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WILL WELCOME RETURN OF
OLD-FASHINED FOODS
(By Bruce C’atton)
A Michigan newspaper recently
opened a prize contest for house
wives, asking them to submit old
fashioned recipes for old-fashioned
foods; and no mortal who hns plod
ded gamely through the whipped
cream and cracker-chumbs output of
modern cookery can do less than
hope that the ladies of Michigan
rally 'round and nikae a great oc
casion of it.
We might just as well face the
fact that some strange fads and
fancies have been flourishing in the
American kitchen of late. Our fore
fathers waxed great and strong on
solid fodder that would nestle up to
a man’s breastbone and stay there,
letting him know that he bad eaten
something; we, their unworthy des
cendants, are facing a world in
which the kitchen has become an
experimental laboratory for a ladies'
bridge club, so that a plateful of
orange-colored fluff on dewy lettuce
leaf is actually held to be suitable
nourishment for hard-working adult
human beings.
It started probably, when people
began to find out about things like
vitamins. Now vitamins are all
very well in their way, and a steady
diet of salt pork and boiled potatoes
is probably a trifle heavy for city
folk.
But once science reared its ugly
head in the kitchen, it opened the
way for all manner of abuses, and
the volunteer dietary advisers lost
no time in taking advantage of it.
They began with desserts, and th<!
way their minds work can be gaug
ed by the fact that they actually
tacked a dressmaker’s word like
“chiffon” onto a sturdy thing like
pie. They debased ice cream by
discarding the freezer and chilling
into solidity a series of weird mix
tures and tints and flavors in the
ice tray—each mixture guaranteed
to provide at least one lump of pure
ice to the spoonful.
From desserts they moved on to
salads. They took to grating carrots
and chopping nuts, to launching
'bananas in oceans of mayonnaise, to
throwing at homo sapiens whole
platefuls of raw vegetables as if he
were no better than a rabbit. They
erected faery concoctions of gelatin,
tomato juice and whipped cream—
fair to look at, but passing strange
to the palate.
They put whipped cream into
noups and breakfast foods into cust
ards. They turned puddings from
hflnest affairs of solid crusts and
firm interiors into quavery, watery
confections that will collapse at a
touch. They sinned against the po
tato, by slicing and perforating it
into unearthly shapes and then fry
ing it to brittle tastelessness; against
the egg, by forgetting that the egg
was designed by Providence to nes
tle, sputtering, against slices of
fried ham; against bacon, by slicing
it thin as tissue paper and broiling
it within an inch of its life.
But enough has been said. The
Michigan editor has the right idea:
old-fashioned recipes for old-fashion
ed foods. Cannot something be
done to make this a great, nation
wide campaign?
REV. I. J. LOVERN DIES AT
ELBERTON
Elberton. Ga.—Rev. I. J. Lovern,
retired Methodist minister, and a
native of High Shoals, Ga., died
here, following an extended illness.
Rev. Lovern was well known
throughout northeast Georgia, and
has held pastorates at a number of
churches in this section.
He has held pastorotes at Nichol
son, South I.incolnton, Turner Hill,
Adairsville, Center and several other
churches in the group which is now
the Athens circuit. '
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“Little Known Newspaper
Facts”
Recently when the Georgia Col
legiate Press Association met in
Savannah, Bill Biffem, in ‘‘hi* col
umn", gave the following informa
tion of newspaper facts that are
known by few of the editors of tin
state, and should be of much inter
est to the young men and girls
the collegiate press.
The facts are these:
“The first newspaper publisher
was Bejamin Harris, who printed
Public Occurrences in Boston, Sep
tember 25, 1690. The first newspa
per serial was entitled “Religious
Courtship.” written by Duniel De
foe, and puli! lied in Samuel Keim
er's Pennsylvania Gazette, 1729.
This surprises me, for I had believ-
I ed that Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe”
I was the first newspaper serial. The
i N’ew York World published the first
! Sunday comic section, 1893, with
drawings by R. F. Outcault, under
the title "Hogan’s Alley.” Samuel
S. McClure started the first news
paper syndicate, 1884. The first
college daily was the Daily Illini,
University of Illinois, Champaign,
From 1871 the Illini had previously
been a weekly, or published every
other day. The first daily news
paper was the Pennsylvania Packet
and Daily Advertiser, date Phila
delphia, September 21, 1784, with
David C. Claynoole and John Dun
lop as publishers. The Connecticut
Courant, started as a weekly at
Hartford in 1674, is the oldest daily
newspaper in the United States, in
point of continuous publication. The
first daily newspaper to carry illus
trations was the New York Dailey
Graphic, 1873, using zini etchings.
The first penny paper was called
The Cent, published at Philadephia,
1830, but the first successful penny
paper was the'New York Sun, 1833.
John Binn’s Democratic Press was
the first Democratic newspaper,
1808, and carried the slogan: “The
Tyran’t Foe, the People’s Friend.”
New York Daily News, 1919, was
the first illustrated tabloid daily.
First newspaper south of the Poto
mac river was the Virginia Gazette,
1736. The first newspaper wesj of
the Alleghanies was Pittsburgh Ga
zette, 1786. First Sunday news
paper. New York Sunday Courier,
1825, failing after a few months.
Mathew Brady was the first notable
news photographer, taking more
than 7,000 pictures of the War Be
tween the States scenes. The first
engraving was a woodcut, 1670,
made by John Foster. Mr. Kane
does not tell us who used the first
half-tone, but of course photo-en
graving came in around 1890. Tim
othy Alden invented in 1846 the first
type-setting machine that worked.
Movable type was distributed from
a horizontal wheel. The Mergen
thaler machine came out in 1886.
The Monotype came in 1887. First
newspaper mill, using wood fiber
was started by William Orr, of
Troy, N. Y., in 1854.”
WATCH PLANTED WITH
POTAOTES
George P. Clay, principal of La
nier Junior High School in Jenkins
county, tells this jtory and vouches
for its correstness. In February he
planted Irish potatoes at his farm,
and discovered at the end of a long
day of planting that his Elgin watch,
with its seventeen jewels, had gone
into the earth with the potatoes.
It was useless to dig up all of the
ground to try to find the watch; in
fact, Mr. Clay had no absolute as
surance about where he had lost it,
or how he had lost it; but he decid
ed he would never find it. A few
days ago he went out to plow up the
matured spuds; and much to his sur
prise he found the watch. Wiping
off the dirt, he gave the watch a
little winding and it began ticking
as of old. So far as he can deter
mine it is just as good watch, but no
better than he planted.
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THE JACKSON HERALD. JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
HOTEL MIX-UP CAUSES ,
EDWARDS EMBARRASSMENT
Harry Slilwell Edwards of Macon,
noted author of that prize novel,
“Sons and Fathers," acknowledge*
to the fact that he has always had
, a horror of being caught in a hotel
fire, as he had once been almost
|burned in such a fire. According to
the Macon News, recently, he visit
led Americus, and was a guest for
| the night at the hotel. When he
| went to his room, Mr. Edwards look
! ed out of his window and discovered
that the ground was far down. He
distrusted fire-proof hotels; so he
shifted to another room, but not un
til he was insistent. His bathroom
was a converted sleeping room, and
it had a hall door with the upper
half protected by an opaque glass.
Another guest was afraid of fire.
She was traveling alone, and she
made it a rule of her life never to
go to sleep in a hotel without first
learning all about the fire escane on
her floor. When the porter de
posited her baggage she asked him
to show her the fire escape. He was
so busy raising windows and doing
the chores that porters so well un
derstand, he got his tip and forgot
all about the fire escape, but he had
told the guest it was near the end
of the hall. After he was gone, she
started out by herself to find it. The
hall had one frosted glass door, and
she firmly gripped the knob, and it
opened, showing a man in a bath.
“I beg your pardon,” exclaimed
the lady in excitement, “I was
looking for the fire escape.” She
quickly closed the door and started
farther down the hall.
Almost instantly a man appeared
in the hallway behind her, with a
towel wrapping up as much as pos
sible of his body, and he cried out:
“My God, lady; where is the fire?”
LATEST GADGETS IN PRISON
Reidsville, Ga.—Prisoners placed
in the new state Tattnall prison will
live and work among science’s lat
est inventions for sanitation and
escape prevention.
Prisoners will wash their hands in
multiple spigot circular washbowls,
eat food prepared in scientifically
gadgeted kitchens, and live surround
ed by electricity charged fences and
highpowered flood-lights mounted on
towers.
The prison will have a capacity of
between 2,000 and 3,000. There are
nearly 8,000 under supervision of
the state prison commission.
Inlaid in the floor of the foyer of
the prison is Georgia’s seal,' symbol
of wisdom-justice-moderation, and
a group of blue eagles'.
Application by the state for a
$225,000 grant and a $275,000 loan
for installation of industrial ma
chinery in the prison is pending be
fore PWA.
If the loan should be granted and
the machinery installed officials said
a metal plant for production of tin
goods would be set up together with
a tobacco plant for manufacture of
smoking and chewing tobacco; a
shoe factory; a beer bottle cap man
ufacturing plant; a printing plant;
a cotton mill with a gin and cloth
ing units; a hosiery plant; a can
ning plant; a plant for the making
of concrete culverts; a plant for
dehydrating vegetables; an auto
mobile license tag manufacturing
plant; and an enlarged turpentine
operation unit. *
Officials estimated goods from the
industries set up would be worth
$210,000 annually.
MALE HELP WANTED
If you need a better income, are
responsible and willing to work
hard, we can offer a good business
near Jefferson retailing Watkins
products, already well advertised
there to rural families. No cash
necessary. Age 25-45, must own
car. Write Mr. Gowdy, cfo The J.
R. Watkins Cos., Memphis, Tenn.
A LESSON IN SHAKESPEARE
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TRAVEL BY AIR SHOWS
MARVELOUS IMPROVEMENT
It is not so very long since the
man who wanted to fly across the
Atlantic had to strip his plane
until it amounted to little more than
a pair of wings, a gas tank, and a
motor. He could get in it and sit
down, but he couldn’t hope to be
comfortable and didn’t expect to be;
all he asked was a 50-50 chance of
getting across the sea.
To measure the strides aviation
has taken, compare that with the
new super-clippers now being built
for the trans-Atlantic service of
Pan-American Airways. These are
giant craft of 40 or 50 tons dead
weight, with three decks, quarters
for 72 passengers, and accommoda
tions for a crew of six. No one
doubts that they will be able to span
the ocean regularly, swifty, and
safely; and those who ride them will
have comfort, warmth, and freedom
of movement.
It’s a long way from these sky
liners to the stripped-down planes of
less than a decade ago.
GOOD RAIN
Mose—Dis yere rain’s goin’ to do
lots o’ good, Rafe.
Rafe—Yeah! Half-a-nour o’* dis
yere rain’l do mo’ good in five min
utes dan a whole month’s rain’l
ginally do in a week.
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In scores of Georgia communities, the cotton mill
is the very lifeblood of commercial activity.
When the mill is closed, business stagnates,
because the mill payroll ceases to circulate through
local cash registers.
A closed or crippled mill hurts not only the mill,
the workers and the stockholders, but merchants,
professional men, and even manufacturers many
miles away.
J. FOSTER ECKLES
AGENT
FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE
JEFFERSON, GEORGIA.
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PLAN YOUR TRIP BY RAIL
At
NEW LOW FARES
FAST CONVENIENT SCHEDULES
ALL STEEL EQUIPMENT
AIR-CONDITIONED
SLEEPING CARS and DINING CARS
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Inquire at Ticket Offices
E. E. BARRY,
Asst. Gen’l Passenger Agent, Atlanta
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
/Uncle Natchel and Sonny are on your radio twice \
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THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1937.