McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, February 11, 1932, Image 7
Thursday, February 11, 1932
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Akron Moors Safely After Riding Storm
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People would think that they
were sleeping longer if they could
watch the clock while they ^id it.
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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.
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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.
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Gdorge Washington evidently
was not much of a fisherman. He
is credited with never having told
a lie.
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“A cat may look at a king,” is an
old saying, but the cat wouldn’t
look long if a mouse came in sight.
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A friend in need is usually a
needy friend who wants to borrow
a dollar.
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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.
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A white otter was recently trap
ped in New Brunswick.
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Pearl oysters grow at depths in |
the water of ten to fifty feet.
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Eskimos of the Canadian arctic
have one domesticated animal the ,
husky dog. |
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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.
Sprinkle with grated cheese and
continue cooking under the broiler
until cheese is melted and delicate
ly browned.,
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