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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.
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group
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vote (var.)
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8 Reprove 27. Before
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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.
WARfario to make 2H lbs. bait.
At Your Drug Counter, $1.00.
Both are non-poisonous and Guaranteed by
One Spot Co., Jessup, Maryland.
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