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THURSDAY, JUlfE 25, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE SEVEN
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e Time-Saving Bedclothes for Baby
This brand-new quilt is in
pnckered nylon with an all
nylon filling. It’s in floral pat
terns and pastel odors.
BY EDNA MILES
TLJAKING up a bed for most
* small fry requires athletic
prowess plus the vigilance of a
sheriff in a Western movie. As
fast as the bed is smooth and
neat, the small gremlin tears it
apart. The sheets either land on
the floor or engulf the bed’s oc
cupant.
Coming to mother’s aid in this
uneven battle are some recent
bedmaking innovations. First of
these is the brand-new, printed,
contour crib sheet that can’t pos
sibly pull out. Because of its
fitted corners, no pinning or
tucking is needed. It comes in
these colors, too: yellow with
green, blue with pink, and green
with yellow trim.
Puckered nylon with an all
nylon Ailing makes a light, airy,
cozy comfort-quilt that washes
easily and dries quickly. Through
washings, it retains its shape.
Furthermore, it is moth and mil
dew resistant.
This is ideal for babies who
are allergic to wool. But it’s
also ideal for mothers who are
allergic to the idea of slaving
over a wash tub. It cuts down
on the need for large stacks of
bedding for baby and makes it
possible to save on both money
and space.
This is in floral patterns and
comes in the pastels: pink, blue,
white and maize.
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This new fitted crib sheet stays smooth and tidy no matter how
much a baby kicks and tumbles about in bed. It’s printed with
a gay bunny pattern in bright colors attractive to children.
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
NEW CROPS
In this changing agriculture,
new crops are always coming in.
Down in Berkeley, County
Agent Mason told me a cucumber
pickle plant was being built at
Boinneau. And an acreage to sup
port it has been contracted for
and was growing in the field when
I was there.
And in the Upper Piedmont, the
agents assisted with a pimiento
pepper project that absorbed all
of the contracted acreage a Geor
gia canning firm could handle.
The aromatic or Turkish to
bacco project that Clemson has
been working on now for a num
ber of years, in cooperation with
Duke University, got on about its
most solid ground this year. Up
to now curing it has been the bot
tle neck. But Clemson has been
working on that. And our special
tobacco agent, Don Matheson, of
Oconee county tells me they have
It whipped. Up to now it had to
be laboriously hand strung and
cured in the sun. Now “Red”
Martin and those at Clemson have
worked out the method for curing
il loose with artificial heat, much
as bright tobacco in the Low
Country is cured. And, according
to Don, that was the biggest
boost this new crop has received
since we first started working
with it a good many years ago.
Looks like it is ready to go now,
as a general field crop, that a
family can handle enough of to
count for a lot.
And in the Low Country, it
looks like commercial rice pro
duction might be on its way back.
The old way with it there call
ed for a lot of hand labor. Now
it comes bn the wheels of great
machines that do all phases of the
work and little labor is needed.
BLOAT
On the poor pastures of the
past, few knew what bloat in cat
tle was. But in late years many
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a farm with finp year-around past
ures had found out what it was.
A good many cattle have been
lost from it. And, it seems, the
better the pasture, the more like
ly you are to have bloat up in
some of the cattle in the spring.
County Agent Bob Bailey of
Richland tells me they have plow
ed up some pure stands of Ladino
clover where it ran the grasses
out. For pure lush clover is
bad for causing cattle to bloat.
But he tells me they have had it
some from rank growths of pure
grain or grasses too.
He said various remedies were
used. And they were usually ef
fective, if you get to the affected
animals in time. But that entails
seeing your cattle every hour or
so when they are on such rank
grazing during April and part of
May. After that the grazing gets
tougher and more mature and
does not cause nearly the trouble
it does earlier.
Various treatments for bloat
are used, too many to get into
here. Ask your county agent or
veterinary friend.
If you like the wild granduer
of the few spots on this world as
it used to be, stop in and see a
part of the Great Okenfenokee in
South Georgia when you are down
that way.
Thrilled and stilled, as with
great music, I saw new vistas un
fold as we rounded each turn on
last Good Friday, when we went
13 miles into that Land of Tremb
ling Earth, alligators, and float
ing islands of indescribable beauty.
There, in a tropical wilderness
of 600,000 acres, we find the Bald
Eagle, the alligator, the otter,
and many other living things mak
ing one of their last great stands
against the encroachments of man.
And, thanks be, the Government
has acquired most of it as an
everlasting home for the wild
creatures that have come back
there in. abundance.
It starts just below Waycross
and extends 40 miles to the
Florida border, and the area Is
from 15 to 25 miles wide. “Noth
ing else like it on earth,” says
one writer. And another, “Per
haps another coal field In the
making.” Roughly, it is 85 per-
Have you heard the one
about the traveling
salesman who bought
a Smith-Corona
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only 9 lbs. Fits in a briefcase—is
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and takes full-size stationery.
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The Sun Office
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
Winter saw the candy pullin’
and the dead-fall come in season
with us country boys in the Stone
Hills.
We grew our own syrup with
sorghum. It often soured or turn
ed to sugar when warm weather
came. So our folks were rather
free with it in the winter. It
was used a lot in making ginger
bread and snaps. And they let
us have it for candy pullin’s.
As I recall, we would cook it
until it would rope or thread good
off the spoon. Then we’d take it
off and pour it out on a tray on
the back porch to cool a bit. As
soon as It got cool enough, we’d
take a hunk about as big as a
cocoanut and start pulling it.
Usually two would work together
on that. And, you know, before you
knew it, that stuff would make
blisters come on the toughest
hands. We had to watch out and
be careful about that.
We’d start eating as soon as we
started pulling. And when it had
taken on that tempting light
amber color and was really ready
to eat, we usually had enough al
ready. These candy pullings were
favorites for a party. A shy boy
and girl teamed up on it. The
thrill from that was occasionally
being able to touch her hand in
that process.
Some of the kids often did a
rather heartless thing in winter.
During bad weather, specially when
snow was heavy on the ground
and birds were hungry, they would
fix a dead-fall somewhere down
at the barn. It was a heavy
board. They would prop one end
of it up with a stick and put some
sort of grain or grits under it. A
long rope was tied to that prop
and the boy hide behind a foeffler
stack or something. When birds
came and were feeding under the
board, they would jerk the stick
from under it, letting it fall and
get the birds. But our folks
wouldn’t let us do that, if they
knew it. It was a cruel thing.
cent water and 15 percent land or
islands. But it looks like almost
all land, so profuse is the tropical
growth over it and so numerous
and extended the floating Islands,
yes, with trees growing on many
of them. You punch a hole through
the mattress underfoot and catch
fish in the water beneath it!
Out of this vast area flows two
rivers, the Suwanee to the Gulf
and the St. Mary’s to the Atlantic.
But very little outside water
comes into it. Rainfall and per
haps hidden springs supply it
A wonderland, for sure, the Great
Okef enokee!
This an' That
Ben Hogan, perhaps the greatest
golfer of them all, announced he
would like to play In the British
Open Golf Tournament but un
derstood that all accommodations
near the course at Carnousle, Scot
land, were filled. Announced J- A.
Walker, manager of the one hotel,
"I'll give the Texas star my own
room and bed if nothing else can
be found . . • The Chicago Cubs’
grab of home ran king Ralph Kiner
from the Pittsburgh Pirates is be
ing called one ef baseball his
tory’s most spectacular deals. He
was already eu the field at Pitts
burgh taking betting practice with
the Pirates when he was traded
to the Cubs- He Jest changed uni
forms and went to hat against his
eld teommstss The Pirates get six
players and an fihiiil11
In hard, said oaah.
LIFEGUARD . . Shapely Chic
James works at Jqb as lifeguard
at Palisades. N. J.. amusement
park. She began swimming at
age of 6 and turned pro in 1841
AARON L. ROTLTOQI
9. 9. Rant*) »nd 8«ol*) Hyglan* Soolaty
Furman UalTaralty Offloaa
Oraan-rlUa, Sooth Carolina
BORDERLINE VICTIMS
OF OUR SOCIETY
Hi" face was swollen and blue
and oiood matted his hair. Police
officers had just delivered him to
the state mental hospital. Detected
in the act of stealing a pair of
pants from a laundry, he had
tried to get away, but blackjack
and pistol butt subdued him. At
the city hall it was learned that
he had been a patient at the state
mental hospital and he was re
turned for the third time.
He said, “Doc, my trouble Is I
got just enough sense to know 1
ain’t got good sense; just enough
to want some more. I want what
others want, but they won’t let
me have a job.”
This young man is representative
of a growing number of victims
of our complicated society. Find
ing it Impossible to keep up in
school, they drop out to work, only
to discover that there isn't a job
for them. Idleness leads to de
structive habits, and they steal,
fight, or get into other difficulties
with society and the law. Efforts
to control them, which they do
not understand, often lead to
emotional upsets, which, when
there seems not to be a solution,
are interpreted as "psychotic
episodes” and they are sent to
the state hospital.
They may make a rapid adjust
ment to the protective hospital
environment and be sent home for
trial visit, only to be returned
forcefully at the slightest incident
UNABLE TO KEEP UP.
Some have asked why write
about “returned” children when
they are such a small minority,
and again we hesitate to use the
word lest it become a lable. Even
if there were only a few, each
has a right to the kind of atten
tion that would best fit him for
life. But the truth is that by the
end of the third grade about
twenty-five percent of children
have not completed school work in
keeping with their ages, and by
the end of the compulsory school
period the number has increased
to about fifty percent. This makes
it everybody’s business.
Low intelligence is the chief
cause of children being behind
their age group in school, but
there are many other factors.
Physical defects such as sensory,
motor, and speech handicaps are
among the most common. Emo
tional conflicts, personality and be
havior problems likewise are com
mon.
Poor family and community con
ditions sponsor destructive rather
than constructive habits. Learning
difficulties include lack of readi
ness to enter school, inadequate
background preparation for more
advanced work, change of schools,
too little individual attention, and
ineffective teaching and guidance.
Several modern developments
have forced the problem of "slow”
children into public consciousness.
In an agricultural society those
who didn’t “take to. learnin* ” were
useful in tending the crops and
animals. Many could marry and
operate their own farms as
adequately as their neighbor, find
ing happiness in a non-competitive
community.
Such children were an asset in
early industrial society until child
labor laws stopped their exploita
tion. Then adults who had not
kept up educationally began to
find themselves left out, as em
ployers began relying on “pencil
and paper tests’’ in placing em
ployees. The poorly trained per
son is discovered immediately and
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BY THE OLD TIMERS
From Mrs. Maggie Smith, Laurel
Springs, N. C.: I remember when
it was proper for a boy who want
ed to go with a girl to write her
in the following form:
O. Mack S presents
his compliments to Miss Maggie
C and asks for the
pleasure of her company to the
school picnic on Theresa Moun
tain, May 21, 1883.
And the young lady answered
like this:
Maggie C sends her
compliments to Mr. O. Mack
S and accepts his
company to the school picnic on
Theresa Mountain May 21, 1883.
• • •
' From Mrs. Fan Nettle, Clinton,
Montana: I remember when as a
child 72 years ago we lived in
Hardscrable, VL We had a small
place and made maple sugar.
Mother would skim the cream off
a large pan of clabbered milk. We
would scrape the sugar off the
sugar loaf and put It on the clab
ber milk and eat it with a spoon.
It was delicious.
• • •
From Mrs. R. W. Nobles, Chad-
burn, N. C.x I remember having
to walk a foot-log on the way to
school after a rain had overrun a
branch adjoining the mill pond,
and how the whirling black water
caused my head to swim until,
screaming with fright, I was afraid
to go forward or backward. The
rest of the group safely across
tried to persuade me to join them.
I can still close my eyes and see
that rushing stream beneath my
feet. It makes me shudder.
MaU your eontrlbntlon for this col-
amn to The 014 Timer, Community
Fress Service. Box 89. Frankfort. Ken-
tacky.
is turned away. Thus families are
finding the “slow” on their hands
as non-productive members of
society who must be cared for
throughout their lives.
Another development which has
placed the spot-light on the slow
er child is the compulsory educa
tion laws, requiring attendance
until fourteen, sixteen, and even
eighteen years of age. Many thus
kept in school just cannot keep
up with “the average.” (
What is to be done about this
twenty-five to fifty percent of
students? Are they a responsibil
ity of the home alone, of the pub
lic school, private schools, or state
schools and hospitals?
Net week: The Parent and th«
Slow Child.
KEEP COOL
By Bess Leeke
TY7E—Lefty, the boss, me, and
YV Gus—was drivin’ South for our
health, you might say, (Chicago
ain’t so healthy no more) when we
pass this little town down in Ken
tucky. I just about missed it but
Lefty sure didn’t His eyes latched
onto that bank building like flies
on honey.
"You see that,” he yelled, ”A
bank in this town.**
“What about it?** I asked him.
To us, banks can’t mean nothing
but trouble.
“Look at the people goin’ in
there. The dang place Is full of
’em.”
“Where’d they get the money to
put in banks?** I asked.
“Probably got oil back In the
hills.” Gus nut in.
“On in Kentucky?” Lefty sneer
ed, “I ain’t never heard of it.”
“They got oil ever’where else.”
Gus said. "What’s wrong with Ken
tucky? Last week I read a book—”
“Okay,” Lefty grunted. “Don’t
get started on them books again.”.
That just shows you how ideas get
started. I had the Idea we oughta
keep goln*. Lefty had the idea that
a bank way out In the middle of
nowhere was a push over. Gus
don’t have ideas.
Lefty’s idea was, we go to soon’s
the guy gets there to open up next
morning, get the dough and beat
it before anybody knows what
happened. We’re already in troub
le, so I ain’t for the idea a bit but
like I said Lefty’s boss. To make
it worse, it’s hotter’n blue-blazes.
It’s so hot it makes you think may
be you ought to start livin’ better.
Well, we stick it out—sweatin,’
ail night not to mention gettin’
scared to death when some old
hound dog takes off after a pos
sum. I ain’t never seen of possum.
Still don’t know what it is, but it’s
bound to be somethin’ terrible the
way the dog was takin’ on. howlin’
and barkin’ like lie was strugglin’
with the deviL
Some old guy w^th a gun big as
he was stopped where we parked
the car to sleep but instead was
sitting bug-eyed listenin' to that
dog.
“You fellers from the city?” he
asked.
We nodded. -
"Thought so. Ain’t nothin’ to git
skeered of. That’s just old Sim
after a possum. Sim’s my dawg.”
“Yeh?” Lefty said. “Ain’t you
afraid that possum’s gonna hurt
him?” /«
“Shucks no. Sim ain’t even got
him yit.’’
“You mean he sounds like that
when he ain’t dying?”
The old man sneered at us,
♦‘Ain’t you never heard a hound
dawg before? City folks—huh!”
That blamed dog took on all
night so we wa’n’t fit for nothin’
the next momin’. But Lefty had
to go through with it and boy, it
was hotter’n the day before.
‘Bout eight-thirty we was waitin’
for the bank to open. It looked easy
enough. Wa’n’t a soul to sight when
the guy opened up. Gus stayed in
the car and me and Lefty went
inside.
It wa’n’t much of a bank but the
minute I put my foot in the door
I thought I’d died and gone straight
to heaven. The danged place was
air-conditioned. This was one time
I was going to enjoy working.
Lefty growled, “Okay, bud. this
is a stick-up. Push the dough over
the counter and no funny business
or you’ll get it right between the
eyes.”
We ain’t never shot nobody but
that helps ’em hurry it up. That
guy’s eyes got big as balloons and
he started stacking money on the
counter Right then, the door open
ed and them dem people started
pourin’ to. Now just think, suppose
you was right in the middle of a
stick up and suddenly you had
more witnesses than you could
handle. Yeh, that’s what we did,
too. We took for the door.
“They robbed the bank!”
- Well, brother, that was the end.
Five minutes later/ the sheriff was
draggm’ us off to the clink.
“You ought to know better’n try
to stick up that bank." the sheriff
tolft us. “It’s the only place for
fifteen miles that’s got air-condi
tioning.
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