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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 There’s No Safer Way To Invest Your Money! LEAP */*l ;Me.h)sxL hock PHOSPHATE When you put Four Leaf on your fields you're making a perman ent investment in improved fer tility. Four Leaf can't leach out, you can't lose it . . . once you spread it you've improved your soil for years and years. You get your money and a big profit back in increased yields and increased value of your farm! Four Leaf is inexpensive! SPREAD FOUR LEAF NOW! WINFORD E. ORR 110 New Street, WINDER, GA. or write to— THOMSON PHOSPHATE CO. 407 S. Dearborn Street. Chicago 5, Illinois if YOU are driving a TIRE that let Ifc £■Of , I ,mk We c an pay you 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. C ' ) 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. Read The Herald Want Ads f&'As V; \ The new DALI DOME (2-pier? mefa!) LID is ecsiest t3 use end surest to seal. Fits ar.y M a soil jar. To test seai press dome —if down, jar v\ sealed! VA j ° Ll'f P BALI ZINC |> Rubber Rings s have been favorites for genera tions. They seal all Mason jar:. - Easy to use! | \dk\\ r \Wx 'r> ncmt V K ,. BROW*** • 1 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 oo*K**tu*titey T)evclafr*He*t &(ui4teK j V* * Jf< Vi.- -J.'..-i-. JL li 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. Backache For quick comforting help for Hack ache. Rheumatic Pains, Oetting Up Nights, strong I cloudy urine. Irritating passages, Leg Fains, ) circles under eyes, and swollen ankles, due to non-organlc and non-sytcmlc Kidney and | Bladder troubles, try Cystex. Quick, complete eatlsfactlon or money back guaranteed. Ask your druggist for Cystex today.