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PAGE SIX USING A STICKER ON PEACH CRATES —4 — South Carolina Growers Are Stating Their Products Contain lodine » The following editorial comment from the Charlotte Observer over looks a very important fact. That is that the peaches and truck grown in this section of North Carolina have just about the same iodine content that the South Carolina fruit and vegetables have. The difference is that the North Carolina folks have been asleep on the job and have al lowed their Palmetto friends to cap italize the situation. A copyrighted sticker is being used by many of the South Carolina growers on their shipments. Significance of the iodine content lies in its preventive properties for goiter. Medical science has estab lished that goiter is due to lack oJ sufficient iodine. With this in mine comparison of figures presented be low shows the value of the Carolina produce over that of other sections. It might be well for the North Caro lina growers to get together, even at this late date, and join with their South Sarolina neighbors in properlly advertising the iodine content of Carolina grown stuff. This is the Observer’s comment: The ledine Diet. Some months ago agricultural South Carolina was interested in ex ploitation of the “iodine content” of South Carolina-grown fruits and vegetables. The chemical scientists took a hand and the discovery was blazened as an asset peculiar to South Carolina soil and climate. The iodine development was credited to a chem ist back in 1922, but it was not until ,1928 that the matter became of State-wide agitation. And the pros pect seems to grow as the investi gation has proceeded, for South Car olina is now claiming a practical monopoly over other states in iodine impregnated product of field and orchard. The Columbia Record is to the front with figures going to show the superiority of the South Caro lina product over other states. We are told that South Carolina spinach contains 390 parts per billion to California’s 26. South Carolina string beans contain 429 while Oregon’s string beans contain 29. South Carolina carrots contain 154 compared to Oregon’s 2.3 South Carolina’s tomatoes contain 164 to California’s 17.5. Peaches in South Carolina contain 285 while peaches in Oregon contain 11.01. “With these smaller figures in mind,” says The Record, “it is interesting to note that: South Carolina lettuce contains 754, collards 483, cabbage 195, okra if: u: jf $ jf £ | Bank of Moncure I $ i adds new features f jf i jf $ We have arranged to sell the American Express Com- $ jf pany s Travelers’ Checks, which are payable the world M $ over, at any of 16,000 express offices or any bank. $ & They are what you need to take with you when you $ • T# ** jf make a journey. $ jg i jfl SAMPLES OF NEW CURRENCY $ i. / m §£ This bank has samples of the new U. S. currency, a bill $ each of the denominations of sl, $2, $5, and $lO. Come jf if an< * see them. The new currency will be issued about ill July 10. If if M v REGULAR BANKING BUSINESS if %W m in a: >:fc f . This bank does a regular banking business, and will «f Bf appreciate your patronage. We pay 4% on savings as deposits. if TV. W Safety and Service is our Motto $ •TJ ja; | THE BANK OF MONCHRE I Moncure North Carolina if 5 if “A* •Y* ▲ •A* IT. ■^P 1 X «A« 438, (bring on that okra!) squash 667; turnips 365; Irish potatoes 322 and sweet potatoes 162.” The final knock at California is that its let tuce with an iodine content of only 17, is inconsequential to the Pal metto’s 754 impregnation. The Rec ord stops a little short of claiming that the vegetables and fruits of its state can be told as the genuine arti cle because they fairly exude the odor of iodine. But it has overlooked the biggest boost. The watermelon season is coming along, and if it might be discovered that the Palmetto melon is more highly tinctured than either the Florida or the California product, the motor truck trade from that state might get a boost. To be serious, however, the iodine proposi tion developed in South Carolina es tablishes possibilities that are being canvassed by the medical people over the nation. Chain Grows in Tree; Dog Long Since Gone (From The Hamlet News-Messenger) An important adjunct of the ante bellum plantation was the old watch dog chained to a tree or left running loose in an enclosed yard to warn the family of approaching friends or marauders. Some of these old dogs developed a canny instinct for telling whether it was friend or foe ap proaching, and the tone of the bark passed on that information to the master of the house. The following item, appearing in the Columbia State of last Thursday brings to mind this old custom. The John Lee Tillman referred to was the grandfather of Miss Rena Tillman of the Hamlet school faculty, who held a big estate along Catawba river near Van Wyck, S. C. The dispatch bears a Van Wyck date line: A large white mulberry tree was blown down in a storm several years ago on Mrs. J. M. Yoder’s home at Oak Dale farm. Small damage was done but spectators were interested when workmen who cut the tree up found a chain several feet long that had grown inside it. On investiga tion it was remembered that it was to this tree that the watch dog, “Old Brooks,” was kept tied, by this own er, John Lee Tillman, father of Mrs. J. M. Yoder. This has been over 50 years ago and the chain had made the tree an easy victim of the storm. The old watch dog which spent the night baying at the moon has passed with the god old days of long ago. White suits for pedestrians are said to be the best warning to the rush ing flivver on a dark road. And they also suggest ascension robes in the cases in which the flivver does not heed the warning.—The Boston Tran script. The average cost of a funeral in j New York City is said to be $772. Women are gaining as inventors, patent records show. 1 THE CHATHAM HECORD, PITTSBORQ, H. C. FAULTS OF THE SCHOOL I —i (Newton Enterprise) The Ohio State Journal under the . title “Editorial of the Day,” reprint . ed the editorial of the Boston Post on . Dr. Lowell’s address as follows: | In his address before the 7,000 ed . ucators in assemblage at Mechanics i , Hall, yesterday, President Lowell, of Harvard University, certainly gave t his auditors something to think about, ; something to carry back with them | to their various home towns. It was an indictment of the secondary | schools of the country unusually t vigorous even for this clear-thinking, , plain-speaking college president. And,' ’ we venture to assert, it was just . what was needed. . Dr. Lowell told these school men 1 and women frankly that the schools were losing their old-time power by trying to do too much; by getting too many “extras” into their curri culums and not seeing them through in adequate style; by making things 1 too easy and allowing too many “electives;” by including subjects that the pupil is too immature to study thoroughly and which “some times the teacher does not know ’ profoundly enough to use in training the mind.” We have no doubt that the speaker had some fads and fancies in mind, even if he did not name them. In the matter of mounting costs for the secondary schools, Dr. Lowell rammed home some facts that the educators can hardly help chewing upon—and right there he hijt the gravest fault of these schools, ex travagance and mounting expendi tures. He showed that cost of in struction at Harvard on a per pupil basis, has increased 67 per cent in 15 years. In the public schools, for the same period and on the same basis, it has increased 167 per cent. No wonder the best friends of our secondary schools grow apprehensive as they think es these terrific in- j creases. No wonder the people are beginning to regard our schools with ; growing mistrust. “The public may well ask why so rapid an increase and where unto it will grow,” was the pregnant thought Dr. Lowell left in the minds of his hearers. It is not too much to say that it is asking itself just that. The president of Harvard has opened up the most significant topic ! for discussion the National Associ- \ ation can possibly find during this convention. It transcends all the elo quent theories that can be advanced, for it is practical and affects every i school in the land. For that great service Dr. Lowell deserves the thanks of every taxpayer and every parent in the land. ® OUCH! v A Teacher was giving his class a lecture on charity. “Willie,” he said, “if I saw a boy beating a donkey, and stopped him from it what virture should I be show ing?” Willie (promptly)—“Brothertly love.” ADVERTISING j * 1 The average farmer today will tell you that “advertised goods cost more than others.” So writes a subscriber to us this past week. We do not know how common this impression is but an examination o/ the facts will reveal that in a large majority of cases the reverse it true. First let us examine the quality of advertised goods. Everone will con cede that an advertised product is dependable and gives better service than a product by an unknown man ufacturer. Think over the things you buy for your personal use. Don’t you always feel better satisfied with some product if the manufacture is not ashamed to put his name on it and tell the world about it. Then there’s the matter of service. You can generally secure an adver tised article anywhere. If something goes wrong with it the manufacturer is bound to make it right or he will lose out in the fight for business. This widespread distribution makes for volume and volume makes for economy in manufacture. A classic example of American advertising is a certain soup. This product, known in every household, is sold at ridiculously low prices because of the economies brought about by large volume, se cured through effective advertising. This advertising expense is but a small fraction of a cent per can of soup, yet millions are spent by the company in advertising. Monroe Enquirer. If a drop of water was magnified to the size of the earth, the atoms which it contained would appear only as large as footballs. 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Richard Thornton lists a notice from the “Committee on Tarring and Feathering,” which was printed in the Newport “Mercury” Dec. 20, 1773. In 1774 John Mal comb, customs officer at Boston, was tarred and feathered by a mob. On Jan. 30 of that year the fol lowing handbill was posted in the city: “Brethern, and Fellow Citizens: This is to certify, that, the modern punishment lately inflicted on thfe ignoble John Malcomb was not done by our order.—We reserve that Method for bringing villains of greater Consequence to a Sense of Guilt and Infamy.” This handbil was signed “Joyce, junr., Chairman of the Committee on Tarring and Feathering.” Later the British demonstrated that the Bostonians had no monop oly on the popular punishment. Twelve regulars tarred and feathered a minute man. During 1774 Thomas Hutchinson, royal governor of Mas sachusettes, had an audience with George 111. “I see they threatened to pitch and feather you,” said the king. “Tar and feather, may it please your majesty,” replied the colonial governor. Although the phrase “tar and * . A THURSDAY, JUNE 13. I<>9a feather” apparently originated dur mg this period, it should not be sup posed that the pratice itself orgin ated so recently. Such punishment is provided in the laws and regula tions drawn up for the British navv by Richard the Lion-hearted in 1189 James Rymer printed the original statute in “Foedera.” The follow ing translation of the Latin is from Hakluyt’s “Voyages”: “A thief eo * felon that hath stollen, being lawful ly conuicted, shal haue his head shome, and boyling pitch powred vpon his head, and feathers or doune strawed vpon the same, where by he may be knowen, and so at the first landing place they shall come to, there to be cast vp.” Pathfinder. e WHAT IS MEANT BY THE LAWS OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS Persia and Media were united un der the same ruler after the conquest of the sixth century B.C.' The laws of the Medes and Persians are often referred to as a type of the unalter able and irrevocable. This usage was suggested by several passages in the Bible. Daniel 6:8 says: “Now, 0 king,establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it (be not changed according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which alter not.” Again in the, same chapter: “Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, 0 king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.”—The Pathfinder. 4 “People get better every day,” says a preaheer. What of the nights?
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