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McCORMICK JMESSENpjER.McCOR^ICK^ S, C^ r THURSDAY, NOVEMfiEfi 14, 1940 Beyond Shadow of Doubt It WAS the END! A certain actor was fond of tell ing his friends what he would ac complish when he had a speaking part. He would show them some real acting. Eventually he was booked for a coming production. He was to ap pear in a scene and say: “It is.'* For three weeks he rehearsed nightly before his mirror, trying all sorts of gestures, expressions,', tones, until he felt perfect. The eventful night arrived. The actor impatiently waited his cue. It came. “And so this is the end?” With his best tragedian air he stalked to the center of the stage, and in a voice of thunder cried: •*Is it?” Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves prom; " it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you • bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you nyist like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION lor Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Soul Bath Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.— Holmes. Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels to taka When constipation brings on acid in digestion, bloating, dizzy spells, coated tongue, sour taste and I breath, your stomach is probably “cry ing the blues” because your bowels don’t ■love. It calls for Laxative Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels, com- J with good old Syrup Pepsin to your laxative more agreeable and ■ to take. For years many Doctors have used pepsin compounds, as agree able carriers to make other medicines more palatable when your “taster” feels easily upset. 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W HETHER you celebrate Thanksgiving Day on Novem ber 21, because of the President’s proclamation, or on November 28, in accordance with the tradition of its observance on the last Thursday in November, it won’t be long now until you’ll be “talking turkey.” For, so strong is tradition, that no Thanksgiving Day dinner table seems quite complete unless there’s a roasted turkey on it. That’s one day in the year when the turkey is our “na tional bird” even though the bald eagle officially holds that title and is thus recog nized for 364 days of the year (365 this year). But on a Thursday in November the white-headed “king of birds” temporarily abdicates and his place is taken by a king- for-a-day—the turkey. As a matter of fact, he might have been our ‘‘national bird” throughout the year—if Benjamin Franklin had had his way about it. Soon after the Declaration • of Independence was signed, a congressional committee was ap pointed to choose an official seal for the new republic. Like most committees, this one immediately «began squabbling over its task. When some one proposed that the bald eagle should appear on the seal as a living symbol of the nation, there was immediate op position and Franklin became the leader of the anti-eagle faction. He declared that the bald eagle was a lazy, cowardly, cruel car rion-eating cousin of the buzzard and therefore no fit object to put on the seal. In its place he urged that the honor be given to the wild turkey as a more temperate, hu mane and judicious bird. Six-Year Dispute. So bitter was the opposition to the eagle that it was necessary to appoint no less than six con gressional committees to wrestle with the problem. After six years the pro-eagle faction won out and by vote of congress on June 20, 1782, the bald eagle was officially adopted as the symbol of Ameri can freedom and of the majesty of the new nation. Not only was the eagle to be placed on the great seal of the United States but he was also to appear on the first coins issued. The designs of these were rather crude affairs and the eagle on them looked much like a turkey —and a slightly tipsy turkey at that. Whereupon Franklin, still unreconciled to the choice of a national bird, wrote to a friend: “I am not displeased that the fig ure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more like a turkey. For in truth, the turkey is in compari son a much more respectable bird, and withal a true native of America. He is besides (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that) a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British guards, who should presume to enter his farmyard with a red coat on.” Two years later he was appar ently still unreconciled to the honor paid to the eagle instead of his choice. The Order of Cin- cinnatus, an organization of army officers who had served in the Revolution, had also adopted the eagle as its emblem. Franklin wrote to one of its leaders, de claring that a bird too lazy to fish for himself, who robbed the honest fish hawk on every occa sion and who was so cowardly as to permit the little kingbird “to drive him out of the district” was “by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincin nati of America,” who by their prowess had “driven all the kings- birds from our country.” But evidently his letter didn’t do much good for the eagle remained the emblem of this order. Franklin was quite right in call ing the turkey a “true native of America.” That he was one of the authentic “first Americans” is proved by the fact that his bones in fossil deposits show that he is of prehistoric origin, and what appears to have been roost ing places for domestic turkeys have been found attached to pueb los and cliff dwellings in excavat ed ruins of untold centuries ago. It is a curious paradox that this native American bird should come to our Thanksgiving tables bear ing a foreign name which gives the erroneous suggestion that he came from the European-Asiatic country of Turkey. Yet such is the case and here is how it came about: The Spaniards who conquered Mexico found turkeys, both wild and domesticated, in that country as early as 1519 and it was no less a person than Cortez’s own confessor. Fra Agapida, who wrote back to Spain from Mexico the following, “There is a bird, much greater in bigness than a peacock, that is found within the forests and vegas all over this country. It surpasses as food any wild bird we have found up- to this time. The natives do shoot these birds with arrows and catch i The first great seal of the United States, adopted by congress in 1782. them in various kinds of springes and snares. Specimens of this splendid fowl were almost immediately sent back to Spain and the Jewish merchants, who were the leading dealers in such commodities at the time, thought they looked more like peacocks than anything else. The Hebrew word for pea cock was “tukki,” from a Hindu word “toka,” meaning “trailing skirt,” and these merchants be gan calling them “tukkis” or “American tukkis.” Soon the word “tukki” became corrupted to “turkey” and led to a confu sion as to their origin, even though they were of American rather than Turkish nativity. A Royal Gift. From Spain the new delicacy from the New world spread to other parts of Europe and won in stant favor. Turkeys were taken to Persia by Armenians, and to Batavia by the Dutch. In France —where the turkey was, and is, called “dinde” because they be lieved it hailed from India—the bird was first served for the wed ding feast of the lively young Charles IX and Elizabeth of Aus tria. Twelve turkeys were con sidered fine enough for a royal gift from the merchants of Amiens to Charles. By the mid dle of the century, England met the bird, and in another 20 years it was being plentifully raised in various sections of Great Britain. And now comes one of the curious paradoxes of history, in that this “native American” be came an immigrant to the shores of his own land. In 1629 a letter, written to Governor Endicott in Salem, Mass., by his agents in London, assured him that “tame turkies shall be sent you by the nexte shippe.” So in a short time the New England variety of the North American wild turkey was being mixed with his partly do mesticated descendant from Mex ico via England—thus complet ing a curious 100-year round-the- world tour. It is probable that not one tur key in a thousand which will grace the Thanksgiving table this year will be a native wild turkey. For the original New England wild turkey (Meleagres Ameri cana) is all but extinct in the part of the country where he first made his appearance on that festal board. The wild turkey of today (Meleagres gallapavo silvestris,) according to ornithologists, is found in greatly reduced numbers only from Pennsylvania and Ohio south to the gulf states and west to Arkansas. There is a smaller variety, the Florida wild turkey, in that state; in southern Texas is another, the Rio Grande turkey and in the Rocky mountain re gion, another, Merriam’s turkey. All modern domesticated turkeys are derived from the Mexican wild turkey (Meleagres Mexi- cana) of thje earliest days. The First Thanksgiving. But to get back to why the tur key occupies such a prominent place on our Thanksgiving day dinner table—of that first celebra tion, held in Plymouth in 1621, Edward Winslow wrote back to England as follows: “Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent foure men on fowling, that so we might after a more speciall manner rejoyce to gether, after we had gathered in the fruit of our labours; they foure in one day killed as much fowle, as with a little help be side, served the company almost a week, at which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our Armes, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest of their greatest King Massasoyt, with some ninety men, whom for three days we en tertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deere, which they brought to the Plan tation and bestowed on our Gov ernor, and upon the Captaine (Standish) and others.” There is no doubt that among the “fowle” at this feast, enjoyed alike by the Pilgrims and the In dians, was the native wild turkey, for that bird had long been a staple in the diet of the red man. Incidentally, that familiar ex pression “talk turkey” dates from those early days and we are in debted to the Indians for it, too. In one of the Thirteen Colonies (it cannot be stated positively which one, although from certain aspects of the incident the sus picion arises that it was in New England) an Indian and a white man agreed to hunt together for a day and then to divide the spoils. This they did and the divi sion proceeded agreeably enough until only a crow and a turkey remained. Thereupon the white man, vol ubly frank and seemingly gener ous in manner, said: “Now you may have the crow and I’ll take the turkey; or I’ll take the turkey and you may have the crow.” But the red man was not so easily taken in by this glib proposal and replied indignantly: “Huh! Why you no talk turkey to me?” And ever since that time, so says the legend, when a person began to dissemble, to conceal his real meaning in a superfluity of words, to attempt to “put over” something on another, it became time for the other to advise him to “talk turkey,” i. e. to be straightforward and get down to business. aiier? mcne iWNU SrrvicTTi Memos of a Colyumer’s Sec’y Dear Mr. W.: Paulette Goddard’s pals are sure she will shortly file in Mexico . . . And I hear that Rosa lind Russell and Fred Brisson, son of Carl Brisson, are completely out of this world . . . You are staying too late at the theater. The paper had to replate the 4-star edition to squeeze in your “Suzanna” notice, which got here 10 minutes after 1, instead of 10 minutes after 12 . . . In short, the City Desk says that you must leave the theater by U o’clock henceforth. Virgil Thompson panned the open ing Philharmonic Concert in the Trib the other morning. A friend of mine spoke of “the awful rap” to the manager, who replied: “That’s nothing—we’ll even things next week. We’ll play some of Thomp son’s music!” . . . The critic, you know, is a composer, one of his works being “Four Saints in Three Acts” . . . Monte Proser’s new Copacabana started off with a zippy premiere, every part of the show clicking with a bang . . . The gal who posed for that lovely ballerina picture in Stage magazine’s first number is 19-year-old Lorraine Gitt- man, a model. MGM wants her. That magazine everybody suspects of being subversive is being investi gated quietly—for backers, coin, etc . . . I’ve told the feature sec tion about the sense of humor of the Sing Sing inmates. The mascot on their ball team is a black sheep . . . I think you ought to run the scolding in that coast editorial—it put me iv stitches. The lad who posed for the General Motors ad used in all papers (“We Hope We Set a Boy to Dreaming”) is Kingsley Colton of the Court of Missing Heirs radio program . . . Add lovely things: Yvette’s version of “These Foolish Things,” a Blue bird of a recording . . . Frank Park er will get the singing lead in “The Ziegfeld Follies.” Last time he was in a musical he was a chorus boy.— Your Girl Friday. LONDONERS ARE TALKING ABOUT . . . Eric Sevareid, crack young correspond- eru and commentator for the Columbia Broadcasting. System, returned to the Unit ed States via Clipper last Sunday. He was in France when it fell and since then in Lotidon, where life is a commodity to be exchanged for nothing less than freedom, and death is something preferable to sur render. Mr. Sevareid will return to Lon don after a brief breathing spell in N. Y. He made these notes on the clipper. Ambassador Joe Kennedy's indi gestion, which has not benefited from a steady diet of eggs and pills, a lack of sleep and the unending bombings. He has grown pessimis tic about the world situation and doesn’t want to go back to London . . . The boners Halifax continues to make in his speeches. Whenever he speaks of England’s allies he in variably forgets to include the valiant Poles who have continued the struggle, and he never fails to include the phrase, “Christian civ ilization,” which is a slap for India —where Halifax was once viceroy! Churchill. He is far and away the most lucid mind and voice in Brit ain. Historians are convinced he will live in history as the greatest British orator, Pitt not forgotten. Churchill, for your information, is privately convinced that America ought to come into the war at once. He is tired of having to sell the U. S. on every new event and idea. Those are the prime minister’s own beliefs, but there is no denying that the impact of American intervention would be terrific in France, where (despite the stuff you hear from Vichy) nine out of ten pray for Brit ish victory. The American correspondents and their amazing esprit de corps. No phony heroics, no trivial struggle for meaningless “scoops,” and best of all, lots of intestinal fortitude. Ray Daniell and his NY Times cohorts moved their office into the basement of the Savoy hotel some time ago. The Herald Trib boys are there now, too, pounding their typewriters un der criss-crossed steel girders two stories underground. When things get dull Vic Oliver comes in to do a bit of entertaining and Bob Post orates on his favorite subject—the British navy. Scotty Reston and Frank Kelly, who live in this base ment to eliminate the 5-minute tram ride to and from work, sit and reminisce about home and family. But Larry Rue, old calloused Chica go Tribune hand, is probably not there. He likes to sit on the ROOF during a raid, caress a scotch and soda and hurl profanity at the night riders. The split second timing that saved old Bob Casey’s life twice in one evening. He and a friend stopped their cab one night to argue for 10 minutes in order to determine who should be driven home first. They reached a decision and started for the friend’s hotel, arriving there just in time to see the inn erupt into the street. They collected their nerves at the nearest pub and set out for Bob’s quarters. Same thing. A bomb got there less than a minute before them. That’s really a little too close for comfort. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT SERVICES OFFERED Vital war minerals in demand. Minerals and ores identified, $2.00 each. Send small sample.- Assays and analyses also fur nished. Write for prices and information. Louis Strange, Box 613, Guthrie, Ky. BABY CHICKS SO Baby Chicks Free (for lim ited time only ) with orders for 100 assorted heavy chicks only $4.90 per i00 postpaid. 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This water will make them healthy. * * • To keep muslin curtains even when laundering them, put two curtains together and iron as one curtain. * • * Powdered borax added to the water when washing fine white flannels helps to keep them soft. * * • To cook dried prunes, wash them well, cover with four inches of cold water and let soak over night. Simmer very slowly for one hour. * * • To shorten the baking time for apple pie 20 minutes, first cook the apples five minutes in a small quantity of water, then cool them and proceed as usual. * • • Hang small household articles, used frequently, on screw-eyes placed on inside of hall or bath room cabinet or closet. They are then out of sight but within easy reach. Dr. Hitchcock’s All-Vegetable Laxative Powder — an intestinal tonic-laxative—actually ton6s lazy bowel muscles. It helps relieve that sluggish feeling. 15 doses for only 10 cents. Large family size 25 cents. At all druggists. 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