
mentally when we are a part of our
surroundings instead of remaining
motionless in bed.
As there are a number of cases
in which it would be unwise, even
unsafe, to have the patient up and
around, a means was sought by
which the patient could receive the
benefit of motion or movement of
his body without danger. Thus, in
“The Journal of Medicine,” New
York, Drs. G. D. Whedon, J. E.
Deitrick, and E. Short report their
investigation as to the favorable in
fluence nf a specially designed oscil
lating bed on the body processes of
individuals who had to remain in
bed for long periods of time.
Three healthy young men were
studied on a constant food intake
before, during and after a five-week
period lying motionless in plaster
casts in oscillating beds. These
three young men had all taken part
in the immobilization experiment
(on standard hospital or fixed beds)
previously reported. Data on nitro
gen, calcium, phosphorus, total sul
fur, sodium and potassium balances,
together with other measurements
of interest, carried out under rigid
ly controlled conditions, are given
in detaiL
The results show that the oscil
lating bed may be useful in the
management of disorders in which
the individual has to lie motionless.
Research workers on sleep state
that a healthy individual moves his
body from 30 to 50 times during a
normal night’s sleep. We can see
that any movement of the body,
whether we move ourselves or are
moved, stimulates safe and health
ful action of all the body processes.
The individual with a wide body
and jovial disposition seldom suf
fers with peptic ulcer.
• • •
Cutting the vagus nerve gives re
lief from pain from cancer or ulcer
of the stomach. r
• • •
Getting rid of infection and ac
quiring calmness of spirit prevents
many cases of high blood pressure.
There has been a decrease of gall
bladder ailmenty sihce women
stopped wearing tight corsets.
• • 4
The exact cause of Meniere’s
disease — dizziness, head noise*
nausea—is unknown.
• * +
There are three types of feeble
mindedness—the idiot, the imbecile
and the moron.
G«ms off Thought
Weak talk often arises from
strong drink.
If yon feel yon must cry over
spilt milk—condense it.
The seven ages of woman
are: The infant, the little girl,
the miss, the young woman, the
young woman, the young wom
an and the young woman.
Good Shower Gift Idea
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Gift Suggestion
I RISH rose decorations
crocheted in pale pink set
a cobwebby background of s]
ling white to trim a pair of
room pillow-cases and dr
scarf. Nice shower gift idea
make several pairs in diffe
colors to replenish your own
supply.
• • •
Pattern No. 5408 consists of
crocheting instructions, stitch
tions. material requirements and
Ing directions.
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