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Efficient Machines Increase Production American Farm Records Are Made by Equipment No one any longer disputes the fact the machine, namely the trac tor, has replaced the horse on the average American farm. Constant research in recent years has re sulted in high speed implements, more work for each gallon of fuel, and a number of multiple-job at tachments for the farm tractor. The mechanization of American agriculture has been the main rea son for increased farm production in the last 10 years or more. But it stands to reason that the more - A? J , ; £ ' J mte. Mm HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS Two American Documents To Be Enshrined on Constitution Day mmu puhle LAST WEEK'S ANSWER The tractor has replaced the horse on thousands of American farms, but many farmers still do not know how to get the rno^t efficient use from the tractor. mechanized the farm becomes, the more important it is for the farmer to know how to care for ftis ma chinery and how to operate it skill fully. Properly adjusted machinery can pull with less gas and less strain on vital parts. Such things as proper hitching, use of the right kind of oil and regular lubrication, sharp soil-working tools, correct carbu retor adjustment, can improve tractor efficiency from 10 to 20 per cent. Crop Conditions Are Reported Good in U.S. The U.S. department of agricul ture reported continued improve ment in conditions for crop devel- opement during June and early July has resulted in prospects among the most favorable the coun try has ever known. The department reported farmers were able to plant crops on the largest aggregate acreage since 1933. Yield prospects are reported virtually as good as the best in re cent years. Winter wheat prospects improved, despite adverse harvest ing conditions in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, and spring wheat acre age-exceeded planting intentions by nearly a half-million acres. As a result, an all wheat crop of 1,070 million bushes, 18 million more than on June 1, is now in prospect. Larger acreage of corn, hay, soy beans and sorghums than intended •arlier are growing under mostly favorable conditions. Of the major crops only rice and hay are ex pected to set new production rec ords, but several others will be of near-record size. Caring for chickens housed in coops is simplified with feed boxes like the one shown above. It has small wheels at one end and can be pulled out for filling without opening a door through which chickens might escape. Hie boxes are made like draw ers with the front ends project ing beyond the sides so they cannot be accidentally pushed beyond the openings in the coop sides. Wheels are attached to the rear ends on nail axles and rest on the bottoms of the coops. Factory Wages Buy More Food Ilian in 1929 An hour of work in a factory wil buy, on the average, a largei quantity of nearly ail kinds of fooc than it would a generation ago, ac cording to the U.S. department oi agriculture. Department figures on food prices factory wages for 1929 show that the average wage for an hour of factory work would buy 6.4 loaves of bread. Now it would buy 10 loaves. America’s most precious histori- * cal documents—the Constitution of the United States and the Declara- \ tlon of Independence—will be en shrined permanently in hermetical ly sealed glass enclosures at a cere mony Monday, (Sept. 17) Constitu tion Day. The ceremony, in which Presi dent Truman and Chief Justice Vin son are scheduled to participate, is expected to be one of the most im- i pressive ever held in the history of ; TNOROTHY Samoflf, cur rently ^ giving a delightful performance in the Broadway musical, ‘‘The King and I,” still finds time for many guest performances o n radio, to which she owes her first big break. Some years ago she auditioned for Menotti’s radio opera, “The Old Maid and the Thief,’’ at NBC, won the role, and was enthusiastically received all DOROTHY SARNOFF over the country. This autumn may find her on the air regularly on a new program. In her very limited spare time she creates hats, paints a landscape occasionally, and re cently has begun designing travel ling bags—her latest, made of plas tic, will soon be on the market. BiU Holden is looking for a new hobby, one fitting for a man with three children and not much time. He’s given up building model airplanes with motors—almost lost a finger at it, just before starting “Force of Arms,” at Warners*. Hollywood loves Murray Sices, leading designer of suits for small women—so many of the stars are about the size of Wanda Hendrix, who’s five feet two. With little time to shop, they used to find it almost impossible to find clothes that would make them look the way their fans expect them to. In the beginning, 12 years ago, “Mr. District Attorney’’ was pat terned after the legal career of an ace prosecutor, Thomas E. Dewey. It switches from NBC to ABC on September 21, and October 1 will also be seen on television. Star Bill Johnstone of the CBS Radio Network’s “The Line-up” and his son Ronald, a Los Angeles drama student, are building an elaborate model theatre, 41 inches by three feet by three feet. It will be operated entirely by electrical power, and they are doing all the work themselves—but they’re let ting Mrs. Johnstone make the cos tumes, sets, etc. In a test sealing, Dr. Roy W. Wampler, assistant director of research for Libbey - Owens- Ford Glass company; Alvin W. Kremer, of the library of con gress, and Dr. G. M. Kline, of the national bureau of stand ards, show how the original documents of the constitution of the United States and the Dec laration of Independence will be preserved permanently in helijm-filled glass cases. the parchments, particularly since this will be the last time the docu ments will be touched by human hands. Scientists say the en closures will preserve the papers “for as long as man can foresee.” After the ceremony the sealed leaves will be replaced in their Shrine in the Library, where they have been viewed by an estimated 20,000,000 persons in the last 27 years. The display of the single page of the Declaration and the five leaves of the Constitution is expected to attract even greater throngs of sightseers after the ceremony. Plans for preserving the original engrossed and signed manuscripts are the result of studies and ex periments made during the last 10 years by the national bureau of standards at the request of Luther H. Evans, librarian of congress. During the last two years the | library and the NBS have been as sisted by thermopane technicians of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, who perfected the special metal-to-glass seal used to keep the glass cases air-tight. “Every resource of science and technology has been applied in the effort to make these precious doc uments as permanently secure as the principles they proclaim,” said Dr. Evans. • • • DR. EDWARD U. CONDON, di rector of the national bureau of standards, explained that exhaus tive tests were conducted before the NBS scientists and the library de cided this was the best method of protecting the documents and at the same time making it possible to continue to exhibit them publicly. The glass enclosures, basically the same as the thermopane insula ting glass used in thousands of American homes, will be filled with helium, an inert gas, as a further measure of protection for the doc uments. Even the relative humidity inside the cases is controlled to pre vent the parchments from expand ing or shrinking. The early history of these docu ments was dramatic and—especial ly in the case of the Declaration of Independence which is 175 years old this year—involved much rough handling during the Revolution and the War of 1812. During the last generation, however, the library has protected them carefully and this latest improvement in the method of display is expected to preserve them intact for future generations of Americans. ACROSS 1. A food fish 6. Conflicts 10. A thick soup 11. On top 12. Inner courtyard 13. Boring tool 14. Biblical - lion 15. Specimen 16. Web-footed, flightless bird 19. Half an em 20. Organs of hearing. 21. Fairy (Moh. Paradise) 23. Gloss 25. A depression (Anat.) 26. Ringlet 27. Push with the head 28. Registered Nurse (abbr.) 29. Cardinal number 32. Marbles 35. Hewing tool 36. A pacing horse 37. A former Russian leader 39. Sea eagle 40. Floating masses of ice 41. Colors, as fabric 42. A heron DOWN 1. Extra 2. One who mutinies 3. Silkworm 4. Sign of the zodiac 5. Tellurium (sym.) 6. Possessing heat 7. Aslant 8. Tumbler pigeons 9. Round, pad-like borders (Anat.) 12. Invalid’s food 13. City (N. Palestine) 15. Little girl 17. One of CelUc people of Ireland 18. Receptacle for coffee 21. Body of water 22. To alienate 23. Grated harshly 24. Republic (C. Eur.) 25. Merriment 27. Public vehicle 29. Feminine pronoun 30. Be HHiinu muiiM □uamuia mum wuaau nuhuh 1114 Mlimidld UHfci mHHUIO MkiMUH UUUKM mmuNC! um mi nunn lomuMM st^atf nmiiHM rrmau unam N-se 31. Lair 33. Skin disorder 34. Elevations (golf) 37. A support 38. Blunder 40. Exist 1 2 4 5 ' i 6 1 8 9 10 7// 7/s II 12 i 13 14 % m IS iff n 16 i 19 20 i 21 22 25 24 SJ 25 2b i 27 28 i 29 30 3» 32’ 33 34 l 35 3b 37 38 39 1 40 1 41 42 ! 1-21 THE FICTION LUCKY LESLIE CORNER By Helen Langworthy T HEY CALL ME Lucky Leslie— not because I’m so lucky but be cause of my wiff Celia and her phobia. Sure, lots of people believe in luck, omens and tnat stuff. But you could cover half the country before you’d find anyone the equal of my Celia for ideas on luck. It’s not ordinary garden variety luck ... that Celia talks 3 -Minute about eit ^ er — not S 1 .". four leaf clovers, riCtiOn new moons and -J rabbit’s feet. Oh, no! Celia goes in strong for lucky numbers. In her book, 7 is the luckiest, 3 is a fair number and 6 you skid by with eyes shut and hands clenched. Celia believes- if you have good fortune doing a thing a certain queer way once, then if you repeat it—bingo!—you’re fortunate. If Celia were to find a diamond on the corner of Main street on the 7th of the month and while wearing a red rain coat; she would believe that next month, come the 7th, she could don the same rain coat (no matter if the sun was blazing), go back and find a ruby. The queer part of it is —Celia would. When we were married in those unpleasant days of ’43, I had leave from the 15th of one month to the next. We had known each other for a couple years, Celia and I. If I’d had my way we’d have been mar ried the 16th. But Celia said, “The 7th—that’s the day for luck.” Even reminding her that that date was a century away and that we would be'married but a few days before I went back into action wouldn’t swerve her. The 7th it was; To this day Celia believes the reason I wasn’t amongst the 166 killed in our regiment was because we were mar- GRASSROOTS There Is a Way To Repeal Income Tax Amendment By Wright A. Patterson T HE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION provides two methods of amending that document. The one method with which we are familiar calls for the passage of a resolution by Congress call ing for an amendment, followed by ratification of the proposed amend ment by the legislatures of three- fourths of the states. The other provides for pas sage by any state legislature of a demand for an amendment and then ratification of that de mand by the legislatures of two-thirds of the states. The second method bypasses Congress entirely. The Los Angeles Times referred to this method of amendment as a “club provided for the states for the protection of states’ rights.” It is now being considered as a method of repealing the amendment that made possible the levying of fed eral income taxes. This would force the national government out of the field of tax revenue and leave it to the states to provide for state ex penditures and would stop the "grants in aid" that now represents the largess of the national govern ment out of federal taxes in exchange for which the states surrender much, of their sovereignty. It took a long time to secure the enactment of the 16th amendment, the income tax amendment, by the needed three-fourths of the state legislatures, even when the amend ment was backed by the powerful influence of Theodore Roosevelt. Twenty-one states have voted for the calling of a constitu tional convention. A vote of 32 is necessary to call one. When such a convention meets it can propose such an amendment, or amendments, and then three- fourths of the states must ratify the proposed changes to make them effective. Limit to federal taxation is bring ing action from the states. The pro posal has been made to repeal the 16th amendment and substitute one that would limit the federal to 25 per cent, leaving a share for state and local governments. With the federal government now owning a large portion of the land within the state boundaries and withholding it from state and local taxation and with the seizure of tide land oil, the federal government is depriving the states of a source of revenue. There are more and more sources of state revenue being jeopardized. Many officials fear there will be nothing left on which to levy state taxes unless a way can be found to halt the grabbing of the source of state tax revenue. When state and local govern ments can no longer finance their operations, they must, of necessity, pass out of existence, leaving all government functions to Congress. A new concept of taxes on a na tional basis is needed. Certain lev ies should be provided for the sup port of the national government with no provisions for federal “grants in aid.” Other tax fields should be left open to state and ocal governments. That would be in line with what Congress has been talking without making any attempt to effectuate their idea. Now, a constitutional convention, called by 32 state legis latures, may start the idea rolling. Want to be sure about it all? Would you like to learn more about that “club” in the hands of the states? Read Article V of the Con stitution of the United States. It is there, with the processes re quired well stated. A constitutional convention is in the making. * Our fears of the big, bad Russian Bear are home inspired, and that fear has been built for a partisan purpose. The people of Europe, 3,000 miles nearer the Red army than we are, have no thought of war with Russia. They are willing to fight if the needs come, but they have no expectation of an attack by Communistic Russia in any see- able future. Fact is, there is more likely to be a revolution within Rus sia, involving the Red army, than a World War III, but our home manufactured war scare provides an emergency'' for us. Emergen cies were the foundation on which the bureaucratic army was started and has been built, and that is defi nitely partisan political. But Celia said, “The 7th— that’s the day for luck.” ried on the 7th. And maybe she’s right! Take our son—the doctor said David would be born on June 26th. Celia said she chose July 3rd. The doctor snorted, “Choose!” But David was born on the 3rd of July at 7 o’clock- just like Celia had predicted. Her strongest belief is that things happen in 3’3. If there’s 2 big train wrecks, Celia expects the third. When David had measles and chick en pox inside of 2 months, I thought it enough. Celia said there would be more. He came down with the mumps on the 6th. If we have un expected company 2 nights in a row, Celia makes a batch of cookies and waits for someone to drop in without warning. They always dot B UT even Celia couldn’t find enough lucky omens or charms to counteract the 6th of the month that was rushing at us. Old Crawford, head of Crawford Corporation said business was so bad that half the office crew would be through on the 6th. I was one of the last taken on. The 6th was coming and I had a good idea of who was going to get a pink dismissal slip in their pay envelope. Celia said she would try to think of something. Ha! We both knew we were whistling in the dark. Early the morning of that fateful day David woke with a terrific stomach ache. Two hours later he went to the hospital for an appendi citis operation. I know, operations aren’t unusual. But it was blow number one—of three. At breakfast our toaster popped sparks and smoke instead of toast. Celia chat tered about the low cost of repairs. But I knew she was thinking to her self ‘the second trouble.’ Like they had gone into deep mourning, that’s the way the of fice force looked. I tried to write op orders like it was just any day, instead of the 6th. Celia telephoned to say she had dropped her wrist watch and broken it. Now why was a trivi al think like that worth a tele phone call! Women! Then the pay checks came. Mine didn’t have a pink slip. I could have danced on my desk top. I rushed home to tell Celia the good news and that her theory was wrong. She took it casually. “Remember my watch,” she asked blandly. “That was the third blow. See?” But do you know something fun ny? She said she dropped it. 1 found her shoe on the dresser amidst some bits of broken glass, and some glass was stuck in the heeL You don’t suppose the heel of her shoes met that watch on purpose—or, do you? SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY m- |P imM WEAR AND TEAR pVERYTHING wearing out at “ once? Your clothes busting out at the seams, your rugs parting company in the middle. Your sheets ripping all over the place? Every thing around the house, yourself included, looking like the last rose of summer? Then it’s high time to plan that stitch-in-time day! Beat the holes and the rips to it! You’re going to be plenty busy come fall, with the kids going back to school, and all your Red Cross and church and club ac tivities stepping up their pace. So now’s the time to save what you can, and make or remake, for all fabrics are getting tougher to re place! But first of all, look over your whole field of operations. What clothes can you save by the timely stitch, or by making into something else? What do you need in the way of equipment and simple tools? Check your scissors—maybe they need a trip to the hardware store for sharpening. And while you’re there, you’ll be tempted toward in vesting in regular dress-makers’ shears. They’re so easy to use, and make such a smooth edge, we bet you’ll bring home a pair! They’ll save you time, trouble and doing- over, and in the long run, considera ble money. Is your sewing-m a c h i n e in smooth working order? What’s the matter? Some parts or attach ments need repair? Take them to your sev/ing-machine dealer. And while you’re there, maybe there are some of the new attachments you could use to advantage. For time-saving—and again, in the long run, money-saving, a seam guide and a zipper foot arrangement are invaluable. Now how about those old house- dresses? They seem to have a way of wearing out in the upper part first, while the skirt still has a future? Don’t just consign them to the dust-rag drawer, but save what you can. One way is to remake ’em into aprons. Cut the waist off at the waist-line, cut down center front and back of the skirt—and there you have a base for two aprons, the sides of the skirt mak ing the front of the apron. The fops of the sleeves make excellent pockets. Who knows what that creation will start? TAPE FOR ALL Best boon to the homemaker, in many years, are the mending tapes you will find at your store. Iron and mend is this heaven-sent tape recording! There are strong mend- h.g tapes for your rugs, your car and home upholstery, for play- clothes and work-clothes, for sheets and table cloths. And what pa tience and work they save you. So hie yourself to your store, and in vest in as many kinds and colors as you could possibly need for all purposes. You’ll be making one of the most economical buys of your busy life. Thin places at the shirt-collar on your husband’s good white shirts? Press white tape on the wrong side before the shirt breaks through and he’ll never know, for he’ll see no sign of mending. The children’s jeans breaking through at the knees? There are special jean patches in both brown and blue, for reinforcing those thinning spots. Your beautiful living-room rug split by a careless heel? Press some mending tape on the wrong side under the rip, and prolong the rug’s life. Even table linens, towels and dish tovfels, mended with this ironed-on tape, will weather countless launderings. Save what you have, mend while there’s something still to mend, and from what you can’t use in its orig-* inal state, create something new. Florida Supreme Court Upholds Three Convictions TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—The Flor ida Supreme Court recently af firmed the grand larcency convic tions bf three Miami telephone girls who stole nearly $12,000 over a two- year period by hiding rolls of quar ters in their brassieres. The case made national headlines several months ago. The three girls are under sen tence of one year each. They were employed by Southern BelL Look “Real” Enough? They certainly do, these life like plastic lures that shnnlate insects and can he used ever and ever again. A small heck is embedded in the lores which are made from B. F. Goodrich Chemical Compauftr’s Geon plastic and have been success ful in taking all types of fresh water fish. At present these lures, which are manufactured by the Burke Flexo-Prodncts Company, Traverse City, Bfich., include 10 species. They are black cricket. Mayfly nymph, dragonfly nymph, crawfish, white grub, hellgrammite, baby black ant, baby crawfish and baby grub. AAA Dry Shooting Even though there is no chance for wing-shooting in the field until the open hunting seasons roll around again, it is not necessary for the serious-minded shooter, who wants to improve his marksmanship, to lay his firearms aside and wait for time to pass. Next to actual field shooting at game, clay target '“busting” pro vides best practice for the scatter- gun fan and firing at stationary tar gets or moving targets on estab lished ranges is the rifle and pistol shooter’s “meat.” In fact, clay target shooting is about the best practice a wingshot can have, as it allows him full and easy oppor tunities to correct shooting errors, find out about leads and learn to quickly adjust himself to his gun. Hand trap Win Do “If, however, no clay target shooting is handy and no shooting range facilities are available, a handtrap can provide grand, inex pensive and informal sport and a basement range with proper bullet- catcher can easily be rigged up. Even if these are not practical for the time being, the shooter need not discontinue the practice he needs so much,” according to Gail Evans, manager. Advertising and Shooting Promotion Division, Remington Arms Company, Inc. “There is another form of sheet ing practice which is of great value to the individual and which can be brought into play almost any where and any time,” says Evans. “This is known as ’dry shooting* and merely consists of simulated firing with an empty gun. This sort of practice is really a MUST for the beginner and Hie seasoned gun ner quite often brushes up on his gun handling through this method. “The best way to become accus tomed to a new gun, or the dd one, too, for that matter, is by han dling it frequently. If it is a shot gun, raise it to your shoulder quick ly, align the sights and swing on an imaginary target. Do this as fast as you can. Then after you have pressed the trigger and com pleted the follow-through swing, check your shooting position. This includes the position of your on the stock, the position of the gun butt on your shoulder and the align ment of the gun barreL Make the necessary corrections and do the same thing over again. Repeat this, time after time, and after awhile the gun will swing up to your shoul der in proper manner almost in stinctively, your head will auto matically place itself in the right spot and the whole firearm will seem to become a part of you. Practice Before Mirror “Practice this mounting of the gun, swinging and follqw-through before a mirror. This will aid you to correct your shooting position. It wiH also allow you to check up on your follow-through for you MUST remember to keep swinging after you have pressed the trigger. AAA Watch It! It won’t be too long now before upland game seasons will be open in many states. That means gun handling, of course, and, with gun handling, the need of safety pre cautions. One can’t play it too safe in the field. Gun safety is abso lutely necessary and it cannot be overemphasized. Despite the con tinual preachments against reckless gun-handling, field fatalities seem to increase rather than decrease every year. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS A INVEST. OPPOB. SIGH CLASS Palm Beach Beauty Shop. hotel vicinity, lease. Write Box 250, larxnxe Lake, New York. DOGS, CATS, PETS, ETC. ENGLISH Bulldog Puppies—AKC regis tered, 8 wks. old, white with either lawn or brindle markings. 814 W. St. Johns St., Lake City, Fla. Ph, 327-R. SIX Pointer Pups for sale, five mo. old-- Stud was by Texas Rangers High Note and out of Harrigan’s Girl. $25700 pair. T. W. BARKSDALE, GRAY COURT. S. C. FARMS A RANCHES FOR SALE—Several good farms. C. E. Gardner, Atty. Darlington, S. C. HELP WANTED—MEN, ft OMEN CHEF—A-l, well experienced In aU phases food preparation incl. baking, white or colored. Well paid, permanent position. COOKS—5 regular cooks, expe rienced and responsible, white or colored. 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