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(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.
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„ TOO YEARS OF BROTHERHOOD
YMCA Plans to Expand Services
In Small Towns and Rural Areas
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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
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26 Scorches
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frenzy
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proviso
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Bashan
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the summer
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a chair '
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1
THE
FICTION
CORNER
OBADIAH
By Richard H. Wilkinson
O BADIAH Nelson was a man of
unappreciated qualities. For
two years he had worked as clerk
in the scenario department of
Magnificent Films, Inc., and had
thought up ideas
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Fiction
for pictures
which scenario
writers wrote
into scripts and
directors p r o-
duced for a neat profit. ‘‘Lady
Luck,’’ Magnificent’s most recent
success, had netted the house some
thing over. a million dollars. 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vegetable Preparation Required
Asparagus
Been, SS»
Beans, Lima
Beets
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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,
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PROCESSING
Hot
Water Bath Pressure Cooker
Minute* Minutes Pound*
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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.