The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 30, 1951, Image 3
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
MODERN HEATING
Dirt-Free Home for the Average
American Rapidly Approaching
The dawn of the dirt-free, dust-
free heme for the home owners of
the nation, which will relieve the
average housewife of endless hours
of drudgery, is rapidly approach
ing.
The building industry reports that
home builders in all parts of the
country are not only installing air
purifying devices to - remove dust
particles, but also aro concealing
the heating pipes and radiators in
walls, ceilings and floors.
It’s a far cry from the days of
the 1870’s when great-grandfather
first installed a central heating sys
tem and gave up his attempt to
heat his home with fireplaces.
Today the American home build
er is taking cognizance of old Roman
methods and is using hqt water to
heat his' house and is burying the
pipes out of sight and sound.
The Greeks may have had a
word for it, but the Romans were
the ones who pioneered heating
practice. ITieir fabulous baths at
Pompeii and Caracalla contained
steam rooms, “hot rooms”, and
“cold rooms”, all of which pre
cluded a knowledge of the three
basic heating means known today—
hot water, steam and warm air—
lE-CSCI
By INEZ GERHARD
A LAN YOUNG is sitting pretty,
with two picture assignments
in his pocket—“Aaron Slick from
Punkin Crick” and “Clarence”—
and his own television show on CBS.
But blond, mild-mannered Alan was
just about ready to 'quit show busi-
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ALAN YOUNG
ness not tong ago; it had caved
out from under him. He’d long been
a radio star, had done fine in his
onlgr film, “Margie,” but there was
no demand for him. He was just
about ready to take his family home
to Toronto and tackle something
else. Then one night he auditioned
his television show — a sponsor
grabbed it instantly for the west
coast, east coast rights were sold
soon afterward. Just what he de
served!
Marvin Miller, the radio an
nouncer, seems typed for Oriental
characterizations in movies. He
played Ghengis Khan in “The Gold
en Horde”, now is slated for the
role of a Chinese black market op
erator in “Peking Express.”
Anne Sargent’s latest picture,
“Three Guys Named Mike," opened
In New York the same week that
she stepped into the important role
of Jocelyn McLeod in “The Road of
life” and began discussing new
television assignments.
and, of course, a smattering of air
conditioning.
What is it for which heating ex
perts have been searching all this
time since the fall of Rome? To tell
the truth, nobody was doing much
searching at all in the thousand
years immediately after Rome’s
eclipse. The fireplace served quite
well, with all the functions of the
home being done in, over or in front
of it until the middle of the 18th
century when Benjamin Franklin
invented his stove.
This stove, a very neat invention
at the time, was the forerunner of
the modern warm air plant. It also
was the grand-daddy of all dust
dispensers and dehumidifiers. It
used a large amount of fuel and
gave off a minimum amount of
heat.
• • •
DURING THIS TIME, the use of
steam as a heating means also was
evolved, first in England then in
the United States. It’s use followed,
naturally enough, the development
of the boiler and the radiator.
Hot water heating had its start
in the chicken coop of one M.
Bonnemain in the France of 1777.
Mr. Bonnemain used a crude hot
water loop to spur the incubation
of chicks. Hot water, off to such a
promising start, did not do well in
competition with steam, however,
until about 1920.
Today’s homes are no longer un
certain compromises between heat
and dirt, heat and health, and heat
and cold. With radiant panels, or
with radiators recessed or concealed
in walls or baseboards, the full use
of the space of the room is avail
able. The air remains cool and sen
sibly moist, whatever the room tem
perature desired.
Proof of the economy and per
formance of modern hot water heat
ing is its exclusive use in large de
velopments like Levittown on Long
Island, perhaps the largest heating
installation in the' world. Here,
forced hot water systems supply
heat to the radiant panel floors,
and serve year round by furnishing
the domestic hot water for baths,
kitchens and laundries from the
same boilers that heat the homes.
The perfection of radiant heating
to the installations in general use
today, leaves only one uncertainty
—what now in beating? Where to
go, short of atom heat? Home build
ers will have to wait and see, but
whatever it is it will be good.
NOT SO FLATTERING . . .
Actress Lis Taylor accepts
“Roscoe” from group of Har
vard Lampoon editors desig
nating her “least successful
actress of 1950.”
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CORNER
By Richard H. Wilkinson
t
D ANA BRIDGES is a printer by
trade, but every one says he
should be a salesman. He has a
very competent and confident man
ner. His choice of words is vivid,
his gestures im
pressive,' his de
livery powerful.
Back in 1934
Dana bought a
Northland Spe
cial Six. As every one knows the
Northland is one of the most ex
pensive cars on the market. Dana’s
income is not large, but he is the
type of man who likes the best or
nothing.
“In the long run a Northland is
the best buy,” he told his wife. “It
will outlive three smaller and
cheaper cars.”
Rachael, Dana’s wife, knew by ex-
periece that Dana usually knew
what he was talking about.
So when Dana stated they ought
to own a Northland she nodded and
smiled and felt confident that every
thing would be all right. She didn’t,
however, anticipate owning and
driving the same car for 16 years.
Not that she minded too much. The
Northland, as the world knows, is
expensive enough so that the manu
facturers don’t have to change the
design too radically each year. Fun
damentally the 1934 Northland had
the same lines that the new 1950
Super Special possessed.
Moreover, Dana being a pains
taking type of pqrson, kept the ma
chine in perfect order.
Nevertheless, it was an ancient
hack and the neighbors used to grin
when the Bridges’ drove by, and
Rachael felt embarrassed and
wished that they could have a new
car.
GRASSROOTS
linese Reds Laughed a! MacArthur Across River
Wright A. Patterson
^UTTERLY FUTILE would
be any United Nations armed
fdaoe fct preventing the suppress-
lag acta ef aggression was amply
demonstrated by the Korean deba
cle. It was not any lack of ability
on the part of MacArthur that
caaesed that result; it was not any
lack of valor on the part of United
Nations’ armed forces—it was the
May and lack of decision on the
part of an international debating
society. It was a case of “too many
cooks spoiling the broth.” It could
not change its instructions to its
flew commander without debate.
The first instance of the in
ability to decide came when the
Doited Nations forces reach the
SSth parallel. Mac Arthur had in-
not to go beyond that
It took better than a week
get those instructions
I. That more than a week
of delay gave the North Ko-
time to reorganize their
divisions; to get new
arms and munitions from the
Bed Chinese army on the Man-
^ ehnriaa border.
it prevented the total distruction
of the North Korean army in North
Korea. The job had to be done all
over again, and before the Man
churian border was reached. The
neat stopping point was the Yalu
xiver.
Just north of the Yalu river in
Manchuria, a vast army of Red Chi
nese was being assembled. Into
its camp was being poured vast
of transport vehicles and
Great munition dumps were
being erected. There was no slight
est question as to the purpose of it
all.
The United Nations had an
adequate supply of airplanes
and bombs. Those planes and
bombs could have destroyed
the transport vehicles and
tanks. They could have blown
up the ammunition dumps and
scattered the million men the
camps contained. But Mac-
Arthur’s instructions would not
permit the firing of so much as
a rifle across that river.
The planes at his command could
neither fly beyond the south bank
of the Yalu or drop so much as a
fire cracker on the amounts of
military supplies. Both the North
Koreans and the Red Chinese
could stand on the north bank
of that dividing stream and thumb
their noses at the impatient United
Nations troops on the south bank.
Nothing could be done about that
situation unless and until MacAr
thur received new instructions.
He waited, as he was ordered to
do, while the discussion went pn
and on, and then came the attack.
That Red army, with its transport
vehicles, its tanks, its munitions
crossed the Yalu, the debating so
ciety had talked too long, and the
United Nations’ forces in Korea
paid the penalty for that delay.
What happened in Korea
would be the inevitable result
in any case where the activi
ties of a United Nations force
came under the orders and di
rections of an international de
bating society, representing 53
nations, all of which insist on
being heard. It creates an im
possible condition for a field
commander, just as it did for
MacArthur.
It is a safe bet that he would not
again undertake such a job as was
assigned to him by President Tru
man. When the time and conditions
were urgent both the President and
Secretary Acheson failed to urge
speed in arriving at a United Na
tions decision.
It savored of’more consideration
for the Chinese Reds, of which we
have had entirely too much in the
past. There should be no place for
any who had a part in such actions
in the American government. It
has cost the lives of many thou
sands of Americans fighting under
the flag and the instructions of the
United Nations. In future we
should have no part in any armed
activities that • operate under the
orders and direction of the members
of an international debating society.
Such bosses do not keep pace with
military necessities.
*
The leaders of organised labor,
like leaders of other segments of
the American people, proved them
selves selfish in their demands for
those they lead, and the general
public turned on them, as .t turned
on capital when it ignored the in
terests of the people. The people
will turn on the farmers if they
ignore the general welfare, and
keep cm pushing prices of food up.
Dana was a painstaking type of
person and kept the machine In
perfect order. The pa(nt looked
like new.
“Why,” Dana demanded when
she hinted at such an idea. “The
old hack’s doing all right. No
engine trouble. Looks good. Why
swap her in?”
After the Bridges’ had owned their
Northland seven years a salesman
tried hard to sell Dana a. new car.
Dana listened to his talk and then
asked what he’d offer for the 1934
model. The salesman named a fig
ure so low that Dana got mad and
kicked him off the place. And
Rachael decided, with a sigh, that
now their chance of buying a new
automobile was remote indeed.
She was right. For 16 years the
Bridges’ kept their Northland Spe
cial Six, and after awhile the neigh
bors stopped laughing and some of
them began to think that maybe
Dana was pretty smart
I N THE SPRING of 1950 Dana
drove his Northland Special down
to the Northland salesroom and told
the floorman he wanted to buy a
new Super Special Eight, complete
with radio, heater, clock and any
other gadgets they had.
“Have you a car to trade in?” the
salesman asked.
“Sure,” said Dana. “It’s a pip,
too. A 1934 model.”
“You mean, of course, a 1944
model,” the salesman said politely.
“No," said Dana, “I mean 1934.”
The salesman coughed. “I’m
afraid we can’t allow you very much
on a car as old as that.”
Dana waved an airy hand. “Take
me to the president of this outfit. I
can’t be bothered with underlings.”
He glared at the salesman.
So a few minutes later Dana was
ushered into the president’s officu.
“Commere.” he said to the presi
dent, beckoning him to a window.
“See that shiny, good looking car
out there? It’s a Northland 1934
model. It’s been driven over 200,-
000 miles. It runs as good as new.
Looks as good as new, doesn’t it?
Now, look, Mr. President, would it
or would it not be a good advertise
ment for you if you stuck that car
in your show window and put a sign
on it, saying it was 16 years old and
has gone 200,000 miles and doesn’t
that prove that a Northland can
take the gaff?”
The president got his hat and
went out and looked at Dana’s car.
He drove it around the block. “What
kind of a trade do you want?” he
asked Dana.
“I’ll swap yon even,” said
Dana, “for a 1950 Super Special,
complete with gadgets.”
The president smiled, then sob
ered, then figured on the back of
an envelope, then looked at Dana’s
car again, then nodded. “Ift a
deal,” he said.
And now poor Rachael is wonder
ing if she will have to wait another
16 .years before she gets a new
Ml Jf^RHODY
Popular Guy
“Inch for inch and pound for
pound, the gamest fish that swims.”
That’s the tribute paid many
years ago to the black bass by Dr.
Walter Henshall, a tribute famous
in the lore of bass angling.
But it remained for James Red-
don’s Sons, Dowagiac, Mich., to
come up with the most complete
dossier ever assembled on his ma
jesty, the largemouth black bass.
The Heddon people declare:
An unpredictable, but loveable
scoundrel, the largemouth black
bass is appropriately caUed the king
of American game fish. Its man?
and mixed traits make it the most
sought-after game fish in the world.
Tossed together in its makeup are
courage, stamina, viciousness, cun
ning, versatility, stubbornness,
showmanship, fight and—just pure
cussedness.
At times it will turn from the
most attractive artificial bait to
gobble up a worm or minnow.
Again, it will pass up the most lus
cious-looking gob of worms to
smash viciously at the homeliest of
plugs . . . Due to extersive trans
planting, tfie largemouth is now
found in nearly every state of the
union, Canada and Mexico. Also it
has been introduced successfully
into France, Germany and South
Africa . . . Look for the largemouth
in fresh-water lakes, ponds, rivers,
creeks andjcanals. Around lily pads,
rushes, reeds, weeds, logs, sunken
tree trunks, eroded pockets or deep
holes . . . The world’s record large
mouth, caught on rod and reel, was
taken by George W. Perry in Mont
gomery Lake. Georgia, on June 2,
1932. It weighed 22 pounds and four
ounces. The average size, taking the
country as a whole, would be from
one to two pounds, but in the south
the average is higher ... No snooty
aristocrat, the largemouth will
please the live-bait angler by killing
anything resembling worms, in
sects, frogs, crawfish, minnows,
field mice, small birds, snakes and
even young muskrats. On the prowl,
the largemouth will smash with
equal vigor at wet or dry flies, sur
face or underwater plugs, spoons,
bucktails or spinner-and-fly com
binations to the delight of the artifi
cial bait man.
AAA
Lightest Spool
Of particular interest to the light-
tackle devotee is the new, light
weight spool being featured in sev
eral of Bronson’s 1951 line of light
weight reels. Claiming it to be the
lightest spool bn the market, the
company points out that the new
spool is machined all over, includ
ing the inside and is perfectly bal
anced. It weighs only 33/64 of an
ounce, yet is rugged and durable.
This spool is going.into all the Coxe
cross-bolt reels and is a feature of
the model 30-C, shown here. This
spool will give the caster unparal
leled control of his lure, however
light, and make for easier and far
more enjoyable plug-casting.
AAA
Visual Checkup Need
According to a recent release by
the Remington Arms company, ac
cidents in the hunting field are not
always caused by trigger-happy
guys at the butt-ends of deadly
weapons. The release cites the pos
sibility that many hunting-field ac
cidents may have been caused by
color blindness.
For many years authorities on
hunting have recommended that
gunners who barge forth in the deep
woods should wear some RED ap
parel, such as cap, coat or neck
erchief. This practice undoubtedly
has saved a number of lives.
The reason, according to Dr.
Elmer M. Soles, director of the
American Optometric association’s
department of public information,
may be because of the physical de
fect of color blindness in so many
persons.
“Contrary to general belief, a
bright color is not the best safe
guard against hunting accidents,”
says Dr. Soles, “because about 140,-
000 licensed hunters are color blind.
“To be sure you are seen by fel
low hunters, wear a cap or jacket
in a bold pattern of black and white.
Some part of a hunter’s costume
should contrast with scenery.
AAA
Far Afield
The black duck, well-known east
ern rival of the mallard in the fa
vor of sportsmen of that area, is
wandering far afield these days.
Several specimens, identified as
black ducks, were shot on the west
coast in Oregon and California dur
ing the season recently dosed.
While it is not known if this is the
first appearance of the species in
the Pacific flyway, it is rare, and
the hunters had some difficulty in
establishing proper identification.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
Dreams Occur
1 ■ ■ .
Universally
By Lawrence Gould
Are there people who never dream?
Answer: There are people who
say that they do not—I’ve been told
ihat the late Dr. Alfred Adler was
one of them—and there’s no way to
disprove their statements. But it
seems more probable that no one
ever is entirely unconscious, and
that dreaming goes on all the time
we are asleep, however little we re
call our dreams after we wake up.
Dreams may be forgotten because
they are too vague and fantastic to
fit into the framework of our nor
mal, conscious thinking, or—some
times—^because they are too
“shameful” to remember.
Do psychologists “side against*’
women?
Answer: A psychologist who is a
man was male before he became a
psychologist, and being human, may
not wholly have outgrown the fears
and prejudices he acquired as a
child. The most he can do is to
try to allow for them, and he may
“lean over backward” in the pro
cess. This column has been accused
of “siding” with or against one sex
just about as often as the other,
which I hope means it has been im
partial. But a man-hater or woman-
hater who is on the watch for am
munition will find it in almost any
statement that could be made.
Is the “average intelligence**
changing?
Answer: It would not appear so,
says the noted Scottish psychome-
trist, Godfrey Thomson. Group tests
given to 70,200 eleven-year-olds and
individual tests of 1,200 of them
show no decline between 1932 and
1947, and the relative standing of
various types of children also re
mained constant. In general, chil
dren of large families are less in
telligent than those of small ones,
and those of poor parents less than
those of well-to-do ones. Older
mothers have “brighter” children
young ones, and twins are consist
ently below average.
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THE SPHINX WAS KNOWN TO THE EGYPTIANS AS THE
"GOD OF iye MORNING* TO GIVE AN IDEA OF .ITS
AGE, THE SPHINX HAD BEEN STANDING 2,7/^
YSARS WHEN SOLOMON TOOK PHARAOHS DAUGHTER
AND BROUGHT HER. TO THE CITY OF DAVID.
KEEPING HEALTHY
1
Physician's Responsibility To Deaf
By Dr. James W. Barton
T HERE IS NO OTHER one sub
ject on which 1 write that
seems to interest so many readers
as loss of hearing. It is unfortu
nately true that many physicians,
because they do not wish to arouse
hope in what they honestly believe
are hopeless cases, fail to keep up
with all that is now being done to
help those with loss of hearing.
In the Illinois Medical Journal
some months ago, Drs. Francis L.
Lederer, Richard E. Marcus and
Arnold A. Grossman, Chicago,
stated: “Because of widespread
publicity, most of which is true or
authentic, many hard-of-hearing and
deafened patients are looking to
their physician for relief of their
symptoms. The physician, in many
instances, is not aware of the sig
nificant advances in the treatment
of hearing loss and therefore stifles
the feeling of hope in the patients
by saying that ‘nothing can be
done.’- ”
v All physicians should know
that much can be done for the
hard-of-hearing patient. In some
instances, hearing can be im
proved by medical or surgical
means.
Once it is known that neither
medicine nor surgery can help, it
would seem that no further treat
ment could bo of help, but these
physicians state that there is now
available a rehabilitation program
in which various specialists work
together to repair or make up for
the hearing loss of the individual,
after they have learned the entire
history of the patient’s case.
The various specialists who com
bine their efforts include ear spe
cialists, specialists in acoustics
(sounds), specialists in speech de
fects, and education of the deaf,
specialists in psychiatry, and spe
cialists in electronics.
This pooling of efforts to help the
hard-of-hearing is an out-growth of
wartime experience with large
numbers of servicemen whose hear
ing was damaged. The specialists
work on the basis that hearing loss
is an emotional and social problem
and they provide the means to re
store the patient to personal and
social balance.
Vertigo, a feeling that the world
is revolving about you, is of more
consequence than plain dizziness.
• • •
There are obvious ties between
hypertension and emotional diffi
culties.
• • •
Arteriosclerosis occurs much
more frequently in men than it does
in women.
If brain vessels rupture or are
blocked by a dot, the result is a
stroke.
• • •
Some persons with high blood
pressure have no symptoms what
soever.
• • •
A headache may darken your out
look on life, further fagyMfng your
blood pressure.
INDUS POISON
Curare Saves
Many Lives
NEW YORK, N.Y.—When Euro
peans first came to the continent of
South America they found the Indi
ans in the jungles of the Amazon
using a black, pungent sirup on
their arrow tips. Explorers brought
back tales of the poisoned arrows,
so lethal that a mere scratch was
said to bring certain death.
Now, thanks to a recent discovery
based upon the Indian jungle brew,
science has a new and wonderful
drug—curare.
Until recent years, one of the
great hazards of surgery, was the
frequent ill effect of anesthesia. The
administration of deep anesthesia
often caused postoperative compli
cations, nausea, shock, depressic
heart strain. Surgeons thus have
ways preferred to avoid deep anes
thesia.
It Relaxes Muscles
Unfortunately, it was necessai
for one simple reason: Although t
conscious under lighter ane:
the patient remained rigid—so
that, for example, surgeons
scarcely pass the barrier of
muscles in the abdominal
until deep anesthesia had
those muscles.
Now, thanks to curare, deep
thesla is far less frequently
sary.
Today, curare, used in cc
tion with cyclopropane,
other anesthetics is
erating rooms around ^
jected immediately a
tient loses consciousness, a
dosage of curare com]’
laxes muscles except those
ling respiration and heart a
The patient sleeps peace
lightly while his relaxed
mits the surgeon to make an
sion of minimum size
ulate muscles without rei
In its crude form
been used by South American :
ana on their blowgun darts to
small animals and birds. It
relaxed their breathing muscles
the point where the creatures
located.
Explorers Find Drug
The first explorers of South
lea made the acquaintance of
drug ip a somewhat disagreeable
manner. They were exposed to its
effects on the tips of darts and
rows aimed at them by'inhospi
Indians. However, the es
were fascinated by what they
of the substance and took considers- ;
ble pains to find out about it
Sir Walter
with bringing to
specimen of curare in 1599.
substance aroused considerable in
terest among the contemporary
men of science, but they had little
of it and they were unable to learn
much either as to its composition
or its action.
Chief use of curare today Is as an
aid in surgery, but it is proving
useful in a growing number of oth
er fields. In general, it may be said
that curare is useful in any situa
tion where relaxed muscles are de
sired.
NO MORE CONSTIPATION
“THANKS TO ALL-BRAN!"
“Before I started to eat all-bran
regularly, I had a ‘‘fcreat deal of
trouble with constipation. Now—
thanks to ALL-BRAN
I’m regular!” Mrs.
Hessie Hamilton,
2212 Millet Street,
Flint, Mich. Just
one of many un~
solicited tetters from
ALL-BRAN users. If
you suffer from con-
stipation due to ———
lack of dietary bulk, , try this:
an ounce (about H cup) of crispy
Kellogg’s all-bran daily, and
drink plenty of water! If not com
pletely satisfied after 10 days,
return empty box to Kellogg’s,
Battle Creek, Mich. Get doubeji
▼OUR MONK£BACK 1
TO KILL
Apply Black Leaf 40 to
roosts with bandy Cap
Brush. Fumes rise, killing
lice and feather mites,while
chickens nerch. One ounce
treats 60 feet of roosts
—90 chickens. Directions
on package. Ask for Black
Leaf 40, the dependable
insecticide of many usea.
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