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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.
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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.
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MINOR SKIN IRRITATIONS
5?
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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. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs. Chest Colds, Bronchitis
: —)
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Socrates is dear to mo but dear-j
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