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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. r— Careless Drivers Everyone recognizes that the automobile plays an important, but , indirect, part in harvesting the an nual wildlife crop by transp9rting sportsmen to and from the hunting fields. But comparatively few give much thought to the devastating wildlife toll the automobile itself takes* on America's highways. Surwv everybody who drives on highways or rural roads sees the dead bodies of rabbits, opossums, skunks, and other game species but generally accepts these occurrences as naturul tragedies of the road with no thought of the total effect. Important Tools Certainly sporting firearms, next S to Nature rtself, are the most im portant tools in harvesting the an nual wildlife crop. This is proper as the kill is crlean and the meat is seldom wasted. But game killed on the highways by automobiles is al most always a total loss, a loss that mounts in importance because most of these deaths occur during the breeding and rearing seasons. While no accurate figures are available, and it would be hardly possible to obtain them, it would be no exaggeration to say the total for the entire country runs into staggering numbers. The Kentucky State Division of Game and Fish has just released some figures for the first eight months of 1951. These figures are admittedly incomplete as a few of the 108 observers in all districts of the state were not em ployed during the entire eight months period. But they show that 13,267 edible game birds and ani mals were killed on Kentucky’s high ways during two-thirds of the past year. TTiese figures do not include the toll taken from the state’s pop ulation of red and gray foxes, skunk, mink, or song birds, not gen erally considered as part of the sportsman’s larder. . Kentucky Figures Cited If Kentucky’s conservative figures were to be used as a measuring stick for the whole country and thus multiplied by 48, the loss in edible game to highway deaths would be well over 600,000 game birds and/or animals for the period. Disregarding the remaining four months of the year and using 600,000 as a total, which would certainly be an ultra conservative figure, this represents a considerable poundage of delicious and highly-prized meat lost to the sportsmen’s table through the care lessness of thoughtless drivers. The rabbit was the greatest suf ferer froixf this toll. This is to be ex pected for this species has a wide range and its inclination to cross highways and even play in them is well known. The opossum was next in misfortune, which is in line with observations made in other states. Conservative Estimate It would be again conservative to estimate this meat loss at 1,200,- pounds, or 2 pounds to the bird or animal. Placing a value of $2 per pound on it would bring the mon etary figure close to $2,500,000. AAA Big Trout Before casting a fly to a feeding big trout a skilled angler may spend quite a bit of time watching the trout. He observes the position of the fish as he waits for his food. He sees where the trout is watching for his food. He observes the current and figures out a way to approach within casting distance without dis- turbing the feeding fish. Having gathered all this data, he works himself into position for the cast, and then places his fly exactly where he wants it. If he gets a strike at all, he usually gets it on the first cast. If he gets no strike on the first cast, he should wait quietly for a considerable length of time before making another. When no evidence of a feeding trout is seen on a rtfe, it usually means that the trout are feeding very close to the bottom if they are feeding there at all. To work a riffle under such conditions a fisherman feels his way along, combing out the water with his casts from one end of the riffle to the other. If he gets strikes from small trout he may be fairly sure that no big ones are work ing in the vicinity. If he gets no strikes at all, he may be reasonably sure that no big trout are at that moment larking in the riffles. Basis for this assumption is the fact that trout generally go into a riffle for the purpose of feeding. When they are not feeding, they retire to less troubled waters. Finding no success in the riffles, an experienced fisherman continues his fishing in the deep, slow moving water below the riffles. This is the place where big trout lie up between feeding periods. AAA Imagination Pays An angler’s imagination is his most valuable asset in fishing a wet fly or nymph. He can’t see beneath the water, but he can imagine what hi* fly is doing, aided by the move ment of the line and leader. He can try giving it just as many different actions as his imagination can de vise, and frequently he will discover that only one will make the trout a wet fly is effective along the surface. MIRROR v’ ' ■ \ i •*. -vV ' jt.v t i Too Lucky Of Your For Own Good MIND By Lawrence Gould yy.-»:4yx<-6M6iMSc^ti MEETS MARIO . . . Raphela Fasana, 10, is granted what might have been her dying wish as she meets Mario Lanza. The girl flew from Newark to L.A., and Lanza was on hand to greet her. The star sang to her 'over national hookup and she expressed wish to meet him in person. Mrs. Lanza looks on approvingly. Can you be too lucky Answer: Yes. Some of the most unhappy people I have known owe their unhappiness to having “got away with” too much in their child hood and early maturity. A young man with too much money, an ex ceptionally beautiful girl or a per son with an “iron constitution” may manage for years to escape the con sequences of behavior which would bring disaster to most people, and come to believe that he or she is “above the rules.” But eventually reality asserts itself and the later anyone has to begin adjusting to it, the more likely it is that the task will be beyond him. If you were not “born lucky,” you should probably be thankful. 3% a Do children “adjust” well to operations? b Answer: Most do in the long run, but there are considerable differ ences, reports Barbara Davis in Smith College Studies of Social Work. Study of the after-effects on a number of children of having their tonsils removed showed that the success of their adjustment to this strange and unpleasant experience for your own good? depended on their relation with their mothers. When this was healthy, the child was better pre pared for what he had to face, and better preparation meant better ad justment afterwards. Incidentally, there is a growing trend in hos pitals to let mothers spend much more time with child patients than the usual “visiting hours.” Are symbols a “universal language”? Answer: Those of one type are, writes Erich Fromm, Ph.D., in his new book "The Forgotten Lan guage.” There are “conventional” symbols like the use of the spoken or written word “table” to stand for a certain kind of object. There are “accidental” symbols like the way in which a place where you have been unhappy comes to repre sent unhappiness in your dreams. And there are “universal” symbols “in which there is an intrinsic rela tionship between the symbol and that which it represents”—as seeing symbolizes understanding. Out of these last is built the universal but forgotten language of dreams, fairy tales and folk-lore. I KEEPING HEALTHY \ Heart Disease Is Hazard to Doctors By Dr. James W. Barton I NSURANCE STATISTICS and other reliable sources of infor mation show that, as a class, physi cians themselves are sufferers with heart disease, especially coronary thrombosis (heart stroke). As coronary thrombosis Is as sociated with high blood pressure and high blood pressure in the majority of cases is associated with or related to tension of nerves and muscles and emo tional disturbances, it can be seen how the had life of the physician with Its Irregularity of meals and sleep can upset not only the heart but the workings of,all the body processes. Life is Indeed difficult for the busy general practitioner or the spe cialist engaged in performing dangerous operations and giving decisions on cases that mean life or death. It is interesting to read of the find ings of two New York physicians, Drs. Arthur M. Master and Kenneth Chesky. In The Canadian Doctor we read that heart disease was classified as an occupational hazard of the medical profession. Stating that coronary heart disease is the greatest killer of doctors, these two physicians told the New York state medical society that heart and blood vessel examinations of 200 doctors at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City, showed that nearly 65 per cent (about 2 of every 3) had the disease or were potential victims. The doc tors ranged in age from 40 to 81. The report disclosed that the great majority of the examined physicians were overweight, lead ing to the conclusion that “there is probably a definite relationship be tween obesity and the development of coronary thrombosis.” Our life insurance physicians are well aware of the relationship of obesity to coronary thrombosis as they reject those applying for life insurance if they are more than 10 per cent overweight. HEALTH NOTES Only when enlarged tonsils are so large as to cause breathing diffi culties should they be removed. * • • It is histamine that enables man to do his best if he has to fight or flee in an emergency. • • • It is encouraging to see the in creasing number of schools which have full- or part-time physicians in attendance and full-time nurses. If the amount of calcium in the blood is low, there is frequent weak ening and breaking of the bones. • • • If you wish to reduce, continue to eat proteins, but cut down by 25 per cent on all liquids, fats and starches. . * * * Many older people feel that meat is not good for them, but doctors say proteins are needed from in fancy through old age. HARVEY GIRLS First Restaurant At Topeka, Kan., 75 Years Ago In 1876 a young man named Fred Harvey opened a restaurant in a little red depot at Topeka, Kansas. In seventy-five years the business Fred Harvey started in this mod est way has become a great sys tem of resort hotels, restaurants, rhops, and newsstands extending from the Great Lakes to the Pa cific Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. The story of Fred Harvey is a Horatio Alger chronicle spiced with the romance of pioneer days in the West. Harvey was a lad of fifteen when he left London for America. "ft r i By INEZ GERHARD F RIENDS of Frederic March’s who have seen a preview of the film version of “Death of a Salesman” are telling him to pre pare a third niche on his Oscar shelf. March has twice won the coveted “Best performance by an Actor” award, for his performances in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Best Years of Our Lives”. Now, HoDywood insists that his portrayal of “Willy Loman”, the ill-fated salesman, tops anything he has done heretofore. Many members of the original cast of the play were brought to Hollywood to recreate their roles in the picture. The play won both the 1948 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Circle Critics Award. On New Year’s Eve Mutual Broadcasting System launched its biggest line-up of nighttime pro grams, with Bette Davis making her bow in the opening perform ance of her first regular radio BETTE DAVIS series. More than 100 Hollywood stars will be heard in ten top shows produced by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, through an exclusive agree ment with the broadcasting system. 22,000 persons from 1200 cities saw parts of “The Korean Story” being photographed while the com pany was on location in Colorado Springs. A Visitors’ Scroll was set up in the main village set, and everybody was asked to sign it. Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Great est Show on Earth” is all that Paramount has claimed for it— which is saying plenty! Any pic ture that can run for two hours and thirty-three minutes and hold its audience to the very end has to be something special. The great Ring- ling Bros, circus is magnificently portrayed; the back-stage scenes are of especial interest. Art toM*M *t l|» 4 " ■ AM His earliest interests were in the restaurant business. Later the railroads pioneering into the West captured his imagination. As a traveling freight agent, he was an noyed by the bad food, the dirty, bug-ridden quarters, and the rack eteering, “customer - be - darned” business methods he encountered at railroad eating houses and’ hotels. Determined to better the lot of the traveler, Harvey intrigued the Santa Fe Railway into letting him open a restaurant in their Topeka station. Thus began the business destined to enrich the West with many colorful traditions. The ap peal of the Harvey Girls, comely waitresses recruited from the East, and the good food, service, and honest business methods earned for Fred Harvey the title “Civil izer of the West.” Harvey Houses were established in the 1880’s and 90’s every 100 miles along the tracks of the Santa Fe Railway. At meal stops passen gers were welcomed to Harvey hospitality with “thirty minutes for dinner” by a bong of a big brass gong. The seventy-five cent din ner included as many as seven en trees. Meal prices were apologeti cally raised to a dollar in 1920, and remained about a dollar until 1927. THIS YEAR the Fred Harvey system is celebrating its diamond jubilee, three quarters of a cen tury of continuous Harvey family management. The founder’s son, B. S. Harvey, is chairman of the board. His three grandsons are president, Byron Harvey, Jr., and vice presidents, Stewart and Dag gett Harvey. Today the business employs 6000, hands out around 31 million meal checks a year, and grosses about ; $30 million. The company oper ates fifty-five restaurants and twelve resort Hotels, the best known of which are El Tovar and Bright Angel Lodge at the Grand Canyon and La Fonda at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Fred Harvey operates 100 dining cars on the Santa Fe, runs the concessions at the big union rail terminals in Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Kan sas City, Los Angeles, and other cities, and at the Albuquerque, New Mexico Municipal Airport. Important events in the com pany’s rehabilitation and expan sion program this 75th Anniver sary year are the opening of new Fred Harvey restaurants at either end of Chicago’s swank Michigan Avenue. The Bowl and Bottle is located at Jackson Boulevard on South Michigan Avenue. On North Michigan, in the world famous Palmolive Building in the center of Chicago’s fashionable Near North Side, are the Harlequin Room and the Harvey House Grill. Expanding The chemical industry, which uses about 20 million tons of coal a year, is in the midst of its larg est expansion program in history. SSWORD PUZZLE LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ^ ACROSS 1. Reach across 5. Performs 9. Feminine name 10. Genus of plants 11. Medieval helmet 12. City (Fla.) 14. Tear 15. The muermo 17. River (It.) 18. Type * measure 19. Ravel out 20. Perched 21. Coverlet 23. River (Afr.) 24. Lamprey 25. Gear-wheel tooth 26. Fish 28. Confirmed 31. Goddess of death (Norse) 32. Chills and fever 33. Bombycld moth 34. Conjunction 35. Bang 36. One-spot card 37. Inner court yard (Sp.) 39. Pieces of skeleton - 41. Italian ^ coins 4& Compass point 43. Scotch river (poss.) 44. Carting vehicle DOWN 1. Stint , 2. Showy * display 3. Part of “to be” 4. Innate 5. An exposed hand (cards) 6. Hodgepodge 7. Girl’s name 8. Flat- bottomed boat (Chin.) 11. God of war 13. Particle 16. Youth 19. Nourish 20. Medieval tale 22. Genuine 23. Ripped 25. Broke, into fragments, as bread 26. Store 27. Usher in 28. Moslem title 39. Minute accuracy 30. Digits 32. Fragrant wood (pi.) 35. Title qf respect UEldS ramoii aanw anrauu riHumK finimiian nun mi UNULlMiiH HUUfl HHFJIJIIM [ I4HIJ UUM ULlLTUUi:] LCHUkl nuBHiiaoi we [Tinia nnunHsi Hciuian riMfiiui □HHU UkSIin HI4I7M MUHId no. o-a 36. Handle (Rom. Antlq.) 38. Bind 40. Rowing implement rr w 18 26 SI 34- I 24 rF is 32 28 to 12 Vf 23 8 20 36 IT THE FICTION CORNER THE DOCTOR'S HOLIDAY By Ralph Blanchard -1 J US i The clerk could see he had 9 dif ficult customer, so he put every thing he had into his sales talk. “These socks are the very latest g| pattern; the colors are fast; hole- proof; won’t shrink; priced far lower than you will find elsewhere. And a very'good yarn it is, too.” The customer eyed the sales man a moment and said, “Yeah, and you tell it very welL” Slip of Tongne The chief of the railroad’s claim agency found it hard to believe the report submitted by one of his men which stated that the farmer had lost 2,025 pigs through the road’s negligence, and, of course, he went out to the farm to inter view the shipper again. “That’s a lot of pigs,” the chief growled to the farmer, you sure you lost that many?” “Yeth,” lisped the farmer. “Thanks,” said the wise claims chief and changed the original re port to read; “Two sows and twenty-five pigs.” Sad Many a man thinks he’s cultivated when he's only trimmed. T HE FRIENDS of James Keenan often wondered why he should always spend his vacation in so dull and obscure a place as the sleepy little mountain community of Boone ville. 11 was one of * a hundred small mountain tcAms in the western •Minutd Fiction part of North Carolina. Surely, they reasoned, a person who was ac customed to the many attractions of a city could never be content with a place that consisted of one main street and a square dance every Saturday night. For a surgeon, there was little hope of a future in such a place. It was .more than merely a love for the mountains that James felt for this community, for had it been only this, he could have found a thousand places more near the city and his hospital. One night he was sitting in his room reading when there was a knock at the door. He put the book down and asked, “Who is it?” “Doctor, let me in.” The voice seemed breathless and frightened “Please, I must see you.” He went to the door and opened it. A girl entered the room. She was young, not more than twenty. Black hair stuck out from under the red ’kerchief and .her plaid shirt had come out <*f the dungarees. She looked tired. “Here, sit down,’.* James sug gested. “I don’t have time.” She leaned back against the wall. “You must come with me.” “Now wait a minute . . .” The girl looked up at- Keenan and bit her lip. “Dr. Johnson is sick GRASSROOTS Government Employees Vote Selves Above Nation By Wright A. Patterson 1 WAS RIDING through the Cali fornia southland south of Los Angeles with a friend, and we passed one of the two large marine camps in that section. As we ap proached it, a long string of auto mobiles was passing through the gate, outward bound. It was four o’clock, quitting time for the civili ans employed at that camp. As we waited for a break in that line of cars that would let us pass. I noticed my friend was counting the occupants of the passing cars. When he had reached a number well over 100, I asked his reason for what he was doing. He explained that the men in the cars were civili an employees of the camp, they were in no way a part of the armed forces of the nation, they would not wear uniforms, though most of them were of military age. Their homes and families were in the surround ing towns, and they vote where they live. Their votes are cast for Demo cratic candidates for congressmen, United States senators, governors, members of state legislatures. President and vice president, and for any and all whose names appear on a Democratic ticket. “The men in those automobiles,’/ he continued, “are but a small part of the greatest political machine ever known in this nation. Such ma chines as Tammany in New York city! the Hague machine in New Jersey, those in Chicago, Memphis, or the Pendergast machine in Kan sas City, the' operations of which sent Tom Pendergast to prison, not before he had taught his students the methods of organizing and op erating such organizations, were but local. "The Truman machine covers the nation, and effects the elections in every state. The many thousands, a total of more than 2,300,000, who pour out of such buildings as the enormous Pentagon, represent the Democratic machine, and the mem bers are scattered from coast to coast. “For example: There are more people on the federal payroll in California than all the employees of the state government, those of the counties and the municipalities, in cluding all the school teachers and all the police. Those on the federal payroll, their relatives and friends, will vote the Democratic ticket, in effort to hold onto government jobs. They know which side of their bread the butter is on. “For all of it we, the American tax payers, must provide the wages that run into billions of dollars each year. W<“ are paying for the votes with which the president hopes to be re-elected, find the election of a Democratic Congress. “It means a terrific handicap for the Republicans to overcome.” The occupants of those passing cars were but a small part of that ma chine.” As we waited and watched those civilian employees pouring out of the El Torro gates, I realized, as I never had before, what a handicap faced the Republicans in the elec tions of 1952, more than nine mil lion purchased votes that civilian jobs were buying, though they actu ally represented but a small frac tion of the total of job purchased votes in California. They will be cast for Harry S. Truman for Presi dent. * The Farm Journal wished to print the facts regarding the potato mar keting agreement of last year. The department of agriculture had ail the facts, but refused to let them be known, even to the farm organiza tions. The Farm Journal, at much effort and great cost, dug them out. Those facts reflected on the judg-’ meht of the administration, and the department of agriculture and the President did not want the people to have them. We are rapidly developing secret methods in the conduct of govern ment. The people will be told only what the administration wants them to know. The shady transaction of government officials will be covered up in so far as government depart ments are able to cover them, and that will encourage more such legal or moral shortcomings on the part of government officials. Secrecy in government means an invitation to corruption in government. Beware of those who propose in discriminate paying of doles to all willing, or who can be induced to accept. It will not be long until there will be nothing left with which to pay those doles. Industry will be dead, and there will be no jobs for those willing to work for their sus tenance. i. - - --fe “I’m not scared, now that you're coming,** she answered. and can’t come. You're the only doctor left in these parts.'* “Well, tell me what's wrong.’* “Its Paw. He’s deathly sick. You’ve got to come with me.” James saw for the first time that' she was really frightened. He ran to his closet for the small black case that never left his side. “Let’s go,” he told the girl. I N a moment they were in his car speeding along * mountain roads. On a straight stretch, James turned and looked at the gill. For a moment he thought he had made a mistake. He would have sworn that this was not the same girl that had entered his room only minutes before. She looked straight ahead, but her ’kerchief had fallen around her neck and now her soft black hair streamed down and framed her face untouched by the modern devices of simulated beau ty. Her features were tense and drawn, however. “Are you all right?” James asked her. She turned and looked up at him, a smile forming on her lips. ‘Tm not seared, now that you’re coming,” she answered. When they finally reached the small mountain cabin they found her father just as she had left him. There was another child, but no mother to greet the doctor and girl. The little boy was sitting in a chair watching his father when they en tered. ; After it was over, James assured the girl that her father would be all right. He walked out onto the porch and sat down in one of the flimsy rock ing chairs. TTie moonlight was bright and he could make out the mountain ridge. Behind him he heard the door open. He didn't turn. The girt walked around the chair and leaned np against the railing. She had pushed her plaid shirt back into her dungarees, and brushed her hair. She looked out over the Talley and breathed deeply. The doctor looked at her. Until now he had never looked at a woman except as p patient. Some thing inside James seemed to melt, and he saw once again his child hood that he had so strongly tried to forget. 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