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WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE.
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J. I GROSS, Propretor.
Entt at the Post Office at
Alamo, Georgia, as second class
nail matter, May 16th, 1913, under
c! of March 3rd, 1879.
You May Have Less to Live
On Bui Just as Much to Live For
The town philospher switched
his ‘chaw’ from one side of his
mouth to the other and spoke
with great deliberation. Hi s
listeners, at first skeptical, he
became very attentive and what
the old man had to say might will
be recorded here.
“We have passed through a
panic recently but E am stil
rich,” he said, although his
clothes might be said to belie his
opening statement. “It may be
true that I have less to live on
but it is certainly true that 1
have just as much to live for as
I had a year ago. Al) my capacity
for enjoyment of life are intact.
“My $200,000 eyes are just as
good as they ever were. Twenty
thousand dollar scenes and views
are added to my collection almost
every week. A SIOO,OOO sense of
hearing is still unimpaired and
by it I become heir to a world of
beauty and. inspiration.
“Then there’s my million dol
lar stomach and my half million
dollar appetite. The depression
has not lowered the value of a
single friendship. Neighbors stil]
greet us in the same cordial
way.”
Perhaps the old man has real
ly said something that is en
Couraging and helpful to tie
reader of this newspaper,
The Use of Brains
Dr. E. E. Free, the eminei t
scientist, hands a rather hard
jolt to certain professions which
are popularly supposed to em
brace a large share of the world’s
intelligence.
Among those who may be said
to be intelligent at all, he places
university professors, actors,
doctors and perachers lowest in
the scale. His reason for thi>
conclusion, which he says is
made as a result of scientific re
search, is that“their intelligence
gets no exercise; they learn to
confuse dogmatic plausibility
with truth."
Going further, Dr. Free de
clares that the class of persons
who use their brains to the best
advantage are the foremen
mechanics, chief riggers, pre
cision machinists and the like.
Slightly less able than these aie
engineers and technical men,
closely followed by business men,
all of whom are “required to get
the facts before reaching con
clusions."
The.learned doctor dosen’t say
just where editors come in. May
be it is well. Possibly they don’t
come in at all,
There are laws enough to make
tradie safe if they were only en
forced; says a recent writer,who
cities the following: lowa’s law
against riding on Sunday faster
than $ horse can walk; ten days’
notice of automobile trip, posted I
along roads to be traversed, io
Tennessee; Lake Forest, Hl .
ordinance requiring that a man
on a bicycle must precede each
automobile; St. Paul ordinance
providing that an autoist must
stop and help the driver of a
horse that appears frightened.
When Pierre Legniere of Paris
boasted to his wife that he had
wives in 30 towns she secured
evidence that won her a divorce, i
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Folks did-ni lik« you,You Iwd funny woyS-Tlwy used to won-I found to praise
Reproduced bp permission of the copyright owners.
HERE’S a fresh idca-a new twist
on the "Old Gang of Mine" type
of song. It has a sweot, ap
pealing melody, climaxing In a vie
oroua finish. One of the things that
struck me when I first heard it was
ths sensible way its lyric had been
handled* its eulogy of a boyhood
chum being achieved without ap
proaching the maudlin or mawkish
type of sentiment. As far as I know
this is the first time a tribute of th s
sort has found expression in a popu
lar song.
Matt Malncck and Gun Kahn (the
Old reliable) are the pitta M itt
has been associated with Paul White
man's orchestra for a long time r
violinist and arran; r, and is al -
the composer of ’'l'm Thro-.gh v.
Love.” He is a t.-ihmtcd boy. a'
has written several lovely violin co::
certos in the modern manner. V7i.n
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Science and Business
THE annual convention of the I
National Canners' Association
will be held in the largest hotel in
the world, the gigantic Steve.-,
in Chicago, from January twenty
fifth to January thirtieth, and tie
annual conventions of the Na
tional Food Brokers and of the
Canning Machinery and Supplies
Associations will be held there
at the same time. Even the larg
est hotel in the world, however,
cannot accommodate the six or
seven thousand mon who meet
annually to discuss how to main
tain and, if possible, improve the
quality of all the foods that are
canned in this country, and there
will be a large overflow to otaem
nearby hotels. [
To Make Them Better
The main object of the J. ’. ..
ventions is to find ways
means of making still better EWS
canned foods which have reacKS
such an enormous rate of
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Breakfast is traditionally} /
rather silent, and sometin^H
grumpy, meal. In addition, it is <|H
that is frequently skimped, to the" 1
detriment of ths health of those
who must go through an active
morning with insufficient food to
meet the demands on their stamina.
It behooves the careful house
wife, therefore, to make every ef
fort to achieve a cheerful atmos
phere and provide feed that will
both tempt the appetite and furnish
maximum energy. "A marmalade
jar on every breakfast table." is a
slogan that might wisely be
adopted in the latter connection,
for the sugar in the marmalade is
potential energy in its most concen
trated form. Further, the marine,
lado automatically causes the |
breakfasters to eat more bread or i
toast than they otherwise would, i
and those also are excellent sources
of energy.
It is in her table appointments I
that the housewife has the i-sri
opportunity to induce a dice, fu'
atmosphere. The housewife who is i
not aware of the sparkling level;- I
ness of the new glasrware —glass!
plates, cups and saucers : ;d ...1 the ;
other pieces—has .? delightful stir-1
prise in store. Even the grumpiest 1
family will find it difficult to r sir
the gay effect of the morning s i
throwing sparks of magic tire from ;
colorful glass in a green like the
green of the sea in moonlight, or in !
WHEELER COUNTY EACLE, ALAMO,GEORGIA
man has recorded several of these.
Including the exceedingly popular
"Midnite Reueetions.” Having en
tend the popular song field with
two such hits as "I’m Through with
Love” and "Old Playmate," it cer
tainly looks like wo can expect a
great deal from this versatile mu
sician. As for Gus Kahn—he’s one
of Tin Pan Alley's most dependable
representatives. He’s been writing
them a long time, and they’re al
w,' ys good. I have already supg
I "Old Playmate" on my Cremo pro
gr: run, and plan to sing it again
- it.’:; a real hit and my "Song of the
■ Week."
Reviewed by
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; sumption. With this object In
iniml. scientists from all over the
U'i'd Stales are rail.-.I upon to
contribute their knowledge and
r earch to perfecting still farther
cur marvelous Aim rican tech
nique of canning foods.
Among those who addressed the
convention of the National Can
ners’ Association laot year were
cientists from Columbia Univer
sity, the I nivermiy of .Minnesota,
Purdue University and its Ex
periment Station at Lafayette,
Ind., the University of Wisconsin,
the lowa State Agricultural Col
lege, the American Medical As
sociation. the Hooper Foundation,
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; rose that is the rose of the gor
geous plumage of the flamingo.
I Glass with, a design inspired by an
I Id chintz, or re productions of
; . arly American glass in the thumb
p int or scroll designs. are partio*
! ularly appropriate.
Pineapple-Apricot Marmalade
Soak one pound of dried aprlcota
- onc imlf hour and then wash.
; < ovor w ith cold water and soak
| over night. Sa' e the water and put
! tiie apricots through the meat chop
i • Put the apricots back in th*
in ;■ in which they soaked over
■ .'.it and add one large can at
>iied pineapple and ten cups of
.ir. Boil for one-half hour, stir
; iug constantly to prevent burning.
Pour into sterilized glass jars. Cool
1 and cover with paraffin.
Carving Contest Prizes Pay For
Traveled Aid Education and Stork
D [cycles and art studies, lee cream
” and surgical operation., avia
tion lessons, stone and onp for
sculpturing, trousers, dresses, and
niew-b’orn babies, were some of the
"special treats” paid for With th
prl^ money won in the Seventh
Annual Competition of Small Sculp
tures in White Soap.
Men, women and children, front
farm lads and mill workers to
prosperous New Yorkers living In
penthouse apartments, competed.
The prizes wore awarded In groups
ft)r children, young people, adults
and professionals. A survey just
made public by the National Soap
Sculpture Committee discloses the
diverse uses to which its awards
were put by these different people.
Curiosity was aroused when it
was learned that Peter Paul Ott.
th® sculptor who won the highest
award in the professional group
in the Sixth and the Seventh Com
petitions, had used the money he
won in the sixth contest to bring
hla mother here from Germany.
Inquiry disclosed that Ott has
used the Seventh Competition’s
prize to live out West among the
Indians, painting and caning them
and making studies of various
tribes, "to broaden my portrait
ability." His mother, he nm arked.
Is very happy to be united now with
her four children in the United
States, after not having them for
over seven years.”
Ott’s runner-up in the contest,;
Clarlbel H. Gaffney, wrote from a
hospital In Los Angeles that her i
THE BEST CHARITY
THE best charity is the kind i
that makes your money go,
the furthest. If your personal.
contribution to those in want,
takes the form of fo»d, you will i
want to get the best and most I
food for the least money.
That is where wise buying will'
play its part. At this time you ■
will get most for your money |
by buying canned foods becans- ,
this is the bargain era for these i
products. They now’ cost much j
less than they did two years ago. ‘
but it is best to buy your supply J
of them quickly because those
bargains cannot last
Comparative Prices
All the foregoing is general.
Let’s get concrete and point out
what some of these canned food
bargains are. The biggest con- i
sumption of these products is in 1
the four items tomatoes, beans,
peas and corn. Back in 1929-1930 I
a No. 2 can of tomatoes cost from I
15 to 25 cents. Today they are ■
offered at two or three for a!
quarter. A No. S can of tomatoes i
which cost 25 cents in 1929-1930;
retails in many places today at I
IS cents.
As for beans, a No. 2 can of i
kidney beans cost 15 cents two
years ago, but can now be
bought for 12. A No. 2 can of
lima beans which varied from 17
to 19 cents, is now retailing at 15
cents Md sometimes two tor 25,
I prize money, which she had planned ,
, to use in ail sorts of agreeable I
| ways, including a year’s rent for ]
I her studio, was to be Invested in a :
, surgical operation. “Hut how glad :
I was to have the money,” she |
added. "And how much sooner I’ll i
i get well knowing the operation U
I p- id f»r without upsetting Un- fam- I
I iiy budget."
Youngsters who received five an 1
‘ top dollar honorable m ntion I
: awards, put their money away in
a large number of cases for art ;
Virginia Bishop, of Cleveland .
Heights, Ohio, who used her money I
to buy material for oii painting,
• wrote the committee: "When I be- I
come a great artist you can remem
ber that the five dollars helped L
. toward my success." Dorothy J. |
Walker of Glen Ellyn, 111., who]
won a scholarship in the Art In- I
* stitute by her-so-p carving last;
year, will help pay for eoi.Unu ng
her course there this year with her I
I contest prize.
The bicycles and sporting goods I
: industries also got a boost from
' the younger prize winners. Ira '
; Blain- Gibson, Jr., of Rocky Ford, 1
Colo., was a typical youngster who i
Unvested his art prize in two- •
' wheeled transportation. Many a j
young girl put away the money to
help buy clothes for schobl. One I
I little f-llow in a Pennsylvania fac
tory town wrote: “I have bought n
■ myself a pair of shoes and trou- j
sers.” F
j In many cases, too, the prize |
I cents. A No. 2 can of stringless
I refugee beans which cost 25 cents
j in 1929-1930 can now be bought
i tor 15 cents.
A No. 1 can of peas which
■ sold for 19 cents has come down
Ito 17 cents, and No. 2 cans of
j peas which formerly retailed tor
I 25, 20 and 15 cents, can -now be
| bought at 25, 20 and two for 25
I cents. A No. 2 can of corn which
formerly sold for 25 cents now
I sells in many places for 15.
From Actual Shopping
Os course these prices are not
universal, or obtainable every
where, but the foregoing figures
come from actual shopping in an
average large city neighborhood
by a graduate dietitian who has
occasion constantly to buy and
| cook canned foods. They are the
I average foods, too, which the
I average housewife buys, and to
। which we are, all of us. accus
t tomed. A tall can of red Alaska
j salmon, for instance, for which
she paid 31 cents in 1929-1930 she
bought recently for 29 cents. A
tall can of pink salmon was 14
i cents instead of 15.
Here is what she found out
: about another widelv used sta
! pie. canned milk. The 14-ounce
i cans of condensed milk have
■ come down in the last two years
I from 15 to 14 cents: the 6-ounce
j cans of evaporated milk have de
i creased from 6 cents to 5, and
winner mentioned that “a larges
quantity of white soap", or "some
soap and tools tor carving" had
been bought with an eye to the
eighth competition. '
Several babies came into the
world under better auspices be
cause of the soap sculpture prize
money Robert G. Stayman, Ashta
bula, Ohio, optometrist, who won
$25 with a carving “Old Jim
Stuart”, in the advanced amateur
class, said It was too bad he hadn’t
won the S3OO first prize in his class,
but that his award came in handy,
just at the time he became father of
a "dandy nln" and a half pound
boy." The. winner of first prize in
the same class, Camillo K. Caslaing
of Brooklyn, paid the expenses of a
similar event with his award.
In one case. the prize solved one
problem only to create another.
Herman R. Weisser of Milford. In
diana. paid for a series of lessons
In flying with his money, and now.
says he, "I enjoy carving in soap
as much as to fly, so I don't know
which to choose as a vocation."
On the other hand, Frances Bax
ter of Pasadena, Calif., will dispose
of her soap sculpture prize "to buy
a large lump of stone and carve IL'*
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NOTE: Entry blanks and other in
formation in conim-Roa with the
Eighth .tancol Competition for Small
Sculptures I sing White Soap as s
Medium may be obtained bg address
ing the National Soap Sculpture Com
mittee, SO East 11th Street, Veto
York City. '
! the one-pound cans of evaporated
milk which sold for 9 and 10
cents are now 8.
Fruits Cheap, Too
In the field of fruits, she found
that a No. 2 can of apple sauce
which sold at two for a quarter
in 1929-1930 are now three for a
quarter. No. 2 cans of apricots
have come down from 25 to 17
cents, and No. 2J4 cans of apri
cots which used to cost from 25.
to 32 cents now cost 19.
An 8-ounce can of fruits for
salad was 10 cents instead of
12, and the No. 2J4 cans of fruits
for salad for which she paid 35 k
40 or 45 cents in 1929-1930 had
been reduced to from 29 to 33
cents. No. 2 cans of grapefruit
which used to cost from 15 to
25 cents she bought for 15, 17
and 19 cents.
Peaches are one of the most
popular fruits. A No. 1 can of
peach halves which cost from 15
to 17 cents in 1929-1930, had come
down to 13 cents. A No. 2 can of
halves for which she paid 19, 21
and 25 cents had come down to
12, or two for 21 cents. The
cost of a No. 2Ji can of halves
which was from 19 to 25 cents,
she found now to be from 15 to
17 cents. A No. 1 can of sliced
peaches had come down from 15
to 13 cents, and a No. 2J4 can
of sliced peaches from 18 or 1%
cents to 17.* • *
