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Thursday, February 19, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN Latin America To Join Washing ton Celebration WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 18.— Countries of Latin America will be invited to loin in the universal tribute which will be rendered George Washington on the 200th anniversary of his birth, February 22, 1932. The form of participation has not been announced, but |he idea now'considered is that each of the American republics, through a statesman or distinguished man of letters, should contribute to a symposium of articles describing the influences exerted by Washing ton upon the political evolution of the respective countries. Inasmuch as Washington was a leader in, and first executive of, the Republican form of govern ment in America, which was ad opted with various modifications in all independent countries of this hemisphere, it is thought that such a symposium would be of both present interest and perman ent historical value. Latin-American diplomats will take part in any ceremonies of in ternational character that may be arranged here. The George Wash ington Bicentennial Commission, authorized by an Act of Congress is now making plans which Include foreign participation, but has not wished to make public announce ment until definite suggestions can be advanced concerning the pro gram. Offices have been establish ed in London and Paris to attend to the foreign arrangements. Members of the commission also are hopeful that territories and in sular possessions under the Ameri can flag will be represented in the bicentenary. Hawaii and Alaska have already organized local com mittees, and Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands have been in vited to do so. The Bicentennial Commission has been recently informed that the new suspension bridge span ning the Hudson River between Fort Washington Park, Manhattan, N. Y., and Fort Lee, N. J., described as the world’s greatest suspension bridge, has been named the George Washington Memorial Bridge and will form a feature of the celebra tion in 1932. Less Common Fertilizer Elements Come Into Use -txt- Duck Speed A mallard duck banded on No vember 23, 1930, ''at Big Suamico, Green Bay, Wis., was killea five days later near Georgetown, S. C., according to a report to the Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agricultui^e. This is a record for individual speed of migx^tion, the bureau says. tXt Thin, crisp slices of oven-dried toast are delicious with soup. When you have a large part of a loaf of stale bread on hand, trim off the crusts, which can be dried separ ately for bread crumbs, and, with a sharp knife, cut the loaf into slices as thin as possible. Place in a moderate oven until crisp and delicately browned. If kept in an air-tight tin, these pieces will be crisp for several days. x Prune limbs from trees so there will be no stub left, advises the U. S. Department of Agrciulture. Make the cut parallel to the trunk or the supporting limb and as close as possible even if this makes the cut surface somewhat larger than it otherwise would be. Improperly made wounds are not covered by new growth as soon as those made properly and may result in un necessary damage by decay of the exposed wood. x Scalded poultry deteriorates more quickly than dry-picked poul try and should be handled more carefully and quickly when mar keted. Frozen poultry may be thawed in running water in from 8 to 12 hours, but this method tends to injure keeping quality and flavor. A better way to thaw poultry—both dry picked and scalded—is to hang the birds by the legs in the cooler ovre night. tXt More liberal use of seed potatoes would Increase the average produc tion per acre, the U. S. Department of Agriculture believes. From 15 to 18 or more bushels of seed pota toes should be planted to the acre, instead of 9 to 11, as is the usual practice in some sections. tXt Hog liver compares favorably with beef liver and is usually half &s expensive. Although fertilizers have gener ally been considered complete with only the principal plant food ele ments, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash, the United States Depart ment of Agriculture has found that many of the less common elements heretofore considered non-essential or present in the soil in sufficient quantities may deserve a place in the fertilizer bag. In large areas in the United States some of the soils are defici ent in manganese, sulphur, iron, magnesium, and chlorine. Experi ments in the greenhouses have shown beneficial plant growth responses to applications of cop per, boron, iodine, zinc, arsenic, barium, nickel, and other less common elements. The everglades and east coast regions of Florida, where trucking is the chief form of agriculture, have been found deficint in mang anese and have been made highly productive by application of about 50 pounds of manganese sulphate an acre. Within the last two years this new fertilizer has come into general use. It has been credited in some cases, with improving the yield of vtomatoes by 175 to 450 crates an acre, the yield of beans by 3 1-4 tons an acre, the yield of cabbage by 42,107 pounds an acre, and the yield of potatoes by 180 bushels an acre. It has trebled and quadrupled the size of carrots and beets and doubled the size of cauli flower. In eastern North Carolina mang anese deficiency occurs in fields in spots, sometimes because of over liming, and applications of mang anese sulphate generally improve the productivity of such spots. The department considers that a small amount of manganese might be desirable in commercial fertilizers as a kind of insurance against crop failures in some localities. Copper is lacking in the ever glade soil south of Lake Okeecho bee, Fla., and light applications of copper sulphate are being used t° good advantage with commercial fertilizers on sugarcane. On light sandy soils in some to bacco growing regions an applica tion of 20 to 30 pounds of chlorine per acre, in the form of muriate of potash, improves the yield, quality, and drought resistance of the crop. A large proportion of the light sandy tobacco soils are deficient in magnesium and at least 10 to 20 pounds per acre of this element must be included in the fertilizer if a normal crop is to be obtained. Magnesium deficiency produces characteristic symptoms 1 in * the plant and the condition is popular ly known as sand drown. i OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY A thing that most of the folks back home can’t understand is the fact that a young lawyer—most of them are young—will go to the legislature and vote a salary of $600 or $800 to a clerk or stenogra pher whose duties in the legisla ture job lasts six weeks or two months, when back home he gives his own office stenographer just about that same amount for a whole twelve months’ service. Per haps it is because the legislature gets better service out of the two months stenographers, but we doubt it. Perhaps it is because he is spending other peoples’ money for the legislative stenographer. Will some legislator please explain?— The County Record. tXI Before killing poultry, hang the birds up by their feet to insure complete bleeding. A fowl that is bled improperly has a dark, red dened skin, which detracts from its appearance. Such a fowl is likely to spoil more rapidly. Cut the jugular vein in the neck first and then pierce the brain, passing the knife through the opening in the roof of the mouth and into the brain. txx Always iron with the thread of the goods and iron until the gar ment is dry. Otherwise it will pucker. To remove the shiny gloss on seams, tucks, or hems, moisten a piece of soft cloth in clear water, wring it dry, and wipe it quickly over the shiny surface. txt Veterinary medicine -s one pro fession that is not overcrowded to day, and the schools are not grad uating ar, many veterinarians as are likely to be needed. A COUNTY GOVERNMENT CONTEST (From The State.) Public-spirited citizens of Union county are offering four prizes, amounting to $55, for the best an swer to 20 questions concerning county finances. The offer is made by a commit tee of five appointed by a mass meeting a few weeks ago. According to the Union Times, they hope by means of the contest “to extend a deeper knowledge of county financial plans.” Typical questions in the contest are: “What was the total amount of the Union county supply bill for 1930? ^ “Did the expenditures of the county exceed that amount during that period and, if so, how much? “When did the last issue of Un ion county bonds become due and what was the amount of these bonds?” Probably fewer than 1 per cent of the citizens of Union county can answer these queries off hand yet they deal with matters of the most immediate and highest im portance to them. What is true in Union as to lack of such information is true of virtually every county in the Unit ed States. The average citizen knows little about the government of his coun ty, as a whole, and still less about its. finances. Political campaigns usually focus his attention on a few items of expenditure by coun ty and state governments. He has in his mind no complete picture of the cost and administration of either. Chilton Rowlette Bush, professor of journalism in the University of Wisconsin, in his excellent book, “Newspaper Reporting of Public Affairs,” observes: “The ordinary college student . . . is surprisingly ignorant of the simplest operations of public busi ness.” After questioning 60 students, he found that 47 per cent did not know that a grand jury is not a trial jury; 11 per cent did not know that the government is the plain tiff in a criminal case; 42 per cent had never attended a criminal / trial. The average citizen has had no more than seventh-grade school ing. The chances are that he knows no more about county fin ances than these university stud ents knew about other phases of public business. Experts in government declare that it is the county government in which the citizen is least inter ested and about which he is least informed. Numerous public men in South Carolina have lately asserted that it is in the administration of the county, rather than of the state, that the largest opportunities for economy are to be found. Whether or not this is true of Union county, the contest there should stimulate that interest in county affairs that ought to be stirred in every other county in South Carolina and in the whole country. txt DRY’S IN POLAND Women are hurt more by liquor than men, even if men do more of the drinking, which is probably the reason prohibition received its early impetus from women’s activ ity. In Poland women are taking the lead too, as these paragraphs from Time show. “Eleven resolute women, all Drys, all members of the Govern ment bloc in Poland’s Sejm (Diet), arose from their seats last week, marched round and round the hall giving tongue to Dry slogans. “Dry women of the Opposition hesitated, gradually wrestled down their party loyalty, got up and joined the parade. Soon nearly every woman’s tongue in the en tire Sejm was lashing a Govern ment bill introduced to relax the ten-year-old Polish law which for bids liquor sales between Saturday midnight and Sunday. “Tongue-lashed Polish males hastily postponed the vote on the Government’s bill, and ensured Poland’s Prohibition week-ends in definitely.”—Times & Democrat. X Red squill is a bulb something like an onion. Ground to powder, it is deadly to rats and relatively harmless to other animals and to birds. X In more ways than one, some people never get on their feet un til they get rid of their automo- bi-le. THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER (Carolina Free Press.) The weekly paper is “more read, that is more carefully and loving ly and attentatively read” than the big daily, says The State (Colum bia, S. C.) in an editorial entitled “Adventure Of the Weekly Paper.” A South Carolinian, Blackburn W. Johnson, a newspaper man of experience, who has worked on big dailies, recently purchased and is now editing The Franklin Press, Franklin, N. C. In writing of this move by Mr. Johnson The State said in part: “Nearly every newspaper man— we mean a man with the love of the newspaper adventure burning like a live coal in his heart—has yearned, for some vital period of his life, for the glamorous adven ture of owning and running a Weekly Newspaper. “The big and great dailies ap pear at times, to be doing most of the news-gathering and opinion forming work in the world of to day; but this is not true. Perhaps the weeklies, each having its own readers and audience, to which it may discuss and thresh out the real effects of current news and current thought and theories have always had a tremendous influence in the molding and even the crea tion of public opinion. They are more read, that is more carefully and lovingly and attentively read, pondered, and reflected on . . .more often taken to the fireside or to the porch or lawn, and made com panions of and counselors . . . than are the overwhelming, cascades of newsprint of the metropolitan pa pers, or even than the largish pa pers of the nearby big cities. “The Weekly reaches more home folk, and reaches them far more effectively, with greater motivat ing power, than does the great sheet issuing from alien presses of some remote city, having but few interests related to those of the newspaper readers in the smaller towns and country-side neighbor hoods. “It is an adventure, and a stir ring and glamorous adventure, to explore among these folk and their interests, the things that interest them, the things about which they talk, read, discuss, and try to rea son out and come to definite opin ions concerning them. And this is the lure of the weekly paper. It is more apt to be at the roots and sources of thought and opinion than its big “contemporaries.” It has, therefore, all the freshness and arousing light of some new adventure . . . every week. The bloom has not been rubbed off the peach, nor the surprise of being awake and vital been stated or so phisticated into boredom. Life still retains its taste and its zest.” X IMPROVEMENT IN TEXTILES The favorable cottoh cloth sta tistics for January, as reported by the New York association of cot ton textile merchants, is another encouraging sign of improving conditions in the textile industry and in the general industrial field as well. January sales of standard cloth were in excess of 239,000,000 yards, the figures show, which was 18 per cent above the production for the period. Shipments were four per cent above production, stocks de creased by more than two per cent and unfilled orders increased dur ing the month by almost ten per cent. The cotton textile industry thus begins the new year with a good foot forward. While it is too early yet to conclude that it is on the broad highway to steadily increas ing sales, there is good reason to believe that it will make further progress during the next few months and that the year will bring a restoration of normal con ditions. The improvement in tex tiles is gratifying not merely from the standpoint of this one industry, but likewise because it signifies a general advance in the whole eco nomic field which is creating an increasing demand for its product. And that is of particular import ance to the cotton producers be cause of its indication of a re sumption of the upward trend in the use of cotton which should help to bring about firmer prices for the staple.—Greenville News. txt To get iron rust stains from an enameled sink, bleach them with a solution of oxalic acid . Repeat until the stain disappears, then rinse thoroughly. 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