THE GLEANER GRAHAM, N. C., JULY 4. 1946 ISSUED EVERT THURSDAY J. P. KERNODLE, JR, Manager $1 00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Km er*d at the Pt-atoffice at Oroham. N C . am Mccnd-claaa matte*. I ? 1 ? \LOOKING I AHEAD Fir GEORGES. BENSON ^ huUtwI?Mttilit CtUtf t I Sttrtf. Atkuut wage Wisdom Wsgti roM and prlcM fall dur ing th* tan years just bafora World War n when working man were abla, through collective bargaining, to influence the operations of pri vate enterprise without political in terference. Workers earned more dollars per working day and each dollar took on more buying power as time went on. It was a two-way improvement "The actual buying power of one hour's work (straight time) rose at the rate of more than 4% each year, or over 40% for the entire ten-year period," says Labor's Monthly Sur vey, issued in May by the American Federation of Labor, "This was possible because production per man-hour increased steadily, creat ing the wealth to pay higher wages." War Changed Things So long as men, money and ma chinery were busy making things to eat, wear and uae for better liv ing, it turned out as planned; bet ter living resulted. But whan capi tal, labor and tools, by necessity, had to swing into the manufacture of munitions and instruments of de struction, better living ceased. Wages increased, to be sure. So did profits. But what could we buy? Once mora let the AFL survey answer) "Every hard-won nickel of wage gain was offset by a price rise which cancelled it and the workers' actual buying power per hour of work, as measured by reel wage rates, did toot increase at all." These statements are supported by government figures made available through the department of Labor. Moreover the AFL analyst's logic la perfectly sound. Holding Prices Down The labor bulletin contained no carping criticism of government, toor against the artificial restraints set up to keep a fictitious economy from getting out of control. On the other hand it says plainly that under wholesome business condi tions "wage increases are paid for by rising productivity." Thus with mass production and volume sales "the erase rises are all clear gain." "Our first task is to increase pro duction of oonsumer goods so that supply will be enough to meet de mand, and oompetitlon again will keep prices down, so that increas ing productivity will create the in come to pay further wage in creases." Anything I might say about that doctrine would be simply gilding the lily. It is the plain truth and a credit to any philosophy. Oat Restraints At the present, conditions are far from whoUsome. Tha government's new artificial wag* controls, born of political expedience, crcata high er wagaa with on* hand and match them away with the other In the form of higher prices. In a gov ernment-fouled economy, it Is small wonder that farmers and business men alike line np for help at the i door of Uncle Sam's "flx-lt" depart ment. The Office of Price Admihistra- i tlon is getting as much criticism as 1 It deserves now perhaps. My com- | ments are brief: Private enterprise needs freedom If It la to operate by the law of supply and demand, and In some fields, supply win meet de mands much sooner If regulations are lifted. The O P.A. has done some , good work and well deserves a dig- , hilled funeral, soon. ( i Screech Owls The finding of young screech owls J peering down at pasaersby from , ?cane tree-top in a city park or alcog , a residential street is not a particu- . larly unusual occurrence since this , Is cm owl that regularly invades , cities and towns to nest. Several ] factors favor Its doing this. The , screech owl la small and highly noo- , tumal and Its presence Is only rare- , ly discovered, so It escapes persecu- , tlon to a large degree from Its hu- , man wiamies On the other hand. | la the wilder wooded areas, the , larger owls ? notably the great j horned owl ? occur and these, ] strangely enough, are among the < worst of the little screech owl's ens- | miss. Thau, too, about buildings mice and English sparrows are abundant and these are Important Hems In the diet of this owL Con sequently, what appears at first to bo a dangerous habitat for this bird is really quite favorable. Char eh af the Brethren A church "get-together" held an nually since the days of William Peon la the record of the Church of the Brethren. This year's sched uled meat wes the 110th annual waifsrwiue which has bean record ed. In the early days parmsnsnt records wars not kept TradMoo gQy .known as "peace seekers," em member! of the Church of the ji Brethren came to America (nm d Germany at the Invitation of Wll- n 11am Penn. Between 1719 and 1729 n all members of the church, which 0 had been organleed at Schwarxenau * In 1708, settled around Germ an town p and Philadelphia. From the very 9 beginning, annual conferences have t been held. At these conferences, matters of over-all Importance are discussed and decisions made. But each of the local churches, of which there are now 1,021, decides Inter- I oal affairs pretty much on Its own, ? Including the selection of Its own p pastor. * It si U Garden Asset a A plant of the mint family which si Is not very widely grown In gar- h dens, and which Is not listed In t( many catalogues, Is Stachys lana- T La, sometimes catalogued as Bet- w mica, and commonly called by the ? tallowing names: Be tony, Lamb's O Cars, Kitten's Ears. It U an asset In to any garden. It U a herbaceous P< perennial, winter hardy without to protection, which will succeed in si good soil, In a sunny border. If In plants are purchased, they may be a planted either in autumn or spring. 1C If seed U used, sow In early spring th srhlie soil U cool. Will not bloom 83 mtil second year when grown from th teed. This plant U an attractive bor ler perennial, especially good used is en edging. It should be planted n groups of three or more when _ ised within the border. Excellent lor a sunny place In the border. I" It glows to a height at about one , loot and Is good for decorative fol- ~ age effects. se Teaaate ReUtlves (t Peppers and egg plant are rela- th teas of the tomato. Since they grow nc iprlght, as compact bushes, they at ire wall suited to the small gar- re lea; half a dozen plants of each M rill suffice the average family. The tei rareet pepper, most popular type th n this country, is one of the richest Ni oriant contribution to both bowl Pi laUds and cooked dlahee through- CI mt the summer. Egg plant la veto- It ibis as a meat substitute. Like the Js omato, tbaee tender plants are us?- ev iBy started under protection and ransplanted to the garden after all anger of froat U over. They need luch the aame culture aa the to iato, but do not require staking r pruning. The pepper la seldom , ttacked by Insects, but the egg lant Is a favorite of the flea beetle, 'hich eats tiny holes in the leaves; nd can be killed by dusting with IDT or rotenone. 1 Steel Towns | One of every four persona in the < talted States lives in a community i 'here a plant that is considered j art of the iron and steel industry i located. This fact is revealed by ( tudy of population statistics in re- , ition to the latest Directory of Iran , nd Steel Works, listing 404 iron and , teel plants and rolling mills of the J idustry, which are situated in 283 , rams and cities over the nation, i he study shows that the states t ith the heaviest populations?New ork, Pennsylvania, Illinois and t hio?rank with Maryland as hav ig the highest percentages of their jpulations in iron and steelmaldng * rams or cities. The Ave leading ' ates and M other states where the 0 dustry's facilities are located, had * total population of approximately *' ?,864,000 persons at the time of ? le 1940 census, or approximately * I per cent of the population of , te United States. 0 ?< Capitol See-Saw a Headquarters of various early tineas dynasties, Nanking was de tloped on a larger scale by the f et Ming amperors in the 14th cen ry. Ruins of imperial tombs tas y to the splendor of that period. m Ming rulers, however, soon de- M rted the palaces there for Peiplng fa. ban Pakmg), in the belief that a ey could better protect their g, irthern territories against Mongol tr id Tatar Invasions. The capital gg mained at Peiptng until the Chl se Republic was formed and Dr. in Yat sen hers me president of J s provisional government in 1913. inking eras his temporary bead- {2 tartars but the seesaw continued, r" id the government went back to ilping. In 19JS Generalissimo dang Kai-shek decided to switch m to Hanktag. Nina years later the ipaneee occupied the city, and entually the capital again was oved. ax Keep Tab on Game Population From Ah Aerial counting of big game maj be accomplished either on a partial jr 100 per cent coverage basis. Sinci snly a sampling of the big game population Is ordinarily required to ndicate trends, the partial or strip type of count will usually be made. Where total numbers must be de ermlned, the 100 per cent count :an be applied on small non-conlf iroua areas such ss state parks, -efuges, etc. With either approach, the meth id consists simply In flying parallel i redetermined lines of flight over he census area and tallying all big 1 ;ame observed within a known ridth of strip on each side of the ilane. For counting moose and leer, experience indicates 800 feet : o be the optimum altitude and one- ' ighth to three-sixteenths of a mile he preferable strip width. 'By using markers attached to the . ring struts of the plane as visual , uides, the observers' gaze Is con- , ned mechanically to a strip on the , round of known width. In this way . ; becomes possible to determine to- . tl area censused, knowing the ddth and length of all strips flown. . s a result, accurate determine- , ona of number of animals per . luare mile can be mede in every . rpe of habitat except more dense , mifer stands. f 1 !uba Good Customer For American Goods Cuba?best customer of the Unlt 1 States among all 10 Latin Amer- , an countries?has purchased ah J' ost Itt billion dollars worth of r rods of all kinds from this coun- ? y since 1010, according to records ? ' tha department of commerce. jj In recent years Cuba has bought _ am the United States more than 2 ro-thirds of all goods imported (c r the island. In turn, this coun T has purchaaad about three- j_ urths of ell Cuba's exports. 3, There is a steadily increasing da- ? and in Cuba for both maimfarw th red articles and agricultural prod- in ts of the United Stetea. Before Di jrld War n, the origin of goods ho ported to Cube was tracad to 44 ^ oi uu ? states, indicating the wide diffusion throughout this country of the millions of dollars spent annu ally by Cuba tor United States goods. The sugar industry is the back bone of Cuba's economy, and the extent of Cuba's ability to buy this country's goods depends directly on sugar sales to the U. S. The Hope Diamond The fabulous blue diamond, weigh ing 11214 carats uncut and about 88"A carats after cutting, was stolen in 1642 from the breastplate of an idol i in a temple near Lhasa, Tibet, by a 1 French adventurer, according to 1 one version of its history while oth- j era claim it came from a mine in j southwest India. The French Jewel er, Baptists Tavernler, sold it to ' Louis XTV in 1689 and it remained a ' possession of the French crown until the robbery of the crown jewels in 1792. At one point it turned up in the shop of William Fals, an Amster dam gem cutter, but his son stole it and no trace of it was found until a London dealer, David Eli aeon, sold It in 1830 to an English banker, Henry Thomas Hope, for (90,000. Meantime the point of the original heart shape had been cut off to dis guise the famous stone so that it weighed 44Vi carats by this time. In 1861 Hope's daughter Henrietta mar ried the sixth Duke of Newcastle. Iter son, Lord Francis Hope, inher ted the diamond and it was worn by lis wife. May Yohe, American mu tical comedy queen, whom ha mar led in 1894. About 1908 Hablb Bey icquired the jewel for nearly (400, 00 and in 1909 it was auctioned in i 'arij and purchased by a dealer J tamed Rosenau for about (80,000. ? "he firm of Cartler sold it in 1911 to | Edward B. McLean for nearly (400,- 5 00 as a gift for his wife, Evelyn Valsh McLean, the present owner. e Poison Ivy s The best cure for poison ivy is ? > avoid the stuff. The waxy three- B tafed vine-like plant is easy to f lentify but once you are affected I y it you are in for plenty of dls- r jmfort. On summertime tramps u irough the woods it is best to wear B igh shoes or boots. If you know vi ju've walked through poison ivy " lean your footwear carefully be- J" ire removing. Bathe your feet J id ankles or other exposed parts warm water and laundry soap, vab on alcohol. For treatment, pro ire at a drug store one ounce of T Kture of iron, containing approx- hit lately IS per cent ferric chloride, his lute this with one-half ounce aleo- fn 1 and one-half ounce water. This sec akes two ounces of remedy jrith oth a ferric chloride content of about 7 or 8 per cent, which i* the maxi mum atrength advised. Paint this liquid on the infected parts with a camel's hair brush. I Vitamin A Potency Milk fat has long been established as the most Important source of vitamin A, which largely governs growth, development, vision and ' maintenance of buoyant health in ' the animal body. As a result of one ( of the most comprehensive research , projects ever undertaken on a nationwide scope, the bureau of dairying has announced that the weighted average vitamin A 9 potency of all butter is between C 15,000 and 16,000 units per pound. This is almost double the vitamin K potency originally assigned butter tty early and limited investigation. a ? K ? ? - ? CAN FRUITS FOR DELICIOUS DESSERTS L wnetner your canned Lruit desserts are Just or unjust depends upon the quality and flavor of the fruit. Canning preserves qual ity and flavor but it cannot create it. That's Mother Nature's job but you may be surprised at the amount of help you can give her. All fruits (except pears) should be left on the tree, vine, or bush until full-ripe and then canned as promptly as possible. Most varieties of pears should bet taken from the tree when they have finished growing and kept In a cool place until they are ripe enough to serve raw. At this stage they are tender and Juicy but not mellow. It pays to take time to sort fruit so that pieces of about the same size and color can be kept together. Then the pie or fruit-cup pieces won't be mixed with those intend ed for fancy looking desserts. Ev ery piece of fruit should be washed carefully and drained well before the skin is broken. Skins should be removed from peaches, pears and and apricots. Yes, the skin can be left on but it is impossible to have both skins and top quality. Stones may be left in peaches and ripe apricots, not that we understand why anybody would want them, but woe is more than likely to be the lot of the borne canner who leaves stones in apricots which have been taken from the tree before fully ripe. Such apricots have a poor Sa vor at best and the green stones make it even poorer. But we are going too fasti Let's remember that flavor Is lost with every minute lost between the time the fruit is washed and the time It is put Into the canner for process ing. Therefore, all jars, caps, lids, and rubbers should be checked, washed, rinsed, covered with water and put over heat to sterilize; water should also be put to heat In whatever is used as a water bath oarrntr, and all utensils and ma terials collected before work is started on preparing the fruit. Cera 81rup for Sweetening The sweetening story is still a little on the sour side. It can be no new? to you that it may not ba pos sible to buy all tha granulated augar you would like to have, but short age of tha cana and beet augari need not halt your fruit canning pro gram because corn sirup can take over where these granulated sugars leave off, and a lot of people think the fruit better when com sirup helps out. Gladys Klmbrough, Home Service Director for Ball Brothers Company and editor of the famous Ball Blue Book of Home Canning and Preserving Recipes, gives a basic sirup recipe which may be adjusted to meet your re quirements. The sirup is made by combining two cups sugar, one cup standard grade com sirup, one cup 1 water or fruit juice, and boiling about two minutes or until the sugar dis solves. Either light or dark com sirup may be used. The dark sirup is especially good with ^lark fruits. Its flavor blends nicely with light fruits too, but it tends to add color where color may not be wanted. Miss Klmbrough recommends that, when possible, some sugar be used when putting up fruit because the flavor of sweetened fruit is more acceptable to most persons but she also makes it quite clear that fruit will keep without sugar. When no sugar is used, the fruit should be heated in a little water or in its own juice before it is put into the jars. Whether canned with or with out sugar, fruit should be covered with liquid in the jar, otherwise It Is likely to discolor. Miss Klmbrough advises home eanners to sweeten and flavor sirups to suit themselves. If you would like more flavor in your peaches or pean, you might try adding a hall teaspoon vanilla or orange, or nut meg, or rum, or a few drops of almond extract to each quart of fruit. In other words, you are free to make the things you put up at home taste like you want' them to taste and that is something nobody else will or can do for you. Up-to-date canners heat fruit enough to shrink it before It is placed in the jars for processing by boiling in a hot water bath can ner. This is called hot packing. The fruit may be heated in its own juice or in sirup. One excellent way is to measure the prepared fruit, add the sugar to It, and heat gently until the juice runs free and the sugar is dissolved. Two cups sugar and one cup corn sirup will sweeten a gallon of prepared peaches enough to suit the average taste. If the peaches are juicy, no water need be added. Pears can usually get along with a little less sugar than peaches call for but they nearly always need some water to start them cooking. Processing time varies according to the size, variety, and firmness of fruit but the average time for peaches, pears, and apricots, which have been thoroughly heated before packing, is fifteen minutes at boil ing. Even if fruits keep, they will discolor if for any reason they have not been heated boiling hot all the way through. If you will begin with good home canned fruits, you can end with won derful desserts which are just no bother at all to make. For example, Peaches and Cream Caka is a fit ting finish for any meal. All you . do is make or buy a plain angel food or sponge cake, frost it thick with sweetened whipped cream and surround it with halves of tree ripened free-stone peaches right out of your own jars. This caka should be served at the table because it is far too handsome to be cut in the kitchen. ? ? J. Il ? ? Yppr Npw Hpmp New Radiant Heating Is Vast Improvement Over Old Methods By W. WADSWORTH WOOD CONVENTIONAL heating meth ^ ode operate by raising the air temperature in the home to a point which the household finds comfort ?Die. ma new radi ant heating, of which there is much discussion to day, disregards air temperature. It warms the walls, floor and ceiling, and causes them to give off sufficient radiant heat to ucp uic nuui?u uuuj in Luimun I w gardlesj of general room tempera ture. Let us see how this operates. Any heating system is basically a device for controlling the rate at which a person's body cools off. The body is a heat-generating machine; the heat which it produces above and beyond body requirements must be lost. We normally lose al most 400 heat units per hour, other wise body temperatures would rise dangerously above fever heat On the other hand, if we lose more than 400 units per hour, we experience the sensation of chill or cold, and either must wear warmer clothes to diminish the rate of loss or receive heat from another source. This body heat may be lost by convection, conduction, or evapora tion, but much of it is lost by radi ation. Radiant heat exchange is Ac complished without affecting any thing except the two surfaces ef fecting the change. For example, wearing an overcoat and standing in the bright sun on a cold windless day, you may find yourself growing uncomfortably warm, despite the temperature. The radiant heat of the sun makes you warm without warming the air. On the other hand, in a room your body radiates heat to the surrounding walls, which are lower in temperature. The colder the walls, the faster you lose your heat, and the colder you feeL Radiant heating systems warm the walls of the home, which have been previously treated to heighten their capacity to reflect heat. This heat is conveyed to your body by radiation, at just the proper rate to balance your excess heat loss by contact with the air and other cool objects in the room. The air temperature Indoors might be little different from the outside, yet you will be perfectly comfortable. It is obvious that such a system which does not All your house with hot, dry air in winter, will result In far fewer colds and less respiratory diseases. The installation of a radiant heat ing system ia almple. On the lite of Tour house a bed of gravel is laid inside the building line, and over this the contractor places, the lengths of welded wrought Iron pipe. Con crete Is then poured over pipe and graval to form a slab which is at the same time the house foundation and the heating unit Additional colls at pipe may be Installed In walls, par titions and ceilings at the time of building, if space dimensions call for such provision. A boiler, thermostat and circulat ing pump are the principal elements of a hot-water radiator system. The same equipment is used in the radi ant heating installation, but instead of the hot water circulating through radiators, it passes through the con cealed welded pipes. The new solar heating consist! simply of orienting your house so that it has large expanses of glass facing south and building K with overhanging eaves. The glass acts as a heat trap. The sun's rays en ter the house through the glass, un dergo a change in wave length, and can't escape, so that their heat en ergy is dissipated inside. Since the glass is Insulated by means of dry air sealed between double sheets, the direct heat loss to the outside air is less than that through the con ventional wall. The overhanging eaves serve to regulate the sunlight according to season. In the winter when the sun is Ipw in the sky, the rays penetrate deep into the room. In the sum- t mertime, when extra heat would be undesirable, the projection of the eaves cuts off the rays of the sun, 1 which is high in the sky. Actual 1 tests made with housing construct- i ad for "solar heating" reveal sub- , stantial fuel saving. , _ i 1 1 FrefeaaiaaaJ Weaken Professional workers fat Independ ent practice earn an the average nearly four ttmee as much as non professional workers, according to the National Bureau of Eco nomic Research. All professions! workers, both sslsrled end he dependent, earn two to three times as much as non-professional work en. ? SUBSCRIBE FOB THE OL&aNER NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned has administered on the es tate of Miss Martha Ann Morrow, late of Alamance Comity, and all persons having clglms against the said estate will present the same to said adminis trator, duly verified, on or before the ISth day of May, 1*47, or this notice will be pleaded In bar of their re covery. All persons Indebted to said estate will please settle the same promptly. This, the 20th day of May, 1040. W. H. STOCKARD, Administrator. J. S. Cook, Atty. NOTICE TQ CREDITORS Having qualified us Administrator of the estate of D. H. Sutton, deceased, late of Alamance County, North Caro lina. this Is to notify all persons halv ing claims against the estate of said doceased to exhibit them to the under signed at Burlington, North Car.llna, on or before the ISth day of June, 1*47 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make Immediate payment This, the 10th day of June, 1*46. A. Q. SUTTON, Administrator of the Estate of D. H. Sutton, deceased. Louis C. Allen. Atty. NOTICE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION NORTH CAROLINA ALAMANCE COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COUNTY COURT Frances Margaret Keith, Plaintiff. - VH. James C. Keith, Defendant, The defendant, James C. Keith, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the General County Court of Alamance County, North Carolina, lor an abso lute divorce on the Riounds of two years separation; and the said defen dant will further take not.ce that he Is required to appear at tlie Office of the Clerk of the General County Court In the Courthouse in Graham, North Carolina, on the 12th day of July, 1946, md answer or demur to the complaint t>f said plaintiff in said action, of the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in' the complaint. This, the 11th day of June. 1946. F. L. WILLIAMSON, Clerk of General County court of Alamance County. ^ouis C. Allen, Atty. Notice of Sale. By virtu, of a judgment made and entered In an actlorn In the Superior lourt of Alamanoe County, North Carolina, entitled Alamance County, plaintiff, vs Edgar Isley, Arthur IMey ,nd wife, Mrs. Arthur Isley; Allthla eley Murphy and husband, John Doe lurphy, defendants, the undersigned Commissioner will, cm Wednesday, July 24th, 1946, at 11 o'clock, a. m., t the Courthouse door in Graham. Forth Carolina, sell at public auction > the highest bidder for caqh, the roperty described as follows; A certain tract or parcel of land, ring and being In Graham Town lip, Alamane County, North Carolina, djolnlng Washington Street, attd there, and being Dot No. 1, of the dl Isloo of the Monroe Harden lands, as lown by Commissioner's Report as le tract allotted to Rosle Taylor, hich report Is filed In the Office at le Register of Deeds for Alamance ounty, In Book of Deeds No. 97, at K, 114. The purchaser will be required to ipoelt ten per cent of his bid when >e same Is knocked down to him, anu e balance upon? confirmation. This, the 20th day of June, 1940. DO CIS C. ADDEN. Commissioner. NOTICE TQ CREDITORS laving qualified aa Administrators of e"estate of Charlie E. Allen, deceased a of Alamance County, North Caro a. this Is to notify all persons hsfv t claims against the estate of said leased to exhibit them to the under used at Route I, Hebane, North rolina, or or before tyre 22nd day of ne, 1247, or this notice will be p'ead tn bar of their recover. til persons Indebted to said estate 1 please make Immediate payment, rhis, the 12th day of June, 1242. O. O. ALLEN, CHARLIE H. ALLEN, Administrates* of estate of Charlie E. Allen, deceased, ?is C. Allen. Atty. ' 1 ' 1 1 tl Uncle Sam Says p The raising of the lag is always a roaderful thrill. This statue of the t eeao on Mount SnrabacM which ow stands across from the Nary tn ?apartment In Washington. D. C., lot or nation's capital, recalls the n. sek-the-attaek spirit and your deeds i a wartime bead buyer. My slo- "* in for you today an the ?rst peace- de< mo Flag Day sines 1941 Is "Now ,1. aek Tour Future." Continued in sstment of part of year earnings In u irings hoods Is consistent with do- Jo Hlon to the flag. Old Glory symbol es the soenrtty which sarings hoods isnre. U. 1 Tttumj DOeouat ' wil Used Fat Jsod kitchen fat not only enters o the making of soap of various ids but is also an Important b> xbent In the production of he tickles, paint, leather, tiros and . er products. -