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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1946
HEADS NATIONAL GUARD . . .
Brlc. Gen. Butler Mlltonburger, for
mer commander of the 35th divi
sion, who has heen nominated to
command the war department’s na
tional guard bureau by President
Truman. He will serve for four
years with the rank of major gen
eral.
HERO OF THE STORM . . . Ru»
sell Price Jr.. 17, Utica, N. Y. f
sensed trouble when live Canadiar
aiT force planes were flying low
ov»r h« b »me. He ran to a nearbj
«eid anti with his flashlight, guidec
'tr» vA.'ety.
PATTON HOLDS FORT ... George
S. Patton, West Point, son of the
late famous general who died as
the result of an automobile acci-
! dent In Germany, is shown in
action as a gaolie for the Army
! team. Young George is an outstand-
! Log athlete and student at the
• academy.
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NEW U. 8. AMBASSA OR . . .
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, who has
been named new British ambassa
dor to the U. 8. to succeed the Earl
of Halifax who retires on May 1.
Kerr has held several important
British diplomatic missions, in
cluding that of ambassador to Rus-
“Not long ago I listened to a
L&n who was engaged in a Tun
ing battle with a succession of
[artinis. He was talking about
griculture. To him it was a lost *
iuse. He saw the disappearance!
: the family-size farm, the com-!
tg of giant machines that could'
indie thousands of acres. He
as very gloomy about it, • and
:ry certain! A job of primary
iportance ahead of all of us who
dieve deeply in agriculture is to
“ove that this hiccupy gentleman
a dad-blamed liar.”—Robt. H.
ted, editor Country Gentleman. I
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\HOME
£> MARY B. DAGUS
H OW many ways do you sarve
potatotes? You could serve
them a different way every day of
the month and then not exhaust
their possibilities. So let’s get
down to brass tacks with some rec
ipes that tend to lift the trust
worthy potato from its humdrum
role of baked, boiled and fried.
Surprise Baked Potatoes.
Four large smooth potatoes, 4
eggs, 2 tablespoons butter or mar
garine, 1 teaspoon salt, Vfc teaspoon
pepper, 4 tablespoons cream.
Scrub potatoes and bake in a hot
oven (400 degrees F) for an hour
or until thoroughly done. Scoop out
the inside, cutting
off one-fourth of the
potato on one side
and taking care
not to break the
skin. Put potato
through a ricer,
season with butter,
salt and pepper and
beat in cream. Add more milk or
cream if necessary to make light
and fluffy. Break an egg into each
potato shell, pile mashed potato
lightly over egg and return to oven/
for 15 minutes to bake egg and
lightly brown potato.
If you like you can put a table
spoonful or two of a creamed sea
food over the egg before adding the
mashed potato.
Potato Puffs.
Two cups* hot riced potatoes, 1
egg, 2 tablespoons butter or mar
garine, 4 tablespoons cream, 2
drops tabasco sauce, salt and pep
per.
Four medium sized potatoes will
make two cups when riced. Boil
until thoroughly done, drain and
shake over heat until dry. Force
through ricer or mash until perfect
ly smooth. Add butter, cream, sea
sonings and yolk of egg well beat
en. Beat and cook for two minutes.
Fold in white of egg beaten until
stiff but not dry. Drop from spoon
onto a well greased cookie sheet
and bake in hot oven (450 degrees
F) until delicately browned. It will
take about eight minutes.
Scalloped Potatoes.
Four cups thinly sliced pared po
tatoes, 1 small onion, 2 tablespoons
butter or margarine, 1 tablespoon
flour, Mi teaspoon mustard, % to 1
teaspoon salt, % teaspoon pepper,
IVfe cups milk or thin cream.
Mix seasonings with flour and
rub into butter. Peel onion, cut in
half and put in center of a well
buttered baking dish. Put in a lay
er of sliced potatoes, dot with mix
ture or butter and flour. Add an
other layer of potatoes and dot with
remaining butter mixture. Pour
over milk or cream and bake un
covered ifi a moderate oven for one
and one-fourth hours or until potato
is tender. The oven temperature
should be 350 degrees F. Be sure
to use a good sized baking dish.
Ab>OvC- rfAc
Cost of Ignorance
Not all world leaders know their
history—or we would have fewer
wars. Hitler doubtless was versed
in those phases of military lore
which painted glowing pictures of
Germanic conquests in .the fifth
century, and of the victories of
Frederick the Great, and of Bis-
•nark. But did he know the inside
•tory of what happened all over
Lurope after the conquests of the
Barbarian hordes? Did he know
vhat happened to Germany after
the Thirty Year’s war? Did he
%now all about the terrible devas
tations which have been the lot of
*.I> nations which have become in
volved in great wars? Maybe Hit-
Vjr, being impervious to the laws
of reason, would have gone ahead
anyhow—but few of the leaders,
and very few citizens of those
nations involved in the Second
World war, even dreamed of the
horrors which would attend and
follow that holocaust. If they had
been thoroughly versed in all
piases of past history, they could—
at least to some extent—have^for*
•cen the present world “mess.”
In a few years’ time the con
ditions of today will nave oeen
forgotten — as such things al- L
ways are. The pupil will pick 5
up a smattering of heroes, and
of great campaigns, and of glor
ious victories. The sufferings
and the starvation of millions
will be touched upon but light-
ly. The agonies of war will be f
forgotten — its halo of glamor j
will remain. And the torments -
of hell will descend once more j
upon the earth. ^
There is one conceivable preve?*«t
tative — the thorough teaching
the miseries of war as well as
its glories. , *
America is stepping out in*u
world affairs: In the name of rca-^
son and of fairness—must our
dren also be brought up in Din' ^
ignorance of those things which :.
vital to their very existence.
cause the school board and Prof^uji
sor Snilch believe a knowlerK'*
higher mathematics to be of fc/cuW
er value? There will be no k-.
edge on earth so desperately
by our children as a real ar-i cu:ar j
prehensive knowledge of wo. '.-i • art
tory and what it teaches. /•;! oJ
subjects pale into insignifleet.-.-r c«|
comparison. ^
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sets—the assets of suns’ ine, a
long growing season, and abun
dant water. We have a lowed
these assets almost to des.tr >y us,
by eroding our soiL The answer?
Cover crops, especially winter cov
er crops, legumes, grass.”—Dr. H.
A. Morgan, director Tennessee
Valley Authority.
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The more intelligent the farmer
he higher his respect for what’s
under the hood of a good farm
tractor.
The city author who said
“Farming is an escape from mod
ern life” certainly did not know
modern farming based on science
and machinery.
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McCORMICK, S. C
"HOW TO WIN FRIENDS and
Author of
INFLUENCE PEOPIF*.
MANY SI I IKS OF LIFE
1 SHALL never forget my first visit to a big city. It was*
in 1907. I was nineteen years old at the time and had
always lived on a farm. Warrensburg State Teachers col
lege at Warrensburg, Mo., had sent me as its official repre
sentative to a conference. Naturally 1 had to pass through
the city of St. Louis. A cousin of mine, Newton Alexander,
was then working as a stenographer in a hospital conducted
by the Frisco railroad. I spent the evening with him in his
furnished room. He spoke of going to the park on Sunday.
I was amazed at the thought of anyone wanting to spend time
merely roaming around out of doors. I thought all the city
people went down town on Sunday to see the big buildings.
That’s the thing I wanted to do. 1 had lived among trees
and open fields all my life. They meant nothing to me. 1
could hardly believe him when he said that city people took
Walks in the country on Sundays.
Today I know nothing which fascinates me more thaD
to take a walk in* the country.
• • • •
Paul Wing should know more about spelling than
anyone else in the country. I back this up with in
formation. Paul is the man who has been conduct
ing spelling matches for the National Broadcast
ing company. He is the man who conceived the
idea and made it popular.
I asked him to give me a list of ten every-day
words that are most frequently misspelled. Here
they are. Try ’em on your friends.
Assassinate. Felicitate. Perilous. Virulent. Cal
lus (toughened skin). Bouillon. Jodhpurs. Pyorrhea.
Avocados. Ecstasy.
These words are used in every-day speech and
writing. He has two short catch words which, he
says, will send almost anybody down. Here they
are:
Wheyey. Wryly.
This gave me a start. I’ve been spelling that
, last one “wrily” for years. /
Parnttiood;
BY j f
MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS j
Associate Editor, Parents’ Magazine
GETTING AN EARLY MORNING START
F ATHERS returning from service
in the armed forces have been
repeatedly warned about what not
to carry over from their military
training to family life. But we’d
like to point out at least one mili
tary habit that would give the fam
ily a lift if father introduced it. That
is. starting the day early. Being
able to talk back to the alarm clock
after years of knowing that the
bugle meant business may be a
temporary luxury. But if fathers
would stick to early rising and get
the family up too. a whole new way
of living would gradually unfold for
them.
For we believe that the frayed
nerves so many Americans suf
fer from are largely the result
of frantic mornings which are
far too short for satisfying ac
complishment. Most of us still
have in our blood the farmer's
estimate of what a morning’s
work should be. Yet in business
and school and housekeeping
we rarely have mornings more
than two or three hours long,
and what with interruptions we
usually eat lunch without any
relaxed sense of the day’s work
being well on its way. Of
course, getting up late has also
meant a hurried, uneasy break
fast, or none at all, so the first
two meals of the day are gob
bled with stomach nerves tense.
Thus from the health standpoint
alone, getting up an hour earlier
and eating a leisurely break
fast together would add im
measurably' to the family’s
well-being.
Then did you ever hear of a sol
dier starting the day on orange
juice and co/Tee? Those hearty
breakfasts provided by Uncle Sarrv
are another custom Father should
carry over Into civilian life. And
did it take woman cooks to providu-
them? Not at all. We are certain
ly not hinting that Mother should
stay in bed while the rest of the-
family benefits by early rising. But
children need a lot of supervising
in getting ready for the day and if.
Mother were given the time for thi»
while Father prepared breakfast,
the day would get going a lot mure
smoothly.
Now this freedom from hurry
and the good breakfast are jfist im
provements on the familiar morn
ing routine. What about that more
abundant life we promised you?’
This comes slowly, but it consists
of two priceless advantages, partic
ularly for fathers. One is getting
to know your children when they
are at their best, sharing their won
der over what the day may bring.
For a child full of eager plans for
a busy day is a reminder of whaJ
God meant us to be. The other ad
vantage is the chance for both you
and the children to put some of
your morning-fresh creative energy
into doing what you enjoy most be
fore you begin the day’s more pro
saic tasks. An hour in the garden,
or at your work bench, finding that
the problem you were too tired to
concentrate on the night before has
practically solved itself—a wakr—~\.
with the children and their dog,
writing an affectionate note to your
mother instead of dictating it at tie
office or leaving it to your wife ts
keep grandmother up on fami?«
news—there are hundreds of pleas
ant ways to begin the day that hehJ
keep life warm and precious, in
stead of letting it become breathlft.*
and unsatisfying.
&bur^
UDGBT
1—What is the nearest major American shipping center to
both European and South American ports? (a) Boston, <b) New
York, (c) Philadelphia, (d) San Francisco. ■ —
8—Which university has the largest full-time attendance?
(a) Colleges of the city of New York, (b) University of California,
(c) Ohio State oniversity, (d) Columbia university. -
3— -What is the season record for an ore carrier of the Great
Lakes fleet? (a) 656,471 tons, (b) 605,300 tons, (c) 595,871 tone, (A)
495,500 tons. — —-
4— A new betatron volt machine has just heen announced.
What is its voltage? (a) Ifid 00 volts, (b) 10,000,000 volts, (c) 1W»*
000,000 volts, (d) 1,000,000.0 0 volts.
5— “Calendar Wednesday” applies to (a) Edwards calendar,
(b) rule of congress, (c) pay week In Washington, (d) religious
holiday.
ANSWERS— *
1—(a) Boston. • * f f
*—(b) University of Califoraln leads with tS,®77 fnll-Umo students J - 1 L
*—(a) 656,471, set In 1944 by Irving S. Olds. "me «uat»ts. . J.
4—< c) 100.000,000 volts.
6—(b) It is a day in congress In which bUls may be ealted from committee*.
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