Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1939 Page: 3 of 8
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GLASS.....
Visitors to the New York
World’s Fair can see with their
own eyes how glass is spun In-
to fine threads which can be
woven into fabrics for almost
every use to which fabrics are
put.
Even underclothes have
been made of glass, but their
wearers say they are a bit
scratchy. Curtains, wall hang-
ings, and draperies of beauti-
fnl colors and design are being
woven from glass. They are
fireproof and damp-proof and
can be cleaned with a sponge
or a hose.
Modern glass makers have
been making building blocks
of glass for some year. Now
the fine glass fibers are being
applied to hundreds of other
purposes. One of the latest
applications is for automobile
brake linings. Glass ha* the
advantage over other fibers
for this purpose in that it re-
sists heat and wears better.
Nobody knows who first
made glass, bot tradition has
it that it was first developed
by the Carthaginians in north-
ern Africa, where there is
plenty of sand and natural de-
posits of soda, which are the
main ingredients of glass.
Glass bottles at least five thou-
sand years old have been found
In ancient tombs and excava-
tions. Now glass is being made
unbreakable, which makes it
the most durable o f all ma-
terials.
the young soldiers come back
from war they marry quickly
and usually pick the youngest
girls they can get.
So the preponderance of
boys bom soon after a great
war is due to the fact that
their mothers were girls of
seventeen to twenty-two. Girls,
if you’d rather have a family
of boys than of girls, marry
young. That, at least, seems
to be the advice of science.
EaruneWhitc
of Til* Ki
CAMPHOR . • • Japan
The use of camphor are so
widespread that Japan, which
has practically a monopoly on
the production of natural
camphor, used to take in a
hundred million dollars s year
or more from selling the rest
of the world the white crystals
distilled from the sap of the
camphor trees which grow on
the island of Formosa.
When the price of camphor
went up to $3.65 a pound, in
1920, American chemists got
busy and found that they could
make camphor from turpen-
tine or pine oil to sell for less
than fifty cents a pound. Now
one Florida company makes
quantities of camphor from old
pine stumps, and the great Du-
Pont chemical works makes it
from turpentine.
To add to the distress of the
Japanese, who have lost their
camphor market new synthe-
tic fibers which are stronger
and softer than silk are now
being manufactured in Ameri-
ca, thus promising to kill off
the last remaining important
source of revenue of Japan
Nations can’t fight without
money. Japan .is broke and
can’t keep on very long trying
to conquer China when it has
nothing left to sell to the rest
of the world.
BABIES.....war
For hundreds of years it has
been known to governments
and students that after a war
there are always more boy
babies born than girls, while
during a long war more girls
are bom than boys. The idea
used to be that Divine Provi-
dence saw to it that more boys
were bom to take the place of
the soldiers killed in war.
Modem scientific research,
tells a different story. The
younger the mother, the ptore
likely her first children will
he boys. Older women have
more girl babies. With the
young men away at war, the
married women left at home
are mostly past thirty. When
DOWSERS .... water
In my boyhood, almost ev-
ery country town had one er
more inhabitants who were
known to the community as
"dowsers.” A dowser was a
person who could take a fork-
ed stick of witch-hazel, hold
the forks in each hand and
walk along until the end of the
stick turned sharply down-
ward. Then the dowser
would say “dig hare,” and one
could always find water by
digging a well at that point.
I’ve seen that done too often
to question it, though I haven’t
been able to find any scientific
explanation of it. Some dow-
sers were reputed to be able
to locate iron and other miner-
als, though I never saw that
done.
Modem science, however,
has discovered that mineral
deposits may be discovered by
the use of trees, shrubs or even
leaves. By collecting the
leaves or stalks of growths in
a certain area and analyzing
them chemically for their min-
eral content, English scientists
have found iron, zinc and oth-
er minerals. Vegetation
growing above or close to the
minerals carries a higher per-
centage of them in its fibers.
TOMATOES . - fertilizer
Down in southern Florida,
in the famous Redlands dis-
trict south of Miami, there was
almost a total failure of the
tomato crop a few years ago.
As that is the place where the
earliest and highest-priced to-
matoes are grown, it was a
blow to the farmers. Experts
from the Department of Agri-
culture were called in to see
why the crop had failed to
mature.
Careful soil analysis show-
ed that what had made the
land of the region produce to-
matoes so bountifully was a
slight trace of copper in the
earth, and the copper had
been used up by successive
crops.
A formula for a special
fertilizer, containing a tiny
fraction of copper salts, was
worked out, and the next year
the biggest and best tomato
crop oh record.
There is no such thing as
‘poor land for farming. The
only question is whether it
will pay to add the necessary
chemicals to the soil. I am
watching the new ‘hydroponic’
or dirtlesa farming with much
interest. No soil at all is' need-
ed ; only a solution of the prop-
er chemicals in water, in which
the plant roots can grow.
Public Service
“Yon don’t have to be in
public office to serve your
country.”—Alfred E. Smith.
We are getting in closer
touch with Poland’s people
through Zofja Cabala, cham-
pion girl folk dancer of all
Europe, who has been starring
in Polish- pageants in this
country. SheJs eighteen years
old, was born on a farm in
Podhale which is surrounded
by mountain peaks and forests.
Zofja has been dancing for
three years in honor of her fa-
therland, which encourages all
kinds of native arts and crafts.
Every year a mountain festi-
val is held in Poland at which
there are four days of dancing
with the best dancers from all
over the country taking part
in s contest.
The Government at home
pays her expenses when she
travels to take part in a festi-
val, and for the big mountain
festival, the Government pro-
vides special trains to trans-
port the dancing groups, the
army provides tents and often
the army cooks prepare the
meals.
t t t
The studio of Mrs. Cora
Scovil in New York is a bit
startling to a visitor who ar-
rives unpreprred for what she
will see. Everywhere there
are nude figures made of plas-
ter, lined up for their finishing
touches. They are there to
have their eyes painted, hair
and eyelashes added, and oth-
erwise made to look like fash-
ionable manikins.
Mrs. Scovil, a widow, has
built up her business since
1330, when she had very little
money. She originated the
patchwork posters after the
waV Her manikins are life-
like to the point of being al-
most uncanny. A numerologist
told her to change her name
from Cora to Vajah and she
would become wealthy. She
did, and she has.
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Rose.Wilder Lane, novelist,
once had a house in Albania
which she loved because it had
a blue door opening into
courtyard in which there was
a fig tree. v But she liked the
country for other reasons, too.
She was bom in Dakota Terri-
tory, lived in a covered wagon
in the Ozarks, and sold fiction
in California before she moved
to Albania.
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Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins heads the list of wom-
en holding federal positions,
so far as salary is concerned.
Women lawmakers and judges
come next, and there are more
than 50 women in the third
group.
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The dean of Washingtons
key appointive women came
from Sweden. She is Mary An-
derson, director of the Wom-
en’s Bureau of the Depart-
ment of Labor. „
515.11 no
Will be paid by the manufac-
turer for any Com, GREAT
CHRISTOPHER Com Remedy
cannot remove. Also removes
Warts and Callouses. 35c at
Timpson Pharmacy
aw————
RAMSEY HUGHES
Timpson, Texas
Expert Watch and Jewelry
Repairing
Let a* Clean and Adjust
Your Watch or Clock
For the first time in 30 years
traffic deaths in 1938 showed
a decrease over the preceding
year.
REX BRINSON STATION
I have taken charge of the
filling station known as the
Rex Brinson stand, near the
school building. Will handle
MAGNOLIA produets. Will
appreciate your patronage.
Bedford Whiteside.
666
Liquid, Tablets, Salve,
Nom Drop*
Chock* MALARIA
in 7 day* and relieve*
COLDS symptoms fir* day
Try “Rnh-My-Tiwn” - a
Wonderful Liniment
Washington, July 10.—The
end of the Fedora fiscal year
1939 came at midnight, June
30th, with the figures on the
Treasury books showing that
during the preceding twelve
months the Government had
spent nine billions and a few
odd million* at dollars, which
was more than three and a half
billions above the amount re-
ceived from all sources.
The excess of spending over
the income was borrowed
money, which ran the total of
Unde Sam’s national debt up
to well above forty billion dol-
lars, or a little more than $300
a head, counting women, chil-
dren, Indians and everybody
else.
The new fiscal year began,
also, with a series of slaps in
the Presidential face adminis-
tered by a rebellious Congress.
The Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives took awak from
the President his power to de-
value the gold dollar still fur-
ther, and to use two billion
dollars of gold as an interna-
tional stabilization fund.
Those powers expired at mid-
night on June 30, and Con-
gress refused to renew them.
The Congress also refused to
give the President the free
hand he had demanded in in-
ternational affairs, by the
House of Representatives in-
sisting upon the inclusion in
the new neutrality law a pro-
vision that arms and ammuni-
tion may not be sold by United
States manufacturers to any
nation engaged in a war,
though H did give the Presi-
dent his “cash and carry” plan
for other supplies to belliger-
ent nations. Now anybody can
buy American commodities,
including airplanes, if they
will pay cash and take them
away in their own ships—but
no rifles or bombs.
The neutrality issue is not
entirely settled, however, for
the Senate still has to act on it,
WPA Changed
The set-up of W.P.A. for the
new fiscal year has been
radically changed, on the ini-
tiative of Congress and against
the desires of the Administra-
tion. The totnl amount ap-
propriated for this phase of
relief for the coming year is a
trifle more than a billion and
three-quarter*. But the ap-
propriation has numerous
strings attached to it.
From next September on,
frvery W.P.A. worker who has
been on the rolls for eighteen
months must be laid off. After
a thirty-day lay-off he may ap-
ply for direct relief again,
and then may be re-employed
by W-P-A. The reduction in
the W. P. A. appropriation
expected to result In a perma-
nent reduction of the number
of workers from the present
two and a half million to two
million or fewer. The cost of
administration of WJ.A.
fixed in the new law at not
more than four percent of the
total expenditures, but with
the small appropriation, this
will mean that numerous
white-collar administrators
will have to be laid off.
An important part of the
new law requires the averag-
ing of the subsistence wages
so that they will be more near-
ly equal in different part* of
the country, making allowance
for the differences in the cost
of living. The present aver-
age monthly wage of W.P.A.
workers In the North is $56 a
month; in the South it is $26.
Wht Fare* Subsidies
The new Farm Bill, with
subsidies for farmers far ex-
ceeding anything in the past,
was reluctantly signed by
President Roosevelt, whose ob-
jection to it was that Congress
had not provided additional
tax revenue to cover the cost.
On the whole, the temper of
Congress as the old fiscal year
came to a close and the new
one began was not one of econ-
omy but that of determination
to curtail the powers of the
President and to take control
of Government policies back
into the hands of the Congress,
where they traditionally be-
long. How successful these
efforts may prove to be re-
mains to be seen.
The new labor forbid* the
Treasury to buy foreign silver
at any price, and sets the
price of domestic silver at 71
cents an ounce, while continu-
ing the instructions to the
President to keep on buying
silver until the Treasury has a
quarter as much silver as of
gold, measured in dollars. The
President protested that the
shutting off of foreign silver
purchases would cause serious
international difficulties with
the silver purchasing nations,
particularly Mexico, hut that
made no difference on Capitol
Hill.
Jooee Take* Over
There is general saisfaction
with the appointment by the
President of Jeise Jones of
Texas to head the newly creat-
ed Federal Loan Administra-
tion, whose duties began with
the new fiscal year. Mr. Jones
was first appointed to the Re
construction Finance Corpo-
ration by President Hoover,
under whom this first Federal
lending agency was created.
No man in Washington has
the complete confidence of
business men, bankers, politi-
cal leaders of all parties and
shades of opinion, and of the
public generally, as has Mr.
Jones, who now is in charge of
all the government lending or-
ganizations.
The head of the new Feder-
al Works Agency, whieh takes
over W.P.A., the procurement
division of the Treasury, and
all other pubtie works except
the river and harbor work of
the Army Engineer Corps, is
not so well known in Wash-
ington. He is John X. Car-
II..............Ill.............
Ten* Fanners
Received Income of
628^18,000 During
Month of May
Austin, Tex.—Texas farm-
ers received nearly four mil-
lion dollars more in cash in-
come from their produce dur-
ing May than during the aver-
age May from 1928 to 1932, a
University of Texas business
statistician estimated today.
Computed by Dr. F. A. Bue-
cheL assistant director of the
University Bureau of Business
Research, cash agricultural in-
come for May was $28J>13,-
000, compared with a five-year
average of $24,822,000.
A million and a half dollars
more was picked up by farm-
ers than during April, but
slightly over a million less
than during May of last year.
Most of the decline from
May, 1938, was caused by the
drop in cattle and sheep mar-
ketings, only slightly offset by
increased movement of calves
sod hogs.
Total farm cadi income dur-
ing the first five months of
1939 was $106,474,000, or 2.7
per cent higher than the $103,-
617,000 for the corresponding
period last year.
mody, a former member of
Congress, who is well spoken
of by those who know him and
who starts on his new job un-
der friendly auspices.
How long Congress will re-
main in session is anybody’s
guess. A fight for revision of
the new monetary legislation
might drag the session out un-
til September or later; and if
the Senate tries, as It expected,
to revise the neutrality hill as
passed by the House, the boys
on Capitol Hill will he tied
here until well into the Fall,
experienced observers believe.
Faith
We shall be mad* truly wise
if we be made content; con-
tent, too, not only with what
we can understand, but con-
tent with what we do not un-
derstand; the habit of mind
which theologician* call—and
rightly—Faith in God.—Char-
LEAD POISONING
In 1700 the members of the
medical profession were start-
led by the discoveries of an
Italian doctor named Rama-
zinni, who conclusively demon-
strated that trades snd indus-
tries were responsible for
many typical diseases of thqse
who followed them. And what
was more important he sug-
gested numerous practical
methods by which these sick-
nsses might be prevented.
He observed that stone ma-
sons, grinders, quarry-men
and others working in an at-
mosphere of dust frequently
developed consumption; that
gilders usually had eye trou-
bles; that wool sorters suffer-
ed from what we now know ■*
anthrax; that potters invariab-
ly, If they lived long enough,
had sciatica and that painters,
printers, plumbers and those
working in lead usually de-
veloped a train of symptoms,
in which colic pains were pro-
dominant
He even suggested the ad-
visability of printing a book
giving thorn who contemplat-
ed apprenticing themselves to
various trades, warnings about
these occupational diseases
lead poisoning ia the meet
common one today although
nothing like as prevalent as it
was a century ago. Lead is
easily absorbed by the body no
matter if it ia in solution, or in
gaseous state, and very fre-
quently it ia taken into the sys-
tem by means of food and
drink. It is deposited in the
gums and leaves a peculiarly
colored 'lead line” on them,
near the teeth. One becomes
weak, has wrist drop, find* it
difficult to hold anything, and
has the moat excruciating
pains in the abdomen.
In England. Devonshire
cider was famous, until many
who drank it were prostrated
,by lead poisonin'-. Investiga-
tion revealed tho fact that this
cider was stored in lead tanks
and when wooden barrels were
substituted as containers, no
more complaints came from
this source.
Until recently printers and
stereo pty pers, as well as
plumber* and painters were
the victims of this disorder,
but with the adoption of safe-
ty devices, the carrying off of
lead fumes, washing the
hands, nostril*, mouth and
face of the worker*, the for-
mer manifestations of chronic
lead poisoning are rapidly
disappearing.
Workers who use lead
should also remember to
change their entire clothing
daily, so as not to inhale any
particles of lead which might
cling to their working doth**
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