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Thursday, February 11, 1932 vieCOK.il ICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN Akron Moors Safely After Riding Storm iliiiip M' m •:>y: ■ill mmm mmmm ■If XJ The U.S.S. Akron, largest of all aircraft was put through a severe test in an all-night cruise during which it encountered snow, sleet and balmy weather. After the test it successfully moored to the U.S.S. Patoka, nrother-ship of the dirigible fleet. The test was made to see how the Akron would handle in weather conditions that would keep planes on the ground. LIQUID - TABLETS - SALVE 666 Liquid or Tablets used intern ally and 666 Salve externally, make a complete and effective treatment for Colds. Most Speedy Remedies Known E FOR THE ></ NANCY HART Plant Long Staple Significant is the fact that there is now almost enough cotton in existence to supply the demand for two years, provided that all this cotton were long staple. Even more significant is the fact that the greater bulk of the cotton is 7-8 inch or under. Happily our own state of South Carolina is leading tHe entire southeastern section of our country in improvement of staple, recent reports showing that ‘60.6 per cent of the 1931 crop was 15-16 inch or better. And now for a little advice, clipped from the-editorial columns of the Southern Cultivator: “It should be apparent to every farmer who plans to raise cotton in 1932 that he should plant only a small acreage of the very best long staple, selecting for this his very best soil, prepare a good seed bed, fertilize it adequately and cultivate it intensively. “The result should be a good crop per acre of long staple, high grade cotton that would sell read ily at a premium price. “If his plan were followed by all cotton farmers for a, few years the overplus of short staple would be gradually absorbed, the price of all grades would advance to a profit able point and American cotton, being then principally long staple of a high grade, would again have dominance in the world market, which has been lost on account of producing so much short staple. “Any farmer can secure long staple cotonseed for 1932—and that is the only kind he should plant.”— .Newberry Observer. i ‘ I Champion Fancy Skater"|j x II •<><v WM k:- SSSSS:; mmm asmMa i§ 81 Sonja Henic, the world’s champion figure skater who hails from Nor way, will take part in the Lake Eyes examin ed. Spectacles, Eye Glasses, •nd Artificial Eyes fitted without Drugs, Drops or Danger. DR. HENRY J. GODIN OptometrisU 956 Broad Street Augusta. Ga. A painter was arrested the other day for slapping a girl. He prob ably forgot himself and wanted to see if the paint was dry. The reason we don’t take better care of our feet, is because they arc co far away from our minds. x People would think that they were sleeping longer if they could watch the clock while they ^id it. X The fact that a woman will turn a man’s head is the cause of many an autcmoe.ic accident. SHIRTS— The latest scheme to symbolize the anti-war movement is for ev erybody who is opposed to war to wear a green shirt. Mussolini and his followers wear a black shirt, the symbol of an organized dictator ship. Garibald, the Italian lib erator, and his followers, wore red j shirts, now the symbol of the Rus sian Communists. I have had an invitation from an organization called the “New History Society” to buy a green shirt and become an Internationalist. Personally, I don’t think I shall put on a green shirt. The implica tion isjthat the weareir is not only opposed to war on general princi ples, but opposed to any kind of preparation for war and is, there fore, willing to hand his country over to anybody else who wants to take it. I think I will order a red-white- and-blue shirt with a -star-spangled collar! HOUSING— I look for another big building boom very soon after the loosening up of bank credits and frozen as sets makes money available for housing purposes. Ij think we are going to see some innovations in home construction methods in the next few years, which will make it possible for a larger percentage of people to be come home owners. I know of several groups of home planners who think they are going to be able to build houses to sell for $5,- 000 which will be better in every way than houses which now sell for from $10,000 to $15,000. That is only one of the big changes that are coming, and com ing soon. MONEY— The actual money in the posses sion of all of the people in the United States, including the banks and the Treasury, at the beginning of this year was nine billion four hundred twenty-two million five hundred twelve thousand dollars. Net quite half of that is in gold, and more than half of the rest of it is in Federal Reserve notes. The amount of actual money in circu lation is about $45 per person. This is the highest that has ever been in our history, with the exception of the year 1920, when it reached $51 per head. The idea that the larger the vol ume of money in circulation the more prosperous we are is not borne out by a study of these money figures. When business is active and public confidence in the banks is not shaken, people use comparatively little actual money and Federal Reserve notes and Treasury notes are retired from circulation. TRADITION— Local traditions are often incor rect. Some years ago, in Cincin nati, I was told by local historians that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her famous book, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” while her husband was a professor at Lane Theologi cal Seminary in that city. A few years later I was shown a house at Mandarin, Florida, which was pointed out with pride as the place where Mrs. Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The other day I was a guest at the home of Lyman Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Stowe’s grandson, who has in hir study the walnut tabic on which j his grandmother’s famous book was written and many of her personal mementos. He said that the famous book was begun at Brunswick, Maine, where her husband was a professor in Bowdoin College, and finished at Andover, Massachusetts, where he taught at the Theological Seminary. txt Dairying View Good CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb. 1.— Farmers who are planning to keep more milch cows in order to pro duce on their farms a larger share of the food needed by their fam ilies, will not regret the move, and those so located as to have a good market for fluid milk would seem to be justified in increasing their herds, since good milk brings a rel atively high price in most Southern cities, so says C. G. Cushman, ex- ; tension dairy specialist, discussing ! the outlook for dairying in South Carolina for 1932. In this connec tion Mr. Cushman points to the startling facts revealed in census figures that only 52,525,520 gallons of milk are produced in South Carolina annually, while it would take over 158,000,000 gallons for the per capita average consumption. He shows also that 75,855 South Carolina farms do not have even one family cow. As to commercial dairying, Mr. Cushman says that farmers who plan to sell butterfat should look closely to competitive costs in the western corn belt states where the number of cows is being consider ably increased. He points out, however, that South Carolina and the South have distinct advantages in that there is a long pasturage season, and that only ' inexpensive buildings are needed. With the shrunken values of the chief money crops of this state cre ating a serious deficit in farm in come and with impaired credit facilities for agricultural produc tion, such a system of dairying seems to offer the farmer of this state an opportunity of supple menting the farm income with a dairy enterprise. Where home grown feeds such as peavine and soybean hay, silage, and corn, oats, velvet b^ans, and cottonseed meal are fed to good dairy cows, the chances for profitable production seem favorable in South Carolina, the natural conditions conducive to the economical production of dairy products being certainly not less favorable than those obtaining in the sections which produce the bulk of the dairy products of this country, Mr. Cushman concludes. tXl Gdorge Washington evidently was not much of a fisherman. He is credited with never having told a lie. x “A cat may look at a king,” is an old saying, but the cat wouldn’t look long if a mouse came in sight. , x A friend in need is usually a needy friend who wants to borrow a dollar. X There are just as many different ways of being wise as there are of being foolish, but it seems so much easier to be foolish. Experts say that a circle cannot be squared. Automobile owners will agree that they can be next to it, when they have a flat. txt A white otter was recently trap ped in New Brunswick. x Pearl oysters grow at depths in | the water of ten to fifty feet. x Eskimos of the Canadian arctic have one domesticated animal the , husky dog. | TXT To inflate each of the new naval dirigibles 6,500,000 feet of helium gas will be needed. In 1778 there were only abou^ 500 cattle ih California. The body of a jellyfish is more than 95 per cent wa t er. The farthest north air mail sta tion in the world is Herschel Is land, Canada. Since discovery of a useful new mineral is a rare occurrence, the finding of a boron-containing mineral, known less than five years, in commercial quantities is inter esting the makers of certain glazes and glass. We are utilizing only about one- third of the seventy known metals. The Spaniards introduced grape fruit into Florida in the sixteenth century. The world’s southernmost city is Magallanes, which lies midway in the straights of Magellan. The scales of fishes that swam in the seas millions of years ago are still in existence, in fosil form. The crater of Haleakala, a huge extinct volcano in the Hawaiian islands, is large enough to hold, Manhattan island. An old belief regarding amber was that its crackling and flash ing when rubbed was a means of detecting poison. French Vanilla— In France ice creams and ices of all sorts are something of a lux ury. In America if not actually a necepsity, ice cream is assur edly a most common-place com modity. It has been brought within easy reach of all. Perhaps plentiful ice cream has its advantages, but when any art icle of food becomes commonplace it is somehow robbed of some of its appeal. From the French point of view the American portion of cream or ice is much too large. It should not be regarded as a mere food— mere nourishment. There should be only a morsel of it eaten as a pleasing contrast to more substan tial viands. Ices and ice creams in France are very often served in lit tle plated-silver dishes—that look exactly like very small porringers. There is one neat scoopful of the ice or cream on the dish. “Glace vanille”—vanilla ice cream—is most usually found on the bill of fare and is usually well made. Strawberry sherbet is usual enough and sometimes a vanilla ice—a very anemic sister to the more tempting “glace vanille.” If you are going to France and want to bring home an unusual lit tle souvenir, get a set of those lit tle metal “glace” dishes—the dish es that look like very little porring ers. Then when you have friends for dinner or luncheon and want to offer an unusual touc'h to the serv ing of the sweet, you can serve some sort of sherbet or ice cream on these little French dishes. Simple Mince Meat— Mix one cup of chopped cooked meat, two cups of chopped apples, half a cup each of chopped raisins, currants, and molasses, one cup of cider, one cup of grape juice, two teaspoons of salt, one teaspoon each of cinnamon and allspice, and half a teaspoon each of clove and nut meg. Heat to the boiling point, boil slowly 30 minutes and pack in a stone jar until ready to use. GriUed Pears— (To serve with meat.) Peel and halve pears and brush with melted butter. Bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees F.) until tender. 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