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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1938
D ESPITE the rapid pace
of politics in Berlin to
day, pedestrians on the
streets of the German capital
are conspicuously unhurried.
Motor traffic, on the other
hand, is unusually rapid. The
drivers of the 620 omnibuses
hurl their two-storied levia
thans from stop to stop in
lurching bursts of speed; the
air brakes hiss with splenetic
suddenness.
The comparatively small number
•of motor vehicles in Berlin helps ex
plain the villagelike appearance of
most streets; Counting private cars,
trucks, and motorcycles, registra
tions for 1936 showed only a few
more than forty thousand.
The traffic flow has a heartbeat of
30 seconds—half a minute of red
light, an orange flash of warning of
change, followed by half a minute
of green. To one accustomed to
the longer intervals of most Amer
ican cities, it seems at first a little
hysterical in its frequency of inter
ruption.
Upon arrival one is petrified to
see autos passing stopped street
cars. The law, however, permits
such passing, with the injunction
that it be performed with ex
treme care.
Look Oat for the Cyclists.
The large number of bicycles on
Berlin streets creates an additional
hazard for the motorist, especially
as the riders seem endowed with a
sublime faith that the vagaries of
their delicate vehicles will be un
failingly observed by truck and car
behind. Yet, with it all, casualty
statistics are not high. The city’s
fatalities from traffic accidents to
taled 358 for 1935.
The traffic lights halt squads of
cyclists: girls in unbecoming but
practical divided skirts; delivery
boys carrying bundles bigger than
themselves; tenders of street lights
pedaling precariously from lamp to
lamp with eight-foot ladders
strapped to their shoulders.
The Berlin resident receives four
deliveries of mail a day on week
days and one on Sunday for good
measure.
Five thousand postboxes an
nounce their presence on street
corners with a lustrous surface of
red—that shade which someone has
described as “the color of audac
ity.” Until within the last year
they were a sober blue, but the color
experts announced that they lacked
visibility.
Special delivery obtains, but for
those who desire extra-rapid serv
ice there is the fast-functioning
pneumatic-tube system, reaching
every section of the town. This is a
convenience to the businessman and
an undoubted blessing to exigent
lovers.
Any list of the city’s skyscrapers
should include the new home of the
Karstadt department store.
Columbus haus on Potsdamer
platz and the handsome white build
ing of the Shell Oil company, which
rises from the verdant bank of the
Spree in mid-city, are other con
tenders for dizzy honors, and neith
er exceeds ten stories.
Berlin is not suffering from lack
of educational institutions, with its
13 universities, colleges, and higher
technical centers, 147 high schools,
and 503 grade schools.
University Once a Palace.
Berlin (Frederick William) uni
versity, center of educational life,
fronts on Unter den Linden across
from the State Opera house. Such
a dignified atmosphere of scholar
ship pervades the lovely gray build
ing and its linden-shaded court that
no one would suspect it was orig
inally built as a palace for Prince
Henry by his brother, Frederick the
Great.
In the neighborhood of the univer
sity are several restaurants where
one hears more English spoken than
German. The guests are principal
ly exchange professors from Amer
ican colleges who come to Berlin
for research.
The Schwarzes Ferkel (Black
Pig) is popular with the teaching
fraternity and is the locale for all
meetings of the Berlin Harvard
club. Tonndorf is another spot
where the pedagogues exchange
shoptalk over their veal cutlet and
beer.
Modernism is not aggressively
present today in painting and sculp
ture. The windows of the moderate-
price art shops are filled with
decorative prints and paintings de
signed largely to please the conven
tional taste. Scenes portraying fe
cund grainfields, mountain peaks
piercing the upper ether, animal
pictures, flower studies, predom
inate.
Only a few doors from the Amer
ican consulate in Bellevue-Strasse,
street of the better art dealers,
there has recently been opened an
exhibition of the latest styles in
modern furniture. Designs compare
favorably with similar showings in
other European countries. Ingenious
use is being made of materials
hitherto unknown to furniture mak
ing.
“Has anyone ever regretted the
demise of a statistician?” once
wrote a disgruntled epigrammatist.
Comprehensible point of view! But
there are exceptions.
What Berlin Eats and Drinks.
At the head office of the city’s
bureau of statistics you find the
chief a person of considerable hu
mor. Surrounded by diagrams and
graphs, he can feed you with such
factual morsels as the following:
Seven hundred and twenty thou
sand loaves of bread go each day to
Berlin homes; 11,000 tons of coffee
made from malt are drunk each
year and only two-thirds as much
real coffee; some 50,000,000 people
annually visit Berlin’s 400 movie-
houses; meat consumption is on the
down-grade, having dropped in one
year from 157 to 127 pounds per
person; beer consumption has
shrunk 40 per cent in the last eight
years, a fact of. much signifi
cance as foreshadowing the phy
sique of the future Berliner.
Apropos of beer, it is interesting
to discover that Munich, now the na
tion’s beer capital, originally was
the center of a wine country and
learned the brewing art from north
ern Germany.
Now, however, the youth of Ger
many, striving for physical efficien
cy, scorn anything but the most
moderate beer drinking. They pre
dict that paunchy waistlines and
bulging necks will be unknown to
the next generation.
A characteristic sight as one ex
plores the various sections of Ber
lin is the sport fields with children
or young people going through set
ting-up exercises. With magnifi
cent gusto they bend and twist, flex
ing muscles in unison with the
rhythmic counting of physical in
structors. There are 236 of these
fields scattered about the city, and,
in addition, 660 indoor gymnasiums.
Every German boy, regardless of
social position, must, between sev
enteen and twenty-five years of age,
give six months of labor service to
the state. There are 1,200 camps
throughout Qprmany, with 166 work
ers to a camp.
Irrigation of dry lands and swamp
drainage are the exclusive tasks of
these labor camps—no road making
or other form of construction which
could compete with paid labor.
Girls Volunteer for Work.
Service from the girls of Germany
is not obligatory. However, it is
the vogue to volunteer for such
tasks as assisting workers in the
fields or in the homes, caring for
children, or substituting for an of
fice or factory worker so that per
son can take a vacation without pay.
Stores are bedecked with announce
ments of autumn sales; windows
teem with merchandise, including
conservative copies of Paris mod
els to sell to women with small in
comes.
Most of the people on Berlin
streets are well dressed, if that term
can be interpreted to mean the
wearing of good and comfortable
clothes.
Men’s furnishing stores exhibit
weird arrays of caricatured dum
mies, attenuated and globular, clad
in coats as square-built as a New
England woodshed. The salesman
explains that this rectangular effect
is the “American shoulder.”
Beauty parlors flourish, a bewil
dering assortment of jars set forth
in their windows. A few of the
better-known American cosmetic
lines are to be found.
M en of the
ounted
by Captain
G. Elliott-Nightingale
Copyright, WNU
"GUNBOAT’ INVENTS THE
"SNOWBALL” BRAND
««UNBOAT” CHARLIE, so
named on account of his big
feet, sat down by his little branding-
fire puffing and winded, for he had
just thrown and tied a young white
faced bull that would fetch a hand
some price once he met up with
anyone who really knew anything
about that sort of animal. And, as
he regained breath and poise, he
gave some attention to the iron rod
in the fire, moving the end of it
well down into the red coals, for it
must be plenty hot for the job he
had on hand. And, as he waited,
hemmed in by the blackness of a
cloudy Saskatchewan night, he pat
ted himself on the back for the way
in which he had escaped detection.
They were all plain dumbbells, even
the Men of the Mounted, or they’d
have caught up to him long ago.
On the other hand, he was right
smart, was “Gunboat,” for he was
wily and cunning, and he knew how
to hide a branding-fire in the re
cesses of a gully or coulee. He just
used his head, that’s all, and as
long as he did that, he’d be able
to carry on. Moreover, he knew
just where to find a buyer.
A few minutes later, red-hot rod
in hand, he scooted rapidly over to
the prostrate young bull and the
bluish-white smoke from burning
hair and hide was coiling upward
into the night. With all the care
and precision of a surgeon doing a
difficult operation, “Gunboat'*
moved that red-hot iron over the
original brand until he had made
a nice round spot. “When that heals
up it’ll be kinda whitish, so we’ll
jist call it the Snowball Brand,”
he muttered as he finished. Within
the hour he had performed a like
operation on the three fat steers,
and then rolled into his blankets
with the satisfaction of a man who
had done a real workmanlike job.
Every bit of the original brands had
been burned out, and no one would
ever know the differenc#. They’d
sell, easy.
Nor was “Gunboat” overestimat
ing his ability as a cattle salesman,
for at the end of a month he had
turned the deal at top prices and
had a belt full of good Canadian
cash. Well-heeled, “Gunboat” dis
appeared into the nowhere whence
he had come. Buyer and seller had
parted good friends, and everyone
was satisfied until a Man of the
Mounted looking for a hot meal and
a night’s lodging, chanced to meet
up with the four animals carrying
the “Snowball” brand.
“Bought ’em from a feller thet
passed through here 'bout a month
ago,” replied the homesteader, a
newcomer, to the Mounted Man’s
inquiries.
“Those scars look mighty suspi
cious, partner,” opined the Man of
the Mounted. “It wouldn’t surprise
me if you had unwittingly bought
some stolen cattle . . . looks like
the original brands have been
burned out. Did he say where he
bought them?”
“Yep . . . sed he got ’em in the
Willow Bunch country ... an’ as
fer the ’riginal brands bein’ burned
out . . . why . . . say . . . I’m a
law-abidin’ man an’ if ye think
they’s somethin’ wrong ... I’ll git
saddled up an’ help yer run him
down ... I ain’t buying stolen cat
tle if I know it . . . not me.”
“Well, hang on to those cattle un
til you hear from me,” said the Man
of the Mounted as he rode off next
morning. Inside of a week he was
back at the ranch.
“The only way we can find out the
original brands is to kill one of
them.”
“Yo’re plumb crazy . . . Mr.
Mounted Policeman, how’re ye go-
in’ ter find out anythin’ by killin’
em? Moresoever, what 'bout me? I
ain’t gonna take no loss. Paid mon
ey for them animals, I did.”
“I’ll see about that part of it. You
won’t lose a penny. Let’s get busy,”
replied the Man of the Mounted as
he dismounted and walked toward
the nearest steer. Inside of half an
hour the homesteader learned a lot
about cattle-brands. In spite of the
very thorough job of burning and
searing “Gunboat” had done on the
outside of the hide, the original
brand showed up all too plainly on
the flesh side.
Several weeks later “Gunboat”
Charlie was apprehended in another
province, and was soon on trial. It
was a great day for the dignified
and bewigged judge as the Man of
the Mounted, spreading the steer-
hide over the judge’s bench, proved
his point, that “Gunboat” had dis
figured the original brand by the
outside burning, but had failed to
go more than half way through the
hide and thus spoil the original
brand that now showed up all too
plainly on the flesh side of the skin.
On top of that, the owner of the
original brand was in court, and he
identified “Gunboat” as a man who
had worked on his ranch for a cou
ple of days and had then disap
peared about the same time as four
head of cattle. “Gunboat” was sen
tenced to two years at hard labor
and, needless to say, from that time
on no cattle or horse thief used the
“Snowball” brand in that particular
region.
STREET SCENES IN BERLIN
Unter den Linden All Dressed Up.
Interesting Sights for the Visitor
in the Handsome Capital of Germany
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington. D. C.—WNU Service.
WHAT TO EAT
AND WHY ★
<?. 4/ouiton (foudiii
Describes the Need for
IRON and COPPER
Shows How You Can Help to Avoid Anemia
by Including These Blood-Building
Minerals in the Diet
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
6 East 39th Street, New York City
O F ALL the nutrition problems that challenge the home
maker, none is more important than supplying her fam
ily’s need for iron. This mineral is sometimes described as
the supreme element in nutrition because it is an essential
constituent of the blood.
How Blood Is Constructed
If you should examine a
drop of blood under the micro
scope, you would observe that
it is composed of red cells and
white cells. In normal blood
there are about 25 million
times a million red blood corpus
cles, owing their color to the iron
bearing protein
hemoglobin. They
carry oxygen to all
the body tissues,
and remove the
carbon dioxide
formed during the
combustion of body
fuel.
A reduction in
the amount of hem
oglobin in the blood
may cause short
ness of breath,
quickened respiration and an ac
celerated heart action. Lack of
appetite, weakness, and a slowing
of all vital functions may also re
sult from the diminished supply of
oxygen to the tissues.
Lack of Iron May Lead to Anemia
In many young people the blood
does not function normally, though
frequently parents are unaware
that anything is wrong. You may
scold them for being lazy, for
lacking interest in their work, or
never heeding the things you tell
them, when the real trouble is due
to iron starvation which, if long
continued, may lead to anemia.
The person who has a tendency
toward anemia usually tires eas
ily and lacks pep; complains of
cold hands and feet; worries over
trifles, and may have a complex
ion that is anything but rosy.
The great danger of an iron-
deficient diet is that it deprives
the body of its chief defense
against disease. For when the
quality of the blood is poor, one
becomes an easy prey to infection.
Moreover, if a serious illness oc
curs, lowered resistance makes it
difficult to fight it off.
Two Forms of Anemia
Anemia may be due to loss of
blood, deficient blood formation,
or to increased blood destruction
in the body. The different forms
of the disease are sometimes clas
sified as primary and secondary
anemia.
Primary anemia is usually
known as pernicious anemia. It
is a grave condition in which the
marrow of the bones has lost its
power to make red blood cells.
Secondary or nutritional anemia
may result from loss of blood in
an accident, or it may follow a
long, infectious illness. For any
infection lowers the iron reserve
in the body. But the most com-
Send for This Free
Blood-Building
Diet
Including a List of
Foods Rich in Iron, Copper
EADERS are invited to write for
a free bulletin containing a list
of foods rich in iron and a list of
those rich in copper. Also included
are sample menus showing how to
plan a balanced diet containing ade
quate amounts of foods rich in these
blood-building minerals. Send your
request—a post card will do—to
C. Houston Goudiss, 6 East 39th
Street, New York City.
mon cause is a diet lacking in
sufficient iron over a long period
of time.
—★—
How Much Iron?
It is believed that about 10 per
cent of the total hemoglobin in
adults is destroyed daily. And for
this reason iron-rich foods must be
included in the diet every day.
Investigators have found it diffi
cult to determine the exact iron
requirement, but according to the
latest estimates, from 12 to 15
milligrams a day will not only
provide adequately for bodily re
quirements, but will allow a rea
sonable reserve.
—★—
Women Need More Than Men
Women require more iron than
men, in proportion to the body
weight, to make good the losses
that occur during the menses. Ex
pectant mothers need a generous
amount of iron, not only to pro
vide for their own needs and for
the normal development of the
fetus, but to create a reserve sup
ply in the baby’s body which will
last through the period of lacta
tion.
The percentage of iron in the
baby’s body is about three times
that of the adult. Nature has
wisely designed this reserve to
make up for the low iron content
of milk which constitutes the chief
food during the first six months of
life. Nutrition authorities believe,
however, that better health re
sults when an iron-rich food, such
as egg-yolk, is introduced very
early into the diet. This helps to
prevent the slight anemia which
was formerly regarded as unim
portant, but which is now recog
nized as making the baby more
susceptible to infection and re
tarding growth.
—★—
Children’s Requirement High
It is desirable to keep the iron
intake at a high level throughout
childhood, for it has been discov
ered that better health results
when a surplus is allowed above
the daily requirement. But there
is a very special need for iron in
girls from the beginning of ado
lescence through the eighteenth
year.
—★—
Iron-Rich Foods
To maintain top health and pre
vent the possibility of nutritional
anemia, the homemaker must
learn to meet the daily iron re
quirement of her family and not
leave this vital matter to chance.
Iron-rich foods include egg
yolk, liver, molasses, dried beans
and peas, whole grain cereals,
lean meat and green leafy vege
tables. While milk has only a
small amount of iron, experiments
show that its iron is readily ab
sorbed and is utilized to good ad
vantage.
Eggs are, such an excellent
source of iron that one egg yields
about one-tenth of the standard
requirement. Lean meat furnishes
a considerable amount, but liver is
so much richer that it should be
eaten frequently. Dried beans are
inexpensive and when baked with
molasses become a good source
of iron.
It is a pity that parsley is so
often used only as a garnish, be
cause it has a higher iron con
tent than most green leafy vege
tables. Though potatoes contain
only a moderate amount of iron,
they are usually consumed in suf
ficient quantities to make them a
significant source.
Copper Also Necessary
Investigation has demonstrated
that adequate iron alone is not
enough to prevent nutritional ane-
Are You
O'VQ’LWeijht ?
You can
REDUCE
Safely. Surely. Comfortably
Send for This Free Bulletin
Offered by C Houston Goudiss
Readers of this newspaper are
invited to write to C. Houston
Goudiss, at 6 East 39th Street,
New York City, for his scien-
tific Reducing Bulletin, which
shows how to reduce by the
safe and sane method of
counting calories.
• The builetm is complete with a
- chart showing the caloric value of
all the commonly used foods and
contains sample menus that you can
use as a guide to comfortable and
healthful weight reduction.
mia, for the body cannot convert
iron into blood pigment unless
copper is also present. Therefore,
in order to obtain the full bene
fits of iron, the diet must contain
sufficient copper. Foods that sup
ply copper in abundance are liver,
nuts, dried beans and peas. Small
er but significant amounts are pro
vided by whole grain cereals,
dried fruits and poultry.
I shall gladly send to every
homemaker a list of foods rich in
both iron and copper, and also
sample menus showing how to
plan a balanced, blood-building
diet.
I urge you to write for this ma
terial and keep the blood-building
foods in mind when planning
menus. Never forget for an in
stant that good blood is the best
form of life insurance.
© WNU—C. Houston Goudiss—1938—12
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