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LESSON OF A
WASTED STAMP
(Augusta Chronicle)
Perhaps it is strainig a point to
quibble about the cost of a postage
stamp, but when we received a
special delivery letter yesterday
from a Government agency, con
taining a news story which we re
garded as trivial as far as our read
ers’ interest is concerned, the whole
picture of Government extrava
gance passed before our eyes. This
stamp, we thought, was unneces
sary and therefore a waste of
money.
When anyone spends 13 cents for
a special delivery stamp it is gen
erally regarded that there is con
siderable urgency in getting the
letter or package to its destination.
The Chronicle cannot imagine
why such speed was needed to get
us the news from the War Assets
Administration, in Atlanta, that it
had approved the sale of the elec
trical distribution system at Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga., near Chattanooga,
to the North Georgia Electric Mem
bership Corporation, of Dalton, Ga.
Newspapers pay a considerable
sum to the Associated Press, the
United Press, the International
News Service and other news-gath
ering agencies just for the purpose
of bringing news into their offices.
This story could easily have been
given to one or all of these news
services by the WAA without the
necessity of that agency spending
the taxpayers’ money for special de
livery stamps which dispatched it
in a hurry to the various news
papers, many if not most of which
didn’t use it.
A special delivery stamp, of
course, is a small item, but when
Government agencies waste money
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407 S. Dearborn Street.
Chicago 5, Illinois
if YOU are driving a TIRE that
let Ifc £■Of , I
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t Jf j a Good
The last J or 4 thousand Pri <,
miles you may get out of a on °
smooth tire are mighty ex- r. UCIAI Tiro
pensire miles— far more ex- ifHC /it ™ I lIC
pensive to you than any other L———————
miles in the tire. '
You see, even though your cire is wearing smooth, if the hotly
is sound we can right now pay you a very good trade-in value
on anew tire.
But if you drive it longer, you may bruise it or have a blow
out—or wear it down so far it cannot be re-capped. In ei e
case, it will then bring you only a /UNK price.
You will be several dollars ahead if you bring that tire in to
us while we can still pay you a substantial trade-in value tor i .
You will also have the pleasure—and the safety of dmingon
a fine new tire. Why not let us bid on your worn tires—
TODAY!
JEFFERSON TIRE COMPANY
Jesse Murphy, Owner
Jefferson, Georgia M
V A -13 M
Thomas County Sheriff
Admits Misappropriating
Deputy Sheriff Oscar Moncrief of
Thomas County, has confessed he
has misappropriated SIB,OOO in tax
fi fas over a seven-year period.
Sheriff C. M. Dixon announced
Tuesday his suspension and an ex
pected Grand Jury investigation.
Receipts of the missing money
were found in an office cabinet of
Moncrief’s following an auditor’s
report. The Sheriff said Moncrief
apparently had collected the money
and failed to turn in the money.
Moncrief, who is recuperating from
an operation, told the Sheriff he
was unable to make restitution.
Modern Factories Retain
Principles of Hand Loom
Until about 100 years ago, spin
ning and weaving still were done al
most entirely by hand. The simple
spinning wheel and the hand loom
were important pieces of equipment
in any pioneer home.
Today, spinning and weaving are
done on rows of fast, noisy machines
in great factories. The principles of
these machines are still the same as
those of the spinning wheel and the
hand loom. In fact, the basic proc
esses are the same as they were 1 a
thousand years ago. Modern ma
chinery and science have just speed
ed up and greatly improved the
methods of making wool into useful
products. ,
Two main kinds of cloth come
from the mills, woolen and worsted.
Woolens are made of loosely spun
yarns which are prepared from the
shorter wool fibers. Manufacturers
call these fibers short-staple fibers
and the yarns short-staple yarns.
Worsteds are made from tightly
twisted long-staple yarns. Worsteds
have a smoother, harder finish.
Sometimes, woolen and worsted
yarns may be mixed.
No More Cod Liver Oil
No cod liver oil, or substitutes,
are needed for babies getting a
single shot a year of vitamins, Dr.
Henry J. Gerstenberger of Cleve
land hospital reported to American
Medical association. When a baby
is eight days old, he is given a
single injection of vitamin D-3 in the
abdomen. This is the same form of
the vitamin that is produced natu
rally in children’s bodies by sun
shine. The shot is repeated once a
year. For five years now it has kept
* babies in perfect condition so far as
their needs for phosphorus and vita
min D are concerned, the doctor
said. The vitamin shot prevents
rickets and has other benefits. He
stated that mother’s milk does not
contain vitamin D and that breast
feeding in winter, where a baby can
not get a lot of sunshine, is not pro
tection. In many places the vitamin
now is added to tow’s milk.
in a small way you cab be sure that,
in a good many instances, they
waste the taxpayers’ money in
larger ways.
Proves FAST RELIEF for
PAIN MISERIES
of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago,
Sore, Stiff Muscles!
JUST rub refreshing, gentle Neu-ra-balm on
the sore spoi. Instantly, aching muscles start
to relax ... the pain eases. Use NEURA
BALM to get last, long-lasting relief from
the miseries o( muscular aches and pains.
The Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Georgia
U. S. C',o3 Ir.c’usl.-y Traced
To May'lower’s Third Trip
More than 80) generr.t’rns have
come to witness the l : ght of day
and ret : re snee the first bearded
craftsman wove rt his knee the
water-softened, pliant strands of a
ripened, three-cornered reod of pa
pyrus to form the sandals which
were to be worn by himself and
members of his family.
In the field of modern shoe de
sign, thousands of models have been
brought forth. In the field of shoe
tools and machinery, more than
8,000 patents portraying the genius
of 3,000 inventors have been record
ed. In the field of shoe manufactur
ing processes, scores of technologi
cal improvements have been de
vised. In the field of leather, hun
dreds of worthwhile innovations
have been conceived. And in the
many other industries closely allied
to shoes and leather, hundreds of
inventors have brought forth com
parable improvements of benefit to
the millions of people who of neces
sity use footwear.
The shoe industry in the Unded
States started in 1629 when the May
flower, on its third voyage to Amer
ica, landed in the harbor of Salem,
Mass. Shortly after anchor had been
dropped, Thomas Beard, a shoe
maker of St. Martin's, London, and
Isaac Rickman, a journeyman shoe
maker, came ashore with bundles of
hides and the rough implements
utilized in the mailing of early foot
wear.
Shoes, in those days, were crude
and ill-shaped and generally low
around the ankle. For ornamenta
tion, they carried huge silver
buckles. The right shoe could not be
distinguished from the left, and con
sequently shoes were worn on eithei
foot.
Bnnereprins Mattress lias
Wide Margin in Popularity
There are two types of mat
tresses, the innerspring and the
solid upholstered. Ever since the in
nerspring was introduced in the
19205, it has been gaining steadily in
popularity until today it represents
90 per cent of the consumer demand
for mattresses. The well-tempered
wire coils of the innerspring unit
are designed to build up resistance
in proportion to weight.
The way in which the coils are
held together divides all innerspring
mattresses into two groups. In one,
the coils are individually encased in
cloth pockets which are sewed to
gether. In the other, the coils are
fastened to one another by small
helical springs or metal ties. Coils
in the metal tied units usually are
larger and made of heavier wire
than those in pocketed types.
Tempering of the wire and the
coil design in both determine the
resiliency. The filling material
which is placed on the top and bot
tom of the spring unit also is im
portant to the comfort and durabil
ity of the mattress. In innerspring
mattresses, it consists of felted cot
ton layers, curled hair or a combi
nation of both. Various types of in
sulation, including sisal, quilted or
stitched pads and other special pat
ented devices are used between the
coil unit and the padding to keep it
from working down into the coils.
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Plains of Kansas
Back in 1541—some 60 years be
fore Pocahontas saved John Smith’s
life—the first white man set foot on
Kansas soil. He was Gen. Francisco
Vasquez de Coronado, who trav
ersed “mighty plains” covered with
“humpbacked oxen.” “The earth,”
he said, “is very strong and black,
very well watered by brooks,
springs and rivers, and the country
itself is the best I have ever seen.”
More than 300 years later, in 1854,
settlement of Kansas was begun,
and here commenced the battle
over slavery which culminated in
the Civil war. In 1861, Kansas be
came a state, 400 miles wide and
200 miles deep, and after the Civil
war, people poured into the state,
plowed up grass and planted corn
and wheat. These brave pioneers
replaced the Indians, and the herds
of buffalo that once roamed the
plains gave way to herds of cattle.
Jail Has Theme Song
“Some Day Soon” was the song
adopted by the Goulburn jail orches
tra, near Sydney, Australia, for its
theme during broadcasting. The
band also features “All the Time”
and “I’m Confessin’.” The band
during one of its broadcasts played
two numbers composed by a man
who is serving a life sentence for
murder. One was “The Cliffs,” a
waltz, and the other a popular num
ber called “Dream Serenade.” The
latter has been published commer
ciaily. The pianist, who also is the
conductor, practices and composes
in his cell on a silent keyboard
which he made himseif. Members
of the bhnd spend all their recrea
tional time rehearsing.
Early Weatherman
Dr. John Lining, a phys.e-inn who
went to Charleston, S. C., from Scot
land in 1730, appears to have been
the first American to use instru
ments in weather observation. The
Scotch always have had a leaning
toward scientific instruments and it
was in keeping with his heredity
that Dr. Lining should come to his
adopted land equipped with barom
eter, thermometer, hygrometer and
rain gauge. Dr. Lining’s interest in
the weather lay in the effects of
weather changes on the human
body.
WHAT MAKES
ANALCOEOLIC?
. “What makes an alcoholic?” is
the title of a full article in a recent
issue of Newsweek, which gives
the findings of Dr. Robert V. Seliger
of Johns Hopkins Hospital. It is
based on his twenty years of ex
perience in handling drinkers of all
degrees.
Dr. Seliger admits with all author
ities on alcohol that for the third
stage alcoholic, the one who is al
lergic to alcohol, there is only one
answer—total abstinence for the
rest of his life. It is to these esti
mated 750,000 that the Alcoholics
Anonymous particularly directs
their attention.
Dr. Seliger goes further than the
chronic aicohoiic, and points a fin
ger of solemn warning at the social
drinker. He rayr, “I am convinced
that heavy social drinkers actually
ause moie trouble, as a group—
and this group runs into the mil
ion;;—than do the estimated 750,-
iOO alcoholics.” He warns of the in
crease in heavy social drinking and
he dangers caused by thes? heavily
“bourbonized” men and women in a
■supersonic mechanical age.”
The heavy social drinker, accord
ing to Dr. Seliger, gets himself and
jtuers into trouble, and from his
ranks the chronic alcoholic usually
develops. He says their number is
increasing—“At any hotel bar or
grill you may see at any dining
aour a number of well-dressed, pre
sumably influential men who, as the
rounds pile up, become louder,
more argumentative, and expansive
n movement.” This produced in
efficiency. “When calm judgment
n business is required, alcoholic
dates of mind are comparable to a
cut-cff in electricity at a peak hour
of production.” lie said that the ex
ecutive who dictates a wrong let
ter, thereby losing several millions
of the stockholders’ investments,
“hurts and harms in a bloodless
way,” as does the clerk who drinks
during the noon hour and makes
errors the rest of the day. “Such
episodes of ‘absenteeism on the spot’
from the top down are probably as
many as, perhaps more than, those
of orthodox absenteeism,” Dr. Se
.iger said.
He blames this condition on the
prevailing social attitude toward
oeavy social daytime drinking. “If
we could change this attitude so
that it would not be considered
smart’ to drink heavily, we would
oe saved much trouble and so far as
into accidents are concerned, much
tragedy.”
I
Most of us are careful about the
drugs we take into our bodies, and
try to learn what the results will
be. Intelligent people should do the
:ame with regard to drinking alco
ool, even if it is sold as a beverage.
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Acquiring Business ’’Know-How 9^
g—f
r Junior Achievement, Incorporated, a nation-wide movement
to encourage teen-age youngsters in the development of sound
business practice, has caught on with striking success in New
Bedford, Mass. Wamsutta Mills and Hathaway Manufacturing
I Company, two cotton textile plants in this city, each sponsor a
group of teen-agers who have formed their own corporations,
;sell stock, manufacture their products and transact their own
sales. Above, Mrs. Thomas J. Beedem, a New Bedford housewife,
listens attentively to the sales ta’k of Patricia Leddy (center)
and Florence Rego, members r f Junior Craftsmen Company,
the Hathaway-sponsored rmn'.ifure enterprise, which manufac
tures and sells a wooden table lamp designed after an old New
England pump.
OTIS TANNER PAROLED
One of the ten prisoners paroled
by the State Board of Pardons this
past week is Otis Tanner, sentenced
January, 1943, one year in Jackson
County for manslaughter.
NEW FISH BAIT
ROCHELLE.—Mrs. Ida Franks,
of Pitts, recommends pork rind as a
desirable fish bait for anyone prone
to /be too lazy when it comes to the
gentle art of grunting earth .worms
from their places of abode. Mrs.
Franks states that she caught 18
catfish with a single such bait and
carried the original rind home with
her to be used another time.
Naval Air Reservists joined forces
with a veteran’s association to aid
starving Navajo and Hopi tribes in
Arizona recently when supplies,
collected by the association, were
flown to the recipients by Reserve
pilots attached to Naval- Air Station,
Los Alamitos, California.
The U. S. Navy recruiting station.
New York, led the nation with the
highest total of new Navy recruits
during the first quarter of 1948,
with 5,062 enlistees. This figure was j
actually only 57.7 % of New York’s j
assigned quota of 8,771.
. . . HELPFUL HINT FOR
A CHAMPION HOME TOWN J
yean tc&Ait ai&iacttvef
* The appearance cf your town is more
important than you think, i ou know
it's a good town hut st-angers can
only judge by what they sec.
A spic-and-span town attracts it at
tracts tourists with money to spend, it
attracts progressive, wide-awake citizens,
it attracts manufacturers looking for
new plant sites!
im So the first step toward becoming a
Champion Home Town is to make it
clean, inviting, progressive-looking. And
WwHHk the whole town will profit.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
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THURSDAY. JUNE 10. 134#
COTTON STILL TOPS
Cotton still leads the field in
contributing to the Nation’s textile
needs although the consumption of
rayon reached an all-time high last
year, the Agriculture Department
said Tuesday. Nearly one billion
pounds of rayon were consumed in
1947 but other synthetic fibers took
a drop below the 1946 level. The fi-
bers including nylon accounted for
only seven-tenths per cent of the
national total. Cotton supplied al
most 60 per cent cf the Nation’s tex
tile demands in 1947—the exact
percentage being 58.7, according to
a survey of fiber uses by the South
ern Regional Research Laboratory
in New Orleans. Other fibers which
helped supply last year’s textile
wants were: wool, 10.1; jute, 9.9;
hard fibers such as sisal and Manila
hemp, 7.5; flax, 0.3; silk, 0.1; and
soft hemp, C.i.
A recent analysis of U. L. Navy
personnel figures shows that over
46% of the present Regular Navy
officers are former enlisted men.
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