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Dom Pills ■If >•4- V Asiatic Religious Belief Fostered ‘White Elephant’ An ancient Asiatic religious belief, - a financially embarrassed king, and an animal’s liquor bill, were re sponsible for bringing to our civili zation the term “white elephant’’ which has come to mean any regret table and unprofitable possession. Research experts with the World Book Encyclopedia, examining the customs of mankind, have discov ered that in Siam a white elephant was considered to possess the soul of a dead god. Therefore when a white elephant was captured, it im mediately became the sacred prop erty of the king—and was baptized, worshipped, and finally buried and mourned like a human being. One King of Siam gave the white ele phant saying its probable start when he initiated the custom of giving the elephant to any member of his court who had displeased him. The ele phant-god could do no work, could not be ridden, and the huge cost of his upkeep soon meant financial ruin to his new owner. THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. GOOD W/LL EXPERIMENT Cincinnati Citizens Sponsor Summer Village for 54 Children If there is a universal language, other than the love that poets muse about, it certainly is the laughter of children. No better demonstra tion of that can be found than in the story of the first Children’s In ternational Summer Village, an ex periment of four-week’s duration this summer in the hills near Cin cinnati. Perhaps it will not be the last. The village was inhabited by 54 children—six each from Vienna, Oslo, Stockholm, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mexico City, Paris, Copenhagen and Cincinnati. They ranged in age from 10 to 12 years and they came from various income groups. By INEZ GERHARD J OHNNY OLSEN, looking back re cently when he celebrated his 25th anniversary in radio, said “I like the looks of tomorrow”; to be able to say that is a fine reward for genial Johnny, who began at the age of 14 by singing over a homemade transmitter in Windom, Minn. Now the host of the “Lunch eon Club”, heard daily at noon over JOHNNY OLSEN Mail call is a language all its own. Henry Roskan, an ex change student at the University . of Cincinnati and a counselor at the summer village near Cincinnati, is the center of all eyes as he distributes letters from home. Yet, for four weeks, they lived in harmony and laughter, learning the language, quirks, games, de lights and angers of strangers, and they emerged friends. They returned to their native lands with a better understanding of international rela tions and harmonies. It is hoped that this experiment, financed solely by public support from the citizens of Cincinnati, will snowball all over the world, and already similar villages are being discussed for next summer in Ger many, Sweden, England and other countries. How did it come about? Dr. Doris Twitchell Allen, a psychologist and member of the faculty at the Uni versity of Cincinnati, started think ing in terms ol such a village shcrt- ly after World War II. Her own enthusiasm fired others. Finally, the camp site, a former children’s summer camp, was acquired in 1950. The children arrived June 3 of this year. The children to attend were select ed by committees from their own cities. While scholarship was not a deciding factor, it turned out to be important. Actually, qualities of leadership and the ability to mix as extroverts with others were primary elements in final choices. the ABC network, he has set a rec ord by appearing at more county fairs than any other actor—more than 2000. In his time he has inter viewed three Presidents—Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt. And he origi nated his “Rumpus Room’ r show on radio, now has successfully switched it to television. “We, the People’s” Dan Seymour was named by the Boys Clubs of America as one of their seven fa vorite American fathers. Dan got votes from his son Steve and three daughters, rates with Bob Hope and General Ridgway. Margaret O’Brien, slated to appear in “Junior Miss” on the summer theater circuit, sud denly changed her mind at al most the last moment, alienat ing the affections of a lot of managers who had booked her. They’re stuck with the rest of the cast. Her attorney canceled her contracts on the ground that she is a minor and therefore they are void. Ever since comic Joan Shelley joined the regular cast of ABC- TV’s “Holiday Hotel” he’s had Don Ameche wondering what the next gag will be. The other day Josh, at the piano, was warbling “I’ll be Don Ameche in a taxi, honey.” IN ADDITION to the children, two adults accompanied each group. The entire assembly from Europe gathered in London and was flown to this country. Those from Mexico City came separately. The adults lived in another camp and learned how to set up villages in their own countries. While the program included out door sports of every kind, there were additional activities, such as trips around Cincinnati. For stay- at-home times in the evenings there was television. The Crosley Division, Avco manufacturing cor poration, installed sets in the dormi tories and lounge. Television proved to be another fascinating facet in this strange new world of America. Only one or two of the children from the foreign countries had seen it before. And in this study of harmony, it was soon learned that Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger pro vide a meeting ground in any lan guage. Visitors at the village were quick to pick up one sound—laughter. It is possible that this sound, brought on by understanding fostered in future generations by such villages as that one in Cincinnati this sum mer and those being planned in the future in other countries, can offer a realistic approach to curing some of the world’s ills. SMD PUZZLE LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ACROSS 1 A brown phalanger (Austral.) 6 Sharp spine 10 A tusk 11 Leather flask for oil 12 Small edible fish 13 Kind of sour apple 14 Weird (var.) 15 Woodland gods T7 Boasted 19 Sloth 20 Adhesive substance 21 Stop 23 A Theban king <Gr Myth.) 25 Capital 26 Pause 27 Man’s name 28 Whether 29 In the com ing month 32 Harsh 35 River (Russ.) 36 City (Nev.J 37 A day’s march 38 Dispatch 39 Choice group 40 Wagers 41 Contests of speed DOWN 1 One who times races 2 Mean values 18. Firearm 3. Speaking 21. Idealistic many but languages unpractical 4 A leaving 22. Hooked of food 23. Malayan 6. Affirmative dagger vote (var.) 6. Classify 24. Umpire 7 A drama 25. Back 8 Reprove 27. Before severely 29 Professional 9 Music note (shortened) 12 God of earth 30. Low spirits (Egypt.) 31. Undivided 13 Bounder 33. Air 15 Observe passage 16 Perches 34 Finishes uhhcib man WM suran aaciMH Haumm wmcuiM aniiid uanaiirc ns unucaH Era unun huh aurinra uhbhh im\l ItMUM Dfl eihhoh mm awnmuu iitunD ninnKiM [’juamra anan tiriranu N-28 37. Guido’s highest note 38. Antimony (sym.) 39. Erbium (sym.) # THE FICTION THE DOCTOR CORNER - By Helen Janney L INNDALE had two doctors . . . two doctors about as different in every way as any two men could be. Doc Boggs was old, in his eight ies, and he shouldn’t have been practicing at all He was cross and ill tempered and he often got his patients and their prescrip tions a 11 mixed up. Doctpr Willis, on the other hand was just oushing thirty. He was alert, dependable and pleasant to deal with. The women, especially, were most enthusiastic about him “Why,” Mrs. Preston said, “when I called him for my Willie when he had the measles, he worked like a trooper. When Willie didn’t do so well at first he actually cried. A doctor. What do you think of that?” “I know.” Mrs. Scott agreed. “He cried over my Martha, too. We both cried. He’s sweet. I just love him.” You see, at first Doc Boggs was the only physician in town. People called him just because he was there. If they wanted somebody else they’d have to get a man in Blocmdale, thirty miles away. So everybody was mighty, glad when young Doctor Willis came to Lin- dale to see about locating th^re. The business men and the farmers gave him a lot of en couragement. The young mar ried women who were expect- ' ing babies welcomed hiin. In fact, the only person who op posed him in any way was old Doc Boggs. “It’s a one doctor town,” he said when young Doc went to call on him. “We don’t need or want another one here.” 3 -Minute Fiction Doctor Willis came just the same and set up his practice on Elm Street. He was single so he fixed himself bachelor’s quarters in the upstairs over his house. Old Mrs. South who used to do for Doc Boggs, went over to the young doc’s now, which made old doc madder than ever. I T SEEMED strange the way young doc took on when Doc Boggs finally passed on. Not many even shed a tear at the funeral But young doctor Willis sat there crying openly. It made everybody think even more of him than they did before, for they knew that the dd man had absolutely refused to cooperate with the younger one and that he lost no opportunity to run him down to his patients. “What a wonderful husband Doc tor Willis would make,” was the thought in the minds of more than one mother of a marriageable aged daughter. GRASSROOTS Dollar Less Elastic; Yet Farmer’s Fare Improved By Wright A. Patterson T HE figures used in this column were provided by the Home Economics Bureau of the North western Life Insurance Company. That is an assurance-of authenticity. The individual incomes of the American people have doubled and trebled during the last fifty years, since 1900. But in 1950 were we better off than in 1900? Did we live better? In 1900 the cash income of the American farms averaged $350. The farmers of that time had in addi tion to that amount of cash, the greater part of the family food, produced on the farm, and the fam ily fuel from the wood lot of the farm. The cash income of the av erage farm to-day is fully three times that of 1900, and the farm still.provides the greater portion of the family food, and much of the family fuel. In the matter of clothes, and home furnishings and farm equip ment, the cash receipts of today will buy but little. If any more, than did the cash receipts of 1900. The farmer, while he receives more cash, is not much better off than in 1900. More of them own more auto mobiles, more farm equipment but farm life and farm living is much as it was half a century ago. In 1900 the hourly wage of the average industrial worker was 16 cents per hour, with an average working week of 53 hours in 1900, and only 41.5 each week in 1950. Despite the high prices for every thing he buys the industrial worker is better off today than he was half a century ago. The money he receives now buys more at to-day’s prices than did his wages of 1900 buy at the prices of that day, and in addition he enjoys more of to day’s conveniences or luxuries. Far more worker’s families have auto mobiles, electric^ or other forms of refrigeration, more telephones, radios, and in sections where it is available, more television. In addition to greater wages, most factory employees are paid for annual vacations of from one to three weeks, are allowed for sick time, have group life insurance, and sev eral millions are assured of in dustrial pensions after reach ing 65 years of age. Both workers and farmers are living better, the homes of both are equipped with more conveniences and what in 1900 were considered luxuries, de spite the high prices they must pay for commodities. Electricity has done much to modernize the homes of both classes. There is another class of Americans who are not as well off as in 1900; whose living standards have been lowered. That class is compsed of those who mast live on a fixed Income, the thrifty ones who saved for their old age, and whose savings were invested in securities. There are many millions of such peo ple, especially women, whose expenses, because of the con stantly increasing costs, go up, but who have no corresponding increase in income. For industrial workers the aver age earnings have increased from $8.75 in 1900 to $64.15 in 1950. While the cost of living index has grown from .55 in 1900 to 178.4 in 1950, food prices have raised from .59 in 1900 to 215.4 in 1950; pork chops from 119 in 1900 to 715 in 1950. Every item on the food index list has shown a heavy increase. Much of the increase has been the result of political action. Tech nological improvements in produc tion in industry has offset much of the increased wages and taxes, and prevented what, would have other wise been much greater increase in prices. But because of the in creasing costs, caused by increased wages and taxes, federal, state, county and municipal, manufactur ers have had to add to the prices of commodities, and all consumers, including both workers and farm ers, have suffered from inflationary prices. When, the new federal tax legislation is enacted it will mean another increase in taxes to be paid by consumers. While our dollars do not buy as much, by approximately 50 per cent, as they did in 1900, increased in come for both farmers and workers have kept pace with inflationary prices, and both are better off now, enjoy a higher standard of living, more conveniences and luxuries than they knew at the beginning of this century. The girls themselves busied about inviting him to parties and dances. There was open rivalry for his at tention. For a while he dated this one and that, playing no favorites. One summer after he’d been away on his vacation he came back with a wife, a girl from his old home town in Ohio. Jean, that was her name, had such a nice way with her that she soon made friends. When people kept saying over and over that her husband was the sweetest, most tender hearted man in the whole world, she sometimes looked a bit surprised. Sure, she thought he was great. That was one reason she married him, but nevertheless she felt a bit puzzled at times. And then she found out something that nobody else •‘knew. She kept still and just smiled when they be gan to rave about her husband. She smiled and went abou^ her busi ness of picking up after nim, keep ing him well fed and mended and not really minding the times when he was thoughtless and inconsider ate as all husbands are at times. The way she found out was that one night he came home to dinner quite late and dog tired, too. When she looked at him she saw that his eyes were red. “Don’t tell me you’ve been cry ing?” she said. “Crying? Me” he laughed. “What ever gave you that idea?” “Your eyes. They look like it.” “It’s those flowers . . . roses. Why is it people always send roses to the sick? Every place I’ve been today has had a bouquet of ’em. I hate roses. I’m allergic to ’em. I have to take shots all the time. Roses roses roses!” National Farm Safety Week Is July 22-28 Sponsors Urge Safety Practices on U.S. Farms National Farm Safety Week will be observed throughout the United States July 22-28. Its one purpose is to encourage all residents of the farmlands of America to adopt safe practices on their farms and in all phases of everyday farm life—in the farm home, at work in the fields and barns, in traffic and at play. Farm accidents are serious not only from the standpoint of the 17,- 000 deaths and 1,650,000 injuries Start tractors smoothly and turn corners slowly. Avoid ditch banks and soft ground. This farmer didn’t—and his tractor could have tipped! Another safe practice when operating your tractor: Always hitch to the draw bar. they cause each year, nor alone for the broken bodies and broken fami lies or the suffering and sorrow they bring about. Accidents to farmers and their families are a major obstacle in our country’s food production program which is so vital in view of the pres ent national emergency. As if this were not reason enough for farm people to adopt safe prac tices to hold down accidents, the bu reau of agricultural economics re ports 1,200,000 fewer farm workers today than 10 years ago—during which time farm mechanization has more than doubled. It is likely that unskilled workers and women will be added to the farm labor force during the present national crisis. They will have to operate more trac tors, farm trucks and other ma chines than ever before. All this adds up to a double-bar reled reason why it is especially important for farm people to adopt safe practices in everything they do. It makes it more important than ever for National. Farm Safety Week to become a significant high light of year-round activities that will make farm safety a 52-weeks-a- year undertaking. Farmers and their families can help the safety program by adopt ing safe practices to eliminate in dividual carelessness or thought lessness, which is one of the great est causes of accidents. They can make their farms and homes safer by learning and observing rules for safe farm living. They can do things the right way, which means the commonsense safe way. The National Safety Council be lieves that mental alertness, safety consciousness, efficiency in all farm operations, ability to recognize hazards and determination to elimi nate them by adopting safe prac tices are more essential to safety in agricultural living than any specific rules or regulations. New Type Tires Latest in the line of farm equipment is a strange-looking pneumatic rubber tire (above) that will improve the farmer’s efficiency in planting corn. The new tire, which has a smooth- V-shaped tread and is con structed with shoulders and a low center, was designed to re place conventional steel wheels that come as original equipment on farm implement. It was de veloped by B. F. Goodrich en gineers. High Quality Hay Can Reduce Feeding Costs High quality hay can cut feeding costs about $24 per cow and milk producing costs by 26 cents per hundredweight, says Michigan state college farm economists. Cows fed poor hay required 250 pounds more garin and 450 pounds more concentrates to yield the same amount of milk produced from high quality hay. Good quality hay is high in protein-carrying legumes, cut at the right stage. No Rotten Ones So you like country life. Are your hens good layers? Toppin’! They haven’t laid a bad egg .yet. Fresh Eggs These are the best eggs we’ve had for years. Well, bring me some you haven’t had so long. Dumb Clock Our hen kicked a porcelain egg out of her nest. She said they weren’t going to make a brick lay er out of her. Suicide Sue At times my wife seems to be trying to be an angel. You mean when she wants some- tiling from you? No, when she drives a car. No Difference Let me see your driving license. Well, as a matter of fact, officer, I don’t happen to have it on me, but if it will save you any bother I can assure you it’s very much like any other old driving license. My Worry How’s your brake? You should worry. It’s mv car. WILSON BEACH COTTAGES Finest Vacation Spot St. Teresa Beach on the Gulf of Mexico 42 miles south of Tallahassee, Fla. Routes 319 and 30 50 modem cottages with accommodations for two to eight persons. Furnished, In cluding linens and cooking utensils, dishes and silver. All electric kitchens. Reasonable rates from $5.00 up. Fine bathing beach, fishing pier and dock; boats, restaurant and grocery store. For reservations write to: Mrs. Ruby R. Hahn, Mgr. Box 33, Panacea, Fla. Phone: Camp Gordon, Johnson 9184. 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