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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
SPECTATOR
Our General Assembly will, of
course, find the way to correct
t-he anomalous provision by which
a Highway patrolman loses his
salary while unable to work be
cause of injuries suffered in the
service of the State. While cor
recting that let us remember the
so-called State Constables; Sled.
The law as it now is instead
of offering a premium for valor
in the performance of hazardous
service almost suggests that of
ficers avoid the risks necessarily
a part of competent police service.
and until late at night so that he
might have tea at any hour and
carried to his bedside table a bot
tle of tea so he might have tea if
he walked in the night.
But it was true all the same.
Now if my friend challenges me
about the barber shop, I’ll relate
my experience. I was in Edinburg,
Scotland, looking as though 1
were preparing for the Lexington
celebration, much bewhiskered,but
not quite as adorned as my friend
Floyd Spence and Ryan Shealy. 1
walked up and down beautiful
Prince’s street, inquiring of many
men for a barber shop. After seek
ing in vain for an hour I met a
man the second time. And he ask
ed “What did you ask for? A bar
ber shop.’’ “Yes,” he said, “ I
know, but what you want” ? “A
shave,” I said. “A shave? Why
right in here— the hair dressers.”
And there he dressed off my face
covering, with a sharp razor.
Mr. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is
now President of the United
States; the Congress is in session
and the General Assembly of this
State is now at work. And all’s
well.
As I recall, the lookout on a
ship at sea calls out everything
he sees and calls the hour—12
noon and all’s well. So we may
trustingly say. ~~
Nearly all public services are Ihey say that people aie bu>-
calling for more money. That al- ing more and more liquid foods.
2lost always follows growth or “The business is growing so
expansion. The money isn’t wast- fast that sales estimates and mar-
ed. There is a question, however, keting plans are outdated almost
as to what we can afford. Econo- as rapidly as they appear. Top
xnics as applied to the State is industry sources figure over-all
just as we have it in our personal sa les are running now at an an-
budget. We may need a new car nua i pace 0 f around $100 million
and new clothes and, perhaps, a or m0 re.
Makers admit the products are
simple. Basically, they are a mix
ture of powdered skim milk, soy
bean flour (or a milk protein),
vitamins, minerals and flavoring.
new house or more rooms to the
house we now have. Even in small
er matters, we many decide whe
ther to have a turkey and fruit
cake, mince pies, etc for the
Christmas dinner. There are peo-,
pie who buy what they want and ^ r ,
let their creditors whistle o r; f° od a " d ° n th «
groan; and there are provident I he gets ad vital nutrients
people who count their money be-1 but only 900 calories a day. The
fore they embark on purchasing,
By Thomas Collins
WHY BE BOTHERED
ffXyfY husband has sold his
-‘A-I business and retired. With
the down payment he got from
the business we made the down
payment on a $20,000 home and
are now carrying an $8,000 mort
gage.
“We also own a cottage in Flor
ida that we bought *for $12,000.
We still have a $6,000 mortgage
on it. We rent this cottage out for
$100 a month and use this $100 to
pay taxes, insurance and mort
gage payments on the cottage.
“We figure that bur $20,000 home
is costing us $125 a month plus
$300 a year in taxes and insur
ance. Our annuities take care of
this.
“My husband, thinking we
should have some investment
property, took part of the money
from the sale of his business and
bought a piece of real estate in
Arizona. He thought we should not
have a third mortgage on our
hands so he borrowed $6,000 from
the bank to enable him to buy the
Arizona property outright. We are
paying off this loan at $75 a month
and hope to rent out the Arizona
property for $150 a month ...”
This letter, which makes you
tired even to read it, is typical of
the financial knot many people
insist on tying around themselves
when they retire. Not many peo
ple get themselves involved with
three loans, but many of them
seem never to realize that one of
the great rewards of retirement
is to be rid of -.11 .'uch fiddle-
faddle.
Here are five of the major nui
sances of life in retirement, and
while few people can escape them
all it behooves any person reach-
WHEN YOU RETIRE?
ing 65 to see which one can be
dumped.
(1) Utility bills. Paying phone,
light, gas and fuel bills every
month is one of the curses of
mankind. Paying real estate tax
es is no fuii either. A rented apart
ment in which utilities are includ
ed in the rent eliminates this
batch of bills.
(2) An automobile, for the re
tired couple in a city where cans
can be called and automobiles can
be rented, is a bother. There are
gas and oil, grease jobs and re
pairs, license tags and city stick
ers, liability and other insurance,
and flat tires. Is this what retire
ment was meant for?
(3) Credit is not for retirement.
It is dangerous to be in debt on
a pension. Apart from this, it is
much simpler to pay for what you
buy and be done with it than to be
mailing somebody a check the
first of every month.
(4) This one is for the women.
It’s about dust. And dust, as any
woman 60 years old knows, falls
on the just and the unjust alike
Why spend your retirement dust
ing? Clear out the dust catchers
Replace the carpets with floor tile
And start replacing your ward
robe with wash-and-wear clothing
(5) And finally, is eating really
worth all this trouble? Paper
plates aren’t so bad after 65.
Canned and frozen foods aren’t
either. And a dishwasher along
with an automatic incinerator that
will dispose of your trash wouldn’t
cost too n|uch.
For a copy of the new Golden Tears
booklet by Thomas Collins, send 32
cents in coin (no stamps), to Dept.
“NWNS,” Box 1672, Grand Centra)
Station, New York 17. N. Y.
Snapshops: On the Mighty Mississippi
whether great or small.
Statistically, this country is
wealthy and doing well. But sta
tistics don’t butter anybody’s par
snips if he hasn’t the money. No
body can pledge or spend statis-
tics.
Notwithstanding statistics, ev
ery small town marchant will tell
jrou that “business is not good”;
all the automobile men will say
the same — and so on. So what
is the real condition? Shall we
take stock first or “plunge in re
gardless” ? That is the question.
In other words, those lovers of
Shakespeare may put it in his
well-known soliloquy “To be or
hot to be, that is the question.”
Yes, indeed; yea verily!
Anyone who has wrestled with
a foreign language can well un
derstand the problem of grammar
and so you can sympathize with
the foreigner who quoted and
translated Shakespeare to am or
to Wfcs, that is the question. And
onr legislators may sometimes
wonder if the condition of today
will look the same in retrospect.
Will conditions seem as roseate
when they return home as they do
in the affluence of congenial fel
lowship in Columbia.
All the world seems to imitate
America, though it might be bet
ter to emulate us, for the real Am
erica is more than football and
lN|jeball, beer-drinking, prize-
lighting and snobbery.
Even old England is trying to
be like America.
. "In recent years, the traditional
quiet dignity of British business
j!ife has been shattered by such
Yankee innovations as the hot-dog
the soda fountain and the
bowling alley. Now the tight little
j 8 about to succumb to an-
other bit of Americana; the soft
Ice cream truck, summc ling cus-
tomers with its jingling oells.”
Soxhe of us recall that England
had no crackers or candy; but bis
cuits, chocolates and sweets; no
elevators, but lifts; no baggage,
tmt luggage, so they brass their
luggage, instead of checking their
baggage. England has goods trains
not freight trains.
An Englishman looks under
fbe bonnet of his car, not the
hood. As I recall, he takes a tram,
Sot a trolley; he rides the under
ground, not the subway; he has no
barber but a hair-dresser.
My fine friend who hales from
England accused me of telling a
"pack of lies” when I told of my
English friend in Peru who kept
kettle (pot) boiling all day
average adult’s daily requirement
is about 3000 calories. The diet
er’s body fills the gap by con
suming calories stored in its fat
tissues, causing the user to lose
weight. The typical product comes
as powder in a half-pound can
which yields a day’s ration when
mixed with a quart of water.
The diet drinks are of the most
interest to the 20 million Ameri
cans estimated to be 10 percent
or more overweight, because they
offer a handy way of losing
po-unds rapidly without the bo
ther and temptation of a calorie
counting diet of regular foods.
They can also be used as a sup
plement for thin folks wanting
extra nourishment, however, and
can be easily stored as an emer
gency food. Manufacturers wel
come them, figuring they offer a
chance for fat profits with little
investment; regular food mach
inery can produce the diet drinks
and ingredient costs are modest.
Medical groups have a different
reason for considering them im
portant: Unsupervised use, they
warn, can possibly lead to such
ailments as constipation, kidney
trouble and heart disease.
Even as manufacturers plunge
into the market, they’re watch
ing closely for any sign that
might show whether the 900-
For ev< » v youngster who has thumbed the pages of Mark Twain,
there is . nagic in the name of the mighty Mississippi. It is associated
with steamboats, pirates, caves and exciting adventures of many
kinds. Today, .up steamboat has all but disappeared. The few that
remain are ex. U/ Sion boats and their cargo, well, it’s nothing more
than boys and girls, young and old, who are out for a day of fun
on the river. A famous sternwheeler, the Memphis Queen II, is shown
above. It operates out of the famous port of Memphis, Tennessee.
And, when a fellow’s leaning on the rail, he can easily transform the
Queen into a homemade raft and with a little ingenuity turn the
buildings on the distant shoreline into pirate’s hideouts or backwoods
settlements.
supervision.’ Greatly overweight
people who are likely to try the
new products are also likely to
have diabetes, high blood pres
sure and other maladies, and
‘could have gi'eat difficulty from
drastic caloric restriction,’ he
says.
Another A. M. A. objection is
that self-imposed diets attack on
ly the result of overweight, and
not the cause, which could be em
otional of glandular. ‘Without
medical supervision, the indivi-
calorie drinks are here to stay or i d “‘ oft «> b f k U P
are but a passing fad. This month after a dlet ’ and a few studles
sales figures could tell the tale,
companies say: if the drinks do
not sell briskly now in the wake
of holiday overeating, all is not
well. And if sales don’t hit a
new high next June -when people
try to squeeze into last year’s
beach attire, manufacturers say
they’ll really worry. ‘A craze of
popularity meets any new weight
control product, says an Ameri
can Medical Association official,
who predicts, ‘when people realize
they are not a panacea, their pop
ularity will fall quickly.’
“A drastic sales decline is un
likely, most manufacturers in
sist, although many concede sales
eventually may level off at a
pace below the present one. Any
suggestion that the whole thing
may be a fad is emphatically re
jected.
The A.M.A. would be happy to
see a slump in sales of the diet
drinks. Dr. White of the A.M.A.
Council on Foods and Nutrition
explains why: ‘Primarily, our
concern is with claims that a giv
en amount of weight can be lost—
over 5 pounds a w-eek—when most
physicians would try to have a
patient lose no more than two
pounds a w^eek, and even this
shouldn’t be done without proper
suggest that repeated gain and
loss of weight can lead to a build
up of cholesterol,’ Dr. White says.
Cholesterol is a body substance
which lines the arteries and which
many scientists associate with
heart disease. The convenience of
the products may lead unwitting
parents to give the drinks to their
children in lieu of meals, depriv
ing them of the calories they need
the A.M.A. official adds.
The Illinois Medical Society fo
cused attention on another poss
ible problem in a recent state
ment prepared in connection with
the Illinois Department of Public
Health. It branded the diet drinks
‘dangerous for long-term use’ and
cautioned people on such diets
not to take vitamin pills, too. The
drinks are rich in vitamins, and
too much vitamin D can cause
kidney stones, a spokesman says.
Overdoses of vitamin A can cause
dry skin, disappearance of eye
brows and hemorrhaging of a
membrane surrounding the bones,
he adds.”
The Medical men may not agree
as appears, but everybody wants
a trim figure and soldierly bear
ing except the ladies: they want
to look as a queen ought to look,
but doesn’t.
FOR
BETTER
HEALTH
By C. A. Dean, M.D.
MEDITORIAL: A 23-year-old
w r oman recently found she was
seeing two lines instead of one
while reading a book. Soon after,
she noticed drooping of her eye
lids. It was natural to think her
eyes were at fault and she visited
the eye doctor. Glasses were pre
scribed w r hich helped her read
better but the double vision and
drooping of the lids persisted.
Next she noticed a change in
her voice, then difficulty chewing
and swallowing food. Weakness of
her arms and legs developed, es
pecially late in the day. Combing
her hair became a major effort
and walking up stairs was diffi
cult. When these severe symptoms
began, she saw the doctor.
This is a typical history of a
patient who has developed a mys
terious disease of muscular weak
ness, myasthenia gravis. This was
ance thought to be rare but new
evidence indicates that it may be
far more prevalent than supposed.
There are almost 100,000 victims
af myasthenia gravis in this conn-,
try alone. Young women and old
er men are more prone to develop
this diseases.
The cause is not known although
there seems to be an upset in the
chemical balance at the point
where the nerves join the muscles.
Thus the nerve impulses do not
excite the muscles as they should,
with varying degrees of weakness
resulting.
The onset of myasthenia is usu
ally slow. Some of the muscles
that become involved early in the
illness are those of the eyeballs
(double vision), eyelids (droop
ing), throat, vocal cords, jaws,
arms and legs. This disease may
go unrecognized for a long time
and may resemble chronic fatigue
or another chronic disease.
W A S H I N G T O N A N D
SMALL BUSINESS.’! /
° By C. WILSON HARDER^
When giants battle, the little
fellow often gets trampled.
* * *
This situation happens all too
often in the retail food field
when in a given market several
big chains start warring on
each other. This usually hap
pens in markets where more
chains have
moved in
than there is
room for.
♦ * *
But in try
ing to annihi-
1 a t e each
other, the
chains usual
ly do great
damage to
the indepen- c. W. Harder
dent stores in the area. It is
not possible to sell, for exam
ple, coffee that costs 72 cents
per pound for 49 cents, week
after week, without something
compensating for this loss.
♦ * *
In. the case of the big chains,
when they are losing money on
coffee and many other items
week after week in one locality,
they merely mark up prices in
their stores in other localities.
* * *
This recourse, obviously, is
denied the single store operator
who has to cut his prices to
stay with the warring chains in
pricing in order to hold trade.
* * #
Generally speaking, this ab
surd price cutting to wage war
is illegal. But usually, before
the moribund Federal Trade
Commission gets around to the
problem in any particular mar
ket, it is much too late.
* * *
Yet, in this season of the
year, when the legislatures of
most states are meeting, it is
perhaps unnecessary to wait
for remedial action from Wash
ington on this problem of un
restrained selling below cost
which has become a major
retailing problem of the day.
* * *
In some areas, the cat has
been skinned another way. Any
state legislature can pass a
law that prohibits aoy mer
chant from limiting the sale of
an item at a special price. The
usual method, for example,
when coffee is being sold 20
cents, or more, below cost, is
to limit sales to 1 or 2 pounds
to a customer.
* * #
Yet, it only takes a simple
law to make it illegal to rq;
strict the offering of any item.
While a chain may not particu
larly mind losing 20 cents on
one or two items to lure a cus
tomer away from somebody
else, they will not make such
bankruptcy producing offers if
they cannot limit quantities.
* * *
Here is how this works. If
they cannot limit quantities,
there is nothing to stop a com
petitor from backing up a truck
and paying case after case of
the merchandise for less than
he can bn - ' it for, and turn
around am selling it at high
prices, or even the same price.
* * *
In the parlance of the old
western prairie days, this was
called fighting fire with fire.
* * *
Thus, any state legislature in
the nation can do a great deal.
* * *
And, in the strictest of ethics,
of quantity is quite in order.
* * *
After all, why should any
seller be permitted to specify
just how much he will sell of
an item to any one customer.
In addition, widespread adop
tion of such a law would pro
hibit this growing practice of
robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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Pearadise Pastries Make A Grand Slam
The best hand of the game is the one holding the dessert fork
and the best dessert we’ve had for many a hand is Pearadise
Pastry. This heavenly combination warrants the name for the-
sweet chocolate and cream in a gingery crust is crowned with «
canned Bartlett pear half. _ ..
Last year’s pack of canned pears was between nine and !(►
million cases, reflecting a growing demand for this versatile fruit.
The smooth texture and delicious flavor that’s typical of the fresh-
Bartlett is captured and preserved by canning, resulting in a fruit
that’s always appetizing and always refreshing.
. PEARADISE
Pastry
1 cup sifted flour
14 teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon ginger
V2 cup gingersnap crumbs
% cup plus 1 tablespoon
shortening
2 tablespoons pear syrup
PASTRIES
FUling
4 to 6 canned Bartlett
pear halves
1 package (6 ozl)
chocolate bits
1 egg, beaten
2 eggs, separated
1 cup cream, whipped
1 teaspoon vanilla
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cut in shortening; add pear syrup. Roll out and shape into 4 small
pie pans, 6 tart pans or 1 9-inch pie plate. Bake at 375 degrees for
8 minutes. Cool.
Melt chocolate over very low heat. Add beaten egg and egg
yolks; mix well. Beat egg whites until stiff; fold into chocolate
mixture. Whip cream; flavor with vanilla; fold into chocolate mix
ture. Pile in ginger crust. Chill until partially set; place a pear half,
cut side up, on top of each small pie or place 6 pear halves around
a 9-inch pie. Garnish with chocolate curls. Makes 4 to 6 servings.
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