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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 6, 1937
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★★★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.
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TO HOUSEWIVES
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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
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Liberty and Virtue
Our country cannot well subsist
without liberty, nor liberty with
out virtue.—Rousseau.
In the Telling
There is nothing which can not
be perverted by being told badly.
—Terence.
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