The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 31, 1941, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
Tough Meat Made Tender,
Bacteria Is Destroyed
Tough beef can be made as tender
and fr$sh as new mown hay, scientists
say. All one needs is u violet
iuy machine.
The Food Foundation of Mellon
Institute has announced that fresh
beef, if exposed to ultra-violet rays
for three duys, will be us tender us
meat hung in a refrigerating plant
for eight weeks. It was only after
years of experimentation that this
tenderizing process was discovered
the Food foundation has announced.
Until now the general public wondared
why it could get juicier and
more tender steaks at restaurants
than at home. The reason was that
the better restaurants paid the higher
price for seasoned meat which
the lady of the house would not or
could not pay. Only 3 per c'cnt of
the meat formerly was "hung."
Now it is possible for all meat
to he treated by ultra-violet ray and
then everyone can buy restaurantgrade
moat at a comparatively low
prico. If so, there will be no more
shouting about "this tough steak
by the head of the house when he
starts to carve it.
The new method can be applied
also to mutton and to fowls, for there
is tough mutton and tough chicken
under present conditions and these,
too, can be made more palatable.
Another advantage of this violet
ray treatment on meat is that it
actually k>U? any bacteria which
might have been in the beef, the
scientists say. The duy may soon
come when the ultra-violet ray
treatment may be enlarged to in?elude
many othee foods -in whiohthe
growth of bacteria is suspected
or possible.
R. R. Retires Cowboy and
Horse From N. Y. Streets
For many years, visitors to New
York have been startled to see
freight trains running on one street
of the nation's largest city. They
have been flabbergasted even more
to see each such train preceded by
a curious figure astride a horse,
deoked in a ten-gallon hat and waving
a red flag (or a red lantern
If the sun had set).
What they saw was a Tenth avenue
cowboy fulfilling an 1850 law
which permitted the New York Central
to run freight trains on the
open street along that thoroughfare,
provided they traveled not more
than six miles an hour and employed
"a proper person to precede
the trains on horseback, to give the
necessary warning *in a suitable
manner of their approach."
This anachronism was brought to
an end recently when the Manhattan
vaqueros, represented by 21year-old
George Hayde on his faithful
nag Cyclone, escorting a Dieselelectric-powered
freight, made their
last roundup. As part of the mod
ernization program nearly completed
to bring the West Side highway
up to date, the trains will in the
future run above and below ground,
the horses will go to a riding academy,
and the cowboys will take
more prosaic jobs with the company.
Brazil's 'Dictator'
The spotlight is on Brazil and the
undeveloped wealth of Brazil s
mines, forests and fields rs a prize
to tempt aggressor nations. But
Brazilians are aware of the danger
of attack and are, quietly strengthening
army and navy. Most important,
Brazil is whole-heartedly supporting
the "Good Neighbor" policy
of the Western hemisphere.
Brazil is ruled bv a dictator ?
President C.etulio Vargas?but be
does not follow the pattern of IB.t'e:
and Mussolini. There is uo regimentation,
r.o persecution, no mill
tansm in Brazil Only political j
controversies are banned.
Vargas has unlimited power.
Congress has been suspended, political
parties abolished. 1 ho president
controls army and navy, determines
diplomatic, economic and
social courses. Censorship governs
radio and the press.
The dictatorsiup will end, umiei
a constitution written in 1987. when
the president calls a national p:eb |
iscite. But Vargas is a benevolent ,
dictator and Brazil is pro-pel .ng j
under h.s guidance.
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Improving Human It arc
Abuse of alcohol, faulty >y-tern j
of schooling and the narrowing of I
three great problems that challenge j
medicine, psychiatry and modern i
science today, Dr. C. C harles BurImgame
of Connecticut, one of the
pioneers in mental treatment, re-,
centlv said
The mental weakness < f nun and
women, according to Dr. Burling-t
anio, is contributed i v "m.s education"
which permits a colli go edu- .
cation for all who wis.a it, even .
though they may not have the brain ;
for white collar 'raining: the con- j
trol of alcohol and its removal from j
the category of soe.al and health ,
problems, and t- fact t1 ,.t men
past 4r> a re .n a gs or, ti.e inuusti ial (
market. j
Vatican Currency
Ur.it: 'mm- <: a ' k -.uncial
convent.i r. r .' ' ed bet wet r the
Vatican and Ita.v in J.muasy, 1(J31. |
the Vatican Mate issues currency.
Recently, new coins bonr.ng the
head and armorial markings of
Pope Pius X!I were put into circulation.
The Vatican coins are of
the same value. materia! and
dimensions as the Italian coins, the
only difference being in the minting.
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Right Heating Important;
D^?cribe Variou* Types
Proper heating of the home is be-j
coming more ami more an essential
consideration of the prospective
home purchasei or builder, believes
one heating authority.
In planning a new home or looking
for one to buy investigate the
heating fac ilities as carefully as you
do the plumbing or the lighting
fixtures, the expert advises.
He sure that the heating unit is
properly suited to your needs and
is sufficiently large enough and
capable of heating a home comfortably
nnct nnt Just of The minimum
requirement to meet local ordinances
or regulations, be said.
House heating may be divided
roughly into three classifications:
(1) Direct radiated heat as furnished
by an individual radiant ilre,
wall heater or radiator; (2) Circulated
beat as derived from a circulator,
floor furnace or a gravity
warm-air furnace, and (3) Winter
air conditioning or forced warm-air
heating.
The term "air-conditioning" is
many times confused with air heating
.equipment.
True air-conditioning is available
for residential installation and such
a system furnishes circulation,
cleansing, huiriidiflcation and temperature
control of warm air during
the winter or heating season, and
temperature control, cooling, dehumidified
or humidified, filtered air in
summer. This type of equipment
requires a cooling agent such as
refrigeration or evaporated cooling.
The usual" forced air unit or winter
air conditioner is capable in the
summer time of only circulating
fresh, filtered air through the home
and does not actually lower the temperature
of the air passing through
the unit.
Ostracized Animal Is
Used as New Guinea Pig
Although the mongoose is barred
from the United States because of
its bent for slaying other small animals,
it has played a beneficent,
though unwilling, rule in efforts to
check the epidemic of pneumonitis
which has been prevalent in Minneapolis
and generally over the country,
it was revealed.
The story was told in the leading
article of the Journal of the American
Medical Association, describing
investigations by Drs. John M.
Wier and Frank L. Horsfall Jr. of
New York, which led to discovery
that the disorder is virus-carried.
Penumonitis, long a puzzle to science,
is neither pneumonia nor influenza,
ulthough it has some of
the superficial symptoms of both.
Efforts of the two doctors to transfer
the disease to laboratory animals
were fruitless.
When they decided to try the mongoose,
they had to take their specimens
to the British tuberculosis research
static#! at Kingston, Jamaica,
because its importation into the
United States is forbidden. There,
using frozen and vacuum dried
throat washings from New York
pneumonitis patients, they inoculated
90 mongooses, 64 per cent of
which developed the disease.
The sick mongooses then were
used to transfer tne disease to normal
animals.
"The work may long serve as a
model in research and an inspiring
example of preparedness for future
epidemiologic emergencies." the
medical journal said.
Snakes Are Pleasant Companions
Snakes are pleasant companions
when you understand their attitude
toward life, according to Miss Annette
Loving, a snake-charmer with
one of the leading circuses in the
country. She say that a python is
quite gentle as long as it is well
fed. She allows them a single coil
around her body and always keeps
a hold on their tails, "because a
double coil is an invitation to disaster,
and if they start tightening
up on me, I twist their tails buck
and that makes them relax." Miss
Loving said that it takes a snake
about nun1 Jays to digest a meal
and at tluit time she doesn't work
with them, because they are as limp
as a rope.
Smell That Bacon Fryin'!
If you are one of the countless
homemakers who like old-fashioned
flavor combined with modern convenience
you'll sing a song of joy
when you learn that it is now possible
to buy bacon bn the rind in '
breakfast si/.e packages of approxi- i
matcly one pound each. This new l
bacon.* recently introduced on the ,
market, is sliced in thin even slices
to the rind. All the housewife
needs to do is to run a sharp knife
blade along the top of the rind, then
remove the number of slices re- *
quired for immediate serving. 1
Steal Dead Lion's Tooth
The "most original" thief has
been found. He was last heard of '
m Oakland. Mich. The crime, ac- '
cording to police, is unique m the !
annals of criminology.
Someone with an ire pick recently (
extracted the gold tooth from a dead t
hen that pad been mounted. A dentist
had gum the lion one of the
largest gold teeth ever made, when
the animal wore away the tooth,
du.'ng a role in a picture. 1
The gold tooth has been located t
in a local pawnshop, but poiice are stiil
looking for the "most original"
thief. j
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Navy Day
Washington, I). October 24?On
Monday, Oeiboer 27?11*? birthday of
former Fresident Theodore Koosevolt
the United St at oh will again celebrate
Navy Day. I am sure If our
former President could he here today
Ills heart would he warmed by the
tremendous progress made by our
Naval establishment since Franklin D
Koosvelt became President of the
Putted States In March. 61933. For
our Nayv Is beginning to assume
strong defense protection proportions
and is well on its way toward becom
Ing the superior of that of any other
nation in the world.
At no time since Its incpetion in
1903, when the birthday of Theot^oFo
Roosevelt was chosen as a fitting occasion
for the annual celebration of
Navy Day, has the attention of the
American people been so centered ou.
the paramount need ou sea power as
our first lino of defense. War events
In Fprope have brought vividly home
to uh the need of a two-ocean Navy,
and the United States is going ahead
with amazing speed in turning out the
linest of ships.
Man's mastery of the waves through
the construction and operaton of ships
is so full of romance and adventure
that It Is a part of the life of popolo
the world over. And to the United
States goes the honor of having sent
thd first steamboat across the At.
lantlc. This 100-foot ship, the Savannah,
sailed out of the Port of Savannah,
Georgia, May 22, 1819, and when
sighted In an Irish port, some one exclaimed
that the ship was on fire, not
having before seen a vessel sailing
under stoam.
On August 17, 1807, Robert Fulton
sailed the Clermont, the world's first
successful steamboat, up the Hudson
IUver, and following this, the use
of steam in propelling vessels came |
into use along the Atlantic Coast. But
It remained for the Savannah to be
the first steamship to reach European
shores. It was many years, hoVever,
after that first voyage of the Savannah
before steamships began to cross
the ocean frequently.
Another Important chapter in American
shipping is connected with the
lire of Donald McKay, a 16-year-old
Nova Scotia lad who landed in New
York in 1826. He had a great love
of ships and of the sea, so he apprenticed
himself to a shipbuilder in New
York. After McKay had learned the
trade, he entered the Brooklyn, NVvy
Yaad, where he was selceted from a
thousand men to be foreman, but because
he was not a citizen of the
United States, men refused to work
under him and finally he le^t. Yet
McKay was destined to perform an
important task for his adopted country,
for withing a few years he had
become head of his own shipyard.
Although McKay was the man most
responsible for clipper ships, fate In
the oiid denied the rewards due him.
1 tilling tlu1 Confederate war, many of
tHi-t Country's ships were destroyed
and commerce suffered severely. At
the close- of the war people turned
their energies to tho development of
the West, constructing railroads,
building cities and encouraging Inland
activities, which reunited in the neglect
of shipping. American ships
gradually disappeared from the s-as,
and Mi Kay. w ith all the glory of ac-|
cotnplishment to his credit, died in1
Ismi. an old man. broken-hearted and!
in poverty. Even the models of his
ships, which had been stored in a
barn, were destroyed.
Gradually shipping of the Unit-d
Stati s declined, until a short tini" lielot"
the first World War onlv onei
tenth of the commerce ol this couti'ry
was tarried under the Amereiau Fl,.g.
But another great chapter in Aneriian
shipping was soon to lie written.
Shortly ^i-f h" the United States:
jitered the first World War many of
the world's greatest ships lay at the
bottom of the seas as a result of submarine
attacks by Germany. European
nations were on the brink of
>t.ir\atnin. This country entered the
xar 3.000 miles from the battlefields
tnd without a merchant marine. It
nas necessary to build quickly a
bridge of ships to France, but the
miracle was performed in record
itm . < Mi .Inly I. 1918. 90 great Am- roan
ships slid down to the sea at one
itne, the world's greatest aocnmp'1 linear
in shlp-bnlidlnjrf*
Today we have the finest N'aw in
hir history and new ships are b- :t.g t
aunched ahead of s? hedule. bringing
)ur seapower to a commanding p< siion.
;
Navy Day is an ideal hour in which
o renew tho Nation's high resolve
o possess a two-ocean line of defense
?snporior to any In the entire world.
Yes. America looks ahead?and is
jreparing'
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