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Unloading Iron Ore at Detroit.
Story of Our Inland Seas Is One
Of Transportation and Commerce
Finals in the state-wide Latin tour-
iment sponsored by the Classical
Scbtion of Georgia were held
April 23.
nr R C. Pendergrass was recently
dpcted president of the Americas
Butary Club to succeed John West
Sheffield. through March 22, had
Georgians, in income taxes
aid Uncle Sam more
this year than for the corresponding
period last year.
C D Stewart has been named
(ire'chief and newly C. B. organized Newton assistant depart¬
chief of the
ment of Buchanan.
j a. Pickard, superintendent of
the Edison public school, has been
re-elected by the school trustees for
the next school year.
The Rural Electrification Adminis¬
tration announced recently a $10,000
allotment for the Hart County Elec¬
tric Membership Corporation.
The Southeastern Building Material
Dealers’ Association was formed In
Atlanta recently, with M. E. Dyess, of
Augusta, as its first president,
J. Fortney, superintendent of Grif¬
fin public schools, addressed the Ro¬
tary Club of that city recently on the
benefits of vocational education.
The Savannah Power and Electric
Company is sepnding $75,000 on im¬
proving the system of underground
conductors in the business district.
Construction will start early in
April on eight miles of the Elberton-
Toccoa highway, to be paved by the
Florida Construction Company of
Powder Springs.
The Columbus Chamber of Com¬
merce has invited the 1939 Georgia
Baby Chick and Egg Show to that
city. A chick and egg show was re¬
cently held in Augusta.
A breakdown of the national un¬
employment census of last fall showed
that Georgia had 130,661 unemployed
persons exclusive of 35,549 emergency
workers as of November.
Marietta civic groups recently sent
a telegraphic appeal to Representa¬
tive Tarver urging him to seek an
immediate start on work at Kenne-
saw Mountain Memorial Park.
The John Houston Chapter of the
Upson County D. A. R., will sponsor
a cooking school in the high school
auditorium of R. E. Lee Institute. It
will be conducted by Marietta Dull.
Judge Clement E. Sutton, Wilkea
county legislator and author of the
state highway patrol act, has been
named chairman of a safety council
organized by the Washington Ki-
wanis Club.
Alec Thompson’s grand champion
Aberdeen Angus steer, awarded top
honors recently at Screven county’s
third annual fat'stock show, brought
$161.70 at the auction sale held as a
climax to the exhibits and judging.
Cotton ginned from the 1937 crop
of Troup county exceeds that of the
preceding year by some 4,000 bales.
Total number of bales ginned from
the 1937 crop was 11,051, as compared
with 7,665 during the preceding year.
All state departments, agencies and
Institutions have been notified by the
governor to make their budgets for
the last quarter of the current fiscal
year on the available balance of 75
Per cent of their annual appropria¬
tions.
Federal work relief programs In
Georgia have met local needs, pre¬
vented distress and suffering and
should be continued, the Georgia
Community Improvement Appraisal
Committee said in its report to the
governor recently.
Chairman W. L. Miller, of the
State Highway Board, said recently
that the annual payment of $2,500,-
000 a year to counties for roads built
before they were taken into the
state-aid system was being made by
highway department.
A $250,000 program for moderniz¬
ing the Augusta airport has been be¬
gun. Included in the project, jointly
sponsored by the city, Works Prog¬
ress Administration and the Bureau
of Air Commerce will be erection
of a radio beam for all-weather fly¬
ing.
Mike Benton and officials of the
Southeastern Fair announce that they
have arranged for the appearance
of Lucky Teter and his Hell Drivers
M Lakewood Park, Atlanta, on Sun¬
day, April 3, and Sunday, April 10; In
the afternoon. Teter and his whirl¬
wind troupe are recognized inter¬
nationally as the world’s greatest or¬
ganization of daredevils—consisting
17 nationally famous stunt men,
an d many other thrilling features
too numerous to mention.
Macon architects are preparing
Plans for a community auditorium at
Pcrterdaie as a memorial to the late
r *iiver s. Porter, founder of that
c ‘Py and father of James H. Porter,
Il^-nhairman lf, b Manufacturing of the Company, board of the
^roilment of $4,610 young men for
8 ei ghteenth annual Citizens’ Mil-
j y ^ rainin Camps in the fourth
r, r S
area Waa anticipated recently
j 1 a i° r General Van Horn Mose-
m ’ | :oinma Cam Paign nding will general. The enroll- and
j n I begin April 1
j„ ne r , 16 1 i rncnts to will be conducted from
July 15.
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
r " I "'HE Great Lakes contain
I half the fresh water on
earth; enough to cover
the continental United States
10 to 18 feet deep, or to fill a
30-foot ship canal from here to
the sun!
Africa’s largest lake, Victoria Ny-
anza, would cover most of Lake Su¬
perior, but it would take 71 Vic¬
torias to fill it. Asia’s premier lake,
the Aral sea, is a bit larger than
Lake Huron, but it would take four
Arals to fill one Huron. Two Lake
Baikals would scarcely reach be¬
yond the edges of Lake Michigan,
although they would contain nearly
three times as much water.
If they only lay there, basking in
the sun or raging with storms, our
inland seas would be impressive.
But they have served America as
no inland sea has served another
land. At every corner of the Great
Lakes, and because of them, busy
cities have risen. On the banks of
a hundred tiny creeks commerce
has planted its loading piers or
elevators.
Our bridges crossed our lakes as
ore before they crossed a river.
Scarcely a skyscraper whose frame¬
work has not wallowed in the swell
of our “Big Sea Water” before
combing our urban skies. The story
of our Great Lakes is one of un¬
believably cheap freight rates, of
marvelously active freighters, of fur
and lumber, iron and grain.
Fur Trade Incited Exploitation.
In the days when the principal
crop of America was cold-bred fur,
the St. Lawrence was the gateway
to our Midwest. While the English
were seeking the Northwest Pas¬
sage to the alluring Orient and col¬
onists along the Atlantic were con¬
solidating their position against
the wilderness, French voyageurs
and missionaries were following
stream and portage to the heart of
America.
Colonization was caught between
sea and mountain. Exploration pad-
died its swift canoes on lakes and
rivers.
Fur was the incentive, and tem¬
poral or spiritual empire the
dream, of Nicolet, Joliet, Marquette
and La Salle, to whom the water¬
shed between the Great Lakes and
the wide Mississippi basin was fa¬
miliar while the British were still
settling the seacoast. As early as
1700 one could ride horseback from
Portland, Maine, to Richmond, Vir¬
ginia, sleeping each night in a vil¬
lage. But the Appalachian barrier
held. Meanwhile the French, more
nomadic, were spread thinly over
a tremendous inland empire.
In 1803 most of this land became
ours through the Louisiana Pur¬
chase, and the vast territory which
fur trade and Indian alliances had
won for France gave trans-Appala¬
chian colonization new impetus. For
a little less than four cents an acre
the young American republic ac¬
quired rich agricultural lands
stretching to the headwaters of the
Missouri and the Yellowstone.
Grain, Lumber, and Then Iron.
Around the lakes, fur ceded its
primary place to grain or lumber.
Hiawatha’s “forest primeval”
crashed before Paul Bunyan’s saw
and ax. Hills of sawdust began to
rise like sand dunes, and countless
jig-saw verandas embraced Amer¬
ican homes.
Then came iron!
At the northern end of the lakes
whole rust-red mountains of ore
stood ready for the steam shovels.
Coal moved north and iron south,
a combination providing profitable
return cargoes. Wherever a creek
reached the south shore of Lake
Erie, coal and ore were tossed back
and forth by car tipple and “clam¬
shell.”
Protected from early traffic com¬
petition by the Niagara falls, which
were later to furnish its light and
power, Buffalo stands at the east
end of the upper lakes and the west
end of the only convenient break in
the Appalachians. Superlatives,
which swarm around the Great
Lakes, hive at Buffalo.
This favored spot no more sug¬
gests the bison than Rome does
Romulus or Syracuse Sicily. And,
had an Indian interpreter not made
a mistake, it would have been called
“Beaver,” a startling but suitable
name for this busy creek-side port.
A dozen railways now obscure the
fact that Buffalo is not a creature
of the plains, but an aquatic city,
DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, APRIL 7. 1938
WHAT to EAT and WHY
4lOU.iton Croudiu Noted Food
■..................-............- .i ....... — Authority
Relates the Miracle of VITAMINS and
Explains Why YOU MUST EAT
THEM or DIE • • •
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
6 East 39th St.. New York.
f I TE LIVE in the most inspiring age the world has ever
VV known. Chemists grow plants without soil. Doctors
snatch men from death with insulin. Surgeons perform in¬
credibly delicate brain operations. And thanks to the amaz¬
ing discoveries of nutritional scientists, children enter the world
with far better chances for long and happy lives, while men and
women of seventy are more active and useful than their grand¬
were at fifty. <S>-—-
Much of the hard - won
knowledge of how to eat so
as to increase efficiency, curb
disease, and improve the
chances for longevity is due
to the discovery of vitamins.
• • •
VITAMINS DISCOVERED
Twenty-six years ago, a now-
famous scientist walked nervously
around his labora¬
tory, back and
fotth — back and
forth. He was con¬
ducting a nutrition
experiment of vast
importance. H e
didn’t quite know
what he was going
to find, but he be¬
lieved that he was
on the verge of a
revolutionary food
discovery.
The scientist was my friend,
Casimir Funk, a brilliant Polish
bio-chemist. He had been work¬
ing on the problem for many
years. At last, in the year 1912,
his experiments were positive and
conclusive. Then he announced
to the scientific world that he had
discovered a vital force. “This
force,” said Funk, “I have called
vitamine, because it is necessary
to life.”
Thus, the word “vitamin” came
into being, along with the first
knowledge of these minute but
powerful factors which exert such
a tremendous influence on human
health and happiness.
• • •
SPARK PLUGS OF NUTRITION
Other bio-chemists throughout
the world—including Sir Frederick
Gowland Hopkins in England, and
Hart, Humphrey, Babcock, Steen-
bock and McCollum in the United
States—had been working on the
same problem that Funk had par¬
tially solved. They knew that the
first step was to find out how vita¬
mins affected the human body,
and that the second step was to
discover what foods contained
these vital substances.
And so there began a long se¬
ries of experiments in the labora¬
tories of great universities all
over the world, which demonstrat¬
ed what happens when a diet is
deficient in any of the vitamins,
and proved that if laboratory ani¬
mals are wholly deprived of vita¬
mins for a short time they will
die.
These experiments are of the ut¬
most significance to every home¬
maker, because the same thing
happens to human beings as to
experimental animals. Today our
knowledge of vitamins has pro¬
gressed to such a degree that it
is possible to state the exact re¬
quirement for most of the vita¬
mins and to designate the foods
from which adequate quantities
can be obtained.
• • •
RESISTANCE AND VITAMIN A
To date, six vitamins have been
identified. Vitamin A promotes
growth and builds resistance to
Building, Maintaining
Family Health
* [N articles THE C. th3t Houston have appeared Goudiss
weekly in this newspaper pre¬
vious to this one, the nationally
known food authority has de¬
scribed FOOD, as it provides
the key to mental and physical
power; PROTEINS, the foods
you cannot live without; CAR¬
BOHYDRATES and FATS,
foods that provide motive pow¬
er for the body machinery; and
MINERAL SALTS, that you
must have in order to build
strong bones, healthy nerves
and rich, red blood.
These subjects have been
treated in an interesting and
understandable manner, free of
scientific terms, principally of¬
fering advice to the housewife
that will aid her in the problem
of feeding the members of her
family such foods as will build
and maintain their health.
Every one of these articles
has a definite place in your
scrapbook for future reference.
If you have missed any of these
discussions, the publisher of
this newspaper will supply
them upon your request. If you
have not already done so, start
a department of these informa¬
tive articles in your scrapbook
at once!
founded on the creek that still sus¬
tains it. Its real greatness began
on October 26, 1825, when the Sen¬
eca Chief started down the four-
foot-deep Erie canal. The news of
its departure thundered by cannon-
fire from Buffalo to New York, 500
miles in 90 minutes—shots which,
like those of the Minutemen, were
heard round the world.
On November 4, 1825, the canal-
boat flotilla arrived at Sandy Hook,
where Governor Clinton poured
Lake Erie water into the Atlantic
near New York city, which “Clin¬
ton’s Ditch” was to lift to the posi¬
tion of America’s premier port.
Up From the Gulf to Chicago.
On June 22, 1933, at Chicago, salt
water from the Gulf of Mexico was
blended with Lake Michigan water
when a flotilla of Mississippi river
barges, bearing spices, coffee, and
sugar, arrived at Lake Michigan.
Bascule bridges, pointing like how¬
itzers at the tall-speared phalanx
of skyscrapers, aroused with raucous
protests of a chorus of Klaxons, and
pseudo-Indian warwhoops sounded
over the busy waters beside which
lonely Fort Dearborn first rose on
a swampy shore.
The nine-foot channel does today
what river and glacier did more
than once in the past—links the
Great Lakes with the gulf. St. Louis
has become an export port for north¬
ern wheat. It took 260 years for
Joliet’s dream of a Lakes-to-Gulf
waterway to come true, although
Lake Michigan water has flowed in¬
to the Mississippi basin since 1871.
Try to force your way through un¬
derbrush or struggle along on foot
beneath such a burden as is easily
carried in a light canoe, and you
will realize why the French pene¬
trated this continent by following In¬
dian guides upon its rivers.
Canals extended the natural wa¬
terways. Then wagon wheels over¬
rode the objections raised by the
owners of pack horses and rail¬
ways won their share. The motor¬
car, bringing broad, smooth high¬
ways, set the tax-collecting filling
station in the place of tollgates, and
passenger car and truck invaded
the steel-webbed empire of the Iron
Horse. The Panama canal, opened
in time to do its bit in the World
war, brought our coasts together.
The new Welland canal and the
Illinois waterway are additional
transport factors in a region where
motor manufacturers, having vied
with steam engines, now face com¬
petitive traffic problems involving
railways, lake steamers, truck-
aways, new car convoys, and wide¬
ly distributed assembly plants.
Each form of transportation, fight¬
ing for its share, now forges ahead,
now lags behind. But were traffic
stopped on our inland seas, our
industrial life would sustain a ma¬
jor shock.
Four Routes to Tidewater.
Four routes to tidewater now ex¬
ist: the Illinois waterway, with a
nine-foot channel; the New York
State Barge canal and its branch to
Oswego, both with a depth of 12 feet;
and the St. Lawrence canals, in
which there are 14 feet of water.
The deepest artificial link is the
new Welland canal, which not only
has 30 feet of water on the sills of
its spectacular locks, but also ac¬
complishes the steepest lift—326 Vz
feet in 25 miles.
Even before the war occasional
tramp steamers entered the Great
Lakes from tidewater, and today
ocean bottoms are no novelty. In
1933 over a hundred steamers from
overseas ports brought in cod-liver
oil, canned fish, and merchandise
from Europe to Detroit, and depart¬
ed with pitch, wood pulp, and motor¬
cars.
Shiploads of automobiles have
been sent direct from Detroit to
London and Hamburg. Rumanian
oil, coming direct from the Black
sea, competes with American gaso¬
line in Detroit. Ships regularly sail
from the River Rouge to ocean ports
around the world. The economic
balance beam is seldom at rest.
Buffalo, welcoming western grain
and sending back return cargoes of
immigrants and pioneers, helped
feed the East with bread and the
West with brains and brawn. While
retaining its pre-eminence in the
transfer of grain, it has since be¬
come our milling metropolis.
Siamese Twins Were Married
The original Siamese twins mar¬
ried and lived to the age of sixty-
three.
Have You a Question? 1
Ask C. Houston Goudiss
P '- 4 ‘ placed HOUSTON at the GOUDISS disposal has of
readers of this newspaper all
the facilities of his famous Ex¬
perimental Kitchen-Laboratory
in New York City. He will
gladly answer questions con¬
cerning foods, diet, nutrition,
and their relation to health.
You are also invited to consult
him in matters of personal hy¬
giene. It’s not necessary to
write a letter unless you de¬
sire, for postcard inquiries will
receive the same careful atten¬
tion. Address C. Houston Gou¬
diss, 6 East 39th Street, New
York City.
make clear that the homemaker
fails in her duty who does not pro¬
vide vitamins in abundance for
every member of her family. Both
children and adults depend upon
you for their food supply. It lies
within your power to help them to
health and happiness or condemn
them to weakness, illness and sor¬
row. Do not fail them. See to it
that every member of your house¬
hold—your children, the wage
earners, the middle aged and the
elderly—get enough vitamins to
afford them the health that sci¬
ence has placed within their
grasp. Goudiss—1938.
© WNU—C. Houston
What Is the Cause of
"Spider-Web Check"?
If not properly “fed” with a
good oil polish, furniture in time
develops what is known as “spi¬
der-web check!” This appears on
the finish, like wrinkles on the
human face—fine lines, spreading
here and there in a spider-web
pattern. This crazing, this light
cracking, is known in furniture
language as “checking” and “spi¬
der-web checking” better de¬
scribes the condition. This is the
danger-signal, on finish! It’s the
indication of “starving” wood! A
warning to the housewife, that if
the finish is not cared for imme¬
diately and properly, the furniture
will develop cracks, ridges and
splits. “Spider-web check” is gen¬
erally the result of either one of
these two causes: Polish-neglect
—or the use of a poor, cheap pol¬
ish—without the essential fine,
light-oil base. When the furniture
is periodically “massaged” with a
reputable oil polish (the best is
non-greasy), the pores of the wood
are “fed” and the piece is pre¬
served. Then “spider-web check”
will not appear! The use of a
quality oil polish is the best pre¬
ventive formula for this ugly,
detrimental check!
MORE WOMEN USE
0-CEDAR POLISH
THAN ANY OTHER KIND!
... because O-Cedar not only cleans
as it polishes, but preserves your fur¬
niture—“feeds” the finish, prevents
jggj fc drying-out, cracking. Insist
upon O-Cedar Polish, for
furniture, woodwork and
floors (with the fa¬
mous O-Cedar
Mop).
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disease. It is necessary for the
health of the mucous membranes
of the body and helps to guard
against infections of the respira¬
tory and alimentary tracts. It in¬
fluences the health of the hair and
skin, is necessary to prevent a
serious eye disorder known as
night blindness, and is essential
for the formation of healthy teeth.
Vitamin A is found in milk, but¬
ter, margarine that has been re¬
inforced with vitamin A concen¬
trate, egg yolk, cod-liver oil, thin
green leaves and yellow fruits and
vegetables such as carrots, sweet
potatoes, apricots and bananas.
APPETITE AND VITAMIN B
Vitamin B promotes appetite,
aids digestion, prevents a serious
nerve disorder. It is essential to
the maintenance of a good diges¬
tion, which is vitally important if
the body is to obtain full benefit
from the food consumed. This
vitamin is closely related to the
energy metabolism, and the re¬
quirement increases with the rate
of growth and with increased en¬
ergy expenditure, so that growing
children and working men and
women should receive very gen¬
erous amounts.
Vitamin B is found in yeast,
whole wheat cereals, oatmeal,
milk, fresh and dried peas and
beans, spinach, cabbage and other
greens, egg yolk and liver.
VITAMIN C FOR TEETH, GUMS
Vitamin C plays an important
part in regulating body processes,
and prevents the dread disease of
scurvy. A lack of this essential vi¬
tamin results in profound changes
in the structure of the teeth and
gums, may be responsible for
hemorrhages occurring anywhere
in the body, and for the degenera¬
tion of muscle fibers generally.
Vitamin C is most abundant in
succulent fresh green leaves, such
as green cabbage. It is also found
in onions, potatoes, oranges, to¬
matoes, green peppers, bananas
and strawberries. In most foods,
it is easily destroyed by heat—
that is why it is so important to
include some fresh raw foods in
the diet daily.
• • •
VITAMIN D AND RICKETS
Vitamin D is sometimes called
the sunshine vitamin because it
can be manufactured in the body
through the action of direct sun¬
light on the skin. This is the vita¬
min that is necessary for the
proper utilization of calcium and
phosphorus in building bones and
teeth. When it is lacking in the
diet of infants, there develops that
horrible disease known as rickets,
in which the bones become soft
and twisted, resulting in pitiful
deformities — knock knees, bow
legs, pigeon breast.
In foods, vitamin D is only
found in appreciable amounts in
fish-liver oils and egg yolk. That
is why every homemaker should
be so grateful to the scientists who
labored to discover how to con¬
centrate this precious vitamin
from fish-iiver oils and add it to
foods, or to increase the vitamin
D content of foods through irradi¬
ation.
• • •
ANTI-STERILITY VITAMIN E
Vitamin E comes in for less dis¬
cussion than the others, because
its significance to nutrition has not
been fully determined. It does,
however, appear to be necessary
for successful reproduction and is
found especially in wheat germ
and lettuce.
• • •
VITAMIN G PROLONGS YOUTH
Vitamin G is necessary for
growth and for the maintenance
of health and vigor at all ages.
It helps to ward off old age by
prolonging the vigorous middle
years. It is essential to the health
of the skin, and recent experi¬
ments demonstrate that cataracts
in the eyes may be due to a de¬
ficiency of this vitamin, which is
found in yeast, and in liver, kid¬
neys, egg yolk, milk, cheese and
green leafy vegetables.
One authority claims that
chronic disorders of the throat,
stomach, lungs, colon, heart and
kidneys may be traced to vitamin
and mineral deficiencies.
Certainly enough has been
learned of vitamin chemistry to