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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWHERRY. S. C. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS' South Receives Wallace With Fury; CIO Pledges to Support President; Berlin Meetings May End Stalemate -By Bill Schoeotgen, WNU Staff Writer- (EDITOR’S NOTE: When •pinions are expressed In these columns, they are thos«/Of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) WALLACE: Pure Hate Crowd Fury Henry Wallace claimed that his expansive love for his fellow men had not bv-.-n diminished by his ex periences in the South, But it stood as a fact that the s ramparts of that abiding affection must have under gone a severe test. As the Progressive party’s presi dential candidate Wallace had gal lantly penetrated into the southern states to bring them his brand of enlightenment. But the crusader was not appre ciated. He was received in North Carolina by hostile audiences who showered him with invective, vili fication, eggs and tomatoes. His speeches were blanked out by boos and catcalls In Winston-Salem, Durham, Burlington, Greensboro and Charlotte, N. C. Wallace was stunned with unbelief at what was aappening to him. In Burlington, where the full force of North Carolina's vitupera tive mood was unleashed, the for mer vice president was not even given a chance to talk. He was un able to do anything except dodge missiles and plead with the furious Citizens closest to him that things like this were not supposed to hap pen in the United States. It was an ugly display of bad taste that spread hysterically from town to town as Wallace’s tour progressed. The egg and tomato tossing was severely criticized by top U. S. officials, including Presi dent Truman who called it “highly tin-American business,” and said: "Mr. Wallace is entitled to say his piece the same as any other American.” Nevertheless, in North Carolina WaLace’s say was confined for the most part to protestations against the treatment he was receiving. At Greensboro, with egg shell clinging to his head, he shouted: “I don’t mind being hit by eggs and tomatoes, but they would be more useful being fed to children. “The faces I have seen distorted by hatred are of people for whom t have in my heart profound com passion, because most of them have not enough to eat.” The crowd laughed at him. And as Wallace left North Caro lina to head into Alabama and Mis sissippi it looked as though he might be able to use some “profound com passion” for himself, for his racial views are opposed even more vi olently in those states. BACKING: For Truman As the two major presidential candidates prepared to swing their campaigns into full career in prep aration for the November elections, some good news popped up for President Truman. The CIO officially threw its sup port to the Democratic ticket and pledged the organization to work for his election. That was the way the CIO had written itself on the political books this year, but the action left the organization simmering with inter nal discord. Bitter protests of 12 left-wing un ion leaders had had to be overcome oefore the CIO could cast its lot with Truman and Barkley. The dis senting unions wanted to support Wallace, and they had their way Insofar as the resolution adopted by the group was easy in its criticism of the Progressive party’s candi- Henry Wallace, Progressive party candidate for President, has discovered that the penalty for espousing political ideas that dif fer sharply from the majority opinion is hatred. Speaking at Greensboro, N. C., he was pelted with eggs and vegetables—which probably is jnst another form of freedom of expression. BERLIN: • Some Talk That sound of sabers rattling ir Berlin meant this time that the disputants in the fight over control of the German capital were merelj laying down their swords to get to gether and talk about it once more. Tension lifted almost visiblj when the Big Four military gover nors pf Germany met for the first time in more than five months tc discuss a single currency for Ber lin and the lifting of the Soviet blockade of the city. The meeting was called in the first place to implement decision; reached by the American, British and French ambassadors with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in Moscow. At least the Moscow talks had accomplished thit much Topping the list of items for dis cussion was the problem of what to do about the rival currencies in Berlin. At present both eastern and western zone marks are circulating in the city. It was understood that the con ferees in Moscow previously had agreed in principle that only th« Soviet zone mark should circulate in Berlin, but that it should be under four-power control. There were still conflicting atti tudes as to what course the Berlin parley should take, however. The Russians believed that ar agreement on getting a single cur rency must be worked out before any final East-West agreement oc Berlin can be possible. In Washington the U. S. state de partment, backed by Great Britair and France, was insisting that the Soviets must lift the Berlin block ade before any discussion of the currency problem is held. The whole situation was extreme ly complex and, actually, few per sons outside of high official circle; made any pretense of being able to understand it fully. About as far as general under standing of the subject went, it wa; limited to the realization that un less an agreement were reached soon the tortured peace would be come more dangerously strained. Headliners date. GOP nominee Thomas E. Dewey, however, was condemned as “the candidate of big business.” The Dixiecrats, headed by Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, were shrugged off in the resolution as a coalition of Democrats and “do- nothing Republicans” that has ’’steadfastly adhered to the philos ophy of the National Association of Manufacturers.” The pro-Truman resolution by the CIO executive board did not neces sarily mean total support for the President, however. Philip Murray, CIO president, said that the 12 dis senting unions are not bound by the majority decision to back Mr. Tru man. "Any union still may exercise its right to do what it wants,” he said. That meant, apparently, that the leadership of at least 12 CIO unions, numbering more than a million members, would continue to labor in behalf of Wallace, while 30 other unions with about 5.5 million mem bers would go to work for the Dem ocratic party. IN GARLAND, TEX. ... A cam; paign-minded hatmaker was offer> ing edible candy headgear (above) for reckless election bettors whe vow to eat their hats if their can didate loses. IN ROCHESTER, N. H. . . . Ray, mond Beaulieu, fined $73 in munici-, pal court for operating an unreg, istered automobile, sold his car tc raise money to pay the fine. IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. . . Robert H. Smith was granted a divorce when he testified that hil wife, enraged because he didn‘1 know how to dance the polka, slapped and kicked him until hi; weight dropped from 165 pounds tc 140. GREEK CRISIS: Relieved Few U. S. forays into the field 3f international aid have been sc widely condemned and excoriated is the so-called “Truman doctrine” lor economic help to Greece and Turkey. Almost since its inception the ’Truman doctrine” has been de lounced as a fraud, a farce and a lop. Much of the denunciation lowever, seemed to be based or jpinion rather than fact. Actually, tor a long time it was almost Im possible to assess the condition oi lie Greek aid program. Now the government has come out with a report to congress tlial dates bluntly that American mili- ;ary and economic aid has removed lie danger of Greece falling to :ommunism. “While not all the problems in Sreece are solved, the crisis of 18 months ago has been averted,” one ifficial said. "The aid program in Sreece is over the hump.” The report, submitted by Presi- lent Truman and covering the first rear of American efforts to keep Sreece free, embodied virtually the Irst optimism anyone has ex pressed regarding the picture in Sreece. So far does this optimism extend !hat Greece now is accepted of- Icially as the “bright spot” in American attempts to help other lations resist the onslaughts of :ommunism. In Asia and other Eu ropean countries the anti-commu- list battle is not considered won. Government emphasis, of course, s on the fact that the task in Sreece still is not done. Between .5,000 and 17,000 Greek guerrillas ■emain at large despite recent sue- :esses by government forces. And guerrilla action may continue for leveral years, depending on the tmount of aid received by the rebels from Albania, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia. Briefly, the official success story pf the Greek effort claims that the ration’s wild inflation has been re sisted, the cost of living is drop ping, about 1,000 miles of key roads aave been reconstructed and the pital Corinth canal is open to traffic. Love in Blooip? British tongues and heartstrings are vibrating with rumors of a romantic association (that’s what It is when royalty is involved) between Princess Margaret Rose, youngest daughter of the king and queen, and the marquis of Bland- ford, a fair-haired young noble man. Her parents have yet to pass judgment on him, however. DEATH CAME: Charles E. Hughes Regally bearded Charles Evans Hughes came within a whisker ol being elected the 27th President ol die United States in 1916. At that time he was a crusty, unbending, academic man, and il was probably because of that tem perament that he lost the presi- lential race to Woodrow Wilson in pne of the closest elections in his tory—277 electoral votes to 254. California’s vote was 'the deciding factor in the final result and Hughey lost that when he incensed the Cali fornia governor by failing to visit him while on a tour of the state. But Charles E. Hughes was, nev ertheless, as near to being a great man as most people ever get. And he mellowed with time. He was the only American evei to be appointed twice to the U. S. supreme court — once in 1910 and again in 1930 when he returned to preside as chief justice. He was twice governor of New York, his native state, resigning the position during his second term to become a supreme court asso ciate justice. In July, 1911, he retired from the supreme bench to withdraw intq private life. Between that time and August of this year he made only one public appearance — to attend the funeral services of Harlan Fiske Stone, another chief justice, in April, 1946. Late last month Charles Evans Hughes, 86 years old, died of con gestive heart failure. Spraying in Summer Will Not Halt Grubs Destroying Eggs Fails To Stop Winter Attack Spraying cattle in summer with benzene hexachloride, rotenone or other insecticides, new or old, does not prevent grub infestation in win ter. Although there is nothing new in that statenaent, the need for repeat ing it is plainly indicated by an account of spraying dairy cattle in one of the com belt states. The work was given considerable pub licity, with erroneous conclusions. In this case, older animals of the herd were sprayed with DDT. Heif ers and calves were not sprayed because they were running in pas- Dipping method is favored by some cattlemen to control grubs and other infestations. ture. Spraying them would have required getting them up and han dling them. The following winter, it was noticeable that the cows which had been sprayed were not infected with grubs. The young stuff was peppered with them. The natural conclusion was that a summer spray of DDT was effective. That conclusion is unwarranted because, as entomologists know, older cattle seldom if ever have grubs of the heel fly. The young animals are the ones that suffer. The department of agriculture says: “Many substances have been applied to cattle to keep away heel flys and, to kill the eggs deposited on the legs of the animals. All have been found to be either ineffective or impractical. The best time for attacking the pefit is when the grubs are in the backs of cattle.” Soil Inventory Termed Good Management Basis Keep an inventory of the soil’s fertility, the same as of buildings, livestock and equipment, advises Middle West Soil Improvement committee. Nearly any farmer knows how many dairy cows, beef cattle, hogs and sheep he has. He also keeps a record of his seed, feed, build ings, machinery and fences. Few farmers, however, have an inventory of their principal asset— the soil. Yet a farmer’s earning power depends largely on whether his soil’s fertility level is high or low. On thousands of farms a soil fertility inventory would show seri ous shortages. Overcropping has used up nitrogen, phosphate and potash. The organic matter supply is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Soil structure has been damaged. Drainage is poor and air circula tion is shut off. Crop output is low. Restocking the “shelves” of the soil warehouse involves several es sential steps. Plant food is impor tant.' But other things also are needed, particularly organic matter and good soil structure. The soil inventory can be im proved faster and at lower cost il “leaks” are halted by conservation measures that will slow down run off and save topsoil and plant foods. Among such measures are contour cultivation, strip cropping and ter. racing where needed. NO RELIEF TOMORROW High Cost of Living Stays and Stays Here’s that same oM news again: There is no immediate relief from the high cost of living in sight, and it probably will continue to creep upwards throughout the election campaign this fall. Economists of the labor, com merce and agriculture departments concur in the prediction that no break in prices is likely to come about before the November 2 elec tion. Their statements indicate tha’ the next President will have to fact the high cost of living is.-ue righ' off the bat Even in food prices, where recore crop forecasts have jolted prices i little, no immediate relief is ii prospect for the family budget Food costs, as a matter of fact, wil be higher at least until the end at the year. Timber Top Lumber production in the U. S this year probably will exceed the 1947 output by at least 5 per cent, the commerce department has esti mated. The department’s lumber survej committee reported that this leve. would be attained if there is nc slackening of demand. Lumber cur rently is flowing to markets it ample quantity to supply the rec ord-breaking construction activity Soil Fumigation Needed , In Sugar Beet Culture Joint tests in Utah by sugar in terests and USDA “showed that soiT fumigation for beets which follow beets made the difference between big yields and no yield at alL” The sugar beet nemotode builds up so fast in one growing season where fertile soil has grown a big crop oi beets that the field is a death-bed for sugar beets the next year with out soil fumigation, it was indicated in the tests. l Varying Basic Recipes Assures Interesting Meals {See recipes below) Basic Recipes “IS THERE any simple way to team how to be a good cook?” asks a young woman now starting out to keep house. Older homemakers have asked me the same question just as often, so the problem seems to be a common one. The answer is simply yes. The method is to learn certain basic food preparations, then to vary these, and you certainly will have a good storehouse from which to select for meals of all kinds—for family and for guests. The idea is to learn the basic recipes so well that it becomes as much a part of you as any sim- pie habit. You'll memorize the in gredients if you repeat the recipe , „ often enough, T -77* and the method is even easier to learn. Then it’s no trick at all to make an infinite variety of varia tions of the basic recipe. Once you have learned a recipe in this way, you’ll always remember it, no matter how rushed you are or in whose kitchen you are making it You will have arrived at perfec tion once you polish the technique of fiiaking it and that is true satis faction. Perhaps you've heard that Mrs. Jones is the muffin maker of the community, especially because of her orange muffins. You can be come famous for any one of several of your recipes Just by learning to follow basic recipes, and trying out their variations. HERE ARE SEVERAL good basic recipes with their appropriate varia tions which can form a good back bone to your collection: Plain Muffins (Makes about 14) 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder H teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 1 egg, well beaten 1, cup milk 4 tablespoons melted shortening or salad oil Sift together dry ingredients, Combine all remaining ingredients. Add all at once to flour mixture, stirring, not beating, quickly and vigorously until just mixed but still lumpy in appearance so that muf fins will have good # texture. Fill greased or oiled muffin pans, one- half full, and bake in a hot (425- degree) oven about 25 minutes. •WHOLE WHEAT MUFFINS: Use above recipe, reducing flour to one-quarter cup, adding one cup unsifted whole wheat flour. In crease sugar to four tablespoons and use four teaspoons baking powder. Bake in a moderate (375-degree) oven for 35 minutes. NUT MUFFINS: Use plain muf fin recipe, adding one cup finely chopped nuts to other ingredients. ORANGE MUFFINS: Use plain muffins, increasing sugar to four tablespoons, reducing milk to three- quarter cup, and adding one-quarter cup orange juice and one-quarter cup grated orange rind. CHEESE MUFFINS: Add one cup grated American cheese, lightly packed, to dry ingredients. BLUEBERRY MUFFINS: Mix Ihree-quarter cup of fresh blue- LYNN SAYS: Use Qaickie Recipes For Short-Cut Meals Coarsely grated potatoes may be mixed with chopped onion and ham burger, skiUet fried, to give you meat and potatoes all in one quick- to-flx dish. Beef or calves’ liver dipped in trench dressing and bread crumbs is pan fried for just a few minutes to get done. Add some canned sweet potatoes heated in a dusting of brown sugar and butter in a skillet for the accompaniment. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU •Baked Tomato Macaroni Tossed Greens with French Dressing Whole Wheat Muffins Jam s ‘Orange Charlotte with Chocolate Sauce Beverage Nut Icebox Cookies •Recipe Given berrigs or thawed, frozen blue berries in plain muffin batter. • • • A SIMPLE DISH like macaroni and cheese has several good varia tions that you can use frequently. Here, again, when you learn how to make the dish to perfection, you can be certain to enjoy the food no matter what variation you use. Macaroni and Cheese (Serves 6) 1 8-ounce package macaroni 3 tablespoons butter % cup flour % teaspoon salt H teaspoon pepper 2 cups milk Itt cups grated American cheese Cook macaroni in boiling salted water until tender. Melt butter in top of double boiler, blend in flour and season ings. then add milk and cook until thick. Add grated cheese and stir until melted. Combine sauce and maca roni and turn into a greased cas serole. Bake in a (400-degrre) oven moderately hot until golden brown, about 20 minutes. HAM AND MACARONI: Take one-third package macaroni, place in casserole, top with thin slices of leftover ham, sprinkle with a little dry mustard, dot with butter and pour some of sauce on top of that. Repeat with layer of cheese, ham and sauce twice. Bake as above. MACARONI WITH MEAT: Use basic recipe, with one cup slivered tongue, chicken or corned beef in layers. •BAKED TOMATO MACARONI: Arrange three skinned, thinly sliced tomatoes in layers with macaroni and cheese sauce in casserole. MACARONI WITH CHIPPED BEEF: Shred one-quarter pound of dried beef and cover with hot water; let stand 10 minutes. Arrange beef on macaroni layers. Use cheese sauce on top. Scrambled Eggs (Serves 4) 2 tablespoons fat 6 eggs % teaspoon salt Pepper % cup rich milk or cream Melt butter In skillet; beat eggs and add remaining ingredients. Cook slowly, stirring gently until mixture sets. Serve with ham, sausages rr bacon. WITH CHEESE: Make scrambled eggs, adding one-half cup of grated cheese with two teaspoons minced onion before cooking. WITH MEAT: Use recipe for scrambled eggs, adding one-half cup of diced ham or tongue, shredded dried beef or chicken before cook ing. Released by WNU Features. Bake popovers while you heat some creamed chipped beef on top of the stove. Split the popovers and served with the creamed beet Sliced leftover’ roast heated in gravy extended with tomato sauce is excellent when placed over piping hot noodles. Lamb stew takes on a different character when you add two cups of canned tomatoes in place of the water. A clove of garlic, placed on a toothpick so that it’s easy to re move when cooking is finished, adds a touch of delicious flavor. Here'sWhySteak Costs So Much in The Butcher Shop OMAHA, NEB.—A $5 bull calf, bom on the western Nebraska range and fed grass and com for two years as a steer, will bring 36 cents a pound on the Omaha livestock market. And that’s not top price. For a housewife to place on the broiler—steak from that one-time wobbly-legged calf, she must pay her butcher $1 a pound. That’s av erage current price for beef loin. Here’s the trail a specific Aber deen Angus bull calf travelled be fore he ended up on the dinner plate: He weighed about 75 pounds at birth, and was worth $5. In the first year of his life he grazed off seven acres of grassland, ate about two tons of hay, licked block salt and underwent a de-sexing op eration. » In the second summer he had grown into a 711-pound steer and was ready to be sold to a feeder, a stockman who specialized in “finishing” cattle Into beef-on-the- hoot The steer brought 16 cents a pound, netting his former owner $114. Transportation Costs The feeder paid $1.91 to trans port the steer by train to his home town, and 21 cents to truck the animal to his farm. The feeder kept the glossy black animal 11 months. The feeder followed the Ameri can Meat institute’s formula for fattening the animal for each 100 pounds of grain: , Seven hundred thirty-two pounds of grain costing the feeder five cents a pound; 60 pounds of protein at six cents a pound; 245 pounds of hay at 1% cents a pound; 385 pounds of silage at one-half cent a pound, and 8V4 days of outside pas ture running 75 cents a month. The cost of feeding, insuring, and caring for the critter was $164, making a total expenditure oi $278 to the feeder. Steer Gains Weight The steer gained 609 pounds to a total weight of 1,320 pounds. At $36 per hundredweight, he re turned $468, a 68 per. cent profit, or $190, to the feeder. The carcass of the former 75- pound bull calf yielded 68 pounds of loin, only 8 per cent of the dressed weight of 850 pounds. Proratea, that 8 per cent of loin cost the packer $37.44. At a whole sale price of 80 cents a pound, the loin brought the packer $54.50. That money was for the cut of meat to produce steaks, not pot roast or chuck. The housewife paid the retail price of $1 a pound for a piece of meat which, two years ago, repre senting 5.23 per cent of the calf- on-the-hoof, was worth about three cents. r Lawyer Explains in Legal Terms How Client Was Bitten CINCINNATI—Mrs. Anna Wag- enlander, 79, Newport, Ky., filed two suits for $12,000 each in cohi- mon pleas court, charging she had been bitten and mauled in the Cin cinnati club by a chimpanzee be longing to the Zoological Society of Cincinnati. Mrs. Wagenlander charged the animal attacked her when she stepped from an elevator at the club, where she was employed. Jack Glenn Williams, attorney in the action filed on behalf of Mrs. Wagenlander, said: “Plaintiff had no knowledge of the presence of simians among the group waiting for said elevator, nor in the exercise of reasonable care in departing from said elevator could plaintiff distinguish said chimpanzee from its keepers and the other anthropoids, waiting there. “Plaintiff was not aware until thereafter that said elevator, or said Cincinnati club, catered to or were used by wild animals other than of the species homo sapiens, especially apes, far from their native haunts in Africa, and even several miles from the strong cages of the Cin cinnati zoological gardens where the aforesaid elevator-riding chim panzee usually makes his hdme, but without elevator service.” New Air Power Hoe Replaces Drudgery of Hand Farming SAN FRANCISCO.—One answer to higher agricultural production costs may be found in the air power hoe invented by Frank King, sugar beet grower. Although the machine is mechani cally practical, actual savings in op erating costs are not known yet, says J. P. Fairbanks, University of California agricultural engineer, who saw it demonstrated. He added that the savings would have to be high because the hoes cost about $165 each to make, plus the air compressor, cost of tractor and driver’s wages. However, it replaces the drudg ery of hand hoeing and wdlkers won’t have a chance to lean on a handle and rest, he said. Up to 20 rows can be weeded at once. A tractor draws an air com pressor slowly down the field with air hoses attached on each side. Each hose is connected to a hoe with a piston at the top of the handle. Compressed air Jabs the blade back and forth much like a jackhammer. Gems of Thought He who Uvea for himself alone lives for a mean fellow. He who tells a secret la an other’s servant. The superior man’s strength is revealed by the winds of adver sity. It is only when winter comes that we know the pine and cypress to be ever green. Kitchen Helper Has . Double Duty Purpose T'HIS practical kitchen helper is -*■ really very easy to build from the full size pattern. Once you’ve used it chances are that you’ll make another to go alongside you* stove or sink. It'not only provides many square inches of additional table top working space, but if also does double duty as a large * tray holder. Salad bowls and mix ers can also be stored on its wide shelves. « The materials which the pattern sped Res are obtainable at any lumber yard. Trace pattern on lumber specified, saw and assemble. Full size pattern show* exactly where to nail or screw each piece and size of nails and screws to use. You’ll have fun building this pine* and save many steps using it. Send 50 cents for Step-Saver Kltchea Unit Pattern No. 3 to Easi-BUd Patter? Co., Dept W, Pleasantville, N. Y. WITH TANGY PINEAPPLE Gr—J Idea Far Smtday Night Swpptr Aahl Crunchy toasted Kellogg’s Ail- Bran dotted with flavorful pineapplel Different and dee-liciousl St cup shortening Si teaspoon salt ' st cup sugar ^ 1 cup Kellogg's 1 egg AU-Bran 1 cup sifted flour 1 cup undralned 2Si teaspoons crushed baking powder pineapple 1. Blend shortening and sugar; add egg and beat well. 2. Kit flour with baking powder and salt; add AU-Bran. Stir into first mixture alternately with pineapple. Mix only until combined. 3. FiU greased muffin pans % fuU. Bake In moderately hot oven (40C°P.) 25 to 30 minutes. Yield: 10 muffins — 2St Inches in diameter. I Made with a face cream bate. Yodora is actually soothing to normal skins. No harsh chemicals or irritating salts. Won’t harm skin or clothing. Stays soft and creamy, never gets When Your Back Hurts - And Your Strength and Energy la Below Par • It cay b* caused by disorder of kid ney function that permits poisonous waste to accumulate. 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