The Washington times., 1937-03-30
NOW
Further Facts
Compiled By
UNCLE SAM
BY HELEN EssARY

Here are recent discoveries an
nounced by Uncle Sam. You may
bring any Of the bright bits into
your daily conversation and seem
well informed.
The CCC boys are likely to be
as resourceful as Boy Scouts by
the time they leave camp. They
are called on for a little bit Of
everything. Raising baby deer by
bottle, counting the wild turkeys
in the forests, live trapping, and
transplanting beaver and raccoon,
are a few of their jobs.
You hear more about the boys
working on reforestation projects,
but the truth is, their duties range
all over the field of outdoor ac-
tivity. Director Fechner is justi-
fiably pleased with the nationwide
wild-life program being carried on
by his campers.
The PWA, that dispenser Of mil
lions of public moneys, is of a
domestic turn of mind. 1t has
reduced Secretary Ickes's new
200,000-ton Interior Department
Building to recipe form.
This building, says PWA Off
cial, is the result of mixing to-
gether 100000 hours of gainful
employment in private industry
$5,894,000 worth of building mate
rialS, 3.6 hours of work preparing
materials for each single hour on
the building assembly job, Sill
an-hour average building payroll
wage, and a 16-State minimum
spread Of indirect labor.
Here is no-hit-or-miss recipe:
Extensive Federal facilities were
invoked to get the information"
"The bilIion-dOlIar-paper in
dustry of America owes its
modern development to lOwly
wasp, so the Commerce Depart
ment brOadcasts."
Evidently the Commerce Depart
ment'S commentator has never
been stung by wasp, or he would
not describe a wasp as lowly!
WaspS travel an arrogant way
through this world.
Try eating a juicy apple on a
warm summer afternoon in the
country. Does the Iowly wasp
keep his place and show any re-
spect for property rights? Not at
all. He buzzes around your head
waiting for you to bite into the
apple so he may light on it and
suck the Juice.
Disturb him and what does he
do? He stings you with such fond
energy and venom that you beat
a shrinking, Sinking, and futilely
raging retreat to the screened fast
ness of the indoors. Lowly wasp
indeed!
Is your bread consumption above
or below average? The average
adult American eats more than
five slices of bread each day in the
year, so the further erudite Com
merce Department says.
The department has other
bakery idas. Cakes and cookies
nodded in the form of animals,
which we find in modern bake
shops, we're first eaten when living
sacrifices were made in ancient
days upon the affairs of the
temples.
Hot-cross buns originated in the
Middle Ages, when housewives
marked their loaves with sign of
the cross before putting them in
the oven to keep away the evil
spirits, which might otherwise
cause the loaf to fall. Rye and
barley bread come from Europe,
oat bread from Scotland, un-
leavened bread from Palestine, po-
tato bread from Ireland, and rice
bread from China. Pie, dough
nuts, Boston brown bread, raisin
bread. and Parker House rolls are
American products.
Down at the Census Bureau is a
manual of occupations. It lists
more than $4,000 ways to earn a
living, in addition to being lily
of the field. Brooding over these
unhappy, less-gifted people who
must toll and spin, am reminded
of the story of friend who spent
last summer in Bavaria.
At IllertisSen, small town on
the Danube, is a bee farm which
my friend suspects is the only one
of it's kind in the world. This
farm, entirely out of Henry Wal
lace's Jurisdiction, has colony of
approximately 50,000,000 bees.
The insects are raised, not
for honey, but for the poison
they produce when stinging.
This poison has certain proper
ties that cure rheumatism.