The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, August 18, 1950, Image 3

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* THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Card of Thanks The following card of thanks appeared in a Kansas paper: “I wish to thank the city authorities for quarantining my family and me for three weeks recently be cause one of them had the small pox. During that time my wife caught up with her sewing; we had three square meals a day, as no one came in and she was not permitted to leave; we enjoyed three weeks of good night's sleep; and best of all, a cousin with four children who had arranged to visit us, saw the smallpox sign on the door, and left town so scared she will never coipe back again. So for these and other blessings we are very thankful for the quarantine.” BR IMMS PLASTI-UNER One application MAKES FALSE TEETH FIT. for the life of your plates If roar plates are loose and slip or hurt, refit them for instant, permanent comfort with soft Brimms Piasti-Liner strips. Lay strip on upper or lower plate ... bite and it molds perfectly. HartUm for lotting fit and comfort. Even on old rubber plates, Brimms Piasti-Liner gives good results from six months to a year or longer. Ends forever mess and bother of temporary applications that last a few hours or days. Stops slipping, rocking plates and sore gums. Eat anything. Talk freely. Enjoy the comfort thou sands of people all over the country now get with Brimms Piasti-Liner. Easy to Re-fH er Tighten False Teeth Permanently Tasteless, odorless, harmless to you and your plates. Can be removed as per directions. Users say: "Now I can oat anything." Money back guarantee. $1.25 for liner for one plate; $2.25 for b*.th plates. At your drug store. PLASn-UMU COMPANY, MMe 11, New Yerk Traveling Zoo Brings Animals To All Children CLEVELAND.—“Hey, ma, guess what. I just petted a skunk!” In most places that admission would cause anything from inflated nos trils to screams of horror, but in Cleveland, mother just says, “Oh, that’s nice. The traveling zoo is around again.” The traveling zoo is one of three mobile entertainment units that cruise the city’s streets. They bring a museum, a vaudeville show and a zoo to people who otherwise might never see the real thing. The oldest of the three, the travel ing zoo, first took to the road in 1942. The recreation division of the board of education, realizing that the park zoo is inaccessible to many people, decided to bring a capsule sized animal collection to the peo ple’s doors. They built a gay little jeep-pulled trailer with bright colored animals painted on it. It is equipped with cages for about a dozen small and relatively tame animals. A sched ule of stops at playgrounds and parks was arranged. The sponsors fixed up a public address system, and got a lecturer to talk about the specimens. The zoo makes four stops a day, five days a week. Dur ing its season, 100,000 people see it. Youngsters Hear Talks The crowd of youngsters, liberally sprinkled with adults, hears a 45 minute talk, consisting of stories and facts about the animals. Then some of the exhibits are brought into a roped off “petting pen,” where the youngsters are al lowed to play with them. The zoo now is carrying an opossum, rac coon, duck, homed owl, skunk, goat, bantam rooster, armadillo, fox, hawk, rabbit, monkey and some turtles. Of this crew, the fox has become the show trooper. He is a great ham, thriving on attention. He sits up and practically “mugs” at the throngs of excited children who crowd around him, The Showagon, another traveling unit, played to its first audience in 1944. Also unique in this city, it gives five evening shows a week to an average crowd of 3,000. During its season, 150,000 people flock around the brightly painted truck, which opens up to an 18-foot-square stage. Local Talent The talent is recruited through a series of auditions, held in the city's huge public auditorium. Most of the acts—singerj, dancers, mimics, ma gicians—are teen-agers, although there is no age limit. They serve without pay, but are eager to hitch their star to the Showagon. Many of die acts have gone on to profes- sional careers. After the vaudeville show, the street is roped off and the band plays on for street dancing. A Sho wagon visit is a high spot in every neighborhood, and the idea has been borrowed this year in Denver, Colo., and Cincinnati, Ohio. The “portable museum” is a huge trailer, which had been used during field expeditions out west. Visiting hospitals, orphanages, schools, homes for the aged and other insti tutions, it has attracted more than 100,000 people in the less than a it has been touring. Self Serving Bam Great Labor Saver Device Is Most Useful Developed in Years One of the strangest, and possibly the most useful, agricultural de vices developed in recent years is the cattle cafeteria. The cafeteria is actually two steel Quonset huts, one built inside the other. Between the two, there is a space of about 10 feet. Hay brought in from the field is chopped and blown into the top of the larger The cattle cafeteria was in vented by Paul Mazur, partner in a Wall street Arm. structure. It falls down on the other, settling between the two. When the space is filled, the cafeteria is ready for operation. A series of gates, hinged at the top, may be raised to feed cattle inside or outside the bam. The slats are spaced just wide enough to ad mit a steer’s nose and are also hinged at the top. As the cattle make pockets in the hay they push against the slats. The constant swinging dislodges more hay from the storage area above and it falls down. The outside gates provide shelter for feeding animals in eold weathej. According to reports from a farm where the “cafeteria” has been used, 44 beef steers have been fed through an entire winter with a to tal of four man-hours of labor. Once the storage area was filled, the farmer walked off, his job done for months. The idea seems especially good for the northwest where winter feed ing of relativly small herds is a constant, laborious chore. Dimethyl Thallate Is Good Chigger Repellant If you are bothered with chiggers —and most people have been this summer — extension entomologists suggest repellants containing di methyl thallate as the most effec tive. This solution should be applied around the tops of the stockings, or in a band around the ankles. They caution against indiscriminate use because the chemical stains some fabrics. Once the chigger’s got you, treat ing the affected portions of the skin with 5 to 10 percent solution of ben- zocaine in alcohol is recommended by T. H. Parks of Ohio State Uni versity. There is no positive method yet devised for treating yards and lawns to eliminate chiggers, but many peo ple have found dusting the lawn with powdered sulphur helps. Parks suggests using the cheapest grade of sulphur available, and ap plying it generously to the lawn with a dust gun. New Ramp A recent development at the Union Stock Yard In Chicago providing low, wide steps in stead of a cleat ramp has proved highly successful not only in speedier handling but also in preventing costly bruises. The hogs ascend the steps at least twice as fast as when the old- time ramps were used, and in juries have become rare with this type of equipment. U.S. Forests One-Filth Original Size, Report When Columbus discovered Amer ica, nearly half of the land area of what is now the United States was covered by dense primeval forests. Today these forests have been re duced to less than one-fifth their former size. Much of our standing timber today is poor quality second or third growth. We are still cutting saw timber faster than it grows and further re ducing our forests. GOOD CITIZEN Tolerance Is Important Problem In Every American's Life Today Tbls is the seventh of a aeries ot 10 articles from the booklet “Good Citizen” pnblished by The American Heritage Foundation concerning the rifhts and duties of an Amerlean. The sixth promise of a good citi zen: In thought, expression and action; at home, at school and in all my contacts, I will avoid any group prejudice based on class, race or religion. In youthful sports we learn that the best pitchers or finest quarter backs are the boys who throw or pass better, without regard to color of their skins, the kind of churches they go to, or the size of homes they come from. Jews and gentiles, white and Ne gro, catholic and protestant, skilled and unskilled, rich and poor, in telligent and dull, tall and short, man and woman, blonde and brunette, are all members of this club, the United States of America, and fur thermore are members of the human race. • • • TOLERANCE is not merely “put ting up” with the other fellow. It’s ♦he spirit of trying to understand I £$CREEN*RAD10 By INEZ GERHARD OHN REED KING, emcee of “Chance of a Lifetime” and “Give and Take”, has reached the million dollar mark in prizes given away during his years on radio quiz programs. More than 40,000 con testants have come before his microphone^; he prides himself on never having capitalized on a con testant’s discomfort. Not that he doesn’t indulge in a bit of fun; he once awarded a “2% carat neck lace”—carrots on a piece of string. Another time, he presented a con testant with “a little carbon in a oiece of paper”, a diamond ring wrapped in a $500 savings bond. Audiences love him, keep him on stage hours after broadcasts, though he’s not giving anything away. Betty Hutton, according to re ports, will travel for a couple of months with Ringling Bros. Circus, incognito, preparatory to bemg starred in De Mille’s “The Greatest Show on Earth”. It’s my guess that the instant she arrives everybody will recognize her. Betty could no more hide her charm and gaiety than she could change the color of her eyes. CBS correspondents have a habit of finding wives while abroad on news assignments. Winston Burdett found Georgianna in Italy; Richard C. Hottelet married an English woman; Larry LeSueur also mar ried an Englishwoman, Priscilla Bruce. Howard K. Smith wed a Dane. David Schoenbrun married an American, but he met and court ed her in Paris. Want to marry a war correspondent? Then travel! him. It is judgment of people as people rather than as classes. Intolerance and group prejudice are a resentment erf anybody that’s different, a manifestation of inse curity and ignorance, and a form of bullying akin to that of chickens picking on the one with part of its feathers already off. Intolerance whispers and listens to gossip and rumor. The intolerant is one who has a mob or a safe majority with him and is mean enough to take ad vantage of it, which is why appeals to intolerance are so generally used by rabble-rousers and demagogues. An appeal to prejudice, an at tempt to divide the United States along social, racial and reUgious lines, and so to conquer it, was the chief hope of our enemies during the war. • • • FAIR PLAY starts at home, where “little pitchers have big ears.” Even a thoughtless remark by parents and absorbed by child ren can foster intolerance in school and in the play groups of the neigh borhood, where it grows its first poisonous roots and often assumes its crudest forms. We have made many laws of lib erty in the country, nurtured many forms of freedom. But there is one law made long before 1776 which will last far longer than any man made regulation: “Do unto others as you would that they do unto you.” Let it shine from out the hear of every man. Let it spread through the neighborhood, the countryside and the city block; through the shop and office; through the city and state—north and south, east and west—^through the country and throughout the world • • • • TWO LETTERS Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Mrs. Bixby of Massachusetts: Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachu setts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on i the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to be guile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I can not re frain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. * Yours very sincerely and respect fully, Abraham Lincoln • • • Message from Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to Frau Meter of Del- menhorst-Oldenburg: His Majesty the Kaiser hears that you have sacrificed nine sons in de fense of the Fatherland in the present war. His Majesty is im mensely gratified at the fact, and in recognition is pleased to send you his photograph, with frame and autograph signature. This article is Chapter • ot the booklet “Good Citizen” prodneed by Tho Amerlean Heritase Founda tion, sponsors of the freedom train. A complete book may be obtained by sendinr 25 cents to The Amerl ean Heritase Foundation, 25 West 45th Street, New York, N. X. CROSSWORD PUHLE LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ^ ACROSS 1 Cigarettes (slang) 5. Needy 9. Voided " escutcheon 10. Dexterous 11. Wood for smoking pipes 12. Permission 14. River (So. Am.) 16. Any pina- ceous tree 17. Sun god 18. Pitchers 21. River (Chin.) 22. Pig pen 24. Made of wool 26. Ventilate 29. Hint 30. Peak 33. Girl’s name 36. Gulf (Siberia) 37. Buckets 40. Editor (abbr.) 4L Rodent 43. Penetrate 45. To anoint 48. Brown bear 49. Equipment 50. Outer peel 51. Body of warriors 52. Poker stake DOWN 1. General style of a publication 2. Melody S. A glossy coating 4. Goat antelope (Jap.) 5. Chum 6. Fetish 7. Patron Saint of Norway 8. Change and alter for better 11. Barriers 13. Ireland (poet.) 15. Fresh 19. Fabulous bird 20. Coin (FT.) 23. Sweet potato 25. Marshy meadow 27. Mischievous person 28. Narrow inlet (Geol.) 30. Small, grayish- brown rail 3L River (Afr.) 32. 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Then let’s pool our re sources, make a down payment on a small farm and —and live there!” “But we don’t know a thing about farming. We’ve both lived in the city all our lives. We couldn’t make It pay.” “We could,” Beulah said, “if we wanted to badly enough. There are books on how to do everything these days.” So for a year the two girls worked and saved. They spent evenings on end at the library reading books on small scale farming. When spring came they drove up into the country and called on the farmers who had offered their homes for sale. The sec ond place they visited proved exactly what they wanted. It was a small, white, tree-shaded house with a big barn, a hen nery containing a flock of 100 birds, a cow, a horse, a pig and several cultivated acres. It was a swell idea. Best of all, they made a profit. The enterprise would likely have developed into something lasting, had it not been for Barnaby Xerxes. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Izaak Walton of East Side Did Arresting Angling Job By BILLY ROSE When I was a kid on the East Side a couple of hundred years ago, a sidewalk was a lot more than a strip to walk on; it was some thing to dream on, tap-dance on, pitch pennies on and scribble phi losophical sayings on, ot the sort not found in Bartlett’s “Familiar Quotations.” However, to Gimpy Myers, the leader of our gang, a sidewalk was none of these things—it was primarily something to fish through. To put a fine point on it, what Gimpy fished through was not the side walk itself but the iron gratings over cellar windows and ventilation shafts. And what he fished for, with the aid of a blob of tar dangling at the end of a string, was everything but fish—coins, picture buttons and other bits of treasure which had fallen through. There were two occupational were hazards, however, which used to annoy this Izaak Walton of the asphalts — cops and dogs. Cops, because a subway fisherman attracts crowds and crowds, as a rule, attract pickpock ets; dogs, because Gimpy’s exposed rear was an invita tion for a quick snack, and on sev eral occasions neighborhood mon grels had given it the full and painful treatment. As he grew older and more am bitious, Gimpy did less and less angling on the lower East Side where the droppln’s, and therefore the pickin’s, were slim. Instead, he invaded the lusher territories to the north, and finally settled on the gratings near the Union Square subway where, if the streets were not paved with gold, at least the ventilation shafts yielded a reason able amount of silver. Billy THE COP on 14th street in those days was (me Ike Fogarty, a cyni cal gent who always suspicioned that while Gimpy was fishing in the subway, an accomplice was fishing in the spectators’ pockets. But he was never able to pin any thing on the kid. and this irked him so much that he finally threatened to pull him in for obstructing traf fic the next time he caught him, Gimpy took the bint and went back to Delancey Street—that is, until one May morning when the sun was doing Us stuff and go ing to school was out of the question. At bis suggestion, our gang beaded north on the prowl for cigar bands, and on I4tb Street we saw a woman get out of a taxi, suddenly clutch at her throat, and then stoop over and peer through a grating near the curb. “Lost som’n. lady?” Gimpy asked her. “A locket,” said the woman. “It isn’t worth much, but it has a pic ture of baby.” There were neither cops nor ca nines in sight. “I’U git it fer ya,” said Gimpy. From a Prince Albert tin he took a chunk of tar and held a match under it until it was sticky. Then he lowered it on a string and began to maneuver it over the locket. • • • AT .THAT MOMENT, Officer Fog arty rounded the corner. “This time I’m runnin’ ya in,” he said. “Playin’ hookey and obstructin’ traffic at one and the same time.” “I’m only tryn’ ta git this lady the pitcher of her baby,” said Gimpy. In exactly one minute and 46 seconds, our leader delicately eased the locket through the grating, pulled U free from the tar and banded U to Us owner. "Thanks” said the woman. "It’s the only picture I have ot baby” “Let’s get goto’,” said Fogarty. Stalling for time, Gimpy said to the woman, “Wouldja min’ ifn I took a look?” “Not at all,” she said, and snapped open the locket. Inside was a picture of a mean-looking Pekinese pup. “That ain’t no baby,” snarled Gimpy. “It’s a lousy dawg.” “Watch your language, young man,’’ said the woman. “ ’Baby’s’ won more blue ribbons than you have fingers and toes.” Gimpy slowly stuffed string and tar back into the empty tin and dropped it down the grating. Then he turned to Fogarty. “Okay, copper,” he said. “Do ya duty." SCRIPTURE: Luka »:l-22; Y:lS-as. Matthew 14:1-12. DEVOTIONAL READING: Luke 15:1- 10. . ft Great Preacher? Lesson for August 20, 1950 “But we don’t know anything about farming,” Candida said. “We've both lived in the city all our Uvea.” He was a radio singer, suffering from a nervous breakdown. He had come to Hillside to recuperate. Beu lah met him one day on a deserted section 6f country road. He was walking and she gave him a lift back to town in the delivery truck. B EULAH was thrilled. During the days that followed she hated go ing off evenings and leaving Can dida home alone, but, obviously, Barnably and she couldn’t take the other girl everywhere with them. Beulah was wondering how, when Barnaby proposed marriage and she accepted him, she was going to break the news to Candida. Two nights later Beulah delivered a half dozen fowl to the village church for its semi-annual supper, and was returning home earlier than she was expected. Lights were on in the front room and through the window she saw Barnaby holding Candida in his arms, kissing her. Beulah was furious. She stormed into the house. Can dida tried to be calm and ex plain that she and Barnaby had loved each other aU along. They hadn’t had the courage to tell Beulah. You — you vixen!” Beulah shrieked. A week passed. The girls went about their duties without speaking. Both knew that sooner or later they would have to come to some agree ment about the farm. So in the end Beulah made ar rangements with Lawyer Stearns and one evening the girls set out in the delivery truck for his law of fice to write the final chapter in their adventure. They were silent on the drive to town. Even when the car lights went out for no explainable reason nei ther of them said anything. Silently Beulah got out, lifted the hood, dis covered a fuse was blown, and hav ing no spare, tried to produce a makeshift from a hairpin. It began to look as though there was nothing to do but continue on foot, when suddenly the connection was made and the lights flared up. In the glare of the headlights • man and a woman, evidently hav ing come up in the darkness with out knowing of the truck’s presence, were standing in close embrace. The man was Barnaby Xerxes. Nobody said anything for a mo ment; then Barnaby turned and be gan walking ‘swiftly away. The girl followed him. Beulah got into the truck. She started the motor. She looked at Candida. Candida looked at her/ “Oh, shucks!” said Beulah pres ently, “let’s go back and milk the cow and call it a day.” “Oh. let’s!” cried Candida. J ESUS SAID of him that there had never been a greater man than John, the Baptist. Certainly there has never been a greater preacher, to this day. He had none of the aids a modern preacher has. He had no song leader, no music of any kixyl; no church organiza tion, no building, not even a tent. He was not even in a village but in a bandit-infested wil derness. There was little “dramatic” about him or his methods. Yet he started a tremendous revival, and he won higher praise from Jesus than any other human being received from him. * * * Candor C ONSIDER SOME of the qualities of this famous man. One was candor, that is, he was not afraid to speak his mind. His opinions were not always popular; his ver dicts were not always those of the masses. But he spoke his mind all the same. He celled his hearers “gen eration ef vipers, ’’—snakes* jhables, fas modern words. He freely admitted he was no Mes siah. When en a later occasion he had his dosbts about Jesus, he did net conceal them, but told Jesus straight from the shoulder that he questioned him. And Jesus honored his honesty. Candor it a rare articl£. Those few persons in public life who are willing to speak their minds may make some enemies but they make more admirers. The odd thing Is that people cover up their minds tor fear they will be unpopular; whereas you will generally find that the candid person does not lack tor friends. a o o ^ Courage r AT BRINGS up another quality outstanding in this extraordi nary man: his courage. He could stand up to the most prominent citizens and tell them they were sinners, and name their sins. * It doesn't take mnch courage to say you are a sinner, er to say that any one Is. Aren't we an? It takes more nerve to speak out in plain language, as John did to the Pharisees and Herod for example. When he called on men ty repent, he meant a specific repentance, not repentance-in-generaL In a southern state there was a prison chaplain at the penitentiary. One of the prisoners had been con victed of stealing funds from the state bank. But he never had ad mitted his guilt, in court or after wards. He was stand-offish with the chaplain, though before his con viction he used to be a church of ficer and a praying man, the chap lain could hardly get next to him. Finally one day he agreed to pray. As he and the chaplain knelt down together, the prisoner began: “Lord, thou knowest that we are all miserable sinners . . .** Hie chaplain stopped him. Leaning over he said to the prisoner: “What are you in here for?” The man was still a moment. Then in a quite dif ferent tone of voice he began again: “O God, forgive me for stealing from the State Bank.” It was the first time he had ever admitted his guilt. But it took courage on the chaplain's part as Well as his own. a a a Common Sense K NOTHER QUALITY of John which deserves notice is his simple common-sense. Listen to what he tells the men who come with this question: What must we do? John’s common-sense mind knew that repentance, just by it self, is not enough. Repentance is turning from something bad to something good, from wrong to right. Let the man with two shirts ■hare with the man who has none, he said. Let him who has food do likewise. Let the tax- collector be honest. • Let the soldier stop grumbling; even In an “occupied country*' a soldier must not be unjust or crueL Pointing to Christ W HAT MAKES John best remem bered is that he preached Zhrist. He is known as the forerun- aer; he was the man who said ot Tesus, “He must increase but 1 must decrease." 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