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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
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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
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Too Lucky
Of Your
For Own Good
MIND
By Lawrence Gould
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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.
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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.
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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 "
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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.
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THE
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CORNER
THE DOCTOR'S HOLIDAY
By Ralph Blanchard
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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. - -
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“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. He saw his mother rock-
•ing peacefully back and forth on
a little mountain porch. He smelled
his father’s clay pipe, and the
fragrant aroma that seemed to
follow him wherever he went. He
saw himself going to school in the
city, and, then, he saw himself
not able to stay away from the
mountains, coming back year after
year.
Suddenly he realized the battle to
pp away didn’t matter any more.
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