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i I-. McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO 1 PAIN HEADACHES, NEURITIS NEURALGIA, COLDS • • Whenever you have some lagffinff ache or pain, take some tablets of Bayer Aspirin. Relief is immediate! There's scarcely ever an ache or pain that Bayer Aspirin vron't relieve—and never a time when you can't take it. The tablets with the Bayer always safe. They don’t depress the heart, or otherwise harm you. Use them just as often as they can spare you any pain or discomfort. Just be sure to buy the genuine. Examine the package. Beware of imjtations. Aspirin is the trade-mark of Bayer manufacture of mono- aceticacidester of salicylicacid. cross are '2>g^pVCV< v A % SAFE -TT- And let the weevil WORRY I OOXS like a mighty bad weevil year. We had two bone-dry summers in 1930 and 1931 and are about due for a wet one now. Owing to mild weather^weevils had a picnic all winter and they are just waiting for the squares to form. It is going to be a race between the cotton and the weevils. Cotton sure is going t^ have a job keeping ahead of the weevils without a little help from you. Not much, if any, fertilizer under it, the crop is almost sure to be slow and sickly by June. Just the way the weevils want it. What they do to your crop depends largely on what you do for your crop! Side-dreSc!' Chilean Nitrate, 100 pounds per acre (200 pounds would be much better) will set the crop early, ahead of the weevil. Then you are reasonably safe. But be sure you get Chilean. Nothing takes its place for side-dressing cotton. Your dealer has it or can get it on a moment’s notice. See him now! TWO KINDS Both are natural 100 LB. BAGS i AND 200 LB. BAGS CHILEAN NITRATE EDUCATIONAL Columbia BUREAU, INC. South Carolina SEND THE MESSENGER TOUR NEXT ORDER FOR JOB PRINTING. WE DO IT RIGHT, AND AT REASONABLE PRICES. MYffOME ^ YOURS fcyB£RTHAfDSON LAY Chemical Industry To Aid The Farmer (By Caleb Johnson) Creairffed Salt Cod Fish on 3-4 cupful of salt cod fish 1 cupful of milk 2 tablespoonfuls of flour 2 tablespoonfuls of butter or oth er fat 1 hard boiled egg 1 raw egg seasoning The codfish should be carefully picked over and allowed to soak in warm water for an hour. An easy way to make cream sauce is to heat the milk until nearly boiling, then add flour which had been mixed with a little cold milk until smooth. This should be poured slowly, stirring all the time. When well blended, add the yolk of the egg beaten, and cook again un til the sauce begins to thicken. Beat the white of the egg until fairly stiff, and add to the hot mixture. Beat this all thoroughly with a Dover egg beater. Cooking and i beating takes about fifteen min- I utes. Add the well drained fish, and cook until thoroughly hot. Pour over toasted slices of bread. Spread the cut up pieces of the hard cook ed egg whites over, then, press the yolks through a sieve over all, and serve at once. Some housekeepers think that it is more economical to purchase large prunes. I have not found it so. A pound of 30s cost more than twice as much as 70-80s but by act ual weight there is about 2 1-2 ounces of pits in the large prunes and only 3 1-2 ounces in the small ones. You can readily see that there is a saving which is. worth trying for. If it is necessary to store trunks in the cellar, try having a local carpenter make a slatted frame (if the handyman-about-the-house cannot make it) set upon pieces so that the trunks will be six or eight, inches from the floor. How To Tell A Quality Egg To tell the quality of eggs break two or three into a flat plate, and note whether the white is thick enough to stay near the yolk and stand up around it like a layer of clear, firm jelly. If the white runs over the plate and appears very watery the egg is poor in qual ify or somewhat stale, according to poultry specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. The quality of an egg shows up in cooking. It takes an egg with a good firm white to poach well. High-quality eggs make lighter sponge cakes and omelets. For making custards and for scrambled eggs, those with slighly watery whites will do very well. In the spring practically all eggs are good and most o*f them are strictly fresh. Any off odor generally means off flavor. The color of the yolk, whether deep or pale yellow, de pends chiefly on the feed of the hens, and is not often an index of quality. MY BUb BROTHER ^ GOT THROWN OUT OF ERE D YER Brother go • TO SCHOOL V MIKE? ,\ HE SENT AW EMPTY HOW CAN YA PLAY HOOKY FROM A * \ENVEU>PE* •CORRESPOUDEMCE SCHOOL?, t 5# t \>S', If Theodore Swann is right, the ten-year period on which we are now entering will be known as the Toast chemical decade, as the ten years ifrom 1920 to 1930 were the mech anical decade. I had a visit the other day with Mr. Swann, who is the head of one of the most ex tensive organizations manfacturing chemical products and engaged in chemical research and he told me the direction in which the minds of industrialists and investors are • turning. That direction is very strongly toward the commercialization of products of the chemical laboratory to provide new materials and new forms of finished products, better and cheaper than the materials and products whose place they will take. And the most interesting phase of this chemical revolution, which is now well under way, is that it promises to give a wider and more profitable market for ihe products of the land than the far mer has ever had. “Few people have any idea of the extensive part which chemistry plays in modern industry” said Mr. Swann. “But if we look around us we see many familiar things which came originally out of the chemist’s laboratory and which illustrate what I mean. Take for example the chemical compound known as bakelite. Perhaps the average person doesn’t know it by that name but it is a chemical pro duct which has almost entirely sup planted the use of haird rubber and of celluloid for almost all of the purposes for which those products were used. “Everybody is more or less fam iliar with the new kinds of build ing materials and wall boards made from sugar cane fibers, sawdust and similar by-products. All of those came out of the chemical lab oratories. There are literally, thousands of chemical . products which will come into use in the next ten years, which the chemists already know how to produce, and which only wait, upon either a suf ficient supply of raw materials or the perfection, of methods of .mak ing theih in quantities cheaply to, come into, general use. “And almost every one of these new products of the chemist must depend upon the farmer for. its raw material. The great problem of the farmer today is how to dis pose of his crops at prices above the living level. Production has out run the consumption demand for farm products in the forms in which they have customarily been used. But chemistry is opening new outlets by developing new uses for farm products. “Take the low-grade, fast grow ing pine trees of the South, for ex ample. They grow on waste land and, except for a very limited de mand for fuel purposes and in some sections the production of turpen tine and resin, they have produced no income, whatever, for the far mer on whose lands they grow. But now chemical science has found a way of making paper from the fiber of these pine trees. Paper mills have already been built to utilize them. Chemists are work ing with what seems to me a cer tainty of success, on methods of im proving the quality of this paper until it can compete with paper made from northern spruce. It takes thirty years for spruce to grow, while the pine reproduces it self in fiften years. “That is only one example of what I mean by agricultural pro ducts as raw material of chemical industries. Cotton, of course, has never been anything but a raw ma terial for industry, but we have de veloped through chemistry new uses for cotton, in the manufac ture of a wide range of products w.iich come under the general head oi cellulose. That includes such things as artificial silk and trans parent films for wrapping all sorts c. commodities. The latest chem ical industry based on cotton is the p jduction of xylose, from cotton seed hulls, which have heretofore ~.en a waste product. Xylose is a 1: nd of sugar which is not absorb ed into the blood. Hospitals and icdical schools are testing it now o find out whether it has any derible injurious effect on the hu- aan system. If it has not, then acre will be an enormous demand or xylose, from people who are Jor.d of sweets but who ought not o cat ordinary sugar. Imagine ;andy that a lady can eat pounds ! , f every day without getting fat! j One of the most prevalent diseases in America is diabetes, which is the effect of too much sugar in the blood. Perhaps xylose, made from cottonseed hulls, will provide all the sweets that a diabetic patient de sires, and even prevent the spread of this disease. “Another new kind of sugar is levulose, which already has a very wide use in industry, and chemists have found a way of extracting levulose from Jerusalem artichok s giving a new value to that easily grown crop. One of the ?argest chemical industries is the manu facture of paints and varnishes, and one of the best oils for use in that industry is the product of the nut of the tung tree, which for merly grew only in China. Now we have introduced the tung tree into the United States and a large in dustry has already developed in the oroduction of tung oil from the product of American farm lands.” One of the big industrial devel opments close at hand, Mr. Swann believes, is the use of plastic ma terials instead of wood, plaster and metal for the manufacture of all sorts of furniture and interior dec oration. The finest example of the wood carver’s art can today be reproduced to simulate the most beautifully grained wood, and the resulting product is not only fire proof, but almost unbreakable. New chemical methods have already produced substitutes for china and glass which are made in beautiful colors and which are also almost absolutely unbreakable. It is quite possible that our grandchildren may look back with commiseration upon the primitive people of this generation, who used such fragile things as china and glass on their dining tables. I asked Mr. Swann whether he agreed with Henry Ford that the solution of our industrial-economic problems is to be found in provid ing every industrial worker with an opportunity to obtain his living di rect from the land. “I think that is the soundest pro gram possible,” said Mr. Swann. “The man who has nothing to fall back on in times of economic dis tress is in a bad position, whether he is a farmer or a factory worker. The lesson that farmers are learn ing that they cannot depend upon a single cash crop, but must di versify their farming operations so that they can. at least get comfort able living off the soil, whether they sell any of their product for cash or not. , . It seems certain that the industrial , worker who has enough land on which to keep a few hens and a pig or two and perhaps a cow, and. to grow enough food for them and garden products for his family does not need to worry much whether, the, factory shuts down for a while or. not. And the . time is, bound to come when anybody with a few acres of, land can grow some kind of a cash crop which will find a ready market in the great chem ical industries that are now in their infancy.” SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION NEW The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College will be held at every Coun ty Courthouse in the State on Wed nesday, June 29th at 9 a. m. This examination will be held whether there are vacant scholarships or not, as vacancies may occur after the examination. Applicants for scholarship should write to Presi dent Kinard before the examina tion for blanks. Scholarships are worth $100.00 and free tuition. Applicants for admission to Win- tlirop College, who do not hold State High School diplomas, may stand entrance examination at ev ery County Courthouse in the State on Wednesday, June 29th and Thursday, June 30th at 9 a. m. Applicants for both examinations must be not less than sixteen years of age. For further information and cat- dog, also for information concern- : ner Summer School, address Presi dent James P. Kinard, Rock Hill, S. C. 4-H . livestock club members throughout the nation are eligible to compete for more than $5,000 in county, state, sectional and na tional prizes to be awarded in the third annual National 4-H Meat. Animal Livestock Project contests These awards for America’s most mtstanding junior animal hus- Yandmcn are offered by Thomas E. Wilson, livestock breeder, packer, and chairman of the National Com mittee on Boys and Girls Club Work. Any 4-H Club member regularly enrolled in one or more meat ani mal livestock projects; namely, baby beef, purebred beef animal, market pig, breeding hog, market sheep or breeding sheep during 1932 under the supervision of their state extension service is eligible to com pete. The project records and the general club record of contestants will be the basis on which awards. will be made. A gold-filled medal of honor will be awarded to the highest scoring club member in each county of the United States. From the records of county winners, state club lead ers will select their state winner. Each state winner must have com pleted three or more years work in meat animal livestock club projects. The state award is a $50 gold - watch. The winning 4-H livestock club member in each of the four exten sion divisions of the United States will receive an educational prize trip to the Eleventh National Boys and Girls 4-H Club Congress, which is held annually in conjunction with the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago. Winner will be selected from state winners- within each division. More than 90,000 farm boys and girls will compete for the attrac tive prizes being offered in this; contest to encourage 4-H Club ac tivities in meat animal livestock club projects. Hrs Part. Officer—“Your horse seems very familiar to me, Higgins.” Private— j “I don’t wonder, sir, seeing the times he brought you from the club. Why, you’ve kissed Mm before you went ud the steps.” Going the Limit. “Do ye drame of me, Moike?” whis pered a girl to her lover as they walked down a lonely glen- in Ireland, of course. “Drame of ye, is it, Kate? Sure ’tis the way wid me that I can’t shl*pe noights dramin’ of ye, dai^ Irot! ” t New Bicentennial Quarter Coined The new George Washington quarter dollar, to be issued by the United States Treasury as a fea ture at the nation-wide George Washington Bicentennial Celebra tion, will be coined in large enough quantities to satisfy a normal de mand, officials of the Treasury have informed the United States- George., Washington Bicentennial Commission. It is expected that the quarter will be ready for distribu tion before June 1. The design of the new coin was approved by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills from more than a hundred models, many of them submitted by leading Ameri can artists. It was executed by' John Flanagan, New York Sculptor and the designer of the Department of Agriculture World War Memor ial. The obverse of the new coin bears the portrait of George Washington in profile. Over the head appears the word “Liberty,” and below it is stamped the date “1932.” To one side is the motto “In God We Trust.” The principal design of the oth-*^ er side is a spread eagle with the inscription “United States of Am erica” and “E Pluribus Unum’" above, and “Quarter Dollar” below. An olive branch also appears below the eagle to complete a stately,, dignified design. The new coin is exactly the same size, weight anti fineness as the present quarter dol lar. The George Washington quarter is the first coin of regular issue ever to bear the image of the First President. It was authorized by special act of Congress making it possible for the Treasury to share in the Bicentennial Celebration. As a coin of regular issue the George Washington quarter will re place the twenty-five cent piece- now in circulation. No other quart er dollar will be coined for the next twenty-five years unless authorized by special act of Congress. tinted at San Francisco, Denver a:id Philadelphia the coins will be p aced in circulation through the r<r ular channels of the Federal Reserve Banks, and will appear simultaneously in all parts of the country. I