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School News
ARMISTICE IN CHAPEL.
Tuesday, November 11th, twelve
years ago Armistice was signed
which meant the closing of the
great World War. Today we cele
brate this great event by paying
tribute to the soldiers who fought
to rescue “the torch of liberty”
which was threatened by a nation
who desired supremacy and glory
over all the world.
We were delighted to have one
of the former state chaplains and
an ex-soldier of the late war, Mr.
Barfield, to make a talk on this
subject. He gave us some start
ling facts concerning the World
War. He said ^hat America en
tered the war because they believed
that Germany was going to rule
the world and that they were
fighting for democracy. • *
When General Pershing went ov-
and said, “Lafayette we’re here.
Therefore they were paying back
the debt they owed France. He
also read “In Flanders Field” writ
ten by John McKrae and pleaded
with us, the future citizens of to
morrow to catch the “torch of lib
erty” that those war soldiers and
older ones fling to us with the
words—“Carry on ’til might makes
right.” Then he offered us a beau
tiful prayer to American patriots.
After the audience sang our na
tional anthem, “The Star Spangled
Banner,” we marched out by “The
Stars ax*fr Stripes Forever.”
THE 4-H CLUB.
The 4-H Club held its regular
business meeting November^ 12, at
the high school building. The meet
ing was presided over by the presi
dent, Sara Louise Smith. The sec
retary called the roll and read the
minutes of the previous meeting
which were approved as read. Sev
eral matters of importance to the
club was discussed, and Mrs. Stall-
worth also gave us our plan for the
er to help with the American army year’s work. At the last meeting
he visited the tomb of Lafayette. each member was asked to make a
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TRESPASS NOTICE
A reward of Ten ($10.00) Dollars
will be paid for evidence to convict any
person trespassing upon our lands,
t written authority, either by
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hunting, fishing, walking across, re
moving lumber, sticks, slabs, straw,
wood, cutting trees, allowing stock to
run at large or in any other manner
trespassing upon said lands. Any per
son found guilty of a violation of this
naticejvill be prosecuted as for tres
pass after notice to the fullest extent
of the law. This includes all lands un
der our control.
G. & J> J.
(Incorporated )
McCORMICK, S. C.
N O TICE
we
Cole Grain Drills and Oliver Points, reduced
have botlv •
Come to see us for hardware_we have it for you.
Thanks for patronage.
WHITE HARDWARE CO.
MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C.
cushion for a chair and bring it to
the meeting yesterday. There were
all kinds and very pretty ones. Mr.
Lake was asked to be the judge.
Sara Louise Smith’s cushion was
judged the prettiest and this was
given to Mr. Lake. After the busi
ness was dispensed with, the fol
lowing program was carried out:
Devotion—Frances Robinson.
Reading—“The 4-H Club Work—
What it is”—Alma Faulkner.
“What 4-H Club work does”—
Jenny Lou Lyon.
Song—“Club Work”—By all.
Then the meeting adjourned to
meet December 10th.
SARA LOUISE STROM,
Class Reporter.
Mr. McCrorey’s F. P. F. agricul
ture club gave a chapel program
Thursday morning, November 13th.
F. P. F. is the abbreviation for Fu
ture Palmetto Farmers, which is an
organization for the Palmetto
State, South Carolina.
Carl Winn, president, told some
thing about the F. P. F. club.
Walton Burkett represented cot
ton.
Robert W. Crawford represented
com.
Emmette Sandifer read the ob
jectives of the F. P. F.
W. S. Pipkin represented live
stock.
James Furqueron represented po
tatoes.
We hope the student body enjoy
ed the program 'and also benefitted
by it.
SHIFT YOUR DIGESTION INTO “HIGH”
By E, V. McCollum, Ph.D., Sc.D.
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Author of “The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition,” “Food, Nutrition
and Health” etc.. Professor of Bio-Chemistry, School of Hygiene and
' "" Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. 1 ~ ,M
N ATURE is an engineer, striving continuously and fu
riously to regulate the body’s supply and elimination of
food. The giant molecules of proteins, starches and fats, enter
ing two of Nature’s special laboratories, the stomach and small
intestine, are there broken up into smaller fragments which
can be absorbed into the blood and recombined to become part
of our muscles, blood or organs.
But Nature, as the body’s engineer, has another function
equally important. It must protect the blood, muscles and
organs from food fragments which are useless, unwholesome
and more or less injurious. For beneficent Nature is not the
only force with the power to break up the giant molecules of
foods into smaller, usable fragments. Bacteria have the same
power. But, like the work of evil workmen, the final chips
produced from the big blocks by
MAKING CITIZENSHIP.
The greatest industry in this
country is now well under way, to
continue for several months. It is
one in which there are no strikes
It depends upon child labor, but its
finished product is good citizen
ship. That industry is the Amer
ican public school.
The American people, whose
motto sometimes seems to be “Let
George do it,” have a way of evad
ing the responsibility for this great
idealistic and practical enterprise
and leave it all to the teachers and
school executives.
They kick with great gusto when
the high school graduate can’t
spell or write well, or when the
schools have failed in some other
respect, yet they never ask them
selves if the success of the under
taking does not depend in a large
part on home co-operation.
Teachers or school executives
who have to contend with parental
indifference, find that their plants
turn out only an indifferent pro
duct.
The success of the school opera
tion can be greatly promoted and
the children can be prepared for
more useful futures if the school
patrons will work with those in
charge of the schools.
Teachers will testify that the
best results are obtained when the
school work is placed first and out
side pleasure gets secondary con
sideration. They will also bear
witness to the fact that the best
results are obtained when parents
back up school discipline.
These are two things to keep in
mind if we wish to accomplish the
end in view, making useful citi
zens out of boys and girls.
—Selected.
MR. LAKE IN RECEIPT OF
NICE LETTER.
Supt. W. E. Lake,
McCormick, S. ? C.,
Dear Mr. Lake:
My visit with you and the teach
ers of McCormick county was alto
gether delightful, and I appreciate
all the courtesies I received, most
especially the hospitality of your
home and privilege of being with
the family at the delightful dinner.
McCormick county should be
congratulated upon the quality of
her teachers and upon their loyalty
as manifestecT by the large per
centage of attendance at the meet
ing. The variety of elements in
the program was very pleasing, and
I was particularly pleased with the
substantial quality of these fea
tures contributed by those teach
ers. * ,
Yours truly,
J. A. STODDARD,
Prof, of Secondary Education.
the big blocks
bacteria are of the wrong kinds,
and have no business in the blood
stream. *
How may we co-operate with Na
ture? First by eating clean fc^ds
and keeping the mouth clean. Then
what enters the stomach will not
be seeded with bacteria which de
compose foodstuffs into things
which are unwholesome. Next, we
may exercise care in the keeping
and handling of foods. Everyone
knows that an inefficient refrigera
tor, careless handling, or staleness
from any cause, will lead to the
bacterial decomposition of foods.
The resulting “indigestion,” caused
by the fermentation of such un
wholesome foods in the intestine
or stomach is, unfortunately, still
more familiar. »
The Seat of Digestion
The person in normal health who
eats clean and wholesome foods
has a clean mouth, stomach and,
usually, also a clean intestine in
its upper half. But the large in
testine is a different matter. That
organ is likely to be found more
and more the seat of rotting and
fermentative processes which pro
duce noxious and unwholesome
products. In the large intestine or
colon of most people large amounts
of toxic products are constantly be
ing formed. These are absorbed
into the portal blood-vessel system
and pass directly into the liver.
The pollution of the blood with
these somewhat poisonous prod
ucts, and the ensuing detrimental
effects on the liver, kidneys and
body as a whole, have been
stressed by many physicians.
Bad breath—that bugbear of the
refined—is in many persons the re
sult of impaired liver function, due
to liver injury resulting from pro
longed bathing of liver cells with a
blood stream overloaded with putre
factive products. Up to a certain
point the liver cells are able to de
stroy these. After this point is
reached, the blood becomes satur
ated with them, and they are in
part eliminated by the lungs. The
result is bad breath.
We are constantly feeding into
the blood another class of useless
food fragments. Although not
poisonous like the first, they are
foreign matter and circulate as
mere trash in the blood and lymph.
They are created in the following
manner: *■
When bread, rolls or other starchy
foods, are browned, as is the crust
in baking, some of the surface
molecules of starch are violently
decomposed by the high tempera-
E. V. McCollum
ture. They are mangled or tat
tered. When such starchy foods
are eaten and digested, there will
be formed, principally, sugar mole
cules. But some of these sugar
molecules may have attached to
them the tags of those others
which were mutilated by the high
temperature of cooking.
Waste Molecules
Now these mutilated molecules
cannot be burned in the muscles as
can normal sugar molecules. Such
fragments are, therefore, not util
ized for their energy or food value,
but are merely excreted by the kid
neys. Thus, in making toast, a
relatively large number of starch
molecules are so shattered or tat
tered as to become useless and
foreign fragments circulating in
the blood. In the frying of fats
also, some of the fat and protein
molecules are injured, and it is for
this reason that fried foods are not
so wholesome as foods ccoked in
other ways. Indeed, it is question
able whether we should ever scorch
the surface of our foods to any
great extent.
These illustrations are given to
help visualize the most important
ways in which polluting substances
may enter the blood. It is apparent
that merely choosing clean and
wholesome foods is not enough.
We must assist Nature still further
if we are to keep the alimentary
tract clean and efficient. v
For Nature unaided has not been
able to make the intestine function
efficiently in persons who eat large*
ly of refined foods; who are phy*
sically inactive, or who are long
confined to work requiring postures
unfavorable to the functioning of
the alimentary tract. In what othei;
way, then, may we assist Nature? J
An Effective Aid
Eating the proper amount of in
digestible cellulose is one of the
most effective means of helping
the intestine with its engineering
operations. Of course, many other
agencies have been devised to
effect the same end. One, for in
stance, is the replacement of the
putrefactive bacteria in the colon
with certain milk souring bacteria.
These tend to form clean products
from food residues and discourage
the growth of those injurious micro
organisms which normally abound
in the colon.
Still another method, much used
nowadays, is that of taking mineral
oil. This is bland and non-irritat
ing and is not absorbed into the
blood. Therefore, it usually is con
sidered harmless. But there are
effects from its use which are
not generally appreciated. The
paraffin oil used is insoluble* m
water. It covers the food particles,
waterproofing them, and preventing
contact with the digestive juices*
Digestion is thus hampered and de
layed. And this delay in digestion
is, as you shall see, a serious
matter.
When paraffin oil is taken to pro
mote elimination, the food is more
effectively oiled than by ordinary
fats, and stomach digestion is both
delayed and decreased. Thus food
entering the intestine is not pre
pared for the next steps in the di
gestive process. •
It will then be readily understood
that mixing an indigestible oil with
the food causes digestion to be de
layed and to take place farther
down the intestine than if no oil
were taken. Digestion thus goes on
in a region where, in debilitated in
testines, conditions are unhygienic
and where more abnormal, decom
position products are ftymed than
is the case when digestion occurs
higher in the tract. The use
ful and necessary products of such
digestion then enter the blood con
taminated with useless ones of bac
terial origin. This is the signific
ance of the delay in digestion
caused by mineral oils.
The Role - of Cellulose
That this is recognized is shown
by the fact that some recommend
that the oil be taken between
meals. But some of the promoters
of paraffin oil for medicinal pur
poses insist that it is best taken
mixed with the food during the
meal. This method of promoting
intestinal hygiene by the use of
mineral oil is based, I am con-'
vinced, upon an unsound principle.
Intestinal regulation is best pro
moted by the use of a complete and
wholesome diet containing bland
and water-holding vegetable cellu
lose, which does not digest, and
therefore gives the intestine the
right amount of bulky material, of
a consistency favorable to trans
portation, upon which to function
mechanically.
gives me much pain to punish you.”
Howard B.: “May be it does, but
not in the same place.”
James Furqueron: “Would you
ike to go to the play Friday
night?”
Miss Corbin: “I’d adore it.”
James Furqueron: “Well, please
buy your ticket from me ’cause I
am selling them.”
sand for glass making from West ago, concludes Marye Dahnke, an
Virginia and Illinois.
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Georgia’s income in 1929 from
ten truck crops was $5,221,000, an'
Miss Bowles: “James, what bat-
le was Nelson killed in?”
James Talbert: “I think it was
his last.”
THE CHEESE BOX.
Miss Reid: “Give me a sentence
with a direct object?”
James Dorn: “You are pretty.”
Miss Reid: “What is the ob
ject?” .
James Dorn: “A good grade.”
Claude Workman after playing
all afternoon came in after his
supper and got ready for bed.
Mother: “Say your prayers.”
Claude: “Oh, mom I’m too tired.”
Mother: “I’ll help you.”
Claude: (very sleepy) “Now I lay
me down to sleep. I pray the Lord
my soul to keep.”
Mother: “If—”
Claude: “If he hollers let him
go, ene, mene, minie, mo.
Eva Coleman:
in kissing?”
Bill Bracknell:
art thou willing.”
“Is there any art
“The only art is,
increase of 29 per cent.
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Only one-fifth of the ninety-odd
elements of the universe are being
put to practical use.
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Church attendance has decreased
2 per cent in Iowa rural communi
ties in the last five years.
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The house which Oglethorpe, who
colonized Georgia, occupied in Sav
annah, is to be marked by a bronze
tablet.
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American motorists paid out
$415,000,000 in gasoline tax in 1929.
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Approximately 11 per cent, of the
public school teachers in the Unit
ed States change their locations
yearly.
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Miami has twelve airports. Nine
are landing fields, three bases for
seaplanes.
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The cougar, while very aggressive
among the lower animals, exhibits
“Gee! I made a bad break,” mur
mured James Lyon as he threw
away a rotten egg.
‘Howard,” said Mr. Lake. “It
man.
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a fear of mankind.
Bill Bracknell: “You know 11 o-O-O-O
can’t sleep at night.” | it is estimated that there are
John T. McGrath: “What’s the 2,000,000 lepers in the world, one-
trouble.” half of them in China.
Bill: “Got a job as a night watch- O-O-O-O
Heart disease, in 75 per cent of
cases, develops in children before
they are ten years of age.
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There is one motor vehicle regis
tered in California for every child
attending public schools.
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The average person spends
eighteen days a year eating, in-
pure stead of the sixty-one two decades
THINGS WORTH
KNOWING
Seaplanes are more used than
airplanes in Canada.
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America gets most of its
economist. #
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North Carolina produced 8,207,-
000 pounds of copper last year.
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The cheek and forehead ar&
found to be more sensitive to pain
than any other parts of the body.
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Banana growers refer to a row
of bananas as ti “hand” and the
individual bananas as “fingers.”
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Four hundred baby saurians were
stolen from an alligator farm near
St. Augustine, Fla.
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A shade tree with a $100 banlc
account^ to care for it has been
planted in a St. Petersburg, (Fla.)
park.
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A special grading, Connecticut
native fancy, has been established
by the state department of agricul
ture for turkeys approved by in
spectors.
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Mexico City will be brought
within thirty-two hours of Los
Angeles through a coalition of the
Standard Air Lines, Inc., and Co
operation Aernautica Transportes.
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The three primary destructive
agencies in the forest are fire, in
sects and disease.
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