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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-05-28, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD TI-IURS., MAY 28, 1942 WHAT YOUR WAR SAVINGS STAMPS CAN ACCOMPLISH 35 will let a soldier fight.: for you With 1.0Q rounds of rifle ammunition. $5 will step 0 INTL with five Ina - chine -gun bursts. Over 150 Designs for Cotton Hose Patterns dew,oY you have ever heard of David Young of Washington, D. C: But when you buy your cotton hose in the very near future, give a silent prayer of thanks to this scholarly, gray -headed gentleman of the de- partment of agriculture's division of , textile technology. For some five years Mr. Young has 'been waging a virtually one- man campaign to glamourize the feminine leg in cotton and some of his newest mesh patterns will stop a crowd, even on a windless day. From a small "so what" project of the department of agriculture, trying to find more ways to use up a vast cotton surplus, Mr, Young's cotton hosiery research has leaped into the forefront of world-wide news; at least the kind of news that interests so many women. Mr. Young, you see, was lucky. Hitler and the war and the Japa- nese embargo made his work vital- 1 liy important to millions of homes. At the Cotton Textile institute in New York city, and at the U.S.D.A. in Washington, are over 150 designs. for stocking patterns created in the last few years by Mr. Young. Some of the early patterns are simply bad dreams. But the new designs are getting better and better and the cotton stockings are getting thinner and thinner. Hard-headed hosiery mak- ers have already earmarked sever- al designs as sure-fire sellers in the. stores. America's `Prayingest' Town Yonder in Arkansas The 5,000 citizens of the little town of Stuttgart, Ark., and the farmer folk for miles around are so glad ;they live in America that they have recently adopted the custom of of- fering daily prayers of Thanksgiv- ing for their happy lot. Every morning at the stroke of 10, the little town's church bells ring. This is the signal for a few moments of silent prayer and the men and women of this patriotic community drop whatever they are doing to give thanks together. The theme of their prayers is "Thank God, I live in America." Mayor Stump, a World war vet- eran and local grocer, made this habit of daily prayer official by is- suing the following proclamation: "Upon request of many citizens of our city that we lay aside our world- ly duties for a moment each day to be devoted to prayer, I, H. C. Stump, mayor of Stuttgart, Ark,, do hereby request each and every' individual, regardless of his occupa- tion, to pause for a moment, bow his head and thank God for the fact that he lives in .America . " The churches, both white and col- ored, immediately co-operated and urged their congregations to join the movement. 'Slow Poke' Drivers California's "slow poke" drivers who stall traffic and cause count- less accidents, are going to draw special attention from the highway patrol along with the ever-present speeder. That was the word that went out from the office of James M. Carter, director of the state department of motor vehicles, and E. Raymond Cato, chief of the California High- way patrol. "The person who drives too slow is almost as great a menace as the habitual speeder," Carter declared. "The too -slow driver causes long lines of traffic to form behind him, thus becoming an annoyance and danger to all Who use the highways, "If he does not want to keep the pace established by law, he should pull out of the way. Those who re- fuse to do that, will be charged with a violation of section 514 of the minimum speed law," Lotion Types for Hair Although hair textures vary great- ly, the manufacturers of both ma- chine and machineless supplies fur- nish only from three to five types of hair lotion. Therefore the operator, who should be able to judge the tex- ture of your hair quite easily by its feel will usually classify it for per- manent waving purposes in the fol- lowing manner: 1. Bleached and dyed hair. 2. Very coarse hair or hair with a natural tendency to wave (easy to wave). 3. Medium hair and normal hair. , 4. Fine hair. 5. Baby, fine hair (difficult .to wave). 'No. 1 classification calls for the weakest waving preparation, No. 0. for the strongest, More Lights for Homes Let's make our windows grow up; flood our homes with stimulating, natural light, is the advice of health authorities. According to a recent bulletin by the United States Public' Health service many homes are poorly lighted. They have too many dark corners and gloomy halls be- cause their windows are too small and too infrequent. "One of the newest window ma- terials is the hollow glass block," a construction report points out. "A number of these adaptable units can be built into a panel in an outside wall that will richly diffuse the natural light passing through them. If necessary,, a whole wall of a room eau' be built of them withoutloss of. privacy, for they are nontrans- parent.". *. You' T hefnBette Willi R OMf ,.. 9 F��� OGD�N S C�Y CIGARETTE TOBACCO Georgia Founded in Hope Peanuts Have as Many It Could Produce Silk ! +!' Aliases, as. Good Crook The labor problem reared its Some say that peanuts originated much -disputed head even back in co- in Africa, some in South. America. lonial times, and was responsible for the failure of the original Geor- gia silk industry. One of the main reasons for the founding of the col- ony olony of Georgia was the hope that it could be made to produce sills for England. And it did produce silk. In 1764, the year of highest production, more than 15,000 pounds of .silk were de- livered at the filatures at Savannah. I In order to get this much silk, however, desperate measures had been taken. The English govern- ment had hadto offer bounties to induce plantation owners to bother with silk, foreigners (mostly from Italy) had to be subsidized to come over and show the colonists how silkworms lived and what to do with the silk after the wormwas through; with it, and laws had to be passed practically forcing the people to take an interest in the tender indus- try. Each grantee of a 500 -acre tract had to plant at least 2,000 white mulberry trees, because they. are the preferred food of silkworms, membership in the new Assemby in 1740 was made conditional on the planting of 100 mulberry trees, and after 1753 no one„ was admitted to the Assembly who did not annually produce 15 pounds of sills and con- form to the law that required a number of female slaves to be sent to Savannah for instruction in silk culture. Savannah's famous old plantation, The Hermitage, was first granted in 1750 to Joseph Ottolenghe as an in- ducement to settle in Georgia and further the silk industry in the col- ony. James Habersham's .planta- tion was even named Silk Hope. Ha- bersham, who was appointed silk commissioner by the trustees in Lon- don, planted his 600 acres mostly in mulberry trees, and Silk Hope was a noted silk plantation until the Revo- lution. In 1766-67 the records show 1,084 pounds of silk shipped to Eng- land, but by 1772-73 the figure had declined to 485 pounds. ti Adopted Children Show Higher Mental Traits Basing his findings on a study of the intelligence quotients of adopt- ed infants with known inferior social histories, Dr. Harold M. Skeels of the University of Iowa reported to the American Psychological associ- ation that such children turn out to be as intelligent as, if not more so than, average children in the pop- ulation as a whole. "Low intelligence of true moth- ers, others, or low occupational status of the true fathers or a combination of both, should not be considered as a detriment in the placing of infants in adopted homes," Dr. Skeels de- clared. The scientist based his survey on experiments made at the Iowa Sol- diers' Orphans' home, a state insti- tution for dependent and neglected children, who were placed in adop- tive homes when less than two years old. All were committed to orphans' homes when under six months old. Homes of all the foster parents were rated as superior to those of the true mothers and fathers. Your Refrigerator Here are a few simple sugges- tions for the care . and upkeep of your automatic refrigerator. They take only .a little bit of your time, but they will reward you in better service and longer life of your box. 1. Defrost regularly; no freezing unit can operate efficiently through a thick blanket of frost. Once a week' is not too often to do this rou- tine task. 2. Check over the refrigerator every morning, and use food to its best advantage. There is no object inallowing an accumulation of real- ly old food. • 3. Wash and clean your refrig- erator frequently. Wash it out oc- casionally with a solution of one tea- spoon of baking, soda to one quart of warm water. 4, In localities where there is an abundance of moisture in the air, it is advisable to keep the surface of. your refrigerator waxed at inter- vals. 5. The trays in which you store fresh, green vegetables should be kept immaculately clean. Wash themoften with clean, soapy water, then rinse with plenty of hot water. Dry thoroughly before storing the vegetables in them. Trapeze for Stretching None with crime -guilty con- sciences will wish toclamor for one of the innovations displayed, a sort of a trapeze in which those who wish to stretch aching backs and mus- cles virtually can hang themselves. A Los Angeles newspaper .man thought up and built a trapeze of this sort some months ago in his home. When he returns home after meeting one more hectic deadline, he disrobes and swings hack and forth in- this special head -neck -and - shoulder harness for 10 minutes, his feet just touching the floor. First Bible in English The first Bible printed in English was put out in what is now Germany, by William Tyndale. ,That was in 1526, and he had to go abroad to pub- lish his Bible because of religious persecution in his; own country. An American scouting around,. a doz- en years after the Civil war found' them in mummies' graves in Peru. Certainly they, were used on the slave ships plying between the dark continent and Jamaica. They were, a cheap and nutritious food for the, slaves, though for a long while after-' wards the ladies of Virginia and the; Carolinas still grew them, like to-! matoes, in their flower -beds as a' polite curiosity. However, it was North America that brought peanuts to the atten- tion • of the rest of the globe. In- deed, they became one of our five thoroughly native crops. Potatoes,' cotton, tobacco and corn are -the others. Peanuts have as many aliases as any good crook. Earth nuts. � Goo- bers, of course. Monkey nuts, Ma-, nine nuts. "Les pistaches de terres", (if you want to be French and fan- cy). Tagging way at the end comes arachis hypogaea—which is, as you can assume, the title the botanists decided upon. Also, like any good crook, the pea- nut's number and fingerprints have been salted down by the scientists and filed away. Mention the words chemical composition, and out comes a little chart. 4-5 per cent moisture 26-27 per cent protein 45-50 per cent fat Calcium, phosphorus and iron. if you're calory -conscious, the peanut may be an amiable offender working your own street. He boasts six calories to the gram, 170 to the ounce, and 2,700 to the pound. His strong, point, however, is vita- min B. Vitamin B, in case you for- get, is used in cases of pellagra (which is a fine disease not to have), rouses your appetite, does yeoman work along your digestive tract, and steadies those shaking nerves. Moreover, vitamin B is deficient in most American diets. Ring -Tailed Raccoon Has Emily Post Manners When Mother Nature created the ring-tailed raccoon she gave the shy little animal an omnivorous appe- tite and a set of table manners that even Emily Post might approve of. The raccoon, or coon, as it is more commonly called, ranges all over North and Central America satisfying its appetite with an amazingly varied menu made up of fish, frogs, mussels, birds, mice,' reptiles, insects, fruits and vegeta- bles—especially corn on the cob, Seemingly at the opposite end of the evolutionary pole from the wal- lowing pig, the coon tries to do its eating near streams of clear, cool water where it can wash its foods. More than one hunter has seen a coon go through similar antics even to the extent of giving an ex- tra washing to a fish it has just captured—although such sights are rare because most coons hole up in the daytime and hunt at night. Penn's Treaty The humane and tolerant Quaker, William Penn, met an equally no- ble fellow man when he entered into friendly compact with the Dela- ware Indians for lands in what was to become the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. That man was the honorable Tamiment, their chief sachem. In a setting of sylvan beauty near the rising city of Phila- delphia, Penn and the Redskins as- sembled late in the year 1882. The founderof the City of Brotherly Love told the Indians that he and his peace -loving Quakers desired to conclude a pact of friendship. Tarns- ment accepted it in a dignified cere- mony. How sacredly the Indians regarded the unwritten agreement is admirably revealed in the fact that while every other colony in the New World was scarred by Indian warfare, no drop of Quaker blood was ever shed by a Red man in Pennsylvania. Napoleon Perfumed Down the ages men have strug- gled between their attraction for perfume and their fear that the use of perfume on the right—or the wrong lady, would steal their senses, and their sense, away. Look at Napoleon. ' When he first, called on Josephine, that designing widow literally drenched herself with musk. She figured she would make a quick job of him. • And hang the suspense. Now, musk is a strong scent, and Napoleon, the strong man, succumbed to strength in the lady at any rate, to strength in the smell of the lady. The rest is • history. But while Josephine favored the musk, he took the violet. All through his days of power bis court perfumer, accord- ing to one chronicler, sent him regu- larly two quarts of violet perfume a week. Label in Blanket Watch the label on the next blan- ket you buy. Good blankets have a square or sizeable tag sewed into Abe, top seam or binding. This tag should state the wool proportion, :and ' may also give the name of some institute by which such blan- ket', is tested or ' approved. The American Institute of Laundering, fort,,instance, lends its approval in some such words as: "The Textile Approval Seal on this,XXXX blan- ket insures- satisfactory; laundering and,longer wear." •, • in Genera: Weakening of Arches in o Foot May Cause Bunions Of all the feet troubles, "corns" are perhaps the most common.." Certainly they are one for which remedies are multitudinous, as ev- ery drug store counter will mutely testify. There,. are no roots to corns, only thickened areas of skin which have been built up by nature for protec- tion .against injury. The cause fre- quently is the weakening of one of the Pour arches in the foot, or corns may be caused by improper: posture, tight shoes or even chilblains. If you see a woman seated on the beach with her feet buried in the sand she may be intentionally try- ing to hide_ her feet, and especially hide a real, or embryo bunion. Bunions are the bulwark of many a joke and funny paper strip car- toon but—as anyone knows that has one—they are no fun, for their pain has been compared with that of rheumatism or of a toothache. Uncertain surgery used to be the only relief but now a way has been found to get relief and, at the same time, reduce the disfigure- ment. Bunions are now treated as dislocations, which they actually are. The new method is called or- thodigita, which means toe -straight- ening and is a traction (steady pres- sure) method rivalling—in its way —the manner in which dentists straighten children's teeth with braces. Like tooth -straightening, toe - straightening takes a long time; from several months to as long as a year and a half. X-rays are always used to study the deformity of the bones in the big toe. The same treatment can be used on "hammer toes"; 'deformities of the small toes of the foot. Birds, Fish Have Unique Way of Protecting Selves The Poor -Me -One, or American Nightjar, who lays her eggs on the broken stump of a tree and then must guard them, has a double means of protection. She is colored very much like the tree bark and she has a habit of sitting very still with head held high and tail drawn fiat against the tree, making her body look like another dead branch. These two tricks scarcely look ac- cidentaI. Even a bigger faker than the Poor -Me -One in her dead -branch pose is a little South American fish, called "Peche de Faille," by the na- tives of Brazil. This small impos- tor lies around all day in a quiet pool looking just like a dead leaf. Its body is extremely thin and leaf- like. Rs color may be grayish green, a mottled, yellow or a dead brown. No two of these fishes ever look quite alike. But, remarkably, if surroundings change enough to make it advisable, any one of these piscine fakers can change . his "spots" or color to snatch, in less than an hour. Loitering in his shady pool the Peche -de Folha isn't particularly trying tohide from his enemies— he is waiting for a square meal. Unsuspecting smaller fish venture much to close to "dead leaves" and to their sorrow find themselves gob- bled up by what they thought was a bit of plant debris. Draftee Wins Draftee Eddie Stephens Bey, who gave his religion as Mohammedan, arrived at Fort Dix, N. J., with a full beard and shoulder -length locks topped off by a red fez. He as- serted his complete willingness to learn the business of soldiering but refused to permit his hair 18 be trimmed,- his beard shaved or ex- change his fez for a helmet. Nor would he wear a necktie as con- trary to his faith. For these violations of the Arti- cles of War, according to camp au- thorities, he was forthwith placed in the guardhouse. There another difficulty arose. The army chow wasn't "orthodox," which necessi- tated importing special bread and fish. It took over a week to straighten out the tangle. But all ended happily when Supreme Prophet Nobel Drew - Ali of Chicago granted Private Bey a special dispensation covering food, hair and fez. No razor on the beard, though, he insisted. Just once over lightly with the clippers. Cattle in Florida Cattle came to Florida with the first Spaniards some 850 years ago and today's basic strain stems from the scrawny descendants of these Spanish bovine forebears. The old-time Florida cattle were ragged -looking, tough to eat, and not good milk -producers because they were infested with wood ticks that sucked their life blood and kept them always on the verge of illness. But since 1930 federal and state scientists have virtually eradicated this tick. Bombarding Cyclotron Radium -like phosphorus produced by the University of California's atom -smashing cyclotron is being sent. to Peru for treatment of leuke- mia, fatal disease, in a new process now under experimentation. Radiations from the phosphorus, it was explained, caused by explo- sion of the phosphorus atoms made artificially ..radio, -.. active, destroy some of the diseased cels . in the cancer -like disease, and imit their multiplication:' ° ' Tulierculosis Diagnosis .0 Rapped by Physician Many persons may be put to bed for rest treatment for tuberculosis who do not have the disease. In a report before a symposium on tuberculosis at the 'University of Chicago, Dr. Florence B. Seibert of the Henry Phipps institute, Philadel- phia, declared that a wide varia- tion in sensitivity had been found when the protein portions of the tu- bercle germ, the most potent part of it, is injected into animals and humans, The problem of correct diagnosis is also complicated lay: the fact that calcium deposits in the lungs may be due to diseases other than tuberculosis but on an X-ray plate will. look like typical tuberculosis damage. In a series of tests on animals false reactions to tests for tubercu- losis were often obtained by first "sensitizing" them with very minute doses of the tuberculin protein, as little as two -hundredths of a milli- gram. Later a larger dose caused typical tuberculosis indications even in normal individuals who had no trace of the disease. "It is interesting that in a study which we made on to large group of high school boys and girls in which we compared two different proteins from the tubercle bacillus" a high- er sensitivity to the, tuberculin test occurred with the second injection with boys reacting more highly than girls. In the light of this knowledge, much more accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis may be made by using the smallest doses of tuberculin pos- sible for skin injections in order sto • make sure that the red swelling un- der the skin is a true indicator of presence of the disease, Dr. Seibert declared. Vegetarian No Match for Meat Eater, Say Doctors "Vegetarian" Hitler would cer- tainly be no match for "beef -eat- ing" Churchill if both were given the same dose of pyridine or benzene (poisonous chemicals used in the manufacture of war gasses), ac- cording to the report of two Ford- ham university chemists to the American Chemical society. The two scientists in their report disclosed the damaging effects of war gasses on body tissues which can be prevented through a diet rich in meat and other foods containing the protein constituents cystine and methionine. In experiments on both men and animals during the past seven years, the two research experts learned that through these con- trolled diets the poisonous gasses could be detoxified. Not only will the diet prevent the damaging ef- fects to tissue, but will aid in the recovery of those already exposed to the gasses, they said. Value of Onions Extensive experiments have shown the value of green onions in pre- venting pellagra. Onions supple- mented a diet which was believed to be complete except for a defi- ciency of the pellagra -preventive factor. When onions were omitted, this diet inevitably led to pellagra. Garlic, a near relative of the on- ion, was utilized as a medicine around 1850. On that date, a United States dispensatory recommenda- tion said, "The oil of garlic may be given with great advantage in obstinate bronchitis and catarrhal pneumonia of young children. The bruised garlic cloves are often used as poultices to the lungs, and Simi- lar applications were formerly used to the feet for nervous restlessness or even convulsions of young chil- dren. Further, it has valuable prop- erties as a germicide, disinfectant, for ulcers, as a remedy for pneu- monia and tuberculosis, and all bronchial infections." rc Hunchback Luck Ancient Probably everyone who has ever placed a bet on a horse race, and many who haven't, are aware of the superstition that to touch the hump of a hunchback will bring good luck. Cripples afflicted with this deformity have made small for- tunes at race courses and gambling casinos. But few who have tipped an enterprising hunchback for the privilege of "rubbing his hump" realize they are following a custom thousands of years old. The early Romans availed them- selves of the same good -luck charm before crowding into the Circus Maximus to watch the racing chari- ots roll. The Egyptian Pharaohs had their favorite hunchbacks conven- iently at hand and the Phoenicians placed his image aboard their trad- ing galleys. The superstition of the Lucky Hunchback, not billy as a charm for gamblers but also as the su- preme protector against evil spirits is one of the oldest and most wide- spread of all such popular notions. Athlete's Foot Of all the self -doctoring for foot ills, Athlete's Foot, or ringworm, probably heads the list. Most peo- ple troubled by the itchy, annoying and sometimes dangerous foot dis- ease seem to be those whose feet perspire greatly, and whose pers- piration has a strong acid concen- tration. ' Some 20' or 30 of the fungi (which Sfug (w uch cause the disease)' thrive best on this moist, hot and Qdorous environ- Ment.inside of shoes. "I've read how Hitler starts training his killers when they're toddlers. So I reckon it's up to me and every other Canadian mother to train our children to realize that they've, got to pay for their freedom!" '/That's why I see to it that all my children buy War Savings Stamps every week. I tell them what freedom meanswhat.the grown- ups are fighting for—that it's for them! So they've got to give up something too—and the money—$5.00 back for every $4.00 saved now—will come in mighty handy—when they start put on their own!' Buy War Savings Stomps from banks, post offices, druggists, grocors and other retail stores. National War Finance Comrnittee, News From International Percy Passmore of Exeter is the chair,nan of the Local Day committee of the 1942 International Plowing Match. In the plan of affairs out- lined by the Huron County Plowing Match Committee that is a mighty important job. They plan on emphas- izing the local day part of the match. If you have lived in Huron county and then moved at a later date to some other sectoin of the country you must have been amazed by the num- ber of people who told you that they also were natives of the grand old county, rounded with English, Irish atul Scotch, blood , . Huron county has always been a pioneering one, Her sons and daughters have blazed many trails in all parts of the Contin- ent. Yes , . . they have travelled in alI parts of Canada and the United States. Many have settled in new communities . , but they all think well of Huron County. On October 18, 14, 15, and 16 it is expected that thousands of them will come back to the County; They will want to meet -old friend's and renew their ties with Huron County. Perey Passmore will be in charge of the arrangements to make certain that when these former residents, come back they will enjoy themselves heartily. Percy is a real farmer. He is also a real plowman. His. love for the soil is a deep-rooted thing and he has often said, that he gets mare real en- joyment out of folfowiing a team on a plow than from ny other single thing on his farm. Percy has long been associated with municipal politics. Last year he was elected to ensued the late James Leiper as Warden of the County. He did the job up in the best traditions and tett with the complete respect ofevery map:; in the Council. Percy is a quiet pian. He doesn't assert himself on every trivial quest- ian,whoh comes along . .:. but he can ,'be quite definite on e inite subjects, 'eets, of I bl Wolin., + Basing his convictions on, ex- perience and good common. sense he tell you exactly what he thinks. Yo can depend on it that no stones wi be left unturned as far as the Laef Day is concerned in the matter of t5 International Plowng Match. in Euro County this fall, V SCHOOL DAYS NOW ARE MOTO: FUEL DAYS SehooIdays, schooldays, Now are motor fuel days; Readin' and 'Titin' and 'rithtnetie Done for the sake of a ration tiek; X is the Unknown Quantity, A is far those who wanted B— Oii, charioteers 'Tis plain to see We'll all have to get out and walk. Sehooiways, Sehoolway, What with motor fuel days— Many a poppa and gran'pa, too, Back here to register, wander through, 'Lingered in grades that fancy rhos Pored Over book that once were woe Squeezed into desks And sat in rows And dreamed of their days here t kids. School daze, school daze, Merged with motor fuel ways, Finds us a reading the Honor List Noting that Junior's name is miss Talking with Teacher companionobl Acting the parent we oughter bel Not really., so bad, This gas -card spree -- If it wakes up our pride in o schools, So .»,q u: EV Put down sit and carry two, Oh -o -oh, woe -o -o, Miles are many, gas are few, Whoa-ooa, whoa-ooa, You can add am& multiply, Urge your causes hard, You willgetal , what Teacher 'writes, 1 0nyour reticard. by Millicent Tay,+lor,