Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Which End? Little Jonathan pointed to a lurid picture in a copy of “King Arthur And Hie Knights Of The Round Ta ble,” and asked, “What's that?” His father answered, ‘That's a dragon.” Jonathan gave the picture some additional study, then inquired, “What’s it draggin’?” Worth It Geologists say that the average city lot would produce $3,000 in gold if it were mined a mile down. A few tenants I know would like to dig holes that deep—but just to push their landlords in. SO, THAT’S WHERE Attorney Blank was examining a witness in court the other day. “Have you ever been arrested be fore?” he asked the man. “No, sir!” the witness answered emphatically. “Have you ever been in this court before?” “No, sir!” “Are you sure of that?” “Yes, sir!” “Your face looks very familiar— very familiar. Where have I seen you before?” “Well, sir,” the witness calmly answered, "I am a bartender in the saloon across the street from here.” Older, No Doubt Seems we never run short on school stories. One of the best of the recent crop came from a grade school in western Kentucky; The class was studying periods of time, such as eon, decade, century and all the rest Came examination time and one question asked for a definition of the word “millenium.” One little boy did it this way: “A millenium,” he wrote, “is like a centennial, only it has more legs.” Carelessness “You’re charged with throwing your mother-in-law out of the win dow. Guilty or not guilty?” “Guilty, your honor. I did it with out thinking.” “That’s no excuse—you might have hit somebody on the head.” A man was charged with shooting a number of pigeons, the property of a farmer. Counsel for the defense tried to frighten the farmer. “Now,” he remarked, “are you prepared to swear that this man shot your pigeons?” “I didn’t say he shot ’em,” was the reply. “I said I suspected him of doing it.” “Ah! Now we’re coming to it. What made you suspect the man?” /•Well, first, I caught him on -my land with a gun. Secondly, I heard gun go off and saw some pigeons Thirdly, I found four of my in his pocket, and I don’t the birds flew there and com- suicide.” Good History Ralph Bellamy tells this one about the woman shopper he over heard in a department store. Try ing on a fur coat, she asked the “This seal coat is fine, but will it stand the'rain?” \ “Madam,” replied the clerk, “did you ever see a seal carrying an um brella?” rrriNG question The Sunday School teacher was idling the class about Noah and the Ark. FinsBy she finished and said: “Now , . . are there any questions?” “Yes,” replied one little boy In the last row, scratching his ankle. *Td like to know why Noah didn’t kill those two moo- quitles In the first place?” SUNNYSIDE by Oorfc S. Hoot RIMIN' TIME • , . gy POSEN f MUTT AND JF.FP Bv Bud Fisher JITTER By Arthur Pointer WYIDE AND WOOLY By Bert Thomas "I tried to get Pop to let this job out for bids— figurin' rd bid high ond lose out, but he didn't foil for it." "How con the world go to pieces with men like Gregory in it?" THE WEEK Q iin 2?elhiion INSPIRATION Security A SENSE of security is necessary for human happiness. Security is a word that figures largely in the vocabulary of psychologists and sociologists. When children become delinquent or adults take to drink, they are said to be consciously^ or unconsciously seeking escape from a sense of insecurity. The child probably lacks a feeling of security in the home, while the grown-up may be haunted by fears concern* ing his job, his health, his family, or some other material thing. Modem psychologists are correct in tracing the troubles of people to basic insecurities in the human heart. But they, often fail to recog nize that the quest for security must be pursued in the spiritual rather than the material plane. Too many seem to ignore the fact that the only real security man possesses lies in God. The ab«Ta editorial and ether ma terial appearing in this eelamn were prepared hy Religions News Berries. KILLS LEOPARD . . .The Rev. Eugene Johnson, RdMP'lsland, Hi., missionary in Tanganyika, Africa, 19 years, shows leopard he killed at Hsk of his Ufe to save son of a tribal chief (shown with the missionary). Liquor Regulations Written in Draft Law WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress has written into the new draft law an amendment directing the secre tary of defense to issue regulations governing the .sale of beer and in toxicating liquors in the vicinity of armed forces installations and train ing camps. Temperance leaders here pointed out that the amendment is sufficient ly broad that an absolute ban could be ordered by the secretary if he finds that conditions around military installations justify it. “The principal thing that this amendment does,” said Bishop Wil bur E. Hammaker of the Methodist board of temperance, “is to place specific responsibility for control of conditions upon the secretary of defense. Heretofore it has been left to individual area commanders or local authorities in the vicinity of the camps, and, frankly, we have found a good deal of buck passing whenever the question of sales of liquor to troops was brought up.” The Methodist board of temper ance issued a formal statement commending house and senate con ferees for adopting the amendment in the compromise draft bill. The board expressed confidence in Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall, who will administer the new provision, asserting, “General Marshall is a man of conscience.” Sex Education Is Urged by Priest WASHINGTON, D. C. — Parents have a duty to give sex education to their children and it should be done in an atmosphere of religion, a prominent Catholic psychologist said here. The Rev. James A. Van der Veldt, O.F.M., professor of psychology at Trinity College and author of sev eral books, declared that many par ents are failing to give their chil dren proper sex instruction because they consider it embarrassing or shameful. Father Van der Veldt said that the sex impulse is “a normal phe nomenon and causes in every grow ing child a curiosity that demands explanation.” Religion Question Box Q: Who were the Apostolic Breth ren? A. A North Italian sect of the 13th and 14th centuries, which urged a return to the primitive communism of the apostolic * church. The name was applied also to a sect in Asia Minor which condemned marriage and followed Christian communism. Should yon tell a child he is adopted? Answer: Certainly, but not when you are angry, or so as to imply that you wish you had not taken him. In that case “you will have done him unmendable damage,” says Ruth Carson in Public Affairs Pamphlet 173. “So You Want to Adopt a Baby.” An adopted child is almost sure to find out the truth some time and it will make him feel there is something shameful about it if you have kept it a secret from him. If he asks you about his “own parents,” tell him anything good that you know about them, but don’t let him feel—and don’t feel yourself—that he inherits any thing “bad” from them. It is you, not they, who will determine what he becomes. Stay the need to bp loved cause neurosis? Answer: Yes, writes Dr. Leon J. Saul in the Psychoanalytic Quar terly. The,capacity to give mature, active love to others is a charac teristic of adulthood and not every one acquires it. But the need to be loved exists in all children, and adults seldom outgrow it Where this need has been frustrated in in fancy or early childhood, it be comes only so much the stronger, expressing itself in the demand for gifts, favors, attention and ad miration. One of the most nearly universal of neurotic conflicts is between the . need to be loved by others and the urge to punish them for not giving as much love as we; want. Even wars may arise from «i people's fueling that they are dis liked by other nations. Should you be happiest when alone? Answer: To be frightened and un happy when you have to be alone Is certainly neurotic, but it is less so to be happiest when there is no one else around to “bother” you or “get in your way.” Human progress and civilization rest on the fact that two or more normal peo ple can not only get more done but enjoy themselves more together than separately. If you get to the point where you don’t enjoy a sun set—or a good joke—better when you can share it with someone else, or where you would rather live alone than with a friend, or with a wife or husband, something has gone seriously wrong with your emotional life. THE CORNERSTONE FOR THE NEW $1,200,000 NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WAS LAID BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN, AND WITNESSED BY ABOUT 10,000 PEOPLE. THIS NEW EDIFICE REPLACES THE ONE AT WHICH LINCOLN AND NINE OTHER PRESIDENTS WORSHIPPED. | KEEPING HEALTHY | Why Your Doctor Asks Questions By Dr. James W. Barton Cornell Medical Index is becoming available to physicians. This is a W HAT MANY PATIENTS cannot understand is why the physi cian asks them so many questions instead of spending all his time making an examination. What they forget is that there are two sides to a physical examination: first, what the physician finds out by examining the patient’s heart, lungs and other organs, which is called the objective side of the ex amination, and,' second, the sub jective part in which the patient tells about his various symptoms. Both objective and subjective symptoms are equally important As a matter of fact what the pa tient tells the physician when the physician asks certain questions is often even more important than what the physician finds out for himself. This is especially true of mental and heart ailments. Because the subjective side, what the patient tells the physician, takes up so much time yet must be included, what is known as the list of nearly 200 questions which the patient answers in 10 to 20 minutes. This means that the physi cian can have all this information before the interview. In The Jour nal ef the American Medical Aiae elation, Drs. Keeve Broadman, Al bert J. Edman, Irving Large and Harold G. Wolff, with the technical assistance of Todd H. Broadbent, describe the Cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire as a self-ad- ministered instrument that collects a large body of significant and psy chiatric information without the physician’s participation so that the physician is ready when the pa tient arrives. The Questionnaire is a four-page letter-size sheet on which are 195 questions such as are usually asked during a consultation. The questions are asked in language every pa tient can understand. Human Rights Menaced Declare Methodists OTTUMWA, la. — The lowa-Des Moines Methodist Conference ex pressed “regret” here over enact ment of the internal security act. “It accepts the fierce orthodoxies of war as the normal pattern for peacetime,” the resolution stated. “Hence we recommend that our people study it and work for its amendment so that full civil rights may be restored.” * HEALTH NOTES * Signs of malnutrition are: ex treme loss of fat from under skin and from fat depots around ab domen, wasting of muscles, yellow tint to skin and eyeballs, alow pulse, low blood pressure, swelling, thin blood, low temperature. e • e Fat absorbs water like a sponge, every pound of fat holding over three pounds of water. ■ A little fat stored up under the skin, in the liver, and other depots of the body is ah asset to health. Even if there is gianHuiMy mal function to be remedied, over weights, to get relief, must eat less food and use lees liquids. • • • Outdoor exercise and hitter tinttes are used to increase appetite.