Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MEET II broad street lunch I 11 ON TOP OF THE HILL I H i j j The Beit Nickel Hamburger Anywhere. N Milk?Bottled Drinke?Beer?Ice Cream ! C0URTE0U8 j OPEN UNTIL, I I CURB SERVICE I A. M. 1 tomatoes, once eeueveo i poisonous, now loved by all ( From The Path Adder) flo vegetable has ever risen to pop alarity and usefulness more rapidly I tban the "pomrae d amour" (love apI pie) which I* raore pommoaly known to the modern public as the tomato, I ^ than two centuries ago this vegoB table wan believed to be deathly poisi odous; a hun'dred years ago It was B itill a great curiosity; and despite B its extensive use for food three deI cades ago food experts believed Its I chief value to the table was to lend I flavor to the meal. Today, all Is I changed. It is even fed to babies; I ft is listed near the head of foods I high in vitamin content; it Is outI nuked aa a vegetable jcrop only by I the potato and sweet potato; and | leads all others as a vegetable canI ning crop. J in 1934 the 500,000 acres of farm I land In the United States yielded I nearly 1,000,000,000 pounds of toma toes for the fresh vegetable markets I and almost 3,000,000,000 pounds for I canning and similar purposes. Thus, I it may be seen that one out of every I four pounds sold reaches the table I fresh, and the remaining three pounds I are eaten in some specially prepared I form. The annual value of the toI mato crop in the United .States ranges I from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000. BeI sides there is the enormous garden I production for home consumption. I There is scarcely a garden which does I not produce some of these once scorn- j I ed red and luscious vegetables. It is not known Just how or why j I the idea got spread around tfiat the I tomato was poisonous and therefore I not fit for human food. c Perhaps one I of the reasous was that It was found I to be a member of the nightshade I I family of which peppers, eggplant! I and potato^-are also members. OddI ly enough, there was a time when I the human family also refused to eat - foe tubers of the potato plant but contented themselves with nibbling j the seed tips. Like its cousin, the potato, the tomato,was discovered by the Spaniards in South America, llhen the Spaniards conquered Peru they found quantities of tomatoes' growing in that region but there is little to tell us if they were grown for their edibility or not. The pre-j sumption is that ttfty were, since old records speak of them as being under cultivation. Nevertheless, when It was introduced to North America about the beginning of the 19th century the tomato plant was regarded as strictly ornamental and ' its product, the 1 berry," was thought by the colonists to be very poisonous. It is not definitely known Just when foe tomato was found to be non-polsonous and edible or how the discovery fame about. But tradition has it that it was a New England man who despite the warnings and dire predictions ?f his friends first ate of the "love : aPPfo" in this country. This fearless fellow is said to have been Michele " ^e"ce Corne, an artist whose best known paintings were those depicting naval battles of the War of 1812. And today there stands in a cemetery at ' ewPort, Rhode Island, a monument to Corne. the man who took a chance and thereby performed a great sei> v'ce to mankind. Once the tomato waa found to be edible, its popularity spread rapidly through the country, especially dur'ng the latter half of the 19th century when men iu the seed business, ed by the late A. W. Livingston, put ?uh their best efforts to oonvtnce i*?pie of its value as a food. Aa Its Popularity gained.- horticulturists gave it more and more attention with e rP8ult that today there are more than iso distinct varieties of the toi niato. Food specialists who have given the omato considerably aUenUon during Past quarter centuryhavedlscov*red that while it tsrlchin vttamlna A and u it is especially valuable for li,gh content of Yitamin O, the i lack of which is said to cause bleeding gums, loose teeth, sore joints and kindred ills. Vitamin C is especially important, they say, because it is not like its brothers or sisters which collect in the body to be used when needed but a continuous supply muBt be taken Into the body day after day. That is why tomatoes occupy such an important place In the American diet. 0 i _ -rr"" V? , | The tomato, especially in the canned form, became an important article of trade during the latter half of the past century. Canned supplies' of this vegetable are always at hand and nearly every month of the year sees ,a fresh supply on the markets. California tomatoes strike the markets in early spring followed by crops from Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina about May. Tomatoes begin to ripen in the states as far north as Ohio by June and in the northern-most states including New York, Michigan, Oregon and Washington through July, August and September. "Just about the time the frosts hit the northern states the new crop from Florida and Texas begins to seep Into the markets. During the winter Interval domestic supplies are < helped out by shipments from Mexico and Cuba. Thus it may be seen that tomato growing is not confined to any part of the United States although the states of New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, rhdian^jBt,nd California furnish most of the supply for canners and manufacturers. Since the tomato season in any location has but & few weeks most consumers who insist on the "fresh" vegetable the year round get what is known ,to the trade as the "green wrap" (tomatoes held in storage and, ripened) about eight months out of the year. This business of picking green and rlpeniqg on the way to the consumer has become a well developed and highly successful business. Care is taken that the tomatoes do not freeze in transit or storage and when ready for ripening the temeperature in warehouses is maintained at about 80 degrees Fahrenheit. These ripening warehouses are found in nearly all the important cities of the nation. Besides canned, tomatoes are made into soups, pureees, catsup and tomato juice. Thus, it; mey be seen- that the tlbeled "love apple" has at last oome Into its own and is equally at home in a soup, a stew or a salad.?The Pathfinder. Mexican Holdup* Mexico City, July 30.?The holdup and robbery by Mexican bandits of seven carloads of United States tourists, among thpiix Senator ltobert Reynolds of North Carolina, was described here by Campbell Jones of Abilone, Texas. The polite li&ldup-men took money, watches and Jewelry from the Americans near Taxeo, Guerrero, last night, Jones said when he came here. He said he knew one victim was Reynolds because, "when someone, noticing the Texas ceutennial sticker on his automobile, said 'Hello, Texas,' he leaned out of his car and replied: |'I am Senator Reynolds of North Curj olina." Jones, with his wife and daughter, Geraldine and Miss Catherine Col| lier, of Ardmore, Okla., was traveling I north toward Mexico Clty.?The others, I including Senator Reynolds, were going south. "We came arouud a curve," Jones said, "to find three men aiming rifles directly at us. A little , farther on was a pile of rock blocking the way. The bandits were not abusive, only businesslike. They took 80 pesos (about $30) from me, 15 from my daughter, my watch which my employes presented to me, and Miss Collier's wrist watch." Because of the spread of hydrophobia, all Chicago dogs are under strict quarantine. No dogs of either high or low degree, are permitted to enter J or leave the city, under state law. Since July 1, 1938, persons have been I bitten by dogs in Chicago and three | persons died from rabies. J.C.COX Sanitary Plumbing and Heating jj TELEPHONE 433-J |! Estimates Furnished on Short Notlco n ., ? ' *?> Vy ^ ^ .' ? * I ELECTROL OIL BURNERS m: * SHBnHHHI WHY Potatoes M#y Be Discolored After Boiling. Mow ofit'ii hfiM it happened that an uutbltlouH housewife, after preparing ulwit she considers to be jt perfect men I in every respect for her husband Hnd guesls, finds that the poiutoes. instead of being firm and white. Hre an unappetising blue or black? The reason for the black boiled po tatoeg has been determined, believes Prof, w. K TottIngham of the University of Wisconsin college of agrlculThrough ids experimentation, Professor Totting hum has proved tha^ this discoloration is the result of the for inatlon of pigment products which up pear when tin* potatoes are grown in soil having a lack of potash fertilizer The lack of potash In the soil causes the formation of certain organic com pounds known as amino holds,-- TheSc compounds oxidize to form the color pigments that discolor the potato. Botanists used to explain tills discoloration by saying that the potatoes had been dug when they were "green" or not fully developed. Professor Tottlnghnm lias disposed of this theory, however, for he reports that lie lias dug potatoes on the university's experimental farms before they were fully matured and found that, provided they . hod been given mifliclent potash during the growing season, no blackening woiild result upon boiling. Why English WatauU Are?T1 Not an English Product The*'English walnut Is not native to England, This species of wnlnut, which is nntive only to Asia and southeastern Europe, has been grown In Eng land since 1562. if not since the R ?man occupation. It was first Introduced into America from England, and thus became known In this country as the English wnlnut. Among the Romans it was called the Persian nut. a name by which it Is still sometimes known. ? The so-called English walnut is indigenous to Yugoslavia, Greece. Turkey, Persia and the region eastward to China. Scientifically It Is Juglans regla. Jove's nut. royal nut, French walnut nnd Madeira wnlnut are other popular names for it. Why Man Walks Upright Why does man walk upright instead of on all fours like a horse or a cow? Or JoSinh Oldfleld, speaking at the College of Preceptors in London. England. recently declured we got that way rrom entiug fruit. While, as cows kept their noses to tlie ground munching grass and lions developed front feet armed with powerful clav/s, man stool up on ids hind legs to pick fruit. Thus, said Doctor Oldfleld, our primitive ancestors gradually assumed an erect posture nnd their front legs were freed tc become tools for creative work such as the making of a stone ax or a 7essol. ,, Why Wife Is Helpmeet Genesis 2:18 says:, "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him* a help meet for him." In this sentence meet means fit or suitable. "1 will, make him a helper suitable for him." The help and meet were at an early date combined into helpmeet, meaning a helper or companion, especially a wife. .Helpmeet In turn was corrupted into helpmate, with the same meaning. The two words are now used Interchangeably. Why Peacock Feathers Are "Evil" - The peacock's feather Is ap emblem of vainglory and In some Eastern coun , tries is a mark of rank. The peacock's tall Is emblematic of an evil eye, or of an ever vigilant traitor, hence the feathers are considered unlucky and the superstitious will not have them in the house. The classical legend Is that Argus, a fabulous creature with 100 eyes, was changed Into a peacock by Juno, the eyes forming the beautifully colored disks In the tall. Why Authors Aro Classic The Romans were divided into five dulses by Servius. Any citizen belonging to the highest class whs called classlcus. From this the best authors were called classlcl auctores. Today classics are works of authors of renown in Latin and Greek, and of the modern 'schools it Is usual to use a descriptive adjective, such as English, Spanish or French classics. Why Thoy Aro "Sandwich'* Iilandi The Hawaiian Islands were called > "Sandwich" Islands by the discoverer, Captain Cook, who found them In 1778 and named them for the Earl of Sandwich, first lord of the admiralty. They were quite generally known as the Sandwich .Islands nnttl, on closer acquaintance with the Hawaiian people, the rest of the world came to adopt their name for their land. . , * Why Qrifloaamo It So Called The red silk banner, first of the Abbey of SUDents and afterward or France, was so called becanse.lt was a flag (flamme) borne on a glided (or means gold) staff. From the days of Philip I nOflftj ^lt was the military ensign of the kihgt of France. \ V. c fhw Stool Wot So CoOod - la the earlier days of the wire rope Industry the highest grade of rope was made primarily for uee oa steam plows and was therefore called plow steel. ?- Why Red Floonol Wot Ucod T tteanrt cuiored red for anddftmar ond petticoats became ?t the old firiggnbaiied on (he asaocUtS *t the color red with warmth, ? WM ?;-TV11 " W General News Notes ?I Strong rartliquukcg are reported |oj have been felt In several Chilean cities Sunday morning Only minor damage was done. Former Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, Oklahoma Republican, said In a Chicago interview that the American liberty league was "a Democratic baby, not ours," We're not going to let the Democrats throw the Liberty league on us," he asserted. I 'A p<>t of gold" was found on the farm of T. H. Kelly, near Louisville,' Oa., while workmen wore engaged in' rebuilding an old mill. There wan' some silver with the gold, but no! statement or tho amount has been given out by the finder. ^ Unsecured depositors of Jho North Dank und Trust company, Greensboro, N. c , lu Mfty t 1933, this week receives dividend checks representing 25 per cent of j their deposits and totaling $1,902 969.38. * J. Pierpont Morgan, apparently In splendid health, left New York, Wednesday, on his private yacht, the "Corsair" for a trans-Atlantic voyage, with his destination probably Kngland. He has been indisposed for sotnd^ime past. Masked Mexican bandits have been h?Y*ng ?ome rich picking holding up American tourlBts, traveling over"tbV newly constructed international highway between Cuernavaca and Tepotzlan, Morelos.. They greet their victims with: "We're hungry! Either I y?u give us what you have or you die!" About 7,000 WPA workers on the municipal airport project at Philadelphia, went on a Btrike, when told that they would have to make up time lost because of rainy weather. An early shift of 3,000 went on strike when told they would not be paid, for four days lost because of rain unless they made up the time. Yesterday, Ashevllle city detectives, who have entered the murder case of Helen Clevenger, took a bundle of material to Washington for analysis by the famous laboratories of the bureau' under Chief J. Edgar Hoover. They said it would either amount to noth-' lng, or would solve the mystery of .who killed the co-ed in the hotel room..1 The Rev. Dr. R. O. Lawton, the' I brilliant editor of The Southern Christian Advocate, organ of South Carolina Methodism, will give up that position tomorrow. Ill health caused him to submit his resignation to the board of managers. The Rev. Dr. D. j D. Peale, dean at Cplumbia College, I will become editor until the board selects a permanent successor to Editor Lawton. Somebody who knew how tried to wreck the preBs on which is printed The Anderson Record, an evening paA11 rollers were taken out ??d-put on the preBs bed, and then the power was turned on. All the rollers were bent or broken. This was done on Saturday night or early Sunday morning, and was discovered Sunday forenoon. By quick repair work in an Anderson machine shop, and using spare rollers on hand, the Monday Issue of the Record was printed well, and new rollers were ordered. There was no clue, and the publishing company offered a reward for evldence. The damage was about $100. S CENTURY OLD FIRMS HAILED A8 "ISLAND OF PERMANENCE* Hailing tin* American Arms which have Upon owned hy one family for a century or more as "Islands of Permanence," Mark Sullivan, noted writer and commentator, recently revealed that there wore Iohh than a hundred such concerns in the country. Of the total, more than 40 are located )n Philadelphia and none exists west of Cincinnati. Most of the hundred year old farms atlU owned by the same family would be found in New York state, although there aro many located along the Atlantic seaboard aa far south as North Carolina and some as far west as Tonnessoee, Mr. Sulllvau disclosed it would be these firms and these farms which would constitute the closest to au American, ocouomic dynasty which implies i?ower acquired by heredity, he suggested. "Yet most of the hundred year old Arms 1 found," Mr. Sullivan said, "were com pat a tively small. Hy no conceivable strhtch of the malevolent imagination could they he thought of us public enemies or as objectives of war." To him, Mr. Sullivan 'siild, the persons possessing farms or houses qf businesses that have been in the ame family a hundred years or more are not a dangerous element In American Ufa. "Aa-nearly as there is any best In America," he said, "best in the sense of character, stability, substantial qualities of personality, it should be found on those farms and in those businesses which for more than one hundred years have passed from father to son. "We can safely doubt that during the depression or any time there has been any grief on those farms which have been in the same families for a hundred years or more. Those farms, it is safe to say, were never mortgaged. And it has been my experience wherever 1 have made inquiry to bo told that a farmer who had no mortgage on his place was able somehow to get along and survive the depression. In lamenting the small number of business Arms still owned by the same family after a hundred years, Mr. Sullivan said: "To mo there is much that is glamorous?and nothing at all that is dangqrous or to be condemned?In a family which has had the vitality, not only' to hold on to a business, but to expand it generation after generation. "Think of the vicissitudes they have endured, the stamina these famiI lies had to have to survive panic after panic; to come through one econoI mic hurricane after another; to maintain their sturdy individuality against hostile economic forces, their pride and affection for their own businesses and for their own family names, enabling them to resist the temptation to sell out to trusts or mergers. They must have had high standards of commercial and personal honor. They must have had at once stability and adaptability?conservatism to hold on to the old, resourcefulness to make adjustment to the new."?Industrial Press Service. The AAA has announced that all beneAt payments to farmers cooperating with the soil conservation program will be made public. There are 509 hotels in New York city. , GRASS AWAITS OI8COVERY AFTER BEING IN THE WAY I . .. J Grass -the "forgiveness of nature" and one of our moat important crops ? HtaiulH today in the matter of improvement where corn and other cereals stood 30 years ago, says P. V. Cutdon, in charge of forage-crop research in the United States Department of Agriculture. Generally speaking, ho says, grasses are still being used as they are found in nature. They have been studied botanically. They have been elaaei 'tied and described. There is information on where they are adapted. But ?~ not enough is known ubout the possibilities of improvement through breeding and selection. It Is much as If wheat, corn, or cotton were grown ,without attention to improved varieties or to regional straths. The Bureau of i*!aut Industry at the recently established Northeastern Pasture Laboratory at State College, Pu., and in cooperative agreements with other bureaus and with agricultural experiment Htatlons, is working to Improve grass and to find the best kinds and strains for the region, t The development of better grasses I has lagged behind that of other crops ! because grasses and their flowering | parts often are very small, requiring j delicate handling in cross-breeding: j because the seed often is gathered with difficulty, many grasses having little or no Heed; but principally because there bus been no pressure tor investigation. The trend In the United States, a new country, has been to-, ward more and better' cultivated crops. Grass was a crop to be flowed under; to give way to corn, wheat, cottop and other cash crops. Thus, says Mr. Cardon, even at thU day the ^possibilities for grass in American agriculture await discovery. ?United States Department of Agriculture. COUNT8 OWN8 GRAIN CRADLE 100 YEAR8 OLD Newberry, July 27.?Enos G. Counts, proprietor of the Counts Grain Cradle company, has in hiB shop near Prosperity the original model of a grain cradle 160 years old. ft was brought to this country from Germany by Mr. Counts' great-grand-father, who started the manufacture of them In America. V* The work was continued by Mr. Counts' grand-father^ George A. Counts, and hiB father, J. C. Counts. Mr. Counts, who now carries on the business in a building Just below Prosperity, said that every Counts cradle Unfaithfully patterned after |Jt?e original one. A representative of the Ford museum wanted to purchase it, but Mr. Counts says he has no idea of parting with it and guards, it zealously. ^ ' U Duce MussolinJ of Italy, celebrated his 63rd birthday anniversary Wednesday. f * NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND . , GREDITOR8 All parties indebted to the estate of William Douglas Young, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law^ ?? SUSAN M. YOUNO. . Administratrix Camden, S. C., July 22, 1936 I May we do jf I Your Printing? I i YOUR BUSINESS LETTERS SHOULD BE WRITTEN ON NEATLY ? Jl| : PRINTED STATIONERY?". .. .T... Tr ~ ~... . IIJ j | THE EXPENSE IS SMALL, BUT THE ADDITIONAL EFFECTIVE- II IL ... NESS OF YOUR LETTER WOULD BE GREATLY INCREASED<?' I# ' ** || LET THE CHRONICLE PRINT YOUR STATIONERY, STATEMENTS, | | Hi OFFICE FORMS AND THE UKE. - || Hi WHAT DO YOU NEED?? 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