FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 132
THE FRANKLIN PRESS
PAGE THREE
Dad's One Home Job Lost
Through Modern Invention
MODERN inventionlias taken
away the only thing that
made a man popular- around
! the house during the housewife s
busy working-hours, namely, the
old-fashioned can-opener , that
"wouldn't work" when feminine
fingers tried to manipulate it.
Can-opening has always, hereto
fore, been the bane of a woman's
existence.
Ask Dad. He knows! No soon
er would he settle down to his pa
. per then he would hear that wail
from the kitchen, and a frantic call
for his assistance.
"I've cut my finger with that
horrid old can-opener again!", would
be his greeting upon entering the
culinary department. "I never could
do anything with it! You'll just
have to open this can for me
George." -
"Let George do it!", was ever
the cry, when a can was to be
opened. And George always meek
ly did it. If he happened to be ab
sent, Mother always had a tied-up
finger to show him on his return.
But now Dad hag lost his one
domestic job, and hasrt't the slight
est excuse for hanging around his
home and fireside during the day
time. For the mechanical genius
which has distinguished this gen
eration ha? not enttrelv neglected
the lowly can-opener, and the re
sult is that there are now on the
market several improved types
which dq away with much of the
labor and inconvenience that at
tended the use of the old-fashioned
kind. ,
The simplest of these improved
can-openers consists of two scissor
like pieces which govern two small,
sharpened rollers. The rim of the
can is placed between these two
rollers and they are operated by
a small screw. The two metal
handles which control the sharp
ened wheels are held with the left
hand, and the screw is turned with
the right hand. The opener is
thus worked around the edge of
the can. It cuts smoothly and
evenly, entirely removing the lid
and leaving no jagged edges.
Another, more elaborate type of
opener is screwed to the edge oi
the table or to a shelf above tht
sink, much as a meat-grinder is
attached. The can is held so that
its rim is between the two cutting,
knives, and they are worked by a
handle operated with a rotary mo
tion. In using this tvoe of ODener.
it is advisable to place a saucer
under the can, as a small amount
of the liquid it contains is liable to
spill over. .
Since these openers do not come
in direct contact with the food, it
is not -necessary to wash them, and
they can therefore be screwed to
the table or shelf and remain as
a permanent fixture.
' It has already been pointed out.
that these improved openers leave
a smooth, straight edge, which will
not endanger the hands of the
worker. There is an additional ad
vantage in this, for the foods will
not : be jagged and broken when
they are turned out of the cans.
In this rushing, complicated age,
the housewife should take advan
tage of every device that will pre
vent the duties of the home from
degenerating into drudgery., For
there is no time nor place for
drudgery, today, in the life of th
woman who is taking an active part
and interest in the world's work,
as well as in her own.
Modern Chick Must be
Hatched Early to Ring
the Cash Register
The early bird gets the worm, and
the farmer who hatches his chicks
early "is laying the foundation for
profitable egg production next win
ter, according to the Larrowe Insti
tute of Animal Economics. Noyer
ber now brings highest prices for
ggs instead of January as in former
years, and progressive farmers are
finding that it' pays to advance
hatching, formerly done in May and
June to February and Mar:h.
While winter is normally the sea
son of dorjnant reproduction in poul-
ry, the farmer who applies the few
basic principles of poultry culture
will find that he is able to ge,t satis
factory ' production from his flock
'during the cold months, the Institute
states. The use of good blood is the
first prerequisite; early hatching is
important; third, there must be con
stant growth from the time the pullet
j)ops out of the egg until she lays one,
and plentiful feeding of egg-making
fo,od during the laying. Especially
important is the matter - of proper
feeding, for without the right kind
and quantities of feed the other fac
tors will be of little avail.
The advantages of early hatching
are enumerated by the Institute as
follows: Early hatched chicks are
less susceptible to the common poul
try diseases, make a good normal
growth during spring and summer
and come into laying condition when
eggs are in excellent denjand at a
satisfactory price. Under average
brooding i. and rearing', conditions,
chicks with an early start make a
much better growth and attain a larg
er size I and development than do late
hatched chicks. Another advantage
of early hatching chicks is that the
surplus cockerels can be marketed as
broilers when eight to ten weeks old
on very satisfactory terms,, but if this
is not desired, they can be put on
good green pasture and grown to
roaster age, when they can be mar
keted advantageously in October or
November. Then, too, early hatched
pullets, if allowed to neck-molt in
November and December will slow
up production and, if allowed to
come into production again, make
ideal breeders.
Cheap Feed Produced
By Good Pasture
Raleigh, N. C, March A good pas
ture produces the best feed for al
kinds of livestock and the feed is se
cured more cheaply than in any olhe
way. Even the man who keeps but
one cow, a few hogs and some work
stock will find a permanent pasture
to pay well.
"Demonstrations have shown that
the loamy soils of North CaroJina,
will produce good pastures that will
furnish succulent food for livestock
from March until late November,"
says S. J. Kirby, extension " pasture
specialist for the State College of Ag
riculture. "In almost every county
east of the piedmont section,, there
are permanent pastures which have
produced heavy grazing for periods
varying from one to 21 yearr. Almost
any type of soil will produce these
pastures and some soils will produce
better pastures than any other kind
of crops. The best pasture land is
rather fertile soil ranging from a
sandy loam to a clayey loam of low
to medium upland.
Woods, cut-over land and cleared
land will produce good pastures and
arc easily prepared for seed, stales
Mr. Kirby. The woods land may be
prepared by cutting out the under
brush, thinning out the taller trees
and removing those trees which arc
valuable for timber. It' is necessary
to break and disk old broom-sedge
land before seeding. The cultivated
land may be prepared simply by disk:
ing the soil. A better growth is se
cured if the land has been plowed the
fall before, but cultivated land should
not be plowed for planting to pas
ture just before the seeds are sown.
Mr. Kirby states that the land
should be well fertilized with stable
manure, 300 to 400 pounds of acid
phosphate and from 200 to 300 pounds
of some organic nitrogen ' material
Hke cottonseed meal or tankage
Seed mixtures to usd can be secured
on application to the county agent
or to the pasture specialist and seed
ing should be, done between rebru
ary IS and April 1. '
REWARD NOTICE
A reward of $25.00 will be paid for
the name of any person starting a
iorest fire on the Onteora hstatcs.
Kephart Writes of the
Great Smoky Mountains
The forested and shrub-covered
mountains in Western North Carolina
and Eastern Tennessee, which the
federal government proposes to set
aside as the Great Smoky Mountain
National Park, has a charm that de
fies analysis, says Horace Kephart
noted writer on these mountains, in
a recent' article in the Charlotte Ob
server. "Many a year have I wandered
back and forth over the Smokies,"
Mr. Kephart writes, "often going
alone for days on end without seeing
a human being. 1 have passed the
same, places scores and scores of
times. But never in all these jour
neys have I come a second time to
any glen or brook or summit without
finding there something new. Never
have I followed a trail through the
tall forest without, wondering what
I should find at the next turn. Al
ways there is something new grow
ing on the old place or moving over
it. "Do you wonder, then, that we
who live in the Smokies and who
have worked sC hard to protect and
preserve their loveliness we wno are
fighting the commercial interests that
would, if let alone, destroy the vir
ginal charm and adorable beauty of
God's masterpiece that we should
now be elated by the almost certain
prospect that the nation will soon
adopt this region and preserve it for
ever as a national park?" -
"What is the secret of that charm
that fascination of the Smokies,
which lingers so lovingly in one's
memory when he is away and lures
him so irresistibly to return " Mr.
Kephart asks, and then, as if to an
swer himself, he says: ;
"I have often wondered over it, but
I confess it defies 'analysis. In part,
however, it is due to the superb and
wonderfully . varied forest primeval
that covers the Smokies with living
verdure to their very summits.
"Bare rocks may rise to awe-inspiring
heights, they may be sculp
tured by nature into striking forms
they may be toned by the elements
and colored by atmospheric changes
they may be robed in snow and jew
elled with glittering ice, they may be
majestic in calm or terrible when
tempests rage or. when avalanches
thunder down the . slopes ; but bare
rocUs are never lovable. The stony
bosom' is cold. r
"But ' when the mountain ' frame
work is covered with trees and shrub:
bery and flowers, grasses and ferns
and moss, which harbor an . infinite
variety of animal life, then every
peak becomes a personality itself en
dowed with the graces and warmth
of life. Then nature is our mother,
and we love her."
Mr. Kephart described his conver
sation with Robert Sterling Yard,
widely known authority on national
parks and the secretary of the Na
tional Parks association, on 'the sub
ject of the proposed Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. He met
Mr. Yard, he said, at Asheville and
was told by Mr. Yard that the Na
tional Parks association had directed
him to visit the proposed park area
and determine whether it came up
to the national park standard, or
whether it had merely been overrated
by local pride. Mr. Yard declared
that he had been skeptical, that even
the fulsome recommendation of the
members of the Southern Appala
chian National Park commission that
the Creak Smokies be included in the
national park group had not con
vinced him fully that these mountains
were on a footing with the Yellow
stone, theYoscmite or Grand Canyon
parks of the West. He visited the
proposed park area, and Mr. Kephart
said to him :
"Well, you have just returned from
the Smokies. You have seen them.
Are you skeptical?"
"No," he replied with some empha
sis, according to Mr. Kephart's ac
count of the conversation. "Kep
hart, t have found something in the
Smokies that is unique, something
that no other park possesses. I do
not mean just scenery, though in that
respect the Smokies have all that the
commission claims for them. I mvvi
something that not only delights the
out tnat wins tne neart. mere
is a charm in the Smokies that de
fies analysis."-
How does it affect you? Mr.
Kephart asked Secretary Yard.
'In tins way, Mr. lard replied:
"Some other regions may have more
extraordinary, more awe - inspiring
features. But when you have seen
one of those wonders of nature, such
as a geyser, a glacier, a lofty pinnacle
or a profound gulf, why you have
seen it. You don't care to go back
again to sec the same show over, any
more than you would pay admission
to sec a theatrical show the second
time. But the Smokies lure you back
You want to return and linger there.
You love them. My wife and daugh
ter and I wrc co overcome with af-
ection for the Great Smoky Moun
tains that we are going to come back
and . build our summer home here."
Everyone, Mr. Kephart declares
who has once climbed up into the
liigh Smokies, away back from the
highways and railroads into the wild
Eden that remains there in all its
primitive majesty experiences the
same feeling, the feeling which Ma
jor W. A. Welch of the Federal Park
commission expressed when he said
of these mountains : "Nowhere else
in all the world is nature so much my
mother as in the Great Smokies.
There I rest in her bosom and am
satisfied."
Rornanoffs' House is .
Converted into Museum
Sverdlovsk (formerly Ekaterin
burg,) Siberia, Feb. 7. The Bolshe
vok government has converted the
house in which the Emperor and Em
press of Russia and their family were
murdered, into am historical museum.
Part of the building now is a small
communist "university." The former
dining room of the imperial family
has become a reading room, where
scores of proletarian students pore
over newspapers and scientific books.
In the basement is the blood-stained,
bullet-pierced room in which the
royal family were killed. It has been
preserved as an "historical reminder
of the just fate that befell the auto
crat of all the Russians."
A section of the floor is torn up.
Kolchak troops, having, it is said, at
tempted to remove traces of the
crime. Visitors . are told that after
the Kolchak officers discovered the
murder, white soldiers washed ' Cie
floor and distributed the suds to, the
clergy, "priests having waited for
hours in lout: lines for their share of
the water containing their .former im
perial master's blood. , ,
Visitors must have special permis
sion. .Seme Americans recently were
refused entrance" on the ground that
foreign visitors had written- matter
hostile to the Bolshevik regime. Out
side the house, which, overlooks the '
"square of national vengeance," is a
marble pedestal on which stands a
headless statue of Karl Marx. The
statue was "beheaded" by Kolchak
soldiers in 1918. ,
Notice
. 1 wish to say to the Democrat vot
ers of the Twentieth Judicial District
that I am a candidate for the nomi
nation for judge of this district and
will appreciate any help my friends
will give me.
J. D. MALLONEE.
Atwater Kent
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CANDIES Hollingsworth's
SCHEAFFER ' Pencils
Anti-skipper compound for that fresh pork.
It's fine and guaranteed. A $1.00 can will preserve
from 600 to 700 pounds of meat.
Your favorite magazines can be had here.
Our prescription department is growing daily.
Try us. This department is in charge of an experi
enced registered druggist of wide experience.
THE FRANKLIN PHARMACY
: "We are in Business for Your Health."
SPEAKING OF PUDDING
lit advertising merchandise the word "Bargains"
has perhaps been overworked. Yet we know of
no other expression that exactly fits conditions at
our store. It has often been said that the "proof
of the pudding is in the eating." Likewise, the
proof of Gordon's bargains is in the buyir. as
hundreds in Macon County can testify.
Each week wc are receiving large shipments of
new merchandise. These oods are being sold at
uniformly low prices. -
A trial will convince you that our prices are
RIGHT.
GORDON BROTHERS
"HAVE THE BARGAINS FOR YOU"
NOW IS THE BEST TIME TO HAVE YOUR
Car Overhauled
It is so much better to bring your car to us NOW, be
fore real Spring weather arrives, because we know
you will not want us to give you an answer like this
"FULL OP-NO TIME FOR VEEKS"
But that will probably be the answer if you put it off
too long. Phone or'call on us TODAY for a reserva
tion and let us give your car a genuine overhauling
before fine driving weather arrives.
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