McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, June 09, 1932, Image 2
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June 9, 1932
-McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER TWO
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FRANK PARI
FOOD—
I am glad to pay my respects to
Gus Waser, the Los Angles hotel
chef who won first jjrize in a na
tional contest for tne best dinner
menu by offering a list of comesti
bles Without a single French name
among them. Here is the purely
American dinner which Gus sub
mitted :
Grapefruit and orange cocktail;
cream of tomato soup with crack
ers; roast chicken with dressing;
new peas and mashed potatoes;
butter biscuits, salad of lettuce
and asparagus tips; pumkin pie
and coffee.
It would be hard to beat that,
either for its Americanism or for
its appeal to the appetite. It makes
me hungry to write it down!
ANALOSTAN—
'Opposite Washington, in the Po
tomac River, is an island of a hun
dred acres or so which was the
popular playground of the boys
with whom I went to school in my
’teens. Fifty years ago Analostan
Island was a deserted waste, cov
ered with second-growth timber
and underbrush v which almost hid
the ruins of the mansion which
George Mason of Guston Hall built
there before the Revolution. You
got to the island from the Virginia
side of the river over a crumbling
causeway which was submerged at
high tide. The short and easy way
was to swim across the Potomac
from Littlefield’s wharf, carrying
one’s clothes out of water with one
hand. A boy who couldn’t do that
couldn’t travel with our gang.
When we got there there wasn’t
anything to do but play pirates.
Now the Roosevelt Memorial As
sociation has bought Analostan Is
land and give it to the United
States. It ’ftill be known as Roose
velt Island and become a public
park, to which no automobiles will
be admitted. I am glad to learn
that it will be kept in the wild
state in which I knew it and that
birds and rabbits will still find it a
refuge.
GOLD—
One way of putting the unem
ployed at productive work is to set
them prospecting for gold. That
is not so fantastic as it may sound.
There are gold deposits in many
places which easily yield enough to
pay good wages to people who know
how to get the gold out.
In Denver and other Colorado
cities schools for gold diggers have
been started. Half a dozen exper
ienced placer miners are showing
the unemployed how to wash the
sands of the South Platte river for
gold. Here, inside the city limits
of Denver, every Spring and Sum
mer since gold was first discovered
there in 1858, miners have been
panning out $1.50 to $2 a day of
gold per man.
In the Republic of Bolivia, where
there is probably more undeveloped
mineral wealth than anywhere else
in the world, the government is al
lotting five acres of mineral land to
any unemployed Bolivian who
wants to work it.
Activities like those actually add
to the world’s wealth, and they
emphasize the lesson many of us
had forgotten, that , all wealth
comes from the soil and it isn’t
safe to get too far away from Mo
ther Earth.
FIRES—
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The city of Berkeley, California,
has adopted an innovation in!
charging for the services of its fire
department when the fire to which
it is called resulted from a violation
of the-fire code or the protective
orders of the department. That is
I sound common sense, and it ought
to help make people more careful
about taking chances with the fire
laws.
i We have more fires than any
other nation because so many of
our buildings are still of wooden
construction. It will take us an
other four or five hundred years to
become as nearly fireproof as
France or Germany.
SPELLING—
The other night I took part, with
my farm and village neighbors, in
an old fashioned “spelling bee’’
held in the old Congregational
church at West Stockbridge Center,
Massachusetts, where services have
been held continuously since 1788.
I was surprised, not only at the
popular interest, which crowded the
church to the doors, but at the pro
ficiency in spelling displayed by
most of the participants.
Poor spelling results from inab
ility to remember how words look.
On the whole, I believe, country
people are better spellers than the
products of the city schools; they
have learned from infancy to be
observers, to note and remember
slight differences in objects around
j them. Printers are good spellers
because they have to be, and such
ability as I have in spelling I at
tribute largely to my apprentice
ship as a boy to the printing trade,
followed by employment as a proof
reader on a city daily.
It is a mistake to brand anyone
as ignorant because he or she is
not a good speller. George Wash
ington was far from ignorant, but
he spelled the same word three
different ways in one letter! In
his day the rules of spelling had
not been fixed, as they have been
since Noah Webster published his
famous old “Blue-back Speller” and
followed it with his dictionary.
I almost forgot to say that the
team I was on won the spelling
match!
Bankers Know
Value Of Soil-
Erosion Control
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The trees upon which lichens
grow are not affected because the
plants are self-supporting and not
oarasites.
The value of controlling run-off
water to prevent soil wash on roll
ing cultivated lands is recognized
by financial interests engaged in
loaning money on farmlands, re
ports the United States Department
of Agriculture. Two Federal farm
loan banks require that all rolling
land upon which they make loans
be terraced. One of them employs
an engineer to check over farms on
which it has loans, to see that all
terraces are properly built. and
maintained.
During the last year three large
insurance companies have employ
ed engineers to direct the work of
controlling erosion on farms that
these companies have taken over,
which not only indicates a realiza
tion of the benefits of controlling
run-off water but also suggests
that it may be difficult to obtain
long-time loans on farms where no
effort is made to prevent soil
washing away.
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Get ahead—
stay ahead af the waevil
T HAT is the whofc story this year. Either
you get ahead of 'He weevil or he will , get
ahead of you. Fields are.lull of weevils this year?,
according to reports. IF they find squares, there,
won’t be much cotton at picking time.
Cotton squares are the weevils’ favorite_food! ‘
Therefore don’t give them any squares to eat in.
your field. Set your crop bcVre they arecready..
A side-dressing of 100 pounds per acre (2C0.pounds,
would be much better) of Chilean Nitrate will:
do it. There is nothing like Chilean to pick up a
crop of cotton and hurry it right past the weevil..
What else can you do thatris so easy, so cheap;;
so safe and so sure ?
Side-dress—100 pounds. Chilean. Nitrate per-
acre—right after chopping.
See your dealer now and impress on him you:
want Chilean “Natural” Nitrate. He is anxious,
to get you just what you want.
TWO KINDS
Both are natural
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200 LB. BAGS'
CHILEAN NITRATE
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on the occasion of the annual Tulip Festival and turned out in a body to scrub the streets irt the good o!a uutch
fashion. The youngsters with the milk-cart, drawn by a dog, are Tiny Rcquett and Bobby Gross.
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Quick-Growing Trees
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Although many valuable trees are
comparatively slow growers, some
of the best kinds develop to mer
chantable sizes with surprising
rapidity, says the Forest Service,
United States Department of Ag
riculture.
Douglas fir in the Pacific North
west will grow in dense seedling
stands, in some cases reach 90 feet
in height in 30 years.. At 50 years
it will produce 1 to 3 cords of wood
per acre per year. In a dense
stand the trees produce a high pro
portion of clear lumber.
Southern pines are among the
quickest-growing trees, saplings 20
years old often attaining a height
of 40 feet. The annual yield in,
good second-growth stands nay by
this time reach 1 to 3 cords per
acre.
Spruce and fir seedlings in the
Northeast are often held back for
15 to 40 years by competition, but
they grow up quickly when the old
trees are removed. Th* advance
reproduction, as such a stand of
little trees is called, when freed by
the harvesting of the mature crop,
in about 40 years develops into a
new pulpwood forest producing 1 or
more cords of wood annually per
acre.
Hardwoods are generally slower
growing than the pine family.
However, the yellow poplar, or tulip
tree, In second-growth stands
reaches heights of 50 to 100 feet
in 30 to 50 years. Oaks, walnut,
and hickory of the central hard
wood belt may grow a foot or more
per year.
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Meat Dishes From
The Refrigerator
In these days of quickly cooked
new green vegetables, dinner may
be prepared in almost no time if
the refrigerator holds a cold meat
dish chilling to perfection. Inez
S. Willson, home economist, sug
gests these meat dishes which may
be prepared in the morning, slip
ped into the refrigerator, and
thence to the table as the center x)f
a delicious summer dinner.
Sweetbread and Celery Salad
Cut 1 pair sweetbreads which
have been parboiled and blanched
into small dice and add half as
much diced celery. To prepare
sweetbreads simmer for 20 min
utes in water to which 1 tablespoon
vinegar has been added for each :
quart. Marinate in a cold place j
in French dressing until needed. |
Mix with mayonnaise dressing. |
Serve in a cup of crisp lettuce;
leaves and garnish with slices of
sv/eetbreads coated with jellied
mayonnaise.
Jellied Mayonnaise.—Soak 1 tea-
s,. oon gelatine in cold water for 5 !
minutes; dissolve over hot water.
^^.at into 1 cup mayonnaise. Be-
io.e it hardens spread over the
;l .ces of sweetbreads. This recipe
\...l serve six.
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Tongue and Spinach . . , ^
Cook 1 peck spinach until tend- ^ center of splatter, ready to serve mix thoroughly with
e., drain and press out liquor thor- & mayonnaise - Season: with salt,
cughly. Water should not be added A wlth a P astr y pepper, and paprika. Pile lightly
to spinach when cooking, as that ’ . ^ ° ongue ln crisp lettuce cup^ and place
which clings to the leaves will be mo S ' m cen ^ er of a large platter,
sufficient. Season with salt, pep- Veal or Pork. Salad Gmnish the platter with slices of
pjr, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and Cut cold roast veal or cold.roast ^ ?ea PP le which have been sprink-
1-2 teaspoon onion juice. Pack in pork into match-like strips, about lc " ! witl1 Uced cream cheese. -
small timbale molds and chill. 1 1-2 inches long.. Add one-half -txt.
Mask each slice of tongue with the quantity of crisp celery cut in- Seals found along the coast ol
jellied mayonnaise just before it to thin rings. Marinate with French Labrador are hunted, not for their
gets firm and chill. Unmold the dressing in a cold place. When! fur, but for leather and fat
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