The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-10
'|MARSE HENRY" ON CORN
BREAD.
Greenwood IndexJournal.

The death OF C0l. henry WalIeESoI
at Jacksonville several days ago has
revived many incidents in his brilliant
career as journalist, showing his
many-sidedness as an editorial writer
This paper reproduced yesterday mis-
famous editorial calling the nations
to arms against German imperialism
which won for him the Pulitzer prize.
Here is another instance of his versa
tility: Several months ago Col. George
NJ. oailey. witty editor Of the Houston
Post, protested vigorously against a
new recipe for corn bread in which
sugar was a principal ingredient. He
declared it to be an aoomination, and
Col. Watterson took up the fight for
the kind of corn bread that the old
BACK manlmies used to make in the
following graphic defense:
Corn bread with sugar in it was an
idea born of the devil, planted in New
England and sent South by our enc
mics. 1t is threatening the life of
real corn bread right in the land of
its birth. 1t has done and is doing
worse. 1t makes men trifing and wo-
men frivolous. 1t is responsible for
most of the murders, suicides and
divorces. 1t is the mother of bolshe-
vism and the daddy of anarchy. 1t
weakens the brain, infuriates the llv-
er and makes people pot-bellied. IL
brings corns and badness and SAT-
fronizes the complexion. 1t makes
the nose shiny and the skin purple.
1t drives husbands downtown of
nights. 1t causes the servants to he
insolent and obstreperous. 1t creates
an appetite for moonshine.
1t enrboldens a man to refuse his
wife's request for money. But for
sugar in corn bread, there would be
no war, no flies or mosquitoes, no ants
or reaches, no I. W. W., no Republi-
can party.
Let the twentieth amendment to
the constitution forever prohibit sug
ar in corn bread ard lets have the
vote right away.
This would seem all-enrbracing and
is sufficiently conclusive. New Eng
land may know how to bake beans.
They say the cider in Maine is a good
substitute for whiskey. 1t must 'oe
admitted that in Boston 'punkin pie IS
no slouch. But corn bread? La!
That requires all that George Bailey
says, and a. pair of old black hands
to boot-and a red bandana hand
kerchief-and old black mammy's
voice, rich, mellow ard devoti nal,
singing:
Glow firm foundation We saints OF
the Lord
There is little to add to this except
the thanks of the mighty congrega-
tion of cornfelds throughout the
South. The South has not in late
wears been as true to its political ira
ditions in all respects as 1t might have
been.
Let the South be on guard against
this threat by the enemy to put sugar
in our corn. bread. We confess that
recently we were slightly disturbed
by the saber rafting of writer on
table ediquette who fired from behind
the breastworks of The Kansas City
Star, which has some circulation on
the borderland of the South.
This etiquette hound tried to teach
us new way to eat fried chicken.
He or she-sneered at the only
way most of us ever knew or cared
for. of holding the chicken in the nm
gers and biting it, and said the pro-
per way was to cut the chicken on
the bone with a knife and fork and
never touch it with the fingers. AS
if that could be done.
Now we do not think the Kansas
City man is likely to get very far
with his attack upon an old and hon
ored custom in the South, but we
resent It that ne could even have
thought of the new and hifalutin way
of eating chicken and that he could
have had the hardihood to propose 1T
publicly. His gesture is at least an
alarming symptom, and so we should
be on guard.
Else, yielding here and there, we
must finally be driven away from ev-
en- the hot biscuits which have hon
ored the South scarcely less than its
warriors, statesmen and poets.