Washington, D. C.
F. D. R. VIEWS AID TO YOl'fll
During the week before his Carib
bean cruise, the President held a
series of private conferences which
were of prime importance in con
nection with his plans for the new
congress. In them he disclosed that
he is doing a lot of thinking about
domestic problems along two lines?
1. Youth.
2. Old-age pensions.
Democracy can resist subversive
Ideologies, the President held, only
by convincing youth that it does
have a stake and a future in the
existing system.
The President indicated that he
had no particular program in mind.
In fact, he asked for suggestions
and ideas.
On old-age pensions, Roosevelt
disclosed that he has made up his
mind as to what he wants. His
idea is to change the existing sys
tem of widely divergent state con
tributions to one of uniform federal
pensions, beginning at a lower age
than the present 65.
Roosevelt also voiced sharp criti
cism of the moguls of the social
security board who have so vigor
ously opposed liberalization of the
law. He declared that they have
been a big obstruction to reform
and that the time had come to over
rule them. It was significant that
the President had not discussed his
plans with them and was proceed
ing independently.
Note?Since January 1, when the
amended law became operative,
190,000 applications for old-age pen
sions have been approved by the
social security board for a total out
lay of $4,109,000 a month. With the
$7,048,000 paid out in lump sum
claims to survivors, the total old
age pension outlay so far is around
$28,000,000. The average pension is
$22 a month. In his conferences,
Roosevelt talked of placing 5,000,000
oldsters on federal pensions within
a year.
NO MASS PRODUCTION
One of the big complaints of de
fense chiefs is lack of machine-tool
facilities. Yet there are many small
plants of this type around the coun
try that have been literally begging
for orders and not getting them. One
company with 150 lathes has been
advertising for business in trade
journals for months.
Also there is strung evidence of
a lack of vision or initiative or both
in making the best use of mass
production facilities. The blame for
this goes right back to high defense
quarters.
The gigantic resources of the auto
industry, for example, have been
practically untouched for defense
output. New plants have been or
dered that will take months to build,
when by a co-ordination of the great
auto factories, parts of planes,
tai.ks, guns, etc., could be turned
out in carload lots daily and assem
bled at central points.
William Reuther, young official of
the United Auto Workers, long ago
proposed such a plan for a daily out
put of 500 all-metal pursuit planes
of the most powerful type in the
world, and at one-third their pres
ent cost. But the matter is still
"being discussed."
Other industries could be used In
the same way for similar short
cuts on other armament needs, but
they are not. Meanwhile, defense
output drags along, and precious
weeks and months flit by.
BRITISH DAMAGE
Confidential military estimates ot
Nazi bombing damage to Great
Britain are that British industrial
production has fallen ofl about 30
per cent.
While this is a very serious crimp
in the output of British plane;, anti
aircraft guns and shells, it is not as
bad as the pictures of shattered
Bristol, Coventry, and Southampton
would indicate.
Reason damage to British indus
trial production has not been great
er is (1) that the British more than
a year ago began scattering their
plants in small units throughout
Scotland and northern England,
which are hard to locate and hard
to hit after they are located; (2)
that those big plants which do re
main are protected with a virtual
forest of anti-aircraft guns.
Far more serious Is the damage
to British navy yards. These can
not be broken up into small units,
and thr?y have been so heavily dam
aged that the repair of British ship
ping is very materially retarded.
In many cases, British warships
have been repaired at 3ea.
This, plus the tremendous in
crease in the sinking of merchant
vessels, is what makes the British
?hipping plight so desperate at pres
ent.
Farm
Topics
MOLASSES ADDS
FOOD TO SILAGE
Tests Establish Its Value as
Nutrient.
By C. B. BENDER
(Assoc. Professor in Animal Husbandry.
Rutgers University.)
Alcohol and the same acids which
are found in vinegar, cow's milk and
rancid butter occur in griss silage
when molasses is added and they
are also contained in corn silage.
| But that's nothing to be held against
silages, for these ingredients are
used by cows for heat and energy.
Experiment station trials which
brought about this conclusion were
started because many dairymen
were of the opinion that the cost of
molasses is a direct preservation
charge when the molasses is used
in the preservation of grasses and
legumes as silage.
Some farmers felt that molasses
Is added to silage in order to pre
serve it because the bacteria convert
the sugar in the molasses to various
acids which preserve the green crop
in the silo. Although dairymen have
fed molasses to cattle for years and
know its value, some believed this
value to be lost as soon as the sugar
is converted into acids.
The studies were made to deter
mine the chemical changes which oc
curred in the silo when silage is
made with grass and preserved with
molasses. It was found that the
sugar is converted by bacteria into
alcohol and into acetic acid which
is found in vinegar; lactic acid,
which is found in cow's milk, and
butyric acid, which is found in ran
cid butter.
Another experiment was then set
up whereby these acids and alcohol
were fed to animals. As the result
of these metabolism trials it was def
initely established that all of them
were utilized for energy or heat by
the animal's body. This means that
they take their place along side of
the carbohydrates in corn, oats and
other dairy feeds a? definite nutri
ents.
Advises Blue Banding
Winter's Heavy Layers
Mid-winter?which means some
time during December and January
to the poultryman?is the proper
time to examine each laying bird in
the pullet flock carefully and "blue
band" the heavy producers for fu
ture identification, says Dr. W. C.
Thompson, poultry husbandman at
the New Jersey Agricultural Ex
periment station, Rutgers university.
Farmers who find trapnesting im
possible may accomplish this iden
tification job accurately and inex
pensively by the "blue banding sys
tem." This involves handling and
examining the pullets, reading the
external characteristics and decid
ing which individuals possess those
traits indicative of heavy egg yield
during the past two or three months.
A blue celluloid leg band is placed
on the right shank of each pullet
judged to be in heavy winter produc
tion at that time. Such simple
designation becomes at once a rec
ord and an indicator.
"The heavy layer in mid-winter
has a deep broad body, long keel,
easily pliable skin, bright red soft
head parts, brilliant prominent eyes
and shows loss of yellow pigmenta
tion."
Mites on Poultry
Mites do not live on chickens as
do lice, but suck blood from the skin
of the birds while they are on the
roost at night. They then return to
some dark place during the day.
Cracks and crevices in the poultry
house or on the roosts are the places
they generally hide. Painting the
roosts with nicotine sulphate will
prevent the loss from these para
sites.
Farm Notes
At present prices for tankage and
corn, 100 pounds of skimmilk Is
worth about 30 cents to feed to hogs.
This amount of milk will replace 6.5
pounds of tankage.
* ? ?
Eggs as packaged by nature are
an excellent food but too much heat
in cooking them will damage the
food and health values originally in
the package.
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Exports of nearly all United States
farm products, cxcept cotton, were
greatly reduced during the first 12
months of the current European
war, reports the U. S. department
of agriculture.
Lesson for December 22
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
I lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
; permission.
SHARING THE SHEPHERDS' 101
(Christmas Lesson)
I.ESSON TEXT?Luke 2:8 20.
GOLDEN TEXT?Glory to Cod In the
highest, and on earth peace, good will to
ward men.?Luke 2:14.
Tinsel and toys, swdvt and sleigh
bells, crowded department stores
and rushing throngs, gifts and greet
ing cards. Christmas dinner and fel
lowship with family and friends?
is that all Christmas means to us?
All these things are proper in their
place?exciting and interesting?but
they are not enough.
They have never been enough and
certainly the.v will not do this year,
with a world in chaos. We need not
lose any of the thrilling enjoyment
of Christmas by properly observing
the day; in fact, we shall only en
hance its meaning and bring out its
real glory by Keeping Christ at the
heart of our Christmas.
The opening verses of Luke 2 tell
us of the coming of Mary with Jo
seph to God's appointed place at His
appointed time for the coming into
this world of His Son to be made
flesh and dwell among us (John 1:
14). Our lesson tells us of
I. Good Tidings of Great Joy (w.
8-14).
God had gocrl news for the people
of this world and He gave it, as was
His custom, to those who were faith
fully discharging their humble
duties (cf. Judg. 6:11, 12; I Kings
19:19). God is still ready to reveal
His glory and grace in the "office,
kitchen, mill, barn school-room,
and open field?places where people
are at work on daily tasks" (Doug
las). You need not be in the great
church in a large city to meet Him
on Christmas day. He will reveal
Himself in all His beauty where you
are, though you be in the humblest
surroundings and at the most menial
task. Look for Him!
Note that the army of heaven
came to declare peace, not war; but
only to those in "whom He is well
pleased" (v. 14, R. V.). As long as
men serve the devil and displease
God, they will have no peace.
II. Great Faith and Consistent
Action (w. 15, 16).
The shepherds did not say, "Let
us nov; go and see if this thing has
come to pass," or "which we expect
or hope will come to pass," but said,
"which Is come to pass." They
went not to test God's word, but in
the assurance that they would "see"
what had come to pass. Blessed
faith! Let us too believe God's word
to us.
But "faith without works is dead"
(James 2:17). The shepherds might
have made many excuses for not
going but "they came" and "found"
the Saviour. Perhaps you who read
these words have failed at that
point; you have not come to Jesus
as your Saviour. No more appro
priate time could be found to come
than right now. Believe, then act
on your faith.
Some of us who are Christians
need also to learn of the shepherds.
We talk a great deal about our de
votion to Christ. Especially at this
Christmas season we render much
"lip service" to Him. Let us make
it real, and our lives virile and
active for Him.
111. Good News for Meditation and
Proclamation (vv. 17-20).
The gospel is literally "good
news." What a blessed privilege it
is to have such good news in a day
of evil tidings, of darkness and
despair.
There are two things we ought to
do with the gospel of God's redeem
ing grace. We should make it
known to the ends of the earth, but
we should also do as Mary, "who
kept all these things and pondered
them in her heart." We know she
had special reasons for doing so,
but may we not suggest that you
too make this Christmas a time
when you will ponder in your own
heart what God has done for you in
Christ?
The shepherds also set us a Christ
mas example, for they "made
known abroad" the coming of the
Saviour. Will you tell someone e'se
today? Will you, like the shep
herds, be "glorifying and praising
God" this Christmas? You will if
you, like them, go to the manger
and meet Jesus. If you go to this
world's empty show of celebration,
you will return empty (see v. 20).
May the blessed peace of Christ
be yours this Christmas. That is
my wish from the heart to you.
"PHE off-trails of football that
rarely lead to the major head
lines can take you into a country
just as interesting as Minnesota,
Stanford, Texas A. & M., Boston
college and Tennessee.
For example, during the late
World Series in Cincinnati I ran
across a number of
old - time football
players who told me
about e back by the
name- of Jackie Hunt
of Marshall college
in Huntington, W.
Va.
"I played against
George Gipp," one
old-timer said, "and
I'd rather have Hunt
than Gipp."
"I played against
Cliff Battles/' an
Grantland Rice
| other reported, "and I'!: take Hunt
over Battles. He is just as good a
ball carrier, a great kicker, a fine
passer and a star defensive back."
When good tootball players tell
you about a fellow who is better
than Gipp and Battles you begin to
take notic. So two months ago I
crawled a trifle out on the limb for
Jackie Hunt.
Being on the off-trail, away from
the beaten pack. Hunt was bard to
follow. But he was the big factor
in beating V. P. I. and also in
scoring 19 points against Wake For
est, a team good enough to beat
North Carolina, 12 to 0. Picking up
what I could here and there, (after
all, there are over 400 college teams
playing ZOO games each week), I
discovered Jackie Hunt was doing
all right.
The next investigation discovered
i that he was the leading scorer of
? the country, well ahead of such peo
ple as Harmon and Kimbrough and
j the rest.
About Jackie Hunt
About this time I ran into Jock
Sutherland, the Dodger mandarin.
"I know about Hunt," Jock said.
"We wanted him at Pittsburgh. He
was the best high school back in
America that year. Big, fast, pass
er, ball carrier and kicker, loaded
with exceptional football spirit. But
Hunt wanted to stay in his home
town at Huntington with Marshall.
He felt that Huntington was where
he belonged. Even as a high school
player he was an outstanding star."
More than a few leading colleges
tried to explain to Hunt that he
ccfuld take the headlines away from
Harmon and Kimbrough, from Rea
gan and O'Rourke. Hunt wasn't in
terested in headlines. He loved foot
ball, but he wanted to play at home.
A 185-pound 10-second man who
could do about everything, this West
Virginian let nation-wide fame roll
by as he went on scoring three or
four touchdowns in almost every
game for dear old Marshall. This
attitude was more important than
all the touchdowns he scored, which
lead the nation.
Hunt and Snead
A few days ago I received a
screed from a sport writing friend
from West Virginia who knows his
stuff.
"You may remember," be wrote,
"that I've only slipped yon one tip.
Years ago I told you that we had a
hillbilly by the name of Sammy
Snead who was on his way up with
the greatest swing in golf. That
was before anyone knew anything
about Sammy Snead. You printed
what I wrote to you. Now I'm tell
ing you that Jackie Hunt of Mar
shall college is a better football
player than Sammy Snead is a
golfer.
"I know his schedule isn't what
Minnesota or Michigan faces. But I
know what he can do. I'd like to
see him, on equal terms, play
against Harmon or Kimbrough, for
I know he can do more things bet
ter with a football. He can run
with either and outkick and outpass
both. And you can't find a better
defensive player.
"Hunt is in the same spot Dutch
Clark once held. 'A great player/
they said, 'but no schedule.' Dutch
Clark is still the all-time AU-Amerl
ca quarterback in your book and al
most every other book. Hunt is
bigger and faster than Dutch Clark,
and can do everything as well."
No Fake Ballyhoo
This is no fake ballyhoo for Jackie
Hunt, whom I have never seen. But
when Doc Spears, coach of Dart
mouth, Minnesota and Oregon, now
at Toledo, who has seen Hunt play
two years, adds his testimony, you
have to listen.
Doc Spears doesn't believe there
is a better all-around back in Amer
ica. And he has no exceptions.
"One of the greatest." is the Doc
Spears tribute
Debtor Set the Collector
An Example in Conduct
Doublex is noted for his ntrve
his shortness of temper, and y?
scarcity of cosh. While seal?) al
a lonely breakfast in his club one
morning a debt collector stormed
in. and presented his bill.
"Sir," said Double*, glaring ?t
him, "is this all you know 0f u*
usages of decent society? To prt
sent a bill to a man breakfasting?
i Do you know that you are an in.
truder? II you wish to talk busi
ncss. go outside and send in your
card."
1 The collector went out and sent
in his card. Doublex picked it up
and read it.
| "Tell the gentleman," he said
sweetly, "that I am not in."
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But in that country there is one
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it would happen that, by sheer
cussedness of chance, nearly ev
erybody who lives near this nat
ural ink-well is unable to write.
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By Thy Deeds
Such as thy words are, such will
thy affections be esteemed; and
such will thy deeds be as thy af
fections; and such thy life as thy
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Whom to Watch
Beware of no man more than of
yourself; we carry our worst ene
mies within us.?C. H. Spurgeon.
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Friend or Foe
The man that makes the be?t
friend will make the worst enemy.