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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
IN WASHINGTON
WftLTtK SMEAD. WNU Correspondent
| Power Battle Imminent
T HIS CONGRESS has seen some
torrid battles between the so-
called “vested interests’' and pub
lic policy. Witness the Kerr bill
Which would have handed the nat
ural gas industry millions in addi
tional rates. This measure passed
and was vetoed by the President.
Witness the basing point bill which
its opponents say will add millions
to the price of steel, cement and
other basic commodities. This bill
was passed and then vetoed by the
President.
But the most hectic, dramatic
fight of all likely will take place
during the dog days of late July
and August when the public power
policy of the government again
meets head-on with the forces of
the private power industry. It’s the
same battle all over again which
took place during the last congress.
This time, however, the pri
vate power industry is “throw
ing the book away'* and is
charging the “super-coops,** the
“bureaucratic planners** and
the Rural Electric Administra
tion, with taking “the back
door approach to a federal
power empire** in an attack on
free enterprise and a “social
istic dream** of nationalization
of the power industry.
Says the private power industry:
4 *The efforts to seize control of
the nation’s electrical industry is no
longer masked with 1 the pretense
of providing “cheap power” through
hydro - electric development. The
final step in turning the socialist
dream into reality is that of inter
connecting federally-owned genera
ting stations into a nationwide
politically-controlled transmission
network that will extend the sphere
of subsidized government competi
tion into every area of the nation.
“Water resource developments
aimed at flood prevention, water
supply, reclamation and navigation
are functions of government . . .
Water rights are the rights of the
farmer to use the water from his
well for his family; the spring or
the water hole in the creek cross
ing wi his farm for his cattle; the
adjudicated priority which assures
the irrigator a living from his land;
the age-old rights to the water thal
turns the wheels of the grist milL”
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MIRROR
How Selfish
Of Your
E2 SI Si
Is City Life?
MIND
By Lawrence Gould
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Socialism Chargsd
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In other words, the private elec
tric industry says that it is per
fectly legitimate and a function of
government for the taxpayers to
spend millions of dollars on a huge
dam project and sell the water at
so much an acre-foot to farmers
for irrigation, or to sell water to
cities such as Los Angeles, or to
turn a grist mill or a riverside
factory. But immediately they use
this water to turn an electric tur
bine generator . . . then that’s
socialism.
• • •
Refuses Contract
This battle to preserve the gov
ernment’s public power policy re
volves around a contract with the
southwest power administration
which was authorized by an act
of congress in section 5 of the
1944 flood control act. SWPA, under
file act, cannot and does not own
any generating, plants, but is au
thorized to market electricity
which it does, in some instances,
over its own transmission lines to
cooperatives and municipalites.
Secretary of Interior Oscar
Chapman has refused to sign a
contract this year between
SWPA and private generating
plants because he says the con
tract contains a subsidy
amounting to some $300,000, or
the difference between the pri
vate company rate of 12 mills
per kilowatt hoar and the rate
prescribed by SWPA for whole
sale electricity of 5 mills.
• • •
Loans Repaid
Say the Private utilities: “REA,
which has spent since 1937 over one
billion dollars, did a great job in
completing the farm electrification
program. It still has another billion
to spend . . .**
“As a matter of fact REA has
not spent a penny, except for ad
ministrative purposes. It has been
authorized by congress to loan
$2,295,428,000 since its establishment
in 1935. It has actually loaned
$2,084,905,000 to cooperatives as of
the end of March this year. So far
$233,657,000 has been paid back with
interest and less than one million
dollars is overdue more than 30
days. These are loans, not expendi
tures, and are for 35 years.
# # #
Private Funds Limited
In the first place private enter
prise could not build these gigantic
dams and systems of dams for
hydro-electric power plants. In the
second place REA and the reclama
tion department say they only build
transmission lines or generating
plants where there is lack of pow
er or where the private companies
maintain uneconomic rates. If this
theory of federal public pow-
», - then so is your
own municipal power plant.
Does city life make people “selfish”?
Answer: I do not believe so. Ob
viously, the more neighbors you
have, the less interest you can
take in them as individuals, and in
a metropolis like New York, you
cannot have the same kind of in
timacy, even with your best friends
that you might have in the country
or a small town—you see them too
seldom. But “neighborly interest”
can be just as selfish as the city-
dweller’s ignorance of his next-
door neighbor’s name — at least,
the N^w Yorker does not pry into
your personal affairs or try to
dictate how you shall live.
Should you fool with “amateuf
hypnosis”?
Answer: No, warns Dr. Irving
S. Dribben in The Military Sur
geon. He reports the case of a 17-
year-old “rookie” who became
acutely insane after being hypno
tized by a group of soldiers in
camp. Psychiatrists brought him
back to normal, but he had periods
of amnesia for days afterwards.
The hypnosis had released buried
emotional disturbances which had
given him no previous trouble. Al
lowing an amateur to hypnotize
you is nearly as dangerous as let
ting someone amuse himself by
trying to remove your appendix.
Can anyone predict the future?
Answer: Most certainly not. For
even if what tomorrow holds in
store is “predetermined” by what
happens today, the conditions that
may influence it are so complex
that no single mind could grasp
them. You might say, for instance,
that a given marriage appears
“destined” to be happy, yet an ac
cident or illness no one could fore
see may wreck it. And while the
much-maligned U. S. Weather Bu
reau has a better record than most
people realize, to say with absolute
certainty that it will not rain to
night, you would have to know
more than a dozen Einsteins.
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KEEPING HEALTHY
Treatment of the Tired Patient of 50
By Dr. James W. Barton
When a man or woman past 50
who has always lead an active life
begins to feel tired all the time it
is not because he is growing old but
because there is some underlying
condition present, slight or severe.
Perhaps the commonest cause of
tiredness Tn a man or woman past
50 is infection, although his family
and he himself may think it due to
overwork.
An examination should be made
by the family physician and dentist
to try to find infection of teeth, ton
sils, gums, sinuses, gall bladder or
large intestine. The regular pro
cesses and the fighting forces of the
body keep working away as best
they can despite infection, but final
ly the infection begins to win the
fight and tiredness and sleepiness
is the result.
While infection is the commonest
cause of tiredness in the patient of
50,. the thyroid . gland in the neck
may become less active which also
causes a “slowing up” of the in
dividual physically and mentally.
In “Clinical Medicine," Dr. W.
B. Kountz of St. Louis (Washington
university school of medicine),
states that a basal metabolism test,
which is used to test the rate at
which the body processes of the
body are working under control of
thyroid gland, should be made. A
persistent fall in metabolic rate may
be first sign of body degeneration
with symptoms of tiredness, nerv
ousness and inability to keep up phy
sically. The pulse is fast (at first)
and abdomen distended. “Lack of
physical and mental vigor is noted;
the blood pressure may rise without
organic disease.”
The treatment for underactivity of
the thyroid gland is: thyroid extract
in doses of one-half to one grain
daily, with organic iodine, which
stimulates metabolism (building up
and breaking down of body tissue)
and delays degeneration.
As infection is commonest cause
of tiredness in patient of 50, the
family physician and dentist should
first be consulted. If no infection
present then a metabolism test is
made which may show that the thy
roid gland is underactive. The
metabolism test is not expensive.
Any fresh or canned juice may
be consumed by the patient with
high blood pressure if it contains
no artifical flavor, color or preser
vative.
• • •
Shingles will run its complete
course despite any and all known
forms of treatment, and all that
can he done is to try to relieve the
pain and itching.
The little cushions between the
bones forming the spine are called
disks.
• • •
All children should be tested for
allergy and the allergy treated be
fore tonsils and adenoids are re
moved.
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Penicillin is of great value in
treating acute middle ear infection.
KATHLEEN NORMS
The Deserter
ft K FTER 10 YEARS of apparent-
** ly happy marriage, my hus
band has just asked me for a di
vorce,” writes a woman named
Laura Post, of Pontiac. “I am
stunned at the idea, in fact I have
been feeling actually sick,” her
letter goes cm. “Bill put it to me
quite quietly one morning after
breakfast. He had enjoyed his pa
per, his coffee, his children’s chat
ter, just as usual. But when the
children were gone. Jo-anna 8,
Timothy 6, he stood up, put his
hands on the back of his chair,
looked steadily away from me and
stated his case.
“He is in love with another wom
an; a divorced woman who is the
heaviest stockholder in the factory
of which Bill is manager. She is
rich and handsome. She has a love
ly home in the suburbs where my
children have occasionally been
asked to go and play with her chil
dren.
Poisoned by Passien
“In other words, she has every-
thing to offer, and I feel that I so much interest to a meal that
Preserves, Relishes
Add Appetite Appeal
To Ordinary Menus
D ON’T FEEL LIKE making a
special dinner? Then serve an
attractive relish tray of jellies or
preserves and an assortment at
piahlesl
Many families wouldn't think of
sitting down to a meal, even a
simple break
fast or lunch,
without having
some home
canned relishes
or preserves on
the table. Their
color, flavors
and textures add
have nothing with which to hold
him. The children are at trying
ages, noisy, disorderly, needing my
constant supervision, needing help
with homework, amusement, every
thing. They love their father, but
Bill has never paid much attention
to them, and for the past year it
has been almost Impossible to in
terest him in anything at home. It
is the other woman, Olive,' - of
course. His passion for her has
simply poisoned him.
“In the beginning he wanted me
to be nice to her. She came here
to dinner and invited us out to'her
place for Sundays. Then he began
to drop hints as to the advantages
**. . . rich end handsome ...”
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her children had over ours; which
was perfectly obvious. He ad
mired the way she dressed, and
would only say T know, dear,’ when"
I pointed out that she could spend
as much as our entire annual in
come on clothes alone and, in fact,
did.
“But she told him she made her
own dresses and thought she prob
ably spent less than I did and, of
course, he believed her. Living
with her is a fine middle-aged
cousin who manages house, cook
and children, but Bill gives Olive
all the credit for the way the place
is run.
' Two Questions
“Now I ask you two questions,”
this letter finishes. “Shall I give
him a divorce? I don’t want to, I
feel bitterly resentful and jealous
that he can so quietly throw aside
all we have built up together and
all we have meant to each other.
But I would like your advice.
“Second: Is it fair that a woman
like myself—not as attractive as
Olive, hard working, perfectly hap
py to give all my life and time to
my home and husband—should have
to face this humilation and heart
break? What have I done? Why am
I to break up my home, go back to *
Mother, and try to ratify to my
children their father’s abandonment
of us?
“My mother is everything that
is lovely and welcoming. There is
room in the old home, but if this
happens I will feel that my life
as a living beloved, needed wom
an, is over, and that my closest
friend has struck a cruel blow at
my heart. On the other hand, I can
not compete with a younger, pret
tier, richer woman, even though
Tm a good housekeeper and cook,
love my children, and used to be
considered full of fun. That’s all
broken down; I feel like a different
woman now. She has won my hus
band away from me. Will she win
my children? Can the law do any
thing to stop it?**
No, the law can't, Laura, and
sometimes I think it’s a pity. It it
really unfortunate that a man in
your husband’s position, with club
friends, a fine responsible job, chil
dren, home, and a good wife, can-»
not somehow be held to his obvious
duty. For he does owe you and the
children and the commonwealth
the duty of maintaining one more
good American home.
Civilization is built by persons who
keep their word, and put honor and
duty and decency ahead of their
casual passions. For there is no
real love involved in this affair
between two unscrupulous persons,
and if you were inclined to retalia
tion, you could do no better than to
give him his freedom, and watch
his subsequent disillusionment and
discomfort.
As for you, remember that what
seems to be a situation in which he
is all-powerful, and you merely
helpless and miserable, will change.
If you use the next difficult years.
By INEZ GERHARD
B ETTY HUTTON, bright star of
“Annie Get Your Gun” and
“Let’s Dance,” has worked hard
for every bit of her success, but
the career closest to her heart is
being the mother of her two little
girls—and she could give lessons
to a lot of mothers! “They’re going
to grow up knowing everybody
doesn’t h^ve a house and back
yard like theirs,” she told me.
Rems off Thought
Poor people can trust each
other because they know th *
friends are not scheming to get
part of their poverty.
• • •
From 8:00 to 9:00 is only a
matter of time.
. . .
The winner of last year’s
Kentucky Derby eats like a
horse.
many homemakers feel they’re
well worth the effort at canning.
• • •
JUST AS IN canning, equipment
should be assembled and prepared
tor working efficiency. If you do
canning of these foods in large
quantity, you’ll certainly want to
enlist aid in preparing berries,
fruit and vegetables. Speed is not
so essential as in canning or freez
ing, but the sooner foods are
cooked and put in their sterile
Jars, the more enjoyable will be
the job.
Grape Conserve
4 cups prepared fruit
1 tablespoon grated lemon
rind
14 cap lemon Juice
7 eaps sugar
H pound seeded raisins
1 eup finely chopped nut
meats
H bottle fruit pectin
TO PREPARE THE FRUIT:
Slip skins from about 3 pounds
fully ripe grapes. Bring pulp to a
boil and simmer, covered, 5 min
utes. Sieve to
remove seeds.
Chop or grind
skins and add
to pulp. Meas
ure 4 cups into
a very large
saucepan. (I f
wild grapes,
Malagas, or other tight-skinned
grapes are used, stem, crush, and
simmer with % cup water 30 min
utes. Sieve and measure). Grate
the rind from 2 medium-sized lem
ons. Measure 1 tablespoon into
saucepan with grapes. Squeeze the
Juice from 2 lemons and add 14 cup
to fruit.
TO MAKE THE CONSERVE:
Add sugar, raisins, and nut meats
to fruit in saucepan and mix well.
Place over high heat, bring to a
full rolling boil, and boil hard 1
minute, stirring constantly. Re
move from heat and at once stir
in bottled fruit pectin. Then stir
and skim by hums for 5 minutes to
cool slightly, to prevent floating
fruit. Ladle quickly into glasses.
Paraffin at once.
• • •
•Currant and Raspberry Jam
(Makes 11 6-onnce glasses)
414 cups prepared fruit
7 cups sugar
14 bottle fruit pectin
TO PREPARE THE FRUIT:
Stem and crush thoroughly about
1 quart fully ripe red currants.
Crush thoroughly about 1 quart
fully ripe red raspberries. Com
bine fruits. (If desired, sieve half
of pulp to remove some of seeds.)
To make the jam: Add sugar to
fruit in saucepan and mix well.
Place over high heat, bring to a
full rolling boil, and boil hard 1
minute, stirring constantly. Re
move from heat and at once stir
in bottled fruit pectin. Then stir
and skim by turns for 5 minutes to
Preserves, Jellies and con
serves add much to the delight
of meals. They have the addi
tional advantage of being easy
to prepare and offer little
chance of spoilage because of
their high sugar content.
LYNN SAYS:
Use these Kitchen Tips
To Make Cooking Easier
To remove pecan meats whole
from their shells, soak the nuts for
several hours in one quart of water
with one tablespoon salt. Nuts will
frequently crack in the hands and
meats come out whole.
Use a potato peeler to shave a
bar of bitter chocolate to make
chocolate curls for garnishing
cakes or pies. Chocolate should be
fresh and somewhat soft or you
will get grated chocolate.
Equipment for Jelly making
includes items pictured above:
large saucepan or kettle, large
wooden spoon, watch or dock
with a second hand, pot hold
ers, ladle, small dish and metal
spoon, glasses, tray, tea pot,
tablespoon, and Jars with cov
ers.
Lynn Chambers* Menu
Meat Stuffed Peppers
Tomato Sauce
Molded Pear-Cherry Salad
Biscuits
•Currant-Raspberry Jam
Brownies a la Mode
Beverage
•Recipe Given
cool slightly, to prevent floating
fruit. Ladel quickly into glasses.
Paraffin at once.
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Rose-Petal Jam
(Makes 3 6-ounce glasses)
1 cups red rose petals
2 cups hot water
2 % cups sugpr
2 tablespoons strained honey
1 tablespoon lemon Juice
To measure washed petals, pack
tightly without bruising. Cut with
scissors into 44” strips; diacard
tough base.
Add water;
cover, and boil
10 minutes.
Drain (reserve
petals); com
bine liquid with
sugar and
honey. Simmer, uncovered, 5 min
utes; add petals; simmer, cov
over very low heat 40 minutes;
stir occasionally. Add lemon Juice;
simmer, covered, 30 minutes; stir
occasionally. Cool 5 minutes. Pour
into scalded jelly glasses to with
in 44 inch of top. Cover at once
with 1/0 inch hot paraffin.
• • •
Mustard Pickles
20 medium cucumbers, sliced
1 quart tiny onions
2 small heads cauliflower, cut
ty pieces
2 quarts green tomatoes, cut
in pieces
6 green peppers, diced
1 enp salt
$ cups sugar
44 pound (144 cups) dry mus
tard
1 cup flour
44 ounce turmeric
1 quart vinegar
1 quart water
Place vegetables in separate
containers and sprinkle the salt
over them. Let stand overnight.
Mix sugar, mustard, flour and
turmeric, add vinegar and water,
and heat to boiling. Add vegeta
bles and cook until they are tender
and sauce has thickened. Seal in
clean, hot jars.
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Mixed Pickles
2 cups pickling onions
1 quart small cucumbers
44 cup white mustard seed
144 cops sugar
2 tablespoons celery seed
5 enps cider vinegar
5 tablespoons salt
2 cups broken cauliflower
2 cups small carrots
2 red peppers, out In strips
2 cups celery, cut In 2-inch
lengths
Soak onions and cucumbers sep
arately for 24 hours in brine, made
in the proportion of 1 cup salt per
gallon of water. Remove from the
brine, soak in clear, cold water for
2 hours, and drain. Add solution of
spices, salt, and sugar and vine
gar and Jet stand overnight, in a
covered container. Drain off vine
gar, heat it and add remaining
vegetables (carrots may be sliced
in two lengthwise if they are not
tiny). Simmer for 15 minutes, or
until the vegetables are tender.
Remove from the heat, add cucum
bers and onions, and fill clean, hot
jars. Seal at once.
ZOO ADOPTS SEAL
BOYS CAN’T FEED
LONG BEACH. CALIF. — The
Nu-Pike zoo adopted a baby seal
recently that three boys brouj
ashore from Alamitos Bay
could not support.
The boys discovered the seal
following their sailboat one
and reached out and petted
He reciprocated with a contented
wriggle, and they took him;
aboard.
They tried to return him to
mother by putting opt to sea
him, but the little animal
to stay on his own, and eat
he followed the boys ashore.
iMORCI
BETTY HUTTON
“They're going to know that some
people don’t have enough to eat,
as I didn’t when I was little.” As
for her future—‘Tm really an en
tertainer, not an actress; If the
time comes when I can’t make pic
tures, I’ll sing in night clubs. Show
business is wonderful!'*
“The Great Train Bobbery,” the
first narrative film ever made in
the U.S., will be re-issued for ex
ploitation purposes by producer
Nat Holt as a trailer, together with
a train robbery sequence from his
“The Great Missouri Raid,** show
ing the James boys in action. Wen
dell Corey, MacDonald Carey and
Ellen Drew are co-starred in the
James Brothers’ story. >
Margaret O'Brien’s scheduled
starring vehicle, “City Girl,** for
Columbia, was abandoned by mu
tual consent of the actress and the
company. She still has a one-picture
commitment with them, and a new
story is being prepared.
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The script of “Rostka
had MGM’a casting
iround in
aged 12 to 17,
ed, to play June
tors—they hfcd to be different
types, but look a tittle like her.
Ray Mllland has two reasons for
wanting to go to England in August
with his wife and son, after finish
ing “Mr. and Mrs. Anonymous.” He
wants to introduce his newly adopt
ed daughter to his mother, and also
to make a picture.
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“The Screen Guild Players.” one
of radio’s high-rating dramatic
shows, has been purchased by the
American Broadcasting Company
for weekly presentation beginning
in September. During the past 12
years practically all motion picture
actors have appeared on the pro
gram, with all money received go
ing to the Motion Picture Relief
Fund for its country house and
hospital.
More than a year of auditions of
western dramas preceded NBC’s
selection of Tex Williams as star
of “Western Caravan,” now heard
Sundays at 6:30 EST. Williams is
no stranger to movie fans; he made
18 featurettes for Universal Inter-
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titles than anybody else in Holly
wood. A recent anouncement noted
that the creator-producer-director
of CBS’s “My Friend Irma” is also
creator-writer-associdte producer
and director of the film “That’s
My Boy,”
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pan, chances are that the fish will
not stick to the pan so readily. A
bit of flour or commeal on the fish
after oiling helps prevent it from
sticking, too.
To make cracker crumbs easily,
place the crackers in a sack and
push the rolling pin over them.
Pour out of sack into a jar tor
keeping on shell
When making croquettes, they
will handle more easily and taste
better if made aeve.ral hours in ad
vance of frying. Chill thoroughly.
Crooner Alan Dale has given up
leaving his weekly radio show by
ths stage door, now departs by
crossing the rooftops to the third
building away. Mobbing bobby sox-
ers have stained his new suits with
lipstick smears, inkspots, streaks
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Morgan’s son, Stanley, is catching
crickets on his father’s big estate
and selling them for fish bait at
one-and-one-half cents each . . .
Jeff Chandler, leading man of CBS’s
“Our Miss Brooks,” will star in
Universal-International’a *‘Smug
gler’s Island” . . . Hundreds of
radio listeners who mourned when
'“The Chamber Music Society of
Lower Basin Street” left the air in
1944 are cheering because it’s back
again, Saturday evenings on NBC,
with Jane Pickens.
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