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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 6, 1937 ! STAR ! ! DUST | * jMLovie • RaJio $ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ E VEN better than having the circus come to town is to find “Elephant Boy” playing at your local motion-picture theater one of these spring days. It is a pic ture that defies description, for volumes would be necessary to describe the thrilling scenes of vast herds of elephants, the gruesome terror of discontent brewing among the natives of India, the sturdy charm of little Sabu, the twelve-year-old In dian boy who shares stardom with the king of the elephants, the magnificent blending of mu sic with the haunting shrieks of wild animals. But with all of its other merits, it is the heart-warming friendship of the boy and his elephant that makes one want to go back to see this picture again and again. Robert Flaherty, the explorer-director who hasn’t had a picture on our screens since the unforgettable “Man o f Aran” made off the coast of Ireland, went to India two years ago and is responsible for “Elephant Boy.” —*— Back to roles that are hot and low down go Bette Davis and George Bancroft in their new films. When Warner Broth ers and Bette Davis ended their long court wrangle, they told her all was for given, and certainly they must have meant it, for they have given her the best role of her ca reer in “Marked Woman.” George Bancroft comes back in a Columbia picture called “Racketeers in Exile,” which is a powerful answer to those reform ers who said thay they just wouldn't let us have any more gangster pic tures. For months Sol Lesser has been conducting a search for a Tarzan and at last he found one. Glenn Morris, Olympic champion, will play the role that Johnny Weismul ler made famous. Johnny will stay with Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr, hoping for more civilized parts. Bette Davis You never can tell what an actor will be asked to do down at the M-G-M studio.You’d think they’d be satisfied to have Clark Gable and Robert Taylor the romantic idols of half the population, but never satisfied, they are making the lads sing in their new pictures. Doris Nolan was not too pleased over her role in “The Top of the Town” because it seemed to her that she never had anything to do. She felt that she was all but lost among the fancy sets and big musical numbers, which just shows you that actors are usually wrong about what a picture will do for them. Sam Goldwyn took one look at “Top of the Town” and im mediately started negotiations with Universal to borrow Miss Nolan for a prominent part in “Dead End.” Meanwhile Miss Nolan had gone off on a motor trip with her sister, to take a look at the cherry blossoms in Washington, to dash over the skyway in Shenandoah valley, and visit relatives in North Carolina. The good news about the big dra-' matic role, just the sort she has been begging for, reached her en route. All the studios are re-making suc cesses of other days, having failed to find new stories that are as good. M-G-M has cast Jean Harlow and Jimmy Stewart i n “The Shopworn An gel” which was one of the best pictures ever made when Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll played it. And Lily Pons will play “Ki- ki” with operatic flourishes, which was not so good when Mary Pick- ford played it years ago. Lily Pons ODDS AND ENDS — Erin O’Brien Moore, who was so good in "Black Legion," is going to play Nana in "The Life of Emile Zola," a part that dozens of promi nent actresses had tried out for ... Bathe’s two-reeler, "A Day With the Quints" proves definitely that the world’s most famous three-year-olds grow more charm ing end obstreperous every day. They achieve an almost Donald Duckian rage when anyone addresses them by the wrong names . . . When Ann Sothern returned to the R. K- O. studio she found an ex quisite crystal reindeer on her dressing table, a gift from Una Merkel who had occupied the room during her absence . . . Don Wilson of the Jack Benny pro gram is making his picture debut in R. K. O.'s "Missus America" . . Albert Coifs, famous Belgian portrait painter, says that the most beautiful of all the film stars ure Francis Farmer, Merle Oberon, Luise Rainer, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer ana Kay Francis. • Wcatera Newspaper Union. Picking Cucumbers Out of the Air at Terre Haute. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. NDIANA is the sum of its parts. Yet how they differ! Streams of planes, trains, motorcars, trucks, and buses whizzing back and forth across its north and central parts; yet how little travel, by comparison, in the south. In that industrial region on Lake Michigan which is not Indiana at all but a prolongation of Chicago, nothing but smoke, noise, and mov ing crowds. In the south, a serene, unhurried people whose ancestors floated down the Ohio in flatboats, came from the Carolinas and Kentucky on horse back, bringing rifles, axes, spinning wheels. Look down, in fancy, from a drift ing blimp; imagine that here and there, painted on the grounds in huge, white letters, are signboards on which you may read about the audacious men whose adventures made Indiana. Near South Bend, La Salle camped in 1679. At Vincennes, a century later, George Rogers Clark gained for us the whole Northwest Territory. That tall shaft of Pigeon Roost Memorial shows where, in 1312, Indians slew a whole white settle ment. East of Evansville, at Lincoln City, is the monument to Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, and the boy hood home where her son Abe split rails. Along the Wabash—the Ouabache of old—are strewn the sites of French fur-trade posts, built in the early 1700’s. North of Lafayette, the Tippecanoe battlefield, where Harrison defeated Tecumseh’s brother; and, just out of Kokomo, a monument to Elwood Haynes, who in 1894 launched one of America’s first “horseless carriages” on the now historic “Pumpkinvine Pike.” In fact and fancy you may see still other markers, showing the homes of such famous Hoosiers as James Whitcomb Riley, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, Lew Wallace, Joaquin Miller, Booth Tarkington, Albert J. Beveridge, George Ade, Theodore Dreiser, Charles Major, John T. McCutcheon, Meredith Nicholson, and Wilbur Wright; and, up among the scenic lakes of north east Indiana, in the “Limberlost” region, that rustic, tree-shaded log- house home of Gene Stratton Porter. Story Is Shown on Carter’s Map. It sounds fantastic, the idea of floating over a state and reading its life story on giant signboards. Yet, in a vicarious way, you can do it, for there exists a pictorial map, drawn by Lee Carter and published by the state conservation depart ment, which shows in graphic de tail much that has happened here since Father Marquette saw north ern Indiana in the 1600’s. This map was our guide over some 6,500 miles of Hoosier highways and byways. “On the Banks of the Wabash” is the state song. It ought to be; down the Wabash came the French, first whites to settle in Indiana; this stream formed part of their long route from Quebec to Louisiana. At Terre Haute you see a street crowd watching a tricky machine turn dough into doughnuts, instan taneously. It is hard to believe that in the pioneer days country folks didn’t even have matches; if they let their fires go out, they had to ride over to the neighbors’ and bor row some live coals. The sight of girls picking long, green, warty cucumbers out of the air lures you into a 35-acre steam- heated glass house. Inside it smells and feels just like Manila in the rainy season, hot and sticky. A bug’s paradise! Swarms of bees are kept, purposely, to pollinate the cucumber blossoms. Not on the ground, but high up overhead like grapes on a trellis hung the cucum bers. Perspiring blonds and bru nettes reached up with long-handled tools and clipped them off. Elks’ Country Club house, facing the Wabash, stands where Zachary Taylor whipped the Indians in 1812. Parallel with the river is the aban doned Wabash and Erie canal, its grass-grown towpath still visible. An Englishman—a bout 1848— wrote of a canal trip from here to Ohio. It was hot, he said. All day passengers sat on top the boat, many under umbrellas. Some fid dled or sang; others read, or watched the scenery go whizzing by as towpath horses pulled the boat at four miles an hour! This Eng lishman was disturbed that Amer icans should eat squirrels! Through pioneer Terre Haute came the old National Road. Over it swarmed the cheering legions— soldiers, settlers, pairie schooners, freighters, live stock, boys and dogs —off to conquer the West. Today this early wagon trail, long but a line of ruts dodging stumps and mudholes, is U. S. 40. At Terre Haute it intersects U. S. 41 to form one of America’s busiest cross roads. South of the city hovers the popu lation center of the United States. For the past 45 years it has been slowly wandering across Indiana. Historic Four-Cornered Track. Trotting horses, harnessed to light sulkies, set world records at Terre Haute. Nancy Hanks, Maud S., Dan Patch, Mascot, Hal Pointer, and Axtell raced here on the historic “four cornered” track in the days of Bud Doble, greatest reinsman of his age. Now a stadium, with night ball games by electric light, rises where crowds used to cheer gog gled drivers holding tight reins to keep their sweating trotters from “breaking” into a gallop. Spirits, gunpowder, glass, this town makes them all. You see piles of sand, soda, and limestone fed to big furnaces; then gobs of red-hot glass dropping into a magic ma chine that shapes the bottles—one every two seconds. Some men are piling tall bottles into a box car. “Where for?” you ask. “Down to Key West, across on the car ferry to Havana, then east by rail to where Cubans make Bacardi rum.” Oddly self-contained, this region. Local straw makes packing cases; printers make labels, farmers grow vegetables, and canners do the rest. Out at Rose Polytechnic boys build toy bridges. Some day, when they’re full-fledged engineers, they may build big ones in Bolivia or the Philippines! Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is one of America’s exclusive schools for girls. You see groups riding, clad in smartest saddle-club togs, the horses groomed slick and shiny, their hoofs oiled. Perhaps some of these girls have descended from women who also rode horses—from Virginia or the Carolinas, over the wilderness trails, carrying babies, dreading panthers and Indians. Old Timers on the Wabash. Glimpses of the Wabash as you ride south to Vincennes make you think of the French voyageurs, and the wild, half-naked coureurs de bois. The voyaguer had a license to trade. But the “bush loper” was an outlaw in that long war for fur be tween French and English. Like the honest traders, the renegade offered knives, beads, axes, guns, and blankets for the red man’s pelts, but cheated when he could. Traders and boats of all kinds used to swarm on the Wabash. John Parsons, a young Virginian who came here in 1840 to buy land, wrote: “In the fall, 1,000 flatboats will pass down the river, the ma jority loaded with flour, pork. . . . lard, cattle, horses, oats, cornmeal, and corn on the ear. . . . They told me of a flatboat. . . carrying a load of hickory nuts, walnuts and veni son hams.” You can’t ride along the Wabash, with all its traditions, historic sites, old graveyards and monuments, without thinking of its part in mak ing America. On a Wabash tributary near Peru is the grave of Frances Slocum, stolen by the Indians as a girl in 1778. She spent her whole life with them, refusing, when finally visited by her own white relatives, to leave the tribe. Pioneer John Parrett of Whitley county advertised that he had paid Indians 52.50 to release a six-year-old white boy, and that he would keep the boy "till his par ents, if living, and chance to see this notice, may find him.” USE WATER GLASS TO PRESERVE EGGS Poultry Flock Owners Save the Over Supply. Supplied by Nutrition Specialist*, a* Ohio State University.—WNU Service. New-laid eggs can be put down in water glass at any time, so many owners of poultry flocks have found it to an advantage to preserve some eggs during the high-producing sea son for use during the months of low production, according to nutrition specialists at Ohio State university. Only clean, fresh, infertile eggs should be put down in water glass. Dirty eggs will spoil and, if they are washed, the protective coating which prevents spoilage is removed. Cracked eggs should never be used. Even minute cracks may cause spoilage and contamination of the other eggs in the jar. It is a wise precaution to candle every egg be fore putting it into the water glass solution. A five-gallon crock or jar will hold about 14 dozen eggs with room for at least two inches of water glass solution above them. The container should be thoroughly cleaned and scalded and allowed to dry before it is used. It is a good idea, too, to set it where the eggs are to be stored, as it is difficult to move safely when filled with eggs. To prepare the solution, boil nine gallons of water, then cool. Add one quart of sodium silicate, or water glass, which can be bought in most drug stores, and mix well in the container. Put eggs carefully into the solution to avoid cracking them. Keep at least two inches of the water glass solution above the top layer of the eggs. Evaporation can be prevented by covering the crock with a tight lid. This can easily be removed to put in more eggs. If the solution evap orates perceptibly, add enough water to maintain the level. Eggs preserved in water glass solution may be taken out at any time. If they are used for boiling, make a small hole with a pin in one end to prevent them from cracking. Black Leghorns Found to Be Popular on Farms The black-feathered sister of the White Leghorn is becoming increas ingly popular on thousands of poul try farms for a number of reasons, says a poultryman in the Philadel phia Inquirer. First, the birds are extremely hardy and very healthy. Diseases common to other breeds, such as white diarrhoea, laying mortality on account of pickouts and cannibalism, are unknown in Black Leghorns. They require no bloodtesting, no vaccination or cod dling of any kind, and thousands of farmers are depending on them for their living. They lay large white eggs and lots of them and are the only black-feathered fowl that dresses yellow for market purposes. Their flesh for the table is not ex celled. In England they are the leading breed. At the English egg-laying contests they have won every point for several years—most eggs, larg est eggs, lowest feed cost. Farm Hints Hatching eggs held longer than 10 days decrease in hatchability. • • • California produced enough eggs in 1935 to serve two to every citizen of the United States six mornings of the year. • • • / Dry clean hay is sometimes used in conjunction with gravel or sand for brooding litter. It is not as sat isfactory as straw. • • • While turkeys have been known to lay 200 eggs or more during the season, the average production is probably around 70 eggs. • • • Vaccination of chickens at an early age can develop them into bet ter egg layers, experiments still un der way at the University of Cali fornia indicate. • • • Roasters allowed to range 20 to 25 weeks before being placed on a fattening diet have a larger per centage of breast and leg meat. • • • A common cause of hog poisoning, although seldom identified, is the use of too much salt or salty brine in the ration. • • • An apple tree which makes an excessive vegetative growth in spring will develop shoots and water sprouts instead of fruit buds and be unproductive. • • • Poor seed is the greatest cause of low corn yields. It pays to select good seed and to test before plant ing. Testing is early spring work. • • • A 1%-ton farm motortruck driven 5,000 miles costs about 7 cents a mile for fuel, taxes, repairs and deprecia tion, according to the Bureau of Ag ricultural Economics. • • • Many of the worst weeds farmers in this country have to contend with have been imported with agricultur* al seed from foreign countries. ’ Table Sets Take to Lace There’s an added thrill to lunch eon or dinner when the tableset ting’s of luxurious-looking doilies! Three practical sizes—6, 11, and 15 inch circles—comprise this ex quisite buffet or lunch ensemble. And guests will exclaim over the loveliness of the “star” center pattern. You’ll be astonished at the ease with which these charm ing “dainties” are crocheted. Use mercerized cotton or string. In pattern 5768 you will find com- B | Of INTEREST TO 1 THE HOUSEWIFE Cleaning Reed Furniture — A stiff brush dipped in furniture pol ish is good for cleaning reed and rattan furniture. • • • Garbage as a Compost—Gar bage and vegetable matter of all sorts buried underground will in time rot into excellent compost for use on lawn, garden or field. * * • Dust-Proofing Pictures—Has the dust got into your picture frame? It should be examined periodical ly and new brown paper backings should be stuck on to make it dust-proof. • • • Bechamel Sauce—Melt a quar ter cup butter in saucepan, add one-quarter cup flour, stir until smooth. Add gradually one and a half cups of highly seasoned chick en stock while stirring constantly. Add one-half cup of hot cream and beat until smooth and glossy. Season with salt, pepper and fine grating of nutmeg. If a yellow sauce is desired, remove sauce from range and add the beaten yolks of two eggs diluted with one-quarter cup warm cream. Do not allow sauce to boil after adding egg yolks. <&— WNU Service. plete instructions for making the doilies shown; an illustration of them and of the stitchoe used; material requirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St, New York, N. Y. Write plainly your name, ad dress and pattern number. ===:—■■■ : W A WORD OF ADVICE TO HOUSEWIVES Don’t take chance* with yow furniture polish. Use only genuine O-Cedar Polish —first choice of housekeepers the world over for 30 years. Quickly re stores lustre, protects and Temperance Temperance is the nurse of chastity.—Wycherly. The Coleman is a eren- I R Cj N nine InsUnt Lighting iron. All you have to do la turn a valve, strike a match and it lights instantly. Yon don’t have to insert the match inside the iron—no burned-fingers. The Coleman heats in a jiffy; Is quickly reedr for use. Entire ironing surface is heated with point the hottest. 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