Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, April 04, 1946, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextJapan and the New Life Go easy, Japan, will ya? You’re killing us with that contortionist act and that changing-a-warrior-into-a turtle-dove number. Now you’ve come out for a new constitution, a bill of rights, an American style declaration of inde pendence, freedom of speech, free dom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of the press and freedom of the Chautauqua Salute. * You renounce war as the right of the nation and you cast out “the use of threats or force In any form.” And you say “the maintenance of land, sea or air forces will never again be authorized by Japan.” » But we can’t help asking “Are we supposed to take it in capsule or powder form, and does it taste bet ter in orange juice?” » There’s an old adage that you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, a baby-chick out of a buz zard or a wax figure entitled “Love and Kisses” out of a record of Bataan. » We don’t know which is the most disturbing, a country that comes out of a global shindig breathing red fire and yelling “1 can lick any man in the house” or one that comes out singing “Hearts and Flowers” and with a passion for necking with the conqueror. Plenty of people think Russia thumbing its nose at all comers is more comforting than Japan thumbing through a book of good resolutions. » Never in history has a warrior slate changed faster to Old Mother Hubbard with touches of Sunbonnet Sue. • Freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of religion arc fine but not so fast, boys with the freedom of back-slapping, freedom of grease-balling, freedom of kow towing and freedom of fried mush! ♦ It is great to change voices in mid-character, but the speed is a little dazzling. » The first thing we know you will be renouncing jiu jitsu, talking back to the phone girl and speaking roughly to the cat. * You may even repudiate Japanese wrestling. * Go easy, pu-leaze! The emperor who never let anybody look down on him now operates at eye level. The potentate who never mixed with the folks now gives autographs in crowded department store eleva tors and prefers an escalator to the white horse. Fair warning, Nippon! Don't come out for compulsory ra dio crooning! • ♦ • Mr. Hoover urges all housewives to discontinue fried foods to save fats. Fine! But what will the doctors tell a man to stop eating when he comes in with indigestion? ♦ • • LINES IN ENVY C'Aga Khnn II eighed in Gems, Gets SI ,200,000." —news item.) 1 sometimes am proud of my racket— Quite often I think I’m the nerts, 1 once made those uppermost brackets— (And never complained “How (his hurts!”) My friends I declare all quite hearty, And life can be sweet, I declare. But nobody throws me a party And weighs me in gems extra rare! 1 sometimes feel very top-doggy; My line I announce is okay; My path isn’t any too boggy— The stulT that 1 get isn’t hay; 1 stand pretty well, so 1 figure; The angles all seem very nice; My grip on my public gets bigger , But nobody weighs me in “ice”! | The Aga Khan has what seems to Ibe a great racket. Once a year his people stage a great show and weigh [him in diamonds, the proceeds in cash going to his coffers. The other day he tipped the scales at 243*6 in Bombay and got over a mil lion. Beyond all doubt he has a bet ter argument than any other man on earth against reducing. • * * PEACE OF EXHAUSTION The General Motors strike is over and there is much speculation on which side won. To us it looks like a tie in a fall out of bed. • * » The federal communications com mittee announces that in its forms for new applications and renewals of radio licenses it is working to “check advertising excesses,” par ticularly with respect to exasperat ing commercials. What it means is that it thinks the commercials should end somewhere between the point where the program begins and where it ends. • * ♦ “Raise Auto Ceilings.”—headline. Fine! Bumps on our head are pretty numerous. | 1)* | 'jmjofiicf; Flame Cultivation Passes Farm Tests Suitable for Hard- Stemmed Field Crops Flame cultivation of farm crops has been proven sound at Cornell university and Mississippi State col lege. Tests made with sugar cane and with cotton have proved this method suitable for hard-stemmed row crops. Tests are still being conducted on other crops. The flame cultivator consists of an ignition system burning diesel or tractor fuel, with burner heads mounted behind tractors so that two flames hit the rows from opposite sides. At Mississippi it was found that any plant which is sufficiently tall for its leaves to escape contact with the (lame has to be removed by hand. Johnson grass and “pig weeds” are resistant to repeated flaming when the leaves are not struck, while some plants suc cumb when the stems are repeat edly flamed. Flaming versus hoeing showed no difference in the values obtained on seed cotton, lint and spinning. Seed , ■■ ' t ■ »: • •>.<• -Wm >- * >4|p 4 "w- v Sizz flaming cultivator being op erated in field. showed a higher significant differ ence for free fatty acid and signif icant difference for grade in favor of flaming. Under this system it is now possible to produce cotton without hand labor by cross-plow ing, flame cultivation and machine picking. Other farm crops promise to fall under this mechanical meth od of operation. Swine Tuberculosis Spread by Chickens Tuberculosis in swine increased 1(1 per cent last year, according to the evondemned. This represents a heavy financial loss to the swine raising industry. Tuberculosis in swine is not spread froVn animal to animal, un less the udder of the sow is infect ed. The control and eradication of the disease in swine depend on erad icating tuberculosis in cattle and poultry. As old-aged flocks of chickens are the chief spreaders or tuberculosis to swine, farmers should keep poul try out of hog lots, and dispose of the older birds each year. Improved Machinery Corn Sheller l This corn sheller, product of In ternational Harvester, has a capacity of 100 to 150 bushels of husked corn per hour. It can be operated by any one-plow tractor engine or motor with capacity of 5 to 10 h.p. It is constructed to shell corn for sale to elevators or to meet the immediate feeding requirements. Elevator and cob stackers may be attached. The corn travels down ward in line of feed. A feature is a one-piece cylinder. DDT Hps an Important Rival in Velsicol 1068 A compound of chlorinated hy drocarbon, product of the Univer sity of Illinois insect experiments, is said to be three to four times as toxic to houseflies as DDT and twice as toxic to potato-beetle lar vae and to pea and spirea aphids. It is about equal to DDT in its ef fect on mosquitoes. Other new com petitors of DDT include the British insecticide Gammexane and TDK, tetrachloro-dipheny 1-ethane. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA New Electrical Appliances Big Improvement Over Old By AL JEDLICKA WNU Features Electric gadgets will make postwar America a better place in which to live and work, in the home, on the farm, and in fac tory or warehouse. Inventions and innovations held back for the past four years because of war are now coming out to make your acquaintance. The principal improvement in postwar refrigerators is in the in creased storage capacity, with one unit providing collapsible shelves to permit the placement of larger items in the bottom bins, and an other converting the bottom panel A plug-in radiator, “electro steem,” can be moved anywhere in the house and used where it is needed. Compact electric churn, equipped with an aluminum agi tator and a clear glass barrel, can turn out about one and a half pounds of butter in a few minutes. New lamp features a “circline” fluorescent tube as well as a con ventional bulb, eliminating sharp contrasts and providing color warmth. W' * Jkassm jeiipw* u iffi l * ■ft, • f Mil " RK ■ WSSUm f TV-* |Hf Jflf jH Using finger-tip controlled electric truck. Standing on transporter is Pfc. Ernest O. Palmieri, Warren, K. I.; seated, T/4 Paul Regon, Johnson City, N. Y.; operator, Pfc. John J. Bennicoff, Kutztcwn, Pa.; right, looking on, Pfc. Lawrence Cotugno, South Boston, Mass. Double Bill Planned for Central City Drama Festival CENTRAL CITY, COLO. The famed old opera house of this equally famed old mining town will have its glamorous presentation again in 1946. This announcement has been made by Frank Ricket son Jr., president of the Central City Opera House association. A double bill Mozart’s colorful, romantic ‘Abduction from the Se raglio” and Verdi’s wistful-dramatic “Traviata" will mark the re A i into a receptacle for vegetables. Efficiency and economy of effort feature smaller appliances like cof fee makers, toasters and waffle irons. One coffee maker, for in stance, capable of brewing from one to eight cups, shuts off at 204 de grees, tests having shown that boil ing brfhgs out the bitter flavor in the beverage. With the coffee made, enough temperature is then main tained to keep the liquid warm. A new toaster will allow the bread to pop out when crisped or retain it if desired and maintain its warmth, while a new waffle iron flashes a light to advise the home maker when it is sufficiently hot and possesses four grids to elimi nate waiting for multiple servings. Other interesting new innova tions include a small electrically heated beanery for the preparation of foods needing slow treatment and a mixmaster which automat ically separates the beaters from their sockets. A revolutionary combination washing machine and dishwater promises to dispel blue Mondays for homemakers. Of eight-pound capac ity, the washing machine can be transformed into a dishwasher by a change of tubs, with racks pro vided for placing wares to be cleansed by a squirting action. Made especially for apartment houses or laundry stations, another washing machine with nine pounds capacity can be set for a light, heavy or average wash and then started off with a coin. With studies having shown that a homemaker lifted hundreds of pounds during each ironing with the old, heavy units, a new three and one-half pound iron has been pro duced. Other new postwar innovations in clude a combination radio-phono graph, with records inserted into a side drawer for automatic setting and playing, and floor lamps with an incandescent tubing running around the ordinary reflector to throw in creased reading light without any heat. Butter and buttermilk for home consumption are available at the flick of a switch in the rural home equipped with a new electric churn. The portable machine weighs only 16 pounds, has a high speed mo tor, a glass barrel and several other wartime improvements, ac cording to its manufacturer. The glass barrel, which permits the op erator to watch the churn’s prog ress, comes in three- and five-gal lon sizes. Its V-shaped aluminum agitator is suspended from the mo tor by its drive shaft, and is easily removed for cleaning. War veterans who lost arms in combat will soon find electrically operated devices to help them in handling autos and tractors. By pushing a button, a disabled veteran may be able to hold a job in a fac tory, or shop, or in a warehouse. One Chicago manufacturer has brought out an electric propelled hand truck which will handle a 6,000- pound load through fingertip con trol. establishment of the Central City drama festival, scheduled to open Saturday evening, July 6. The festival will continue for three weeks and the presentation of the Mozart opus will fulfill a hope long held by the late Anne Evans, one of the founders of the festival, who invested several thousand dol lars in having the “Abduction from the Seraglio,” with its Oriental in trigue, passion, romance, scored H ■■■ -* pp. ip(j |\ , 4 Mrs. John Maurer, 18, for merly Joan Lipple of Plym outh, England, is impressed by fresh eggs and other good things to eat in her new home at Lebanon, Pa. Her husband, shown with her, was formerly in the navy. They have a four months-old daughter. Formers Con Pay Blue Cross Dues To Farm Bureau ETHLYN, MO. Farmers may enroll in the Blue Cross for them selves and their families through their county farm bureau, Mrs. Paul Palmer, national secretary of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau federa tion, has pointed out in a recent statement issued here. “Farmers may pay their Blue Cross dues quarterly,” Mrs. Palmer stated, “when they pay their farm bureau dues. When hospital care is needed, there are no questions asked. The Blue Cross identification card ie the passport to more than 3,600 accredited hospitals in the United States and Canada.” Farmers, Mrs. Palmer said, have learned in the last few decades that early hospitalization means early recovery. “Through radio, the rural press and magazines they have come to realize that their fathers’ habit of tolerating minor ill nesses until they reached the point where the condition was beyond help, was foolish to say the least. The care of our sons by army and navy hospitals has clearly demon strated the value of scientific medi cine, good nursing care, and prompt treatment. Today, farmers demand the same health advantages for their families as do the people who live in cities and large towns. The health of the farmer who produces the food for America’s tables is fully as important as the health of the factory worker. “There is a great need for addi tional hospitals in rural areas, and farmers are actively supporting na tional and state legislation provid ing for a survey of health facilities which will lead to the construction of much needed hospitals.” Luck of Trained Doctors Affects Farmers’ Health WASHINGTON, D. C. Rural areas even with their sunlight and fresh air, freedom from indus trial dust and fumes, and absence of dense crowds where diseases can spread are losing the health advantage they once held over the cities, says the agricultural depart ment. The scarcity of rural doctors is reflected by a survey showing that before the war, in the thousand most rural and isolated counties of the nation, there were so few medical men that each had to serve an average of 1,700 persons, while in the larger cities there was a doc tor for each 650 persons. During the war, the rural aver age dropped as low as one doctor for 3,000 to 5,000 persons, because rural doctors almost everywhere ex ceeded their quotas in entering the armed forces. Doctors and dentists, the report says, tend to shun rural counties be cause they feel they can make a better living in cities and have great er access to modern hospitals, tech nical equipment and professional contacts. The rural shortage also reflects, the department says, a failure of many states to provide educational opportunities for doctors. It says that almost half of all young doctors now come from medical schools in five major industrial states, while 18 states, mostly rural, turn out no medical graduates from their schools. In World War 11, youths from farms showed considerably more physical defects than those from cities. and translated into a modern frame. The opening of tire 1946 festival promises to be as brilliant as that which witnessed the opening of the opera house. Period costumes will again prevail among the patrons who will arrive not only from cities and towns of Colorado but from all sections of the country if inquiries to the association headquarters may be regarded as an index of inter est. I 'IMPROVED™" j UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for April 7 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. FRIENDS OF JESUS LESSON TEXT—Mark 10: 13, 14; Luke 6:13-16; 8:1-3; 15:1, 2; John 3:1, 2a. MEMORY SELECTION Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.—John 15:14. Jesus is our friend. We may be His friends. Simple words thus pre sent the most profound and satisfy ing experience of life. There is noth ing more wonderful than friendship with Jesus. We may become the friends of Jesus and make Him our friend sim ply by putting our faith in Him as Saviour and Lord and thus doing what He commands. He said, “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you” (John 15:14). What kind of friends did Jesus choose? Did He limit His interest to a select circle of very religious people, or tp the cultured and edu cated folk of His day? It may sur prise some Christian people who have made the church a sort of ex clusive club to learn how wide were the interests and the love of the Lord whom they profess to serve. 1. Children Were Welcomed (Mark 10:13, 14). Observe that the disciples had fallen into that stiange mode of thought which excluded the chil dren. They were undoubtedly well meaning in their desire to keep the Master from the intrusion (as they thought) of little ones. He was en gaged in dealing with profound spir itual matters and they felt that He should not be disturbed. Jesus was displeased. He seldom showed such feelings. Usually He bore silently with their mistakes, but this was so serious that they must be rebuked. Little children belong with Jesus. Let us not forget it, and let us not fail to make it easy and attractive for them to come to Jesus in our churches and Sunday schools. 11. Witnesses Were Chosen (Luke 6:13-16). When Jesus left this world to re turn to His Father’s throne, He left witnesses behind. It is significant that these men were of simple childlike spirit, un learned in the formality of their day, but with a real genius for friendship both with the Lord and with a needy world. The close fellowship of our Lord with these men was their course of training for service, and His blessed friendship was the burning fire which kept their hearts warm through the difficult years ahead. 111. Women Were Helped (Luke 8: 1-3). Yes, and they became the Lord’s willing helpers, just as a multitude of their sisters in the faith have been down through the ages. Women responded readily to the Lord’s message of redemption and to many of them He was able to look for loyal and sacrificial serv ice. Women were not highly thought of in His time on earth. They are little more than useful creatures in heath en lands today. Christianity set womanhood free, raised it to its glo rious place of dignity and useful ness. Every woman ought to love Jesus with deep devotion. Note that some of the wealthy women gave of their means to serve Jesus. It is one of the effective ways in which women carry on work for the Lord today. IV. Outcasts Were Received (Luke 15:1, 2). Publicans and sinners—who would they be in our day? Drunkards, thieves, gamblers, prostitutes, crim inals of all kinds. A beautiful and touching word by G. Campbell Morgan is quoted in Peloubet’s Notes. Listen sinner, Jesus “receiveth unto Himself sin ners. He takes them into His com radeship, makes familiar friends of them, takes them to His heart. That is the gospel. He is not high-seated on a throne bending down to you and offering you pardon if you will kiss His scepter. He is by you in the pew, He is close to you in your sin, and He will take you as you are with the poison and the virus within you, put His arms about you and press you into a great comrade ship.” Will you let Him do it—now? V. Rulers Were Converted (John 3:1, 2a). “Not many mighty, not many no ble, are called” (I Cor. 1:26), but thank God, it does not say “not any.” Some there were in high places who set aside their pride, their position and all, to come hum bly to Jesus. Nicodemus was one of these. It is true that he came by night, but he came; and that is wonder enough for a man in his position. Read his defense of Jesus amid the scorn of his fellow Sanhedrin members (John 7:45-53). These, then, are the friends of Jesus. Do you find your place among them? There is room for you. He is waiting to receive you- Will you come to Him now?