The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
TO RESCUE OF CORN BREAD

F'rcm the Montgomery Advertiser @ ECENTLY theoretical cook who lN[ makes living by writing rather
 than by cooking, published for mula for new kind of cornbread. Com menting upon the recipe, Col George Bailey. leading man on the editorial page of the Houston Post, said with some heat; About that cornbread recipe which in- cludes three-fourths of cup of sugar. Tell them not to do it. Sugar in corn bread is an abomination. It ought to be made crime. It violates every tradi- tion of the south It insults the palate. It mocks the culinary art When the Lord made corn, He put all the sugar in it He intended it to have
 Col. Henry watterson. in retirement near Louisville, say this attack py Bailey upon the newest vice, and though more than 80 years of age, the intrepid colonel rushed to the side of the Texas colonel to strengthen his arm in the at tack.
 In a letter to the Courier-Journal, the Kentucky colonel after quoting ths Texas colonel, says:
 "Cornbread with sugar in it was an idea born of the devil planted in New England and sent south by our enemies It is threatening the life of real corn bread right in the land of its birth. It has done and is doing worse. It makes men trifling and women frivolous.S It is responsible for most of the murders, sui- cides and divorces It is the mother of It weakens the brain, infuriates the liver and grows people potgutted It brings corns and badness and saffronizes the complexion It makes the nose shiny and the skin purple.
 Tt drives husbands downtown of nights. It causes the servants to be in solent and obstreperous. It creates an ap- petite for moonshine.
 Tt is the underlying cause of phyor- rhea. It emboldens a man to refuse his wifes request for money. But for sugar 1 in cornbread, there would be no war, no flies or mosquitoes, no ants or reaches, no l. w. w., no republican party.
 Let the twentieth amendment to the constitution forever prohibit sugar in conbread, and let's have the vote right away
 This would seem all embracing and IS sufficiently conclusive. New England may know how to make beans. They say the cider in Maine is a good substitute for whisky. It must me admitted that | in Boston 'punkin pie is no slouch. But cornbread? La. That requires all that George Bailey says, and pair of old 1 black hands to boot-sand red bandana handkerchief-an old black nanny s voice, rich mellow and devotional.
 "How firm a foundation ye saints
 of the Lord.
 There is little to add to this except the thanks of the mighty congregation of cornfeds throughout the south. The south has not in late years been as true to its political traditions in all respects l as it might have been We remember that few years ago Colonel Watterson even charged that politically the south lad become land of "degenerates We thought the term too hard; but if the south forgets it's culinary traditions, after abandoning parts of it's political faith, the cry of 'degenerate'' must be raised again, and allowed to stand
 Let the south be on guard, for the Hun is indeed at the gate This threat to put sugar in our cornbread by the enemy. though we confess that few weeks ago we were slightly disturbed by the sabre-rattling of writer on table eti-