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Thursday, May 5, 1932 McCORMICK M» 1NGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROL1INA PAGE NUMBER TWO MYfSOME J^YOURJ B£ RTHA fDSO N LAY what the thermometer eays out side. Two eastern roads, the B & O. and the C. & O., are about to start regular through trains be tween Chicago and New York, ev ery car of which will be provided with a similar system of ventilation and cooling. This is a long step in advance and one which the other railroads vill Few people know the delightful have to take also. There will al- taste of curry. Try these shrimps ways be fresh air fiends who will anc j see the family does not ap- not believe that air is fresh unless piaud. it comes through an open window, j Fresh or canned shrimp, (amount but most people would rather trav- depending on the size of the fam- el in a dust-proof railroad car than jjy) a n ow about five or six to a por- in a dust-gathering open automo- ti 0 n, 2 tablespoonfuls of butter LEARNING— My wife and I called on some bile, on any long 'ourney. new neighbors, a young German INSANITY— couple who had taken a farm near The old idea that insanity of any mine. As we approached the kind as a mental condition origin- house we heard the sound of what ating in and confined to the brain .seemed to us very fine, music, which stopped when I knocked on the door. “I thought I heard a radio,” said my wife, after we had exchanged Henry A. Cotton, head of th neighborly greetings. But they had Jersey State Hospital for no radio. The young farmer had iiy Not a Ship Canal Across Florida (By Caleb Johnson) Engineers of the United State Government have begun to make a survey for a route for a deepwater canal across the State of Florid- On their report will depend v/hetb er or not this great enaineerm 1 enterprise, which will cmplo thousands of workers and redu" the distance between all Gulf o Mexico ports and the Atlantic sea board. will ce undertaken. It is an interesting proposition, any way you look at it. If you will look at a map of the Unitec’ States you will see that Florida is r peninsula extending about 53" miles south between the Gulf of the butter, and add flour Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, 'if been playing on a violin which he had brought from Germany. I com plimented him on the quality of his music. “I’ll never be able to play well enough to appear in public” he said, ‘‘because I did not start to study the violin until I was six teen. To learn anything well you must start younger than that.” I have thought of that young farmer’s sound observation many times since. I think our present system of coddling boys and girls until they are sixteen and then expecting them to learn how to get along in the world is all wrong. It is unfair to the youngsters and un fair to society, because it gives them the impression that the world owes them a living, and it puts on the rest of us the burden of taking care of and protecting ourselves against an army of misfits and in competents. Most people would be better off and happier if they had had less schooling and more hard work when they were very young. SILVER— I have talked so much 2 tablespoonfuls of flour 1-2 teaspoon of surry powder 2 cups of milk 1 teaspoonful of English chutney bas been proved to be just as ab- sa it surd as the old idea that lunatics j Mfeit and idiots were the victims of a slowly and blend carefully, over a you draw an east and v/cst line direct act of God, according to i 0 w heat, when blended, add milk, through the mouth of the Suwan- cjo,-.,-,, a im-iH of New and cook until smooth. Mix salt nee River you will find that most t lG and curry powder in a little warm 0 f the principal ports in the Gulf water and add to the cream sauce, 0 f Mexico and all of the principal Acting on the belief every a nd cook for a few minutes. Add ports on the Atlantic seaboard and manifestation of insanity Lad ^ chutney, and then the shrimps, in Europe are north of such a line, physical cause, Dr. Cotton and his Cook for five minutes longer and Therefore a shin leaving N-'w Or- staff for twenty years have been serve. leans or any of the Gulf ports is trying to discover those physxcai This may be served with rice, or making a dead haul every mile 1 Insane. that is forced to go south of this line. The building of a ship canal across Florida would be for the our- causes and cure them, with the re- i n patty shells, or on toast suit that more than two thousand patients have been cured of their Just why blankets and comfort- insanity. More than half ot all ables are so short I do not know, of savlng shi thls , mental disorders, Dr. Cotton says, but I do know that it is possible , haul around the straits of plorl(ia are the result of chronic infections, to lengthen them by sewing a strip and to a!low them to auicklv tum especially in the teeth, tonsils, of material at the bottom. This north, and thereby their great reac j 1 sinuses and digestive tract. strip is used to tuck under the mat- 0 7 destination with In short, Dr. Cotton seems to tress to keep the blanket or com- savlng of time and distance . have demonstrated that the anci- fort in p ace and in this way allow, Tho Panama Cana i is 54 milcs ents were right when they spoke of the full length of the covering for , ong and cost S 3 35 000 000 t0 bulld i6 r\ orMirTrl wi irrH irr O crfcnnH lGr\H\7 LllP OPfl . _ _ _ a sound mind in a sound body. PROHIBITION— S HE doesn’t look seventy. Nor feel that old. The woman who stimulates her o r gans can have energy that women half her age will envy! At middle-nge yoyr vital organs begin to slow down. You may not be sick, simply sluggish. But why endure a condition of half-health when there’s a stimulant that will stir a stagnant system to new life and energy in a week’s time? This remarkable stimulant is perfectly harmless. It is, in fact, a family doctor’s prescription. So, if you’re tired of trying every patent medicine that comes along, tell the druggist you want a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin. Take a bit of this delicious syrup every day or so, until you know by the way you feel that youi lazy river is again active, and your bowels uius poison-free. Men, women, and children \vh*> are run-down, who tire easilv, g»t bilious spells or have frequent head aches, are soon straightened out when they get this prescriptionaE preparation of pure pepsin, active senna, and fresh laxative herbs-. (Syrup pepsin is all the help the bowels need, and you do not form the very bad habit ofi always-taking cathartics.) Keep a bottle- off Dr. Caldwell’s- syrup pepsin in the house, and take a stimulating spoonful every now and then. It is all that a great many people ever take to keep strong and vigorous, and absolutely free from constipation.. Ten years ago every woman in There are always small pieces of the country, practically, was en- hand soap left which are too thin thusiastic about the new national to use in the hand. Have a box prohibition law. The other day somewhere in the bath room, or Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, wife of a near the place where soap is stor- New York banker, led a huge dele- ed, and place these too thin pieces gation of women to Washington to in it. After there is a box full, present a petition with hundreds of grind the soap by putting it thousands of names on it for the through the food grinder. Use repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- this as a most delightful adjunct to | nient. i* 16 bath.' Take a small wash ! These are mostly city women who cloth, or a double piece of cheese ! about have seen an enormous increase in cloth, sew three sides on the ma- 1 This canal had many engineering | problems which would not be pres- i ent in th e building of the Gulf- Atlantic Ship canal across Florida. | The Kiel canal is 53 miles long and cost $55,000,000 to build. The Suez silver in this column that perhaps I am suspected of owning a silver mine. I haven’t a cent’s worth of interest in buying or selling silver, but the more I study the subject the more convinced I am that anything which would result in restoring silver to its old cur rency position, especially in the Orient, would immediately stimul ate trade and raise commodity prices, and so benefit everybody in the world. I have just been reading reports of the hearings held in Washington by a subcommittee of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, of which Hon. An drew H. Somers is chairman. No body can study those statements without being convinced that silver is a much more important factor in the world’s trade than most of us realize. I advise anybody who wants to know more about the subject to write to Representative Somers, at Washington, for the documents issued by his commit tee. COMFORT— Two of the transcontinental rail roads have equipped their dining cars with air-conditioning devices which keep the temperature mod erate and the air fresh no matter drinking among young people, chine, then put two Lablespoonfuis' Young folks spending money that of ground soap, two tablespoonfuls they did not earn always think it is of oat flakes, and one tablespoon- smart to do things which are ful of almond 'meal in the little against the law. I think there is a pocket, and sew the fourth side, great deal more than prohibition Use as a wash cloth without soap, behind a lot of the behavior of the It is lovely and soothing, idle children of the foolish rich. - — Nevertheless, I think it would be Inexpensive shoe stretchers may a very good thing to take the pro- be bought at the 5 and 10 cent hibition out of politics by having a stores, and even though there national referendum which will let should be a pair for each pair of each side know just exactly how shoes the cost will not be great, strong sentiment for and against! The life of the shoe will be length- repeal really is. -XXI- Card Of Thanks We wish to express our sincere appreciation and heartfelt thanks to our friends and neighbors and loved ones for their many acts of ened enough to more than offset the cost of the stretchers. If potatoes are well greased be fore baking* ail the mealy part of the potato comes out of the skin, leaving a very thin case. This skin is nicely crisped and most palat able, when butter and seasoning is added. When baked in this way, kindness shown us during the ill ness and at the death of our dear the potato may be scooped out of little infant daughter and sister, the skin more readily, mashed, May God bless you all. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. McDaniel and Family. TXT sea oned with salt, pepper and milk and returned to the skin to brown in the oven. x Whale leather gloves may be- Gold wire has been drawn so fine that it weighed one ounce to 3,500 come popular, now that a way has yards, thus making human hair been found to use the whale’s in look coarse and thick by compari- testinal membrane for glove ma- non. ; ‘-criai. \ DIPNT EVEN KMow Ya LIKED flowers canal is 105 miles long and cost $148 000,003. You can see that the Guli-Atlantic Ship canal across Florida would be the largest ship canal in the world. The Gulf-At lantic ship canal presents no great engineering problems and is prin cipally a movement of earth on a j large scale. The Florida canal would be about 150 miles long, 600 feet wide, 35 feet deep, a sea level canal which would cost from $125,000,000 to $260,000,000. Of course, the enure purpose of the building of such a canal would be the saving of distance, which means time and which in turn means the saving of money. Based on the tonnage which entered the Gulf in the year 1929 this canal would save $36,000,000 per year and on the natural increase of business on the tonnage in the year 1945 there would be a saving of $47,000,- 000. Everybody in the United States would share in this saving in the cost of commodities transported between Gulf ports and the rest of the country. It would mean that the man who produces cotton and other products in the Mississippi valley and on the Gulf coast would effect a tremend ous saving in the delivery of his product in the East and to Euro pean ports, and the consumer in the East would be able to buy gas for his automobile cheaper. In fact, every man living east of the Rocky Mountains would effect some saving in his annual living expenses on account of the ouilding of this canal. In the matter of employment and the consumption of commod ities while the canal was under construction, the benefit would al so be spread all over the United States. It would be necessary to build many steel bridges for auto mobile roads and trunk line rail roads across the canal. This would entail the expenditure of many millions of dollars—in all probabil ity a railroad would parallel one bank and an automobile road the other. That would mean orders for the steel mills, for the concrete producers, for manufacturers in i.-any lines of industry. Besides being of great commercial i nlue, the Florida canal would L eatly extend the navigation range .. small yachts and power boats, here is at present an inland wat- j c: ways extending from Maine to orida—there is also an inland aterway extending from Apal- chicola to the Rio Grande. These wo water ways would be linked by the building of the Gulf-Atlantic Chip canal across Florida which would allow a continuous inland passage for yachts from Maine to Hie Rio Grande or from Chicago down the Mississippi and hence to New York and Boston. The project of a canal across northern Florida is not a new one. Indeed, it has been discussed for a Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM « I Main Street McCormick, S. C. hundred years. On two different ting, better results will be obtained, occasions during that time there | The ideal soil for the first plant- was sufficient interest aroused to: ing is sandy loam that is well cause the Government to have a drained and that permits of early physical survey made to gather warming, Mr. Rawl advises. For sufficient data on which to base the ' the later plantings, a heavy soil decision as to whether or not the canal could be built. The results of these surveys have not shown enough benefit to warrant the Gov ernment building such a canal. Why then would the Government now be interested in this project? For the reason that all discussions and all surveys made in past years have been based on a canal to ac commodate barge traffic only antf lie canal that is now proposed is to be a ship canal capable of giving passage to large ocean steamers. The results of an economic sur vey recently completed show that a ship canal would more than justify the Government in spend ing necessary money to construct such a canal. Now engineers are actually at work surveying the route. It begins to look as if a dream of a century is about to be realized. Tomatoes For Home Use In Con tinuous Supply CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 30.— With a little attention in the way of planning for different plantings and with reasonable care in the control of pests, a continuous sup ply of tomatoes can be had in most sections of the state from the lat ter part of May until frost, and even much later than the frost kill ing date, says E. H. Rawl, extension horticulturist. To have continuous supply of this fine vegetable for the home garden three distinct settings of the plant are advised—or better still, four plantings. The first planting should be made in the various sec tions of the state as soon as danger of frost is past. The seed for the first planting should be planted in hotbeds eight to ten weeks be fore time for setting in the garden. The second planting should be made May 15 to June 1; the third planting July 10 to July 25; and the fourth planting the latter part of August. The seed for the second, third, and fourth plantings should be planted 5 or 6 weeks before the plants are needed for the garden. that will retain more moisture Is is better suited. Fertile soil that will grow snap beans and Irish po tatoes is suitable. In any case, deep and thorough preparation and good drainage are essential, with thorough and shallow cultivation at all times. X Monetta Four-H Club * Proves Worth Work CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 30.— The annual achievement day ex ercises, held for the 4-H clubs of Aiken county on April 23, brought into notice the excellent accomp lishment of the Monetta club which was awarded the pennant for the best record of achievement for the previous year. t From an enrollment of 68 mem bers, the Monetta club turned in completed records on 82 separate demonstrations, with 100 per cent of the members completing one or more demonstrations with cotton, corn, pig, poultry, or garden dem onstrations, according to Thos. W. Morgan, county farm agent. The value of products produced by the club members amounted to $4,441.- 95; the cost of production, includ ing labor, materials, rent on land, and all incidental costs amounted to $3,108.51, leaving the members a profit of $1,333.44. Fourteen exhibits of club pro ducts were entered in the State Fair, winning some $65.00 in prizes. Poultry exhibits won six first places, two second prizes, one third prize, and one fourth prize. Calf club exhibits won first prize junior yearling, junior championship, first prize senior cow, and senior championship in the 4-H Jersey show, and third place junior year ling in the open Jersey show. This outstanding record of com munity club achievement came as a result of the hard work and close cooperation of every member and the able leadership of George W. C wyer, club leader. X Do you know your wife is tell- i ' J around that you can’t keep her i clothes?” “That’s nothing. I bought her a If these plants can be transplanted home and I can’t keep her in that at least once before the final set- i either.”—Boston Transcript.