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PAGE SIX
JUST A CENTURY AGO
Just one hundred years ago a dif
ferent kind of history was being
written for us, according to Lassie
Moncurc Lyne, who writes in inter
esting fashion of the career of Pres
tdent John Tyler in the current issue
of the National Republic. In part,
Mrs. Lyne says:
“With Franklin I). Roosevelt shat
tering precedent as the third term
President, America recalls that just
one hundred years ago, 1841, John
Tyler of Virginia became a paradox
Resident, since he was elected by
the Whigs yet assumed the policy of
the Democrats. The nation then was
•widely excited on the subject of slav
ery and Tyler resolved, despite op
position, to extend the boundaries of
territory, to annex the Republic of
Texas, and be what he regarded
President of the whole United States
rather than leader of any party.
“This course required courage in
a way, for though history labels him
‘the shuffling President,’ yet so true
was Tyler to his convictions that
when a member of the United States
Senate he resigned his seat rather
fhan vote as instructed by the Vir
ginia legislature to expunge certain
criticisms against Andrew Jackson,
whose policy was almost always at
variance with Tyler’s interpretation
•cf the fundamental principles of the
Constitution.
“John Tyler was analytical rather
than lop-sided in his views. To stand
•midway between factions is not an
enviable post. Martin Van Buren
refused to recognize him as a Demo
crat, while the Whigs under the lead
ership of Henry Clay repudiated Ty
ler as a Whig. He was an individ
uality like the Bull Moose Republi
can, Theodore Roosevelt, and Bryan,
■the Silver Democrat. No one ever
questioned Tyler’s integrity of pur
pose, since the spoils of popular fav
or are always for the person who
goes with the current rather than
Avws against it.
“In reviewing Tyler’s services as
■a statesman, it is necessary to keep
in mind that his educational privil
eges were far above many of his
contemporaries; hence his vision saw
facts in the light of political econ
omy that made him careful of con
sequences. Tyler was a trained pol
itician, a graduate of William and
Mary College, of which his son, Hon.
Lyon G. Tyler, was long the presi
dent. John Tyler was a Virginia
gentleman. His father before him
was governor of ithe state and dis
tinguished in the war of the Revo
lution, while John Tyler reached the
office of Chief Executive by the step
ping stones of membership in the
Virginia legislature, governor of the
commonwealth, member of Congress
iind United States Senator.
“Tyler’s time was a stormy period,
with British boundary lines to be es
tablished, with Indian foes to the
northwest, with Mexico in revolution
along the Texas boundary and the
question of national banks and high
tariffs agitating the country. Lurk
ing as a shadow over the Southland
was the ever-present question of
slavery, beside which no problem
caused as much discussion.”
MY FARM
MY FARM to me is not just land
Where bare, unpainted buildings
stand.
To me my farm is nothing less
Than all created loveliness.
My farm is not where I must toil
My hands in endless, dreary toil,
But where, through seed and swelling
pod,
I’ve learned to walk and talk with
God.
My farm to me is not a place
Outmoded by a modern race.
I like to think I just see less
Of evil, greed and selfishness.
My farm's not lonely—for all day
I hear my children shout at play.
And here, when age comes, free from
fears
I’ll live again, long, joyous years.
My farm’s a heaven—here dwells
rest,
Security and happiness.
•Whate’er befalls the world outside,
Here faith and hope and love abide.
•And so my farm is not just land
•Where bare, unpainted buildings
stand.
To me my farm’s nothing less
Than all God’s hoarded loveliness.
The law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death.—
Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
There is no freedom on earth or
in any star for those who deny free
dom to others.—Elbert Hubbard.
15 CENTS EACH
TO FEED 100
CHILDREN A DAY
A woman scientist who has lived
and gained weight for five years on
IB cents a day is preparing to feed
100 children on the same diet in an
experiment •'undertaken /or b na
tional research council committee.
She is Dr. Gladys Sellew, sociolog
ist of the Catholic University of
America. She actually allows her
self 14 cents a day in her food
budget, leaving a penny for such
emergencies as an unforeseen rise in
prices.
Dr. Sellew has keept about 50
children on the same meals part of
the time during this 5-year period,
rescuing them from the streets as
starving waifs, bringing all of them
to normal weight and seeing some
of them gain more than two pounds
in a week. She pays no particular
attention to vitamins or calories,
now held essential to building up the
health and morale of the American
people.
The cheapest of scientifically rec
ommended diets, Dr. Sellew says, is
far beyond the means of many peo
ple. Stressing the need for particu
lar foods such as fresh milk for chil
dren, she asserts, results in mothers’
purchasing these articles. They
therefore have no money left to buy
anything which will fill the stomachs
of the youngsters. Consequently
they are always hungry.
Dr. Sellew does not recommend
her menus for anybody who can af
ford to spend more than 15 cents a
day. But she intends living on it
for the rest of her life.
Breakfast costs 3 cents—toffee
with evaporated milk, toast and but
ter for adults. The children get
cereul with evaporated milk instead.
Dr. Sellew buys the cheapest possi
ble coffee and butter, also day-old
bread at three loaves for a dime.
Lunch costs four cents. It con
sists of pea or corn soup and crack
ers.
For a solid dinner, Dr. Sellew
spends from seven to eight cents.
She has several menus. One con
sists of baked beans, hot dogs and
spinach. Another is a stew with
meat, potatoes, tomatoes and mac
aroni. For desert she serves day
old doughnuts purchased from ba
keries for a cent each, The children
are allowed to stuff themselves.
Dr. Sellew is training classes of
social workers. She keeps her stu
dents on the same 15-eent diet.
From the beginning she has refused
offers of financial help. She is not
trying to determine, she says, what
is a good diet for people, but only
what they can have on what they
earn which will keep them in good
health.
Arrangements for the 100 chil
dren are being made with a Wash
ington hospital These waifs, most
ly from broken Negro families in
the lowest possible strata of society,
will get plenty of better food than
they ever have had before she says.
But they will not get an ideal amount
of vitamins. Left alone they pro
bably would get far less adequate
amounts.
There is no humiliation for hu
mility.
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THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
The Original Broadcasters
Thousands of years before ,the
j radio was invented, the Little Peo
ple of wood* and forest* had their
own method* of relaying news of
! their home town*, the approach of
enemies, the call to food—all the
I messages necessary to pass from ono
group to another. The signals might
be different, but they were never
confused.
A wolf, scenting the kill, raised
his pointed muzzle, and sent the
blood call ululating through the for
ests; and other wolves, padding on
questing, furred feet, miles away,
picked up the cry, and themselves
transmitted it further miles, until,
individually and in groups, they
gathered to the feast.
A sentinel beaver, becoming alarm
ed, slapped a warning with his broad
tail, and other beavers, up and down
the stream, slapped their own sig
nals and disappeared.
A rabbit, sitting at attention in
the grass, his long ears stretched up
ward like an aerial to catch the
faintest sound, ground his message
with a loud thump. Immediately
other thumps are beaten out by oth
er rabbits all through the woods,
and then comes silence; and the
cruel hawk, flying among the trees
on noiseless wings, wonders where
all his breakfasts have gone.
The lion, gaping mouth to the
ground, sounds his coughing roar
over the veldt, and frightened cre
tures far away scuttle to safety, or
are forced into betrying their pres
ence through panic, and are captur
ed by this wily announcer.
And the black man of the Bush,
beating the equivalent of a Morse
code on a hide-covered drum, has
his message relayed a hundred miles,
perhaps, within two or three hours;
over and over throughout the entire
night, if necessary, and by morning
tribes are foregathering from all
directions. It is as clear and em
phatic as our S. O. S.
Our own Indians sent their mes
sages by smoke signals. Buiding a
fire on some high mountain peak,
where it could be seen unbelievable
distances, they produced their smoke,
and by the skillful use of a blanket
—cutting the blaze or smoke on and
off—they “told the world” what
they wanted it to know, and other
Indians in far places learned per
haps that a wagon train was moving
westward with valuable supplies.
The crowd on a high limb, watch
ing over his feeding flock; a lead
gander spying out possible dangers
far in advance of the flying wedge;
some tiny sentry squatting in watch
ful dignity at the mouth of his bur
row while the remaining citizens of
Dogtown disport themselves; an old
rooster among a flock of hens; the
wild horse, trumpeting from some
far-flung, rocky crag; the chatter
ing squirrel and noisy blue jay—Na-
ture’s picket men—are the original
announcers over a vast hook-un,
whose stations encircle the globe.
INDUSTRY WILL SOON BE ON
WARTIME BASIS, ARTICLE
SAYS
New York.—lron Age said today
recent Washington developments
gave assurance industry would soon
be placed on a wartime basis, mak
ing rationing of civilian supplies in
evitable.
HELPING NATIONAL
DEFENSE AND THRIFT
The treasury department of the
federal government soon will com
mence a campaign for the sale of
stamps and bonds for financing the
defense program which amounts to
approximately $9,000,000,000. T his
series of stamps and bonds will be
similar to those sold during the
World War and those that are now
on sale at the various postoffices in
the United States.
The denominations will be of
various prices in order that children,
who have saved their nickles, dimes
and pennies can invest them in these
stamps and bonds. These stamps
will also be available for house
wives, domestic servants of all classi
fications, as well as the clerk and
other workers earning moderate in
comes.
The amount received (from this
source will be allocated to a fund
for the retirement of the debt ac
cumulated for the defense program.
In this way it is believed that the
total amount for the defense pro
gram can be raised without working
a hardship on anyone and at the
same time create in the minds of
the children, especially, a desire to
save and become thrifty.
The following type savings will be
be offered:
Postal savings stamps in denomi
nations of 10, 25 and 50 cents, and
sl. These will be a “national de
fense” series of the regular postal
stamps now on sale throughout the
country at all post offices.
Either postal or treasury “savings
certificates” in denominations of $1
and up.
United States savings bonds, com
monly known as “baby” bonds, in
denominations of from $25 to sl,-
000. Those bonds are sold at a 25
per cent discount (for example, a
$25 bond sells for $18.75) but are
redeemed by the treasury after 10
years for their full face amount.
These are sold at post offices.
Anew type interest-bearing bond,
possibly maturing in, 40 years and
bearing 2 per cent, or a little mote
interest. The exact terms of this
issue haven’t been settled.
A REPORT
to America
The Ford Motor Company’s
business has always been to
serve the needs of the American
people. In providing them with
low-cost transportation for the
past 38 years, we have devel
oped one of the country’s larg
est and most useful industrial
units. During a national emer
gency, we feel that these facili
ties should be devoted without
reserve to our country’s needs.
Toward that end we started
rolling months ago, with these
results:
1 A $21,000,000 Ford airplane en
* gine factory, started only 6 months
ago, is nearly completed. Production
will start with an initial order for
4, 236 eighteen cylinder, air-cooled,
double-row, radial engines.
2 We are building anew SBOO,OOO
Ford magnesium alloy foundry,
one of the few in the country. It is
already producing lightweight air
plane engine castings.
3 Army reconnaissance cars mili
tary vehicles of an entirely new
type are rolling off special Ford
assembly lines at the rate of more
than 600 a month. We have produced
Army staff cars and bomber service
trucks.
4 The government has given the
"go-ahead” and work is now
under way for the fast construction
of an $11,000,000 Ford plant
to produce bomber airframe
assemblies by mass produc
tion methods.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
MONEY FROM HERBS
(Macon Telegraph)
Announcement was recently made
that a South Georgia farmer had
signed a contract with a Macon
dealer to grow 4 thousand dollars
worth of sage, and now comes the
statement from Dr. S. V. Sanford,
chancellor of the University Sys
tem, that Georgians will be encour
aged to cultivate a wide variety of
medicinal herbs which have become
almost unobtainable because of the
war in Europe.
At a meeting of the board of re
gents agreement was reached with
Dr. H. A. Dangenham, representative
of one of the world’s largest import
ers of medicinal herbs, whereby his
company would provide seed, a sup
erintendent for the experiments and
financimg to the extent of 20
thousand dollars over a period of
three years.
Georgia was selected for this un
dertaking because of the three dis
tinct climatic zones within our bord
ers and the experiments will be car
ried out at Tifton for the coastal
plains, at Blairsville for the moun
tain area and at Athens and Griffin
for the lower Piedmont region.
The herbs upon which experi>-
ments will be made have been grown
commercially, almost entirely in the
Mediterranean basin. Among them
are belladonna, henbane, digitalis
and—believe it or not—the jimson
weed.
It is added that efforts to grow
sage, which has been largely im
ported from Dalmatia, on the Adri
atic, will also be made.
Every school child is familiar with
the story of the hungry Jamestown
settlers who thought the wild plant
we now know as the jimson weed
looked like an available supplement
to their diet, with disastrous effects,
by which it became —if you want to
be precise—the Jamestown weed.
It flourishes here and now Geor
gia farmers are to make money out
of it.
The sage of commerce is merely
a variety of the familiar salvia
which flames in every Georgia door
yard and surely calls for special
care, but apparently the foxglove
docs not need to be coddled.
Growing these things commercial
C Several months ago work was
** started, on our own initiative, on
an entirely new 1500 horsepower air
plane engine especially designed for
mass production. This engine is now
in the test stage and plans are being
developed for producing it in large
quantities when and if needed.
C A Ford aircraft apprentice school
has been established, to train 2000
students at a time.
That is a report of progress
to date.
The experience and facilities
of this company can be used
to do much of the job which
America now needs to get done
in a hurry.
Our way of working, which
avoids all possible red tape, en
ables us to get results and get
them fast. This benefits users
of our products and workers
who produce them.
We are ready to make any
thing we know how to make,
to make it to the limit of our
capacity if need be, to make it
as fast as we can go, and to start
the next job whenever our
country asks us to. And to this
end, we know we have the full
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941.
FOURTEEN BILLION IN
GOLD AT FORT KNOX
Secret movement of $8,500,000,-
000 worth of gold from New York
City to Fort Knox has been success
fully completed and now the great
vaults in the Kentucky mountains
told $14,000,000,000 of the precious
yellow metal, the largest treasure
ever assembled under one roof.
The metal is locked in bomb-proof
subterranean vaults with 25-inch
walls of steel and concrete. A di
vision of mechanized cavalry occu
pies the fort, which surrounds the
depository.
The pile of glittering bars is
about half of all the monetary gold
in the world. The treasury has an
other quarter of the world’s gold
scattered in other American vaults
and owns altogether $22,200,000,-
000 worth.
Gold was shipped to the United
States in avalanche proportions dur
ing the first 16 months of the war,
but now this country owns so much
of all that has been mined since
the beginning of civilization that the
inflow has tapered off to a trickle.
New and old gold alike has been
melted down into standard bars,
about the size of an ordinary brick,
and can’t very well be told apart.
But officials believe the depths of
Fort Knox now hold gleaming bits
of metal once fingered by the an
cient Pharaohs, of Egypt, the chief
tains of the Incas, the Grandees of
Spain, Caesars of the first Roman
empire.
So much of the world’s gold is
in this country, that economists ar
gue about the question of whethi r
the rest of the world could repu
diate its value.
Used primarily as a backing for
American money, the gold in Fort
Knox is 50 per cent more than all
the paper money in the country.
ly will call for special care, but ap
parently the University System is
about to provide our farmers with
another source of revenue brought
about by the upheaval of war.
Today’s couplet:—Of all dumb
ginks there’s none so dense as he
who talks in the present tense.
confidence and loyal
support of the workmen
throughout our plants.