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THE NEWBERRY SDN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Lincoln—His Spirit Is with the Ages Martyr, Emancipator, Myth, Abe Is 'Builded Forever' By BAUKHAGE Nem Analyst and Commentator. Like everything else in this political year, preparations for Lincoln’s birthday in 1948 are chiefly a matter of scram bling through the Great Emancipator’s writings to find a text for a highly-partisan outburst. But February 12 is the oc casion for more than a barrage of political speeches. To me Lincoln is real because he and my childhood conception of my grandfather are strangely blended. Both, like Merlin's Camelot, are build, ed forever because, to me. they never were builded at all—they were myth rather than fact—a myth not of my own making, but handed down through two generations. ^ — TRUMAN ENLISTS . . . Clifford Edgar Truman, 17, of East Chicago, Ind., third consin of President Harry S. Truman, has enlisted in the navy. He is being sworn in by Lt. (j.g.) Robert Rizzone for his three- year hitch, and will study aviation radio after his basic training. My mother, as a little child, “saw Lincoln’' (like a man “sleeping,” *he thought) as §jg^l| he lay in state in Chicago. My grandmother stood beside her swathed in the heavy mourning veil of the day which she felt perhaps was as much for Lincoln then as it was for her soldier • hus band who had given his life in the same cause. To my mother, staring at that coffin in Chicago, there always re mained a confused impression of mourning for the man she thought was not dead, but sleeping, and the father she never had seen. Perhaps that feeling was imparted to me. Bauknage My mother described the scene to me. It was clearly etched in her memory like the rest of the strange hegira which she took westward with her widowed mother from a little town in New York state (as a bride, my grandmother had pio neered the West with her young New York state farm-born husband). Of course, the memories were blurred and blended, undoubtedly, with later repetition of the event, but the picture was clear, and I only wish I could repeat it in my moth er's own words. The train trip west, the arrival in the great city, the crowd about her as she advanced slowly with her mother into the great hall. Then the coffin which she did not know was a coffin for there was no such word in her tiny vocab ulary. Her mother let go the little girl’s hand to move back her own heavy veil. Then the little girl remembered being lifted in the strong hands of the guard. About him she could re call only a blue tunic, shiny brass buttons and the smell of tobacco. Then the face of the “sleeping” man, and her mother’s quiet tears. (The body of the martyred President, as you know, was taken from the East Room of the White House to the capitol where it lay in state. Then it was carried across the country, pausing for homage in several cities until it reached Spring- field, Lincoln’s home.) 1 repeated my mother’s story after her death, as best I could on the air—and there were sequels. Letters—one from a lady in New England for whom the broadcast had awakened memories . . . her father had been one of the Union soldiers chosen to stand guard at the catafalque in Chicago. It might well have been he who lifted my mother. The soldiers who had been chosen for that honored duty were permit ted to divide the gold-fringed drape that covered the coffin, she wrote me, and she consigned to me a frag ment which I cherish. There were many other let ters. One from the niece of one of Lincoln’s cabinet members, William Pitt Fessenden; an other enclosing the announce- atent shown in the put. Those were two sequels to the story of the little girl and her weep ing mother. I think the everlasting sequel can be read again and again in the story of America, as the story of lincoln^s projected far on into history. I tnink I have seen it pro jected in the crowds who come to Washington, avid with guidebook and camera to collect “souvenirs.” Only this week, the garrulous cab driver who carried me from Union station was full of a story of “South Americans” who spent endless hours (according to his timing) at the Lincoln MemoriaL The memo rial remains a shrine for all visitors, native and foreign, a place where flippant chatter is stilled before that almost living replica warmed to life out of cold marble by the inspired hand of Daniel Chester French. , It lives as the spirit of Abra ham Lincoln lives. To the little child beside the cata falque, except for her mother’s tears there ?as no mourning in that moment. Only something sol emn, something important, some thing that touched old and young alike because it had in it the cosmic rhythm of the epic, and, as well, the simple, soul-touching melody of the folk song. And I wonder if there was not some intangible, some eternal qual ity of what Lincoln did, or what his character has etched into the his- PROGRAMME OK Funeral Ceremonies! Ut HOIVOR OP ROTUNDA OP THE CAPITOL 1 OM Thuisda;, May 4ih, 1865, at 3 o'clock P, M. t r«Nral Dkg*. l,Umi S ImOfltairmm, •yiaa.ar.FM* u •» e “v . -cosot DBComoum- ^ OytrtewuMliln •Marja kagU. tory of America, that gives Ameri cans the assurance that his spirit, especially in these times when evil gods make their black magic to be muse the minds of men, is not dead, but sleeps, waiting only the clarion call of the people whom he loved to wake it into action. • • • Free Speech, Ratsian Style The Russians celebrated Christ mas with a public criticism of Rus sian factories by the commercial director of Mostorg, the Soviets’ largest department store. The direc tor complained that the factories were producing inferior products. He wanted more and better goods, more washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators and decent furniture. Are you surprised that such criticism is permitted? If you are, you don’t understand the Soviet system. Criticism is al lowed as a sound method of cor recting faults — although it doesn’t necessarily displace the "cure,” which means banish ment temporarily or perma nently to Siberia, just as in the good old days. I am reminded of columnist Lowell Mellett’s story about the scope of Russian criticism. On his trip to Russia, he was shown around by a very clever female guide. Mel- lett asked her about freedom of the press, and she said, “Oh, yes, they had a free press, the press contin ually criticized things, including government enterprises." Well, would they be allowed to criticize Stalin, Mellett wanted to know. “Why!” the girl was sur prised, “What has that got to do with it? You couldn’t criticize him because there is nothing about him to criticize!" • • • Secretary Marshall wants the Eu ropean recovery plan to be run by a single administrator, not an eight- man board as has been suggested. If the old saw that the best-working committee is a committee of three with two members out of town is correct, perhaps Marshall is right. • • • January saw three presidential messages presented to congress. Each document had many a pas sage bom only to waste its fra grance on the desert air of an un sympathetic majority. • • • Too bad the Republicans don't care for Mr. Truman's budget. The budget message was printed up so nicely, bound so neatly, and it IS unique—unique in that it is the big gest peacetime budget ever present ed to any congress. NEWS REVIEW Nazi-Soviet Pact Told; Too Much Aid: Hoover The celebrated "cold war” has^ been enriched by another U. S. propaganda strike, probably the heaviest yet, against Russia. FOREIGN AID: Hoover Plan It took the form of official state department publication of captured German foreign office records re vealing the extent and nature of Nazi-Soviet relations from 1939 to 1941, the period covered by the non aggression pact between the two nations which ended when Hitler attacked the Russians on June 22, 1941. In the light of the U. S.-Russian wartime alliance, the Nazi docu ments, published in book form, tell a sordid story of secret agreements, global gambling with nations for stakes and the feverish fetish of po litical expediency which gripped the minds of German and Russian lead ers before and during the war. High point of the hitherto secret dossier was the revelation that in 1940 Adolf Hitler and V. M. Molotov of Russia agreed that Britain and the U. S. must be excluded from Europe, Asia and Africa. 'Hie book told also how, in 1940, Stalin had offered to join the Ger- man-Italian-Japanese axis if Hitler would give Russia a free hand in Finland, a military base near the Dardanelles and a dominant voice in the oil-rich Middle East. Then the documents show how Hitler, disdain ing even to answer Stalin’s proposi tion, ordered his armies to prepare “to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign.” One of the major factors which precipitated the German attack on Russia was the Soviet demand for dominant control of the Balkans. Hitler, who was as aware as any man of the political, economic and strategic value of the pivotal Balkan area, turned thumbs down on that Russian desire also. Sum and substance of the state department’s spectacular publica tion of the Nazi documents was little more than an emphatic indication of an already well-known fact: That Russia, with aggressive consistency, has been hungering for years for leadership in the Balkans, for new pre-eminence in the Dardanelles, for expansion in Central Asia and for a free hand in Finland and Poland. Value of the publication of these documents at this time is question able, despite the flagrantly apparent anti-Russian propaganda they can and will inspire. State department’s action obviously was aimed at rally ing public support behind the Mar shall plan, soon to come up for con gressional action, but it also would serve to aggravate and inflame the already dangerously touchy “cold war.” Rubber Bill Legislation to establish a perma nent, government-regulated Ameri can rubber industry with a 675,000- ton annual capacity and a required annual production of at least 225,000 tons a year has been introduced by Rep. Paul Shafer (Rep., Mich.). The bill refers throughout to the product in question as “American- made rubber.” The word “syn thetic,” as the term for factory made rubber, is not mentioned. > Hoover Herbert Hoover, former U. S president, has urged congress not U commit this nation—even "morally’ —to a four-year European recover! program, and advised a reductioi of the 6.8-billion-dollar outlay pro posed to carry the Marshall plai through its first 15 months. In the 4,000-word statement whid he filed with the senate foreign re • lations committei Hoover expressei his opposition view: to the administra tion’s foreign ail plans. Of greater signii icance, however was the fact tha Hoover’s own opin ions amounted to i documentary of thi entire right-wing conservative element of thinkin) which rejects an “internationalist’ foreign policy on the grounds tha U. S. resources should be concen trated at home. Decrying even a Vmoral commit ment” for the four-year period con templated in the state department’! proposals, he asserted the U. S should keep itself entirely free “ti end our efforts without recrimina tion.” He expressed, too, the fear that i lavish outpouring of aid wouli weaken the American economy ti the extent that all world recover: would be defeated. The volume of exports and fundi proposed in the Marshall plan, hi opined, might aggravate the al ready serious inflation, draining oui national resources and continuin| high tax rates, “all of which might bring depression and thus destro: the strength of the one remainini source of aid to a world of chaos.’ Hoover recommended further tha' the Marshall plan, if it is adopted be run by a bipartisan commission and suggested that up to three bil lion dollars in food, coal, fertilizer! and cotton be labeled frankly at “gifts” because unsecured loan/ “will not and cannot be repaid.” REFUSAL: Prediction About all the average U. S. citizei knows about Gen. Dwight D. Eisen bower is that he either will or wil not get into the campaign for thi Republican presidential nominatioi this year. But Roy A. Roberts, president a the Kansas City Star and lea din/ promoter of pro-Eisenhower sent! ment, now .says he definitely wil not. Roberts’ prediction was that thi general soon would remove himsel: from all consideration along thosi lines. Said Roberts: “I’ll venture a guess that befon June the general may take himsel) completely out of the political pic ture. I am sure the message wil come when he lays aside his mill tary uniform February 15.” He emphasized, though, that hi was not speaking for Eisenhower. With Alf Landon, 1936 Republicat presidential nominee, Roberts hal been doing most of the politica drum-beating for Eisenhower. HAPPY HOLIDAYS This Won t Happen Again Until 1976 You like to have holidays fall on€>- weekends? Then 1948 should be a year of great promise. Most of the major holidays this year will fall on Saturdays and Sun days, which is either good or bad, depending on how you feel about getting time off down at the old mill. Sundays, whereon fall Washing ton's birthday, Memorial Day and Independence Day, aren’t too bad because the government and most other employers observe the Mon days following as legal holidays and so extend holiday benefits to their employees. But for the working man it’s a rough shake when a holiday falls on a Saturday, for it doesn’t bring an alternate day off. And this year both Christmas and New Year’s Day (1949) fall on Saturdays. Of the three remaining holidays, two come on weekdays without the aid of any idiosyncracies on the part of the calendar. Labor Day, September 6 this year, arrives on Monday simply be cause it always falls on the first Monday of September instead of on any one numerical day in the month. Same goes for Thanksgiv ing on Thursday. Armistice Day just happens to come on Thursday this year. Study of the calendar and holi days for 1948 also developed an other odd ingle. The year’s three Sunday holidays can happen only once every 28 years. So, the last time February 22, May 30 and July 4 all feU on Sun days in the same year was In 1920. The next time after this year wil be in 1976. The deciding factor il the extra day (February 29) everj seven leap years. Now this is the place for someom who knows calendar law to argui that since the coming year 2000 (« century year divisible by 400) is not a leap year, it will be 32 mon years, or 2008, after 1976 before th« three holidays again appear on Sun days. However, this is not a subject K spend much time worrying about Besides, who’ll be alive to take a holiday in the year 2008? Methods Suggested For Treating Lice Second Application Is Generally Necessary The poultry grower has a choice o several effective methods for treat ing lice. Which one he uses w41 de pend on his preference or the avail ability of remedies, according to Washington State college. Whatever method is used, birds should be examined 10 days to two weeks after treatment to see if any lice still are present Louse eggs are not always de stroyed by the treatment used, and these will hatch later. A second Mass of body-loose eggs at tached to feathers. treatment usually is necessary an< should be applied about two week after the first treatment. One method is to fumigate with a 40 per cent nicotine sulfate solution. In this case directions of the manu facturer should be followed. Lice powder also is effective. These may be DDT, nicotine sulfate or commercial sodium fluoride or sodium fluosilicate. These may be applied by the pinch method. It con sists of placing on the skin of each fowl about 10 pinches, rubbing into the breast, each thigh, below the vent, on each side of the back, on the neck and head and on the under side of each outspread wing. The fowls also may be dusted, sprayed with dusting material or dipped in a solution. In some parts of the coun try louse ointments are widely used. Corn Production Many things are required to pro duce 100 bushels of com per acre. The growing crop must have plenty of nitrogen, phosphate, potash and other plant nutrients. A shortage of any will hold down yields and lower the quality and feeding value of the crop. So the use of fertilizer is vital. For high com yields, the soil must store water for drouth periods. The accompanying chart shows how much of these it takes to produce 100 bushels of com. Organic matter is especially important. While not a — r FOR 100 BUSHELS OF CORN-' Nitrogen, phosphate and potash are the most important plant nu trients for growing corn. plant food, it is essential to crop production. Organic matter im proves tilth and keeps the soil loose and open. It is a sponge that soaks up water readily for crops to “drink” in dry spells. It allows air to reach roots and soil bacteria. Or ganic matter can be built up by growing deep-rooted legumes and grasses frequently in the rotation. To get good stands, liming based on soil tests and a generous feeding of phosphate and potash are needed. Organic matter can be replenished, too, by returning barnyard manure, straw and com stalks to the land. When plant food, good tilth, organic matter and other soil conservation measures are combined into a team, maximum com production per acre is assured. Rice as Poultry Feed Proves Satisfactory Whole and ground rice, rice bran and rice polish are excellent feeds for egg production and growth in chickens when they are adequately supplemented with vitamin A and reasonably free from rancidity. Whole rough rice proves to be a satisfactory substitute for whole yel low com when included to the ex tent of 75 per cent of the grain feed and ground rough rice replaces ground yellow com. Eggs A-Plenty! “My family simply refuses to eat eggs, and I don't know how to work them into my menus,” says many a housewife who is trying desper ately to give each member of her family “the egg a day” that nutritionists rec ommend. Today. we’re devoting the col umn to recipes which are rich in eggs. For the families who refuse to eat eggs as such, there are many ways of dis guising them. Instead of poached eggs for breakfast, serve a Dutch pancake, for example, and see how well received it is; use batter bread tor lunch, and serve a vegetable custard for dinner. Isn’t it easy? Dutch Pancake. » (Serves 4) 4 eggs V. H cup sifted flour K teaspoon salt H cup mHk 2 tablespoons soft butter Confectioners’ sugar Jam Beat the eggs. Sift flour and salt together and add to eggs alternate ly with milk to make a smooth batter. Spread butter over the bot tom and sides of a cold frying pan. Pour in batter and place in a hot (400 degrees) oven. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, reducing heat gradually to moderate (350 degrees) during the baking. Pancake should puff at the sides and be crisp and brown. Sprin kle with confectioners’ sugar and spread with jam. Roll like an ome let Serve on hot platter at once. Batter Bread. (Serves 6) 3 eggs 1 cup buttermilk 1 cup sweet milk cup fine white cemmeal 2 teaspoons baking powder K teaspoon baking soda H teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons melted butter or shortening Set baking pan in oven to heat Beat eggs, add buttermilk and sweet milk, beat well and add dry ingredients sifted together, then the butter. Grease heated pan, pour in batter and bake in a hot oven (400 degrees) until set in center, about one hour. Serve at once. There was a number of vegetables which are enhanced if they are made with an egg mixture and baked. Why not try one of these when adding eggs to the diet as well as your vegetable? Corn Custard. (Serves 6) 3 eggs 2 cups canned corn, kernel style 2 tablespoons melted butter 2 cups milk 1 teaspoon salt ii teaspoon pepper H teaspoon sugar Cracker crumbs Butter Beat eggs well. Combine with corn, melted butter and milk. Stir well. Add season ing and sugar. Pour into a but tered casserole and sprinkle with cracker crumbs, then dot with butter and bake in a moderate (3 5 0 degrees) oven for 40 minutes or until the cus tard is firm. LYNN SAYS: You Need Time Savers In the Kitchen Potatoes will bake in half the time il you parboil them first for 15 min utes. Rhubarb, celery, asparagus and green onions should be cut by the bunch rather than by the stalk. Use a board and a very sharp knife. Paper towels or napkins kept in the bottom of a hydrator will pre vent rust from forming on lettuce and other greens. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU •Omelet Supreme with Creamed Chicken Shredded Carrots, Green Beans, Pineapple, Apple, Nut Salad Canned Blueberry Pie Beverage •Recipe given. Ham-Cheese Souffle. (Serves -4) 1H cups milk 1 teaspoon salt H teaspoon pepper H cup grated Swiss cheese 4 eggs 4 slices ham 4 slices tomato Add milk, seasoning and cheese to slightly beaten eggs. Turn the mix ture into a bak ing dish which has been greased and line with ham and tomato and set into a pan of hot water. Bake in a moder ate oven (350 degrees) for 25 to 30 minutes or until the custard is firm. Let stand for three minutes and unmold onto a platter. Serve with tomato sauce, which may be heated canned tomato soup. The above mixture also may be baked in individual ramekins. Place ham and tomato slice on bottom of each before pouring in the mix ture. There are lots of fine variations for omelet that make it ideal for serving as a main luncheon or sup per dish. •Omelet Supreme. (Serves 6) 6 eggs, separated % teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons flour H teaspoon pepper % cup green pepper or parsley, finely chopped 2 tablespoons onion, finely chopped 2 cups creamed tuna, chicken, lobster or vegetables Add salt to whites and beat stiff. Beat yolks then add pepper and flour and beat to blend thoroughly. Add green pepper and onion. Fold yolk mixture into beaten whites. Pour mixture into two well greased hot eight-inch layer pans (place pans in oven to heat while mixing omelet). Spread mixture lightly in the pans having mixture higher around the edge. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 15 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. To serve, invert one layer on warm serving platter. Pour about H cup creamed mixture over layer. Invert second layer atop sauce. To serve, cut in pie-shaped pieces. Pass re maining creamed mixture in a bowl. Other fillings for omelet: Chopped crisp bacon and fried potatoes; creamed tongue; chopped, cooked chicken livers with sauteed onions; creamed oysters or shrimp; corned beef hash; highly seasoned, stewed kidneys, chopped and spread over top; cooked sausage meat; broiled or creamed sweetbreads; thiu slices of tomato sprinkled with soft, grated American cheese —place under broiler until cheese melts, then serve omelet immediately. Released by WNU Features. After you have grated cheese, rub fresh bread over the grater to clean it. Save the crumbs and use for crumbing. When you make cake or other things, measure everything on a tray, then check it. In this way you will be able to follow recipes more accurately. Use paper when you peel fruits or vegetables. This is easy to gath er up and dump into the garbage can, and saves' cleaning the work ing space. Gramma SPEARIN'... HORSE SENSE is something horses have that keeps them from betting on people, ts said lira K. CiiUmth. 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