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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.
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| 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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