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t * V V Thursdax^iHcemljej > 24, 1931 McjCOHMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROUNA it \ PAGE NUMBER,EIGH' • OPERA HOUSE ABBEVILLE. S. C. Thursday, December 24th TailUian bamauau ana Fredric March in “MY SIN” Friday, Christmas Day Only William Raines and Leila Hyams in “GET RICH QUICK WALLINGFORD” Saturday, December 26th George O’Brien in Zane Grey’s “RIDERS »OF THE PURPLE SAGE” Mon.-Tues. Dee. 28th-291 John Boles, Paul Whitemai and a Big Cast in “KING OF JAZZ’ If you like good sin*. _ danciiyg, iritisic and techni color do see ; this beautiful picture. i Wednesday, Dec. &0th. Only William Boyd and Lily^n Tashman in “MURDER BY THE CLOCK” 3-iSh—7t1Jv—9:00 Dallv mm FRANK PARK El STCCKBPJPgl GESTURES— § A^reat many, perhaps most, of the things that are done by indi viduals and groups, in and out of politics, don’t mean anything. They are merely gestures, usually for self-advertisement. They often puzzle people who think there must be a deep motive behind every human action, whereas most of our actions are motiveless. “Jimmy” Walker goes to Cali fornia to plead for the pardon of Tom Mooney, convicted bomb- thrower. Why? A dozen explana- 2,0ft0Tracts Land tlons f e but s “ faras the ‘ ^ r i importance of the action is con Orangeburg Offers A special dispatch from Orange burg, S. C., under date of Decem ber 19th says; approximately 2,000 tracts of real estate are advertised ior sale in the issue’ of the local newspaper today.' These tracts are being advertised under tax executions, and are for sale on the first Monday in January. X Peoples Bank To Take Two Days - '< — •' . The Peoples Bank of McCormick will be closed Friday and Satur day, December 25th and 26th, in observance of Christmas. TO TRADE—A good Columbia Grafhonola and large number of records to trade fdr cow or hogs. W: E. Rheney, McCormick, S. C. FOR SAME—One Guernsey 3 gal lon Milch Cow and Calf three weeks old to. sell for $35.00, or cow without calf for $30.00. Maxie L. Langley, Plum Ijifanch, S. C. y Itpo. Splits Peace Prize ^ .vvr i • Vs ru ay ‘ Butler, University. Dr. Nicholas Murraj | resident of Columbia (hares with fane Addams of Chicago Nobel Peace Prize for 1931. The Idbel Prizes are paid from a fund ' sft by Alfred Nobel, Swedish engi- ! r, who invented dynamite, and are ! Awarded by a commission which i — in Oslo, Norway. Each prize i in cash, about $43,000. Theodore.; evelt was the last previous j American to win the Peace Prize. '* • t A$— 1 • Succeeds Alfonso 7 ■ ! > ^ ' Niceto Alcala ZamoraL hrst Con atitutional President of the ‘Republic *' »iof Spain; recently inaugurated Jor a i i herm of six years. j.: -j > •: •• ^ “How many ^sons have , you, Mr. ..Poppelreuter?” ., i 44 Two’ living and one that played saxophone.” .... cerned it can be dismissed as a mere gesturl on the part of the Mayor of New York. Fifteen hundred well-fed “hung er marchers” converge on Wash ington, mainly by automobile. A serious Communist uprising? No thing of the kind; merely a gesture to attract attention to a tourist group that loves the limelight. Folks intending to do serious things don’t advertise their intention in advance. ' In judging human actions a safe general rule is that most people who do things that get their names into the newspapers, do them for no other purpose than that—to get their names into the newspapers. COLONELS— Just before his term of office ended, on December 7, Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky commissioned me a Colonel in his staff. That was another gesture, signifying nothing but the climax of a jesting remark on my part that the best seats in the grand stand at the Louisville racetrack seemed to be reserved for the Goy- emor’s staff. I don’t know how many staff colonels there are with these Kentucky titles, but at least I’m in good company and plenty of it. In France, when the Govern- * ment wants to make a friendly ges ture toward one of its citizens or a visitor, it bestows the ribbon of the Legion of Honor upon him. Italy gives the title of “Commenda- tore.” Kentucky makes him a Col onel. All of thoste are merely graceful gestures;; , POET— Nicholas Pachel Lindsay, trarhp- ing the countryside and reciting his poems for his meals and lodging, was the nearest approach in our time to the wandering minstrels of the , Middle Ages, the Bards and Minne-singers who recited their heroic epics in the halls of the great or sang • their ballads from house to house. In that wise blind Homer, “father of epic poetry,” re cited his Iliad and Odyssey in: an cient Greece. Vachel Lindsay is dead. The world has lost a real poet, America a great interpreter of the national spirit.- • His splendid voice, with its dramatic quality that made the •hearer seem to see the scenes he described, has been preservd for posterity in phonograph . records made at Columbia University. Lindsay’s greatest poem, in my opinion, is “General William Booth Enters Into Heaven.” 'Reading it, one hears the boom of the bass drums in the Celestial brass band! I hope that when Vachel Lindsay’s spirit entered into that Heaven in which he so profoundly believed, the angelic brasses blared for him, aOO* * ') ■ i FARMERS— To hear politicians and unin- fdfmed city folk talk, anybody •would get the idea that all of the farmers in the United States were on the verge of starvation.’ Any- jpodj^who knows the facts about farming in any part of the country knows that is nonsense. It is the “one-crop,” speculative farmers who are constantly clamoring to Congress for “relief.” I heard C. F. Collisson, farm edi tor of the Minneapolis Tribune, tell a group of New York business men the other day how the efforts of his newspaper, in ten years, have cut down the wheat acreage in four states and made the products of the cow, the sow and the hen worth several times as much as the wheat crop was ever worth in its best days. He suggested that but ter and eggs ought to be quoted on the Produce Exchange instead of wheat. They would be a better index of the farmer’s buying power. TEETH— Eskimos have the best teeth of any race of people, but when Eski mo children are given candy their teeth begin to decay, Professor Waugh of Columbia University told a meeting of dentists in New York the other day. Other dentists agreed that too much reliance should not be placed on the tooth brush alone as a preventive of tooth decay. We are just beginning to learn that Nature makes no allowances for civilization. Our bodies are just as primitive, and require just as much exercise and just the same food elements as those of the prim itive folk who had nothing to eat except what each for himself could catch or kill, dig out of the ground or pick qff a bush or a tree. X VtfiY by MAW MARSjtALl Undersleeves are very important and you may have noticed that wherever they occur this season they take the form either of puffs or deep cuffs. The over-sleeve us ually flares very slightly from the shoulder down and ends midway between elbow and wrist. The puffs are dainty and charm- i ng. The cuffs are easier to wear and quite as dainty. So, decidedly for the workaday dress, the cuff sort are best. They are trim about the hand and don’t get in the way when you are working. These cuff undersleeves should Wjf 1 ^ LOOKS AT / \ be snug and well fitted ."it’is well worth the trouble, if you buy the dress, to readjust snappers, to add more of them if necessary, to make the’cuffs tidy .and tight. For rid- thing is quite so complimentary to a pretty hand as a neatly fitting cuff tight at the wrist. And for the hand that is not specially pretty, such a cuff also adds charm. Sometimes these undersleeves of the tight cuff kind are made of lace. Oftenest, this year, they are made of satin. They should be firmly tacked in, but in such a way that they can be easily ripped out to be cleaned. For it is essential to good looks that they be always spotlessly clean. Often the overhanging part of the sleeve is faced with some'*color contrasting to that of the dress, and then the cuff is" made of this same color. A black dress with cuffs of one of the new rust tones and with sleeve facings of the same color is most attractive. SMCLUIS LETIHS McCormick, S. C., Dec. 21, 1931. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl six years old. I go to school every day. I am in the second grade. t want you to please bring me some fruits of all kinds, nuts and candies and a nice Sunday sweater. Please remem ber my baby sister, Earnestine. Bring her spme fruits and a float ing doll. Your little girl, MATTIE LUE JENKINS. He—“You have a great talent for painting.” She—“How can you tell?” He—“From your face.” Fog Brothers Liners— . The popular conception of an ocean greyhound nearly a quarter of a mile long is that it can dis regard almost any natural hazard, barring huge icebergs, in its trips across the Atlantic. That this is not true was shown this week when a newspaper headline stated that eight liners were held up on one day for hours because of a fog. Sometimes the big vessels are held up at Quarantine, five miles from Wall Street, for a full day, during which the passengers can only fuss and fume and eat with reluctance the wonderful extra meals the steamship is forced to serve them free of charge. Nature still holds the whip hand on man. Even Lindbergh had to give up his plan to fly Grandi to Washington when Italy’s foreign minister came here, just because of the fog. Being Pilot No Snap— Every vessel leaving or entering New York Harbor must have a licensed pilot. The penalty for not carrying a pilot is forfeiture of the insurance and the $300 or so that could be saved is too small to make it advisable to try and cut down on that item. The pilot “takes over” the vessel as soon as he steps on the bridge and whatever happens from then is the pilot’s fault. If he makes a mistake he loses his license and his means of livelihood, which probably took him twenty years to qualify 1 for. It is far from being a soft snqp, even on bright days. When one thinks how hard it is to drive an auto on a misty day one can figure the worries a pilot has in a harbor crowded with shipping and steering a vessel five blocks long up a narrow river. But it pays a very good income and there is no lack of candidates. An Infant Industry— New York’s telephone directories, issued in four big books, are a nuisance to consult, because of their size. Out of this trouble has grown a business all its own. This is nothing less than a concern which will take your directories and return them with a thumb index. Switchboard operators, and oth ers who have to turn to the direc tories often, find the fifty cents charged for the service a small amount to pay for the convenience obtained. It’s a service that could be start ed in almost any large town and for other books than directories. “Farm Boy Makes Good”— Most New York papers ought to carry that headline standing. The most recent case that came to my attention was one in which Edwin Booth Cox, a Maryland farmer boy, figured. Cox joined the Seventh Regi ment, the society soldiers (but great fighters, as.they showed in the war) and in three months he got to be a corporal and the pal of more millionaries than he ever thought existed. But that’s off the record. The story is that the regi ment held a turkey shoot just be fore Thanksgiving—five shots for fifty cents. Cox plugged the bull’s-eye on his first shot—got an order for a tur key and forty cents back with a re quest he get out of the contest. He doesn’t feel sore, because the col onel patted him on the back for his marksmanship. Pre-War Sodas— . There’s been a lot of price-cut ting here in various lines, the latest being in the old-fashioned sodas. The 15c and 20c ice cream sodas have been cut to 10c and trade is looking up. Druggists are divided as to whether the plan is a sufccess or not. Anyhow, it looks as if the lower price will stand for a time or until business gets a lot better. Nearly all of the moderate priced restaurants have cut their prices without lessening the quality of i their meals, but most people here figure the old prices were alto gether too high in the first place. The average cafe in other places is not likely to follow New York’s ex ample in this respect. txi- To make hard sauce a little dif ferent, use brown sugar instead of white, and grate in the rind of an orange for flavoring. Hard sauce is good with almost any hot steam ed pudding. Now For A Supply Of Cured, Canned Meat COLUMBIA, Dec. 5.—With the present comparatively low hog prices and the general shortage of money to purchase meat, it is the more important to put forth our utmost effort to cure and can at home a supply of meat for the year, thinks J. R. Hawkins, extension an imal husbandman with headquart ers here, who states that by using care in curing the hams, shoulders, and sides and by canning the loins, sausage, etc., pork can be made to go a long way toward furnishing the family with an adequate meat supply. Furthermore, in each com munity there is a good demand for good quality country cured hams at prices which should go a long way toward paying for the entire cost of the animal at present market value. For best results Mr. Hawkins says that good, thrifty, young hogs weighing 200 to 250 pounds should be used. If possible these should be taken off feed and allowed only fresh water to drink during the last 24 hours. The first cold spell in December is to be preferred for killing hogs since the nights are longer, the days are cooler, and the weather is more apt to be dry and settled then than later on. ^leed the hogs without stunning and thus get a more thorough job of bleeding, which makes the meat easier to keep; scald in water kept around 150 degrees, thereby great ly facilitating the cleaning process, Mr. Hawkins advises; and after the hogs are cleaned and dressed allow them to hang for 12 hours where the air will circulate about them freely. It helps in cooling to split the carcass down the back into two halves and remove the leaf lard. Not only is it much easier to trim the cuts of meat into a more de sirable shape after the carcass is cool, but salting meat while warm causes^a hardening and shrinking of the muscle fibers. Detailed instructions for hand ling and curing are given by Mr. Hawkins in Extension Bulletin 77, “Pork for Carolina Farmers,” available from Clemson College, Publications Division, or from county agents. “After each piece of meat has been properly trimmed,” Mr. Hawkins continues, giving instruc tions for curing, “mix thoroughly eight pounds of salt, three pounds of brown sugar, two ounces of salt peter, and rub well into the face and ends of the hams, sides, and shoulders. If the meat is not completely cooled, let it remain in the air protected from dust and animals until the animal heat has been entirely removed and it is thoroughly cooled through, then rub it again with the curing mix ture and pack it down in a tight box or barrel with a close fitting cover, using only such a quantity of the curing mixture as will ad here to the surface. ,f Aftfer “seven days take the meat up, rub again with the same mix ture, pack down as before, and re peat this process at the end of 14 days at which time the bacon may be removed and the hams and shoulders repacked. A good rule is to leave the bacon in cure two days for each pound in the piece, and hams and shoulders three days for each pound. That is, a sev en-pound piece of bacon will be sufficiently cured in 14 days and a 12-pound ham in 36 days. “When cured take the meat up. wash, and hang up to smoke. If you prefer pepper on the meat it may be applied after the smoking process has been completed, either by itself or mixed with sugar or molasses. After the meat has been smoked it should be protect ed from insects by being wrapped in -paper and sewed up in muslin sacks: ahd the sacks treated with yellow wash. A recipe for this wash is given in Extension Bulle tin 77. “The spare ribs, loins, and other fresh meat which cannot be used immediately should be canned and processed in pressure cooker for use during the spring and summer months,.thus saving almost the en tire carcass without waste and pro viding a supply of fresh meat throughout the year.” IX* To keep a fruit cake in good con dition wrap it in waxed or parch ment paper after it is entirely cold, and plq.ee it in a tight container. Some people like to put in with the cake an apple cut in half or a piece of cheesecloth saturated with cider. Look at the cake from time to time to se e that no mold is appearing. 64 Smiling Ed” Mc Connell, Radio Star, In Anderson Dec. 31 WILL APPEAR AT NEW YEAR EVE BENEFIT FROLIC.—GEE Mc- GEE AND OTHERS ARE ON THE PROGRAM ANDERSON. Dec. 22.—“Smilins Ed” McConnell, nationally famous radio star, will appear with an all- star cast of local talent on the stage of the Boys high school on the night of December 31 at S o’clock in the interests of the Sal vation Army. An elaborate New Year’s Eve pro gram .of . y entertainment, which prqmfees to make one of the best amateur shdws ever presented here, is being worked out by the Daily Mail and Independent, which are sponsoring the presentation. John Townsend, ministerial stu dent and one of Anderson’s most prominent entertainers, will lead the local talent program, including Harris Fant, magician of state wide fame, Alice Gleason, blues singer of Greenville, Gee McGee and other numbers. “Smiling Ed” McConnell has; broadcasted from station WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, on practically ev ery Monday night during the past six months. He recently an nounced his schedule to appear in , Anderson New Year’s Eve night to take part in the newspaper’s New Year Relief Party. A limited num ber of seats have been reserved for out-of-town visitors, and these may be obtained by ordering through The Independent or Daily Mail. IXi Cadets Announce Contest Winners CHARLESTON, Dec. 19.—In a contest conducted by the Sphinx, Citadel annual, J. Britt League of Greenville, was voted best all round and most popular cadet at the in stitution. J. S. Dukes of McCormick was declared most accommodating, most courteous, most unselfish and" most dependable, and G. J. Hutto^ of Reevesville was said to be most brilliant. C. R. Williard of Spar tanburg was named as most ath letic and possessor of the best phy sique. R. L. Lane of Columbia was* voted handsomest. New Farm Data Given By Researchers Meet Of Extension Workers CLEMSON COLLEGE, Dec. 19.— That South Carolina Experiment StatJp research workers are striv- ing-vKigently and effectively to wards finding new facts for use of Extension Service workers and oth ers in helping to solve current farm problems, was evidenced in Tues day’s program of the annual Ex tension Service meeting which was in session here this week. Prof. H. W. Barre, director of the Sta tion, who was in charge of the pro gram, stressed the flexing of re search activities to tackle new needs, economic, social, and ag ricultural, as they arise and out line the present program of his research organization. Discussions bringing out much new data of value to extension workers were those by J. P. LaMaster, chief of dairying, on Dairy Feeding and Management; E. G. Godbey, asso ciate animal husbandman, Profit able %Iog Feeding; W. C. Jensen, agricultural economist, Farm Man agement Surveys; J. H. Mitchell, chemist, Importance of Minerals in Feeds; R. A. McGinty, Fruits and Truck Crops; H. P. Cooper, ag ronomist, Effects of Certain Miner als on Soils; W. B. Rogers, associ ate agronomist, Best Field Crop Varieties; R. B., Carr, agronomist, 3<41-buildmg Crops; and G. H. Aull, assistant director, Rural Tax ation. Dr. E. W. Sikes, president, wel coming the extension workers to Clemson, stressed the need for mobilizing intelligence of all edu cational agencies to the end that there be more knowledge and^Sh- telligence in meeting the needs of the time; and Dr. W. W. Long, di rector of the Extension Service said that the present distressing agri cultural and economic situation me’'as clear the necessity • for mir constructive forces governmental, private, and corporate, to fdrget self sh ends and co-operate for un selfish service, in opening today’s session of the annual conference, of the state’s extension, forces.