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Show , THE READER'S DATE BOOK 1 Home Towns Plan Bible Veek Observances, October 75 to 21 National Bible Week will be observed throughout the nation October 15-21. This very fine activity is now in its eleventh year, and is sponsored by the Laymen's National Committee, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization, endeavoring through its membership to influence people in all walks of life to 'read the Bible, the world's most famous book. Numbered amonk those who endorse the committee in its work for National Bible Week are governors, senators, congressmen, mayors, civic and religious leaders, military men, business and industrial indus-trial executives, labor leaders and professional men and women. Congressman Walter H. Judd of Minnesota has been A named chairman of this year's observ- ance- He has made p,j,lcp.s a special appeal to JtcJ? the vomen in the FEATURE home towns of the ' n a ti o n, especially club groups, to put on local campaigns. In March, 1940, the Laymen's National Na-tional Committee began its work with one idea, to get more people to read tbe Bible. In the course of Jts growh and development, it has established two annual movements: Nafional Bible Week (inaugurated 1841) observed the third week in October Oc-tober each year, and National Sunday School Week (inaugurated 1945) observed the second week in April each year. How many people have been inspired in-spired to turn to the Bible for help and comfort; how many induced to attend the church of their choice, or Maintain it in operative condition. Understand how to operate it. Filling Stations Should Push Oil Promotion Week The American oil industry will celebrate Oil Progress Week, October Oc-tober 14-20. Here is the opportunity of local filling stations, garages and oil wholesalers to tell the people of the community the importance of tbi industry in relation to home town ecenomy. The week was designed with that purpose in mind telling the story of oil to the American public. And it is one that the average home town reader will find of interest. There are over 50 million oil-powered vehicles on the nation's streets and highways today. These vehicles have eliminated the small town's isolation and made it a part of the world community. Oil, too, has played an important part in the nation's astonishing agricultural agri-cultural production growth during the past two or three decades. In fact, without oil the wheels of industry in-dustry and Ajnerican agriculture would come to a complete halt. To meet the increasing and unprecedented demands for gasoline and other petroleum products, U, S. oilmen are breaking every record have already al-ready raised the nation's refining refin-ing capacity to a peak of .290 million gallons per day. This is only a part of the story which the oil industry will tell the nation during Oil Pregress Week, October 14-20. It is one the home town reader will find interesting and important. Glassware Jubilee Is Set for October 7-1 3 ' ' ' ' . ' ' " - $ v v Congressman Judd how many parents persuaded to send their children to Sunday School as a result of these nation-wide activities, the committee has no way of knowing. But each year there have been an increasing number of requests re-quests for religious educational material, which Is distributed free of charge only on request to churches, religious organizations, organ-izations, men's and women's clubs, schools, college, and libraries. The home -town group desiring such material may write the Laymen's Lay-men's National Committee, The Vanderbilt Hotel, New York 16, N.Y. Fires Can Be Prevented By a Few Simple Rules As this is being read, Fire Prevention Pre-vention Week is being observed in most small towns across the nation. Here are a few simple rules that will prevent home fires and prevent them from spreading if followed: 1. Keep matches away from tiny hands and encourage adults to smoke safely and never in bed. 2. Stop misusing electricity by im- The nation's leading glassware makers and the citizens of Sandwich, Sand-wich, Mass., have combined forces to pay tribute to Deming Jarves, a New Englander who played an important im-portant role in raising American living liv-ing standards. Comparatively unknown, although his Sandwich glass is famous, Deming Dem-ing Jarves was picked as the glass-maker glass-maker to honor during the American Ameri-can Glassware Jubilee, to be celebrated cele-brated from October 7 to 13. His achievement: developing a machine that not only mechanized mechan-ized the glass Industry but was the first basic step toward this nation's great mass production methods. The machine, known as a side lever press, ushered in a new way of life for the American home. Developed De-veloped 125 years ago by Jarves in his Boston and Sandwich Company, the press, turned out inexpensive glassware in quantity and transformed trans-formed glass from a luxury item to a useful commodity available for people of modest means. The press created a furor among glassmakers as well it might. It was the first major development in glass manufacturing in 2,000 years! That was when a Phoenician discovered dis-covered the principle of the blow- proper fusing, overloading circuits and defective wiring and appliances. 3. Have your heating equipment arid chimney cleaned annually, inspected in-spected and defects repaired. 4. Use fire-retardant roofing. 5. Never allow gasoline, benzine, naphtha or similar volatile flammable flamma-ble liquids in the home for any purpose. pur-pose. 6. Keep rubish and unnecessary combustibles regularly removed from your home. Your home can be made safer by: 1. Using fire resistive materials mate-rials wherever possible. 2. Cutting off basement from first floor by heavy door. 3. Plastering basement celling cell-ing with cement or gypsum plaster plas-ter on metal lath. 4. "Firestopping" hollow partitions par-titions at floor levels, especially especial-ly basement. 5. Installing automatic sprinklers in the cellar. 6. If the garage Is part of the house it. should be separated by masonry walls or at least by metal lath and cement or gypsum plaster. Any door in these walls should be a fire door, but access to the garage should be preferably from outside only. 7. Have an approved fire extinguisher extin-guisher of the right type available. pipe. Phoenicians, too, are credited with making the first glass; before that, man, back to the dawn of history, his-tory, had carved a glassy substance thrown up by volcanos into trinkets, goblets, and knives. These Phoenicians made that first glass by sheer accident, according to the Roman historian, Pliny. He records that mariners, beached in a calm, needed rocks to support a cook pot above a fire, used blocks of soda ash instead from the cargo. When the fire died down they were puzzled by a strange substance sub-stance in the embers. It was glass, produced by heat, sand, and soda plus alkali from the burned wood. It was a substance to change the ways of all mankind. man-kind. The Romans in 200 BC improved the Phoenician blowpipe by using it in conjunction with a mold. But glassmaking was a luxurious stepchild step-child as far as the general pubUc was concerned until the side lever press was brought to light in 1826 its output objets d'art for royalty and the wealthy. This was the picture in 1825 when Deming Jarves founded the Boston and Sandwich Company on Cape Cod, one of the first American glass companies to operate on a big scale. |
