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Today
Tomorrow
By Frank Parker Stockbridge
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INTELLIGENCE . . at 17 years
The discovery has been announced
that the average mental age of
the American people is nearer 17
than 12. That is encouraging. It
seems that some of the psychologists
who were making mental tests
of recruits during the war put a
decimal point in the wrong place,
or something like that and spread
the idea that we were a nation of
infants. Now they are trying to
correct that mistake.
Without poking too much fun at
these psychologists, for there is
really a great deal to be said in
favor of their work, I am glad that
they have found out what I have
always believed. That is that most
people have reached their full pow ers
of reasoning and learning by the
time they are 17 or so.
What this country will be like
twenty years from now depends,
literally, upon what impressions the
youngsters who are now between
17 and 25 get from their contacts
with their elders in the next two or
three years.
BUSINESS at the zoo
At Yale University professors
have been testing the intelligence of
chimpanzees by teaching them how
to transact business. The chimps
can get "money" in the form of
colored chips by doing certain work.
They quickly learn that they can
buy certain things with certain colors
of chips. Also they learn that
other chimpanzees will steal their
"money" unless they hide it or lock
it up.
Some folks have an idea that
anyone who can count money and
make change has enough education
to get by with. What they are
proving at Yale is that it doesn't
take much intelligence to do such
things. I don't know what else it
will prove, except that we are closer
akin to the apes than some of us
would like to believe. Perhaps this
Yale experiment will be put forward
by some future "brain trust"
as proof that business men receive
too high a premium for the exercise
of their talents.
AMBITION . . . college workers
The movies and some of the popular
periodicals give a wrong slant
on college life. They put the emphasis
on sports and on the antics
of rich men's sons, until a great
many folk get the idea that our
universities are luxurious retreats
for loafers.
When I was young most college
students were poor men's sons who
had to "work their way" through
college, by doing whatever odd jobs 1
or vacation tasks they could find. '
And I was interested to read a re- 1
port from Harvard that the same
conditions obtain now as fifty years
ago. More than two thousand stuents
of that oldest of all American
colleges are working their way, doing
all sorts of things. Some work
as cooks and nurses in private
families, others wash windows, tend
gardens, shovel snow, do typewriting,
provide entertainment, give
music lessons or work in garages.
These young men will not regard
their education as something lightly
come by. A boy with ambition
enough to earn his living while
carrying on the genuinely hard
work of a university course has got
the making or a man in mm.
LIGHT . . . .' a new horizon
If ten months from now the 200inch
telescope lens for which the
glass was poured the other day,
turns out to be flawless and uncracked?they
can't tell untill it
cools off?then astronomers will be
able to perceive stars so distant that
the light from them has been more
than a billion years reaching the
earth, traveling at the rate of 186 000
miles a second.
The extent of the visible universe
will be multiplied by ten, when this
new light-gathering instrument is
set up and in action.
In a literal as well as figurative
sense, what mankind needs and has
always needed, is more light. Saint
Paul was right when he said that
human beings "see through a glass
darkly."
GOLD from the sea
Forty years ago or so a Yankee
minister named Jarnigan formed a
company to extract gold from sea
water. He sold stock in his company
and got into a lot of trouble.
But he was telling the exact truth
when he said there was enough gold
in the Atlantic Ocean to pave North
America. His only trouble was that
it cost more to get it out than the
go d was worth.
.'fow, with gold worth $35 an
ouice instead of about $20, chemist
> are giving serious attention to
th<! problem of recovering gold from
tho sea. At the American Chemical
Society meeting the other day a
ch;mist who is extracting bromine
fnm sea-water commercially said
th it the same process "ionizes" the
god in the water, making it more
nearly possible to filter it out.
:: learned a long time ago not to
regard anything as impossible.
Warrenton, North Carol]
In Cup Race Crew'
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LONDON . . . Mrs. T. 0. M.
Sopwith (above), wife of the owner
of the "Endeavour" English yacht
challeger for the American Cup
this summer, will be a member of
the Endeavor crew, the first woman
ever to sail in the historic races for
the coveted cup.
Dolomitic Limestone
Helps Fertilizers
Acid-forming compounds now being
used in fertilizers should be
counteracted with dolomitic limestone
if the productivity of the soil
is to be maintained, say agronomj
specialists at State College, commenting
on recent research information
sent out from the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Since acid ammonium compounds
are cheaper than the other forms
of basic nitrogen, they say, man.v
of the complete fertilizers now sold
in this country are distinctly acid
forming.
In former years, the forms of
nitrogen used in fertilizers would
give a neutral or even a basic mix1
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lure. oucn ieruiizers couia De us^u
without danger.
There are two methods of counteracting
acid. One is to apply
limestone directly to the soil. The
other is to mix a suitable liming
material with the fertilizer. Danger
of overliming is less when the
latter method is used.
However, experiments have shown
that when enough ordinary limestone
is added to the fertilizer to
neutralize it, there will be a loss of
ammonia and phosphoric acid. Dolomitic
limestone has no such bad
effects.
Some manufacturers of commercial
fertilizers have already adopted
the use of dolomitic limestone to
offset the acid-producing ammonium
compounds.
Low Grade Feeds
Cause Poultry Loss
Most of the dangers of food
poisoning of chickens can be attributed
to the use of low-grade
materials in home mixed feeds or
allowing mashes to become damp
and decompose, says R. S. Dearstyne,
head of the poultry department
at State College.
Feeds mixed from the best materials,
particularly ingredients
known to be good chicken food, will
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xiuL poison nie onus.
Birds, however, may he poisoned
by eating fertilizer or feeds which
have come into contact with fertilizer.
Hence, Dearstyne warned
against permitting chickens access
to freshly fertilized fields or tc
buildings where fertilizer is stored.
Many causes of high mortality
are found in chilling, over-heating
crowding, poor sanitation, and gern:
diseases, and not so frequently ir
poisonous foods as some poultrymen#seem
to think, he said.
When bothered by a heavy loss o:
birds, the poultryman should chec'n
every possible cause for the high
death rate. Then if he cannot de
termine the cause, he should senc
several specimens of his flock tc
the poultry disease laboratory ai
State College. With the birds shoulc
be a careful description of the
trouble and the way he has beer
managing his flock.
He also advised that there is little
use for a poultryman to send ?
ready-mixed mash to the State
laboratory for testing to see whethei
it has a detrimental influence or
chicks. In the mixture the various
elements lose their identity and il
would be almost impossible to tel
which element, if any, is causin:
trouble.
He also pointed out that the onlj
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practical way to test a ieea is X(
give it to chickens for some perioc
of time. This is rather slow, anc
when done in the laboratory it i:
also expensive.
Cumberland county committeemen
find that most of the cottor
contracts are well in line. Individual
reductions rather than a coun
ty-wide horizontal reduction wil
be made in the tobacco contracts.
Ina 1
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A knowing audience, a brilliar
audience cheered itself hoarse t
the end of the first performance c
an opera about nothing in particu
lar which lends it charm and gra\
beauty?"Four Saints in Thre
Acts," by Gertrude Stein and Virg
Thompson. The scenery is made c
cellophane. It is not true that th
costumes of the all-negro cast ar
also made of cellophane . . . "Mos
of the time the music comes nea
to familiar tunes, then skips awa
from them, but the listener hunt
in his memory." As for the textyou
can take it or leave it. A
opera, in short, of inspired foolish
ness. . . . "You know how childre
love to run words together no mat
ter what they mean?" . . . Wei
I that's the way tne text sounaea t
one auditor. But with some super
singing!
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Notable among the recent Broad
way openings is the Sidney Howar
dramatization of the Sinclair Lewi
, novel, "Dodsworth." Seen by a:
enthusiastic first night audience, i
was reviewed favorably, for th
most part, and enthusiastically fo
the acting of Walter Huston wh
takes the lead part of Samu:
Dodsworth.
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L With eleven million dollars ii
, assets claimed by counsel for th
Hotel Roosevelt, an offer of $25,00
cash for all assets and equipmen
, was accepted in a United State
District Court recently. "With n
, further bids forthcoming," said th
Judge, "the offer will be accepted.
... It was the only bid.
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Alderman Curley raised his voic
and arms in a huge outcry agains
, Mayor La Guardia: "Does he thin!
he is a monarch of all he surveys
Does he want to be dictator? . .
But the high sonority of the alder
1 man's words disturbed "Tammany
the City Hall cat. "Tammany
stepped sedately to the front of th
chamber, sat down and stared a
the irate alderman. . . . "Does h
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cat and stopped. The cat stareat
the alderman "Does he . . h
began again. But the cat wa
unperturbed. Alderman Hart in
terrupted the aldermanic laughte
- long enough to express the views o
the members: "I move that th
privileges of the floor be extende
to the City Hall cat."
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Police Commissioner O'Rya
startled members of a club he wa
, addressing recently when he sai
he could have any one of ther
murdered within 24 hours for th
small sum of three of four hundre
dollars. . . . "You may not believ
that," he said, "but I know ths
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there is a minimum of 10,000 criminals
in the city whom no one can
change."
Claims Every One
> Has A Boss Eye
? Which of your eyes is the boss
3 eye? Although human sight has
it developed binocularity?that is, the
it use of both eyes at once in order
if to increase the efficiency of disi
tance vision?only one eye is ace
tually used for most seeing. In the
ie majority of cases it is the right eye
il which does seeing except when that
if eye is closed or obstructed by ac,e
cident from viewing its object, ac e
cording to the Better Vision Inst
stitute.
r A simple test is to hold a finger
y at arm's length and line it up with
3 some object across the room. Then,
- keeping one eye focused on the obn
ject, close and open first one eye
l~ and then the other. The finger
n and the object will remain in line
" for only one eye?and that's the
1. hncs pva
? Loss of binocularity is one of
the two apparently increasing tendencies
of human eyesight, the
other being near-sightedness. Dr.
- Thomas Hall Shastid, an eminent
d eyesight specialist, has said, "Nas
ture has sought valiantly, in two
n very different ways, one bad and
't one good, to help man's eyes adjust
e themselves to new conditions. The
r bad way has been to make him ^
0 near-sighted. The near-sighted eye
-'1 is at rest when it looks at near objects,
but always it is a diseased
eye. Moreover, it sees poorly at a
n distance (often at close range also)
e except when fitted with lenses. The
0 good method used by nature to help
it man in his modern conditions of
s existence has been the improveo
ment of the elasticity of the lens of
e the eye." Glasses, in other words,
" are increasingly in demand to
equip human eyes for the close work
demanded of them.
;fc Birds See No Blue,
? So Scientists Find
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Tile eyes OI Diras are mcupauic
.. of seeing blue violets, according to
.. the Better Vision Institute, and it
e is for that reason that they can see
t for such great distances. Human
e eyes, which are sensitive to blue
e colors, are handicapped by the haze
d which surrounds distant objects and
e obscures them. The eyes of birds
3 are the best and most piercing of
. all eyes, being often both telescopic
r and microscopic and able to discern
minute objects imperceptible to
e human eyesight. Even vultures, cond
trary to popular belief, see their
food even if it is carrion rather
than smell it.
n While birds do not see blues or
,s violets, they can see infra-red rad
diations, heat waves which are inn
visible to human eyes. The latter
e have been further incapacitated by
d indoor living and the peculiar cone
ditions of modern existence which
it evolution has had no time to meet.
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WENATCIIEE, Wash. . . .
Roberta Hcnsel (above), pretty 16
year old high school girl, has been
chosen Queen of Blossom Land to
rule over the annual Apple Blossom
Festival here which comes much
earlier this year, due to a mild
winter.
Motor car driving, machine work,
sewing, writing and reading all put
strains on the human eye which it
was never meant to bear, and these
strains take their toll of nervous
energy unless glasses are used. Experts
agree that while man's eyes
are the most complex of all seeing
organisms, they are not as well
equipped for vision as the eyes of
some animals, for instance, those of
birds.
Getting Ready For
Rental Payments
The adjustment of cotton reduction
contracts to make the claims
ox past acreage ana poundage conform
to the known figures for the
production in each county should
be completed within the next few
weeks, according to Dean I. O.
Schaub of State College.
Efforts are being made to start
the rental payments by the latter
part of April, so that that money
may be available to the farmers for
use in the cultivation of the present
crop.
The checks will be sent out from
Washington, headquarters of the
AAA, as fast as the revised con&
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tracts are accepted there.
Tabulators at State College havi
finised the checking of original con
tracts in 24 of the 67 cotton grow
ing counties. There is some over
statement in the claims of past pro
duction, but little difficulty is an
ticipated in adjusting the figures
Schaub said.
Catawba and Lincoln counties
the first two to be checked have al
ready revised their contracts an<
returned them for final approva
before they are sent on to Wash
ington.
The other counties in which th
checking has been completed, ant
which are now ready for the revis
ion work by local agents, are: Polk
Yadkin, Cabarrus, Stanley, Ala
mance, Orange, Chatham, Hoke
Vance, Wilson, Camden, Pasquo
tank, Perquimans, Chowan, Beau
fort, Guilford, Gaston, Tyrrell
' Alexander, Gates, Warren, ant
Randolph.
Farm Questions
And Answers
Question: Is the science of sexin<
I baby chicks practical for the aver
i lJuuibiyiiiai.il
Answer: A high degree of profic
iency has been attached by special
ists of the U. S. Department o
Agriculture in this work but, du<
to extreme care necessary in mak
ing autopsies and the necessar;
practice work the system is of lit
tie value to the average poultryman
For the commercial hatcherymaii
however, an opportunity is offerei
in that a definite premium will bi
offered to the hatcheryman who cai
guarantee a run of as high as &
per cent females.
Question: When should appli
trees be treated for control of appl
blight?
Answer: The trees should bi
sprayed as soon as the blossom;
are open. The irregular bloomini
varieties will require more than oni
application of the spray. The re
moval of all blighted twigs, branche:
and blight cankered areas will als<
aid in the control by eradicatini
carry-over sources of the organism
For the spray use a Bordeaux mix
tn rA oi of i v> rr r\f /\ma r\AimrJ a
IUIC, LUilOlOlilig Ui UI1C [JV/U11U u,
granulated blue stone, three pound;
of chemical hydrated lime and 5(
gallons of water.
Question: Is silage a profitabl;
summer feed for dairy cattle?
Answer: Silage has its place i
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-TO-MATE!
~^he Warren Record solicits
announcement cards of
candidates entering the J
mary at a special rate of $:
:h. The card will be inse:
m the date submitted until
mary at this flat rate,
consideration of this redi
e and as a matter of policj
itical advertising of any na
1 be inserted in this newspi
ess cash is paid in advance
same.
e earlier announcement ci
entered in this newspaper,
re insertions will the candic
ain for his or her money. Bi
in your notice early.
ttarnm Si
FRIDAY, APRIL 13,1954 I
i summer feeding as a supplement 1
?. I short pasture. Where there is M
-lficient silage or where the silag,
-1 crops yield well it is a cheap^i
-1 more convenient supplement thai I
-1 soiling crops. It is also well to fwl
-|a reasonable amount in the mort. I
i,ling for the first few days after tie
I animals are turned on the pastor; I
, lTtiis prevents the cows from got?. I
'I I ing on the young tender grass whlth I
j I tends to scour the cows.
-lHogs Need Pasture I
I For Proper Growth I
II Green grazing is essential to tire I
' 1 development of hogs, yet they can.
"Inot thrive on pasturage alone, says I
" 1 Earl H. Hostetler, head of the ar.f. 1
Imil husbandry research at State I
" 1 College.
" 1 Southern swine growers have m I
Mac.vantage over their northern I
I neighbors, he said, in the year. 1
1 round pastures which can be main. I
ltained in the warmer regions. V
1 Pigs which have had access to I
I succulent grazing before the fatten- I
lir.g period will put on weight even 1
r 1 when fed the concentrated fatten- H
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But those which were not suaplied
with green grazing before 'ha I
- fattening period, in recent expert I
f ments under Hostetler's supervision
e failed to gain weight normally and I
- finally died when not provided with I
y green feed, legume hay, or cod I
- liver oil.
i. Temporary grazing is especially I
i. valuable to sows which are suck- I
i ling pig litters, since it is during I
e this period that young pigs are lia- I
i ble to become infested with worms I
D and other parasites. A fresh pasture I
that has not been grazed by swine I
in some time will decrease the I
s danger of infestation,
e Young pigs should not be allowed I
to graze in pastures along with I
o older hogs, as the mature animals I
s n.ay infect the pigs although not I
g apparentsly suffering from the I
; parasites themselves.
Hostetler says that continuous I
s temporary grazing can be provided
5 throughout the year in eastern and fl
r piedmont North Carolina by seed- I
ing abruzzi rye and crimson clover I
- from the latter part of August to I
f September 15, spring oats or dwarf I
5 Essex rape from February 15 to I
) March 15, and successive seeding- I
of soybeans from May 15 to July 15. I
The soybeans will be ready for graz- I
j ing when six inches high. H j
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