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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, NOVEMBER 27, 1942 Kathleen Norris Says: The Early Teens Can Be Dangerous Bell Syndicate—WNU Features. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Our ‘Most Costly War’ Capt. James - Jackson NTOVEMBER 29 marks the 70th anniversary of the opening of what one historian has called “the most costly war in which the United States ever engaged, considering the number of opponents.” It was the Modoc war of 1872-73 in which only 50 Indians held their, stronghold in the Lava Beds of Oregon against 1,200 soldiers upon whom they in flicted defeat after defeat before they were finally conquered. Says the historian quoted above: “In the war the Modocs lost 12 killed, four executed, one a suicide —all warriors, and an unknown number of women and children. The total loss of the white settlers and soldiers was 168, of whom 83 were killed. The cost of the war was over half a million dollars. Each Modoc accounted for three men and cost the United States gov ernment over $10,000 before he was himself killed or captured—a fear ful price, indeed.” The foundations for this war were laid late in the 1860s when the Mo docs were placed on the same res ervation with their former enemies, the Klamaths, who immediately began persecut ing them. Appeals to the Indian agents for justice proved vain. Fi nally, in despera tion, one of the head chiefs, Kint- puash, commonly known as Capt. Jack, left the res ervation with about 50 followers and returned to their former home in the Lost River country where they defied their agent’s orders to come back to the reservation. He then called upon Maj. John Green, commander at Fort Klamath, to re turn the Indians, “peaceably if you can, forcibly if you must.” Execution of the order was en trusted to Capt. James Jackson of the First cavalry. Accompanied by Lieut. F. A. Boutelle and Ivan Applegate, an interpreter. Jack- son started on the night of Novem ber 28, 1872, with about 30 men of Troop B for the Indian camp on Lost river. After a forced march through the rain, the soldiers reached that place early in the morning of No vember 29. When the Indians came out of their lodges, Applegate explained to them the mission of the troops and urged them not to resist. Jackson then called upon the Modocs to hand over jtheir arms, an order which was reluc tantly obeyed by some of the war riors, including one named Scar- Faced Charley, who began urging the Indians to re sist. Jackson then ordered Lieutenant R iutelle to take a squad and arres .he scar-faced warrior and another named Bogus Charley. This order precipitated a “duel” between the lieutenant and Scar - Faced Charley, concerning which Boutelle wrote later: “I called out to the men, ‘Shoot over these Indians’; and raised my pistol and fired at Scar-Faced Char ley. At the same instance Charley raised his rifle and fired at me. We both missed; his shot passing through my clothing over my el bow. It cut two holes through my blouse, one long slit in a cardigan jacket and missed my inner shirts. My pistol bullet passed through a red handkerchief Charley had tied around his head; so he afterward told me. There was some discus sion after the close of the war as to who fired the first shot. We talked the matter over, but neither could tell which fired first.” Immediately afterwards both the soldiers and the Indians began shooting. After a hot fight the In dians retreated, leaving the camp in the hands of the soldiers who imme diately destroyed . . The Indians’ loss was two warriors killea and three wounded and an unknown number of women and children killed and wounded. The soldiers’ loss amounted to nearly a third of their force—one killed, six mortally wounded and several others slightly injured. Minor engagement though it was, this fight was prophetic of the bitter price which our govern ment would have to pay to win an unnecessary war. Although Scar-Faced Charley was one of the principal actors in the opening engagement, it was Capt. Jack who became the leader in the Modoc defense of the Lava Beds. In April, 1873, a peace commission, headed by Gen. E. R. S. Canby, visited the Indians in their strong hold to persuade them to give up the struggle. In a treacherous at tack, in which the Modoc leader was forced to participate against his will, Canby and another emissary were killed and a third wounded. For this crime Capt. Jack and three other Modocs were hanged. ‘GREAT OAKS—’ The tiny acorn you know will some day be an oak tree is about as impressive today as the lanky, toothless boy you hope will grow into the fine man you want him to be. Left to wither on sun baked, rocky soil, that acorn would shrivel into nothingness, its promise wasted for lack of cultivation and nourishment. Why, then, do you expect that funny little boy to be strong and honest and self-reliant without your help? The love and guid ance you give him at eight will do him more good than the pun ishment he may need at eighteen if you don’t. Scar-Faced Charley No home is so poor that there can’t be a lot of fun in it. Good children, destined to grow into good men and women, are the most valuable things in the world. And you can’t get anything valuable for nothing. By KATHLEEN NORRIS E TLE girls of fourteen, fif teen and sixteen ought to be busy with school work, forbidden late hours and unac companied evening engage ments, and unacquainted with cigarettes, night clubs and liquor. These are statements that would have sounded laughable even ten years ago, and super fluous for the generation before that. “Certainly,” civilized mothers and fathers have said through all the years, “girls of those ages are still children, still under schoolroom regula tions, still governed by home laws, by mother and father.” But today it is not funny to say that a girl of 14 is too young for evening dates; too young to waste money on beauty parlors, lipsticks, cigarettes, cocktails; too young to be trusted in friendships with ex cited, half-intoxicated boys only a little older than herself. For little girls of high school ages are grow ing more and more independent, and apparently fathers and mothers are growing more helpless and supine. The advice and warning of older persons seems to have no weight at all, and “pure religion breathing household laws” is forgotten. Twelve-Year-Old Sets Pace. Last week the newspapers of a certain western city blazed sudden ly with the terrible story of quite little girls—one was only 12, who have been going to shady night clubs, have been served drinks and have picked up male friends in such places, and who in actual childhood have been going a pace that would frighten a hardened adventuress of 40. The authorities are now virtuously at work rounding up these little reb els, and are censoring the resorts that will permit liquor to be served to such children. For a little while the inn-keepers and the girls will be loudly blamed; then the whole thing will sink into silence and be for gotten. But the real blame rests upon the fathers and mothers of these unfor tunate youngsters, and the lesson and warning of their terrible experi ence is for all the other fathers and mothers of the nation. For with the right kind of home, the right kind of father and mother, no girl need ever get into such dan ger, or want to taste it, or take any more interest in what is low and de grading than her mother does. These fathers and mothers don’t have to be saints; they don’t have to be rich, smart, socially promi nent, or isolated deep in woods or on the tops of mountains, to keep their children safe. Parental Obligations. But they do have to have a real consciousness of their obligations as parents. This means clean rooms and good meals and some amuse ment and proper clothing for Betty and Bob. But it means much more than this. It means that no matter how tired he is when he comes home Dad must have a friendly word for the children. How was school today? When is the next Scout meeting? Who’d like to see the movie Sat urday night? It means that he keeps an eye on their homework; sympathizes with Bob’s passionate yearning for a “22,” talks sometimes about duck hunting, airplanes, guinea pigs, or whatever' else interests the small boy. [ It means that he asks both children to help him with home chores on Sunday morning; discusses Mother’s Christmas surprise with them; brings home from the office the lit tle advertising paperweight or tray that will delight Betty, offers to ac company Bob on the hard trip of apology for breaking the Smiths’ window. Mother’s Job. It means that Mother keeps from their very babyhood her children’s confidence; that they come to her first, sure of comfort and help. It means that from the time Betty is five years old her mother is telling her firmly that as an older girl she will not be allowed to run wild, that too much make-up is silly on a girl of 15 and absurd on a girl of ten. It means that when she forbids a thing Mother puts something else in its place; it means youngsters of whom Mother and Dad MAY ap prove being asked to the house, be ing familiar there, knowing where the games and pencils are kept, ac cepting Mother’s cookies and dough nuts with gasps of joy, to remem ber the taste of them when the cokes and cones and candy bars are forgotten. If your little girl’s Dad is the sour, selfish kind who snarls at the children, gulps meals in silence, sneers at radio programs that they like and shouts for silence when they giggle their way upstairs, then he is doing his best to destroy their natural instinct to turn to him for advice. And if you are the sort of mother who goes through the day’s duties in a sort of dream, thinking of the sitting-room curtains that ought to be washed when Betty is trying to tell you something, sighing in the long silences of the table, answering a dreary “out somewhere” when Dad asks “where’s that girl to night?” and answering Betty with a “Daddy wouldn’t stand for it,” when she begs for a little evening party at home, then don’t be surprised if someday Betty’s tear-stricken face looks back at you from the front page of a scandal sheet. No home is so poor that there can’t be a lot of fun in it. No moth er who intelligently loves her chil dren need fear losing them if she makes home a place they want to be. But good children, destined to grow into good men and women, are the most valuable things in the world. And you can’t get anything valuable for nothing! And, thank God, the bad little law less girls are the exception. All over this great country, in all the country towns, there are healthy, busy, normal Bobs and Bettys rac ing home from school to tell Mom everything, deep in Scout work, gym work, theatricals, hospital auxiliary, school projects. There are girls whose mothers and fathers call out a cheerful “Bring ’em along!” by. Eleanor Roosevelt HOSTEL FOR WOMEN WORKERS I spent part of one day at Leeds, seeing industries of various kinds. One airplane factory employs about 23 per cent of women workers and seems in many ways very like our factories at home, where women i workers are gradually taking over a great variety of departments. One factory connected with war industries, employs 80 per cent of women. They showed me a hostel for women workers, which is the first I have ever seen. At present, they satisfy the needs of the single i woman worker, or man worker, where they use both sexes. One woman answered my question as to why she had gone to work as follows, “We have got to get on with the war and get it over with quick ly.” I imagine there are a tremen dous number of women, especially those whose husbands are in the services, who have just that feel ing. They want the money they are making to give a little better chance to the child or children they have at home, but the main purpose in going to work is to get on with the war. I saw one young girl who had an accident to her wrist, but as soon as it was dressed, she insistei on going back 'to work, becausi she, too, wanted to “get on with the war.” Practically every factory in Eng land runs a canteen for its workers, where a hot midday meal is obtain able, as well as food for the night- shift, when one is working. It costs somewhere around one shilling three pence, which in our money is equiv alent to 27 cents, and it is a good meal. • • » BRITISH GET ‘A LIFT’ The news from Africa has given the British people a tremendous lift. For months they have met disap pointment and disaster, with grim .determination to do their best till the change came. Now that the change is here, I can feel the exhil aration and intensification of their willingness to push on with this suc cess. • • • APPRECIATE U. S. AID In two days we visited two indus trial cities and in each case the lord mayor and lady mayoress and other officials greeted us with the greatest warmth. They told us how much the help, received from the United States when it was needed, aided them during enemy air at tacks. The destruction in many cases is pitiful, for it breaks the homes of people who are not always even workers in factories. I talked with a great many of the civilian defense workers and people who have been bombed out and rehoused again. Even in the case of people who have been injured, the spirit of cheerfulness is extraordinary. I was also given a most wonder ful demonstration of the work of the land army. The place chosen was a farm, where six girl workers are employed regularly. For the purpose of this demonstration, a number had been lent from neigh boring farms. 9 Many of them were hairdressers, typists or housewives once upon a time. They love their new work and they have become experts at farm ing with tractors, digging ditches, hedging and, of course, caring for cows. There is very little farm work they can not do. We spent the night in what was once a very large pleasant country house, with a large garden for pleas ure only. We went to one of the houses, which now is one of the country’s nurseries. There were 35 children under five years of age. The lady of the house has worked hard in helping to run the nursery. • • • U. S. ARMY ACTIVITIES LONDON, ENGLAND. — After spending a night at a country house, whose mistress runs the Women’s Voluntary Services for her country, we left fairly early to drive to Liv erpool. At Warburton, they showed us two of the most delightful and amusing paintings over fireplaces, the rooms of which will presently be dismantled. We drove through the old walled town of Chester and lunched with Lord Derby at the Hotel Adelphi in Liverpool. Immediately after lunch we started out to our army to. see some of our activities here. We also looked over some ships, which are like those Mr. Kaiser turns out so rapidly in the United States. Lat er in the day, someone told me he had gone over the ship with a critical eye for some defects he was sure he would find, but he failed to discover anything serious. This seems to be a case where speed dees not prevent production on a quality basis. • • • GOOD NEWS That evening I could feel the ex citement in everyone I spoke to, which the landing of American troops in Northern Africa had cre ated. Everywhere there was a feel ing of “now we are fighting togeth er.” It seemed to add to the peo ple’s courage and was reflected in group after group. The dockers along the Liverpool docks and streets cheered more lust ily, I thought. One woman said, “Good bless your men, may this be the end for Hitler.” Ode to Yuletide . . . Plum Pudding and Fruit Cake (See Recipes Below.) Cakes ’n’ Puddin’s Home is where the heart is and Christmas is what tradition is. And that tradition is to a large extent what foods you serve. If you real ly want to make it a season for starry - eyed brightness and plain honest-to-goodness good cheer, have a holiday with all the food trimmings like frosted fruited cook ies, dark, spicy fruit cake and a plum pudding mellowed to wonder ful goodness. Begin these preparations now—for the ingredients of Xmas cakes, pud dings and cookies take on a charm— and flavor—with age. Preparations can be a snap if you budget a day for cutting up fruit and nuts, an other day for mixing and baking, and a third day for packing. First, for fruit cake—the cake with almost two dozen extra special ingredients. This year’s fruit cake is tuned to the times, uses honey and molasses to save on your pre cious sugar ration: Fruit Cake. (Makes 10 pounds) 1 pound butter or other shortening 1 pound brown sugar 10 eggs, well beaten 1 eup honey 1 cup molasses 14 cup sweet cider 1 pound sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 14 teaspoon cloves 14 teaspoon cinnamon 14 teaspoon mace 14 pound candied ) cneapple 14 pound candied cherries 1 pound dates, seeded and sliced 1 pound raisins 1 pound currants 14 pound citron, thinly sliced 14 pound candied lemon and or ange peel 14 pound nutmeats, chopped Sift flour once, measure, add bak ing powder and spices and sift again. Cream the ^ shortening thor oughly, add sug ar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, fruits, peel, nuts, honey, molasses and cider. Add flour gradually. Bake in 4 (8 by 8 by 2 inches) pans, lined with greased paper, in slow oven (250 degrees) 3 to 314 hours. Plum pudding gets my vote as being highly desirable for the fam ily feast at Christmas. Plum Pudding. (Makes 3 1-quart molds) 2 cups prunes, cooked 114 cups currants 1 cup raisins 114 cups citron, chopped 14 cup preserved orange peel 1 cup candied cherries, chopped 1 cup nutmeats, broken 1 cup all-bran 14 cup juice, from prunes 114 cups butter or substitute 114 cups sugar 4 eggs, beaten 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 cups soft white bread crumbs 3 cups flour Lynn Says: Let’s Decorate! The fruit cakes and puddings, of course! A clus ter of candied cherries in the mid dle with leaves fashioned of arti ficial rose leaves makes an at tractive cake. You’ll be praised for a rose garnish made of gelatin candies shaped like lemon and orange segments into thin, lengthwise slices. Roll a slice tightly to form center of rose and press other slices around it to make petals. Simpler decorations can be made of almonds or other nut meats forming flowers with can died peel as petals or centers. To store cake, place it in air tight container for several weeks. Sound apples may be placed in container, and changed as they become shriveled, to provide moisture. This Week’s Menu Tomato Juice Fried Fish Fillets With Lemon Garnish Broccoli Au Gratin Mashed Potatoes Perfection Salad Apple Brown Betty Beverage 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon each, cloves, nutmeg, ginger Cut prunes into small pieces, com bine with other fruits and all-bran. Add prune juice, and mix well. Blend butter and sugar thoroughly, add eggs and flavoring. Add bread crumbs and flour sifted with spices. Blend in fruit mixture. Stir until all fruit is well distributed. Fill greased pudding molds two-thirds full; cover and steam 3,14 to 4 hours. 1 think the spicy lemon sauce goes well with the bland pudding. You’ll like this one: Lemon Sauce. (Makes 114 cups) 1 tablespoon cornstarch 14 cap sugar 14 teaspoon salt 1 cup water 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon grated lemon 1 egg yolk 1 tablespoon butter Mix cornstarch, sugar and salt thoroughly. Add jvater. Heat to boiling and cook until clear and thick, stirring cor stantly. Add lem on juice, rind, and pour slowly over beaten egg yolks. Cook another min ute and add butter. Fig Maple Pudding.. (Serves 5) 14 pound figs % cup maple syrup 14 cup boiling water 14 cup sifted flour 114 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon salt 114 tablespoons sugar 3 tablespoons shortening 14 to 14 cup milk Soften figs in cold water, cut in halves and place in greased baking dish. Mix syrup with boiling water and pour over figs. Cover dish and steam for 14 hour. Sift dry ingredi ents together, cut in shortening with pastry blender or knives, add milk and mix lightly. Remove baking dish from steamer. Pour batter over figs, return to steamer for 1 hour. This pudding provides its own sauce. Ever hear of putting a raw apple or slice of one in the cookie jar—or tin—if you still have one to keep cookies fresh? You’ve no idea "/•. how delicious these fruity cook ies will taste if you follow the above prescrip tion. Made-with-honey cookies are much akin to fruit cakes and plum pudding in that they need to ripen and mellow: Christmas Fruit Nuggets. 14 cup shortening 114 cups honey 2 eggs 3 cups cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon each, cloves, cinna mon, nutmeg 14 cup milk 14 cup candied pineapple 1 cup each, candied cherries, raisins, nuts Cream shortening, drizzle in hon ey and cream together. Add beaten eggs, and mix thoroughly. Sift dry ingredients together and add alter nately with milk. Chop fruits, mix together and dredge with flour be fore folding into mixture. Drop by teaspoonfuls into greased tins or tiny paper cups. Bake in moderate (375-degree) oven for about 15 min utes. Lynn Chambers can tell you how to dress up your table for family dinner or festivi ties, give you menus for your parties or tell you how to balance your meals in ac cordance with nutritional standards. Just write to her, explaining your problem, at V'estern Newspaper Union, 210 South Des- plaines Street, Chicago, Illinois. Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your answer. Released by Western Newspaper Union. MINOR SKIN IRRITATIONS 5? AMO Guiding the Child Some teachers of child guidance say that punishment means to look backward at what a child has done, whereas guidance means to look forward to what it is hoped he will do in the future. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulslon relieves promptly be cause 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. 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