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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER PACK SIX (Second Section)" f 1 H i. ' u -1 Home Canners Advised To Make Early Plans By MRS. MARY L. McALLISTER Mrs. Homemaker, the food you ran this year means larger food re serves in American pantries and less demand on slac ks of commcr ciallv canned fruits and vegetables. It also means that some American ! housewives can donale suitabli canned foods for famine relief. Home canning also lias import ant health and financial angles to be considered. Adequate year round diets nei.'ssary for mainte nance and improving health condi tions are made possible. Money is saved by growing a part or all of i the family food supply. Willi tlu war's end, Hie general expectation I was that prices oi lruils and vege tables would drop, but they are still at or near wartime levels. This year, with the world food situation more critical than it was at any time during the war, it is more important than ever to grow and preserve our family food sup ply. The following are some import ant "do's" and "don'ts" to observe in canning at home: Do make a food preservation j plan for saving the food you grow. I The North Carolina plan, set up j for six non-productive months, calls for 24 (plaits of fruits and '.'2 quarts of vegetables to be pie served for each member in the j family. i "Do's" Do get all equipment Inge! her. examine it carefully, and put il into good working condition before the canning season. lc only jars and closures free from cracks and nicks. Do make a work schedule for canning days. You are less apt to make mistakes if you know just what you are going to do, and how. Do wear a washable dress de signed to permit freedom of move ment and shoes with low heels and roomy toes. Do follow directions carefully. Canning is not difficult if direc tions are followed. Be sine you have "up to l he minute" directions. Do select young lender, fresh fruits and vegetables. Overripe, bruised, wilted, or too mature fruits and vegetables are harder to can so they will "keep." Prepare and can with as little delay as pos sible after gathering to preserve food nutrients and prevent spoil age. Do wash foods thoroughly and quickly, small batches at a time. Lift fruits out of water so dnt can not drain back on them. Handle produce gently to prevent bruising. Do can in small quantities. Pre pare at one lime only the amount you can handle easily for one can nerful. "Flat sour" may develop when foods stand in a warm place. Do pre-heat or pre-eook all foods before packing in jars for process, ing. Pie-cooking removes air from food shrinking the product lo allow better packing. It improves the flavor and texture of the product and makes possible the packing of foods at boiling temperature. Pre cooking hastens processing. Do pack hot food into hot jars. The jars are heated in the eanner while the food to be canned is being prepared. Do use a pressure eanner for can ning all vegetables lexcept toma toesi meals, lish and poultry. Steam under pressure gives temperatures higher than the boiling point of water. These higher temperatures are necessary for safe canning of non-acid vegetables and meats. A temperature high enough to insure safely against spoilage cannot In secured in the boiling water bath eanner. Do be sure you know how to use your pressure eanner. Study care fully the book that came with your eanner, because it explains the use of the eanner in detail. Pressure canners vary slightly. Do have the pressure gauge on your eanner checked for accuracy. Manufacturers cannot promise quick servincing during the can ning season, so get the checking done locally if possible. Do have two or three inches of water in the pressure eanner when processing foods. Do be sure the pel cock on eanner lid is open before closing eanner. Do let the steam escape from the open peteock at least 10 min- i utes before closing it so all the air will be driven out of eanner. For accurate canning, steam pressure ! rather than air pressure is neees ! sary. Do watch the pressure gauge and ; count processing time from the j minute the gauge registers the j number of pounds desired. Adjust heat to maintain steadv pressure, I as uneven pressure may cause ' liquid lo be drawn from jars. I Do remove all air bubbles and air from jars after filling them by j pushing a knife blade or spatula down each side of jar. Do have the water boiling in the j water bath eanner. Place hot jars ' as soon as packed into the water j bath eanner. Jars in the eanner should be covered w ith one or two inches of water, t Do leave one-half inch head space in jars when filling with food unless the type of jar closure being used requires a definite amount of headspace to be left, i 'Don'ts' Don't pack jars too tightly with food, as tightly packed jars heat First 'Boys Tawn' For China Will Be Set Up in Shanghai SHANGHAI China's first "Boys' Town" ins'itution for reforming and training delinquent boys pat terned on the American model will be opened near Shanghai this month. Lieut. Gen. Albert O. VYede inever. commander of the United Stales Forces in China, and Mine. Chiang Kai-shek are honorary di rectors on the committee. Sixteen acres of farmland and a set of partly damaged buildings at Tatsang. a village 10 miles R'-rth of Shanghai, have been given by a benevolent society tor the estab lishment of the "Hoys' Town." Boys aged from 11 to 17 will be turned over by the City's police courts and juvenile court for prac tical training and instruction in good citizenship for a maximum of one year, during which they will be expected to learn a trade. V. S. I). A. COUNCIL MEETS The importance of food through out the world and its correct use locally was emphasized by Dr. C. N. Sisk, district health officer, who spoke to members of the U. S. D. A. Council on "Nutrition" at a meet ing Monday night in the county agent's olliee in the court house. through too slowly and may result i in underprocessing. Don't place hot jars, when re moving them from eanner, on a cold surface or in a draft. Don't cover hot jars with a cloth. This will cause jars to cool too slowly, and "flat sour" may de velop. For air circulation place jars several inches apart. Don't stand jars on their heads or lift them by their tops, for you may break the seal. Don'l can in the oven, as the heat transferred to the jars from the hot air in oven is slow and uncertain, and there is the possi bility of underprocessing. Oven canning may also cause serious accidents. Don't taste any home-canned, non-acid food until you have boiled it 15 minutes. Don't lose track of processing time. Don't open peteock on pressure eanenr, w hen canning in glass jars, until pressure gauge reaches zero. Don't use canning powders. The safe way for the homemaker to can is to process foods with heat at temperature given in canning di rections. Don't leave particles of food or grease on the mouth of jars after filling them with food. Wipe mouth of jar with clean, wet cloth. Don't pack jars of canned food in boxes or place on storage room shelves until they are cold. Don't store canned foods in too warm a place. c I'M YOUNG, BUT I'VE PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE WITH A JEFFERSON STANDARD ! PROGRESSIVE SPECIAL PLAN N A WISE MOVE . THAT PLAN OFFERS YOU FINANCIAL SECURITY BECAUSE IT'S BASED ON SYSTEMATIC SAVINGS WITH A GUARANTEED PROFIT., IT'S FULLY DAir IIP IN 20 YEARS. f S. E. CONNATSER SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ROUTE 2 WAYNESVILLE (MJmmOiiOOOO oouo BOD HI.) Oil" II M EVERY FORWARD LOOKING YOUNG MAN SHOULD SEE THE JEfFCRSOIt STANDARD AGENT TODAY FOR COMPLETE DETAILS You Will Find Quality Equipment and Quality Service at North Carolina Equipment Co. RALEIGH, N. C. 3101 Hillsboro St. Phone 8836 CHARLOTTE Miles South Rt. 21 Phone 4-4661 ASUEVILLE, N. C. Sweeten Creek Road Phone 789 Construction, Industrial and Logging Equipment STATE DISTRIBUTORS e o o International, Crawler Tractors Industrial Wheel Type Tractors Industrial and Marine Engines Bucyrus-Erie Bulldozers-Scrapers Carco Logging Winches Disston Chain Saws Lowther C-Saws Sawmills, Edgers, Etc. 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(IMcmaUonat) Letters To Editor - (Continued from page 4i - o know that my home town and ounty is stepping along in sucn i fi tic way. Many items of intcr- st in your paper, many new names, and signs of improvement. You possibly do not recall that I have read with a great deal of interest a history of the different apers published from time to time, predecessors of The Moun- aincer. I know the beginnings of ill the papers, including all the ditors and have traced them all ilong. I'rof. W. C". Allen, my old eacher, has summed up the true data concerning all the newspapers vvhich Haywood County has ever lad. 1 left Haywood County in 1900 and from time to time have visited the old home near town, always with a good deal of pleas ure. My father and mother. Mr. ind Mrs. T. L. Francis, lived on the Clyde road and where 1 was brought up. Haywood County is one of the coming counties of (he slate. My lome is now in Gaston County, the banner textile county of the world ind whereas we once had 100 illicit distilleries, we now have around 12," cotton mills making all kinds of textiles drawing help from all he southeastern states. Cotton mills, hose mills, ladies silk hose, bleaching mills, converting mills. processing mills and diversified in dustries. Tax rale is very low. good roads, good schools, good churches, industrial progress, cat tle raising, diversified farming and strong banking establishments. Again congratulating you and your county and your paper and wishing for a great success in your new venture. 1 am Yours very truly. V. J. FRANCIS. ting to be common, I published an article in The Mountaineer in which I sharply called attention to the great dangers attending such marriages. 1 wrote that in requir ing a premarital medical examina tion for each parly. North Carolina has thrown a protecting mantle about the womanhood of our great state. And in terms as strong as 1 could use in other than a medical journal, I stated that one of the germs, against which protection was sought, was the most danger out known to science. I further said that there was no organ in the human body and no tissue which it did not attack that it was literally "Death" sometimes slow but always sure typified by the "Grim Heaper on the White Horse." No doctor could have written this letter without being liable to the charge of advertising for patients. But I, a scientific man who had studied and taught some bacter iology, could and did. And now for the consequences. Some years later when home on vacation, I called at the olliee of a doctor whom I much esteem as a man and friend. I went late and found three patients awaiting their turns. One went in. and I notic ed the two left, a girl on the point of tears and a scared-looking boy Presently, they were called, and after a while came back the girl weeping and the boy best describ ed as "looking like a lamb-killing dog." When they had gone I said to the doctor "Both?'' and he ans wered, "Yes." 1 then asked "Clayton?" "Yes. and the poor girl will have to pay for her folly." We talked a few minutes about other things and then each went his way a saddened man. One wonders how many of these wartime Clayton marriages have ended in this avalanche of divorce in Haywood, and how many ol them haw had the tragic results MARKIAdi: IN CLAYTON, GA and DIVORCE IN WAYNESVILLE, N. C. Editor The Mountaineer In a recent issue of The Moun taineer if is stated that 49 divorces were granted in one session of Haywood court and that others were pending. To me this is as founding the most painful thing I have ever read in The Mountain eer. I am an old man and I have watched Haywood's growth for at least 60 years. Her forward prog ress in the last 25 years is amaz ing and most heartening. But while this divorce business is also amazing, it is most disheartening This break-up of homes and family lives at an ever-growing rate is the most dreadful and depressing thing that has ever occurred in Haywood in my long life. It is lit erally marry in haste at Clayton. and divorce at leisure in Waynes ville thanks to this abominable law of divorce after two years separation and no questions asked In the old days. Haywood people were somewhat slow to marry They made sure that they loved each other and then were married for life either in the girl's church or in her home. Then they were equally slow to get divorced, and only for some adequate cause There were some occasional di vorces. There should always be some way of escape when certain great irrevocable causes exist, but divorce for two years separation and no questions asked makes a mockery of marriage, of the most sacred relationship in human so ciety. Divorces' in N. C. today, almost entirely of the two years separation variety, probably num ber a thousand or more yearly, and are growing by leaps and bounds. Thus the greatest relationship Ui human society is degenerating into a mere trial marriage, i being degraded to the level of the phy sical association of th brutes. Some yean ago, when, the Clay. indicated above probably there are scores. It is to be hoped that the next legislature will clarify and strengthen and make more work able the law requiring prcmnrtial medical examinations. And may 1 urge our Haywood girls to use their heads as well as their hearts in this mailer of marriage, to stand by the law requiring the medical examination, and to be married in their home churches or in their homes with their mothers helping. 1 who write this letter am a Haywood man born and bred and I love old Haywood. I am now an old man and my years on (his earth are few. I have seen much of life, I have been a teacher all my life iby my pen in my 27 years in New York! and 1 know full we how hard it is to raise the iron veil of ignorance. And the pur pose of this letter, addressed pri marily to the girls of Haywood, is to raise that veil enough that they may see what is on the other side. To every girl lo whom marriage is proposed, let me say thai if the man says, "Here is my medical certificate, let's be married here in Haywood." you may feel safe But. if he insists on a Clayton Georgia marriage without a medi cal certificate, you may at the best be doubtful ol your fate - infection with one or the other of the two most loathsome and dangerous diseases known to medicine. This letter has not been easy to write. When I read of a Clayton marriage. I am torn between pro I'anity over the ignorance displayed and pity and tears over the almost inevitable outcome. And when I read of this Hood of divorce suits and of broken hearts and desolate homes, and possibly diseased bod ies behind all. then the water fills my old eyes as it does as 1 pen these lines. E. W. GL'IKJF.Il. .oUr ne t.res positive ore w WW ode thot .1 -n0r Safer, AT REGULAR PWCE mm For a wise tire buy, look to Thorobreds with Dayton Ray tex Fortified Cord. The date of manufacture moulded into the side wall is assurance you are buying the latest tire improve ments . . . therefore, the best! A of April 15, 1946. all Dayton TirM in site 6.256.50-16 and up are mmde with Raylex, Dayton proctSHed rayon cord, at regular prices. OK... THQROBREDSfy WmM MAKEADA7EWtTHJ)AtmNAT SIMS TIRE & BATTERY CO. ED SIMS, Owner Phone 4S6 Main Street ton, Georgia, migrations were get-
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