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•THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1954
INTELCIGRAM
Check the correct word:
1. (Hanoi) (Haiphong) is the principal seaport
in northern Yiet Nam.
2. The present national debt ceiling is (275)
(375) billion doUars.
3. Recent disastrous floods in Europe occurred
along the (Danube) (Elbe).
4. (Roy Campanella) (Mickey Mantle) may be
lost to baseball because of a hand injury.
5. Lightning (never) (sometimes) strikes twice
in the same place.
6. ML Rainier is in (Washington) (Oregon).
7. The standard matchbook contains (20) (25)
matches.
8. A “Joey” is a baby (kangaroo) ‘(mule).
5. Artists apply paints from a (palate) (pal
ette) (palet).
10. (Juneau) (Fairbanks) is the capital of
Alaska.
Check your answers, scoring yourself 10 points lor each
correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average;'
70-80, superior, ‘and 90-100, very superior.
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WEEKEND SPECIAL
School Time Is Almost Here Again
And We Have A Nice Selection of
Gingham In Plaids And Strips
FOR SCHOOL DRESSES
69c, 79c and 98c Per Yard
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE SEVEIC
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
4-H GROWTH
Since the Smith-Lever Act was
passed by Congress in 1914 estab
lishing cooperative e x t e n sion
work, its work with farm youth
has produced the greatest working
organization of them on earth, the
4-H Clubs.
Last year the enrollment in 4-H
clubs over the nation and in the
territories was 2,058,144 rural boys
and girls. Of this total. South
Carolina accounted for well over
52,000.
Each of these youngsters has a
home project or demonstration.
They keep a complete record of it.
Last year saw a 78.5 per cent com
pletion of the projects undertaken
and records of them submitted to
their county and home agents.
Here in South Carolina we have
three state summer camps for our
4-H youngsters, and one county
(Pickens) has a camp in its moun
tains. These camps are well equip
ped, and the three state ones run
continuously, from early June un
til late August, with permanent
staffs and well planned programs
of instruction, inspiration, and rec
reation. They serve as rewards for
i 4-H club work well done up to
that time. Each camp can accom
modate about 300. Counties are as
signed to go for a week in groups
where they alone can’t fill the
camp. The fee is nominal for such
a week’s outing.
FARM ELECTRICITY
I came along in the day of the
kerosene lamp. Before that was
the time of the lightwood knot
or splinter and the candle for
light. Those who come along now
are in the age of electricity. And
that applies to almost all of the
farms too.
The records show that 87.6 per
cent of our fai-ms now have elec
tricity. And a good many of the
remaining Jew live along existing
lines and could have it if they
wanted to. As of a year ago^ we
had 41,838 miles of rural electric
lines in South Carolina. These
served 252,080 customers. So there
are not many places now where
folks want electricity but can’t
get it.
Our 4-H youth are taught the
safe and effective use of this great
THE BAFFLES
boon to farm life in their clubs
and at their 1 summer camps.
GRASS IN COTTON
As the cotton crop matures and
the harvest nears, it is good to
check on that orab grass. If you
have any, get It out, specially if
you plan to pick .with a machine.
It is the worst weed, as far as
mechanical picking is concerned.
And morning glories are a bother
too. But they are not as bad as
crab grass. For they only bother
you in getting through .the cotton,
while the crafb grass gets in with
the cotton and shreds up with the
lint at the gin. This just about
ruins that cotton for most manu
facturing uses.
TROUBLE WITH WORDS
When I oame along, we called
mumps and measles “them.” Later
I learned tljey were singular,* just
like any other disease. Therefore
measles or mumps should be re
ferred to as ’’it” rather than
“them.”
Well, I tried for a long time to
enamel my speech by saying “it”
rather than my.accustomed "them”
when speaking of either of these
diseases. But I made a very poor
out of it. And every time I said,
“I’ve had it,” when asked about
measles or mumps, I felt awful
self-conscious. In fact I’m sure
most of those around me then felt
that I had made a mistake sure
enough.
So eventually I thought, O
what’s the use! And now I’m. na
tural. If anyone brings up the fact
that they had the measles, I chirp
right out, “I’ve had ’em too.” And
then I feel a lot better than when
I tried to be fancy and call measles
or mumps “it”. For “it” just
doesn’t sound right to my callous
ed understanding.
A BILLION
A billion is too big for most of
us to take in. I sure can’t, specially
wtoen it comes to dollars. Some
fellow has done a little figuring
that might help some.
That many dollars, end to end,
would reach around the earth
almost 4 times. If you made the
trip from New York to Chicago
19 times, jmu’d have covered al
most a billion inches. I flew across
the country in 9 hours at 300 miles
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I REMEMBER”!
BY THS OLD TIMERS
Front Pearl Bfinear, Harwood,
Texas: I remember when we first
came to Texas in 1890 from Illinois.
People drank tank water, while
only a few families had shallow
wells or cisterns.
My father and brother dug the
first deep wells on our place. They
dug our well from 15 feet to 300
feet, using steam-powered equip
ment. Some of the wells are still
in use. *
• • •
From E. G. Meyer, Duluth, Min
nesota: I remember working at the
North Pole Bakery at Nome, Alas
ka, some* 50 years ago. Almost
every customer preferred to have
their bread wrapped in old news
papers.
xThe reason: not much reading
matter around.
And by the way, in 1903 bread
sold for 10c per pound in Nome.
• • •
From Myra Day Merry, Hudson,
Wisconsin: I remember my big
scare while teaching in a rural
school in North Dakota and living
in a teacherage not far from a
rancher’s home.
I was awakened in the middle
of the night by an unfamiliar whin
ing sound. It came nearer and
nearer, until something hit the side
of the house, jarring its fragile
foundation^.
I managed to Cloze off after some
time, but was awakened suddenly.
I heard grunting and apparent
snoring.
When morning finally came, I
arose, dressed quietly and slipped
out the back door, circling the.
house at a distance until I could
see the visitor — my neighbor’s
white sow. K
(Send eontrlbntlena to this ecffumm to
The Old mer, ComAtnnlty Press Serr-
tes. Box M, Frankfort, Kentnekjr.)
T THINK that you would have to
J- look far and wide to find some
one who would not agree that busi
ness needs a shot in the arm.
My amateurish diagnosis of the
situation is that Mr. Consumer has
gotten to the point where he buys
with both eyes open. One eye on
his pocketbook, the other on the
family budget. Mr. Retailer doesn’t
have a hangover, but he’s still a
bit groggy after easy-spending war
time years.
Time was, not so long ago, when
the American consumer was mak
ing more money than ever before.
He was at the same time spending
as much of it as he could to buy
things he really didn’t need merely
because they were available and
he had the cash in his pocket. Clos
ing a sale was as easy for the
salesman as catching a trolley—
miss one, another comes along in
a minute or so.
One industrialist recently cap
suled the situation with the remark
that salesmen have been a bit slow
in recapturing their sales ability
while consumers lost little time in
rebuilding sales resistance. He
wasn’t speaking of “high pressure”
methods, either, but the ability to
convince a potential customer that
he (the customer) really needs the
item he is interested in, and that
said item is worth much more than
the customer will have to pay.
A personal thought on the sub
ject is that service is not included
in business transactions as much
as in days gone by. Customers will
buy where their business is appre
ciated. They don’t like to walk
away from a transaction with the
idea that the clerk gave the im
pression of performing a favor
while accepting their money and
wrapping the purchase.
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
WEEK-END AT GRANDDAD'S
Last week I told you of that
tight topped molasses bucket we
finally got as kids and made a
boiler out of it that blew a whistle
we Inserted in it.
Many of the common containers
of today, that we throw away and
think nothing of, would have been
our delight back in the Stone Hills
of the Dutch Fork 4-5 years go.
For making a boiler, like we did
from that bucket, the gallon tins
that oil and anti-freeze come in
would be better yet. And we’d
have stopped the holes up ip them,
I am sure, and made water wings
out of them too.
We had nothing like old pieces
of iron pipe or rubber hose. How
we would have coveted them for
various uses, specially water
siphons! We made our siphons
from crooked squash stems In
serted end to end. We’d hang
these over the side of the horse
trough and catch the water in a
tub or let it run into the wallow
hole of the hogs, if it needed it.
The water, was drawn from the 80
foot weil in an oaken bucket,
poured into a wooden trough, and
it then sped down to the horse
trough in the edge of the lot.
Water was a bit precious, and we
didn’t waste it. But we kids sure
did like to play with it. It was fun
to put chips from the woodpile
in that trough to the lot and see
each succeeding bucket of water
carry them a bit further. We
imagined they were great boats,
that we had never seen, except in
pictures.
Wire was scarce and treasured
for fixing things. If hay had been
baled witji it then, it would have
sure been to our liking. And* the
tin cans of today would have been
a delight for sure. We occasionally
got hold of a few. Mothers used
them for flower pots. But we want
ed them for “tom - walkers,”
telephones, bird nests, etc.
And we really suffered for
wheels. We’d saw ’em from the
round trunks of trees. But they’d
crack or split as they dried out.*
Cheese boxes had solid tops and
bottoms then. We spoke for these
in advance at the country store
and made “grasshoppers” out of
them that we pushed across the
hills for hours on end.
A country boy can make his fun,
if necessary from the bare earth,
as he goes along.
“The bill collectors are all gone, sir—but I suggest you
get an auto loan from Purcells soon.”
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If one has lots of small nagging debts. It's
silly to try to evade the issue, when It's bo
easy to call4hese friendly Purcell folks for
help.
PURCELLS
“Your Private Bankers”
1418 Main St ! Newberry
BUBBLE CHAMP . . . Michael
Chaplik, 14, of Chicago shows
how he won bubble gum contest
over 5,000 entrants.
per hour. I thought the propeller
was turning fast, and it was. Yet
it would take almost two years of
constant flight for it to turn a bil
lion times. And if a business had
started at the time of Christ and
had lost $1,000 a day ever since,
it would have to continue for 800
more *years at that same rate of
loss before the billion dollars
would be gone, et we spend a good
many billions of these dollars each
year now! I can’t digest it.
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