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McCORMfCK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
'NJ'EW YORK.—News of the ap-
proactyng retirement of Brig.
Gen. Harley B. Ferguson is a re
minder that it was he who super-
. . * vised the rais-
Retirmg General i ng 0 f the bat-
Could Regulate tleship Maine
Flow of Afton i" Havana bar-
bor- for the
U. S. government in 1910 and 1911.
In the service for 42 years in
the engineering corps, he prob
ably has won more shirt-sleeve
battles against all the disasters
of the Anglican litany than any
other* army officer with a gift
for achieving the impossible.
He will be 64 years old oh
August 14 and there is talk that
he may be upped to the rank of
major general before the bell
rings on his finish fight against
the elements.
He is the Hackenschmidt of flood
grapplers, winning one fall after an
other against the Mississippi. He
has been president of the Missis
sippi River commission since 1932;
member of the board of rivers and
harbors since 1930 and is also a
member'of the St. Lawrence Water
way board.
Back in the days of “manifest
destiny,** starting in 1897, the
young second lieutenant got his
first practice workouts in the
mud and miasma, floods and
elemental and human catastro
phe in the Philippines and Cuba,
and with the army swampers
tidying up China and providing
relief after the Boxer uprising
around the turn of the century.
If the “destiny** involved get
ting things shipshape in a hurry,
he always made it a lot more
manifest than it might have
been otherwise. He was chief
engineer of the China expe
dition.
He started fighting floods in Mont
gomery, Ala., in 1907 and through
the years commanded army engi
neering works, defensive and ag
gressive, at Milwaukee, Cincinnati,
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Pittsburgh
and Norfolk, Va.
In the World war, he was chief
engineer of the second army corps
in France. He went to West Point
from his home town, Waynesville,
N. C. His son is a commander in
the navy. He has two daughters.
FA R. PAUL POPENOE, geneticist,
biologist, and student of family
relations, who has given much of
his interesting career to clinical
studies of home life, discovers that
women are ag-
Women a Close
Second to the
N.W.Mounties
gressive pro
posers and that
70 out of 85 get
their man. This
is his finding in his survey 6f this
hitherto unexplored field of statis
tics.
Dr. Popenoe is director of the
court of family relations at Los
Angeles. 1 A specialist in the
daily squabbles of married life,
he has been effective in settling
many of them. He says it is a
good idea to write down all your
wife’s faults, check them against
your ’own, and then burn the
paper. You should keep the
family budget straight, refrain
from nagging, and keep yourself
and everybody else around the
house interested and never
bored. As a geneticist, he
thinks it is a fair bet that we
will become a race of “super
idiots,** whereas we could be
super-Einsteins if we could use
collectively the sense that God
gave geese.
He is a native of Topeka, Kan.,
educated at Occidental college and
Topeka university. He was a news
paper reporter in Pasadena and Los
Angeles before he became a biolo
gist and sociologist.
B IG, ruddy John M. Carmody,
known as “Powerhouse John,’*
takes over 2,500 PWA employees un
der the new arrangement by which
he assumes a
New FWA Boas
Belittles Atlas
With His Load
load, compared
to which Atlas
would be just
toting a tennis
ball. Leaving the Rural Electrifica
tion administration, he heads the
new Federal Works agency, which
takes in both the PWA and the
FWA; also the bureau of public
roads, the building operations of the
treasury, the U. S. Housing author
ity and many other Herculean en
deavors.
He is a rip-snorting Irishman
with a booming voice, employ
ing section boss technique in
getting things done. He was for
many years an editor of the Me-
Graw Hill Publications, making
his career in industrial engineer
ing. In earlier years, he man
aged coal companies, factories
and steel mills.
He has been with the New Deal
six years, first with the NRA and
later with the NLRB. He has a
Pennsylvania farm background and
attended Columbia university.
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
COOLING DRINKS FOR SUMMER
See Recipes Below.
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A CrL A iZ.
Cooling Summer Drinks
Can you think of anything more
cooling and refreshing than a frosty
glass of ice cold beverage sprigged
with mint and tinkling with ice
cubes? Neither can I! There’s
something about a cold, tart-tasting
drink that seems to lower the tem
perature several degrees.
1 like to keep a variety of chilled
drinks in my refrigerator to meet
the demands of sultry weather; a
sparkling punch to serve during
mid - afternoon
when everyone is
wilted and weary;
old-fashionedlem-
onade for thirsty
youngsters and
grown folks, too;
or cool, refresh
ing iced tea to
serve with meals, or whenever the
occasion warrants.
Iced tea is a summer standby, and
properly prepared it’s truly deli
cious. Follow these simple rules for
making it, if you like to serve to
your family and your guests the
clear, sparkling, faintly fragrant tea
that’s delightfully refreshing.
Iced Tea.
1. Rinse teapot with boiling water.
2. Place tea in teapot—allowing
one teaspoon of tea per cup to be
made.
3. Pour freshly boiling water over
the tea leaves.
4. Allow tea to steep—not boil—
for 3 to 5 minutes according to
strength desired.
5. Cool hot tea infusion quickly by
pouring it over a generous supply of
chipped ice.
6. Serve at once. Lemon slices
or a sprig of mint may be used as
an accompaniment if desired.
Ginger Julep.
(Serves 4-5)
Few sprigs mint
2 lemons
Ya cup superfine powdered sugar
1 quart gingerale
Cracked ice
Place the mint leaves and the
i emon rind, cut in strips, in a pitch-
ir. With the back
of a spoon, crush
the leaves and
the rind. Add
lemon juice and i iw/ v
sugar, and place | jj L&l
in refrigerator for r
about an hour to ripen. When ready
to serve, add gingerale, and pour
into tall glasses filled with crushed
ice.
Old-Fashioned Lemonade.
1 cup sugar
2 cups water
Ya cup lemon rind (grated)
% cup lemon juice
1 quart cold water
Place the sugar, 2 cups water, and
the lemon rind in a saucepan. Cov
er and cook for 5 minutes. Add
lemon juice and cold water. Chill
thoroughly, and garnish with a sprig
of mint or a marshmallow in each
glass.
Spiced Syrup.
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup water
Pinch salt
3 teaspoons whole cloves
6 inches stick cinnamon
Bring sugar, water, and salt to
the boiling point and boil one min
ute. Remove from fire and add
spices. Cover and cool. Strain be
fore using.
Frosted Grape Juice Ade.
(Serves 6)
4 cups grape juice
Juice of 3 oranges
Juice of 1 lemon
1 pint water
Ya cup sugar
Crushed ice
Combine the fruit juices and wa
ter. Add sugar. Dip the rims of
tall beverage glasses in lime juice,
then in confectioners’ sugar to make
a frosted edge. Allow to dry. Half
fill glasses with crushed ice, and
pour in the beverage.
Iced Coffee.
Prepare hot coffee in the usual
manner making it a little stronger
to allow for dilution. Then pour
\
over crushed ice or tea cubes in
tall glasses, and serve at once.
Mocha Freeze.
Pour chilled coffee into tall
glasses. Add a generous spoonful
of vanilla ice cream to each glass
and top with whipped cream.
Bowling Green Punch.
(Serves 8-10)
3 cups orange pekoe tea infusion
Ice
1% cups spiced syrup
% cup lemon juice
Ya cup orange
juice
1 pint gingerale
Pour warm or
hot tea over ice.
Add lemon and
orange juice and
spiced syrup and
mix thoroughly.
Add gingerale
just before serv
ing.
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Make Modern Laundry Out
Of Waste Space Upstairs
Waste space upstairs can easily
be fashioned into a modern laundry,
brightened up with paint and hung
with some of those attractive low-
priced curtains that are always bob
bing up in such variety. If you
read floor plans of modem houses
you have discovered the growing
trend for off-the-kitchen-laundries.
Equipment designed for such roomfe
includes washers that pump them
selves empty.
Ironing has always been an up
stairs operation, possibly because it
is easier to transfer ironed clothes
to proper storing places without dan
ger of over-mussing. Many ironers
have table tops that serve a real
purpose in the small kitchen, and
there are washers tailored to kitch
en size, too.
ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
House Cleaning Is Made
Easy by Use of Vacuum
The days are gone forever when,
to clean a rug thoroughly, it was
necessary to hang it on a clothesline
or lay it on the grass and beat it
with a bamboo or steel wire con
traption.
Today, thanks to electricity
and the vacuum cleaner, rug beat
ing is a thing of the past in mil
lions of homes. Moreover, in addi
tion to eliminating much work and
drudgery, the vacuum cleaner
raises practically no dust and thus
greatly reduces the time required
for dusting.
Household Refrigerator
To get the best results from the
household refrigerator, it is well to
decide in advance which foods are
to go in and which ones to be
taken out instead of pondering the
question while the door is open.
Every time that happens the tem
perature goes up and the longer the
door stays open the higher up it
goes. Another wise precaution is to
make sure that cooked foods are
well cooled before putting them into
the food chest, otherwise the heat
and moisture generated will also
cause the temperature to rise.
Yellow for Light
To brighten a poorly lighted bed
room, a color scheme includes walls
painted daffodil yellow, a paler yel
low ceiling and white woodwork
with thin lines of orange color.
Care of Dishcloths
To save your dishcloths use a
medium-sized cork dipped into
scouring powder when polishing
paring knives or other cutlery.
Indian Painter
'T'HE early painters of American
Indian life were all adventurous
men, but John Mix Stanley had
more than his share of perils and
narrow escapes from death.
Stanley first became interested in
Indians in 1838 and went to. Fort
Snelling, Minn., to paint them. Dur
ing the next eight years he made
frequent visits to picture the tribes
of the Southwest. In 1846 he joined
the famous march of General Kear
ney and his dragoons from Santa
Fe to San Diego, during which time
he laid down his painter’s brush to
take up a gun and fight in several
engagements.
The next year Stanley found more
excitement awaiting him in the
North. He narrowly escaped being
in the Whitman massacre when that
missionary, his wife and 11 others
were killed by the Cayuses in east
ern Washington. He had another
close call when he returned to San
Francisco to take ship for New York
via Cape Horn, for he arrived just
too late % to go aboard. That ship was
lost at sea and was never heard of
again.
In 1853 Stanley was appointed art
ist to the expedition sent to explore
a route for a Pacific railroad from
St. Paul to Puget Sound. After a
series of adventures with that expe
dition, he returned to the East,
where he died in 1872. The last
years of his life were saddened by
the loss of more than 150 paintings
of Indian life which he had spent
10 years in making and which were
destroyed by a fire in the Smithsoni*
an institution in 1865.
* * •
Aguinaldo’s Captor
IN 1901 America had a new nation-
* al hero—“a little man with a
slight limp, with a Vandyke beard >
and a sense of humor that bubbled
in him like the effervescence of
wine.” His name was Frederick
Funston, former student at the Uni
versity of Kansas, newspaper re
porter and member of a filibuster
ing expedition to deliver to Cuban
revolutionists five Hotchkiss guns
for use against the Spanish. He
was made a captain of artillery and
in 18 months fought in 22 engage
ments. Then the Spanish put a
price on his head and he barely
managed to escape and return to
the United States.
At the outbreak of the Spanish-
American war Funston raised a reg
iment of Kansas volunteers and was
made its colonel. He was sent to
the Philippines and aided in the
capture of Manila. In August, 1898,
Emilio Aguinaldo started an insur
rection against the new masters of
the islands and for the next three
years led 70,000 American soldiers
and their native auxiliaries a mer
ry chase.
Finally he was located in south
ern Luzon and Funston, by now a
brigadier-general of volunteers,
formed a daring plan to capture
him. Taking two captains and two
lieutenants, Funston led a party of
80 Macabebe scouts toward Agui
naldo’s hiding place. They were to
pass themselves off as a detach
ment of insurgent Tagalogs who had
captured these five Americans and
were bringing them to Aguinaldo.
It was a risky business for every
thing depended upon the faithful
ness of the Macabebes.
But they played their part to per
fection and the American “cap
tives” were delivered to Aguinaldo.
Then they revealed their identity
and calmly informed Aguinaldo that
he was their prisoner.
• • •
Confederate Mail Runner
POR 10 years before the Civil war
" Absalom Grimes was a Mississip
pi river pilot, running between St.
Louis and St. Paul. At the outbreak
of the war he enlisted in a company
of “irregulars,” raised in Ralls
county west of Hannibal, Mo., to
recruit the Confederate army. One
of the members of this company
was a young fellow named Sam
Clemens. Years later Mark Twain
referred to his “short and inglorious
military career” in that company
which decamped hastily at the first
appearance of an enemy force and
soon afterwards disbanded.
Grimes then volunteered for serv
ice as a mail carrier between the
Missouri and Kentucky troops in
the Confederate army and their rel
atives at home. It was an extreme
ly hazardous duty for it meant go
ing through the Union lines at the
peril of capture and execution as a
spy. During the siege of Vicksburg
he ran the blockade successfully by
wiring his mail in tin boxes to the
bottom of an overturned skiff and
floating beside it among the Union
gunboats until he had passed them.
Grimes was repeatedly captured
by the Union forces and twice he
was sentenced to death. He spent
several months in the old Gratiot
prison in St. Louis and was there
under sentence of death at the end
of the war. However, his life was
saved by an unconditional pardon
issued by Abraham Lincoln—among
the last acts of mercy performed
by the President before he was as
sassinated.
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OP° SEW
Ruth Wyeth Spears
««]'') EAR MRS. SPEARS: I have
both of your books and they
certainly have been a help to me.
I followed your directions in
Book 1 for making all of my slip
covers. Recently I started a wall
hanging of crewel work embroid
ery that required many stitches
that were new to me. I found
them all clearly diagramed in
Book 2, and was certainly glad I
had it to turn to.
“I am now interested in covering
seat cushions for our dinette. The
children have both breakfast and
their mid-day meal here. Can
you suggest a material that will
stand hard wear and that comes
in bright colors? G. B.”
Striped awning material would
give good service and both you
and the youngsters would enjoy
the gay coloring in this much used
corner. Green and orange stripes
would be attractive, and this color
scheme could be repeated in
green curtains and orange paint
for the inside of a cupboard. I
Idleness
Exertion, whether called labor,
/ecreation, or amusement, is es
sential to health; and, as the body
was made for labor, work is its
natural and honorable duty. An
idle man or woman is a discredit
to the race, and unusually liable
to fall into disease, whilst an in
dustrious person adds to the
wealth of the country, and is more
likely to be healthy and happy.
have suggested islide fasteners for
the cushions so that they may be
removed easily for laundering.
Notice about book prices: Book
1—SEWING for the Home Deco
rator; and No. 2, Gifts, Novelties
and Embroideries, are now 15
cents each, or both books for 25
cents. Readers who have not se
cured their copies of these two
books should send in their orders
immediately, as no more copies
will be available, when the pres
ent supply is exhausted. Your
choice of the QUILT LEAFLET il
lustrating 36 authentic patchwork
stitches or the RAG RUG LEAF
LET, will be included with orders
for both books for the present, but
the offer may be withdrawn at any
time. Leaflets are 6 cents each
when ordered separately.
Everyone should have copies of
these two books containing a total
of 96 How to Sew articles by Mrs.
Spears, that have not appeared in
the paper. Send your order at
once to Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des-
plaines St., Chicago, 111.
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together.
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