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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C GOLDEN AGE OF MUSIC United States Is Most Musical mm puzzle LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ^ Nation in History of the World America is beginning a Golden ft.ge of Music. This is now the most musical na tion in the history of the world; and the trend is typically Amer ican, growing out of the people themselves instead of patronage by an upper class. Some of the signs of our musical renascence are obvious and per vading. More than 96 per cent of our families own radios that pour lorth music of various sorts at the flick of a switch. More than 15,000,- 000 homes have phonographs and records. Every motion picture has music as a backdrop, with the musical film the most popular of all types. In the theater, plays like “Oklahoma,” “South Pacific” and “Guys and Dolls” are the record- breakers. In restaurants, offices and hotel lobbies music is piped in to entertain and to relieve monotony. But the more significant signs that music is coming to have a basic place in our way of life are in the private lives of the people. There are today more adults learn ing to play instruments, taking part in community orchestras and chor uses, joining in music festivals and events than there have been for many years. The number of children who are learning to play instru ments in our schools is at an all- time high. Musical colleges report that the number of students pre paring to teach music surpasses the proportionate increase in en- By INEZ GERHARD C HARLOTTE MANSON is one of the daytime radio’s foremost actresses, but at night she’s a sales lady, though not for hire. Best known as leading lady in the CBS “King’s Row” series, in private life she is Mrs. Dick Brown, wife of the popular radio and television singer, and her self-appointed job is in his behalf. At least three nights a week she visits several of New York’s top CHARLOTTE MANSON disc jockeys with some of his rec ords, to plug them. And the "King’s Row” star has made such a hit with her witty ad-libbing that she’s been offered a regular night-time show of her own on a metropolitan station, which she will accept in the falL Tim Holt is forsaking cowboy roles temporarily; he was so good in “His Kind of Woman” that Howard Hughes has asked the RKO staff to find a good dramatic vehicle for him. Holt has won critical acclaim in all his straight assignments. rollment in other subjects. Attend ance at concerts and other musical performances is breaking all rec ords, particularly in the smaller cities and the small towns where such fare was scarce indeed just a few years ago. According to the American Music Conference, there are more than 700 community sym phony orchestras in cities of all sizes, including one in Mountain Lakes, N. J.—population 2,500. In adult recreation, music is playing an ever-increasing part. YMCA’s and YWCA’s in many cities are offering class instruction on various instruments, and service clubs and other groups put on periodic sings, musical events and eoncert series. Music appreciation is rising toward the top of the list of things many adult organizations are offering their memberships. The bright fact is that the Amer ican people are making music for themselves—a bright fact because throughout history music has been one of the greatest forces for happi ness, stability, and harmony among men. This trend is putting the piano, the organ and the harp back into the home, and the instrument case back into the hands of our children. * * • THE MUSIC CLUBS and their unifying organization, the National Federation of Music Clubs, have brought music into the lives of thousands of committees and have encouraged young musicians to fol low the art seriously. Service clubs like Kiwanis International, Rotary and Lions have helped bands and orchestras, provided scholarships, put on music festivals, added sing ing to their own programs and otherwise helped make us music conscious. The National Congress of Parents and Teachers’ music committees have been behind much of the sharp increase in opportunity for music offered in the schools and for growth of music in com munity affairs. In rural areas, the 4-H, extension departments of state universities and other groups have been influ ential, and in the adult field the YMCA and YWCA have made music prominent in their activities and offered classes on various instru ments. Though it is less than four years old, the American Music Conference has had an important part in the current boom. Financed by various branches of the music industry as a public service, AMC is devoted entirely to helping more people get the benefits of music. Much of the tremendous increase in material about music appearing in news papers, magazines and radio is AMC inspired. Its films and litera ture are helping to keep the trend moving. Its small field staff is carrying know-how on organization, techniques and materials to cities and towns in all parts of the coun try. Contributing its services to organizations, school systems and anyone else who wants help to ad vance music, AMC has increased the effectiveness of many other agencies and has given the total movement a new spark and accel eration. Much of the credit, too, must go to the music industry. It has found that in this country the way to progress is through service. Both through their contributions to AMC and music educators and by intro ducing improved products, the man ufacturers, distributors and mer chants have been instrumental in making music more at home in millions of homes. 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Next to Uncle Hal he looked nearly as underfed as Benny. “We gotta be careful,” Daddy said. “She ain’t taking to us strangers too well.” “She looks crazy in her eyes.” Uncle Hal poked a finger through a crack and the cow let out a low bellow. “She’s scared silly. No tell ing what she’ll do when we turn her loose. Might as well find out, though.” He let down the tail gate and un tied the rope from her horns. “You young’uns get out of the lot!” Daddy yelled at us. “She’s upset enough to try to fight.” She came out snorting and pawing and went over the fence to the pea nut patch just like it hadn’t been there. Uncle Hal climbed the. fence with considerable speed, consider- Desplte his bulk. Uncle Hal ran. He plowed a path straight to the back field fence. ing his blubber, and took off tt> drive her back. Daddy ran to head her off the other way. They circled around her, intending to drive her back to the lot. But she was too up set and scared. She lowered her head and pointed her long sharp horns straight toward Uncle HaL Despite his bulk. Uncle Hal ran. With his head back and his elbows punishing the spare tire around his middle, he plowed a path straight to the back field fence. He beat the cow there by several yards, but he didn’t bother to climb. He fell over, leaving a good sized patch of his overalls on the barb wire. Old Bessie turned her attention to Daddy. He made it to the fence and grabbed a post and swung for safety just as Bessie's horns tangled in the wire below him. T HE COW was tangled In the wire and bucking. Uncle Hal was peeping from behind a nearby oak. The rest of us were atop fence posts. 3 -Minufs Fiction Congress As Prodigal With Tax Money As Truman By Wright A. Patterson Daddy was mad enough to shoot Bessie then and there, but she was a summer’s profit. He couldn’t af ford to harm her or let her hurt herself. He hollered for Mama to send the wire pliers. F ollowing the close of four years of civil war our national debt amounted to two billion, two hundred million. That had been re duced to one billion at the start of World War I. At the close of World War I, our debt was 25 billion, 200 million. We had reduced that to 19 billion, 600 million by 1929. That total of 1929 represented $571 for each American family. By 1939, with no war, but the New Deal to finance, our national debt had in creased to where it represented $1,165 for each family. In 1950, our national debt amounted to 257 bil lion, 400 million, a total for each family of $6,786. With such a financial condi tion facing ns, with a debt bur den and taxes higher than at any time in our national history, congress continues to spend money “like a drunken sailor.” Only recently, the senate voted an authorisation for an Arizona irrigation project, the total cost of which will amount to consid erably more than two billion dollars. That irrigation will benefit less than 30,000 farm ers, for which all the people of all states will be taxed to an extent of nearly $3,000, to be added to the $6,786 each family it now slated to pay. That is not the kind of economy candidates for both the senate and house promised the voters before the last election, when economy was an issue in the campaign, but it represents the kind we are get ting. The senators who voted for authorization for such a project should not be allowed to go back to Washington. A two-billion-dollar project that would benefit 30,000 Arizona farmers, but would serious ly endanger the water supply of close to 5,000,000 people in southern California, who have at tremendous expense to themselves carried the water of the Colorado river through the mountains and over the deserts that they might live, should be voted down. Now the senate proposes to give away that water to 30,000 Ari zona farmers at a cost to the fami lies of all states of $3,000 per family. That is spending on a scale that neither the New Deal or the Fair Deal have suggested, and it came directly from the sen ate without a recommendation from the President. It was not a partisan measure. It was voted for by both Democrats and Republicans. Fortunately that was only an au thorization. The Senate cannot in augurate appropriation legislation as that must start in the house. And it is not believed that such an appropriation has any chance of passage in the house. Such an in cident, futile though it may be, dem onstrates that the spending pro clivities cannot all be laid to the President. Some of it must be at tributed to congress, and there both parties must assume a portion of the blame. That would-be Arizona expendi ture is but a large sized sample of the utterly unexplainable and need less expenditures made by Wash ington. A careful check of the voting in both senate and house will dem onstrate that those who are loudest in their demands for economy will, at times, be found supporting appro priations for things we could get along without. Among such things is the central California Valley reclamation project of no value to any one other than the people of California, but being paid for by the tax payers of all states. Senator Knowland’s denunciation of that Arizona project was but a case of “the pot calling the kettle black.” Can we not have an end to all such needless federal government spend ings? * While under the set-up of the legis lative branch of the government, it is not possible for the senate to inaugurate either tax or appropria tion legislation, the senate can, when it will, stop such legislation, when passed by the house. Senator George (D., Georgia), as chairman of the tax committee of the senate, has refused consideration of the house tax bill, until the house has cut from its appropriation not less than six billions of peace time ex penditures. * At the end of a year the “little” war in Korea had resulted in more casualties, than the first year of the “big war” with Japan. The “war wolf’ cry no longer gives us the shivers.. Before she could speak to one of the other boys Benny was half way to the house. And he took the pliers to Daddy. “Watch that cow!” Daddy yelled at him. “She could make hash of you in no time!” Benny went on. The cow had calmed down some and he got pretty close to her. “Git Back!” Uuncle Hal yelled. “When a cow is that crazy—” “She ain’t skeered o’ me, Daddy!” Benny reached out a hand and ca ressed the cow’s quivering side. You could see her relaxing. He rubbed her back a minute and worked up to hqr shoulders. The restless hoof quit pawing and she stood there trembling while Benny tied a rope around her horns. Daddy started to cut the wire and she reared up again. So he went and leaned on Uncle Hal’s oak and tossed the pliers back to Benny. “All right, son. Cut her loose. She’s all yours.” Benny roped her—by himself— and led her into the lot. “Sure. Now can you stop thinking of your son as a coward and ad mit he has—ah—” Mama stopped and started turning pink. She was always mighty careful of what she said. Daddy laughed at her. “Okay, Suzie. We’ll call it intestinal forti tude.” Chicken-of-Tomorrow Contests Concluded Program Increased Fowl Production in Country The economics of chickens may offer a quick solution to the prob lem of the current quest of most Americans to keep their dinner plates well filled. No matter what happens to other foods, there will still be plenty of chickens coming to market, accord ing to estimates of production pos sibilities of the nation’s top breed ers at the windup of the national chicken-of-tomorrow finals. Charles Vantress, Live Oak, Calif., twice winner of the contest, haS| estimated that his flocks alone The whole chicken industry— breeders, growers, scientists and others—cooperated in the chicken-of-tomorrow program. Above a gronp interested in the industry examine products of the program. Will be responsible for production of more than 100,000,000 meat-type chickens in 1951. This kihd of production is due in great part to the six year chicken- of-tomorrow program when breed ers and producers set out to im prove the meat qualities of chick ens. The program was also responsi ble to some degree in development of great “broiler areas” in Georgia, Delaware, Texas, Maine, Kansas, Indiana, Arkansas and other states. Newer feeding efficiencies, better growing facilities, more knowledge of genetics developed on the farms of the nation were tested in the state, regional, and nation chicken- of-tomorrow contests. The program was financied by A & P grocery chain. Company Seeds 800 Mile Pipe Line Right-of-Way How to maintain a farm that is 50 feet wide and over 800 miles long? That problem recently faced one of the nation’s largest natural gas companies when it wanted to prop erly care for the soil bordering its long, thin, pipeline stretching from Texas to Ohio. To carry out its program, the com pany set up a soil conservation de partment and endowed it with near ly a quarter-million dollars for la bor, seed, fertilizer and equipment. Eight crews went into the field and seeded an average of a mile a day. The crews used carefully pre pared seed mixtures to provide temporary cover crops according to the individual farmer’s wishes. Plants chosen for seeding were se lected to suit each locality, after consultation with local and national agricultural authorities on the best methods of soil conservation. Hand Scoop The above scoop may save considerable time for a number of farmers. It can be made from two-foot piece of sheet metal nailed to a wooden square. Bail is off center for easy tipping. Radio Telephone Tests Set for Rural Areas Use of radio instead of poles and wires for some parts of rural tele phone systems is soon to be tested on an experimental basis by the rural electrification administration, it was announced recently. This test, the U.S. department of agriculture says, is being made to find out whether radio link is more economic and efficient than usual installations in certain circum- ■tances. THE READER'S DATE BOOK First Aid Kits Would Reduce Number of Fatal Farm Injuries This is National Farm Safety Week. For several weeks home demonstration agents, county agricultural agents and others inter ested in agriculture have been working closely with farm groups and 4-H clubs in campaigns to emphasize the week and in planning ways to cut farm losses. These programs have been conducted in home towns throughout the nation. All this has been with the purpose of ending needless suf fering and loss of life from farm acci dents. Preventable accidents continue to kill thousands and injure hundreds of thousands of farm residents each year. Such accidents deprive the nation of needed manpower and destroy property vital to national defense. The 1950 report on farm accidents revealed five frightening facts: 1. Total farm accidents were 15,- 500 in 1950. Injuries totaled about 1,300,000. 2. Farm home deaths totaled 3,900, with approximately 550,000 nonfatal accidents. 3. Motor vehicle^ killed 6,300 farm residents in 1950 and injured 220,- 000 more. 4. The total of farm work deaths was 4,300, which accounted for more than 25 per cent of the na tion’s occupational death toll for 1950. 5. Public non-motor vehicle deaths, such as drownings, took the lives of about 1,600 farm resi dents. : to keep on hand in case of emer gency. Packed in a suitable container for protection against dust and moisture, they could be kept handy in the farm home in case of any emergency. By having the kit packed and ready, it can be taken to the scene of an accident on the farm on short notice. Time wasted looking for proper first aid material is thus eliminated. The following items are suggest ed for the “disaster kit”: 1. One 3 to 6-ounce bottle of anti septic solution, such as benzal- konium chloride aqueous solution 1:1,000, to be used on open wounds, but not burns. •2. One 1 to 2-ounce bottle of aro matic spirits of ammonia to be used either internally or by innalation for fainting or near collapse. 3. One 8 to 10-ounce can of so dium bicarbonate, USP (baking soda) which is a protection against nerve gas. Add four level teaspoons to one quart of water and use to wash parts of body exposed to nerve gas, or saturate a cloth with this solution and use as a face mask for protection against in halation. Since even one serious acci dent in a family can be expen sive in money, time, and loss of labor, farm families as well as others may well give special attention to safety rules. Here are nine that have been pub licized widely in recent weeks, possibly through local adver tising by merchants who realize the importance of farm safety to the local community: 1. Keep passage ways and stairs in good repair, unobstructed and well lighted. 2. Keep ladders in good repair and easy to get at in emergencies. 3. Don’t wear loose or floppy clothes around machinery, or when doing cooking or housework. 4. Keep your back straight and lift heavy loads with leg muscles. Don’t try to lift anything that is too heavy for you. 5. Use the right tools for the job. Keep them in good condition. Keep them in a safe place. 6. Don’t use kerosene to start fires. 7. Always stop a machine before starting to repair it. Disconnect electrical appliances or equipment oefore working on them. , . 8. Give prompt attention to even small injuries. 9. Never swim alone. Never dive into water without first determining the depth. Be careful around any boat. Never stand up in small boats. Studies of accidents each year show how often these rules are overlooked. Despite increased emphasis on safety by local newspapers and in advertising campaigns by Main Street merchants In the interest of their community and rural neighbors, there probably will be a substantial number of fatal farm accidents this year that would not result in death if adequate first-aid measures were taken. The same is true of disabilities resulting from acci dents. With this in mind, it would seem that the recently devised civil de fense kit, designed by the federal civil defense administration for homes in critical target areas, would be ideal for the farm wife 4. Four triangular, compressed^ muslin bandages (37x37x52 inches) folded with two safety pins each. These may be used as slings, or bandage coverings. 5. Two large and two small bath towels and one bed sheet. Bath towels and bed sheets may be used as improvised bandages and dress ings. They should be relaundered every three months and packaged in heavy paper. Old, soft towels are preferable. When towels are used for burn dressings, place dressing and fasten down with tri angular bandage or strip of sheet. 6. Two packages each of medium (8x7% inches) and small (4x7 inches) first-aid dressings. 7. Package of twenty-five to fifty paper envelope drinking cups. 8. Half to one-oz. bottle of castor oil, USP, for emergency eye drops. Other bland eye drops suitable for painful irritations of the eye may be used. 9. A flashlight with extra bat teries. 10. Ten to fifteen medium (1%- inch long) safety pins. 11. Two or three single-edge .razor blades. 12. Bottle of 100 to 200 salt and soda tablets. Salt and soda tablets in these sizes may be used as an aid in reducing shock after burns or injuries by adding six tablets to one quart of water and having the victim drink as much of the solu tion as possible. A teaspoonful of common table salt and a half tea spoonful of baking soda in one quart cl water will serve the same purpose. 13. One or two cakes of toilet soap. 14. Two or three splints one- eighth to one-quarter inch thick by 3% inches wide by 12 to 15 inches long. 15. Twelve to fifteen wooden tongue blades. 16. Bottle of 100 water purifica tion tablets (halazone or iodine compound.) The ready availability within the home of the above list of suggested first-aid supplies is *a wise precau tionary move not only for civil de fense, but in the event of an acci dent or a catastrophe within the home. THE CHILD CITY Mooseheart Educational Flan Is 50 Years Ahead of Times The Mooseheart, Illinois, educa tional program is 50 years ahead of the times, according to one of the nation’s most prominent edu cators and school administrators. Dr. Herold C. Hunt, superintendent of the Chicago public schools. Dr. Hunt recently stated that in all probability children will start to school when they ate three years old—by the year 2000. For the past decade, the residents of the Loyal Order of Moose “Child City” have been enrolling in the community’s nursery school at that age. After two years in nursery school, the Moose wards “graduate” to kindergarten with all the frill and furbelows, scholastic ratings and achievement tests of a high school or college commencement. The nearly 1,000 residents of this unusual “Child City” are dependent sons and daughters of Moose mem bers. The community is a city complete in every detail, having its own postoffice, bank, depart ment stores, barber shop, beaut? shop, fire department, theater, a “children’s cathedral”, grocery, meat store, garage, filling station, and farm. Mooseheart even has its own railroad, a $5,000 scale model which serves to teach the seniors railroading, electronics and allied subjects. Nursery Has Graduation Exercises The children have their class play, prom, baccalaureate services, valedictorian, salutatorian, com mencement speaker, and presen tation of diplomas. It is always a thrilling sight to see these five-year-olds, attired in their traditional white caps and gowns, seriously going about the business of graduating into kinder garten. The little boys even have the privilege of selecting their fa vorite little girl to whom they will present their “bids” for the miniature prom. Specially engraved diplomas are treasured by the tots’ mothers, if they are also residents of Moose heart, and by the Moose lodges from whose jurisdiction they enter the home and school if they are double orphans. The 1,000 residents of this com munity are supported through the efforts of the Loyal Order of Moose , organization. Color Query One of the most devastating arguments in favor of fishes* ability to recognize colors came out of tests conducted by the scientists Kottgeni and Abelsdorf. In all eyes—human, fish, and other animal—the only identified substance which permits color perception is a chemical known as rhodopsin; by compara tive tests of rhodopsin from human and fish eyes, these scientists found that each had virtually the same qualities. The fishing tackle business has reacted te the color argument with enthusiasm. Anglers can buy hires in practically any color of tha spectrum for the purpose of at tracting fish. A whole lot less at tention has been paid to another Important color angle, however—the use of color in lines to hide their presence in the water. Many dry-fly fishermen will use only light colors in their lines. They believe that since a fish normally sees a dry-fly line as ft lies on top of the water—silhouetted against the sky—light colors are less no ticeable and thus less likely to spook the quarry. Balt-casting lines are, of course, s different story. They have no float ing qualities and they are much more finely calibrated than fly lines. Therefore, the possibility of their casting a shadow in the water is considerably lessened. However, the color of a bait-casting line may very well be of far greater impor tance than that of a fly line. This is because a sunken bait-line comes di rectly into a fish’s view. By far the most commonly color in baitrlines is, at black. There is no apparent tion for this; black is certainly not a shade calculated to blend in with all types of water. Nor is it a shada which fish can’t see. If bass, for example, were totally oblivious to black, there would be small indeed to fishing for them black plugs—which actually notable bass killers under some con ditions. AAA Lotta Tana! LL James Lynch, Seath Orange, N. J. (the gentleman with the fed) took this 682-Ib. tuna at Bimini on Jane 5. Tim tuna was the largest taken at Cat Bay er Bimini this season. Lynch was using a Cortland 39- thread Supercuty linen line, a line which, in varying thread strengths took many record fish daring the season. AAA More About Carp Contrary to popular opinion carp are not vegetarians. Tom Moen, fisheries biologist for the Iowa Conservation Commission, in the ex amination of 739 carp stomachs during 1946 through 1949, found that carp of all sizes and ages feed prin cipally on animal material. Tha food falls into three groups, insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks. Game fish egg predation is. In tiie popular mind, one of the prin cipal objections to carp. Moen found that carp do take walleye eggs dur- inn the spawning period. From 37 carp collected in April in Spirit Lake, one contained three walleye eggs. On analysis of 51 stomachs no eggs were found in Spirit Lake, while of two carp from Okoboji, 9 walleye eggs were found in one stomach. Winter food studies on 167 carp from four Iowa lakes reveals that there is considerable feeding dur ing winter months, with animal organisms making up 100 per cent of the diet, with only traces of plant material found. During winter, both the volume of food and the pei cent of stomachs containing food was found to be considerably less than during the summer. AAA Hook Disgorging The job of extracting a deeply- swallowed hook from the throat of a fish isn’t the tough job it used to be. Many alert manufacturers have taken pains to provide anglers with a means for making this for merly messy job more desirable. They have made a simple and ef fective hook remover of a metal tube with a slot down one side. Tha line is slipped in the slot and the tube is did on down the hook. Only a slight twisting frees the hook.