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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-06
CARD OF THANKS

We would like to express our
appreciation to our many friends
for their kindness and help dur
ing the illness and death of our
father, C. A. Severt, and for the
many beautiful flowers.
The Children.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-06

Nutritionists report that boil
ing potatoes in their skins saves
more of the food values than bak-
ing them. Baked potatoes lose
twice as much ascorbic acid and
three times as much thiamine as
when boiled.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-06
Conservation
Farming News
BY J. T. McLAURIN

Increased production with less
labor is what we will have to
strive for this coming season, as
farm labor is reaching an acute
shortage The final goal can be
achieved by use of good conserva-
ton practices such as: good ro-
tation, lining and prosphating,
strip farming and proper care in
working and handling crops.
Miss Alta Perkins, of Helton
community, states that she be-
lieves her tenant made as much
last year on one-half of a field
that was stripped cropped, as he
would have made had it all been
cropped. Her tenant has his
corn land plowed for this coming
year and he is still following the
strip pattern.
Use of good seed with we'll
prepared seed beds also will help
produce a much needed bumper
crop with the minimum labor.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-06

Vegetable sovbeans rank tops in
protein, fat, iron, and calcium, ac-
cording to Extension nutritionists
at N. G. State College.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-06

"SUre, we're all short Of help these
days and may need a lille more
time, but you can depend on me to
do these Jobs corefUIIy:"
Oil must be changed-old, worm
out oil drained and fresh, strong
ESQ Motor Oil in the summer
Grade correct for your car put in.
The chassis must be fabricated
from stem to Stern-at every point
where wear might become serious.
The older your car gets, the more it
needs this fabrication.
The battery needs an examination,
too. Maybe it should have full
charge for quick summer starts.
The radiator should be drained of
all sediment, and fresh water put
in. Couplings may need tighten
ing, or replacing.
The tires must be checked for signs
of wear or damage. Maybe switch
ING 'em around can balance the
wear. Give you additional tire life
now when you need it most!
The transmission and differential
are inportant-let me look 'em
over and make sure they have the
proper fabrication.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-24

again the goddess Of luck is
gracious and the finesse holds.
The five of hearts was led and
the nine-spot finessed and West
showed out.
One pair became careless at
this point and as result, failed
to make the contract. The pro-
per play is to lay down the ace
of hearts, then lead another
spade and finesse the queen.
East can take his king of hearts
whenever he wishes, because the
losing diamond goes on one OF
the good spades. But interest
ingly enough, even the diamond
finesse works.
Not one pair played the hand
at spades, although seven-odd
can be made without even taxi
ing the diamond finesse.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-24
. QUESTIONS.
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-What cure for psittacosls,
or parrot fever, is in sight?
Alt is hoped that penicillin
may be the answer.
Q-Where is the island OF
Hvar?
A-Off the coast OF Jugo-
slavia; Americans have joined
partisan forces there in attacks
on the Nazis.
Q-Where is Momote air.
drome?
A-On the island OF Los Me-
gros, in the Admiraltics, where
u. S. troops are fighting the
Japs.
Q-Who is Birger Ruud, re-
ported freed from a Nazi con-
centration camp?
Ale was the Olympic ski
champion of 1882 and 1885.
Q-What is "Viag," and why
is it having hard going these
days?
Alt is the Vereingte Indus
Observation-Disclosures Aktienge-
sellschaft, a German holding
Company, with enterprises such
as aluminium, steel, nitratcs, and
electric power manufacturing,
industries which have been taxi
ing a heavy aerial pounding by
the Allies.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-24
By PETER EDISON

First full report to the Ameri-
can people on the production OF
the new, war-born magnesium
industry is contained in a special
report of the Senate Truman
Committee investigating Ma
tional De Tense Production,
nesium were manufactured in
the United States, 2l00 tons of
which were sold to Germany and
Japan. In 1943 u. S. production
was $4,000 tons and for 1914,
estimated at 265, 500 tons. This
tremendous increase is one OF
the production miracles Of the
war, but it also points towards
the possible uses for all this pro-
duction after the war, in what
has frequently been hailed as the
coming light metals revolu-
ton"
Some $4,000 tons of this years
production of magnesium are be-
ing set aside for a War Depart
ment experimentation program
to find new uses for the metal,
especially in aircraft.
Development of magnesium
production in the u. S. has been
involved by 10 years Of legal
battling, on which the Truman
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thOritative answers below:

/. II you are going to visit a
person who is ill and you fear
the visit may be difficult, should
you think of something to talk
about before you 60?
2. In any business interview
should you try to have what you
want to get across we'll planned
out in your mind ahead Of time?
3. If you must 60 out among
other people when you still have
cold, should you keep talking
about your cold?
4. Should you let child 60 to
a children's party if he has a
cold, but you think it won't be
bad for him to get out?
5. Should you borrow another
persons fountain pen to address
package wrapped in heavy
paper?
What would you do if
You are woman travelling
alone on a train and when you
are sitting in the club car a man
you do not know asks il he may
buy you a drink
(a) Thank him politely, but
refuse?
(b) Let him buy you drink!
Answers
/. It would make the visit
easier
2. Yes.
3. No. Turn your head away
and cover your mouth il you
must cough or sneeze. and don
get any closer to others thar
you have to. But stay home II
you possibly can.
4. No. Think Of the other chill
dren present.
5. No. 1t might be hard on the
point.
Better "What Would You Do
solution-(a) is usually best.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-24
. .BARBS

It's funny world. we eject
people TO pass down the laws
so we can pass 'em up.
The moon has its quarters and
halves-maybe because 1t does
mt get full very often.
Folks who don't intend to pay
back should borrow nothing but
trouble.
It appears the whole country
has about been dry cleaned and
pressed fer liquor.
The harder each person works
for the war effort, the less time
there is for idle chatter.
The old world still Is round
except parts of Germany. And
next we'll flatten Japan.
An etiquette writer asks, Are
your children noisy when they
eat?" No-when they don't!
Farmers are to get more am
munition to meet emergency re-
quirements of predatory pest
control. Same thing the Allied
forces are using it for.
There's no need for anyone to
save money and not know what
TO do with it. War Bonds!
Speaking of an early spring,
maybe we should have an excess
prophet tax.
The season has come for the
swapping of political bunk for
an easy berth.
Well soon find out that it's
always fair weather when pic
MICS get together-and then II
rains.
The Yanks bombed q German
bsll bearing plant. And that's
not the only way the Nazis are
going to lose their bearings.
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COMING EVENTS

A writer covering the Chicago conference Of y.
A. VIC. |. o. oircroft unions reports that the con-
sensus Of labor eoders there can best be summed UP
thus: Both sides have just parked their ball bots be-
hind the door for the durotion"
Such on attitude on the port Of either labor
industry can stynoe every effort toward resumption
Of orderly and peaceful progress in this country It
can divide and enbitter the whole country. And it
will, il both portes do not make up their minds to
aim for the common good and sacrifice some Of
their demands for that aim.
There is so much to be DONE And labor and in
dusty can do so much to help - if they will only
Ieove their boil bots where they ore.
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TALE OF TWO clTIEs-AhD A TRANSPORT

Aesop in his hiqhly instructive and eleVot'n9
fobIes used to tack moral on the end, tor feor me
reoder would miss the point Of the ole9ory bur we
are skippna that oppendoee in setting down me ro'-
Iowno contrasting toIes Of table monners ana tronS-
portoton. because Of conviction that the moral IS
intentionally evident.
From on Army transport bound for England, s. }.
Wolff recently wrote: his transport is on'n'eo yer
when the Ioudspeokers announce Foil IN TOR ono"'
there is more courtesy and good hunor on the steep
componionwoys Leading to the mess halls thon one
is likely to find among boorders at home when tney
hear the dinner bell"
And EVELYN Peyton Gordon, who covers d'PIomt'c
society for the Washington Daily News, had this TO
soy in her report Of the Soviet embossys reception IN
honor of the Red omys 10Th anniversary Real Rus-
sian caviar again eroced the lavish buffets It's been
three yeors since there hos been fine groy caviar TOR
the Washington masses. And o,oY comment thof
il is hioh time somebody teaches Washington society
nonners-or else feeds it before stortn9 to Porty
The seven-yeor locust plague could be no more
detrimental to handsome buffet than the hordes
that mode their way across the Soviet embassy yes
terdoy The caviar storted it. People stood in rows;
eIbowino, pushing almost fighting for dab Of stur-
aeon roe And when they got it they forgot about q
dob and dished as copiously os former would dish
mashed potatoes Oh, the woe Of Americans with q
food they've heard is rore"
Back again to Mr.. Wolff aboard the transport:
Three tiers Of hunks fill all available spoce coblns
built to hold two ore crowded with Il or even more;
decks and squares serve os recreation hol's
Yet, despite these cromped conditions there hos not
been fight or browI on the entire trip
From Miami where the wor-weory voootionlsts
motto seems to be Better deoth than doycooch, .
comes the story Of particularly frantic woman
among the thousands Of frantic tourists seeking de
luxe homework passage toward the end Of February
~ simply must have reservation on the stream
liner" she walled. my daughter is at the point OF
deoth in Philadelphia"
The reservation clerks compassionate, though
swomped with coils, finally found cancellation.
They called the woman back:
"You con have berth on the troin leaving to-
night"
"Oh" The wornon sounded not only colmer but
somewhat peevish. but didn't want to go It'll March
fifth"
Mote: The HioIeoh Park racing meet ended
March A.
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MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE


Today's hand Is one of the
luckiest l have seen in a long
time. 1t is not improbable that
many players would arrive at a
six contract, but now see what
happens. The opening club lead
is won by South, the declarer.
He leads small spade, and
wishing to avoid too many fin
esses, he plays the nine-spot
from dummy-and II holds.
The eight of hearts is led, and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-24
Hiqh|iqhts from The Letest Books

err the better. Parboil the cock,
flea him, and stamp him on a
stone mortar until his bones are
through the ages.
Put him into two quarts OF sack,
and put to it three pounds OF
raisins of the sun stoned, some
blades of mace, and a few
cloves.
Put all into a canvas bag,
and a little while before you
find the ale has done working,
put the ale and bag together in
to a vessel. In a week or nine
days time bottle it up, fill the
bottles just above the necks, and
leave the same to ripen as other
ale"
And then drink it! Whoosh!
LONG MAY THEY WAVE
A swell little handbook for
WAVES and SPARS is Guide
Right by Lieut.. Mary Virginia
Harris, U. Mr.. Macmillan:
SD.
Lieutenant Harris, one OF the
first of the WAVES, is now in
struction officer at the U. S.
Naval Training School for the
womens reserve, and tells the
gals just what they should know
and do from the time they en-
ter the service right through to
the end.
You learn how TO enter an ele-
vator; answer weddi..g invita-
tions; salute in an automobile
keep a foot locker; care for
uniform; tie tie; conduct your
self at mess, and million other
things a girl entering these serv.
ices should know.
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She's living in an apartment
and says she misses the farm like
the dickens.
The best part of farming,
she said, els that you don't have
TO turn over 10 per cent of the
profits to your agent"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-24
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA staff correspondent

ecutive office they'd call it the
greatest casting blunder in the
history of Hollywood. And II
probably would wreck Helen
Vinson's career. She just ism the
type.
Helen Vinson raising soybeans
on a 175-acre farm, Driving a
tractor, churning butter, clean
ing up a stable and going on
errands in hug-me-tight bug
gy, Why. it would be ridiculous.
Helen Unison on a farm? The
actress with the bedroom eyes
who plays smart society girls?
Why, it would be just like cast
ing Mickey Rooney as Hedy
LAMAR husband. or c ary
Grant as the Frankenstein mon
ster.
But it did happen. Only not
in the movies.
And the gal with the bedroom
eyes has callouses on her hands
TO prove it.
Helen Vinson, slipping a COCK
tail and looking just like the
smart society gals she plays on
the screen, was telling us all
about her 175-acre farm back in
Virginia. sir. Just 96 miles from
Richmond Ten buildings all IS
years old 1t cost her $40 900.
Yes, twas making money
Shed planted it all in soybeans
which are mighty important
these days for plastics and paint
She bought the place two
years ago, anticipating the war.
But she didn't anticipate the
manpower shortage. That's when
she went to work, she said, driv-
ing a. tractor. operating a seed
drill and doing odd chores. She q
been able TO hire a few Negro
farm hands but she had TO go
to work, too.
PARTY LINE
Becoming acclimated to the
work. she said. was a lot easier
than the sudden switch from
Hollywood and Vine to farm
in Virginia There was, for ex-
ample, the 12-party telephone.
Every time l receive call
from New York or Hollywood
she says. Il guess everyone
rushcs to the phone You can
hear crying babe sand dropped
pots and pans from miles
around"
The telephone, incidentally, Is
in gate house threefifths of
mile from the main house.
Helen couldn't get priority on
wire TO move il. 1t has its adj
vantages, though.
"Whcn unexpected guests ar
rive and phone up to the house
she said, Il can get dressed be-
fore they arrive"
There was also the problem
Of a Hollywood glamor girl sud.
denly taking up residence in a
community Of hard = WORKING
farmers. Would they like her?
II worried her, she said. until
she moved in. But her fears
we're groundless They welcomed
her as one of them. she said
She's been Missy Helen. the
moving picture star" ever since
And every time one Of her pic
lures plays at the village "mov-
ing picture parlor.' as they call
it. everyone puts on their Sun
day clothes to applaud missy
Helen"
As matter Of fact. she said,
the day she arrived 10 take over
the property a very glamorous
photograph of her appeared in
national magazine. She was
reclining. in filmy ncgligee,
on bearskin rug.
1T scared the devil out of
me- she said. II was afraid of
what the neighbors would think
and say IL was funny - half
a dozen children met me with
the MAGAZINE and asked me 10
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. IN HOLLYWOOD
autograph the picture"

autograph the picture.
Helen's farm is between crops
at the moment, so she's in Hol-
lyWood for a few months. Just
completed the role of society
gal in Donald O'Connors new
Universal picture, The Third
Glory"
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MEcHANIZED WAR

The Nozs' introduction Of rodio-controIIed rock
cts pilotess oirpIones and ren,otecontoI tanks
couroees US in the hope thot the next may be
fought entirely by robots ottockne eounter-ottock-
ing, strofne ond doefiehne OF the front, while the
necessary humons pull the strings in bombproof
sofety behind the lines
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-24
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

Committee now throws some
new light and makes some new
conclusions tending to absolve
the two principal pre-war Amer
lean producers, Dow Chemical,
American Magnesium, and Mag
nesium Development Corpora
ton the last two being Alumni
mum Company Of America sub
sidiaries-of much of the abuse
that has been heaped upon them,
saying that without their efforts,
the u. S. might have had no
magnesium industry at all.
l. G. FARBEN
IN THE PICTURE
Ame i ca n Magnesium had
stopped production in 1927 after
Alcoa had lost $l,00O,000. Dow
Chemical had also lost money,
but 1t had pioneered new low
cost process, and American Mag
nesium could buy from Dow
cheaper than it could produce it.
self. But in 1881, the Aluminium
Company (Alcoa) made an
agreement with the principal
German producer, l. G. Farben,
forming new jointly owned
Magnesium Development Corpo-
ration to control Farben patents
and processes in the u. S. There
followed an infringement suit
against Dow, which was with
drawn in 1884 when Alcoa and
Dow agreed TO cross license pat
ents.
In l94l the Department of
Justice obtained an antitrust in
dictment against this combina
ton. The American companies
paid fines of $4,000. Cancelled
cross licensing, agreed TO roy
alty-free use.
Today, the u. S. government
has ested approximately
$5l5, 100000 in magnesium pro-
duction and fabricating. Produc-
ton has been increased 80 times,
the cost brought down to 20l2
cents pound aluminium costs
l4). Every pound of magnesium
replacing aluminium in plane
construction permits that plane
to carry another half.pound of
fuel or cargo.
PLANTS SCATTERED
EVERYWHERE
Today there are two private
and Is government plants, only
six OF which are now producing
at capacity.
Dow Chemical produces mag
nesium by electrolysis Of sea
water or brine from wells at
Midland, Marysville and Lud-
ington, Mich, Freeport and We
lasco, Tex. Dow "know-how' is
used by Diamond Magnesium at
gainesville, o., in recovery from
the waste liquors of lime produc-
ton; and by international Min
erals and Chemical at Austin,
Tex, from the end liquors OF
potash produced from brine.
Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente
Calf, plant, using magnesia OBJ
tanned from brine or magnesite
ore, mixes it with coke in an
electric arc furnace to produce
magnesium vapor which is then
condensed and distilled into pure
magnesium.
Original costs of this meta
were over a dollar pound, but
this has been reduced to 35 cents
per pound or cost of production
whichever is less.
A costly ferro-silicon process
mixing this ore with magnesium
bearing dolomite ore and heat
ing in q retort under vacuum,
produces m a gnes IN vapoI
which is distilled. Half dozer
companies use it.
A German process adapted BY
the British Magnesium Elektron
Ltd, interests is used by Basic
Magnesium, Inc, now taken ovel
and operated by Anaconda Cop
per Co., at Las Vegas, New.
1t is on this basis that Amer
ica's magnesium industry OF thu
future is to be built.
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. SO THEY SAY
Experience has taught us that

Experience has taught us that
our country will flourish best
when least hampered by govern
ment control. - Senate Truman
Committee report.
Victory is certain as long as
we remain united. The enemy's
chief hope is to divide us from
our British Soviet and Chinese
allies. - Acting Secretary OF
State Edward r. Stettinius Jr.
Every 30 d y simply loathes
bombing as a form Of warfare.
But il we are to get rid OF war,
we must fight with every avail
able weapon and with relentless
efficiency until the powers OF
darkness are overcome-Dr. B.
S. Batty, bishop of Fulham, Eng
land.
It's not unreasonable to think
of the war being over at the end
of another 18 months, but
whether il is over in six months
or six years it is wise to have a
program under way for return to
peace.-Charles E. Wilson, pres
ident General Motors.
II is as irrelevant for an in
dustrial nation today to debate
whether to plan or not to plan
as it would have been in 1900
TO debate whether or not to use
power-driven machinery. - DR..
Robert S. Lynd OF Columbia
University.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-24

Ben Hecnt, IN really serious
vein, writes a truly exciting and
revealing book anti-Semit-
ism in "A Guide for the Bedev-
lied" (Scribners: S2.50).
Hecht, who always considered
himself an American first, and
a Jew second, was surprised and
shocked when anti-SemitiSm
first raised its ugly head. He at
tempts to tell why this condition
exists. He divides the anti-Sem-
ties into four groups, the low
est of which ne calls the Coon
His attacks on these groups and
also on the poison-pen authors,
some of whom he labels more
famous than intelligent" are
revealing. His quotation, Pre-
iudice is our method of trans
ferring our sickness to others,
aptly sums up the trend of the
book. It's cnlightening reading
for Jew and Gentle alike.
washington Broadcast" by
The Man at the Microphone
(Doubleday-Doran: So 500, is an
expose of the great and near
great in our nations capital.
1t is not surprising that the
author prefers to remain anony-
nous. for his book is extremely
frank in its discussion of every
one from Clare Boothe Luce TO
the nine old men,"
Since, of course, these people
arc human, they have faults,
and the author, with tongue in
check. discusses these Washing
ton bigwigs flaw by flaw.
The chief executive is des-
cribed thus: MIR. Roosevelt has
charm-with a smiling. illumi-
mated c at times it would
appear that he likes to get re-
venge with a grinning r.
lie has ego, with the kind OF an
f that begins with the word
election and rhymes with the
word me"
Titles of some of the chapters
Corn Wallace" Uncle FL
mer and the Rover Boys Just
Junior" and Donald Not a
Duck)." From those you can see
writes.
The book is one you'll find
extremely entertaining, and al
though you will probably disa-
gree with some of the opinions
expressed, it is certain to make
you start thinking about the eff
fectiveness of some OF our key
men.
FOR GOURMETS
Few of us save the most
precious would enjoy his (Athe-
naeus') voluptuous dish Of bird
brains, eggs, wine and spices,
pounded with very fragrant ros-
es and cooked in oil"
Would you? Doesn't sound
very tasty. But it's one of the
unusual dishes described in NJ.
F. K. Fishers Serve II Forth, 3"
Duel. Sloan e. Pearce: S2.50).
Book is a history of food and, in
this modern reprint, is an inter-
esting history of the inner man
and his changing appetite
broken. You must craw and
gut him when you flea him.
II you think mans tastes
haven't changed, hearken unto
this recipe:
TO make cock ale Ga 1895
prescription take 10 gallons of
ale and a large rooster, the old
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. MIND YOUR
MANNERS .

Test your knowledge Of cor
rect social usage by answer
ing the following questions,
then checking against the au-
thoritatixe answers below:
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err the better. Parboil the cock,
flea him, and stamp him on a
stone mortar until his bones are
through the ages.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-24

The Yanks bombed q German
ball bearing plant. And that's
not the only way the Nazis are
going to lose their bearings.