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1 4 Thursday, August 4, 1932 McCOhulICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN MY-HOME m YOUR5 foyB£RTHAfDSON LAY Tty this as something different for luncheon. Served as the “meat” dish with almost any green vege table, it is delicious. 1 cupful of canned or green corn cut from the cob, 1 beaten egg, flour, salt and pep per. Put the corn in a bowl, add the well beaten egg, and just enough sifted flour to make rather thick. Season, and if too thick to drop easily from a spoon, add a little milk. soon as one side is brown. NEW August Work Important For Good Fall Gardens Club Work For Older Youth Club leaders are giving a good deal of thought these days to inter est the older rural boys and girls in farm or home projects. These range in age from 16 up to as high as 25 and 30 years. Minnesota club leaders are doing a fine piece of work in this line. They have what is called a partner ship between the child and the par ent. It may be either parent. This Fry in^hot fat, turning as p ro j ec t has been carried on for sev eral years. Over 500 boys and girls are in such partnerships this sea son. A good furniture polish may be made by mixing equal parts of lin seed oh and vinegar. Shake well, and apply with soft cloth, then rub dry with a clean soft cloth. When marking household linen, try writing, or printing, if that is the manner of marking one prefers —with a lead pencil, then tracing directly over the pencil marks with a pen and marking ink. I am told that the ink will not “run” making that blotty looking mark we so of ten see qn linen. Do you know that to get the best results, a nutmeg should be grated from the blossom end? A tablespoonful of vinegar mixed with the basting water placed in the roasting pan with meat or fowl will tend to make the roast more tend er. txi Four cities, New York, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia are said to be the market for half the oranges sold in America. Wonder who gets the most lemons? txt Everything that we have has a tendency to wear out unless it is taken care of—especially is this true with our reputation. x One reason why it is difficult to stabilize things is that the stables have all been converted into gar ages. The projects are much the same as for the regular club members, but in some instances they take on rather large proportions. For in stance, a dairyman in Brown coun ty this spring effected a partner ship with his four sons. In this deal the profits will be divided ac cording to contract. In Georgia a special effort is be ing made by Miss Lurline Collier, state girls club agent, to enroll girls of 16 to 25 years who may have had some primary club work, but who do not expect to go away to school. She is also working to enroll young married women on farms in pro jects which can be . fitted into the home program to improve the life of the family. The Utopia clubs of Kentucky have come through the first year of their program in fine shape. About .350 young men and women in a dozen counties were enrolled, and all are enthusiactically carrying on this year. X There are two sides to everything except a mirror and the other per son’s argument. txt Most of us would rather have friends than look like a collar ad vertisement. TXt Once upon a time there were two thermometers that registered ohe same. CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 30.— The success of the fall and winter garden depends largely on import ant work to be done in August, says A. E. Schilletter, extension horti culturist, pointing out the needs as to planting, fertilizing, and care of the numerous vegetables that may be had from now until mid-winter. The planting schedule needing August attention Mr. Schilletter lists as follows: Plant Irish potatoes at once— Lookout Mountain, Irish Cobbler. • Plant rutabaga turnips at once; other turnips up to September 15. Extra Early Purpletop, White egg. Plant beans up to September 10— Bountiful, Stringless Greenpod. Plant beets now—Crosby’s Egyp tian, Detroit Dark Red; and car rots—Chanteney, Coreless. Plant corn at once—Stowell’s Evergreen, Trucker’s Favorite. Plant lettuce for fall transplant ing—New York, Mignonette. Transplant tomatoes, collard, cabbage, and celery for fall and winter. Regarding fertility for late crops Mr. Schilletter says: “Like animals, plants must be fed continuously, if good results are to be obtained, and a late crop can not feed on fertility that has been used up earlier in the season. Well decomposed stable manure applied between the rows in August and September will make a wonderful difference in the late growth of plants. Where this is not avail able or is not convenient to use, a side dressing of some quickly avail able form of nitrogen should be used. x Marriages And Di vorces In The United States For 1930-31 Suttdify SdmtLessor By Rev. Charles E. Dunn, D. D. Lesson for August 7: The Ten Commandments. I. Exodus 20:1-11 The Ten Commandments, hammered by Moses into tables of stone at Mt. Sinai, according to the familiar narrative of Exodus, comprise the basic moral law of the Hebrew people, and of Christian civilization. Our lesson deals with the first four of these pithy laws, which out line man’s fundamental obligation to God. The remaining six laws in the Decalogue treat of man’s duty to his fellows. Note that the first Commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,’*’ does not deny the existence of many dieties. It was a long time before the Hebrews arrived at that sublime conviction of the un known prophet of the exile that there is one God only, “the God of tho whole earth.” What the Commandment means is that the God of Israel must be given the preference over rival gods. Today it might be paraphrased to-read, “Thou shalt have at least one God.” For our danger is not that we are tempted to worship many gods, but to repudi ate God and worship altogether. The Second Commandment, a sweeping prohibition of the carving of idols, was necessary in Moses’ day, when the making of images was carried to excess. For our own time, however, it is far too drastic. Wc are lovers of art, and appreciate its immense contribution to the relig ious impulse. For us the Commandment means a protest not against artistic symbols of God, but against gods purely man-made, constructed after our own pattern. Our God is pure Spirit, mightier and grander than any picture, mental or material, we may draw of Him. The Third Commandment protects the sanctity of oaths. In this day of slipshod talk, falsehood and perjury, we need to take it much to heart. As Jesus insisted, our Yea should be precisely Yea, and our Nay exactly Nay. It is also a protest against profanity, an inevitable sign of feeble vocabulary and impoverished thWking. The Fourth Commandment was never more needed. The trend of our day is to make Sunday a holiday rather than a holy day. Now Sunday presents a splendid opportunity for rest, worship, the home life, and the personal life. Are we not in danger of losing these values through our lust for pleasure and speed on the Lord’s Day? ' 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 Main Street McCormick, S. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2.— According to the returns received by the Bureau of Census, there were 1,060,095 marriages performed in the United States during the year 1931, as compared with 1,128.572 in 1930—a decrease of 68,477 or 6.1 per cent. There was a decrease of 8.4 per cent from 1929 to 1930, accord ing to the same report. For the year 1931 there were 183,- 695 divorces granted in the United States. During 1930 there were 191,591—a decrease of 7,896, or 4.1 per cent, as against a decrease of 4.9 per cent from 1929 to 1930. The marriages annulled in 1931 were 4,338, as compared with 4,370 in 1930. The population of continental United States on July 1, 1931, was estimated at 124,070,000, and on July 1, 1930, 123,191,000. Based on these estimates the number of mar riages per 1,000 of the population was 8.5 per cent in 1931, as against 9.2 per cent in 1930. On the same basis the number of divorces per 1,- 000 of population was 1.49 in 1931, as against 1.56 in 1930. > For the United States as a whole, there were 5.8 marriages for each divorce reported, as against 5.9 in 1930. The District of Columbia and New York State each has but one cause for absolute divorce. They reported 24.7 and 22.4 marriages, respectively, for each divorce. The rates in the other states ranged from 12.6 marriages to each divorce in Louisiana to 1.5 to each divorce in Nevada. The Census Bureau has received many requests for this information. The preliminary reports, according to states and groups cf states, have been released in mimeographed form. tXI Farm Population Gains Treat Bees With Care During Hot Weather CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 30.— If bees are out in the sun and no shade reaches them, it is a good idea in hot summer weather to put some shade boards on the top of each hive, cutting them long enough to extend one foot in front and one foot in the back, says Ned Prevost, state apiarist, explaining that this will break a good deal of the direct sun off the hives and make the bees more comfortable while in the hives. When the weather is so dry and hot there is not any honey coming in and since the bees cannot find i honey in the field, they are very apt to start robbing, and Mr. Prevos' advises those who go through hives be very careful not to break any honey or drop any near the hives, for that would more than Ikiely start robbing. If by chance the bees do start robbing, he suggests closing the en trance down to the size that the guards probably can take care of and watching to see that they do take care of the hive. Should rob bers get very bad it might be a good idea to move this hive to a new location, using great care so as to lose only a minimum of the field workers. x Deposits Give Nation Potash Independence Enough potash lies in the huge rock deposits of Wyoming and greensand deposits of New Jersey to make the United States inde pendent of any foreign supply of this fertilizer, says the United States Deparmtent of Agriculture. This potash needs only commer cially profitable methods of extrac tion to make it readily available to the American farmer. Experi mental blast furnace trials by the department have shown that the Wyoming rock will yield 10 to 11 per cent potash and the New Jersey greensand from 5 to 7 per cent. Cheap fuel in Wyoming should make possible a commercial furn ace plant there that could produce potash to compete with other pot ash on the market, the department believes. The Wyoming potash is easier to extract than that from the greensand, but it is farther from the fertilizer market. Experiments with both deposits are under way by the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils of the depart ment and promising results have been obtained with both. 1 \ £ Timber Strength The strongest lumber in the red wood tree is near the bottom, says the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. In testing both virgin and sec ond-growth redwoods, the depart ment found that the difference in the specific gravity between the wood at the top of the tree and the bottom was about 15 per cent, with the greater specific gravity for the lower part. Lumber with this greater specific gravity is stronger. This knowledge is useful to lum ber users seeking structural mater ial, because they can select the lower logs for their purposes. ” X The increase in farm population in 1931 was the largest and most significant in the 10 years in which the United States Department of Agriculture has been estimating changes in population. For seven years of this period annual de creases were reported and only during 1930 and 1931 were appreci able gains indicated. On January 1, 1932, the farm population was 31,260,000 persons as compared with 30,612,000 on January 1, 1931, a gain of 648,000, according tc department estimates. TXI An omelet made from the egg of an ostrich would feed eight per sons, according to a recipe, but who would want to eat the cmelet? txi Most of us talk the most about the things we know the least about. M m James H. Maurer, Socialist can didate for Vice-President, with Nor man Thomas, is waging a vigorous campaign which was launched at Washington last week. He addressed a mass meeting at the Auditorium and later the Bonus Army in camp. To beautify their faces, Mayas of Yucatan used to have their teeth drilled out with a sharp stone turned by a bow string, in order to insert inlays of jade. x One seasonal occupation in New 7 ! 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