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^AQKTWOj ■ » IPOURMB isi Tfanrsdajr* «t^ #Jyked^ K C. ■T ...... —; B. J. GARMt teU IWiUS C. HUBBARD ‘ PMMmh SUPSCftlPnON RATES: >e Year .^l.«0 2i(«ath3 76. »yr Meatika — .^0 Out ef the State,^ J2j66 per Year in. tend «t the peet «ffe« et Worth Wittes- •I. Cy u eecMii denMatter umder Act. •ISA 1«7*. MONDAY, JAN. 30, 1939 Good Southern Cooking Nothing makes people madder than for some upstart to deny their traditional boasts. This was brought out recently by Miss Isabelle Post’s article in Mercury Maga zine, in which she rediculed southern cooking in nTost vicious terms. Here are a few excerptr- from her ar ticle as quoted in State magazine; “The truth of the matter is, to be bru tally frank, that the South’s over publi cized Epicureans subsist mostly on its three traditional M’.s--meat, meal and mo lasses. Chickens are small and .sc?'awny compared with those up North. ... A really good steak in Dixie is as hard to find as a good Republican—an^ infinitely tougher. . . . The best Virginia ham in the world is served in New York restaurants. . . . Except during the short growing sea son, fre.sh vegetables are practically non existent. . . . Good sweet corn is scarcely known. . . . Broccoli is unheard of. Or anges, brought in on trucks Irom Flor.da, are the sickly greenish kind, nine-tenths reeds and pulp and one-tenth bitter .iuice. I never tasted a good t)lun'b, cherry nr pear in Di.xie. . . . Breakfast con.sists ol un adulterated grits, or eggs with grits; luncheon is meat w.th grits; supper is fish with grits. . . . Then there are the famous breads—corn-bread, spoon-bread, lianana- bread, and other gelitinous masses ol in credible specific gravity, which in the North would iwobably be used as ballast for ocean liners, but hardly as food . We do not believe Miss Post knew an.v- thing about her subject, because it would be inconceivable for ■> person to write what she did if she liad really partaken of the good southern fcod for which this section of the country is famous. Miss Post says, that chickens in the south are “small and scrawny’ . She needs to visit vvestevTi C.'Avcvtvwi?,, w*vd, partii'ularly Wilkes county which furnish es the best of thp well fed and tat cliick- ens to grace northern tables. Hut we would remind Miss Post that we eat the best chickens on our own tables, and those sold are far superior to those of the nofth. She made some very sligiity remarks about ham, but she is not qualified to e' en utter an opinion about ham unless she should come here and eat sonio real coun try ham. sugar cured and with natural gravy. She raves about the iack of good vege tables when it is a fact that )>eople ol this section eat more good vegetables than in the north, who think they have nothing to eat if they do not have a hait-baked steak from the mid-we.st. Why, the iieojile o. the north do noi even know how to cm-k snap beans! Tht'V think sna]) beans aia somethin,!!' with which to make a sicki.v tasting stew and they think corn bread is hog feed, ma.'nly because they do not know how to bake really good corn breath Northern peoitle do not know how I make good biscuits and are naturally con tent with loaf bread because they knov nothing of how eatable biscuits can be. Southern mothers can outcook anybody, and Miss Po.st’s hallucinations abon southern cooking naturally raises the irt of one who knows how chicken ought to be fried, how good corn bread can b' with good, whole southern milk from con tented cows, the aroma of country cured ham and brown, natural gravy, buck wheat cakes spread with molasses and butter from the kitchen chum, fresh eggs from the hen nest and not from some cold storage house, heaping dishes of steaming vegetables probably gathered the same day in the long growing season, raw^ veg- at{ibles with a distinctive southern flavor. We could go on like this, but we are get ting hungry. Hte Po«^, come 4PW9 see ua some time write the teeth. We Will be setMed. SelfiiifiMAi lilio • ^ u? Most of the troubles, that d^ifront IJate world and many of those that-worry indi* viduals can be explained lin » w«rd of elev- on letters—selfishness. ' t -It ^ik n To elucidate this thought, l-tt us con sider a single indjividual, who is entirely interested in what he cah get. He grabs what he wants to satisfy his ambition, ap petite and desires. He takes no thought of 'Other people and their rights. He is unconcerned with the fate of other hu mans. Life, to him, is completely success ful when he completely gratifies his own ends. What would you think of such a man? And what kind of a world would y\ou expect if every man were of this type? Take, for example, a family group Here we have the fundamental organiza tion of society. Let us assume that each member of the family — father, mother and all qf the children — are concerned solely with their selfish ends. Each is de termined to get what is coming to him or her without any thought of the \other members of the group. How long do you think such a family group would continue and what kind of life would they lead as long as the family continued to operate? The observations in regard to individ uals and family groups apply equally to the other organizations and in.stitutions of human society. It is true in reference to towns and cities, counties and states, and nations as well. It is obvious, in theo ry, when We reflect upon the entire world. As an individual, you control the life of only one person. You can direct youreelf and yo'jr relationship to other people. You can make one useful member of hu man sociefty of you are wiilling to give up some of the selfishness that makes human cooperation impossible!. Whether yoi decide or intend to do so is a persona problem with you. The answer that yoi maki measures the extent of your contri bution to civilization. 2,785 Miles For $24.75 You probably won’t recall the name of John M. Jones or remember what he has done, but .iust the same his exploit is worth some notice because it gives an idea of what lies ahead of us in the future. Yooing Jones, 25-year-|pld California fliei-, recently flew non-stop acro.ss the continent in 30 hours and 37 minutes. The time is not a record, but he made the 2,785 miles bop in a .stock model Aeronica —-a fifty-horsepower plane, at a co.st esti mated by him to be only $24.75. .Mr. J,'ones spanned the continent in a plane with a lower power rating and op erating co.st than a popular-priced auto mobile. If you don’t know what this will mean to aviation, you might sit'.still a few w.wv.V?,s. th.i.ak it out. Borrowed CoMment IT CAN HAPPEN HERE (Whitevillu Ni‘w.s-KL-porter) Reading in current newspapers and magazines of the filthy conditions which characterize tenement districts of large cities, Columbus county people lean back comfortably on their ea.sy chairs and muse “It can’t happen here’’. “That is only a figment of their own im agination’’, they say perhaps of people who decry the conditions in some section;- iVf Columbus county. This fact stands out in bold relief; It not only can happen here, but it i.s hap pening right under our noses. A survey would reveal that there are dozens of fam ilies in Columbus county right now living under conditions analagous to worst condi tions 'n urban centers. Houses, bai'c and gaunt, little better than the .stalls which shelter the livestock, offer protection from the elemental on- •sloughts. Cold, hunger, and squalidr.ess result from poverty in its most, advanced stages. Children, half-naked, run about the vards. Four, five and six persons, often flivided equally among the sexes, sleep in one bed under a thin coverlet on the cold est nights. Such people, apparently oblivious of their squalid surroundings, often are so low in mentality and so devoid of intelli gence that they don’t even know how to want any more than ill-fortune has brought them. They can be helped, and living conditions improved, only by incit ing in them a desire fbr better things. These are not theoretical instances drawn for the purpose of illustration. They are conditions which exist right in our own county. Such conditions should he compl^ly blotted ou^ anjd ijt remains the respoi^ bility of, evfirjr hitelUg^nt citizen county to see that they are. of the Wluhinston, Jan. .28. (Anto- caster)—The new Congreaa is al ready beginning to teel the press ure of organized lobyists who want Federal funds spent for their pet projects. It is too early to predict wheth er the present Congrass will prove more immune to such pressure than its predecessors have been, but if history repeats itselt, as it usually does, the determination to economize with which the 76tb Congress started out will go the way of most New 'Year resolu tions. There is no question about the sincere desire of that block in Congress, which is composed of anti - Administration Democrats and the 171 Republican members of the House, to cut down Gov ernment expenditures. But it lie extremely difficult for any Con gress to resist appeals which pur port to come from a preponderant mass of their constituents. The first illustration of the way in which public sentiment is manufactured, for the national legislators, was made for the ben efit of the members of this new Congress on a matter which did not concern the subject of spend ing, as it happens. In response.to a radio speech by Father Cough lin literally hundreds bf thous ands of telegrams and letters were receivedt by Senators and Representatives, urging them not to repeal the embargo on muni tions shipped to the participants in the Spanish Civil War. Received 12,000 Telegrams One of the new Republican I Senators reported that he had re- ] ceived some 12,000 telegrams and more than that number of letters from voters in his own state, urg ing him to follow Father Cough lin’s advice. It so happened that he was op posed to lifting the embargo, any way. so these communications were so much wasted ammuni tion. Bui this Senator’s comment, based upon wide political exper ience and intimate understanding of the people of his state, w'as that ho was certain tliat the ques tion of the Spanish arms embargo was one to wh ’h his constituents were entirely indifferent and that this was an atienipt to fool him into t.elieving that tile voters were all stirred up aliout it. . TTie (ieniand for’ "liberalizing’' Old Age I’ensions is likeiv to be oiiC of tile most hotlv-debated and long-di awn-oHt discussions on )-('coi-d. Iwfore this Songress ad journs. The hearings on the Social Se curity .-Vel amendments, enneern- ing wliicli there is as yet r,o gen eral agreement except that tlie law' as it stands is clumsy and diffienlt to administer, will be come the forum for the disois- sion of the Townsend Plan and pi-ohahly olher plans to give eve rybody nv >r a given age a liberal living pension at the expense of Wiv- Xf.v.v.xyQ.vs., Will StiKly Schemes Knoiigh pressure w-as nnt on candidates dnrin.g the election (campaign to induce many of them. Republicans and Democrats alike, to commit themselves to at least a study of these various Iiension schemes. The extent of public sentiment in the nation for Federal assumption of responsi bility for the support is unknown, but that efforts will he made to represent to Senators and Repte- sentatives that they will forfeit their political futures if they do not fa'l in line with the Old Age Pension program is not doubted by aiiv experienced Washington observer. The Townsend Plan lobby is rapidly l)ecoming one of the most powerful pressure gronns i n Washington. Old-timers liken it to the Anti-Saloon Ijcague lobby which put over the Prohibition amendment. It operate.s in much the same way. with local clubs or groups exerting pressure in their respoccive states and Congress districts upon legislators. They are not yet as well organ ized as was the Anti-Saloon League, and they have no such as tute political leader as the late Wayne B. Wheeler, but everybody who watches what is going on under the surface of things in Washington concedes they are making headway. Aside from the Old Age Pen sion group, the only_ one of the pressure blocks which is demand ing increased government spend ing is the WPA. The largest demand for addi tional spending, aside from, pen sions and relief, so far, has come from the Administration. In ad dition to the billion and a third included in the President’s na tional defense budget, he has since asked Congress to appropri ate an additional 550 millions to enlarge the national fighting air forces and train and equip enough pilots to handle a total of about 10,000 fighting planes. New Plan Developed, It was broi^ltt otft at »°- calted, “m,oppppljt!’ hsarlng, b'efora Jc A4 Treatments Prolongs Life Of Fence Post Many North Carolina farmers are cutting fence posts at this winter season of the year, but because of the comparative short age of such durable woods as black locust, red cedar, bald cy pres;. red mulberry and catalpa, in many cases it is necessary to use softer woods like pine and Ihe aerial fighting force up to full quota within a year or so instead of three or four years. This is cn application of the pioneer discovery by the famous gum. I cheap, .should penetrate wood W. J. Barker, assi.stant forester i readily, .should not be corrosive of the State College Extension to metal, should not evaporate or Service, says it is possible by wash out of the wood easily, and creosoting or the use of other | should he poisonous to fungi. The preservative treatment to make j most commonly known and used even the less durable woods last preservative today is coal tae from 15 years upward. He ex-. creosote. plains that decay in fence posts , nHefly, the r. ctmimeiidations is due to certain low toims ot j treatiiir. fence posts in North plant life called fun.gi. These I c-ipoiiim ,.,,.nsote are, first consist for the most part'of every )|„. \v„o(i |,-ele(l clean fine threads’ that penetrate th-'la,,,] u.orouglily riry Tlien place wood and dissolve, the wood stnie- ,j|,, j, boiler con- tnre will) whicli lli,-y come in taiiiiiig creosote oil and tioll for I’ontael. Tlieir liasic re(|Uireni(m's two lioins. I’osis should tie in the oil to a depth of si.x inches or for growth are Baeke-1 warmth and food I nxiistiire. ai;'. If auv of I !le;e ' ' , .liellei- lliaM they will -laml in the chemical engineer. Leo H. Baeke-J warmth and tood It any ol ihe.e .moval from land, of a method of making plas- m-j, eliminated, (iecay is -to|iiied. i,„ji,.i- place ilie eiiiiM |msl. in a On the olher hand, a’ good laiik of i-old r"osoie oil and al- miist be rcasopably Bow to remain lor iwd hours. tic materials which are water proof. fii-eproof. and insulated a- gainst electric currents. The ap plication of the Baekeland plastic resins to monlding airplane, bo dies and wings in a single piece, quickly and cheaply, was repoi ted to have been so .successful that it could be predicted that the new process would supersede present methods. The .'\dministration is more in ternationally-minded than any since the World War. The calling home of Ambassador Johnson from China is the latest in a se- rie sof recalls of America's for eign representatives for informa tion and consultation. Tt seems certain, however, tliaf so far the new Congres.s does not share to the full the concern of the White House and the Ktate Department over international re lations. possibly because Congress docs not fully understand them. preservative GREYHOUND FARES CUT ! BUS TERMINAL M.. C. Woodie^ Agt. 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