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Fanners Continuing ,To Buy Machinery Demand Backlog, Labor Costs Held as Factors . Although farm operators’ net in come and their purchases of agri cultural machinery were both down in 1949, neither has slipped very far from their peak levels. Realized net income from agriculture in 1949 approximated 14 billion dollars, ac cording to the latest estimate of the ^bureau of agricultural economics. The bureau reported that no of ficial figure of agricultural ma chinery purchases in 1949 is yet available, but informed trade and Washington sources expected the total to be down from last year by about the same percentage as farm ers’ net income. That would indi cate a figure of about two to 2.1 bil lion. In the record year of 1948, pur chasers reached 2.4 billion, an all- time high. If 1949 expectations ma- Typical of the ever-increas ing use of farm machinery, is this farmer operating a tractor to break ground in a matter of hours which would have pre viously required days. terialize, farm machinery pur chases would still be almost four times as large as the 1935-39 aver age. Several factors besides high in comes have acted in recent years to help boost purchases of equip ment. In some measure they were expected to add strength to the equipment market for some time. Automatic Feeder Many southern farmers, who would like to install automatic feed handling setups, often pass them up because they feel they lack buildings large enough to hold the necessary electric equipment. That such tight-sided buildings, so necessary in cold climates, are not needed for this operation in the South is shown by the above pic ture. Taken on a farm near Roanoke, Va., it shows a combination in- doors-outdoors arrangement. Whole grain is fed into the outdoor mill, to the left. Here it is ground and then elevated by blower pipe into feed bins inside the combination grain and machinery storage shed in the background. . Poultrymen Are Advised To Purchase 'Quality' “Good chickens can not be sold at a low price,” G. S. Vickers, field manager of the Ohio poultry Improvement association said in cautioning farmers to “buy on quality—not price.” Outlining a procedure to inspire wise chicken buying, Vickers said: “Investigate your local hatchery- man first. See if he has a careful and thorough pullorum disease control program. See if he obtains good breeding stock; see if he keeps up the quality and constantly Improves it by careful selection and the use of ROP pedigreed or other good breeding males from good breeders.” Egg Presenration Methods Seen Due lor Improvement Present methods of preserving table eggs may be revolutionized by the use of a new compound de veloped by Dr. Alexis Romanoff and W. D. Yushok of Cornell’s agri cultural experiment station. Ifce compound, a mixture of a plastic substance called poly styrene, with chlorinated rubber and other chemicals, forms a film ever the egg and preserves it at ordinary temperature. MIRROR Of Your MIND Child's Heroes Are Important By Lawrence Gould Does it matter whom a child picks as his heroes? Answer: Few things matter more, for better or worse. For a child’s personality is largely formed through the process of “identifying himself” with the people whom he feels it would be most desirable to be—or to “be Like”—and if these are cruel, vul gar or dishonorable, he will tend to follow their example. With a boy, heroes are usually chosen on the basis of their seeming strength or power, so it’s most important that the real or imaginary charac ters whose strength he admires— above all, his father—shall be worthy of his emulation. Will recalling last night’s dreams help you sleep? Answer: I am not sure, but it Is worth trying. A friend told me recently that he habitually puts himself to sleep by reconstructing his dreams of the previous night and trying to go on from where he was in them when he woke up, and I realized that I had often done the same thing when my sleep was disturbed in the early morning hours. Since the func tion of dreams is to let you sleep by easing the tension that might keep you wakeful, if you can start dreaming in imagination, it may well serve as a short cut to real slumber. Answer: Not too much so. To b« sure, no self-respecting persoi wants to think of himself as i sponger, but the fear of letting anyone do more for you than you can immediately repay can be carried to neurotic extremes. To refuse to allow an old friend to help you when you are in serious trouble is to picture him—at least, unconsciously—as gloating over you or wanting to get you under his thumb. Extreme “independ* ance” which insists you never shall be beholden to anyone may be your defense against a secret wish to be dependent. LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE EVER SINCE HIS DEATH, WHENEVEf? A SERIOUS CRISIS HAS DEVELOPED, THE QUESTION HAS BEEN DEBATED: "HOW WOULD UHCOLM HAV£ APPUGJ} HIS PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP TV TH/S SITUATION?* HAVB U$BP 1=0# M09T OF TUB# PJSST WO#K ! —MlCMELANErELO— RAPHAEL - ffOP/N -tffe. BELIEVE WE , t?E AT LEAST XOOO Y&AK& BEHIND WHEt?E WE SHOULD BE IN WCELP PPOORe&f | KEEPING HEALTHY | Shingles Subject to Complications By Dr. James W. Barton O NE OF THE commonest skin ailments, which is really be lieved to be a virus (tiny org^n’^m) infection of the nervous sy^am is Herpes Zoster or shingles, as it is usually called. There is no special treatment needed, as shingles runs its own course. The outstanding point about shin gles is that it runs a course of four to six weeks, and then clears up. The patient is assured that he will never have a second attack, just as in such diseases as typhoid and scarlet fever. There are, however, many suffer ers with shingles who will tell you that their particular attack lasted for months, not for weeks, and they had more than one attack. Skin and nerve specialists state that the reason some cases last for months and second attacks occur is because the patient, by scratch ing the skin, infects It with other organisms which, of course, delay recovery. These other organisms decrease the power or effect of the shingles organism, so that its ef fects on the body are not sufficient to arouse enough body resistance to prevent another attack of shingles. In “The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry,” London, Drs. C.W.M. Whitty and A.M. Cook, describe three patients with shingles, all of whom showed myelitis (inflammation of the spinal cord) as a complication. Two of these cases had several attacks of shingles in different lo cations in the body over a period of two or three months, thus show ing & difference from the usual be- havioi of the zoster or shingles virus which confers lifelong immu nity by a single attack. The third patient had a zoster in fection brought on by injury to the fifth nerve. Sometimes subsequent attacks are brought on by injury in the form of a growth such c.s can cer or tuberculosis. Should shingles occur, have the patient try to avoid scratching the eruption, and should the attack be prolonged, have the family physi cian consulted to prevent compli cations or treat any complications which may be present. ★ HEALTH NOTES ★ Vertigo may be caused by local conditions involving the ear. * * * Special schools can often make useful citizens of morons and teach imbeciles and idiots to be less care to family and institutions. * * * Shock treatment is the greatest step forward in the treatment of mental conditions in recent years. Outstanding diseases of middle age and beyond are diseases of the heart and blood vessels and cancer. * * * To keep the liver in healthy con dition, all bending exercises are helpful. mm* Late appearance of tuberculosis may be due to an old undiscovered infection becoming active. THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. \LPhilHpr THOSE ANCIENT SUMERIAN TABLES T ABLETS have been dug up in Iraq showing that the Sumer ians who lived 1,700 years B.C. had knowledge equal or ahead of what we have in 1950. But there is no evidence they used it exclusively on quiz programs. • • • Archeologists are still explor ing, but every indication so far is that, despite all they knew, these ancient people didn’t link super knowledge with su per jackpots. (They painted their houses inside and out at their own expense.) • • • Professor P. Waddingham Toots, this column’s archeologist, is on the scene. He always thought our remote ancestors were smart cook ies even if there was nothing in the .records about mystery bines. • • • His dispatch says: “Hit into a new layer of cuneiform tab lets today. Am amazed at ter rific amount of information possessed by a people not moti vated by desire for mink coats, ice boxes, deep-freeze units, a complete new set of bedroom furniture and free maid service for one year. • • • “All reports that a tablet has been dug up with inscription which can be decoded as the question, ‘Where are you from?’ and the an swer ‘Brooklyn’ (with Sumerian word for ‘applause’ after it) are false, as is the rumor that another tablet bore the words ‘No, I’m sor ry. but we are sending you a hogs head of oyster openers just the same, Mrs. Whittlesey.’ • • • “I have just unearthed an ossi fied man standing upright with one hand upraised. A colleague thinks this could have been a Sumerian saying ‘I have a lady in the gallery, sir.’ My colleagues insist that if I find a clarinet, a snaredrum, 10 silver dollars and any signs of a question like Ts a halibut a fish, an article of wearing apparel or a kind of cosmetic?’ it will prove that the intelligence of these an cient folk was on a level with our wn. • • • Professor Toots goes on to say that the knowledge of mathematics among the Sumer ians obviously was terrific, bnt not sufficient to figure income in trillions. *T found no fig ures running into billions even,” he adds. “This would seem to show that, despite their high intelligence, they knew nothing of deficit finan cing, the lucky stiffs! • • • “I am now striving to find if the Sumerians were in hot water most of the time, had one leg shorter than the other from running around in circles, confused pin- wheels and consumed 100 pounds of aspirin a year per capita. This will prove conclusively their civili zation was piecisely like ours, which I hope is not true.” • • • YE GOTHAM BUGLE & BANNER "Fifty-tuio Police In Sbakeup Over Gambling”—headline ■ . . Wanna bet*! . . . When "Sugar Chile” Rob inson asked what he would be called when be grew older, George S. Kauf man, on '"This Is Show Biz,” replied, "Progressively, Sugar Boy, Sugar Man and Diabetes.” . . Add similes: As unhappy as "Happy As Latry” backers . . . . We know a fellow who, when asked the secret of bis prosperity, said, "l have the contract for supplying wedding rings wholesale to Americas "best families.” . . When "As The Girls Go” closes it will mark the long est run Bobby Clark’s cigar ever had . . . . Alibi from the village drunk: "What’s the complaint? Ain’t l sailing water?” . ... We saw Gargantua stuffed in the Yale museum the other day .... He looks livelier than b$ did with, the circus . ... Ed Wynn’s commercial burlesquing bis sponsor's cigarette tests is a vest splitter. • * • No bath, no wash, No shave. Oh, joy! What fun it is To be a BOY! • • • Under a cornerstone of the old White House, seven cents, a dime and two nickels were found. Can ya Imagine 27 cents lasting that long? • • • “John L. Lewis Near Retirement Age”—headline. But not near enough. * • • “We mast tap the dynamic forces within the business econ omy”—President Truman. Bnt how can a businessman tell when he is tapping for dynamic forces and when yon are just hitting him on the head with a sledgehammer for good clean fun? • • • Front plates on autos are now illegal in New York. If you are hit by a car it is up to you to get die number after you have been flat tened, not before. Fruits Add Much Color, Texture, Visual Appeal To All Your Home Menus W HEN YOU WANT to wave the magic wand of color over your table and add eye and texture ap peal to foods, look to fruits. Their universal appeal can do much to add just the right touch to even the simplest meaL Fruits will give you a first course in no time at all, they’ll garnish _ your meat plat ter to a pleasing prettiness, and in salads, they will do more than add vita mins and miner als to the diet. They will actual ly make this one course everyone anticipates. Canned and fresh fruits may be combined to an advantage both from economy and texture. m m m WHEN FRUIT SALADS are large ” as well as beautifully put to gether, or when the fruits are com bined with such foods as cream, salad dressings, gelatin or cheese, they may frequently be served as a combination salad and dessert course. Cheese Delight Salad (Serves 6) H cap heavy cream 1 3-ounce package cream cheese H cup mayonnaise % teaspoon salt % cup finely chopped celery % enp grated raw carrots 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper* 1 cap drained, crushed pine apple Pour whipping cream into a mix ing bowl and chill. Cream the cheese in a bowl until soft and add mayonnaise, stirring until well blended. Whip the cream with . a rotary beater and beat it into the cheese-mayonnaise mixture. Con tinue beating until mixture is stiff and shiny (about one to two min utes). Stir in salt. Have vegeta bles and pineapple ready and fold them into the whipped mixture until evenly distributed. Chill in a square dish or pan 5%x5%xl% inches for two to three hours and serve on prepared salad greens. "Wagon Wheel Peach Salad (Serves 4) 2 green sweet peppers 1-2 canned pimientos S cups cottage cheese Salt Salad greens 8 canned cling peach halves French dressing Slice eight rings from centers of green > peppers leaving in mem brane for wheel spokes. Remove seeds. Cut eight small rounds from pimiento and fasten to centers of green pepper wheels with toothpicks. Chop one tablespoon each pepper and pimiento and stir lightly into cottage cheese. Season with salt. Place mound of cottage cheese on each of four garnished salad plates and circle with drained peach halves and green pepper wheels as shown. Serve with French dress ing. Sea Dream Salad (Serves 4 to 6) 1 package lime flavored gelatin 1 cup hot water When It comes to salads, noth ing can surpass the favorite combination of creamy cottage cheese and canned e 1 i n g peaches. Garnish with salad ' greens and pepper rings, and yon have a salad that tastes wonderful any time of the year. LYNN SAYS: These Menu, Serving Ideas Will Help Yon On a hot meat platter, use a garnish that will not be affected by contact with heat. Serve creamed vegetables in cooked cases of green peppers, onions, carrots, toast, or nests of noodles, potatoes, or rice. Serve jelly or cranberry garnish in small paper cups or on slices of orange or pineapple, halves of peaches, pears, or in some other servable way. Combine easy-to-use canned frnit cocktail with fresh orange sections and serve icy cold in Anted orange shells. Top with a sprig of fresh mint and your first coarse Is ready to serve. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Barbecued Spareribs French Fried Potatoes Buttered Lima Beans •Wagon Wheel Peach Salad Hot Muffins Chocolate Cookies Beverage •Recipe Given l - - - 'n: ■[ . rv D. D ; _ > • ■ .* spg j ft k - s < •• Ilf EESS ... 11 m MM SCRIPTURE: Acts 6:1-8; 20:17—ai:«l I Corinthians 12: I Timothy 3. DEVOTIONAL, READING: 12:34. Romans 1 cap grated cucumber 1 tablespoon vinegar %-l teaspoon scraped onion Dash of cayenne K teaspoon salt Dissolve gela tin in hot wat er. Add remain ing ingredients. Force through sieve. Turn into loaf pan, 9x5x3 inches. Chill un til firm. Cut in squares. Serve on crisp lettuce with mayonnaise. Fancy Frail Salad Pineapple round Grapefruit, in sections Peaches, halves Maraschino cherries Mayonnaise Head Lettuce Canned pimiento, or red apples Peel grapefruit, remove pulp by sections and cut in half crosswise. Arrange for individual service a V* inch slice of head lettuce cut crosswise. On top of this a thick slice of pineapple, cored; on top of this place half of sections of grape fruit, dome shaped, between each section arrange narrow strip of pi miento or sections of red skinned apples, on top of dome*place peach, cut side down. Insert cherry on top of peach. Serve ice cold with fruit salad dressing. Orange or Tangerine Salad. (Serves 6) 6 oranges or 12 tangerines 1 sweet pepper, chopped K cap grapefruit, juice % cap pecan nnts M cup pineapple cubes V4 cap strawberries, cat or candied cherries Lettuce ' Peel fruit, remove pulp, free from membrane, mix with pepper, chopped fine. Sprinkle with fruit juice, place on ice one hour. Serve each person a portion on lettuce leaf; place the nuts and chopped fruits on top. Serve with Fruit Salad Dressing. Fruit Salad Dressing with Whipped Cream 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 eggs or 4 yolks, beaten % cup water H cap sugar 2 tablespoons batter K teaspoon salt % teaspoon paprika 1 cop cream, whipped Mix dry ingredients, add egg, lemon juice and water. Cook over boiling water, stirring constantly. Add butter, cook until thick; cool. When ready to use, add the stiffly beaten cream. Salad AUce (Serves 8) 2 heads lettuce 16 sections oranges 16 sections grapefruit 16 slices avocado 8 strawberries or maraschino cherries Cut lettuce into halves lengthwise. Arrange fruit on each half, placing a cherry or strawberry in the cen ter. Serve with sweetened French dressing. Arrange the meat platter to make serving easy. Allow room for carv ing and do not over-crowd. The host will appreciate this. Consider variety of textures, soft with solid foods, as creamed meat cm toast with buttered string beans (not creamed potatoes and stewed tomatoes). Avoid all one type of cooking as meat croquettes, French fried on ions, pan-fried potatoes. Garnishes should be edible and should not involve too much last- minute preparation. Church Leadership Lesson for March 12, 1950. #JVirHAT’S in a name?” Different churches have many different names for the persons who hold of fice in them. But whatever quarrels the churches have had, few erf them are about these names. The thing is more important than the name. All of us agree that churches do need organization Some people would have us go back to pie New Testament for our pattern of organi zation. We cannot quite do this, for one important rea son. Where in the New Testa ment would you dig in? Dr * Foreman Would you take the letters to Timothy and Titus as your guide? There you find bishops (overseers, superintendents) mentioned, also elders and deacons, but you do not find their duties laid down. Go back into the story of Acts and you will find a place where elders are first mentioned in the Christian church (11:30); go still farther back and you come to the first election of deacons (Acts 6). In yonr first Utopian Church, will yon model It after the three-officer plan, or two, or one, or (going back before Acts 6) none at all? (Apostles, of course, are^not now avail able. Scholars In most churches today are pretty well agreed that what we have in the New Testament is not a rigid pattern of organization, but rather certain principles on which any successful church must be built. Let us see what some of these are. m m m The Job and the Man A LL CHURCHES are agreed on one point: A church must have leadership. What is every body’s business is nobody’s busi ness. Some one must draw up plans, - think ahead. No organiza tion in the world is self-starting and self-operating, not even the church of Christ. The early church knew this. But t^ey elected officers only as the need for them arose. In Jerusalem there was not a dea con in the place until that emer gency came up In the matter of relief. In St. Psnl’s first missionary church (Acts 13, 14) he did not get the elders first, and then find churches for them. On the contrary, he founded the churches first and then ap pointed elders for them. It would be a good idea for a church today to take stock erf its officers once in a while. Are they necessary? For example, do you elect a deacon to “take the place” of one who has moved away, or do you elect a deacon to do a job that can’t otherwise be done? m m m Sweetness No Substitute For Skill WTOT ALL CHRISTIANS are qual- ^ ified to hold office in the church, and very few, if any, would be equally good in any office. A Sunday school superintendent, for example, might make a poor showing at a prayer-meeting talk. A man who can conduct a success ful financial campaign and keep the church up to a high level of generosity the year round, may not be just the man to plan the educa tional program. A lovely sweet lady might turn out to be a stupid Madam Chairman. Paul knew all this and in fact insisted on It. Each sep arate kind of job in the church calls for distinct qualifica tions. Just being a good Christian was never enough to insure a man’s (or a woman’s) being a good of ficer. Personality A FTER ALL, however, personal character means more than technical skill. A man may have such flaws in his character that his influence does more harm than good, so that even if he is an ac complished musician you still would not want him as “Minister of Music,” or even as choir-leader. A man whose own home Is always at sixes and sevens (ss Paul pointed oat) Is a poor candi date for any executive post in the church. A man who can’t keep from quarreling in every* day life is no man to entrust with responsibility fen the church. A man of good character can, and will want to, learn the skills his job calls for; but a man of sleazy character just does not care. Be careful of the sort of man you elect to office, in church or out; for the rank and file are not going to rise above their leaders. fresh . 8 To Yoor Bonded Shippers... Amaw» Low Price Unmatched by Any CUT FLOW Bonded Shi icet Other Florist! Magnificent, colorful ‘ iola blooms to enric beauty of your home cut tight buds, ex_ packed and rushed to promptly, ready to into glorious full fl Ideal for gifts. Large ment of colors. Send cash or money order. CO.D.'s. ORDER N 1 ji Shaw & Cooperative Grtn 1260 N.W. 22nd MIAMI FLOR Musterole not but its great 1 breaks up congestion dual tubes. 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