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• - • • ■ , M ■• .N -f ^ '>• ,- ■ ; # " Wr\ (The first of two articles.) One hundred years ago the Young Men's Christian Association, known familiarly to four generations of Americans as “the Y“, was founded in the U.S, to fight vice, degrada- tion and delinquency in the cities. Since then, its aims have broadened. Today, the Y teaches Christian ethics, through good fellowship, to the entire community. With 3,500,- 000 members, the Y has been suc cessful in the cities. Now, in plan ning its next century, the YMCA is going to move into small towns and rural areas. Always a self-searching organiza tion, the Y is taking into account the somewhat humiliating fact that in this new campaign they are join ing the tail-end of the parade. The 4-H clubs, the Epworth League, the Camp Fire Girls, the Future Farm ers of America, the Girl Scouts, the Roman Catholic Rural Life Confer ence and even the youth program of the Mormon church are far ahead of the YMCA in respect to rural area activity. Even their arch-rivals, the Young Women’s Christian Assoc., is better iE^SCRI By INEZ GERHARD A LAN LADD is looking forward to the day next year when his con tract with Paramount ends. He ex pects to sign a contract for ten pic tures to be made for Warner Broth ers, but as if that were not enough to keep him leaping from saddle to fist-fight day and night, he is start ing a company of his own. Alan Ladd Enterprises will produce radio ALAN LADD shows and television programs, and will also film “Shadow Riders of the Yellowstone’’. This novel by Les Savage made such an impression on Ladd that he bought the screen rights himself without even asking his studio to get the story for him. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, triumphant stars of the current festival in Great Brit ain, are doing something never before attempted by an acting team. On alternate nights they play Antony and Cleopatra as written by Shakespeare and by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw’s heroine is a young girl, Shakes peare’s a mature and wily siren. Ronald Colman and Benita have signed up for another year in “The Halls of Ivy”, an encouraging sign to all radio producers who believe that there is a large and growing audience for adult entertainment on the air. •')' W*..MS; . „ TOO YEARS OF BROTHERHOOD YMCA Plans to Expand Services In Small Towns and Rural Areas ssword mm THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. LAST WOK'S ANSWER organized outside of the cities than the Y. Some advisers at last year’s Y conferences argued that other or ganizations held such a decisive edge in the farm country that com petition would be a waste of time. The social service program of the Y, however, is without parallel, of fering as it does everything from recreation in the swimming pool or on the basketball court to a course in auto mechanics or professional advice in marital or parent-child relations. No organization which at tempts to do similar work in any of its fields of activity is as well organized nationally or internation ally or has such tremendous re sources in manpower, equipment and experience. In rural areas, however, the Y has a lot to learn. Fifty-four per cent of the YMCA’s established in cities under 25,000 have died of inertia and disinterest in the last fifty years. For its failures in the past the Y freely blames itself. The organizations have failed to learn what people in small towns are like, what services they need and want and how they are best reached, Y officials recently declared. In the cities, the Y has been par ticularly successful in handling restless, idle youngsters from all social and economic classes who, anxious for something to do, can just as easily be attracted by a stimulating hobby or a vigorous, healthy sport as by a pool hall or a low-class movie. The same need for legitimate outlets for aggressive energy does not exist in rural sur roundings, Y researchers have dis- covfred. Nor are they interested in the same skills or educational trends. On the other hand, people in non- urban areas are likely to be anxious about health problems, and the Y will turn its attention to promoting good health in the country. the lack of properly trained teachers, the movement for consolidation of schools, the decline of the rural church, the absence of recreational programs for both chil dren and grown-ups will be its other major concerns. It will attempt to introduce a new awareness of the importance of mental health and study, in conjunction with trained scientists, the emotional stresses and strains peculiar to country liv ing. The program sounds overly am bitious to those not acquainted with the Y's last century of progress, but the organization has proved its right to plan on a grandiose scale. Its influence on American life in the past century is almost without par allel. Basketball, now called the coun try's most popular sport, was in vented by a YMCA physical educa tion instructor who was looking for something to replace the dreary up-down-up-down calisthenics of his day. A few years later another in structor introduced volleyball. The Y was the first to establish summer camps and to encourage the now multi-million dollar summer camp ing movement. They gave the Boy Scouts their ^tart-off push. A quart er-century ago the Y first recognized the psychological dangers in the decline of father and son relation ships and devised the Indian Guide program to bring fathers and sons back together. They were the first to declare a holiday to honor the nation’s fathers, and they have taught millions of young Americans how to swim. 1 ACROSS 1 Obsolete wind Instrument (Mus.) 6 A firm hand grasp 10 Ttbmaa garments 11 Off) out. as liquid 12. Sing softly 13. 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Noel Norbert, who wrote the script re ceived $2000, and Obadiah, who thought up the idea, collected his $60 per week., Ada Adams, who occupied a desk next to Obadiah’s and who earned $50 a week reading stories, knew what was going on and told Obadiah in no uncertain terms what she thought of him. “Barnum was right,” she said. “How a man can be such a sucker and still live is beyond me.” Obadiah blushed to the roots of his hair. “Why, shucks, I didn’t do any thing. It was just an idea I had that I mentioned to Mr. Nor bert.” And Mr. Norbert collected $2000 for it.” A month later Magnificent began work on “Love’s Appeal.” Noel Norbert had turned in the script after taking Obadiah to lunch. A week after that Ada Adams came into the little restaurant on Sunset boulevard where Obadiah was eat ing lunch. “Well, how’s Magnificent’s $60 a week sucker today?” - she asked. “They tell me Mr. Norbert has turned in another box-office success GRASSROOTS Honest Harold lekes 'Stole' Tide Lands Oil Wells * By Wright A. Patterson W HEN I WAS A BOY in Wash ington county, Iowa, Long’s Creek was one of the waterways of that county. It was not navigable even for a light canoe. It was just a creek, with water in spots in the summer, and those spots provided breeding places for bull heads and swimming pools for the boys of the neighborhood. Because of the swimming holes, the boys claimed Long’s Creek as their rightful property. Had the federal government of those days attempted to do what the federal government is doing today, it would have meant an insurrection on the part of those Washington county boys, that would have taken a corps of marines to suppress. The counties of southern Cal ifornia have creeks similar to those in every county of every state. These California creeks serve the specially useful pur pose of irrigation for the hun dreds of foothill farms, without which they would not produce, and would be valueless. Those creeks have been the source of tarigstion for • those foothill farms, back to the Spanish mis sion days. Now, without warning of any kind, the federal government noti fies the farmers that they can no longer use the water of those creeks, as they are federal govern ment property, and the rights to the water they carry belong to the federal government. Those water sights have been recognized as be longing to the farms they irritate for more than 100 years. That is seizure of property by the government, without adequate compensation to the owner, and it is specifically forbidden by the fifth amendment to the Constitu tion, but the federal government has refused to recognize the rights to compensation by the citizens. What has happened in these California counties, could hap pen in Washington county, Iowa, or In any other comity in any state, if California permits the central government to get away with such a steal. It will be tried in other states, and the citizen will soon have no rights the government at Wash ington will recognize. That bold move on the part of the attorney general's office is more far-reach ing than the little community of Wallbrook in southern California. Should it get away with that steal, there is no limit to what it can take. In the days when F. D. R. and the New Deal was operating with the regularity of well greased clock work, honest Harold Ickes, then secretary of the interior, was a recognized source of New Deal ideas. One that bobbed up in his always fertile brain was for the government to take over the tide lands oil and so gather in the roy alties the operators were paying to the states for each barrel of oil they recovered from the ocean depths, and to secure which they had invested large, very large, sums in the drilling and operation of those tideland wells. The terms Honest Harold of fered were far from satisfactory to the operators, and they re fused. But they stopped pump ing and drilling. The states lost the royalties they had been re ceiving, and to supplement their diminishing revenues had to levy other taxes on their al ready over burdened people; the nation lost the supply the tide lands fields had provided. And all because Honest Har old had a bad dreaps. He would provide more revenue with which to meet New Deal spend ings, and put one over on the wealthy oil operators. Like some other of his ideas, that one did not work out as he had planned it. Without that tide land oil we cannot meet the national defense requirements and keep 52 per cent more automobiles on the roads. Should the service station refuse to sell you all the gas you might wish, it will be safe to lay the blame at the door of Honest Har old’s New Deal dreams. * Appropriation for Fair Deal Point 4 projects is one of the unnecessary expenditures Congress can well af ford to forget under our present circumstances. With Fair Deal tutors to guide us, we are rapidly becoming a benighted nation, in need of our own philanthropy. “Well, how’s Magnificent’s $66 a week sucker today?” Ada asked Obadiah. that you thought up for him. He’s asking $2500 for it.” Obadiah’s face went white. With out knowing it Miss Adams had aggravated a wound that she had inflicted five weeks previous with her first scathing comment on Mr. Nelson’s lack of what it takes to get ahead. She was, therefore, aston ished when Obadiah suddenly rose without a word and left her. Outside, his cheeks still rather pale, Obadiah was hastening toward the Magnificent studios. “Mr. Maurice,” began Obadiah firmly, “I want to know why it is that you pay $2000 to Noel Norbert for writing scenarios that I think up. No, don’t answer. I know why. It’s because you think I’m a sucker without enough backbone to stand up for my rights. Well, let me tell you something. I mean, you can drive a horse to water but you can’t make him willing—I mean, drink. Or something. Anyway, I’m quit ting. The Pacific studios have of fered me a thousand a week to work for them.” Obadiah paused, breathing heav ily, and mopped his brow. “Well.” he said, “I guess that’s all.” “Is that so?” said Mr. Maurice. “Well, young man, you’re wrong. That ain’t half of it” And he punched a bell button on his desk. A DA ADAMS was eating dinner in the same little restaurant on Sunset that evening ^rhen Obadiah came in. “Well,” he said, *T’ve been raised from $60 a week to $1000.” “So I heard,” said Ada, “Con gratulations. I'll bet you could have got more, however, if you’d gone back to Pacific and told them that Maurice was meeting their price.” “I couldn’t,” nid Obadiah, “because Pacific never offered anything In the first place.” Ada stared in open-mouth won der. “Well, well, well,” she said. “And likewise, well.’’ “Even if they had,” said Obadiah, *T couldn’t have thought up ideas for Pacific anyhow.” “Why?” asked Ada. “Because you wouldn’t have been there,” said Obadiah., “All those ideas I thought up were about you and me. Just seeing you put them into my head. Without you I couldn’t think of anything. In fact,” he added, “sometimes I can’t thinic of anything with you.” Ada swallowed a scallop whole. “For goodness sake!” she ex claimed. “Obadiah Nelson, I didn’t think you had it in you to propose marriage.” “Propose?” said Obadiah “Who’s proposing? But it’s not a bad idea at that” New Dusting Methods Tested in Michigan Charging Fungicides May Revolutionize Spraying Fighting insects and plant dis eases which damage farm crops may be revolutionized by charging dust particles in fungicides and in secticides with electricity, Michigan researchers reported recently. Laboratory tests by Michigan State College researches show charging of dust particles of normal dusting compounds gets five to ten times better coverage than through usual dusting processes. A. W. Ferrall. head of the MSC Henry D. Bowen, assistant in agricultural engineering at MSC, la shown experimenting with apples in the electrostatic dust ing process. • / agricultural engineering depart ment, says field tests will be made this summer to try the new process commercially. Fine dust particles of the fungi cides and insecticides are charged with from 12,000 to 20,000 volts as they emerge from the nozzle of a regular commercial dusting ma chine. This high charge is held for several seconds. With dusts blown at a velocity of a mile a minute, it permits them to travel a great distance before losing the electric charge. Engineers estimate the cost of necessary electrical attachments for the ordinary four-row duster would run around $300. Few Hours Spent Cleaning Farm Pays Big Dividends Spring is clean-up time—time to clean out the hazards around the farm which can cause personal in jury, loss of time, or loss by fire. And although many rural com munities have already conducted clean-up campaigns, a few hours now and then spent in putting things ship-shape may save many days of time during the busy season later oh. It is a well-known fact that or derly farms and homes have fewer accidents. It will pay every farmer to take a few hours and remove accumu lated papers, rags and rubbish from the home and farm buildings. Be sure that medicines, poisons and in secticides are out of the reach of children. At this time of year many barns are still cluttered with an accumu lation of things used during the win ter. Clear them out of alley-ways or working areas so they can not cause accidents. A neat place is a safe place for either work or play. Clean Paint Job For the housewife whe wants to paint her flower pots before resetting plants, hero is an easy, clean way to get the Job done. Invert the pot ever a milk bot tle and as yen work, turn the bottle and yen won’t have to touch the painted pot at all. Leave it until. it’s thoroughly dry* 4-H Clubs in Minnesota To Stress Food Projects Some 49,200 4-H club members in Minnesota will be emphasizing three major food-producing proj ects this year—field crops, garden and poultry. They are among nearly two million youths throughout the nation who will be doing their part in the mobilization program by participating in 4-H club activities. In these projects 4-H boys and girls learn new agricultural tech niques and farming practices. rnmmmmmmmmmmmmm Vegetable Preparation Required Asparagus Been, SS» Beans, Lima Beets ■■ ♦ Brussels Sprouts Cabbage .. Carrots Cauliflower Corn on Cob Corn, Wbole-Kemtl Greens, sii kinds Parnsnips, Turnips Peas Pumpkin, Squash Sauerkraut Wash, precook 3 minutes, pack Wadi, string, cut or leave whole; precook 5 minutes Shell, grade, wash; pre cook 5 minutes, then pack Wash, retain stem; cook 15 minutes, dip skins, pack Remove outer leaves, wash; precook 6 min., add fresh water Wash, peel; precook t minutes, pack hot % Remove oute. leaves, wash; precook 4 minutes, pack Remove husk; precook 5 minutes, pack Cut from cob; precook 5 minutes, pack Wash, steam to wilt, pack loosely Wash, pare; precook 5 minutes, pack Shell, grade (use only young); precook 3 min., pack loosely Cut in- pieces, steam or bake until tender, pack Pack cold, add salt, - no wzter •••••••••#•• PROCESSING Hot Water Bath Pressure Cooker Minute* Minutes Pound* * 180 40 10 180 40 10 180 51 10 120 40 10 120 40 10 ■v* 180 80 . 10 150 so 10 210 80S • •/ - 10 0 210 to 10 180 to 10 90 80 10 180 60 10 180 10 10 SO Prepare Canning Vegetables Correctly (S«# Directions Below) Processing Vegetables IT’S EASY to bring the garden vegetables to the table, even in mid winter, if you put them into jars now. Then, when you want them, they’ll be at your heck and call, providing menu inspiration a s well .as nutritious food for the faipily. ©aiming Is no prbblem if you o rg a n i z e the work properly and avoid doing too much in a half day oV a whole day. Lack of efficiency causes food to spoil before you get it properly processed and causes' loss all along the way. > Do only as. much ae you can ac complish Easily, and you’ll cut down opportunity for spoilage. Then, too, you can do'another batch of foods the following day without letting them ' over-nature in the garden. . Try to estimate the amount of time required to prepare and proc ess the vegetable, as well as the amount ot produce you’ll have, so there’s no trip necessary to the store to buy more jars while the vegetables wait, and probably spoil. There should be no time lost in the canning procedure, for spoilage may result, and certainly Joss of food value, flavor and color. It’s smart not to plan any other big jobs for the day you can, as best results come from devoting yourself exclusively to this particu lar enterprise. Plan a simple din ner, and prepare in advance, if possible, so that nothing except the slightest and most unexpected in terruptions can intervene. How to Select, Prepare Vegetables TENDER, YOUNG VEGETABLES give the best results when they are canned because they can be proc essed more readily, and their flqvor is at peak. They should be washed very thoroughly in plenty of water to remove all dirt, as soil frequent ly contains bacteria which may cause spoilage. For washing, use a sink which can be stoppered, as it holds plenty of water, or a large basin or kettle. If you can spray the vegetables with water, this helps to get them dean. Use several changes of water, until it runs dear. If the vegetable is to be canned whole, it’s best to sort according to size, as this will give a better looking pack. It also helps during processing, a s larger vegeta bles take slightly longer process ing, and this would overcook the smaller vege tables if placed in the same jars. Tomatoes, beets and carrots should be blanched by plunging into hot water, then dipped in cold water. This shrinks the skins and makes for easier peeling. Hot pack is usually preferred for vegetable canning because it ghHnica the vegetable before pack ing, and make more fit in the jar. To hot pack, took the vegetable for a few minutes, according to the chart, before packing in the jars. Peas, corn and lima beans should be pecked in the jars somewhat LYNN “AYS: For Canning Facts Vegetables Salt may be added to the vegeta bles when they’re packed In jars, or it may be added later when the vegetable is heated for serving. It may be omitted entirely for dietary reasons. Never attempt to save an over ripe vegetable by canning R. Usual ly there’s t<ft> much damage done by the ripening to give you e good canned product. Canning Day Menu Cold Baked Ham Potato Salad Green Beans, Crumbled Bacon Breq4 and Butter Sandwiches Pickles Melon Wedges with Lemon Beverage loosely, and to within one inch of the top, as they will swell during the processing. Greens, such as spinach, kale and others, should also be packed somewhat loosely to allow the Heat during processing to pene trate them properly. All other vege tables should be packed tightly so that the jar will be full, after proc essing time is over. Use ef Pressure Cooker Helps Asstfre Safety VEGETABLES BELONG to the non-acid group of fpods, and this means that, to be canned with safety, they should be processed at high temperatures for a long period of time. The pressure cooker should be fitted with e rack at the bottom, a tight cover thAt will hold in the steam, a petcock and a pressure gauge that will give accurate tem perature for processing. To use the cooker properly, place an inch or two of water in the bot tom, and the filled jars on the rack. Prepare only enough jars to fill the cooker. Adjust the cover and fasten tightly. The petcock should be left open to release air In the cooker, for five to seven mindtes. Then close the petcock and allow the temperature to come Ut the desired amount. Start counting processing time only after the derfred tempera ture is reached. When processing time Is complete remove the eooker from the fire and let the pressure return to zero be fore removing the cover. Remove jars from the cooker and set on several thickness of doth or newspaper. If the self-sealing vari ety is used, the lids should not be tightened- or adjusted. Let the cool in the upright position, away from a draft Store in a cod, dark place. - - Wash, Scald Jam Before Using Before packing food Into jar- for canning, efiedr the jars to make certain they do not have nicks or cracks in them. It’s especially im portant to see that the rims of old jars are perfect as a faulty rim will prevent perfect sealing. Jars to be used for hot bath or pressure cooker should be washed in hot soapy suds. Then they should be rinsed thoroughly to eliminate, all soap. Scald the jars with boiling water and invert on a dean, folded doth from which they are to be used. Ceps and lids are best prepared by placing in a shallow pan or bowl and by pouring boiling water over them. Leave them in the container until ready to use. Note: All vegetables, except to matoes which are acid, as well as all meat poultry and fish, canned et home, should be boiled in an open vessd for at least 10 minutes before tasting or using. If storage room is too hot the seal on the jars may be destroyed by causing expansion of the con tents of the jar. Freezing and con sequent thawing injure the flavor and texture of canned products. Beets should be precooked with about two inches of the top left on so they will not bleed too much and thus lose their red color. If the jar is defective, the vege table requires re-packing and this is scarcely profitable as the vege table would not stand up to process ing the regular length of tixna.