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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1941
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Man About Town:
Does The Washington Times-
Herald know that 24 members of
congress are mixed up (in various
degrees) in the current Federal
Grand Jury’s probe into the activi
ties of foreign agents using our
mails for propaganda purposes?
Not all 24 are involved in guilt.
Some were merely innocent by
standers . . . How can Petain of
fer himself as a hostage? How can
ho give what he doesn’t own?
• • • —
What two brain-trusters of a cer-
4ain Washington probe are suspect
ed of receiving checks from former
Nazi espionage chief Von Bohle in
S. A.? . . .Is there anything to
the Capital buzz that Odium may
inherit Knudsen’s OPM headache?
. . . Can you guess which one of
the highest paid radio stars quit his
cig sponsor because he wouldn’t al
low him to get a divorce to wed an
other?
' o.o • —
Isn’t Doris Duke going to get. her
divorce in Honolulu in May—and
marry a Naval flier now here? . . .
Is it possible that Princess Stefanie
Hohenlohe has taken a house in sub
urban Beverly Hills, Alexandria,
Va., under the nom de plume she
has often used in hotels? And why
does she prefer being that near to
Washington, D. C.? . . Table con
versationalists quote Rauschning,
the historian, as saying that, ac
cording to his deductions, the war
should end in 16 months.
• • • —
Lt. Comdr. Gene Markey sure
Has It Bad (and that ain’t good!)
over Olivia De Havilland. Spends
all his Navy coin on postage stamps
to write her . . . Sad, isn’t* it, the
torch Jeff Jones of Princeton is
carrying for Gloria Vanderbilt? His
pals fear it’ll make him ill . . .
That’s gonna be quite a story when
the Screen Publicists’ Guild explodes
over the commy element . . . Heav
ens! Have you heard the dreadful
‘ news? Because of metal priorities
beauty shops will feel a shortage,
of bobby-pins!
• • • —
So you want to be an actress, eh?
Life recently revealed that 3,500
professional people haunt produc
ers’ offices. Of these, 1,000 get jobs.
The average yearly employment
is 4 to 5 weeks and the average an
nual income (excluding stars) is $200
to $500 ... Be a stenographer,
sister. Yoir meet a better class of
people in the subway, anyway.
• • • —
Somerset Maugham spurned an
invite to an affair for Their High
nesses, and didn’t send any regrets
. . . Peggy Joyce’s current is Jim
my Wilson, a handsome six-footer.
Must be love—he’s poor ... If the
Japs get sassier FDR will call out
the Boy Scouts.
• • • —
New York Heartbeat: '
The Big Parade: C. Aubrey Smith
—as British as a monocle . . .
Rita Hayworth—the reason eyes
were invented . . . Herbert Marsh
all and Arthur Treacher ringsiding
at the Riviera, giving each other the
“reallehs” and “y’don’t-says!” . . .
Louis Bromfield at Fefe’s Beach.
His latest book, “Wild Is the River,”
is a candidate for the Best-Seller
lists . . . Eddy Duchin, curling up
with a good bookie in the Waldorf
foyer . . . Rosemary Lane signing'
autographs outside the Barrymore
Theater. One of them asked her
to get Priscilla’s, too. The crumbs
have crust . . . The 3 Andrew Sis
ters wearing spangled skirts, span
gled gloves and spangled h^ts.
Looked like a Christmas Tree-o . . .
Owwwwwch! Who threw that? . . .
Wendy Barrie in the Roosevelt Grill
—with a 10-penny nail dangling
. from her bracelet. “They say I
look like one—I might as well wear
one,” is the explanation . . . Swifty
Morgan greeting a sucker at the
House of Chan with: “Sit down,
pal, and have a check.”
• • • —
Sallies in Our Alley: In “Back
Street” Margaret Sullavan played
The Other Woman opposite Charles
Boyer. In their latest, “App’t for
Love,” she plays his wife, who has
to contend with two other gals. An
interviewer asked Boyer if he or
Margaret had given it a thought.
“Oh, yes,” he said. “Miss Sullavan
thought of it. She said that this time
for her—the shoe was on the other
foot, but I was still the heel!” . . .
A hefty sort of lady floated across
the Club 18 floor and dared clown
Jack White to make fun of her.
“Gwan,” she dared him, “make a
wisecrack and see what happens!”
. . . Vince Curran deflated her with:
“Say didn’t you used to have ‘Good
year’ printed on you?” ... It left
her b-limp.
• • • —
Memos of a Midnighter: Did the
Duke purchase a $50,000 bauble
from Paul Flato—for Wally? Didn’t
pay cash . . . FPA’s writing book
notices now and then for his old
boss, the Tribune . . . The flop,
“Good Neighbor,” has a good line
about a nice lady whose goodness
went unrepaid: “She puts her foot
In it every time she opens her heart”
. . . Senator Guffey was talked out
5f kissing Diana Barrymore on the
ground that it wasn’t dignified . . .
And he’s the guy who’s supposed to
ixpress the will of the people!
by*
Eleanor Roosevelt
VISIT IN MINNESOTA
In our St. Cloud, Minn., visit we
stayed with Mrs. Albert G. Whitney.
It was a very memorable experi
ence, for it was not often that one
finds an older woman who has kept
the ability to manage her own life
and to do the things she enjoys do
ing. She still makes a pleasant
homelike center, to which her chil
dren and grandchildren come with
great joy.
Miss Thompson and I were very
grateful for her hospitality. We
spent an hour or more in the morn
ing at wdrk, after which I had the
pleasure of seeing four young peo
ple. They came with a boy who was
with the International Students in
stitute at Campobello last summer,
and is still at the University of
Minnesota.
At two o’clock, I started out, in
spite of occasional snow flakes inter
spersed with rain, and visited eight
public schools. From the primary
grades up to the high school, they
lined the streets outside their vari
ous schools to greet me.
Large Veterans’ Hospital.
Finally, at about three o’clock, we
reached the veterans’ hospital, for
mental cases, one of the largest I
have seen.
Some of the patients were gath
ered in the recreation room and
sang and played for me. How much
music can mean to these men, and
how they enjoy the violins, piano and
the men’s chorus!
I spoke to them briefly and went
into one of the wards to see some of
the men who could not be out. One
is happy to think that these men
have care and pleasant surround
ings, and yet it tugs at one’s heart
to see old and young men, some of
them seeming entirely normal, oth
ers seeming already to have left the
world around them, so far as their
minds are concerned. One hopes
that many may be restored to
health.
Back to New York. '
I was back at Mrs. Whitney’s
house a little while after four. We
had a cup of tea, then a little more
work, and a rest before dinner. Aft
er my talk and the questions which
followed, we drove all the way into
Minneapolis. This meant getting to
the hotel Nicolett at about 11:30, and
being up next morning to catch a
five-o'clock plane for Chicago. I
confess that I was more worried that
the plane would not fly, than I was
about a few hours of sleep. Once on
the plane, I went off to sleep again
until we reached Chicago, only wak
ing up to talk to a newspaper wom
an from Milwaukee. Breakfast in the
Chicago airport restaurant, and then
a comfortable trip to New York city.
• • •
GIRL SCOUT ACTIVITIES
One afternoon the rain came down
and made the ceremony at the Girl
Scouts’ “Little House” a trifle damp
for everyone. We went out to the
garden and watched the girls cook
ing under real difficulty, but the
plate of food they hfinded me was
very good. I took a taste of each
thing and then passed my plate along
to Father Moore, who had left the
NYA advisory committee meeting
with me to see the girls at work.
We visited all the different
branches of work, saw the first aid
class in action, girls knitting, mak
ing pottery, cooking and, finally, re
turned to the living room, where a
group of colored Girl Scouts were
singing charmingly. After listening
to one or two songs, and admiring
their chart for health and morale,
Mrs. C. Leslie Glenn, representing
the National Girl Scouts, presented
Father Moore with the Girl Scout
Medal.
They have given the medal this
year to four men who have been
of great assistance to the organiza
tion, and one of their officers has
been designated to present it. In
this case, since Father Moore was
present, Mrs. Glenn, who had been
chosen to present him with this med
al, pinned it on his clerical coat.
He was really touched and came
back with me to the White House,
wearing it proudly. Even though I
gave him my plate of food, because
he had worked through his luncheon
hour and had had no food, I found
that he was quite ready to have a
cup of tea with us on our return.
By the time we came back to the
NYA national advisory committee
meeting, they were nearly finished
with their afternoon session and ad
journed until the evening.
We had a very pleasant small
group of people gathered together
for dinner. They were shown a 10-
minute film of the taking of a poll,
which was interesting in showing the
variety of people who are sampled
in trying to arrive at an accurate
estimate of public opinion.
• • •
DESTROYER TORPEDOEING
The news of the torpedoing of one
of our destroyers off Iceland was
the first thing that the President
spoke of on the morning after the
incident and that cast a shadow
over the whole day. I can not help
but think of every one of the men
and their families, who are anxious
ly awaiting news. When this is
translated into terms of a specific
destroyer on which your own child
is serving, it makes it seem a very
close and personal anxiety.
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LET THE GOBBLER STRUT ITS STUFF!
(See Recipes Below)
THANKSGIVING
This holiday is ours! As you bustle
about and plan this year’s Thanks
giving dinner, re
member this is
the day we give
our thanks for the
bounteous harvest
of the year, for
the peace and the
l prosperity, singu
larly ours. Re
member, too, and
cherish the fore
sight of the Pilgrims who had the
courage to start carving out this
land of ours!
Yes, this holiday is ours, so let
it be filled wfth the spirit of the day
and wholehearted thanks.
Some foods are synonymous with
Thanksgiving without which the day
wouldn’t be complete, but don’t get
into a rut about having the same
dinner every year, vary the trim
mings a bit and fascinate the family.
Thin wisps of croutons will in
trigue if you serve them in the oy
ster stew.
♦Oyster Stew.
(Serves 6 to 8)
1 pint oysters
4 tablespoons butter
1 quart milk
Salt and pepper
Put cleaned oysters, oyster liquor
strained, butter and seasonings in a
saucepan and simmer gently until
oysters curl at the edges. Heat the
milk, add to the oysters and serve
at once.
Has the family become a trifle
weary of your old stuffing? Then
try this savory
new one with
yummy sausage
flavoring which
is right at home
with either tur
key, goose, duck
or chicken. The
sausage stuffing will do a proud job
with stuffed veal, pork or shoulder
of lamb:
♦Sausage Stuffing.
(Makes 6 cups)
4 cups soft bread crumbs
% cup butter
3 tablespoons chopped onion
% teaspoon salt
Pepper
% teaspoon sage or thyme
Vi cup chopped celery
2 cups sausage in the bulk
Melt butter, add onion and cook
until it becomes yellow. Add bread
crumbs mixed with seasonings. Mix
in chopped celery and sausage. Cook
2 minutes, stirring constantly.
♦Turkey.
Small birds are allowed 25 to 30
minutes per pound for baking, large
birds, 22 to 25 minutes per pound.
Your oven should be set at 325 to
350 degrees.
♦Sweet Potato Puff.
(Serves 10 to 12)
4 cups mashed sweet potato
2 tablepsoons fat
1 egg
LYNN SAYS:
To clean the turkey, singe it
first, then remove the pin feath
ers with tweezers. Scrub the out
side with water. The inside
should be wiped with a damp
cloth. If there is any foreign
odor, a half teaspoon of baking
soda may be added to the water
with which the turkey is
scrubbed.
Allow 1 pound of turkey to each
person. Allow 1 cup of stuffing to
each pound of turkey. When
stuffing, be sure to put some in
the neck for this will give the
bird a good full shape. Fasten
the skin from the neck to the
back. Stuff the cavity but do not
pack since dressing swells.
For good roasting and easier
carving truss the bird, by insert
ing a long needle through breast,
through rib at the base of the
thigh. Draw the cord through
and bring the string across oy
pulling the cord through the open
ings formed by folding the wings
triangularly onto the back. Tie
the cords.
Insert the needle through the
drumstick joints, bring the cord
1 around the tail, through the back
bone, and tie securely. Remove
cord before serving.
THIS WEEK’S MENU
♦Oyster Stew Croutons
♦Roast Turkey
♦Sausage Stuffing
•Cranberry Orange Relish
♦Sweet Potato Puff
♦Brussels Sprouts
♦Hot Rolls
Celery Curls Pickled Beets
♦Pumpkin or Mincemeat Tarts
Hot Coffee
♦Recipe Given
Bulbs Bloom All Winter
If You Start Them Now
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Historic Operation
Y/'IRGINIA is famous as the
’ “Mother-of-Presidents,”* as the
state which gave America some of
her greatest soldiers and explorers
as well as statesmen. But on No
vember 11 this year she can take
note of the fact that it was just 140
years ago that she gave to the na
tion a man who was destined to
make medical history and whose
name future generations of suffering
Americans were to call blessed. For
he was Ephraim McDowell.
McDowell was born in Rockbridge
county November 11, 1771. At the
age of 12 he was taken by his father
to the frontier town of Danville in
Kentucky. After a brief term in a
Virginia seminary young McDowell
began the study of medicine in a
doctor’s office in Staunton. Then he
went to Scotland but returned to
America after two years’ study in
the University of Edinburgh.
In 1795 he returned to Danville
to begin practice. Within 10 years
McDowell had become the best-
known surgeon on the Kentucky fron
tier and whenever one of the set
tlers needed an operation that was
beyond the skill of local doctors,
word was sent to Danville. Then
McDowell hastily crammed his
. drugs and his instruments into his
saddle bags and set out along wilder
ness trails to the aid of the sufferer.
In 1809 he was called upon to
make such a call and the opera
tion which he performed at that
A SUCCESSION of lovely bloomi
in your home all winter!
That’s your reward—if you start
potting bulbs now.
Clever to choose stunning “show
pieces” that flower at different
periods—white callas start bloom-
Flowers at Different Periods.
ing in January, colorful amaryllis
and daffodils a little later.
Before these and in between you
can always have the fragrant nar-
I cissus. Just start a fresh batch
every two weeks in a bowl of wa
ter and pebbles. Keep in a dark
spot until growth starts and be
sure the lower third of each bulb
is in water.
* • •
Our 32-page booklet tells how to raise
favorite flowering and foliage plants,
ferns, bracket plants. Tells how to pot
bulbs, also how to grow bulbs, vines
and other material in water. Send your
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Salt and pepper
Vi cup milk or V\ cup evaporated
milk and V\ cup water.
Add the melted fat, seasonings and
milk to the potatoes. Beat the egg
separately, add yolk first and fold
in white to the potato. Place in a
buttered casserole dish, set in a
pan containing hot water and bake
15 to 50 minutes at 375 degrees un
til light and puffy. Marshmallows
may be placed on top of casserole
during last 7 minutes of baking time.
With all the soft food of the meal,
you’ll want something crispy and
tart as a relish.
♦Cranberry-Orange Relish.
(Serves 12)
2 cups cranberries, cleaned, washed
2 oranges, whole
1 cup sugar
Grind all the fruit together by put
ting through a coarse food grinder.
Mix the ground fruit with sugar
and let stand about an hour before
serving.
♦Brussels Sprouts.
Brussels sprouts lend a bright
touch of green when served plain
with butter or crumbled, cooked
chestnuts. Pick the dead leaves off
the sprouts, then soak them in cold
salted water for Vi hour. Wash and
put in boiling water and let cook
until just tender, about 15 to 17 min
utes. Drain, reheat, and serve after
seasoning.
♦Magic Yeast Rolls.
3 cups bread flour
1 teaspoon salt
Vi cup butter
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Vi cup sugar (rolled in later)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 cup chopped nuts
Vi cup milk
V\ cup hot water
2 packages granular yeast
Sift flour. Add to \Vi cups of
flour the salt and shortening. Com
bine as for pie crust. Combine milk
and hot water. When luke-warm,
add yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar.
Combine with first mixture; beat
until smooth. Cover and let stand
20 minutes. Add eggs, vanilla and
the rest of the flour. Stir until it
becomes a smooth, sticky dough,
but stiff. Tie dough into a clean
cloth (wring out in cold water first).
Drop in a pail of cool water. In an
hour the dough will rise to the top.
Remove and turn on a platter and
cut into pieces the size of an egg.
Roll in sugar and nut mixture. Twist
into figure eights. Shape and turn
onto a greased pan. Let stand 5
minutes and bake 10 minutes at 425
degrees F.
Remember how mother used to
make her pumpkin pie and tarts the
day before and
how good they al
ways tasted after
they stood in the
cool pantry over
night? Why not
try it this time?
It’ll save you a
great deal of fuss
on the big day it
self besides giving the tarts a
chance to mellow and ripen for ex
tra good flavor.
♦Pumpkin Filling.
(Makes 1 large pie or 10 to 12 tarts!
U/fc cups prepared pumpkin
% cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Vi teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
l l /i cups milk
For fresh pumpkin, steam or bake
until soft and put through a sieve.
Add remaining ingredients in order
given. Turn into crust lined pie
tin or tart pans and bake first in a
very hot (450 degrees) oven, then
reduce temperature fe -trees
and bake 2 K mmutrs
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time is the one which made surgical
history. The call came from the log
cabin of Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford,
near Greentown, known today as
Greensburg, 60 miles from Danville.
In a letter which McDowell wrote
to Robert Thompson, a medical stu
dent in Philadelphia years later, he
gave this account of that operation:
“I was sent for in 1809 to deliver
a Mrs. Crawford, living near Green-
town, of twins, as the two attending
physicians supposed. Upon exami
nation, I soon ascertained that she
was not pregnant, but had a large
tumor in the abdomen which moved
easily from side to side. I told the
lady I could do her no good and
candidly stated to her her deplora
ble situation; informed her that
John Bell, Hunter, Hey and A. Wood,
four of the first and most eminent
surgeons in England and Scotland,
had uniformly declared in their lec
tures that such was the temper of
the peritoneal inflammation that
opening the abdomen to extract the
tumor was inevitable death. But,
notwithstanding this, if she thought
herself prepared to die, I would take
the lump from her, if she would
come to Danville. She came in a
few days after my return home, and
in six days I opened her side and
extracted one of the ovaria . . . she
was perfectly well in 25 days.”
The doctor’s laconic version of the
historic incident leaves out all of the
drama. For there was drama in it
—the story of how word that Mc
Dowell was going to perform an op
eration which was almost certain to
be fatal spread through the town,
how one of the preachers devoted a
sermon to the proposed “murder,”
how his fellow-townsmen threatened
to lynch him if the operation failed,
and how his nephew and partner,
Dr. James McDowell, tried to dis
suade him from going on with it.
Then there is the story of how he
decided to operate on Christmas day
when the prayers of all the world
would help create a favorable at
mosphere for the attempt; how Mrs.
Crawford tried to forget the agony
of the operation, performed without
anesthetics, by singing hymns; how
the mob outside the doctor’s cabin,
hearing her anguished voice, tried to
break in the door and stop the op
eration and how, finally, when they
were told that the operation was
successful and the patient still lived,
their anger turned to admiration for
the heroic doctor and his equally he
roic patient and “the air was riven
by a cheer.”
Mrs. Crawford lived for 33 years
after the operation. Later she mi
grated to Indiana and is buried near
Graysville. But today in McDowell
park in Danville a monument, erect
ed by the Kentucky Medical society
and its women’s auxiliary, stands
near the towering shaft which was
erected to the memory of her doc
tor by the Kentucky Medical society
in 1879. The modern highway, bor
dered with dogwood, between Dan
ville and Greensburg, called the
Jane Todd Crawford Memorial Trail,
also honors this pioneer heroine.
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