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I McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, Septemher*9, 1937 MESSENGER } Published Every Thursday i Established June 5, 1902 { EDMOND J. McCRACKEN. Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of • the second class. ' BCBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months 75 Three Months .50 Farmers’ Calendar For September Jobs Clemson, Sept. 6.—Busy farmers are reminded that they cannot af ford to neglect the many important jobs needing attention this month, say extension specialists, making these suggestions: Agronomy Use vetch and Austrian peas to grow your next year's fertilizer. Quality in ginned cotton will pay; pick clean, store dry, gin care fully, and top your market. There is phosphorus and potash left in your cotton fields; plant oats and make use of it. * Horticulture Keep strawberry beds free of weeds and grass. Set some selected new plants. Plant spinach seed in late Sep tember for winter and spring use Sow turnips up to Sept. 20, Japanese. Foliage and Seven-top for greens, and White Egg for roots. Keep fall garden crops well cul tivated and fertilized. Soyr seed late in September for “frost-proof” cabbage plants. Agricultural Engineering It is not too late to build a trench silo. Clean, oil, and store cultivating machinery. Get mower and rake in good con dition for cutting hay crops. If rat-proof grain storage build ings are needed, get plans through county agent's office. Insects and Diseases Clean out grain bins before har vest and be prepared to fumigate to kill grain insects. Plow under tobacco stalks and other crop refuse to destroy food and immature stages of insects. Remove dead and dying orchard trees and limbs and bum them to control trisects. Knock off all diseased fruits af ter harvest to aid in disease con- txoL Prepare to treat small grains for smut control or plant smut-resis- tant oats. Requeen bees. Repel screw worm flies* with pine oil and kill maggots with ben- TODAY—. K* -txt- Successful Session Poultry Short Course Clemson, Sept. 4.—With an enroll ment of 75 the 1937 Poultry Short Course at Clemson was concluded 8ept. 3 with examinations and qualifying of 20 members as flock- art ec ting agents to cull flocks in compliance with the National Poul try Improvement Plan. Arranged to give farmers, poul- tcymen, and hatcherymen prac tical information on poultry-rais ing fundamentals as well as to traim flosk-selecting agents, the foor-day program of the short course included discussions and demonstrations on breeding, feed ing, flock management, culling and Judging, disease control, and the poultry outlook. Extension poultry- men and other specialists of Clem- son College and the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture led the dis cussions. » In connection with the discus sions by J. E. Humphrey, U. S. D. A., on the work of the National Pbuttey Improvement Plan, P. H. Gooding, extension poultryman, states that the training of flock- selecting agents under the Plan greatly multiplies the important culling and flock improvement work: of the extension poultry spe cialists. W. D. Termohlen, U. S. D. A., told the Short Course members about tfae great World Poultry Congress to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939, and conferred while here with the South Carolina Poultry Council, which assumed responsi- Mity of promoting a movement for a South Carolina exhibit at the Congress. CLOTHES . convention After spending several weeks of the early Summer in Florida, I came back North to run Into much hotter weather than I had en countered in that semi-tropical climate. But under the conventions which govern the apparel of man kind I could not, unless I wanted to appear freakish, dress in the comfortable attire which men in Florida wear. Most of the men in Florida wear no coats at all in Summer. The younger men wear by preference sleeveless “polo” shirts, open at the neck, making a necktie superfluous. A high pro portion of them wear no hats. Why, I wonder, should it be con sidered improper in northern cities for a man to dress appropriately for whatever the weather may be? I can see no sense in the conven tion that a man must wear a coat and a hat cn the streets of New York when the thermometer is up in the 90’s. We tolerate loose, scanty clothec for outdoor sports in the country. It seems silly to ban them in town. j are also a matter of chronology. Many things regarded as good mor- i als in Queen Elizabeth’s time are j frowned on by the accepted moral standards of today, and we ap-; prove, or at least tolerate, many kinds of conduct today which were regarded as highly immoral by our grandparents. While I do not believe there is any necessary relation between dress and morals, I realize that each community makes its own moral standards, and until they change it is immoral, in the broad sense, to ignore those standards publicly. ^ManctkrCWarts FALL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES •* WOMEN . common-sense dress Wom6n have gone farther than men in setting themselves free from the restrictions which fash ion and “good form” used to place on their clothing. I often think that women are more logical than men in the matter of dress. At least, I think so until some change of fashion starts them all to wear ing furs in mid-summer and wool en coats and skirts for outdoor sports. This Summer I have noticed more women wearing thin cotton prints than ever before. That is a step in the right direction. And one does not have to look very far, anywhere in America, to see girls and women going about in what their grandmothers would have called “next to nothing.” Backless blouses, cr whatever the word is for the upper works of feminine attire, with abbreviated “shorts” or flimsy skirts are no longer con fined to the bathing beaches. This movement tow r ard getting rid of superfluous clothes shocks many conservative-minded oldsters. I think it is a step in the direction of common-sense. * * * INDIANS . climatic conditions It is not only logical but inevi table that the people of any coun try should, sooner or later, adapt their costumes to the climate of the country in which they live. The ..white folks who live in Amer ica are not as logical as the In dians were. This is a land of cli matic extremes, from torrid heat in Summer to bitter cold in Win ter, over most of the nation. When the white men came to America they found the Indians going al most naked in Summer, from Maine to Florida, and wrapping themselves in skins and blankets only when the Winter weather made it necessary. The settlers from Europe, how ever, brought their European fash ions in clothing with them. We still dress by the standards of Europe, where there are no such extremes of temperature as we have in America. Over a large part of Europe one has to dress warmly even in Summer. I see in the American tendency to discard superfluous clothes in Summer the beginning of a new American independence. I hope to live to see all Americans, men and women, freed from the chains of fashion and custom and dressing to suit the climate at all times of the year. * * * MORALS ..... dress Many good people still think it is immoral for anyone, women par ticularly, to go about in public, even at the beaches or “the old swimming hole” without being clothed entirely from neck to knees. In their minds there is some relation between clothing and morals. The first thing the early micsionaries to the South Sea is lands did was to put clothes v on their converts. In a climate where clothing was unnecessary, this not only made the converted savages uncomfortable but made it harder to get new converts. A wise philosopher once said that morals are matter of latitude. The. HONESTY . . appearances Far more important than the i outward observance of prevailing moral standards is the personal o • of the individual. I think we are living in an age of honesty, uiai, mere is much less pretense among the younger people of to day than there used to be when I was young. I do not believe that there is any great difference in personal, pri vate morals from one generation to another. I think it is a decided improvement in public morals when people no longer think it nec essary to conform to artificial standards of attire to prove their “goodness” to the world. The young folK of today hate hypocrisy worse than anything else. They no longer believe that a bad complexion, an unbecoming dress or a black tie is proof of good character. They earner suspect the opposite. Nor do they hold that rouge and lip stick, gay clothing and reasonable, sensible comiort betake moral lax ity. It is not safe to judge people by outward appearances alone. I am inclined to be suspicious of men or women who exaggerate the cus toms of their communities in clothing or manners, but I am equally chary of those who ignore them entirely. And I am wrong in my judgments, probably, as often as I am right. -ixx- Camp Modoc News Camp Mod dc, Sept. 4.—Camp Modoc was visited Monday, August 30, by Mr. J. E. Vernon, Road Su perintendent and Mr. R. I. Purvis, Supervising Mechanic. Both of these men are from the Forest Service office in Columbia, S. C. Mr. Vernon’s visit was very short as bad weather conditions made it impossible for an inspection of the work projects to be made. Mr. Purvis made an inspection of the entire lot of equipment on the low er District and remained in camp overnight and traveled on to Camp Bradley on August 31. The Land Use Personnel has re turned to Camp Bradley. We regret very much the losing of these men and hope they will soon be as signed to this camp again. Camp was visited Wednesday evening, September 1, by “Sister” Crawford and Thomas Strom both lookouts on the Troy Tower, Troy, S. C. We are glad to learn that Mr. Cantelou scored twenty points on his inspection of the Modoc Tele phone Line. Keep the book ever at hand George and you will score a hundred some day. No joking “Pete” we appreciate the good tele phone line. Enrollee Willie Haigler, son of a colored preacher in Cameron, S. C., says he took a trip to Heaven the other night in a dream. When ask ed how tilings looked in Heaven, vVillie replied, “I don’t know Sir, zackly, everybody is powerful good to you up there”. Clerk Harold Bussey of the Brad ley Camp visited Camp Modoc Fri day evening. All work projects are progressing as well as can be expected after heavy rainfalls in the lower Dis trict. txi Annual Grazing Crops Better Planted Early Clemson, Sept. 4.—The expe rience of most dairymen has proved that the early plantings of annual grazing crops for winter and spring return the greatest amount of grazing, according to T. F. Cooley, dairy specialist of the Extension Service. “September and early October is considered the best season to make surti plantings”, Mr. Cooley says. “Records of the Dairy Herd Im provement Association have prov ed that acreages used for annual grazing crops pay one of the larg est net returns per acre. Our soil ind climatic conditions enable us ;o take full advantage of annual September marks the opening of the harvest season—the season ; when markets fairly teem with colorful fruits and vegetables eager ( to add their delicious wealth of j minerals, vitamins and bulk to our j daily meals. Purple-lustered egg- ! plants, scarlet tomatoes, silvery- green lima beans, vivid peppers and cool green cucumbers together with fragrant peaches and pears , and melons—these are only a few of the abundant offerings from or chard and garden. Vegetable main dishes hold first place in September menus with fresh fruit desserts running a close second. - Tomatoes, eggplant and peppers are splendid to stuff with a meat stuffing. Souffles are deli cate but nourishing and casseroles of mixed vegetables dre savory and satisfying. Apples, peaches and pears lend themselves to delicious baked desserts while plums, grapes and melons are at their best served au naturelle. Eggplant souffle is one of the most enticing of fall vegetable main dishes. Since eggplant is one of the few vegetables not pro curable in cans we must enjoy it in its brief Reason. Serve eggplant souffle some hot September evening with fresh to mato juice cocktail as a starter, oranged beets with the main course, cucumber and green pepper salad and finish up with peach ice cream. * * * Eggplant Souffle One medium sized eggplant; 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 cup milk, 1-2 cup grated cheese, 1 teaspoon grated onion, 1 teaspoon minced parsley, 1 cup soft bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon full to mato catsup, 1 teaspoon salt, 1-8 teaspoon pepper, 2 eggs. Peel eggplant, cut in small pieces and cook in a small amount of wa ter until tender. Drain and mash very fine. Melt butter in a sauce pan, add flour and stir until blended and bubbly. Add milk and cock and stir until thick and smooth. Add eggplant, cheese, breadcrumbs and seasoning. Re move from fire and add yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon colored. Fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff and turn into a buttered baking dish. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) un til firm to the touch, about torty- Jive minutes. Serve at once. * * * Fresh Tomato Juice Cocktail Four large tomatoes, few drops jr.ioh juice, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tea spoon salt, 1-8 teaspoon white pep per, few drops of tomato sauce. Wash and peel tomatoes and rub through a fine sieve. Add remain ing ingredients and chill several hours. * * * Fresh Peach Ice Cream One cup mashed fresh peaches, 1 pint whipping cream, 2 cups milk, 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, 1-4 teaspoon salt, 2 eggs, 2 tea spoons vanilla, 1 teaspoon almond flavoring. Scald milk. Mix and sift flour, salt and sugar and slowly pour scalded milk into dry mixture, stir ring constantly. Cook and stir for fifteen minutes. Beat eggs well and slowly add milk mixture, stirring constantly. Return to heat and cook three minutes, stirring. Re move from heat and cool. Add peaches, cream whipped until firm and vanilla and almond extract. Turn into freezing trays and freeze until firm. Or turn into mold and pack in eight parts ice to one part ice cream salt. Freeze without stir ring. * * * Accuracy is as important a factor in coffee making as in cake mak ing. Both the water and the coffee should be measured every time you make the infusion. This is easy to do if you use a coffee pot with markings for the water and the coffee. This type of percolator as sures you of uniform results. * * * The last word in smartness for the early fall costume is the “casual” look. Both tailored tweeds and softly-feminine garments will continue to be style-right for par ticular occasions, but it’s the casual costume that is the highlight of the season. Suits always are an early fall favorite but this year they are more fascinating than ever. Casually cut models are avail able frcm classic two-piece tweeds to sumptuous four-piece ensembles complete with blouse and topcoat or fur cape. , A Boston Station /a? BETIHR HEALTH ikDr.J. ROSSLYN EARP Medical Editor, Division of Health Education, New York State Department of Health CONSTIPATION , Constipation has interested healers both amateur and professional from the earliest days: the complaint is so common, its relief so surely a cause for gratitude. All kinds of dread evils have been attributed to it. Autointoxication has an ominous sound and those who want to frighten us with this par ticular bogy spin a specious yarn. The headache and languor that so often result from constipation seem to support the theory. But the fact that a bowel movement will relieve these symptoms long before the sup posed poisons have had time to be eliminated and the further fact that all the unpleasant symptoms of constipation can be promptly induced by stuffing the lower bowel with sterile cotton lead scientists to the conclusion that a nervous reflex frcm the distended colon, not the ab sorption of poisons, is the cause of the symptoms. The use of an enema to relieve constipation has been condemned by some specialists as irritating. No doubt a soap and water enema can be irritating and is a stupid procedure known only to the Anglo-Saxon race and due perhaps to their mistranslation of the French word lavement! Plain water is less irritating. Saline solution made in imitation of na ture’s tears (which never irritate the eyes) is not irritating at all. It is made by adding a teas^conful of common salt to a pint of water. The need for enemas can usually be avoided by cultivating regular habits of elimination. There is a natural tendency for the bowel to be moved after food has been taken and therefore the most favorable time for a regular bowel movement is after one of the regular meals. pastures.” Mr. Cooley advises that dairy farmers select fertile areas, as close to feeding barns as possible, totalling one-fourth to one-half acre per cow. The field, he says, should be divided into two or more plots of equal size to permit in termittent grazing; and a tempo rary fence of two strands of wire will suffice for this purpose. Best results have been obtained, he states, with these mixtures: For the Piedmont area; two bushels of beardless barley, two bushels of oats, and 20 pounds of crimson clover per acre. For the Sandhills and the sandy Coastal Plains soils: two bushels of rye, two bushels of oats, and 20 pounds of vetch per acre, i For heavy Coastal Plains soils: two bushels of beardless barley, two bushels of oats, and 20 pounds j of vetch per acre. The specialist suggests a good application of manure applied be fore the seed bed is prepared, and the grain sown with a grain drill, with an application of complete i fertilizer at the same time. Crim son clover needs to be well inocu- j lated, but the vetch may be sown I with the grain and does not re quire inoculation on most soils, he states. By AGNES SEXTON © McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. “HP RY to get Boston,” she said. '*■ He glanced at the chart over the cabinet and turned the dials slowly. A buzzing, like a unison of hornets, sounded; then, scratchily, and dimly at first, some vagrant strains of music worked their way through the ether. He moved the polished knobs more slowly, refin ing their setting. When that was ; finished the full volume of an or chestral programme blared in the ! room. The girl nodded. “Good,” she said. “Now don’t touch it. It’s just right.” He took his place by her side. The strong hands, idle once more, clasped and hung listlessly between his knees. Bending forward, he stared at the eerie instrument as if; he were visualizing in the polished- mirror surface the phantom artists whose splendid melody filled the room. His face fell naturally into- the lines of moody abstraction she: had learned to look for, as if at times a gray cloud should fall light ly shading the young face in a mask, of sadness. The music, too, was a haunting: Spanish thing, written in a minor key. “Dan!” she whispered. He looked at her wTetchedly, say ing nothing. Yet, the face turned to- - ward him was worthy of happier attention. The features were most delicately moulded, but the face was not weak, and the coloring was. as exquisite as the tints in the un-. der petals of a rose. “I’m sorry. May,” the man con fessed, “I’m wretched company to night!” Then they both started a little and turned in an instinct of sudden alarm to the radio. A man’s voice, ringing and with an unbelievable, clarity, spoke in the room. “You have been listening to an or-; chestral programme by the Olden Times orchestra, now broadcasting, through Station WOOI, the Smith- Harley stores, Boston. Stand by,' please, for special announcements.” They looked at each other and; smiled a little. A kind of fascination; then held them to listen. The great; voice had an engaging, friendly; quality which made one willing to' be silent. So they listened, half- amused, half-interested, while he; told them that an Airedale dog, “answers, to the name of Peter,”’ had eluded his mistress somewhere between Kira’s Chanel and Boyls- ton street that afternoon; that a lady’s platinum diamond ring had- been lost in the train shed of the South station on the day before, “reward, no questions”; that a gen- Geman’s billfold had been found in Upham’s Corner, Dorchester, “can be had by furnishing description,” and others—a whole brief cross-sec tion of human carelessness and hu man misery in any large city. The man leaned forward, listen ing with an increasing hungry in tentness, and the girl watched him, dismayed. All this recital of the names of his home city had called into waking the sleeping longing in the boy’s heart for the sight and sound of his own city. The girl up braided herself for her stupidity; but she did not dare to turn off the radio. “Does anybody know,” the friend ly voice inquired, “the whereabouts of Daniel W. Caldwell, spelled C-a-l-d-w-e-1-1, formerly of V/ood- lawn street. Boston?” The relaxed frame of the boy grew taut as if a galvanic current had touched him, and he turned a white face of amazement to the girl. “If they do,” the voice continued, “will they tell him that his mother is dangerously sick and begs him to come home?” The boy leaped to his feet and looked down at her with his eyes blazing. “You told me,” he said tensely, “that my mother was dead. Why?” Now that the game was played out and lost the look without mercy showed in the girl’s eyes. “Tell me,” she said with deadly calm, “if you had not stopped off here on your way back from that job you had in Toledo, if you had gone home first and found your mother there sick and lonely, what would you have done?” “What would I have done?” the man echoed. “What would there have been to do? Stay with her, of course, as long as she wanted me.” The girl nodded. “I thought so— and in spite of the fact that I’ve waited two years for you to marry me. It was my one chance to end an old dispute between us, the only one we ever had, Dan. She lost your address and urote to me. I thought if we were married this week I could manage so that you’d never have known—or, if you did know, you’d have had to go through, anyway.” The man looked at her incredu lously. “And you knew all the time?” Her voice softened to a tone of most urgent pleading. “Dan, I fought for my chance at happiness and I ought to have won. Give it to me!” “But you lied,” said the boy slow ly, “and the one you fought was my mother.” He picked up his hat and coat from the place where he had flung them. He closed a door behind him and she heai% the sound of him go ing down the - tMiirs and leaving her—forever.